john seganthaller >> i started with a notebook, and a pair of secondhand binoculars. which was all i could afford... >> and reveals the remarkable human nature of chimpanzees. >> they have a dark side, and that made them more like us than i had thought before. talk to al jazeera only on al jazeera america >> gray to go vacate under a new deal but pro russian protesters say they will not give up government buildings until the interim government resigns. nowed deadliest disaster ever on the world's tallest mountain. many killed on an avalanche on mt. everest, several others

still missing. >> one day after the deal to ease rising tensions in eastern ukraine the agreement appears to be in trouble. the geneva deal calls for pro russian activist who have seized government buildings to leave immediately, but the activists say they are not going to go anywhere just yet. we have more now from donestk. >> reporter: several have spent supplies because they are not party to the talks and say they're not under obligation to implement what was decided, namely the demonstrators who have occupied government buildings should lay down their weapons and come out. many feel they could find themselves arrested straight away. in kiev they appear to be offering a olive branch, and

would give a certain status to the russian land bridge and autonomy to the region allowing people to elect their own town and regional council rather than having government imposed on them from kiev. and there has been a warning suggesting that they have misapologize what was agreed in geneva. the sub text of what moscow is saying that kiev also needs to make concessions so while there are demands to people here in the east, in doneskt, there is a message that moscow and pro russian supporters would expect to see an end to the demonstrations, the occupation of independent square in kiev by pro european demonstrators who had tents and barricades in the square for several months now. >> and similar sentiments were

heard today where pro russian activists have seized several buildings. al jazeera is there with this final report. >> reporter: the pro russian protesters who seized the police building are holding ground. >> i am nervous about the futu future. >> reporter: igor has been for a week now, and has no intention to leave any time soon. >> if they disband the national guard and get the right sector and acting president out of the government, then i will leave this place. the right sector is a big problem. they are in power. they can't making laws and they say they want our heads. >> reporter: the protesters have settled inside the building and are now preparing for the long haul. there is no shortage of food and supplies here. the native sympathizers see their cause as a just one. they're fully supported by their

mothers and wives who turned the police station into a little community of its own. pro russian supporters had counted on the backing of moscow. they worked hard to keep the momentum in a region where not everyone agrees with them. >> the picture is not very clear now. it's all uncertain. we are now only counting on our forces and our strength. let's see if they get out of our buildings in kiev first. we're not going yet. just let them try to come and disarm us. >> reporter: so far none of the demands of the pro russian protesters have been officially met. here acting prime minister tries to appease them by saying one of the demands will soon be reached. >> the government of ukraine has already prepared a bid on amnesty. if people who have weapons and have captured buildings, if they lay their weapons down we will give amnesty.

>> only then they feel that their rights will be protected in the new ukraine. al jazeera. >> the state department is giving federal agencies more time to weigh in on the controversial keystone pipeline which would run from canada to texas. the move means that there won't be a final decision until after the midterm election. libby casey in washington, d.c. libby, it's good to see you. i said it before, and i'll say it again. a classic kick the can down the road move. >> reporter: back in february the nebraska courts ruled the governor's decision to let the pipeline go through the state. the government had the thumbs up from the legislature. they were eager to see the pipeline go through nebraska, but local land owners say they were out of the process. they challenged it. the judge sided with them and nullified the governor's decision throwing the whole thing up to question.

the nebraska governor has appealed it. that happened months ago. why is the state department just coming out now and putting the pause button on the keystone process? that's because they're in the midst of a 90-day review period that is set to wrap up in th ma. they've asked for input from several federal agencies. they've had the public weigh in. the public commentary is closed. that ended last month, and the state department got two and a half million comments, a number it calls unprecedented. it goes to show you how this has illicitted passion on both sides of the debate whether this type line should be allowing to through. now the state department of the obama administration said that they do recognize this as an issue of grave concern, and that the process should ultimately be brought to a conclusion, but they say if they don't know the route the pipeline is going to take its hard to do a true and

final environmental assessment of its impact. >> libby, what's been the reaction on capitol hill, and what political implications does this have? >> reporter: a lot of push back from republicans most vocally. mitch mcconnell put out this statement. he said: >> down in louisiana this was called irresponsible, unnecessary, and unacceptable. you see some of the push back there. the state department said we're not intending to delay this process, but that's not how the pro development side of things is reacting. >> libby, appreciate it. libby casey in washington, d.c. for us at the white house. thank you. we're learning more about the connection of series of

