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>> people protect sally without her asking them to. >> an unblinking eye, an armed robbery captured on camera, the video revolution challenging the world. general motors has been a xorpt cornerstone for-- corporate cornerstone for america for hundreds of years, it's reeling tonight from its greatest threat - the scandal involving millions of recalled cars, today as the company announced the findings of an internal investigation, its c.e.o. mary barr re spoke out. bisi onile-ere had the latest from detroit. >> reporter: a pattern of ipp competence and neglect, that's how c.e.o. mary barra described

the results into a defect check. there were more than 350 interviews, 41,000 documents. it concludes, there's no evidence g.m. conspired to cover up the facts. however, there was a history of the misjudgments, a broken workplace culture riddled with failures. as a result the automaker fired 15 employees, and five others had been disciplined. >> i can tell you this report is thorough, brutally tough, and deeply troubling. for those of us who have dedicated our lives to this company, it's enormously painful to see the short comings laid out. as i read the report i was saddened and disturbed. >> some of the troubling conclusions revealed that some of the companies knew that ignition switches in saturn ions

and other small cars had the participation to shut off and disable air bags, power steering and other features. it took g.m. over a decade to issue a recall. so far 13 death and multiple accidents have been linked to the defect. barra, who claims she and other top executives were not made aware of the problem until december last year says the company will compensate crash victims and their families. >> i'm guided by two clear principles. first, we'll do the right thing for those harmed. second, we will accept responsibility for our mistakes and commit to doing everything within our power to make sure this never happens again. >> during her 20 minute address, barra stressed the detroit automakers commitment to safety. g.m. hired a safety chief and implemented protocol. mark is a business writer for the detroit free press.

>> the organization is shape, but it appears they took the right steps. >> last month the highway traffic safety administration fined g.m. $35 million for failing to act sooner. troubles may not end there. congress launched investigations of their own. and you heard there from mark thelin the autocolumnist from the detroit free press and joins us live. welcome. >> thank you. >> what was the most start lipping thing you saw in the report? >> how unblinking it was. it pulls no punches at all. general motors screwed up in a number of of ways that are almost inexplicable, and the people who were supposed to be checking to make sure that if a part failed, the result would not be catastrophic missed a problem that has gone on to cost a number of lives and cost general motors untold amounts of

money. are we clearer on where the blame lies from the factory floor to the executive level? >> a little bit. they are not naming the people who were fired. but it appears that the decision to use the defective part was limited to a couple of people, and the really grid call moment seems to have been apparently when one person had the part changed for a better part without putting the information into the system. people trying to investigate to figure out why did the accidents happen in some cars. they didn't have a clear evidence trail, and that seems to be part of the confusion. there was enough evidence that people should have realised there was a problem. the culture didn't make it anybody's responsibility to really dig down to the root of it. so considering the size and scope of the company, does that

do any good, or are these scaip quotes. >> i don't know. >> it is possible that if 15 people were cullable, that firing them will send an important message and make a difference within the company. there doesn't seem to be evidence at this point that the - that there was a conspiracy involving higher ups. it seems the real problem was not taking the matter seriously enough, not realising what the consequences of the problem could be. if that was as far as the mistakes meant, firing 15 people may be the appropriate action. you know, there'll be more independent inquiries into this as well. we'll know if there were more results. that will end a lot of

credibility. the internal investigation clears mary barra of connection to this. what does it mean for the c.e.o. honestly. it's her problem. most important, she has to set the tone for what they do going forward. something like this could be a chance to reset a lot of what they have done. one of the things in the report that they talked about meetings is everyone giving the g.m. nods. everyone would do that, walk out and never do what they theoretically agreed to. there was a culture of people not taking ownership. a telling moment in the whole presentation today was when barra told every gm employees around the world, if they saw a problem relating to safety and they didn't think it was dealt with, to send an email directly to her much if she follows through with that, if the people in the organization take that message, that will be an important change for the better.

