buweaponsbut long guns are are . residents want that changed. up next is "america tonight." check us out at aljazeera.com. >> on "america tonight": the child abuse scandal that's rocked britain. a beloved celebrity. the scandal almost incredibly widens. >> that's probably the tip of an iceberg. something like 1500 individual over a number of decades. >> also tonight, stopping the shooting in california's meanest city, the street capitalist that put cash on a loin.

a handful of killers. >> if i could engage 17 people a different way that could have a significant impact. >> "america tonight"'s michael okwu, with a look at richmond, california. why the program would run smack into opposition. >> what happens in the black community we always make false promises to people of color. always. >> and from the beaches of normandy to a small town in virginia, a shared salute to blood spilt. sacrifice honored on the 70th anniversary of d-day. >> and good evening, thanks for joining us, i'm joie chen. it is a commemoration that honors strong alliances and what they can do to overcome evil.

at omaha, utah, juneau, to remind the world what great powers can do together. again, as general eisenhower said, on that longest day, the eyes of the world are upon you. on this anniversary, as they were 70 years ago, the aging vets who returned to honor comrades who fell taking the beaches of normandy. and launching the beginning of the end of the nazi grip on europe. >> i'm just lucky i survived. boy, during the war when the shells were coming over, i would say, if i can survive this, i'll work the rest of my life for nothing, just to be alive! >> in tribute, hundreds of veterans, maybe the last great gathering of this generation, and world leaders who spoke of the past and the legacy for

future generations. >> here we don't just commemorate victory. as proud of that victory as we are. we don't just honor sacrifice. as grateful as the world is. we come to remember why america and our allies gave so much for survival of liberty at this moment of maximum peril. we tell the story of the men and women who did it. so that it remains seared into the memory of a future world. >> in this commemoration of unity for good, there was some awkward discord. two superpower leaders steered clear of a formal sit down or even an on camera handshake, signaling their current tensions. but as if to underscore the potential for bridging

differences russia's president vladimir putin met with ukraine's new president petro poroshenko. this day, a reminder of what unity can bring back. >> such a day is an nevada to work harder for -- an incentive to work harder for europe. i'm reminded what we have to do. >> without the allies, d-day, operation overlord as the mission was called, may not have been successful. europe and of course here in the united states. maybe most acutely at a crossroads town in southwestern virginia, that gave its men to the fight the way that no other community did in america. sheila macvicar. >> june sic, 1944 dawned overcast. the sea was rough, 5,000 ships,

150,000 men and that was just on day 1, the most ambitious amphibious invasion ever attempted. buster was an 18-year-old ship's mechanic. he joined the navy one month after he graduated high school. on d-day he was one of the 150,000 men. his task: to keep the landing craft's engines running as they hit the beach under german fire. >> when we hit the beach we knew we were there. >> on board his landing craft 30 heavily armed american soldiers. >> and how long would it take for those 30 men on that boat to get off? >> about ten to 12 seconds. it didn't take long. >> buster shafe made three trips to the beach that day, each under fire and many more in the days that followed. >> i tried to put it out of my

mind for years. and then when they built that morale it brought back a whole lot of memories. >> before that day would end, 4413 allied soldiers would be dead, 2,499 of them americans. >> we remember what they did, remember their sacrifices. >> his torn and a president of the national d-day memorial in bedford, virginia. a symbol of the markings used to distinguish allied aircraft. carved into the victory arch, the code for d-day, overlord. and a reminder of just how difficult that day was. no town knows this more than bedford, virginia, home of the memorial. there's a reason it's here. this small town, the population in 1944 was just over 3,000 people, lost more soldiers per capita on d-day than any other

