night's dead line and that meet the original white house goal. can you get the latest news online at aljazeera.com. and we'll continue to keep an eye on the aftermath of that earthquake and tsunami. ♪ on "america tonight," deadly defect. general motor accused of hiding a serious safety problem as one mother seeks answers, congress puts gm in the hot seat. >> in other words, there is no commitment to share the full report? >> i am saying i will share what is appropriate. >> i hear the answer. >> also tonight, pieces of the puzzle. what can we learn about flight 370 from the inside out? the anatomy of a malaysia airline's boeing 777. >> you can see if this is in the water, under the water, because

they are going to sink, they are going to be hard to find. and an "america tonight" special series, your secrets out from intimate family details to your private medical history. data brokers profiting off of your personal life. >> so they know in some cases more about me than, maybe, some of my friends or relatives do. >> they know more about you than you know about you. ♪ good evening, everyone. thanks for joining us. i am madam may in for joie chen lawmakers grill the head of general motors about defective ignition switches that killed at least 13 driveways. congress wants to know why gm and the national safety administration failed to react

sooner and recall millions of cars. it wasn't just lawmakers in search of answers. victim's families and crash survivors gather on capitol hill tuesday morning demanding that the world's second biggest auto maker come clean. >> our daughters, sons are gone because they were a cost of doing business gm style. >> laura christianson's 16-year-old daughter died in this 2005 crash in maryland involving a chevy cobalt. the cobalt is just one of the gm models included in the massive recall that has ballooned to more than 6 million vehicles. since newly appointed ceo mary barra has taken over, gm has called vehicles because of ignition switches that could turn off unexpectedly shutting down car power and safety systems including the airbags. a fatal flaw that barra claimed

responsibility for during tuesday's testimony. >> this is an extraordinary situation. it involves vehicles we no longer make, but it came to light on my watch. so, i am responsible for resolving it. >> barra was grilled by a congressional committee about not only what gm knew and when but about the company's commitment to public safety. >> isn't it true that throughout its corporate history, gm has represented to the driving public that safety has always been their number 1 priority? >> i can't speak to the statements that were made in the past. all i can tell you is the way we are working now, the training that we have done, we've changed our core values. it is decision making we are leading, leading by example. >> hasn't the core values of general motor always been that safety comes first? >> i have never seen that part before. >> "america tonight" sat down with the mother and sister of amador cortin a s, the

23-year-old who was driving a friend home in his cobalt when the car swerved into go into oncoming traffic. he and his friend were killed. his mother and sister expressing outrage over the recall and the lack of action from general motor. >> when i started hearing that they knew about this and they just ignored it, they hid it, and that these vehicles were still on the street, i was very upset because this is america. and we should be safe. you know, in the vehicles they sell us. you know, they should -- we shouldn't have to lose how many lives? >> do you believe that general motor should have taken action soon sooner, and do you believe if they did that your son, that your brother, would still be alive? >> absolutely. >> yes. i do. i -- i have no doubt in my mind that that was the cause of this accident. i think they definitely feailed in their part of being -- of

keeping consumers safe of what they are putting out there productswise and hiding it. >> reports indicate that gm knew about it for decades. they are promising to share some details of an internal investigation. >> there will be -- if there will be a full report, will you share it? >> i commit we will be very transparent and share what's appropriate. >> in other words, there is no commitment to share the full report? >> i am saying i will share what is appropriate. >> i hear the answer. >> according to a congressional investigation into the recall, the auto maker rejected a proposed repair of faulty ignition switches because of costs. >> fact not missed by a congress woman from colorado. >> sir chairman, i have a copy of the ignition switch assembly for one of these vehicles. and this is it. a spring inside the switch, a piece that costs pennies, failed

to provide enough force causing the switch to turn off when the car went over a bump. gm knew about this problem in 2001. they were warned again and again over the next decade, but they did nothing. >> on top of the potential for huge lawsuits, gm faces possibly an even more daunting challenge: regaining the trust of the american public. >> we are in a situation that, you know, we don't trust the company right now. >> well, it turns out that general motor vehicles is shielded from legal liability for nearly all accidents that happened before it exited bankruptcy back in 2009. ali velshi, host of real money with us to explain what this means for not only general motor but the victims' families. first, i want to ask you a little bit about general motor' reputation. they have been through a lot with the bail-out, the bankruptcy. will they survive this? what kind of impact are we expecting? >> it's interesting in light of what you just said about whether

