it doesn't matter, she can't bring my son back. >> reporter: the head of general motors sent to testify before congress but it's of little confront to the families whose lives were shattered by a deadly defect. >> my boss told me stay at home and we will figure it out from there. >> reporter: unexpected fall out from the landslide in washington state, why the town that was buried by a wall of mud is now being isolated from the outside world.

plus health kwar.gov shutting down as they rush to beat the deadline for health insurance and it may be good news for the obama administration and not once, not twice but hitting the jackpot three times in one month may be the luckiest couple in america right now. ♪ i want you to know we are completely focused on the problem at the highest levels of the company and we are putting the customer first and that is guiding every decision we make. >> stephanie: mary barra apologizing for a defect that claimed at least a dozen lives and last night she mad an emotional apology to the victims as she prepares to go to a hearing on capitol hill and welcome to al jazeera i'm

stephanie sy and this is on the heels of another recall for the troubled auto maker with 1 1/2 million vehicles and a problem with the power steering for 2010, the max, saturn, ion and ora and cobalt and standard chevy malibu and what the new ceo will face at the hearing. >> we are expanding. >> reporter: in mary barra's opening statement the ge, ceo will say they can go wherever they want to regardless of the outcome and the facts are at least a dozen tets and crashes are links to the faulty ignition switch but a memo released by investigators gm knew in 2001 the part had problems and did not meet auto specs before any

accidents or any cars with the part hit the road. yet the company did not issue its first recall until ten years later. nearly 620,000 vehicles were recalled february 10th. by last friday that number had risen to 2.2 million recalled vehicles. the recalls were to repleas switches that can be inadvertently jostled out of position and causing the airbags to stop working and it was approved in 2002 even though sample testing of the switch was below original specs set by gm. gm says barra and top executives knew nothing about the defective switches until january 31st of this year. the house energy and subcommittee will want to know how that is possible. sunday's memo says the national traffic highway safety administration declined to open a formal investigation into the gm ignition issues even after receiving complaints and field

reports about the problems. after the rm barra issued an apology and said trying to locate several thousand in a population of 2.2 million vehicles and distributed to thousands of retailers is impractical and we will provide customers with peace of mind they deserve and expect getting the new switches into all of the vehicles. gm is also feeling the heat from federal prosecutors who are now examining whether the company is criminally liable for failing to disclose the problems with its vehicles. and i'm with al jazeera, new york. >> stephanie: at least a dozen deaths have been linked to the faulty ignition switches. al jazeera's libby casey spoke with the mothers of two victims who died in gm cars. >> sherry expects her son to come home. >> i'm still waiting for him to knock at the door or come in and ask what's for dinner. >> reporter: but michael is never coming back, he was killed

two years ago when his brand new chevy cobalt crashed in a wall and burst into flames. at the heart of tuesday's hearing why executives at the largest auto maker did not act on ignition problems or issue a recall until 2014, a decade after they discovered the problem. >> by their own admission the ceo says that everyday, we were slow as slow could be but you know they are slow and then there is intentional, refusal to act. and we are talking about ten years. we are talking about documents that expose the defect for a decade. and a decision, if you believe their documents, not to fix the defect because of the expense and the cost. >> reporter: robert is an attorney representing 52 owners of gm vehicles including families of 15 people he says were killed in accidents due to faulty ignitions and he says

this hearing should be awake-up call. >> this is an ongoing public safety issue because so many folks we run across are not aware of the recall and if they do not watch tv they are not aware of the dangerousness of the recall. >> reporter: she lost her daughter five years ago an apology doesn't go very far. >> what have they don't other than i'm sorry and our cars are fine. well, let's do something then. to prove that. i would like to hear effective immediately these cars are off the road, immediately, there is two million still out there, how many lives, how many more lives do we have to go through. >> reporter: a federal court in texas is set to hear arguments about a demend that general motors issue an order that all of the recalled vehicles are not safe to drive and owners stop driving them. >> terrible things happen. >> reporter: on march 18 new gem-ceo mary barra issued an

apology for the recall. >> we apologized but that is one step in the journey to resolve this. >> reporter: there is little that the gm executive can say or do. >> it doesn't matter. she can't bring my son back. she can't bring my daughter's brothers back. and she can't bring my grandchildren's uncle back or my mother's grandson back. i'm very angry and i'm tired of being angry mother. >> reporter: still, the families will be on capitol hill this week listening closely as congress asks mary barra for an explanation, libby casey al jazeera washington. >> stephanie: and mary met with family members who lost people at the invitation of their attorney. people who were there says she apologized several times and cried during the emotional meeting. the department of transportation

issued a new safety mandate requiring rearview cameras in all cars, light trucks and buses sold in the united states, the rule will effect new vehicles sold after may 1st, 2018 and backup accidents are blamed for 200 deaths and 15,000 injuries each year. the deadline to sign up for the affordable act has come and gone but getting coverage in the last 24 hours proves to be difficult and healthcare.gov buckled under demand but it may have pushed it close to the goal of 7 million and despite the good news some are worried about the enrollment numbers for young people. >> given that the democrats are sort of politically vulnerable on this issue i suspect what is going to happen is the administration will help out insurers if they end up with fewer young healthy people than expected. >> stephanie: if the law is a success they have to deal with

30 million americans still without health insurance. 24 bodies have now been recovered from the massive mudslide in washington state. 22 people are still missing in the rural community of oso and they are making some progress clearing 300 acres of mud and rubble that a registry says with the major highway closed residents are growing more isolated. >> reporter: as the search moves into a second week the focus remains clear, find the people who are still missing and highway 30 remains closed an old power utility road is opened allowing emergency vehicles to more easily access debris field and travel between sites without a helicopter but residents left with no viable road to travel on frustration is beginning to build. >> we cannot get to work and we have to go completely around which is 150 miles out office our way. >> reporter: rather than make a three-hour commute to work steve

blum is staying put and 530 stays shut down. >> my boss told me to stay at home and we will figure it out from there and i got some friends that she offered up a couch on the other side of the slide to me so i'm right there and i'm sitting around doing nothing. that is up in the air. >> reporter: for a community cutoff from the rest of the county it's more than a physical isolation. >> right now it is the -- it's kind of the quinn essential source of grief and what everybody sees right now is the mudslide and loss of life and pain and suffering and anguish and exhaustion and people are exhausted around here. so highway 530 represents for them really that sense of disaster. and until it's open up again it will always be that way. >> reporter: limited bus service between darington and other communities eases some strain but they are hoping for an expanded schedule. >> if they made it a little bit more time i think that it could

help a lot more people because there is a lot of people that do work at night that live here. >> reporter: and residents wait for their travel lifeline to reopen they continue to mourn their neighbors while counting their blessings. >> we drive there everyday, like clock work, ten times a day we drive through there and like oh, my god what happens if we were going through that and that would have happened, just wiped out, i was like oh, my god. >> reporter: good weather on monday helped crews the last couple days steady rain but clear skies have allowed crews to go in and search areas that up until this point have been under water and sub that with al jazeera in arlington, washington. >> stephanie: they asked for aid with residents and businesses effected by the slide, the total damage is estimates to be more than $10 million. there is a ranging fire burning right now, it's burning at a residential building under construction in gatersburg, maryland, hundreds of miles north of d.c., this is a live

look at the scene, the two-alarm blaze broke out to areas ago and no word on injuries but saying no one lives in the building yet. a significant deadline is approaching for crews looking for the missile malaysia plane and batteries in the plane's black box will run out of power by the end of the week and the defector has joined the hunt in the indian ocean and finding the data recorder could shed light on what caused the disappear -- disappearance. pilot error was the cause of the crash and boeing should bear some responsibility and there were inconsistencies in the auto throttle that contributed to the allegation and they denied it and said the pilots should have aborted the landing. russia may take steps to device ukraine and slood mirror putin told angela merkel he is pulling

back 50,000 troops on the border of eastern ukraine and discussed possible moves to ease tensions in the eeg on and putin promised to pull back troops from the border russian tanks were arriving in crimea and the tanks at military bases vacated by ukraine troops and during a visit to sevastopol they say russia has no intention of giving crimea back to ukraine. annexation of crimea has fears of similar moves in other russian speaking regions and west of the country in maldova some would prefer closer ties with moscow over the eu. >> reporter: after crimea will moldova be next, russian peace keeping troops already man border posts here and they support the region which broke away from the country after a bloody civil war in the early 90s, a finger nail of territory

trapped on the western fridges of ukraine and the prime minister appeared to western leaders and russia to prevent his country falling apart after meeting with polish counterpart this week, strongest supporter to get his country in the eu. >> it's not with russia but in our interest, we are in the middle to see this relative developments unravelling so i hope we will be able to come back to common sense and look at the real problems. >> reporter: maldova were the first target of russia when they started integration with western europe and got rid of the wine of total exports. this vast under ground wine cellar fills a limestone query used to help refill oil after

the second world war. all the streets are named after the grates. this wine cellular is like an under ground city. it has more than 120 kilometers of roads and there are 20 million liters of wine stored here. the russian ban on maldova wine hit it hard and it was used by the kremlin on ukraine when they ban the country's lucrative trade of chocolates to russia and could form a black man but they refused to join the sanctions imposed on russia. and the main opposition communist party tabled a motion of no confidence against the government and feel the there is no mandate to move the country towards europe. >> if you continue to insist on the association agreement we risk to lose maldova and it's an integral state and we risk to lose statehood as such.

>> reporter: the statute of lenon is replaced with this of those who diet and they rely on the money cents home to russia and people feel the next strong arm tactic coming from the chem lynn will impose visa restrictions and the effect could be devastating because this is one of the poorest countries in europe, david with al jazeera. >> stephanie: russia has one exception on the ban of whines, wine makers in a region of maldova will be able to export product to russia and local leaders are not on board with the push to joun the eu. an egyptian court has again denied bail to three al jazeera journalists detained for days and peter greste and mohamed fahmy and baher mohamed were joined and they said the charges

against them are false and greste said the idea i could have an association with the muslim brotherhood is preposterous and the parents are learning to be patient as the court struggles to find evidence against the journalist. >> i have learned that one must expect the unexpected and so grave as the disappointment was it did not surprise me. >> stephanie: al jazeera rejects all charges against our colleagues and demands the journalists immediate release. a man who shot at the white house is sentenced to 25 years in prison, hernandez plead guilty to reduced charges and eight bullets hit the white house causing $100,000 of damages and the president and first lady were not there and no one was hurt be he was suffering

from mental illness. blizzard conditions shutting down i-94 from fargo to bismarck to the canadian border and when it's over some areas could see 20" of snow. taking a live look at the new york skyline and the sun is creeping up and hopefully it will not snow in april but may be severe weather ahead and nicole mitchell is here with more on that. >> nicole: we have a lot going on so as we get across the country and you mentioned snow a lot and we will start with places we are seeing some of that and that particularly northern parts of minnesota and heading into duluth for example this morning and a lot of it sits on a hill and it's hard to get through the snow sometimes slipping up and down and snow in michigan and it will go across the northern great lakes so places like michigan will get on the cold side and get some snow and it's gusty so minnesota at 36 degrees but if you are in a

place it is snowing it's going to be blowing once again and making travel more difficult so northern minnesota is where we are still under some watches and warnings and that is one system that will move off to the coastline, not a lot of rain with that, just chances, we already have the next one on the west coast, that has better chances of rain for portions of california and seen it in northern california and maybe southern california over the next couple of days and would be beneficial for drought conditions. you mentioned the risk for severe weather and the midsection of the country we are starting to watch and instability over the next couple days and especially a little bit more tomorrow and into thursday and we talk about that risk today it's a risk from texas to missouri a slight risk but severe weather means large hail, damaging winds with wind gusts of 58 or higher or a chance for tornado so you will hear us talk about it more getting into spring, back to you. >> stephanie: fears of a pandemic are spreading across

western africa, the rising death toll from an out braj of the ebola virus in nigeria and what nations are doing to contain it. >> without any anesthetics or anything they dropped off my leg and no cleaning, nothing really st stef --. >> stephanie: he came home without a leg and warning about some popular prescription drugs and if you think facebook founder mark zuckerberg was rich before wait until you hear how much he banked last year.

