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new information about the speed and where it may have gone down. >> no parent wants to hear your child has autism but you cannot be afraid of the a word. >> detecting the autism and they say parents should screen infants as early as 18 months after a new survey shows that autism is on the rise. ♪ good morning and welcome to al jazeera america, i'm stephanie sy, seven days ago many had never heard of the river valley in washington state but that changed after a devastating mudslide took off oso and leaving death and destruction and the death was 17 and found a bob of an infant and not optimistic of finding survivors and no one all life since

saturday and more could have been found if they allowed volunteers to search immediately after the mudslide and it's sturgising up emotions including the safety of the land. >> reporter: this is the river valley introduced to the world this week. a place of death and destruction, of lives lost, bodies found and grim numbers. >> the numbers, 90 last night missing or unaccounted for. that is still the case. >> reporter: but this is the valley too. and this. a place of extraordinary beauty. there is steam terrain and water everywhere you look in this region, the same retreating glasiers left loose material and landslide risk is built in the landscape and ask steve bloom and his neighbors and they will tell you the serenity of the place balances that risk. >> if you can see, if the clouds

weren't there right now and you see the mountain that is right behind here it's all worth it, the beauty and paradise. >> reporter: the county cleared people to build homes here in the very part of paradise wiped out by the slide despite previous studies saying it was unstable and catastrophic failure was possible and the last big slide was 8 years ago and damaged the river and caused flooding and building continue continued after that. >> it's a nice area and we have an 80-acre farmer. >> reporter: they have spent days dealing with body recovery downstream, still they shrug off that they should not leave. >> i didn't think it would happen again since 96 and not happen for 100 years but it did. >> i do not think of danger, there is danger everywhere and there is danger when you drive

to work and danger when you drive home from work. >> reporter: eric holderman says some land should be considered just too dangerous to build on. >> when you think about what could have been done to prevent this it's really land use planning and it's individual thinking about are they at risk and what level of risk are they willing to take. >> the register is following the search and rescue from articling ton, washington and good morning, what are they doing to recover the bodies from the rubble? >> good morning, stephanie. at this point, this is still a rescue operation, not a recovery operation. officials admit finding survivors at this point is pretty slim but they are still holding out hope and they have not to this date brought up any heavy equipment, they are not using large bulldozers, they are using their hands and shovels to comb through the debris hoping

to find anyone still alive. you mentioned the death toll at this point stands at 17. but 90 people are still missing or unaccounted for, so we know that number is going to change and officials admit that that number will rise, the number of casualties will go up. >> there have been really difficult conditions there, i understand, for the search and rescue teams but we are hearing the press is going to get a closer look at the area now. >> that's right, up until this point it has been considered too dangerous for the press to go in, the land potentially unstable and with all that debris, rescuers have been up to their waist and knees in debris looking for survivors. so up until now we have not been able to go in but a camera crew will get to go in and see firsthand the devastation so we will have new images soon. >> it's 3:00 a.m. there at first

light the search continues and we are reporting from articling ton, washington and thank you, as the search continues we want to take a moment to look at some of the victims that have been lost in the tragedy. kristina was a wife, mother and grandmother and worked as a dental office manager for 20 years, her four-month-old grand daughter that we mentioned was the latest victim to be recovered on thursday. john's brother found his brother the 32-year-old navy veteran and wife chris were killed in their home and survived by three sons and two daughters. he worked full time as a custodian and a blacksmith and driving to a horse shooting appointment at the time of the mudslide and 46-year-old linda mcfearson was reading the newspaper with her husband when the mudslide hit, rescue workers were able to save him, she did not make it and she managed the library for 30 years and recently retired and enjoyed working in her garden. rain was a problem for that

search effort in washington on thursday for more on the weather on the west coast and national newscast we will bring in nicole mitchell. >> it has been a wet pattern and more of the rain continuing to move in. this is a look at the radar and the mudslide in washington state but it has been the coastline in general and parts of northern california starting to get under that rain and even though this is a wet time of year you worry about having so much because where the mudslide has been is flood concerns and there is more of that in parts of oregon and winter advisories as it starts to make it over the mountains and this is what it looks like over the next couple of days and we are saturated and february well above average and even though this is the wet season look at the areas 200% above what we should be for the last 30 days and very saturated and any more rain exacerbates risk of mud slides and this is how it comes in over the next couple of

days, potent weather over the weekend and greens and dark oranges, that is the heaviest amounts of rain. another system next week, another potential system next weekend and the rain is going to pile up. this is just today. northern parts of california and some places over 4 hours could get 3-4" and add up the course of the weekend and there is parts along the coastline that could get a half a foot of rain into what we already have so it's not just mud slides, it's the coastline you need to be aware of the flooding concerns over the next three days and that is not the only wet spot in the country and we have another front moving through especially for areas along the gulf and that is some areas of heavy rain, the northern side of that is wind and snow but we are going to see the southern edge not only showers and storms but potential for stronger storms and damaging wind being the biggest threat of all this as it goes through today. >> thank you. the u.n. has condemned the vote leading to russia's annexation

of crimea calling it an invalid referendum. the general assembly approved the resolution on thursday after intense lobbying from both sides, al jazeera's jennifer glasse is in sevastopol crimea and good morning to you and this vote has condemnation by countries and the moves in crime yeah but on the ground where you are is there any indication the u.n. vote will make a difference and are people even paying attention to it? >> reporter: good morning, stephanie, no, actually here they don't wear what the rest of the world thinks and made it very clear with the referendum on march 16 and made it clear when they voted for independence here and when russia annexed crimea and ousted the army and as we are speaking now some of the ukraine military are still leaving the crimea peninsula, russia points to the fact that only more than half of the country vote was 100-11 and 58

abstentions and they will hang on that but ukraine was looking for a moral vick i have in the u.n. and wanted the world to say what happened here was wrong and violated our integrity and understand they will not get crimea back any time soon but they hold out hopes that some day it might happen but the people here are very firm that they now come under moscow's control. >> in another development ukraine's former prime minister, a familiar face and she will run for president in the upcoming elections in kiev in may, remind us of who she is. >> reporter: well, you know, she really represents how complicated ukraine politics is. she actually ousted the current ousted president viktor yanukovich in the orange revolution in 2004 and then became prime minister for four years. when she stepped down yanukovich jailed her for corruption, when yanukovich was ousted she was freed and now she is running for

president. and that's really going to complicate her presidential bid, many people see her in ukraine as part of the old guard, as part of the old people and looking for something new and so she obviously has a lot of name recognition, i think they would like to see her be an elder statesman than an active president but certainly her decision to run for president not a big surprise, she was one of the leading contenders for prime minister and pulled herself out of the race and it will be interesting race in ukraine, that vote will be held on may 25. >> she is third or fourth among candidates and jennifer glasse in sevastopol, crimea and thank you, congress spoken with one voice on ukraine crisis and overwhelmingly backed bills to punish russia. >> both the house and senate passed bills thursday offering aid to ukraine and sanctions against the people deemed

responsible for annexation and $1 billion in loans and thousands in assistance and banning visas for the russians and ukraines judged corrupt or blamed for russia's seizure of crimea, the chairman of the foreign relations committee, robert mendez said the vote was a moment of truth. >> putin is watching and waiting to see what we will do, waiting to see if we have the resolve to act, waiting to see if he has a green light to take the next step. >> reporter: the senator says it's not just russia watching to see if u.s. steps up but other world powers wondering if the u.s. has unity and strength and president obama is overseas but the vote is on his mind and in italy he called on congress to act and it's not just democrats eager to see movement forward

and house leader eric krshg -- cantor spoke. >> in conjunction with echl u and nato allies sent a signal that this aggression will not be tolerated and together we must be prepared to exact a significant cost for russia's behavior and that mr. putin's actions will be met with the firmest of resolve. >> reporter: legislation had been held up for a couple of weeks because of a dispute over whether to include in the bill reforms to the imf or international monetary fund and democrats wanted them saying it would raise u.s. influence but republicans disagreed, in the end the democrats backed down and said they wanted the sanctions in a bill to move forward so they shelved the imf changes for another day. now some of these sanctions that are par of the congressional packages are already happening frankly because president obama signed an executive order dealing with them.

congress is now codifying sanctions and going further with the addition of the package. >> casey on capitol hill, the house is expected to pass the senate version of the bill before president obama can sign it. today is a self imposed deadline for white house to announce changes to the nsa bulk collection of tell foenl records and president obama has a proposal to place american's phone regards in the hands of individual service providers and under the plan nsa needs a court order to request access to the records, a requirement that could be waived during a national emergency. thursday the president issued a written statement about his plan saying quote i have decided that the best path forward is the government should not collect or hold this data in bulk, i believe in approach will best ensure that we have the information we need to meet our intelligence needs while enhancing public confidence in the matter in which the information is collected and held. the president's proposed changes to the nsa's bulk and data collection program require the

approval of congress but he is not alone and there are several competing bills under consideration. the international search for missing malaysia flight 370 is taking a new course. authorities say a new credible lead shifted the area of search 680 miles northeast to about 1200 miles west of perth australia and images show more than 400 objects floating in the indian objection and winds and waters have made it difficult to find the plan that vanished three weeks ago with 239 people on board and randall has been following this and is live in washington. >> it's the size of new mexico and what is interesting about the shift is that the information on which the search area is based was known shortly after the plane disappeared almost three weeks ago. officials say it took analysts time to review and refine satellite and radar data and it

came from australia officials coordinating the search in the indian ocean. day 21 in the search for missing flight 370 resumed friday, but this time the international effort has shifted to a new location, some 1200 miles off the coast of australia. >> the new search area is approximately 319,000 square kilometers in area and about 1850 kilometers west of perth. the australia geo spatial intelligence organization a gchl o is retasking satellites to capture images of the area. >> reporter: they base their finding on new information, data from when the plane turned back to malaysia and before radar contact was lost, that shift moves the search nearly 700 miles to the northeast of this location. >> the information provided by the international investigative team is the most credible lead we currently have in the search for aircraft wreckage.