they are shielded from legal like itty or not. legal liability at this point is the least of general motor' problems. it is a company with a lot of money. it sells a lot of cars. it's going to need to do what it needs to do to settle legal claims. whether or not it's within the law, gm's problem is reputation. this is a massive company. when i look back to ford and the bridgestone, firestone or the bronco or i look back to toyota and the brakes, they all come back, and they can come back strong but certain things need to happen first. and when it comes to cars, people have to trust that the car is safe. now, just this week, the insurance institute for highway safety ranked a 2014 particular chevy model one of the super plus picks in terms of safety. what general motor would like you to believe is that all of the problems we are dealing with right now were from a long time ago. there was the old gm. now, they are the new post-bankruptcy gm. the problem is that today's testimony, you didn't get answers, adam, that suggested

that they were coming clean or they knew everything. part of it is because mary barra is a new ceo at gm. they submitted 200,000 documents to congress. she is not familiar with some of them. she is not new to general motor. she has been there for 34 years. it's the only job she's ever had. so the image problem with general motor is, is mary barra, the first woman to ever lead a major automobile maker part of the new gm or the old gm because the old gm seems to be a bit of a problem. >> how do you think she did sitting in the hot seat? >> i don't think she did well at all. i think there was a lot of "i didn't know that." there was a lot of "i'm disturbed by these allegations" when she came out of the session, there were some reporters there who asked her questions i think she could have been able to answer and she kept on saying, that's why we've hired tony velukus. i looked him up, and he runs a major law firm. so, you know, what i didn't need to here from a ceo of a major corporation is "talk to our

lawyers." this was the opportunity to hear from people. she was in front of congress today. so, i thought that was disappointing. again, i am going to cut her some slack. she is the brand-new ceo of general motor, and nobody wants to inherit that stuff. but what i need to understand and what americans need to understand is: is she the new generation, or was she part of the crew that knew this was going on and didn't want to fas the litigation or the costs associated because, again, adam in those documents, it shows that general motor knew in 2005 and had an opportunity in 2007 and in 2010 to deal with these ignition switch problems and decided not to. was she there? did she know? was she part of that decision? if she was -- she claims she wasn't and we will give her the benefit of the doubt. >> so many unanswered questions after that grilling. ali velshi, host of real money. thanks for joining us. >> for a story we have been following closely. washington, d.c. police searching for 8-year-old ralis a

a-r a-rod. people confirmed they found the suspected kidnapper dead and is accused of murdering his wife. the case that has brought national attention to the safety of children living in shelters. >> it's really, i think, just heart-wrenching to know that, you know, a child is out there and may or may not be living. it's really wanting to bring closure to the family. >> derrick butler nose the sinking feeling of looking for a missing child but knowing it could be a search for a body. monday evening, he was part of a volunteer group filled with some hope tapped by the washington, d.c. metro police department to help find missing 8-year-old ralish a-rod. she hasn't been seen since march 1st? >> it's an empty feeling. i mean it's something that you just don't -- you don't know how you are going to feel for one day to the next. you really know what the other

family is going through because you have lived through it. i mean you have highs and lows, ups and downs, just wondering, you know, what really happened. and, you know, whether the person is going through any pain. >> butler is personally touched by this case. his own sister has been missing for years. he is also a member of the black and missing support group trying to shine a light on missing persons of color. >> we are looking for any children articles, shovel, bags, just about anything that, you know, that we thought might have been connected to the case, clothing, an especially children's clothing, shoes. just anything that looked odd, out of place that shouldn't be in the woods at that time. if you see a piece of dirt or something that looked like it was just dug up, you know, just kind of poking around, looking to see if it was actually just a

tree had fallen over or whether somebody had dug. for three hours he helped sort through the kennelworth park and aquatic garden, a 700 acre recreation area with endless possibilities when it comes to hiding places, including sewers, vast wooded areas and some buildings like the place where police found the body of kahlil tatum, the victim of an apparent suicide. police sad been dead for at least 36 hours when they happened upon the body monday night but he might have been dead for days. he was the last person seen with ralisha. they spent time together as he was a janitor at the homeless shelter where she lived. >> if you look over, i guess, to southwest over here, it's -- that's kind of where the body was found. >> were you near people like this? >> yes, uh-huh. they were actually in the woods with us, yes.

