communities fighting back... >> we're fighting for you and we're taking these neighborhoods back, for you. >> a special look at the moves adding fuel to the motor city five days in detroit only on al jazeera america. ... tragedy on a california highway. ten people killed in a head-on crash involving a truck and a bus. among the dead, high school students on their way to tour a college camp's. >> she took most of the heat during the disastrous rollout. kathleen sebelius says she is resigning after five years of health and human services secretary. an ancient scrap of paper some say could change christianity as we know it. the words indicating that jesus

was married >> this was cut through your property? >> right through the middle of my property. >> a small town take okay big oil. people in rural kentucky trying to stop a gas pipeline they say will run right through their yards. good morning, and welcome to al jazeera america. i have stephanie sy in new york. a fiery crash leaves 10 people dead. the city happened about 95 miles north of sacramento. california highway patrol says a fed ex truck slammed into a bus. thomas drayton shows us the truck and bus went up in flames.

>> i just kind of see black, but there is fire up in front of the bus. it's crushed in the front pretty much. so we all start jumping up to run away. >> this is what's left of the horrific collision on california's interstate 5. the charred remains of a fed ex truck and a tour bus that had been packed with high school students. the california highway patrol says the crash was caused by the driver of the tractor-trailer who was among the dead. >> flipped a white car that is further in the ditch up there, sideswiped it, went head up with the charter bus, immediate explosion, and there are 44 students, three chaperones and a school bus driver on board, so 48 people. >> police are unsure why the truck swerved across a median separating traffic on the interstate. the high school students from schools across los angeles were on their way to visit humble state university north of

sacramento. >> i would invite any parent to call their schools immediately, all of the principals of all of the schools involved are informed. >> witnesses describe a fiery aftermath that devoured both vehicles. >> a shroud conic boom about 5:00 o'clock and the whole house shook. the tour bus was fully engulfed in flames. it just kept popping and booming as it was on fire. there was nothing left of the tour bus. >> police and ambulance rushed to the scene setting up a triage unit on site. some students walked away from the wreckage while others needed to be carried. back on the burned out bus, bodies of the victims were draped in blankets. >> right now, they are putting together all of the pieces of the puzzle to determine what caused the fed ex driver to cross over the median and into on coming traffic as well as any actions, evasive actions that the bus driver may have taken to avoid the collision as well as the car that was in front of the

bus driver. >> thomas drayton, al jazeera. >> an official at humble state, the college the students were going to visit say our hearts to out to those who have been affected. we are here to support them and their families in any way possible. >> the teenager of going on a wild stabbing spree at his school may have been bullied, according to the lawyer for 16-year-old alex ribal although police are not confirming that. ribal is accused of stabbing 22 people with kitchen knives at his high school in suburban pittsburgh. he is facing multiple charges including attempted homicide. he was charged as an adult. some are calling her the latest casualty of president obama's controversial healthcare bill. kathleen sebelius is stepping down after five years of health and human services secretary. she follows tony trungal, the former head of the center for medicare and medicaid who stepped down last november. she was a political target during the botched rollout of

the affordable care act. libby casey joins us from washington. libby, what are you hearing are the reasons behind secretary sebelius leaving? >> reporter: this is a natural break in many ways for a secretary who served over the fight of, passage of and the implementation of the president's signature healthcare law since open enrollment just ended, it's the connell collusion of an arc but secretary sebelius is stepping down before the mid-term elections really heat up when she could become even more of a symbol of what went wrong with the affordable care act. >> heavily criticized over the disastrous rollout of the healthcare.gov website, there were many calls for kathleen sebelius to resign? >> the only thing i can conclude is that it's impossible to do something in this administration that gets you fired. >> heavily criticized over the draftrous rollout of the healthcare.gov website, there were many calls for kathleen sebelius to resign. months after those initial

calls, she is stepping aside. the former two-term kansas governor offered no hint she was leaving on thursday. instead using the opportunity to tout the president's signature healthcare law? >> we do not anticipate additional delays, but i think the basic policies are now in place and we anticipate moving forward. >> over the lightning rod of criticism over obamacare's rocky start, republicans gave her one last grilling. >> before the affordable care act went into effect, how many were forced to give up their w healthcare? >> i do not have data to give you right now in terms of who exactly was previously uninsured. we are collecting that. >> sebelius never shied away from taking responsibility for the glitch-filled website.

>> it's unacceptable. i am focused on fixing it, and i am accountable. >> her boss always stood by her. >> you know, i think kathleen sebelius under tremendously difficult circumstances over the last four and a half years has done a great job in setting up the insurance markets so that there is a good product out there for people to get. you know, kathleen sebelius doesn't write code. she wasn't our it person. >> the resignation comes one week after president obama celebrated his healthcare act's last minute search. >> despite several lost weeks out of the gate because of problems with the website, 7.1 million americans have now signed up for private insurance plans through these market places. 7.1. noticeably missing is the rose garden announcement she will be there today when the director of the office of management and budget is named successor of the

post sebelius held for five years. >> en though there is a new face, the botched rollout of the healthcare law, let's remember, it's called by many critics it's called obamacare not sebeliuscare. it's the president's legacy and republicans were quick to crit sues even sebelius's resignation saying it's cold comfort for those disappointed by the law. >> we are seeing the spin already, libby. let's talk a little bit more about sylvia matthews burwell. president obama's pick to replace secretary sebelius. what do we know about her? >> she has been -- she is in the president -- been the president's budget director for about a year. she got a strong confirmation, a vote of 96 to zero. she as weathered battles including the government shutdown of last fall. she served during the clint ton administration and spent time with the bill and linda gates foundation and the wal-mart

foundation, the charitable wing of wal-mart. she is younger. she is under 50, a harvard grad and so many democrats hope that she brings a younger sense of how do use technology, how to reach americans and deal with some of the management structures of the affordable care act over the coming months. >> would you expect a confirmation battle with here? there is always a chance to have a confirmation battle because republicans will be able to use this opportunity to attack the administration and to attack the affordable care act, itself and sebelius, also, we have to remember dealt with other controversial issues such as whether or not churches had to cover contraception. so sylvia matthews burwell will inherit some of those. even if she is not controversial, the law she takes on is. >> a tough job, libby casey reporting from washington for us. search cruise say they are zeroing in on the signals but

it's still unclear if the pings that have been heard in the indian ocean are from flight 370's black boxes. the chief marshal leading the search says the latest signal for thursday is probably not from the flight recorders but australia's prime minister tony abbott said they are confident other signals picked up in recent days are related to the devices. an earthquake off the south pacific nation is under a watch as a result of the 7.for magnitude quake. it is unclear if there has been any damage earthquakes are common in that ring of fire. in nicaragua at least 23 people were injured and over 100 homes were damaged. that was a mag nude 6.1. eastern australia is getting slammed with a cyclone. let's bring in nicole mitchell. >> good morning. looking at some of the rain as it moves into australia.

you can see how driving that is out here. we've got the psyccyclone which what we would call a hurricane here in the united states. it's just called different things in different parts of the world. but tropical cyclone ida, right now, the wind's equivalent to a category 4 storm for the united states. so that would be 140 miles per hour right now. here is a look at that. and we were just mentioning, we are recovering from an earthquake in papau, new guinea. that he took a hit. we are waiting for recovery numbers for that, as well. here is where the storm is. and i haven't had an official report or seen the official report of this making landfall, but if you watch the eye and look at the coast line, it is either very close or has made that landfall so i will report that in the official statistics as it comes in. doesn't matter. either way, it's making the impact area with the winds to 140 miles per hour. this is because the southern hemisphere has seasons opposite of ours, this is hurricane

season in this part of the world or tropical cyclone season, already has caused a lot of damage as it moved along. pit papua new guinea as well. as it moved through the solomon islands, almost 10,000 people homeless, and they are watching for similar problems as this will track across the australian coast line, weakening, as it moves across land and interacts with land but still, flooding around expected across the region, high winds and damage because of that. we are watching storms in the united states. i will have more on that coming up in just a little bit. back to you. >> nicole mitchell, thank you. in eastern ukraine, pro-russian sep rattists are not bowing to pressure. they have defied a government deadline to leave occupied buildings. in donesk, 1,000 activists rejected an amnesty offer. their refused's refusal raised fears the ukrainian government to the follow through on a threat to use force to clear the building. protesters say they would stop only if kiev agreed to hold a

referendum on the status of the mostly russian-speaking area. hoda del amid is there >> reporter: despite repeated warnings, protesters here seem to be digging in throughout the day, they have been fortifieding their offensive positions behind the barricades. now there are piles of stones and they same they don't want a violent outcome to this stand-off, but they have to defend themselves. meanwhile, the local counsel issued a statement that sounds a bit as an offer of compromise. no statement, it calls on the government to make official that offer of amnesty by issuing a decree that amnesty should be for police forces and protesters. it also called on the government to call for a referendum, not on separation but rather on

federalism. it also calls on the government to consider a bill that would make the russian language the second official language of this country. these are some of the demands the protesters have been making. they say since february 23rd basically since the day victor yanukovych fled this country. they say basically that they have been ignored all along from the authorities in kiev and that's what pushed them to take over that security building that's not too far away from where we are standing. they say it's the only way for them to get their voices heard. but now, they do want this referendum on federalism not to split from ukraine. actually, some of them showed proudly their ukrainianpass port. they want to be able to administerthane own eva's by themselves. >> hoda del hamid in eastern ukraine. the crisis could speed up a gas deal between russia and china.

they have been talking for nearly a decade about a gas pipe agreement. now, the talks are heating up. a deal would allow russia to sell pipeline gas to china for at least another 30 years. russian state-owned gasprom said an agreement would be signed in may when russian president vladimir putin will be in bay ying. >> there has been progress until negotiations between israeli and palestinian dealers but is denying there is an actual agreement in place. the u.s.-backed talks took a hit when israel cancelled the scheduled release of palestinian prisoners. palestinian prisons signed a series of international treaties. the u.s. has been pushing the two sides to agree to a framework for further talks. a barrage of artilleryshelled shells killed four teenagers, one day after two car bombs exploded in the same neighborhood killing 25.

fighting between rebel groups has intensified. opposition groups say more than 50 fighters were killed this week. an american ship docked in spain is getting ready to take on and destroy some of syrias deadliest chemical webs. organizations tapped with clear that stockpile are racing to meet the deadline. some 4,000 kilometers away from syria on the other side of the mediterranean sea lies a vessel that's about to play a crucial role in the destruction of syria's dead lee chemical weapons. it spent the last few months being equipped for this next mission. it will be dealing with the decommissioning and neutralization of 560 tons of chemical components from syria. >> chemical materials that come out of syria. >> it's a monumental, multilateral mission. the syrian government aims to complete the handover of chemical components of its sites by the end of the month. danish and norwegian vessels will receive the chemicals.

and when that happens, cape ray will go where the stockpile will take place ship to ship. >> we believe they have all of the tools they need to get on with the removal of the remaining chemicals and at the same time, we need to stress the time is running out. what you you have to start with is not water. >> it's here where it will be handled with the utmost care. on this pressurized deck is where the mustard and seron gas will be neutralized. it renders the chemicals symbol industry waste where it will be able to to be processed in commercial plants. after the neutralization process, those who have been involved in those operations will begin their own decontamination process. >> washed all over, head to tow. >> the whole process is expected to take place within two months

in international waters in the mediterranean sea and they are banking on syria to live up to its promise of delivering the stock piles on time. on the cape ray in southern spain. >> now as of this week, the agency overseeing the process says it has only received about half of syria's declared 1200 tons of chemical weapons. the nasdaq takes a tumble. just a fluke or a sign of another economic downturn? you are looking live at the exchange. the specific type of tech stock being sold off that caused the drop. >> a fracture that was 65 feet wide gaping open about two inches with water flowing into it. >> a crack is found in a dam along the columbia river. what it could mean for the water supply for large parts of the northwest. a tiny piece of parchment that could change christianity as we know it. the writing that says jesus christ had a wife.