highway shootings in the kansas city area. 27-year-old mohammed whittaker faces 18 charges related to some of the shootings that began in early march. ash har quaraishi is in kansas city, missouri, with more on the suspect, ash hear. >> reporter: well documents released today, more about the accused suspect of the highway shootings here in kansas city, month. mohammed whittaker, the prosecutor saying that this was a joint operation between all of these agencies, and talking about these 18 counts that have been filed, the felony counts filed against whittaker, they said this would not have been possible without the multiple

sources that worked together. >> a period of surveillance, it involved ballistics and statements, that list goes on and on about how this case was built? it was built on series of things. >> and at one point as she mentioned they were surveilling whittaker on the highways watching him as he creeped up on cars in their blind spots. that went on for several days before they made the arrest. the police are saying that it's still an ongoing investigation. they have no reason to believe that, and there is no evidence to suggest that there were more involved in these shootings besides whittakers. the prosecutors saying that the charge coul--that more charges d be coming in the next several days. >> ash har quaraishi for us in kansas city, missouri.

the captain of a ferry that sank and killed hundreds of people was arrested. this comes as crews try to move the ferry closer to shore hoping to find hundreds of people still missing after the ship capsized. here is more. >> reporter: heading out on a foggy day. an enormous rescue effort. just a tiny part of this 150-meter long ferry breaking the surface. rescue officials were saying that as the day wore on, the ferry became completely submerged divers went down on ten separate occasions. they began to pump oxygen into

the wheelhouse, but they were forced back by on stal obstacled fast-moving current. on land south korea's prime minister arrived to take personal charge of the effort. much of the information made public is still contradictory. a police officer said friday's first attempt to get underwater access had failed. then a friendly chat with a man from the maritime ministry and he was back to say divers had been down, and attached a guide rope. we tried to establish why on thursday officials say oxygen was being pumped in before admitting that it wasn't. one of the many questions left unanswered. [ crying ] >> reporter: some families feel lied to. others through all the activity too little effort has been made to get to the ship. >> if the captain acted properly

more kids would be alive. it hurts. it really hurts. >> reporter: getting exclusive foughtage of the captain. he was one of the first to leave the ship. the news channel said he failed to identify himself as the can tan when he was rescued. prosecutors say he left the helm in charge of a 26-year-old with less than a year's experience before the accident. they issued arrest warrants for the captain and two other crew members. back on the island there is so much grief police made another awful discovery. the 52-year-old vic advice prinl on the school trip and who was rescued from the ferry hanged himself in the gymnasium. tension on display from parents who say the time has come to accept that their children are dead, and others refusing to

give up hope. but as the waters rise over the ship those hopes are ebbing away. al jazeera, south korea. >> and confusion for third day in nigeria over the fate of 100 teenage girls kidnapped from their school. the hard line group boko haram are blamed for the abduction. nigeria's military said they found most of the girls but retracted that line after parents disputed that claim. we report now. >> reporter: the confusion over the whereabouts of the girls kidnapped from the school seem to be come from the nigerian military. on wednesday they released a statement saying 129 girls had been kidnapped but they had managed to free 121 of them. and that they had cross checked this number with the school principal who confirmed the girls had been freed. however, within hours of the military statement the school principal and parents dismissed the military claiming that they know that the girls are still

captive, the girls are still lost. the girls have still been kidnapped. within hours of that, thursday, the military released another statement saying if the families and the school principal say the girls are still missing, then they are. all of this confusion over their whereabouts is being exacerbated by the fact that the military has not released any photographic or video evidence of any rescue. none of the girls have been seen, and on top of that it's impossible to independently verify what the authorities are saying because they say it's too dangerous for human rights organizations, civil rights organizations, and we the media to travel to the area to see what is going on ourselves. >> the deadliest incident ever on the top of the world. an avalanche on mt. everest has killed 12 nepalese guides. others are suspected to be still under the snow, tragic.

