boys. the show may be over but the conversation continues. you will find us on twitter @ajconsiderthis. we'll see you next time. >> hello and welcome to al jazeera america i'm richelle carey in new york. john siegenthaler has the day off. thousands of muslims in fear of attack flee a country in crisis. moving theater, killing, argument over text messages and ended in a man's death. >> falling apart, america's crumbling infrastructure and the questions of safety, security and money. plus, walking tall.

uncover the footprints of a pioneer man, some 800,000 years old. what this extraordinary find says about our earliest human relatives. and we begin tonight with that developing story from central african republic. we have been following conflict there for some time. the sectarian violence between muslims and christians have claimed thousands of lives on both sides and now fears of a mass cleansing on both sides are forcing muslims to flee. the soldiers armed with ak .47s and handguns led a convoy of nearly 500 vehicles all packed to the brim with is displaced muslims. at one point a man fell off a

truck and was caught and killed by an angry mob. his mutilated body left along the road. in bangui, christians cheered as the muslims departed. today aat the hague, a preliminary investigation into war crimes in central african republic. they will investigate reports of killings, rape, sexual slavery, and other crimes. here at home, rains finally sprinkled parts of california today. that's really good news for a state suffering one of its worst droughts on record. there may be other problems as well. kevin corriveau is keeping an eye. >> that's right, richelle, like you said the drought last been incredible, one of the worst we've seen. the problems we are facing, the

rain is coming down very hard over the next couple of days. the ground is not able to saturate. mudslides, landslides could be a problem. but we're expecting between five and eight inches of rain in the northern part of california, and oregon. that is more rain than they have seen in the last eight months. it is going to put a little bit of a dent in the drownt drought, it's also very good for the snow pack because if you increase the snow pack then you're guaranteeing some water as we go towards the springtime. down towards southern california though it's a little bit of a different story. we're not really getting that much rain here. it's going oget much better from the bay area and up but for southern california it could still be an issue. this is going to be go on by sunday, monday, this ridge of

high pressure keeping much of the area dry is going to come back in the place, we have a little bit of danger associated with it but i think the benefits are going to outweigh that. >> that's good kevin. i'll talk to you in eligibility. labor department said 113,000 jobs were created in january, yes, that is fewer than expected. the unemployment rate dipped to 6.6%. lowest in five years. mike viqueria has more in washington. >> if there's bad news in this report you wouldn't know it by talking to president obama and hits aides. the president his aides will accentuate the positive but they say there's more work to be done on a sluggish economy. not so, the president, you get the sense that this white house feels after five years of false starts the economy is turning

the bend for good. he was in east lancing to sign the farm bill. >> our unemployment rate is the belowest it's been since i was first elected. companies say they intend to hire even more ahead. this is why i feel this will be a break through year for america. >> earlier on friday spoke with ray suarez from inside story. the debt ceiling crisis could be approaching. congress is going ohave to vote to raise it by the end of this month. republicans still haven't decided how they're going oproceed. furman has indicated that unemployment insurance has, long

term unemployment has lapsed. this is what furman has to say. >> we got a great opportunity. we got a budget deal, if we handle the debt ceiling properly, then we have a stage for greater certainty to move ahead and drive our economy. >> and what about the republican leadership in congress? john boehner said, where are the jobs? that is his very familiar mantra. over the course of the obama administration frankly he also pushed for that keystone plieng foplieng -- pipeline, he poked e administration on trade. democrats are holding those up. back to you. >> mike viqueria there. as mike viqueria just reported there, president obama traveled to michigan to sign a new farm bill today. it trims federal funding for

food stamps by 1%, that's $8 billion over the next ten years. republicans have been pushing for much deeper food stamp cuts. bisi onile-ere reports. fm. >> reporter: 28-year-old casha kolek works part time in this diner in michigan. to make ends meet she recently took on a second job. even that's not enough to pay all the bills and sometimes not enough to buy food. >> but something like food it's just -- it adds a different level of stress to not know how you're feeding irs. >> kolek is among 47 million americans who depend on food stamps. right now $200 a month from the program buys her groceries and a

