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>> a new forecast on the veterans affairs scandal to tell you about. an internal audit released today shows that more than 121,000 are experiencing long wait times. more than 60,000 are waiting for their first appointments, the va is eliminating its 60 day goal for first appointments finding it's not attainable. mike viqueria is in washington for us. do these numbers show how by the problem is? >> well, tony, this is the first in a series of reports, when that report emanated in the phoenix facility, the problems run very deep that they're not going away and it's going to

take quite some time to fix them. just look at this report, tony, among the findings, the system is just too overwhelmed to meet that 14 day threshold. that was an incentive for a lot of the folks to cook the books because there was no way in the world they were going to meet that 14 day threshold. also, you look at one of the other findings. the computer systems are antiquated within the va. it's almost unconscionable. they are going to have to be upgraded, working on that, working on upgrading and the staffers, it's going to take some time to fix tony. >> mike, what kind of wait times are we talking about? you have some new numbers that are just stunning and what is being done to fix this problem? >> be aware that these are some of the most egregious examples.

honolulu hawaii, the facility there, 145 days for specialist care. in texas, 145 days as well. mental health appointments, durham, north carolina 104 days. tony we can talk about the political nature of this not to mention the veterans care and how that's lacking. these individuals are trying to get doctor appointments. just behind me in an hour's time on a monday night you never see this. a hearing is being held, more calls from john mccain, a republican, ruche richard richad bloomeenenthal,

and others asking for answers here. >> thank you, mike. how to take care of hundreds of oven accompanied children entering the united states illegally. housed in nogales, arizona. the government is rushing emergency supplies to nogales $jennifer, you have been talking to local officials about the hundreds possibly thousands of immigrant children now staying in their community. what are they saying to you? >> tony, they are saying to me that at this point this is much more of a humanitarian issue than an immigration issue. never before has nogales seen this many unaccompanied children and teens flooding across the border. they are coming from guatemala, they are coming from el salvador, they are coming from honduras, escaping crushing poverty there, violence, we are

told there are rumors flooding around, saying come to america, the borders are wide open, you are welcome and able to stay. they don't know whether that's contributing to the influx of thousands that are crossing the border but they do believe that is probably a contributing factor. what the local officials have told us here is they have been kept in the dark to be quite frank. we have so many more questions than answers. earlier today i was speaking with the mayor of nogales and he said that at last count he was tolt tol told there were 750 pls children transferred to this facility. he doesn't have the exact numbers. he hasn't had a chance to tour the facility but he is expected to be granted access right now as we speak. and as i mentioned i did talk to him a little bit earlier about what his biggest concern is. >> we haven't really heard anything from border patrol about the needs. but i do know that the only

clothes they have are the ones on their back, okay? i don't know how many days they're going to be there. are they going to be a week, a month? they do need clothes to change after the shower. border patrol never asked for clothes. we are doing this as a humanitarian gesture from the city of nogales. >> what the city attorney said, he simply does not know how long the children will be here. this facility was never designed to house a lot of people for a long period of time. normally when they get processed they are held for 72 hours before they are then reunited if possible with family members. we do under that they do start planning to move some of the children to facilities in california, texas and oklahoma. it is not clear when that will happen tony. >> so they're just moving them

around, that's looks like what's happening, from california to texas to oklahoma, they're moving them around. >> they don't have the facility to, this facility was an empty warehouse and they have been receiving medical supplies, empty cots, up to 2,000 mattresses to make the facilities a little bit more hospitable to the children. there is no indoor plumbing we understand so they have been bringing in portable toilets for the children as well. >> moving them around is not an answer, it's just not. jennifer london in nogales. we will take a deeper look into this story, at 6:clof 6:30. chris cabrera. affecting immigrant children who hope to stay in the united states, will have to start all over again when they turn 21.

the justices sided with the obama administration, does not allow immigrant children who age out of the system to apply for visas. sergeant bowe bergdahl, the briefing comes two days before chuck hagel testifies before the house committee. libby casey, do we have any sense of the committee? >> we are hearing things divide along partisan lines. michelle bachmann says she extremely disappointed and overwhelmed by what she has heard. they watched video from sergeant bergdahl, from january, she found that to be problematic because it was outdated.

from the obama administration, including from congresswoman chikowsky from illinois, who often sides with the administration, following the model of leave no soldier behind, tony. >> lilibby, do you know the sene of capitol hill? >> when some of the members came out they expressed some appreciation getting to seize the video, and they were distressed at the condition that sergeant bergdahl was in. but from the likes of congresswoman bachmann tonight, that doesn't seem to be the case. before the house armed services committee, chuck hagel will be appearing, the critics have two questions, one, of course, how this decision was made, whether cock was consulted enough. they say no.

