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those are the headlines. i'm richelle carey. "america tonight" with joie chen is up next. you can always get the latest on our website, aljazeera.com. do keep it here. on "america tonight": a disturbiny more than 25 years later. an al jazeera documentary investigates, lockerbie, what really happened. unanswered questions. also tonight, three years later. a horrible disaster.
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the natural and man made disasters that changed this japanese fishing village. michael okwu open fukushima. >> what keeps these hearty minnesotans for one more year on the ice. >> it makes our winter go fast and it's just plain fun. >> and good evening, thanks for joining us. i'm joie chen. so far, the most startling and disturbing about malaysia flight
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370, ask so little that has been found. after three days, the search has been significantly expanded with still no sign of any significant part of the boeing 777 located. it was on its way from kuala lumpur to beijing, china. where it vanished somewhere over the gulf of taiwan and the south china sea. >> if you want to know how it feels to lose a son at the age of 50, it's devastating, but i know phillip was with god. >> part of the family members of the 259 people that vanished three days ago. as search and rescue crew continue to scour the water off vietnam, the company is telling relatives to prepare for the
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worst. >> i'm in beijing, waiting for arrangements. me pray to god to bring them back to me. >> the wife of a new zealand man who was on the flight, hasn't told her children yet. >> i've got two young kids, a three-year-old, when is daddy going to be coming? we plotted where he was going to be. when will he skype? luckily he's with friends at the moment. i will cross that bridge, when i have to cross that bridge, if i have to. >> a candlelight vigil was held for the missing passengers. chased several false leads and come up empty handed. an oil slick researchers thought might be from the plane came up
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wrong. an object that was felt to be a door, was found not to be true. >> try not to december emanate unverified can news, one reason it affects or search and rescue. unverified news, false news will distract us the from work at hand. and secondly, for the families, who are hoping against hope. >> equally mysterious, the credit news that two passengers with false passports. malasian authorities could not explain why the men were able to board the flight using stolen passports. interpol said they were not contacted by malasian officials. hijacking has not been ruled
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out. >> as far as we are concerned, we are equally puzzled as well. and to be quimpled what really happened -- confirmed what reality happened, we need hard evidence. interbut the problem is, interpol is not informing are airlines about stolen passports. >> this is something that perhaps hasn't been reported well. so in fact, there are only perhaps trying it out with a couple of airlines, as a prototype. >> malasian authorities say military radar suggest the plane may have been turning around before it vanished but there was no distress call. with the search area expanded grieving family members wait for answers. missing plane and flight recorders, most likely to
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present the best explanation to what happened to flight 370. >> our search will be intensified and that is very, very important. >> "america tonight," sarah ho,wh yorvetion joinyjoins us. is this very important? >> yes, because passengers boarded flights a million times without their documents being proper reply examined. this has been a problem for years, and only ahandful of airlines are checking for these lost or stolen documents. if you add that up, with this database it was searched about 800 million times joie, but only 1 search was conducted by the
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united arab emirates alone. this is a problem. >> wouldn't there be a computerized system to be able to check this all over the world? >> that's the question, being asked with the plane itself, where is the plane and why can't we find it? >> thank you, "america tonight"'s correspondent sarah hoy. >> you have seen this many times before. i think for those of us who are laymen you would think, an aircraft that large how can it disappear? >> it is a mystery. it reminds us of the air france disaster, flying over the atlantic. it took a long time to find wreckage and what happened to it. we have this plane, missing, on radar coverage. in that area there is no radar coverage under about 30,000 feet altitude. they don't know where the plane
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was. they can't pinpoint where to look. >> the black box should be pinging. shouldn't they be able to locate the black boxes or some of the aircraft? >> the black box will ping for 30 days. you have to be two or three miles, if it is underwater, to be able to hear that ping. they are so confused that they haven't found anything where they thought the plane would be. they're now trying to think well maybe it actually went down in a different area. >> they're saying everything, all the leads from this weekend, the possibilities of a rectangle, it may be a float are, a seat or a door or something and the possibility of nothing, nothing seems to be connected to the crash. >> i talked to one aviation expert who was telling me that his best thought at this point is maybe it did not go down in the ocean, actually something catastrophic went on, went down
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on land in a thick canopy, thick jungle canopy. boats, planes, even satellites are involved in looking for this aircraft. they will find it. i'm convinced they will find it. >> i can find with my phone my teenage son? he is located at this moment. we are accustomed to gps technology in our cars. why can't they do that with aircraft? >> ground based radar is what is used today, they are transitioning to a gps based system. here in the u.s. i don't think airplanes have to be fully equipped until 2020. it is happening, just happening slowly. >> is it different in other parts of the world how they make that adaption?