>> reporter: it was tragic. expert. climbers sherpas were caught. this will cast a shadow over this summer's climbing season that is supposed to start later this month. >> this guide made it off the mountain on friday rescued and rushed to the hospital with several broken ribs. in the icu he told his sister-in-law what happened. >> they had woken up early on friday and headed to higher camps to fix ropes but were deplayed because of an ice area. >> reporter: he had been on the mountain with a group of sherpas fixes ropes for climbers like these to follow. the guides were still relatively low on the slopes when the avalanche struck. >> suddenly when they reached the area called popcorn the avalanche fell on the group and buried many of them. >> reporter: popcorn is named after the large bowlers of ice that fill the route, ice that

hit the team about 20,000 feet up. crews heard the ice falling. >> it's a pretty regular occurrence here. no one was shocked by that. but when radio reports were coming off the mountain that people were stuck in the avalanche everyone came out and started getting organized for the rescue. >> reporter: reaching the summit became more popular for amateur and professional climbers from around the world. since 1953 more than 4,000 people have followed. 250 climbers have died along the way. this summer nepal has issue the 700 permits for climb tours climb everest. they are doubling on the climbing ropes, but it's the sherpas who have to put the ropes up, making a living risking their lives. >> avalanches can hit speeds ever 80 mph in matters of seconds destroying everything in its way. and this was the first major

avalanche of the season on mt. everest. >> i spoke to the senior editor of "outside" magazine, who has reported from everest before in the past. i asked him about the risks, especially for the sherpa. >> reporter: unfortunately, what we've seen in the last few years is the roots in the sherpa deaths. you know, you have this situation where a lot of western clients who are hiring these expert guides to get them up the mountain aren't as fit as the professional mountaineers or even as the sherpas, and so they're hiring the sherpas to carry their equipment and their tents and their camps to get to stock the higher capers, so by the time the western climbers get there, you know, they can climb light. they can climb fresh, and the sherpas end up taking a lot of that risk on themselves. the other thing is that it's just a numbers game. we know about 1% of people who leave base camp will probably

not come back. the more climbers you put up the mountain, the more sherpas it will take to support them. what is needed is not to necessarily outlaw climbing or anything like that, but just make sure that the outfitters who hire the sherpas have a responsibility to their families and make sure that when things go wrong people are well taken care of. that's what we need to see more of. >> that's outside magazine senior editor. here are the political ads. thousands of them will come out between now and the election. we'll look at some early standouts in today's power politics. that's next. a big day for space travel. we'll explain what is on this rocket headed to the international space station, and why it is such a big deal.

>> the ad wars have begun in the political campaign. >> reporter: out of the gate the big spenders political groups known as super pacs.

they're infamous for running brutal attack as. but for the first time the attack ads are running a few positive spots. here is one supporting congressman steve sutherland. >> we must give individuals freedom to make their own healthcare decisions. without the heavy hand of government. >> thanks, steve sutherland for helping to keep our healthcare decisions in our hands. >> reporter: an ad that actually thanks somebody. that is funded by the koch brothers. according to independent data their pac has run positive ads this time 16% of the time. in 2012 the campaig 2012 campaid not run a single positive ad, not even one, zero percent. negative ads still dominate because they work. and right now senate democrats are so worried about kay hagin being able to win her re-election their pac is running

this ad. >> thom tillis shared an apartment with his chief of staff when it was reported that his chief of staff was having an affair with a lobbyist. he was caught on air and resigned. >> reporter: democrats are spending $1 million to run that ad in north carolina for the next three weeks. television viewers in some areas of the country are beginning to see some creative ads. many tee party republicans believe the government is using drones to spy on them. one conservative candidate in montana is running this. >> this is how i look from a government drone. >> and this is what i think about it. >> the federal government is too big and too powerful.

>> the finally the videos are no longer limited to congressional elections. you'll see thousands of children and their families descend on the white house horror the annual easter egg roll. but the group people for thestcal treatment of animals, peta will insist that the white house use plastic eggs. >> if all the other first ladies jumped off a bridge, would you? >> be the leader that we know you can be. >> you're better than this. >> over 7,000 eggs every year? how many chickens have to spend their whole lives in a cage to lay those eggs. >> never seeing the sunshine. >> unable to spread their wings. >> put yourself in their shoes. i don't care who started it. you're ending it. >> here's what we're going to

do. >> we're going use plastic eggs. >> like these. >> for the record the white house gives away wood eggs commemorating the event. but staff and secret service will gently toss thousands of hard boiled eggs to speck eighters outside of the white house. for those spectators who can't get in the event anyway, would they appreciate a plastic egg or do they want the real thing? that's an interesting question. >> that's monday. >> reporter: that's monday. >> good weekend to you. a third supply mission is on its way. the falcon nine rocket launched from cape canaveral carrying 9,000 pounds of experiments and supplies. this mission is especially important because it's testing out technology that could change space flights. jake ward is live outside of nasa in mountain view, california, jake? >> reporter: tony, this is a big day for launch technology.