>> is this a problem of a company being too big to control? >> no, no, i think it's a problem with, you know, the company having gotten out of touch with what matters, and having too many departments that didn't talk to each other properly, and when that happened, the people who were evaluating parts that went wrong were looking at a narrow set of performance criteria, and they did not realise that it could have catastrophic effects. it seemed like it was structure of, you know, things being done in very narrow silos, rather than a real wholistic view of what should be done. >> mark, good to see you, thanks for your insight. president obama's forcefully standing by his decision to make a deal to free bowe bergdahl, held for five years by the taliban. >> we had a prisoner of war

whose health had deteriorated. and we were deeply concerned about. we saw an opportunity and we seized it, and i make no apoll gis for that. >> with the president's defense, new details on bowe bergdahl's record. a secret military report obtained by the "new york times"ar said bowe bergdahl wandered off bases before. u.s. officials say the taliban threatened to kill bowe bergdahl if the deal to release him in exchange for five detainees was made public beforehand. several former members of berg's unit a -- bowe bergdahl's unit accused him of deserting the post and several died whilst searching for the sergeant. heidi zhou-castro has more. second lieutenant darren edwards died in a roadside bombing. the clipt from a rocket powered grep aid caught his eye. >> the two guys, he hit them forward to get them out of the

way and threw himself on top of them. as he did that he took a direct hit. >> reporter: his mother said when the army presented her with darren's coffin they offered this explanation. >> they were out on a mission to capture a high-ranking taliban that was instrumental in their strategic organization, and they had accomplished that, and they had sent him back, wherever they sent the prisoners. and then they were continuing on their mission. >> that's what the andrews family believed for five years. after bowe bergdahl's release, the phone started to ring. sandra andrews said her son's former comrades said now that bowe bergdahl was no longer in jeopardy, they had another version of the story to tell. >> and i said "i don't remember us looking for taliban."

ant ruse mother said the shoulder told her the mission was to look for berg. >> now -- bowe bergdahl. >> now we are faced with was all of it a lie. what was the mission. if he was killed looking solely for this young man that had left, i'm extremely angry. extremely angry. >> the army said this will investigate claims that bowe bergdahl deserted. sandra andrews said if found guilty asmir begovic will receive the -- bowe bergdahl should receive the maximum sentence - death by firing squad. >> i think he deserves the full letter of the military justice system for a deserter. >> the secretary of defense was unaware of any soldiers killed while searching for bowe bergdahl, for the mother of andrews the situation is clear. >> i think he's lying to the

public. he deserted, he's a traitor, and if obama needs a hero, i think we have a whole lot of men we can present. i think we have a lot of heroes. but he's not one of them. >> she says one of those heroes is her son. his dog tags hanging around the net. covering the feeling of betrayal she carries in her heart. the gitmo five changed for sergeant bowe bergdahl were mid senior level members captured in the afghanistan war. unlike some of the detainees at guantanamo bay. they were not cleared for release. we have more. >> john, the detainee attorneys and advocates i spoke to say this could be a positive sign for the men waiting for transfer. many have been waiting since george w. bush was in office.

one is a british resident. >> 12-year-old ferris was born the day his father was transferred to guantanamo bay of. >> i don't know how it feels to be protected and cared by a dad. he is a special dad. he cares about everyone there and helps them. >> the 47-year-old british resident has been waiting to be transferred since 2007. prime minister david cameron spoke to president obama about releasing amar. his attorney says the delay is due to the fact that he wants to return to london where his wife and four children live, and the u.s. government wants to send him back to his native saudi arabia. >> unfortunately we don't know where he'll go to saudi arabia. he'll probably end up in a rehabilitation center, which is basically a detention center for men released from guantanamo bay. there's no one that will hear his voice from saudi arabia. there are a lot of people who will hear his voice from london.

>> reporter: more than half of 149 men in guantanamo have been cleared for a transfer. in order for that to happen the deposit has to determine the detainees don't pose a security risk and it has to find a country willing to take them. according to the office of national directives, it estimated more than 600 men were involved in terrorist or insurgent activities pop release. analysts and journalists show that the deposit figure is inflated. a spokesman for the pentagon says: . >> omar's attorney says she's encouraged by the release of five detainees in change for p.o.w. bowe bergdahl. she said his health is

deteriorating. his legal team asked a judge to release him as he's suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder, and other physical ailments. she said once released amar needs treatment. all he wants is to spend time with his family and help others. >> he wants to work on behalf of people who don't have a force, people held in black holes around the world. people that don't have justice or freedom. >> reporter: after seven years of waiting for his freedom. his attorney says he's beginning to lose hope. the pace of transfers has closed. from 2011 to the present the number of transfers is three times less than what it was in 2009 and 2010. meanwhile a bipartisan agreement in the senate on a plan to help fix problems that the department of veterans' affairs, giving the obama administration greater authority

