ambassadors for their grouch. >> thank you to all of our guests for a great discussion, and raj and i will see you online. >> welcome to aljazeera america. i'm john seigenthaler in new york. military scandal in the army, the airforce, and the navy. new allegations of cheating and stealing. food stamps cut billions of dollars. and what the new farm bill will mean for hungry families. wicked weather. millions brace for another dangerous storm, and this time snow and ice could be a problem, and plus. >> they think i'm not good, but after that -- >> a nine-year-old girl burning

up the court and taking on the big kids. >> we begin tonight with the u.s. military under fire. several branches of the services hit by scandal. the army is taking heat for what a senator says is one of the worst scandals in history. national guard soldiers accused of scamming the program that paid them to enlist new soldiers, and the navy is investigating yet another cheating scandal involving soldiers training at a nuclear reactor. john is here at capitol hill. >> reporter: john, depressing is the scandal with the national guard on capitol hill today. but it's just one of a barrel load of trouble ahead, featuring all three services that the pentagon is going to have to try

to fix. on tuesday, the senate was doing a recruiting program that cost taxpayers millions of dollars. >> even one case of fraud would have been too many. and instead, we now know that thousands of service members, their families and friends, may have participated in schemes to defraud the government they served and the taxpayers. >> reporter: 1200 individuals, including 200 officers, and two or three star generals implicated in the scheme. under oath, the army said that the recruiting program had gotten out of hand. and it's intent was to offer financial incentives for troops to iraq and afghanistan. >> it was what can we do to avoid the draft? because of all that was happening, and all of the other traditional methods that had worked, ma'am, for 20 years.

>> weren't working. >> they weren't. >> the navy is investigating a cheating scandal on tests on training nuclear power reactors. it's believed that 30 senior officers were involved. >> this is a serious incident. integrity is the foundation of our business, and we will begin a full investigation. >> reporter: weeks after it was revealed that the airforce had it's own cheating scandal, the number of nuclear launches has hit 92 out of a total staff of 500. they're accused of sharing the answers to test questions via text, and have known about the cheating but failing to report t the u.s. secretary of defense and retired naval captain, lawrence call, said that they have to crackdown on t. >> the navy has been put on such a pedestal and held on such high regard, that they're not as

careful as they used to be in terms of the things that they do. they think, we're better than everyone else, so we can push the envelope here or there. >> reporter: three branches, three scandals, and a lot of explaining to do by the top brass. and topping the list on scandals involving the army national guard. and john, how that may have worked, we heard about one man who bought the names and addresses and social security numbers of a bunch of recent enlistees in the government. and got back to the guard as referrals and claimed $250,000 for his troubled. >> john, thank you. and the long delayed farm bill is headed to the president's desk. the senate approved the legislation today. the house passed it last week, and mr. obama is expected to sign it. the nearly $1 trillion measure includes big changes for the food industry. farmers will see reduced subsidies, and instead, they will be able to get cheaper crop

insurance. it includes food stamps, and what the supplemental assistance program is called cutting $8 billion over ten years. that amounts to the loss of $90 a month for 1.7 people relying on food tamps. maggie is one of the current moms serving in the national guard and she's one of the recipients on the passage of the farm bill. and if you for being on the program. >> thank you for having me. >> what will this mean for your family? >> we definitely rely on the money we get each month from snap to make sure that my daughter, who is three, to have nutritional food each day instead of just garbage. >> so if you were to lose $90 a month on this program, how would it impact you?