and some police officers, also. >> the bitter dail of finding tatum's body was unsettling for volunteers as they set out on their search? >> i hope she is here, but it's kind of hard to believe that, you know, that this man has killed himself and killed his wife, you know. but why would he do something like to a little kid. >> she could be alive. >> that's why we are asking for the public's health. we don't have a crystal ball. >> the police chief says the search will continues for a few more days. her crews have methodically searched shoulder to shoulder looking for ralisha with no sign. volunteers will help the search again. butler is finished for now but on standby to help. >> after looking for a while, you know, you kind of are ready to give up, but not give up for good. just regroup and come back later on. >> the entire time they were searching the park, they were searching for ralisha. they went to that park because

they received information that he had spent some time there in early march, the day after ralisha disappeared. but he went back to work for several days after the last time she was seen. so the last thing they expected to find here was tatum's body. if they don't find anything tomorrow as far as ralisha goes, that doesn't mean the investigation has ended. just that the search at that park is over. >> it's such a mystery. there are still so many unanswered questions. let's bring in tom morris, investigative crime reporter. tom, i think the question everyone is asking right now is with the primary suspect dead, with this little girl still missing, if they don't find her body in the park, where do they go from here? >> i know from sources in npd that they are searching abandoned houses throughout the northeast. so that's going on. there is also the possibility that he placed her body in the river if, in fact, she is dead. the river runs right near that park. so, she could be in the river, and if that's the case, being a small child, it doesn't take much to weigh down a 40 or 50 pound body.

and put it to the bottom of a river. >> how long do they continue to search, though? i mean will they continue to search until they find her body? can they have this many cadets out there for a long period of time? >> well, it reminds me for the search for shandra levy. the same sort of massive search occurred, npd put out cadets. there was a strong theory she might have been in rock creek park. they searched 1700 acres of rock creek park and did not find her body. a year later, a man looking for turtles discovered the skeletal remains and clothing articles. so this is a very difficult thing. this is a needle in a hey attack situationay stack situati situation. >> we have heard press conferences. there have been briefings. we don't know all of the evidence and people they have spoken to. >> that's important to figure out what could have happened to ralisha. >> the problem investigators have is kahlil took secrets to

the grave. without him to interrogate and get confessions out of, it's a dead-end unless someone related to ralisha is holding information that can shed some light on what the arrangement was that led to little girl to be with this 51-year-old man to begin with. the parent, the mother, has been somewhat cagey and has not really given truthful information initially to the police when she first was con fronted about: where is your daughter? she told them that my daughter is with a dr. tatum at a conference in atlanta. >> that's bizarre to me. >> talk about bringing secrets to the grave, i think that begs another question, what did the suspect's wife know? >> something we will have to wait and find out if the motive ever comes to light. investigative crime reporter tim morris and laura jane gleehah. tmi, too much information in the

hands of data brokers. >> all of that gets pushed into a big giant information soup and what comes out at the other end is profiling of individual consumers. >> our special series, your secret's out continues. who is making money off you?

a. tin months ago edward snowden uncovered government surveillance conducted by the national security agency but all of the fuss about the nsa, the fact is many corporations have been compiling digital dosiers for years. reams of personal data bought and sold by so-called data brokers. it's mostly unregulated and a multi-billion dollar industry. continuing our special series, your secret's out, here is america tonight's michael oku. >> where you shop, what you buy,

how would your children are or whether you might drink too much. you would think that's all private information, but you would be wrong. these personal details are being collected, categorized and bought and sold every day by data brokers. >> their biggest business is gathering tremendous amounts of data on millions of people. >> brian crebbs reports on cyber security for his blog. he says when it comes to big data, brokers hold the keys to the kingdom. >> they know what i buy, whether it's under wear, shoes, cars, houses. >> absolutely. >> so they know in most cases more about me than maybe some of my friends or relatives do. >> they know more about you than you know about you. >> adversaries everywhere. >> at the world's largest information security conference in san francisco, the buzz was