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>> surely, they will still rely on this radar, very, very good obviously but not 100%. doesn't core 100% of the earth. >> when we were talking about the possibility of a debris field, this is what we think of air crashes tragic as they are. we have images of a debris field. could it be that this means something if you don't see a debris field, does that tell you anything about the crash? >> certainly you would expect to see a debris field if the plane broke up into altitude in many, many pieces. >> you think about the columbia disaster? >> exactly. >> many, many miles. >> higher altitude when it broke up. but even if it hit the water at a high degree of speed, it would shatter such as egypt 990 when it went down, hilt at a high
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rate of speed. maybe they're just not looking in the right area. >> you have been to some of these crashes and you have seen this. is it necessary, for us as laymen, looking at it you say you should see something like that. >> exactly. it took five days before they found one piece of plane. they didn't find a lot of i.t. on the ocean. it took two years, before they found the flight, around the area was different than the area where the malasian plane disappeared. >> lisa stark, thanks very much. >> when we return. what really happened in the 1988 lockerbee crash and who was really behind it? also ahead in this hour, a few friends, a nice walleye, what's not to like about this sport?
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maybe single-digit weather? >> being summer fishing is great but nothing like ice fishing. lockerbie. only one man was convicted of the attack >> the major difficulty for the prosecution, that there was no evidence... >> now a three year al jazeera investigation, reveals a very different story about who was responsible >> they refuse to look into this... >> so many people at such a high level had a stake in al megrahi's guilt. lockerbie: what really happened? on al jazeera america
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>> now, an al jazeera special investigation into the tragic story of pan am 103, over lockerbie, scotland. only one person was ever
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convicted of the attack, abu al mmegrahi. to find out who was responsible for the attack. >> december the 21st, 1988, the night of the winter solstice. the longest night of the year. pan am 103 takes off from heathrow, london. in a cargo hold is a bomb. 38 minutes after takeoff there is an explosion. then, 200,000 pounds of kerosene ignite as the boa boeing 747,
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clipper of the seas, crashes over lockerbie, scotland. the bomb had been hidden in a toshiba cassette player. within a suitcase. most of the dead had been americans heading home for christmas. >> we remember them. nicholas, colleen ... >> each year on the date of the tragedy, three families gather in washington's arlington cemetery to remember their dead. >> we remember them. >> 2013 was the 25th anniversary of their loss. >> everybody who lost a close
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part of their family in the lockerbie atrocity will remain deeply affected by it for the rest of their lives. you want to know immediately, who did it, why did they do it, why weren't the loved ones protected. >> no amount of time can put an end to your loss, no amount of time can put an end to your pain. but you know that those who committed this evil act do not have the last word. i remain confident to this day that al megrahi was responsible for this terrorist attack. >> to this day the only man found guilty of the lockerbie bombing was a libyan official named abu credit al megrahi. a fragment of the bomb's timer, recovered from the crash site.
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this evidence linked megrahi to the bombing because it was alleged he permly bought the schirt from-- shirt from a small clothing shop. in two previous documentaries, al jazeera has unearthed fresh evidence on the case of the lockerbie bomber. first, george thompson, a defense investigator, found al megrahi was never in the clothing oshop in malta. >> just attacks on the land. >> it was the shopkeeper who picked megrahi out of an identity parade ten years after the crash. but we show that the shopkeeper
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described a man who was older an darker than al megrahi. we also revealed that the shopkeeper tony gouchi was paid a $2 million reward by the u.s. government. this and the many inconsistencies in his testimony tainted the judicial process. and there was more: rigorous scientific tests on the fragment of one timer sold it was not one of the timers sold to libya. the british government withheld the information from al megrahi's lawyers even though this demolished the prosecution's case. >> the circuit board was manufactured by a different process to the original fragment that i analyzed. >> this program addresses the unanswered question: if megrahi was innocent, who then was responsible for the lockerbie
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bombing? >> we're joined now by dairmuidd jeffers. can you give me the reader's digest version of what your conclusion is, who really was responsible for it? >> very simply, the conclusion that the program comes to, the bombing of pan am 103, was taken out by the people's liberation front for the palestine. -- >> there may have been others involved. >> we may not have the absolutely complete story but we believe we have identified who the chief culprits are. >> somebody else behind it, why has this not come to light
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earlier? >> that's a very good question. it's a question after our flix is -- our film is shown that the authorities in the u.k. and the u.s. may have to answer. it's quite remarkable that all the blame for this attack was pinned upon this one man, a man whose -- you know the case against him has now been shown and agreed by many people to be flawed and a serious miscarriage of justice seems to be taken place. the fact of this one individual is frankly ludicrous. we have come up i think with a much more compelling and convincing and we think true narrative as to actually what happened and he wasn't part of that at all. >> can you talk a little bit about the path that you took to make this conclusion? you've involved some people who were directly knowledgeable about the case and got a lot of detail that maybe did not come out at trial. >> yeah, we managed to get hold of a whole range of documents to