piece peace of mind. but with the passing of the fample bill old fears are setting in again. >> it's going to be hard, i don't know, it's going to be really hard. >> here's why. the law will take away $800 million of food stamps every year. that could cut kolek's food stamps nearly in half. 15 states including michigan will be hit hard that's because the new bill eliminates what some lawmakers call a loophole that allow those states and d.c. to increase benefits. >> any reduction in hunger relief effort at this point is going to be very tolling on us because the fact that we are already serving more than we could possibly serve. >> corinne says the food stamp

cut will hurt the most vulnerable the elderly and children. casha kolek is weighing what options she has. >> i can't imagine not just for myself but friends who have families to feed, trying to retch the budget a little further. >> bisi onile-ere, al jazeera, lancing michigan. >> the bill year o overhauls, ty wink owns adear farm in kansas. his business was facing foreclosure. >> there really was very little help from the government in the past. and their subsidies that they paid us were just ridiculously

not helpful. this program looks as though it could be helpful. we'll have to purchase margin insurance, the margin of the milk price over feed costs will be assessed by the usda and if the margin falls to narrow, we'll have margin insurance that we purchased. so it's probably a good thing. we'll try have to fit into that, we process part of our public, we're producers so since we produce, i'm sure we'll fit into it somehow. >> he was able to help his family save the farm. up next, the crumbling infrastructure and how it could leave the u.s. in the dust. the prints made almost 1 million years ago and what they

tell us about our ancestors.

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the topic with a bit of humor and about one of the country's biggest airport. >> if i blind folded someone and took him into the airport in hong kong, i would ask him, do you think you're in america. if i took him to la ya gawrd lae would think he was in a third world country. >> the personnel there make it work under very difficult circumstances. as a proud new yorker i didn't like that comment and i didn't think it was the right way to talk about it. >> it's true la guardia isn't

the only airport in need of a face lift. minneapolis had that label, you can see it happened it collapsed in 2007 during rush hour killing more than a dozen people. the american society of civil engineers gave american bridges a mediocre c plus grade. ports and rail, airports, dams and roads, they're even worse, they got a d. the report says america's infrastructure will need more than $3.5 trillion in infrastructure no until last don years. we certainly appreciate your time tonight, diana first what's your reaction to vice president biden's comments? >> well, i think he got it both right and wrong. i think anyone who has been to

la guardia, can tell the airport is woefully inadequate. it certainly doesn't give a great impression of the city when you arrive at la guardia. orient, you don't judge the country's infrastructure on the base i of its arguably worst airport. there are third world countries in asia and africa that invest heavily in their airports in order to impress international tourists, business men and et cetera, that aren't providing the same kinds of infrastructure as water and roads and rail. it was a rallying cry for america's infrastructure if not necessarily totally accurate. >> d plus in infrastructure, give us some context. >> i think that grade is pretty

accurate when you look at the need in the united states compared to what we're really investing. so that infrastructure report card looks at everything from bridges to rail to water. even broadband. so i think when you look at the host of the things that the united states needs to be investing in and the fact that we're really not pushing the government osh the government is not pushing us to be investing in you know better transportation options, better sewer and water infrastructure, some of the water infrastructure are subway lines, all of these pieces of infrastructure were built about a century ago. and cities you know are in great need for greater investment in that. so i think that the d plus comes from the fact that you know, we had enormous legacy of infrastructure that the u.s. has built over the past century or so. but we've not been investing in it for the past 50 years,

really. >> and why is that? i mean it's obvious what some of the consequences can be. we saw video of that horrible bridge collapse from 2007 in minnesota. what's missing? >> well, i think that infrastructure is not really a sexy topic to kind of galvanize people to raise taxes around. so everybody loves it whether they see a public official talk about education and everyone agrees that we need to be investing in children. but if you say you know you want to raise taxes to build new bridges or to even just maintain the current infrastructure that we have, a lot of people don't really want to be emptying out their pockets for that. and frankly infrastructure is by and large unseen. it is the support system that works underneat and around our city. and even where in the city of baltimore, where there's water