all about keeping your data safe from malware and other cyber threats. pam dixon, the security director of the world privacy forum says, the real threat isn't only what hackers and thieves can steal. it's also what we hand over about ourselves voluntarily, often unwittingly. every single day for free. >> these guys are really good at keeping threats away, but that doesn't mean companies can't buy and sell our information at will. all that gets pushed into a big giant information soup and what comes out at the other end is the profiling of connell assumers. at here? in san diego dixon showed us some profiles or lists many of us end up on. >> here is a list that says alcohol drinkers-adult. do i really want my name on this

list? if i am an alcohol drinker. >> dixon says, there are scores of lists for sale. >> i am seeing everything from dry eyes to bed wetting to cankar sores. >> substance abuse road to recovery, book buyers club. >> how do they know that? how do the data brokers know that i bought that book? >> so this is a list of people in a book buyers' club. so that list is being sold. so, if you're producing a list or a book from that book club, that's how they are getting it. >> data brokers aren't just getting customer information from retailers. they also mine public records and monitor our public postings on social media, and then there is all of that personal information you may provide on online surveys, say on clear.com or realage.com.

the profiles are pressure commodities, as good as gold for the brokers and the clients they sell them to. >> and they know this about me and categorize me in order to make it easier for them to sell me more stuff? >> to sell your profile to people who want to sell you more stuff, yeah. exactly. >> pam dixon believes if the result of this profiling was targeting for better ads, there would be no reason for concern. >> that's not what she is worried about? >> if you are a major employer or you are a major health plan, you could purchase this list. >> you don't know for certain that employers are purchasing these lists, but the fact is, thing. ? >> that's correct. >> that's exactly correct. this is really outside of r regulation. there aren't any laws that say that employers can't buy these lists. and they are not that expensive.

>> america tonight contacted exact data, a chicago based data broker without asking us why we needed them, exact data agreed to sell all kind of lists, the names, home and e-mails lists of people who use online dating services, individuals who purchase products to fight anxiety, gamblers and surf sufferers of erectile dysfunction. we decided not to buy the lists anded names you see aren't real but for $4,500, al jazeera america could have purchased access to deeply private information about tens of thousands of unsuspecting individuals. some could be bought by anyone. >> there are a lot of what ifs you could come up with in your mind about what else could happen with that data, but a lot of what we do as an industry is work very hard to make sure that that marketing data is only used for the purposes of marketing. >> rachel nice warner thomas is the chief lobbyist for the group

that represents data brokers. her job, pushing back against the critics. >> they say you are unregulated, you are shadowy, secret. fair? >> nothing could be further from the truth. dma has had a self regulatory code for more than 40 years. there is incredible amounts of self regulation going on throughout this industry. >> are you aware of a company called exec data in chicago? >> not off of the top of my head. >> so you wouldn't know whether they are a member of the dma or not? >> not off the top of my head, no. >> we called exact data and they offered to sell us lists of all kinds of private, what i think many members of the public would consider to be sensitive informati. without having to jump too many hoops, they were willing to sell it to us if we were willing to pay for it? >> i can't speak to that particular situation, but i think there is more to the story, very likely.

in a case where marketing data is being sold and purchased and transferred between companies, our code of ethics would say you can only share that information. it can only be purchased for marketing purposes. >> it doesn't always happen that way. take experian, a giant in the business, it is the fort knox of consumer information, the holder of credit and marketing data. in a major lapse that brian krebs was the first to report, an identity thief in vietnam was able to gain access to be personal information about 200 million americans from a company owned by experian? >> experian was selling information, they claim unknowingly and i am willing to give them the benefit of the doubt to an individual who was claiming to be a u.s.-based private investigator. >> the person posing as an

american private eye was actually 24-year-old kumin no who pled guilty and faces 45 years in prison. experian declined a questireque an on-camera interview but said: to be clear, nothing experian credit data was accessed. to brian krebs, the episode raises questions about the data brokers' power. >> that's a recipe for disaster, when an organization that has almost no accountability collects some of the most sensitive and voluminous information on people and when they have a security incident, it jeopardizes the security of that information. there really aren't any consequences. >> the question that comes out of this is: how can we feel