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support this. this is not just based upon you know wishful thinking if you like. we've got hold of some cables from the american defense intelligence agency which were given to megrahi's defense team that never took place because he was sent bass to tripoli -- back to tripoli on. for this attack and it was only later on that the investigation diverged and lib yay came into the frame -- and lib yay came la came into the frame. conducted by a former manhattan district attorney called jessica degrazia, and the pflpgc were involved and most crucially, we have the testimony of a former
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iranian intelligence official who defected in the late 1990s and he told us the attack was definitely commissioned by iran. >> just a quick thought here, is there any hint that there is any further investigation going on on the potential line? >> we -- official line? >> we certainly approached the u.s. and u.k. authorities we told them what we were doing and we asked for a response. the film was so what, really, look at our previous statements about lockerbie, we stand by our response. they said pretty much the same thing, they didn't want to comment. what is actually happening now and will be happening in the days to come behind the scenes as this comes out i think is going to be fascinating to watch and i'm pretty sure very hard questions are going to be watched. >> very interesting film, i have
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seen it myself and look forward to presenting it to our audience a day from now. thank you, lockerbie what really happened. thanks. after the break, we return to fukushima, the devastating toll of the disaster in this japanese village.
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>> and now a dismap shot of stories -- snapshot of stories
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making headlines on "america tonight." as ukrainian issues continue, taking control of military bases and a hospital on the peninsula. another piece of street art but is it a steal? an eight 72nd, 1500 piece of cinder block, a work attributed to the street artist banksie, yanked out of a detroit area auto plant, the group that did the removal plans to sell it. 6.9 magnitude earthquake off the coast of northern california near humboldt county. 200 miles north of san francisco, there was no threat of a tsunami. it has been three years since the earthquake and state of the union crippled the fukushima
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daiichi power plant and spread radiation over wide areas of the japanese country side. now officials are urging people to return home but is it safe? "america tonight"'s correspondent michael okwu, reports, does this have any hope of successing? >> mast mi yoshizawa is a cats l rancher. there was a huge shaking. i rushed out into the parking lot of the store and there heard reports of a three meter tsunami. i was worried about my cattle so i rushed back here. >> that's where he first heard about the trouble at the nuclear power plant just miles from his home. he lived close enough to fukushima daiichi to see it
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through binoculars. >> i saw five or six helicopters in the air circling over fukushima daiichi. then i heard an explosion, a noise that sounded like it came from a battle field. >> that sound was a hydrogen explosion caused by a melt-down of uranium from fukushima daiichi's reactor one. everyone within 12 miles of the plant was ordered to evacuate. >> i could see the town-wide evacuation of namie. i had 300 cows to care for, i couldn't evacuate. >> how close he was to these cows it was a decision he felt would cost him life. >> there were explosions at reactor 2 and 4.
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this is when i thought, i'm done for. >> wide areas of fukushima prefecture. after seeing other farms abandoned he simply could not bring himself to leave. >> i heard animals crying out. this is what it looked like. wherever i looked were scenes from a living hell. i couldn't do the same thing to my own cattle. >> yoshizawa has tested positive to the internal exposure of radioactive element cesium 134 and 137. he is monitored closely and those levels have dropped. >> of course i was worried. i'm not going to get hysterical or have a mental breakdown from
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it. >> but fear of radiation remains strong and yoshizawa is the exception. most people heeded the government's evacuation order and fled in waves. leaving ghost towns in their wake. we ventured into towns inside and around the seclusion zone. which remain can empty today -- empty today, frozen in time at the moment residents fled the quake i earth and in-coming sea. even long time residents have stayed away, afraid of what many call the invisible enemy that haunts the hundreds of square miles around fukushima daiichi. wow, this meter is showing 3.2 microseverts of radiation per
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hour. the thousands that have fled the towns near the stricken plant have yet to return home. these nuclear refugees are scattered throughout japan, living in temporary facilities like these. i talked to one resident from fukushima who barely escaped the tsunami. >> what was it that told you to get out of your house? >> about 30 minutes after the earthquake, i went down to take a look at the river. i saw the tide rushing out to sea in advance of the tsunami. so we got out of the house. >> reporter: the tsunami destroyed that house. so he's been living here and caring for his mother ever since. >> i live in that room over there. it's pretty cramped. i want to go home. but can't. because of fears of radiation from the nuclear accident.