to fire employees. >> authorities and democrats have been in different minds to achieve change at the v.a. they were act come to a compromise on thursday, thanks to the chairman of the veterans affairs and a republican, a decorated war veteran. both sides get some of what they want, but not everything. a true compromise. democrats wanted to make sure that there's more funding for doctors. they'll see more than two dozen facilities across 18 states. get improvements and upgrades. republicans want veterans to get more choice in their doctors, seek care outside the v.a. facilities. senator john mccain said what they were able to put in the legislation is any vet living more than 40 miles away from the facility can see another doctor.

>> if there's a wait time that is unacceptable they should be able to go to the health care provider near their home, not get in a van and ride for two or three hours for a routine medical air. >> reporter: republicans want to make it easier to fire workers in the va that are not performing. that happiness in the legislations but democrats get some protections. it is up to burnie sanders, and others to convince everyone else in congress to get on board with it. >> meanwhile we saw the acting secretary of the v.a. make an appearance in fooepism. ground zero for the problems where veterans get doctor's appointments. he said that there's an audit taking place. the results of which will be released on monday. >> i think in an environment hike this i have a bias for

approach and transparency. in a situation like that, it demands more. we have to work to earn back the trusts of our veterans. we'll do that one veteran at a time. >> secretary gibson says he may be acting secretary, but is not treating the job that way, but is digging into the problems to affect change. >> that's libby casey in washington. shocking charges of racism against a supervisor at a cotton warehouse. former employees accuse him of trying to enforce a white's only policy at work. jonathan betz is in the news room with that story. >> reporter: more than 90,000 americans filed complaints alleging discrimination at work, rarely do we hear cases like this. charges of an openly racist boss who insisted, among other things, black workers use separate drinking fountains. . >> reporter: words that sound like they came out of the jim crow era.

but according to two black men working in a cotton warehouse, it was routine treatment by a supervisors. >> we was going through this every day at work. we got tired of it. >> reporter: eventually one of the men recorded the interactions on the cell phone. >> it was stressing me out. i got to do something about it. this man keep doing it to me. >> reporter: antonio and mario said racism did not stop there. >> he told everywhere in the warehouse, look at him, don't he look like a monkey. >> we know what monkey mean. it's offensive. >> reporter: it's illegal for companies to discriminate based on race. now the equal employment opportunity commission is investigating discrimination complaints after the two workers filed a complaint, and the contract that hired the

supervisor says it fired him. >> a worker who filed the discrimination complaint, nine days after he was laid off. the supervisor has not spoken publicly, but the opener of the warehouse was unaware of the allegations and stunned by the recording jonathan betz, thank you. severe weather swept across the midwest, bringing dime-sized hail, damaging winds, more storms on the way to the region. kevin corriveau has been tracking all this and has more. >> every single day of this week we have seen severe weather push across the united states. first of all, i'll take you here to south dakota and take a look at the video that came through. we saw golf ball-sized hail not only for south dakota, but it was flooding. it was a major problem across the region. down to sell eacha cannes cas, it was the wind damages. a lot of people without power

and a lot of powerlines were down. over to kansas, where we saw quite a bit of damage, over 150 reports of wind damage was reported today. this was the storm and as it made its way through, it caused a lot of problems, moving down to the south-east. as we look down the south-east, when it turns to the damage, this was a line, where you see the yellow dots, the areas of winds, in excess of 70 miles per hour. down to parts of the atlanta, the storm moving through caused delays at the airport. we have seen most of the storms. tomorrow, unfortunately, we are looking at the same scenarios as what we saw today. >> coming up, in solidarity, three al jazeera employees detained in egypt have a message in court today. >> sally ride, the first

american woman in space and the secret she held for years on earth.

