until next time, we'll see you online. ... good evening, everyone. welcome to al jazeera america. i am john siegenthaler in new york. stepping down, on the front line of obama care. today, kathleen sebelius resigned. crisis in ukraine. al jazeera generallyists refused bail despite doubts about videotaped evidence shown in court. >> is it real? the document known as "the gospel of jesus's wife.

and illegal e-mails, where reading work e-mails after 6:00 p.m. is now against the law. and breaking news tonight, al jazeera has con if he remembered that health & human services secretary kathleen seb he'll why is resigning. president obama is expected to name her replacement tomorrow. we will go straight to mikeva vaquera. >> it will be sylvia matthews burwell. she has been there for about a year. what she will bring to the department of health and human services, white house officials hope is management expertise and many of them frankly think that has been lacking. clearly, john, this was the time now. you recall about two weeks ago, april 1st when the president and in the rose garden to announce the end of the sign-up, the surprising number of 7.1 million

people reaching their stated goal of sign-ups to healthcare.gov after a rocky rollout. that was a bit of good news, a window of opportunity for kathleen sebelius to leave. she said she never intended to be here until 2017 to turn the lights out. but she is obviously been under fire from october 1st, ever since the rocky rollout of healthcare.gov, arolout that she, herself, said was nothing short of a debacle. many have been calling for her head. the president had defended her time and time again. one telling moment, john, came during that rose garden appearance with president obama when he announced that sunday last minute surge in sign-up bringing them to more than 7 million. kathleen sebelius was not by his side and after a series of shoutouts the president gave, her name was not mock them. we understand that she will appear tomorrow when the president names her successor. john? . mike, thank you. joining us is our political

contributor, jason johnson. jason, why now? >> well, it's a time to turn over a new leave. the president and the administration hit the $7.1 million dleadline. i think she was on the chopping block. the president is stub orrin and he is loyal and he didn't want to fire her during the worst part of the healthcare roll out. now is the time. >> is this about putting a new face on obamacare? >> there are challenges over the summer. there are 2014 i am politic indications to this. think about it. now sebelius is out of. there will be a confirmation heari hearing, republicans screaming at a brand-new woman. this is going to be a situation where the obvious could be beneficial to the administration and to do a change people have been calling for, for five or six months. >> doesn't this call attention to the problems that the president has had with his healthcare plan? >> it does, but he really has no choice about that. part of the issue last fall was

that no matter how many mistakes were made, he kept sebelius in her position. they rehired the same incompetent people to work on the website so this is a kind of change that people have been asking for, for a long time. if you can spin this as i have heard what you are saying. we've got the 7 million signed up. now, we are about to turn a new corner, it might be something that innoc lace him this fall. >> special pressure on her replacement, i would assume. >> yes. yes. >>h she worked for the wal-mart foundation, the bill and melinda gates foundation. this wol is a proven leader, at least so far. a lot is going to be determined about what happens on the state level. as long as she appears to be competent during the hearings, as long as she can answer questions, she will do better than her replacement who fails in everything from senate hearings to speaking on the colbert report. >> good to see you. thanks for being with us. there is more breaking news tonight from central america. a strong earthquake has rattled

nicaragua. it struck the capitol of managua. it knocked out telephone lines t pour in some areas so far. no reports of injuries. we will have more on the story throughout the broadcast. a looming deadline in eastern ukraine. kiev says pro-russia activists camped out in government buildings and have until friday morning to either leave peacefully or be removed by force. so far, the group in donesk is refusing to budge and kim vanell is in donesk with more. from inside their barricaded empire, protesters keep watch as reinforcements arrive. this, they say, is their domain, an independent republic representing the people. the offer of an amnesty quickly refused by those at the top who say they would rather face the use of force. >> there has been a lot of statements about storming

buildings we are living from one statement to the next. what can we do? we are not ready to step aside. the people are not ready to either. the offer came, saying if they leave they won't face prosecution. as part of the deal, they could gain more regional control. >> we are ready to consider the issue of reform, of local government and expanding the rights of local coun sizzle including the creation of executive authorities for councils. we are ready to take that path to the regions. we will also be responsible for the situation in the country and not just refer to what's going on kiev. >> protesters say it's the authorities in kiev who should listen to their demands and not the other way around. >> the republic say they don't need an amnesty, claiming they are the legitimate government on the region. they say they have no plans to evacuate the building and are continuing to prepare for any

