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stonewall - an activist talks about that movement. peter macks, we join him in his studio and find out how this paintings shaped the '60s. we begin with what the white house is calling a humanitarian crisis on the border with mexico. tens of thousands of unaccompanied children illegally entered the u.s. this year alone. one reason for the surge, a rumour convincing americans to risk it all. paul beban is in honduras with more. paul. >> john, that's right. as you mentioned, this unprecedented uptake in this part of central america,

guatemala, honduras, el salvador is putting pressure on the u.s. and the countries in the region. this resume our that is driving it is that if people get to the u.s. they'll get a permit allowing them to stay in the country. >> reporter: on a dusty side street in san paid ro, the journey comes full circle. day and night one to sometimes as many as 10 or 12 buses pull up here, dropping off hundreds of dirty, dehydrated, exhausted hondurans who got court heading northar gave up. >> in a bus load of people, families, women with children. families coming back, on their way to the u.s. they have been brought back to the government. some of them have families to meet them and pick them up. others are here to stay.

we saw young children coming off by themselves, it's a chaotic scene here. >> why did they go north now. many of them told us about a rumour that made its way south. >> we went because. permit they were giving minors to stay there. if a parent arrives with a child, they give them permission to go into the u.s. >> we heard if we presented ourselves with our daughter to migration authorities in the u.s., that they'd give us a permit. >> the fact is there's no permit. the rumour may have begun with an understanding about this document that women with children are being given when detained at the border. it's a notice to appear before an immigration judge, but in the meantime they are freed with a bus ticket to stay with relatives in the u.s. jack told me that family workers are

struggling with immigration rules. >> translation: four months, three months ago it started to increase. we don't know about the policy they are managing or where the rumour came from. it's part of the increase this children travelling to the u.s. >> reporter: part of the problem may be the coy oaties, criminal smugglers, charging thousands to take people north. the honduras government - the ones making money out of the situation are the coy oaties. jack hasn't been sure whether the rumour is true or false. >> seeing the people make this decision, i thought it may be true. who knows. >> at san pedro's bus station,

where migrants begin a journey, rumours persist. a young mother will tell me why she's leaving. >> where are you going? >> i'm looking for the merp dream. >> maria heard it was easier to get in with children. she wasn't sure. either way she was going north. >> why are you going to united states? >> i'm looking for work to my boy's life can change. >> the lesson is rumours, true tore untrue won't stop someone determined to trace a dream. >> it's important to emfa size that the underlying root causes has been driving people north. chronic crime, poverty, lack of stunty and security, corruption. they are the reasons people have been heading north. the recent rumour driving the surging is persistent and doesn't seem to g away soon.

the obama administration is pushing back. what else can the u.s. do to stop the rumour mill. people in central america are obviously trying to stop it. >> that's right. you saw the tv adds by the honduran government. last year we had vice president joe biden in guatemala, emphasising that there are no permits. over the weekend jay johnson wrote a letter published in spanish warning parents not to send children north. at the end of it most importantly there's no permits waiting for their children. >> thank you. it is a long-trying process for migrants making their way to america. the journey rips families apart. morgan radford has that story. >> i met manuel this week while his son was in texas in

detention. manuel was teary after describing the gang violence prompting his son to travel to honduras and mexico until he reached the border and that's where he was caught. >> he stands here waiting. when he is not waiting, he's working. preparing a home for a son he has not seen in eight years. from honureas he crossed illegally in 2006. he only had enough money to bring one person, his wife or son. i asked why he chose to leave his son behind. >> translation: because i knew he could live with his grandmother who would raise him in the christian faith. after manuel junior was threatened by a gang back home, thinks changed. >> not each the military or the government can control the gangs in honduras.

