>> 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 >> welcome to al jazeera america. i'm stephanie sy. here are the stories that we're following for you. boston beefs up security to protect thousands running in this year's marathon. and jo vice president biden arrives in ukraine. and the president vows to punish those responsible.

>> runners from all over the world are in boston today. the marathon marks one year since two moms exploded at the finish line killing three and maiming hundreds. last night before the red sox game players and fans at fenway park pay tribute to victims and responders. an estimated 1 million people are cheering on the runners today, and that is more than double the number of spectators last year. we go to where security is tight, john, i see that you are there on the route, what is the atmosphere like? the atmosphere is good. everyone is determined to make this a great day, and the weather is really helping. we're expecting it to be nice and warm, and now it really is. hopefully for marathon runners

there is a stiff breeze to cool them down. here err on boston common. behind she the famous john hancock building, and beyond that is the finishing line a great shout out to earnest van dyke who has won their den h marathon. the whole of boston is rooting for him to win the men's marathon again. after his success last year he was so shocked when the bombs went off. he eventually handed back his gold medal to the city of boston.

everyone is cheering him on. these are elite runners. they do it professionally, and it's a pretty good purse, $150,000 each. >> going back to the security question, i know boston marathon beefed up security. what precautions do you see them take as the marathon goes on right now. >> this is the serious question that everyone is brush to go one side. it is said that boston is the safest city in america and they are taking security seriously after what happened here last year. look, we know for certain there are more security cameras, more policemen on the route, more plain clothes officers on the route than ever before. a lot of that you won't actually see. hopefully today will go off well. but there are a million expect taterspectators, and the city'sw

police commissioner admits for that number of people over this length of route, 26.2 miles, it's a long way. police something a very difficult task. >> the 26.2 miles makes it a very soft target. we do our best to secure the areas we believe need to be buttoned up again, we need the public's help. if they see something, to say something. we can't do it alone. it's a lot of mileage to cover, but we have plenty of officers out there, and i think we're going to have nothing to worry about. you know, we've had this race 116 times without incident, and there is nothing to lead us to believe we have no intelligence to believe this race is under any type of threat. >> and commissioner evans is a pretty amazing man. he gets out of his house at 4:45 and runs seven miles except

over the weekends. he said he can face anything. there are seven hundred michaels and 300 jennifers. i thought you would want to know that. >> interesting knowledge. john terrett, thank you. well panic didn't stop at boston's finish line. it went all the way to the small suburb of water town w. we have more. >> reporter: the new york diner has been a fixture in this small town of boston for 70 years. residents come to grab a bite and gab a bit mostly about boston sports. >> you guys watch the sox the other night? three-run homer. >> reporter: the owner said that his diner is open every day, rain, sleet or snow. but on the night of the bomber, the diner was ordered to close

as an army of law enforcement stormed into town on the hunt for the people responsible. the suspects shot and killed m.i.t. officer, and authorities locked down the entire town. >> i don't have words for it. it's unbelievably scary. >> reporter: the waitress shudders as she thinks back to that day. she was getting ready for work when she received a reverse 911 call. >> they say don't leave the house. if you see thing cal anything ce police. >> i have two kids, and it was scary. >> reporter: resident dan mazzola said he didn't have time to worry about himself, he was

worried about his son who was working as a paramedic that day. >> was he going to get caught up in this thing. >> reporter: kyle porter was holed up in his home with his wife and young son jack. >> i would say the next 20 hours were the most surreal day of our lives. >> reporter: they heard the gunfight with the police that killed the older tsarnaev brother. >> yes, we were afraid. >> reporter: that fear was fueled by the unknown since the younger tsarnaev brother escaped the police shoot out and went on the run. the police went door to door looking for their suspect. kyle took a video of this in his backyard. >> he could be hiding in dumpster, to see the police sweeping the house was a relief.

>> reporter: within minutes the manhunt ended on this residential street when the owner stepped outside and saw the suspect inside the boat of his baske backyard. he called authorities and they closed in and captured him. >> reporter: as police made their way through water town everyone cheered for them as an impromptu parade. >> they were clapping for those who got the guy who terrorized this city. >> reporter: but there was fear the next few days. >> they said that they had thrown bombs out, and so they were looking for bombs that hadn't detonated. >> reporter: still the diner opened the next day. >> it was still hard.

