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the explosion of undocumented children from central america and central mexico pouring into the u.s. through texas especially is staggering, and may be causing the worst humanitarian crisis the country is seeing. the number of unaccompanied minister from el salvador and other places is a concern to u.s. customs. 50,000 children have been caught, and is expected to reach 90,000. on tuesday, there was an obama administration request for $2 million to handle the influ.. homeland security is taking steps. some measures

are controversial, including bussing children. in arizona, where 1,000 children are sheltered in a warehouse, say the transfer of children to arizona could be a crime. joining us from washington d.c. is ben jamman johnson, executive director, co-founded the immigration outreach center of arizona. his organization published two reports highlighting the abuse of migrants in u.s. custody. >> how bad is the situation. some are calling the huge influx of kids the worst humanitarian crisis the country has seen in years. >> it's a huge problem. not just ours, but a regional humanitarian crisis. countries in mexico, anama - they are -- panama - claims jumped. the united states is bearing the

large brunt, but this is a crisis and we need to treat it like a serious regional crisis. >> some of the kids are travelling thousands of miles to get to the united states. why the increase in the last few months? >> it has been happening for several years. it's been a spike in the last several months, even the last year. the number of folks coming has been growing steadily over several years, and it's an obviously outgrowth of the traumaticic spike in violence in countries in this reamingon, you see -- region, you see women and girls. there has been a 450% of increase in murders of women and children. honduras is the leader murder capital of the world. there's an enormous amount of violence. folks are fleeing for their lives, undertaking a treacherous journey to get to the united states and other regions, we

need to do everything we can to be a leader and be true to the values that have been a key element of our identity, which is we find a way to help folks like this that are in need. >> in trying to find a way to help them, the office of refugee resettlement is normally what should be in charge of dealing with the kids, but they can't. they are overwhelmed by what is happening. most are coming in through south texas. they are sent to temporary processing places like in nogales. we talked to the mayor, 1,000 kids in a warehouse with no showers, no beds. the situation is apparently getting better there. it seems crazy to me that you have people going through south texas, september to arizona, and this is what the attorney there is calling a possible crime. apparently some of the kids were

sent in buses and dropped off at bus depots in fienize arizona. arizona. >> i don't know the details of the drop off. it's a major problem. the idea that they'd drop folks off and leaving them to fend for themselves, obviously that is not the solution. border patrol, customs and border application has a history of not bean open and transparent. they have a pattern of abuse this they'll have to figure out how to address and overcome. hopefully whether it's motion and arizona and washington d.c. we decide not to play political games, we don't point fingers and we keep our eyes on important things, which is treatment to the kids, that deserve everything we can give interest. >> what happens apparently, they are setting up housing at

military bases in texas, california and oklahoma. we know the obama administration is trying to connect the kids with family in the united states. you are concerned about treatment that you guys have written, treatment that many of these kids receive in custody. >> the reports we did were on abuses by customs generally. it's worth recognising that the agency has a history, a problem of not being open to oversight, operating in secrecy. this is a time for them in regards to these kids and everybody, this is a time to get the house in order to make clear that the goal here is to look out for the best interests of these kids. we need to keep in mind that these are law enforcement people.

this is a different law enforcement agency. many of these folks have not committed any crime. they are not criminals, they are migrants, refugees. we have to treat it like the humanitarian crisis it is. border patrol has a lot to deal with. there are so many pressures and issues, and the obama administration asked for 2 billion. they asked for a senate committee saying that the money goes to good use. a lot of people suffering. pleasure to have you with us. turning to a collaboration that could lead to breakthroughs in treats autism, a disorder pleased to affect 1 in 58 groups. google is working with an autism foundation to house 10,000 genetic records of children with autism, their gepp oms, and that

of siblings and parents. making it available to researchers through cloud computing. they'll have access to huge amounts of information that could lead to greater understanding of how autism works. i'm joined by bob wright, co-writer of autism speaks, and former director of general clicks and c.e.o. of another company. thank you for being with us. this is a massive collaboration. the deposit is spending $90 million a year. what are you guys going to do that the deposit is not doing? >> the nih, at least at this judge tur does not support se questioning, believing it's too expensive and don't have the ability to do it in mass. it would have to be farmed out to different people. that's unfortunate because it's going to look old, that quickly. we