>> it would be the difference between whether or not she's eating hotdogs or fresh vegetables, and really getting a good balanced meal each day. >> can you explain your situation, and why it's so tough for some americans right now, and what you think about what congress is doing in washington? >> right, well, i work two jobs right now, full-time as a home health aid and work in the national guard, one weekend a month. and i spend a lot of time away from home and my daughter, and really putting in the effort to provide for her and to not be able to is very frustrating. we rely on that money that we get each month, so the thought of that cut is pretty frustrating. >> there are some politicians who complain that these are simply hand outs, and the federal government has to stop handing out money to people. what do you say? >> i think that's crazy.

i mean it's a sad day when i can work 40 hours a week, when i can not only qualify for food stamps, but rely on it. i'm qualified as an enc, but i can't find work in that field. i work hard each day and to say it's a handout is frustrating. >> what would you like for the people who represent you in congress and the president to do about this? >> well, if it's a matter of cutting food stamps, when i hear the complaints of food stamps in my day-to-day life, it's more about fraud and those kinds of things, targeting those kind of issues is not necessarily a bad thing, but doing cuts across the board, it effects families, mine included -- >> you hear complaints of people who say people are abusing the system.

and they're ripping off the government. is that what you hear? >> right, absolutely. absolutely. there has definitely a time or two that i've been made to feel uncomfortable for accepting food stamps and my daughter is on medicaid as well, and i make sure that her medical expenses are taken care. you have people that judge that for accepting those handouts if you call it. if you were walking if my shoes and putting every effort you could in, and that's what it takes to provide for my child, that's what i'm going to do. i'm going to accept the help where i can get it. >> we appreciate you sharing your very touching story with us tonight. and thank you for being on the program. >> thank you. >> millions of winter weary americans are getting hit with another round of snowy weather. the latest system is dumping snow and ice on the midwest. and its heading to the east

coast. we have more from new york's snowy central park. >> here in new york, things have improved since yesterday. the roads have cleared. and the storm coming tomorrow is only going to make things worse. we have snow across parts of the sidewalks and the open field, and that's not an issue. the big problem we're still dealing with is what's happening right now in parts of the midwest. in missouri, heavy snow and multiple accidents led to partial shutdown in kansas and st. lewis. the mayor of st. louis warned that it's only just beginning. >> don't make the fact that the snow stops makes you feel so safe and comfortable that you ignore the low temperatures and the things that come with it. >> in can kang, people digging out and snowplows all over the road. in indiana, 1,000 snowplows in

12-hour shifts. in nebraska, warning some schools to close early. the weather affected with thousands of flights delayed or canceled across the country. more than 100 million americans in over 2 dozen states are not under some form of winter weather warning. the system is moving to the northeast where people are gearing up for its arrival. i want to take you to the midwest, and let's look at how the storm is progressing right now. of course we have seen a lot of problems in nebraska and illinois as well. and 10 inches expected tonight and tomorrow morning, and then it's going to be us on the eastern seaboard that see the problems. the big and tricky issue is, is it going to be snow or freezing rain? on the i95 corridor, that's going to be hit in the morning, so traveling there, anywhere from hartford, connecticut to washington d.c., it's going to be a problem. the temperatures in the morning

will start and go up to 26 as we go through the day. i want you to look at that forecast. you see the band of pink pushing through, and that could be freezing rain or sleet or ice pellets, and it's along those major metro cities. as we go to tomorrow night, things improve, and it's going to be a lot of precipitation on the ground. and go back to below freezing, so the snow and the ice isn't going anywhere soon. >> if the snow keeps up, some cities could be running out of salt that's used on the roadways. many have already gone through many of their stack piles, and some are using sand. the demand is so high that salt prices are skyrocketing. it could paralyze the city, similar to what happened to atlanta last week. from snow to cold and winter weather, to the historic drought, and it continues to hit california. cities and towns across that

state are resorting to drastic situations, but this may be hope. >> when the state's governor declared a statewide drought emergency, he said that it's unprecedented. and clearly, while the state doesn't have enough rainwater, it has plenty of this, seawater, and harnessing the ocean to solve some of the water woes is closer than you think. in carlsbad, california, the largest desalinization plant in the western hemisphere. when it's completed in 2016, the plant will provide 300,000 san diego residents with fresh drinking water. it's time to dip our straw into the pacific ocean. >> there's this disconnect between supply and demand. and meanwhile, the desalinization technologies become affordable.