community in the united states. >> there were 37 young men who were part of company a of the 116th infantry regiment of the 29th division who would go in on the normandy beaches on june the 6th, 1944. and of those 37, 19 of them in company a were killed within about the first 15 minutes of the invasion. >> the bedford boys, 19 dead. >> this is my two brothers. raymond and bedford. both of them were killed on d-day. >> lucille vargas was just 14. the adored younger sister of her two older brothers. >> she joined the national guard because they were patriotic and partly because they needed the money. i think they got a dollar for each time they drilled so a lot of them drilled. >> these were citizen soldiers. young men who came from all over the united states like these

bedford boys. >> on june 6th, company a was the only national guard unit in the first wave to hit the beaches. >> they were targets for germans. they really didn't have a chance. >> all through june and into july the people of bedford followed the course of the battle and waited for news. >> it came about the middle of july. >> sunday, july 16th. her brother, bedford, was dead. killed in action june 6th, 1944, on omaha beach. >> and then this one came on monday. then the following day. saying the secretary of war desires me to express his deep regret that your brother raymond has been missing since 6 june in france. my mother just couldn't handle it. you can't imagine what it was like to lose two children. i had a soldier told me saw bedford killed an then raymond

was wounded and left to the beam to be taken back to england and the tide washed into the channel. >> do you remember what it was like in bedford in mid july when your family and others began oget these telegrams? >> i often think the entire community was crying. when you take 19 men out of a small community like bedford it's a tremendous lose. >> lucille's brother bedford was buried at normandy, at the american cemetery. her other brother's body was never found. a girt, carried in a pack. >> the soldier was walking along the beach, he found bible laying on the sand. and he flipped through it and found the name. >> that's how it came back to

you? >> from omaha beach back to the parents. >> that must have given her comfort. >> she wanted, always treasured it. when i hold it, i feel like a little bit of raymond is here. i treasure it too. >> reporter: those that survived the beaches and the battles that followed are at least now well into their 80s. men like buster chafe, didn't speak about what they did or saw. >> when you look at this what do you think? >> well, it brings back memories of what we did. >> what they gave us was freedom. what they gained that day on the beaches was the beach. and then they gained these villages. then they gained a country. then all of western europe. we owe our freedom to those who were involved in that momentous event. so here we have to continue to preserve that legacy.

we have to paits on to the next -- pass it on to the next generation so we never forget. >> sheila macvicar, al jazeera, bedford, virginia. >> later in our program remembering and honoring the courageous fighten in the skies. d-day on whiskey 7. >> you could look down and see the striping on the water below by thousands and thousands of ships. we knew we had to get there ahead of them. >> voice from the aerial campaign later on "america tonight." ahead on after the break, the scandal on the telly, the fantastic entertainer now accused in hundreds of child sex assaults. in a stunning series of revelations that's set to widen further.

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>> we've been horrified by child sex abuse scandals in this country tragically over and over again. but new disclosures in the life of late jimmy savile defy imagination with hundreds of victims identified, even now more disturbing allegations coming to light. we get details from london and al jazeera's jennifer glasse. >> the reflection of stardom he had enjoyed over a 60 year

career. thousands lined up to pay tribute. his trademark cigar next to his golden coffin. a military honor guard of british royal marines carried him to his funeral. for years he was one of the bbc's biggest stars. his saturday night television show, jim will fix it, encouraged children to write in. the audiences were huge. >> do you know how many people are watching you just now? have you got any idea how many people? 20 medical mil people watching you just now. >> reporter: but soon after savile died, allegations emerg emerged, suggesting he had been sexually abusing children for years. so far they've received 400 about jimmy savile alone. >> we think that's just the tip

of the iceberg. so the latest metropolitan police estimate from london is that probably jimmy savile has abused something like 1500 individuals over a number of decades. >> reporter: it's only now that savile's exploits have been public that many victims feel comfortable coming forward. some after more than 40 years. >> we deal with a number of people who were abused over a large number of times. but i would say savile beats all of them. he's probably the most prolific offender we've ever run across. >> many of his show bis contemporaries end up here in court. >> 12 counts of inaccident assault. and just yesterday, 70s british! glam british rock star,