♪ lightning strikes three times for a lucky couple in virginia and won three lottery jackpots in a month and raked in over $2 million playing powerball, the pick four and one called $100 million cash extravaganza and after the prize they believe they can win again. in business news this morning caterpillar executives are facing lawmakers this morning and a panel will question the

question on the strategy that allowed it to dodge a $2.4 billion tax bill, a senate investigation claims caterpillar used a subsidiary in switzerland to shift profits overseas and avoid paying taxes for 13 years and they do not accuse them of breaking the law. it will be up to the irs to determine whether caterpillar's tax practices violated any rules and they are looking at trading reports and examining whether high-speed trading firms used information not available to the public to get an edge over other investors and high frequency trading is based on computer algorithms and subject to violations of securities, wire fraud and insider trading laws and the report surfaced after michael louis was on 60 minutes to argue that high frequency traitors rigged the stock market and they will kickoff higher and futures up 26 points ahead of

manufacturing, this is the day and the dow is 16457 and s&p is 1872 and nasdaq 4197 and asia was higher and weak manufacturing surveys in china and japan saying that policy makers will be forced to provide stimulus to prop up growth and european markets higher. mark zuckerberg bringing home less pay and his compensation fell 67% to over from nearly $2 million in 2012 and he opted out of the bonus and took $1 but he earned over $3 billion after exercising stock options. in west africa the first ebola out break in 20 years prompted them to close the border with guinea and 78 died and what health officials are calling an unprecedented epidemic and people of the capitol are

avoiding the city's hospital because they are worried they may catch the deadly virus from patients there and the decision was after liberia confirmed two cases this week. at 8:30 we will hear from the world health organization about the growing health concern in west africa and whether the deadly virus there could ever make its way here. a new type of antibiotic resistant bacteria is raising concerns across the medical community and dozens found in a hospital in chicago and doctors are trying to track the bug in an effort to prevent it from spreading. >> reporter: losing a leg in a devastating train accident in india would have been enough to change david's life forever. >> without anesthetics or anything they chopped off my leg, no sterile cleaning, nothing really. >> reporter: but back home in the u.s. his doctors discovered he also had been infected with a potential lethal bacteria they had not seen before. >> they told me, hey, it looks

like you have a very dangerous infection and we sent it to the cd -- c.d.c. to see what is going on to have experts look at it. >> reporter: known as nightmare bug cre, and a family of germs that are almost immune to even the strongest antibiotics and can kill half the people they infect and very difficult to detect. >> for every one of those patients with clinical infection there are 50-100 patients who are colonized with no symptoms who are circulating in your healthcare environment. >> reporter: super bugs are highly resistant to treatment and prevention is the only way to stop it from spreading. last year the out [of cre occurred at lutheran general hospital in suburb chicago and 36 people received the same type of endoscopic procedure and the hospital did not want to talk

about this but they commended the hospital for how it handled the outbreak and according to a report by the c.d.c. 2 million people become infected with some form of antibiotic resistant bacteria each year and 23,000 die as a result. >> the issue of antibiotic resistance and overuse and misuse are pressing public health concerns and always been a problem but they have in recent years become an even more significant problem. >> reporter: in illinois a first of its kind tracking database is launched to keep tabs on cre patients and carriers. >> as patients move from facility to facility we want them to be protected and make sure the information can be given to facilities so that they can also prevent cre from spreading to other patients. ♪ david's cre infection has returned several times and the bacteria are dormant in his body and can reemerge at any moment but says it has given him purpose. >> for me it's just gotten me

interested in science and for me personally i want to go in infectious disease to treat the thing that was once trying to kill me. >> reporter: joining forces with doctors who are gearing up to fight an emerging super bug threat, i'm with al jazeera, chicago. >> stephanie: secretary of state john kerry trying to save what is left of peace talks in the middle east and a man behind bars here in the u.s. could be a crucial pawn for negotiations. >> the big bad wolf is dead. >> stephanie: the man accused of abducting a girl from a shelter is dead from a suicide but the pain does not end for the family. >> translator: do you see the woman talking with men, in my time women were not allowed to talk with men and covered their faces, it was a different time, maybe this is the will of god. >> stephanie: a few years ago women could not vote in afghanistan and you will meet a

woman who is running for office. >> reporter: spring has sprung and means baseball is back and we will have highlights of opening day from around the major leagues. >> scared as hell... >> as american troops prepare to leave afghanistan get a first hand look at what life is really like under the taliban. >> we're going to be taken to a place, where they're going to make plans for an attack. >> the only thing i know is, that they say they're not going to withdraw. >> then, immediately after, an america tonight special edition for more inside and analysis. >> why did you decide to go... >> it's extremly important for the western audience to know why these people keep on fighting... ...it's so seldom you get that access to the other side. >> faultlines: on the front lines with the taliban then an america tonight: special edition, only on al jazeera america

♪ welcome back to al jazeera america, i'm stephanie sy and these are our top stories at the hour, unmarked drone crashed on a south korean island by a sea border with north korea and happened as they fired hundreds of artillery shells on monday and residents on islands had to take shelter and south korea is holding joint military exercises with the u.s. a pakistan court is considering a request from the country's former president and musharraf wants to leave and get medical treatment for himself and he was

charged with high treason for back in 2007 and the first military rule tore be indicted. an explosion in kenya killed six people and injured more than a dozen, the blast was focused on a nairobi district popular with somali residents and no one has taken responsibility but saying it may be al-sha bob and this is a fight against the hard line group. secretary of state john kerry is on his way to brussels today after two talks this 12 hours with the israeli prime minister in jerusalem and trying to sal ridge talks between israeli and palestinian leaders and stephanie decker is live for us in jerusalem and stephanie good morning and john kerry interrupted his travel schedule on monday to meet with israeli and palestinian leaders in jerusalem and met twice with the leader before leaving and what prompted this urgent meeting?

>> reporter: it's all about as you said salvaging these talks and they are at a crucial phase right now and it's make or break and secretary kerry taking it seriously and 15 hours on the ground and it's about the talks and stuck on prisoner relief, a foufr batch that is set to be part of the initial negotiations the palestinians are saying we are not going to talk about extending these talks unless the prisoners are released and the issue for israel are the prisoner are 14 palestinians and palestinians with israeli citizenship and problems and people do not want to see them released and prime minister benjamin netanyahu said his government could collapse and kerry had a lot to negotiate to get this to move forward. >> stephanie: there were reports that the obama administration is thinking about releasing a convicted spy, one kept in the u.s. in an effort to

help talks from collapsing, what is the latest on that? >> reporter: that is right. i mean this is a big card the u.s. is considering playing to try and get israel to continue in these talks and making concessions that palestinians want and what we are hearing from a senior israeli official is that israel has to release the last batch of prisoners including 14 palestinians and release extra 400 prisoners of its own choosing and also has to do an unofficial settlement freeze in the west banks, settlements very contentious for the palestinians and in return for that the u.s. will release the convicted spy jonathan pollard and there are senior officials in the u.s. very much against his release and i think it's important to see this in a wider context, this is a huge card the u.s. will play and

playing it at a time only to get the talks to move forward and nothing agreed upon by two sides on any final status issue when it comes to a two-state solution and that is the future of jurisdiction jerusalem and right to return and if they release him it will go to show how difficult they are being. >> stephanie: to keep the talks going and stephanie in jerusalem thank you. one day after a cross border rocket slammed in a mosque, syrian forces fired three and landed in the province north of the 5260 mile border between the countries and a syrian refugee was injured in the attack and turkey is home to 900,000 syrian refugees and many living in camps along the borrow di. violence over venezuela political standoff is getting

worse. [gunfire] riot police clashing with protesters in caracus andf cock burned a bike and they retaliated firing bullets and are cracking down hoard on antiprotests in caracus and 39 people died so far in the conflict. a new twist in the mystery of a missing 8-year-old girl in the nation's capitol, her suspected kidnapper has been found dead and erica pitsy is here and washington police say they are shocked by this development. >> reporter: that is absolutely and it fits the description of a person who kidnapped a little girl from a shelter and he committed suicide because 8-year-old is still no where to be found.

search teams with washington d.c. police worked through the night in the same area where they discovered the body of a man they believe kidnapped 8-year-old rudd and last seen with 51-year-old tatum in the video a month ago and he was a janitor at the homeless shelter where she was living with her mother and she is still missing police say they found tatum's body in the building with a gunshot wound to the head by his own hand. >> the discovery was a shock for us. we were very focused on finding her and that is what we came here for. >> reporter: they are combing the area searching for life or death, as the police chief pointed out last week. >> we cannot ignore the possibility he may have killed her. >> bring her back to me. >> reporter: more than 100 people gathered at a vigil for her, family and friends reacts to the news of the suspected kidnapper's death, the girl's grandmother. >> killed himself without let's

us know where she is. >> reporter: a close family friend. >> my baby is not here but him yeah i say what i said the big bad wolf is dead. >> reporter: as the shift goes off the suspect to focus on ralisha. >> i can think of the worst. >> reporter: it gets harder for loved ones to hold out hope. >> i just want her home. i don't know how much i can hold up but i just want her back. >> reporter: the search continues first thing this morning with teams on the water and ground and air and divers using under water cameras to canvas the bottom of the river near the park of what they discovered likely tatum and also suspected of killing his wife that was found during the search for ralisha. >> stephanie: two people are in jail in utah for kidnapping and sex trafficking and they drove her to utah and the 23-year-old

quickly called 911 and police discovered the victim hiding in a parking lot. >> she was actually hiding when they responded. she was very traumatized. >> stephanie: the woman told police she had been beaten and forced into prostitution. afghans will vote for a new president this weekend and choose other government officials including members of parliament and local council members and the positions traditionally have been held by men in afghanistan and a few brave women are choosing to run for office in some deeply conservative regions. >> reporter: life stories should be centuries apart but they are separated by just two generations. and she is an mp in the northern afghan city campaigning for reelection. her grandmother was sold as a child bride to a much older opium addict and she still has

pain from the youth. >> translator: i am surprised, you see this woman among the men and talking with men. in my time women were not allowed to talk with men. they covered their faces. it was a different time. maybe this is the will of god. >> reporter: but it's still difficult in today's afghanistan for women to have careers in politics and this is one of the most conservative cities here, taliban threats make it dangerous for women to campaign. so she is relying on her reputation to win votes. she says for the past five years she has been fiercely incorruptible and homeless when she first became an mp, at one point living in this tent with her family. despite their modest government salaries most afghan mps live in huge houses paid for say critics through corruption. and her reputation has attracted some wealthy supporters and eventually raised money for a

small house. other mps use heavily armed body guards. and her security is four-legged. the taliban threatened her at first but she sent messages that an honest woman was better than a corrupt man, so far they have left her alone. a bigger challenge she says is the sexist attitudes of her male colleagues. >> translator: every head of the provincial council who got the job because i was aware -- they tried to break me but i worked independently. >> reporter: they leave with her posters promising to spread message and with it saying female mps in afghanistan can keep the success they worked so hard for, jane ferguson, al jazeera, afghanistan. >> stephanie: what courage from those women. major league baseball is back and a dozen cities had opening day on monday and john henry