>> reporter: desalinization isn't a new idea. in santa barbara, they built a desalinization plant in the 1980s and 90s. and that's when the state was experiencing drought. buff the weather changed. and the lane poured before it was finished and they mothballed it. but given the current situation in california, there's talk of refitting the plant. and that could take about two years. >> jennifer in southern california tonight. >> . >> and people in the west are reinsured that they can drink their water again. but should they? the recent chemical spill near charleston, west virginia. and this spill was the topic of a senate hearing committee today. several called for tougher laws to protect the public. >> americans have the right to expect that when they turn their tap o. the water they get is safe, and it's safe to drink.

>> the january 9th chemical spill is the latest controversy in thousands of plants and coal mines, and oversight. robert ray had that story from charleston. >> ask the locals and many will tell that you the place they call home in west virginia is better than known as the chemical valley. >> the risk of having mishaps in chemicals are concentrated because the chemical industry is concentrated here. >> reporter: since 2008, the investigators from the chemical safety board have investigated three dacts in area facilities. the most recent at this dupont plant in 2010. there a worker died when a ruptured hose sprayed him with a deadly gas, and after each incident, they created an oversight board for chemical facilities, and the suggestion fell on deaf ears. >> unfortunately, we heard from the state that they were unable

to respond, and it was not possible for them to do it. that's the last word that we got. >> reporter: a spokesperson for the west virginia department of human health and resources said the last word on the issue came june 30th 2011, and at the time, that agency and the environmental protection jointly agreed to approach the legislature to provide funding for a study of successful initiatives from around the country, yet no legislation was ever introduced. >> it's challenging because i'm the first person who introduced it to the state. so to be here again at this particular moment, saying exactly the same thing, is really challenging. >> it's a group of people concerned about chemical safety, following a disaster in bopal india. there the chemical methoisocyanide was released.

and they hope that the chemical outrage in the chemical spill that contaminated the drinking water for 300,000 people will bring tougher regulations. >> he was talking about his pregnant wife, how she's avoiding the water, and that's impacting on a personal level. one reason it gets swept under the rug, people with decision making power aren't dealing with the ramifications first hand. >> reporter: two bills are being introduced for chemical facilities in the state. too late for this incident, but maybe preventing a future one. robert ray, charleston, west virginia. >> today is world cancer day, and many survivors are telling their own stories. >> we'll start with some numbers first, john. other than heart disease, nothing kills more americans than cancer. a new report by the world health organization calls the disease a human disaster.

the report predicts that cancer cases will surge to 57%. so according to the report, cancer will likely kill one out of 8 men and one out of 12 women. deadlyist form is lung cancer, which kills 10% of victims, and breast cancer is the third biggest cancer killer in the u.s.. world health organization said that the focus needs to be on presence. recommends that the government needs to crackdown on smoking, alcohol, and sugary drinks. exercising and eating better could cut cancer dacts by a third. and the group warns that it will be felt in developing worlds like south america and africa. the group reports that 70% of the deaths will be in those areas. world cancer day is the day to focus world attention on trying to find a cure. lisa stark brings us a story of

one woman who remains optimistic in the face of this disease. >> when we talk about the war on cancer, we often talk statistics, but it's really good individuals, people like linda keener. >> you are a cancer survivor, really, aren't you. >> yes, i am. actually, this is my third round of cancer. third round. >> reporter: linda, with husband ron by her side, first battled breast cancer. the chemotherapy that cured her probably caused her next cancer, non-haj kins lymphoma, and the one she's now fighting. milo displastic syndrome. >> i know that i have hope and faith and trust. but sometimes i forget which kitchen drawer i put them. >> in baltimore, 67-year-old linda is upbeat, two days before a scheduled bone marrow transplant.

