>> all right. on that note, thanks to all of our guests. until next time, waj and i will see you online at aljazeera.com/ajamstream. ♪

you know, hamas as an organization denies my country's very right to exist. this is an organization that says israel should be liquidated. this is an organization that says every israeli civilian, man, woman, or child is a legitimate target. you can have peace with us, or israel, but you can't have this both.

>> reporter: remember, del, secretary of state john kerry put his personal prestige on the line for these talks, met them 40 times over the last nine months after all of that diplomacy, today's deadline is passing a whimper and that is a foreign policy failure for the united states. >> and nick, as mentioned now it's the secretary of state himself facing the tough questions having do the comments he made about israel comparing it to south africa and aparthe apartheid. >> reporter: absolutely, these are comments made the other night in a closed-door meeting with diplomats. the audio was obtained by the daily beast. kerry saying if there is a unified state, rather than a two-state solution that could be an apartheid state with second-class sit sense and received a huge amount of criticism from that from congressional leaders and pro american leaders. he released a very rare

statement in his own name, said he didn't appreciate people questioning his commitment to israel for partisan politics but then fell on his sword and issued a mea culpa saying if he could rewind the tape i could choose a different word to describe my firm belief the only way in a long-term to have a jewish state in two nations and two peoples living side by side with peace and security is through that two-state solution. in that same meeting del, kerry said given the impasse he may have to impose his own peace plan or put his own peace plan on the table and let both sides either take it or leave it as it put, it del. >> nick shiffrin for it live in jerusalem. as always, nick, thank you very much. this story is just coming in to al jazerra america, reuters news agency is reporting that gunmen have stormed libya's parliament and opened fire. several people said to be injured, forcing law make he is to stop the vote for the next prime minister, witnesses saying

lawmakers were running from the building, we'll have more information on this story of as it becomes available. and coming up on al jazerra america, if you have a smart phone and we know that you do, this story affects you. the supreme court set to see if police are able to go through your phone without a war warrant.

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so many money stories sound complicated. but don't worry. i'm here to take the fear out of finance. every night on my show i break down the confusing financial speak and make it real. the suprem supreme court ist to weigh in a controversial police tactic, police say it's about solving crimes, privacy experts say it's about you and whether you want the police to go through your cell phone when you get arrested. lisa stark has more 67 so the question before the court this morning is if police stop you for any reason, any offense, can they then search the contents of your cell phone without all warrant. there are two cases before the court and, in fact, in the lower courts, they disagreed on whether this warrantless search was legal or not legal. if police officers pull someone over they have the right to pat them down or check their

immediate surroundings to look for any weapons, or evidence of a crime that the suspect could quickly destroy. but does that right to conduct a search without a warrant extend to your cell phone? which these days can be an encyclopedia of your life. elizabeth with the constitutional accountability center says police should not have that right. >> the vast troves of information we store on our cell phones make it different than going through a suspect's wallet or something they might 90 in the person's pocket. we store our personal correspondence, sensitive records, medical information, financial information, our pictures, so the level of intrusion that's at issue in these cases is much more substantial than we have ever seen before. >> reporter: in the two cases before the court, one involving a gang member, the other a suspected drug dealer, both had information in their cell phones that led to additional charges

against the men. in the gang member's case, the appeals court ruled the cell phone search was legal. in the drug offense, the a pete court threw out the convention. she believes both searches were a violation of the fourth amendment, which protects against unreasonable searches and seizures. >> the framework of our constitution wrote that in the constitution to protect against the police going on fishing expeditions like they did really in these cases when they searched through these individuals' phones to find something they hoped would be inning creme nateing. >> reporter: the justice department disagrees saying cell phones are critical tools for criminals used to arrange drug deals, pass messages and store child pornography. police they say need quick access to that information. and that's the question before the court. is it critical for police to nab

that cell phone information immediately or must they wait for a warrant? this court decision could have very broad implications, perhaps even beyond cell phones, could they search your computer if it was sitting next to you in the car, for example, when they pull you over without a warrant? we are expecting a decision from the justices on this critical case by june. >> all right, lisa stark in washington. lisa, thank you very much. kristopher is the director of the criminal justice program at vanderbilt university, he joins us from nashville. exactly how does the fourth amendment come in to play when it comes to our cell phones? >> well, the fourth amendment prohibits unreasonable search and seizures, clearing going 11's cell phone say s. so the question is whether the police looking at your cell phone without a warrant is reasonable. that's the question at issue in both of these cases. so what happens when somebody gets arrested we get frisked so why should our cell phone be off

limits? >> the argument you want by the defendants is as we just heard, the cell phone is a huge con pen dee umph personal information, it probably has more personal information than your house. to go through your house, to search your house, the police need a warrant. the argument is the police officers need a warrant to go through one's cell phone. >> now, some conservative courts have often argued that police need broad leeway when it comes to making an arrest. yet this is also a huge personal privacy issue. so court watchers like yourself, do you have any idea which way the court might be lean on the ground this particular issue? >> it's hard to tell because the court has confronted a number of cases recently involving that use technology? what surprisingly the court has come down in favor of defendants in two of those cases so it's conceivable that even though this court tends to be relatively prosecution oriented it could end up decideing in favor of the defendants and requiring a warrant, unless the police have reason to believe