assault. >> despite their declaration, they are already a republic, protesters say they want a referendum on the issue to prove they have the people's support. interim president's offer of am nest city, they say, is meaningless. trontron no. we don't trust him. there is reason to push him out of here? >> he is a liar that people don't trust him any more and don't want him to be the acting president of this country. this is an illegal authority. >> translator: i am an ordinary person protecting my home. we are not standing anywhere with any weapons, and everybody is claiming they are russians but here, we are donesk people. >> kiev, though, accuses russia of orstrating unrest in the east as a pretext for an incursion. regardless of whether paid provactours have been sent in or not, time is running out for ukrainian authorities.

how much they are willing to compromise, the determining factor in whether these tremblings will turn into a battlefield. trenches will turn into a battlefield. >> ukraine's government is facing an ult matim from its own. putin says if kiev fails to pay its soaring natural gas bill, moscow could cut the supply. >> could create major problems for europe down the pipeline. peter sharp has more from moscow. >> the message from president putin which was relayed by his press spokesman on thursday was quite simply this: he was telling the european leaders of his deep concern at the ukraine's failure to pay its natural gas bill. it now 0s the gas giant, russia's giant gasprom, $22,000,000,000 on supplies delivered last month and all through 2013. and putin was calling on european leaders to try to sit down and discuss how this problem could be solved because he warned quite simply that if

it wasn't solved, this could affect gas prices and the supply of gas coming into europe. don't forget 40% of all gas coming in to europe flows through the ukraine and one only has to look back to the 2009, january 1st, when russia over another failure to pay its bills, flipped the switch cutting ukraine off and within days, quite honestly, the supofs reduced with ukraine alleged to have been siphoning off the gas that was due to go into europe. a reminder of the gas wars and what could be coming a part of the future here. >> peter sharp, economic fallout could hurt the global recovery. >> that's the warning from the head of the international monetary fund, christine la guard. she spoke about the potential rim effect with ali velshi. >> your organization, the

international monetary fund, downgraded the growth outlook for russia in the midst of what was going on crimea, but, in fact, just a little bit before the actual vote and annexation of crimea. given what's happened since then, things don't seem to have calmed down a great deal. are you further worried about deterioration of the russian economy and the effect that that's going to have, both on europe and the world? >> in a way, whether there is a downgrade or upgrade on a bi-annual basis. we will leave numbers as they are for the moment. but it's clear that geopolitical tensions in that part of the world at the moment and anywhere for that matter are not helping growth, usually creating enough uncertainty that people who were go to go invest are going to wait, where people who were going to create jobs are going to hold off. >> now, steven koen joins us from new york, the professor e

mer tus at nyu and a contributing editor to "the nation" let's start with the pipeline and the threat from vladimir putin. how serious is that. >> it's half serious. the natural gas, as your reporter said, much goes to europe. over the years, a decade or more, the ukrainians have been eye fonning off part of it for themselves. the russians have tolerated it as a kind of bribe to be sure that the gas gets to europe. the problem is if the russians turn it off, their quarrel becomes with europe, not with crain. >>, i think is a last resort. those pipelines in ukraine are age enormous asset. there have been rumors the europeans would like to buy them. the russians like to buy them. it's unling will let it go. it's the one thing they have got. >> other than that, how big an impact are these sanctions having on day-to-day life in

russia and the economy in russia? >> i don't think enormous yet. i mean after all, everything now is compared to what? we are, jon, literally in the worst international crisis in decades. ordinary russians understand this. certainly my friends in russia do. and they are not thinking about their everyday life at the moment. they are asking themselves what's going to happen? and for russia, this could mean war with the west. it could mean russia moving into isolation, which means moving eastward toward china. a lot of my western-looking russian friends are unhappy about that. for now, these sanctions don't hurt a lot. the resistance to sanctions, of course, is coming from western corporations whom if these sanctions are adopted would hurt as much as russia if not more. >> what does vladimir putin want? >> i think i know what he wants but i think it's been lost in the narrative. the narrative is wrong in saying