this is our best estimate of the area in which the aircraft is likely to have crashed into the ocean. >> reporter: investigators also reveal the jet was traveling faster than previously estimated resulting in increased fuel usage and reducing the possibility it could have reached as far south where teams have been looking for more than a week. >> this is the normal business of search and rescue operations that new information comes to light, refined analysis takes you to a different place and the original work is a waste of time. >> reporter: possible debris shifts by strong oshent currents and gives ships and aircrafts searching for the plan more advantage from the previous search zone. >> it will increase significantly the amount of time they can spend out there by about two hours so that is a positive thing and we learned this morning that the americans are sending down a p 8 poseidon

for the assets we have here to search for 370. >> reporter: coming from a base in okinowa, japan and the flight similar later is yielding few clues that the pilot deliberately changed the plane's course. all ships and planes are redistricted to the new search zone without having picked up any of the debris that has been spotted in the old search zones which means at this point nothing has been retrieved that matches mh 370. >> a moving target there, randall pinkston live in washington and thanks. turkey social media war, why the government is going to battle against twitter and now youtube, egypt in transition and protests expected there today after the general behind last year's coup said he should be the next president. >> when things were first reported i said this cannot possibly be true because who would do something like that. >> the bridge gate probe, a new

investigation gives new jersey chris christie the green light and democrats are saying white wash. ♪

good morning and welcome back to al jazeera america, i'm stephanie sy, up next, the social media war in turkey but first let's look at what temperatures we will see across the nation and metrologist nicole mitchell is back. >> milder temperatures this morning you notice up and down the east coast and in the 40s this morning versus 30s and a couple days ago 20s, it's now the midwest is seeing cooler temperatures with a front going through so minneapolis is at 30 and billings 26 and you can start to see during the course of the day as well that temperature divide behind that and chicago 46 and memphis is 73. as this comes through it doesn't drop temperatures too much so even as we get into sunday watch memphis drop ten degrees in the forecast high and the east cost in the 50s for saturday drops 10 degrees and a lot of places in the 40s as we get into that sunday forecast, but that is part of a large area of rain that we are going to see, i'll

have more on the outlook for a soggy within coming up, and back to you. >> stephanie: youtube is blocked in turkey this morning and authorities denied access thursday after discovering what they say is a threat to national security and referring to a post that claims to be audio of turkey officials talking about possible attacks in syria and the prime minister last week blocked twitter after they tweeted about the corruption scandal surrounding his administration. a series of attack in iraq cap till killed 12 on thursday and car bombs and one near a major moss income the area and no one claimed responsibility and elections will take place next month in iraq and earlier this week the board of the electoral commission resigned protesting political interference leading up to the polls. protests expected today across egypt following announcement that former defense minister cc will be running for president,

as head of the military he played a role in removing democratically elected mohamed morsi from power, and cc stepped down on wednesday saying he will instead try to defend his country as president. supporters of former president mohamed morsi will continue a protest against what they call the cc republic of fear and three journalists are in prison in egypt this morning for the last 90 days, peter gres that and mohamed and one more are in cairo and accused of being with the brotherhood and reporting false news and we deny that and demand release and the three are due back in court on monday. u.n. condemning north korea missile launches and on wednesday they fired two medium range ballistic missiles and u.n. members consulting to consider the appropriate

response such as sanctions. taking a look at business news and, walmart is seeing over card swipe fees and visa rigged rates on transactions and costs retailers and consumers $350 billion between 2004-november 2012. the move comes several months after walmart and others opted out of class action settlement with visa and mastercard and blackberry will we lease a report card and will have a substantial loss, they are trying to come back and shifting the strategy away from the high end u.s. market and focusing on low end hand set going to emerging markets and blackberry is moving in the right direction. >> i think the moves they are making now are the right moves like spinning and getting rid of real estate assets to strengthen the balance sheet and will give

them team and looking at announcements, it's about decoupling the services. >> stephanie: blackberry stock up 21% so far this year despite the resent weakness in technology. dow is up 46 points after the see saw session and this is where we stand for the day, dow jones starting the day at 16264, s&p is 1849, nasdaq is 4151. overseas asia higher and closing to a ner two-week high and european markets are higher at this hour. a review on new jersey governor chris christie's role in the georgia washington bridge scandal clears him of any wrongdoing and they requested the investigation and hired the lawyers, christie was interviewed several times by attorneys but never under oath. the governor said the report reaffirms what he has been saying all along. >> this report said i had no

knowledge of it before it happened and nor did i authorize it or have anything to do with it. and that's the truth. >> stephanie: the report says the person in the governor's office who was involved was bridgett kellie, deputy chief of staff at the time and did not speak to kellie and new jersey and justice department are investigating the scandal, a plan to renew extended unemployment benefits for 2.2 million americans passed a key senate hurdle but even if it passes through the senate the bill is likely to die in the house. speaker john boehner says the measure is unworkable, boehner and house republicans say they oppose the measure because it doesn't include any provisions to create jobs. lawmakers in maryland are banning discrimination against transgender and equal for housing and public accommodations like gender equal bathrooms and goes to the governor's desk for signature

and joins with protecting gender writes and president obama wraps up his european trip this morning and goes to saudi to bolster relations with the royal family. >> of the human mind and cannot play them far enough ahead. >> stephanie: leaving too much room for human error, the high-tech options for tracking planes and a 30% increase in autism detection in the last several years, what the c.d.c. is recommending what parents do and when. >> the clock has not struck midnight for the squad from ohio, sweet 16 highlights coming up.

i'm stephanie sy and these are the top stories at the hour, the death toll in the washington

mudslide rose to 17 on thursday, rescuers identified the body of a four-month-old infant and not optimistic about finding more survivors and heavy rain is expected today which complicates the search. planes are searching a new area of the indian ocean for possible signs of missing flight 370 and fresh data saying the plane may have flown faster and used more fuel than previously thought and the search area is 700 miles north of where satellite images spotted more than 400 objects some 1200 west of perth, australia. the vote is invalid, the vote was 100-11 with 58 countries abstaining. >> and president obama is going to arabia and to improve strained relations and events in

syria and iran expected to dominate the agenda. >> the last year has seen open and sharp disagreements over the arab spring uprising especially in egypt where president obama backed the muslim brotherhood which they view as a destabilizing threat and mr. obama backed away from a bombing camp page in response to a chemical attack and referring instead to congress. >> you can imagine what the saudis thought of that, right? you know, that a real leader would have explained it to them and made them an offer they couldn't refuse. >> reporter: and iran with the u.s. secretly talking about the nuclear program. american deputy secretary of statement bill burns concedes there have been risks. >> i wish i could offer simple answers to these concerns or new prescriptions for these

challenges, i cannot. >> reporter: the saudis and the united states have been locked in a mutual embrace and never more clear than when the king visited president bush at his texas ranch in 2005 ab-saudi has been a major supplier of oil for the history yet by 2015 america is set to pass saudi as the world's top oil producer and could mean less dependence on saudi oil and the saudis themselves. the relationship has grown beyond oil and saudi bought some f 15 and the largest purchase by any single country and the fight against terror have been a concern. >> no country or collection of countries can do for the gulf states what the united states has done and continues to do. >> reporter: as the relationship became strained experts say it was time for the president to come see the king. >> i do think that at least symbolically what will come out of this is a reaffirmation by

both sides of a relationship that both need. >> stephanie: that was mike reporting, joining us now is carla robbins, professor of security studies at the school of public affairs at the college and adjunct on foreign relations and thanks for being with us, the disagreement we egypt, syria and iran i assume there is going to be awkward movements and what pressure is there on president obama to smooth things over? >> i think both sides are feeling rather annoyed with each other and it's a very long relationship and certainly with the decline of egypt as an ally the u.s. wants to have good relationship with the saudis and they are dependent on the u.s. saying the stability has a lot to do with the u.s. involvement in it. as your report says syria, iran and muslim brotherhood as well

and in egypt so there are a lot of things they have to talk about and disagree about. >> stephanie: a former ambassador to the u.s. back in december wrote an editorial criticized president obama for drawing a red line on president assad and backtracking at the height of the conflict when that chemical weapons attack happened killing a thousand people in syria, saudis continue to request u.s. arms be transferred to the rebels fighting assad, how much has the u.s. refusal to do that damaged this relationship? >> well, you know, i think that it's only one of the irritants right now and i mean let's not forget that this relationship goes back fundamentally traumatized by 9/11 as well and u.s. assistance did not do enough to restraint al-qaeda so it's not the first time in recent years there is a fundamental difference, syria is hard and one can argue that president obama could have done a lot more a while ago, i'm not

sure what he can do now. the saudis see it as something that they want the u.s. to fix so it's probably not fixable. it's not just u.s. arms they want there, they want permission to get their own arms that are supposedly waiting in jordan to get on the ground and u.s. is concerned the arms will go to the wrong elements in syria and it's a horror and hard to find agreement on it. what they want to find agreement on is this perception their relationship has been repaired and they can move forward together and there will be a lot of friendly talk publically and fundamental disagreement private privately. >> stephanie: what do you think of the u.s. oil boom and how it has effected this relationship with saudi arabia? >> we need the saudis because they can up the production and reserve production so when you do things like you say to the

europeans let's have an oil embargo on iran, the saudis help stabilize the world economy. >> stephanie: carla, professor of national security studies at the school of public affairs and thanks so much professor. >> good morning and thanks. >> stephanie: few technology changing how we track planes like the malaysia jet liner and as al jazeera explains it uses satellites rather than radars. >> as the plane gets ready for take it it has a complex system and it's quite safe with 0.2 accidents per departures but the air space is inefficient. >> it's a manual process and starts at the gate with ramp controller and he or she will hand them off to a tower controller for the area port surface and they will be handed off to yet another controller in the departure or arrival area and they will yet again be

handed off to another end route controller and very likely many end route controllers. >> reporter: since no central system coordinates the people faa is working on one that will. the new system is the next generation air transportation system or next gen and the agency commissioned nasa to build tracking software for it and replace the radar-based ground control with gps, a technology capable of tracking every plane. right now the system relies on humans handing planes to one another which makes it impossible to coordinate very far in advance. >> a lot of variability and these are limitations of the human mind, they cannot plan far enough ahead. >> reporter: in the united states the most technology sophisticated in the world we use strips of paper about the plane and gates we are at and nasa will replace that with a software that can issue recommendations to ramp operators deciding when to leave

the gate and integrate that with what the air traffic control tower is doing and at the end route and arrival process on the other end and you are looking at an incredibly complicated system to upgrade. >> to of the most important cost of the airline is the amount of fuel they are burning flying the aircraft and money and time they are paying their crew to operate the aircraft. >> most planes already have several pieces of the necessary equipment such as adsb, the gps that allows next gen to do away with radar and we do not have the coordinating software and a gps system like next gen could not save the flight 370 and the plane was, in fact, already outfitted with adsb so we know what we do about the movements but if it comes together by 2020 it will be practically impossible to lose track of a commercial flight in the united states. jacob ward, al jazeera, mountain view california.

>> stephanie: 6 million have enrolled for health insurance under the affordable care act and 106,000 people enrolled in the first month after the launch and with deadline looming we show you how the administration is coming up, with new ways to get people to register. >> this is what you call a pop-up healthcare sign up center. it's actually in an empty cell phone store and that is the idea here to have a lot of people pass by and see the signs and come in and sign up before that deadline on monday the 31st. given the amount of foot traffic, the place has been busy all morning since it opened at 10:00 through the afternoon and constant stream of people and seen strollers and older people and families going in and out of the doors all day long and straight from the obama administration and president obama calling folks like these the navigators and volunteers from italy to say job well done and hit the 6 million mark. originally back in october before all the snafus with the

website the target was 7 million and bumped it down but hit 6 million the revised target and they are on track for what the obama administration would call success. here locally folks say they get 80 people a day to sign up here across colorado with colorado's healthcare exchange and getting close to their target as well. as i said we have seen people from all walks of life here today and one guy we talked to 61 years old has not had health insurance for 14 years because he could not afford it. >> the thing is being able to afford it, the company i worked with before had insurance but this one doesn't. this is going to be a blessing. >> reporter: we spoke to another guy, a young guy, 26 years old and finished being on his mothers healthcare plan and said his mom is texting him everyday reminding him to get signed up ahead of the deadline and came here and got partial coverage and will come back and sign up for some more so again he is someone who is right in that target demo, young, healthy person and he was a snow border

and skate border and very active and wanted coverage in case he had some kind of accident doing the activities, that is exactly what the government needs to shape the curve of healthcare costs and a couple days before the deadline and things moving along here in colorado. >> stephanie: white house extended the sign up period for those who started the enrollment process but could not finish because of issues and signing up on healthcare.gov and grants an exemption and gives them a yet to be determined grace period before the tax penalty kicks in. number of american children diagnosed with autism is getting higher and with a single cause still unknown the news may be alarming and especially people with families. >> new numbers show a sharp increase in diagnosis just as a new study tries to pinpoint a cause of the complicated condition that effects nearly 2 million people nationwide.

