aljazeera.com/considerthis, googl google+, facebook or twitter. see you next time. good evening everyone. welcome to al jazeera america, i'm john siegenthaler. too close for comfort. a russian fighter jet buzzes an american ship. his triof hate. the story of a man accused of killing three people at jewish community centers in kansas city. the man knows what happened,.

how the crbs town is trying to turn itself around. a top cop says he's seeing results. and we begin with a crisis in ukraine and developments tonight on several fronts. president obama has spoken by phone again with russian president vladimir putin. the two leaders talked just days after a russian fighter jet buzzed the u.s.s. donald cook. the pentagon called the move provocative. mike viqueria has more. >> the diametrically opposed accounts, between president obama and n presiden president . the crisis has heightened again,

after ununseen incidents in eastern ukraine by provocateurs. president obama spoke with russian president putin today, the president expressed grave concern about the actions of armed pro-russian separatists. the white house senior administration potential at the white house calling these talks frank and direct, which is diplomatic speak for, it did not go very well at all. lays the blame on the unrest in eastern ukraine squarely in the hands of the government in kiev. meanwhile the provocative action over the weekend still resonating. a russian aircraft, a war plane buzzing the u.s.s. donald cook a destroyer in the black sea, flying very low and very fast

within a thousand feet of the destroyer, more than a dozen times. calling that provocative and unprofessional saying the plane was unarmed. president obama looking forward to four-party talks later this month. he won't be attending but top officials will. sitting down with the russian officials and eu. scheduled for may 25th, a full month and a half away and with the kremlin's latest action he now, a lot of this being thrown into doubt. mikalmike viqueria al jazeera te white house. i asked general hurtlane if u.s. support for ukraine could extend to military action. >> that's up to the policy makers to decide. ukraine has an unbelievably

strong and nationalistic force. the colonel was fired in january of this year as well as a few other forces within their defense establishment. so i think yanukovych was attempting to destabilize the military before all this happening and i think this all shows that on the russian side there was a continuous attempt at destabilization of ukraine and we are seeing more of that today. >> now, did white house says it expects pro russian protesters to continue in eastern ukraine. they have asked for help from united nations and its piece keepers. kim vanel in the region of donetske. >> this is the moment the protestersors in horlivka. this takeover was streamed online. like many others.

the ukrainian president said the government would be coming in to credit quell the unrest. government buildings continue to fall. a few blocks away horlivka's toinl was also taken over. -- city council was also taken over. they were told to weigh the flag of donetske deaf ukraine. telling journalists to spread their demands. this video also said to be in horlivka claims to depict officers defecting to russia.

pro-unity protesters say the government should be moving faster to quell tensions in the east and hold interior minister responsible. >> he has to force his employees in the donetske, kharkiv and slovyansk region. ,. >> backtrack on the earlier stance, oleksander turchynov says, divided allegiance he make it difficult. >> one of the problems is that police force were formed when ousted president viktor yanukovych held power. they are demonstrating an inability to defend citizens and the separatist movement.

>> the government is now asking for u.n. peace keeping troops to help ukrainian forces to carry out a so-called anti-terrorism movement. kim vanel, al jazeera, donetske. we hear from uri sergeiv, he says the rest of the world is becoming convinceas well. >> we had extraordinary meeting of the security council. and we presented the fact that russian special troops officers there practically involved in all these disorders, and in the provocation of the separatists around the eastern and southern part of ukraine. we call it terrorist operations. because the stations being

seized are taken from the arsenals. yesterday it was the 11th meeting on ukrainian issue on the security council. all members except russia they sounded in favor of territorial integrity of ukraine. they demanded the role of all russian agents and to move out the russian troops from off the borders. so they got again the support. russia again found itself in isolation. putin is performing illogically. he is performing illogically. it is unable to are predict what putin is going to perform in a few hours. i'm a citizen of keefe kiev, a