he wanted this crisis in ukraine. he didn't. the narrative is wrong in saying he initiated the crisis last november. he didn't. but now he's got it and he is pushing back very strongly as i think most of us knew he would. what he wants is a stable ukraine that is not a member of nato, whose territorial integrity is intact and it remains an essential trading partner with russia. now, on march 17th, although it wasn't reported in this country, those are the proposals put forward by the russian foreign ministry. not clear to me how seriously they are being taken in the united states. it's a basis to begin talks. the russians aren't going to get everything they want. neither are we. >> you in fact said that on this program some time back. i just want to focus a little bit more on what he -- what he might want out of this. so, if he wants stability in ukraine, then moving on pro-russian activists, troops, security forces into these

eastern ukrainian cities, that doesn't make ukraine more stable? does it? >> no. let's separate those two things that you reported. i mean he has reportedly 20,000 -- 20 to 40,000 troops on the ukrainian border. >> that's not stabilizing. but i think most any leader of russia would do that. they are on russian turf. they have the right to be there and they are meant to be precautionary. the real question is with john kerry, american secretary of state said the other day, that the unrest in eastern ukraine inside ukraine is all caused by provacateu are. s or paid demonstrators sent by putin. jon, to take that view is to deny that there is a political, deeply fractious divided political life inside ukraine. what kerry said simply isn't true. it may be that there is russian provocateur s. there may be american, lithuania and polish provacateu are rs. but the underlying, ukraine is

not one country. at the minimum, it's two. the russians have offered the idea of a federalized ukraine, you know, a union like we have in the united states. it would be extremely hard, maybe it won't be stable. but the alternative is either war or two ukraines. >> in the last two weeks, have we moved closer to war with russia? >> i don't know because there is a question to which i don't know the answer. many people in brucels in the nato command and washington, to a certain extent, are calling for the movement of nato troops deeper into eastern europe. this is a long story. these eastern mean countries, nato is saying we have to move troops deeper, closer to russia. if that is happening beneath our radar and we don't know about it, yes, we are closer to war. if it's not happening, no, we are not closer to war. >> steven koen, thanks for your

insight. we appreciate it. a report from the justice depart confirms what some albuquerque residents have been saying for years. it could includes the albuquerque police department has engaged in a reckless pattern of excessive and, at times, deadly force. heidi jo castro reports >> reporter: indication, that's what the father of ken ethelis iii shot felt thursday upon hearing these words from the department of justice. >> we found that officers used deadly force against people who did not pose an immediate threat of death or serious harm to the officers or to others and against people who post a -- posed a threat only to themselves ellis was begungunne he was suffer from post-traumatic stress disorder. >> ellis senior said it has been his mission to fight for police reform. >> i am sure he is watching. >> the justice department says

the majority of fatal police shootings in albuquerque from 2009 to 2012 were unreasonable and violated the fourth amendment. the federal probe also found encounters with persons with mental illness too frequently result in excessive force and that the problems with excessive force are systemic and a part of a culture of indifference to constitutional policing. >> these deficiencies combined with inconsistent implementation of policies, inadequate training, and a broken civilian over sight process contributed to the use of excessive force. >> the federal investigation in 2012, but it was this video released this martha brought public to a boiling point. james boyd was homeless and mentally ill. officers killed him at point blank range. he was holding knives. >> the video provoked protests on albuquerque streets.

it prompted police to respond with tear gas and riot gear following the justice department's report. the mayor and police chief acknowledged for the first time the department's shortcomings but they didn't go as far as to apologize. >> those families, i am sure, feel that tragedy. our goal is to reduce any type of an event, any type of a situation where our officers always take the appropriate action. that's our goal. >> do you want to offer them any apologies? >> at this point, we are working -- we are working really hard on this situation. >> they are trying to circle the wagons and trying to, you know, save face and the reality is that they have been part of the problem all along. >> the mayor in office since 2009 says he hasn't considered resigning. the next step, talks between the doj and albuquerque police to address reforms. and while many hearsay they have

lost trust in the city's government and police, they acknowledge this is a step forward. heidi jo castro, al jazeera, albuquerque, new jersey. president obama was in texas today paying tribute to president lyndon johnson and the civil rights act of 1964. 50 years ago, johnson led the way in switching the civil rights act through congress and apolissuing the jim crow laws of segregati segregation. >> he nude that he had a unique capacity, the most powerful white politician from the south, to not merely challenge the convention that had crushed the dreams of so many but to ultimately dismantle for good the structures of legal segregation. >> president obama said lbj's role paid for the way for him to become president.

hillary clinton was speaking in las vegas faced some hostility from one member of the audience who threw what appeared to be a shoe at clinton. the former secretary of state dodged the object. police took the woman into custody. here is another look at the close call. clinton made it through unscathed and cracked a few jokes afterwards. coming up, a waste of money. new research on whether tamiflu is worth it and when fighting the flu. plus deepdive, a look at the under water vehicle being deployed to help find the missing flight 370. and assessing growing evidence in the debate over whether jesus christ had a wife.