look at this t some clever champ pansees almost escaped the zoo. he uses it as a ladder. as many as six chimps follow suit. the ringleader clearly but none left the zoo. grounds, the staff was able to lur them back to their enclosure with food including chocolates. good morning and welcome back to al jazeera america. i am stiff knee sy. straight ahead, a shake-up on wall street as the naz dabbling plummets. is it another bubble about to burst? let's see with temperatures we will see across the nation. meteorologist. didn't you love that chimp video? >> i am with them on the chocolate thing. >> as we head out this morning, a lot of people happy it is friday. we have had quiet weather recent. mild weather. >> trend could nots this morning. 50s up and down the coastline, 40s into the midwest. we have a front coming through that's now approaching the east coast but there is not a lot of cold air with it. so you look at somewhere like

chicago not looking too bad. a lot of temperatures already rebound today. to 66. a lot of temperatures through the 70s in the south, 80s, parts of texas. but we can tell the next weather system starting to come in, in saturday, billings drops into the 40s. we will see that spread as the system comes along. chicago, not only chances for rain increasing but temperatures dropping with the next system back to you. >> thank you. on wall street investors have been worried about their first quarter earning. today, two big banks are on the calendar. j.p. morgan and wells fargo. expected to report a drop in earnings as much as 11%. weakness in the mortgage business will hurt the bottom bottom line. and analysts say the bank's legal troubles may not be over. it remains a problem. for the large banging industry as a whole, so that will remain

al head wind in a cloud and evaluation for the stocks until issues cleared up. >> wells fargo is expected to post a product largely from cutting costs. amazon is getting into the digital comic books, al library of old comics from dc as well as content from more than 75 publishers, comicolo deby is among the most popular appears in itunes. the markets are coming up a major sell-off as no, ma'am analysts unload companies like twitter and face book saying they have become too expensive. the dow starts at 16170. the s & p is 1833. nasdaq at 4054. yesterday's 3% loss was the

first one-day percentage decline since late 2011. the tech sell-off spread overseas. asian markets ending lower with the nikkei falling more than two %. european markets sharply lower at this hour. so, for more on the market, we are joined by david nelson, chief strategist at bell point asset management. mr. nelson action thanks for being with us? >> thanks for having me. >> the markets took a big hit yesterday. he specially the nasdaq. if we drill deeper past the 3.1% drop in the nasdaq, we see that one of the hardest hit sectors was biogtechnology. fell 5.6%. so what was driving this selling? >> i think the first crack actually started to show last month. you mentioned the biotech sector. i can think the particular day the house subcommittee had sent a letter to the ce off of gilead pharmaceuticals questioning the pricing of one of more he knewpensive drug. >> set a shock waive through the

sector. that's fallen 30% from the highs earlier this year. it was up 30% in the first few weeks of the year. so, it may have been a blow-off top. as you said in your lead-in which frightened me just listening to it, but -- >> was it wrong? >> no. you are absolutely right. >> is it true there is a concern some of these tech stocks are over-priced? >> we probably pushed the valuation envelope on some of these a little too far. these are wonderful businesses. you mentioned one the top, amazon, wonderful bids, will be around for decades to come growing. there are a lot of names like that. we have seen this rotation from growth to value ultimately, it's probably healthy, you know. if the rotation hadn't started, we would probably have something worse. >> because a needed correction. >> nobody likes a correction. we get them ever so often. i am sure a lot of your viewers

are concerned right now. thing probably looked at their 401(k)s thinking maybe it's 2008. >> remind us what happened in 2008? >> in 2008 obviously was the financial crisis, and we had a lot of excesses, principally from the mortgage markets back in 2007 which peaked then. that unraveled. the banks needed a lot of help. we repaired a lot of that. what our economy is struggling and some around the world, principally china, we are not in that framework any more. >> you talk about the average investo look at the tech stocks go down. should they sit tie or consider at this point rebalancing their portfolios? >> if they're concentrated on names like this, they need to rebalance and rethink what they are doing because people fall until love with these names and change the momentum and hedge funds chase momentum. professional investors make

mistakes and a lot of the selling is coming from the hedge fund community. >> is it a bubble that we are seeing? >> some of these stocks, sure. son-in-law of these names probably are like netflix. amazon, a wonderful business. >> what about the big companies like facebook and twitter relatively -- >> i have a problem with facebook. i wrote an article on it not that long ago. i think mark zuckerberg is drunk with power. he can do what he wants. he spent -- >> made a lot of expensesive acquisitions. >> very actionpensive. 21 billion in two acquisitions. one makes no money at all. the other, very modest income. i think that's an overreach on his part. he may have jumped. >> rebalance? >> make sure you balance. >> david nelson, chief strategist of bell point asset management, thanks for being with us. >> thanks, stephanie. she became the target of the

anti-obamacare movement. a closer look at the i am politic indications of kathleen sebelius's resignation and whether it's a black eye for president obama's healthcare overall? >> it seems like they tend to get their way a lot of times. >> a david and goliath fight. people take okay big business over a gas pipeline running right through their

>> a small scrap of paper with potentially big implications that some say proved jesus had a wife. i am stephanie sy. we will have more on that story but first our headlines. a fed ex truck slammed into a tour bus in northern california, killing 10 people, injuring dozens more. most of the passengers on board the bus were high school students on their way to visit a college. many of the teenagers jumped out of the windows before the bus

burst into flames. despite a government deadline that has come and go, pro-russian sep rattists are refusing to leave state buildings in eastern ukraine. the prime minister amnesty but offered to use force if the buildings were not vacated by today. secretary of health, c kathleen sebelius is going to call it quits this morning. she was criticized following the ro rollout of healthcare.gov. president obama is expected to no, ma' nominate sylvia matthews burwell to replace sebelius. we are going to talk a little more on that now. kathleen sebelius surprise announcement, you have denny fayeman with more on this. thanks for being with us. i want to ask first of all how much responsibility does secretary sebelius bear for the problems with the rollout? >> well, think of her as the ceo of the company.

ultimately, it's her responsibility. she did a great job taking that responsibility when she went on jon stewart. she made it very clear. i am the one to blame. blame me. i commend her for taking responsibility and that's what she should have done. >> was she ever viewed as a fall guy in some ways? especially in the fact that some say she wasn't really qualified for the job as it turned out to be. she had a distinguished record as governor of kansas but in this job, it may have required a certain type of expertise? >> she was lacking the ability to work across party lines. she was an insurance commissioner and she was combative with insurance companies. when she went in, we couldn't really expect her to cooperate with them. she was combatav with republicans as well. the incoming replacement, sylvia burwell is much more willing to work with republicans. she has worked to establish

communication lines tattered over the years. >> what else would you expect from the nomination of burwell? she was accepted by both parties for her current position. >> right. >> would you expect there to be a battle about that nomination? >> i don't think it will be a real battle. i think it will be mostly rhetoric. i think republicans are going to take this as an opportunity to attack the healthcare law. they are going to take it as an opportunity to grill her because her nomination went through without any issues. 96 to zero in the senate. even senator colburn praised her during the hearing. i think this will go more or less smoothly. >> you think she is going to be more qualified? >> 100%. she has terrific management experience in the private sector and public sector. she is the right person for the job. >> you know, it's easy to, i think, at this point, politicize that sebelius is stepping down at this point in time. the fact is, she is 65. according to "the washington post," her tenure as secretary as health and human services lasted an avenue of 500 days longer than most people have been in this position.

is this being spun politicalcally or is this just a life choice? >> am i think it's a little bit of everything. apparently, she discussed with the white house her decision to resign back in march. so this didn't just come out of nowhere. but i do think it also came from the higher ups. i think they realized they needed to put a new face on healthcare.gov, on hhs and get someone in there that could rebrand the program. >> denny fayeman, a fellow at the manhattan institute, thank you forrun insight? >> my pleasure. >> what happens in vegas usually stays in vegas unless someone throws a shoe at hillary clinton. the former first lady was giving a speech in sin city when that happened. an object whizzing by her head, a shoe, a woman in the audience did it. she was behind the shoe. here is another look at that. the woman was arrested immediately. mrs. clinton not only made it through unscathed. she joked about it with her audience. venzuela's president

nicholas madduro is meeting with opposition leaders today, talks ending weeks of violent demonstlaingsz. as marchian a sanchez reports, he is not meeting with student groups who have been rallying against him. >> there was no dialogue in the streets demonstrators marched as a conversation began. >> they don't represent us. i think before going to these talks, they should know what those of us fighting for a r radical change want. >> students boycotted the meeting at the presidential palace where they showed mistrust. the president accused the opposition for the violence that has left at least 41 people dead and hundreds wounded and detained. you can't burn a university and call it a fair protest.

15 were burnt down. library classrooms. you can't call this a political struggle. you can't say it's peaceful legitimate protests. you will be measured by the way you measure others. >> in this first round of talks, he accused the opposition of trying to oust him. they say government is keeping the opposition from participating in the government. >> it's only fair that the country hear what the other side has to say to overcome mistrust. >> members of the union of south american nations brokered the meeting to find a way out of the political crisis that has lasted over two months. >> this dialogue for peace cannot wait any longer. there are people hurt because of violence. no matter who is responsible. from the streets of the capitol, protesters are in no mood to negotiate. >> we will not have a dialogue at the tools of our dead

brothers. >> they say this will be a debate. they say the only way to remove the crisis is by removing president maduro from? >> venzuela aans have been proce protesting the high crime rate, unemployment. these are the largest anti-government frosts to sweep through the country in a decade. >> there is pressure for the president to finalize the keystone pipeline demandi environmental activists opposing the pipeline which would stretch from canada to texas. president obama must approve the project because it crosses an international boundary. a battle in kentucky over a different pipeline proposal. farmers and other locals are fighting to keep the so-called blue grass pipeline off of their land. jonathan martin has details

>> reporter: women of the loretta mother house are typically quiet but for months, these nuns have been out spoken attempting to fear what they -- what they feel may be a destr t destructive threat. >> it's a threat to the environment as a whole. >> it would transport flammable natural gas liquids like propane through underline lines starting at fracking sites in pennsylvania moving through ohio, then central kentucky before connecting with existing lines at the gulf. the two developers, williams company and boardwalk pipeline promised it would be engineered to top safety standards. >> this is considered a very special place. >> still, the sister worries about the possibility of a leak and explosion. the line wouldn't run through her property but would run through several nearby counties. >> over the years, there is a whole database of examples of the danger of these pipelines,

and once, once you have made the kind of contamination you don't turn back. >> this would cut through your property? >> through the middle of my property. >> it's an issue of property rights. last month, a state judge sided with landowners ruling eminent domain, the power to take private property for public use can't be used to run the pipeline through private land but developers are appealing. >> these large corporations have a lot of money, have a lot of influence. and it seems like they tend to get their way a lot of times. >> there is a lot of support for the pipeline from some who see the benefits outweighing any potential harm? >> those sayings for the common welt of kentucky and for the nation as a whole to remain competitive have to be completed to go through. the pipeline companies have said several thousand temporary jobs will be created during construction and millions added

in tax revenue to the communities involved. and they point out underground transport is much safe earn using a barge or train when moving natural gas byproducts. >> we have programs on the state and federal level to make sure these things are done environmentally safe. >> while developers recently announced their intention to delay construction until 2016, sister vissey intends to keep fighting the pipeline, feeling there is far too much at risk. jonathan martin, loretta, kentucky. >> developers have acquired about 70% of the land they need to build the pipelines projected route. at 8:00 o'clock this morning, another battle over big oil in the south. why some say they are fighting over the future of the louisiana bayou. a crack in a dam in eastern washington state is hurting that area's water supply. engineers were forced to lower the dam's water level to deal with the problem. as alan shoveler reports, it's having an impact on people who

rely on that water. >> i will never live to see this thing go this low again. how many times. >> where billy nelson draws water, the river hasn't been this low in half a century. since the dam's built to grow apples and appear cots in this dry country, he pumps water 24 hours a day six months a year because of unprecedented problem with the dam, he has had to install temporary piping to reach the dropping river. >> it's like a lot of extra work and money. >> it is but you've got to have water. you know, there is no getting around about that. but anyway, it makes -- i mean, i've got water going up to my farm and that's what counts, you know. >> 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 campers, barbara hirsch is hoping the summer can be saved? >> monetarily, it will have a huge impact. um, we have reserved our campground almost all summer long. and so now, we are going to have to cancel probably a fair share. >> in late february, a worker spotted 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 with water flowing into it. with the water tcpi behind it, the did a is stable. the future isn't clear. engineers are drilling into the damaged peer to map how far the crack extends. answers could come in june a final fix with the river levels restored to normal. >> timeline for fix has yet to be determined we were to get this forensic analysis done.