>> reporter: the new yorker now bears this physical reminder, a hand painted by new york artist. >> you know, the whole watertown strong brought the community together. >> reporter: al jazeera, watertown, massachusetts. >> russia accused kiev of inciting a checkpoint shoot out that killed three people in eastern ukraine. the u.s. ukraine, and russia signed an agreement in geneva in an effort to de-escalate the violence in the east. vice president joe biden landed in kiev and will meet with leaders of ukraine and offer aid to the country. >> vice president biden is supposed to meet with the acting president and prime minister yatsenyuk now sergei lavrov, russian foreign minister, sailed

that he would like to see the u.s. pull its weight and i think one of the main issues here is that there is a discrepancy in understanding that agreement as far as kiev is concerned the agreement only concerns the buildings that have been seized here in the east and southeast of the ukraine. whereas moscow and anti--pro russian protesters say no, that agreement is for everyone, and they would like to see those who are barricading themselves in kiev to evacuate that public space. they also say that so far they have not received any kind of assurances from the government, only talk, and with the level of mistrust they're not going to leave this building any time soon. now the organization i has been meeting with leaders of several of these buildings, trying to show them that that agreement was dismissed as some of the protesters where we were not

represented there, so who talked in our names even though just before that agreement they were looking to developments on the ground. clearly they have no intention of leaving, not in the coming hours or day. >> reporter: meanwhile russian president vladimir putin signed a law making it easier for those who speak russian to become citizens. for those who can prove that they lived in the former soviet union, the law pushed through in just three weeks, and established a simplified procedure to give russian citizenship to foreigners and native russian speakers. >> syria dozens of people were

killed in airstrikes in the northern syrian city of aleppo over the weekend. the syrian observatory for human rights said 29 victims were from the same neighborhood. more than 150,000 people have died in syria since the civil war began. meanwhile the united nations is warning nearly 20,000 people in one syrian district could starve to death. housing palestinian refugees no food has been delivered two weeks and aid supplies have run out. some people reportedly resorted to eating leaves and animal feed. the u.n. needs to deliver 700 parcels of food a day but since the start of the year it has only been able to deliver 100 parcels a today. condemning crew members that abandoned the disaster, equating

thit to murder. families of the victims remain in the gymnasium waiting for updates. we have more from jindo, south korea. >> reporter: ththese images from 2010 show the captain of the sunk. ferry at the helm of another ferry on the same route. >> as long as you follow the directions i believe the ferry is safer than any other transportation. >> reporter: four years later that's exactly what hundreds of young passengers did, obeying instructions to stay put while the ferry sank while the captain was among the first to be rescued. in a scathing condemnation of the cap blanc above all the conduct of the captain and some crew members is unfathomable. it's like an act of murder that

cannot and should not be tolerated. >> reporter: she also demanded a full investigation into how the approval to add an extra deck to the ferry and extend it's operating life by ten years. here on jindo the focus remains for emergency crews speeding up the recovery effort and get as many bodies back to shore as possible. the first clear morning since the ferry went down and dive teams were hoping to make the most of the improvel conditions. among them, a special forces veteran and one of south korea's foremost divers with the grim task of pulling days old bodies from the sunken wreck. >> reporter: right now they're wearing life jackets, we need a knife or scissors to cut the life jacket and get the bodies out. >> reporter: all aimed at speeding up the recovery of the

bodies. each one brings with it a grief that is at once shared and deeply personal. >> malaysian airplanes is in the spotlight for another plane problems. one of its tires burst during a take off. the plane returned safely to kuala lumpur. the u.s. submersible is scouring the indian ocean for any signs of wreckage. the area was narrowed down to a six mile area based on the sonar pings. so far nothing has been found. authorities are amazed that a teenager survived a flight from california to hawai'i by hiding in the wheel well of the plane. the teenager hopped the against and climbed on the flight.

the boy was unconsideration most of the time isn' since there ist much oxygen. the teen an anchor was turned over to authorities in maui. an event that started in 1878. we'll take you to the white house easter roll next.

>> 12 million. that's the number of adults effected. a woman who lost her battle with cervical cancer. john lost his wife to cervical cancer in 2011. it was a battle she should have won. the 37-year-old mother of two died because of routine pap smear was misdiagnosed--twice.