>> at the end of the day, when you want is to be healthy again, and you do whatever you need to do to obtain that. >> in the u.s., there has been progress in the fight against cancer. the american cancer society points out that in 2010, the death rate from all cancers was 20% lower than it was in 1990. that's largely because of a decline in smoking, but also because of better early decks and more effective treatments, but still as the population ages, the cancer cases are declining. >> 37% of all cases are diagnosed above the age of 60, and 28% above the age of 80. >> reporter: doctor nelson believes we're at a dramatic point in cancer therapies. able to target abnormal genes, and it able to use the body's immune system to destroy others. >> we have a lot to just plainly

figuring out how to use these things, but over the next decade, this is going to be tremendous to watch. >> nelson remains an optimist. >> we're going to cure the disease. >> and words to live by for linda. >> i believe you can survive and go forward. >> reporter: lease ar stark, aljazeera, baltimore, maryland. >> if she says she can go forward, you have to believe it. log onto world cancer.org. >> up next, evolving on evolution. bill nighy, the science guy takes center stage. and now at an all-time high.

>> bill was in jail for a confession that was coerced. and there were nearly 100 overturned convictions last year. that's an all-time high. dianaester brook has the story of juan rivera, another man who lost 20 years behind bars. >> reporter: this is a photo of a joyous juan rivera, walking out of prison two years ago after spending nearly 20 years behind bars. >> they were all in front of the prison, waiting for me to step out. so it was unreal, something that you see in a movie. >> reporter: he was one of the hundreds of people exonerated in the u.s. over the past 25 years.

2015 saw the largest numbers. 20 involved murders, and 23 involved rape or sexual assault. they publish the rental industry. director, rob warren said that 20% were people pleading guilty to crimes they didn't commit. >> people didn't believe that you could be psychologically coerced to confessition to a serious crime that they didn't commit. and we now know that it's not far from unheard of. >> rivera said that he was coerced into fessing to the murder of a 12-year-old girl. even after they found he was exonerated because of insufficient evidence against him. todayive remembererra works nearby in the laboratory at the medical school, and is a

frequent visitor for wrongful convictions. he doesn't want what happened to him to happen to someone else. >> today hard to believe that officials who are supposed to protect us as citizens, basically threw my life in the gutter and left me there to die. >> reporter: though rivera has moved on in his life, he still feels stigmatized for spending time in prison, something that he's not sure that it will ever be erased. >> it's one of the most devicive debates in the u.s. today, was the universe created or did it evolve? the debate is going on right now, and jonathan martin is there in petersburg, kentucky. >> reporter: hey, john, we just stepped out of the debate. and bill nigh, the science guy, he was debating, and tim hamm,

best-selling author, debating on the chretie creation side. and bill nye mosted a video on his blog, saying that teaching creation to children is harmful. idea that creationisms wrong, because the earth, he says, couldn't have happened 6,000 years ago, and a flood 4,000 years ago, but we have also heard from the other side, which is tim hamm, who brings up exploratory science verse observational science, versus historical science that we're just guessing about, and he brings up the idea that there has to be one authority, and is it god or man? also, at a recent poll, though evolution is widely accepted in scientific circles, it's not so much a clear cut case for the

american public. 60% of americans who believe in some sort of evolution, but 30% favor some creationism. so they know that they have a huge platform. sold out crowd in here, and groups watching in the country, and they hope to put the information out there, and bring this debate out to the forefront and have people decide their themselves. >> we have the debate up, and let's dip in and listen to bill nye the science guy. >> what you can literally find in your backyard in kentucky. today a troubling point of view, and one that i would very much like you to address when you come back. as far as the five races that you mentioned, it's kind of the same thing. the five races were claimed by people of european descent.

and they said we're the best, and check us out. >> we'll have more on the story tonight at 1 bein 11:00 eastern. and bill nye the science guy had some critics. some didn't want him to take part in the debate. is that right, jonathan. >> for two reasons. if you look at it, bill nye, though he's the science guy, he's not a scientist, he's a mechanical engineer, and some said that he was not the best person to be at the forefront of this, and some said that bringing creationism to the forefront. >> jonathan, thank you, and still ahead tonight. the head of the class, how is a nine-year-old becoming a starter on her high school's varsity basketball team? and plus, america's future role

in afghanistan. how that nation's leader has the obama administration coming up with new plans.

