this is al jazeera america live from new york city. i am tony harris with a look at today's top stories. more calls for the secretary of veterans affairs to resign. eric shinseki says he is doing everything to help veterans. >> creating social networks and a network to spry on military leaders. ukraine's armed forces faces new losses. rebels shoot down the military helicopter in the east killing at least 12 soldiers plus concern over concussions and president obama says it is not

limited to football. the calls are piling up on capitol hill now for veterans affair secretary eric shinseki to resign. >> it's clear that the va has ill served our nation's veterans for some time and that this poor treatment became even more alarming and more tragic lately. accountability for this starts at the very top. >> shinseki and other va leaders have been facing tough questions about a cover-up. lisa stark is in washington for us. if you would, walk us through the report that is seemingly confirming a lot of those original allegations >> reporter: it is indeed, tony. it's a report by the inspector general's. it is extremely troubling. it found systemic delays in treatments for vets throughout

the system. the report looked at the phoenix hospital that's been at the center of the controversy and it found that 1700 veterans who needed care who wanted care weren't even on the official waiting list. they could have gotten lost in the system. eric shinseki has written an opinion piece in u.s.a. today. he said he has called on the va to go and make sure to contact those 1700 vets and make sure they are getting the care they need. the secretary also saying, quote, we at the department of veterans affairs are redoubling our efforts with commitment and compassion to restore integrity to our processes and earn the veterans trust. he made no indication that he is about to resign. at the whitehouse today, white house spokesman jay carney repeatedly asked: does the president still have confidence in this shinseki. and he danced around that question. here is some of what happened today at the whitehouse.

>> does the president right now have confidence in secretary shinseki? it's a simple yes-or-no question. you told us last week he did. does he now? >> what i would point you to is what the president said when asked about -- >> secretary shinseki. i am not going to improve upon his words. >> and what the president said is that he will wait for the full report to decide who should have any accountability. now, shinseki expected to give the president a repreliminary report by the end of this report. so that could come tomorrow. tony? >> lisa, what has been the reaction on capitol hill today? >> well, as you mentioned, there have been increased calls for the secretary to step down, bi-partisan, democratic and republican. john boehner, the house speaker was asked about it today. so far, he has not called for the secretary to resign. here is what boehner said: >> well, i am going to continue to reserve judgment on general

shin s shinseki. the question i ask myself: is him resigning going to get us to the bottom of the problem? is it going to help us find out what's really going on? and the answer i keep getting is "no." "similar words from minority leader nancy pelosi who said it's easy to call for someone at the top to go, but whether that's the solution, well, that remains to be seen. meantime, boehner and other republicans shifting the blame really to the president, to the white house, saying he should be accountable, the man at the top for not fixing the problems with the va. so this story continues. as we said, tomorrow, the president may get yet another report on just how bad things really are. >> a lot of finger pointing going on, lisa stark for us in washington. lisa, thank you. iran is believed to be carrying out a campaign against the united states. cyber intelligence firms tells "the wall street journal" that they created a false social

networking account at a fake news website to spy on american political and military leaders. the alleged campaign began in 2011 and is still going on. u.s. military and intelligence officials see iranian hangers as more motivated to harm the united states than, say, hackers in russia or china. an investigation found some national security agency employees are revealing sensitive government information on their linked-in profiles that describe clearance levels, classified project names and what those programs are about. this despite an nsa policy that requires current and former employees to submit any information intended for public disclosure before it is published. former cia clandestine officer lindsey moran says this is dangerous. >> now, anyone from the aclu to concerned citizens to a foreign intelligence services could go on linked-inner other social networking sites and be able to find, who are the people who are

working on classified contracts and be able to target those people. >> 14 ukrainian soldiers were killed today when pro-russian separatists shot down their helicopter in easternvan. van ukraine's acting president says the hemming was shot down. one was a general. slovyansk has become the epicenter of fighting. at least 35 people were killed today, an attack in northeastern nigeria. suspected bell helicopter gunmen attacked three villages in borno state. residents say they torched homes and shot people who tried to escape. the attack comes as nigerian president goodluck jonathan vowed to wipe out the radical report. a report now from the capitol, abuja >> reporter: many nigerians were expecting president goodluck jonathan to give them an update on what the government is doing to rescue more than 200 girls kidnapped by the armed group, bell helicopter. but during his speech to mark 15

