>> it's digging deeper it's asking that second, that third question, finding that person no one spoken to yet... >> you can't tell the stories of the people if you don't get their voices out there, and al jazeera america is doing just that. >> welcome to al jazeera america live from new york city, i'm morgan radford with a look at today's top stories. >> in the days, weeks and possibly months ahead, there may be leads such as the one i'm reporting to you this morning on a regular basis. >> possible pings in the south indian ocean driving the latest search for that missing malaysia airlines flight 370 that disappeared one month ago today. >> memorials held for those today in the shooting at ford

hood. >> one of the fastest growing countries in africa haunted by a horrific past, remembering the horror of the rwandan genocide 20 years later. >> a lot of people think about only seasonal individuals, but the majority of the people have been here all their lives for a good part of their lives. >> many california farm workers are undocumented immigrants, now their conservative bosses face a battle between business and their political beliefs. >> it's been one month since missing malaysia airlines flight 370 completely vanished. a new discovery could shed light on what happened. australian and chinese officials picked up a signal they think could be from the data recorders. all of this is happening in the southern indian ocean off

australia. australian officials say crews spotted debris about 55 miles away from where those sounds were heard. still, while the lead may be encouraging, the australian prime minister is sounding at best cautiously optimistic. >> it's a very, very difficult search and while we certainly are trying everything we have at it and while the best brains and best technology in the world will be deployed, we need to be very careful about coming to hard and fast conclusions too soon. >> while crews continue to search for the plane's black box, people remember the people from the flight. well wishers lit candles and signed posters for those missing. there were 239 people onboard. a prayer writ school in kuala lampur where officials say they

won't give up hope on finding that plane. >> investigators are searching for a motive in the shooting at ford hood. today, many are pausing to remember the victims who lost their lives. heidi is in killeen, texas. what can up tell us about those soldiers who died? >> they are remembered here at heroes today. the service is already underway and we're hearing from senior aide to the president in the white house that obama will be here in killeen on wednesday to remember those victims. i want to tell you a little bit about them. sergeant first class daniel ferguson was 39 ears old from mulberry, florida, active duty for 11 years and served in kuwait, iraq and afghanistan and he died a hero blocking a door using his body to shield other soldiers.

staff sergeant carlos of 38 years old from puerto rico. he hoped to retire at the end of this year after serving 20 years. >> timothy owens from effingham, illinois served in kuwait and iraq, who's uncle called him an honorable individual. the community is in mourning and sending well wishes to the 16 soldiers who are still in recovery. around town, we're seeing memorials, in killeen, 16 flags are placed for the wounded, three crosses for the dead. this isn't the first time that these crosses and flags have adorable that church's lawn. in 2009, 13 crosses marked the lives taken by major nidal hasan in that mass shooting. this community had just found closure in august when hassan was sentenced to death. we spoke with a church elder who said he is in disbelief to see this scene of violence unfold

yet again. >> it's a real awakening in the community. it lets us know that there's evil out there. it's around us every day. it's in this world. it's tragic when anyone turns a gun on anyone else, but when it's one of our own, it really hurts. >> there are these smaller memorial was as all over town, but the big one will be wednesday when the president will be here to remember those three lives lost. >> have we learned anything more about the possible motive of the shooter? >> the fort command is zoning in on an arguments that ivan lopez, the specialist who carried out this shooting got into the moments before he opened fire. the father of one of the soldiers that lopez wounded said his son saw lopez enter a personnel office on wednesday and request a form to ask for a

leave. when he was told to come back the next day for that form. lopez became upset, got his gun and started the shooting. we're also learning more about why that may have been a trigger for lopez. according to his friends and family in puerto rico where he's from, lopez had gotten a 48 hour leave in funeral for his mother's if you know renne and was upset that it wasn't longer. his father said in a statement that he offers his condolences to the families of the 60's that his son shot and that he doesn't understand and that his son must not have been in his right mind to have committed this atrocity. >> protests also erupting in albuquerque new mexico following the fatal shooting of a homeless

man. he was the 24th person shot and killed by police there in the last five years. police have their own supporters planning a rally today. >> the streets continue to simmer as protestors keep up the pressure on law enforcement and the city after a series of deadly police shootings. >> watching the sorrow that some people that have lost so many innocent family members and friends, it's my civil right to be a part of this. >> 100 people turned out friday night for a peaceful protest. unlike the one a week ago that erupted in violence where rocks were thrown at police who fired tear gas to control the crowd. james boyd was killed in the albuquerque foothills, a

shooting captured on a police officer's camera. the chief has called the shooting justified because he said boyd came at his officers with knives. >> all the less than heatal devices wered. >> redwine was shot in a housing project, bringing the number to 24 shootings in less than five years. >> as things get worse and worse, people are going to rise up and the police are going to react more and more violently. >> in a community forum friday night, activists added the names of the two men to a symbolic coffin. >> when a cop murders somebody, they need to be sent to jail. cops kill people all the time and are never held accountable. >> not everyone here shares the outrage over the police, despite the protests, law enforcement has the support of many in the community. >> a group called citizens who stand with the albuquerque police department that 2500