citizen of ukraine. when you watch the places you visited in your childhood and recently so natural my heart is in blood because it's soulful. we know artificially this problem was created. we know that. and this only because we started to build our new independent way of thinking, and building of our statehood. >> now, to a disturbing crime in this country and the man being held in the shootings near kansas city. he's suspected of attack two jewish community facilities over the weekend. richelle carey is here with that, richelle. >> charges could come as early as tomorrow and the suspect could be charged with hate crimes. the shootings took place yesterday outside a jewish retirement home and a jewish community center near kansas city. the suspect 72-year-old fraser

glen cross is a former grand dragon of a include column clan. family members spoke today. >> you know it was a horrible act of violence and my dad, our dad, and my son, were at the wrong place at the wrong time for a split second. >> it takes no character to do what was done. it takes no strength of character. it takes no backbone. it takes no morals. it takes no ethics. all it takes is an idiot with a gun. >> at a white house easter prayer breakfast president obama said americans should not tolerate hate. >> as americans we not only need to open our hearts to the families of the victims. we've got to stand united against this kind of terrible voings which has no place -- violence which has no place in our society.

we've got to keep coming together across, face, against antisemitism that can lead to hatred and violence. >> charges will be filed in local and federal courts, john. >> thank you richelle. several places facing major storms tonight. kevin corriveau is here with that. wraps up an aplaysing year -- an amazing year, right? >> right. we are looking at some difficult weather across the gulf states. we did see some hail in texas now we're dealing with very dangerous dplooding along the -- flooding along the gulf coast. around mobile bay, we have seen seven inches of rain from afternoon until now. flooding is a big problem. major highways close across the region. if you are doing any late-night traveling across i-10, you'll

definitely have problems in low lying areas where water will be a major problem. this will continue all the way through tomorrow morning. where you see the red, flash flood warnings. anywhere you see the green that's flooding. this is going to continue ul all the way through the evening time frame. oklahoma city, 45°, much colder across the texas panhandle as well. temperatures are expected to go all the way down into the mid and low 20s. this morning as we go into the next morning, midday, rest of the areas seeing well below average temperatures then. john. >> middle of april and hard freeze warnings. coming up next, supreme sacrifice. the murders of why national leaders around why so few of their killers brought to justice. dozens of mines and the families who fear their louses could be the next to fall into

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>> results of analyses were skewed in favor of the prosecution >> the fbi can't force the states to look at those cases >> the truth will set you free yeah...don't kid yourself >> the system has failed me >> this enormous fire in chile has destroyed more than 2,000 homes. today firefighters are still

trying to put it out. more than 2,000 have been killed, more than 10,000 had to leave their homes. the blaze swept through the coastal town of valparaiso. >> dousing the flames. a massive operation to squelch the fire. many lost everything. william jimenez and his family have lived here for 19 years. >> nothing fm we couldn't do anything. it all happened so quickly. less than three minutes for flames to reach us. >> he's trying to find his father's work tools among the charred debris. already thinking about list future. >> life goes on. we have no choice. we're all asking why this happened. >> the cause of sunday's blaze is being investigated. while the operations to feet and

clothe the hundreds of evacuees goes on. president michel bachelet in her first month in office has to deal with a major earthquake and now this. she ordered the military in to hem. valparaiso is a unesco world site. with the flames more or less under control, the cleanup operation is underway and the task of rebuilding lives has begun. thousands of volunteers to help, donating clothes food and other provision but overwhelmingly their labor. >> translator: we have to respect life because that's all we have and we can't give up. we are starting here from scratch. >> reporter: the wind fanned the flames in the narrow streets of valparaiso made it difficult

for emergency services to reach the blaze. some lost everything. while others are simply grateful to have escaped with their lives, seeking solace in the ruins. can daniel schweiner, al jazeera, valparaiso chile. a radical group is to blame for the bombing that killed 72 people. the explosion ripped through the capital of a bus station, newer abrujia. president god hundred johnson blamed a faction, 164 people were hurt. a new are environmental report says environmental activists are being killed in huge numbers. in philippines alone, 10,000 have been killed in the past few years. >> it has been more than three years since her husband was