not only has they proved they can privatize the shipment of supplies to the international space station but reuse the rocket that will allow them to fly the same rocket twice for even less money than he's currently charging nasa. it's amaze approximating. they're carrying tiny satellites called cube sets. >> this is tess. the successor to the kepler satellite. some day it will look for satellites like our own. it is considered small, but it's nothing like this, five of these will go up on the mission. they're hitchhiking the ride and they'll get tossed out the window before the rocket reaches its destination. tell us about the cost of these. >> 2.5 on the order of $10,000 components including the phone,

radios. >> that's cheaper than the camera we're shooting you on right now. >> that could be. that could very well be. >> when you say phone, why is that called that? >> these are phone sets that are essentially satellites that are built around the phone that you can buy in the store electronic store right now. the very first officers of these phone set 1.0 you can see the phone there. >> check it out there is a phone inside jammed in diagonally. this is where you would playing it in, and there is the camera. >> we used the camera in space to take a picture. someone goes out to the local store, uses a credit card to buy the phone. they bring them back. we take them apart if we need to, repackage them, but that's pretty much it. >> tony, it's really extraordinary that once upon time the apollo program ran basically it's whole computer system on a computer. that's not as powerful as you and i use in smart phones.

they're sending smart phones to space in four-inch packages. >> jake, there are reports of unexpected visitors watching the launch. what can you tell me about that? >> reporter: there is a russian tugboat spotted by elon musk who spotted it this morning. it's right off the launch site. it's called the nikkolai cheeker. it evidently went to cuba to accompany a spy boat there, and then peeled off on march 15th to park right off cape canaveral. when the launch was delayed back in march it basically killed time until today's launch going up and down the seaboard coast. they're not just watching it on twitter, they had to park off the coast and watch the rocket launch. >> appreciate it, jacob ward at

mountain view, california, for us. coming up, tens of thousands of children, some of them not even in their teens making the dangerous trip into the united states alone. also poverty in the suburbs. find out why many people in affluent communities are falling on hard times.

>> u.s. border patrol said the number of minors illegally crossing the mexican border is on the rise. 60,000 uncompanied children will cross into the united states this year. many are traveling from central america where countries have been torn apart by violence. paul beban has the story of three teenagers trying to cross into a better future. >> reporter: a vast remote and dangerous desert surrounds the city of nogales.

a tall steel fence slices through it. over the last month this teenager and two cousins have traveled 2400 miles on foot, by bus, and by train to make it here to the mexico side of this border town. >> my name is hernandez. i am 15 years old, and i am from honduras. >> reporter: we first met axle at a mass honoring migrants who have died in the desert. the journey axle and his cousins are about to undertake. >> the journey didn't get to me. i feel good, but they tell me the hardest part is coming. we'll see if it's hard in a moment. >> reporter: after the mass, he lined up for a free lunch, sandwich and coke. he had little more than the clothes on his back.

>> i left with $700 which is 30 or $40. >> reporter: his hometown in honduras is one of the most violent cities in the world. after crossing illegally through guatemala and mexico, they made their way through puebla where they climbed aton one of the notorious fleet trains known as a beast, a dangerous free ride 103 miles all the way to the border in nogales. >> the trip wasn't easy because we were on the train. when you don't have water or food you get hungry. you're afraid that's people tell you that someone has fallen from the train. that the train can kill you. >> reporter: that night the three cousins stayed in a cheap hotel. in the morning they told me why they had to get out of honduras. >> there are killers.

they go over to your house, they ask for money. if you don't pay they kill you, which is horrible. >> reporter: border patrol agent knows how hard the last stretch into the u.s. can be. he drove us some 13 miles east of nogales where the border fence gave way to open desert. >> these people that come to the united states looking for a job, which is most of them, they're very vulnerable. these people, they don't know the criminal element that exists on the border. once out on the desert they have nowhere to go. >> reporter: axle and his cousins could not afford to pay a smuggler or a coyote to guide them. instead they plan to print out maps at an internet cafe and hope for the best. >> i brought a really big backpack so i can fill it with a big wad of cash after i make it big. i'll leave with it full of socks and return flush full of