main breaks he every single day, people don't think about it the way they see schools or other more pressing needs that they see visually every day. >> diana, i mean this, what will it take to shake people up, to shake up elected officials to really understand the urgency? >> i think -- i appreciatejoe biden's comment in the sense that you know, if you look larger at that whole speech he was talking about not just la guardia, but having leadership that is focused on sphrawrt is really critical here. if you look at a lot of the major infrastructure projects in the united states, it's stemmed from visionary leaders. in boston the big dig, or even more recently, john hi hicken

hickenlooper, people voted to increase their taxes in order to pay for a light rail line. >> that's often a tough sell for sure. diediana thank you for being he. >> thanks for having me. >> absolutely. liberal san francisco, shooting for fun and sport is catching on in spite of the city's reputation. melissa chan reports. >> in the middle of san francisco a gun club. the clientele, tech workers from silicon valley. >> kind of like golf but things explode and that's fun. >> unexpected considering this is a place known for its

left-leaning politics. but more young gun lovers and more young women. chris chang went from a job at google to a career as a competitive shooter. are. >> especially in the tech community, there is a movement to experience more off-line events and have these very more tactile experiences. >> he says there's a common misunderstanding that you have to be republican or conservative to shoot. when in fact, the gun community here is incredibly diverse. >> hey, very nice! >> these gun enthusiasts say they are here for the sport not the politics. though this is the bay area and the prevailing blue-state politics mean some gun owners have a very strong position

where they stand on this. >> i've spent all my life in lefty activate and i'm a gun owner. >> for many years she felt like a lone democrat who loved guns until last year when she learned about the new liberal gun club. hober argues it's time for blue state gun owners to come out of the closet. >> step in the public and say ski, begin owners are not who you think gun owners are. >> some liberal san franciscos, see a connection to the local food movement. the city's club ahold wild game

night. are hurnded the game hymns. the bay area last kick started nationwide trends. gun frerntgun friends hope it dy endure. melissa chan, al jazeera. >> today marked the third day of unrest in the country in which 25% of the pool beam do not have jobs. >> thousands of protestors took to the streets and by the way it was 30 years ago today that the saiserejevo olympics began. the opening ceremonies. music dancing visual story telling all emphasize the country's love of the arts. the u.s. like team maid their

way sporting their new uniforms. the ceremony dime a close by the lighting of the olympic torch. ross shimabuku is there. >> more money, more topic, the most the, sochi game which is more than all the previous winter olympics combined believe it or not. when russ was first judge awarded the games, their budget was 7 billion or $12 billion. our michael eaves takes another look at: security. >> various terrorism groups who claim to have startinged these winter games.

although the plan, trusting the security to the professionals. >> i feel like everyone has done their job. they realize that there was a threat. they made the appropriate reactions and they have people all around and i know this country and our country is going to do a good job to keep us safe so i'm going to fowk on my competition. >> on the morning of september 5th, 1972, the worst terrorism example in olympic history. two israeli athletes were murdered. the terrorists demanded the release of 200, after athletic competition was suspended for 24 hours to plow for a day of mourning. again, 1996 bomb in atlanta, are

centennial olympic park was the town square. thousands of spectators had gathered, unaware that eric ru rudolph, that killed two people and shut down the olympics to protest the legality of why abortion. but as it relates to this year's games, athletes have already taken notice of the heightened security in sochi. >> i think they've stepped it up a lot, enjoy being an theet this year. >> there have been questions raised in advance of the olympics. most athletes have little choice in the matter and are putting their faith solely in the host country. >> i know we'll be good hands and the security i know it's pretty tight.

>> i'm not concerned, i think the organizing community has don't safe here and you know i'm not worried about it at all. i talked to my family, they are coming over in a couple of days, and they're not worried. >> although security is not its only concern, the olympic committee seems pleased. >> we are ton the sochi 2014 winter games. we can see that you, russian and the russians have delivered. you have set the stage for the best winter athletes in the world. you have to remember the pledges that you and your team played seven years ago to the international olympic committee. i would very much like to congratulate you and thank you for this achievement.

>> i world politics will not be a factor in the upcoming games and the true spirit of the olympic games will shine through. michael eaves, al jazeera. >> as michael says, let's just hope that the performance off the ice will equal their performance on the ice. racial thank you. movie theoretical spat that turned into a deadly confront takings. >> plus, the men behind the the nonuments men. ththe items they saved.