they recruit the kids to do dirty work. those that don't want to be in a gang, who knows what happened to them. >> they paid an illegal guide to smuggle a coy oaty to the united states. >> we made a decision that 2-3 days of suffering is better than suffering every day if something happens to him in honduras. >> after travelling days and nights in honduras all the way to mexico, he was caught at the border. he spent nine days in detention, and there he said children were abused. >> translation: he told me if officers called them, and they didn't come quickly, the fers would kick them. >> reporter: after in my opinion days wearing the same clothing and sleeping under a sheet. border patrol sent him to a place for children. he was given now clothes and

english classes. he was not free. this torpingy helps un -- attorney helps undocumented children get through the legal system. >> they don't get a free pass. if a young person appears, they will be given an order of deportation. >> in new york state there's 50,000 pending cases, 6,000 minors and 28 judges. for now manuel is happy. days after he left, this happened. [ cheering and applause ] . >> reporter: immigration authorities put manuel on a plane to be reunited with his parents. manuel hopes his son is home for good. with a chance to live the american dream legally.

there was not a dry eye in the building. manuel said he hopes the story shows u.s. lawmakers that every immigrant is not bad, and when it comes to kids they are not usually coming here to work, but fleeing unthinkable violence in their home countries. >> thanking morgan radford. 22 states legalized the use of medical marijuana, but the lack of scientific evidence supporting its effectiveness has advocates questioning the rational. lawmakers and voters approved the use of marijuana for 40 different conditions, including leukaemia, looup us, cancer. there's not much medical research, because it's classified as a schedule 1 drug, making it difficult for scientists to study it. joining us now, chair of the department of the medicine of hospital for special surgery. does marijuana help the

conditions, really? >> i don't know that we know that it does. i learnt weeks ago that two diseases, looup us and rumah toyed arthritis were listed by the legislature, two diseases that they were considering approving for treatment with medical majorca. the new york state, i guess, saw the light and did take those diseases off the list before the bill was finalised. i was surprised and concerned. not only is there not good evidence in resume toyed arthritis and no evidence in looup us. i was concerned that medical marijuana could be damaging it patients with those diseases. >> we heard about cancer when it comes to chemotherapy and helping people with nausea as a result of that. there are is a lot of anecdotal

evidence saying this it helps those patients. what about dosage, when it comes to other conditions. how do doctors know how much to give. >> in the diseases that i know about and research and i treat, there's no information, and, in fact, i think in looup us, where patients can have cognitive dysfunction, thinking, medical marijuana, i imagine could make it worse. resume toyed arth ridize, 10 -- resume tide arth ridize, 10% have lung disease and a third lung involvement that may not be clinically apparent. i would be concerned about encouraging the patients to be smoking marijuana. >> here is a political medical question, and let me try to throw it at you. so what happens. i mean, would doctors be more comfortable if - i mean,

connecticut down the road is about to introduce medical marijuana. and it's probably one of the most restrictive in the country. how do doctors get in on this and help their patients? >> i think that it's going to be difficult for doctors, particularly in those diseases in which there's not good medical research, not good data. i think to some extent the state's passing the laws that allow for medical marijuana and certain diseases suggest that there might be evidence, and so i think it puts physicians in a difficult position. we all, as physicians, try to keep up with the medical literature and need more medical research in these areas. i think that the state legislatures need to consider evidence and consider expert opinion so that patients are not harmed. certainly need new drugs for the

diseases. >> do you think maybe the legislate ours have been using medicine and medical marijuana to inch towards legalization like we see in colorado? >> i can't comment on that. i'm not sure of the motivation. we want to make sure good evidence is used. >> is medical marijuana a bad thing? >> i think it could be a bad thing in certain diseases, it could be helpful in others. we need to be data based and think about this. and the state legislators who are making laws need to learn about each disease before they put it on a list. >> it's an issue that probably has not got enough attention. but thanks to you we get it tonight. good to see you. >> thank you for having me president obama sponds to republican plans to sue him. speaker john boehner announced that he'd interouf a bill a -- introduce a bill allowing the house to file a lawsuit against