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>> katsunobu sakurai mayor of minamisoma is trying to convince residents to come home. >> what was it like for you before? >> before the disaster, 71,000 lived here. 1,000 died in the tsunami. when our population dropped to 10,000 there wasn't a soul in the streets. that's when i wondered what would become of us. >> reporter: yet, sakurai never once considered leaving. >> no good comes from agonizing over the past. so i just focused on how to move the city forward into the future. >> the mayor devoted himself to making sure the city had a future. but it was a hard-sell. radiation remained high in many
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parts of minamisoma. >> we are letting evacuees know we are doing much to reduce radiation. >> sakurai's quest to rebuild his town has been helped by a massive government-led effort to decontaminant fukushima prefecture. >> can you describe what these men are doing? >> imagine radiation as snow that you cannot see. we remove all of the fallen snow along with the dust, dirt and grime that sticks to it. >> to reduce the radiation, all the topsoil must be scraped away and eventually replaced. contaminated shrubs must be pruned, trees cut down and removed. the contaminated soil is dumped at hundreds of sites like this in fukushima prefecture.
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to give you the scale of the relocation, these bags were taken from minamisoma. >> a third of the population has yet to return to minamisoma. many remain skeptical that the government's plan will actually work. even yoshizawa, one of the few who made the decision to stay. >> what do you make of the government's decontamination efforts? >> how do you change this most contaminated area into towns where people can live? our towns have turned into chernobyl. chernobyl. and if they rush, what will they
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do? -- return what will they do? they won't return. >> kaori saito was living with her husband and three children. >> how worried were you? >> enough to make me crazy. i used my cell phone to search the internet for news. i kept searching. fukushima, radiation. i kept searching. it nearly drove me crazy. >> reporter: after they were allowed outside she continued worrying about the radiation. continued worrying about her children. did your husband tell you that you were safe to be in the city? >> he didn't tell me it was safe but i think he believed that i was over-reacting. >> and didn't you hear the government reports that said that the city was essentially
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safe to live in? >> i heard. i heard, but i didn't believe it. my youngest son had blood in his urine and stool. he kept catching colds and had a cough. but when i took him to a doctor, he told me there was no link to radiation. all the doctors there said that. >> she constantly bathed her children and washed their clothes and took trips outside of fukushima whenever possible. >> translator: the problem with radiation is that it's too out of the ordinary. it doesn't seem real. but it would have been horrible if anything happened to my children. >> reporter: when her husband ignored her fears and refused to leave fukushima, the strain was unbearable. she filed for divorce.
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it's a kind of marital discord so common these days the japanese have a name for it. genpatsu rikon, or nuclear divorce. >> i felt like if i stayed with him, i wouldn't be able to keep my children from harm. and that's how i got here. >> reporter: here is mats mo o city. far from radiation. >> i don't know if it was the right choice, i don't know. but the best thing about being here is seeing my children outside and playing and laughing. to see them here, makes me very happy. >> do you believe fukushima city will ever be a safe place to live again? >> not in my lifetime. not the same fukushima that existed before. where you could eat the food without worry, where you could
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drink the water from the river. that would be wonderful. some day. >> return to fukushima, report by "america tonight"'s michael okwu. next on the program, the deep freeze, freezes deep. the record-breaking temperatures of this winter and new records you can see on the great lakes. also ahead on the water: gone fishing. >> you have this in winter. >> pull that through the hole. >> yep, we did. >> the ones that didn't get away because they like it out here. living the high life when the temperatures are way down low. >> there's no such thing as illegal immigration. >> al jazeera america presents... a breakthrough television event borderland a first hand view at the crisis on the border. >> how can i not be affected by it? >> strangers, with different points of view take a closer look at the ongoing conflict alex, a liberal artist from new york
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and randy, a conservative vet from illinois... >> are you telling me that it's ok to just let them all run into the united states? >> you don't have a right to make judgements about it... >> they re-trace the steps of myra, a woman desparately trying to reunite with her family. >> to discover, and one of their children perish in the process, i don't know how to deal with that. >> will they come together in the face of tradgedy? >> why her? it's insane. >> experience illegal immigration up close, and personal. >> the only way to find out is to see it yourselves... >> on... borderland only on al jazeera america >> this is the real deal man...