and two, whether this was a good exchange, whether it was a smart idea to give over these taliban fighters that have been detained in exchange for sergeant bergdahl. >> exactly, libby casey, from washington. thank you. it will let borrowers pay a maximum of 10% of their monthly income to repay loans. the presidential says congress needs to -- the president says congress needs to stop playing politics and act. >> far right in congress who push down this trickle down economic plan, telling hardworking families, you're on your own. nearly let student interest rates double for low income people. they tried to strip benefits for low income students, voted overwhelmingly to slash pell grants, making it harder for families to afford college.

if you're a big oil company they'll go to bat for you. if you are a student, good luck. >> loans taken out after october of 2007, this year's graduating class, listen to this will carry the highest level of student debt in history. john terret is here, fleshing out the numbers. john. >> over the last 30 years college tuition has simply skyrocketed. everybody knows that. it's a different argument about why it's gone up for quite so much. we'll leave that for another time. in the meantime, did you know this? i bet you didn't. since 1938 college tuition has gone up for 1128%, element 1200%. of the americans who attend college every year, close to 60% borrow money to get there. there are approximately 37 million borrowers in this country as of right now with

outstanding student loans and they have between them almost a trillion dollars in debt. 902 billion, almost a trillion dollars and 40% of those former students are under 30 years old. 42% are aged between 30 and 50 and 17% which is a lot, are older than 50. and i think you've got to feel a bit sorry with those 50-year-olds with that amount of debt on their shoulders. of the nearly trillion dollars of student debt, 50% is past due. roughly 63% of borrowers between 2004 and 2009, the last figures we have available, struggled to make payments on time, risking of course delinquent delinquencr account. later in life, that's the whole point, why president obama has acted on this because economists are worrying that the graduates of today are putting off buying

cars and homes. >> they are. >> because of a stone of debt which literally hangs around their deck. >> shackled by it. john terret, thanks. earlier i talked to ann thompson, executive director of the center for american progress and i asked her about the presidential order that the president signed today. >> we were thrilled to hear that the president was expanding the pay as you earn program which allows borrowers to peg their payment to 10% of their income. the program has existed for a few years but it was limited in scope as to who could actually take advantage of that program. what the president did today was expand that. there will be an additional 5 million borrowers who have access to the pay as you earn program, that the president signed by executive order today. >> how do you explain the system we have in place now for financing higher education? >> well look i would say the

system that we have is a little bit broken. there is increasing tuition cost. >> yes. >> tuition has gone up like a thousand percent in the last 30 years. it's totally insane. families are borrowing, students and families are borrowing to be able to have access to higher education. it is critical that people have higher education, access to community colleges and all of that, folks are trying to figure out how to make it work and the result is people are borrowing. we need to invest at the state levels, community colleges, state universities. >> could i lead you down a potential rabbit hole here? >> yes. >> why is the state government, federal government, get out of this business altogether and turn it over to the private sector? has there been a real debate, that being a possibility? there's a lot of money in this business. >> higher education is a public good. i mean the united states has created programs to make higher education accessible for dates

after world war ii, the veterans that came back had access to the gi bill, helped grow the middle class. government support for higher education is a huge part of why we've bielt strong middle class -- built a strong middle class. the solution isn't getting rid of that, but investing more to make higher education accessible and affordable to all americans. there is a huge lending market in higher education. a couple hundred billion in outstanding student loans. those interest rates are up to 19%. those borrowers are paying really high interest rates and they don't have access to the programs like the president extended today, the pay as you earn program, that allows are borrowers to have payments that are attainable. >> days before the opening game of the world cup in brazil,

subway workers and the government clash in sao paulo. the subway is the main means of transportation for fans who will attend thursday's opening match. gabriel alessandro reports. >> youth protest erst burn rubbish block the main avenue. tense at times, locking the gates of the station to prevent the new hampshirthe incursion o. later riot police move in to break up the crowd. everywhere in the city the strike has left buses packed with 4 million metro users scrambling for alternative transportation. traffic backed up for as far as the eye could see.

