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of the controversial agency. >> after fashion week and you pass someone huddled in a doorway. >> reporter: a photographer is turning his camera to those without a home. ♪ good morning and welcome to al jazeera america, i'm stephanie sy and hope is fading for survivors of a mudslide in washington state and six bodies found on monday and bringing the death toll to 14, more than 170 people have been reported missing since the landslide struck north of seattle saturday morning and calls to 911 revealed how fast the landslide wiped out an entire town. >> 911. >> what is your emergency? >> the houses are gone. >> is there any injuries? >> no, it's a mudslide, all i

see is watching tons of trees come falling. i'm on highway 530. there is not a house here anymore. >> tonya mosley is in arlington, washington and what is the latest on hope for survivors? >> well, the reality is no survivors have been pulled out since saturday. as you heard in those 911 tapes victims endured and saw that mudslide coming down on top of them. >> my neighbor's house and their neighbor's house has been completely taken out and it collapsed on several of them and they are trapped. >> you know they are inside the house still? >> yes, i'm standing at their location now and i can hear them tapping underneath. there are several of them in a group, under debris in the roof of the house.

>> it's about 3:00 a.m. here at first light, the national guard will begin assisting those rescuers and looking for survivors but they have a tough morning ahead of them. we have been told by many of those rescuers that it can take up to five minutes just to walk 30-40 feet in the debris. a look at before and after of an area known for its beauty and what was oh, so washington. >> it's muddy and in areas it's quick sand and it feels like big berms of clay and quick sand. >> when the hill gave way on saturday people were home and krablthers were working and people passing on 130. >> if it were a weekday there would be more people heading out of danger. >> 49 cabins are covered by the mudslide debris and one rescuer said if there were homes here

the conditions made it almost impossible to find them. >> i don't think there is anything left and i have been told the place in the middle is 50 feet under. >> they were planning to visit their cabin on saturday but decided against it and are nowo searching r those he knew that lived nearby. >> we are extremely lucky. >> reporter: they call this mudslide one of the worst in history, the wet ground with the history of previous sliding made this area especially susceptible and they are working around the clock with dogs and are still holding out hope. anxious to find loved ones community is going out search for loved ones and authorities are warning against that and actually arresting people if they head out there and are doing it for safety reasons. the seattle times here is also

reporting this morning that a geologist found and made a discovery and reported it to the u.s. army of core engineers warning that a large catastrophic event like this one could happen. he urged them not to build houses and new construction in that area. back to you. >> all right, tonya in arlington, washington. and let's bring in nicole mitchell for more on that, good morning, nicole. >> nice to get a break in the weather yesterday but things will be changing as we go forward with the next round of wet weather coming in. this is what we have been talking about in washington where the river here also jammed with the mud slides and that backed up some water behind it and creating conditions and the river is cutting rounds the mudslide and making a new track for itself and say it's flowing pretty well so far but that is something they will have to watch both to make sure the new

river continues to flow okay and if the dam of mud breaks what that will do. so new rain already coming in on the coastline, that is the concern right now, as it comes in over the course of the day not as heavy as previous rounds but we see it through tuesday and a break on wednesday and possibly more rain to the end of the week so it's not over yet and the ground is saturated and flooding is a concern and in this area and get up to the mountains and that kind of funnels the rain and keeps it in that area and helps it build up so you can see most of the wet weather stays along the coastline and will continue to go down the mountains. that is not the only weather system we are watching across the country and an area in the south developing as it moves its way up the coastline for the day on tuesday. really intensifying very rapidly and it's good it's far enough up the coastline that they get the fridge of this but still some areas of snow and high winds

over the next few days and back to you. >> thank you, to the search for missing malaysia flight 370 families of passengers and crew facing reality the plane did go down in the indian ocean. malaysia prime minister making the announcement yesterday and airline officials reiterating that this morning and randall pinkston is in washington with the latest and how did families find out about this yesterday? >> reporter: it was an announcement from the prime minister who said, in fact, they had been informed in person earlier and we heard all of this news about tweets going out, sms messages, that too was done. they were informed in person initially and the messages were sent out as a supplement to that information. of course it is devastating news but the investigation is not over because the plane has not yet been found and today the search was called off because of bad weather. >> heart break, agony and anger

as loved ones of passengers on board malaysia 370 were given the news they never wanted to hear. >> it's therefore with deep sadness and regret that i must inform you that according to this new data like image 370 ended in the southern indian ocean. >> reporter: all souls lost according to the malaysia government dashing any hopes for those praying the plane had somehow survived after 18 days. >> it's not the answer we wanted but it's an answer and it does help to know that we know something. >> reporter: for this woman the pain is too much.

[crying] the assessment that the plane is most likely under water in one of the most isolated regions in the world, more than a thousand miles from perth, australia came from a data analysis and it was tracked to two possible routes and monday they tracked the final path. >> the pings match the southern route and not the northern route therefore the northern route is ruled out. >> reporter: it may have been to a general area consistent with photos from australia, france and china, defense minister urges caution. >> we have not successfully identified or recovered any debris from the aircraft in question. >> reporter: that effort will be delayed by at least a day, with the search called off for 24 hours due to gail force winds and high waves posing a danger

for ships and planes in the area. that setback poses another challenge. because strong currents would most likely cause debris to drift hundreds of miles away. >> we are not searching for a needle in a hey stack, we are trying to find out where the hey stack is. >> reporter: it has been narrowed but australians say the task may be more daunting as they continue to look for mh 370. stephanie. >> randall pinkston for us in washington and randall, thank you. [chanting] these are protests outside the malaysia embassy in beijing today. most of them angry family members of passenger and crew on board the missing flight and carrying signs that read bring our families home and liars, tell the truth. police and military surrounded the embassy but at one point protesters did breakthrough the lines and beijing authorities called in reinforcement it's day

two of the nuclear security summit taking place in the netherlands and leaders from 58 countries are at the hague discussing ways to prevent terrorism but significant developments taking place on the sidelines of the summit as well and we are live from the hague and, mike, good morning, the u.s. and allies have cast russia out of g 8, the group of industrialized democracies and a short while ago the white house released a statement from the u.s. and ukraine strom the summit and strong words for putin there and what more can you tell us? >> well, you are absolutely right. this is the third nuclear security summit dealing with some very i'm issues, only vestige of the cold war, nuclear materials that were scattered throughout the world over the course of last five years since this summit series has started and made a lot of progress reducing the number of materials and countries that posses them but it's an echo of the cold war and ukraine crisis that is

dominating the gathering here and dominate the president's trip to northern europe and goes on to brussels for the eu summit tomorrow and a meeting called by the president, g 7 used to be the g 8 minus russia and they have been effectively suspended and put out a declaration to the 7 industrialized nations and called it the hague declaration and put stringent sanctions on russian economy across broad sectors of the economy if russia continues the escalation in ukraine and means going beyond crimea and invading eastern and southern ukraine. ukraine a joint statement today and we have a full screen graphic that reads in part they will not recognize russia's illegal attempt to and next crimea, crimea is an integral part of ukraine and the u.s. will continue to help ukraine confirm sovereignty and territorial integrity and it says the united states government will stand by

ukraines and stand by their side. the president has been out and about today the summit proper and the first session this morning has already started but before that the president had a bilateral meeting with kazisistan meeting. >> the meeting was supposed to take place in russia, are they planning to meet or meeting in another place? >> well, that is a good point, coming out of the g 7 meeting that the president called yesterday here in the hague, one of the conclusions was the g 8 was not in sochi, russia and changed it to brussels, belgium and will happen in june, stephanie. >> what about the nuclear security summit and it does deal with important issues of nuclear terrorism, how is this in ukraine effects moscow's role at the nuclear summit? >> well, that is a great point too. vladimir putin is not here, the russian leader if it's putin or

his predecessor had been to the two previous nuclear summits but russia is represented by sergei fedorov and there is news on the front and he met with secretary of state john kerry and a series of meetings since the crisis began and russia has not reversed course. but sergei fedorov met with the foreign minister yesterday and that is significant. because russian officials refused to have any meetings with the kiev government on the grounds that government was illegitimate and one positive sign on ukraine coming out of the summit. >> the highest meeting thus far between the two governments and we are travelling with the president in the netherlands and thank you, mike and a live report from ukraine coming up, later in the show. a federal jury in new york begins deliberations on the case of osama bin laudin's nephew and

they showed them transcripts of him praising the 9/11 attacks and calling for more attacks and his lawyer says there is no evidence of conspiracy and if convicted he faces life in prison. madoff was rejected by a jury and 5 employings added him and the first conviction in the fraud case and all five could face maximums of 220 years in prison when sentenced in late july and nine others plead guilty for participate manage the scheme. president obama will submit a proposal this week calling for legislation to put an end to part of the nsa surveillance program and this development is coming from senior administration officials, good morning. >> they told the "new york times" they are going to propose an overhaul of the national

agency's phone records program and the goal is to end the far-reaching aspect of the program that caused the most problems for advocates, under the proposal nsa would stop collection of data about american's calling habits and phone companies would keep records on site and not required to maintain them for longer than they do now and in line with the speech president obama gave at the justice department back in january when he acknowledged that high-tech surveillance has a threat to civil liberties and almost a year that edward snowden leaked evidence of the secret service program igniting a fire storm and they will draft the policy by this friday when the current authorization for the phone records program expires and meanwhile today, stephanie, the republican chairman and ranking democrat of the house intelligence committee expected to introduce a bill to the house that is similar to the president's proposal. >> what about in those cases,

erica where they need the phone records for terrorism related reasons, under this how does that work? >> a special court and normally have to go through and get a court order but that has never happened where the government has not received its actual request granted in this scenario under the proposal they would get specific permission from a judge in a new kind of special court order before they even talked to the phone company. >> thank you so much. the chinese government is demanding answers from the u.s. over reports the nsa infiltrated services at telacom company walway and they reported alleged hacking at the technologies based on classified documents provided by snowden. a government spokesman said china is extremely concerned about the report. the count down to sign up for coverage under the affordable care act is on, days before the deadline and younger americans are not so sure they want to

sign up. clearing the air for lawyers in colorado over the state's new legal marijuana shops, how the realing will keep the men out of hot water and chicago transit officials insight and what caused a train derailment at an o'hare airport and say driver error may be to blame. ♪

welcome back to al jazeera america, i'm stephanie sy, up next, and some are unsure about the healthcare law as the deadline to sign up looms but let's look at what temperatures we will see across the nation and metrologist nicole mitchell is here. >> we had a new weather system going up the coast with cold air in place and we will talk about that more especially tomorrow and look at midwest and minneapolis and we have wind in the region and that is making the feel like temperature look at this minus 7 is what it feels like in fargo. for the latter part of march that is not pleasant out here and some cold air will spread. through the course of the day today a lot of 30s up the east coast and 50s in the south but watch what happened, the winds will pick up through the region

over the course of the day and that will increase the fire danger in the south and then overnight with that cold air funneling in temperatures below freezing tomorrow morning, so a freeze watch and warning is in effect for a lot of the region and watch for wind chills through the course of tomorrow and back to you. >> thank you. today the supreme court will hear arguments over a portion of the affordable care act that requires employers to cover the cost of conception and oklahoma based hobby lobby is one of the companies suing the federal government citing religious grounds and say it prohibit for paying for contraceptive medication or devices that end human life after conception and conception is covered under the after faredable care act as part of the law's preventative care requirement and time is running out to sign up for insurance under the after faredable care act and they are getting creative to reach out to americans and we sat down with people and undecided to sign up

or face a penalty. >> who here currently has healthcare if you just raise your hands. you two do. you two have no healthcare. how long have you been without healthcare? >> four years. >> reporter: the pressure is on these so called invisibles, healthy, under 35 and cheap to insure. kevin is a typical target of president obama's affordable care act. >> eventually i will sign up but it has not been a priority. >> the whole process of getting insurance, let's face it, just the jargon of it and the prices is not something that i really want to think about. >> reporter: and she is an uninsured graduate studying art history facing a march 31st deadline. >> i'm getting text messages from my parents saying did you hear the new deadline so it's everywhere. on one hand it's weird. on one hand it makes me a little worried like they are desperate.

