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the special serious "ageing america", with a look at those who take up the challenge of parenting their parents. >> you were working as a lawyer. how could you do your job and look after the needs of your father? >> i left my job? a. he's been one of america's most wanted men. a high-value target on the order of osama bin laden and now the arrest of king within joaquin el chop owe guzman. already his lawyers in mexico are fighting any attempt to have him face justice in the united states. ironically in 1930 chicago, al copone was public enemy number one, and today that title belongs to el chop owe who made the center of his multi billion dollars operation in the u.s. in the windy city as well .

his final moment of freedom came in mazatlan when he was captured by american and mexican enforces. tonight why the arrest of chilling chopelchopo is criticat means on our streets. >> reporter: ? the sinaloa cartel is a corporation, its u.s. headquarters would be in the chicago. under the leader chip of joaquin guzman, it's worth more than $3 billion a year. jack riley runs the dea field office in chicago. he says chicago's central location and highway system makes it the perfect place from moving drugs from mexico to cities across the united states. >> from my point i think chicago and the midwest in general right now is the most significant had you been for the cartels in the country. >> reporter: why's gang culture also makes it a recruiting ground. with 10s of thousands of active and armed bang members on the streets, drug dealers are easy to come by.

>> what's the game, what's the product, what do you sale. >> crack, dope, "x," if it sales we sell it. >> reporter: what do we have here? >> crack. >> reporter: that's crack? >> crack $10 a bag. >> reporter: the gangster disciples is a street game on the west side of the chicago. and the last link in the sinaloa supply chain. where do you drugs come? >> mexico, columbia. doesn't matter who bring it, we just have to sale it, this is our job, this is how we eat, how we feed our families every day. >> reporter: does it ever concern you that you are sailing a product that hurts other people? >> survival of fittest i didn't start doing it to be a social worker. >> i say the 80,000 street gang members are the amway that would guzman uses, they go door to door, they are not selling laundry detergent haren, meth and cocaine. >> reporter: the last time he spent time in a prison he escaped in a laundry cart by

bribing his guards, it was a huge employer as. for mexico. and gave him a consult following. for the past decade this web of tunnels linking seven homes in the resort city of mazatlan allowed him to run the most powerful drug cartel while remaining in hiding. not only contacted by several tunnels but he always used the city's drainage system the doors to the homes where he was found were reinforced with led and caused several minutes of delay in opening them allowing for as en escape through the tunnels. >> reporter: if extradited he could face trial in up to seven u.s. cities, new york, san diego, el paso. his cartel also operates globally with major hubs in asia and europe. >> he's a major player, big player o coming out of mexico ad insurgent at a time when -- especially in new york city, where enter seeing a big infusion of mexican haren.

mexican marijuana going in to colorado, the mexicans, have you know, they are close, it makes these drugs cheaper. taking out a guy like this is extremely important and that's where a lot of our focus has to be. we have to go after these guys a broad and go after the boards that support them. >> reporter: in mexico, skepticism runs deep. he may have been the face of the sinaloa empire, but many say his capture is unlikely to to cripple little cartel. >> translator: he's just one leader, in the end you cut off one head and two grow back in its place . >> reporter: it's >> translator: it's a smoke string the government is very corrupt and doesn't practice democracy. >> translator: the strike against him is an important one, however, what matters is the government's willingness to strike at the cartel's financial operations and to maintain social programs to steer kids

way from organized crime. >> reporter: steering kids way from crime requires understanding of their incentive. three years ago, i traveled to mexico's sinaloa state to find out what's driving the drug trade. when the cartel offered money to do jobs for them, that tempting ? >> reporter: you are that desperate for money ? >> reporter: young men like this are all too come seeing this as their only way out of poverty. is that what you aspire for is to be in the big leagues of the cartel ? >> reporter: federal officials in chicago were among the first to say they wanted to try el chapo guzman. a folks man told al jazerra that they are eager to prosecute him there. >> i would ask that the mexicans consider extraditioning him to the united states, where he will