murdered. but papi ortega says the pain has not eased. the father of five was shot in broad day light. jerry ortega exposed the corruption. >> i'm left with five children to need. like me i have to become practical. if i get noisy and i get killed also, what happens to the five children? but i still believe that we have to be more vigilant, especially for those who can afford to. even for those who cannot. >> reporter: governor joel rayreyes and his brother were implicated. this is what dr. jerry ortega

fought for, the preservation of the environment. it's divided both local officials and residents in the province where 80% of the people live in poverty. an environmental group called global witness released a report saying that the philippines is one of the most dangerous places in the world for environmentalists. 67 people have been killed since 2002. investigations show that a striking number are alleged to have been killed by state agents. the protection of the environment has never been more dangerous. president benigno aquino has promised to end corruption but the level is too hard to break. >> on the local level, you have local officials working, some not all, some of the local officials are part of the problem. they work with criminals, they are part of hood lum lums commig

environmental crimes. >> she hopes the people of palowan will at least remember what it is her husband died for. rk al jazeera, western philippines. now the problem of sinkholes, the u.s. geological survey warns that 20% of u.s. land is susceptible to sinkholes. rachel levin has this story from mexico city. where people are teetering on the edge. >> meters away from being swallowed up from a gaping sinkhole. it's knot an uncommon sight in this working class neighborhood of avra obregon.

one of the city's neighborhoods, where mines are under hundreds of makeshift homes. engineer gustavo guerrero and his men inspected after being alerted by people in the neighborhood. >> translator: it's a difficult problem and an urgent one. we can't just fill in the hole. we know it's there and it's dangerous. >> reporter: the abandoned mine is 18 meters below the surface and more than 200 meters wide and it could take months to secure it. people most likely started mining here in the 1930s and what they were looking for was material to build houses throughout the city. so far 900 mines have been discovered but city officials tell us they have no idea how many actually exist. that's because the construction companies didn't keep records. lupita moved here 40 years ago and although she always knew mines existed she had no idea

her home sits on top of one. >> at first i was frightened but the engineers told me to trust them because the mine is deep below the surface so nothing will happen. >> mines aren't the only threats below the surface. a broke reason sewage people created this -- can pipe created this hole. in the mid 15th century when the spanish invaded they drained the water but left a complicated hydraulic system. many buildings throughout the city are literally sink because they were built on a weak focus. back in avra obregon, lupita watches. despite assurances, she still stays awake at night worried that the mine will swallow her

home up. rachel levin, al jazeera, mexico city. pulitzer board said sparking a debate between the united states, the government, and the award is vindication for whorve believes that the public has a role in government and the boston globe was also awarded a pulitzer in another category, breaking news. for the coverage of the boston marathon bombings and the ensuing man hunt that took place exactly one year ago tomorrow. and tomorrow we'll speak to an athlete, heather abbott about surviving the attack of the boston marathon. tomorrow night is your

deadline for filing can income tax. our tonya moseley has more from seattle. >> when jane lighty and peteie petersen moved in together, people had all sorts of assumptions. >> first came the question about room plates. >> then are you sisters? >> then that evolved to partner. that sounds like the coul cowboy partner or business partner. >> in december 6th, 2012, litey and peterson were the first to get a washington marriage license. >> i say wife but it's getting easier. >> filing taxes this year they didn't have to split their assets thanks to the defense of marriage act a supreme court

ruling which allows gay married couples to file federal taxes together. >> the down side of that is that we were bumped up into a higher category for paying taxes which really kind of threw us. >> washington doesn't collect state taxes. gay married couples don't have to worry about that. the process however has become a headache in other places. the laws are different depending on what part of the country you live in. in massachusetts for instance the state recognizes same-sex marriage but in places like the commonwealth of virginia couples may have to file three different tax returns. it's the same issue in 22 other states. >> it's very confusing for the taxpayers which i imagine it must be more confusing for them because it's confusing for me and i know this stuff! >> certified public accountant harley gross credit spent extra time for folks who don't recognize their marriages it could be costly.