>> reporter: less than a week to have americans sign up for healthcare. the obama administration is getting creative. >> did you say invisible? >> no. >> that is not. >> not invisible, invisible, meaning they don't think they can get hurt. >> reporter: on funny or die that went viral was more than comedy but a careful marketing strategy. >> if they get health insurance it can make a big difference and have until march 31st to sign up. >> i did watch between two ferns and that was amazing, that is something i saw on facebook and i made sure to sit down and watch that. >> was it effective? >> google affordable care act for information. >> i'm sorry, that made you google? >> yeah, i wanted to get more information on it. >> and i think that the campaign should have been focusing on things like that more often. >> reporter: and they are both insured and admit they were influenced by this campaign. the president is also using some

nbastardom. >> hi, i'm lebron james and sign up now, you never know when you might take a hit. >> are you happy you signed up? >> i am. >> reporter: ben has been enrolled for months. >> it takes away the pressure of thinking what will happen if i have to go to the emergency room or to the doctor, i feel just an immense load off my shoulders. >> it's a bit of the role of the dice i suppose. >> why are you taking that gamble? >> i don't know. i don't know how much insurance costs. >> and she feels the confusion and the pressure. >> i will get insurance. >> are you going to do it this week? >> that is the million dollar question. i'm not really sure to be honest, i'm ashamed i have not made up my mind and if it's the 11th hour it's now. >> the president wants you to sign up now. >> i know, i know, but i'm not sure, i'm not sure.

>> reporter: and i'm with al jazeera, washington. >> as of february estimated 4.2 million people have signed up for obamacare, 55% are female, 45% male and you can see america tonight everyday at 9:00 p.m. eastern standard time on al jazeera. looking at business news disney is expanding the online presence and buying maker studios, operator of u tube for $500 million and give disney 55,000 channels with thousands of subscribers and billions of views a month and let's see if the nasty weather hit the housing market and they expect homes to fall in february and we are far from a full recovery in housing. >> we have a long way to go to catch up because we did not create housing units as fast as the population numbers would suggest they are needed. so we took college students and moved them back in with their

parents and now they had enough of each other and the parents have to kick them out. >> data on home prices is also due out this morning. on wall street stock futures are higher at this point after a sell off in technology stocks knocked down markets yesterday, this is where we stand heading in the trading day, dow jones is 16276, s&p is 1857 and nasdaq is 4226 and asia was lower. but china shanghai squeezed out a small gain and european markets are higher at this hour. crews from around the world are working to find a sign of malaysia flight 370 and al jazeera goes on board one of the search planes trying to locate the aircraft for a first-hand look at the task that crews are facing. cleaning up the oil spill that shut down a hub in texas and the hit that it is taking on some local businesses. a scary seen, a massive pile up caught on camera and one of

those caught in the middle of it all. >> i'm john henry smith and there is fall out from the dolphin's bullying scandal and roger says he may make it tough for the things who made things tough for jonathan martin. ♪

a live look now at the new world trade center tower, this is lower manhattan as the sun comes up over the big apple this tuesday morning. good morning and welcome to al jazeera america, i'm stephanie sy, ahead in our next half hour, how some businesses are already suffering from the oil spill in texas and one man who uses his talent for photographing super models to bring attention to homeless and a deadly shooting caught on tape and one police department is facing claims of excessive forth and they are crossing southern indian ocean looking for the malaysia flight 370. >> this is a mystery and until

we recover and find a piece of debris it's speculation. >> bad weather hampered the search efforts with dangerous waves, high winds and fog and forcing officials to call off the search today and before the storm hit andrew thomas boarded a plane to see firsthand what they are dealing with. >> the crew of rescue 104 have seen an object in the water and the position is marked and now on a return pass a smoke canister is fired. the smoke is a visual reference for the pilot to aim for and on another pace chris plate sees another object. >> object in the water left 630 half off. >> reporter: a second smoke canister deployed and as the plane goes back to orbit there is a glimpse of a third object. >> mark, mark, mark where we are right now because there was an

object in the water and he said it was 30 in length and we have a smoke bomb on top. >> reporter: and it's beginning to look busy. >> it's a fairly clean area of ocean and don't see much but tonight we see one or two things in the water. >> reporter: i'm not trained but looking too, i think i see a red object flash by but 100 meters on the ocean traveling 6 360 kilometers are hour they are gone when they are seen and it wasn't just chris who saw it, other observers confirmed the color and shape and a photographer buys shots catches two in frame and pilot brings the plane high in radio contact to redirect another plane and navy ship towards the object his crew has seen. >> i've been in communications with the rescue consultant and have been essentially released from what search we are doing as

this is i guess the latest priority and the latest priority is collecting these and try to classify them. >> reporter: another object is smoking, another smoke and a g pchl s is dropped and the plane is low on fuel and needs to fly four hours back from the zone to base and flight 104 day has been a success and they seen, located and marked the position of objects in an area of ocean where just hours later malaysia prime minister will confirm flight mh 370 had crashed. andrew thomas, al jazeera over the southern indian ocean. >> joining us to discuss the next step in the investigation is fred, a commercial pilot and former federal prosecutor who has tried many aviation cases and joins us from philadelphia this morning and thanks for being with us. now the malaysia confirmed the plane went down in the indian

ocean, what is the next step in the investigation? >> i think the next step and quite frankly the only step is try and find the wreckage and ultimately find the cockpit and data recorder which we call the black boxes because without them this is complete and utter speculation so we really need to find those things. if the airplane did fly for an extended period until it ran out of fuel it will glide in the ocean and hit the water in such a way that it's conceivable that large pieces should help in the search efforts. >> that brings up an interesting point which is people wondering whether the searchers have been looking for pieces of the aircraft large or small depending on whether it collided in or weather it crashed. if debris is found, can that in and of itself tell investigators what they need to know or is the black box data recorder a necessity? >> the answer is all of it would be helpful. if there is pieces of debris,

and now we learn there were lithium ion batteries and they know where they are and if they were in the forward cargo hold that piece of the airplane showing evidence of a hole blown in the airplane and caused rapid deceleration the pieces are critical. i mean information on the flight data recorder about pressure and engine perimeters and air speed and that stuff is very, very helpful but if you really want to know exactly what happened you need all the pieces. we all remember twa flight 800, they put the entire airplane back together in a hanger to figure out what happened. and that would be helpful. and whether or not that is realistic in this case remains to be seen. >> they had to call the search off today and i imagine with each passing day it gets more difficult to spot this wreckage. when it comes to that black box people talk about that 30-day window but in the air france

flight the black box was found a couple years after and there is still hope for that. >> there is still hope. when boeing certified a battery in the black box they certify it for 30 days but doesn't mean it will last only 30 days. hopefully it will last a long time and the air crash, the boxes were found almost two years later. one of the factors that goes in this is the topography of the ocean floor. the titanic is in 12000 feet of water but it's a sandy bottom, relatively flat. air france crash was this a mountain region under water and so all of that plays a role in whether or not they will find the black boxes. i'm confident that over time they will find them. >> let's talk a little about the legal issues that you're an expert on and now that malaysia authorities confirmed it went down in the ocean and no survivors what does that mean in terms of legal recourse for these families? >> well, interestingly i

understand the malaysia government offered $5,000 and the flights are covered by the warsaw convention and entitled for $500,000 and when we have a crash in the u.s. with the tort system there are cases and there were four americans on the plane and obviously the litigation would be a lawsuit on their behalf and minimal in the u.s. and other passengers who knows but time will tell. >> would you expect malaysia airlines to continue to take care of these families until more is known, as you mentioned family members were initially given $5,000 per passenger in addition to being put up in hotels and given they know the plane went down with certainty would you expect that sort of help to continue? >> if they were my client and i was advising them i would tell them to continue to do it because studies show that often times entities like malaysia

airlines treat peement on goes a long way to get it resolved in a subsequent issue and if they are smart they will. >> when it comes to legal action when would you expect we might see the first lawsuit or in general does this have to wait until some wreckage is found? >> in the u.s. i'm surprised you have not seen one yet. i think when cooler heads prevail the smart thing to do is to wait. for instance in the united states if you were going to bring an action against air traffic control you have up to six months so there is no technical, legal reason to file suit today. quite frankly i think they need to wait until a single piece of evidence has been recovered from the ocean that indicates the airplane is down in the south indian ocean. >> a commercial pilot and former federal prosecutor joining us from philly this morning and thank you. a bill to send financial aid from the u.s. to ukraine has cleared a major hurdle and the senate voted in favor of the $1

billion aid package and now heads to the house and congress should act quickly to prevent putin from moving further to ukraine and the vote comes as world leaders gather in the netherlands and a nuclear summit is held there but over shadowed by the crisis in ukraine and for more let's go to phil who is in kiev, phil, good morning. foreign ministers of russia and ukraine had face-to-face talks for the first time, what is the reaction in ukraine to that meeting? >> stephanie, there was a lot of satisfaction and a lot of pleasure seeing the meeting happening because russians refused to acknowledge the new government in kiev. so the mere fact they sat down was received positively here in kiev. but there were some things that came out of that meeting that they have expressed some concern

about here, not least of which the statement by russian foreign minist minister sergei fedorov and wanted normal voices of ukraines needed to be heard and this is predominately in the east and south of this country and kiev still holds that russia has grander designs and that kind of language coming from sergei fedorov but there is support for the fact that the ukrainian acting foreign minister andre said that crimea is still our territory, we lodged a formal protest with the russian government and that has been received positively here. but again some of the very important meeting that actually happened between them, those two foreign ministers sitting down together, perhaps and the first step to actually recognition of the new government here has been received positively. >> phil, there is back and forth

this morning between ukraine's parliament and the country's acting defense minister and attempting to step down and comes as russian troops continue to threaten the military in crimea so what happens now? >> well, the acting defense man is under heavy fire from the court of public opinion here in kiev because he didn't give the order to pull out of crimea for a very long period of time and went back and forth about whether or not those soldiers, sailors and marines of the ukraine military should pull out and of course we saw all this confrontation over the various bases and has been a sense here in kiev that he waited too long to give that order. now, he has offered his resignation. originally it was refused but apparently it does look right now as though there is a vote happening in the ukrainian parliament and we will have to

see whether or not he stays as the defense minister, stephanie. >> an important position to say the least and we are reporting from kiev and thank you. two people are dead after a shooting on board a ship at the navy base in norfolk, virginia, a sailor shot dead by a civilian who was gunned down by police and happened last night at 11:30 eastern and at this point it's unclear what led to the shooting. the base was briefly locked down but that has since been lifted, the norfolk navel base is the largest in the world. a sleeping conductor may be to blame for monday's train derailment at chicago o'hare airport and 30 people injured after a train on blue line jumped the tracks and hit a platform and the president of the transit workers union say there are strong indication he may have dozed off and they will interview the train's operator later today. a cleanup is underway to cleanup an oil spill in south texas and crews continue pulling thick tar out of galviston bay and it's

being pushed in the beach and 170,000 gallons of oil was dumped in the water when a barge and tanker collided on saturday and it shut down the canal connecting the port of houston and the gulf of mexico and as brandon shows it's having a serious effect on area businesses. >> it's unusually quiet inside boyd's one stop. >> usually it's about noon and usually we are cram packed in here and not able to walk. >> they sell seafood to the public but most comes from bait to fishermen who fish on the nearby dyke. police is restriking access to the dyke after an oil spill over the weekend and left 168,000 gallons of oil in the shipping channel. >> this is a significant oil spill. we don't see oil releases of this quantity. this is a very large amount and very hard to deal with and a lot