a developing story out of seattle. police held a conference, one is dead, three wounded after a gunman opened fire at seattle pacific university. the suspect was wrestled to the ground by students and held until officers arrive the. a shooting sparked a manhunt in canada. police looking for a gunman, responding to a report of an armed man, happening in new brunswick where gun violence is rare. not a single homicide reported last year. roads have been emptied, families told to stay indoors as the search continues. president obama in france taking part in tomorrow's events, marking the 70th anniversary of d-day, wrapping up the trip to europe. today the president tried to rally european allies at a g7 meeting in brussels. he had strong words for russia. mike viqueira is travelling with the president. >> reporter: president obama is

warning his russian counterpart, time to back down or face sanctions. >> mr vladimir putin has the chance to get back into a lane of international law. >> reporter: although some forces moved away, president obama said troops are still massed on ukraine's border and has agents in ukraine trying to stablilize the east. if vladimir putin does not change course in the coming weeks g7 leaders are ready to act. >> our technical teams have been consulting with the european commission to identify sanctions that would maximise impact on russia, and minimise adverse impacts on european countries. >> standing beside mr obama. u.k. prime minister david cameron, who met with russian leader one on one in paris.

>> this was a meeting with a firm set of messages, which is that there is an opportunity for a successful peaceful and stable ukraine, especially now that there has been a presidential election. but the status quo, the situation today is not acceptable and needs to change. >> vladimir putin's meeting with cam rop was the first of -- cameron was the first of three. francis hollande dined with president obama and had a second meal with vladimir putin. mr obama has no plans for a formal meeting with vladimir putin. but they are likely to rubble bows at the commemoration on friday. if he sees putin, the president said he'll say in private what he said in public. >> russian armed forces annexing pieces of a neighbour is illegal. and violates international law. and the kinds of destabilizing activities that we now see, funded and encouraged by russia

are illegal. and are not constructive. a newa fact in nigeria's borno state killed 200 people. men suspected to be boko haram fighters targeted mosques and churches in three villages. they were set on fire. witnesses say the nigeian military was warned about the attack, but did nothing. coming up, band of brothers - the three d day veterans we introduced you to yesterday meet up in normandy today. plus, the return of mad cow, and now another american is dead.

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officers do their jobs. squoo a fourth deathlinged to mad cow disease in the united states. according to the centre for disease control a man in houston texas died last month from a fatal brain disorder thought to be caused by eating beef with cattle from the disease. doctors say it's likely the man was exposed to it while travelling abroad in europe. we are joined by a doctor in the newsroom. welcome. how unusual is this? >> well, this is only the fourth case we had in the us. across the world there has been 200 cases since we started keeping track. but the fast majority of cases were in the u.k. >> and do you constrackt it by eating -- contract it by eating

infected meet. >> exactly. when you eat infected meat, essentially the cattle, you can contract this, generally because brain or nervous tissue contaminated the meat. >> we assume this man contracted it because he travelled overseas. what is the possibility that it may have originated in the united states? >> highly unlikely. four cases in the u.s. in the u.s. we have a number of measures to protect against this. so one of the ways in which - or the way in which we think this contaminated the food course in the u.k. is cattle were fed the dead carcasses meat of sheep and cattle infected. fortunately in the u.s. we didn't have the contamination of the food supply and in the mid-90s, they needed safety measures. essentially we had information about how the meat was sorted.

>> how much of it is inspected. >> it's a very good question. less than one-tenth of one per cent is tested. >> one-tenth of one per cent. >> it's an issue that the u.s. da doesn't have enough inspectors. that's from mad cow and other infexzs. are we seeing a rise in animal disease spread to humans. >> i wouldn't say a rise, but we've been talking about middle east. and that's another infection from animals to humans. >> what are the implications of a case of mad cow in the u.s., if any? >> i don't think it's anything we need to be alarmed about. we need to try to do whatever we can to keep food supplies safe, and there's room for improvement. into thank you very much. >> we are keeping our eyes on the other top stories, richelle

carey is here with the briefing. >> general motors fired 15 employees over its largest recall ever. c.e.o. mary barra spoke to outline the results of an internal investigation over faulty ignition switches, she said a report showed a pattern of ipp competence and negligence. some of the recalls were put off for 10 years, resulting in 13 deaths. congress is moving to address issues with veterans health care. senator john mccain announced a bipart can proposal. it needs to be voted on by the senate, giving power to the obama administration to fire anyone suspected of misconduct immediately. veterans would be able to visit private doctors to get faster care. president obama considered changing five high risk prisoners for army sergeant bowe bergdahl. the president says he will not apologise. u.s. officials say he would kill