the strike was declared illegal by a court order, so more than a dozen workers on strike were detained by police, another 60 metro workers were fired. >> translator: we may have been talking to the government for more than two months but they have not been negotiating with us and now they are criminalizing our movement. >> reporter: by midday more protests as more than 1,000 activists from a homeless workers movement marched from the city center to also show support for the metro workers. when they reached the state transportation office, security was on high alert but it ended peacefully. local officials confident the strike won't threaten the world cup which opens here on thursday. >> translator: the federal, state and city government is ready to offer a big event this will go on as planned. for any issue that will come up we have a contingency plan that

will cover not only the met strow. >> reporter: the big question now is this the beginning of the end of these protests or will they continue through world cup? the answer is coming in a matter of days in a city gripped in an unsettling mix of public transport paralysis and public protest. >> the country was slammed with storms ownershi over the last f. the threat from the system is not over. meteorologist rebecca stevenson is following its track. and apple is known for new and innovative ideas. how will the stock split pan out? we'll see if it's a good move. ood move.

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the trees part, that's not a surprise, i.t. always happens in these -- it always happens in storms. some people had to deal with hail the size of baseballs. yikes! rebecca stevenson is following it. >> even in fairplay we had thunderstorms break out hail, wind, probably most impressive is where the tornadoes were popping up after the storms came over the rockies. the red dot indicating all the tornado reports. you may have heard before tornadoes don't happen in mountains, not necessarily the case. when we look add this map on your left, i.t. shows you how many tornadoes over the last 60 years or so where all the hits and the number of them east of the rockies. then the elevations of the united states, and the greatest elevation is west of the rockies. so what happens is the air, the higher you go can more stable.

so it's impressive that we had a tornado occur at 10,000 feet in colorado yesterday. now we're watching new storms move through. live radar, intense thunderstorms? mississippi has a tornado warning in place. we're going to see the storm warnings. wind gusts up to 60 miles per hour, rain gusts, well over two and a third when it comes to rainfall in memphis, no matter we have flash flood warnings in the eastern part of the state. >> that's a nasty system. thanks rebecca for that. starting today, apple stock is a lot cheaper. after the seven for one stock split kicked in. shareholders received seven shares for each one they owned. fast ball closed down lower after closing at $646 on friday.

jarrod levy, i asked the question. >> it is no more of a value than it was on friday. again don't forget olook at those numbers. keep this in mind too. because the stock is now seven times more shares, 6 billion versus 867 million on friday, i think stock does trade a little bit lower before it trades higher but if you are a long term investor and you like apple now is the time where you can buy it for $100. >> risk manager jarrod levy. >> so we told you about the three executive orders president obama issued today, signed today to help ease student loan debt. ali velshi is with us now so we get to talk about it a bit more. will this move help americans with their loans? >> yes, it will actually.

expanded a program designed to help borrowers who were struggling with their debt, the pay as you goes plan, basically what it does is caps the repayments at 10% of a borrower's monthly income. the white house estimates an additional 5 million borrowers will now be eligible to cap those payments. this is a big deal tony because some of the borrowers were paying a third, half of their monthly income in debt. when you cap it you stretch it over a longer period of time which often results in you paying more interest. it's not for everybody. it is not a given that just because you can cap it, you can afford the payments you're making, keep on making them. but for people who can afford it, this allows more people to cap their rates. you know until now it had been people who had gotten their loans between 2007 and 2011, now it's anybody with a federal

loan. >> you know the people, parents and young people who are shackled with this student loan debt, i'm wondering this may be a positive step but does more need to be done? >> this may be a part of a larger discussion of the soaring cost of university education. the cost of education is tripled in three decades. nothing else has tripled in three decades, possibly health care. but income last remained largely stagnant in that amount of time. so this is a problem because you have to weigh what it's worth. over the course of your lifetime, if you get a four year degree you will add a million dollars to your income over the course of your life, that's a big deal. but what it stops you from doing at the front end, it stymies the economy, because people don't go out and buy homes and things like that. so yeah, as a society we need to look closely at college tuition. by the way we are doing that

tonight on the show so tune in. >> the whole idea of the way we finance loans for students is something for the private sector to take up. >> well, it's something for us to look at very holistically. what's the government's role, what's the private sector's role, we're going down that road, trying to figure out because it's becoming a matter of crisis proportion now. >> ali velshi, "real money," right here on al jazeera america,ing ali, thank you. parts of what's called a grand bargain in detroit, it still might not be enough. bisi onile-ere has this report. >> ford, general motors and chrysler have pledged a total of $26 million to help ease the city of detroit through bankruptcy. this money will specifically be used to help support retirees and protect the dia. for over a year now there has