>> then on state level, what happens to the kids, who gets the dependents? >> litey and credit petersen doesn't see this as a credit difficulty,. >> it will take a while, it's happening. >> an optimistic view, as many taken the challenge of same sex marriage. tonya moseley, are al jazeera, seattle. >> tonight the fight against violent crime and why the new top cop says he's winning. and blood moon. tonight's lunar eclipse and what causes that unusual red color. >> the death toll could be much higher than anyone known. >> posing as a buyer... >> ...people ready then... >> mr. president >> who should answer for those people

>> and welcome back to al jazeera america. i'm john siegenthaler in new york. a lot more to cover this half hour. detroit's long road back. we spent five days in that

struggling city and tonight, turning around some of the is worst crime statistics in america. also, missing money, missing patrol cars, missing water, some of the reasons some call hampton, florida the most corrupt town in america. and a mystery for half a century, a rockefeller heir disappears for 50 years. and possibly cannibalism. richelle carey has the headlines. phone call between president obama and president putin. a one day after the russian

airport buzzes a u.s. chip. be fraser cross could face federal hate charges. fire in chile leaves 200 dead and 2,000 without homes. in the city of valparaiso. strong winds make it difficult to control. more than 2,000 had to evacuate. it could be several weeks before the flames are completely, completely put out john. >> thank you richelle. this week we begin an ongoing look into the issues affecting america's most fascinating and interesting cities. five day focus on detroit and a problem that has plagued the city for years: crime. so let's take a lock at the numbers. detroit has a per capita crime rate that is among the highest in the nation. the murder are rate is about 54 people per 100,000.

ten times the national average. in 2012 more than 100,000 crimes were reported, most were property crimes like car theft and burglary. in 2013 the average response time to 911 calls was 58 minutes. our bisi onile-ere is in detroit with more on the new police chief's initiative and how it's taking shape. bisi. >> john, shortly after the city of detroit filed for bankruptcy this past july, a new police chief took the helm. police chief james craig. he is the fifth police chief that the city has seen in five years. in the short time in office he has taken a very aggressive approach to tackling crime but there's still a long road ahead. four out of every ten blocks in detroit looks like this. a war zone. businesses died, homes abandoned. jobs fled and crime, gangs and drugs and death took over. last year in detroit a city of

700,000 endured 334 murders. by comparison new york, a city of eight million had one less, 333 murders. >> this historic distinction of being the murder capitol murder city i knew we could do better and it was time to shake it. >> new police chief james craig is literally on the streets leading the way to take back the city. cops call this night, operation march madness. a huge blitz of 17 choreographed raids, to get bail jumpers, organic bangers and murderers. hopelessly seeing the downward spiral. >> you constantly hear gun fire so having some of that off the street is great. >> off the street tonight the cops took in cocaine, heroin, marijuana, pills, money, guns, 44 arrests. >> these cops are not messing

around. >> reporter: chief james craig has been on the job since july. he came here from cincinnati where he was chief. but detroit is his home town. a city where not long ago a call for help to 911 often got no response from police. none. you were on your own. so far, chief craig has eliminated 12-hour shifts and put more officers on the street. >> the message is, we will not tolerate this lawless behavior. the message is: you're not welcome here in detroit. the things you could do, you will not do. >> the raids have disrupted drug dealers, as evidence the criminals are feeling it. in february a gang member used social media to issue a death threat against the chief. five people were eventually arrested. these officers are veterans. they've seen it all. >> you know it's kind of slow butfully time something jumps off -- >> some crimes are still unthinkable.