bowe bergdahl if the swap was made public in advance. they have a history of leaving the post. some call him a deserter. the u.s. government went to great links to save bowe bergdahl. a number of americans are still held overseas. we talk to a family of one of them. before bowe bergdahl's release was announced the u.s. government phoned one maryland family to let them know, the family of warren wine stephen, a hostage held captive in pakistan. >> reporter: did they say anything about your husband or did they ask about your husband. >> i asked. they said they had no news. i was happy that the sergeant was released and i was happy for his parents, and after that went

by, it was, "how come my husband wasn't released too?" war ebb is a husband, a dad, a grandfather. he was kidnapped from his home in pakistan, days before he was to leave the country he loved. he worked there for a u.s. government contractors, helping pakistani small businesses. >> he thrived on helping people. >> it's been more than two years since i was taken prisoner by al qaeda. >> this is now the haunting imaging of the once lively family man - a tape released last december by his captors. he suffers a heart condition and asthma will turn 73 next month. >> now, when i need my government, it seems that i had been totally abandoned. >> reporter: a state department official told al jazeera:

there were questionses why kaitlin coleman couldn't have been part of the exchange. >> they left american citizens there when they had an opportunity to maybe make a different deal. >> reporter: bowe bergdahl was military, seized in afghanistan by the taliban. wine stephen a civilian taken in pakistan, a difference to the u.s. government, but not to his family. >> a soldier left behind, what about a citizen left behind. he needs to be with his family. >> reporter: the yellow rib jps in bowe bergdahl's home town can soon come down, but not here. >> the trial of three al jazeera journalists gaoled in egypt adjourned for 10 days.

they are accused of aiding the muslim brotherhood. in court, egyptian prosecutors demanded the maximum penalty. 15 to 25 years in prison. during the recess, the journalist shouted. this is mohamed fadel fahmy. >> peter greste, mohamed fadel fahmy and baher mohamed have been held in an egyptian prison for 159 days. another al jazeera america reporter abdullah al-shami has been held without charges since august. he's on a hunger strike and is set for a hearing next week. it's been a year since edward snowden exposed the mass surveillance of american phone and internet. to mark the campaign, it's a campaign, reset the net advocated for tougher

applications. we have that story. >> reporter: in the past 12 months it's estimated 432 million personal internet accounts from the united states have been hacked through cyber security braps, that's 432 million, that's why the privacy and data security expert says to protect yourself online. >> the first thing you want to do is make sure you have antiviral software, it's up to date and running. nothing is perfect. what the hackers are doing is they know what the antiviral programs do. they are trying to write programs that will come in under the radar. >> he says avoid clicking on suspicious links, sent from unfamiliar email acts and make sure internal security protections, what is known as a firewall, are seat to high or advanced privacy. that is not enough. you need to be careful how to connect to the internet if you are using a wireless connection.

>> there's two way to do it. one way is not security, and anybody walking down the street - free wi-fi, let's kele connect to it, and the second is scurl. you want yours to be the one with the lock and key. even with the precautions, cyber criminals searched the internet looking for weak links to exploit. security experts say choose your connection. use ipp crypted email where possible, but... >> there's risks associated with being connected to the internet. for most people the benefits outweigh the risks. >> reporter: it may not be enough to stop a determined hacker, but it makes it harder. and last night we met three veterans from colorado leaving for france to take part in the event marking d-day. they are just part of a small group of combat veterans that

have vivid memories of what took placement. dana lewis caught up with them. >> reporter: groups of american war veterans came back to normandy. most over 90 years old. >> how old are you in? 91. >> i have you beat. 92. is. >> reporter: they say they are blessed to survive the first visit, 70 years ago. joe came to relive his memories, on the i think time back, it's more difficult. >> it's hard. it's bad stuff. >> reporter: june 6, 1944, ceda was part of the largest amphibious landing. americans, canadians and the british to free europe from nazi rule. he had a fronts-row seat,