likes on facebook and is defending the men and women on the force. >> they don't understand the job that they do. they're not in there at that moment having to make those split-2nd decisions. >> the chief said he is reviewing department policies. >> my goal is to make major reforms to the department that better the department, better the men and women that serve the department, and the better we get, that's how we build confidence. >> the albuquerque police are now under investigation by the department of justice and the f.b.i. many of these demonstrators plan to show up at a meeting monday night when the city council convenes to discuss the cries. aljazeera, albuquerque. >> president obama deportation policy is coming under fire all across the country. protestors rallied in 40 different cities saturday, calling on the president to stop the deportation of non-criminal

undocumented immigrants. the organization called not one more deportation, predicting the obama administration has crossed the 2 million deported mark. they believe he can use executive powers to stop that process. the republican party is not exactly a big supporter of comprehensive immigration reform. that doesn't sit well with some republicans in central california who work with undocumented immigrants each and every day. aljazeera's melissa chan has their story. >> mornings golden sun over the valley, one of the most fertile agricultural regions in the world. >> at a show piece farm, harris ranch, some 1,000 workers start their day. the 14,000-acre operation depends on a steady supply of laborers. most come from central and south america and the farmers have become frustrated at the failure to up date immigration laws.

>> we need to have a system more than just sort of a don't ask, don't tell policy now, doesn't necessarily work. >> owner john harris said it has become more difficult to hire workers and the u.s.'s immigration policy is one of the factors for the shortage. >> we obviously have a lot of latino friends that are both employees and live in the community, and do business with us, and we want to make sure that they are treated fairly, but then also, that the u.s. has a policy that is more workable. >> in the reddest part of blue state california, republican ranchers and farmers take a very different position on immigration reform than the rest of their party. migrant workers are now ages out of physically taxing work in the field and the failure to come up with a farmworker visa program

has frustrated many. >> when you have agriculture, california with districts very red, very conservative, the on the ground realities for those people simply dictate different ideas about immigration. >> farmers with the western growers association produce half the country's fruits and vegetables and what that group says it would like to see is immigration reform to allow them to become permanent less teens. >> that would be good news for both growers and their employees. israel has worked in the fields for 42 years. an american citizen, he'd like to see others have the same opportunity to pursue the american dream. >> when you talk about farm workers, a lot of people think about only seasonal individuals, but the majority of the people are like me, they've been here all their lives for a good part of their lives. >> any policy change would

impact almost 3 million undocumented immigrants in california, the most in any state, and for so many, they already call this home. aljazeera, central california. >> hundreds of mourners gathered this weekend to remember those killed in the oso, washington mud slide, the first in a series of services for the dozens killed. having a closeness in the community is what helped them cope. >> it's tight, they're very tight. that's what's kept us, everyone standing, everyone's holding one another up. >> fortune 400 workers continue to search for victims. the death toll has rise then 30. one remembered this weekend is summer, who was driving to work the morning the landslide hit

when it swept her car straight off the highway. 250 attended her funeral on saturday. >> there is trouble in texas with the spring weather coming. >> hail on the horizon, on the ground right now across texas from college station to tyler. we're looking at heavy rainfall. look at the temperatures, really, really sharp contrast between oklahoma city and corpus christie, texas, 71 in corpus christie, 48 in oklahoma. oklahoma city will climb to 56 i had, corpus christie will be 20 degrees cooler, cooler, drier air working its way into texas city. it's going to get chilly tonight. strong thunderstorms, super cells producing hail. we'll look at damaging wind perhaps later in the day. the warnings that we have right now across jackson, mississippi

include a flood warning. if you're traveling the roads, we're talking about diminished advice bites in addition to those flooding downpours. you need to stay off the roadways. it takes only a couple of inches to really sweep your car away. you can see this is a severe thunderstorm watch in effect until 2:00 this afternoon. as these storms continue to drag along i-20 towards the east into georgia, we expect to see this watch shift to the east with those super cell thunderstorms capable of producing more hail and damaging winds. in jackson, mississippi, they have a flood warning now. that goes until these storms push toward the east. we have flash flood watches from mississippi into alabama, as well. the severe thunderstorm watch includes college station down toward tyler, texas. dallas and houston are in the clear but accounted see heavier rain later in the day.

high pressure is trying to build across portions of the north central plains. overall, temperatures across the country looking rather normal for this time of the year. minneapolis at 56. it's going to feel good across portions of the country today. >> waiting for a win are, afghanistan counts the vote in the country's first democratic election while the terrible legacy have rwanda's horrific genocide is remembered 20 years later.