>> they missed it twice. by a long shot. >> unfortunately, they are not alone. a recent study by a patient safety researcher found that misdiagnosis happen all the ti time. >> in the case of one in 20 u.s. adults in the outpatient setting that translates to 12 million patients per year 237 according to his research nearly half of these misdiagnoses can be harmful. >> they are often not communicated back to the patients if they are abnormal. so this is quite a serious problem. >> reporter: darian went to the doctor 40 times and her health

continued to deteriorate even though test results showed nothing was wrong. >> she was a beautiful individual, and i can never r replace that for her my daughters or myself. there will never be another one. >> reporter: they recently won a $21.5 million judgment against lab corp. the jury found the company misdiagnosed her test results. >> the jury told the world that it is not okay for lab corp and other laboratories to put profits over people. >> reporter: they believe pap smear tests are not looked at careful letters, and an emphasis on efficiency cost his wife her life. >> every slide they passed through that table its somebody's mother, somebody's sister, somebody's wife, and they're passing it through in the amount of time that we found out is less than five minutes. >> doctors say that although human error is inevitable, we

can create a better system to prevent those errors from occurring. >> when there is doubt in your head about anything, i would say follow and explore options because we ought to be asking questions. we have to be skeptical at times of the patients. >> lab corp disagrees with the verdict and will appeal. >> a new study raises concerns about subscribing codeine to children. emergency room doctors write a prescription even though alternatives are available. the study in the journal of pediatrics say that 20% kids that arrived in the e.r. were prescribed code dean, and some say that is still too much. hundreds of kids are on the south lawn right now enjoying

the festivities, and so is lisa stark. i've always wondered why it was an egg roll, and not an egg hunt. how did this become a white house tradition. >> it's been going on for a long time. therfinally they30,000 people an the white house. there are a lot of cartoon characters to greet them. festivities including the egg role, anroll, and the presidente first lady made appearances. >> we love this event.

this is the largest event that we do here on the south lawn. we're going to have more than 30,000 people on the lawn today. and we're just thrilled that this theme is focusing on one issue that is near and dear to my heart, making sure that our young people are active and healthy. >> so, in fact, the theme is "hop into healthy, swing into shape" and michelle obama has her campaign to get kids more activity and to eat better. there is eggs-tivity zone, and it's a beautiful day out here. a perfect day for this event. there have many years where it hasn't been so nice. many of the kids just awed by the characters saying everybody is out here. so quite a festive day at the house. >> it is time for the tribeca

film festival with 6,000 movie submissions around the world that can make or break a filmmakers' career.

>> welcome back to al jazeera america. i'm stephanie sy. here are today's headlines at this hour. south korea's president is promising to punish those responsible for last week's ferry accident. she said that the crew basically committed murder. vice president joe biden is in kiev and is set to meet with leaders of ukraine and will offer economic aid. an attack over the weekend is threatening to undermine a fragile truce agreement. the boston marathon marks one year since the bombing at the finish line killing three and maiming hundreds. an estimated 1 million people are cheering on the runners

today. that's double of last year. it can make or break you. filmmakers from around the world come to new york to showcase their talent. >> it's opening nigh night at te tribeca film festival. it could change everything. >> it could be the worse night of my life, everything is going wrong. >> reporter: director of a low budget film with a vampire twist. it was made for $30,000 and many of the actors working for free. >> i made a couple of movies. it's working out, and of course i want had wild success but they're getting made, they're appreciated, and the fact that we're in tribeca is a victory

itself. >> reporter: ex-pour is everything. and being selected to play at a major film festival can make all the difference. but the movie industry is renown to be tough to break into. >> it's becoming a rarity these days sow festivals perform that platform for filmmakers to have the experience they're hoping for. >> reporter: the selection of "summer of blood" here means that they have been invited to festivals around the world. but for this director the ultimate goal is not necessarily winning awards to carry on doing what he loves. >> for me it's having fun. i'm not motivated by money, but at the same time i would like to make some money from this so we can make bigger, better moves, more ambitious movies, i guess. >> reporter: it's a sentiment many aspire to. these days it's much easier to make movies on small affordable cameras and using social media to get some kind of audience, but without things like the

tribeca film festival, the stars of tomorrow might not get the chance that they now have. al jazeera, new york. >> well, we're looking at a big section of the country. showers and storms rainy in the northwest. that there be snow over the next few days in the mountain passes. let's get to the midwest where we have the wind gusting, fargo, 22 degrees. dewpoints are going down, and red flag fire warnings in places like south dakota and minnesota. otherwise there could be strong storms in places such as texas. tomorrow, not really the risk of severe weather but the thunderstorms move more to the east coast and into the overnight period is when we're expecting some of that rain so

have those umbrellas handy. >> thank you for watching al jazeera america. i'm stephanie sy. inside story is up next. for more you can always head to our website at www.aljazeera.com. have a great day. >> you hello, i'm ray suarez. in the past several days millions of you heard the bad guys, the vandalhe