years of democratic rule, on thursday, in the capitol, abuja, he failed to do so. the president only said the government is doing all it can to get the girls back. >> the girls of chibok, and i am sure once again, that government is continuing to do everything possible to bring the girls home >> reporter: the president's promise didn't impress lawa lawan abana. his sisters and nieces were kidnapped and missing. he is angry and frustrated by the government's failure to free the girls. >> i did not give -- he did not give us details about the air force being put in by the military to actually rescue the girls. we understand that military

dictates intelligence, does not allow him to go into details. but we felt that what would have come out of his speech should have been specific details and con soling to those affected by the incident >> reporter: on monday, the head of the army says he knows where the girls are but won't use force to rescue them because it's too dangerous. on tuesday, there were reports that nigeria's former president had met bell helicopter representatives to broker a deal to free the girls. this gave the families of the missing girls some hope that their daughters would be freed soon. but since then, there has been no new information from the authorities about what's being done to rescue them. prote protesters are putting pressure on the government to find the girls. this demonstration took place outside the nigerian consulate in new york on wednesday.

the government says it can't reveal what's being done to rescue the girls for security reasons. at the moment, it's not giving any interviews on the abducted girls, all of which has left the families and millions of nigerians concerned and frustrated. evonne. >> hundreds of villagers in india protest neck to a tree where two teenage girls were raped and hanged. two of the four accused attackers are police officers. sexual violence against women is a huge problem in india. residents in the rural town left the victims where they were found to protest government inaction. jamil now from new delhi. >> villagers found the two girls hanging from a tree. a report from the medical examiner confirmed the two girls were raped and later strangled before they were hanged. now, the families of the victims and villagers are directing their anger not only at the

suspects in this case but, also, against the police. they accuse police of initially refusing to help in the search for the two girls and then, for later not filing criminal charges against the accused. the state government has promised action in this investigation and has already suspended two police officers. now, this whole incident comes about a year and a half after the brutal gang rape of a paramedical student in new delhi. >> shocked the country into having an open date and led to proceed tests and tougher laws. their the their crime statistics show a woman is raped in india every 22 minutes. this crime also shows that despite having tougher laws in place, these kind of brutal crimes continue to occur. egyptian candidate hamdin sabahi says there were serious irregul irregularities int. al jazeera

omar al sala has more. >> reporter: the only other candidate for the presidency and now, he's conceded defeat. the election process in itself and the democratic goal in the election was violated and lacked impartiality. i am telling you with respect to the people, we cannot give any credibility and cannot believe the figures declared until now about the participation of the voters in this election. >> the candidate is waiting to be sworn in once the official results were few. it was to give a chance for the word to see the majority of egyptians were in support of the army's political roadmap announced following last yearus coup. when polled opened monday, the reality appeared to be different. >> seems like empty polling stations across the country were a sign that a large section of society chose to ignore calls by egypt's military-backed government to take part in this

election. the low turn out forced officials to declare day two of the election a national day holiday to part . tuesday witnessed a low show in voters. >> prompted them to close shopping malls eight hours early with public service announcements made calling on shoppers to go and vote instead. >> even mosques were used with calls blaring from minerets. if you love god, go and vote for. he is one of two candidates con testing these poles, the former army general which led the quip which ousted the first democratically elected mohammed mors. voters remained low. the he election commission announced it would extol the poll by one more day, claiming

that hot weather had prevented many from taking part. but the last time e job descriptions voted in a president was in may of 2012. the weather was identical. the pictures, though, were not. back then, long queues of voters was what was the transition to democracy. the apparent low turnout in this year's election is being interpreted differently by all sides. the anticoup alliance and the muslim brotherhood have hailed it a victory. while others say it's a blow for the coup leaders. >> the military rule in egypt is at its weakest point. the coup is toppled by the empty ballot boxes. >> the results are scheduled to be announced on june 5th, but the winner could be announced much earlier as votes are finished being counted. the outcome has never been in doubt with all pointing for a