smith is here with details, good morning. >> good morning, can summer be far behind. >> stephanie: that is good. >> love it when baseball season comes around, hello baseball we really missed you and monday was the league wide opening day with 13 games on tap and started baltimore where the orials tied at 1 and punctuates the appearance in a uniform taking john lester and deep and gone for solo home run and they are up 2-1 and fast for the innings and jackie bradley junior is going to be at the plate and he is going to do a lot of looking and no swinging on a 2-2 count and strike out hunter and game 2-1 oriols and royals leading detroit in bottom of the fourth and cabrera turns on the inside

pitch and double and he hits a double left, cabrera is 1-3 and double and walk and tigers down 3-2 and man on second and gonzales hits it in the gap and avela goes home and gonzales has a triple and they were teammates and the game is tied and gone solve a single to left and comes in to score and gonzales with the career walk off and tigers within 4-3. cubs opening in pittsburgh and history made in the 5th inning when the pitcher, the wide receiver from notre dame is going to burnt and throw to third to alvarez and walking covering first with a double play or does he and rick goes to chad with first base umpire and gets the signal from the dugout and replay is used for the first time and the challenge was not

successful. let's fast forward now to the bottom of the -- to the 9th, no, we will fast forward later on and a walk-off home run and pirates will win 1-0 in extra innings. now that you have seen the first replay challenge i bet you would like to see the first successful replay challenge and this made history, umpire gibson calls the outfielder safe at first in the bottom of the 6th against the braves and that is when atlanta manager fredi gonzalez comes out and says what is the big idea and challenges the call and if you think it will slow it down they took 58 seconds to reverse the call after the replay clearly showed the throw got there before braun did. other notes from around the diamond on monday and the angels hit him and broke his right leg chaching the pitch and he will have surgery on his right femur

and the giants over diamond backs 9-10 and jose was great and marlins beat colorado 10-1. and my producer bernie i think put it best when he called the indiana pacers a grease fire right now and had lost five of their last seven coming into a tilt with san antonio and they were in danger of losing in the east and pacers down and trying to muscle back into it with the slam but that seemed to make the spurs mad and and antonio 30-12 in the last 9 minutes and leonard cutting and ducking and faking and pacing for the high percentage shots and 18th game in a row 103-77 over pacers and with miami win they take possession in the east for the first time all season, that is

sports for the hour, stephanie. >> stephanie: you play golf. >> badly. >> stephanie: a surprising warning about titanium golf clubs and may have a fire risk, the coating can make strikes when it strikes a rock and the sparks can reach up to 3,000 degrees and ignite dry grass or leaves and say they should be ban in areas where there is a risk of fire. a new report from the u.n. saying impact of climate change is already being felt everywhere. >> translator: even a year ago you couldn't see that from here and it was miles away. >> stephanie: climate change may be causing an entire island to fall in the sea.

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looking live at the new york city skyline, april fool's day and it's not boston is our joke on you but there is condensation on our camera lens and apologize for that and chilly in the big apple. welcome back to al jazeera america. a disappearing island in just a moment but first metrologist nicole mitchell has a check on the forecast, hi, nicole. >> nicole: new york it's 70, not so much that is april's fools as well and warmer today and that is a good piece of this and this is not a joke, there is snow in parts of the midwest and also good news and starting to get more rain into california so that is very beneficial but this is where one system is continuing to move off and spread snow to places like michigan and the moisture that i was mentioning. this in the midwest accompanied with high winds and making a lower wind chill and watch for that and back to you. >> stephanie: u.n. report gives a bleak outlook on climate

change and says rising temperatures could fuel natural disasters, food disasters and risk war and they look at the impact around the globe. >> reporter: the cruel study of the world's top polluters like china, u.s., india cause most of the problems but it's the poor countries who will suffer the most like bangladesh where rising sea levels threaten millions and u.n. report warns problems across the planet will get worse and africa will see drought and sparking wars for shrinking supply of food and poverty and diseases to grow and europe could see heat waves hurting the economy and it will effect livestock and fish and wheat is strained and united states will see extremes and less snow in the west and the snow that does fall is melting earlier and leading to droughts and wildfires and it's especially feared in the west and the south but yet the north

will likely continue to see massive floods, one bright spot companies and governments seem to be taking global warming seriously and there is time to adopt and maybe even slow some of the effects of pollution. >> stephanie: risks associated with climate change is bola island and as we report residents say their island is slowly disappearing. >> reporter: and he never thought it would happen to him, for years he watched as the rivers swallowed up the homes on the island and thought he and his family would be safe. >> translator: even a year ago you couldn't see it from here, it was miles away and the government is building barriers to stop, erosion but it broke through any way. >> reporter: they are forced to eat in the open and he was born

in the south and spent his life here and now he has to find a new place to stay and a process people on the island have gone through 8, 9 or 10 times. this used to be a garden belonging to the family and the locals here say ten years ago it used to take two whole days to walk from here to river bank and stretching out from here used to be a dozen village's and today they are all gone. according to experts climate change is to blame for the disappearing act and the violent has twin threats, rising sea levels and a river that crashes on the shores harder than ever thanks toer regardic rain. >> the countries are responsible and they have to take the responsibility of the climate. >> reporter: the bangladesh government built village's to house displaced but there are not enough of them. >> translator: the demand for these houses is much more than

the supply. there are so many people who lost their homes, demand is too much. >> reporter: some of the village's have been lost to the encroaching waters and half a million residents of bola have been displaced and the rest fear it will not be long before they share the same fate, al jazeera, bola island bangladesh. >> stephanie: talking about the u.n. report on climate change is senior associate at the world resources institute joining us from boston this morning and thanks for being with us, how much time do we have, does the human race have to reverse global warming before it's too late? >> the report says the decisions we make right now to reduce emissions will define the risks that we see over the entire century. the decisions that we make on adaptation to make our communities and echo systems stronger will define what kinds of risks we contend with over

the decades and there is an urgency and a gap report that came out a few months ago that suggested that e myings had to peek by 2020 and reduce steadily there after. >> stephanie: chairman of ipcc spoke in japan on monday and said this, let's listen. >> the one message that comes out very clearly is that the world has to adopt and the world has to mitigate and the sooner we do that the less the chances of some of the worst impacts of climate change being forced in the world. >> reporter: he said mitigate and adapt and let's talk about adapt, and what coca-cola and microsoft and "starbucks" making business decision to adapt to climate change and is that encouraging or discouraging to someone like you? >> it is certainly encouraging. a few years back there was a

fear if you spoke about adaptation you were throwing up your hands and not doing mitigation or reducing greenhouse gas emissions but i think companies and governments around the world and communities are dealing with the reality that we are already seeing impacts unfold on the ground and the report says that impacts are already happening on every continent and across all oceans and are widespread and consequential so this is having to deal with the reality of climate change as it's unfolding different regions around the world. >> stephanie: who has responsibility for this, the develop countries who pollute it in the past or developing countries like india and china and showing pictures of the pollution in china who have greatest potential to be polluters in the future? >> in the u.n. there is under the framework convention on climate change there is a concept of common but differentiated responsibilities and it has a lot to do with not

only your capacity to reduce emissions but also your responsibility, including historical responsibility to reduce emissions. i think whoever it is with a global problem and we need a global solution and the nature of different responses we take across governments is going to differ depending on level of development, abatement opportunities in various vectors but the countries around the world are coming together to negotiate a new agreement and lead up to paris in 2015 where we are going to be coming up, with commits for the post 2020 period and taking the climate change seriously to ensure we get on to a low-emissions trajectory. >> stephanie: what about individual agency in this for people who recycle and people who bike to work, does this make a dent in the huge problem or as you say can this only be

addressed on a larger, governmental level? >> there is a role for society, for individuals, for businesses and for governments. certainly government decisions do drive societal behavior and business behavior. but it's not to say that individuals and companies can't act and act more quickly before governments wake up to this. >> stephanie: kellie, senior associate at the world resources institute joining us from boston this morning and thank you. and dell walters is more with what we are looking at. >> reporter: at the end of the first order. gm mary barra will talk about defects at hearing and she met with family members of families who died with cars with faulty ignition people and 7 million signed up for the affordable care act and yesterday was the last day to sign up and 24 bodies being recovered from the massive mudslide in washington state and 22 others missing and in the next hour we will talk to

an attorney who will explain how corporate investigators find out who is responsible for the gm recall that was delayed for years. >> stephanie: al jazeera news continues and del and i are back with you in 2 1/2 minutes.

>> i'm very angry and i'm tired of being an angry mother. >> family members of those killed in crashes linked to that g.m. recall expressing their frustration as the company's c.e.o. gets set to answer questions before congress about why the automakers waited so long to pull those cars off the road. >> the deadline to register for the affordable care act has come and gone. the successes and failures of the program. >> this discovery was a shock

for us. >> new com applications for the search for an 8-year-old girl abducted from a holeless shelter. >> a lucky couple hit the jacky jackpot three times in a month. >> good morning, welcome to al jazeera america. >> g.m. c.e.o. marry barra will testify before congress. >> she had an emotional meeting with families of those who died because of ignition problems. that was prompted in february, then expanded to cover 2.6 million vehicles. >> g.m.'s recall troubles around over, the company announcing it was recalling 1.5 million cars

manufactured before 2010 over problems with the electronic power steering. >> those models include the chevy malibu sax, saturn eye i don't know, pontiac g6, the standard chevy malibu and the chevy cobalt. randall pinkston is in washington right now. what can we expect from the hears today. >> we're expecting to hear a very contrite chief executive officer apologize for her companies faultedy vehicles and expect remarks on steps g.m. is taking to correct defects. >> today marry barra heads to washington where she is expected to say she is deeply sorry and vowing to conduct a thorough investigation into a faulty ignition switch that has led to at least a dozen deaths, 32 car wrecks and 32 million recalls vehicles since february. >> clearly the fact that it took

over 10 years indicates that we have work to do to improve our process. >> family members in the audience still struggle to understand how g.m. failed to address the defect they knew about since 2001. >> i'm hope to go speak to marry barra at least for a few minutes to find out what she's found out so far and what they plan to do to uncover all of this information that's been hidden for so many years. >> laura christian's 16-year-old daughter died when her airbags failed to deploy got her wish a day early. barra met with her and 14 other families of those killed in the crashes. the c.e.o. apparently cried. >> she said she was sorry to all of us and then we all got a chance to talk to her and tell her about our children that died. >> the timing of that meeting and the expected grilling she will face by lawmakers could not have come at a worse time. yesterday, the automakers

announced another recall, this time 1.5 million cars for potential loss in power steering, bringing the total number of recalled correction to more than 6 million in less than two months. >> we have work to do to improve our process and we are dedicated to doing that. >> also in the hot seat today, the head of the national highway traffic administration. congress wants to know why they failed to open investigations even after multiple complaints about the problems. >> in this day and age, there are many people like me who will seek to uncover that information. there is no more hiding. >> barra became c.e.o. a year ago. she will tell the panel when she took over, she took immediate steps to issue that recall. >> this won't be the only g.m. testimony this week in washington. what easiest going to happen? >> tomorrow, she goes before the

senate panel where she will receive another grilling, a very different kind of washington visit from her last visit here, when she was a guest of the first lady at the state of the union address. >> randall, thank you very much. stay with aljazeera america for more in depth coverage. later we'll talk to those who lost loved once and they will tell us what they want to happen. we're going to talk to an attorney who specializes in corporate investigation to explain the process of finding who's to blame. >> the department of transportation is mandating rear view cameras for new vehicles sold in the u.s., giving manufacturers four years to get ready if that effective in may of 2018, rear view cameras will be required on all new cars, light trucks and buses. back ups are blamed for more than 200 deaths and injuries every year. >> the deadline to sign up for