been concern that the city could lose some of its prized tart work. but a number of corporations have come forward with money trying to prevent this from happening. just last week, state lawmakers approved a number of loans known as the grand bargain that will help the city of detroit. nothing is set in stone. this first needs to be approved by retirees. i had the opportunities to talk to governor rick schneider about this. >> since this is done the grand bargain is still a fragile thing. we have come a long way but let's not stop now. let's give the support to the retirees to get a yes vote. the confirmation trial needs to be addressed but hopefully we're in the clear. think about the power of the detroit. we are focused on growing detroit where we can all win together. >> reporter: general motors and ford is contributing 10

million even, chrysler is donating 6 million. the dia is committed to raising 100 million so they're still having a way ahead. if these are approved benefits will not be reduced as much as proposed by the bankruptcy administrator. >> crossing illegally into texas, next we'll talk to a border patrol agent. and the new reports that sexual harassment in egypt is only getting worse, this time an attack on a teenager caught on camera. camera.

>> a deadly day in pakistan. at least four people were killed

in a suicide bombing in north waziristan. 29 people were killed when the country's busiest airport was attacked for five years. the pakistani taliban is claiming responsibility. soraya lennie has more. >> attack on karachi's international airport. the unfolding disaster was visible from afar. dressed in security force uniforms, a gun battle followed with real members of airport security then the army was called in. >> translator: while security forces confronted and killed them they destroyed them. it was good that this operation was over in about four, five hours. >> reporter: but four or five hours is enough to bring up the

question of the state of security in pakistan again. this is the country's busiest airport. last year more than 16 million people passed through here. security analysts say corruption within many of pakistan's security services is part of the reason the attack was so easy to carry out. >> it is a great threat osecurity. there is no city in pakistan that is safe, no area in pakistan is safe. the government has to take a very serious view of this, take action, so it tries to neutralize the forces which is the taliban in pakistan. >> the pakistani taliban says the attack is a revenge for the drone strike on their leader last year. it has warned the campaign of revenge has just come, promising

more killings to come. soraya lennie, al jazeera. >> warehousing thousands of child migrants. they were caught trying to enter the united states illegally and without their parents. seeing the facility in nogales, describing is the conditions, many children are sick and going days without bathing. border patrol officer chris cabrera, works along the border in the rio grande valley. chris, i want to ask what the border agencies are dealing with in a moment. let me start from this perspective. give me some insights into what these children have actually gone through to even get to some of these holding facilities, these processing centers, in most cases i understand they're traveling alone. >> yeah, most of them are

traveling alone from central america. some of them are in care of a family friend. or with other children about their age. it's just -- it's a terrible journey. they ride on top of trains, you know there's a lot of walking involved and then once they get to mexico they have to cross the river. they have to pay somebody to get them across the river. the river is pretty dangerous in and of itself. i can't imagine my 14-year-old son doing this job, he doesn't even go to the store by himself. i can't imagine three or four countries. >> chris you describe what happens en route to getting to the states. they cross the border, the mexican u.s. border they're in the united states and then explain to me why these children are being transported from temp to arizona, jennifer london our reporter was suggesting they may be using some of these young

people to california soon, in some cases on buses. can you explain why that is being done? is it simply because of the overcrowding? >> yes, we don't have anywhere to house them. border patrol facilities are set up for two to three days max. we don't have showers, we don't have bedding, hot meals are very scarce where we are. they have special needs, they are children, they are alone and they are vulnerable. >> so what is the policy attached to this? is it a case where you just can't turn children around? i get it, if that's the policy, that you just can't turn children around once they cross into the united states. you have to process them. is that correct? >> well, everybody needs to be processed when they come in. unfortunately what's been going on recently is we've had so many people come in, the majority of them are unaccompanied have children or a family unit, a mother with a child or two or

three children. they require special housing and there's not enough available. in the interim basis the women and children are being released on their own recognizance pending court appearance. usually they have a name and number of a family member in the united states, as soon as they're ready to go. my family member is in houston, somebody will be available to pick them up but it's a loophole that's being exploded. >> can you paint a picture for us of what people like you, agents, are up against? >> well, you know, we're getting hit with record numbers. we've had people, we've had groups as large as 250 at one time walk up to agents and say hey, i'm here, turning myself in, where are my papers? so it's frustrating on that point. and then when you look at the logistics involved, with moving

this many people at one time from point a to point b and they keep coming in and coming in and coming in. about 70% of sour apprehensions in south texas are, requiring detention space, longer processing times, special housing needs. and now we're having manpower shortages due to the fact that we're being tied up with this and then the other folks that are really trying the gets away are getting away. >> wow, and this is a bad situation, chris cabrera works along the border in the rgs rio grande valley. chris thank you. >> thank you. >> his detention is lil, ahmed