landslide. he said he wanted 40 million egyptians to turn out and vote those participating this year are more than those who took part in 2012 elections that brought about mohamed morsi. in many respects, this election is more about the number of those voting than it's about the candidates. al jazeera. the surge for malaysia airlines flight 370 may be back at square 1. shor authorities are convinced it is not in a remote section of the indian ocean off of western australia. the search is for from over. >> reporter: for the past two months, the search for the flight has been concentrated off of the coast of western australia. in early april, search crews heard sonic pings they would might be coming from the plane's black box flight data recorders. then, a u.s. navy sonar detector

called blue fin 21 was september 4,000 meters down to try to pinpoint the sounds. at the time the searchers were confident they were looking in the right place. the search in the vicinity of the acoustic dettexts can be considered complete. and in his professional judgment, the area can now be discounted as the final resting place for mh-370. >> which means that officials must now widen the search again to an area twice the size of be belgium far blow the service of the indian ocean in waters so deep they will have to map the ocean floor first. this accident happened without the crew reporting any problems in one of the world's deepest occasions for no apparent

reason. the australian government remains convinced that flight 370 is somewhere at the bottom of the indian ocean, near where its last in-flight transmission was detected. whether it will ever be found sounds more doubtful, arizona the economy shrinks for the first time since 2011, how the weather played a big role and why experts are still optimistic for a rebound. we told you about the young folks moving back with their parents because they just can't afford to live on their own. but next, we explore why. listen to this: baby boomers are making the same move. r

checking the big board, the dow rose by 65 points. the nasdaq daq and s & p were up on the day. wall street seemed to shrug off negative news about the state of the economy. the commerce department said that the gross domestic product, gdp, decreased at annual rate of 1% in the first three months of this year, the first declients

since 2011. the government thought the economy would actually grow by 1/10th of a percent in the last three months of 2013, the economy grew at annual rate of 2.6%. elan moi is with us, a washington post financial writer. it is good to have you on the program. we can't seem to get you on the program enough, elan. it's good to have you here today. >> thank you for having me. >> always a pleasure. >> the contract that we are talking about here, does the cold weather sprain it all, are there bigger factors at play? >> that is the big debate. certainly. the question is how much of a part? you know, you saw consumer spending be strong t a lot of that came from people spending more money on fuel, more on heating. so in some ways, cold weather helped gdp but hurt it as well because you saw things like after we expected them to be one

of the engines of recovery. >> consumer spending. >> that's the stuff part. oven times, economics described as driving a car while looking in a rear-view mirror. you don't know where you are until after you have already been there. these numbers are for the first three three months of the year over the winter. >> we are heading into summer. some folks are saying it's fine. things are clearly already better. however, there are some concerns that this represents more fundamental weekliness in the economy particularly in the housing sector where we have seen housing slowdown because of higher mortgage rates that have come down some. they are off record lows and we have seen pending home sales that show they were weak earn expected. we are not seeing that spring bounce back in all areas of the economy. >> weak earn expected but a little growth?

right? >> allegations of growth compared to the previous. the lower they were last year. the big surge and demand once the temperatures went up, we didn't see it in april. >> all right. all right. does the federal reserve believe the economy is recovering right now? >> it believes the economy is recovering. >> that's why it has continued to space out, buying billions of dollars of bonds each and every month. however, it has said that if things start to 13 south, it could sto that process or increase the amount of purchases it's making. now, we saw the economy actually tank out in the winter. the federal reserve hasn't changed plans. >> shows you how high the bar is and what the federal reserve will need to see before it changes course and strategy. >> one more since we don't get you on as often as we would like. a big jobs report. is the next week right for

april? any early indications of how that will come in? >> it's looking to be very positive. certainly the number that we see since december last month, we saw 288,000 jobs be created. >> will be an important sign to watch. we are seeing -- of whether we are seeing stronger growth in this quarter compared to the previous quarter. if that comes down or is not as high as analysts hope, that could be a sign that this fundamental weakness is caring through into the second half of the year. >> elam moy joining us from washington, d.c. thank you. baby boomers are moving in with elderly parents because of financial hardships. this story from san francisco. melissa? >> reporter: tony, that's just it. with millennials, they are in

their 20s, the financial crisis hit. they didn't have much job experience. it was understandable but boomers, this is the generation that ought to be preparing for their retirement, ought to be preparing to golf and cruise and, instead, many of them finding themselves back home? >> jeanine rosales has a list of chores to do. this afternoon, she has work on the front law. but it's not her front lawn. it's her mother's. forty years after jeanine did chores as a teenager, she is back at home. >> when i was a teenager, i grew up here. this was my bedroom. now, it's my mother's bedroom. >> rosales now lives in the basement, already struggling to make a career switch back in 2009, she was tired of her job as an office manager. the financial crisis meant opportunities dried up. she suddenly found herself unemployed and homeless. >> look at me.