involving several celebrities at that time, some have been acquitted. bull they all appeal in comparison with jimmy savile, a pedophile hiding in plain sight. felix purvis remembers when he was there. >> jimmy savile is in the building. because he dressed in this distinctive way, it was kind of like a royal visit when he came. >> savile hobnobbed with royalty, prime ministers even the pope. at that time, he seemed untouchable. >> welcome. come in. >> then prime minister margaret that mucher gave savile a prominent role at the country's psychiatric hospital. the entertainer was a pro level fund raiser. he brought in millions over the years. that gave him free run to many institutions, like the stoak

mandeville hospital. savile also had his own room so he could stay the night. in a sign of the times a police detective in the late 1970s did raise the question whether jimmy savile was abusing young girls here but his concerns were dismissed because it was jimmy savile. >> he actually raised a hell of a lot of money for good causes. and you know the threat i suppose into the people who ran those good causes was, well if we cut off a link with jimmy savile we're cutting off our flow of money. >> the police investigation into the scope of jimmy savile's crimes, a report is due out soon. >> i think the people inside the bbc are pretty fearful what it's going to say. because they are accused of allowing this to happen on their premises. their defense, would be, well, we weren't the only, others

allowed it too, a culture of the times. >> a culture just coming to light. jennifer glasse, london. joining us to talk about the savile scandal, we appreciate you being with us mr. burke to talk about this. your organization is the one that hundreds of people reported to within a matter of weeks after the first reports were disclosed here publicly in the u.k. it's hard to get our heads around this idea that there could be as many as 1500 victims? >> well, weighs a life -- well he was a lifetime of serial sexual abuse against children, a very bad kind. the best part of half a century. and sometimes he would boast to other people that we've heard him bothing, he's already david schuster abused three young

people before going to work in the morning. we believe it was moarnl more t0 who were abused but many will not talk about it. >> gear glitter a very flam boy -- gary glitter a very flam boyant person in his own life. >> there seems to be contact between them. we have heard people were raped as children within pedophile rings saying jimmy savile and other people who were abusers were celebrity guests among not so famous pedophiles. it's shocking, some things we've heard on our support line were beyond imagination. >> now we hear the investigation into this is exposing links to the bbc and what the bbc might have done, this is one of the most respected news and documentary organizations in the

world. but there were allegations that things were known and helped to be covered up through the bbc. >> well, yes, that inquiry by dame janet submit a very well -- janet smith a very well respected lawyer, looking into children who were abused at the time. they must prepare a report that is due soon. the bbc might have to hold their hands up and say yes, we were guilty in that there circulate have been more safeguarding of the children at the time. they should is have flown that warnings were given and not acted on. we have to wait and see what the content of that report will be. but certainly, mistakes were made. there certainly should have been protection of children. >> certainly not confined to the u.k, in the saits -- in the states we have seen this as

well. but what allowed this in british culture for this to go on for decades and evade real public disclosure? >> that is the thing isn't it? it's across all cultures in the world, always has been, we believe, there are people who are a danger to children. how it was kept quiet, it was partly intimidation. he was connected to gang land culture. he was a quite of sort of powerful man. he had been a wrestler in his younger days, he was a coal miner, he was strong. from other adults who worked with him were quite intimidated by him. that may have been part of it. he was also very wealthy. there were allegations made by police officers that reports were made i think back in the 1970s that he raped two children he paid off the parents. so you know, there are many different things that seemed to have enabled him to get away with it. and he said before he died in a very famous interview with a

psychologist that he could get away with whatever he wanted. and he was unusual in that way. money, power, influence, you know, celebrity got limb a long way. -- got him a long way. he met the pope, he met the queen. it's astonishing what he got away with it. >> truly shocking international crisis. john bird, from the national association of people abused in childhood. thank you for being with us. >> thank you. >> a child endangered closer to home. next weekend we follow up, on the search for relisha. who is still working for relisha rudd. we keep our focus on her disappearance, monday on "america tonight." and taking aim to stop the shooting. >> 17 people responsible for 70%

of 45 homicides and 200-plus firearm assault, wow, we can wrap our arms around that. if i can engage the 17 people this a different way, that could have a significant impact on the narrative of what's really going on in the city of richmond. >> can the lure of a $1,000 a month payouts, have a result the police crack down haven't?