>> the cause doesn't matter much. keeping crops growing does. it could be 6 months, longer, less. >> alan shoveler, the dam is the largest power producer generating enough electricity for nearly 900,000 homes. two years ago, a business card size document had a quote allegedly from jesus christ suggesting he was married. critics cried forgier. researcher say there is mounting evidence it is real. richelle carey has the questist that questions biblical history? >> it's about this frayed piece of papyrus about one and a half by three inches. the text in blotchy faded inc. is in coppic, a language spoken in ancient egypt. the keywords are jesus said to them, my wife.

what a harvard researcher revealed in twill, the vatican denounced it as a fake. but now, harvard says a wide range of scientific testing proves that the papyru is an ancient do you care. baptist minister paul rosenbush 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. which isn't about to pur sway everyone jesus had a wife? >> not conclusively jesus was married. we will never know that. in the early church, there wat subject of conversation which makes it interesting for us today. >> if contains the words "she will be able to to be my disciple" another potentially provoc-i have been phrase. >> the church was interested in the role of women in jets jesus' life and the church.

it talks about women as not only jesus' wife but also as a disciple and within, you know, the body of the early church. >> one brown researcher remains unpersuaded say it contains gross grammatical errors that a native speaker of coptic wouldn't make. richelle carey, al jazeera. >> it was the longest free fall ever. felix von gartner, when he jumped from the edge of space in 2012 as roshi found out, it benefits future pilots. >> it was his attempt to parachute jump from the greatest height in history, riding in a capsule documented a massive helium balloon, we want 24 miles up into the air. he was so high, he could see the curvature of the earth, then he stepped out of the capsule and did the unimaginable.

>> i am going home now. >> he jumped. i took a deep breath outside, you know. i was trying to memorize everything. i would see the curve of the earth. i looked up. i could see the sky above me was completely black and i have never seen black sky before. so, i took a deep breath. then you do this totally focused and this one step forward and you are on the way. >> he really was on his way. it's a -- it took him to get totem of space and nine minutes to get back down to earth while free falling, he reached a speed of 843 miles per hour, breaking the speed of sound. >> so he was super sonic. he did not feel it, what he was doing. 8403 miles an hour. the people on the ground heard the sonic boom and he went super sonic. it was an amazing feat that he did. >> still, today, this is still

the most valid record because no one ever broke the speed of sound. i am the first human outside of an aircraft who did it. >> to pay tribute to the incredible mission, the stratus exhibit is on display at the smith sesonia smithsonian. perhaps the biggest accomplishment were the scientific and medical add veeps that were learned? >> we developed a protocol if there was an emergency, how we would handle it if they lost pressure risation. it's a new protocol that is revolutionary. >> that's one of the medical benefits of the program. we also demonstrated a new type pressure system that future astronauts will be wearing that has more dexterity to it. so when they were snifb can't reasons why we accomplished it. >> he took up jumping at 16 and is known for daring stunts. in 1999, he earned the world record for the highest parachute jump from a building when he

leapt from the towers. it was different and took him five years to prepare. >> we knew this was about good. this was bad. we did debriefs action changed things pretty much until the very end of the program. we constantly changed our check lists. the old days, there was more working on muscles and now, we had to change everything. i spent a lot of time on the cardio bike and changed everything in order to make me physically fit for a long, ongoing challenge. >> now, baumgartner is preparing for his next feat to race 24 hours, a day-long car race in german because breaking the speed of sound wasn't enough? >> we did our comfort zone and

did something extraordinary. that's probably the message to the world, it doesn't matter what you have done before. as long as you have the goal in mind, as long as you surround yourself with the right people and as long as you are willing to go the extra miles, you can accomplish everything that you can imagine. >> still pushing the envelope. that was roshi reporting. steven colbert about to hey on one of the highest profile jobs in show business. what the comedy host says about stepping into david letterman's very big shoes. 11 million cars recalled in the first few months of this year. some say the reason auto companies are doing it has little to do with keeping drivers safe. ahead in our next hour, parents arizoccused of making t children sick. we will take a look at what's known as medical child abuse. .

a new problem for general motor. the company says there is nor flaw of the ignicians with the 2.6 billion cars. in some cases, the keys cobbling pulled out -- could be pulled out while the cars are running. they will have an additional part to fix that problem. the auto maker says the recalls will cost about $13,000,000,000. gm announced it suspended two engineers. >> according to the national highway traffic safety administration, 11 million vehicles have been recalled so far in 2014. we are halfway to the 22 million cars recalled in all of 2013 we are on pace to reach the 2004 high of 30.8 million vehicles recalled. clarence ditlow is in washington this morning and joints us to delve a little deeper into these problems. mr. ditlow, thanks forb being with us.

the heart of the issue seems to be whether the public trust compani companies, has trust been breached. >> it has. the public exists manufacturers to fix cars promptly. >> when toyota was fined 1.2 billion by the justice department last month, in a statement from center for auto safety, you said it was a game changer and they face insignificant fines and no penalties under the vehicle safety act. explain how that was a game changer. >> the safety act, itself, has no criminal penalties in it. the maximum fine today is $35 million, which on a big recall might be a gm ignition

switch comes to a few dollars per car. so, it's cheaper in many instances to stonewall than to recall. but when you are facing a potential billion dollar fine from the justice department nguyen, when you are facing criminal charges that me even end up with some executives going to jail, that's a game changer and the auto companies really get serious. >> what connection can you make between what happened with toyota and the patternties and the current wave of recall? >> what will you are seeing is the companies all have a backlog of defective vehicles, and in the past, under the old regime where it was cheaper to not recall the vehicles, they are now looking at those and saying, well, if we don't do it, maybe we will face prosecution from the justice department. so let's go ahead and, when in doubt, do a recall, and in the past, it was when it doubt,

don't recall. >> how far back would you say this history of corporations concealing auto defects go back? is this something that we have been played with for decades and it's only now coming to light in the last 10 years? >> oh, it really is. the safety act was passed after ralph nader wrote "up safe at any speed" in 1966. we had the chevrolet corvair. we had the ford pinto. we had the audi 5ooo. wet ford explorer with firestone tires and now toyota and now gm. these were all big safety scandals that the companies tried to sweep under the carpet. and until toyota, until the justice department found they could get away with thet it, they had to do a recall. >> yeah. ? >> but there was real brand damage to them sdmrfrp clarence ditlow, executive director for the center for auto safety,

thanks. let's look at the forecast across country today. meteorologist nicole mitchell is back. >> we have been under a pretty quiet pattern. we have a front moving through the great lakes bringing rain along with it so this warning: the radar looks more impressive than what is actually hitting the ground where you are more likely to notice. there are a few light showers out here. but some lower clouds. check your flights before you head out for the east coast line, more rain overnight expected. but again, this system isn't causing too mary problems. already something brewing back mind this, a big player into the weekend. i will have more on that a little later. back to you. >> nicole, thank you. a replacement has been chosen for one of the most high-profile entertainment jobs. >> this man has influenced every host who came after him andina few who came before him. he is that good. i have to tell you. i do not envy whoever they try to put in that chair.

>> i think you know that face. >> that's political satarist steven colbert poking fun at himself. he has been named to replace letterman on cbs. he has hosted his own show, the colbert report since 2005. he says he will not be doing the new show in character and is looking forward to stretching his comedy muscles. del walters is here to look at a look ahead. >> here is what we are following this morning. >> tragedy on a california freeway as 10 people are killed when a truck and bus collide, that bus carrying high school students on their way to a college tour. health and human services secretary kathleen sebelius expected to announce a resignation today. russia saying it poses no military threat to ukraine despite an apparent buildup of more troops along the ukrainian border. while demolition experts are in a race against time trying to remove the old bay bridge in san

francisco. >> al jazeera america is coming back. we are back with you in two and a half minutes. news

. we all started jumping up to run away. >> witnesses describe a fiery aftermath that devoured both vehicles. >> they heard a loud sonic boom about 5:00 o'clock. the whole house shook. the tour bus was fully engulfed

in flames. it was booming as it was on fire. there was nothing left of the tour bus. >> police and ambulance rushed to the scene setting up a triag unit on site. some students walked away from the wreckage while others needed to be carried. back on the burned-out bus, bodies of the victims were draped in blanket did. >> right now, the team is putting together all of the pieces of the puzzle to determine what caused the fed ex driver to cross over the median and into on coming traffic as well as any actions, evasive actions, that the bus driver may have taken to avoid the collision as well as the car that was in front of the bus driver thomas drayton, al jazeera. an official at humble state, the college the students were heading to visit released a statement saying our hearts go out to those who have been affected, and we are here to support them and their families in any way possible. >> officials from the california highway patrol, we are waiting for a news conference from the california highway patrol

updating us on this bus crash in northern california. we will bring that to you as soon as we have it. >> stephanie, a grief-stricken community is coming together trying to overcome that wild stabbing spree at a high school. >> for the 22 vict simmons of the school stabbing in murraysville, pennsylvania. >> doctors saying one of the vict ills is still in critical condition. one student saying he feared for his life shortly after being stabbed. >> i was thinking like, you know, how long are we going to be in here? losing a lot of blood really fast. i was just kind of scared i would bleed to death. >> the teenager accused of going on that wild stabbing spree may have been bullied according to lawyers for 16-year-olds alex ribal. he was accused of stabbing 20 people with kitchen knives. the teen is facing multiple charges, including attempted

homicide. he is being charged as an adult. >> some are calling her the biggest casualty of it president obama controversial healthcare law. kathleen sebelius is stepping down after five years of health and human services secretary. she was a political target after the botched rollout of the botched healthcare website. >> what are you hearing are the reasons she is leaving? >> reporter: well, stephanie, in many ways, it's a conclusion after natural arc for the secretary who served during the entire process of the affordable care act, the president's signature law. she was there for the fight in congress. she was there when it was signed into law. she was there when implementation happened and she was there for the botched rollout of the website. now, so even though this is a natural arc for her to have served for this tenure, she is also leaving the post right before the mid-term elections really heat up and the secretary risks becoming a lightning rod for a very controversial

healthcare law. >> heavily criticized over the disastrous rollout of the healthcare.gov website, there were many calls for kathleen sebelius to resign. >> the only thing i can conclude is that it's impossible to do something in this administration that gets you fired. >> heavily criticized over the disastrous rollout of the healthcare.gov website, there were many calls for kathleen sebelius to resign. months after those initial calls, health and human services secretary kathleen sebelius is stepping aside. the former two-term kansas govern offered no hint she was leaving when she testified before the senate finance committee and used the opportunity to tout the signature health law. >> we do not anticipate tus point, senator, additional delays, but i think the basic policies are now in place and we anticipate moving forward. >> but over the lightning rod of criticism over obamacare's rocky start, republicans gave her one