i am in a position where i need to depend upon my mother so i can have a roof over my head because i can't -- i can't even get a job. >> jeanine is just one of many baby boomers in california who have moved back in with their parents. and their numbers are growing. in the past decade, almost 200,000 older californians have moved home as 68% increase. >> while millennials suffer from lack of proven job experience, the boomers suffer from age bias and discrimination. >> when you are 50 or older, finding a job becomes that much harder than if you are in your 20s or 30s. you saw people losing their homes. you saw people losing their jobs and then you saw long-term joblessness. >> rosales resisted and waited until all her options ran out before making the big move. >> i have no where to go. so, she was beginning to get sick. she needed more care. she needed some company and

help. >> she now pays her way to live at home. in part, by fixing up the house, working on different projects. for now, rosales has given up and is not actively looking for a job sometimes, it's wonderful. other times, it drives me nuts. >> oftentimes, the dynamics between parents and their children don't change that much from when they were teenagers. >> we clashed this morning. i mean we do clash. i think we are always going to clash because i am also very -- i am also someone who doesn't like to be told how to do things and i am 53 years old. i am like, excuse me but, you know, i am not a child. i am not a baby. >> now that her mother has alzheimer's, rosales has a compelling reason to stay at home. in these tough economic times, she is certainly not alone. >> tony, just a little bit of

background for you. we had a lot of difficulty finding a boomer willing to speak to us on camera. you can well imagine. what rosales told us was that she never imagined at her age that she would be in this position. tony? >> it would be embarrassing? right? as parts of the country, melissa, make an economic comeback, i am wondering, does this trend look like it will slow down or reverse any time soon? >> that's a really good question. what the ucla researcher said is that the housing market in california has stabilized. so you would think that there would be a trend of boomers moving back out. they are not seeing that. so, i think it will be another few years before we get a sense of how all of this pans out. >> melissa chan in san francisco. we are getting a look at the diversity of google's work force or lack thereof. google says 30% of its employees are female. 30%. and less than 14% are minorities. google says it wants to improve those numbers. the company says it is investing in education to promote computer

science within the two groups. rival palestinian groups hamas and fatah agree to form a unity government, but will it stick? and what will that mean when it comes to peace with israel? we will explore and heights students angry over their yearbook photos. they say the pictures were altered to show less skin.

♪ palestinians appear to be on their way to forming a unity government. it would bring the palestinian liberation organization. they have agreed that there is a hang-up on who will be foreign minister. details like that have de-railed and saiditionis hopes history repeats itself.

sglofrnling it is expected to be announced in the next three to four days by president mac moodament abbas. thursday we learned it will be led by current palestinian authority prime minister rami hamdulah who may hold the role as the interior minister for this interim government. the biggest challenge for the government in the next six months will be to hold a free and fair election such as general e richens as well as presidential e elections. another objective is to help rebuild gaza. it was in april when fatah and hamas put aside seven years of sometimes blood, differences to come up with this reconciliation agreement. it angered the israeli because they consider inch them a ha terrorist. but the palestinians say it's a

necessity. >> alan bin space mair is here. great to see you. >> thank you. >> we were saying in the lead here that this is the moment. trying to divy up the offices here where these talks have stalled and actually broken down. do you think that the two sides will be able to work through what is a difficult moment, a familiar difficult moment this time around? >> except that the circumstances have changed. you know, abbas wants more legitimacy. he needs that. he has been sitting as a president for four years. hamas is in bad straits now. the egyptian blockade, the israel blockade, they lost their base in syria. not much money come from iran. they need a change because in gaza, they are in a desperate situation. it is no longer the same way. they need to compromise. i believe that they will. >> what would be the impact of a