excessive use of president obama president yam order. a republican controlled house is causing gridlock leaving him no choice, says the president. >> i might have said during the heat of the moment i want to raise the american wage, so sue me when i do. but i didn't, i didn't think they'd take it literally. we can't afford to wait for congress now, nas why i'll move ahead without them wherever i can. the president stepped up the use of executive order to carry out key elements of his second-term agenda. >> it's an historic moment in the fight for gay rights, beginning 45 years ago tomorrow night, known as the stone-wall uprising. when the police raided the club in new york city, they faced resistance from the gay community for the first time. the riot lasted six days.

john o'brien joins me and he participated. thank you for being with us. can you tell us what it was like that night? >> i was 20 years old. i was legally a criminal, mentally sick and morally simple. >> that's the way the is police and society viewed you. >> exactly. we were without empowerment as basic human being. there was no report, lots of abuse, and people profited off that aggression. >> abuse by police. >> by police, by mob bar owners and others that benefitted. there were lawyers that benefitted. they would pept them. they'd plea deal, get money for representing the gays in court. they made money out of our

oppression. there's a lot of elements to that. >> it was boiling under the surface when stone wall occurred, when that raid occurred at the bar, at the club that night. >> because it was part of that period. the civil rights movement had been going on for years, and many gay people involved or observing what was going on were affected by it. they were inspired by it. >> it exploded in new york, didn't it. >> that there was unrest all or the united states, natural in new york in the '60s, it was a period of time when people challenged power, authority and the way customs and septemberance of things had to be -- acceptance of things, how they had to be. >> i want to show the empire state building, you see the rainbow colours on top. when you see that in honour of the gay pride parade in new york

this weekend - what goes through your mind. what emotions do you feel? >> i'm happy with some of the changes that happened. i'm concerned about many people, not just gay and lesbians, but many people who go without rights or food or shelter. there are many gays and les by jobs in prison, in convalescent homes where they have no power or control, and they have problems with respect and rights. basic respect. respect is not given to most gay and lesbian people. >> in the '60s, you were one of the founders of the gay liberation fronted. how did that happen, why did you do it? >> we needed to make changes. i was involved in the peace movement, and i just had enough, and i decided that it was time for gay and lesbian people to

politically organise. i and others got together. we formed groups and began our movement for causing change and demanding rights and respect. >> some people might say this has been one of the busiest years, and the last couple of years have been some of the busy years for the gay rights government when it comes to moving forward. would you agree or not. >> this year has been noticeable and knowledgeable by many people that there is movement and progress made. i want to point out that the new president of the united nations had a unanimous vote, who is the one that supported the death penalty and for gays and lesbians to be kept in gaol for life. we see progress and have a long way to go. >> and concern around the world. i'm concerned about russia and the united states, and the al jazeera reporters who are kept in gaol in egypt.

all this is unacceptable. it's not a way for a civilized world to operate. >> john o'brien, thanks for sharing a little bit of history for us and taking us back to that time. >> thank you for inviting me. al jazeera is one of my favourite programs. >> we are following dangerous weather. there's heavy flooding in the midwest. rivers are overflowing and roads cut off. president obama is offering federal help to parts of minnesota. kevin corriveau is here with the latest on that. >> we have been talking about this for many nights. things are not changing. we have a kind of stuck weather pattern, causing a lot of storms to regenerate ooeping after evening. right now we are seeing them coming across nebraska and into kansas. i want to show you fresh video coming in from parts of minnesota, you can see the flooding. yesterday some from the twin city, and it was where the

cresting of the mississippi river was at its peak. unfortunately we are seeing more of this. the water is slowly going down the mississippi river. northern plains, central plains. what we'll see is a lot of water will be making its way to the south. this is what we are looking at now. the main concern will be minnesota, iowa, as well as into wisconsin. the flooding is going on, we have new flooding happening to the dakotas, and that's where the storms are moving in. rain is heavy. severe weather. we expect to see a lot of wind and hail damage and a lot of rain on saturated soil. sunday, more rain towards parts of iowa, as we go towards monday, that may be the first day that we see a little break. unfortunately all of the area is waterlogged, fields that are flooded and it will take 2-3 weeks and i expect this will be