piloting a landing craft to omaha beach and took back the wounded. >> people were laying on the beach, tank shot up. yes. commonsense said "wait a minute, something is wrong. this is not what we were told. it was going to be a piece of cake." it wasn't. >> reporter: it's believed 2500 americans were killed on d-day: in the first few hours there were so many casualties that american commanders believed that operation overlord was a terrible catastrophe, doom d. slowly u.s. soldiers, one by one broke away from frightened comrades and scaled the clips, taking out the gunners, clearing the way for thousands more to come to shore. >> others were retreating. >> reporter: on the 70th commemoration, this paratrooper helped to lead the veterans. they were celebrated by locals

dressed as g is, ear to spend a moment with an american liberator. >> the last word i heard when i went out the do was look to your left, look to the right, one of you will not see daylight. >> calendar well lied his way into the military. he was 16 when he came face to face with the enemy. it happened in a hedge row hours after he landed. >> they said if you survive, if you don't, you're gone. i hit him in the chest. as he went down on the ground he looked at me and tried to say something. that freaked me out. >> reporter: this week calendar well, c, da and two dozen others could receive the last chance that france has to see them.

stay with us for coverage of d-day beginning at 7am eastern. sally ride made history as the first american woman? space, but she kept a secret hidden from her friends, a secret many didn't know until after her death. her fascinating life is the subject of new books by journalist and author who knew ride for 30 years. i asked about ride's legacy and what she thought about ride when he met. >> i was so taken with her. she was one of the astronauts when i was assigned to the johnson space center and to cover the new programme. sally struck me as different to the john glenns, and the alan beans, and the alan shepherds. this was a woman who was loose, open and acknowledged that she

wouldn't have a job if not for the women's movement. called herself a feminist. i said why didn't you want to go into space. i said even you want to or don't want to. >> she was great. >> she had a double undergraduate major in english. she's a shakespearean. >> it wasn't an accident that she became an astronaut, or was it? >> well, it's interesting. she was. she wanted to be a professional tennis player. she was on the circuit. she tried to become a pro. she always said it was my forehand. she pivots, she's a great pivoter. immediately impose back to science, get the ph.d. one day received the article. saying n.a.s.a. was looking at women. saying "i can do that, plies, gets in. you called her, sally ride, not

an adjective but an active verb. why is she an active verb. >> sally was 5 foot 5, trim, slim. she didn't embellish things, she was direct. she would focus on you and tell you what was on your mind. there wasn't a lot of pretty stuff going along with it. she told the truth. this is another reason i liked her. >> the first woman into space. >> first american woman - two russians beat her to it. >> what was the pressure on her after she got back to earth to perform, to be that inspirational figure for all america. >> huge, can i tell you about the pressure before she left, and the press. sorry to say, it was mostly the male press was relentless. the worst question of all time asked of her, dr ride, when something goes wrong in training, how do you deal with it - do you weep?

>> she had to deal with it. when she came back, now sees a role model and sally said "i didn't join n.a.s.a. to be a role model", but i understand nigh responsibility. she felt pressure not to mess up, not for other women. she understood if she did something wrong, everywhere would say no woman can be an astronaut. see did well and wanted to do well, and for all the people that watched her and said if she can do that, i can do anything. >> this takes us back. there are probably a lot of young people that do not remember the phenomenon when sally ride got back from space. >> she was on every magazine cover. she was in demand. the number of requests for her, according to n.a.s.a., were exactly the same as for neil armstrong when he was the first man on the moon. she had to deal with all this.

she was a total celebrity. >> how did she handle it? >> this is a woman who was an intro vert. definitely an "i." and she had to psych herself up for every presentation and speech. >> her partner wanted the many parts of her life to be told. you deal with her double life, in fact, right. >> sally didn't think of - please understand. i never have this conversation with sally. >> you didn't know, how did you find out. >> i found out when she died, red it in the obituary. sally had been my friend for 30 years. i never asked. she'd been married to a man, they were good friends. i knew that tam was someone they worked with on the books. i didn't know about the relationship. it was held close. >> how was she able to keep it secret? >> this is an interesting thing. people protected sally without

her asking them to. there were things about sally that people knew and never told until they told me some, which are in the boom. during her lift people guarded her. they knew how private and intensely private she was. she never would have said to you "don't tell anyone." >> how difficult was that for her? >> i don't think it was. i think she just pulled it off. i think it was difficult for people around her, who knew what was going on and weren't supposed to say anything. i think that was the tricky thing. her partner obviously wanted it to be out this in the end. >> how do you think she would like to be remembered? >> i think sally wants to be remembered as someone who had a passion for science and wanted to pass it on to the next generation. her company is to get girls interested and staying in science, maths, technology, engineering. this is what she cared about. she sailed through without anyone saying "you can't do this

because you are a girl." she wanted to be sure she was available to others. and she saw the joy in science, and the fun of it. she wanted them to love it the way he loved it. >> lynn, tv journalist become author many times over. her latest book is sally ride, the first woman in space. >> tonight's image of the day is next. plus, caught in the act - a man with a gun holds up a biker and the violent robbery it captured on camera. camera.