alifi, parliament will have to decide who will leave the country. a rogue general who wanted matige out. general amnesty by all prisoners declared by bashar al-assad. most of them will likely have their sentences commuted. stayed media did not say whether the amnesty applied to many prisoners who were in jails. >> malaysia flight 370, part of an international effort to find the plane. and in great britain, in an update we brought you last night, a public watchdog are

investigated are residents in birmingham. >> not so long ago this school was praised by the prime minister as a model of academic excellence. now it's claimed to not teach students about other ideologies. >> we already require independent schools academies and free schools to respect british values. now, we will consult on new rules that will strengthen this standard further, requiring all the schools actively to promote british values. >> yet children came in after their exams to say how wrong this was. >> we visit churches, we visit gurdwaras. >> just because we follow islam

and muslims doesn't mean we hate other religions. >> i'm going to ask you a question which i hope you don't find insulting. has the school told you to come out and talk tot journalists and say these things -- talk to the journalists and say these things? >> no, we just want to be famous. >> academic he be failing, a failure in government eyes. this woman who speaks for the pairnts didless teach training at the school. >> what evidence has been afforded. you had the lateliest article telling children about hell fire and prostitutes. when is it going ostop? how much dirt are they going to throw on us before we do retaliate and say look, is it because we're muslims? >> separating fact from conspiracy theory isn't as straightforward as some

government officials would have you believe. but they now see it that it's most important that antiterrorism work is conducted through the department for education. many feel that is the wrong response. several came together saying most parents want a balanced education but believe a few socially conservative muslims are trying to get a bigger voice which so undermine standards in secular state schools. this woman says she was forced from her job by constant harassment. >> do you regard what happened in your situation? >> wanting faith and islamic education, it's not about are radicalism. >> there isn't anyone who would agree with the government that extremism is an accurate description of what's been happening here.

lawrence lee, al jazeera, pa birmingham. >> an emergency meeting in wisconsin, over the state's same sex marriage ban. maria. >> judge barra crabb says she will hold another hearing again after listening to both sides again. brocking decision to allow same sex marriages. judge crab faile crab failed toa ruling. killing two police officers and a bystander. frequently expressed 18th government an antigovernment and

antipolice are sentiments. >> we are talking to neighbors, trying to make a determination what it is could have been the motive. >> complicated by the large number of witnesses. the shootings took place in a restaurant and a crowded nearby walmart. a truck that crashed into the limousine of tracy morgan was allegedly sleep deprived. hadn't slep for 22 hours. jimmy mack died at the scene. miami residents were urged to stay indoors today. the national weather service issued pooh dense traffic advisory. smoke and ash from a fire burning in the everglades. the ncaa has come to an agreement with former players

over college football themed video games. receiving a settlement of $20 million. sam keller is one of the scrrp plaintiffs. >> that's a big deal. >> that trial started today. >> maria you're back a little bit later right? >> yes. >> thank you. short term rentals have grown in plairp thankpopularity thanks ts like air b and b. robert reynolds has this story. >> this is a fantastic neighborhood. >> just blocks from the vibrant area of the french quarter is this neighborhood.

three feet away there is something something wrong he says. >> yes. >> that is your house. this is illegal short term rental. >> illegal short term rental basically a hotel. >> meg runs a residents association in the french quarter and thinks the problem is enhanced by property listing websites. >> a worldwide increase in tourism and the proliferation of websites like air b and b that makes this so easy to do and the realization by a lot of people that there is no enforcement in a lot of cities. >> listing websites like air b and b vrbo and craigslist, allows thousands to pick sites in individual homes. not listed as rentals. >> making the city stronger for

everyone. in new york the state attorney general's office has subpoenaed air b and b's records. in new orleans, the mayor said they're working with neighborhood groups and the city council to explore options to strengthen the law and enforcement. >> not just happening here in new orleans but in places like new york, san francisco and portland, also across the atlantic in amsterdam and u.k. because the tax revenue generated by hotels are lost. >> that's a lot of money. that's a lot of tax money that's generated. the hotel industry here, the tourism industry i should say is one of the biggest economic generators that we have. >> barry kaiser says the man who tones 2500 square foot home next to his has tourists in every weekend and is making nearly $10,000 a month.