>> monday marks 20 years since the start of the rwandan genocide when tsutsis's were slaughtered back in 1994. over 2 million rwandans fled to neighboring countries. we report from the democratic republic of the congo where the u.s. estimates nearly 200,000

rwandan refugees still remain. >> after 20 years as a refugee here in the democratic republic of congo, finally going home, she registers at this transit center. she was 10 when the genocide began. she just about remembers people being killed. since then, she married, had four children and is pregnant with a fifth. >> i want to go home, because my children do not go to school here. i'm getting older and i want to be back with my family. >> more than 2 million people fled from rwanda in the aftermath of the genocide, mostly ethnic tsutsis. among the refugees were politicians and militia responsible for the genocide. >> nearly a million people crossed this border here coming from rwanda into the democratic republic of congo moving this way into the city. they lived in camps along the

border area, infamous for squall lid conditions and being home for armed groups which continued attacks back into rwanda. the allied and militia breck up the camps and many refugees went home. others fled further into congo. to this day, the u.s. said there's nearly 200,000 refugees still living here. >> she was among thousands living in remote areas under the control of the huti rebel group the fdlr. they don't allow rebel groups to go home, but she managed to sneak away. they move a small group every week, but the trickle of voluntary returnees is slow. many don't want to return home. we spoke to several who weren't willing tole filmed. they're worried agents could target them for criticizing the government or for not going

home. this man was seven during the genocide. he says rwandan soldiers later killed his parents in congo. he doesn't trust the tutsi dominated government. >> the rwanda government killed my parents. also some people my age who have returned have been forced to come back to congo and fight as rebels and killed. >> the transit center in rwanda, she is determined her move is for the better. in days, she'll be taken back to her village. she's one of many who feel they can rebuild a normal life. for others still living at refugees, the turmoil of the 1990's and its legacy goes on. aljazeera in the democratic republic of congo. >> the ballot counting has started in afghanistan, voter turnout high. almost 60% have eligible voters took part in yesterday's election.

aljazeera is in kabul with more. >> in the end, afghanistan's presidential election passed off comparatively peacefully for this country. the deployment of 400,000 security personnel will have helped with that. there have been comparatively few allegation of fraud, so the votes are being counted, but it's going to be several weeks before there's an official declaration of the winner, but the winner needs to win more than 50% ever vote to be declared winner outright. without more than 50% of the vote, there will be a run off and that seems to be the conventional wisdom here. that runoff won't be held until the very end of may. once those votes are counted r. counted, allegations dealt with, it may well not be until the end of the summer before afghanistan knows who its new president is going to be. waiting to be signed on the new president's desk is the bilateral security agreement with the u.s. government. all the candidates standing for

president have said they'll sign it. the u.s. government, of course, wants the afghans to sign it, because it wants to maintain a troop presence here for training and for keeping the pressure on any al-qaeda remnants in the country. the problem is logistics. because the agreement hasn't been signed, the u.s. government doesn't know how many troops it's going to be able to leave here, and time is running out, both the afghan and u.s. governments. if this agreement is not signed before september, october, it's going to be very difficult for the u.s. military to sort out how and where it's going to leave its troops here, and that could be a potential concern for the future stability of having a. >> coming up next on aljazeera america: >> we're going up. >> that's probably bigger than you. >> who you simple donation is

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>> good afternoon to you. welcome to al jazeera america. i'm morgan radford and here are today's headlines. it's been one month since that missing malaysia jetliner disappeared. crews are hopeful this weekend after detecting sonar signals that could lead to the missing plane. >> a texas community pauses to remember the victims of wednesday's shooting in fort hood. iraq war veteran lopez killed three soldiers and wounded 16 others before turning the gun on himself and committing suicide. investigators are searching for a motive. >> afghanistan has started counting the 7 million votes cast in saturday's presidential election. despite threats from the taliban, voter turnout was high. >> even if you're not a scientist, you could contribute to a major scientific break through. a crowd sourcing website is giving people opportunities to fund research as it's also

giving little science fans a very big chance. >> this is the big tusk that goes like this, eight and a half feet long. >> whoa. >> yeah. >> at the museum in seattle, the doctor entertains an investor, who loves dinosaurs in general and this one in particular. >> this is the real thing. >> lizie donated $5 to dig up a dinosaur in wyoming. she did it through a crowd source fundraising platform that allows anybody with a specific scientific question and solid methodology to ask strangers for money for research into almost everything. >> biology, projects in medicine, space, ecology, social sciences, psychology.

>> the doctor hit his modest fundraising goal wimp the company requires before anybody gets paid. some 67-year-old bones that might not have been on earth were. >> $2,000 here or there to go and collect something like this makes a big deal for us, it's a big deal for us. >> in return, investors get access to the process. he and his assistant blogged and posted pictures from the dig site. lizzy and her fellow funders will be invited to events. >> every day, it was exciting, what are we going to tell them today, what are they going to want to see. >> it's a familiar start up story. this is world hears of experiment.com. >> we just brought an event a understand get to work down here. >> a cramped san francisco office and living space where so far the company has helped reservers find more than $600,000 in funding, the website and the work site both growing

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