but officer kenneth downer says the people are starting to fight back. he thinks fear of the criminals created a look-the-other-way mentality. he calls it a no-snitch mentality but now he thinks people have hit bottom with crime and are more confident the police will protect the them. >> people are stepping forward now. they're fed up. >> what the city in bankruptcy like many departments, the police department is really tight for cash. so one of the priorities that the chief had, was to get more people more officers on the streets, so over 100 people who were working behind the desk, they are now out here on the road fighting crime. chief craig says that since they put more officers on the streets, crime has been -- has gone down 7%. this is a trend that they hope to see continue. >> all right, bisi onile-ere. thank you.

raymond foster was a lieutenant in the los angeles police department, he joins us from orange, california. raymond foster, welcome. >> thank you. >> give me your sense, five police chiefs in five years. how difficult is it for current police chief to inherit a police department like this? >> you know james is not only inheriting a department but a chief of the administrative team. along with parks and rec and the fire chief, he is inheriting all the problems of the city, as a team member. all the things financially and infrastructure wise that impact the city he is handling all those problems too and he's got quite a lot of difficulties there. >> with all that instability of leadership, five different leaders in five years it would seem to me that's a very extremely difficult job to take on.

>> well, and james has got some advantages. first is that of course not only is he coming in from the outside and he's got a wealth of experience where he's learned some of the best practices he has experience as a command officer but he began his career in law enforcement as a detroit police officer. i think he's got those advantages and is already doing some good things that engender support with the department and the community. he's got to have support of the stakeholders, the cops, the community and the business people to move forward. >> he has talked about firearms in the community, do you agree with the chief that more firearms in the community could decrease crime in the area? >> if there's more lawfully held weapons crime could go down. i don't agree with that. you have to go to draining and a

background investigation. in reality, legal gun ownership and right to carry equates a certain level of affluence. so i don't wonder that if we were to look at it at a different ways that perhaps affluence affects crime rather than people carrying guns affects crime. >> detroit stopped reporting crime statistics in 2012. i mean i would assume that's in part about money. could there be other reasons for that is well? they just didn't want people to know what the stats were? >> i think the point was, they didn't know what the stats were. they didn't have a system in place to know how much crime was occurring and how it was occurring. if you look at chief craig's 2014 are initiatives, they don't have a computer aided dispatch system or monitoring, to determine what crime is occurring. that's what he says, we need to get back to see what the crime

is and that's the infrastructure that he has got to fight. >> how does he face the negative feedback of the community? >> the march madness wasn't the important part. the part is that the cops are getting the message that ition okay to do -- that it's okay to do cop work. instead of standing around and however their perceptions were before, that's what changes community perceptions, they want the cops stop the bad people, see the murderers stopped, stopping the speeders. his unleashing the cops to do legitimate cop work, that's the direction he's taking. >> great insight. raymond foster, grat t great toe you with us. thank you. >> a small town in florida is

notorious, some call it the most corrupt city in the can country. here is sheila macvicar. >> it was so unreal, you can't believe, you can't make that up. >> gordon smith is the county sheriff investigating the going-on in hampton. one deep rooted family had five family members on the payroll, the city's entire workforce. >> it appears that they used the city's covercity's coffers as tn pocketbook. we would like to know what that was spent on but all that's destroyed. >> city leaders tried to make sense of hampton's are finances.

one of the town's major income streams, the water system, just seemed to evaporate. an astonishing 46% of hampton's water is simply unaccounted for. >> he claimed he lost the water book in the swamp. he wrecked the city vehicle and the book ended up in the swamp and he lost it in the swamp? you believe that i got some swamp land in arizona for you if you believe that story. that's a good one on me, plan, that's a new one. >> and sheila macvicar joins us now from washington. welcome, sheila. i know you're going to have more on "america tonight" but how did it get this bad in hampton, florida? >> well, good question john. one of the senators who were looking into it referred to it as a southern gothic novel. how did it get this bad?