dollars. >> you guys are leaving in the morning? >> are you ready? how do you feel? >> a little bit scared, but we just afraid. >> reporter: we asked them if we could follow them when they left. but they said that moment was just for them. not for our cameras. we thought this would be the last time we would ever see them, but we're back at the hotel on the mexican side of the border in nogales because the guys, we stayed in touch with them. they tried to cross the border. but they were picked up in the night by a group of narcos, and told them that that was their territory, and they got robbed. >> the guys are here. they're holed up in their hotel room. they're nervous. they think that someone may have tipped off the narcos. they feel like they stand out because they're darker skinned, they're traveling with backpacks, a small group. they wouldn't come out of the room to talk to us. they don't want the cameras

here. they feel like they're so out of options that they're going to turn themselves in at the border because they don't have the money to get home. >> final think they came out and told us what happened. >> those people had come up, and they told us that we were not supposed to be there. >> reporter: were they armed? >> yes, they had arms. >> reporter: the narcos, the bandits, whatever they were, they took their money and their cellphones, and killed their spirits. axle was so rattled that he was thinking of turning himself in to u.s. authorities hoping they would return them home. they would spend another day in the hotel wondering what happened to their dreams stolen by another. on the mexico border in nogales. >> taking a closer look at immigration. "boarborder land."

restraysing the steps of immigrants who died trying to get to the united states. you can catch the special right here on al jazeera america. accusing the government of election fraud, refuses to recognize the preliminary result announced today. the interior ministry said that the incumbent president won a fourth term with 81% of the vote. more than half 69 country's eligible voters cast their ballot yesterday. he has been accused of corruption, and rarely seen in public after suring a stroke last year. and in mexico a powerful 7.2 magnitude hit near acapulco. it was felt across laugh a dozen states 280 miles away. the earthquake was centered on a "fault line." no one was killed. and reports of a car bomb in

homs has killed 14 people. it was centered in a neighborhood of mainly alawites. that is the sect that bashar al-assad belongs to. they have been regularly targeted in homs. the government is reportedly closing in on taking control of the city. and in the philippines critics say an island that is a tourist resort that is losing its soul. the island is big business for the region. in 2012 hotels alone generated more than $4 million in tax revenue, but many say the state government's failure to protect the indigenous population could hurt the pi the island's future. with the white sand beaches and balmy weather, the country's most visited destination. it attracts millions of tourists were all over the world. despite all its charms not many who come here are aware of the

island's history. the increasing development drove original i inhabitants from ther homes. the government has awarded land to the tribes' relocation. it is one of the most expensive and sought after property in the country, and real estate developers have long wanted it. this is why they say they're worried for their safety. >> reporter: the leader of the tribe was gunned down in broad daylight just over a year ago. he was fighting for the rights of his people. the case is suspended in the court and tension in the island is high. >> it is painful for us because we were here first yet we have been left hyped while others have progressed we have nothing at all. >> reporter: they say local government here has not given

them enough protection. often favoring wealthy business establishments over their welfare. the office of the mayor is unavailable for comment. a move to put the people on the tourism map is now being pushed. it will allow them to introduce their culture to the millions of visitors here every year. >> we're very grateful that the government has finally realized that they need to provide a face, the human face. because without them, this becomes a soulless community. >> reporter: it may also mean more jobs for those who have long been discriminated, they say, because of the color of their skin. they say they have a right to do so because they belong here just as much as anyone else.

al jazeera, central philippines. >> remembering an officer killed in the aftermath of the boston bombings. david shuster is back with details and other headlines across america. >> reporter: today in cambridge, massachusetts just outside of boston there is a ceremony for shawn call yea collier, the offd in the manhunt for the marathon bombing suspects. many gathered for a picnic and paid try putt to the officer's passion and humanity. >> the spirit of myth. first he was always learning. if you were his friend he wanted to tour your lab and know all about your research. second, he sought out challenge and adventure whether he was exploring the hidden corners of myth's campus or climbing a mountain with the yachting club. >> you're taking a look at the temperature real memorial for officer collier. they'll create a permanent one that will remember his courage

and bravery. in the resort town of jackson, wyoming, a potential landslide. ground movements have already buckled the road and damaged a drugstore parking lot, walgreen's, in fact. the rocks and dirt continue to slide and they say it's only a matter of time when that hillside comes down. four houses and two apartment buildings are under an evacuation order. finally in minneapolis, minnesota, an auction house is accepting bids for the most treasured items in olympic sport history. this was earned by the 1980 u.s. olympic hockey team. pavlich said he is not facing financial distress. he wants to sell the medal to help out his kids. the bidding for that gold medal