last grilling. >> before the affordable care act went into effect, how many were forced to give up their insurance due to man date did under the law? were there any forced to give up? >> i don't -- i do not have data to give you right now in terms of who exactly was previously uninsured. we are collecting that. >> sebelius never shied away from taking responsibility for the glitch-filled website. >> it's unacceptable. i am focused on fixing it, and i am accountable. >> her boss always stood by her. >> you know, i think kathleen sebelius under tremendously difficult circumstances over the last four and a half years has done a great job in setting up the insurance markets so that there is a good product out there for people to get. kathleen sebelius doesn't write code. she wasn't our it person. >> the resignation comes one week after president obama celebrated his healthcare act's

last minute search. >> despite several lost weeks out of the gate because of problems with the website have signed up for insurance plans. 7.1. missing at the president's rose garden announcement, sebelius will be there today when sylvia matthews burwell, director of the office of management and budget is named successor of the post she held for five years. >> democrats are praising secretary sebelius not just for getting the affordable care act in to effect but for a range of other projects she has worked on. stephanie, republicans are using the moment to the obama admin trace yet again over what they still call obamacare. the top republican in the senate, mitch mcconnell putting out a statement saying her resignation is come comfort for americans who have been disappointed by the law? >> she had a relatively long

tenure, we should say, in this position. libby, let's talk about sylvia matthews burwell. you used that sound byte in your piece of president obama saying sebelius doesn't write code. i am assuming burwell doesn't write code either. but what other expertise does she bring to the job? >> she may not write code but she is under 50. so some democrats hope she will bring a younger sensibility to why things like rolling out a website properly are so crucial, so important and she may be able to have more of a management roll. management is her specialty. she has been working on the office of budget and management under the president. so his go-to budget person and she has dealt with some of the tough battles on capitol hill over the past year and had to deal with some of the realities of implementing budgets and getting things back up and running after the government shutdown last fall. she was part of the team that got a budget hammered out. she comes from harvard and she has had experience outside of government working for the bill

and linda gates foundation and the wal-mart foundation. she is a veteran of the clinton administration and early reports are that people are pleased with this pick although, of course, her confirmation hearing will be controversial because the law, itself, is controversial. >> libby casey reporting from washington for united states. libby, thank you. stay with al jazeera all day for the continuing coverage at 8:15 eastern, we will discuss whether she has been unfairly blamed for the failures of the healthcare rollout. at 11 eastern, we will bring you her resignation announcement. >> will be live. >> eastern ukraines aren't bowing to pressure. they had defied a government demand. the refusal raising fears the ukrainian government could follow through on a threat to use force to clear those buildings. al jazeera has more in-depth crisis state ahead in eight minutes, we will talk to a reporter who spent months on, on the ground in ukraine. she is going to share her experiences with the people who

live there. we will also ask her whether it's likely that the rest of ukraine will break up. also, seven people were killed in a coal mine explosion in donesk. officials say it was caused by a gas leak. the energy minister saying there have been several safety violations at that site. a full investigation is underway. >> search crews looking for the missing malaysian airlines crew say they are zeroing in on the signals but it's unclear if the picks are from the black boxes. the chief marshal leading the search says the latest signals is probably not from the flight data recorders but australia's prime minister, tony abbot says they are confident they are related to the devices. >> the weather could be a factor because a cyclone is now slamming australia. >> for that, meteorologist joins us now. it's a big storm. it could interrupt the several? right. >> it's on the other side of australia. >> that's fortunate news for all of us as we take a look at the

image out here. you can see as the several has been going on, on the western side where we have the cyclone is on the northeast earn side. a very well-defined storm here i haven't seen the official landfall report that is put out. this is on the other side of the world. just watching the eye, it looks to me like the eye has crossed over land. so, i am expecting that. but it's had winds to 140 miles per hour and you were talking about the search efforts. some of you know my other hat is with the air force reserve, actually being a meteorologist flying into storms like this that hit the united states, so, you know, when you get a storm of this magnitude, has the search been going on anywhere near this? it churns up the water. the ships have to move out. most planes have to go in. if you are a plane between the clouds and rain it's hard to see anything at times. so they would have had to suspend that. now, what we are going to expect, this has caused a lot of dominguez that as it moved along. has it moved through the solomon islands? unfortunately, already over 20 reported dead with this.

about 10,000 homeless as this continued to move along from papua new guinea. haven't had reports of loss of life, but about 50,000 people being reported as impacted. we will watch for the impacts into australia. this will continue to skirt along the coastline. warp good thing with this, it hasn't had a large wind field so the damage area is a little smaller but being what we would call a category 4 storm. watching for that. a couple of other storms in the u.s. you will have more on that coming up in a little bit. back to you guys. >> okay, nicole. thank you. thursday marks the 50th anniversary of the land mark bill that ended segregation in the united states. many credit president lyndon johnson for pushing the civil rights act of 1964 through congress. mike viqeira reports and paid tribute. >> the president and first lady touring the lyndon johnson library in texas. there to pay homage to the 36th president and his land mark achievement of 50 years ago

pushing the civil rights act through congress and with the stroke of a pen, abolishing the jim crow laws of segregation. mr. obama praised lbj for his vision and courage. >> he knew 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. >> with civil rights icons looking on, mr. obama acknowledged setbacks in the struggle to end racism but drawing on his own personal story, he insisted government still has a role to play in social justice. >> i reject such cynicism because i have lived out the promise of lbj's efforts, because michelle has lived out the legacy of those efforts,

because my daughters have lived out the legacy of those efforts, because i and millions of my yenration were in a position to take the baton that he handed to us. >> the president drew a parallel between his own signature law, obamacare, and lbj's rocky path for another part of the program known as the great society. >> then the healthcare law opponents described as socialized medicine that would curtail america's freedom but ultimately freed millions of seniors from the fear that i willness could rob them of dignity and security in their goldep years, which we now know today as medicare. >> for president obama, the legacy of lbj resonates personally and in politics. >> president obama was two years old when johnson signed the civil rights acted alongside martin luther king. >> we continues to follow events in ukraine. pro-russian sep raftists laying down arms with a deadline to do so has come and gone. >> a reporter spent several months in the country, talking

about how the people there and asks if ukraine could be broken up even further? >> we are trying to silk the wagons and save face and the reality is that they have been part of the problem all along. >> reaction to that report finding albuquerquets police use excessive force against emotionally disturbed people. what happens now that the systemic problem has been uncovered. >> the big number of the day is 42 billion,$800 million. >> tell you what that means in the battle between television and internet. fascinating on how things have change did . taking a live look at the nasdaq building in time square. the type of stocks sold off yesterday that sent the exchange p tumbling.

>> in ukraine, a tense standoff between the government and armed pro russian activists occupying russian buildings. protestors in the towns have refused to lay down their arms and leave the buildings. the activists rejected a

government am necessary offer that would have allowed them to leave peacefully. it raises fierce force will be used to clear the buildings. let's go to denejsk, a town under siege. the prime minister was in that town today. what did he promise the protestors? >> well, yes, as you mentioned, interim prime minister yatsenyuk has been here immediating withies and trade representatives and basically offering more power to the regions. the regions will have more say over the state of affairs in ukraine, perhaps a bill could be put through to parliament on the idea of a referendum. exactly what that would be is a

referendum, all leaders clear that they want ukraine to stay united. the question now is whether this will be enough to appease protestors. i'm outside the state administration building. >> i've been clear that this is already, they believe, a re public. they are already the legitimate leaders of this leader and want a referendum to show the people agree, the government is kiev. the 48 hour ultimatum of the interior minister for protestors to leave through negotiations or by force is now up. we've been around this building, weaver been around the city. we have seen very few police, certainly no riot police, for now, both sides, you know, this

side is standing firm. >> where you are specifically for your live shot looks relatively calm, but that building is one of those occupied. we're seeing pictures of barricades and things like that. is that relatively close to where you are and who are these protestors? are they citizens of denejsk, are they soldiers or are they russian? >> we are a couple hundred meters back from the building. just because various camera crews have had people come up to them to try to disrupt during live shots. if you are from russia, you are very quickly welcomed in. ukrainian channels in particular have been targeted. protestors inside are very well bar indicated, reinforcements around all the time. we've seen weapons, not guns, but axes, ma chet tees, baseball bats, and they're very well prepared. your other question of whether this is representative of the region, it's very difficult to

say. opinions and polls suggest these people are not representative. the most recent poll we have seen is around 65% of people in the region would like the region to stay as part of ukraine, and that the claims are paid provocateurs coming across the barredder, these are not true. we're hearing locally the going prays maybe 50 adjustment dollars. >> she is with the christian monitor and spent time in ukraine. you woke up this morning, knew the deadline was expiring, what was your biggest fear? >> my biggest fear is that they would have gone into the buildings and tried to get the protestors out of there and that would have turned into a violent situation. at this point, that's the last thing that the situation needs in order to find some sort of resolution so that was my biggest fear and so far that

hasn't happened. >> give us a sense of what you think is going to happen next. >> the guys in the east, they are not going to go as quickly as with crimea. you have a large russian speaking population, however many will sigh i'm an ethnic russian, but i want to stay part of ukraine. i want to be close to russia, closer ties to russia, but only 30% want to separate from ukraine, so it's going to be a very difficult battle. >> give us a sense as to who these people are in these buildings inside the barricades. the united states said they are pro russian provocateurs. >> i have been in the east and done reporting, and i suspect from what i've been talking to other reporters who are there and they say there are probably some russian citizens there. whether or not they're sort of spies, whatever, we don't know, but suspect there are a lot of

locals there who hope they can become part of russia. >> 40,000 are you sure troops poised on the ukrainian border, russia saying they are pulling back, nato saying they see nothing that indicates those troops are moving, are you concern of an invasion of eastern ukraine? >> i'm concerned, the ukrainians are concerned about it. the presence of the troops is really dominating everything in that country and ukrainians are afraid of war and they have so much to get done within their own government. they have a failing economy. the threat of the russian troops on the border and war with russia is destabilizing the situation. >> they went toe-to-toe with the government, with the government of then viktor yanukovych. do they have strength to go toe-to-toe with russia to maintain ukraine? >> they say they do. they don't have the numbers the russian army does. they seem to have the will according to them and the

passion to stand up for their independent country, but it's nothing that anyone wants to see, because i don't think it would be a fair fight when you put the armies next to each other. >> you are going back as soon as possible. thanks for being with us. >> thanks for having me. >> stay with us for continuing coverage of the crisis in ukraine. we're going to get the rug perspective of the procedure in those government buildings and the four way talks that are coming up next. >> on wall street, stock futures are lower, the markets coming off a major sell off as investors unload high flying tech shares. twitter and facebook have become too expensive. the dow starts at 16170, the s&p is 1833, and take a look at the nasdaq, 4054, yesterday's 3% loss, it's worst one day percentage decline since late 2011. the tech sell off overseas,

asian markets lower, nikkei fouling 2%. investors have been worried about the first quarter earning season. j.p. morgan coming in with a bigger than expected drop in profits. the bank earned more than $5 million last quarter. weaknesses in its mortgage business hurt its bottom line. the bank's legal troubles are stick weighing on the company. >> the regulatory environment is still unfolding and the expectation is that the bulk of the settlements are now behind them. the headline risk for a bank of that size always remains, so i don't think they are in the clear completely yet. >> we are waiting to hear from wells fargo. it is expected to post a profit. >> a new king of advertising, today's big number is

$42.8 billion, the record ad revenue last year. >> the interactive advertising bureau says the revenue is 17% bump from 2012. mobile advertising also doubled this revenue from 2012 to $7.1 billion. i.a.d. said that's because facebook, google and twitter have all boosted their mobile presence, a sign of the times really. >> the department of justice criticizing the albuquerque police department. >> a systemic problem. >> a broken system contributed to the use of excessive force. >> we're going to take an in department look at that report and how likely it is to speaker real change. >> in the midst of grief of losing our child and to be accused of harming one of our children at the same time. >> a mother accused of making

her children sick on purpose talks openly about the accusations that she is to blame. >> at the far end that way, the two bridges are no further apart than my arms are outstretched. >> the threat to san francisco's old bay bridge may pose to the new span that is right next to it.