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>> now, a snapshot of stories making headlines on "america tonight." the cia is trending. picking up the twitter handle. @cia. don't expect a lot of disclosure but the first tweet got 50,000 retweets in its first hour. the figure setting the tone for d-day commemorations ronald reagan, was honored president reagan lost his battle to

alzheimer's disease in 2004. north korea is reporting that jeffrey edward foue is investigated for unlawful acts. he is from a dayton suburb. two other americans are being held by north korea. what does it take, for violence on the streets, in a country they only know, despite some successes there are skeptics. we get details from "america tonight"'s michael okwu. >> this is richmond, california. >> 1331. >> request the industrial city of 100,000 people has consistently ranked among the ten most violent in america with vicious cycles of gunplay between warring neighborhoods that have claimed hundreds of

lives. 19-year-old kamari ridgeley used to be a ridge puller. >> after my friend got shot. >> a drug dealer at age 12 he was accused of carrying a gun to school at 13. when a hail of bullets finally caught up with him, one of his own cousins had shot him up. >> i got shot on fifth and silver 22 times. i think one of the hardest thing for me was to let it go. you know? i could say if i was shot and i was able to walk i would never let it go. these streets of richmond we probably would not have even been talking right now. i'd probably be corner shooting right now about. >> but on leaving the hospital he was won over by agents of department of neighborhood safety. taking some very unusual steps

to prevent gun violence. among them building personal high maintenance relationships with some of richmond's most dangerous young men. helping them find jobs and counseling them right here at city hall. but what's really raising eyebrows, over an 18 month period, the ons offers this man cash. up to $1,000 a month in exchange for better behavior. >> politics and communication. >> program director devone bogan said when the city first hired him in 2007, desperate times called for drastic measures. take me back to the moment when it crystallized in your mind, just how these various parts of the program would be put poag together. >> law enforcement believed that 70% of the firearm assaults in 2009 were committed maybe by 17

people. i'm going wait a minute. 17 people responsible for 70% of 45 homicides and 200 plus firearm assaults? wow, we can wrap our arms around that. if i can just engage the 17 people in a different way, that could have a significant impact on the narrative of what's really going on in the city of richmond. >> reporter: to qualify for stipend, fellows must draw up a life map in which they set goals for future. after six months in the program they can receive up to $1,000 each month if they prove they are working towards their goals or nothing if they start slipping. >> i wrote some dollar-checks. some of these cats got a dar, two dollars, three dollars. because that's what they did, flog. >> while the chance to make some money might bring a young person's attention, boga

thrvetion said it's the tough love that -- bogan says it's the tough love that keeps them coming back. >> i think these young men are literally dying for relationships. positive, healthy relationship. they're dying as a result of despair and lack of hope. and what these relationships do, what this agency is all about is dealing and delivering large doses of hope. our theory of change is simple. i want them to desire to live. >> the numbers seem to back him up. since the launch of ons seven years ago, richmond has experienced a 66% drop in homicides. last year, there were 16 homicides, the lowest in ten

years. >> assaults are responsible. is the ons responsible? >> no, i'm going to tell you these young men are responsible. we are helping to create the conditions for their success but they are ultimately responsible. >> city officials and criminal experts say multiple factors have changed gun violence. change demographics and lower unemployment have contributed to a drop in serious crime in cities across california. but they agree that incentive-based outreach programs have achieved what decades of heavy handed law enforcement did not. >> this culture is fixated on punishment and control as the way in which we deal with crime and other problems. i mean it's essentially a military solution. the research has been clear that it doesn't work very well. >> barry crisburg is a

psychologist at the university of california berkeley. ice lakes dim prospects for growth. >> we don't just want to be randomly going out and doing enforcements action. we want it to be focused on the right people at the right time for right reasons. >> owen brown is richard's richf of police. the 30 year veteran says outreach programs are part of the full court press that has made richmond safer. >> we are part of the justice community so we have the whole incarceration piece. >> somebody says to you, my goodness, the ons is actually paying criminals. >> i can't speak for ons.