one of the most expensive disasters we'll see this year. >> thank you. coming up, on watch - u.s. military drones flying over iraq. plus - mustang mentors, a new way to help military vets adjust to life after war. interesting people of our time. talk to al jazeera, tomorrow, 5 eastern. only on al jazeera america.

now to ukraine and two major developments - the country's president signed a trade deal with the european union. his refusal to endorse the agreement triggered violence and death. today ukraine extended a ceasefire with pro-russian separatis separatists. the rebels have until monday night. as the crisis in iraq escalates the pentagon confirms it sent armed drones to baghdad. they are flying over the capital, providing security to u.s. troops and diplomats. this is fighters from the islamic state of iraq and levant, gaining ground and moving closer to baghdad. mike viqueira is at the white house. >> for the past several week american forces have been flying between 30-35 sortees or

missions in the skies above iraq. they are conducting surveillance or identifying targets if president obama decides to go forward with air strikes. what we learnt is some aircraft are drones and they are armed drones. they are there to protect the american forces, not only the 300 advisors inserted into iraq, half of whom are in country, but u.s. embassy personnel and private citizens and contractors in iraq. the pentagon spokesman is rear-admiral john kirby. here is how he described the mission. >> some of those aircraft are armed. the reason that some of those aircraft are armed is primarily for force protection reasons, now that we have introduced into the country some military advisors whose objective will be to operate outside the confines of the embassy. >> john kirby went on to say the

same drone aircraft could participate if president obama decides to go down that road. >> and, mike, the chairman of the joint chiefs had thinks to say about iran - what about that. >> late on friday a radio interview, chairman of the joint chief of staffs, martin dempsey talked about iran. he didn't rule out military help, but said there would be a long way to go before that is possible. and u.s. forces, some of the advisors we have been talking about could come into contact with iranian advisors, who he acknowledged are in country acknowledges parts of the security forces and u.s. advisors could run into them around shia shrines. he's trying to determine how closely the iranian forces are embedded with iraqi security forces and that will go a long way to determining how much cooperation there will be with

the united states. he identified some possible targets if the u.s. goes forward with air strikes, including high value individuals within the i.s.i.l. >> mike viqueira at the white house. the u.s. special envoy to the middle east is stepping down after less than a year. martin indyk's resignation is two months after the latest unsec sussful attempt to form a peace deal between israel and palestinians. coming up, marrying a stranger. we talk to a woman who left her family and friends to join a church many consider a cult. rebuilding detroit, one window at a time. how residents rally around a new way to fix the city.

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adjust to life after war. and inside the studio, famed artist peter mack gives us a look. landmines kill thousands of women and children every year. many of them left buried during wars and conflicts long since ended. today the white house vowed to stop making and buying the deadly bombs. human rights advocates say it is not enough. >> reporter: every day people die or lose limbs from stepping on a land mine. most victims are civilians and countries like mozambique, afghanistan and columbia. >> translation: there are people in lanes or villages in fear, fear that there are landmines that can kill them or their children. >> reporter: the u.s. has not

made landmines since 1977. but it has the right to produce them. president obama says the u.s. will no longer make or buy them and hopes to join a 1977 treaty banning such mines, the use stockpiling production and transfer. activists praise the announcement but say it doesn't go far enough. >> there's no time frame for when it will commit to join the mine ban treaty. we hope it will set a time frame, particularly before president obama leaves office. >> three-quarters of the office joined the treaty. china and russia and the u.s. have not signed it. >> we feel there's a matter of time between the stigma and unacceptability of antipersonnel mines break-ins the countries into the fold. >> reporter: activists wants the u.s. to get rid of its stockpile. the u.s. stored more than