is $62,500. >> he was the goalie, right? >> reporter: it was craig who was the goalie. >> craig, craig. >> david, appreciate it. thank you. life in the suburbs used to be the american dream, a sign of upward mobility but poverty is rising there faster than in cities. diane estherbrook has the story. >> reporter: in the illinois school district you'll find $1 million mansions, modest homes and something else, hung hunger. each friday volunteers bag ca canned goods, granola bars and fruit so kids will have something to eat over the weekend. >> sometimes i come on mondays really hungry because we run out of food. >> the blessings in the backpack

providing weekend meals to hungry kids who attend school in low income area. but recently it went district wide and now the food goes to 800 kids, some of them in affluent neighborhoods. darby hills said she could not believe she saw. >> the children are not getting enough to eat. >> reporter: researchers at the brookings institution said what is happening in barrington is happening in suburbs nationwide. they found from 1990 to 2009 poverty rose faster in suburbs than cities. researcher jennifer cleary said the recession made it worse. >> over the recession about 60% of job losses were in those middle-wage jobs. but middle-wage jobs only accounted for 20% of post recession gains. >> how do kids deal with it? do you know? >> well kids i think always had

trouble with poverty. >> reporter: school supervisor say those who live at or below the poverty line is tropical off what it was a year ago. >> it could have been where jobs have been down sized. barrington's battle against poverty has expanded outside of the school district and into the community. this food pantry distributed 5 million pounds of stood last year to 17,000 families. >> you can see it's still great. >> operations director expects to feed more people this year because more people are living paycheck to paycheck. >> what i think we're finding is that people are under employed or just as many are under employed as are employed. >> reporter: while blessings in a backpack may not eliminate childhood hunger in barrington schools, it does help kids get by when food at home is scarce.

al jazeera, illinois. >> coming up on al jazeera america. a plane with an american flag on it parked at an airport in iran, and the mystery just rose from there. four years after one of the worst oil spills in u.s. history businesses on the gulf coast are still struggling to survive. revealing, and surprising talks with the most interesting people of our time. >> everywhere i go there they are wanting to tell dr. jane what their doing... >> the inspirational dr. jane goodall talks to john seganthaller >> i started with a notebook, and a pair of secondhand binoculars. which was all i could afford... >> and reveals the remarkable human nature of chimpanzees. >> they have a dark side, and that made them more like us than i had thought before. talk to al jazeera only on al jazeera america

>> sunday marks four years since an oil rig explosion sent hundreds of millions of gallons of oil into the gulf of mexico. earlier this week bp said it finished it's active clean up of the louisiana coast, but that is no comfort for businesses still struggling to survive. robert ray is live for us in new orleans. how are people getting on four years hence? >> reporter: well, tony, the biggest concern is the ecosystem here in the state of louisiana. in particular places like the

bay where oysters, shrimp and crab thrive. the big problem the production is down and prices are up, and that has a lot of people concerned here in louisiana. in the french quarter of new orleans is p & g oyster company. >> we're the oldest continually operating oyster processing and distribution company in the united states. >> reporter: on april 20, su 20, a blow out off the bp rig killed 11 workers and injured 17 others. more than 4 million barrels of oil gushed into the gulf before the spill was stopped. the environmental disaster shut down p & j for over three months, and today it's operating on 30% of the business that it had before the spill. >> things have not gotten

better. the oysters are not reproducing. >> reporter: in the bay where many of the oysters grow, we went out with commercial fisherman mark. >> i can't believe how much of the land is gone. >> fighting along david, the director of mississippi river delta restoration. >> there were several hundreds of pelicans nesting. there was a healthy forest of black mangrove here. there is one of the places where oil got into the colony. it was underneath the mangroves. >> the birds are gone and the island is now considered dead. >> it's sickening. this was a beautiful beautiful place. >> and it's patches of marsh land here at bay that took the

brunt of the oil as it washed ashore effecting the ecosystems out here and the livelihoods of fishermen. >> mark lost thousands of dollars in the summer of 2010. and says that business is not the same today. but he does say that bp helped him in the aftermath. >> the money they gave us pretty much helped make up for our losses. >> reporter: back in new orleans p & j the opinion is different. they would like pb to spend billions more on building up the eroding coast. >> bp's band aid has spent money on pr telling people what they were doing rather than doing what they're supposed to do. >> they have a plan in place to save the eroding coast.

little barrier islands for wildlife and help the louisiana seafood industry survive. tony, bp has paid $11 billion since 2010 for damages caused by the oil spill. also plaintiff's lawyers are expecting a payout to 200,000 oil spill workers for medical claims. >> robert ray for us in new orleans. appreciate it. thank you. companies that make e-cigarettes have been buying lots of ad time, right? and their messages are getting through to kids. but the techno team gives us a look at the impact. that's next.