>> good morning. , to aljazeera america. i'm del walters. >> i'm stephanie sy. >> ahead in this hour, what a scathing justice department report says about the albuquerque police department and what it says about the police department. >> the san francisco bridge built to withstand an earthquake and could be in jeopardy.

>> doctors getting a better handle on alzheimer's disease. >> a fedex truck slamming into that tour bus in northern california killing 10, injuring dozens. most of the passengers onboard high school students on their way to visit a college campus, many teenagers jumping out of the windows before the bus burst into flames. >> pro russian accept are a activities are refusion to leave buildings in eastern ukraine. ukrainian prime minister offered amnesty to those who surrender but is trying to use force if the buildings were not vacated. >> kathleen sebelius is going to call it quits this morning. the president is expected to nominate the current director of the office of management and budget to replace her. >> the justice department issued a scathing report on the albuquerque police department. the report said officers have engaged in a troubling pattern of excessive force. police there have shot and

killed 23 people since 2010. we have details from the city. >> vindication, that's what the father of kenneth ellis three rome, shot by albuquerque police in 2010 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 posed a threat only to themselves. >> ellis was gunned down while pointing a gun at his own head. he had been an iraq war veteran suffering from ptsd. it is his father's mission to fight for police reform since his son's death. >> i'm sure he's watching and proud of his dad. >> the report said the fatal shootings were unreasonable and violated the fourth amendment.

the federal probe also found encounters of 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 policing. >> in adequate training and a broken civilian oversight process contributed to the use of excessive force. >> get on the ground! >> the federal investigation guns in 2012 but it was this video released this march that brought public anger to a boiling point. james boyd was homeless and mentally ill. officers killed him at point-blank range. he was holding knives. the video spurred protests on streets, including to demonstration two weeks ago that prompted police to respond with tear gas and riot gear. following the justice democratic's report, albuquerque's police chief acknowledged for the first time

the department's short coming but they didn't go as far as to apologize. >> those families, i'm 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're working really hard on the situation. >> they're trying to circle the wagons and trying to, you know, save face and reality is that they've been part of the problem all along. >> the mayor, in office since 2009 said he hasn't considered resigning. the next step, talks to address reforms and while many here say they've lost trust in the city's government and police, they acknowledge this is a step forward. >> david cory, you've been an

outspoken critic of the albuquerque police department. thanks for joining us this morning. you have said that this report confirms the criticisms made for the last four years. are you now confident that the needed reforms will happen? >> no, i'm not confident that they'll happen. the report is damning, and it certainly details the troubling nature of unconstitutional policing going on and it does confirm everything that people like kennel listen and others have been saying for years and we've been saying for years, but unfortunately, the 46 page report stops short of really dramatically changing the culture, the aggressive culture of unconstitutional police be. it makes recommendations. >> whose responsibility is it to do more. you described the report a the

toothless. what more can federal authorities really do? >> well, what we said all along when people asked the d.o.j. to begin this investigation a year and a half ago, the goal was to appoint a federal monitor to impose these changes, and unfortunately, and this might still happen and we are advocating that approach. it's troubling to us that they would describe in such detail a police department with systemic problems, not just about the policing on the street but leadership training, and then allow that department to implement a series of recommendations, so a federal monitor, that's our goal, must impose those changes and then that's the beginning of transforming unconstitutional policing to community policing with real civilian oversights. >> the mayor of albuquerque had this to say of the d.o.j.'s findings and recommendations.

let's listen. >> as difficult as the findings in the report are and there are some difficult findings in the report and we recognize that, the good news is that this is an achievable goal. >> you, sir, have been critical of mayor berry. how is his public support in albuquerque? >> eroding, a recall effort underway. we hope that makes additional pressure on him and that administration. unfortunately, he's involved in these negotiations with d.o.j. about how these recommendations should be implemented. they should be imposed immediately. he has attempted to block this at every step. he was opposed to the doj

investigation, only now when he realized these are going to be forced upon him does he welcome this opportunity at reform. these reform efforts have happened before and resulted in more police shootings. >> you have written that there is a "relentless history of police violence in albuquerque." what do we need to understand about albuquerque to understand about why that is continue to go happen? >> you said in this piece that there's been 23 young men shot and killed since 2010, 37 separate shootings. that's the most recent pattern. there was a 10 year period with 31 people shot and killed that culminated in a series of reform efforts, a.p.d. promising to change and after those reforms, new civilian oversight, then they promptly killed over 20 people in a six year period. this goes back to the 1970's. this is a pattern of racialized

silence by the albuquerque police department and really since the mid-1980's and 1990's with the hollowing out of mental health services and lack of network of support for the homeless, most of those 23 men killed in the last four years have been homeless. many of them have suffered from mental illness. the police department, as this report demonstrated, more often than not, uses excessive and unjustified force when dealing with people that are homeless or deal with mental illness. >> you made key points about the degradation of mental health services, which is another topic of discussion. we'll to have leave it there. thanks for joining us this morning. >> there has been a unanimous security vote in the u.n. for more peace keeping troops in the central african republic. france will keep its force in

that country until additional peacekeepers arrive. fighting between christian and muslim groups have continued with 6,050,000 people displaced. >> the house saying the u.n. ambassador was involved in taking hostages during the iran hostage crisis. he has a long standing career as a diplomat. the legislation needs the white house signature to become law. >> venezuela president is meeting with opposition leaders today, marking the stop of talks aimed at stopping protests that have left 40 dead. he is not meeting with the student groups rallying against him. >> there was no dialogue in the streets of caracas.

demonstrators marched as a conversation between the government and the opposition began. >> they don't represent us, and i think that before going to these talks, they should know what those of us who are fighting for a radical change want. >> students boycotted the meeting at the presidential palace where the government and political opponents showed their mistrust. the opposition accused for the violence that has left at least 41 people dead and hundreds wounded and detained. >> you can't burn a university and call it a fair protest. 15 university's were burnt down, library classrooms. you can't call this a political struggle. you can't say it's peaceful legitimate protest. you'll be measured by the way you measure others and if you use violence, nobody wins. >> in this first round of talks, he accused the opposition of trying to out of the him. they say the government is

keeping the opposition from participating in the government. >> it's only fire that the country hears what is said by the other side to overcome mistrust. >> the meeting was brokered to find a way out of the political crisis that has lasted over two months. >> this dialogue for peace cannot wait any longer. while there are people hurt and killed because of violence, no matter who is responsible. >> but in the streets of the capitol, protestors are in no mood to negotiate. >> we will not have a dialogue over the too manies of our dead brothers. >> he insisted there will be no negotiations or pacts. he said this will be a debate. the only way to overcome the crisis is removing the president from office say the protestors. >> the protests began in early february against venezuela's high crime rate, record

inflation and unemployment. these are the largest demonstrations in the country in nearly a decade. >> the weather has been great, let's get a look at the temperatures we can expect across the country today. >> mean nicole mitchell is back. >> another day to smile. a lot of 50's and 60's up the coastline, even in the midwest, 40's to start the day. this region has had a cold front come through. even that didn't have cold air with it. you'll look at 60's, chicago 66, temperatures rebound tomorrow. of course that's ahead of a strong storm that accounted really change things, east coast into the 70's and as we head to the southwest coastline, 60's and 70's, as well. tomorrow we start to see changes into the midsection of the country. i'll talk more about the severe potential in a few minutes. >> doctors say it's extremely rare, but sometimes parents make their own children sick on purpose. >> we look at the complicated issue of medical child abuse and

talks to a marry that she said is being wrongly accused. >> gabriel is a professional 5-year-old, but his mom said he suffers from a rare and poorly understood condition called might toe condrey diseases. >> the part of the cell that produces energy doesn't work properly. >> jessica hilliard said his older sister had a case of the aim illness. >> you can't really see it, but all of her tubes and wires are there. we concealed them. >> she died shy of her fifth birthday. it was a few months later, they were back with gabriel saying he was showing the first signs of the illness. that raised a red flag with the doctors and a charge now known as medical child abuse. >> it's very difficult to describe how traumatic that was

for our family to be in the midst of grief of losing our child and also be accused of harming one of our children at the same time. >> medical child abuse can take many forms. >> you have parents who because of their ache site or for any other reason exaggerate symptoms in their children. that's a lot more innocent than the other end of the spectrum where parents actually endues illness. >> one of the most notorious cases was that of florida resident kathy bush. prosecutors proved she had systematically overdosed her daughter with a powerful seizure medication. >> this is a chart we used in child to show the jury how many days each month the child was in the hospital. >> during the years of her daughter's imnesses, kathy bush became a media darling, even first lady hillary clinton highlighted the family's medical struggles, but ultimately, the mom went to jail and the doctor

turned out to be perfectly healthy. a case now in the spotlight is that of a 15-year-old taken from her parents more than a year ago after doctors at boston children's hospital suspected medical child abuse. the family, who says justinea also has the disorder claims it has been wrongly accused. >> it's almost never black and white in the complex cases. as a consequence, tragic errors occur on both sides. >> as for the hilliard family, they were investigated for medical child abuse. the allegations were found unsupported. >> there has to be a middle ground here and we haven't managed to find it yet where you are able to investigate suspicions that a child is being happened without completely destroying the family. >> so far, that middle ground has been hard to come by. aljazeera, boston. >> neither boston children's

hospital or the massachusetts department of children and families were willing to comment on the hilliard case. >> we're going to cross lines over to a presser by the national transportation safety board in washington. they are holding a press conference about that bus accident between a bus and a fedex truck in northern california which killed 10 people. they're taking questions from reporters, lets listen in. >> that we will actually confirm once we are on scene and then give you a source locally of who will be providing that information on a regular basis. so we'll provide local information while you have a contact to figure owl that out. thanks very much. >> you just saw the end of that press conference. we can kell you that the ntsb is sending a team to other land, california, 95 north of as he can are a men toe. ten people died in the accident, including the two drivers and five students that were headed to a college tour. we'll continue to follow that as

news breaks. >> an earthquake has struck off the coast of. a with a new guinea. it is under a tsunami watch as a result of the 7.4 magnitude quake. it is unclear if there is any damage so far. earthquakes are common there, on the ring of fire. >> 23 people were injured, 100 homes damaged with a magnitude 6.1 quake. >> it is an active season. >> here's a loaded question. do you hate your job? >> the company that's offering its unhappy worker thousands of dollars to quit. that and more headlines people are talking about this morning. >> it's going to take years to take apart san francisco's old bay bridge. there are concerns it may be posing a threat to the new bridge right next to it. >> an earthquake could strike and this earthquake could tip

over and damage the bridge they just finished building. r

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>> i'm antonio mora and this is talk to al jazeera >> award winning documentary director ken burns, talks about his craft, and his latest project on the gettysburg address talk to al jazeera only on al jazeera america >> san francisco's new bay bridge bill to withstand and earthquake, and it could still pose a threat because of the old bay bridge. >>, to aljazeera america. >> first, the all important weekend forecast. don't want to put any pressure on you, nicole, but deliver. >> we made it to the weekend. i'm just happy about that. we have a cold front moving through, not a lot of cold air or moisture, could see limited rain in the northeast today. nice weather behind it as it clears out. northern plains, snow into later next week. yes, i said that. one of my friends just took off his snow tires in dual ruth.