>> maybe he is just being a boy. >> reporter: psa raises awareness of autism, autism speaks is about to launch a new one next month just as new numbers are released about the disorder nationwide and according to c.d.c. research on kids in 2010 shows one out of 68 children had some type of autism spectrum disorder and that is 30% higher than in 2008 and 60% higher than 2006. >> sadly we are not surprised and doesn't shock me at all. >> reporter: liz heads autism speaks and says the increase could be due to awareness of systems but c.d.c. could be because of better diagnosis of the disorder and growing number of children with autism who may not have been detected before because they were doing well in school. >> good girl following directions. >> reporter: the findings come one day after the new england journal of medicine published a small study on possible cause for the disorder and at

university san diego did a detailed analysis of brain tissue in children who died young and found abnormal patches for those with autism and points to a problem during pregnancy. >> we are helping to really get clarity on the answer of when things are happening that lead to this disorder. the clarity now is pointing more and more solidly to the second and third trimester. >> reporter: hope is research like this may lead to development of early detection. if kids can be identified and treated early they have a better chance of improving. >> making the difference in the world. the services that he was able to access through early intervention. >> reporter: c.d.c. recommends having children screened as early as 18 months old but parents can start checking for signs earlier than that, doctors say by six months a baby should be smiling and able to track with their eyes, by 12 baby

should respond to names and pointing to objects and parents should act early if they are concerned, stephanie. >> stephanie: thank you. a new eye-opening report on public schools in america and says it's separate and not equal in schools especially in new york as we report. >> reporter: the study is in a word shocking. more than half a century after desegregation, ucla civil rights project says new york has the most segregated public schools in the country. >> there are no policies nationwide, particularly in new york city that incentivize schools to have diversity. >> reporter: the report finds overwhelming people attend where white enrollment is 10% and not just race that divides the children, it's also class. >> many communities are

organized by, racial groups and class and we do not want inequities between the groups. >> reporter: as the school becomes heavily minority the school also becomes low income. the numbers have been getting worse over the last 20 years and the contrast is especially striking with charter schools, nearly 75% of them in the state having less than 1% white enrollment. the state's dismal numbers are largely driven by new york city, a great symbol of the american melting pot and consider the city since high school, one of the most competitive and highly regarded in the nation and enrollment of more than 3,000 but according to the "new york times" just 7 black students were admitted this year. >> very impactful on the way we see each other and isn't that why we go to school, to communicate and live in better communities. >> reporter: in a statement new york mayor deblasio defended the city schools saying our mission

is to create a city in which regardless of zip code your neighborhood public school is a great option for your child, i will reach out to all of the children in traditional schools and charter and religious schools and are all children and all deserve a solution. i'm with al jazeera. >> stephanie: the murder trial of south african blade runner oscar pistorious has been postponed until next month because of illness, one of her legal advisors has gotten sick and they were to begin presenting the case and pistorious is expected to take the stand in his own defense and the trial resumes on april 7. the big dance continues and one school continues to surprise a lot of people and john henry smith is here with march madness. >> john: they are the dayton university in ohio and return after a three-daybreak they served up history for starters, the only second time in history

that tenth seed and 11 dayton and taking on 10 seed and they show how you bust up a zone with authority. later dayton up 3 and davis on the wing by his alone and he is open for 3, got it, dayton up six and later dayton up 10 and sitting in the corner, jordan all by his lonesome and not guarding and the second half and dayton in transition and he is what, all by his lonesom seshgs and dayton 82-72 to go ahead and speak to us, coach. >> you have to have a feel in some of our best moments of the season we stuck with everybody. i think sometimes when the games are bigger or the moments are bigger you get with the guys that have been there the longest but at the end of the day this team is not built that way. >> john: we will check in on

archie in a minute but florida against ucla and michael puts the gators up 7 and tony parker puts them in the sink and ten minutes left to play and ucla down three and cross over and drive and lay in, ucla a one-point game and much rejoicing but that is when the clock meets scotty time and he pulls up and fills up beyond the arc for three spot and driving with authority, lay in and won, gaiters rolling in the 8 with 79-68 win over ucla and face dayton saturday. we shift the focus to archie's brother shaun, the coach of the top seed in the west, arizona and had a chance to join brother with a win thursday night over san diego state and make the millers the first time to lead separate teams to the elite and the only year with a play like that and smiling and watching

their guy represent with 15 points, 7 rebounds and later in the second half arizona up and tj picked the pocket and york who passes to johnson who scored 15 points in the final three minutes of the game and under two minutes to play and arizona three and caleb finds johnson and drains it, arizona wins 70-64 to punch their ticket to the elite eight. and then there was 6 seed bailer taking on wisconsin, first half and he looks and plays like a guy you don't want to mess with and wisconsin six and doing more damage from point blank range. we will call it the frank show and later in the first getting set to do more work in the post and baylor set to get worked again and he is 7 foot tall and 19 points and only 20 years old and must be the greaters wisconsin, 69-52 and face arizona on saturday. four more games on tap and all

of them happening today, in indianapolis louisville against kentucky and michigan takes on tennessee and madison square garden yukon and iowa state and virginia takes on michigan state. >> stephanie: what a tournament and thanks, west african countries are racing to control the ebola virus that killed dozens and we have the latest and sri lanka is under investigation for human rights abuses. . >> nicole: rain to the south and i'll have the forecast. >> n and i'll have the forecast. >> n and i'll have the forecast.

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rain may fall across the country and metrologist nicole mitchell is here and i know there is rain. >> nicole: for the east coast this weekend a lot of place also be soggy but after the winter we had people are like is it going to be mild, they will tradeoff some rain for milder temperatures which we will have but look at this broad area through the east coast and we also have the next system coming in the west coast so parts of both of our coastlines are going to be wet this weekend and this is the area that is over saturated and more rain over the weekend will cause more atlanta slide concerns but the broad system in the midsection of the country a lot of rain and possibly severe weather southward and more of this is not going to be snow today for the northeast but over the weekend northern parts of new england could get heavy amounts but a lot of rain over the next two days and back to you. >> stephanie: ebola out braj in guinea is raising concerns about how it's spreading and killed at least 62 people in the country

since the symptoms were first observed last month and discovered in congo and there is no evidence of it in west africa until now. >> translator: listening to the news and sy seeing effects in the forecast fever is striking the people and scaring us. >> stephanie: it's a highly infectious virus and kill 90% of people who catch it and effects multiple organs at the time and those infected end to bleed to death and there is no vaccination. they are investigating the government over human rights abuses committed during the decade long war and it ended in 2009 but a u.n. investigation could complicate the fragile piece. >> for the third time in three years the u.n. human rights council urged the sri lanka allegations to address war crimes but this time a

resolution tabled by the united states and voted on by the council's other member countries went one step further and calls for a comprehensive investigation of what happened during the civil war. >> i want to seek the cooperation for justice and accountability and on the part of both sides, victims of ltte are also waiting for justice. >> reporter: human rights headquarters on geneva on the streets of columbo insist any u.n. investigation will violate their country's sovereignty, the government also stood firm. >> reconciliation is very complex, slow-moving process. if somebody interferes into this process, unwarranted business, that will definitely change the reconciliation process. >> reporter: thousands died during the final stages of the civil war that lasted 26 years.

but the u.n. says the government's own investigation into possible war crime has failed to answer questions of accountability, the country's leaders agree. >> on account of the difficulties sri lanka experiences with the international commitments and obligations to the community. >> reporter: they welcomed the u.n. resolution but outside areas effected by the war sentiments are often very different, even before the u.n. vote that condemned columbo for failing to investigate and protesters showed support for the government. they will mark the 5th anniversary of the end of the civil war and by then a u.n. led inquiry of who is responsible for what happened during that time may have begun. it's an investigation the government says it won't support but one that the critics argue is necessary if the country is

to move forward, i'm with al jazeera, columbo. >> stephanie: dell walters has what we are following for the next hour. >> one week after the mudslide in oso, washington the hope of finding survivors is fading and the dead to 17 and rescuers identified the body of an infant on thursday. international search for malaysia flight 370 shifting efforts to a new location and authorities saying a new credible lead moved the search area 1100 west of perth australia and president obama on his way to saudi arabia to repair strained u.s. relations with leaders there and the nuclear agreement expected to be on the agenda. ahead on the next hour a plan in louisiana to put freshwater in the salt marshs and not sitting well with local fib -- fisherman and homelessness beyond cities and a girl who has been in and out of shelters since she has

been a baby. >> nicole: a wet weekend for parts of the coastline and i'll have your outlook. >> stephanie: dell and i are back with you in just over 2 minutes. al jazeera america gives you the total news experience anytime, anywhere. more on every screen. digital, mobile, social. visit aljazeera.com. follow @ajam on twitter. and like aljazeera america on facebook for more stories, more access, more conversations. so you don't just stay on top of the news, go deeper and get more perspectives on every issue. al jazeera america.

>> hope fading nearly one week after that mud slide in sos, washington, rescue crews face the grim reality of not finding more survivors after discovering the body of a four-month-old girl. >> easing tensions, president obama shifts his attention to the middle east as he heads to saudi arabia to reassure riyadh of u.s. policy in the region. >> tymoshenko throwing her hat

to the ring for president of ukraine. >> boston and new york, people are probably aware that there are issues with homeless. >> dealing with a problem in big cities, helping the homeless in rural communities get a shot at a better life. >> good morning, welcome to aljazeera america. i'm del walters. >> hope is fading fast in the search for survivors of the washington mud slide, the death toll now at 17 after rescuers found the body of an infant on thursday. >> they are not optimistic about finding more survivors. no one has been found life since saturday. it is stirring up emotions over the questions of safety in that region. >> this is the river valley

introduced to the world this week, a place of death and destruction, of lives lost, bodies found, and grim numbers. >> the numbers, 90 last night missing or unaccounted for. that's still the case. >> there is steep terrain and waters in this region, it washed away loose material, the rain rarely stops, gravity never goes away, so landslide risk is built into the landscape. ask steve bloom and his neighbors, and they'll tell you the veinty of the place balances that risk. >> if you could see the mountain that's right behind here, it's all worth it, the beauty, the paradise. >> the county cleared people to build homes here in the very part of paradise wiped out by the slide. despite previous studies finding

the slope was unstable and cats traffic failure was possible. the last big slide here was eight years ago. it dammed the river and caused flooding, but building continued even after that. >> it's a nice area. we have an 80-acre farm. >> local volunteer firefighters like jeff mcclellin have spent days dealing with body recovery downstream. they shrug off any suggestions that they shouldn't live where they do. >> if i thought that hill would never slide again after the slide in 2006, it blocked the river then, it's like an earthquake, relieved pressure, not going to happen again for 100 years. but it did. >> i don't really think about the danger. i mean, there's danger everywhere. there's danger when you drive to work, when you drive home from work. >> emergency management consultant eric holderman said some land should be considered too dangerous to build on. >> when you think about what could have been done to prevent

approximate, land use planning and individual thinking about are they at risk and what level of risk are they willing to take. >> sabrina has been following the search and rescue from washington. rescuers have had a difficult time and a half gating the devastation because of the weather, so what's it going to be like today? >> that's a good question, del, right now the rain has held off but we are expecting a lot of rain this weekend, serious rain. sometimes possibly even thunderstorms, so it's going to make certainly a complicated rescue operation here even more challenging. del. >> sabrina, the death count has remained stable over the past few days and yet we are receiving reports that they are finding more bodies with that how does that measure up? >> well, at this point, the medical examiner has, and you say mentioned, confirmed 17

casualties, but there are 90 people still missing or unaccounted for, so they do admit that they expect those numbers to rise. in fact, we might be hearing this morning or today that in fact the death toll has risen since that last count of 17. >> sabrina register reporting live for us from washington. >> oso, washington will be getting hit by more rain. let's bring in meteorologist nicole mitchell to talk about how much. >> through the week, could easily get another half foot or more. i'm not saying specifically where we had the mudslides, but moisture coming in. already another system pushing in. we had brief breaks yesterday, but still plenty of rain to deal with as they tried recovery efforts. the core of it today looks like a little bit more of the oregon, california coastline, some places three or four inches, but this is just a developing

system, so another system, persistent rain over the course of the weekend, another system after that during next week, possibly another one for the next weekend, the following weekend, so it's a lot. here's how that shapes up, as i said, kind of the core for the first round, a little bit farther to the south. that doesn't mean washington isn't getting the rain. you can already see the next ban behind that as we get more into saturday and sunday. we are going to be dealing with a lot of problems and part of it is that we also had a very wet february, now had a wet march. above average, even for this time of year, so some places are 200% above. it's not just the mud slide area that we've already looked at, a lot of places are built under the terrain in this area. more mud slide concerns in coming days. we've seen the persistent flood warning for the area that they're doing the recovery, but watch for more of these flood watches and warnings to pop up

over the course of the region through the weekend. back to you. >> the president is on his way right now to saudi arabia after wrapping up his european tour earlier this morning. he's on a mission to try to rare strained relations with riyadh, syria and iran expected to dominate the agenda. >> a lot has changed since president obama received this warm welcome to saudi arabia, complete with gifts of gold. many of his for the purpose policy decisions have since angered the saudis, the president calling for egyptian president mubarak to step down, the saudis taking the unusual step of publicly questions the u.s. president's credibility. the prince saying:

>> the president's job on the second visit to restore trust. although the u.s. is using less oil, they have the ability to expand or detract production. >> the saudis feuding with its neighbors in the gulf and worried about the influence iran could have if diplomacy resolves its nuclear issue. >> they are worried that the beyond and iran may have day taint.

>> the president's visit to saudi arabia coming at a time when u.s. imports of crude are at their lowest levels in 20 years. >> an unprecedented move by the air force, nine officers fired from their jobs thursday in connection to a cleating scandal at a nuclear arms base. a dozen other employees are expected to be disciplined, some 100 missile launch crew members from an air force base in montana remind in the scandal, the nine mid level officers were not involved, but allowed a culture of cheating at the base, the wing commander resigning because of the scandal. a bipartisan plan to extend unemployment benefits passed a key senate hurdle. the bill is likely to die in the

house. speaker john boehner said the measure is unworkable. boehner and house republicans oppose the measure because it doesn't create provisions trough create jobs. >> capitol hill lawmakers backing bills to aid ukraine and punish russia for annexing crimea. the house voted for the legislation by 399-19 on thursday. the president was touring europe for most of the week urging u.s. allies to stand united against russia. >> the u.n. has condemned the vote leading to russia's annexation of crimea, calling it an invalid referendum. the general assembly approved the resolution after intense lobbying from both sides. jennifer glass has been covering this store from sevastopol. on the ground where you are, does it make a difference at all? >> good morning, stephanie.

you know, that u.n. vote won't make a difference here. russia believes what it has done was within international law. it condemned that vote in the u.n. yesterday, that vote 100-11 with 5 58 abstentions. it is just a moral victory for ukraine, wanting to get as many countries to can deem the land takeover, military takeover. even as we speak, members of the crimea military of leaving the peninsula. russia has been unapologetic, point to go kosovo saying if they are allowed to secede, why shouldn't crimea be allowed to secede. many people are happy, certainly people in a sevastopol happy toe closer to russia. they need to get the administrative things done here.

>> the former prime minister tymoshenko announcing she will run for president. remind us who she is. >> she is really a symbol of how complicated ukrainian politics have been over the past decade. she is one of the leaders that ousted the current ousted president viktor yanukovych in the orange revolution. she became prime minister for several years. after she was out of power, yanukovych jailed her. after he was ousted, she was freed from jail and returned to the political stage and now says despite that past, she believes she's made for the job. >> none of the politicians who are going to run for president understand the depth of lawlessness in ukraine. as a consequence, nobody wants to end it as desperately as i do.

>> her history might make her a difficult candidate for president. many people believe that she has too much -- she's too much like the old guard and not new enough. it will remain to be seen how well she does in those elections to be held may 25. >> she is running currently in the polls third or fourth. >> there is criticism today of america's human rights record. the u.n. human rights committee raising concerns over torture, drone strikes, the death penalty and nsa data collection practices, the u.n. urging the u.s. to overhaul surveillance activities to make sure they comply with u.s. law, but also criticized is president obama for his failure to shut down guantanamo bay. >> the u.n. is condemning missile launches this week, two missiles were fired. the move was a violation of security council resolutions. u.n. members are now consulting to consider the appropriate

response, which includes sanctions. >> the international search for that missing malaysia airlines flight 370 taking a new course. crews spotted more debris today as the search shifts to a new spot in the indian ocean, 1200 miles west of perth, australia. satellite images show more than 400 objects floating in the sea. it's unsure if they are connected to the vanished airlines. randall pinkston joins us live from washington. what do we know about this new information? >> all week, we've heard about satellite leads, spot be possible debris fields in the southern indian ocean which may or may not have been connected to the flight. officials said they were going to continue to review and refine the satellite and radar data, and so they have done that, and that led to today's dramatic announcement, changing the location of the search area.

>> day 21 in the search for missing malaysia airlines flight 370. this time, the effort shifted some 1200 miles off the coast of australia. >> a new search area is approximately 319,000 square kilometers and 1850 kilometers west of perth. the australian g.s. spatial intelligence organization, a.g.o. is retasking satellites to capture images of the new area. >> australian investigators based their finding on new information, date that from when the plane turned back toward malaysia and before radar contact was lost. that shift moves the search nearly 700 miles to the northeast of this location. >> the information provided by the international investigative team is the most credible lead we currently have in the search for aircraft wreckage. this is our best estimate of the area in which the aircraft is

likely to have crashed into the ocean. >> australian investigators also revealed that the jet was traveling faster than previously estimated, resulting in increased fuel usage and reducing the possibility it could have reached as far south, where teams have been looking for more than a week. >> this is the normal business of search and rescue operations that new information comes to light, refined nationals take you to a different place. i don't count the original work a waste of time. >> it takes into account possible debris shifts by ocean currents and gives the aircrafts a greater advantage from the previous search zone. >> that will increase significantly the amount of time they can spend out there by about two hours, so that would be a very positive thing. now we've also learned this morning that the americans are sending down another poseidon to boaster the assets we have here to search for 370.

>> that plane is coming from a military base in okinawa, japan, the investigation into the pilot's home flight simulator is yielding few clues that the pilot deliberately changed course. >> none of the debris spotted by the satellites in the southern indian ocean was retrieved from the ocean by ships in the area, so we don't know if that debris was junk, or if any of it was somehow connected to malaysia airlines flight 370. >> not surprisingly, the lawyers are already lining up. >> in america, there are. there's an illinois law firm preparing the groundwork for a possible lawsuit against bowing airlines and malaysian airline officials and the attorney there according to the chicago tribune is saying his theory of the case is going to be a defect, not deliberate actions of someone in the cockpit, but the aircraft based on previous problems with that particular model, the 777.

>> nobody thought we would still be searching for this plane three weeks later. >> this seems oh be a drum beat of information recently, hopefully they're closer. >> an environmental plan, why sending fresh water into the state salt marches could deliver a big blow to commercial fishes. >> wal-mart suing visa for $5 billion, the accusations they are making against that credit card giant. >> $5 billion is the big investment one auto making company is spending to put a key component in vehicles.

>> the day's big number, $500 million is the amount that ford motors is investing to build a new engine for its f150 pickup truck. >> the new model will be built in the lima ohio engine plant. >> it will use that new engine, creating 300 new jobs at the plant over the next few years.

they will get a starting salary of $15.78 an hour. >> welcome to al jazeera america. up next, why some say a plan to revitalize march lands could do more harm than good. >> first, lets check your temperatures across the country. they maybe just a touch warmer. good morning, nicole. >> a lot of people excited about even 10 degrees, after this winter we just got through is exciting. places such as new york, washington, d.c. definitely a milder morning than yesterday. we've got a little colder air this morning, minneapolis around 30, that's that next system that's coming through, the next one bringing us stronger storms for pores of the south. you can see the dividing line, chicago up 46, memphis 73 where it comes through. meemies as we get from friday into saturday goes down 10 degrees, a cool down, but not the words. up and down portions of the east

coast, temperatures in the 50's for saturday. again with that front coming through, it's a same larr cool down as we get into the sunday forecast, a lot of places 5-10 degrees cooler. we have significant chance for rain over the weekend. the midsection for sunday warms up quickly, den injury at 75. we'll talk more about the rain and severe weather we've been seeing with this system coming up a little later. >> coastal erosion slowly but surely eating away at louisiana's coastline. state legislators set aside $60 million to stop the coast from sinking into the gulf of mexico. we talk to local fishermen. >> used to be paradise, that's how it used to be. >> life in louisiana is delicate. >> shrimp, fish.

>> people from all over the united states come to fish here. used to be real great, real good. >> completed in 1991, the diversion is a canal sending fresh water from the mississippi river to salt water marches, the goal was to revitalize the march land, diversions like that are among the 109 projects in the new coastal master plan. many fisherman would rather see barrier islands built rather than the dredging and diverses here. they feel like if those islands are built with sand and sediments, that that will actually help the cause rather than damage their way of life. >> george rigs has the no one profit save louisiana coalition and say the water diverses are

dangerous, sending the fresh water into sale lean eco system is harmful. >> $4.1 billion a year industry, they employ over 17,000 jobs. >> rick doubts that water diversions will help create land. >> it's not going to build land like the delta did, and we don't have 7,000 years to wait. with a it will do is devastate our fishing, our commercial, recreation fishing and seafood industries. >> if we don't do anything, they'll change to the point where we'll never be able to recover. >> he understands the concerns of environmental i have thes and fisherman. >> we will crib to lose our coast. we've lost approximately 1900 square miles. the reality is we will lose another 1750 square miles if nothing is done. >> really is sad, all this good

fishing down here, all that's going to be lost. all of that. what about the little kids? i'm 78 years old. it's over for me. >> as he sees it, they are saving the land, but killing his livelihood. >> robert ray, aljazeera, louisiana. >> in business news, visa is getting slapped with a $5 billion lawsuit over swipe fees. wal-mart is suing visa for rigging rates that retailers pay on card transactions. the retailer said the fee cost merchants and consumers more than $350 billion between november 4 and november 12. wal-mart and other retailers opted out of class action settlements. visa declined to comment. >> do you futures up 33 points after two straight days of losses, the dow starting the day

at 16264, the s&p at 1849, the nasdaq at 4151. overseas, asia ending the week mostly higher, make key add to go thursday's gains closing at a new two week high and european markets higher at this hour. >> toyota recalling 119,000 avalon as he denies, affecting the 2003 and 2004 model years. seatbelts could tighten because of technical problems. there has been one minor injury linked to the defect, but no accidents. >> ukraine's former prime minister officially throwing her hat in the ring to run for that country's presidency, whether tymoshenko has what it takes to stabilize the divided country. >> it was frustrating having to do all this stuff and worry about where i was going to live the next day. >> giving rural teens in america

the keys, finding success. >> storms leaving a lot of damage. we'll show you where these storms are tracking. >> the ncaa tournament has had lots of great action, but few, if any household names. that's all the way it's been, but not all the way it used to be.