to cleanup and it spreads out over a very large area. >> reporter: hundreds of people are removing oil from the waterway using skimming vessels and boon which is a barrier to trap pockets of oil and concern for bird sanctuarys but strong winds and sent the oil slicks further out to the gulf. >> the oil is, we have put a safety zone to prevent people from accidentally contaminating their vessels or themselves with the oil. >> reporter: the safety zone stalled cruise ships from continuing voyages and temporarily paralyzed the shipping channel and meantime with fishermen unable to cast reals few people are stopping in to boyds for bait. >> it has been dead, we had five or six customers every hour. >> reporter: and they say they will continue to lose big bikes while access to the dyke is denied. >> $8,000 of loss every day so

that is pretty big loss for us. >> reporter: and it still may be many more days, even weeks until the cleanup effort is complete but the coast guard says work will continue around the clock. brandy with al jazeera, texas city. >> the coast guard says the channel will remain closed until they get the spill under control. a video on youtube shows base jumpers parachuting off world trade center in new york and they were arrested on monday and pulled off the stunt last september with cameras to record the dive and one landed in the middle of a deserted street in lower manhattan and this is after a 16-year-old climbed up to the top of the sky straper. retail marijuana business in colorado can get legal council and the supreme court on monday said it's revising state laws regulating the industry and under this colorado will be able to advise people involved in the recreational sale of pot and they were hesitant to advise

before fearing they would be violating professional ethics rule. the owner of the redskins hopes he will end the controversy over the team name and start agree foundation to benefit native americans called the original american foundation and he is criticized for refusal to change the name of the franchise which many people consider offensive and it has been around 80 years and he bought the team in 1999. nfl owners are meeting in florida in week and bullying is a major topic and john henry smith is here with sports. >> it has been five months since bullying caused jonathan martin to leave the dolphins and he had a chance to return to the league but such a return won't be as easy for the players who bullied him. at the nfl meeting in orlando said incognito must go to

doctors and after that they will consider allowing the three players back on the practice or playi playing fields and they were the main harassers of martin and he was traded to san francisco this month and jerry signed a deal with the new york giants and they say this is a bigger issue than just with those three guys. >> this is a culture change and something that while modifying policies from time to time are important, this is more about people understanding the importance of a professional workplace where there is respect for everybody, whether that is a teammate, opponent, game officials and we have to provide that. >> on the subject of the cold's owner who was arrested last week on suspicion of driving being intoxicated he will wait to understand the facts before deciding on what punishment to levy and he is in a treatment

program. coming in to monday night the miami heat dropped two of three games and if that were not bad enough the two losses came to teams not making the playoffs and chris bosch ripped the team and said they were not playing with enough passion and the message got through to lebron james and played a great game against the trailblazers and up by four and lebron shot 11 and 13 from close and will pay dividends later and less than a minute in the fourth and triple and knocks it down like no big thing and it was tied with 30 seconds left and james drove for a high percentage shot and gets a two point lead and time running out and going for the tie and there is bosch with the block and then with the passion he spoke of earlier, 93-91 heat win. a record they assume let someone break and they lost 113-91, spurs have won 14 games in a row

and 76ers lost 25 games in a row and with two more losses the 6ers will set the all-time nba record of consecutive losses and they play houston on thursday and host detroit on saturday. with an estimated net worth of nearly 11 billion dollars he is one of the richest men in russia and wants his team to be owned by a russian company since at least last june he has been working to relocate his company. the one that owns the nets to russian jurisdiction allowing him to comply with the recent russian law regulating the overseas holding of russians seeking elected office and he was going to run for mayor of moscow but denied not to do it and moving it from u.s. to russia would fulfill putin request that they have overseas companies and registered locally and pay taxes to the russian government and the nba says they have not received the

appropriate paperwork from him in the matter, that is sports for now. >> that is interesting given the tensions between the u.s. and rush issha and sanctions now and thank you. shining a light on the homeless, the man who is used to photographing models on the cat walk turning his lens toward homeless people living the street. e cigarettes may not help when it comes to quitting smoking and it questions claims by manufacturers. a storm that is just bringing rain right now will develop into something bringing wind and snow. i'll have that forecast. ly money

only on al jazeera america ♪ a 61 car pile up in minnesota all caught on tape and started when two vehicles lost control and struck a semi on a snow covered bridge by minneapolis and the chain reaction crash

happened when it was locked off and started taking video for his insurance and that is when more cars started slamming into each other and one person was hospitalized. welcome back to al jazeera america, ahead a fashion photographer using his passion to help the less fortunate but let's see where the snow and rain may fall in the country and nicole mitchell is back. >> there is a few less bad things than that. this is in the west yesterday and making its way to the mid-atlantic and more energy to the south. so places like florida still getting that rain and you can see this is more of what the snow will bring to places like d.c. today and we are especially watching everything that is developing off the coastline because as this comes together it will strengthen rapidly and d.c. could be 1-3" but into tomorrow it starts to hit places like new england and that could

be more significant snow with the wind blowing that around as well. back to you. >> thank you. a new study finds that air pollution has become a leading cause of death around the world and says smog and other man-made pollutants may be responsible for one in every eight deaths, that is about 7 million people worldwide every year. in 2012, 3.7 million deaths attributed to outdoor air pollution. indoor air pollution from cooking with wood, coal or biological material caused 1.3 million deaths and can leave tiny particles deep in the body and irritating organs and 80% of the deaths were from heart disease and stroke. a new study finds that electronic cigarettes do not help people quit smoking and inhaled vaporized nicotine but not tobacco and it's helpful for cutting down on smoking and

researchers from san francisco found 10% of people who tried it quit smoking versus 14% of people who went cold turkey. health officials in ohio are trying to contain an outbreak of mumps and there are 63 cases confirmed so far and initially doctors believed that i were confined to the campus of ohio state university and say they are disturbed to realize the case has spread beyond that campus. parents and students in schools across the state are notified how to prevent the spread of mumps and urge urging people to get vaccinated if they have not already. as a fashion and lifestyle photographer he shoots some of the most beautiful people in new york city but his passion is in the plight of those who have nothing and as part of our al jazeera america series homeless in america we follow brooks as he chooses run down places over runways. ♪ i love fashion week. i love it because it's an opportunity to do something different, to remind me of what

i do for a living. eyes are really important to me, whether they are vibrant, on fire eyes you see sometimes on the runway or these dead eyes you see on the streets. it's a massive contrast and the finances on display and seeing the real, the genuine life the street here, that is what interests me as a photographer. you come out of the center after fashion week and you pass someone huddled in a doorway against the cold and this is the first photograph i took and got me in the whole thing and it's just a moment, not far from 5th avenue and this guy is in a world of its own and it's so isolated and like a slap of realization for me. would you mind if i got a photograph of you? would you mind? with you in the cart? would you mind? it's an odd universe to work in this environment and then to shoot on the streets where there

is abject poverty and no hope for tomorrow but here it's all about tomorrow, it's about tomorrow's fashions and what is new, what is trending. ♪ i love street photography, i think it's so important, but you could make a living out of it. it's one of those things and you see it everyday and you don't notice it and it loses its impact. it's important to make people look at it. how are you doing? >> all right. >> cold? >> i moved her seven years ago and it was obvious what was happening on the streets but it increased alarmingly and it's a growing problem. this is in color, color adds a here and now element to it. we could all be there. we are all a few steps away from being in that position but these people face a real grim reality day in, day out. and you've got to admire the strength really to carry on.

see you. >> photographer sharing his story for our series homeless in america more than 600,000 americans are homeless, at the end of the first hour we have a look at the stories we are following in the next hour. >> the death toll from the mudslide at washington state climbing to 14, 6 more bodies discovered on monday and more than 170 people reported missing since that disaster early saturday morning. severe weather suspending the search for malaysia flight 370, the southern indian ocean and the government is offering family members of the group flight accommodations and the president will propose the ability to store phone records and now they keep records of millions of phone calls and other data and in the next area police in mexico say this is video and not the first time. >> i'm nicole mitchell and a rapidly developing storm will

bring temperatures and high wind and even snow and the forecast. >> del and i are back with you in just two minutes. ♪

>> it's an emergency. >> the houses are gone! >> 911 calls just released revealing the terrifying scene following a mud slide in washing state as the number of missing people surges. >> family of the missing malaysia airlines flight 370 now told news they did not want to hear. >> the supreme court set to weigh whether companies have the

right to refuse contra september i was for their employees under the affordable care act. >> get on the ground. >> police in albuquerque new mexico facing backlash over the shooting death of a homeless man and the latest incident raising questions about the democratic's conduct. >> good morning, welcome to aljazeera america, i'm stephanie sy. >> i'm del walters. the search for survivors in the washington mud slide is turning into a recovery effort. six bodies found monday, bringing the death toll to 14. 170 people have been reported missing since the landslide struck north of seattle early saturday morning. calls made to 911 reveal how quickly the landslide devastated an entire town. >> a mud slide happened, the trees have fallen.

>> what's going on now? >> i got people here screaming for help. >> ok, are they in the middle of the water? >> yes, and the person is buried in the middle of the mud. oh, my god. >> tanya moseley is in washington for us. the fire chief doesn't sound optimistic about finding survivors. >> the reality is they haven't found survivors since saturday. those 911 tapes as you hear really gives us a glimpse of what those victims endured. >> oh, yeah, man, i got a big emergency. there is a house on 530 and a big slide and it is covering the road at the bottom of skaglon. >> what is it, a house?

>> a house. there was a big landslide on the hill. >> in a few hours, the national guard will arrive to assist in those efforts. those rescue efforts, but they have lots of challenges ahead of them. for one, some of that mud slide muck is at deep as 50 feet. >> a look at before and after of an area known for its beauty, a look at what was osa, washington. >> it's like quick sand, the debris field is big bedrooms of clay and quick sand. >> when the hillside gave way, families were home, contractors working and drivers passing through. >> if this event were on a weekday, chances are more people would have been at work or driving, heading out of danger. >> 45 homes are covered. one rescuer said if there were

homes here, the conditions have made it almost impossible to find them. >> i don't think there's anything left. i think i've been told that this place right in the middle is about 50 feet under. >> david and his wife planned to visit their cabin saturday but decided against it. he is now searching for those he new lived nearby. >> we're extremely lucky. we're alive. >> geologists say this area was extremely susceptible. crews are working with hover craft, dog teams amounted residents who are still holding out hope. >> some communities have mobilized to go to the site on their own to search for those loved ones. authorities urge people to stay away. they don't want anymore

casualties. back you. >> still some dangerous conditions there. tanya, thank you. >> now to the search for missing malaysia airlines flight 370. heartbreaking news on monday for the families and passenger of the crew members onboard that missing malaysia plane. authorities are confident it did go down in the indian ocean. it's a blow for families angry after waiting for information. how were the family members informed? this is part of the on going controversy with this flight. >> families received in phone telephone messages about the loss of the plane and text messages as an additional means of communication. we've all heard over the last several hours that the families were informed by text messages, the airline says that's not true, that in fact there was in-person or telephone communications initially, text messages as backup. whatever the means that the

families learned the sad news, it did nothing to ease the pain of knowing their loved ones are lost, even as the search for the missing plane continues. >> heartbreak, agony and anger as the loved ones aboard malaysia airlines flight 370 were given the news they never wanted to hear. >> the announcement made last night and shared with the families is the reality that we must face and we now must attest. >> all lost, dashing any hope for those operating the plane somehow survived after 18 days. >> it's not the answer we wanted, but it's an answer, and it does help to know that we know something. >> for this woman, the pain is too much.