be put in a supermax prison, under tight security where he cannot escape. >> reporter: what happens next will depend on who wins that battle. mexico, where the drug trade has claimed hundreds of thousands of lives, or the u.s., where a whole generation of addicts have been born from the sinaloa empire. >> "america tonight" tonight christof joins us here, i know you have reported extensively on the sinaloa cartel. you know a lot of what they have done, what they are capable of here. does this cutting off the head of the hydro really men this will mean an end to the drug trade? >> it means two things, the first thing is it sends a signal that no one is untouchable. this was a guy that had legendary status and he was on the foxonforbs list of billionaire d the idea that you could take him down a lot of people didn't think it was possible. so that sends a message. the flip side that have is that,

you now have a whole organization that doesn't have their leader, and a lot of other cartels who want in on this game, as long as there are drugs coming in to the united states, as long as there is a demand for them you have the cartel supplying them. it might not be el chapo guzman, but it's somebody. what this could do is create a lot of more violence as people start struggle to go try to get controlled the trades. >> different groups might get in on it and try to get the turf while he's out of the picture? >> absolutely. one thing that el chapo guzman was good at doing, he kept the violence down a little bit. as his monopoly got big, he violence actually went down in mexico. but now that he's losing control, a lot of people are very concerned that violence will go up again. >> you have mentioned that he really wasn't an extraordinary figure in the drug trade, i keep reading that he was in effect an innovator in the use of these tunnels. and bringing narcotics in to the uniteu.s. in extraordinary ways.

>> the tunnels are absolutely incredible. i have been inside them. they go on forever and there are so many different directions they go and so sophisticated connecting houses, going under the border, connect to this sewer system. i mean, it's really quite impressive to be honest. and that's why he was able to illude capture for sewing. >> and really the guy that initiated that apparently under his lea leadership. >> absolutely. he's considered to be the most successful drug lord that's ever existed. >> in addition to that, there is this consult of personality around him, songs, things around him. >> yeah, everybody in the united states, even up here in the north, there are rappers who rap about him. and this incredible status that he was able to achieve. in mexico he's just this folklore, this is a guy who was able to, even when they locked him up he was age to get out of prison and just escape and they have never been able to get him until now. so, yeah, it's pretty amazing. >> he sort of is a robin hood figure then?

>> well, he was very good doing what a lot of very powerful criminals do just like pablo escobar and he was very good at taking care of the communities where they operated. so a lot of people living in poverty were doing very well when he was around. and actually they are pretty bummed that he's locked up right now. >> "america tonight's" christof, thanks very much for being here. when we return the shockingly lavish lifestyle of ukraine's ousted president. what the people found when he fled. and what this fragile country faces now. also ahead, sandwiched between caring no their own kids and their parents. the pressure and guilt faced by the silent army. >> and i and him, dad, i think i am getting ready to go back home in week. >> when? how long are you going to be? when are you coming back? i know that's him telling me, i am scared, don't go.

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>> with al jazeera america. ♪ ♪ now the crisis in ukraine where former president victor yanukovych is now a fugitive want forked murder. before the weekend he was signing a peace deal, now his palace is a tourist attraction for the very protesters he fought against. "america tonight's" sheila macvicar explains how so much has changed so quickly. >> reporter: in the middle of the nightcap tuesday by cc tv cameras, ukrainian president yanukovych loaded his suitcases and his dog and fled the presidential compound by helicopter. a smart move because this morning the interrupt government issued a warrant for his arrest. charging him with the mass murder of peaceful protesters. nearly 100 people died last week in fierce clashes between anti-government protesters and riot police. many were targeted and killed by government snipers.

>> translator: it's a remarkable situation when the most sought after character in the country is the president of ukraine. who is hide to go doing everything to leave the country and avoid responsibility. i would like to underline that hundreds of victims are the responsibility of yanukovych who gave the order to disperse the protest. >> reporter: with the deposed president in hiding ukrainian's felt safe to ago ogle his home. there are chandeliers, marble floors, suits of or knowledge, gold plated toy lit. a foe boat used is a restaurant. >> reporter: and end of acres of taupe topiary plaid in its own coat. $500 a month here is a good wage. >> translator: we want to see everything here. to see where our money went and what our people were working for. >> reporter: for years people have suspected corruption.