unified government for hamas and fatah come together and a unity government? what impact do you see? i won't pick the area but you tell me what you thank you. >> i think it's necessary to begin with. with whether israel agrees to enter back into the negotiation is beside the point. >>? >> the unity government, if it comes up and they say clearly we want to negotiate. we recognize the right to exist. we will continue to operate on a security issues. >> yes. >> except a agreement. even the head of the party in israel, latid, we will see what the position is going to be of the new government and we can act accordingly. >> is do you think if hamas is back in the fold with fatah and there is a unity government here that the potential is there for the designation of hamas as a terrorist organization? do you think there is the

opportunity that that designation might go away, change in some way. >> i think so. i really do. >> you do? >> i think so. >> i wonder how many people would agree with you but tell me why you feel that way? >> the notion that you can make peace with half the palestini s palestinians, it's not going to work. >> everyone says that. exactly? >> the israeli government says we hoping not negotiate with people who are not united and uniting, they say we cannot negotiate. they are looking for signs for ways to get hamas to embrace the arab peace initiative and if you don't have them part and parcel, that's what happen. >> you believe that is the way forward that there is language, there are core elements of that arab peace initiative that need

to be a part and that it is, in he essence a starting basis for peace between israelis and palestinians >> absolutely. on two or three occasions, he reiterated the conditions under which the palestinians, hamas -- >> does that agreement take us back to 67 borders? >> not quite. >> what does it say? >> they agree there has to be some land swap that will incorporate major israeli settlement into israel proper. >> what about jer us let me. >> under netanyahu, olmert, barack, they have reached an agreement on jerusalem. >> that's not something that cannot be reached. in the final analysis, both are stuck they have to co-exist. i think we are getting closer rather than further apart. >> let's pick up on they are stuck, the idea that they are stuck right now. what are the chances that a unity government, the palestinians, moves the process

forward? you can't expect too much from a unity government because this is a transitional government. they are going to have an election and then we will see who is going to win as a likelihood is that the fatah fraction will win and we will have to take it from there once the new government will be formed, but this is something to be seen later. >> al bin naher, pleasure. in pakistan, the country's prime minister is demanding to know why police literally stood by while family members stoned a pregnant woman to death. a 25-year-old was killed on tuesday after getting married against her family's wishes. roxannena sabery. >> hundreds of women in pakistan are murdered by their relatives every year. they claim they are defending the family's honor. pakistan's human rights commission says last year, the media there reported 869 of these killings. the u.n. says there are at least 5,000 of them worldwide each

year. tuesday's attack in broad daylight has shocked a lot of activists. they say the practice of honor killings has deep roots. >> mohammed mourns the death of his wife, he is blaming the police for failing to present it. his wife was beaten to death here outside the high court by around 20 members of her family. they were angry she married the man she loved instead of embreeing to an arranged marriage. she went to court to protest her father's claim that her husband had kidnapped her. we arrived at the court after 8:00 in the morning. her family was waiting for us at the main gate and then attacked us. they beat her to death and injured her husband. we filed a case with the police and her father has been arrested. >> pakistan's prime minister has ordered his government to investigate. these protesters say it's too little too late. >> it happens outside the court of justice. police were right there. there were people, public was around there and how could they let this happen?

i think this shows that society has become sick. >> sick, they say, because the murder happened in a bustling area in pakistan's second largest city and passersby simply watched. the incident is getting little coverage in the country's urdu language papers but the eng wish language dawn criticized witnesses for not stepping in. the paper asks: had it been a man, would people have intervened? or has society become so brutalized that all human compassion has vanished? women's rights activists say honor killings in pakistan continue because the murderers are seldom punished and society largely condones the killings. >> this happens because massogony and misinterpretation and abuse of so-called religious laws. and a girl who marries of her own choice, if she is above 18, she is legally an adult, constitution allows it, our laws allow it athe quran allows it. i don't see why women are being