>> welcome back to al jazeera america. i'm richelle carey. we have a lot to cover this half hour. video just released, showing the

movie theater confrontation that began over text messages and ended in a man's death. >> another northwest independent yap tribe starting disenrollment proceedings. i'm allen schauffler, where are tribe members say it's casino money. that just ahead. >> and tracks changing the courts of human evolution. the latest jobless numbers are raising new doubts about the economic recovery. according to the labor department there were only 113,000 new jobs created last month. economists had been expecting 185,000 but the nation's unemployment rate is 6.6% down just a bit from last year.

8.6 billion dollars will be cut from the food stamp program over the next decade. an estimated 850,000 households will be affected by those cuts. >> and central african republic, thousands flee for their lives. sectarian violence continues to escalate. the international criminal court has launched a political investigation into crime there. jerome lay is in central african republic and has covered some of the most extreme violence in that country including blood head that has unfolded last week. we have to warn you some of the images are about to see are graphic, disturbing. >> seems like two days ago following speech of the president, seems like today where you know people are fleeing to country they don't even know just because they're muslims.

i an think it's pretty horrific scenes. a man fleeing in a convoy of 10,000 towards chad had the bad luck to fall off the truck he was riding on. and he didn't survive. and den -- he didn't die from the fall. he died from being killed by a mob and always with the same rituals. there is a very formal ceremony that was led by the president of central african republic. and people who had just signed up to try orebuild and join the central earv african army. a man was stabbed his only mistakes was that he was muslim, he was perceived and more than likely he was an ex-seleka

rebel. about 100 people who just really wanted to go for the the kill and people were just saying, i'm going to kill him with my own hands, he's a muslim he must die, and started to kill him with their hands with their feet with knives with rocks. and after that, just dragged his body in the street. burned him, you know some people might say, why didn't you step in and help? why didn't you -- there was nothing i could do. and the best thing we could do and that was -- you know, there were some other colleagues there. the only thing we could do, it happened very, very fast, it wasn't long before it was over. just record it. the only thing you know you're dealing with the devil.

>> that was jerome delay, a reporter from the associated press, really amazing video there. >> a twiert police officer in florida is charged with killing a man in a theater because he refused to stop texting. the second day of a bail hearing that included testimony of throwing po popcorn and surveillance inside that theater. >> it was supposed to be a normal day in a movie theater outside tampa. prosecutors say 43-year-old chad olson was texting his babysitter during the previews. his two-year-old daughter was sick the theater was empty but prosecutors say curtis olson sat down behind him and told him to

stop texting. then reeves got the manager. when he returned he continued to argue with olson. the video apparently says olson's wife was shot in the hand by the same bullet, witnesses say she had her hand on her husband's chetsd. in an interview meadly after the shooting reeves said he shot because he was scared. reeves said he was hit by a cell phone. olson's wife spoke to reporters after the judge denied bail. >> i'm just very happy and relieved by the judge's ruling. i have no doubt in my mind this is the right decision. >> reeves, had just been assaulted. he says it's too soon to say whether he'll use the controversial stand your ground law as a defense.

but cited it several times in court. natasha guinane, dade county, florida. >> joining us, we have this video it's not often that you do have a video when we're talking about a shooting or a crime, but we do. what do you see in this video? >> well, murder begins where self defense ends of course. the questions here is what can we really see in surveillance video that will tell us about what happened right before the shooting? i kind of see things that corroborate both sides of his account. the fact is, there was interacts. we don't know if mr. reeves was hit by a cell phone. it could really help both sides in this case but i think it does corroborate there was an interaction as is claimed so far. >> to your point it's difficult to know what it is we're seeing.

you do see something that is maybe popcorn, maybe there was a phone. there wasn't a weapon fired at him, that much is clear right? >> that's clear. there is a situation that reeves wasn't making it up, something was stloafn at him. there is a verbal and physical exchange. that's important in state of str ground. >> in this way, in florida you can stand your ground, if you are in a place you want to be, if you are in the verge of imminent are force.

if you are threatened with grievous bodily harm you can use deadly force. we know from the zimmerman where case, str stand your ground wasa shaky theory. >> there is comment from the judge that there's significant element of guilt. the judge find this to be serious, that he could flee and they don't want to have him at large. and it was an eight hour belong bail hearing, where his are family talks about his infirmity, physical problems and et cetera, yet the judge said no bail. i think that speaks for a real difficult path of the defense, problem offing up self defense.