>> welcome to al jazeera america. i'm stephanie sy. >> i'm del walters. there has been sharp increase in autism in american children. officials are trying to figure out why. >> west african countries dealing with an outbreak of ebowl la, which is a deadly vir.

>> the house and senate passed bills offering aid to ukraine and sanctions for the people deemed responsibility for the annexation of crimea. the aid portion is $1 billion in loan guarantees and $150 million in direct and seance. the sanctions component calls for freezing assets and banning the visas for the russians and ukrainians judged corrupt or blamed for russia's seizure of crimea. the chairman of the senate foreign relations commits see robert mendez said the vote was a moment of truth. >> president putin is watching, waiting to see what we'll do, waiting to see if we have the resolve to act, waiting to see if he has a green light to take the next step. >> senator menendez said it's not just russia watching to see if the u.s. steps up, but other

world powers, wondering if the u.s. will display unity and strength. president obama may be overseas, but the vote is certainly on his mind. at a press conference in italy, he called on congress to act. it's not just democrats eager to see movement forward. eric cantor spoke before the vote. >> it is vitally important that the united states in conjunction with our e.u. and nato allies send an unmistakable signal that this aggression will not be tolerated. together, we must be prepared to exact a significant cause for russia's behavior. if mr. putin's actions will be met with the firmest of resolve. >> legislation had been held up for a couple of weeks because of the dispute over whether to include in the bill reforms to the i.m.f. or international monetary fund. democrats wanted them, saying it would raise u.n. influence, but represents disagreed. in the end, the democrats said they wanted the sanctions and a

bill to move forward to shelved the i.m.s. changes for another day. some sanctions that are part of the congressional packages are already happening because president obama signed an executive order dealing with them. congress is now codifying the sanctions and going further with the addition of the aid package. >> the house expected to pass the senate version of that bill today before the president signs it into law. >> the i.m.f. came to the rescue of ukraine thursday with a bailout of $18 billion over two years. this comes as another development happens, former prime minister of ukraine's julia tymoshenko entered her bid to run for president. here with us this morning is executive board member of the ukrainian congress committee for america, good morning, let's jump right into this. there are a lot of developments. let's start with tymoshenko. when you look at recent polling numbers, she's not even in the

top two, with 9.27% trails the former boxing champion and a business figure who is backed -- who backed the revolution, and he's ahead. why is tymoshenko's bid receiving so much scrutiny. >> the amount of time she spent in prison, they was in solitaire confinement for a long time, however she is a part of past. as you see in the polls, it's not something many people are interested in going back to that time period. >> she doesn't necessarily represent the movement, and yet it's not just the media that seems concerned with ms. tymoshenko. there was a recording leaked on you tube. it hasn't been authenticated, but it features harsh words from tymoshenko including the

suggestion that 8 million russians living in ukraine should be killed with nuclear weapons. who would want that type of recording out there? >> i think it's quite clear where this recording came out of. we've had recordings come out of u.s. ambassadors to ukraine and other figures coming out and these are in the russian media first. these are attempts by the russian intelligence to paint, portray the people in ukraine as not in their right minds, trying to kill people. as of yet, we have not seen any violence against ethnic russians in ukraine. two people who are ethnic russians who died in ukraine were one, a protestor on the midon shot by a shaper and one the ukraine military officer who died, ethnically russian. his wife is due to give birth in two months. it's not ukrainians killing russians, it's invaders coming

and killing them. >> let's move on to this i.m.f. package, the ukrainian economy clearly in cries. is there someone running in this race so far that you think has the ability to stabilize ukraine and turn the economy around? >> well, right now, we're in a very good place with the prime minister, so separate from the president, we have the constitution version back to the 2004 version of the constitution. that version gives the prime minister and the parliament more power than the president has altogether, so right now, we have prim prime minister yatsen. >> isn't he part of the father land party. >> he had his own party prior to that. he took over, merged his party for change in ukraine. he does have a following in and of himself separate from tymoshenko. he is uniquely suited to take

ukraine through this economic cries as a trained economist. he was a former economic minister of ukraine. he actually negotiated ukraine's secession into the w.t.o. he has a vast understanding of the way the world economic models work and in this time, where we're dealing with a lot of issues in ukraine, this economic crisis, we have a leader right now particularly suited for that. >> the i.m.f. deal requires major reforms and it's going to hurt ukrainian citizens. do you think they're prepared to make the sacrifices needed to reform this economy? >> this has always been the problem presented to ukraine, russia also offered money, no strings attached, just vote all the way we want, that's it. >> and that's nice. >> yes. european secession has been about let's make sure we have universal human rights abdecency standards throughout society. with the i.m.f. loans needed to just carry our economy until we can get a lot of that

$70 billion that was a be sanded by the prior president, so there are loans coming to us, although there is money out there that we need to recover. for these i.m.f. loans, these are positive reforms, some which need to be negotiated and i'm sure prime minister yatsenyuk is going to be specifically negotiating those. >> thanks so much. >> thank you. >> more protests expected in egypt today following the announcement that the former defense minister sisi will be running for president. he is stepping down from his military post wednesday. morsi supporters will continue their protests against what they are calling a campaign of fear. >> three bombs exploded in baghdad including one near a major mosque, no one claiming responsibility. earlier this week, the board

over seeing the elections resigned protesting political interference leading up to the polls. >> an ebola outbreak is raising concerns about how the virus is spreading. it's killed 62 since symptoms were first observed last month. this is the first time ebola's been diagnosed in west africa. >> taking in the latest warnings, one of the deadliest viruses known to man has reached their capital city. with no known cure of vaccine, noose of owe bowl la's spread has reached citizens. >> i've been afraid. everyone has to protect themselves drinking and eating. >> people are told to take precaution us. the government's banned public if you know release for ebola victims to keep it from spreading. >> this is the first time we've had this disease in guinea and the first time the government

has been preoccupied with a disease that doesn't have a cure. >> detection is difficult. >> you cannot just look at a sick person and say he has it. systematically if it looks like ebola, we'll send them to the center. >> severe fever, diarrhea, organ failure and internal bleeding are the symptoms. the only course of action is quarantine. it's highly contagious and can be passed on just by touching an infected person or animal. it's believed this outbreak of the virus was originally transmitted to humans from bats in the forest regions of guinea. the government has banned the eating of bats and other bush meat. >> you see i'm afraid. i have stopped eating meat. >> this market normally full of forest foods is now empty. fear of ebola spread as reaching

neighboring countries, too, some ever strengthened border controls and lieery i can't and sierra leone are inspecting suspect the cases. >> ebola was discovered in the congo and there's been no evidence of it in africa until now. >> los angeles airport want to know how to beef up security after last fall's deadly shooting. the ntsb is calling for more officers at ticket counters and check points. last november, a gunman pushed through security, opening fire, killing a t.s.a. officer and injuring others. he is pleading inning to more than a dozen charges, including murder. >> a texas family is filing a civil lawsuit against a texas teen who killed four people in a drunk driving accident. the mcconnell family said a jury trial is the only way to get accountability from his family.

their 13-year-old son was injured in the accident last june. the 16-year-old couch was only given 10 months probation after claiming of a fluency does a caused the deadly wreck. he admitted to driving drunk and having drugs in his system. >> a report by new york city school officials explaining how an autistic teen later slipped away from class, later found dead, running off from school last fall, his body found in the east river in january. his mother told them that he was a flight risk but that was never shared with the school. it was found that he ran past a security officer who was distracted by another student. >> the number of american children diagnosed with autism is getting higher and with a single cause unknown, no news maybe alarming to a lot of people especially those planning to have families. >> erica pitzi joins us now. this is disturbing. >> it can be for people planning families, a new sharp increase in diagnosis just as a new study

pinpoints a cause of a complicated condition that affects nearly 2 million people nationwide. >> p.s.a.'s raise awareness about autism. the advocacy group autism speaks is about to launch a new one just as new numbers of released about the prevalence of the order nationwide. research on kids in 2010 shows one out of every 68 children had some type of autism spectrum disorder, nearly 30% higher than it was in 2008 and 60% higher than 2006. >> sadly, we're not surprised. this doesn't shock me at all. liz heads autism speaks and said the increase could be due to more awareness about symptoms. the c.d.c. said it could be about better diagnosis of the disorder as well as a growing number of children with autism who were doing well in school and not detected before. the findings come one day after

the new england journal of medicine published a study on possible cause for the disorder. a detailed analysis was done of brain tissue in children who died young, finding abnormal development patches in the brains of those with and you have the fix, pointing to a problem during pregnancy. >> we're helping to really get clarity on the answer of when things are happening that lead to this disorder. the clarity now is pointing more and more solidly to the second and third trimester. >> the hope is research might lead to the development of early detection. >> if kids can be identified and treated early, they have a better chance of improving. >> it made all the difference in the world, the services that he was able to access through early intervention. >> the c.d.c. recommends having children screened as early as 18 months old. parents can check for signs earlier than that.

by six months, babies should be smiling whereby tracking things with their eyes. parents should act early if they have concerns. del. >> a federal appeals court upholding new abortion restrictions in texas, forcing 20 lynn knicks around the state to close, the panel overturning a lower court decision saying the rules were unconstitutional and serve no medical purpose. more regulations will take effect later this year as scheduled in texas, setting up a likely appeal to the u.s. supreme court. >> the houston shipping channel that closed after march 22 oil spill has fully reopened. >> every year march madness heights some of the best talent in the ncaa. a lot of that talent doesn't even play three or four years on the college level. >> a talk show late night

recently asked people on the street who identified as college basketball fans if they could name a single player in the ncaa tournament. almost no one could. it's just one more data point in what seems to be a trend. the college basketball player with the household name appears to have gone all the way of the dinosaur. >> march is the pinnacle of the men's college basketball season with the ncaa tournament shining bright as a jewel on the american sports landscape. each year since 1939, one university walked off the course as kings of the collegiate hardwood. until the mid 1990's, it was usually the iconic star athlete that led those teams and molded the ncaa brand to what it is today. some of of the biggest names in the history of basketball went through the rigors are playing four years at the collegiate level and endoing so, created memorable moments and rivalries for their universities. >> kids had to go to school for

four years. today we don't see that but in that era there were a lot of players and i don't want to disrespect anyone, but there are a number of players that played in that era that really were game changers not only for their team but particularly for the fan base. >> the key to it was that they were in school for longer periods of time, either one year or two years, so you built up this period of time where you got familiar with teams and players. i think that allowed basketball fans in general just to watch teams for a longer period of time. >> great rivalries and there was a connection, a connection between the fans and the players, because you really got to know them. you saw the players develop, you saw their games evolve, over four years. that was the big key, four years. >> in 1971, the supreme court decision allowed high school basketball athletes to be drafted into the pros. while some star athletes opted to go that route. it wasn't until 1995 when kevin

garnett announced his decision to forego college that the game really began to change. some of the greatest nba players of the last generation have taken the ultimate professional leap, including today's best player, lebron james. however, many of failed due to a lack of mentoring, training and maturity. in 2006 to try to rectify the situation, the nba announced the one and done rule, forcing student athletes to attend college for at least one year. once again, the face of ncaa basketball changed. >> most of these kids are coming in now, it's crazier that be ever, one and done. i got to leave in six months, and, you know, we don't recruit on that. everybody thinks we do. we don't. i tell kids you need to stay at least two years, maybe more, but if something happens after one, you know i'm not holding you back. >> you're one and done, you're kind of out the door before you enter. getting coaching in college where it's not about the

individual, but about the team, it's about the school, it's about the coach, having that foundation before you come into the nba i think would certainly benefit the nba and players. >> the iconic college men's basketball player may have helped forge the yearly popularity, not to mention the yearly profitability of march madness. however, the real issue for the ncaa going forward continues to be the lack of star power, and fan familiarity in the college game, especially in the months prior to bracket mania. the loss of iconic four year players is an issue that continues to playing the ncaa brand. gone are the players who used to dominate the game. >> new nba commissioner adam silver is on record saying he'd like to see players stay in school two years. he is quick to add that such a rule would have to be collectively bargained with the nba players union. >> i don't even watch the nba because i don't know who the pro players are anymore because you

didn't follow them in college. these people are just new every year. >> half the fun of watching the tournament is getting used to these new guys. >> there's a great argument about it being a team sport. thanks so much. >> the problem of homelessness extending far beyond big cities, the story of a young girl in rural maine who's been homeless since she was 15. >> in our next hour, as president obama prepares to meet with saudi arabian leaders, the steps to ease tensions over the u.s.'s changing policy on the middle east. >> here is a live look at the arch in washington square park and new york city on a grave friday morning. the rain is coming.