i said might be early. >> first saturday into sunday, the risk spreads, so do watch for that. back to you. >> >> what happens in vegas usually stays there unless it just happens to be a shoe thrown at hillary clinton. you had a catch it real quick, the former first lady giving a speech when out of nowhere an object goes by. a woman threw her shoe. here's a look at the close call. the woman was arrested immediately. she made it through the speech unscathed and cracked a few jokes about it. not the first time it's happened. the instant replay's not one, but two shoes thrown at president george w. bush back in 2008 in baghdad. the president also very quick on his toes, and the person who threw the shoes is still in jail. >> i wonder if that's a qualification for being a president, being able to dodge shoes. good aim, though. >> >> let's take a look at other

stories. paying workers to quit. it's part of the pay to quit, in other words, it's sort of roots out employees that don't want to work there. after your first year, you can quit and get $1,000, up to $5,000 if you don't want to work at amazon. >> unemployment rate is still high, keep the job. >> colbert going to be hosting the late show, playing himself for a change. he's always been that character on the colbert report, what is going to happen when he decides to be himself. >> and will he be called colbert. >> chimpanzees escape their enclosure. this is the most entertaining thing i read this morning, the

story dead pans it, really entertaining, they never really got out of the zoo. this is the ringleader chimp. >> in defense of the zoo, it's a nice zoo. i don't know why they would want to leave. >> apparently they lured them back by food, including chocolate. all right, serious stories now, crews are taking on a major task in san francisco, taking down the old bay bridge. there are concerns it could collapse and fall on to the new bridge right next to it. >> disassembling the oakland bay bridge is just as hard and maybe harder than building a new one. the demolition project scheduled to take three to five years is a sprint in engineering terms. >> a westbound section has collapsed into an eastbound section. >> a section of the bridge collapsed in 1989 but engineers are far more worried about its

safety now. >> this is the moment engineers are worried about, not this moment, but the next three to five years while they take apart this bridge. during that time, an earthquake could strike and this earthquake could tip over and damage the bridge they just finished building. >> being on top of any bridge is scary enough. [ laughter ] >> this laughter, that's terror. >> scientists have been detected small shakes up and down the california toast. although no one can predict when an either quake might strike, but in a big shake, the old bridge would be terribly dangerous especially to the new bridge. >> that way, the two bridges are no farther than my arms are outstretched. >> the old bridge uses a classic design, its central portion a long span suspended between two towers. they leaned in towards one

another. the engineers had to use enormous four to know 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 giants causing the whole structure to vibrate and sway on the foot. >> i'm feeling terrified, because the whole thing is moving, and it's kind of -- it's a very scary thing to be on an unsupported bridge like this. >> the disassembly will happen in three phases, first the western most span where it touches san francisco island in the middle of the bay, then the rest of the bridge and finally the part between the mud like that and bottom of the bay, which will require underwater demolition experts. until that point, san francisco's will continue to hold their breath and hope that the bridge that served them for seven decades can remain standing just a little longer. aljazeera, san francisco.

>> over the past seven decades, 240,000 people have traveled across the old bay bridge a day. the bridge cost $77 million to build. it first opened in 1936 and when it did, it was the largest bridge in the world at that time. >> here are some of the stories we're following this morning. that tragedy on a california highway as 10 people are killed when a truck and bus collide carrying high school students on their way to a college tour. >> kathleen sebelius announcing her resignation today following the controversial launch of the affordable care act that she oversaw. >> russia says it poses no military threat to ukraine. >> doctors in chicago building personal relationships with always's patients trying to help out their care. >> i'm meteorologist nicole mitchell. major tropical system is hitting australia. here in the states, more severe weather could vessel on that. i'll have that forecast. >> the aljazeera morning news

continues. del walters is back with you in two minutes. have a great friday morning and a nice weekend.

>> cabinets shake up health and human services kathleen sebelius stepping down at some gop lawmakers step up their criticism of the affordable care act. >> tragedy on a california highway, 10 people dead in a head on crash involving a truck and bus. among those killed, high school students on their way to a college tour. >> democracy does not work in the louisiana. this place is controlled by an industry, oil and gas.

>> environmental groups taking action against risky business claiming the local government is ledding business destroy coastal we had lands. >> this means not conclusive lieges was married. we'll never know that. >> the ancient piece of paper and the uproar over the theory of jesus being married. >> good morning, welcome to aljazeera america. i'm del walters. some are calling her the latest casualty of the president's controversial health care law. kathleen sebelius will officially step down as the secretary of health and human services. she was seen as poison for the botched rollout of the affordable care act. why is she leaving? >> the timing could be seen as the natural conclusion of an arc of a secretary's tenure, she's been in the job five years, which is a long time for secretaries to serve. she came in before the obama administration really kicked

into gear with the fight over the affordable care act. she was there when it was signed into law by the president's side. she was there for the supreme court challenge and ultimately the implementation. now secretary oversaw the botched website rollout and so she is leaving right now before the mid term elections heat up, before she becomes a political pawn in what went wrong over the health care law. >> hi, how are you? >> heavily criticized over the disastrous rollout of the healthcare.gov website, there were many calls for her to resign. >> the only thing i can conclude is that it's impossible to do something in this administration that gets you fired. >> now months after those initials calls, health and human services secretary kathleen sebelius is stepping oh side. the former two term cans governor offered no hint she was leaving when she testified thursday before the senate finance committee, instead using the opportunity to tout the health law. >> we do not anticipate at this

point, senator, additional delays, but i think the basic policies are now in place and we anticipate moving forward. >> whatever the lightning rod of criticism over obamacare's rocky start, republicans gave her one last grilling. >> before the affordable care act went into effect, how many were forced to give up their insurance due to man dates under the law. were there any forced to give up? >> i do not have data to give you right now in terms of who exactly was previously uninsured. we are collecting that. >> she never shied away from taking responsibility for the glitch-filled website. >> it's unacceptable. i am focused on fixing it, and i'm accountable. >> her boss always stood by her. >> you know, i think kathleen sebelius under tremendous difficult circumstances over the last four and a half years has

done a great job in setting up the insurance markets, so that there's a good product out there for people to get. she doesn't write code. >> the accusation comes one week after the president celebrated his health care act's last surge. >> despite several lost weeks out of the gate because of problems with the website, 7.1 million americans have now signed up for private insurance plans through these marketplaces. 7.1. >> noticeably missing at the president's rose garden announcement, she will be there today when sylvia matthews bur well, the director of the office of management and budget is named successor of the post she held five years. >> there will be a moment where there is a changing of the guards. don't expect that to deflate all criticism that republicans and

others have over the health care law and president obama. >> libby, we know she's taking the blame, she got the blame for the botched rollout but does the white house give her credit for turning the numbers around? >> it's such a tough situation for democrats and the white house, because they have a lot of pride in the law itself and the architecture of getting more americans health care. because the actual enrollment produces was so difficult, fraught with trouble, a top democratic a year ago warned that it was headed for a crane wreck. that's really overshadowed everything else. critics of the law called it obamacare. even as she steps to the side and gets out of the lime light, president obama is still left with both the good and bad of the law, and just how americans feel about it over the next couple of months will determine a lot about the mid term elections. >> some are saying this is a move to bring back the democrats who are distancing themselves from the bill during an election year. is it going to work?

>> well, this is the question of how the rest of the process will unfold and how the new director of health and human services, the new secretary will fill the role, what her priorities and goals will be. as democrats responded to see bealouss resignation, many of them highlighted other achievements that she is able to accomplish outside of the affordable care act. represents were quick to criticize her, mitch mcconnell in the senate said that her resignation is cold comfort for those affect by the affordable care act. >> we're going to talk to the co author of howard dean's real prescription for health care reform. we're going to ask when kathleen sebelius is a casualty of the health care act as record. >> now 10 people dead as many as 50 injured in a bus crash north

of sacramento. a fedex truck slammed into a tour bus, the crash killed both drivers. five students and three chaperones were killed. both vehicles went up in flames. >> this is what's left of the horrific collision on california's interstate five. the charred remains of a fedex truck and a tour bus that had been packed with high school students. the california highway patrol says the crash was caused by the driver of the tractor trailer, who's among the dead. >> it clipped a white car that is further in the ditch up there and site swiped it, went head on with the charter bus, and immediate explosion, and there are 44 students, three chop reasons, and school bus driver onboard, so 48 people. >> police are unsure why the truck we have beened across a median separating traffic on the interstate. the high school students from

schools across los angeles were on their way to visit humboldt state university north of as he can are a men toe. >> i see black, but there's fire at the front of the bus, it's crushed pretty much. we all start jumping up to run away. >> witnesses describe a fiery aftermath that devoured both vehicles. >> we heard a loud sonic boom about 5:00 and the whole house shook. the tour bus was fully engulfed in flames. it just kept popping and booming as it was on fire. there was nothing left of the tour bus. >> police and ambulances rushed to the scene setting up a triage unit an site. some students walked away from the wreckage while others needed to be carried. back on the burned out bus, bodies of the victims were draped in blankets. >> right now, the team is putting together all the pieces of the puzzle to determine what caused the fed ex-driver to cross over the median and into

oncoming traffic, as well as any actions, evasive actions that the bus driver may have taken to avoid the collision as well as the car that was in front of the bus driver. >> thomas drayton, aljazeera. >> these are images live right now. you can see both pieces of wreckage still at the scene. the ntsb in washington holding a news conference a short while ago indicating that a go team is heading to assess exactly what went wrong. >> an official with humboldt state college, the college where the students were going to releasing a statement saying our hearts go out to those affected an we are here to support them and their families in any way possible. >> the teenager accused of going on that wild stabbing spree as a school may have been bullied, this according to the lawyer for the 16-year-old. although police aren't confirming that hribal is being

charged as an adult. he met with his parents yesterday at the detention center for the first time since that incident took place. >> in ukraine, pro russian accept are a activities aren't bow to ging to pressure. the activists rejected an amnesty offer that would have allowed them to leave peacefully. we are in the town. >> you can see very few people here and colonel not so far, no police are military are seen in the area at all. ukraine's interim prime minister yatsenyuk is calling for meetings with regional leaders in a last ditch effort to try to solve this standoff.

meanwhile here, people are here. they are asking people to come down and support the protestors here. the west and kiev accuse moscow of stirring up unrest here, suggesting that perhaps people here are not representative of the wider region. polls would suggest they are right, a recent poll showing 65% of people in the region would like to stay united. people here say they do represent the region and maintain they are part of the republic, maintaining their resolve. they would like a referendum. >> coming up in our next half hour with the expiration of the