safe, the public at large, about keeping this sensitive information in the hands of data brokers like experian and others? >> that particular case is one that is ongoing. it's a legal investigation, a law enforcement investigation, and it's possible if a wrongdoing -- entirely a given if a wrongdoing is found, the company will have to answer for that. >> one company is attempting to answer critics' concerns. in an first, axiom launched about the data.com which let's you see some of what it knows about you. >> this really is the first opportunity we have ever had, ever, to look behind the scenes of what a data broker generally has about us. >> we found out some of what they know about me. >> i see your date of birth. i see that you are a male, african-american. i see that you completed graduate school, you are married, you have a child. your child is seven years old. >> wow. this is pretty accurate.

>> that's pretty scary. why does someone need to know that information? >> my child and how would she is? >> yeah. it's disconcerting. >> dixon wants other data brokers to follow axiom's lead and be more transparent about what they know and who they are selling to sc. >> i want to make sure that if there is some kind of information that's out there on any list that a consumer has the right to say to any data broker, you know what? i want off of that list. >> michael oku, al jazeera. >> michael oku tells us he reached out to exact data, that chicago company that offered to sell us all of those lists. the ceo declined to provide a statement. but over the phone, he told our producer that, quote, i can guarantee you that you cannot get lists without a marketing plan and that you, quote, have to agree that the data is for marketing purposes only. well, we decided to follow up on that. we put it to the test. turns out for $400, we bought at

list of 6,000 people. we got their names, home addresses and e-mails all of whom bought incontinence products. there were no questions asked julia angwin is a reporter for republic can a and author of drag net nation. interesting title. relentless surveillance. i don't think a lot of people knew what a data broker was but they are curious how do you end up on that mailing list or how does that pop-up ad happen? you take us inside of that. what did you discover? >> first of all, i discovered there were a lot of data brokers. i assembled a list of more than 200 data brokers. most of the names you would never have heard of. it took me a long time to get that list together. then i learned that they won't let you remove your information, most of them. only about 90 offered me an opt-out and even fewer would let me see my data. only about a dozen of them would let me see the files that they held about me. >> hold on.

only al dozen or so of the two 00 different people doing this? >> yes. yeah. there is no law that requires them to so basically, it's actually probably the best actors in the bids, i guess, who is do that. >> when you looked up your information, were you surprised about some of the areas they had place you demographically? did you find any errors? >> i was surprised on two fronts. one was some of the information it was erily correct, all of my addresses back to the number on my dorm room and the month i lived with my parents in between jobs after college. but some of it was really wrong, and i wasn't sure which one i was more upset about to be honest. the ones that were wrong were inaccurate. i had one company, axiom, the largest in the business, i got three different sets of data about myself from them. the one, one of them had me as an asian woman, which i am not. one had me as like a fortunate person who is flying a jet

plane, private planes, which i am not. and then one of them actually was pretty accurate but it was a very minimal file. >> that's interesting because i went to the axiom website before speaking to you to look at some of the information i can pull up on myself and they did have some information was spot-on, right down to magazine interests i subscribe to. but there were errors, too, with items on my mortgage. when you see that there are errors like this with this information, these companies are collecting this inform it is. those errors, also, by themselves, do they have potential problems? >> they do, i think. i mean one of the scariest files i got about myself was something from an alternative credit scoring company called e zero which basically said that i had no college education, low income, single mother. none of them are true. and it said when i went to the website, i was like who are these guys? what are they going to do with this data and they said these are alternative credit scores. it's a way for someone to assess

the risk about you and places it might be used at charity hospital, trying to decide if you could pay for treatment. >> why don't you chime in on this? senator j rockefeller has proposed a bill that would require more transparence for these companies to tell us more about what they are collecting. do you think this bill has any legs to it? and would it be effective? >> i mean this has been tried before. obama proposed a privacy bill of rights two years ago which would have done the same thing. the industry has opposed it at every turn, and i am not sure i see signs right now that that has changed. >> for now, the information just keeps getting collected. some of it may even be wrong. ju julia, author of "dragnet nation" thank you for joining us. >> thank you. >> of our special series: your corre secret's out, how to protect yourself and your children in the digital age? >> you can't make kids behave well online by saying privacy is