the affordable care act has come and gone. it concludes the initial turbulent rollout of president obama's signature piece of legislation. it's just the beginning of a long debate over the nation's health care system. >> this is the state of health insurance in the united states. on the last official day to sign up for new insurance or pay a fine, long lines around the country. the problem-plagued website overwhelmed, crashed twice. the administration said this is proof president obama's signature legislation was needed, now the poorest will get government help to buy insurance. many in the middle class will pay more. for the program, fiscally sound, large numbers of young, healthy people need to sign up. that has been the sole focus of the administration, getting celebrity endorsements. >> sign up now. >> putting the presidents on programs watched by the young. >> what is it like to be the

last black president? >> seriously. what is it like to be the last time you ever talk to a president? >> signing up are that young key demographic. experts say it needs to be closer to 40%. >> given that the democrats are vulnerable in this issue. i suspect what's going to happen is the administration will help out insurers if they end up with fewer young healthy than expected. >> thatted damage the program. to avoid that, the administration has been carefully crafting each event, like this one last week with jill beaden, the vice president's wife. >> everybody here's going to sign up, right? >> the media was not allowed to talk to anyone they didn't preselect and coach. even they didn't seem to know what they paid for and the in return. >> i haven't looked too deep into it. >> i haven't thought about that, but that is something i will

look into it and i have to do my math. >> this is about math. for the country, the program and people part of it, it's still not clear if the fact actually adds up. if it does, there is one other important number. 30 million. that is the number of people in america who will still not have health insurance, even if the president's health insurance law is eventually labeled a success. aljazeera, washington. >> at 7:30 eastern why the numbers are so different from state to state and if it can be considered a success despite technical glitches. >> secretary of state john kerry on his way to brussels. he was in jerusalem trying to salvage stalled peace talks between the israeli and palestinians. israel wanted assurances that the palestinians won't abandon the talks. the obama administration is considering releasing an israeli

spy in an effort to keep negotiations from collapsing. >> an anti-government protestors killed in thailand. a gunman fired on a protest march in bangkok. 23 people have been killed since november of last year when protests took to the streets. they call for the current foreign minister to step down, calling her corrupt. >> a can i go deadline is approaching for the missing malaysia airlines flight 370. the batteries in the black box will quit working in about a week. >> 24 bodies have been recovered from the mud slide in washington state. 22 people are still missing. crews making some progress clearing up the more than 300-acres of rubble, but the major highway in and out of town is closed. as we report, residents are growing more isolated.

>> as the search moves into a second week, the focus remains clear, find the people who are still missing. while highway 30 remains closed, an old power utility road has been opened, allowing emergency vehicles to more easily access the debris field and travel to the kass without a he will co. every. for residents like desiree left with no road, frustration is beginning to build. >> we can't even get to work. we have to go completely around, which is 150 miles out of our way. >> rather than make a three hour commute to work, steve bottom is staying put while the road stays down. >> my boss told me stay home and we'll figure it out from there. i have a friend who offered up a couch just on the other side of the slide to me. right now, i'm sitting around doing nothing. >> for a community cut off from the rest of the county, it's more than a physical isolation. >> right now, it is the

quintessential source of grief. right now everybody sees the mud slide, loss of life, the pain, suffering, grief, anguish and exhaustion. people are exhausted around here. highway 530 represents for them that sense of disaster. until it's opened up again, it's always going to be that way. >> limited bus service to other communities eases some strain, but there is mope for abexpanded schedule. >> if they made it a little bit more time, i think that it could help a lot more people, because there's a lot of people who do work at night that live here. >> while residents wait for their travel lifeline to reopen, they continue to mourn their neighbored while counting their blessings. >> we drive there every day, like clock work. ten times a day we're driving through there. i'm like oh, my god, what if we were going through that and that

just happened, i was like oh, my god. >> federal aid is asked to help businesses and residents affected by the slide, the damage estimated to be more than $10 million. >> march went out like a loy i don't know, blizzard conditions shut i-94 follow far go to bismarck up to the canadian border. some areas could see 20 inches of snow. >> this is the time of the year we start seeing all of that severe weather, tornadoes and the like. >> let's bring in meteorologist nicole mitchell to explain why we start seeing severe weather at this time of year. >> especially in what we call tornado alley, that change of the season, the change of the air masses, that helps get things going. even today, if you were to look across what we would have as a weather picture on the radar, definitely easy to pick out what we had in the midwest and west coast, but the central plains looks pretty quiet. something we have today is something we see this time of

year, frontal boundaries get this going, but this is a dry line where you can have equally warm air on both sides of it, but it's a dry air boundary. you'll have this warm air coming out of the terrain. that helps warm it up, very dry coming out of the desert southwest interacting with the gulf moisture. when the dry air wedges under that, it helps push it up into the atmosphere. that's some of the lift we need for thunderstorms. days like today, even though you didn't see a lot on the radar yet, you can see that setting up. we have a couple spots highlighted in red, that is a risk for severe weather, a slight risk, the rest of the area in yellow is just general thunderstorms. what we mean by severe weather is the larger hail and the type of hail that can damage, damages winds gusting 50-60 miles an hour or that chance for tornadoes. we start seeing that a little more this time of year because of the weather pattern. if you hear us talks about

watches versus warnings, start watches out, be prepared, it could come. i always said it's it is danger will robinson thing, sci-fi geeks got that. >> dr. smith, thank you very much. >> the greek coast guard documenting illegal immigrants. it is a transit point from war torn countries who want to enter the european union. the border protection agency said the number rose by 50% last year. not clear where this latest group is coming from. >> an egyptian court denied bail again to three aljazeera journalists who have been detained for 100 days. the correspondents were arrested in december for clap rating with a terrorist organization and reporting false news. in court on monday, the

journalists insisted the charges against them are false, telling the judge the idea that i could have an association with the muslim brotherhood is frankly preposterous. his parents are learning to be patient as the cairo court struggles to find evidence against the journalists. >> i have learned that one must expect the unexpected, and so grave as the disappointment was, he didn't surprise me. >> aljazeera rejects all charges against our colleagues and demands the journalist's immediate release. >> russia is tightening it's financial grip on crimea, now worried about the economy. >> the russian ban some say is blackmail to keep moldova from joining the european union. >> the big bad wolf is dead. >> the man last seen with a girl

from the missing homeless shelter now found dead. >> our big number of the day, the person who really likes this number. >> it is one person. >> also the sun rising right now over the nation's capitol in washington, d.c. they are getting ready for the testimony of g.m. c.e.o. mary barra.

>> good morning, welcome to al jazeera america, i'm del walters. >> i'm stephanie sy. >> the russian ban hurting one countries wine industry. >> first, the temperatures across the country today, here's our meteorologist nicole mitchell. >> some milder air up and down the east coast, ms. section of the country, that same system that brought the snowstorm has dropped temperatures in a few places. you add temperatures a lot of places to the teens and 20s to the winds i mentioned was blowing the snow and you get wind chills that feel like minus five in bismarck and temperatures through the day, remember in minneapolis we were

around 60 degrees, today is 40, today chicago starts to nudge down and you can see ahead of this, still a lot of warm air, memphis at 78 degrees. as we get into the day tomorrow, chicago drops about those 10 degrees. a lot of the cooler air doesn't quite make it to the east coast or not in full force and a lot of people have been enjoying the more spring like weather. that's good news. the west coast, we have more chances for rain keeping temperatures on the cooler side. even if you don't get the rain, the cloud cover, 65 degrees in los angeles for tomorrow. >> russia may be taking steps to diffuse the crisis in ukraine. russian president vladimir putin toward german chancellor angela merkel he is pulling back some of the troops amassed along the border of ukraine. they discussed other possible moves to ease tensions in the region. at the same time, putin promised to pull back troops, russian tanks were arriving in crimea. the tanks will be deployed at military bases recently vacated by ukrainian troops.

during a visit monday, medvedev said russia has no intention of giving crimea back to ukraine. >> there are fears in other russian speaking regions. west of ukraine and the country of mole dove have a some people prefer closer ties to moscow. >> after crimea, will moldova be next? russian peace keeping troops already ban border posts here. it broke away from the country after a bloody civil war in the 1990's, a territory now trapped on the western fringes of ukraine. the prime minister appealed to western leaders and russia to prevent his country falling apart after meeting with his polish counterpart this week, his strongest bid to get his

country into the european union. >> it is not in our interests, we are in the middle to see this negative developments unrolling. i hope again, we will be able to come back and look at the real problems. >> the vine yards of moldova were the first target of russia when the country started the process of integration with western europe. last september. they banned import of its wines, which amount to a third of its total exports. this vast underground wine cellar fills a limestone quarry, used to help rebuild the capitol after the second world war. although streets are named after grapes. this cellar is like an undergrounder city, 120 kilometers of roads. there are 20 million-liters are wine stored here. >> the russian ban on mole dove have a wine has hit the economy

hard. it's the same tactic used by the kremlin on ukraine, when they banned the countries lucrative trade in chocolates to russia, a form of blackmail. moldova refuses to join the sanctions imposed on russia. the main opposition communist party has tabled a vote of no confidence to the government. >> if e.u. continues to insist and to impose, we risk to lose mole dove have a as a state, and an integral state and state hood as much. >> the statue of len anyone in the capitol has been replaced with this monument to the victims who died during the soviet occupation, but the country release on the money sent home by those working in russia. the people here fear the next strong arm tactic coming from the kremlin will be to i am pose visa restrictions. the effect could be devastating

to what is already one of the poorest countries in europe. aljazeera, moldova. >> russia is making one exception in its ban on wines made in moldova. wine makers in an autonomous region will be allowed to import their product to say russia. >> g.m. executives will not be the only ones headed to capitol hill, caterpillar facing lawmakers, being questioned about a strategy that allowed it to avoid a $2.4 billion tax bill. they shimmed products over sea to say avoid taxes. the report does not accuse of machinery maker of breaking the law. it will be determined if it violated rules. >> automakers get set to release sales numbers this morning.

general motors will be watched after its massive recalls. one industry watcher said g.m. can survive them. >> consumers that love g.m. will always buy g.m. they are not going out of business and the product they have now, the new corvette, camaro, chevy silverado truck have brought a lot of positive attention to g.m. >> wall street waiting on a survey of the manufacturing session, dow futures up ahead of that report, the dow getting set to quick off the second quarter. >> the f.b.i. may investigate high frequency trading, examining whether firms were able to use information not available to the public to get an edge over investors. high frequency trading is based

on computer algorithms, but still subject to violations of security, wire fraud and insider trading laws. those reports surfaced after financial author michael lewis argued that my frequency traders have rigged the stock markets. >> today's big number make it a lot of likes. $3.3 billion, that's how much mark zuckerberg pocketed last year after exercising facebook stock option. >> it is the second year he has done so, reaping a huge gain from the company he founded, cashing in on $2.3 billion in stock options in 2012. >> despite exercising over 100 million options in the two year period, zuckerberg has plenty of shares left. >> he owns 226 million shares of facebook, slammed at $25.7 billion. >> that's ridiculous money. >> the affordable care act has played out much differently from one state to another.

>> why the results vary from state to state. we'll tell you what the numbers reveal about the success and failure of the health care law. >> the peaceful protests that turned violent in new mexico. >> there's 2 million still out there. how many lives, how many more lives do we have to go through? >> family members slamming g.m. for the delay of the recall. how investigators will find who's to blame. >> baseball season is upon us and we'll have a report on how this season will be a season of change. >> we're taking a live look now at the city of detroit, where g.m. has its headquarters. the company's c.e.o. will be in washington today answering questions from congress.