>> the grim assessment that the plane is most likely underwater in the most deserted area of the world, it was track to one of two possible routes, monday they concluded the final path. >> the pension match the southern route, not the northern route and therefore the northern route is ruled out. >> while the plane's location may have been pinpointed to a general area, australia's defense minister urges caution. >> let's be clear. to this point in time, we have not successfully identified and recovered any debris from the aircraft in question. >> that effort will be delayed by at least a day with the search called off for 24 hours

due to gale force winds and high waves posing a danger for ships and planes in the area. that setback poses another challenge, because current would cause debris to drift hundreds of miles away. >> we're still trying to define where the haystack is. >> they are continuing to analyze final pings between the plane, the satellite and earth stations hoping to narrow down the exact location in the indian ocean where the plane went down. >> randall pinkston reporting live for us from washington, d.c. thank you very much. >> these are protests outside the malaysian embassy in beijing today, most of these folks angry family members of those aboard the site. police an military surrounded

the embass. protestors did break through the line. authorities have called in reinforcements. >> 98 people died after a boat capsized in the ugandan lake, 250 packages onboard the ship. it everturned saturday. united nations officials say it was carrying refugees returning to the democratic republic of congo. >> 20 soldiers have been killed in an attack on a military hub for royal production in yemen. yemen has been tackling a powerful al-qaeda insurgency since protests began against the country's president. >> the final day of the nuclear security summit underway in the netherlands, countries discussing ways to prevent nuclear terrorism. mike viqueira is tracking with the president.

he joins us now live from the hague. the g8 is now the g7, russia kicked out and just a short while ago, the white house releasing a statement with strong language for russia. what do we know about that? >> it's ironic, all the way you frozed that, because there are vestiges of the cold war that this summit is designed to deal with, loose nukes. they've come a long way has the international community has the summit because of loose nukes out in the world. it is an echo of the cold war, east-west tension that dominated the proceedings here. you are correct, yesterday, the president here in the hague in the netherlands calling a meeting of the g7, russia was excluded, they came out with a statement promising to impose very difficult sanctions not just on a fuel garbages close to vladimir putin, but across broad sections of the russian economy

if -- if russia continues to escalate. you can read into that eastern and southern ukraine very concerned about what vladimir putin's designs are outside of crimea. the president's been up and early this morning, met with kazakhstan's leaders. there's a joint statement from the united states and ukraine released this morning, reading in part you a crane and the united states will not recognize russia's illegal attempt to annex crimea. crimea is an integral part of ukraine. the united states will continue to help ukraine affirm its sovereignty and territorial integrity. the statement conclude, that the united states will stand by the side of ukrainians throughout this crisis. >> the g8 meeting back when it was the g8 was scheduled to take place in sochi be russia. are they planning another location instead?

>> this is part of the punishment the economic community is trying to put on russia. vladimir putin was supposed to host the g8 nations, now canceled as part of the g7 meeting, they will instead meet in june in brussels. >> how is this affecting moscow's role at the security summit? >> well, that's another great question. vladimir putin a no show. russia is represented by sergey lavrov, the russian foreign minister. russia had always sent its president prior to this. lavrov is here and busy. he did have a bilateral meeting, another with secretary of state john kerry to talk about the ukraine crisis and perhaps one positive development to come out of this summit with rewards to ukraine, lavrov met yesterday

with the interim foreign minister from ukraine. that's significant, because no one in the russian government had heretofore recognized the government as a legitimate government of ukraine, yesterday lavrov sitting down with the foreign minister. nothing positive as we can see so far publicly coming out of that meeting. >> mike viqueira traveling with the president, thanks very much. a live report coming up from ukraine later in our show. >> a massive effort underway to clean up an oil spill in south texas, pulling thick tar out of galveston bay. strong ties keep pushing more on to the beach. oil was dumped into the water when a barge and tanker collided saturday. the accident shut down the busy shipping canal connecting the port of houston and gulf of mexico. >> parts of the east coast set to get hit with another round of snow with accumulations. >> for more on the morning's national forecast, let's bring

in meteorologist nicole mitchell. >> he's speaking spanish. this turned a few people into babbling this morning when i told them more snow was on all the way. we are seeing one piece of energy come across the atlantic. roanoke, d.c., could be one to three inches. that's one of the more significant cumulation totals we could see until we get to new he can gland. the southern edge has been rain, lots of rain especially into florida. it's this southern piece of energy now off the coastline and continuing to develop. here's how this goes. already off the coastline. the first band of snow will come through, so a lot of places will see snow first and then the high winds with the system off the coast. here's how all that have shapes up, so kind of merging together, those two areas. most of the moisture with this will stay well enough off the coast that unless we're getting part of that initial bands, you don't get it until we get up to

new england. by tomorrow, this is rapidly intensified and when you get a really dramatic pressure drop, that cranks up the winds. a lot of places, even if you miss out on the snow, it might only be an inch or dusting, we're still going to see the wind with this into new england. that could be six inches or more in no some cases where this passes a little more closely to the coastline. that's just one problem, as we head to the other coast where we watch the mud slide situation, another band of rain is coming in today, so something else to keep an eye on. >> nicole, thank you very much. >> bernie madoff's claim that he ran the ponzi scheme alone ejected by a jury monday. five others were convicted, the first conviction in the criminal fraud case, all five facing a maximum 225 years in prison when they are sentenced. nine others have pleaded guilty in that scream a former send year jail guard from reicher's

island charged in the inmate who indicate disineffectant. an inmate in the mental health assessment unit swallowed a soap ball. the guard ended his shift without allowing the inmate medical help. he was found dead in his cell the next morning. >> part of president obama's health care law facing its biggest legal challenge yet. >> the white house making changes to the n.s.a. what is planned for the controversial agency. >> 51 million, our big number of the day, it is a new record when it comes to the madness of march over the ncaa basketball tournaments.

>> hoops madness is today's big number, 51 million is the number of people who dit who ditched tr t.v.'s to watch this year's tournament on line. >> it appears suspense is what viewers always want to see, the underdog one, dayton beating

ohio state, mercer beating duke and harvard knocking or cincinnati got viewers on line. good morning and welcome to al jazeera. >> up next, part of the affordable care act set to go before the supreme court. >> first temperatures across the nation today. >> with the next developing system, we'll see cold temperatures, behind the energy that moved through, cool temperatures, minneapolis 11. wind chills are sub zero for northern portions of the midwest. into the rest of the day, temperatures, even that you see into the south will drop into tomorrow and the winds will pick up. even if the moisture cleared, watch for that along the east coast tomorrow, meaning cold air from the north drops these temperatures, increasing the fire dangers in the south and drops into the 20's, breeze warnings and things have started going this time of year.

that's not helpful to the farmers and plants you have outdoors. we'll keep things cool into the day tomorrow. otherwise the northeast for the next calm days into the 30's before rebounding and more mild air into the midwest as we get into wednesday, finally a little recovery after the next round of cold. >> it has been two years since the supreme court rules that the affordable care act was constitutional. today, they take up the case again, hearing arguments that the act forces businesses to cover contra septemberives. libby casey is in washington, d.c., what is at stake? >> this is the most closely watched challenge to the affordable care act this year. as heart is the question of whether a private business can exercise religion. we are talking about for-profit companies, not a church or religious non-profit and whether they should be afforded religious protections. >> hobby lobby is a family run business, it's owners say based

on biblical principals founded years ago. >> our faith was very important in our starting this company, because we had a real sense, barbara and i, that god had this purpose in our life. >> the arts and crafts chain contends offering contraception goes against its owners pro life beliefs. >> this case is about nothing short than the right to religious freedom, a right protected by the constitution and our federal law. in order to honor god, they feel they have to run their business consistent with biblical principles, the ability to not have to pay for drugs and devices that they feel terminate life. >> hobby lobby with 500 stores across 41 states is a privately held corporation. they're asking the court to find that their for-profit company has the same religious freedom as a church or individual, an argument that 10th circuit court of appeals upheld in june

of last year. >> never before has the court accepted an argument that a corporate entity can press a religious claim. >> it has provided exemptions for non-profit corporations and religious hospitals and communities and that sets dangerous precedent. >> this is the question of whether corporations can use their owners personal religious beliefs to avoid a law that applies generally to all for-profit commercial businesses. >> national women's legal council fears that this case is about limiting access to contraceptive health care. >> they are asking that they be involved in what should be decisions that a woman makes with her doctor about what birth control to use, whether to use birth control and fundamentally, those decisions are not your

boss's business. that's what's at stake. >> the court is expected to rule later this summer. >> at this point, the appeals courts are split, two federal appeals courts upheld, three have struck down this aspect of it. this is called the circuit split and that's why it's risen all all the way to the supreme court. >> what type of impact could a decision for hobby lobby have on the affordable care act? >> this focuses on who, that is employers must abide by this contraception mandate, one part of the law. the court isn't asked to weigh whether to strike down a part of the affordable care act, it's how narrow the contraception mandate should be. the political battle over the affordable care act rages on and if the court this summer ends up limiting the mandate, that could be yet another blow to a law that's faced a lot of challenges and missteps over the past four years. >> libby, thank you very much this morning. >> in business news, we'll see

if the nasty winter weather hit the housing market last month. sales of homes are expected to have fallen in february. employment is key to the housing market recovery. >> if more people are employed, and incomes rise, housing benefits. if we don't expand robustly, which we are not doing object housing benefits are slowly. that's the yin and yang and we're going to go back and forth with that over the next few years. >> wall street, dow futures are up 33 points. a selloff in technology shares knocked markets down yesterday. the dow jones starting the day at 16276, the s&p at 1857, the nasdaq at 4226. overseas, asian markets end be the day mostly lower. european markets are higher at this hour. >> disney expanding on line

presence, buying maker studios, operator of you tube video channels for a half billion dollars, giving ownership of 55,000 channels with 380 million subscribers and a potential for 5.5 billion used per month. google wants to add a bit of style to its as he can eye wear, teaming up with oakley and ray ban to make it more fashionable. frames will be designed for google glass, google selling glass only to a select group called explorers. >> some calling them nerdy explorers. >> the challenges president obama faces in trying to get support from his european counter parts rewarding on you crane. >> you can see he was obeying the commands, he was turning around. >> a new mexico police department criticized over its handle of suspects after the shooting death of a homeless

man. >> a high flying stunt, off the world trade center. that makes me dizzy, landing four daredevils behind bars. >> winter olympics, women have proved they can play great hockey, now a woman making the same point in a man's professional league. we'll have her story.