earlier we mentioned severe weather making its way to the south-east. i want to take you to the south-west. where we see a different type of weather. that's the heat. it's staying over the n couple of days. there's excessive warnings, watches, advisories. that will continue, we think, for the next couple of days. look at the temperatures we expect to see on friday. vegas, 101 degrees. that is not the highest we see in phoenix by the time we get to monday, we expect the temperatures to rise to 109. that is about eight to nine degrees above average for this time of year. it doesn't taper off until we get past to midnext week. towards the east we saw warm temperatures, oklahoma city coming down by the time we get

to friday. here in parts of the gulf of mexico we are watching the area carefully for the development of our next tropical system. we don't think it will be a full-blown system. we expect to see a bit of flooding and landslides in mex cos. that's a look at the weather. news is after this.

the world cup kicks off in an and the brazilian government is putting finishing touches on its production. many brazilians feel left out. daniel schweimler reports. >> reporter: the brazilian government is adda mapt the world cup will be good for them. $14 million spend on new stadiums. little reaches the favelas, the shanty towns. >> translation: i think it's clear that the world cup is not for all brazilians, it brought us projects that benefit the

upper classes and big construction companies. everyone else pays the price. >> this is an organiser of the favelas, this one overlooking the city. it includes teams of me, women and children. >> translation: this is another form of political protests against the national and local government. our main go is to strengthen the community, bringing tanks to those convicted and suffering violence. >> reporter: football is a people's game and the world cup the tournament that brings nations together. it's not reached the favelas, where they are organising a popular cup to protect the exclusion. >> this man lives in an area where he has three children. the 28-year-old said there would be cheering on the brazilian

team. they are not part of the national celebrations. >> we are going to watch it here at home. we love to see the game in the stadium. the picks are too expensive. >> this is football brought back to its roots, a contrast, say the organizers, to the clits and glamor of the world cup, and a long way, they say, from the billions spent to the detriment of housing, health care and education. and now this. modern technology has allowed every day citizens to photograph and film everything, everywhere. with more surveillance comes greater privacy concerns. for more, we turn to science and tech nothingy correspondent jacob ward. >> on june 2nd a mountain biker posted an unbelievable video from south africa.

he's cruising along, and suddenly he is robbed of his bike at gun point. now, the thing about go pro is it's high quality. we see the robber in clear detail squinting up at the camera. for whatever reason he doesn't recognise that the camera is as valuable as the bike, but whatever. the point is na the guy is captured on camera for all time. it doesn't matter at the moment. but what we are looking at here is the future, and the future matters. already we have knot ep used to the idea that big news events are captured by cell-phone wielding amateur photographers. as wearable cameras are the norm, these will be the norm, we are approaching what i think of a massive public eye. we'll have footage of everyone doing everything all the time. a few years ago i reported on a project that the intelligence community sponsored, a prize for anyone that could come up with a

way the location was taken, based on the pixel information. they don't look at geodata. there's no cheating looking at the captions. the software recognises that there's the golden gate bridge up. here is where the photo was taken. we know that based on the documents that edward snowden leaked, the n.s.a. has been collecting millions of images every day for a facial recognition project. putting aside the privacy implications, and there are no end of privacy implications. the basic fact of the matter is law enforcement moves to the day where they can spot a suspect. where they look for the graduation photo. when that is the case, this dude stealing the bike will raid home to find the cops waiting for him. today we are lucky if one or two people capture a plane crash. in a few years we'll pick

whatever angle anyone wants to see. the public eye is about to see everything. >> that's jacob ward reporting. we end with an image from d-day. the royal air force red arrows performing for the 70th anniversary at normandy. -

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