>> scared as hell... >> as american troops prepare to leave afghanistan get a first hand look at what life is really like under the taliban. >> we're going to be taken to a place, where they're going to make plans for an attack. >> the only thing i know is, that they say they're not going to withdraw. >> then, immediately after, an america tonight special edition for more inside and analysis. >> why did you decide to go... >> it's extremly important for the western audience to know why these people keep on fighting... ...it's so seldom you get that access to the other side. >> faultlines: on the front lines with the taliban then an america tonight: special edition, only on al jazeera america

>> good morning, welcome to al jazeera america. i'm del walters. >> i'm stephanie sy. ahead in this half hour, the affordable care act may have hit that 7 million target the white house was looking for, but why that still might not spell success. >> how you can determine a man's intelligence just by all the way he looks. don't say anything. >> i'm going to save it. >> a controversial new surveillance tool that could be keeping track of where we all go. >> let's look at our top stories. the g.m. c.e.o. will be answering tough questions about deadly ignition switches in millions of cars and whether the country tried to cover it all up, announcing the recall of another million and a half vehicles because of steering problems. >> an official close to the negotiations say there's an emerging deal to extend talks between the israelis and palestinians, said to include

additional prisoner releases and an israeli promise to use constraint in settlement construction. >> the affordable care act on track to surpass the original target of 7 million people being signed up. >> when the affordable care act became law, states could either join the federal health care exchange or create their own marketplace. we report on how that has played out across the country. >> states have had different experiences with the new law. 27 states allow the federal government to run their health care exchanges, 16 in washington, d.c. operate their own and seven states use a hybrid of the two approaches. operating a marketplace has worked out well for some states and been a challenge for others. in california's marketplace, more than 1 million people have signed up. that's the highest in the country. new york is second on the list. hundreds of thousands have now signed up, but elsewhere, the new law has been more headache than blessing. at the bottom of the list,

hawaii, perhaps because the state already has an insurance program and allows people with plans to keep them through 2016. residents in oregon still cannot buy coverage entirely on line. of the 50,000 that have managed to sign up, most filled out paper applications. because of those glitches, some states are giving consumers extra time to sign up. a few, like oregon, maryland and massachusetts are considering abandoning their own programs and turning to the federally run healthcare.gov. >> here to help us break things down one day after the enrollment deadline passed is the senior fellow at the policy nationals. thanks for being with us. a lot of people have signed up, hitting the obama administration's target even, but the key question is who are

these people. the 48 million uninsured target it id, according to a poll in mid march, 50% will remain uninsured, 40% obtain insurance, while the remaining 10% weren't sure. what does this say about the initial success of the health care law? >> it says we're at the end of the beginning i think as winston churchill would have said and there's still a lot of questions out there. who are these people signing up? the administration with about a three week time lag tells us who they are, get that go data from insurers. there was a rush of younger people last week and over the weekend, i think overall of the people enrolled, these 7 million or so, maybe 25% are in that 25 age bracket. they needed 40%. that's going to be a problem for insurers when they start seeing the medical blames.

the -- go ahead, please. >> no, go ahead. >> as i look at the data, i think maybe 10% or 20% previously were uninsured and the rest of the people got dropped, or lost policies for some reason during 2013. if those are the people getting the obamacare plans and exchanges, that doesn't sox the problem we were trying to solve. >> let's talk about why that makeup matters so much. is it going to impact premiums and how soon might we see that? >> we'll see it in 2015. when we get to the second half, the insurance companies are going to say this is what we want. that is going to depend on medical claims in 2014. if it's a bunch of 50-year-old's like me signing up and not 20 somethings, medical claims will be higher than expected. insurers are going to ask for double rate increases, well

point came out and said we know we're going to be asking for double digit minimum increase. >> it is the first year. can this year really be viewed as sort of an experimental year for young people to sort of see, you know, whether they will sign up, and therefore a little difficult to judge whether this will affect premiums in 2016, for example. >> well, maybe, but again, i'm kind of concerned. we've seen on your network and other outlets people lining up at the last minute. are we even sure these folks have attached checks to pay the premiums to the applications that they filled out? and as they -- we also know that in the networks, the insurers have much narrower networks than they have in the old market that used to exist in 2013. as people start learning, for example, in los angeles county, there's not one insurer who's in the california exchange who's

got cedar sinai hospital, the top hospital in l.a. is not in the network. people will get disappointed for what they pay for. >> how confident can people feel that they will be billed properly for premiums, given all the back end problems reported? >> they firmed the front end. you can now as a customer get on there and kind of figure out what you're doing, but although march 31 was the deadline, it was kind of a soft deadline. last week they said if you tried to apply by march 31, you can click a button and say i did as much as i could on march 31 but haven't finished it yet. that fuzziness is going to hurt the back end. at the back end, that we don't see, where the health, the state insurance regulators and u.s. department of health and human services and the i.r.s. are communicating with each other, they have not got that figured out yet. >> john brand, sir, thanks for

being with us this morning. >> thank you. >> the governor of new mexico urging calm as protests over police shootings in albuquerque turned violent. it all began as a peaceful protest sunday against the city's police department. police in riot gear using tear gas to break up the crowds. three were arrested, that rally coming after two deadly officer involved shootings. there have been 37 since 2010, 22 of them fatal. the police department now the focus of a federal investigation. >> a new twist in the mystery of a missing 8-year-old girl in the nation's capitol. hurry suspected kidnapper has been found dead. >> i understand that washington police in d.c. are shocked. >> that's exactly what the chief of police said after they found the body of a middle aged man who fit the description of the person who kidnapped the little girl from a homeless shelter this afternoon month. police say he committed suicide,

but the girl is still nowhere to be found. >> search teams with washington, d.c. police searched in the area where they discovered the body of the man believed to have kidnapped the girl. she was seen in this video a month ago. he was a janitor at the homeless shelter where she was living with her mother. police found his body inside this building with the gunshot wound to the head by his own hand. >> this discovery was a shock for us. we were very focused on finding her and that's what we came here for. >> officers continued to comb the area searches for signs of life or death. as the police chief pointed out last week. >> we cannot ignore the possibility that he may have killed her. >> bring her back to me. >> more than 100 people gathered at a vigil. family and friends reacted to

the news of the suspected kidnapper's death. the girls grandmother. >> he killed himself without letting us know where she is. >> a close family friend. >> i'm shedding tears for my baby, but him, yeah, the big bad wolf is dead. >> as the search shifts off the suspect and solely on the girl. >> i think of the worst, but... >> it gets harder for loved ones to hold out hope. >> i just want her home. i don't know how much longer i can hold up, but i just want her back. >> the search continues first thing this morning with teams in the water, on the ground and in the air. divers are using underwater cameras to canvas the river near the park where they discovered what is likely the man's body. he is also suspected of killing his wife, who's body was found during the search for the little full. >> that is really hitting a nerve in washington, d.c. >> women in arizona no longer

able to take a pill to end their pregnancy the first seven weeks. it comes after a federal judge denied the request by planned parenthood to block the law, the judge said the right does not infringe on the right to an abortion. planned parenthood will fight the legality of this law. >> the archbishop of atlanta apologizing for spending church funds to build a mansion. he recently moved into a nearly 6,000 square foot mansion in an of a fluent neighborhood. the cost was $2.2 million. it was built due to a donation. critics say the money should have been used for the church. he said i'm disappointed that while my advisers and i justified this project, i

failed. >> the l.a. times reporting that a group of scientists and japan are accused of manipulating data for a stem cell study, released early this year. it gave home to parkinson's and alzheimer's patients that stem cells could be altered to treat diseases. the lead author that have study according to this investigation altered some of the results in this study. >> a lot of money in stem cells, too, so that research is very valuable. >> the daily mail reporting scientists say you can actually tell how intelligent a man is just by looking at him. stop looking at me, stephanie. >> hmm. >> they say the research says it's something people have been thinking about, and i know you've been thinking about it a long time, is it possible he is that intelligent? >> the interesting thing about the study is you can't tell it about women. they say the reason why and this study was published in plus one, so it's a valid medical journal,

women tend to be judged by their attractiveness, so that skews the results. >> i've always admired you for your brains. >> the new york daily news reporting on a high school student, you'll appreciate this, you got into a couple of ivy league schools. >> he has been accepted at all ivy league schools. he plays the violin, he's in the action da pella group. >> at the end of the day, he wants to be a physician, which is good. >> why are you looking at me? >> we're trying to find out how intelligent you are. >> major league baseball has

been around since 1876, the oldest professional sports league in america. even a game that values tradition and the so-called human element must bow to progress and technology. opening day 2014 kicked off what will be a year of change in major league baseball. we have more. >> temperature got to 60 degrees. there's a drive, deep right field! way back, and gone! a walk off winner in extra innings! >> now that the major league baseball season is underway, attention can finally shift to the field. baseball's gone significant changes since the end of last season, starting with the expansion of instant replay, similar to that of the nfl. managers will get one challenge to begin the game. if successful, they will receive an additional one. the previous replay rule only pertained to home run calls, but the expanded rule covers 90% of all plays on the field. all reviews will be handled by a crew at a command center in new

york. mlb adopted a rule to make the game safer, known as the posey rule, stating a runner attempt to go score may not deviate from his direct path to the plate in order to initiate contact with the catcher or other player covering home plate unless the player is in possession of the ball, the catcher cannot block the pathway of the runner attempt to go score. >> i don't mind, there's not going to be as many collisions where the runner's going out of the way to hit the catcher. >> the union and owners agreed on rules for performance enhancing drug suspensions. for a second violation, the player will be suspended 162 games, the equivalent of an entire season. a third violation results in a lifetime ban. international players continue to put their footprint on the game especially when it comes to nine figure contracts. the yankees signed pitch tanaka

to the largest contract ever for a japanese player, paying to what the tigers gave miguel cabrera, the most lucrative individual player contract in american sports history. finally, baseball will say goodbye to the captain, derek jeter. he will play his final season after 19 years in the majors. jeter's the first craig to have amassed 3,000 hits and is a virtual lock for the hall of fame. >> he has been tremendous for the sport, being an ambassador, you know, a guy if your kid says i want to be like derek and your dads and moms are going like that, we'll take that all day long. >> michael leads reporting. just over 74 million fans attended major league baseball games last season, the sixth high effort figure in league history. on the down side, attendance in 2013 was actually down by just

over 1%. >> stephanie was saying how intelligent you are. >> don't argue with stephanie, she knows what she's talking about. >> thanks, john. >> the c.e.o. of g.m. will be on the hot seat today. >> some expressing anger at the company as it get sets to go grilled over the recall of those vehicles. >> what can i say except i'm sorry and our cars are fine. >> what families say they want to be done. >> a lucky couple wins the lottery three times in just one month. we'll tell you how much they raked in. let's just say their new address is definitely easy street. >> it is not just an april fool's joke. we have more snow in places like duluth. i'll have your forecast. r

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>> good morning, welcome to al jazeera america. i'm stephanie sy. >> i'm del walters. >> family members linked to the g.m. recalls talk about what the automakers needs to do now. >> first where the rain and snow may fall today. >> we've got both as we start off this morning. i'll talk more about it. remember, over the next couple days, midsection of the country, and chances for the stronger storms, but already on going this morning, more of that snow moving across the northern tier of minnesota and moved by winds. visibility caused a lot of traffic problems yet in minnesota. this will skirt into michigan, the u.p. in that area. watch for wind gusts. even out of this area, it's gusty, so high profile vehicles, take he'd of that. the west coast, another system moving onshore. a little bit of rain for the northwest, but better chances as

we get into california. this is where we've been in the drought recently and really going back for years. it's not going to make a real big dent in this, but any rain at this point and any additional snow pack is very helpful. back to you guys. >> ok, nicole, thank you. >> at least a dozen deaths have been linked to vehicles manufactured by general motors. today g.m. c.e.o. mary barra will testify at a congressional hearing in washington. we spoke with the mothers of two victims who died in g.m. cars. >> sherry still expects her son to come home. >> i'm sometime waiting for him to knock at the door or come in and ask what's for dinner. >> michael is never coming back, killed two years ago when his brand new blue chef cobalt crashed into a rock wall and burst into flames. at the heart of tuesday's hearing is why executives in the nation's largest automakers did not act on the ignition problems

or issue a recall until february of 2014, a decade after the problem was discovered. >> their c.e.o. said we were slow, we were slow, slow to be, but, you know, there's slow and then there's intentional refusal to act. we're talking about 10 years. we're talking about documents that exposed the defect for a decade. a decision, if you believe their documents, not to fix the defect because of the expense and the cost. >> robert hilliard is an attorney representing 52 owners of g.m. vehicles, including the families of 15 people hes says were killed because of the faulty ignitions. >> this is an on going public safety issue. so many folks are not even aware of the recall. if they don't watch t.v., they're not aware of the dangerousness of the recall.