well intentioned people in the beginning who got busy and drifted off and people left to their own devices and perhaps temptation got too much. in case of what was happening with the police force, in the town of 477 people they had 19 police officers. they set out to run a very efficient speed trap out on highway 301. i have to say it is not the only speed trap on highway 301 but it was a pretty good one and brought in more than a quarter of a million dollars every year. question, where is all that money, next question, where are all the police cars. >> i would assume if the corruption runs that deep it's difficult for investigators. what do we know about the investigation? >> the investigation is being led by bradford county sheriff smith. and members of law enforcement who were also participating. the investigation comes about after an extensive forensic audit of the town's bookkeeping which discovered there were all

kinds of records missing, a water meter record book had apparently disappeared into a swamp, the town no longer knew where the water meters were, who had been bills, who hadn't been build, they didn't know how to deal with the money that had come in for the police force, the speed operation, who was spending money at walmart for over $100,000, and much of the paperwork that would tell them what happened to all that money, has been destroyed. they don't know when or by who and that's what they're trying to get to the bottom of. >> what do we hear about the jailed mayor? >> well, why mayor barry moore, a reformer who said he would do something about the city, he was trying to do restoration,

unfortunately it appears he was allegedly dealing drugs on the side. that's why he is a resident in the sheriff's jail. and we're told jury selection will begin 97 week. and because of his notoriety and the note rye tie of hampton it could take a while to find a jury. some say it could take three months. >> you can see the entire report of sheila macvicar on "america tonight," right after this broadcast. sheila, thank you. there's a new stage in the search for the missing malaysia 370 airline. a robotic sub, six hours, subreached its depth limit of 15,000 feet and had to return to

the surface. the subwill be redeployed as soon as the weather permits. the jet liner disappeared four weeks ago with 239 people aboard. another mystery, the story of 23-year-old michael rockefeller, son of nelson rock rockefeller, governor of new york. he was on an expedition to expel examine a tribe in new guinea. carl glad to have you with me. what happened to michael rockefeller? >> he was on a boat, traveling across the mouth of a river,

those river mouths are turbulent places, they got into trouble, the weather was good, the vessel they were on capsized and they floated for 24 hours, and michael said, got restless and strapped two empty gasoline cans to his waist and jumped in and violated the first rule of boating, which is never leave the boat. and was never seen again. renee was picked up the next day by a dutch reconnaissance plane. >> you have studied the colony in new guinea. tell us about their spiritual lives and their head hunting an cannibalism. >> all this took place in the southwest coast of new guinea. 10,000 square miles of swamp and river and mud, no hills, no stones. and it was the home of the azmat

people who were traditionally head hunters and cannibals and they had a very rich complex culture and all that was tied to these magnificent carvings, artwork that they produced. and a lot of that was based on this constant inter-village warfare and trying to balance the world, and that balancing, you know one death had to be balanced by another death. and the souls of, in order to move on to the land beyond the sea, are where they could create no mischief of rebalancing always had to take place. and so michael was there looking for their -- trying to collect their art, much of which is in the metropolitan museum of art in new york city now. and he ended up in the wrong place at the wrong time. >> the family says that he died of a drowning. you say at the beginning of the book, that he was the victim of

cannibalism. how did you come to that conclusion? >> well, the traditional explanation has always been because he vanished. no body was ever found. there was a huge search operation that went on for several weeks. and nothing was ever found. no trace of him. and it turns out that remarkably, within a couple weeks of his disappearance, two -- it began with two dutch priests who were missionaries and they lived on the ground and they spoke the local language and they were familiar with the villagers and they heard rumors that michael had made it to shore and been killed by the men from one particular village. in retribution for a dutch raid that had taken place in 1958. and they credit looked into it even more -- and they looked into it even more and ended up filing these quite detailed reports, the reports named who

had his head, who had his femur and tibia, important bones to the azmat. and they filed those reports both with the dutch government and the church. the dutch government took them seriously enough that it then dispatched a dutch colonial officer sort of a police official to the village that had been named to investigate, and he came to the conclusion as they all had that michael had been killed by the men from ochinep and all those reports were kept hidden secret never revealed to the rockefeller family. and we have all the documents. quite remarkable. >> not until this book savage harvest. thank you very much for being with us. >> thank you. >> up next, our photo of the day and unraveling the mystery of

the blood moon visible in the sky tonight.