300 million antipersonnel landmines. >> it left the right to use the weapons, if it sees a need. >> the u.s. is thought to have used antipersonnel and mines in combat since the gulf war. another recall from general motors. three new recalls from the car manufacturer. it covers 4-wheel drive trucks that electronically switch to neutral by themselves, faulty windshield wipers on the 2013/14 chevrolet caprice, faulty shock absorber on 2014 core vets. bringing the total recalls for the year to 48, covering 20 million vehicles. more than 200,000 men's are drawn into a religious cult every year. my nest guest says she experienced it first hand. yo land joins me, author of "holy candy."

she was a member of the unification church. it arranged her marriage and she was promised eterm solutions. she found out the church was not what she thought it was. good to have you on the programme. >> good to be here. >> i'm always curious about how people were drawn into cults. how did it work for you? >> i did video research on a programme "soul searching", and i met a man working at the principal studies center. >> in london. >> in london. me gay me a cart with questionses, what is the purpose of life, and he told me that i would be able to find the answers to three problems i felt i had in my life, which was that my brother was schizophrenic. he said if i joined and dedicated my life to god, god would heal my brother. i was not satisfied with my love relationships, and he promised

me if i dedicate my life to god i'd understand what true love is. i felt i was living a selfish life, i want to do something to help the plight of mann kind. to do something to create a better world. misguided as that may be, he promise me if i dedicated my loif i'd begin to create a better world. >> how long did it take for you to join? >> it happened in less than two weeks. i started to study. after a few days i felt only safe in the church center. >> you worked. >> i was working. >> you gave them your money. >> i gave him everything that i had at the time. after that i started to go out fundraising, which was what really... >> we have pictures. you had an arranged marriage. you were married to someone you didn't no. >> that's correct. >> for how long. >> how long was a married to him

for? i was married for about 14 years in total. i love lived with him for about 12 years. >> what was your life like. >> when i married my huhs mapped for the first two -- husband, for the first two years we were not allowed to have a sexual relationship. so i continued my mission of bringing people into the church. >> how long before you got the sense that something was going wrong? >> to be honest, i didn't allow myself to have questions. i had left my country, family and friends and developed a series of patterns whereby i would stop myself questioning whether this was the right thing to do. if i started a question i thought i was letting satan come into my mind. i parade, sleeping less. i -- i prayed more, sleeping less.

i didn't question it until things fell apart. >> were others questioning or were people hping? >> i knew people were questioning, even in reverend moon's family whether it was true. i didn't allow it to affect me. >> i think if it could happen to you, it could happen to anybody. is that fair? >> i think it could happen to anybody. if you find anybody in a vulnerable moment when they searching, someone close to them is ill or dying, perhaps they are questioning their own life. they could be drawn to this type of organization. >> what warnings do you have for folks about - were you religious before this happened. i was not religious. i think i had spiritual bleefls and i was searching for an answer to the questions i had about life. >> what warnings do you have for people who might be drawn in or

susceptible. >> i would say keep questioning everything and trust your own inner guidance, don't let anyone lay down rules for what is right or wrong. everybody knows that. >> you had friend that tried to get you out. they tried to help you escape, is that right. they didn't succeed. >> they did not succeed. my ex-boyfriend at the time came and vandalized the church center, he mutt graffiti on the pavement outside and he tried to come in and others tried to come in and get me out. within a few months i was sent away and ended up in new york. >> eventually you got out because... . there was no moment i got out, to be honest and because i was dedicated to staying in the marriage etermly. when my husband left i realised that these things i dedicated my life to were no longer true, they never had been true. it wasn't an eternal marriage,

it wasn't going to last forever. i hadn't saved my brother, he was still schizophrenic. the world had not changed. i had to accept the facts that the things i believed were no longer true, were never true. >> how is your life? >> my life is good. i make choices not always good. sometimes it's painful, sometimes it's wonderful. i'm so happy that i have the freedom to make my open decisions, because i think that's what life is about. life is change, movement. that's good. that's what life is. >> fascinating story. you are the author of "holy candy." great to see you here. >> thank you for having me. >> detroit's economy is down. the city, spirits rising, especially when it comes to making streets safer, helping with a new strategy.