>> for renee who lost her daughter, an apology doesn't go very far. >> they've said i'm sorry and our cars are fine. well, let's do something, then, to prove that. i would like to hear that effective immediately, these cars are off the road. immediately. there's 2 million still out there? how many lives, how many mar lives do we have to go through? >> a federal court in texas is set to hear arguments about a demand that general motors issue an order that all the recalled vehicles are not safe to drive and that owners stop driver them. on march 18, new g.m. c.e.o. mary barra issued an apology. >> we have apologized, that is one step in the journey to resolve this. >> for sherry, there is little that the g.m. executive can say or do. >> it doesn't matter. she can't bring my son back.

she can't bring my daughter's brothers back. she can't bring my grandchildren's uncle back. or my mother's grandson back. i'm very angry, and i'm tired of being an angry mother. >> still, the families will be on capitol hill this week listening closely as congress asked marry barra for an explanation. aljazeera, washington. >> the head of charles griffin intelligence season, specializing in these types of investigation joins us. what type of questions as an investigator should congress be asking marry barra as she testifies on capitol hill? >> first of all, i think it's important to differentiate the congressional investigation with the possible criminal investigation we've been hearing about and the class action suit. a lot of people confuse the three. they're different. the congressional investigation

is really almost a showbiz operation. the congressmen don't have power to charge anybody, to find fault, to put anybody in jail. really, you're looking for the lawyers in the class action who are going to be finding the facts that are going to actually get people money, that's where it works, people in congress don't put people in jail in this country. it's district attorneys. >> and you believe that congress should be looking at its own back yard. not only did g.m. fail but in a very real sense, the highway traffic administration should be keeping tabs on these problems. >> what i believe for sure is that this is a very political issue for two reasons. the government bailed general motors out after the financial cries and was the principle owner of general motors during a lot of what was going on. if there were recalls that were suppressed, the government was the owner, so the government

even ran for -- the president ran for reelection on the basis that this bailout was a good thing, so that's one thing. the other thing is if the regulators soft peddled any kind of enforcement because the government was the main owner, then that's going to cause outrage in congress. perhaps they would argue beam died as the result of the government trying to save face. it's a two edged thing, the regulatory edge and also just the political stance that the president took that bailouts are a good thing and we can pick winners and this is something that we would do again. >> does it bother you that the united states government had a stake in the success or failure of g.m. at this crucial time? >> this is one of the problems that people will say when you ask the question should the government be an owner of industrial companies, should the government be part of the marketplace, because when the government has to police itself, you have a problem, and this is

why the soviet union was not as successful an economic system as the capitalist system. you have private ownership here, subject to market and government oversight, market discipline and government oversight. when you have unlimited amounts of government money to bail out an unsuccessful company and then you're talking about the government policing its own company, you have the president obama pen tell problem that i think you're going to hear about in congress today. >> a written statement ahead of her testimony today, marry barra said: she has apologized, but is she the wrong person to be doing the apologize and why aren't we hearing from the former at the of general motors? >> when you hear that there's a

potential criminal investigation going on, and when the class action lawyers are circling the wagons, or assembling plaintiffs and are talking about multi-billion dollars lawsuits, you would expect everybody to be louder up at this point, because this is going to go to trial and if it doesn't, there's going to be a big settlement. they've admitted some fault here, so there is going to be payment. the question now is figuring out what the causation was. a lot of people are going to allege they were injured in these g.m. cars. was it the result of these specific faults that were the subject of this recall? that's something for a trial court to establish. the other thing is that you have to show damage when you want money in a civil action. this is not -- we are not talking about the criminal case anymore, we're the congressional show we're going to see today. in the case of civil damages, you have to show damage. you have to show that i'm injured and here's what it costs. >> we've seen an awful lot of

those emotional testimony. thank you for being with us. >> an attorney and also the head of charles griffin intelligent. thanks. >> lightning strikes three times for a luck ewe come in virginia. they won three lottery jackpots in one month, raking in over $2 million in prize money playing powerball, virginia's pick four game and the $1 million cash extravaganza. they say they believe they can win again. >> in our next hour, the race is on in west africa as health officials try to stop the spread of ebola. it has killed dozens of people. we'll talk about what's being done to contain it. >> women in afghanistan gaining power in politics in recent years, but the taliban is using violence to try to undo their progress. one woman who is not letting any

threats get in her way. >> the aljazeera morning news continues. deem's back with you in just two minutes.

>> keeping peace talks alive, secretary of state john kerry wrapping up an unplanned round of talks with israel's prime minister. why an israel spy imprisoned in america could play a key role. >> g.m. c.e.o. mary barra heads to capitol hill to face tough questions over deadly accidents. >> we're facing an epidemic of an expense never seen. >> a deadly ebola outbreak,

racing to contain the spread of the disease which has already killed dozens. >> homicides solved, stoning cases solved. >> tracking america's law enforcement, using a new tool to catch criminals. privacy advocates say it allows them to watch you. >> good morning. welcome to al jazeera america. i'm del walters. trying to revive talks, secretary of state john kerry on his way to brussels after an unplanned trip to jerusalem, holding two meet i go with israel prime minister netanyahu.

>> we were hours away from these talks collapsing, but these talks between john kerry and israeli officials, there is a deal emerging, according to an official close to these negotiations. number one, the release of jonathan pal lard, this is an american accused and convicted of spying on behalf of israel, as she id to life, now talking about being part of this release, being released early. number two, the extension of these negotiations through the end of the year, and number three, the release of 400 palestinian prisoners including

the original group that was supposed to be released this past weekend, including 14 palestinian israelis. there is a fourth condition on this deal and that is a sort of informal settlement freeze by israel, but the israeli officials say it's not a private freeze, that private investment in settlements can continue and settlements in east jerusalem can continue, as well. it is a pause in settlements, but not a full freeze. >> jonathan pollard, international headlines when arrested, what more do we know about him? >> this is a man who for the last 25 years successive spy chief, senior officials have told american presidents when asked to release him said they would design if he was freed early. this is a man who stole more from the united states than almost any counter spy in a long time. he took two or three years he stole information about

pakistan, the soviet union, the arab states, a lot of classified and highly sense active information, he literally walked out of his offices carrying suitcases, more than 2,000 documents, delivered to the israelis, which they used to spy on those countries. what the u.s. is trying to say to its allies and republicans critical of this is pollard was supposed to be on parole next year, so we're not releasing him that early, but no doubt there will be blowback if he is released as part of this deal. >> are we seeing any palestinian reaction? >> this is perhaps the most important part. this cannot be a deal between israel and the united states. the palestinian have to agree. they feel they're paying for the same merchandise twice. they made a deal nine months ago not to go to the united nations, not to step away from these talks so long as prisoners were released. they weren't released over the weekend. they feel israeli has managed to

convince the united states to give them more than originally planned and the palestinians are forced to accept this. >> live in jerusalem, nick, thank you very much. >> there are more recall trouble this morning for general motors, the company recalling 1.5 million cars because problems with the electronic power steering system, this latest recall affecting chevrolet, pontiac vehicles manufactured before 2010, also coming before g.m. c.e.o. mary barra set to testify for fault eye ignitions, responsible for several deaths. >> g.m. c.e.o. mary barra is expected to acknowledge her companies mistakes and apologize for the resulting injuries and deathses. she is expected to spell out measures that g.m. is taking to find and fix mechanical defects. >> today, g.m. c.e.o. mary barra

testifies before a congressional hearing, expected to say she is deeply sorry and will vow to conduct a thorough investigation into a faulty ignition switch that has led to at least a dozen deaths, 31 car wrecks and recalls. >> clearly the fact it took over 10 years indicates we have work to do to improve our process. >> family members of the crash victims in the audience still struggle to understand that you g.m. failed to address the defect, a defect they knew about as far back as 2001. >> i'm hoping to speak to g.m. c.e.o. mary barra to find out what shies doing about this information that's been hidden. >> her daughter died. she got her wish a day early. barra met with her and 14 other families of those killed in the

crashes. the c.e.o. cried. >> said she first sorry to all of us, and then we all got a chance to talk to her and tell her about our children, that died. >> the timing of that meeting and the expected grilling she will face by lawmakers could not have come at a worse time. yesterday, the automakers announced yet another recall, this time, 1.5 million cars for a potential loss in power steering, bringing the total number of recalled vehicles to less than 6 million in two months. >> we have work to do to improve our process. we are dedicated to doing that. >> in the hot seat today, the head of the national traffic highway association, ntsa. congress wants to know why they declined to investigate the issues even after receiving multiple complaints about the problems. >> in this day and age, there are many people like me who will seek to uncover that information. there is no more hiding.

>> barra is g.m.'s first female c.e.. she began working for the company when she was 18. now that she's in charge, she says g.m. will do the right thing. >> this is not the first time she will be testifying on capitol hill this week. >> no, you could say this is a dress rehearsal for what she is doing tomorrow. tomorrow she goes before a nat panel, which will have even more questions for her. >> randall, thank you very much. >> the transportation democratic is now mandating rear view cameras for all vehicles sold in the u.s., effective may, 2018, they will be required on all new cars, light trucks and buses. back up accidents are blamed for more than 200 deaths and 15,000 injuries each year. >> the deadline to sign up for the affordable care act now come and gone, but getting coverage in the final 24 hours proved to

be rather difficult for some americans. it ends the rocky rollout of the president's signature piece of health care legislation. it's just the beginning of a long debate over the health care system. >> this is the state of health insurance in the united states. on the last official day to sign up for new energies or pay a fine, long lines around the country. the website crashed twice. the administration said this is proof the signature legislation was needed. now the poorest will get government help to buy insurance, many in the middle class will pay more. for the program to be fiscally sound, large numbers of young healthy people need to sign up. that has been the sole focus of the administration, getting celebrity enforcements. >> we'll sign up now. >> putting the president on programs watched by the young, like this comedy show. >> what is it like to be the last black president. >> seriously? what's it like for this to be the last time you ever talk to a

president? >> so far, the numbers show 33% of those signing up are that young demographic. expert say it needs to be 40%. >> given that the democrats are politically vulnerable on this issue, i suspect the administration will help out insurers if they end up with fewer young, healthy low cost people than expected. >> that would be damaging to the president and his program to avoid that, the administration has been very carefully crafting each event. this one last week with jill biden was with the vice president's wife. >> everybody here is going to sign up, right? >> the media wasn't allowed to talk to anyone not preselected. even they didn't seem to know what they actually paid for. >> i haven't looked too deep into the health coverage yet. >> i haven't thought about that. i will look into it and i have to do my math. >> this is about math. for the country, the program and the people who are a part of it,

it's still not clear if the math actually adds up. if it does, there is one other important number, 30 million. that is the number of people in america who will still not have health insurance, even if the president's health insurance allow is eventually labeled a success. >> the white house says at least 3 million people visited health care gough on monday alone. >> the senate passing a bill insuring medicare reimbursement rates to doctors won't be cut, approved late monday. it passed the house last week. if lawmakers didn't pass the bill, reimbursements would have been cut 24%. the they are delayed for another year, the 17th time congress has i am employed that temporary fix. >> an idaho man who shot at the white house had his sentence reduced. eight bullets hit the white

house. the president and first lady weren't there at the time and no one was hurt. his lawyers argued he suffered from mental illness. >> a significant deadline approaches for the crews lookings for malaysia airlines flight 370. batteries in the plane's black box will likely one out of power by the end of the week. the hunt in the indian ocean continues, it turns out all right, good night were not the final words. malaysian officials said the crew signed off with normal cockpit chatter. >> officials say while pilot error was the primary reason for

asiana air flight crash. >> 22 people are still missing after the mud slide in washington. crews are making progress, but the major highway in and out of town is closed. residents feel they are growing more isolated. >> as the search moves into a second week, the focus remains clear, find the people who are still missing. while highway 30 remains closed, an old power utility road has been opened, allowing emergency vehicles to more easily access the does he brie field and travel between sites of the disaster without a helicopter. for residents who are left with no road to travel on, frustration is building. >> we can't even get to work. we have to go around, which is 150 miles out of our way. >> rather than make what he says is a three our commute to work,

steve stays put. >> my boss told me stay at home and we'll figure it out from there. i got friends that just offered up a couch just on the other side of the slide to me. right now, i'm sitting around doing nothing. that's up in the air. >> for a community cut off from the rest of the county, it's more than a physical isolation. >> right now, it is the -- it's kind of the quintessential source of grief, what everybody sees right now is the mud slide, the loss of life, the pain and the suffering, grief anguish a understand exhaustion. people are exhausted around here. highway 530 represents really that sense of disaster and until it's opened again, it's always going to be that way. >> limited bus service to other communities eases strain, but they hope for an expanded schedule. >> if they made it a little bit more time, i think that it could help a lot more people.