>> welcome to aljazeera, i'm john seigenthaler. president obama meeting with top military commanders to talk about the next steps in afghanistan. and chilling video violence against gays in russia. and does his story hold water? the top stories with michelle. >> i'm just reading the news, i'm not the bad guy on this one, okay? another winter storm is pounding much of the united states. heavy wet snow is moving to the great plains, and as much as a foot could pile up in kansas. it's making its way to the

northeast. and the snow and freezing rain is making it difficult to drive. thousands of flights across the country have been canceled or delayed because of the storm. the more than two year long fight to pass a farm bill is over tonight. congress has sented trillion dollar measure to the president, and tripping food samples. more military scandals. both the army and the navy are not under fire for possible allegations of cheating. national guard recruiters paid to enlist soldiers, and possible cheating at a navy nuclear training facility. back to you, john. all right, michelle, thank you very much. president obama was meeting with military brass behind closed doors this afternoon.

and the story from white house press ec tear, mike. >> joseph dunford, sitting down with the president for top officials. on the table, the troops in afghanistan and the refusal of its leader, karzai, to come to terms. the latest revelation reported secret talks between karzai and the taliban, trying to cut his own deal. karzai has refused to sign an agreement allowing a residual force of 10,000 u.s. troops to train and assist afghans for 2014. and combat comes to an end. republican senators pressed for an agreement. >> you see what happens when security falls apart. iraq is exhibit after, and afghanistan would be worse. >> they were also critical of president obama, accusing him of

abandoning afghanistan altogether in three years. >> president karzai is paranoid and irrational. and like most people with paranoia, there's a basis for that. and when he reads that the united states is planning on having everybody out by 2017, then he makes accommodations, such as trying to negotiate with the taliban. that's completely understandable. >> reporter: the white house hit back, but would not say how long mr. obama plans to keep troops there. even with an agreement. >> i don't doubt that some senators envision a world in which want u.s. troops are in afghanistan for decades, and some envision a world in which the troops are in iraq for decades, and that's not the president's mission. >> time is running short for a deal. >> they may end up with no u.s. forces in the country, karzai without an agreement. and the losers in all of this will be the afghan people.

>> the initial agreement, karzai needs to sign by last year because they need time to plan for the post-2014 landscape. and the white house is not giving a deadline, only saying that karzai needs to sign in weeks, not in the months that karzai has asked for. >> russia today, new details of a series of anti-gay attacks, openly carried out in the country. the footage, compiled by human rights watch, was taken by an online gay vigilante group. the members call themselves anti-pedophilia. they lure gay men to promise dates, and then beat them. the violence has increased since russia passed a new law banning what it calls homosexual propaganda. nicki joins us tonight. and thank you for being on the program.

how long has this sort of thing been going on? >> well, the video, and we recommend that you watch it, it's hard to watch, but it's also important to watch, because it's a symptom of something that has been happening in russia since 2006. these laws started working their way through the legislature, and working their way up through the system. the law was, an anti-gay law was signed into law by president putin in july. but there was a long period before then where it was absolutely anticipatable that this would happen. sad thing is that the international olympic committee had the leverage to stop the law and didn't use it. >> what are the most disturbing examples of violence against gays in russia that you uncovered? >> well, the videos themselves are disturbing, and these are videos where the torturers, the young men who are entrapped and tortured on video, but the