48 hour deadline, pro russian accept are a activities, we're going to look at the next move in this tense standoff. >> crews looking for the missing malaysia airlines flight 370 are still unclear if the pings heard are from the black boxes. the chief marshall leading the search said the latest signal heard thursday probably isn't from the flight data recorders, but they've heard several other pings the last few days. tony abbot saying the crews are close to finding the source. >> we have narrowed down the search area and we are very confident that the signals that we are detecting are from the black box. >> crews plan on sending an unmanned sub to search the ocean floor when they pinpoint the exact location of those objects. >> the united states and south korea launching their largest ever joint air exercise, involving 1400 aircraft and

military personnel. >> this exercise is part of the annual combined exercises that every year north korea calls rehearsals for invasion. this year, it's not as contentious as this time last year. north korea has made similar pro tests again. during a few days ago, during a combined amphibious exercise billed as the largest in 20 years, north korea chose that date to hold a live drill, firing 100 shells into south korean waters, south korea returned fire. as well as this exercise that we are at today. south korea and the united states are launching what they call the biggest ever combined air defense exercise. that's something that the north careens may well want to react that in some way. this is also the day that the south korean defense ministry makes public its interim

findings on its investigation into a number of north korean drones, low flying, low tech drones that have been discovered in south korea in recent weeks, something which has dominated media headlines. >> a u.s. envoy is heading back to washington after talks between the palestinians and israelis, both sides agreeing to extend negotiations beyond the deadline. state department confirms progress but says no deal has been reached. they will return after passover next week. >> a major cyclone in south america today. >> it is on the complete other side of the continent versus the search area. more of the searching has been off to the west, and what we're looking at is on the northeast

side, so that's good, because it would really impact things if it were in the same area, you'd have to move ships out of the area, can't get a lot of flying done and if you were to fly into this, you wouldn't see much. you can see the eye and it crossing over land. it officially made landfall. this is in queensland. it will continue down the coastline now. this will be our equivalent, they call them tropical cyclones. a category four hurricane with winds 140 miles an hour. when it made landfall, it started to diminish. you can see it looking organized. they always tend to fall apart a little bit. not only damage from the winds, but flooding is a concern. >> let's get back to the united states. a lot of this not hitting the ground, but today, an overnight watch, chances for rain, most

clears out beautifully in time for the weekend. already, though, some things start to go form up behind this. this is how this shapes up for saturday and sunday. saturday, already a slight risk for thunderstorms, but that area gross sunday. and we'll watch that very carefully for everyone this weekend. back to you. >> nicole, thank you very much. >> big oil blamed for the destruction of the fastball jail we had lands along the gulf. critics saying the government is turning a blind eye to what they are doing. >> spending a billion dollars on a flu drug that doesn't work. new questions about tamiflu. >> greek citizens hitting the streets at angela merkel comes to down. the german chancellor supporting austerity measures for athens. the greeks are none too happy. [ grunting ]

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burrell, the current secretary of management and budget. kathleen sebelius was criticized over the rollout of the affordable care act. the president of thing progress.org is in washington, d.c. this morning and joins us. good morning. >> good morning. >> talk about the best of times, worst of times if you're health and human services secretary kathleen sebelius. why is she stepping down? >> she certainly tried to go out on a high note, 7.5 million, beyond the expectations, but she's had a rough five years trying to implement the law, writing the regulations, dealing with the budget shortages, republicans opposing her in every turn and the rocky rollout i think will be a blow to her legacy. it's been a long time. she's been there longer than most. this was a natural period after the first open enrollment for her to move on.

>> she was noticeably away sent when the president took the victory lap last week. did the white house throw her under the bus? >> i don't think so. i think within the white house, they're very grateful for her. this was a hard job, a heavy lift, and given all of the problems and all kinds of of the complications and the backlash, at the end of the day, they can point to the victory of 7 million in the exchanges, 3 million more in medicate expansion. for that, she bears a lot of the responsibility and credit. >> going forward, what does the tenure of kathleen sebelius say? first, why would anyone want to work in washington, d.c. these days. the contempt creatation against a former i.r.s. official and the woes of attorney general eric holder. who wants that type of abuse? >> it's not easy, certainly, that's the fear is that all of this animosity and the polarization you see, the

incredible disrespect that people like holder and kathleen sebelius, will this keep the best and brightest away. we hope that's not the case, but yeah, they take abuse and now when you talk about their legacy, i think more people are talking about the failures than the successes, so it's, you know, it's a tough job to have, certainly. >> sylvia matthews burrow, the white house director of o.m.b., does she have what it takes to lead the agency forward? >> i think so. she seems incredibly capable, tested during that 15 day shutdown. her biggest challenge is going to have a smooth second enrollment period beginning november 15. all eyes are going to be on h.h.s. she has to make sure the website is work egbert. if no glitches, that will be seen as a success. now she's at the point of implementing the law and standards that are already there

and i think from her resultation, the belief is that is something she is good at, very detail oriented and can make sure that goes smoothly. >> a lot in washington right now are telling democrats to run on the affordable care act. are they heeding the ball some will so far the mother they run away from the law, the less popular it will become and nobody's going to stop attacking them for supports it at some point, so given the successes we've seen lately, democrats, i think would take some time to consider that kind of leaning into the law and touting its successes could help them over the long term. >> igor, in the five years this has now been law, does it give

health care to the people who didn't have it? >> there's plans floating around congress. it's rough for republicans. as one told reporters last week, anything they come up with looks a lot like obamacare, includion provisions keeping children on your plans, high risk pools for sicker people, which was an earlier part of obamacare. the rhetoric has been raised so high that republicans at least their base expect something entirely different and realistically because obamacare has it cooked up into it, it's tough to come up with something. >> igor, thank you very much. >> we find out the government may have spent more than a billion dollars for a flu drug that was no better than tylenol. a report published in the british medical journal finding

tamiflu was not as effective as once thought. the study questions the effectiveness and companies behind it. >> in 2003, the world faced stark warnings of a deadly global pandemic. in asia, bird flu was spreading to humans. experts warned billions of people around the world were at risk. tammy flu he merged as the leading anti viral medicine. this new report claims the drug's benefits were exaggerated. >> >> there's no effect on the transmission of flu. >> the fear of a pandemic led to warehouses stock piled for emergency. the british government spent $793 million on tamiflu, the u.s. government $1.3 billion on the drug. the new report found it worked, but only a bit.

flu symptoms which would last seven days were reduced to 6.3 days for adults and 5.8 in children, gains so marginal that the reports authors say over-the-counter drugs would have had the same effect. >> the report authors battled for four years to get access to the raw research data and their findings not only questioned the drug but criticized the system, the way drugs regulators are only ever presented with selective data by the pharmaceutical industry. >> they have a conflict of somebody, purchase the studies, provide the regulator with what they ask for but do not go out of their way to present the benefits in a reasonable fashion or to give clear evidence on the harms. >> tamiflu is manufactured by the company rosche, it is dispute be the conclusions and allegations of secretiveness. >> we shared all of those things with the regulators and they right field it in the late.

i think, you know, i feel that we've been as transparent as was suitable at the time under the regulatory environment that there is. >> the debate has not yet affected tamiflu's status. the world health organization still classes it as an essential medicine. >> tamiflu sales bringing in almost $3 billion in sales. the deadly bird flu virus only needs five genetic mutations before spreading to people. it's spread through poultry currently. dutch researchers say it has the potential to transfer through coughing or sneezing. critics say the scientists have created a new super bug. the scientists say their research may help prevent a pandemic. >> good morning, nicole. >> very comfortable recently. anything from 50's and 60's up the east coast, a lot of 30's

and 40's through the midsection of the country and some 50's along the coastline in california this morning. now the next couple days, staying mild for the most part, even with the weak cold front moving through, it hasn't dropped temperatures more than a few degrees. denver at 76 today. by tomorrow, chicago which is at 66 once that front clears out, back up to 73. you can see more of that warm air in the midsection of the country. that's where a storm system will be brewing. that's actually going to change things a lot, the warm air fueling potential thunderstorms and on the backside of that, temperatures drop, chicago back into the 40's next week. enjoy the warm air while you have it. >> the u.s. threatening russia with sanctions over the unrest in ukraine. what it will take to come together to find a solution to the divisions in the eastern part of the country. >> the piece of ancient paper that raises new questions about

jesus christ. >> in a hunt to cure a disease affecting 5 million americans, why building relationships with alzheimer's patients may give doctors the insight they need. >> last night's rock and roll hall of fame induction ceremony coming up, more aljazeera news.

>> you're looking at mid town manhattan as investors are getting ready to recoup big losses on the index, the dow losing triple digit figures, ending a two day winning streak. more on the trading day straight ahead. the nasdaq is where most of the losses occurred. >> welcome to al jazeera america. i'm del walters. >> ahead, a group that is suing,

claiming that oil and gas companies are destroying louisiana's coastal we had lands. >> angela merkel visiting greece witness protestors take to the streets. >> an increased military presence of russia on the border with ukraine, showing fighter jets and tanks with as many as 40,000 troops near the border. russia has agreed to high level meetings with the u.s., european union and ukraine. russia's foreign minister saying a deescalation of the crisis is possible. the deputy director of the american ukrainian institute is in washington, d.c. this morning. good morning, james. >> good morning. >> on wednesday, pro russian accept are a activities were given a deadline to leave within 48 hours the government buildings, the deadline coming and going. what do you expect to happen next? >> i certainly hope that they do not try to launch any kind of

trackdown. it's a real dilemma for the kiev authorities whether they can do so, whether ukrainian security force it is would obey. there have been efforts by local residents to block convoys of security forces, and the big question mark for them is would that trigger another russian move. the russians i think would prepare not to move into eastern ukraine, but the demonstrators have called for russian assistance that could very well trigger it. that's something they need to think hard about. >> why should the government be allowed to remove those demonstrators forcefully if needed. that would be under the presidency of viktor yanukovych. >> that's an interesting comparison. you had an elected president in kiev who was run out of office by some very violent protestors on the streets of kiev. the people in denejsk are protesting against government nobody voted for.

you've got a breakdown of law and order in the ukrainian state against whom are they rebelling. that's one of the underlying problems of this entire crisis that if the west and russia want to try to resolve it, they need to address that. >> we some estimates, 40,000 russian troops poised on the borders of eastern ukraine, russia saying it has withdrawn troops, nato saying that it is not. should russia move in militarily should those demonstrators be moved on? >> i certainly hope not and i hope it doesn't come to that. we really are in a fork in the road. ukraine is coming apart at the seams, cannot pay its bills, including for its gas, of course. and either there's going to be a cooperative approach where we try to restore the balance within ukraine among the various regions and eastern and russian influence or we keep going down the road of charges and counter charges and accusations that can

lead to unforeseeable consequences. really, i think it's a very dangerous situation. >> as we look at the situation, does the west or russia have a dog in this fight when it comes to military forces inside ukraine, in your opinion? >> i think the russians have a dog in this fight in the same way that we would have a dog in a fight like this if it were happening say in canada, a country that would be essential to our security as the russians see ukraine as essential to their security. certainly the europeans have a dog in this fight. frankly, i don't think the united states has much of a dog in this fight, except to perform maybe a conciliatory role in trying to resolve it in a cooperative way. we seem to be doing quite the opposite, it seems. >> russia saying the troops were there as military exercises, but how should ukraine interpret that build up on its borders? >> certainly, it's saber

rattling. even if these exercises were scheduled in advance, they are visible not role they're taking there. clearly this is meant as political pressure, as are the american moves now of sending some of our ships into the black sea, putting fighters into poland and the baltic states. this is a counter productive way to approach this crisis. >> james is the deputy director of the american institute in ukraine, thank you very much for being with us. >> 12,000 new international troops are being sent into the central african republic, the u.n. unanimously approving forces thursday. the troops won't arrive until september, set to replace the 5,000 african union troops on the ground fighting between christian and muslim rebel groups has killed thousands. 650,000 people have been internally displaced. >> a unanimous vote in congress banning iran's proposed u.n. ambassador from entering the

u.s., the house saying he was involved in taking americans hostage in tehran in the 1970's. he says he was only a translator during the incident and has a long standing diplomatic career. the law needs the president's signature to become law. >> angela merkel showing support for greece's austerity measures, her visit coming one day after bond sales by greece for more than $4 billion. we are in athens. her visit comes after several protests in greece. remind us why protestors took to the streets. >> they are party of both the communist party and radical left party, the main challenge to the opposition are organizing separate protests to coincide this evening which will be held together with the prime minister's speech. it was very much expect'd.