there is evidence of the crime for which the person was arrested is in the cell phone. which would be which would be a hard standard for police to meet they wouldn't be allowed to search it just because you are arrested. >> the nsa and others have argued a lot of what is in our cell phone we post online and in the clouds so in a sense they argue that we have already surrendered a the lot privacy rights that would be afternooned by the fourth amendment. >> that is true and the court has bought that argument. in the context we are talking about here, in the two cases in front of the supreme court the police are not going to a third party or to the cloud they are actually searching through the defendant's own cell phone. in another kind of case where the police go through the cloud to get this information, then we might see the court coming up in favor of -- more likely see the court coming up in favor of the government. >> i need only mention one name and that is edward snowden with, that as a backdrop, how closely will the nsa be watching these arguments that are before the

court? >> i think very closely, these two cases involve an issue that's somewhat different than the nsa surveillance we have been hearing about from edward snowden. but certainly if the court comes out in favor of the defendants in this case, that will establish a precedence that could be used to challenge the nsa sure say lens programs. >> now, the court is always supposed to be the final say on issues of the day, but we all know cell phone technology is evolving a phone sold 10 years ago is obsolete today. is this going to be the last thing you think the court will have to say on the issue of search and efficient our involving cell phones? >> by no means i think the court is involved in it. they will have to confront a number of cases having do with cell phones, computer searches and various other uses of technology for various purpose . >> kristopher from vanderbilt thank you very much.

>> thank you. well, when we think of oil, we often think of the middle east, but now canada is becoming a global power in the oil market. but not without a lot of hurdles namely getting the oil out of the ground and in do to your gas tank, our "real money" correspondent patricia explains the messy, complicated process. >> reporter: large vehicles vehs shove shoveling up to 100-tons of black sand eight time fleets of them moving across the landscape day and night, all year round, this is alberta. center of canada's lucrative oil industry. but unline conventional oil deposits you drill for, oil here is mined from the sand. alberta's oil sand cover 54,000 square miles of otherwise pristine forest. an area almost as big as florida. to get to the oil deposits trees are clear-cut and topsoil removed. trucks move in, each scooping up to 400-tons of oilsands. one lloyd can yield 200-barrels

of oil. but it's costly to produce. the black sand goes to an upgrade facility where large quantities of quarte water and l gas are used to separate the tar-like oil from the sand. the result is processed in to a synthetic crude oil which is then moved to refineries and made in to gasoline and other petroleum products. all those extra steps make oil from oilsands more expensive to produce, but as long as the market price for crude rises above $50 ebberral and it's about double that now. oil companies say it's worth it. but oil extracted from oilsands is costly in other ways too. besides the damage done to alberta's forest, they say it emits two to three times of carbon omission of conventional oil.

1.3 million-barrels exposerred every day to their biggest customer the united states. much fly in type lines one company, trans canada has mit fierce opposition which would double the amount of oil the company can send to the u.s. the obama administration needs to give approval for a new international pipeline. but it's the latest decision a midst pressure from environmentals. patricia, al, new york. >> and as we have been reported we are tracking a line of deadly storms making their way across the south. an update on your weather is straight ahead. stay with us.

welcome back to al jazerra america, i al del walters these are your headlines at this hour. one person dead, six others injured after a workplace shooting in georgia. it happened this morning at a fedex facility outside of atlanta. the gunman injuring six people

and then turning the gun on himself. in about a half an hour the nba is scheduled to hold the news conference on the l.a. clipper scandal the league is expected to decide on the racist comments made by the clipper's own, we'll bring you that news conference live at 2:00 p.m. eastern time. 30 people have been killed since sunday from the string of deadly tornadoes, tornadoes hitting again last night. three people have been killed in alabama and damage in mississippi and tennessee as well. our weather meteorologist ebony has been tracking this late of string of storms, we are not out of the woods yet. >> meteorologist: we are not. we sound like a broken record but the threat remains, it will be with us at least late wednesday and early thursday, i want to show you parts of the midwest where we have the rain and the snow. we talked about how far-reaching the impact of this very large system really are. and it's up in to parts of northern illinois where we are not only dealing with the rainy side of this, we actually just

had a tornado warning expiring around freeport, illinois and one reports i've tornado just a brief touchdown no injuries or damage with it. just a little further south of that. so northern areas of illinois getting some stormy weather. backside it's much colder. here across the deep south we have been shifting our folk us and keeping it really here over the last day or so because a line of storms blew through earlier this morning across alabama and georgia looking like we are in the clear but we are not. we have a lot of deep, moist air in place and as we go through the rest of the afternoon in to this evening, more storms are expected to erupt. in fact, take a look here in to northeastern areas of louisiana, starting to see a few thunderstorms popping right now. this area across parts of eastern louisiana and in to mississippi, this is where we could see the next tornado watch issued within the next few hours, quiet now but the risks continue.

tomorrow we will see that shifting even further east. now, we could certainly see storms erupting around the mid mid-atlantic, mainly just a heavy rain vent in to ports of the northeast, a lot of flooding pictured three upward to five-inches of rainfall across the southeast and we could see it extending up in the carolinas and much of new york. this system is not done yet it's a soggy one and we'll gait get the rain too in new york city. >> we'll have the latest on all of our forecast straight ahead. thank you ebony very much. we leave with you a man saying he wants to use art to show the aftermath of fuchs shima. he records radioactive decay in plants, animals and daily goods we use, the contaminated articles become art. he said it clings better to any statistics. it was held in tokyo and it is fascinating to say the least. a quick reminder, stay with al jazerra america in about 30 minutes we'll have that news conference by the nba's

commissioner adam silver, we'll bring it to you live, our coverage begins at 2:00 p.m. eastern, thank you for watching al jazerra america, i am del walters in new york. "101 east." featuring locked up warriors is next. with spectacular landscapes- new zealand is a pristine paradise- ranked the freest country on earth. but this south pacific nation has the second highest imprisonment rate in the western world.