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flight 370 may be far below the indian ocean. specialists are hunting to the jet's two black boxes. the plane accident happendisapa week ago tomorrow. >> a powerful psyche low forecast to make landfall in queensland in just a few hours, the same system that generated

deadly floods earlier this week. our kevin korrveau is tracking the storm. >> we are hours away from this storm making landfall we are looking at a tropical depression. i want to show you the video of what this tropical depression did. in two days, we saw over 10 inches of rain it was deadly you can never under estimate the power of a tropical depression events to show you what we are going to be seeing as the system moved. the storm is making its way towards queensland. there is the eye. it would be equivalent to a category 4 hurricane if it was in the atlantic.

very powerful we expect to see massive amounts of flooding it. it will could not toward saturday before it exits back over to open water. >> thank you. two years ago, an ancient looking document was discovered, a fragment of papyrus. it suggested jesus had been married. critics cried forgery. now, researchers say it's real. rochelle is here with that story. >> it's fascinating, jon. this analysis won't resolve questions over whether the tiny scrape of paper is genuine or whether jesus had a wife but it's bound to renew debate over the status much women in christian churches. it's about this tiny piece of frayed papyrus about 1 and a half by three inches. the text in blotchy faded inc. isa in coptic. the keywords are jesus said to them, my wife. when a harvard researcher

revealed in 2012, the vatican denounced it as a fake. now, harvard says a wide range of scientific testing prove the papy papyrus is an ancient document. baptist minister paul roshanbush says this will give christians a lot to think about? >> it's a moment for us to re-examine what this papyrus really talks about. and the implications for the church back then and, of course, the church today. >> the sentences torn from a larger document aren't about to persuade everyone that jesus had a wife. >> this means not conclusively jesus was married. of course, we will never know that. but it means that in the early church, that was a subject of conversation, which makes it interesting for us today. >> the fragment also contains the words "she will be able to be my disciple. a potentially even more pro provocative frays if it's true. >> the early church was very interestedphrase if it's true. >> the early church was very interest interested. this will talks about women not only as perhaps jesus's wife but

also as a disciple and within, you know, the body of the early church. >> one brown university researcher remains unpersuaded saying it contains gross grammatical errors that a native speaker of coulptic wouldn't ha made. >> there is the question of where it came from. harvard said it got the fragment from the person who owned it. but jon, we don't know who that is, how it was discovered. he only says it probably came from e. >> the debates are just starting? >> just beginning. >> richelle, thank you. sending in pizza keep erps. coming up, united nations votes unanimously for 12,000 troops on the ground in the central african republic. we will have that story. plus evidence rejected. he job description prosecutors try to make their case against our colleagues detained in egypt. cutting the electronic leach, while a million french workers will be required to turn off their phones after they leave

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>> welcome back. a lot more to cover this half hour. back in court, our al jazeera colleagues see what egyptian prosecutors claim is evidence against them. fighting the flu. why some researchers say the popular drug tamiflu may be a waste of money. bringing down the old bay bridge before an earthquake hit. first, richelle is back with the top stories in tonight's briefing? >> health secretary kathleen sebelius who oversaw the healthcare roll out is redsining. president obama is expected to nominate her replacement tommy. a senior administration says it will be sylvia matthews burwell. there is evidence of excessive force by the albuquerque police department. the investigation found police there often use more force than

necessary on people who pose a minimal threat. police in albuquerque have killed 23 people in the last five years. a strong earthquake has rattled nicaragua with a 6.1 magnitude quake struck toward the capitol less than miles offshore. there are power outages but no major damages or injuries have been reported so far. a count down is on kiev. crepe's interior ministry has threatened to use force to clear pro-russia activists from government buildings in eastern ukraine. it's giving them until monday morning to leave peacefully. the groups have rejected kiev's offers of amnesty. these pro-russia groups say they want to be able to vote on the political future of their region. that's what happened in crimea. >> all right, richelle. thank you. three access english journalists i am prisoned in egypt were back in court today. the prosecute produced video material which it says supports it's case against the three. it included reports from kenya