there's a lot of people that do work at night that live here. >> while residents wait for their travel lifeline to reopen, they continue to mourn their neighbors while counting their blessings. >> we drive there every day, like clock work, 10 times a day. what if we were going through that and that would have happened, just wiped out with that i was like oh, my god. >> good weather helped crews, the last couple days steady ryan, but clear skies allowed crews to search areas that have been underwater. >> the state has asked for federal aid to assist residents and businesses affected. the total damages so far estimated to be more than $10 million. >> the rising temperatures going to be felt across the country, bringing with it a chance for more severe weather. for that we turn to nicole mitchell. >> of course we have the chance for severe weather anytime of year, but it is especially the spring months, april and may and

particularly in tornado alley that we watch for some of the biggest outbreaks. over the next couple days, the areas in yellow is where we could have general thunderstorm and red a slight risk for the severe to be a little more likely. these are slight risks over the next couple days. you get that severe weather. part of the reason this time of year is particular for that is you have the changing seasons, cold airy placed with warm air. dynamic cold front, the conditions and dry line sets up a lot this time of year. that's another boundary where instead of cold air on one side of it, can be equally cold air and dry air can lift these storms. we do have a dry line set up in texas and oklahoma. that could be a triggering point sometimes. with severe weather, we talk about large hail, damaging

winds, or tornadic activity. there's a couple different things. you see the watch. that means just be prepared, the conditions are out there. warning is when it's much more eminent. we have risks into tomorrow as well and shifting a little more eastward into the day thursday. i'll talk storm systems coming up and a lot more after the break. [ male announcer ] it's here -- xfinity watchathon week,

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>> welcome to al jazeera america. an island is seeing the damages effects of climate change. first, secretary of state john kerry is on his way to brussels at this hour, he was in jerusalem for peace talks with palestinians and israelis. israel said it wouldn't release palestinian prisoners, wanting assurances that palestinians wouldn't abandon the talks. the united states is considering releasing a spy to keep talks from collapsing.

let me begin by saying the obvious. we have been here so many times before in this process trying to get to a peace process, why should we believe that we might see a breakthrough now? >> there's very little we believe that the talks themselves will yield any major accomplishment. a year ago, kerry scaled it back to a framework agreement, now the goal is simply to keep talking. i think this is important to keep the negotiations on going, but there's very little expectation on all sides that they'll result in any comprehensive peace agreement, let alone anything yielding a broader peace. >> one expert saying secretary kerry wants peace in the middle

east more than the palestinians or israelis. >> i don't think they want peace more than either side, but he is more invested in the continuation of the peace talks. there is a lot of skepticism within the public about the prospects about the intentions of the other side and both prime minister netanyahu and president dealing with political opponents within their own party and other parties opposed to the peace talks. secretary kerry doesn't pay political price for the continuation of the peace talks. president abass and prime minister netanyahu do. >> why jonathan pollard to be released? >> he's always been in the israel headlines, long something of a celebrity cause.

particularly, prime minister netanyahu has long insisted and tried to bring about his release. he tried to persuade president clinton to release him. up until now, administrations have refused to use jonathan pollard's imprisonment as a bargaining chip. what seems to be changing now is in this desperate attempt to keep the peace talks going, secretary kerry and with white house backing agreed to throw him in as a bargaining chip. >> the president said i have no plans for releasing jonathan pollard. what i'm going to be doing is to make sure that he like every other american who's been sentenced is afforded the same review and examination of the inequities that any other individual would prove. that was a year ago. what changed in that year? >> well, i think secretary kerry preside upon the white house in

order to get the netanyahu government, which is shaky, to agree to this next botch of prisoner releases, israel needed to get something big. i think basically, he's managed to persuade the white house that pollard was coming up for president obama role in a year's time, he's in poor health. it was something that maybe the obama administration was kind of keeping in reserve for when to play his release at the right time. clearly, they feel that now is the time to do that. it's the only way to keep the peace talks going. >> how should the palestinians feel with so much importance placed on the weight of win individual being reds from prison when they have asked for so much and had the door slammed in their face. >> from the palestinian point of view, in addition to the final batch of prisoners released, what will be a part of the deal is a much larger subsequent release of more palestinian prisoners as well as a promise settlement or partial settlement

freeze. if israel agrees to carry out additional steps, the release of pollard, i think from the palestinian point of view won't necessarily be a problem. the major issue is the agreement about a continue in the peace process that most palestinians don't believe is going anywhere. >> nick shiv is reporting that we see progress right now in germ. you were surprised? >> i was not. israel has a very strong incentive to keep the peace talks going and this is a question of whether prime minister netanyahu could persuade his coalition government particularly the right wing members to vote on the prisoner release. if pollard is part of the deal, i think they can't say no. >> professor, thank you. >> business news this morning, caterpillar executives facing lawmakers today, senate questions the company has about dodging a $2 billion tax bill,

claiming caterpillar shifted profits overseas to avoid paying taxes over the next 13 years. it is not accused of breaking the law. >> chrysler now reporting march sales higher by 13%. the numbers boosted by a whopping 47% increase in sales of its jeep brand. we are waiting for other automakers numbers to be released. one industry watcher saying g.m. facing thank you very much times ahead. >> the onslaught of class action lawsuits that will be coming because of the airbags, we're talking about the ignition switch and the additional vehicles that have been added to this list. they are being very cautious right now and even the littlest possibility, the smallest quantity of vehicles that have a problem, they're bringing them back in. >> on wall street now, dow futures up 42 points ahead of a

survey on manufacturing, the dow getting set to kick off the second quarter of 2016. asian markets ended higher, weak manufacturing surveys in chain new and japan raise hopes that policy makers will provide stimulus to prop up the growth there. >> today the so-called volcker rule for financial institutions takes effect, designed to prevent a meltdown such as the one in 2008 and helped bring about the financial crisis. it was named for paul volcker, preventing big banks from putting their own money at risk. critics say the rule will be costly and ineffective. >> russia is increasing the price of natural gas by 40% to ukraine. russian producer says the increase is justified because ukraine owes $1.7 billion in

unpaid bills. let's find out about your temperatures across the nation today. >> we have colder air behind the front through the midsection of the country that brought snow to north dakota. this morning, billings at 21. there's still gusty winds across the region. once you factor that in, feels like minus 11 in fargo. that does not feel like april, even by fargo standards. omaha where we had temperatures 60 close to 70 the last couple days feeling like single digits. >> across the country today, colder air has sunk into chicago at 51. east coast stays pretty mild and the west coast a little cooler, not particularly cool, but under some of the moisture that will be in that region. back to you. >> nicole, thank you very much. >> health officials racing to stop the spread of the ebola virus. are the steps they're taking enough to stop the spread of the

disease? >> we just got an alert. i to have run the plate. >> fighting crime by keeping tabs on americans in their cars. it's being used in the u.k., but americans say no. >> spring has sprung. that means baseball is back. we'll have highlights of opening day from around the major leagues. >> scared as hell... >> as american troops prepare to leave afghanistan get a first hand look at what life is really like under the taliban. >> we're going to be taken to a place, where they're going to make plans for an attack. >> the only thing i know is, that they say they're not going to withdraw. >> then, immediately after, an america tonight special edition for more inside and analysis. >> why did you decide to go... >> it's extremly important for the western audience to know why these people keep on fighting... ...it's so seldom you get that access to the other side. >> faultlines: on the front lines with the taliban then an america tonight:

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>> sun shining right now. general motors building on the right side of the screen. that company's c.e.o. testifies before congress today. good morning, welcome to al jazeera america. ahead, global warning is threatening one small part of the world. an island is already sinking into the sea. >> an afghan woman trying to break barriers in a country dominated by men. >> in west africa, the first

ebola outbreak in guinea. it is called and epidemic. residents are staying away from the hospital because they're concerned they might become affected. >> line about her i can't confirming two cases of ebola virus. as well. health officials scrambling to prevent for infections. >> one of the world's most deadly infectious diseases is spreading across west africa. its movement across guinea makes it more serious than any previous epidemic doctors without borders that dealt with. >> we're facing an epidemic of an extent never seen especially by the distribution of the cases. >> the as i am moms include vomiting, diarrhea and external bleeding. it's a particular dangerous strain detected in guinea. >> we're facing the most

aggressive strain of ebola, that kills nine people out of 10. >> doctors without borders have sent more than 40 tons of equipment, as well as 60 field workers, including doctors, nurses, edidemiologists and water experts to guinea. there are no vaccines or medicines to treat ebola. all doctors can try to do is boost the immune systems of patients. it's crucial to stop the virus. senegal have closed their border, but liberia have confirmed victims and sierra leone has a number of suspected cases, too. >> now the strain in this current outbroke is fatal in 90% have the cases. the ebola virus causes hemorrhaging and five. early symptoms include muscle weakness, fever and a sore throat. it takes five tests to confirm the virus. we go to the spokesman for the

word health organization, joining us from switzerland, this morning. following this latest virus outbreak, it began in guinea, now spread to go liberia and senegal closing its land border. do we know why it is spreading and how it managed to get there? >> i think we have to recalibrate this. there's a bit of misinformation in your report. first of all, it's been considered that the ebola virus is indigenous to large pores of central and west africa. we have seen outbreaks in the ivory coast neighboring guinea and very close to where the cases have occurred in guinea. this is a very short geographic distance to known virus outbreaks. secondly, all the cases have occurred in a small area of southeast guinea.

thths is where the case have occurred. people have then got up and moved to other locations, but the virus itself has only been present in the southeast of guinea. we know the cases have subsequently moved to liberia, but they were all infected in southeast guinea, so we are still looking at a very localized event, one which we would call an outbreak. this event, ebola event is no different from past ebola events, and in fact, is much smaller than a few ebola outbreaks we've seen in the past. the largest outbreak we've seen was one in 2001 in uganda, which caused at least 430 cases. here, we have only -- >> i want to -- >> 122 suspected and confirmed cases. >> why is guinea taking the

steps that it is and why are people in liberia afraid of patients coming from guinea even though this is a very as you would say localized epidemic that we are looking at. why countries bordering guinea if this is not something that is new? >> everyone is always concerned about ebola. that's no different. ebola is the stuff of legend. i mean, films in hollywood have been made about ebola. the thing is, it is a disease which ok in this outbreak has caused two thirds of the people contracted it have died, 67% death rate. it often can cause graphic visible and terrible suffering, which means that people get concerned about it. there is a health agency concern about it, because it is so easily transmittible and because the fatality rate is so high

once it in effects. this is a virus which so far has only been seen in southeast guinea. people infected in southeast guinea have been moved, but the virus itself, we know of so far, only in southeast guinea. >> let's talk about the virus itself at that first, discovered back in 1976 and you're right, the thing of legend, movies, the dustin hoffman movie coming to mind the most. in 1976, has there been enough progress in finding a treatment or cure for ebola? >> no. there are a few medicines and vaccines which are being trialed, which are experimental, but there is no vaccine, there is no medicine which is commercially available or available to be used on human beings. it's not the only disease for which vaccine exists, so not unusual in that sense. >> are there enough steps that have been taken to fight ebola?