killed. >> many pakistanis see it as a family matter and they don't want to interfere in other people's domestic affairs. all of the suspects have disappeared except the father who is in jail. >> roxannena, thank you. in china state media reports 55 people have been convicted of terrorism at a makeshift court set up at a stadium. the government trucked the defendants into the stadium in shin jang. the public trial was part of the crack cowen on separatists in the volatile northwest. amnesty international called the event shameful. >> in the spanish enclave of melia, aid workers are treating 500 migrants who forced their way over razor wire fences. it is spanish territory but sits on the northern tip of morocco. tens of thousands of migrants try to enter the eu every year. aid camps are housing more than four times the number of people they were originally designed to hold. and in zambia, the government is

working with tribal leaders to end the tradition of child marriages. more than 40% of young women are married before they turn 18 but stopping the practice requires pulling communities out of poverty. tanya paige has the story >> reporter: exams are on students minds as they walk to school. others have more grown-up problems to think about. she eloped with her boyfriend in february. >> he wanted to convince my parents we should mary. >> but it's her books, not a marriage bed, that her parents are insisting on. their chief tracked her down and ended her plans. she is part of a group of traditional leaders in zambia that's trying to end child marriages. he calls the police and somewhat uncomfortable meetings like this. the husbands are often much older than the brides. but not this time. he is at university. she dropped out of school customs and tradition must be done away with.

so basically at the moment, we are not going against tradition because the tradition that has been impressed now is to see the community in zambia. >> ruth chonway's early marriage was ended by the chief who often helps pay for the girl's school fees. >> i was missing for four days with my husband. my family was looking for me. when they found me, i was a bit scared of what my dad would do. so, i resisted at first. >> matimawa has spoken about child marriage spreading his message from the village to new york. >> the teenagers have been given a second chance. the chief doesn't have the resources to send them all back to school nor address what he says is the main cause of these sorts of marriages and that's poverty. >> marriage offered her a chance to be the head of a house hold. but the chief intervened and now she is back with her mother. >> there is no point at which we considered the issue of marriage

because she was way too young. we want her back in school. >> but they can't afford the $3 administrative fee to have her readmitted to school so even with progressive leadership, poverty is holding her back. tanya paige, al jazeera, eastern zambia. >> the parents of a man who we want on a bloody rampage are speaking out. maria has more on that story and other headlines making news across america. >> tony, the parents of the young man who killed six students last week in santa barbara said they are crying out in pain for the victims and their families. elliott raj heers' parents issued a statement through a friend. they say it's their responsibility to prevent similar tragedies. they want to deal with mental issues that led to their son's actions. in florida, a judge reduced the bail for a woman accused of d driving her car into her ocean with her kids inside. ebony wilkerson's bail was reduced to $90,000. a psychiatrist testified that she is not a danger to the

community. if she posts bail, she will not be allowed to contact with her children. in ohio, 138 cases of the meis he wills have been reported. me >> that's the largest number in any state. this year, 2 cray 8 cases have been confirmed throughout the nation. >> that's the largest u.s. outbreak in two decades. in chicago, officials say the willis tower is safe despite cracks that opened up right underneath a family who was visiting. a glass ledge on the 103rd floor and to shatter. the see-3 bays extend about three and a half feet for the building. willis tower officials say a protective coating that was covering the glass crack, not the glass, itself, they say the structural integrity of the ledge is still safe. in utah, some high school students are upset their pictures were altered for the year book. in some photos, sleeves were added and neck lines were

raised. school officials say they told students when their pictures were taken that the photos would be alterred if they didn't abide by the dress code. but students complained the pictures were altered at random. not everybody's arms were covered, they say. the school is not apologizing. >> no. the school won't. we know that the school won't. you are back a little later in the program? >> yes. >> head of homeland security faced on with republicans in congress. he was grilled over a document blirnd earlier this month showing the government released 36,000 immigrants last year. the releases have prompted tough questions. members of congress say the move is a threat to public safety look at the same list you have seep and i have seen some fret serious criminal convictions including homicide and other things. i want a deeper understanding of this issue, myself, to make sure that we are doing everything we should doing stoepsure public safety in this process.