>> i can't think of any other business that would be able to open up in a tourist residential community, are with impunity. >> we reached out to kaiser's neighbor, he refused to talk to us. thousands of residents are worried that their neighborhoods are quickly being overrun and the tax money is being lost. >> egypt's tahrir square, a teenager is attacked as thousands celebrated. and how people all over the country are helping a man being hailed a hero. in context. mashable says... you'll never miss the latest news >> they will continue looking

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>> egyptian please have arrested seven men's for sexually

assaulting a teenager in tahrir square as thousands celebrated the election of the new president. it's just an example of sexual assault. >> tony, sexual assault is on the rise in egypt. this time, a video appeared to show last night's attack. some of the images are disturbing. this video posted on social media appears to show a woman nairknaked with blood over partf her body. tens of thousands celebrate the inauguration of their president. the clip caused a stir. it shows a correspondent from a private egyptian tv network reporting from ta i rir square. she tells a associate, the

anchor is laughing and saying so what, they are having fun. all the people are having fun. the anchor later wrote on her facebook page, i was commenting on people's joy not the harassment. the network also apologized on facebook. it says, it expresses its solidarity with all the organizations that challenges the sexual harassment phenomenon in egyptian society. >> many egyptians don't want to accept that this is a pervasive problem. they think it's an anomaly, an unusual case but the fact is the numbers are showing it's become more and more prevalent. >> many incidents take place in tahrir square. >> you have women out on the streets, publicly protesting and participating in celebrations like this weekend where formerring field marshal sisi

was elected. there are reasons to act on their rage. >> roam the streets to stop sexual harassment. >> does it happen in those assaults, it harms the society as a whole. it is not just for women, not a women's thing. >> making sexual harassment punishable by five years in prison. often the offenders in egypt have gone unpunished. >> all right roxan, thank you. >> john meis, who stepped in to the attack at seattle pacific university,ing is getting

married this summer. >> as soon as folks found out that meis was getting married later in june they went to his registry and people total strangers bought all the items on his registry. not only that, but they also started a crowd-funding site for him so over the weekend more than $50,000 was raised for john and kaley meis for their future, tony. but today meis put out a statement that he's overwhelmed with people's generosity. but he asked people to donate to the victims of the shooting. sarah williams is 19 years old, $3400, just a little bit above that is what this donation page has received over the last couple of days. now, she was in surgery for five hours after the shooting. she was in intensive care, tony.

today she was upgraded to serious condition. she still has a long road to recovery ahead. >> all right maria, appreciate it. an inspiring story. hunter gandy walked 40 miles with his brother on his back. his brother has cerebral palsy. they say the support of the community helped them complete the journey. pretty cool stuff. coming up on al jazeera america, for the first time ever, a computer convincingly tricks people that it's human. what coilt mean for -- what it could mean for artificial intelligence. then on "real money." >> scary and exciting at the same time, i'll tell yu. no job no degree, i'll tell you

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only on al jazeera america. >> so here's the question. can a computer program actually trick a human into thinking it is actually a fellow human? well, for the first time, a computer did just that, convincing 30% of the people in a text conversation that i.t. was a human being. jacob ward, here to explain, tell us why it's important. >> well toifn, this was a -- tony, this was a russian-made program, in the touring test, from allen touring, the father of are modern computing. he figured in a subminute typed conversation into believing they were human. in this particular case the

programmers created a sort of back story for this computer program, they called it eugene gutsman, posed him as a 13-year-old ukrainian boy. and fooled about 30% of the participants. >> have you tried it? >> i have, actually, anybody can go out and check it out. it's pretty unbelievable. at first it sort of begins to converse back and forthwith you pretty well and then pretty soon it starts to say some pretty strange discursive things. maybe because he's 13 or maybe because english isn't his first language. this is the criticism that this has come under today that it's somehow just too much to kind of -- ipts a gimmick to really -- it's a gimmick to call it a kid. in a few minutes he started to repeat himself, cutting off his sentences, it was kind of

change. it's kind of early to call, "representative" into a phone. you will be able to identify are rorobo-operators. >> thank you jake. doodle for google competition, invent something that would make the world a better place, right? you're looking at the wi winner. 11-year-old aw11-year-old audre. she created a water purifier that actually changes contaminated water into

drinkable. she got a $30,000 grant for her school. i'm tony harris in new york. "real money with ali velshi" is next. ♪ >> well, it's a life raft for americans drowning in student debt. i'll tell you what the white house just did to help struggling grads. also the supp -- super computer that thinks like a human. plus machines taking over the world, seriously. it's happening. i'll tell you what it could mean for the