see you next time. climate, dry vegas high and dry. >> prime time news on al jazeera america. >> welcome the al jazeera america. i'm del walters. climate change is here affecting our daily lives and the white house issues a damming report calling for urgent action. >> an armed group in nigeria claims it abducted even more girls. >> how those flash lights on guns are causing police to make deadly mistakes.

>> all those cold winters and extreme draughts and tornados and flooding are no accidents. that is a report released from the white house. we are to blame and the climate change is a danger and the use of fossil fuels have a consequence in all parts of the country. >> as the president said in the state of the union... >> we have to act with more unjen si. the climate is hurting us. >> the brand new report is supporting his case and pushing the assessment more than ever before. >> it is the most important source of scientific information about climate change and

impacting all regions of the united states. >> climate change is impacting the american people, says the people, weather events are more frequent and intense, from the heat waves to the downpours and draught in the west to floods in the east and the report warns that the average temperature has done one and a half degrees since recordkeeping began in 1895. 80% of that warming happened since 1980. the temperatures are rising faster with 2-4 degrees. sea level is going to rise, too, one to four feet this century alone. extreme weather is causing damage to infrastructure in many regions and straining the water supplies and reducing the fish stocks and a drop in crops and livestock production and all

part of the global climate change driven by human activity. >> climate change is a fact and when the children's children looked us in the eye leading us to a more stable world i want to say yes we did. >> the white house correspondent is in washington and mike, the white house saying this is the most comprehensive report out on climate change ever, and what is president doing to push it? >> they can go around congress and congress is not going along with any new legislation to address global warming and coal fired pollution and that is a thing that the president is going to do through the epa. the president called this a year of action and new regulations and proposing new regulations on the power plants and this

country relies on coal for half of the electric supply. you can't have this discussion without the keystone pipeline and many on the left and the movement is pushing him to reject it and the white house is putting it off until after the midterm elections and democrats are going rogue on this in congress and a debate in the senate about the pipeline and democrats from the conservative states, alaska, arkansas pushing forward to build to construct that and it is up in the air. the president is using the bully pulpit and hosting at the white house, granting a series of interviews on this report. >> mike, is there a sense that this is a game changeer in washington, and does there need

to be a political climate change? >> that is not in the cards. so for that reason, it may not be a game changer. the republican leader of the senate on the senate floor and decrying the proposals that the president is putting forth. first and foremost is regulations on the coal. they tout the oil and gas production, a result of fracking and it is controversial and again, the base of the democratic party against that very unhappy with the president's record thus far. so there is a lot of election year politicking going on here and firing up the base in each of the parties. unlikely major legislation is moving forward, del. >> mike, thank you very much. >> well, one of the consequences of climate change coastlines that seem to be disappearing. rising sea levels are putting a

damper on the sunshine state and there are concerns that the officials in florida just aren't ready. >> more than 1200 miles of coastline lure the people to live and visit the sunshine state but the paradise of south florida may one day be washed away. >> we are living on borrowed time and we are going to enjoy it, but i can't appreciate the building right now. it has to be almost misleading the public. >> he's referring to the post recession boom in the miami area and warning the florida officials for decades about the rise in the sea levels. the city's of south florida are in danger because of built on the limestone and the sand.

he says that sea levels are going to rise soon. there is expected to be a two foot sea level ride in miami county and the west side of low lying miami beach will be flooded. >> that is barely a mortgage cycle away. >> she calls herself a climate rerefugee. and being trapped by the flood water showed her rising sea levels were not an abstract phenomenon and moved to this house in miami shores, north of miami and trying to get her mother to move inland. >> we need to do something before other people you are always considered crazy. >> the move to safer ground maybe motivated by the family history. while thinking about the move, she learned that the

grandparents fled the dust bowl and moved from new mexico to colorado. she says she plans on moving away from florida within the next 20 years. >> o during my lifetime, florida will become less liveable because of the intrusion of water. >> for more details on the environmental stories go to our website and plus the court battle over climate change that has young americans suing the government. go to al jazeera.com. >> there are reports today that ukraine is now a step closer to war, meanwhile the top diplomats are in europe and pushing for a solution. they are open the a round of negotiations if only including