>> the u.s. is releasing a new round of cash for iran for following the terms of a nuclear team signed last november. but that agreement imposes restrictions on trade unauthorized flights to the iranian capitol are not allowed. but that did not stop one jet in particular that we're going to talk about.

john terrett is the guy with more. >> reporter: i know, the story of the day. people will be talking about this all weekend, i feel. on tuesday iran had a very unlikely visitor. this private jet with a small american flag on the tail finish. we've highlighted for you, there it is, that's the small american flag on the tail. and the plane was photographed in a highly visible section of tehran's airport. and i'm afraid the plot gets thicker. according to "the new york times" the plane is held in a trust by bank of utah which has 13 branches around the state. trusts are designed to consortiums to own aircraft.

it has 169 aircraft in total ranging from 747 to this cessna 172 for a small aircraft flown by private pilots. and the bank acts as a trustee for more planes than any other bank in america. in a statement the bank of utah brett king said we have no idea what that plane was doing at the airport. now he didn't put the exclamation point in, i did. but that's pretty much what he said. he said the bank of utah is a very conservative bank in a very conservative area. if there is any hint of illegal activity we'll find out. good for you. believe it or not rules make it impossible to find out who was flying that plane, making it very difficult, indeed. all officials will say is the people who got off were vips. that could have been you. you're a vip. i don't think it was you. but another story comes to light. did you know tracking planes has become a global sport? amateur photographers post

thousands of images on websites like this one showing the arrivals and departure of aircraft as they attempt to chronicle flight paths. now in the case of this plane, which is in 604 ep one anarack, the name give to people who spot planes. another saw it departing london for ghana in west africa. that was last october. now here's the thing. it does seem as if we may never find out, but if we do find out it's likely to come from a plane spotter than anybody who is official. late breaking news we just found out where the plane came from. spooky that, it just came in. it was charter by the ghana government in west africa and on board was the brother of the president of ghana, but they chartered this american plane. the american flag was doing in tehran. >> and no americans on board.

>> no, thank god. no americans on board. we're okay. >> have a great weekend. please. yes. >> see you on monday from the boston marathon. >> that's right. >> cigarette commercials have been banned in the united states for more than 40 years, but the ban contains a loophole that e-cigarette makers have blown wide open. we looked a the mixed signals viewers are getting. >> yes, according to this survey more doctors smoke cam medica cn any other else. that was then. this is now. >> now that i switched to blue i feel better for myself. she has studied cigarette marketing and found like the old ads for tobacco, many e-cig ads claim health. >> we know looking at e

cigarette advertising, putting cigarettes in the movies. having celebrities endorsement, doctor endorsements, you're seeing it again. >> many say that e-cigs helped to kick smoking habits. >> i've been a smoker for 20 years. i found the alternative. blue e-cigs. but how much is it a gateway to smoking tobacco. >> it's making the claim that it's healthier because it's safer, not smoked. >> i don't think anybody wants to addict a whole new generation to nicotine, but a lot of advertising that appeals to youth could potentially do that. >> reporter: electronic cigarettes have been presented as smoking sensation agents for people who are trying to quick smoking. but now the devices have gone mainstream it has gotten the

attention of regulators and scientist. they show that it's associated with more convention cigarette use in teens. >> we found that the teens who used e-cigarettes were more likely to be tobacco cigarette smokers. we also found that of the kids who are smokers, the ones who use e-cigarettes were less likely to have stopped smoking. >> check out "techknow" at 7:30 p.m. eastern time at 4:30 in the west. right here on al jazeera america. it could be a huge break through in finding new treatments for a host of diseases. annual report in the journal cell stem cell oh cloned embryonic stem cells from adult cells that could cure cancer, heart disease and alzheimer's.

that's all of our time. thank you for being with us. we wish a very happy weekend. and happy easer. i'm tony harris in new york city. "real money" with ali velshi is next on al jazeera america.