>> manhattan on a blustery tuesday morning. we have a video of a sky diving stunt off that tower. good morning, welcome to al jazeera america. >> the white house is looking to make changes to the n.s.a. >> several hundred more supporters of the muslim brother hood set to go on trial in egypt today following yesterday's mass death sentence. >> first, a bill to send financial aid from the u.s. to

ukraine has cleared a major hurdle, the senate voting in favor of the $100 billion aid package. the bill authorizing sanctions to russia heads to the house. supporters say congress should act quickly to prevent vladimir putin from moving further into ukraine. russian troops continue to threaten ukraine's military might. the countries defense minister has stepped down. we are joint by phil ittner. what does this mean for ukraine's military? >> this is a shift in their control and command structure. this will be the new defense minister. the parliament here in kiev originally did not accept his resignation, but after a slim vote he did, replacing him. we know very little about his replacement aside from the fact that he is the equivalent of the u.s. three star general, apparently held by russian

forces out in crimea during this recent crisis. he was held by russian forces, but then later released. aside from that and the fact that he was born and raised in the west of ukraine, we know very little about him, but it is interesting that they have replaced the former defense minister. he waited an awful lot of time before giving the order to pull military forces of ukraine off of the crimean peninsula. many of critical of him because he didn't give the order for the soldiers to fire back in self defense until much later down the road in the crisis. a lot of people not happy with him, but he is now gone and we now have a new ukrainian defense minister here in kiev. he will of course have to look into his history, but this is a shift in the command structure here within the armed forces. >> another big development recently, the foreign ministers

of russia and ukraine held their first face-to-face talks monday. what's the significance that have meeting? >> that's particularly interesting because on this side of the equation here in ukraine, they are happy to see that they actually have had a face-to-face meeting with russia, but they are unhappy with the fact that some of the words that came out of that meeting, most notably the fact that the russian foreign minister said while they do hope to have normal relations with ukraine that the voices of all ukrainians must be heard. here that's taken as a clear sign that russia is looking at their ethnic population out in the east of the country. there is a general feeling here, stephanie, that russia is looking at grander designs in ukraine and that when they talk about the ethnic russians out in the east of the country, it's very similar to what was said in

the pretext of going into crimea, so a lot of concern about what came out of that meeting, but a lot of people here just happy that it happened. >> phil ittner, thank you. >> it is now day two of that nuclear security summit at the lying. president obama and other world leaders there discussing the issue of nuclear safety, but the crisis in ukraine is topping most minds. richard is the director and senior fellow at the political analysis hudson institute. good morning. the g8, now the g7, russia kicked out for now, that means sochi is out. will it have an impact? >> yes, there is a difference between the g7 and g8, what we had in the last few years is the g-20 has taken baseman the managerial role of the world economy and the g8 left to deal with important issues that were falling between the cracks,

nuclear no one proliferation, food security, african poverty and so on. the g7 is going to meet independent with russia which shouldn't cause a problem for most of the issues i just mentioned. in terms of nuclear non-proliferation, you probably need russian participation to have an impact. >> it sends a strong signal to russia or does it? after all, this is the president who wanted to host the olympics, spent $50 billion to improve russia's image in the world and hoped that have that g8 summit in june, so is it going to sting vladimir putin? >> yes, but they preschoolably made that decision when they intervened in crimea. they knew all the money they spent on the olympics was going to be thrown out, but they decided that it's more important for them to gain control over the crimea and they would exert

leverage over the rest of ukraine, even at the sacrifice of whatever soft power, good will they gained through the olympics, so i imagine -- i imagine being kidding out of g8 was something they took into consideration early on. this issue had been discussed before. >> europe and america are united in our support of the ukrainian government and the people. we're united in opposing a cost on russia for its actions so far. >> he said the g7 is united on ukraine, but europe depends on russia for so much of its energy, so what type of leverage does the president actually have? >> minimal. this is the problem we've had in russia-sus, russia-west relations broadly for perhaps the last decade or two, that we

have minimal benefits we can offer russia through cooperation and we have limited sanctions we can inflict for russia for bad behavior. when they invaded georgia, we saw similar kinds of measures and they really didn't have an impact. i think we're not going to see much of an impact this time. there's not much damage we could inflict on russia that wouldn't hurt ourselves as much. we can't offer russia the things it might want, membership innate toe for example. our influence with russia is going to remain minimal for the time being. >> what should we make of the meeting between russia's foreign minister lavrov and the ukraine the foreign minister yesterday? >> that was interesting. you could see ukraine decide not to talk with the russians, so it shows that they are still considering keeping a line of dialogue open with russia, which i suppose could be helpful if

russia ever wanted to climb down from its current position. >> how should the west, the united states and europe reward russia acknowledge new reality that vladimir putin may no longer be its friend? >> i'm not sure if this is a new reality. putin has been cooperative in some areas, afghanistan, lately iran, not helpful in others, syria, for example, and i imagine this mixed relationship of cooperation and conflict will continue in the coming years until there is a fundamental change in russia's internal structure. >> thanks for being with us this morning. >> a sleeping conductor may be to blame for monday's train derailment at chicago's o'hare airport. thirty were injured after a train jumped the tracks and hit a platform. the president of the transit workers union said there are strong indications the conductor

might have dozed off. the operator will be interviewed later today. >> colorado supreme court on monday said it is ve vising state laws regulating the industry. under the new measure, colorado lawyers will be able to advice clients involved in the recreational sales of pot. they were hesitant before, fearing they would be at risk of violating professional ethics rules. >> the president expected to propose legislation to congress that would end the most controversial part of that n.s.a. program. >> this is coming from senior administration officials. >> they told "the new york times" they're going to propose an overhaul of the national security agency's phone records program to end the far reaching aspect of the program that's caused of the most outrage from privacy advocates it would stop system take collection about america's calling habits. phone companies would keep the

reports and they would not be required to maintain them for any longer than they do now. this is in line with a speech president obama gave at the justice democratic back in january when he acknowledged that high tech surveillance poses a threat to civil liberties. it's almost ban year since fugitive c.i.a. contractor edward snowden leaked information of the secret surveillance program. obama ordered a new policy drafted by this friday when the current authorization for the phone record program expires. the republican chairman and ranking member of the intelligence committee is expected to in produce to similar bill. there's already a special court in place and that court is going to retain its role, but under this new proposal, the n.s.a. will have to prove a standard of suspicion about a particular phone number before it can then get an order from the court to

then go back to the phone company and get those phone records. >> something worth following, erika, thank you. >> venezuela's government introduced a new currency exchange system. the move is expected to help curb black market sales of american dollars, which have soared since government protests began in recent months. the government has fixed the price at 6.3 boulevards to the dollar, but on the black market, they're going for at much as 68. the country has been facing protests over high inflation, shortage of foods and basic goods. >> the chinese government is demanding answers for reports that the n.s.a. infiltrated a company, alleged hacking on the technology based on classified documents that were provided by edward snowden. china is extremely concerned about those reports. >> deliberations begin today in the federal trial of osama bin laden's son-in-law, one of the highest ranking al-qaeda figures

to face a jury. monday during closing arguments, prosecutors showed transcripts and videos of him praising the 9/11 attacks and walking for more. his lawyer said there is no evidence of a conspiracy. if convicted, he faces life in prison. >> in egypt today, a second mass trial of supporters of ousted president mohamed morsi begins. a court sentenced 529 morsi supporters to death monday, convicted of charges including murdering a policeman and attacks on people and property home to more christians than anywhere else in egypt. 153 defends were in police custody, the others sentenced in absentia. 684 people due in court today. we will discuss egypt's legal

system. let's talk about executions in egypt. not that common. between 1980 and 2000, 700 people were sentenced to death in egypt. the last execution was in 2011. was this just one judge making a point or was this something bigger? >> this is unprecedented. it's important to remember that this is one trial judge. i think what's going on is this is happening in a broader political context, where this judge might have thought that this was going to make him quite the hero. i think whether the executions are ever carried out, what's important is that there is serious damage to the rule of law in egypt and to the independent judiciary. it's important not just for people who are the accusers or victims to feel like a trial is fair, but also those accused to feel like they've that had their day in court. we have mass trials of over .500 people, clearly that's not happening. >> the u.n. human rights was a

said the death penalty ruling on these 529 people came "after a trial arrive with procedural irregularities and that it is in breach of international law." how do you think they will respond to this international reaction? >> i think there will be in any period of transition, you're going to have kind of extremes and then corrections, and i think that you will see this, as well. i think that probably many of the senior officials in the egyptian government were themselves surprised to see this verdict. again, what's important is that this is happening in an overall kind of climate of fear and intimidation, a understand so all of the different functions, institutions that democracy would require such as freedom of the press and an independent and fair judiciary really are kind of undersiege in egypt right now. >> you were an election monitor,

i understand in the 2011 election cycle. you have dealt with the judicial system there, and you previously thought it was independent, this judicial system. is this the system that has now run amok in your rue? >> what was really remarkable when i monitored those elections was how much pride there was among the egyptian populace in the judges, because in an egyptian election, you have a judge in every single voting room to make sure the balloting is happening fairly. a lot of them were young, highly professional and there was so much pride in the joe bidenry system, particularly when you have a time of political tumult, you want people to feel that the fairness and norms of the country are held up. people are not going to know what if i'm arrested. journalists have been arrested from this station and democracy

activists who are not in anyway if i am 80ed with the brotherhood, secular democracy activists protesting military trials of civilians are also in jail. >> we should pointed out that our own aljazeera journalists remain in jail, that they had a trial date yesterday that no evidence presented, and yet bail still denied. what are the chances for these defendants' appeals, this 529. >> before we get to the appeals process, in order for the death penalty to be taken, the verdict has to be upheld. that will be the next step. after that, there is the chance of an appeal in april. i think we'll see this appealed. again, a lot of obviously for these individuals and their families, it's very important that these -- that the death penalty not be carried out, but there is a damage to egypt's position on the world stage, but also to the rule of law and the

independent judiciary in egypt, just by the fact of having cases where you don't have individual -- individuals don't have the opportunity to actually present evidence in their own defense and you don't have individual evidence against individual people that are actually presented. there was no individual evidence presented against these 529 people sentenced. >> in two days. >> that's right. >> thank you. >> thanks for having me. >> we want to share this video posted on you tube, base jumpers par chuting off one world trade center in new york. they were arrested on monday. they pulled off the stunt last september. they had a camera on to record their dive. one landing in the middle of a deserted street in lower manhattan. their arrest comes after a 16-year-old was arrest for climbing to the top of that skyscraper. something you might do. >> i don't think so, del. if you think hockey is just a

man's game, think again. think again. >> trying to get away? you have a little fear of heights there? >> john henry smith tells us about one lady suiting up with the guys. >> usually when it comes to professional sports, men and women are literally on different playing feeds. that's a gender gap that's ever so slightly closing. we've seen it on the golf course and racetrack, now it's happening on the ice. aljazeera's jessica taft has the story. >> what makes a good goalie? >> mentally strong. >> able to bounce back. >> consistency. >> march 15, the columbus cotten mouths introduced their newest player. it was a history making moment as a crowd watched shannon become the first woman in the southern professional hockey league. >> it was special, i had only been here a couple of days, but definitely something i looked forward to and something you dream of as a kid. >> i've been in the game for a while and seen a lot of things,

but -- and i was just proud that it happened with my hockey team. >> this isn't the first team she has played with the men. in fact, she always has. the 27-year-old was the first woman to play in the western hockey league. she also played on the men's team in college at northern alberta institute of technology. >> what if any is the biggest difference between playing the men versus with the women? >> it's a different game, obviously. the guys are a little bigger, stronger, faster and i think to make up for it, the girls play a little bit smarter game. >> the more she place, the less gender is an issue. she helped win the women's ice hockey medal in 2010 and 2014. her former college teammate was instrumental in bringing her to the cotton mouths. it was a campaign two years in the making. >> i want her here because i want to win. my main goal is to win a championship every year i'm here. >> his philosophy, if you can't

beat them, join them. >> she had played against me in junior, and her team beat us four straight in playoffs and she was the goalie. i think we only scores two goals on her in fours games, so i knew when she brings to a team. >> kyle was telling me about how awesome it was, something i've been thinking about for a few years now. >> i'ding like if i said that i wouldn't get any publicity about it, it would help us put a few more people in the building, but at the same time, just talking with kyle and the guys to play with her, she's letting. got another friend back home that had played with her in junior in alberta. she won goalie of the year, which is pretty impressive. you see her on t.v., she's kind of like a celebrity, so it's cool. >> you haven't asked for an autograph? >> no, just a picture. >> hockey will be the easy part of this transition. >> her biggest challenge is just the reception into the league. she is a special player, but at

the end of the day, she is just a hockey player. >> what is your ultimate goal? >> play the highest level in hockey. that's your dream going up. my first pro game was a step toward that, i guess just enjoy every moment right now and keep working at it. >> in two starts so far, she has a 3. goals against average, about an par with the player she replaced in the net. that's sports for now. >> she has all her teeth. she has to lose half of those. >> accusations of excessive force by the new mexico police department, the victims say this is not the first time, it's happened a number of teams. >> one father protecting his child from an alleged school yard bully. why he says he had to go to the courts.