>> ann bremner, the country is going to watch this very closely. >> native american tribe, this is a fascinating situation, it's ithe grand rond tribe. allen shof ler is live smofl is. -schauffler isthere. >> this is a painful and divisive process, called disenrollment, happening on do dozens of tribes mainly in the western u.s. playing out in rural oregon.

where highway 18 rises out of the willamette valley you'll find the 11,000 acre grand ronde are tribe. >> there was an error in the movement and i have to prove i'm wrong. are. >> we met this are group as they held a backyard prayer session and laid out battle plans for staying in the tribe. >> i'm angry and i'm hurt and i want to stand up and fright for what's right. >> they are card carrying members of the federated tribes, that could be enough for disenrollment. why is this happening? the chief caps great-great

granddaughter says greed is a possibility. >> if i wanted to speculate i would say, could be. >> money? >> uh-huh. >> the spirit of the wind casino provides millions of dollars for social programs and per capita for tribal members, three to $5,000 a year. >> no, it is credit we have seefn them in california and certainly in the west. >> native american law expert ron whitener, can't say for sure are casino money is causings it here. >> ists just that the push from the gaming revenue has provided the reason for tribes to look a little more closely sometimes for who's eligible to be are enrolled and who's not. >> telling us it's part of a long range plan to strengthen

the plan, our repeated requests for an on camera interview wr turned down. >> to get rid of us, they'll have bigger incomes but what goodwill it do? pretty soon they won't have any tribe at all. >> and so the family fight goes on. one side saying prayers for the outcome, the o other publicly about what's behind it in the law. >> indian experts say, they can also be used to fight fraud within tribes and also to clear tribes of criminal elements, clear them from the tribal roles and from tribal lands. richellbeing. >> are these decided?

>> they will have options if the fishes round goes against them. >> okay, is federal cord and option? >> no, not really. we're talking about sovereign nations in why indian tribes. >> what a fascinating interesting ubles position. allen, thank you so much. every friday evening we take some time to are enjoy the arts, tonight, it's the true story in the theaters right now. volunteering to help rescue europe's artistic are treasures. another battle was on the issue. paul beban. >> a band of brothers on the greatest treasure hunt in

history. george clooney knew more about michelangelo than about politics. harry etlinger, at 88, he is one of the few remaining members of the monuments men. he traveled out of germany the day after his ba bar mitzvah. >> for a rabbi to tell a jewish person to travel on saturday, that's the way the conditions were. >> etlinger would return to germany a 19-year-old u.s. army private. he ended up with the monuments men by accident. >> he said sit down in this chair and this guy next to you will tell you what to do and that was my entry into monuments

men. >> etlinger would are spend much of the rest of the war in salt mines deep underground. their goal to return them to their owners. >> this was one rescued by the monuments men. >> it indeed was, louis rothschild's collection. >> they also had more than 700 maps like these, drawn up by a teamworking in the frike art reference loish in new york. >> -- library in new york. >> distribute to the air corps so that the bombing pilots would not hit the leaning tower of pisa or not hit the mother church of the fra franciscan or. >> without it, these might have

been reduced to rubble. >> there were 50 bombing raids on pisa alone. so that they are still standing is something of a miracle. >> a miracle made by the decision of war time to safeguard rather than destroy. >> i believe it's the only time that a country at war bent over backwards to preserve the cultural treasures of the country. >> for harry etlinger, being a monuments man. >> for a brief period of time a country adopted a policy not to take things but to return it to their rightful owner. i as an american want to be very proud of doing that. >> proud of an effort that saved millions of curlt treasures from the most destructive war in history. paul beban, al jazeera, new york. >> coming up, our picture of the day. and every dog has its day.

this year, mixed breeds are making their debut at the celebrated westminster dog show.