>> reporter: it's saturday afternoon, these detroiters are working on their own time to point over the latest round of gang tags popping up in their neighbour hood. they are part of a group no more broken windows. >> this is a tag, name, monicker. someone put their name here, because they can. >> they believe the number one defense against crime is to fix small problems like graffiti, before they become big ones. >> when you have a location that's dirty, it draws other types of crime. >> it's a 30-year-old policing theory, detroit's police chief made a new priority. in the past year the department not only focused on combatting major crimes, but it's cracking down on minor ones, like businesses that attracts trash and loiterers. >> when you take care of the broken window, it's amazing to

watch declining crime. >> in the first quarter of the year, violence and crime fell 25%. robberies and homicides have gone down 30%. police don't attribute the changes to the application of the broken windows theory, they are convinced it's part of the solution. >> i believe in it. it works. this is not the first time detroit tried the theory. two years ago civil rights groups protested after the previous administration tried to implement the theory that included stopping and questioning d suspicious people. this time around stop and frisk is not part of the plans. some critics leave making use of a broken windows theory is a waste of resources and pushes resources out of the city. >> does that mean they are getting rid of buildings and making communities liveable are or are they cleaning up. criminal justice professor does

not teach the broken window theory to her students. people here have bigger concerns. >> there's no street lights, garbage pick us, school - it's a free for all. >> as these kids finish up the last of painting they know that gang members will target this area again. >> we have to do what we can do to help the city. >> in a city fighting for a comeback the broken windows preach may not solve the crime problems, but there's hope it may be a start. for more, watch "the system" with joe berlinger, for an indepth look at the u.s. criminal justice system. taming a wild horse takes patience and communication. in texas veterans are learning

the skills as they train wild mustangs. it's part of a roim to help vets recover after returning from war. heidi zhou-castro reports. >> reporter: on a texas ranch thousands of miles from the battlefield is a challenge with flying hooves and wind-swept mains. she is mustangs have rarely been touched by humans, and the humans rarely made themselves vulnerable. >> i'm an depression, p.t.s.d. pretty much since i've been out, i have been like a couch potato. >> helen kirds volunteered to be a point door gunner. she has seen car bombings and carnage she finds hard to put into words. >> you see things on tv. it's like, "wow, a car bomb",

or, you know, a building that blew up. seeing if for real - there's no way to express it. those memories are far away as 900 pounds of muscle and spirit dropped playfully at her feet. >> i believe when my horse lay down, that right there dropped my level, my anxiety level from a six to a three. >> the mustang heritage association pairs vet rains with wild horses. the veterans have 100 days to train the animal. >> the horse positions hums to survive. his -- himself to survive. his goal is no different to ours - tying to find security --

trying to find security and peace. >> she will return three times a week until the horse is able to walk with a halter. the greatest change is with the vets. >> the vets have all these issues, sadness, and guilt. the horse finds the bridge, you walk though the issues. it doesn't judge you, it doesn't care if you have one arm or lig or what clothes you wear. >> they establish a new relationship and connection, transcending to family, friends and co-worker. >> when his head came around, i was in awe. i was, like, wow. you know, he chose me. >> as the veteran returned the trust, the healing begins. >> now for a look at art. peter macks is a pioneer in the