>> welcome to al jazeera america. we're going to talk about the deadly shooting of a homeless man and the police force itself under fire. >> first a look at where the rain and snow will fall, nicole mitchell is here. >> first, more rain into the northwest where we had that mud slide situation, so that's going to cause a problem again today. then the area that moved from the midwest, snow combined with rain toward the south is our next poetent system. a wet go in cities like miami as we get up to the mid atlantic, snow comes in. we've seen a couple heavy batches, even in north carolina and virginia move in, as all of this develops, so up the coastline, most of the system, once it moves through the mid atlantic will stay off the coast, so watch for lighter

amounts, places like new york and philadelphia, about an inch. as it moves north tomorrow, clipping close enough to pores of maine, we'll have to watch for potential temporary blizzard like conditions because of the combination of wind and snow. we'll have more on all of it in just a bit. >> i don't think i heard the word blizzard. thank you very much. >> a california father who's fed up with his son bullied at school is letting the police handle the situation, filing a restraining order against a 9-year-old. his son confessed to being attacked at the school. the school reversed to do anything about it, so he took matters into his own hands. i tried everything else, and it was granted. >> police need the bullies first and last name and address to serve that restraining order. school district officials have been unwilling to release that information, saying it is confidential.

>> new mexico police on the defensive following the fatal shooting of a homeless man camping illegally in the foothills of albuquerque. demonstrations are planned to protest the killing. a warning, the video you are about to see is disturbing. >> james body had settled in for the night. the 38-year-old had an extensive arrest record and police say showed sign was mental illness. this video shows how he died. we warn you, what you're about to see is graphic. >> to the ground! to the ground now! get on the ground now! >> the albuquerque police who had engaged in a three hour standoff say the shooting was

justified. >> when the canine officer was down directing the dog that the suspect pulled out the two knives and directed a threat to the canine officer who had no weapons drawn. >> others aren't so sure, wondering if this is another case of the use of deadly force by the albuquerque police department. in the last four years, police have shot and killed 23 people, that's the highest per captain at a rate of police shootings in the country and four times the national average. >> it literally makes me physically sick. you can see that mr. boyd was obeying the commands, turning around and his hands, he was going to go down on the ground like he was being ordered to do and that's when they murdered him. >> kenneth ellis says watching boyds killing is adding salt to the wound of his own son's death at the hands of albuquerque

pleas in 2010. he was an iraq war veteran with ptsd and officers shot him in the neck as he pointed a gun at his own head. he physically said i'm not here to harm anybody. he wasn't a threat to anyone, he was a threat to himself. like most veterans with post traumatic stress, they're in pain, severe pain. >> the officer who shot ellis was not punished and remains on the force today. the ellis family sued for wrongful death. in march of last year, a jury delivered them the largest civil rights verdict in new mexican history, $10.4 million. the department of justice is currently investigating whether the albuquerque police department has in the past used unreasonable excessive force. at issue is whether boyd's death will now also be part of that investigation. aljazeera america, albuquerque. >> demonstrators will gather

tonight and march to police headquarters to protest the fatal shooting of james boyd. >> the death toll on that mud slide in washington state now 14. 170 people have been reported missing since that disaster early saturday morning. >> severe weather suspending the search for malaysia airlines flight 370 in the south indian ocean. the government is offering family members of the victims payment and travel accommodations. >> there are no reports out that claim president obama will propose a legislation limiting the n.s.a.'s ability to store phone records. they are accused of storing the records of millions of american phone calls. >> financial fallout from that massive oil spill that has one of the nation's busiest water ways on lockdown. >> a school for girls in a country where women's rights are few and for between, but the west is not thrilled about what the teachers are teaching. >> a rapidly developing storm

system will bring falling temperatures, high winds, even snow. >> del is back with you in two minutes. have a great morning.

>> debris, 500 football fields worth of destruction. >> 911 calls released from the moments after that mountain gave way in washington state. >> gunfire on an active military vessel, the deadly shooting at the world's largest naval base. >> tankers backed up, the oil spill about to have impact from coast-to-coast. >> as an afghan muslim woman, i

wanted to study the holy book, which is about my creation. >> women barred from going to school in afghanistan just a few years ago, now there's an all girls school but the lesson plan is raising eyebrows in the west. >> the houses are gone! >> is there any injuries? >> it's a mud slide. >> chaos and contusion after a square mile of mud buries an entire town. welcome to al jazeera america. i'm del walters. the search for survivors in washington state maybe a recovery mission. six bodies were pulled from the debris, bringing the death toll to 17. the landslide struck north of seattle early saturday.

watering hearing frontic 911 calls made moments off the the torrent came over the rural town. tanya mosley is in washington. the fire chief does not sound optimistic about finding survivors. >> the emergency chief tells me this morning there's always hope, but the reality is they have not found survivors since saturday. those 911 tapes give us a glimpse of what victims endured. >> a mud slide happen. trees have happened. >> what's going on now? >> i got people here screaming for help. >> are they in the middle of the water? >> yes, and the person don't have air in the middle of the mud.

oh my god. >> now the national guard is expected to arrive later this morning to assist in the search, but they have a big job ahead of them. some areas, that muck is about 50 feet deep and there's rain in the forecast. >> a look at before and after of an area known for its beauty, a look at what was oh so washington. it's muddy and areas, it's like quick sand. the debris field's like big bedrooms of clay and quick sand. >> when the hillside gave way, families were home, contractors were out working and drivers were passing through on highway 530. >> if this has been a weekday, a lot more people would have been at work, traveling out of the way of danger. >> 45 homes and cabins are now covered by the mud slide. one rescuer said if there were homes here, the conditions have made it almost impossible to find them. >> i don't think there's anything left.

i've been told that this place right in the middle is about 50 feet under. >> davis hargrave and his wife were going to visit their cabin but changed their mind. >> the mud slide is called one of the worst in history. with the help of the national guard, crews are working around the clock, along with a hover craft, dog teams and residents who are still holding out hope. >> president barack obama issued an emergency declaration to help with the assistance in clearing the area and rescue efforts. community members are now mobilizing, going to the area to assist in the search. they are anxious to find loved once, but authorities are issuing man date do not go out there. they do not want anymore

casualties. >> tanya, thank you very much. >> two people are dead after shooting onboard a ship at the navy base in norfolk, virginia. a sailor was shot by a civilian who was gunned down by police. it is unclear what led up to the shooting. >> we are investigating it. we will take care of the rest of the sailors onboard the ship, make sure they have the counselors they need and people they can talk to. >> the base was briefly locked down. that has since been lifted. the naval base is the large evident in the world. >> we must now accept the painful reality that the aircraft is not lost and that none of the passengers or crew onboard survived.

>> that heartbreaking news for the family and passengers and crew members onboard malaysian malaysia airlines flight 370. they've been frustrated over the lack of information rewarding the plane's disappearance, but that frustration bubbled up today. angry family members protesting in beijing carried sign that is read bring our families home and liars, tell the truth. police and military surrounding the embass. at one point, the protestors broke through. randall pinkston is live in washington, d.c. how were the family members informed? >> malaysian airline officials say the families received the word in person and on the phone, and then received text messages, but malaysian airline officials insist they were only sent as an additional means of communication. as you mentioned, for more than two weeks, more than a thousand relatives and friends have been anxiously waiting for word of

what had happened to the 239 people aboard malaysia airlines flight 370. >> heartbreak, agony and anger as it is loved ones aboard malaysia airlines flight 370 were given the news they never wanted to hear. >> the announcement made last night and shared with the families is the reality that we must face and we now must. >> dashing any hopes for those operating the plane somehow survived after 18 days. >> it's not the answer we wanted, but it's an answer, and it does help to know that we know something. >> for this woman, the pain is too much. [ wailing ]

>> the grim assessment that the plane is most likely underwater in one of the most isolated regions in the world near australia came after a high tech data analysis. initially, the company tracked the flight to one of two possible routes, monday they concluded the final flight path. >> the pings match our plot for the southern route, they do not match the northern route and therefore the northern route is ruled out. >> while the plane's location may have been pinpointed to a general area consistent with slight photos by australia, france and china, australia's defense minister urge caution. >> let's be clear. to this point in time, we have not successfully identified and recovered any debris from the aircraft in question. >> that effort will be delayed by at least a day with the search called off for 24 hours due to gale forced winds and high waves, posing a danger to

ships in the area. that setback poses another challenge, strong currents would most likely cause debris toe drift. >> we are not searching for a needle in a haystack, we're still trying to define where the haystack is. >> the united kingdom continues to analyze data to narrow the location where the plane may have gone down. once the debris is located, malaysian airlines is offering to take relatives of the victims to the spot in the ocean where the loved ones were lost. >> randall, thank you very much. >> the final day of that nuclear security summit now underway in the netherlands, president obama with world leaders from more than 50 countries at the hague getting together for that group photo after discussing ways to prevent nuclear terrorism. mike viqueira is traveling with the president at the hague today. the g8 now the g7, russia suspended. the white house releasing a

statement today on ukraine. >> as they struggle to come together with a cohesive response to what russia has done in crimea, there have been a series of high profile and crucial meetings over the course of yesterday, today and tomorrow as the president continues on in brussels belgium for the european union summit. the president calling the meeting and you're absolutely right, the russia has had their membership card revoked. the g7 did meet yesterday, coming out with a statement saying if russia continues to escalate, invade other parts of crimea, other parts of crimea that are intensely populated by ethnic russians and russian speakers, there will be a tremendous economic price to pay on the part of russia, promise ago broad set of sanctions against entire sectors of the russian economy.

the president also -- the white house also meeting with their ukrainian counter parts, a joint statement put out today reads in part ukraine and the u.s., united states emphasize they will not recognize russia's illegal attempt to annex crimea. crimea is an integral part of ukraine, the united states will help ukraine confirm it's sovereignty and territorial integrity. the president has been meeting with kazakhstan's leader, has a concluding press conference at the end of this summit with his host, the dutch prime minister later today. we'll hear from the president. we expect he'll be asked about the summit and the cries in ukraine, but new stories today about the n.s.a. spying program and reported revisions that the president is proposing to that in a couple of days. >> when there was still a g8 and russia looking forward to hosting the summit in sochi,

that is now no more, so what's happened. >> obviously vladimir putin and russia made a heavy investment in sochi, mostly around the winter olympics, but hoped to get a double dip and more bang for their buck hosting the annual summit leaders in sochi in june. that has been canceled. the they announced instead of sochi, they'll meet in brussels in june. >> mike viqueira with the president at the hague in the netherlands, thank you very much. >> also there was a meeting between the u.s. and china, the president and chinese president saying they will work together on issues related to ukraine and north korea. the issue of china's maritime activities in the disputed south cline in a sea coming up, urged towards to diplomatic solution. china urged the u.s. to adopt a fair attitude. >> while world leaders meet to

discuss the ukraine situation, that countries defense minister stepping down. the decision comes at ukraine started withdrawing troops from the black sea peninsula. phil ittner is in kiev. russian troops continue to threaten the military of ukraine, so what did this mean now going forward? >> well, it means there's a complete new command structure at the very top levels of the ukrainian military, a new head of the armed forces here, a fellow we don't know much about, he is the equivalent of a three star general. he was actually held by russian forces in crimea during this recent crisis. of course, now he has been released and is at the top of the table when it comes to ukraine's military. the former military head came under fire because the general

public opinion here is that he waited too long to pull ukrainian forces off the planes. >> there was some progress when the diplomatic front, the meeting between soaring lot of and the foreign minister of ukraine. what are they saying in kiev? >> they're happy to see that meeting take place because the kremlin still doesn't recognize this government. the sheer fact it happened has been responded to positively. what is troubling to many not government here in kiev is the fact that there was a statement by russian foreign minister lavrov that while they wanted to create normal relations and open a dialogue with kiev, that dialogue had to take into account all the voices and all the peoples of ukraine and that is a thinly veiled reference to the ethnic russians out in the east of the country, which kiev thinks whenever the russians say things like that, here in kiev,

they think that is a way for them to start to lay the groundwork of a pretext of trying to come in and save ethnic russians. certainly that's what happened in crimea. whenever a russian authority says something of that nature, it sense warning signals here in kiev. >> every word has meaning. phil, thank you very much. >> that bill to send aid to ukraine clearing a major hurdle, the senate holding a vote to advance a $1 billion aid package. the official vote on the bill which would authorize sanctions against russia takes place later this week. supporters say congress should act quickly to stop vladimir putin from moving further into ukraine. >> yet another blast of winter is bearing down on the eastern seaboard. we want to show you images out of washington, d.c. somewhere in all of that is the capitol dome. it is all right snowing. yes, we are supposed to be in spring. nicole mitchell joins us now with a look at what's in store for the rest of us.