determined that about half of autism can be traced to genetics issues. the rest is environmental, which can bring into other things in it. trying to focus on genetics - 18 months ago we determined that whole genome sequencing was really the only nodology that we could employs because autism is so difficult to deal with. if we could get the $6 billion pieces of information, and get it processed, we'd have a chaps to break down the autism down to individual outisms a, b, c, d and e. that would bring in pharmaceutical companies and treatments, researchers from all over the world. we found each other with google the google wanted to be in the gepp omics business, they have a genomics platform in the cloud. they started it less than a year ago.

we got together on this. they said "listen, we'll help you, you have all this material. it's worth a great deal of time and funny. we'll help you on the sequencing. the cloud and the effort to bring the information out and store it and manage it. >> it is a tremendous amount of information that amp hospitals and universities goopt handle. -- couldn't handle. google is one of the only few places that can. >> 6 trillion pieces for thousands of gen oms. we have 1,000. >> how important is it. you have a grandson with auto. >> i have a nephew and a niece. one is high functioning, there are extremes, the other has never spoken a word. how will this help identify what

is going on in all those different cases? >> if we find six organisms, if we have a genetic description and preparations matching, so the people had the same presentation, we would have many, many researchers being able to develop look at drugs and compounds, avoiding a preparation or dealing with it. this is about personalised mead sin. why we did this the mao clinic dove in. they are doing it themselves. dana, a cancer institute in boston announced that they'll go into this. they are trying to do this themselves and, quite frankly, they don't have the ability to do that like this. the costs are huge. >> yes, the costs for google are

not the costs that others have, because they have more computational scientists working for them than anybody does. this is - had is not about the medicine at this statement, this is about the computational ability, sorting through the data, making it intelligible and useful. when you are a scientist, you somewhere to come on to their site and do your work like a virtual office, because you can't take it home. you can't take a three or 4 billion piece home. what's in it for google? >> they are sort of showing off the skills that they have. i don't precedent to say what their business piece of it is. but the reality is doing this 3 or four or five years from now, they'll be unique in the world, and people will come from all over the world.

if they want it as a business, they could do that. i think they are interested to determine, to show that the abilities they have put -- together can have a positive impact. google, medicine and science don't go together, line up, because the world can do it better than anybody. >> this is important, the research side, looking at what causes autism and creates a genetic therapy. we are looking at enormous costs that people are facing. unanimous that it costs the united states. 236 and 262 billion. >> most is paid for by parents. >> most paid personalities. >> don't confuse it as prevalent. there's nothing that you have to put so much of your own money into.

that's why i do this. >> we are seeing obviously more and more children becoming adults with autism. this will be a long-term issue for the united states to support these kids who become adults and families. what is autism speaks doing. what are you pushing the government to do to make sure that people can afford to care for people that need this. >> a lot of this needs to happen at the local level. this is schools. this is community support. communities embracing them. the government is only going to do so much. they certainly can do the medical side of this. they can do the insurance side of this. the next stage with parents is to get parents to do so much more in the community. it's not hard work, it's banding together the potential strength to get help. that is greater than many believe it is. we'll be the network, if you will, in television terms, and

they are the affiliates, we'll work together from the top down and the bottom up. from. >> i wish you the best with those efforts and the big partnership with google. so many depend on thx. >> thank you for giving me the opportunity to speak. >> coming up, the human genome can teach us a lot about ourselves. can our dreams tell us if we can get buy on less sleep. we go under the sea. jacques yves cousteau's grandson hops to break a record set by his grandfather. and will the threat of there's more to financial news than the ups and downs of the dow. for instance, can fracking change what you pay for water each month? have you thought about how climate change can affect your grocery bill? can rare minerals in china affect your cell phone bill?