but i would probably say their cost is higher. when it comes to human life, can you really put a dollar value on that? >> reporter: are you saying that you do give them latitude because you understand the delicate nature of what they have to do? >> absolutely. absolutely. >> reporter: that latitude was tested in october 2011 when two rival groups showed up at ons at the same time. a brawl broke out, no charges were filed. >> how come mr. bogan would allow that to happen? are you telling me doesn't have control over those who are most likely to fight in his office? >> corky is a city council member. >> i want to see productive citizens in the community. that's all i'm asking. show me where they're working,

show me a check stub. >> bogan says buze is missing the point. two groups locked in a blood feud used their fists. >> i saw it as progress, man. i saw it as progress that they fought. you know, i'm grateful and i don't want to belittle how grateful i am to them that it didn't escalate to something more. >> reporter: is it the ons's objective or should it be to make sure that the men who come through this system ultimately get long term employment? >> no. we have fellows who have jobs. and they shoot people. being our job is to create environment where these young men stop shooting. >> reporter: when we return, two felons who once might have killed each other go on a road trip. >> we got together and it was like we was folks. and we was partnerless, in a

room together, chilling out, man. >> and later in the program we return to the beaches of normandy. and the forces that brought the fight from the skies.

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>> richmond, california is taking an unusual approach to stopping the gun violence that has infiltrated so many american cities. as "americ "america tonight"'s correspondent michael okwu said before the break, ons wagers to stop the violence with cash payments. >> devon bogan is proud of the fact that some of the felons in his program have gone on to

attend four year colleges. but his metric for success is far more stark. of the 68 at risk males that have entered the program, 64 are still alive. >> that sounds like a pretty good percent. particularly when you consider these are the most lethal young men walking the streets of richmond. >> renell robinsonso robinson p. he now works as a custodian at city hall earning $13 an hour. it's steady work but for a so-called shot-caller who used to make big money selling drugs, going legit is a big come down. >> have you ever been back on the streets? >> there have been times i thought about going back, quite a few times. but it's not worth the pain and suffering that you put your family in and yourself through.

>> now this is the street that i'm originally from. >> robinson says his situation is made harder by the strict terms of his probation. forbidden to go back to his old neighborhood where authorities say he's likely to get into trouble, he's got to navigate around the groups. >> it's like i'm in jail, because they're limiting where i can go. >> but ons offers some fellows the opportunity to travel outside of richmond. with support from donors, to take part the men must agree to travel with a rival. in may, ranel, a native of central richmond, took a trip up the california coast with a rival, they were accompanied by

sam vaughn, a are popular ons officer who spent seven years inside folsom prison. they might have drawn guns in the street. >> like gla glad 88th gladiator. >> they find they have more in common than not. >> we got together and it was like we was folks . we was cool, chilling and in the room together chilling out man. >> you discovered that someone from central and somebody from south richmond could actually get along? >> because at the same time we are all men. most like men like the same things basically. women, sports, having fun, being able to enjoy theirselves. >> would you consider rasheed a

friend now? >> we cool. he knows like i know we not friends. >> we're not friends. >> we're associates. like we cool, like we know it's a different type of understanding between me and him. >> yeah. with all honesty all we try to do is expose them to life. not the little microcosm that they live in but the globe. everything that it has to offer. the good, the bad, the ugly. we let them experience it so they have more options to pick from, instead of being a robot and doing what they think they're supposed to. >> what if i could right now produce to you a couple of names of people who went through that system who say that as a result of having direct relationships with the people at that office, the ons, they are much less likely to commit crimes now? >> if ons goes out of business tomorrow, how many people would