by gresta and content from sky news arab i can't's news of egypt. the defense lawyers say the video has nothing to do with the case. the three are accused of providing a platform to the outlawed muslim borrowerhood. al jazeera rejects all of the charges and continues to demand immediate release of its staff. in our first person report, we spoke about sharif mansuer from the commit to protect journalists tonight. he calls it nothing short of shameful. >> it was very embarrassing for the government everyone was looking forward to the quote, unquote evidence that they have that will prove that they have done anything wrong what the prosecute came up with is an actual evidence that those are world class journalists. these people had career working for other organizations who have done things that doesn't have to do with egypt or the muslim

brotherhood and nothing about terrorism. someone in the government has to pay for this the case was built in a very different sometime, promoted in the media as we saw in the court, nothing comes close to anything illegal that can prove any case against them. >> someone has to step up in the egyptian government: it's a matter of time until the government sees how much they have done to hurt the international community and the international press, going to

have to stop shooting themselves in the food. >> that is sharif man sewer. >> 12,000 peacekeepers to restore peace. the country has been battling mounting violence between christians and muslims. crist an salumi has more. >> more than one year after muslims and christians being pitted against each other. they authorized an international peacekeeping force, 12,000 strong for the central african republic. >> it has been adopted unanimously. >> it was a move the transitional government there desperately sought. >> i am pleased this has been heeded. this marks the start of the decisive phase in restoring peace and security in central

african republic. the former ruler that 2000 soldiers working along 6,000 troops from the african union. >> it is such a large country with violence continuing as we speak, what difference do you think this can make realistically? >> it is doing a great job and doing its utmost. we have a robust man date to stab stabilize the situation they are doing it in bangee and slowly going it in the rest of the country. a country where violence currently goes unpunished. the peace keepers' man date gives them brought authority to

maintain law and order including the power to arrest and detain. this was done at thetritional government's request and according to humanterians who have been on the ground, with the support of civilians. we are go back to cultivating fields or being with our cattle and life can resume. so that's critically important it tooks months of debate and it will take months more for the additionaling peace keepers to be recruited and deployed. the september 15th deadline can't come soon enough for a population still in harm's way, christian salumi, al jazeera, the united nation. >> when fears of bird and swine flu pan dimmics hit their peek.

new research suggestions it's month nor effective than aspirin in prettying the flu. paul brennan reports. >> in 2003, the world face truck driver al pandemic. experts warned that billions of people around the world were at risk. tamiflu emerged as the leading antiviral medicine. this new report claims that the drug's benefits were exaggerated. >> there is no reduction in complications like pneumonia and hoped ideation. it also tells that there are no effects on transmission of flew that would beware houses full of drugs stockpiled for an emergency. the british government spent $793 million on tit. amiflu. the u.s. $13,000,000,000 on the drug. the new report found tamiflu

worked but only a bit. flu symptoms which would have lasted seven days were reduced to 6.3 days for adults and 5.8 days in children. critics say over-the-counter drugs would have had the same effect their findings not only question the drug but also criticize the system the way drugs regulators are only ever presented with selective data by the pharmaceutical industry. >> they are a conflict of interest and provide the regulator with what they ask for but they do not go out of their way to present the reasonable sfaings. >> tam few you floe is manufactured by rosh. it is disputing it? >> we shared those things with

the and they reflected it on the label. so, i think, you know, i feel that we have been as transparent as was suitable at the time under the regulatory environment that there is. >> the debate has not affected tami flew's status. the world health organization classifies it as an essential medicine. paul brennan, al jazeera. >> of course when disasters strike, time is of the essence. first responders were desperate to locate victims and save lives. now, a new technology designed by space scientists could play an important role here on earth. "techknow"'s lindsey res am looks at the heart beat fund. >> disasters are a gruesome fact of life. >> searching for life in an earthquake is similar to searching for life in our solar system. >> measure how precisely far away the spacecraft is for the signals to get to the spacecraft and come back to us.