>> welcome to al jazeera america. straight ahead, we'll tell you the story of a homeless teenager trying build a better future.

>> first, let's see where the wet weather's going to be today, because there's going to be some of it. nicole mitchell is back. >> there already is some in places like the south. this is part of that same storm system that moved through missouri, iowa yesterday and create add lot of severe weather as it did so. this damage that we're looking at in a second is out of trenton, missouri, eight different tornado reports between missouri and southern iowa. some were funnel clouds. weather service goes in the day after to see how strong those storms were. reports through the south, a lot of that missouri into arkansas, most were hail reports. that's what we're going to see the biggest threat be again today, one place had two inches of hail, almost looking like snow on the ground. we've got storms in the south. that's also going to be some heavy rain.

this is all all the way up the east coast, more rain moving in. around the great lakes, gusty winds, watch for the strong storms, hail and damages winds the biggest threat not out of the question that we'd have an isolated tornado. this keeps things very moist over the course of the weekend for the east coast. >> welcome to spring. nicole mitchell, thank you very much. >> we hear stories about homeless youth in big cities. this girl has been homeless since she was 15 in rural maine. she works toward graduation and talks about her future. >> it is transition living, not long term. some people come in here, they're basically a stray dog. they come in long enough to get their wounds healed and then leave. >> a lot of here are homeless because of family conflict and they're being asked to leave their homes or sometimes choose to run away.

>> i moved in with my dad and my step mom. my mom isn't a parent. she never has been. she's just an unfit mother. she never had custody of me, let alone keep custody of my sisters. i've never actually been through a full year of school. it was just frustrating having to do all this stuff and worry about where he was going to live the next day, also. as soon as i came in here, i got along really well and i just realized she really does help. >> before, she was withdrawn, she would sit and read and hair would be down and just kind of isolated, because she'd been to so many schools and didn't have her roots. now that she's in here, she's laughing, smiling, joking, you know, doing great in her classes, passing, i mean a traditional student gets six credits a year. i think last year, she got 10.

>> there are public places like boston, new york, inner cities, people are aware with issues of homeless youth. in the rural areas, there's less awareness. >> it's important to have programs like the beginnings available to youth. it gives them time and a safe place to be. it helps them move forward. >> i definitely learned that sometimes the people trying to help you are the ones you should really let help you. they really want to help. they wouldn't be offering the help if they didn't. i'm excited to graduate, because i'll be away from everything, but it's definitely going to be odd, like worth it. i think it's going to open every opportunity to me. you can do so much more with a high school diploma than you can without one. >> i don't know what i want to do yet. i'll figure it out. >> after a long hidden journey, this painting is back where it

belongs in the baltimore museum of art, stolen from the museum in 1951, a virginia woman said she bought it at a flea market for $7 and tried to auction it. a federal judge roomed that the painting belonged to the museum. it's called on the shore of the sand and was painted around 1879. >> the daredevil they called spiderman in france has done it again, using a steady grip to climb to the top of the orion tower. even police applauded when he made it to the top. he said his climb is business as usual. >> i was just thinking about the last 10 meters. i knew that the structure was different, so i was having having that on my mind and i was just thinking i just need to climb carefully. >> even though he is 52 years

old, robert has no influence stop cleaning tall buildings anytime soon. >> nearly one week after that mud slide in o.s.o., washington, hope for finding survivors fading. 17 dead now after rescuers found the body of an infant. the search for missing malaysia airlines flight 370 shift to a new location, moving the search area to 1100 miles off the coast of perth, australia. >> president obama head to go saudi arabia to rare strained relations with leaders there. >> this repair original strait various hitting the auction block. what makes it worth $45 million. >> argentina wants to be recognized for a good cup of joe. >> parts of the west coast and

most of the east coast are in for a wet weekend. what else is in store? i'll have that outlook. >> the aljazeera morning news, del is back with you in two minutes. have a great friday morning. al jazeera america gives you the total news experience anytime, anywhere. more on every screen. digital, mobile, social. visit aljazeera.com. follow @ajam on twitter. and like aljazeera america on facebook for more stories, more access, more conversations. so you don't just stay on top of the news, go deeper and get more perspectives on every issue. al jazeera america.

>> the emotional toll as rescue crews vin searching for victims of the washington mud slide. >> the president on all the way to saudi arabia this morning. >> three weeks and counting since flight 370 disappeared, new information about how fast it was going as new debris is spotted by the australian military. >> argentina already known for

the tango now seeking recognition for the art of relaxing with a cup of joe. >> these are the faces of some of the victims confirmed dead in the washington state mud slide, that number growing. welcome to al jazeera america. i'm del walters. exhausting and emotionally draining are the only words to describe what the first responders there are going through nearly a week after that wall of mud slid down on to the town of oso. the most recent victim an infant, bringing the number of dead to 17 another nine that rescuers can see but not reach. the area is known for its beauty, despite the dangers. >> this is the river valley,

introduced to the world this week, a place of death and destruction, of lives lost, bodies found and grim numbers. >> the number's 90 last night missing or unaccounted for. that's still the case. >> this is the valley, too, and this, a place of extraordinary beauty. there is steep terrain and water everywhere you look in this region. the same retreating glaciers that gouged out this landscape left behind a lot of this, loose material. the rain rarely stops, gravity never goes away, so land slide risk is built in to the landscape. ask steve bloom and neighbors and they'll tell you the veinty of the place balances that risk. >> you can see if those clouds weren't there right now and you can see the mountain that's right behind here, it's all worth it, the beauty, the paradise. >> the county cleared people to build homes here in the very part of paradise wiped out by

this lie, despite previous studies that the slope was unstable and catastrophic failure possible. in 2008, it damned the river and caused flooding, but building continued after that. >> it's a nice area. we have an 88-acre farm. >> local firefighters have spent days dealing with body recovery downstream. they shrug or suggestions that they shouldn't live where they do. >> if i thought that that hill would never slide again after the hill in 2006, it blocked the river then, not going to happen again for 100 years, but it did. >> i don't really think about the danger. there's danger everywhere. there's danger where you drive to work, danger where you drive home from work. >> still emergency management consultant eric holdman said some areas should be considered too dangerous to build on.

>> it's land use planning and individuals thinking about are they at risk and what level of risk are they willing to take. >> how much is the weather affecting the search for survivors today? >> it's just sprinkling right now, but stormy weather is expected to move in today and last throughout the weekend. they're predicting possible thunderstorms for tomorrow, so the search for survivors, while it continues, a complicated search with potential thunderstorms and certainly stormy weather is going to make it more challenging, at this point, this is still considered a rescue operation and not a recovery operation. they admit that finding anyone alive at this point, the chance are very slim, but still they are holding out hope, because this is a rescue operation, they are holding off on using any heavy equipment, like large

bulldozers. instead, they're using shovels, even their own hands to dig through the debris looking for any possible survivors. del. >> we're their reporters are going to get a closer look at the area today. >> that's right, del, up until this point, officials have determined it was just unsafe for crews to go in, the land potentially unstable and all that debris. rescuers reporting it's 30-40 feet deep in some areas. it's been waist deep for the rescuers in some areas. a camera crew will be allowed to go in today, so we are expecting new images soon, up-close images of the did he ever station. >> a brianna washington reporting live for us from arlington washington, more rain is in the forecast for the pacific northwest. let's turn to nicole mitchell.

how much rain are they going to get? >> depending where you are, the rain is going to add up, could easily see a half inch or more. that's a lot of rain for an overly saturated area. >> you can see heavier bands of rain, oregon and washington, the whole area is in a drought scenario, but you don't want all of it at once. definitely you can see the core, three or four inches in this northern part of california expected. that's just today, and then more of this as i said over the course of the weekend, so that's going to cause problems with any recovery efforts, but also -- and rescue efforts, but could put more areas in the flood and landslide risk. this is today, but this actually runs through the weekend. by the time we get to the end of the weekend, you can even see another storm system coming in and then another one for next week and next weekend, as well. it's going to stay very

persistently wet, which it already has been and all all the way back through february. some places like the mud slide area have had 200% of the rain that we would normally see. this has been exceptionally wet. it's not the only place that we're concerned about heavy amounts of rain. this is some of the same storm system that brought the damage to the midsection of the area yesterday. not just today, but also into the day tomorrow, a very wet scenario as we start our weekend, so a lot going on on both sides of the country. del. >> nicole, thank you very much. >> the international search for missing malaysia airlines flight 370 taking a new course, authorities saying debris has been spotted in an area that shifts the search to a new spot. crews are scouring an area 1200 miles west of perth, australia, more than 400 objects are gloating in the sea, but it's unclear if they're kepted

to that plane that vanished. randall pinkston is live in washington. >> for a week now, officials have been releasing satellite photos and images taken over the southern indian ocean saying that the debris fields were credible leads to the possible location of malaysia airlines flight 370. they were saying that the analysts were going to be refining and reviewing satellite data. that has led to this new location that's closer to australia. >> day 21 in the search for missing malaysia airlines flight 370 resumed friday, but this time, the international effort has shifted to a new location, some 1200 miles off the coast of australia. >> the new search area is approximately 319,000 square kilometers in area and about 1850 kilometers werth of perth. the australian spatial

intelligence organization is retasking satellites to capture images of the new area. >> australian investigators base their finding on new information. data from when the plane turned back toward malaysia and before radar contact was lost. that ship moved the search 700 miles to the northeast of this location. >> the information provided by the international investigative team is the most credible lead we currently have in the search for aircraft wreckage. this is our best estimate of the area in which the aircraft is likely to have crashed into the ocean. >> australian investigators also revealed that the jet was traveling faster than previously estimated, resulting in increased fuel usage and reducing the possibility it could have reached as far south where teams have been looking for more than a week. >> this is the normal business of search and rescue operations that new information comes to light, refined nationals take to you a different place. i don't count the original work a waste of time. >> the new lead also takes into

account possible debris shifts by strong ocean currents and gives the ships and aircrafts searches for the plane a greater advantage from the previous search zone. >> that will increase significantly the amount of time they can spend out there by about two hours, so that would abvery positive thing. now we've also learned this morning that the americans are sending down another poseidon search aircraft to bother the number of assets we have here to search for 370. >> that plane is coming from a u.s. military base in okinawa japan. meanwhile, the investigation into the pilot's home flight simulator is yielding few clues that the pilot deliberately changed the plane's course. >> there were six ships operating in the original search area, but neither ship picked up any of the debris, so officials don't know if it was just junk or may have been connected to malaysia airlines flight 370. >> the attorneys are lying up,