>> well, it is the weekend so let's take a look at what's happening across the area. towards the northeast we are looking at the chance of some more snow in the forecast. i know you don't want to hear that. this weekend alone we have seen two storms coming through. coming into play, ohio river

valley then new york, some of the models say we could see an inch, possibly two inches by the time we get to the evening. temperatures, still some sunshine, at 30°, philadelphia a little bit warmer, 32 in washington, we're going to see 36. it is as we get towards sunday that is where the problem comes in. snow showers coming into new york and that's possibly towards evening. in the upstate, new york we do expect to see two to four inches of snow in the forecast here. south coastal regions, that's going to be more of a range factor. down i-knife, showers there. in saturday towards sunday, as we go towards the week on tuesday and wednesday things get a little bit worse, temperature there at 49. that's a look at your national weather, news is next.

>> hoimed stars friends and family gather to say good-bye to actor philip seymour hoffman. a private ceremony was held in new york city. ethan hawk cate blanchtte and others were seen entering. foot fritz from at least let 800,000 years ago. paleoanthropologist, discusses what we know about human evolution. >> the scientists who have authored this paper today are reporting the discovery of footprints made by some of the earliest inhabitants in great britain, 800,000, perhaps

900,000 years old, they represent different individuals some they infer to have been young and others adults based open the size of the footprints. together they have a series of footprints that help us discern how early europeans moved about the landscape, behavior in what they might have been engaged in about their height and weight which we can tell from footprints. they are by no means the earliest foot prits of human says tors. footprints outside of africa are pretty rare up until now. this does shed light on what early human populations have been outside of europe. we have an opportunity to take one step closer to an says ors walking on that -- ancestors walking on the earth 800,000

years ago. instead can actually see where the feet hit the ground, so to speak and to learn something about their body weight, the size of their strides, how fast they might have moved during various types of behavior likely foraging. young and older individuals, perhaps something about social structure of these early europeans. each of these prints needs to be studied in great detail and compared to the footprints that have been found in other places in other times. in order to make sense of them in the context of the scheme of human evolution. >> the exposure of these footprints were only by geological chance, showing a real opportunity for those who study them. everyone loves an underdog.

opening its doors to the all american mutt. tomorrow they will take part in their own competition at the westminster dog show. >> stacy eastman never thought her mutt would get a chance to are compete. >> mixes like her are being welcomed at the westminster dog show. considered one of the world's snootiest canine competitions. >> meet the new dogs in town. alfie, emma, and then there's jimmy mclean and edward, both mysteries, even to their owners. on sunday they will compete

against pure bred in a new competition: agility. >> we know how important agility would be for the dog world and what a great spectator sport it would be as well. >> panda, only 15 of them would be mixed breeds like her. but she's still banned from competing in the show's main competition. best in show. that's still limited to pure bred, bred to preive the betts of the best. judged on everything from height and weight to eye color, ears, tails. peta is he that creates demands that fuels about puppy mills. why. >> we work tirelessly, if you choose to find a responsible owner or preeder then you won't

encounter those problems. >> for taste 80 this isn't about the plokdz. since she rescued panda from a shelter eight years ago, they are already winners. >> to go with the mixed breed the first year is great. >> and for panda wins on sunday, she'll earn something for mutts everywhere: respect. >> love loyalty and intelligence, plan's best friend. our photo of the day, mount sinabu, at least 16 people have been killed by that volcano, another 30,000 have had to leave their homes. today's top of headlines are next.

>> welcome to al jazeera america. i'm richelle carey. here are top stories. central african republic. thousands rub for their lives.

international criminal court has launched a preliminary investigation into war crimes there. and violence protests in bosnia, third day of unrest in that country, where at least 25% of the people don't have jobs. government buildings including the president's were ransacked and thousands took to the streets. curtis reeves accused of killing a man in florida is in jail. a judge denied bail for the 71-year-old today. killing 48-year-old chad olson last month. said he shot him during an argument over texting. according to the labor department there were only 113,000 jobs created last month, the analysts were expecting 160,000. down from last december.

president obama signed a farm bill worth nearly $1 trillion over. those are the headlines, america tonight is up next on al jazeera. day on long island. >> brutality inside america's biggest jail. tonight, more to it. and the four young guys who made the nation of girls scream. beatle mania, 50 years later. >> new york was jumpin'. and we were jumpin' because we had landed in new york and we were in america.