>> they were redesigned at jp for a more urgent endeavor here on earth. to search for a trapped survivor by detecting their beat heart within a year, two protocols were up and running and ready for field testing. gentleman waiting for the changes. i will climb into the rubble pile. hopefully they will be able to detect my heart beat in there? >> okay. it's working. >> i am pretty enthusiastic about this one for more on the

heart beat finder, we are joined by "techknow" lindsay. >> i am slightly claustrophobic so it was harrowing until they did find me. >> could this be used like in the terrible landslide in washington state, the mud slide? >> it could be used. the challenge would be getting it there quickly enough. first responders tell me that mud, the pressure of mud is so heavy that it would suf /* suffocate you and present you from breathing. it's a liquid. it fills up creff situations if

you were stuck in an area like many people were after katrina, you would have a good chance of survival. it's about the right people being there at the right time with the right gear, which finder clearly is. >> is this technology able to desire between humans and animals? >> believe it or not, it is. it turns out animals have different ranges. dog and cat have higher heart rate than humans. they can tell if it's a human. they have other ways to be able to detectif it's a human heart beat signature, so they are not going to mistake some debris as a bhiefrment they are using this for wildlife biologist in order to keep count of how many bear there are versus coyotes what

about spacey? >> well, this technology is based upon the same technology that's used to monitor spacecraft in deep space. this kind of technology enables space reece searchers not only to navigate spacecraft but to gather new scientific data. for example, the evidence of occasions os one the saturn's movement was made because of this kind of technology. they haven't actually detected et's heart beat yet. who is it to say if extra traer estrals have heart beats but we know from the movie they would be glowing red. >> i understand you have another story that talks about the technology that can turn robotic voices into human ones. not happy to hear about this? >> it's amazing. here in baltimore, we are familiar with ojberganza, former

ravens star who was afflicted with lou gehrig's disease. he is an inspirational speaker but he has to do so using a robotic voice. we looked at new technology that is going to change that for people who are suffering with als and it's truly a real emotional journey saturday. >> i didn't know that's the story. it sounds amazing. does it try to determine what his voice would be? and then use it with a computer? is that it? >>. >> there is new technology that's enabling people who are diagnosed with als to essentially bank their voice, to record their voice so that when they do lose, eventually lose their voice, they will have recorded -- recordings of their own voice so they will continue to be able to communicate with loved ones and medical providers using their voice, not a robotic voice. >> a beautiful think.

turn into the latest episode of "techknow" 4 pacific time this saturday. for some people, being bombarded by after work e-mails is part of the job. a new law in france now gives some employees the right to ignore them groundbreaking labor agreement requires staff to stop looking at work-related material after 6:00 o'clock. companies must ensure employees don't feel pressured to do so. the law came about after union members were unhappy about dealing with work issues during their time off. the deal affects million dollars of employees in technology and consulting businesses. there is a new heir apparent in late night. steven colbert will replace david letter man. he said he will not do the new show as his satirical right-wing character from the colbert report. coming up at 11:00 eastern tonight, we will hear from a

former stamp at the colbert report about this change in late-night t.v. next, trying to crack the case. washington utility workers trying to figure out where a 65 foot crack in a damn came from and the damage it could cause. >> i am jake ward hanging on for dear life atop the old san francisco bay bridge. i will explain why engineers are scrambling to take this down as fast as they can before an earthquake strikes. >> this programming note coming up onsurd, a new original series, borderland, six diverse americans retracing the footsteps of three migrants who died trying to cross into the united states sunday 9:00 eastern, 6:00 pacific.

all the way from boston down towards atlanta, it has been a beautiful day. it isn't going to last as we end the week. those temperatures were well. washington, you are 68 degrees. we saw it just about 70 degrees this is what it would look like if you were around the region. many areas temperatures down toward raleigh into the mid 70s for washington, you see, of course, cherry blossom festival is just underway. this is what it will look like today tries the tidal basin. the peek will be friday, saturday and sunday. the problem is we have rain showers moving in and clouds are going to be moving in as well. from washington tomorrow, don'ts think it's going to be a great day. we are going to see thunderstorms in the forecast

there. but for saturday as well as sunday, it will be beautiful. monday will be nice as well. by the time you get to mid-week next week we have another system moving in. >> will affect a lot of cities on the eastern seaboard. from new york, rain showers starting tomorrow night. by saturday and sunday, we are looking good as well. >> all right. that is a look at your natural weather. the news is coming up right after this.