perpetrators are showing their faces, they're not afraid, they don't fear justice. >> who are they? >> that's part of the message of terror. >> what do we know about this group? >> it's a group, but it reflects a broader trend in society. and it also reflects right up to the top, up to president put i himself, gay people are stigmatized. and there's an anti-lbgt movement in society. and that's what's very dangerous. it's not a sign of strength, it's a sign of weakness, and it's a broader crackdown on society that really started -- again, when putin came back to power, he wanted to science his critics, and what do you do? you target a specific group, these are the people who must be destroyed and are national security threats. >> some of those gays are out

with cameras and getting pummeled by these people. can you talk about it anything is being done on the part of the russian government to stop this? >> that's really the sad thing. these videos are posted by the perpetrators who clearly have no fear of being brought to justice. they are showing their faces, they're not hiding their fakes, they don't fear that someone will come and arrest them for violent attacks and torture. and that's really the message that the world should focus on. this is a clear violation of international human rights, and it's a clear violation of the olympic charter, which says that discrimination is income patible with the olympic movement. so we're going into the olympics where the rights of gay people in russia are under threat and the government is doing nothing about it. >> and you're hoping that by releasing this video now it will

change things, yes? >> it's part of an education campaign to understand that in many countries around the world, gay people face anti-gay violence and attacks because of who they are and who they love. and it's not acceptable. but especially as we head into the olympics, where many olympians are taking great risk to speak out and speak to the identity of their teammates, it's a shame that the ioc has completely dropped the ball and missed an opportunity to use the leverage that they had with putin and the government to roll that law back, and it's not too late to do that. >> mickey with human rights watch. it's good to have you on the program. thank you very much. >> . >> there's an important free speech and human rights program that we continue to follow on this program. the detention of our colleagues

in egypt. >> 39 days, that's how long our aljazeera colleagues have been detained in egypt and from around the world, even the white house, are saying enough. dozens marched in the embassy today. and they taped their mouths shut and held up signs in support of the aljazeera staff members arrested in egypt, and this afternoon, the white house weighed in. >> the matter you raise is a deep concern to the administration. the freedom of expression in egypt, and that includes the starting of journalists for expressing their views. these journalists, regardless of affiliation, should be protected and able to do their jobs freely in egypt. and peace talks can only move forward if they are able to

express themselves freely. >> they were detained in late disease, and they are accused of spreading lies harmful to state security and belonging to a terrorist group. they have all been held for several months ago. and aljazeera says the allegations against them are unfounded. now, john, there's a twitter hashtag, and it's free aj staff. if you follow that hashtag, you're going to find amazing pictures of journalists posting selfies, holding up sign in support of our aljazeera colleagues. this happened today. one journalist who held up such a sign is christiane amanpour from cnn. she's a competitor, but clearly, competition is a trivial matter when lives and freedom of the press are at stake. >> christiana is one of the many

dozens of journalists across the country have spoken out in sport of the journalists. thank you very much, rochelle. today, a federal court is considering turning over a state's ban on gay marriage. and the state's newly elected attorney general is looking at striking down the law. joie chen has this on the top of the hour. >> an in-depth look at crude oil concerns with controversy over the keystone pipeline, and what about for the people who live in its path? the sleepy town of port arthur is at the end of the proposed pipeline extension, but residents already feel the ill effects of the oil industry. >> i really feel like a lot of

people in port arthur, including my family, [ unintelligible ]. >> america tonight correspondent, sarah hoi, brings us the story of the residents at the top of the hour. >> when you were in high school, it's a big deal to make the varsity sports team. but to make the team when you're in elementary school, that's why a nine-year-old girl is such a big shot these days. this is a terrific story. >> reporter: being a big shot is an under statement when you see the exploits of this young lady. a player's size and particular age usually has direct correlation to that kid's skill level. but it doesn't matter when it comes to fourth grader, jaycee. >> most have to wait until high school to make the team.