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vigilant. with our personal liberties taken away from us, it better be done the right way. is justice really for all? jacques yves cousteau was the world's most famous under sea explorer, his grandson is honouring him doing something the legendary oceanography never did. fabien cousteau is in the midst of a 31 day underwater mission in a lab, looking at climate change, and more. he joins us off the cost of key largo florida. he's an ocean ag raffer, explorer, documentary maker. we've never had anything join us from under water.

it's great to have you with us. 31 days in the lab. 50 years offer your grandfather did something similar in the red sea. how did you come up with the idea, how important is his legacy to your mission? >> it's a pleasure to join us live from under the sea. and that is a first. my grandfather dreamed of doing this kind of thing, the technology was not there in his time, so we are honouring that legacy by going 31 days in the world, only in the marine laboratory, aquarius. he had done a series of habitat, he built them in the '60s, he was a pioneer that lived and worked under the sea in his own right. we are honouring him, his team and the aqua naughts since that have allowed us to get to this point and this mission, mission 31. this is different because of the technology, and you have

been able to do saturation diving, which allows you to be able to really spend time in the study. >> you are correct. this is a different situation than most people think, as opposed to, say, a submarine, where you are in a bubble or a one atmosphere environment, shuttling from one place to the other and being isolated. here we are immersed in the environment. it's an apartment in the sea, and we have a door to that aquatic world. we are pressurised and the same aime bient pressure outside, allowing to us dive six, eight, 10 hours a day, as opposed to a scuba diver that has to be relegated back to the air hour. the fact that you have done that, how do you get up. decompression?

>> it is a credit that we are taking here. just like anything else, it's a double-edged sword. once we are done with the mission, we have to decompress, which takes 18.5 hours to get back to the surface. >> take us through what you are trying to achieve. what are you studying? >> well, in our family it was thought that the ocean has been our life support system. as such, we need to understand as a species that no matter what political boundaries, geographic boundaries, the oceans pertain to us all, whether on the ocean frond or 1,000 miles away. what is happening to the ocean, it's happening to us. with that said, we are studying the effects of climate change, and certification as well as pollution issues, including

run-off from fertiliser and manmade chemicals, and why should we care when we are a marine biologist or a type of person with another career. these things are exteriorlied important. of course, we are doing it through the lps of adventure, so we can get the young people to make better decisions in their lives than we have. >> they'll be fascinated by what you are doing. the lab there is only about the size of a school bus. there are six of you down there. living. what are your conditions like. don't you have cabin fever. >> well, that's right. you may hear activity in the background. it is about 43 feet long by 9 feet wide or 13 metres by 3 metres and six of us have become new best friends, we have scientists to

technicians, my camera person and myself bonding nice after 10 days. we'll have to see what happens after 31. clearly you have some entertainment, you have an internet connection. what about food. >> i wish we had time for entertainment. we are probably more entertaining than the rest of the world. you can watch us live. we are eating mainly things that astronauts and campers eat. things that are freeze dried or pre-prepared, sea atmosphere, an open flame is a no, no, we want to avoid that. we cook with the microwave or hot water and pray for the times that we get fresh food deliveries down here. >> it's a fascinating experiment. we are grateful for you to have taken the time to join us. i hope you'll talk to us again towards the endment. >> it would be my pleasure.

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today's data dive gets some sleep. neurology prf source are -- prove seniors are recruiting -- professors are recruiting short sleepers those needing less than six hours of sleep. they believe genes are responsible and hope to develop a drug therapy. they are looking at how genes may determine whether you are an early bird or nightowl. research found that sleep is crucial to health in many ways. disruption in sleep increases risks for diseases and other problems including cancer and obesity. it comes on the heels of newly published research, a problem that didn't economist until modern times, revolving around

an inability to stop doing things. we can't stop reading, binge watching a series on netflix even though we are commaufed. volte delay of sleep impacts the ability to get a good night sleep and basic health. people that put off bedtime find it hard to regulate or stick to a routine. they are too tired. the cvc labelled insufficient sleep a public health epidemic leading to problems in concentration and memory, and issues at work with driving. 100,000 car crashes are caused by drowsy driving. they are killing 1500 people. this weekends a truck driver crashed into a car carrying tracy morgan, critically injurying the commedian and two