>> in eastern washington state, an effect on power and water. engineers have lowered the water upstream to relief pressure on that dam. it could mean a long, dry summer for the area. alan schofler joins us in washington. how is the community preparing, alan? >> i know, jon, people have adapted pretty well to this. we are seeing folks up and down the lake that's formed by this dam who are finding ways to get the water they need in most cases, they are being able to to get it will, and a scramble, people like the fruit grower we met, billy nelson. >> i will never live to see this thing go this low again. no. no. i mean how many times in a person's lifetime are you going to see a crack get in a dam. >> where billy nelson draws

water, the river hasn't been this low in half a century since one of them was built. to grow apples, he pumps water 24 hours a day 6 months a year because of unprecedented problem with the damn, he has had to install temporary piping to reach the dropping river. a lot of extra work and money. >> it is there is no getting around about that. but anyway, i water going up to my farm and that's what counts. >> it's not just growers affected. docs are high and dry. marinas, parks and boat ramps closed, public access limited along 80 miles of shoreline. at the crescent bar resort for rvs and tent campers, barbara hirsch is hoping the summer can be saved? >> monetarily, it will have a huge impact, you know.

we've had our campground almost all summer long. we will have to cancel probably a fair share. >> in late figure, a worker started this curve in the top of the dam, a sign of serious problems under water. >> a fracture that was 65 feet wide, gaping open about two inches. when we reduced that water elevation, it set pa peer back in case. >> the dam is stable but the future isn't clear engineers are drilling into the damaged peer to map how far the crack extends. the answer doesn't come until june. the final fix with the river levels restored to normal, a time lime for fix has yet to be determined we have to get this forensic analysis done we have to identify the cause. >> the cause doesn't matter to billy nelson and others. keeping irrigation flowing and crops growing does? >> i have heard rumors.

it could be six months. it could be longer or less. >> mean while, the level of this water will rape about 25 feet below normal. >> will cause some trouble and some challenges for folks this summer. what caused this crack? dam engineers are saying they believe it's simply a matter of water pressure and time. the water pushing on that dam and snapping that crack open then near the base of one of the bill pylons. that has interesting i am politic indications for the 12 other dams built of similar materials on the columbia river in canada and in the united states. syn? >> alan scholfer reporting. a different kind of structure in san francisco. the demolition of the old bay bridge is entering a critical new phase. with it, serious datnger of collapse. science and technology, jake

ward? >> the only thing more dangerous in an earthquake than an outdated bridge, it turns out is a half did you say adembeled outdated bridge. >> 78-year-old san francisco open bay brimming is just as hard and it may be harder than building a new one. the demolition project scheduled to take three to five years is a sprint in engineering terms. a section collapsed in 1989 but engineers are far more worried about its safety now. this is a moment engineers are worried about. me being up here. >> that's terrifying. the next three to five years when they take patrol this bridge because during that time, an earthquake could strike. this brimming could tip over and damage the 6 and a half billion dollar bridge they just finished buildings. being on top of any bridge is

scary enough. >> this laughter, it's terror. scientists have been detecting small shakes up and down the california coast recently. it is tape in a big shake, the old brim would be terribly dangerous especially to the newbridge. >> at the far end that way, the two bridges are no further apart than my arms are out stretched. >> the old bridge uses a classic design. it's central portion is a long span suspended between two towers. those two towers lean in toward one another. the engineers had to use enormous 4-ton jacks to pull back on each side of the span separating them then they cut the span in half while we were on the deck, the crews separated one of the big 30 ton joints causing the whole structure to vibrate and sway under food. president whole thing is moving.

it's a very scary thing to be on an unsupported bridge. >> the disassembly will happen in three trayses, where it touches treasurer island and then the rest of the bridge and finally, the part between the mud line and the bottom the bay which will require under water demolition experts. until that point, san francisans will hold their breath and hope the bridge that served them for seven decades can remain standing just a little bit longer. >> john, i was on that bridge earlier today and my palms are sweating just hear that report, just makes me frightened all ogen. >> you laugh but you have a fear of heights? >> it's tremendous in irrational fear land sharks are highest but heights are a close second. when you are standing on a bridge and you feel it go

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america tonight is joey chin is up next. always get the latest news online at our website. that is arningsz.com. on "america tonight," where is relesha, our in depth look at the accident happenaps of a missing d.c. 8-year-old exposes new details about a system that didn't protect her and a family struggling to explain what they did do. >> anybody could could have picked up the phone for me. >> did anybody else call the police? >> i don't know. >> also tonight, trying to understand why. the mass stabbing in a suburban pittsburgh school raises new questions about safety and