good for you they will run from it. what you say is: do you want me to show you how stupid these other people are for being online? look at how easily i could own them. turning the tables and training the most vulnerable. correspondent michael oku explores the dangerous threats facing children online. his report wednesday, on america tonight. and still to come, this hour, inside a boeing 777, the mechanics of a malaysia airlines aircraft. we are picking it apart next.

in the headlines here on america tonight, we are following breaking news coming out of south america. an 8.2 magnitude earthquake strikes off of the northern coast of chile. it triggered a tsunami warning, triggering evacwasz along the

coast line. in february of 2010, an 8.8 earthquake struck chile killing more than 300 people. the affordable care act has reached 7 million sign-ups by march 31st. on monday, the final day to enroll, healthcare.gov received 4.8 million visitors and 2 million calls were made to the call center. the white house says the surge in activity included many young adults. their participation is key for the system to work. now to washington ffour more bo recovered in the mud slide bringing the death toll now to 28, almost two dozen others are still missing. crews say they are concerned they may not find everyone. some new developments regarding malaysian airlines flight 370. the malaysian government released neerm an hour's worth of radio communication transcripts. arly an hour's wor of radio communication transcripts. a the transcripts contradict

previous government accounts. originally we were told the last words from the cockpit were "all right. good night." instead, the newly released documents show the last communication was actually: good night malaysian 777. america tonight's sarah hoy traveled to florida to get a unique and up-close look at a boeing 777 from the inside out. as authorities scrambled to solve one of the greatest mysteries in aviation history, attention has also turned to the aircraft, itself. the malaysian airlines plane that disappeared during its flight from coquala lumpur, it' one of the best affair praenz in the world, one of the safetiest in the world. it's one of my favorite planes to fly.

>> he is ceo in fort lauderdale, florida. he is disassembling the 777. >> these items are from a malaysian airlines 777? >> each was removed from a malaysian 777 we owned. >> same type of airplane as flight 370. he says the 777 which first entered service in 1995 is one of the most in demand airplanes and remains boeing's best selling dual-i'll twin-engine plane that. popularity, there are more than 1,000 777s in service. it's one of the reasons investigators must find out what happened if only to truly out a problem with the plane, itself. the search for flight 370 has spanned three weeks with more than two dozen countries involved in the mission. parts like the ones at mullberry's warehouse, a black box, trans ponder, landing gear, are some of the items search

teams are looking for in the indian ocean. hundreds of miles off of the coast of australian i can't. >> no wreckage has been found? >> we don't know what altitude the aircraft was traveling at. we don't know what speed it was going at. if we don't find wreckage on the surface, we are eventually going to have to probably in consultation with everybody who has a stake in this review what we do next. >> meanwhile, time is quickly running out for locating the missing plane's black boxes that could possibly hold the key to understanding what happened to flight 370. there are two black boxes just like the set we saw here, one for data and the other for cockpit voice recording designed to survive a crash and signal their location, they can only run on batteries for a month, and that time is nearly up. >> what you are telling me is: we need this to have an answer?

>> that's right. without this, we are never going to know. so, it's really important that we find this, stop speculating, focus on finding this. >> so sarah, these are parts of the engine on the outside. this is what you see when you are sitting at the windows. you will notice this is in the water. they are gray. they are under the water because they are going to sink. they are going to be hard to find. >> needle in a hay stack? >> exactly. we don't know that this is the exact location that the aircraft went down. as long as they are not finding any piece from that airplane, we have to assume that it isn't because some things would float. in addition to supplying parts, ga tellsis owns a number of planes and leepsz them to the major airlines. they refurbish parts like this 777 landing gear used by malaysian airlines. >> is this something you might be able to see from the sky? >> no. unfortunately, these are very heavy. they weigh thousands and thousands of pounds. they are -- if they are in the