these documents recovered from a presidential lake by divers seemed to confirm it. they even detail the cost of the house and its furnishings. 100 fen thousan $110,000 for curtains for one room. $200 million for paneling. >> translator: can i pass on my wish to the president, i wish him dead. that is the same wish from all ukrainians. >> reporter: they are still marveling their dead marveling the speed of change and celebrating their victory. but great uncertainty remains. ukraine's economy is a mess, there is a real threat of further violence and some an lifts even predict civil war. the interim government in power until elections in may, has a delicate balancing act reaching out to europe without they hope further annoying the russian to his the east. >> translator: another priority is returning to the european integration course, the fight

for which this started with. we move return to family of european countries. we also understand the importance of our relations with russia. >> reporter: but the russian federation may not be in such a neighborly move. the russian prime minister used harsh words. >> translator: strictly speaking, there is no one to talk to there. the government doesn't exist. there are big doubts about the legitimacy of a whole series of organs are power that are now functioning there. some of our western partners think those are legitimate bodies, i don't know what continues tunes they have been reading but it seems to me it is an aberration to call legitimate what is the result of an armed mute reu. >> reporter: russian officials making it klee that they have a continuing interest in ukraine and we'll see how that interest plays out. >> certainly all the interest in ukraine and in the now former president him shelf. is it clear where he is at this point?

>> no, not all the. he shows up in a city close to the russian board, whic which is one of his strong holds, he leaves there, goes to an airport where ukrainian border guards prevent his planes from taking off. he leaves the airport, he heads south to ukrainian territory but with a very strong russian faction or russian-speaking flash faction considered close to the russian federation. the last we heard he was seen getting in to a three-car convoy and hitting off and we don't know where. so could he be making for the russian board? possibly. could he already be in russia? well, perhaps. or is he gone underground somewhere else in the home of one of his supporters and there were enough of those around. >> indeed. still remaining there. you ever talked about the potential for more trouble. even more violence and out right civil war, certainly that threat is still there. but is there an indication that the international community has

any confidence that things are now going to get better? >> there has been immediate expressions of support, the europeans, the americans, everyone is talking about let's get them some money, we can get you money, support you, help you make reforms, we talk to you about a timetable. and, yes, we are prepared to be there for you. now, it's interesting that the russians haven't quite said, you know, you are out of the fold. and clear one of vladimir putin's objective here is to keep ukraine within his steer of influence, he didn't want to lose it to the european union which is how this whole thing started if you'll remember. we are back wit back where the s are trying to find balance between the very powerful russians and the europeans who are clearly willing to help. >> they live in a different location to balance those things. it's always about location. "america tonight's" sheila mick

macvicar, thank you very much. back at the independence square. there has been a steady stream of mourn, he the end certainty of the anti-government protest is his now illuminated with thousands of candles and flowers, as family and friends pay somber tribute to the fallen. al jazerra's jennifer glasse has more. >> reporter: been a somber day here in independence square. many people came to pay their respects. the candles on the hillside spell out glory to the heros, they'll never be forgotten. this here was the frontline less than a week ago. this is where -- this is full of tents, the police came in, shot and cleared it out. this actually was a blazing inferno on tuesday night. and right here, one of the spots where somebody died. all around the square there are spots like this, memorial shrines to someone exactly where they fell. today the parliament made these people official heros of

ukraine ukraine. these are the barricades where people died. and as you can see the mounds and mounds of players a sense of really the outflowing of sympathy and support and gratitude. a lot gratitude here for people who laid their lives on the line. >> this was my friend. his name is sasha, he was killed the 18th of february here, by police. they shoot him from the rifle, and we know that approximately 100 men are dead here. you see this street, it's covered with blood, you know . >> we try to memorize our city, all the features, i can't believe this is my city. my eyes can see. my mind is kind of shocked. but many people die for the

freedom and we want to see their pictures. and always remember them. >> reporter: even on a monday night hundreds of people here, not the thousands we saw earlier today, but there is a very, very clear sense of community here, of reference, a sense that things have changed. a cautious optimism for the few their this might mark a knew day for ukraine. >> that's al jazerra's jennifer glasse reporting. after the break, on "america tonight." >> people see us as some kind of freaks. we are just normal guys who fell in love with another guy. >> a union embraced by one state but rejected by another. the fight for marriage equality in the city of brotherly love. later in our program, the graffiti greats of the big apple. is this art or blight? the fight to get their colorful spirits on display.