>> he insisted three quarters of the releases were mandated by law. this comes as the white house announced this week it is delaying a review of deportation policies. paul beeban joins us outside of denver. paul, you have spent a bit of time now reporting on immigrants across the u.s. and mexico border. if you would, boil it down for us. what do we know about this mass prisoner release, and what is the issue at the bottom of this discussion? >> the issue at the bottom of all of this when it comes to immigration and so many other issues on capitol hill and in washington these days is politics. of course, as you mentioned, the republicans came at homeland security secretary jay johnson pretty hard this morning on a range of issues, not just this release of prisoners convicted of various crimes including homicide. 36,000, dhs and ice, the immigrations and customs

enforcement agency saying they were released on court orders, following the law despite the fact that some were convicted of violent crimes such as homicide and rape. there are reports that others have gone on to commit other crimes. but what it comes down to is that immigration reform has been stalled in congress for eons it seems now. so any time any issue comes up, there is going to be this kind of partisan heat like we saw today. tony? >> paul, you know, there is also concern about unaccompanied minors crossing the border. how widespread is this? >> this is a huge issue, a tidal wave of unaccompanied alien children, they are called, uacs coming from central america from really one of the most violent regions in the world. we don't hear about it too much in the u.s. since our focus has shifted so much toward the middle east in the past decade. this is one of the most violent regions in the world. piece are splfleeing, and flood particularly against the texas boarder. >> that's where the number of

detainees is highest, so much so in fact another story in the headlines today, a large number of detainees from texas were actually shipped to arizona. some of them just dropped off at a greyhound station while they are waiting to be processed in arizona where there is more capacity to hold these detainees. as you mentioned, he we spent some time in nogales, followed a man who traveled from honduras. young men and women trying to often reconnect with other undocumented family members already in the u.s. this young man that we followed was released into the custody of his father in houston, who is also undocumented. he may be there for months or even years while his immigration case plays out in court. tony, a very complicated and very political issue once again in the headlines today in washington. >> always is when we are talking about immigration, paul beeban for us. coming up on al jazeera america, a focus on youth concussions at the whitehouse today. why the president says the problem goes well beyond football and how drones are being used to save lives in the

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>> talk to al jazeera only on al jazeera america president on is obama says athletes and coaches need to stop playing through the pain and pay attention to the risks of concussions. >> we have to change a culture that says you suck it up. identifying a concussion and being able to self-diagnose that this is -- this is something that i need to take care of doesn't make you weak. it means you are strong. the white house held a news conference today calling for more research and better safety equipment. organizers hope to use the president's influence to encourage more young athletes to report head injuries. as many as 250,000 people young people are treated for sports-related concussions every year. jessica taff joins me with more.

this is a moment. the approximately spoke out on this before. this was a bigger event today. the president has you two young agethletes as i remember here y would think this is a moment where the president is using the bullypulpit to start a discussion about this issue. >> it's a unique situation because we have a president with two kids right now who are so active in sports. >> right? >> any of us have ever played. i was probably 1 of the 250,000 kids who had to do the same thing, too, going in. what he is trying to tell us is you can't sit there and rely on your coaches and the medical staff. right now, you have to look at this from your own point of view as a kid. get it started early. as a parent, you need to be pro-active and look at the signs. you can't say, hey, you are okay. suck it up. >> absolutely. >> shake it off, shake it off. you can't rely on it. you have to start looking at the signs. you have to make sure your kids are going to be honest about these injuries as well because a lot of times they think because there is no dizziness.

if you repeatedly hit your head, let's say even if it's against the ground or if it's just -- there are so haney ways you can do that. >> absolutely. >> you have short-term and long-term effects. they don't note what they are right now. >> what are some of the issues the president was talking about in this discussion today? because he is trying to essentially hold feet to the fire, everybody who is connected with these young people in this way to hold their feet to the fire on this. >> the biggest thing i got from his discussion was when he said, we don't have enough research. he said we don't have solid numbers. >> that's scary. >> right. >> we have so much. we are doing research. we need more. what they want to do is get something solid. they need to know exactly what the short and long-term effects are going to have. the n.f.l. is giving 25 million that's on top of the 100 million they have to do for the class action suit with thousands of players. >> that's right. >> there is a lot of money. they need research, solid numbers. they need to know what is going on and it's not when you have a