ocean, they are at the bottom. >> but there are plenty of parts, like seat cushions, that do float and could provide the break the searchers need. >> most of these aircraft have composite structures, and these composeit structures do float. so we would hopefully find it. but things like luggage and seat cushions and there are so many things in the aircraft that would eventually make their way to the surface that we will find it. if it's in the indian ocean, we will find it. >> at america tonight's sarah hoy is with us now. what was it like to stand among those giant pieces of aircraft? >> it was eerie. right? because we have this missing plane and though we weren't standing from the parts from that missing plane. this was something similar. this was another version of this plane. so you just couldn't help but think about where these parts are and how are we going to find them? >> were you blown away by the size of these parts? you look at the window and you don't put it in perspective.

>> when you are at the airport, you are shuttled in, off. you don't see what's under the hood, if you will. here we are standing next to this landing gear which i can't even quantify for you the size it was so large. you were dwarfed by this. it was awe-straubinging. so it's -- striking. it's something to consider about what they are up against out there in that indian ocean. >> how much debris are we talking about? >> millions of pieces. to put together a boeing 777 millions of freezes several hundred companies. this is no easy feat. >> "america tonight"'s sara hoy. next, outbreak, guinea's neighbors shuttering doors to ebola. the playing is spreading beyond borders.

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>> we have a right to know what's in our food and monsanto do not have the right to hide it from us. >> so join the conversation and make it your own. >> watch the stream. >> and join the conversation online @ajamstream. it's one of the most lethal diseases on the planet. highly contagion and there is no life-saving vaccine. the ebola is sweeping through guinea like wild fire. america tonight's sheila mcviccer reports >> reporter: this is what it takes to battle one of the deadliest and most miysterious vooirsz in the woriruss in the a hemorrhagic fever with no known cure, no vaccine, one that spreads rapidly and this strain, the most aggressive, has a 90% kill rate. >> in this outbreak centered in

guinea, africa, nearly 80 people have died so far making this the worst case of ebola in seven years. what makes it so dangerous is that the virus has now arrived in the capital of konekry, a port city of 2 million people, a regional transportation hub, accelerating fears it could spread to neighboring countries and beyond. >> i am confused. people are crying out. they need help. everybody. even the children. >> two cases, sisters, one who had returned from guinea. sierra space leon and senegal has closed the land border. the geographical spread is worrisome because it could further complicate the already

difficult task of containment. >> translator: people move a lot. so the people who are infected are in contact with other people. and our biggest problem at the moment is isolating the cases so we can put them all together in a specialist treatment unit so they are isolated and can't infect other patients. >> ultimately, it's not just west africa that could be affected. as the world shrinks, epdeemologists warn the potential for a deadly virus to spread from one place to another has become a real threat. the virus first emerged in 1976 and is transmitted through blood and other bodily fluids of effective an male. it's sped by contact with blood and burial rituals. there is an incubation period of three weeks. men can transmit virus in semen up to six weeks later. in 1995, a severe outbreak in the democratic republic of the

congo claimed 245 people's lives. many were doctors and nurses infected at a hospital where they treated patients without protection. for now, the only way to stop the virus is prevention. believing what is called bush meat, wild animals including bats and monkeys could be the sorts. guinea has banned those from human consumption. historically these burn themselves out as thevirus weakens but in a crowded city, if it is not quickly brought under control, the death toll could quickly rise. sheila mcviccer, al jazeera. to shed more light, we are joined by dr. tash, infectious disease clinica in rochester, m minnesota. a 90% fatality rate, how alarming is this? especially moving into a major city? >> any time you have an outbreak of ebola or any other hemorrhagic fever, it is

concerni concerning. >> what about for healthcare workers out there that may be trying to get a handle on this? do they face a major risk? >> that's a lot of the problem, when people are coming to hospitals with sometimes non-specific kinds of symptoms, it's difficult for the healthcare workers to think about ebola because that's not something people see every day. there is only later on that they find out that these patients are dying rapidly that will they have been exposed and we get these healthcare workers who are secondarily exposed succumbing to the illness. >> we are living in a different cape and age. mass transit is expanding. people have more mobility. how is this changing the major, major diseases like this? >> yeah. when you are think being some of these earlier outbreaks of ebola, they are often in smaller villages where it was easier to contain these sorts of outbreaks. there was less mobility