be back on the street, that don't have a job? how many? and where are they going to go from there? how are they going to make a living? one thing that happens in the black community that irritates the heck out of me. >> what's that? >> is we always make false promises to people of color. always. >> bogan says the ons has come too far to let that happen. with city officials and private donors whofully support its mission. >> it takes a heavy backbone, a strong backbone to get through the politics of what it took to create this office and sustain and maintain its existence. >> what does richmond look like five years from now, ten years from now? >> gun violence will be eliminated. >> no more gun violence? you say that without any doubt. >> you can't get up in the morning and do the kind of work

that we do and not believe that 150%. can't do it. we wouldn't be where we are today if six years ago we didn't believe we would be here where we are today. >> barry crisman believes that they the can do that in other cities than richmond. >> not just evil acts by evil people but there's a culture of violence that descends on a community. and the only way to really bring the rates down is you've got to change that culture. >> you're keeping the peace. >> another guy from the other side of richmond, we seen him, my boy told me where he was. i told my boy, tonight be the night he dice. we got a gun and seen him walking, i walked up at him and shot him and he ran. >> you missed him? >> i missed him. >> good thing you were a bad shot.

>> yeah, that night. >> four years after linking up with the ons, kamari has started mentoring youth. he's very honest about what made him change. he says relationships he has built with ons staff keep him in line. >> today i'm way different than the guy i was. i'm not the hothead ready to rock kill a person for nothing, you know? i'm in college going to be a businessman. i got a business mindset. the streets taught me that. life is bigger than richmond, life is bigger than life in itself. but you go to make life that big, you know? you got to lead. you got to get outside of richmond. >> "america tonight"'s michael okwu joins us now. michael you spent a lot of time

in richmond on this story and you've talked to officials and you've talked to these are young people. i wonder though did you feel it was a safer place? >> really tough to judge that joie. we're all lucky right? i denied grow up in richmond, california so i sort of helicoptered in if you will after they sort of quote unquote cleaned it up. i got the sense during the daytime that richmond is not what people said about it in the past. but i also got that sense that you often get in urban america when the lights go down. that is, in the evening hours, that this is still a place where people clutch their purses and do the quick step back home. richmond is a safer city today but it's still a very dangerous place, joie. >> and i notice they were reluctant these young men to even after their experiences together to call each other friend. why is that? >> that was one of the most, i think, extraordinary moments in

all the shooting we did there. i think that what you're seeing, when you hear those men talk like that, is you are -- you're seeing the strong bonds that they have with the friends in their particular neighborhoods. again, neighborhoods that are born out of a sense of tension and violence. they know that in order to survive in those neighborhoods, in order to thrive, they have to maintain those bonds. so they can't be seen fraternizing if you will with the rival you know gang members. there is this sense when you talk to them, and spend time with them, that these guys who were shot-callers this their neighborhoods are real guys. that essentially, the streets made them grow up way too quickly. and then when you put them in an environment where there is the not that subtext of violence, they become boys very quickly. shucking oysters, skipping stones in the bay, it was an

extraordinary transformation to watch but they also know that their lives are also still on the streets of richmond. and in order to survive they have to retain the ties that they already have. >> "america tonight"'s michael okwu, thank you very much. testimony of eyewitnesses, increasingly investigators and prosecutors are aware of flaws in witness testimony. faulty identification of witnesses are the leading cause of convictions that are ultimately overturned through dna investigation. this week, al jazeera's the system with joe berlinger. telling the tale of a witness that just got it wrong. >> you know, thousands of suspects are identified by eyewitnesses. but thousands of eyewitnesses just get it wrong.