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she died this weekend at the age of 110. the talented pianist spent her imprisonment in a labor camp performing for the nazis. federal authorities have taken embattled california state center ron calderon in to custody facing mull tip taillight counts of fraud, bribes and kickbacks, pros kites say he send $100,000 in bribes in exchange for political favors favors. the brooklyn nets scored in more ways than one, the nba's first openly gay athlete jason collins checked in for the game against the lakers. the 35-year-old center signed a 10-day contract with the team almost 10 months after coming out about his section salt. sexuality. >> states are finding themselves in a continual struggle. in arizona for example, outraged protesters spent the weekend

outside the capital demanding the republican governor reject the bill that would allow businesses to refuse services to game and lesbian customers on religious grounds. men time in the northeastern united states the state of marriage has dramatically changed for one cappal. "america tonight's" ahead ma'am may that is their story. >> reporter: bob and bill sullivan have been together 22 years and live with their dog cocoa in the city of brotherly love. but the love they share is not legally recognized in their home state of pennsylvania. >> it's all about discrimination. because people see us as some kind of freaks, we are just normal guys who fell in love with another guy and want to be able to express that. >> reporter: the sullivans were the very first couple to get married in the state of vermont. just seconds after midnight on the day same-sex marriage became legal there there 2009. in 2011, they moved back to philadelphia, only to find out that their vows weren't valid. >> we are fighting because we had that right.

and it's been taken away from us just because we moved back home. so since it was taken way, we decided that it was appropriate for us to stand up and have -- demand this they either recognize a vermont marriage license or give us one that says pennsylvania. >> reporter: disbite what lawmakers here in pennsylvania label you guys, what do you call each other? >> i always say he's my husband. >> that's it, we are husbands. >> marriage equality, once again, is something very basic. people spend their lives together and want to protect each other. it's all the things that people who are in a relationship want. >> reporter: ted martin leads the advocacy group a quality pen. they have been waging a losing battle for years. but they think this year will be different. >> the world is looking at pennsylvania right now. because the chance to do something is finally here. >> reporter: last fall, the u.s. supreme court ruled that the

federal ban on same-sex marriage is unconstitutional but they haven't ruled out how states inning interpret that ruling. >> this is the most exciting time for marriage, there are so many lawsuits and things going forward 67 despite pennsylvania's large gay pop bigs, it's the only state in the northeast that still defines marriage as between a man and a woman. >> the comment by pennsylvanians and many people outside of the state we are in the northeast, certainly right up there with everybody else and as advance the as everyone else on day issues. >> reporter: the state is largely conservative rural areas and has a republican-controlled state house . >> we have to go through the legislature to make the changes and they have not been on board with make the changes. >> reporter: melissa morris is working with the aclu on a federal lawsuit.

we are asking for the state to recognize out of state marriage for couples legally married in other places and asking for the state to allow same-sex marriage within pennsylvania. >> reporter: for the sullivans action can't come soon enough. it takes me back to being bully on the playgrounds. who are you to tell me i can't do something that everybody else in this country has a right to do? it's infuriating. >> reporter: bill ways victim of game bashing when he was a kid growing up in south philadelphia. it left him with severe, uncontrollable seizures. >> groups of kids would jump me. five and six of them at a time. i had been beaten with bats several times. >> his head has been split open quite a few times. >> reporter: the medical rights that come with marriage are critical, since bill's husband is his primary caregiver. >> legally, they don't recognize bob as my next of kin. bob is the one that knows all of

my secrets and all -- everything that is needed for the hospital to treat me. but they won't call him. and hell, they wouldn't everybody let him in the room if it was an emergency situation. >> it's been left to the good conscious of individuals who have been very nice here in philadelphia, but legally, any doctor could put that wall up and that's frightening as hell. >> reporter: despite everything these two men have been through, they are convinced things will eventually change. >> you know, it's great that philadelphia is still talking about this. we are the beacon of the world of will yo liberty. once they pass legislation, which they will in pennsylvania, of course it will happen. we are still going for need that beacon to continue to talk about this for the other states. >> reporter: adam may, al jazerra, philadelphia. >> more on the fight for marriage equality now. looking throughout the country, john lewis the legal and policy director with marriage equality usa is with us this evening.