prorussian rebels. the international community is doing what they can do and namely to agree on the frame work a to close the crisis. to meet again in the same forum and opposing and absent from the talks is going likely not contribute a thing. >> the troops and the assaults on rebel strong holds, expressing doubts that the elections are going to go forward and unusual for the troops to be deplayed against the citizens that are voting. one of the strong holds, the russian forces are moving out of the outskirts of the city and 30 of the pro russian soldiers were killed in the fighting on monday. four ukrainian soldiers were killed and several were injured in the clashes and the pro russian forces are enforcing the barricades outside of the government building where they

have set up a camp. >> the ukrainian government is taking steps to increase the combat readiness and many of the demonstrators that fought here in the independence square is allowed to join the national guard and beefing up to military presence in the southeast part of the country. they saw 30 antigovernment fighters killed in fighting on monday. tension is rising in the region. one airport there has been closed. >> the south korea ferry claimed another life, a diver that was working on the recovery efforts. he lost radio contact and trying to work on the reports and brought back to the surface he had stopped breathing and air lifted to the hospital and died a short time later and the death toll is now standing at 263.

39 people are still missing. >> four members of congress are calling on the white house to negotiate the release of an american being held in cuba. they got a chance to visit with allen yesterday at a prison hospital. he's serving 15 years for setting up an internet service in cuba back in 2009. >> our message to both sides is very clear, and the message is that it is in the interest of both countries that negotiations begin. we visited allen this morning. we have talked with his legal team and we do firmly believe and truly believe that it is time that both countries commit, mind you, make a serious commitment to engage in negotiations with no preconditions. >> several states are hoeltding primary election z today.

in north carolina voters are picking candidates for the senate and house of representatives. in ohio casting ballots for the governor. in indiana there are nine seats in the house that are all up for grabs this fall. >> well, they have become staples of police departments, the gun mounted flash lights that the police use. but there's a down side and that is creating a set of problems. jim has more. >> just like an officer's weapon, the gun mounted flashlight is a tool to light up the suspect of the crime scene and the departments all over the country are using them and with unintended consequences. in denver, the chief's officers are involved with three. one left a woman wounded. in dallas in 2010 the police

kill add drug suspect n. 2011 a 76-year-old man was wounded when flipping the switch but instead pulled the trigger. >> things are tense, and i'm think i'm activating the light and it is the trigger to the gun instead. >> chief white banned three models of the gun mounted lights whose switches are located close to the gun's trigger. >> the s.w.a.t. guys have them. the people doing entries and raids have them. >> the lights were designed for military use and over time adopted by police units. rich white is a former police officer and owning a gunshot and saying it is training not the design that is at the fault. >> the light is not causing the gun to go off. the police officer pulled the trigger. it is not an accident when you fire a gun.

>> some an experts say that only the specialized police have the experience to use the equipment safely. >> the idea behind the device is fine. the police for the most part aren't really in those types of situations. >> none of the three makers of the systems banned by the denver police responded to the interview. one of the companies defended the product and saying that officers can be trained to keep the fingers off the triggers in the high stress situations and otherwise there would be thousands of discharges a day and the light was involved in dallas and new york shootings and insist that training and improved lighting should be the key. >> and coming up on al jazeera, rallying for the kidnapped girls in nigeria and the protestor are

marching and demanding that the government do something to bring the girls home and reporting of more kidnappings.

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>> facing the worst moments of your life over and over again, the therapy that aims to heal. >> egypt's former army chief is saying if he's elected the president, the now banned muslim brotherhood will not exist and the army will have no role in ruling the company. mohammad was ousted from the power last july. he's widely expected to win the election scheduled for later in the month. >> in nigeria more girls were kidnapped. it is after the group abducted over 200 girls last month and the people are holding a rally

and saying that the government is not doing enough to rescue the girls. we are joined live from nigeria and evone, what are the plans and what do they want to government to do? >> well, the protestor have come to the streets and putting pressure on nigeria's security services. we are outside of the chief of the defense, and sitting here, they have given the chief of the defense a petition calling for the urgent and speedy rescue of the 200 something girls that were abduct in theed the northeast and angered by the release of a new video by the leader of the group, in which he claims responsibility for the abductions and going to sell the girls. they are out raged and furious about the rescue attempts and they are going to continue to

trying to get the security services to do something. the security services on the other hand saying they are doing everything they can to find the girls. they are in the rescue operations underway and for security reasons they are not giving the protestor, the public or the media the details. >> has the government given any new information on where they stand in the investigation? >> well, no. that's what also is fuelling the anger amongst the proteters. the authorities are saying they are looking for the girls. that is the only information that we are getting from all arms of the government and the security agencies. we are getting international insights into what is going on. there are are statements, the latest coming today from the united kingdom and saying they