it is a symbolic gesture to show the opposition has a completely different view of greece's economic view than the government. the opposition denied there is even an economic recovery, and that this underlines the accept answer by markets of such a recovery in greece. they are trying obviously very hard to preserve a very different interpretation of the government's performance here. >> what will angela merkel be doing in athens today? >> she has a plan that was also followed in the middle of last year when she last visited. she's going to meet with entrepreneurs opening up start ups, cross bored operations, she will have a chance to talk about the conditions of doing business in greece, one of the main sticking points of competitiveness here and

economic recovery firsthand, before she sits down and talks with the prime minister later in the afternoon and of course she will again have a chance to talk to him after the press conference over dinner before flying home to berlin. it's very much the format that the two sides followed on her previous visit. >> is there an indication that the economic woes of greece are now over behind the country? >> well, i think that economists are analyzing the very successful accounts an bond sale as a first step. it's a good day for greece after a four year absence, but remember, this isn't just a market judgment on greece's performance. its success depends on choosing the right moment, the right environmental factors in world forecasts. there was the fact that there was a lot of money sloshing around coming out of the merging markets, looking for a relatively good yield. greece fits that bill. as one economist told me that i

spoke to earlier, greece is practically the only bond on the market now that is both high yield and relatively safe, because it's an emergent, it's classified as an emerging market economy but belongs to a hard currency. you get the best of both worlds right up until greece gets marked up for its credit worthiness again by its ratings agencies. >> a group of senate democrats putting pressure on president obama to give final approval to the key stone pipeline, demanding an end to the five year long review of the project. a lot of environmentalists oppose the pipeline which stretches from canada to texas. the president must approve the project because it crosses an international boundary. >> environmentalist groups are suing for damage they say oil and gas companies have done to louisiana. they call themselves the green army and they are making war to

protect coastal we had lands. aljazeera has the story in the second part of our series climate s.o.s. >> for more than 30 years, retired lt. general served in the united states army, but now he's fighting a new battle to save his state's environment. >> because of the impact of the oil extraction companies that have come here and basically had their way in the state of louisiana, they have hung their flag over the state capital. >> he has watched for decades as state politicians have turned a blind eye to pollution he says was caused by the oil and gas industries, the gulf of mexico. the air, he says it's easy to spot the abandoned wells and uncapped pipe lines. >> it took nature thousands of years to build these we had lands, but ruffle 75 years or one lifetime, much has disappeared, turned into open

water. >>ern environmentalists complain the state's government allows the industry to self regulate. that's why the green army has filed a lawsuit, asking nearly 100 oil quos to honor contracts requiring them to rare the destruction. >> every scientific study, including the industry's own has concluded that the city caused a significant amount of damage. there is this idea that the oil industry is above the law. >> louisiana's governor and oil industry supporters in the state legislature are pushing back. legislation's been drafted that would stop such lawsuits. in a statement, the louisiana ail and gas association said the green army is just one more group seeking to extort money from the oil and gas industry. this group is suing the very industry that is providing growth and steady jobs.

some say the residents are the second poorest in the united states. >> democracy does not work in louisiana. this place is controlled by an industry, oil and gas, and they write the laws and the people of louisiana have to fight their own government to try and protect this place. >> it's not clear when the courts will hear the green army's case, so the coalition is working to draft its own laws and gain a foot hold in the state legislature. despite decades of destruction, they hope their efforts will begin to influence state politicians to help protect louisiana's coast. >> the governor recently removing two members of his flood authority who back the green army lawsuit. >> on wall street, high flying tech shares being unloaded, twitter and facebook becoming too expensive.

yesterday's 3% loss was the worst one day percentage decline since late 2011. >> the tech sell off spreading overseas, nikkei falling 2%. european stocks opening sharply lower at this hour. >> investors have worried about first quarter earn ins. j.p. morgan coming in with a bigger than expected drop in profits. it was 19% lower than this time last year. weakness in the mortgage business hurt its bottom line. an lifts say the bank's legal troubles are still weighing on the company. >> the regulatory alignment is still unfolding and the expectation is that the bulk of the settlements are now behind them, but the headline risk for a bank of that size always remains, so i don't think they're in the clear completely

yet. >> meanwhile, wells fargo reporting that its profit beats forecasts. >> sony said there's a risk that the batteries on the newest vaio could overheat and catch fire, they are recalling the 11a computer. >> while it was the longest freefall ever, felix baumgartner setting the record when jumping from the edge of space in 2012. his stunt benefits future pilots. >> the decision has been made, he will jump. >> the mission called red bull was his successful attempt to jump from the greatest height in history, connected to a massive helium balloon, he went 24 miles into the air. he was so high, he could see the curvature of the earth. he stepped out the capsule and did the unimaginable. >> that is really high.

>> he jumped. >> i took a deep breath. i was trying to memorize everything. i would see the curve of the earth. i could see the sky above me was completely black. i took a deep breath and then you do this totally focused and do this one step forward and then you're on the way. >> he really was on his way. it took him two and a half hours to get to the edge of space and only nine minutes to get back down to earth. while free falling, he reached a speed of 843 miles per hour, breaking the speed of sound. >> when he was super sonic, he did not people it. when he was doing 843 miles an hour, he did not have any sensation. the people on the ground heard the sonic boom when he went enter sonic. it was an amazing feat that he did. >> this is still the most valid record, because no one ever

broke the speed of sound. i'm the first how many outside of an aircraft that did it. >> the exhibit is on display at smithsonian's space museum. the biggest accomplishment are the advances that were learned. >> we developed a protocol if there was an emergency how we would handle felix. it's a new protocol that is revolutionary. that is one of the medical benefits of the program. we also demonstrated a new type pressure suit that future pilots will be wearing that has more dexterity to it. those are two significant reasons we accomplished the objective. >> he is known for his daring stunts. in 1999 he earned the road record for the highest parachute jump from a building.

this jump was very different and took him five years to prepare. >> from every practice, we were growing together at one unit. we knew this was good, this was bad, we changed things pretty much until the very end of the program, we constantly changed our check lists. most of us working on muscles and fast reaction speed, but now we have to change everything, because endurance was the key now. that's the reason i spent a lot of time on a cardio bike and we changed everything in order to make me physically fit or a long, on going challenge. >> now he is preparing for his next feat, a day long car race in germany. breaking the speed of sound just wasn't enough. >> we left our comfort zone and did something extraordinary and that's probably the message to the whole world that it doesn't matter what you have done

before. you know? as long as you have a goal in mind, as long as you surround yourself with the right people and are willing to go the extra mile, you can accomplish everything that you can imagine. >> that was one giant step for mankind and that was ross shimabuku reporting. >> a few words with a potential to forever alter the belief of christians around the world, the suggestion they make about jesus and what we know about his life.

>> this man has influenced every host who came after him and even a few who came before him, he's that good. i got to tell you, i do not envy whoever they try to put in that chair. >> he says he's grinding a gop in his teeth, set to replace david letterman as the new host

of the letterman show. he has host said his own show since 2005, winning two peabodys, one emmy and a grammy. , to aljazeera america. straight ahead, a program aimed at better understanding alzheimer's but first let's find out if it's going to rain across the country today. >> good morning, it's been really quiet, the pattern the last few days. we do have a cold front moving through the northeast, a couple of scattered showers in the northwest. a lot of this not making it to the ground. today and overnight. chances for rain and then this clears out nicely by the walked. we can watch this, already by tomorrow morning, things improving, as we get to the midwest, we start to see more chances for rain. even by later next week, snow again. the system's going to brew in the midwest. we start off saturday with the risk for thunderstorms and the red severe weather.

this expands, the end of this is day two, sunday a wider chance especially in the souther plains for those severe storms. we'll keep you posted on all of that. otherwise a mild weekend for a lot of the country. more data coming out from the recovery efforts through the day. we had a major what we would call a category four storm in australia. as this continues down the coastline, in the forecast, causing not only wind damage, but a lot of areas potentially for flooding rain, so a threat there, as well. >> more than 5 million americans have always homer's disease. there's no cure for the form of dementia. doctors in chicago are now trying to build relationships with their patients to better understand the disorder. >> the 23rd. >> ok. >> so work on a story. >> a year and a half ago, 66-year-old psychologist ben

ferguson was diagnosed with early stage alzheimer's disease. the news was devastating and forced him to close his practice. >> i felt shame when i found out about the diagnosis. i wondered if people could tell and what they'd think they found out. >> the disease is a reality for more than 5 million americans, and the sixth leading cause of death for adults. >> hey, ben, how's it going? >> hey, zack, how are you doing? good to see you. >> for ferguson, it has become an opportunity, as well. he's taking part in a northwestern university buddy program that pairs first year medical students with patients in the early stages of alzheimer's. >> it's important for the student to understand that a person is more than their medical diagnosis and that the point of the program is for the students who really learn from the person with dementia. >> an important lesson considering that 75% of northwestern medical students who take part end up in fields

that deal with alzheimer's patients. it hit home for medical student zachary, who's grandmother was diagnosed with alzheimer's several years ago. >> this program sounded like an opportunity to get to know what alzheimer's is from a medical standpoint and also develop a relationship with someone going through the same thing that my grandmother is going through. >> ben and zack say it's connecting through friendship. >> him talking to me about what's going on with him forces me to pay attention and keep my brain going so that i can come up with a reasonable kind of response to what he's talking about. >> what's been going on with you? >> not much. got another exam coming up. >> zack said it's a chance to slow down and empathize with the person beyond the diagnosis on a chart.

>> medicine is not just science. you need to understand the patient's perspective, where they're coming from and who they are as a person in order to best treat them. >> it's an up close and personal strategy that aims to take real world experience that can't be taught in a classroom and put it into practices with new doctors dealing with the challenges of an aging population. aljazeera, chicago. >> alzheimer's is the most expensive disease in the u.s., costing more than $200 billion to take care of those who suffer. >> archeologist discovered at least 12 viking boats in a lake in ireland, dating back 4500 years, a number of weapons also found onboard. the ships expected to be the centerpiece of a new museum in ireland. >> two years ago an ancient document was discovered, no bigger than a business card. it had a quote allegedly from jesus christ suggesting that he was married. critics crying foul, saying it is a fake, but reservers now say it may be real.

aljazeera has the story that raises the question was he or wasn't he? >> it's all about this tiny piece of paper, one and a half by three inches. the text and faded ink is in a language spoken in ancient egypt. the key words are jesus said to them, my wife. when a harvard researcher revealed it in 2012, the vatican denounced it as a fake. now a wide range of scientific testing proved that it is an ancient document. this will give christians a lot to think about. >> it's a moment brought to reexamine what this really talks about and the implications for the church back then and of course the church today. >> bits and pieces of sentences torn from a larger document aren't about to persuade everyone that jesus had a wife. >> this means not con loose toively jesus was married. of course we'll never know that

but it means in the early church, that was the subject of conversation which makes it interesting for us today. >> the fragment contains the words "she will be able to be my disciple," another potentially provocative phrase if it's true. >> the early church was very interested in the role of women in jesus's life and the church. this talks about women not only as perhaps jesus's wife, but also as a disciple, and within the body of the early church. >> one brown university researcher remains unper sueded, saying the passage contains agree matticcal errors that a native speaker wouldn't have made. >> so the debate continues. harvard saying the discovery not meant to prove that jees was married. they say it was only meant to show that early christians may have believed he was married. >> that's going to do it for this edition of aljazeera america. more news straight ahead. we leave you with the images of today, coming from last night

said induction ceremony at the hall of fame. peter gabriel part of those selected to be part of the hall of fame this year. more ahead in two minutes. we'll see you then.

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