>> to fight ebola means doing two things principlely. it means breaking chains of transmission and tracing everyone who might have come into contact with known cases in order to insure that they know that they might have been infected and they take precautions not to in effect anyone else. that is the only way one can deal with ebola and we have a big team on the ground. m.s.f. has even more people on the ground. the red cross in guinea has a lot of people going door to door on household communications to help people understand how they can stop this. that is public health, that's how you fight ebola outbreak. >> if i am the government of liberia, sierra leon and other places, what are you telling them? >> public health measures are key. the first thing to do, first of all, let me -- sierra leone has

no confirmed cases. there are a couple of rumored cases, but sierra leone does not have suspected or confirmed cases. the case are all from the east of guinea. what people need to do is both health care workers and people who have been in the southeast of guinea need to know that if they start presenting with high fever, sometimes diarrhea, rash, they need to alert their health care workers to this fact and health care workers need to take the proper precautions not to become infected themselves and not to in effect others in the hospital or other health care facilities. >> i've been on the ground in places we are talking about. we're not talking about the best staffed hospitals and medical facilities in the world. are you concerned they may not stop the spread across the borders.

you indicate the two cases in liberia were in guinea so obviously they weren't stopped at the border. >> you cannot stop a virus at the borders. it's impractical and doesn't make sense in public health terms. if someone is infected with ebola, they might incubate the virus. proper public health mines you work with health care workers. we've been working across the country in those three countries to make the health care instructures and establishment and health care workers aware of the fact that this exists and what they need to look for to protect them heselves, patients and others. that is what you do in this instance. >> thank you very much for being with us. he is the spokesman for the world health organization. thank you very much. >> south africa's president

facing corruption allegations, accused of using government money to upgrade his private home. the changes to his home cost taxpayers $23 million. he said it was security, but a watchdog report finding that the project was paid for, a pool and am theater and farmland. the main opposition party filing corruption charges against zuma, the country holding elections in may. >> the violence in venezuela over the political standoff is getting worse. riot police and protestors clashing again monday, a police motor bike was burned. riot police retaliated, using tear gas and rubber bullets. security forces are cracking down on weeks of government protest, government officials saying 39 people so far have died in that conflict. >> turkey fires heavyar tilly into syria one day after a cross

border attack hit a mask there. three mortar rounds landed in the province that is north of the 560-mile border between the two countries. turkey says one woman, a syrian refugee was injured in that attack. turkey is currently home to 900,000 syrian refugees, many living in camps along the border. >> afghans will vote for a new president this weekend. they will also choose other government officials including parliament and local council members. those positions have usually been held by men in afghanistan. as we report, a few brave women are now choosing to run for office in some deeply conservative regions. >> their life stories should be centuries apart, but she and her grandmother are separated by just two generations. she is an m.p. campaigning fob reelection. her grandmother was sold as a child bride to a much older opium addict.

decades have not eased the pain of her traumatic youth. she says her granddaughter's achievements astonish her. >> i am surprised, you see this woman among the men, talking with men. in my time, women were not allowed to talk with men. they covered their faces. it was a different time. maybe this is the will of god. >> it's still difficult in today's afghanistan for women to have careers in politics. this is one of the most conservative cities. taliban threats make it dangerous for women to campaign. she is relying on her reputation to win votes. she says for the past five years, she has been fiercely in corruptible. she was homeless when she first became an m.p. at one point, living in this tent with her family. despite their modest government salaries, most afghan m.p.'s live in huge houses, paid for through corruption. her reputation has attracted

wealthier supporters. they eventually raised enough money for a small house. other m.p.'s use heavily armed bodyguards. her security is four legged. [ barking ] >> the taliban threatened her at first, but she sent messages that an honest woman was better than a corrupt man. so far, they have left her alone. a bigger challenge, she says is a sexist attitudes of her male colleagues. >> every head of the provincial council who got the job because i was a warrior tried to break me and make me do what they want, but i work independently. >> supporters lead with her posters, promising to spread her campaign messages to the village. with it, they spread hope that female m.p.'s in afghanistan can keep the success they worked so hard for. aljazeera, afghanistan. >> three of the candidates running for vice president this weekend are women.

>> investigators are trying to figure out what caused an explosion as a natural gas plant near the border of oregon and washington. the blast injured four workers. residents heard a loud boom and saw flames hundreds of feet into the area. it happened at the pipeline plant. deputies evacuated anyone within a two-mile radius. >> several pipes from the deadly harlem blast heading to washington for further testing, all part of the federal investigation into the explosion. the lab will analyze a cast iron gas main. >> march going out like a lion, blizzard conditions shutting down i-94 from fargo to bismarck to the canadian border. some areas could look at 20 inches of snow. >> the united nations is sounding the alarm today about the dangers of climate change. some of the risk associated

include rising sea levels. that's already happening in bangladesh and bola island. residents say their island is slowly disappearing. >> he thought it would never happened to him. he watched as the rampaging rivers spall load up the home of the residents on the island. he always thought he and his family would be safe. even a year ago, you couldn't see that from here. it was miles away. the government was building barriers to stop erosion. the waters broke through anyway. >> this used to be the room where his family would eat. they are forced to eat in the open now. he was born in this house, spent his whole life here. now he has a find a new place to stay. it's a process many on the island have gone through eight, nine, even 10 times. >> this all used to be a garden belonging to the family. the locals here say that just 10 years ago, it used to take two whole days to walk from here to the river bank.

stretching out from here, there used to be a dozen village. today, they're all gone. >> according to experts, claims change is to blame for the disappearing act. rising sea levels and a river crashes down on its shores harder than ever, thanks to erratic rains. >> for the polite of this whole island, the block countries are responsible. they have to take the responsibility of this climate change. >> the government built village to house the displaced, but there aren't enough of them. >> the demand for these houses is much more than the supply. so many people who have lost their homes, the demand is too much. >> even some of these village have been lost to the encroaching waters. so far, half a million residents have been displaced. the rest fear it won't be long before they share the same fate

scientists expect the sea levels to rise about three feet in the next 100 years. >> police equipped with hardware that keeps tabs on all your movement by keeping tabs on your license plate. we'll tell you why objections are raised to what is considered by many to be an invasion of privacy. >> baseball is back. a look at the first day of the season and history that was made. >> it is not just an april fool's joke. we have a spring snowstorm in portions of the midwest. i'll have the details.

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systems today, one in the midwest bringing rain to the south. the snow is getting people's attention. the north, dual ruth, minnesota can't see a thing, looks like a blizzard. we are not to the three hour criteria but have the reduced visibility and wind gusts, so definitely blizzard conditions at time even if not meeting the complete definition for that. high winds in the midwest. it is going to be blustery, making it feel colder. >> the west coast, more rain for washington or oregon. we have more chance the next couple days in that he is drought areas. >> major league baseball is back. we had hot dogs, all the fictionings here yesterday. more on the opening day festivities. >> i can barely close my suit

jacket this morning. it was a fun time. welcome back, baseball, we missed you. monday was opening day with 13 games on tap. arizona hosted san francisco, top of the seventh, sandoval didn't mean to swing, but all good after his accidental shallow pop, bag began scores to bring them to within seven" six. pence walks on a pitch way outside. scores to knot things up at seven. same score, runner on first, two out, posey hits deep to left field and gone off addison reed. giants rally to win 9-8. >> cubs pitcher jeff samardzija bunts, that's not the history, liriano throws to third for out. throws to first for the double play, does he? >> new manager rick renteria orders up the first manager's replay challenge in major league history. the call and the double play

would stand. the game would be scoreless in the bottom of the 10th. neil walker would take carlos villanueva pitcher downtown. deep to right, out of there, walkers walk off shot gives the pirates a 1-0 win. >> now thatee seen the first replay challenge, i'll bet you'd like to see the first successful replay challenge. greg gibb sob calls ryan braun safe at first in the bottom of the sixth against the braves. atlanta manager gonzalez says what's the big idea? he challenges the call. the sumps took 58 seconds to reverse the call after replay show the call got there before brown did. >> the ceremony yell first pitch in los angeles went about as bad as it could go. the 64-year-old baylor helped

off the field. he had to reach cross his body to catch the flow. he will have surgery today on his right femur. >> the new york yankees will play in houston. derek jeter announced this is his final season after 19 years of wearing containingee pinstripes. >> the astros are still looking for their first world series crown. >> you know who's not retiring? hank the dog. his career is just getting warmed up. he has made the big leagues, taking the feed to a loud standing ovation. avenues stray the brewers players took in. when the team came forward, so did the dog. he signed a contract this week. the team will have a frank bobblehead night. of course they will.

>> that is one hotdog. >> you couldn't resist, could you? >> a growing number of police departments are using a new high tech tool that reads your license plate, helping catch the bad guys. privacy advocates are concerned it keeps tabs on you. we have more on the first part of a series we are calling "your secret's out." >> mounted in public places or law enforcement vehicles, devices scan the license plate of every car that passes. each device scans thousands of plates her minute, checks each plate against a hot list have stolen cars or wanted persons. data from a.l.p.r. devices, including photos, a time stamp, and location is also retained in thousands of databases across the country and shared by various agencies, even cold to private companies, with little or no regulation.

>> use of alpr increased in the last few years. >> jennifer lynch, a lawyer with the electronic frontier foundation says that with alpr, mass surveillance became affordable. >> it really has the potential to collect data on a scale we haven't seen so far. if a license plate camera picks up your license plate during the week, it can pinpoint your location and chart your pathway through your life. that can reseal sensitive information. it can tell who you associate with, which doctor you're going to, whether you're sleeping at a different house every night. just north of st. paul, the sheriffs office just purchased their first mobile unit. one of seven the county plans to buy. we went along for a test spin. >> here we go. we just got an alert. i have to run the plate. >> ok. >> this time, it turned out to

be a false alarm. give me a list of some of the crimes you've seen solved because of the technology. >> i've seen auto theft solved, homicide solved, stalking cases solved. it provided proof. we were able to show that the stalking suspect had been in the area of the victim's home dozens of times. >> is there any question in your mind that this technology is keeping people safe? >> there's no question it helps police keep the community safer. >> in the wrong hands, a tool to fight crime can reveal intimate secrets, even about the police themselves. melissa is a blogger and privacy activist in minneapolis. she wanted to give the police a taste of their own medicine. >> as you can see, that is an ice vehicle from homeland security and they would park in these areas. >> the city's alpr database used to be public, so she searched for unmarked law enforcement cars near official buildings, ran their plates and posted what she found on her website.

according to this internal document, minneapolis police worried she would reveal undercover operations. >> i kind of got the sense that the city was not very comfortable with people tracking their vehicles using date that they were tracking us with. >> soon after, the city made alpr data private. >> this evening on america tonight, we're going to take a closer look at data brokers who buy and sell your personal information. that's 9:00 eastern time right here on aljazeera america. >> that's going to do it for this edition of our show. we leave you with a look at opening day highlights for the baseball season. as always, there is more news straight ahead, in this case, in just two minutes.

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