have offered assistance to nigeria in tracking the girls. just a couple of days ago, the state department, the u.s. state document came out and said there had been telephone discussions between obama's administration and the administration here in nigeria about what to do. the international partners and friends are offering the authority's assistance but we are not given any information and neither are the protestor about the nature of the assistance. >> ur one of the few international reporters that has been on the story since day one, and now the world is coming to the aide of those in nigeria and are those behind you taking s solice knowing that the whole world is watching nigeria? >> well, they are. they are bolted by that fact.

there is a huge online social media drive under hashtag bring back our girls, people are messaging and tweeting about this. there are also, remember, an element of anger, frustration among the protestor and they are believing that nigeria doesn't need the international support. billions of dollars spent in the region and fighting this group and many of the protestor are asking if billion dollars are being spent against this group how are they able to carry out this attack. they should be taking lead to rescue the situation. >> joining us live from nigeria and one of the first on the story, thank you so much. >> we want to talk now about rape kits, they are widely used

after sexual assaults to help collect the evidence of the crime. 400,000 kits are sitting on the police evidence shelves and one of the worst offenders is the city of memphis. we talk to a woman whose rape kit sat untested for years. >> the law enforcement's response was worst than the rape. >> it is decades before being taken seriously. in 2003, she was attacked in her home. she was just 16 years old. >> i was just interrogated as if i was a suspect myself. they kept saying you know you can go to jail if you are making this up, right. >> a threat by the attacker to return and kill her if he

cooperated with the police, she under went an exam to prepare a rape kit. the kits are an important tool in prosecuting the sex crimes. fluid, hairs and skin left behind by the attacker can be tested for d.n.a. >> he covered my face and no way i could identify him. the only chance is the d.n.a. they collected from my body. >> she assumed that the kit would be analyzed quickly, instead sitting on a shelf for nine years. in 2012, her kit was finally tested. this man, anthony, identified as her rapist. he would eventually admit to raping six more women. >> what do you think about the

fact he slipped through the crack a number of times? >> it is disgusting but not surprising. >> it wasn't just her kit that sat untested. the city announced it failed to test more than 12,000 rape kits, some dating back to the 1980s. >> we have had enough false starts. >> ac is the mayor of memphis since 2009. how sure are you that the number out there, the number of untested kits is staying where it is and not finding thousands more. >> based on the time that we have been in this inquire, i'm reasonable certain that is as far as it is going to go. >> he can't speak about the specifics of the case, be u the city launched an investigation.

saying that this city has a plan for testing the kits and prosecuting the crimes that the city discovers. >> it built up over a number of years and taking a while to get it done and do it right and that is what we are committed to. >> al jazeera, memphis. >> and you can watch that story and other compelling reports from america tonight and airing at 9:00 p.m. right here on al jazeera america. coming up, next, it is found the legendary biblical sin gallon of king david.

>> welcome back to al jazeera america. i'm del walters. climate change is a present day danger. that is the conclusion of a new report released by the white house. it is going to have severe consequences, including the weather from heat waves to flooding. >> russian officials are leading with ukraine. elections in ukraine are scheduled at the end of the

month. >> several states are holding primary elections today and lots of seats are up for grabs. rand paul is campaigning for greg brandon in north carolina and casting their ballots in ohio and indiana. >> good afternoon, tracking the heat across the south and we have cooler air that is invading parts of the western u.s. and watching the storm system and shower conditions in the west and dealing with mountain snow in nevada and those snow levels are dropping, and any tral plans here, that is where it is tricky at times and winds in advance of this system and the wind gusts are helping to create problems across the southern plains. this is an area where winds with gusting upwards of 30 miles per hour and higher at times and a number of wild fires are already

going and this adds to the concerns here and red flag warners all the way to kansas and oklahoma. the heat is near record highs and breaking a few records. well, it is going to head to the north and east in the coming days and the next storm system is brewing and bringing in the rain and helping out the wild fire situation and dealing with the threat of severe weather on late on wednesday and thursday and the primary threats are hail and damaging winds over the next few days. back to you. >> thank you very much. >> found that the legendary singal and captured the fortress of david, and talk nearly two decades and cost more than $10 million and now it is found. >> we want to thank you for watching al jazeera.

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