but jaden has not gotten out of fourth grade. but she has been with the girl's basketball team for the past two seasons. >> it's fun, and people think that i'm not good, but after that, they see different on the court. >> after you go through the handshake line -- >> they're like wow, good job, and i don't know what to say about that. >> nobody gets mad at you? >> no, well sometimes. >> reporter: the 4 help 7 prodigy averages 14 points and 7 assists per game, and her father, who is a coach, says she was born to play. >> she wants to do whatever daddy does, and likes to watch. and she's with me 24-7. so just being on the couch with me, watching the game, when she was not even walking, and where she is today, she'll be right by my side. and she'll tell the others what the coach needs to do, and what the players need to do.

and she knows the game better than most men. to be able to shoot such long-range threes at that age. >> it's very deceiving, she has a young innocent face, and then she's the silent assassin on the court. >> that's exactly how she is, oh, she's so cute. and then she'll go by you in a minute, and it's funny, because she's so cute. and then, the girls are like -- >> the newmans are used to the national spotlight after jaden's brother started with the boy's team as a 6th grader, and her mom is super mom, working her own job, while juggling everybody's basketball schedule. for years on high school basketball, she also dreams about the next level. >> first i want to go to college, and play for the u conn

huskies, and then to the wnba and play for the l.a. sports. >> who is your favorite player? >> shhirazi. >> have you gotten to meet you yet. >> no, but when i was on the queen latifah show, she signed her jersey for me. >> at the rate she's going, there will be a lot more of this in jaden newman's future. >> john, all cuteness aside, from an athletic standpoint this girl is something else. that's what stood out to me. >> she's so cool. and what's the competition like? >> it's not the highest level in florida. there are eight different classifications, and her school, only 300 students, and they're at the lower level. so they're not playing with the public schools, but clearly, kids twice her age.

>> she's 4-7. and they expect her to grow-. >> they hope. her dad is 6-6. and her mom is 5 feet. >> but this is not about stature or age, but ability. >> next, from silent films to writing books, charlie chaplain's hidden talent. and plus, growing pains as facebook turns 10 years old.

>> well, here in new york, things have definitely improved in the last 24 hours. last, we were looking at the roads with some sort of snow or ice on them. today, the temperatures above freezing, and that was good enough to let a lot of the precipitation on the darker surfaces melt. so tomorrow, with the next storm coming, it's going to be with sort of a clean slate in new york. the storm is going to be coming in overnight in western pennsylvania and new york, and the poconos in the higher elevations of new york, anywhere between 12 and 16 inches of snow could be expected in some locations. now, here in the metro areas, that's a whole different story. we're going to be a little bit warmer and that means we could be seeing frozen presip changing to freezing presip. and that will make a difference on i-95 and the marriage airports as well. the rain is going to end if the

southern areas, but what's going to happen, a lot of the presip that was on the ground is going to stay on the ground. and that means thursday morning as well as into friday morning. it's going to be a problem there. that's a look at the national weather and your news is right after this.

>> this story is true, it's an amazing story of survival. and if it's not, it's a hoax that captured national attention. jose washed ashore on the marshall islands several days agoful he claimed he had been stranded on a boat at sea for more than a year. some wonder if he's telling the truth. mexican officials say its possible. two men set sail and were never found. he said that he set sail with a teenager onboard. and this might be the same boat. now in the cinema, charlie chaplain, 30 years after his

death, he could be making a name for himself in another arena. >> reporter: he's the man who said 1,000 words, even when the script didn't have any. charlie chaplain, film star, screen writer and composer. together from manuscripts with 150,000 pages of chaplain's archive. >> top find something new produced by chaplain is extraordinary, because it won't be that many times that's going to happen. well, you never know. >> reporter: the pages were full of scribbles and changes, and drafts, and it took people 12 years to assemble. >> our aim is just to reveal another side of the genius. >> reporter: the novel was the basis for his film, limelight, it was hugely successful and it's widely considered as his