others, killing another passenger. the pre-frontal cortex which regulates emotion and behaviour is impaired with a lack of sleep. show. coming up, world cup excitement overshadowed by scandals involving soccer's >> i'm joie chen, i'm the host of america tonight, we're revolutionary because we're going back to doing best of storytelling. we have an ouportunity to really reach out and really talk to voices that we haven't heard before... i think al jazeera america is a watershed moment for american journalism

it leads - all the way to you. al jazeera america, take a new look at news. the world cup is days away and brazil is on the brink. the transportation strike inspected could be on the day before kick-off causing chaos for an opening game in sao paulo, as fans and players descend on brazil, construction of world cup facilities is not finished and protests fill the streets. let's bring in dave ziren's, al jazeera contributor, author of "brazil's dance with the devil, the world cup, the olympics and the fight for democracy." huge problems, numerous problems, protests,

transportation strikes, one in sao paulo that may start again, another in rio. squatters taking over property. any chance things will calm down in time for the tournament. >> it's possible. i would not expect it. it's not that they are people that may go on strike or workers are unhappy with the world cup spending taking place, it's that there is a confidence among the protesters that they have the capacity to disrupt the world cup with the entire world watching, and making their grievances knowning nod just to the -- known not just to the government in brazil, to f.i.f.a., but to the world, and try to produce a counternarrative to the one that brazil is trying to project to the world. that brazil is a tranquil police and an emerging global power. someone you know in brasz ill said that -- brazil said that f.i.f.a. is as popular there as fema was after hurricane katrina.

if you told me soccer-obsessed brazilians would turp against the world cup, i would have thought you were caszy, given the problems, is it fair to ask whether the world cup or olympics should be awarded to third-world countries. >> it's not that brazil is part of the global south or the third world. the problem is what f.i.f.a. and the international olympic committee bring to whatever country they go to. whether you talk about london, beijing, the united states. i mean, it brings the militarization, public space, the displacement of people and a rise in debt. this has been the case post 9/11, with the security measures demanded of a host country, and they step up world cup to world cup. brazil is the fifth largest economy on earth. sao paulo is the third largest city. rio is an expensive city.

it's not about the absence of development. it's about what f.i.f.a. and the ioc demand, that's why the 2022 winter olympics have two countries bidding for it - kipa and kazakhstan. as in the past olympics and world cups, you don't think they cities. >> the problem is what they leave behind. it's whether they bring money. they do make money for the olympics, and for the real estate concerns, of the megaents, and for the governing body, f.i.f.a. and the ioc. what they lead the country with is a bill. i spoke to george vessy, who wrote for the new york times. can you think of one example. he thought and said barcelona, 1992 olympics, and that's the end of my list.

>> what about the facilities, do time? >> they will be ready. will they be f.i.f.a. quality? altogether. >> before we go, i want to talk about donald sterling. after making everyone think he'll go quietly into the good night, agreeing to sell the l.a. clippers for $2 billion, that he'd withdraw his lawsuit, he and his lawyers say the deal is off, no sale and he'll sue the n.b.a. for $1 billion. what is happening. >> he'll rage, rage against the fire of the light. >> a lot of people are saying this is a sign that donald sterling has, in fact, lost some of his mental acuity and has his estranged wife said, has fallen victim to alzhiemer's. i view this as the opposite. this is who he is, who he as been. he has been in five lawsuits.

if he was a loved one, and a knock wood he is not. i would be more worried if he was taking the settlement. this is who he is, he'll fight this for the last. >> going $2 billion, more than the team was worth. great to have you with us. have a good time in brazil. that's all for now, coming up wednesday, one in eight american children will suffer abuse or neglect by the time they are 18. the author of a ground baking study will join us. the conversation continues on aljazeera.com, facebook, google+ or twitter. see you next time.

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