john, appreciate your being with us, you know, we have just heard in adam may's story about the sullivans, and philadelphia, and pennsylvania and really looking at this notion of legislative resolution versus a litigation resolution, this is happening more and more. >> yes, absolutely. there are over 40 lawsuits in 25 different states in the united states now. and so we are seeing tremendous progress in the courts actually as federal courts in states as diverse as utah, and oklahoma, and virginia, and kentucky, are all siding on the side of the freedom to marry for all. >> and the litigation argument, are the same issues being raised? does it look like sort of the same pattern of litigation across the country? >> yes. they are very similar arguments because the united states supreme court, this past summer, in the windsor case issued a landmark decision and they said

that the federal law that at that timex clueded legally married same-sex couples from over 1,000 rights and protections under federal law that heterosexual couples have they that said that was unconstitutional because it undermines the dignity and respect that we should have for all american-loving committed couples. so that principle of respect and dignity now is being applied to many different states where they have state bans that exclude same-six couples from being married in their home states. >> there also is a parallel action taking place at the state level versus the federal level in that governors are taking a side that they are not going to take a side. stepping back from the equation. >> yes, it's a positive sign just on all front. we are seeing in states like nevada and virginia, both the governor and attorney general saying, look, these laws are unconstitutional, we are elected to protect all of our citizens, not just some of them.

and in pennsylvania, in fact, the attorney general of pennsylvania said pennsylvania's exclusion of same same-sex couples in unconstitutionalitying. the governor is, but she refused to. >> i need to step back and say we mentioned earlier the situation in arizona in, that indication the community is trying to get the governor to go along with them. but this is legislation that would say, look, you cannot serve game and lesbian companies in your business establishment, that doesn't seem like any sort of step towards marriage equality. >> yeah, obviously that's just a horrid law. that we urge in the strongest terms for governor brewer to veto. and it's just a tremendous step backwards that we don't -- we have been there in this country with laws like that that said that certain people are not welcome at the lunch counter or at the restaurants or at the hotel. and we truly think this is a law

that is horrible because it excludes people. the marriage equality movement is about a common you man at this and this is a law that tries to separate us. and can you just imagine, you know, two welcome to a restaurant to have dinner and is the matured going to say, say me are you lesbians if you are you can't come in if not come on in. we hope governor brewer rejects it they are unconstitutional. >> appreciate you being with us, john lewis, marriage he quality usa, thank you very much. >> thank you very much. ♪ ♪ after a break on "america tonight," a promise from one parent to another. >> she said, just promise me one thing, that you'll take care of dad. >> our series of reports aging america, begins with a look at the silent army of caregivers facing the hard

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>> more and . more ever us join the elderly. tonight we begin "ageing america." family members, most often daughters, become an invisible army, caring for their personalities. >> she said, "just promise me one thing, that you will take care of dad." that was my mother's dying address. >> to hear her tell, maria's father was a good provider and larger than life. a successful and prolific

artist, a world traveller, living in europe. >> maria group up in a home surrounded by his paintings. >> if there was a word you could use to describe him, what would it be? >> renaissance man. >> he can do that. >> he can do so many things, he's so talented. >> this is me as a child. this turned out to be my first car. >> when did you realise that something was changing with your father. >> about five years ago. "how would you like to eat it now. are you hungry?" okay. how about carrot, racin salad?" he was forgetful, couldn't remember the sequence of event of yesterday, for example. i discovered that he hadn't opened bank statements for more than a year. >> for more than a year. >> i said, "dad, i'm taking over your finances. give me all the stuff." and i

spent the next five months dealing with his bank, getting power of attorney, making him stop driving, because he had his licence taken away. >> really pretty. yes. >> marina mccloy is one of 40 million care givers providing care to a sky rocketing number of ageing adults. people like marina are at the forefront of a care gap. there are sex adults capable of providing care for every -- three-quarters of the family caregivers are holding down jobs. marina is no exception. in order to work she had toen roll her father in adult daycare. >> for the first month he fought

me. it was tough. >> what is involved in that? >> well, trying to get him in the car. he called a lot of sarcastic things in the beginning, when he didn't want to go, "i have to go adult nursery school again." half of me wants to say, "you know what, dad, i'm let you live your life the way you want." i can't. he can't remember to give himself regular meals. his doctor called me saying that she didn't think he was taking his medicine, and i had to be in charge of that. >> the cost of adult daycare and a caregiver is $36,000. luckily for marina her father purchased long-term care insurance. >> he bought the long-term care insurance and forgot the next day. >> with the insurance marina's live revolves around her father - cleaning, cooking, running his erraned and stays at home evenings and weekends to look after him.