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>> the calendar says spring is just ten days away. but the extraordinary winter that buffeted the great lakes is keeping those lakes frozen in time. sure the lakes freeze and all kinds of dramatic ice forms everywhere. but it's different this year. even mid western natives haven't seen anything like it. >> the biscayne should be an ice cutter. but three to four feet thick ice, even the ice breaker isn't much of a match. and this is an area that knows how to do with lake ice. but this year truly has been
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different. the ice has taken over. noaa, the government agency that monitors these things, says that more than 90% of the great lakes are encased in ice. the largest fresh water body of in this nation lake michigan is 90% covered. the polar vortex, the long stall of cold air, blocked critical shipping lanes and ports as fur south as lake erie, in cleveland. >> it dropped our sales anywhere from 35 to 50% and in turn we had to lay over three quarters of our workforce, just keep a skeleton crew on to run one tug here and one tug there. it's impacted us. >> ice so deep, not only are the tugs being out of business but
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fishing companies are out of business. customers have serious doubts about his future. >> our customers are wondering what's going on. are we going to be able to sustain, are we going to have fish, you get every question in the world, are you going out of business, what's going on? >> there is a bright side to look forward to as the ice thaws. water in the great lakes dropped at some point so low, big ships scraped bottom. there are folks that do enjoy the fantastic ice jams that set up every winter. in the great cold north they make a habit of it. not before "america tonight"'s adam may got the drift of lake
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minnetonka's favorite pastime. >> fishermen travel from across the country to do this: sit and stair into a hole. in sub-zero weather, waiting for the big one. lake minnetonka is one of the favorite spots for ice fishing. the authority issues more than a million issue fishing licenses per year. >> why do you do this? >> it's something to be doing in the winter. it freezes, and in winter, we keep fishing. >> dan jasper has turned minnesota's favorite pastime into a business. he drove us over the lake
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covered in 26 inches of ice. the frigid freeway enough to hold our heavy suburban. >> you actually come out and plow the roads and everybody use he them? >> yes. >> that's pretty nice of you. the roads run to villages of ice houses. >> most of them are not this nice are they? >> no, no. it's one of the nicest one on lake minnetonka. refrigerator, stove, sink, flat screen tv. >> deep fryer, cooker. is this still a sport when you have all these amenities out here? >> we like it. >> jasper rents his ice-fishing house, which can sleep four comfortably, to people from all over the world. >> this is a markham underwater camera, it's 19.5 feet down,
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we're able to watch our jig, and the fish at the same time, we can see what the fish like, what they don't like, tell us the temperature of the water, how deep we need to be, all that sort of stuff. >> sounds like a video game. >> it is. >> you are sitting looking at that screen, not at the hole anymore? >> that's exactly right. >> a video game, like making catching fish pretty easy. >> he got the worm! set! we got 'em! see what we got? oh just a little sunfish. a little pumpkin seed, right? >> just a sunny. >> we'll let him live another day. catch and release, good luck. >> the fish houses definitely come in all shapes and sizes. there's one big one everyone said we had to check out. it's called the bellagio.