major con discussion. a lot of the little things. >> yeah. >> that have a long-term effect. >> let's talk about this again at 6:00 tonight? >> yeah. >> pope francis will soon host the president's of israel and the palestinian territories in a historic joints prayer for peace. the vatican says the two leaders will meet in vatican city on june 8th. pope francis extended the invitati invitation. he told reporters he does not want to get involved in peace talks but hopes a joint prayer will ease tensions. she is only 18 years old and just defeated the top-rank the french woman at the french open, but a lot of people are focused more on taylor town sowned's weight than heroin. we are following that. there was a battle in washington between republicans in the house and the first lady over the meals public school kids are eating. ray suarez lose inside the lunch box on tonight's "inside story." "than "thanks, tonk. the debate is further than is

pizza vegetable? what's at attack are the nutritional requirements put in place in 2010. schools are asking for a time-out saying the man data is burdensome, expensive and the kids don't eat the healthy food that must be offered. michelle obama says politicians playing politics with our kids' health. join me to eat your spinach at the top of the hour.

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ocean. right now, gauging its force involves a lot of guesswork trying to figure out where the storm is going, putting a drone on land and only getting a few seconds of data. this new experimental drone could change that. this is the view from the cockpit as an airplane flies into the wall of a hurricane. researchers want to improve the tools they use to learn more about a hurricane's intensity as it barrel did to shore. will it be a category 1 or a category 3? >> our ability to tell you what it will do at landfall, as far as not where it's going to go but what it will do as far as intensity, how strong those winds are, we are not that good at it. we are trying to get better. making strides >> reporter: this drone is one of those strides, called the coyote n august, researchers hope for the first time, they will be able to deploy a drone from an airplane and into the eye and the wall of a hurricane. >> the coyote weighs seven pounds. it has a 5-foot wing span.

the carbon wings are designed to fly with the hurricane. >> with a battery life of two hours, it will be able to fly as low as 100 feet measuring wind speed, temperature, humidity and pressure. once the battery dies, so, too, does the drone. it drops into the ocean. researchers at the atlantic oceanographic and meteorological laboratory won't say how much each one costs but they have received half a million dollars in federal funding to operate five of the coyotes. at this point, it's experimental tool used to observe. >> this device in its simplest form will give us a better representation of what actually is occurring so that we can warn the people that are in harm's way. >> if the drones prove successful during their mission, the hope is one day, they will be indis-pencible to forecasting a hurricane. >> you saw the wings of the drone. as i said, they were made of carbon. the big unknown is: will they be able to withstand these huge

hurricane-force winds of 100 miles per hour or plus? and tony, researchers say they hope they will. but they really won't know until they get that drone up. >> that's for sure. so, natasha, speaking of the researchers. we like to follow the money here how are they funding this project? >> so it's coming from federal money, the researchers we spoke to say they have been trying to develop this hurricane drone project since 2005, but it wasn't until congress gave money after hurricane sandy that they finally, got that money. >> natasha in miami. thank you. she is only 18 years old. but taylor townsend just defeated france's top-ranged woman at the french open. you know that wasn't easy. >> means she advances to the third round of her first grand slam tournament but forget the win. social media is instead buzzing about the chicago native's weight. maria is back with that story. this has been a longstanding story with this young woman.

>> it has. yeah, it has, tony. taylor townsend is the talk of women's tennis and even tennis star andy murray is a fan. how good is taylor townsend talent. chris everett wrote congratulations today lor townsend. all of that hard work is paying off. now, what's remarkable about townsend is the incident in her life which she said only made her stronger. two years ago, the u.s. tennis association tried to bench her. >> yeah. >> they refused to pay for any of her travel until she shimmed down and got into better shape. she parted ways with her coach. at the time, the gm of the player development program said they were concerned about her long-term health. well, he just tweeted out yesterday: what a gutsy win. she's got game and she's a gamer. and heroin has prompted others to comment on athletes. >> whatever. whatever. >> yeah. a tennis player's dress size

doesn't matter. >> there you go? >> go taylor townsend, tony. >> she's got a tough match. i think she is playing a spaniard coming up next. >> she is. >> carla suares navarro tomorrow. >> thank you. insi maria. "inside story" is next. schools want the federal money that comes with school lunches. they just do not want the man dates. house republicans want to free districts from the rules. now, the first lady has jumped into the political fray to defend school lunch standards. it's the "inside story." ♪ hello. i am ray