>> everyone wants a life. to what extent is the personal life suffering. >> i don't feel i have another choice, what is the other chis - to give up? >> has this made you change how you view your future? >> yes. >> how so? >> i don't want my daughter to go through this. if she sees me starting to decline, let me go down to the desert and dry up and, you know, not come visit. >> you can't be serious about that. you're suggesting that your daughter leave you alone and continue to live here life. really? >> i don't want to burden her with having to take care of me. >> i wouldn't want her to be burdened with that. >> in some ways marina is lucky.

alexandra, who asked us to use her first name lived across the country from her father when she detected the signs of trouble. >> he tells me he's in love and met a woman at the market who he's in love with, and she's wonderful, and all of a sudden he's seeing this woman every day. my father is over 80, she's 40. >> the red light are going off here. >> yes. he'd meet her in a parking lot, not her apartment. then he said, "she's asking me for money, she's sick and has cancer and has to fly to new york and get surgery within." within a couple of weeks he gave her $20,000 in cash. that's when i said "you have to come to california, you can't live by yourself any more itself. >> she brought him to california, but not to her home. neither she nor her husband felt

they could handle him. at the retirement home her father was a handful. >> he was calling me several times a day, just to yell. it got to the point i had to block his phone calls. >> you were working as a lawyer. >> right. >> how could you do your job and look after the needs of your father? >> i left my job. >> you left your job as a lawyer. >> i left my job as a lawyer. it was more important to look after my father and myself and look after my husband, and i couldn't do all of those things without falling apart. >> last year a study from pew research found half of adults in their 40s and 50s have an elderly parent and raise a young child and support a young one, the so-called sandwich generation. >> here is where me and my brothers come and play baseball. >> when tracy penning left her home in florida to help her

presents in greer, south carolina, she thought her stay would last two weeks. she's still there. >> my facebook page is called my adjourn yip as a daughter, taking care of my elderly parents. >> we came across penny though her facebook page, a soul caregiver for her terminally ill father and fatigued mother. penny was the youngest of five children. her relationship with her father was close. >> i am my father - outspoken, tem you like it is, whether you want to hear it or not. dad and mum, they are my angels. >> when she arrived at your parents home, penny realised they needed more than temporary help. trained in nursing she took over her father's care knowing he would never want to be

institutionalized or cared for by a stranger. >> my dad don't want anybody in his house. i ask them, "dad, i think i'm getting ready to go home this week." "when? how long are you going be? when are you coming back?" i know that he'll tell me, "i'm scared, don't go." >> in florida penny left behind her family, a husband and a 14-year-old son, a situation bringing her marriage to the brink of divorce. >> my husband is like a single father. so i expect him to have resentment. it's okay. i also need him to know that i have his support. what bothers her most is being away from her son. >> he'll be 15, april 1st.

i have missed a lot of first things with him, first year of high school. mother of the year. that's another one. >> i've got so much going on. i have my florida home, my husband, my son, my mum, my dad. which is more important. the mother or the daughter? >> it's an unanswerable question for tracy penny and so many others. . >> no matter how much you love them, parenting a parent. it's going be a struggle. we are joined by paul who is a writer on the "new york times" the new old age column, apra po of this discussion. the thing that is unstated here

is that this really becomes the work of women. i mean, it's extraordinary in a time where men have taken greater roles in raising children, somehow the raising of a parent seems to fall to the daughters. >> it does. two-thirds of the time it's the daughter or the daughter-in-law or the wife who is taking care of a spouse or a parent. and even though they are devoted sons and sons in laws, this is women's work. >> what is the impact of that? >> well, it affects people in a variety of ways. first of all, if you are in a stressful situation as a caregiver, for example, like some of the women in this story who are deal with parents who have dementia and can't be left alone, that can have a negative impact on the woman's own health, and most women are in the workforce and care giving affect their ability to participate in the labour