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the owner, allen shepherd, invited us inside. >> this is incredible. >> allen shepherd's house has everything. >> an extreme ice fishing house. >> this is what we want to you see. >> how many holes do you have? >> there's ten holes. and a full bar. >> every flavor imaginable. >> and a big screen tv so we can watch football out here. and we have a full bathroom in here. you know? so i've got a cupboard in there and all the novelties we give to everybody. >> you actually have an oven? >> yes, an oven oven with a stove tap on it. i got that in spain, it's just for deck owe. we can bring a four-wheeler in here, that door folds down and you can bring a four-wheeler in
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here. that's what i say about my wife, oh what a dream. ♪ oh what a dream >> kind of makes you wonder how much fishing is taking place in these led illuminated holes, bubbling to prevent freeze-over but here's the proof. >> here is three species, this muskie is out of minnetonka. >> this is ice fishing, you pulled it up through a hole? >> yes, about seven pounds. >> schaeffer is retired and this home is his pride and joy. he opens it for friends on the ice. you just watch for this and visitors are welcome. >> why do you do this? >> it makes our winter go fast and it's just fun. >> amidst the glam, there are some who do it the old fashioned
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way. >> summer fishing is great but nothing like issue-fishing. >> this father and son have huddled in a small tent every winter. it's not fancy but that's the point. >> it's our bonding time. sometimes you get wrapped up in a busy life. you're not able to see your parents. >> and this is our time to spend together and it means the world to me. >> that's pretty nice to hear from your son, pt isn't it? >> yeah, it sure is. people don't realize how much that means to a dad. and it's a good thing. >> even if the fish aren't biting, the memories can be unforgettable. adam may, al jazeera, minnesota. >> enjoying life on lake minnetonka. and looking ahead on "america tonight," the heroin habit, in a place you wouldn't expect to
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find it. >> people here don't make enough money to get by. but they'll get rid of their food cart. they'll go without food, they'll steal from friends and family just to get one more. >> and as soon as that one's over you're thinking about how you can get more and what tomorrow's going to bring. no matter what, 24-7 365, you're plotting in your head how to get another one. it's an every day struggle and every-second struggle. >> heroin in vermont, how did it get so bad there? and what does it say about the spread in rural america. adam may, addicted in america. and enjoying that last blas of winter even as we head towards spring. >> even though it's freezing. >> the fantastic sights and
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incredible landscapes. the tour worth the cold, cold trek.
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only on al jazeera america >> finally tonight, we told you earlier about the great deep freeze that left the great lakes almost completely frozen over then up in minnesota, ice fishing, one up on lake superior
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where al jazeera's kimberly halkett. >> it's a track emotional a mile long. deep snow across a now frozen lake superior. but for those who make the journey to the hidden caves of apostle island national park, say it's worth it. >> it's beautiful out here. >> even though it's freezing. >> to get under and around these things it's just amazing. >> tucked along lake superior's shore, is a scene rarely seen. a majestic series of sculptures, each cave a little bit different than the next. >> it is accessibility, typically you'd only be able to get here by boat.
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but because of record-cold subzero temperatures, you can simply get here by walking across this frozen lake. >> and thousands are doing just that. the most would have missed out on this natural phenomenon if it hadn't been for kelly linehan who just happened to post pictures of ice caves on twitter. >> that post almost immediately went viral. when i woke up we were up to almost 85,000 views. at that moment we knew something big had happened. >> faith view had a population of just 487 people. since the twitter post in mid january its businesses have been overrun with visitors. it will be weeks before the only hotel in town has a vacancy. >> game changer. i mean there's stores in bayfield that are opened up that are typically closed in winters. now it's down right saved some businesses kind of on the outskirts of bayfield in the
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surrounding area. i think it's the biggest exposure potentially ever. >> chef paul's son can't keep up, at night it's the only restaurant that opened. to need the hungry visitors that started to show up. >> i'm pretty sure we've almost tripled last year's numbers. >> but the ice displace are weather-permitting. like the surge in business no one knows how long the sculptures will last or whether they'll return next year. >> this is unusual. obviously this is a very unusual year, the polar vortex has made it one of the coldest years on record. we know this is not going to be typical. we're describing this as an endangered national park experience because we don't know whether your kids or your grand kids are going to be able to do this. >> since december and early
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january, 80,000 have braved the apostle caves. 10,000 a day more than any day in the park's history. it is a rare glimpse of a natural phenomenon that may never be seen again. kimberly halkett, al jazeera. >> that's it for us tonight. more of "america tonight" tomorrow. >> hi everyone i'm john siegenthaler in new york. here are the top stories. the boa boeing 777, headed to
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beijing, had 239 people on board, two of the passengers were men traveling with stolen passports and malaysia authorities say they have identified at least one of them. officials say an iranian man may have purchased the tickets for the passengers but not confirmed. nato will begin flying be over ukraine, to monitor. the white house says a meeting show of support as the white house continues the push -- as russia continues to push for crimea's secession for ukraine. >> 3500 police will line the route of the boston marathon. last year bags filled with bombs killed three people and
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injured 200 others. i'm john siegenthaler, i'll be back at 8 pacific, 11 eastern. how banning the word bossy could encourage more girls to become leaders. consider this with antonio mora is next. i'll see you back at 11:00. henriques capriles . >> scrambling for clues in the missing malaysia airlines flight as the world wonders how they lost track of an entire plane. ukraine tries to hold off russian troops as pro-russian sentiments spreads. michael jordan is wealthy, but other retired athletes are going bankrupt in droves. and can the government step in and stop sea world's main attraction. i'm antonio mora, welcome to "consider this". here is more on

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