laying the groundwork for future legal action in the future. >> an illinois law firm filed for discovery from bowing and the malaysian airlines. we don't know how many clients they have, but the lawyer said the theory is that there was mechanical or design defect in the 777, something based on previous problems with the plane in other locations. >> randall, as always, thank you very much. >> coming up in a few minutes, air traffic controllers in the united states rely on old methods to do their jobs. a few high tech changes could allow them to track planes while they're in flight. >> as mike viqueira reports, jair and iran are expected to top the agenda with president

obama in saudi arabia. >> in egypt, president obama backed the muslim brotherhood, a group the saudis view as a destabilizing threat. over jair, where the saudis were disappointed after mr. obama backed away from a bombing campaign in response to the chemical attacks by the syrian regime, deferring to congress. >> the saudis thought that a real leader would have explained it to them and made them an offer they couldn't refuse. >> iran with the u.s. secretly arranging to sit down with the saudi regional rival for talks on it's nuclear program. >> i wish i could offer simple answers to these concerns in new and neat descriptions for these challenges. i cannot. >> the saudis and united states have been locked in a mutual embrace, never more clear than

when king abdullah visited president bush in 2005. saudi arabia has been a major supplier of oil for much of that history. that could mean less dependence on audi oil and saudis themselves. >> the relationship has grown beyond oil. saudi arabia bought 72 american f15s, the largest by any single country. regional security and the fight against terror have become a mutual concern. >> no country or collection of country can do what the united states has done and continues to do. >> as the relationship became strained, experts say it was time for the president to come see the king. >> i do think that at least symbolically what will come out of this is a reaffirmation by both sides of a relationship that both need. >> that's aljazeera's mike

viqueira reporting, the u.n. condemning a vote leading to russia's annexation of significance, calling it an invalid referendum. ukraine's former president viktor yanukovych is calling for a referendum. what can you tell us about that statement? >> that statement came out on russia's news agency. interestingly, it came out first in english, calling on referendums in the region for self determination. he claims to remain the legitimate president that the government in kiev is illegitimate and the people of ukraine should have a right to decide. of course that's a worrying sign in kiev. it was a referendum here in crimea on march 16 that paved all the way for crimea to

declare its independence and become a part of russia. that is really a concern in eastern ukraine. we've got russians amassing troops on the border, a massive troop build up on ukraine's eastern border, ukraine concerned that russia might use any kind of pretext to come in and protect ethnic russians, which is what they said they were doing here. of course, in eastern ukraine, it might be a little more complicated because it is ukraine proper, it's not a peninsula that's easily defensible, so a complicated situation essential worrying that yanukovych is making that call. >> ukraineed former prime minister tymoshenko announcing that she is going to run for the upcoming presidential elections. what is the reaction on the ground there to her announcement? >> she's considered by many ukrainians as part of the old

guard, a long political history and reflects the confusion of ukrainian politics. she ousted viktor yanukovych, became prime minister and when she finished being prime minister, he jailed her for corruption. when he was ousted as president, newt government in kiev released her from prison and now she's running for president. many people say that her history, that she's part of the old guard, not the new kind of politician, not the new kind of president they want. many say they wouldn't mind seeing her as an elder statesman in ukrainian politics but want to see something new. corruption that been a real problem pory crane in the past decade, that's really a lot of the reason if you talk to ukrainians on the streets, the reason they demonstrated for so long and ousted viktor yanukovych. they wanted a chance to clean up the country. some see yulia tymoshenko as part of the old past as opposed to a new future. >> if you get any sleep, i understand they're moving the clocks forward two hours in

sevastopol. >> that's right, on sunday, sevastopol will change two hours to moscow time. another symbolic change here that this is clearly russian territory, as if we needed reminders, there are russian flags everywhere, the russian ruble is going to come into effect in 2016, russian banks changing over to russian rules. nobody can buy or sell an apartment right now because they don't have the property lists. nobody is sure that the interest rates will be or russian law will be on those property exchanges. a lot of administration changes happening here as crimea becomes a part of russia. >> we will be very kind to you on monday morning, jennifer, thank you very much. >> today is the deadline for the white house to announce changes to the n.s.a.'s collection of telephone records, the president offering proposals that would place american phone records in the hands of individual service providers. the n.s.a. would need a court order to get the records, but that requirement could be waived

during times of national crisis. thursday, the president issued a written statement about the plan, saying: >> you tube is blocked in turkey this morning, authorities denied access on thursday after discovering what they say is a threat to national security. they are referring to a post claiming to be audio of turkish officials discussing possible attacks in syria. last week, turkey's prime minister blocked twitter after users tweeted about it is corruption scandal surrounding his administration. >> the murder trial of south african blade runner oscar pistorius has been postponed until next month do to illness. one of the judge's legal advisors has gotten sick.

that trial now set to resume april 7. >> the importance of the early diagnosis of autism. a new study suggesting on how experts -- on just how young testing for the condition should begin. >> ukrainian troops now fully evacuating crimea. as you heard jennifer glass say, russia in control as world leaders rule the annexation is illegal. ♪ >> that's the sweet sound of $45 million, the starting price for this rare stradivarius.

>> it appears to be something that is rare these days, the sun, not raining yet, but that doesn't mean it's not going to rain soon. welcome to al jazeera america. i'm del walters. a look at that rainy forecast today, here's nicole mitchell.

>> that's motor nature teasing before all that rain comes in. the south and east coast, ahead of that, we have had milder air. you are already noticing places like new york, 47 degrees with those peeks of sunshine, get it while you can, because a lot of the weekend and today are going to be rainy. on the backside of that next system, cooler air, minneapolis 29 versus milder temperatures yesterday. you can see the contrast as you go from chicago back to ahead of the front 73. temperatures don't drop too much. memphis goes down about 10 degrees as all of this comes through. the other thing you can notice over the course of the weekend, the midsection of the country gets mild again pretty fast, denver at 70 degrees for that saturday forecast. this is the dryer part of the country. back to you. >> in business news, calendar matter suing visa for rigging rates on the amount retailers pay on credit card transactions. it wants $5 billion in damages,

saying the fees cost more than $350 billion between 2004 in november of 2012. the move comes after wal-mart and other etailers opted out of a settlement, visa declining company comment. >> blackberry by reporting a smaller than expected loss, saying the financial plan is working. the struggling phone maker is shifting away from the high end u.s. market, focusing on the emerging markets. one tech watcher said it still has the possibility to grow. >> they've been talking about use be their secure infrastructure to deliver person to person payment services in developing countries. that's a great potential place, like indonesia. >> stock is up 21% this year, despite recent weaknesses in the

technology sector. >> wall street looking to open higher, dow futures up 36 points after two straight days of losses, starting the day at 16264, the s&p at 1849. the nasdaq at 4151. overseas, asian markets ended mostly higher, japan's nikkei adding to thursday's gains, closing at a new two week high. europeans markets are hire. >> ford adding 300 new jobs at it's lima, ohio engine plant, invest be a half billion dollars to up grade to making a new engine for the pickup truck. >> australia's prime minister saying he has talked to egypt's interim president and called for the police of were you ever our

colleagues, three aljazeera america journalists have been held. >> tony abbot spoke to egypt's interim president. the prime minister asked for the president's assistance in securing peter's release, saying he was a journalist doing his job and had no intention of damaging egypts interests. it's understood that egypt's president said that he, too hoped the case would be resolved as soon as possible and that he and his colleagues are receiving all necessary support and legal assistance. the details of the phone call are less important that it happened at all. up to now, tony abbot hasn't said anything publicly, has been criticized for that in australia for not speaking out. we found out about this phone conversation on friday even though it happened thursday. peter's parents were very pleads to the prime minister has

intervened. this is what they had to say: >> very thrilled. >> glad! >> yes. >> you know, without any kind of reflection on anybody, we weren't expecting it at any moment and it was a great surprise to have that information. look, i can't quote him, because i don't know what was said, but clearly, my understanding is that the primary purpose of the call was to seek peter's speedy release and a resolution of the case. >> during that interview, they were asked repeatedly whether they felt tony abbot should have intervened earlier. they were diplomatic and said who knows, in diplomacy, a lot happens behind the scenes. they said the conversation certainly made them more hopeful. they said they had high hopes but modest expect is as. they didn't expect to be greeting their son and his

colleagues next week but sounded more hopeful than a week ago. there is more hope in australia that this case may be reaching a resolution and that peter and his colleagues may be released soon. >> that is andrew thomas reporting from sydney. aljazeera rejects all charges against its staff and demands their immediate release. >> supporting first responders in their time of need. in washington state, it has been an emotional and exhaustive search to find people still buried under that mud slide. >> a growing number of children diagnosed with autism. we talk about the importance of early detection for parents. >> argentina wants to officially make coffee brewing part of its culture. some say they are just not doing it right. >> the clock has not yet struck midnight for those high flying central la stories from ohio. sweet 16 highlights coming up.

>> welcome back, i'm del walters. lawmakers on capitol hill backing bills to aid ukraine and punish russia for annexing significance, the house voting by a total of 309-19. the president is urging u.s. allies to stand united against russia. the president is on his way to saudi arabia. >> the death toll in the washington state mud slide rising to 17 on thursday, the body of a four-month-old was identified. officials are not optimistic about finding more survivors. heavy rain is expected today, which will only make matters worse. >> the american red cross and salvation army are helping out with relieve efforts in the area. den in it smith is the president of the united wayen washington

way. thanks for getting up early this morning and let me play you a clip from one of the first responders as we begin our discussion. we're not changing gears or the pace of this. we're going to exhaust all options to try to find somebody alive, all of these resources that we've had here since saturday, if we just find one more person that's alive, to me, that's worth it. that's worth it. we're going to continue on. >> you can hear his voice beginning to crack. clearly we are starting to see signs that this is taking a toll on that on the community physically and emotionally. what is the united way doing to help? >> first i want to thank you so much for your interest in what is happening to our community out here and i want to say how much our hearts go out to the families that have been affected by this and the communities, and our first responders, you heard one of them that's been there since the first hours of the this, the first responders,

american red cross staff and their volunteers and our emergency managing folks have been there for almost a week now and it is very difficult, very devastating work. a lot of them that are out there carefully searching through this mud slide that has occurred. they're looking for their own family members, and friends, people that they know well, so it's been very heartbreaking and we know there's still about 90 names that are on the list of people that are missing. >> dennis, i was going to say i've listen said to these news conferences as they have taken place, many of them i've watched off the air and when they pull a body from the rubble and especially in the case of that four-month-old child, you can see the emotional drain on their faces. will there be any psychological counseling available for workers there as clearly there's a need? >> definitely. it became very clear by tuesday, three days after the event, that the community wanted to be able to help and respond and a number of funds were set up.