of the dna investigations involved to date, 70% involved faulty eyewitness investigation. but what happens if there is none? in dallas christopher scott spent 13 years in prison trying to get to the bottom of that question. >> i was working, always home in time to need my kids, put them to bed, take them to school. and when i went to jail i was like, they got to be kidding me. >> christopher cost at case is one that has been reinvestigated by the dallas district attorney's office. james hammond led the investigation. >> here at this location, two gentlemen went in to purchase drugs. gun fire ensued and the resident in this house was killed. when the police arrived they were looking for suspects, two black males, one tall, one short, the witness had given that description. it was a report she had just

awoke, the spouse had just been murdered. it happened pretty quick. >> within minutes, the police cars arrived on the scene. the officer passed a car with two black men in it, he shined a light in, saw there was a tall one and a shorter one which matched the big description given by cecilia and called for backup. >> christopher scott was in that car along with a friend named claude simmons. >> first i got three .9 millimeters pointed in my face. what was this about? why are you here with guns drawn? you need to come outside, if everything is okay we'll let you go. >> they ended up taking chris into custody. take him into the police station, if he didn't have anything to do it, they told him he would be released. >> i was concerned being put inside a police car and haven't

did anything. >> christopher scott's fate literally his life would hang up on whether an eyewitness could correctly identify him. an eyewitness who had just seen a high impact home invasion and robbery go down in seconds. >> that's when the plot thicken. they put me in front of a plate glass window, handcuffed me to the bench. but everybody else in the room was pushed to one side where they couldn't see these other individuals, only me. my head was down, i'm tired, that's when i see the cop walk the lady up and say, "this is the guy who killed your husband." i am behind the glass window, but i could read lips. she said, she said si, she's hispanic, that's him, that's

him. >> more on the system, with joe berlinger, here on al jazeera america. ahead, a reunion for these vets above the beaches of normandy. the sky was no limit. limit.

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perspectives on every issue. al jazeera america. >> remembering d-day. thousands of allied forces stormed the beaches during the invasion. an iconic image of that longest day. but allied air power was also important. dana lewis with the man who played a key role in allied victory. >> bud rice said it was electric. being back in the cockpit. hands on the column of the c-47 he flew in world war ii. a plane called whiskey 7. >> you just hope you can get through it all right.

we're not magicians. we're just pilots, you know? >> 70 years ago, the mission over france was no joy ride. he helped drop 70,000 u.s. paratroopers behind enemy lines,. >> you could see the striping in the water below by thousands and thousands of ships. we knew that the troops were on their way over. we had to get there ahead of them. >> but the weather for the d day assault was daunting. he said they couldn't even see their own wing tips. >> you weren't worried about flak. but mid air collisions which happened. >> an800 other aircraft, flak fm the germans, some of these aircraft turned into fire balls with paratroopers on board.

>> we flew over st. merit glise. he only wand wanted to see a green jump light. >> getting everything off as quick as i could, get the rifle out. >> vital supply routes, stop the germans from bringing up reenforcements. today in st. mare amountglise, two days after d-day cruise lost his friend in a german artillery barrage. >> would you, this missed me and i thought it missed him, too. i just went across the road and i sat down and cried. that was the end of that day. >> memories all too clear for paratroopers and pilots on whiskey 7, then and now. >> a view from the skies from al

jazeera's dana lewis in france. and a final salute now to and from a missing d day vet. when 89-year-old bernard jordan disappeared from his retirement home, the word went out to police. but jordan jumped on board a bus of veterans headed to noormt. normandy. he promised he will get back home safely. we'll follow up on the search for relisha, a little girl missing for 100 days from a d.c. homeless shelter. who is looking for relatisha? if you want to hear more about our stories, log on to aljazeera.com/america the

tonight. we'll have more next time. time. been connected before. it's a new approach to journalism. this is an opportunity for americans to learn something. we need to know what's going on around the world. we need to know what's going on in our back yard and i think al jazeera does just that. >> as the world marks 70 years since d-day the u.s. and russia try to warm frosty relations. high profile journalist gets high in colorado on edible marijuana. raising questions about its dangers. eyewitness identification, top