good morning, nicole. >> good morning. part of the reason that the visibility i also poor is because this system has a lot of wind. wind in the midwest is causing wind chills below zero this morning, mid wind through the south with the same system will cause and increased fire danger today and cold air for tomorrow morning and wind blowing around the snow. that's a big problem with this system. it's not even the heavier bands, it's just wind is really being blown out there. this is what we're watching, the same snow that caused a car crash now moving to the mid atlantic. we have an area of rain to the south. all of this is coming together. you see snow impacting in places like d.c., looking at accumulations here, probably one to three inches, isolated spots, a little higher. as this develops and moves up the coastline, a lot of places once again, lesser amounts, but you get toward coastal areas, and places like connect cut, a couple parts could get two to

four inches, then into wednesday, parts of maine also can be really impacted with this six inches, give or take a couple inches. this is how this develops. as i said, on or about that band coming through the mid atlantic right now, a lot of this will stay off the coastline. that part is good news. this is rapidly developing, intense filing, cranking up the winds that we're going to see. you can see pressure lines, kick that up, so wind gusts especially into tomorrow in the 30 and 40 miles per hour range. i want to mention the northwest, more rain here where we had that mud slide situation. back to you. >> i want to talk about those temperatures in the 90's that we'll be complaining about in july. >> president obama is expected to submit a proposal to congress calling for an end to the most controversial part of the n.s.a. surveillance program. this coming from senior white house officials. >> they told "the new york times" they are proposing an overhaul to the n.s.a. phone records program.

the goal here is to end the far reaching aspect of the program that's caused the most outrage. the n.s.a. would stop it's systemic collection of data about america's calling habits. phone companies would not be required to maintain phone records for any longer than now. this is in line with a speech president obama gave at the justice department in january when he acknowledged that high tech surveillance poses a threat to civil liberties. it's been almost a year since edward snowden leaked evidence of the secret surveillance program, ignite be a public fire storm. now obama ordered his administration to draft the new policy. by this friday when the current authorization for the moan record prom expires, meanwhile today, the republican chairman and high ranking house committee expected to introduce a bill similar to the president's proposal. >> what that is if the government does need these

records to target a terrorist act that is getting ready to happen? >> there is already a special court that would retain its role. now the n.s.a. is going to be required to show a standard of suspicion for a particular phone number and then the court could issue the order, and at that point, the n.s.a. can then request those phone records from the phone company. >> thanks for being with us this morning. >> well, it is a disaster for both the environment and the economy. >> it's been about $8,000 a loss, every single day. that's going to be pretty big loss for us. >> thousands of gallons of heavy crude leaking into one of the nations busiest waterways and local businesses already feeling the pain. >> our faith is very important in our starting this company. >> hobby lobby heading to the supreme court with a challenge to the affordable care act, involving contraception. this is not for the feint of heart. looks like a scene from mission impossible.

base jumping from the top of new york's one world trade center and the daredevils who could go to jail because they did it. >> you are looking live at one world trade center on a blustery day in new york city. the temperature right now, chilly, the city bracing once again for snow.

>> bad accident, we don't need anymore pollution than we already ever. >> outrage after 168,000 gallons of crude oil dumped into the waters off the houston coast, an environmental disaster after a collision between a ship and barge, the accident causing that thousands of glance of oil spilling into the bay, among the world's busy evident sea port and at a standstill for day three. there is no time line for reporting and reopening. >> unified command must be sure that the stretches of previously impacted area no longer present a risk of further oiling.

in other words, we have to have clean water. >> that region is home to eight refineries which rely on a steady stream of crude. if the water way stays closed, there will be a coast to consumers, that cost already spilling into local businesses wondering how long they have to suffer. >> it's unusually quiet inside boyd's one stop. >> usually, it's about noon, usually we'd be cram packed in here, you wouldn't be able to walk. >> the store sells seafood to the public, but most comes from selling bait to fisherman. >> ever since the collision, we've had nothing. >> police are restricting access to the dike. >> this is a very significant oil spill. we don't see oil releases of

this quantity. this is a large amount, hard to deal with, a lot to clean up. >> hundreds are working to remove oil with skimming vessels and a boom which traps pockets of oil. there was concern for area bird sanctuary, but strong wind sent some threatening oil shrieks further out in the gulf. >> the oil is, we have put a safety zone to prevent people from accidentally contaminating their vessels or themselves with the oil. >> the safety zone stalled cruise ships from continuing voyages, and temporarily paralyzed the shipping canal. few people are stopping in for bait. >> it's been dead. we've had five or six customers every hour. >> caleb estimates the store will lose big bucks while access to the dike is denied. >> it's been $8,000 of loss

every single day, so that's going to be a pretty big loss for us. >> it still may be many more days, even weeks until the clean up effort is complete. work will continue around the clock. aljazeera, texas city. >> that spill shutting down cruise line travel in the area, leaving thousands of passengers stuck in port. the vessels waiting in long lines just to get out of the gulf. >> bernie madoff's claim that he ran his ponzi scheme alone rejected by a jury, five people facing a maximum of 225 years in prison when they are sentenced in july. >> it may be the biggest challenge to the affordable care act since obamacare was passed. contraception coverage heading to the highest court in the land. up next, what's expected to be a

contentious debate. >> a school for girls in afghanistan. it sounds like a step forward for equality, but the curriculum not sitting well with the west. >> before, there were areas more secure, now nowhere is safe. >> violence in venezuela not limited to the impoverished parts of the country. even bodyguards for the rich are now targets. >> roger goodell is not ready to welcome the men who bullied martin back into the league. find out what he wants to do first.

>> obamacare is taken up again, arguments heard that the act wrongly forces businesses to cover can trough september i was. >> this is the most closely

watched challenge to the affordable care act happening this year. at its heart, whether a private business should be granted the exercise of religion. we are not talking about religious non-profits or a church. we're specifically talking about a for profit company and whether it should be afforded religious protections. >> hobby lobby is a family-run business, it's owners say based on biblical principles founded by david and barbara green. >> our faith was important in our starting this company, because we had a real sense that god had this purpose in our life. >> today, the chain contends that offering contraception goes against its owners pro life beliefs. >> this case is about nothing short than the right to religious freedom, protected by our federal law. they feel they have to run their business consistent with biblical principles.

at stake here for them is the ability to not have to pay for drugs and devices that they feel terminate life. >> hobby lobby with 500 stores across 41 states is a privately held corporation. they are asking the court to find their for-profit company has the same religious freedom as an individual, an argument upheld in june of last year. >> never before has the court accepted an argument that a corporate end at this time can press a religious free exercise claim. that's a new argument. >> the administration will argue it has provided exemptions for hospital and universities and that sets a dangerous precedent. >> this case presents and unprecedented question of whether corporations can use their owners personal religious belief to avoid a law that applies generally to all for

profit commercial businesses. >> national women's legal council fears that this case is about limiting access to contraceptive health care. >> they are asking that they be involved in decisions that a woman makes with her doctor about what birth control to use, whether to use birth control. those are not your boss's business. >> the court is expected to rule on the case later this summer. >> at this point, the appeals courts are split, two federal appeals courts have upheld this aspect of the law, three have struck it down. that's why it's a circuit split and gone all all the way to the supreme court. the attorneys arguing this case the solicit tore general and main attorney are the same that argued over the very fundamentals of the affordable care act before the supreme court two years ago, so it's a rematch, del. >> libby, thank you very much. >> looking at this case now,

there are currently 94 lawsuits against the mandate in some 23 states. our legal contributor here, jami, there are fears that this case might open the door to any commercial enterprise, saying they want to be exempted from the affordable care act. >> that's exactly right, because they're looking for an exemption on religious grounds based on the contraception issue. you could say i don't want employees who immunize their children, i don't want to have employees who seek psychiatric care, there are all kinds of religious exceptions that you could take, so if the supreme court were to find for hobby lobby, you could see small companies or large corporations claiming some sort of religious exception, based on this case, depending on how the supreme court comes down. >> there are it would sides. why is the religious freedom act so important? >> it was passed in 1993, signed by president clinton, it was

overwhelmingly popular and there to reinforce the principles of the first amendment. it's a federal law, but 18 states have passed their own religious freedom acts, and it is part and parcel of what the court will be looking at. it is a case to date, what they're going to argue today is a case about religious freedom versus women's right. should a company and hobby lobby is a big company. we're talking about 600 stores, 15,000 employees, and some say 22,000 if you counterpart time employees, so we're talking about a major company, should they be able to impose their will or their desire or their religious preferences on the employees, who have their own desires, wills and needs as employees. that's women's rights versus religious freedom. >> some say this issue is already decided, the corporations and campaign finance laws are individuals, so

why does that not affect their religious beliefs? >> there's the big old citizens united case, where the supreme court said that political campaigns, corporations are people. they have first amendment rights, but in the political context. this is now will corporations have first amendment right in the religious context, do they have religious freedoms, the other issue, the other precedent will be the citizens united case, i'm sorry, the affordable care act case, that was a very closely decided case. that came down to one vote and that vote of course was the chief justice, this case, i think will be very closely decided, as well, the affordable care act case was closely decided and i think this will be. >> is this really though about the religious freedom of hobby lobby or about obamacare, that we've seen congress try to do away with 50 times. >> it is about a lot of things. there is a political campaign ba

affordable care act. this is one slice, the contraception slice, this is affordable care act, but there's also the attacks on women's freedom and contraception, which a lot of people would say should have been established 40 years ago with row v. wade, but we're seeing a rollback of a tax on women's rights. there are abortion legislations going on in states around the country and attacks on contraception. hobby lobby people are not opposed to all the provisions within the affordable care act, only four that look a lot like abortion, but they are providing in the affordable care act for 20 others that they will accept. they simply don't want to provide for those four. hobby lobby is being financed by a very powerful anti choice religious group. >> the courts say they are

neutral on these issues, but the court makes controversial decisions and are criticized. do you expect politics to play a huge role? >> i just recently went to a forum chaired by yale law professor, n.y.u. law professor and one of the greatest scholars who wrote for the new york times for years, and they all agree that the supreme court has never been ambivalent about public opinion. they might say they are, but going all all the way back to our founding, they are aware of public opinion. they can't help it. we would like to think the court is not aware of public opinion, but they do responsibility to public opinion, like it or not. >> jami, thank you very much. >> the united states is stepping up efforts to find ugandan war lowered joseph kobe, the whites house doubling its uganda presence, adding 150 troops and four specialty airplanes.