you mentioned the red cross, salvation army, the local hospital set up a foundation. the people that work with the united way said how can we hope. we set up a recovery fund, and that recovery fund at this point has about $650,000 that has been donated. as a recovery fund, it will be for the helping of the families that have been affected, the communities and the social service agencies, as you mentioned. there's a lot of on going effort that will be needed. there will be lock term mental health counseling for family members for the workers that there are and these funds are all to be directed to help that. >> dennis, not the first time you have been asked this question, not the first time we have asked it, how do we make sure this money the people are donating are going to wind up to

the people who need it most. >> that's a great question. i was very proud of our board, they very quickly said we want 100% of the funds that come from united way here to go and you had towards this. nothing will be taken in terms of administrative fees. in fact, we added -- we started the fund with $25,000 from our own endowment fund, so we will be moving that money up very quickly so that it gets out to the various organizations that need the service. we are holding a special meeting on monday of all of the various groups that are receiving funds and the agencies they'll be working and with that, we'll be putting together a coordinated plan to make sure that these dollars are used in the way that the donors are wanting us to use them. >> dennis, before i let you go, because i know you have a lot to do today, what do you need most? >> what we need most is financial responses. i want to share that some of the

names that your viewers will recognize, the bowing company, j.p. morgan chase, starbucks have all donated $50,000 to this united way recovery fund. at&t and warehouse are $25,000 each. our abc affiliate conducted a telethon. gifts came from places like texas and around the country. if your viewers which to help out, they can go to our united way website. it's uwsc.org. they will find a way in which they can donate by credit card. financial gifts are the best way to give, because they can be channeled to the efforts and needs that we have. >> dennis smith, the c.e.o. of

the united way in the county. thank you very much. >> thank you very much, del. >> excuse me for cutting you off, dennis, thank you very much. >> new technology is changing all the way we track planes, as aljazeera science and technology coach explains, it uses satellite now rather than radar. >> as your plane pushes back and gets ready for takeoff, it's interesting a sprawling and complex system. it's quite safe with only 0.2 major accidents per million departures, but the national air space is very inefficient. >> it's a very manual pros. it starts at the gate with a ramp controller, and he or she will then hand them off to a tower controller for the airport surface. they will be handed off to yet another controller in the departure or arrival area and they'll yet again be handed off to another en route controller and likely, very likely many en route controllers. >> since no central system cord nights all those people, the

f.a.a. is working on one that will. the new system is the next generation air transportation system and the agency has commissioned nasa to build new tracking software for it. the system will replace the current radar-based ground control with g.p.s., a technology capable of tracking every plane. the system now release on humans handing planes to one another, which makes it possible to coordinate far in advance. >> there's a lot of variability. these are limitations of the human mind. they can't plan far enough ahead. >> here in the united states, the most technologically 50 skated society in the world, we still use strips of paper to negotiate the airway the planes are in. that is going to be replaced with a software system that can issue recommendations to the ramp operators to decide when you leave the great. they have to integrate that with what the air traffic control to your is doing. then you add in the en route pros and arrival process on the

other end and you're looking at an incredibly complicated system to upgrade. >> two costs are the amount of fuel their burning and the amount of time they're paying crew to operate the aircraft. >> most planes already have several pieces of the necessary equipment, such as adsp, the navigation system. what we don't have yet is the coordinating software. a system like this could not have saved malaysia airlines flight 370. that plane was outfitted with it, that's how we know about its movements. by 2020, it will be pry impossible to lose track of a commercial flight in the united states. >> that new technology can help shorten routes, save time and fuel and reduce air traffic delays. >> the president on his way to saudi arabia at this hour after

wrapping up his european tour earlier this morning. the president is trying to repair strained relations with riyadh. thanks for being with us. you believe that the dynamics of this meeting are going to be a lot different than other meetings. what's changed in the region since 2009? >> there are four subjects to be discussed today, some more important than others. what has changed between the first time president obama met the king and today, things have changed. the arab spring has taken place, but for the president of the united states when he met the

king, american economy was collapsing. president obama was very new, so was overwhelmed with the presidency itself. when he met with the king in 2009, he was in a very, very bad position and needed all the help he could get that that's why he bowed to the king that generated a lot of criticism of the president. today, the president is in a very, very strong position, economy is recovering. the united states is producing more energy than saudi arabia itself. >> on that note, how do you expect that to change things, the fact that the united states by 2015 will be the world's large evident oil prosser? >> it will definitely undermine the saudi influence, which is already dwindling, not only the

saudis, but opec in general, for the united states and entire community. it will reduce the saudi influence and the united states policy and will make them more vulnerable in terms of pressure from the united states to take the front stand in terms of human rights and other issues in the middle east and beyond. >> i want to read to you a quote from a former saudi intelligence head and ambassador to the u.s. he says: >> with that as backdrop, it seems the saudi no longer believes the u.s. means what it says. >> no, the saudis, he is not the

most diplomatic official and he talks too much. the united states for the first time, which has definitely abtag nicing the saudis and other players in the middle east especially the saudis, the united states for the first time is taking charge of its own interests and policy in the middle east as opposed to the saudis and other people telling them what to do. this is what is frustrating the saudis, also scaring them, because the saudis have always convinced the united states that without them, the american interests would be destroyed. the saudis biggest fear is not to be needed and not to be the top gun in the middle east. that's why they are actually panicking. >> the founder and director of the center for democracy and

human rights in saudi arabia joined us from berkeley, california this morning. thank you very much. >> you're welcome. >> the number of american children diagnosed with autism is growing, and with a single cause still unknown, this news is especially alarming to many people planning families. >> new numbers show a sharp increase in diagnosis, just as a new study pinpoints a possible cause of the complicated condition that affects nearly 2 million people nationwide. >> p.s.a.'s like this one help raise awareness about autism. autism speaks is about to launch a new one next month as new numbers are reds about the prevalence of the disorder nationwide. research on kids in 2010 shows one out of every 68 children had some type of autism spectrum disorder, 30% higher than in 2008 and 60% higher than 2006.

>> sadly, we're not surprised. this doesn't shock me at all. >> liz heads autism speaks and said it could be due to more awareness about symptoms. the c.d.c. says it could be because of better diagnosis with the disorder with children not detected before because they were doing well in school. the findings come one day after the new england journal of medicine published a small study on a possible cause. researchers at the university of california san diego did a detailed analysis of brain tissue in children who died young. they found abnormal development patches in the brain of those with autism pointing to a problem in pregnancy. >> we're help to go get clarity on the answer of when things are happening to lead to this disorder. the clarity now is pointing more and more solidly to the second and third trimester. >> the hope is research like this might lead to the

development of early detection. if kids can be identified and treated early, they have a better chance of improving. >> it made all the difference in the world, the services that he was able to access through early intervention. >> the c.d.c. recommends having children screened as early as 18 months old. parents can check for signs earlier. doctors say by six months, a baby should be smiling and able to track things with their eyes, by 12 months, should be responding to their names and pointing to objects. parents should act early if they're concerned. >> turning to sports, the big dance continues and one school is still dancing and surprising a lot of people. john henry smith is here with more. good morning. >> good morning, what would be big dance be without a cinderella. the ncaa tournament served up a little history for starters, for only the second time in history, a 10 seed took on an 11 seed.

opening game of the sweet 16, dayton taking on stanford, showing how you bust up a zone, clam it. later, up three, cal davis sitting on his own, finds him for three. dayton up 10, jordan in the corner, all by his lonesome, not guarding the perimeter. second half, dayton in transition, more of the same. sigh better finds himself all by his lonesome for three. dayton wins to advance to the elite eight. >> saturday, the flyers next take on top-seeded florida. the gators rolled into the elite eight with their 79-68 win over ucla. archie miller will have a chance to make history should dayton win that game but only if his brother sean should get a win, too. they were in action against san

diego state, an abc news win would make the brothers the first to lead the competition. later in the second half, arizona up three, johnson scored all 15 of his points in the final three minutes of the game. arizona up three, johnson drains the clutch three. arizona wins 70-64 to punch their ticket to the elite eight. >> the kentucky wild cats or arizona wildcats have second seeded wisconsin waiting for them in the elite eight saturday. the badgers took down six seeded baylor thursday, 69-52. there are four sweet six games on tap, all of them happening today. the marquee matchup goes down in indianapolis, that's where the

had feeds and mock case i mean fourth seeded louisville and kentucky lock horns for the second time this season. louisville won back in december. not only does this matchup feature two bitter rivals, it features the last two national chance and arguably the two biggest named coaches in the sport, rick patino and john calipari. >> we understand what's at steak. i've been in the state 20 years and the game to me is really only had difficult consequences but to lose it twice, once two years ago when they stopped our run in the final four and the next game we played. they're playing extremely hard and playing with great energy, playing physical, not afraid to bump and grind whether it's inside, outside. they're just a good team. they're a really good team. again, of all the teams left,

they may be playing better than anybody. >> michigan takes on tennessee. in new york, seven seeded u conn takes on iowa state. virginia takes on michigan state, marking the return of the ncaa tournament to new york city after a 53 year absence. hard to believe, del. >> they bleed basketball in kentucky. john henry smith, thank you very much. >> walking through the argentinean capitol, you see a cafe on every corner. they're so passionate about their coffee, they now believe it should be declared a cultural heritage. >> morning, afternoon or evening, the residents of buenos aires drink coffee. espressos, with cream or double in a cup or a mug, the art of

coffee drinking is a part of daily life and developed by spanish and italian immigrants. >> more than a custom, it's an excuse for to us meet and chat for a while, 20 minutes, half hour. it's a good excuse. >> the ministry of culture called to declare coffee drinking a part of the cultural heritage. ual with tango, dance and music. the city has designated more than 50 of what it calls notable cafes, local landmarks, each with its own history, and clientele. there are few finer places in the world in which to drink coffee, just chat, to read, to write, or just to stair blankly into space. the truth is, the coffee

sometimes could be a little better. there's a new wave of better beans and brewing methods which seems to be to their taste. >> the reaction has been one of surprise. they've been drinking something out of habit and something they try. >> delicious and ask themselves, why was i drinking that? >> the coffee drinking culture is changing, the independent cafes facing challenges from outside. something for the locals to discuss over a cup of coffee, obviously. aljazeera, buenos aires. >>ar jen tinnens may be famous for running on coffee but don't crack the list have the top coffee drinkers, the dutch drink an average of two and a half cups each and every day. americans by comparison sip a

few drips less than a cup on average. argentina, even lower, daily per captain at a consumption only 3/10 of a cup. to drink up. >> for the right price, you can make beautiful music. >> this original stradivarius starting at the the cool price of $45 million.

only on al jazeera america >> it's belied this tornado damaged several holes in trenton, missouri. some families losing everything, but no one was injured. welcome to al jazeera america. we're going to get to the storms crossing the country right now. >> that was a potent storm system. we were warning you about it

yesterday and it did develop really where expected. the tornadic activity, northern missouri and southern iowa is what we were looking at. eight different reports, some funnels might not have reached the ground. i'll search the damage and categorize damage today. the area in blue was all hail damage, that is one of our primary risks today, over 50 reports of hail yesterday. that's what we're going to see with this rolling through the south. heavy rain, a quarter from hattiesburg eastward that ha had two or three inches in an hour. flooding is a big concern. on the north side especially into this weekend, areas of snow could pick up to 12 inches. back to you. >> it could be the most expensive musical instrument ever sold. a rare viola auctioned off this spring is valid at $45 million. ♪ >> the finest of all the

stradivarius is said to be mcdonald made in 1719. you're looking at it. you're hearing it. in london for 25 years, this is being sold at august in new york in june with a price tag of $45 million. the renowned rye lynnist, david aaron carpenter is putting it through its pace. >> it's in perfect condition and so well preserved. handed to you 300 years later, to see the people who have played on it as well as the collectors who have collected it, you're part of history when touching and playing on this instrument. >> there's an old joke in london that goes something like this, whenever someone gets into the back of a taxi with a violin case, a taxi driver says have you got a stradivarius in there, mate. sometimes i have.

the violas are extremely rare. there are only 10 complete. this makes the appearance on the market a very, very special event. >> when reading the description, it's very easy to get a bit carried away. the front is alpine spruce, the back a single piece of maple. the consistent rippling flame of the maple slopes downward. the instrument has a strength, weight and muscularity that proclaim it has a force of its own. is it me or is it getting hot in here? >> stradivarius was a pioneer in musical instrument making. no one has ever got it quite as right as he did all these years ago. listen carefully now, and you may be able to hear what he means. ♪

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