last great film. >> it's a deep reflection in the relationship between the artist and his own art. and his own audience, and i think the film deals with these issues obviously, but the book goes much deeper. into the nightmares and the shadows of this aging comedian. >> reporter: charlie chaplain was born a stone's throw from south bay, and while many of his movies were filmed under the california sun, he never forgot where he came from. >> the charlie chaplain premier drove thousands... >> reporter: the local premier, and it coincides with the 100th anniversary of kaplan first putting on his famous costume. >> we were crazy about him. and even two years later, there

was not anyone in the world who didn't know his name. it was chad chaplain mania. >> reporter: it continues a century later. aljazeera, london. >> well, facebook turns ten today. in website years, that's old enough for an aarp card, where the demographics are heading. turns out that some young people can't be bothered with all of that typing. >> reporter: it's become the way that you remember friend's birthdays, and keep in touch with family, and how we stalk our exes. facebook, 10 years old, has become an integral part of our everyday lives. you know its big when hollywood makes a movie about the social network, looking at how it all began at harvard. >> the harvard facebook. >> reporter: lindsay tine is also a harvard graduate, in possession of a pre-digital facebook. >> this is probably like the one

that mark zuckerberg has, and it was the inspiration for facebook. >> reporter: founded by friend, today facebook boasts 6,300 employees, with 1 billion users a month. on any given day, 700 million tune into facebook, and 80% are outside of the u.s. and canada. it wasn't until 2009 that facebook introduced the like button, and since then, it's one of the most popular features, and a testament to how fast an icon can enter a mainstream kurt. facebook is in question, but the future, how long it will last is something that many in silicon valley wonder, a younger generation of social networkers have shifted away from facebook. cool on campus is snap chat. >> everyone is on facebook, but

everyone is using snap chat. >> people use snap chat a lot more often just because it's a tedious process, and it's a lot more simple to use. >> i asked steven if he could show me what snap chat is. >> you send a message, and it erases after a period of time. so after 7 or 8 seconds, it will disappear after someone looks at the message >> so it's like mix impossible. >> $7 billion, that's how much facebook tried to snap up snap chat for. snap chat turned down facebook's offer, but instagram didn't. and it was acquired for a cool $1 billion. >> let's look at timeline. >> they have harlan exodus from the site. just ambivalence. silicon valley, california.

>> coming up tonight on our 11 p.m. eastern broadcast, the president shows off his skills with an electronic toy. could a selfy be next? and the strange cloud pattern above saturn. more on 11:00 eastern. and 8:pacific time. every night, we check out an image that caught our attention. tonight, baby lions. these triplets were born in a zoo in poland. they're white lions, often they're born with birth effects and the mothers often reject them. but this mother is he said to be guarding her babies, and the father, another white lion is in a neighboring cage. headlines are right after this.

>> i'm richelle carey and here are the top stories. a series of scandals has shaken the military.

several under fire for allegations of cheating. national guard soldiers are accused of abusing a program that pays them to enlist soldiers, and a navy reacting facility. congress sent along a farm bill to the president today. it scarves agricultural programs, and food stamps for the low income. no rest for the weary. another heavy snowstorm is dump on parts of the midwest. and parts of the east still digging out from monday's snow. a city grilled state and local officials about last month's chemical spills in charleston. several senators called for tougher laws. and the january 9th incident cut off water for 300,000 people in the charleston area. and ten years of likes and posts, facebook has been around for a decade. if it makes you feel old, maybe

it should, the facebook demographics are aging, and many are gravitating to photo based snap chat. check out the website at aljazeera.com. ♪ ♪ on "america tonight." a cruel death. our in-depth look at crime and punishment considers the executioner's cocktail. at state's seek new methods to admiadminister the ultimate pen. >> when you strap somebody for a board and di deprive them of oxn as they slowly die in front of their family. it would take a good imagination to comp with a more brutal form of execution than that. also tonight, end of the lionel. the fight over externalling the keystone pipeline reaches deep in to