the new push to catch one of the world's elusive figures is stepping up. >> for more than a year, 100 of america's most elite soldiers along with african union troops have been combing the jungles of africa looking for wanted war criminal, accused of murdering, raping and killing tens of thousands of people for decades. his hunters will take the search to the air, the u.s. serving in aircraft and the 150 troops needed to maintain them. their search area, uganda, south sudan, central african republic and democratic republic of congo. the new forces likely mean their close to finding him. >> i think the intelligence equipment and stuff from satellites, they've kind of found outs where he is, and they need these helicopters and other advisors to really pounce on him. i think now is the time. >> the pentagon didn't go that

far describing the new mission. >> this is a mission we've been conducting for when a year, the support mission airlift has been one of the consistent requirements and requests of the african union. we are in a position now to provide that airlift for a while, and we're going to do it. >> the obama administration increasing assets in what has been a popular cause in the united states, to find coney. at the same time, trying to make clear this isn't about helping the government of uganda. last month, the white house press secretary said the relationship was under review. the adding pointed out monday that changes have been made. >> we are shifting funding away from partners are who don't reflect our values. we are redirecting approximately $3 million in funding previously designated for tourism promotion

there and shifting the dod sponsored africa air chief symposium and east trick ken intelligence to outside of uganda. >> that money is shifted, not taken away. the administration argues the new troops are about bringing one man to justice, not rewarding what many see as a grave injustice to the gay community of uganda. >> $5 million was offered for any information leading to the capture of coney. >> deliberations begin today in the trial of osama bin laden's son-in-law, facing a civilian jury for terrorism related charges. monday during closing arguments, prosecutors showed jurors transcripts and videos of him praising the 9/11 attacks and walking for more. his lawyer said there is no evidence of conspiracy. he faces life in prison if convicted. >> religious afghanistan schools

allowing classes for girls. it's what the girls are being taught that's creating the controversy. >> this is not the image of female education here. teaching a strict islam to thousands of girls. afghanistan is a conservative islamic country. this teacher doesn't think it's conservative enough. >> we are in a competition and god willing, we will be the winner. a competition between right and wrong. a competition between islamic opinions and western opinions. a competition between the veil and no veil. >> he says his work is a battle for the islamic identity of the state. girls have access to modern education in afghanistan, but these students say they

volunteer to be here to complement their regular schooling. they are taught to memorize the koran and other religious teachings as well as the separation of men and women. >> this class is for the older girls who will study islamic philosophy and more sophisticated levels of the religion, but at the top of the class behind me is a large wooden box, and that is where the teacher sits, because he's mail, he can't be present here and visible. >> the girls have never seen their male teachers, rare even in the most conservative religious countries. many have already studied in college. she is 18, and wants to be here. >> with intelligence, i want to say that as an afghan muslim woman, i wanted to study the book and live by the book.

>> some worry this school is a security threat. places like this in neighboring pakistan are accused of teaching extremism. the head teacher said they do not teach violence here, but he admires the taliban. >> we don't have a problem with the taliban. they are our brothers and cleric. the problems in their regime were not from the taliban but those in the regime who gave them a bad name. the taliban wants to bring an islamic regime. >> the taliban famously banned girls schools teaching any subjects including religion. teachers here believe they have found solution to that, a solution that is part of a growing struggle over the identity of the islamic state. >> only 23% of the women are

literate in afghanistan. more than a decade after the taliban was removed from power, that is three times lower in rural areas. >> violence in peru off the a government plan to criminalize unregistered minors. demonstrators clashing with police. police tried breaking up the protests using tear gas, but protestors protected themselves. the government is accused of protecting big business. >> we are demanding laws that are clearer, more transparent, so that we can formalize ourselves, but unfortunately, this government hasn't given us the necessary tools to follow the steps. >> under that new law, illegal minors have until april 19 to register and to meet the new industry standards. >> venezuela is one of the most dangerous countries in the world, its high crime rate a key issue behind all those protests we've seen. as aljazeera's lieu see ya new man discovered, neither rich nor

poor are immune from the rising crime in caracas. >> it's lunch time and body guard larry recent paces up and down outside a posh restaurant waiting for his wealthy client. the street is usually full of armored cars and bodyguards, a sign of the times. >> before, there were areas that were more secure. now nowhere is safe. >> not even for him. killing bodyguards and taking their weapons has become a status symbol for criminals. >> i'm invited to follow his client's heavily armored car. his job is to confront the criminals while the would-be kidnap victim escapes. >> we repelled an attack recently, but just barely, because they're better armed than us. the government only allows us to carry 25 rounds. >> in poor neighborhoods, it's even more dangerous. on this sunday, we find residents drinking beer and

betting on horse races. the owner explains it's not so much fun when the sun goes down. we hear the gunfire. we hear that a person has been killed on one corner or another. it happens all the time. >> rich or poor, all have had to adjust to living in one of the world's most dangerous companies, where the murder rate has trimmed in the last 15 years. >> even the pure escapism of going to the movies can prove to be no escape at all. on two occasions, entire audiences have been held up at gunpoint by criminals who lock the doors and force everyone to empty pockets. leaving the cinema is also a risk. as former policeman has said, he managed to fight off the criminals who tried to kidnap him here in the car park. >> when the main assailant ran off, i realized that i was wounded, the bullet had gone in here and out here.

they caught him, but he was released without bail because the judge said it wasn't a life threatening wound. >> some experts are convinced it's not poverty, but a weakened system of law and order fueling crime. >> in venezuela, what you ever is you have a lot of money in the streets and you have to very dysfunctional security apparatus, very dysfunctional police force, judicial system and penal system. >> so, 90% of crimes go unpunished in the country where most law brakiers remain free while the rest seek ref final behind bars. >> venezuela has one of the highest crime rates in south america, five cities considered to be the most dangerous in the world. >> nfl owners are meeting in florida this week and bullying is still a major topic there. we have sports now. >> it's been five months since bullying teammates caused jonathan martin to leave the family dolphins. he has gotten a chance to return to the league, but it won't be

as easy for the players who bullied him. at the nfl owners meetings, roger goodell said they must complete treatment with medical professionals. only after considering the evaluation of those professionals will the league consider allowing the three players back on to the practice field or playing field. all three were identified as martin's main harassers, martin was traded to san francisco this month. goodell said this issue is bigger than the fates of the three accused bullies. >> this is the culture change in something that while modifying policies from time to time are important, this is more about people understanding the importance of a professional workplace where there's respect for everybody, whether that's a teammate, opponent, game officials, and we have to provide that. >> on the subject of jim irsay,

the coats owner whom police last week on suspicion of driving while intoxicated, commissioner goodell said he would wait to understand the facts before deciding punishment. irsay checked himself into a treatment program. >> the philadelphia 76ers are nearing a record they would assume let someone else break. they lost 119-91, the spurs have now won 14 games in a row, the 76ers have lost 25 games in a row. with two more consecutive losses, the sixers will set the record for consecutive losses. philadelphia plays playoff bound houston tuesday. with two and a half months to go before the start of the world cup, there's an indication that brazilian cities are losing the race to have the facilities built on time. the mayor said his town will not be ready to host matches if local politicians don't approve

a bill to help finance temporary structures required by soccer's governor body. right now, there's no time table on when such a vote will happen and even if it happened tomorrow, the structures fifa want build can take three months to erect. brazil has completed only half of the structures needed to host the world cup event. >> david beckham hopes for better luck in getting a stadium ready in miami for his new team. beckham will make the case to florida lawmakers to do to build a soccer only facility in miami. such a facility is said to hamper, at the port. beckham said not all the feedback has been negative. >> we've had a lot of very positive comments obviously about where we want it and how we want it and how we want it to look. so far, everything's very

positive. there will be criticism, certain things that come up, but we're ready to handle everything that's going to be thrown at us. i think so far, everything's very good. >> finally in baseball, marlin's president david sampson has two words for his team this year, play faster. he says he thinks games lasting around 2:40 will make games more enjail for fans. last season, they averaged 2:56, the second fastest in the league. they have the lowest attendance in the national league and finished last season with the second worst record in all of baseball. some argue that that's more responsible for the low attendance than the length of the game. >> games fast, less beer. >> that's all i have to say. >> you make a good point. he says his son was bullied at school, he tried everything. now a california father taking legal action against the 9-year-old he says was the bully. >> plus falling 104 stories from

the top of new york's one world trade center, a front row seat for the seat that could land a couple daredevils behind bars. >> nearly a quarter of the earth's surface is permanently frozen, but what lice beneath has a story to tell that is 1,000 years old.

>> you are looking live at freedom tower in new york city. it looks different from the top. new video on you tube show base jumpers parachuting, all being arrested on monday. they pulled off that stunt last september wearing cameras to record the dive, one landing in the middle of a deserted street in lower manhattan. the arrest comes one week after a 16-year-old was arrested for climbing on top of the skyscraper, as well. >> welcome to al jazeera

america. we're going to talk about a father who filed a restraining order against a 9-year-old who said he said was a bully. first, we want to show you this image of the nation's capitol, the white house, where the snow is once again falling. nicole mitchell joins us now with one last look at the forecast and try and not mention the fact that it is snowing. >> i don't think i can do this forecast without mentioning the snow, not quite enough to make a snowman but across the rest of the country, not a lot for the nation's capitol, that's a developing storm. into the northwest, more of that rain and flood concern area where we had the mud slide. this will stay persistent. tomorrow and more toward the end of the week. the coastal system, not only chances for snow, but a lot of wind the next couple days. >> a california father was fed up with his son being bullied at

the school now is letting the law handle things. he filed a restraining order against the 9-year-old he says is bullying his 9-year-old son. he says his son confessed to being bullied, pushed around and attacked at elementary school. he said the school refused to do anything about it. he got the police involved. police said they need the alleged bullies first and last name and full address to serve the restraining order, but school district officials have been unwilling to release the information. they say that information is confidential. >> as global temperatures rise, scientists focus on melting arctic sea ice. a quarter of the earth's surface is frozen and has started to thaw. more on the future of perma frost. >> how deep are we now? >> 60 feet below the surface. >> through frozen ground, a tunnel in time to when the either last warmed up and ice melted. the sealings have ancient plants

and bones of extinction mastodon and bison. this was a plain before the englishes rolled in tens of thousands of years ago. >> we've got a very big ice ledge. right here on the left and over here. >> while other scientists come to see fossils, soil and ice formed long ago with temperatures fluctuated, kevin studies engineering issues for the united states military and how to plan for the effects of melting perma frost. >> if we can tease out that information that says what was the temperature prior to one of these climate horizons that we see, either vegetation or ice, we would have good information for the climate modelers working on that issue now. >> work on a larger tunnel has begun, research aimed at helping lass dozen people in communities cope with somebody they've already noticed, how melting perma frost causes homes and roads to sag. >> the idea is not to scare

anybody, not to set out this notion that everything's thawing and we need to stop burning gasoline. that's not what we're talking about. we've just talking about trying to anticipate changes. >> there's real alarm among scientists, perma frost warming rapidly. carbon is trapped, those plants and animal bones and that will be released into the atmosphere as it thaws. >> producing more greenhouse gases, increasing this greenhouse effect, which will increase temperature again and increase temperature will affect perma frost. >> they put the pipe on stilts to meet environmental regulations, protecting the tundra. >> all the way this pipeline is constructed prevents perma frost from melting locally, but crude

oil is inside, and its consumption, the impact of that on the world's permanently frozen ground, those are the much larger issues that the government finds us and the planet have to consider with that. >> >> that's it for now. there's more news straight ahead

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