market. we see that people cut back their hours, people turn down promotions, maybe they can't travel or in the case of this lawyer, in the story, she left... >> gave up her career. >> that is dangerous for himmen, particularly, because they are already in their own elder years are likely to be in poverty. if you leave the workforce and foct your social security benefits, your ability to save for your own retirement, you may be taking care of your parents at the expense of being able to take care of yourself, when you are elderly, your own self. >> we mentioned that you were responsible for the new york times, and you wrote a book when the time comes, where you explore financial issues. one thing that strikes me is the impact on the middle class. that's where the biggest hit and hurt is. >> i think that's true. because when elderly people become poor, and it's easy to become poor when you are spending a lot on nursing homes

or assisted living. once they spend the resources, the biggest payer is medicaid - state and federal government. >> wealthy people can pay the extraordinary charges for institutions. >> and are more likely to have long-term care insurance. >> yes, but not maybe have that. it falls on families. families shoulder the primary burden for taking care of older people in the country. most older people don't have paid care. they are taken care of by their families, meaning their caughters and doubters in law. >> i am sure there's no quick fix on this one. >> there are, in european countries, there's stronger pension systems and safety nets than we have. every country is dealing with this. the entire global population is ageing. this is not just an american issue, it's a global issue.

they are building nursing homes in china. this is a demographic shift. it's not going to get better soon. the boomers are bigger as a generation than the parents they are taking care of. >> appreciate you being with us. thank you very much. >> a week-long series, "ageing america" continues next time on the program. >> people have to learn that one of the greatest things for a care giver is respect. and a decent salary. they want to pay you $5, and they want you to work 10-12 hours a day. >> true strength and the challenge facing caregivers. an unbreakable woman whose efforts are due respect, and what her story tells us about the care the elderly - tuesday, "america tonight". . >> and calling caregivers, "america tonight"'s digital team

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al jazeera america. finally from us tonight from the subways to mainstream art museums, graffiti has a long and often quite complicated relationship with new york city and it just got more complicated. al jazerra apt morgan radford paints the picture for us in new york city. >> reporter: aaron good stone, also known as sharp returns to his stomping grounds. new york city's lower east side. this is the birth place of the city's graffiti movement that began in the 1970s on the corner of ridge and stanton stands the tenement building

once home to sharp's mentor and very close friend martin wong. he's an artist who took the renegade teenager under his wings. >> this is an important place, it evokes a lot of emotion. the neighborhood has changed a lot but for the most part it retains its creative en >> reporter: an energy that fueled a culture of opposition. they used spray paint as tools the city their canvas, a powerful form of self expression and they all found shelter here at acb a collective of artists and activists as the movement gained momentum street art emerged from below ground to mainstream. two incongruous worlds collided. >> we are dressed up like hoodlums and bums and sneaking around in to a subway tunnel looking like ninjas and the following weekend we are dressed up like fashion place going to fancy party says or nightclubs and hobnobbing with people like

andy warhol. >> reporter: once they became minutmini celebrities, their ark coveted. >> martin wong had bought the painting from some kids who stole it, who knew he was a collector of graffiti art. when he found out it was a few w few true -fewtura he paid $200 for . many think it is an you are began polite. and they still do martin wong found the value of his work. before his death he did he noticed his entire collection of street art to the museum of the city of new york. it's taken 20 years but now an exhibit showcases the evolution of graffiti from its origins in the shadow to his a form admired the world over. so much so that renowned british street artist bank see created a frenzy after his works began appearing all over new york last year. but respect for the form and a desire to preserve it is far

from universal. most represen recently a developer decision to whitewash. graffiti is still pro poking powerful feelings, that's among those who embrace it and those happy to see it go back to where it came from. underground. >> and that's the city of canvas exhibition morgan radford told us about it runs through august at the museum of the city. that's it for us here on "america tonight." we'll have more of "america tonight" tomorrow. ♪ ♪ >> aging america... they care for our loved ones >> some of them spit on you... some of them hit you... >> but the job takes a toll >> they wanna pay you five dollars an hour... ten...twelve hours a day... >> caring for the caregivers, on al jazeera america

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