betweenvillages. now, we are seeing the infection in larger cities, larger transportation hubs, and really, people carrying it from one place to another and so, because of this, a lot of international agencies have been involved and really trying to stop the outbreak from spreading any further. >> do you believe there is actually a risk of an infected person there in western africa getting on a plane and bringing this to other parts of the world? >> i think in general, we need to look at it and the strategies of containment and that trying to identify the people who are infected, in some ways, the people who become infected become very ill, very fast. and it is easier to identify those. unless you have identified people who are very sick potentially infected, really trying to isolate them and prevent them from spreading it to other people. >> besides containment, is there really anything else that health professionals can do to keep this from getting out of control? >> sure.

in some ways, one of the biggest things is protecting themselves, making sure they are wearing all of the personal protective equipment. next thing is trying to support the patients. you know, really we don't have any clear treatment that is going to be effective but we do -- are able to support them as their body are able to fight the infection. the last thing is, of course, isolation because all of their bodily fluids and things like that are infections and can transmit to other people. trying to contain the patients who are infected, preventing infections to healthcare workers and supporting the patients to let their bodies hopefully cure the infection on their own. >> good in-depth information. dr. tash at mayo clinic in rochester, minnesota. thanks for joining united states. >> thank you for having me. a note for our viewers and online followers tonight, april is sexual assault awareness month. of our digital team has launched a new campaign for under reported stories. we are calling it "tracking

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only on al jazeera america finally, tonight, one of the major risks associated with climate change is rising sea levels. one place is already feeling the effects. satara reports from bangladesh. residents of one small island say their home is slowly disappe disappearing. >> he never thought it would happen to him. for years, he watched as the rampaging rivers swallowed but he thought he and his family would be safe. >> translator: even a year ago, you couldn't see it from here.

it was miles away. the barriers were stopping voeings but the waters broke through anywayerosion but the w through anyway. this used to be where his family would eat. now they are forced to eat in the open. he was born in the house. he spent his whole life here now, he has to find a new place to stay. it's a process many locals on the island have gone through eight, nine, even 10 times. >> it used to be a garden, the locals hearsay that just 10 years ago, it used to take two whole days to walk from here to the riverbank. stretching out from here, there used to be a dozen villages. today, they are all gone. >> according to experts climate change is to blame for the disappearing act. the island faces twin threats: rising sea levels and a river that crashes down on the shores harder than ever thanks to eratic rains? >> develop countries are

responsible. they have to take responsibility of this climate variance. >> the bangladesh government has built villages to house the displaced but there aren't enough of them. >> translator: the demand for these houses is much more than the supply. there are so many people who have lost their homes that the demand is too much. >> reporter: of some have been lost. half a million residents have been displaced. the rest fear. >> american tonight, i am jon seigenthaler in new york. we are following this breaking news off of the coast of chile tonight. a powerful g 8 /*ful 8.2 magnitude quake has been felt.

the government says there is no serious damage, no reports of death, some injuries. ato a tsunami warning is in effect for chile, peru and ecuador. the area has experienced quakes. talks betweenitsis and the palestinian authority could be near collapse. today, makmud abbas is resuming his bid. he said it's in response to israeli failure to release a fourth batch of prisoners. >> sitting here today, i cannot tell you why it took so long for a safety defect to be announced for this program. but i can tell you we will find out. >> general motor' ceo mary berra promised action today, told a house committee the company will find out why it took 10 years to recall cars with faulty parts. more than 7 million people have signed up for health insurance under the affordable care act. president obama praised his administration for meeting the goal by last night's deadline.

those are the headlines. see you back here 11 eastern, 8 passiffic. albuquerque's mayor wants more money to train police after allegations of excessive force. "consider this" is next. an explosive senate report blasts the cia with claims that the agency misled the public for years on enhanced interrogation. also, gm's huge recall shines a light on a completely legal practice that some call a serious conflict of interest that could affect all of us. plus, who holds the keys to the internet? we will meet a member of a very select secret group. how vulnerable is america's food supply to terrorism? i am antonio morrow. welcome to "consider this." here is more on what's