>> good evening, i'm meteorologist kevin corriveau. we're seeing quite a bit of activity along the frontal boundary. we saw the wind damage, we saw the hail damage but to the north we are seeing snow. earlier today we s saw about an hour delay at chicago. we saw anywhere about 1 to three inches of snow going through wisconsin even michigan tonight.

tomorrow the temperatures are going to be cold enough to keep it on the ground but by the time we get to the afternoon and evening time frame that snow will begin to melt. as this frontal system makes its way towards the east, clearing towards chicago, texas, but for new york we're going to be seeing quite a bit of rain pushing through, that's only going to be getting heavier. some locations may see a mix of rain and snow. new york and new jersey we could be seeing that in the overnight hours as that system makes it its way through there. things are going to be cooling out, things like this, new york has 64, a big drop from what we saw on monday. do you here towards the south no, houston 66 and miami 86°. that's a look at the national weather, news is coming up right after this.

>> a rare occurrence in the sky tonight. a full lunar eclipse known as the blood moon. the eclipse begins around 1:20

eastern time. as the moon nears the earth's shadow it will dim. unlike a solar eclipse you can watch the lunar eclipse without eye protection. summer, welcome. >> thanks john. >> are we able to see that or not? >> judging from the clip i just saw it doesn't look good. >> who is going to be able to see it across the country? >> somewhere further west will see it. definitely the mountain time zone and the west time zone. >> what exactly will they see? >> at first you're going osee just a tiny -- to see just a tiny bit of dimming that's not too exciting. at about 2:00 a.m., you'll see the moon start to darken and

then when it gets close to totality, it reddens. >> talk about the blood moon. >> it's something that has come up more recently. i think it's a colloquialism, astronomically speaking it's not a real term but a very accurate decision the red hue that the sunlight coming through the earth's atmosphere turns the moon. >> i know you're not a religious, not necessarily an expert in religion but science. i'm told that christians believe this is a religionly significant moon. do you know why? >> i'm not sure why they do but there's a series of four eclipses coming up starting with this one in two years, called a lunar tetrad. they're not that rare in

occurrence. they kind of happen multiple times per decade. >> is this the first time this decade or the second? >> i think this is the first of this decade since 2010. >> and how do eclipses affect man made things in other? >> so interestingly enough they don't normally affect things around the earth's other because they're used to going through the earth's shadow but there's a nasa satellite that's used to going through the earth's shadow, nasa had to take precautions and sort of put precautionary measures in place to power down the spacecraft because it gets its power from sunlight. >> we won't see it from new york but hopefully will get videotape and will have you back to talk a bit about that. >> i would love that. >> summer, maybe the sky can open up and we can watch.

>> we can hope that. >> are thank you. on that image that caught our attention, our freeze frame from cakatmandu,du nepal. what organizations say is the largest passover celebration. more than a thousand sat down for the passover feast. our headlines are coming up with richelle right after this break. >> al jazeera's investigative unit has tonight's exclusive report. >> stories that have impact... that make a difference... that open your world... >> this is what we do... >> america tonight

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comes just after a day when a russian fighter jet buzzed a ship in the black sea. crowd he bus station attack during rush our in nigeria, the group boko haram is responsible. chile's fire is the worst in its history. more than 10,000 people were forced to evacuate their homes. the suspect of killings in kansas city could face charges as soon as tuesday. fraser glen miller. on the eve of passover.

it's been four weeks since the malaysia flight 370 disappeared. headlines, i'm richelle carey, "america tonight" is up next. >> on "america tonight." reigniting citation is in ukraine. -- reigniting crises in ukraine. ratcheting up tensions and nato stakes. also tonight. the most corrupt town in america. cash that disappeared. records lost in a swamp, along with a city car? >> you believe that, i got some warm land in florida for you. >> and the town manager, in jail. >> if you believe them doesn't mean they'