world of pop art. psychedelic shapes and colours helped him to define the 1960s. decades later he is creating iconic masterpieces. i sat in the studio in new york for the friday art segment. >> bold strokes, brilliant colours are the signature of peter macks, and they burst with life as you step into his studio. >> they are known for the brightness, the colour. >> i love brightness of sol ours. i grew up in shanghai china. maybe it was an influence on me. i wanted to be an astronomer. a lot of the stars come up. i'm contemplating how big is the universe, how many stars. it's getting bigger and bigger. >> macks was a big artist in the '60s, a pop icon. he helped to define a generation. >> there's so many things that

people think of. for a child of the '60s, the first thing that comes to mind is the psychodelic era. you repeat that in your art. that was the period. in the '60s, in the middle to late '60s, it's when all that psychodelia started to happen. >> love, peace, and peter macks. this is his poster from 1967. the sum are of love. it catapulted him to fame and made him a lasting symbol of the era. >> this was a sketch i made. after a year or so of doing things and being with the swarmy, and the idea of love was a big idea. we have to love everybody, each other, we have to love animals, we have to hough the planet or the -- love the planet or the people you don't like. i decided to do love and draw the love lady and it became a

famous poster. i sold tens of thousands and it became a famous imaging. >> every one had one of these. >> they sold for a buck or two. everyone owned a poster. i was so powerfully famous that anywhere i go, people point to me. i walk on the street. people go peter macks. i didn't know how to say yes all the time. >> what inspires you? here is the thing. i wake up inspired. i go to sleep inspired. i'm inspired every - when ip breathe i'm always breathing and inspired. >> so you have all your paints laid out. >> i have a cover. this sits on top of the paints. when i come in, all i do is wig

the the cover. 77 colours. >> so you start to point right here, and you put up -. >> a canvas, i pick out a brush, it could be a colour i happen to love. i put it on the canvas, that i think i want it to be. i put this brush back into water. pick up another brush and another colour going nice with the first colour, before you know it it's a landscape. >> you don't do a small drawing beforehand. >> no, i paint directly. i have done tens of thousands of images, but i never knew what they'd do they were famous images. angel. the landscape, profile lady. unbelievable. >> i painted jimmy helped brix. do you see him? >> i do. >> hendricks, the peatles, the

stones. they created the souped track for the -- sound track for the '60s. >> i had everybody from mick jagger to the rolling stones - anybody you can imagine has been up here. >> how is it that you connected with so many mousse irons. wood took was a magnet more culture. i was the artist. i grew and painted and rung out in the cafes with amazing people. coming up next... >>..then he wrote to peter love ringo, star, dot, dot, dot. >> more of my interview with peter macks.

yesterday during the world cup the fans had a good time in the stands. outside the stadium this is what it was looking like - flooding was going on across the city as heavy rain poured down across the region for the whole day. what we see is better weather there much the next game tomorrow, one is towards rio de janeiro, and as you can see a frontal boundary is pushing up from the south. they may see norms in their game tomorrow. for the north-east, we saw heavy rain in the week. that has gone away. we are seeing cooler and dryer conditions. when i say cooler, we are talking about the heat index.

new york will be at 82 degrees. the heat index will not be more than that. the winds are coming from the north. up towards boston, 81 there. what will happen in new york is we'll see the temperatures climbing by next week. we'll see 86 degrees. towards the south a lot of rain for new orleans. 88 degrees there. the heat index will make it feel like 85 degrees. and the temperatures coming into the '90s as we move towards next week. that's a look at the weather. news is up after this.

. >> in the second part of my interview with peter macks, he paint the world of top art - talking about famous friends and interesting pieces, while showing me around his studio in new york. >> graphic artist peter macks has been colouring our world for decades. his cosmic designs touching everything he can imagine from

posters to sneakers to piannas much that was given to ring jox. >> ringo came to me, he asked me to paint a piano. the day i finished he came to thank me for it. he said "peter can i have a brush." and he wrote down, to peter, love ringo, star dot, dot, dot. so i have one and ringo has bun. you did a boeing 777. >> i did a boeing 777. >> an ocean liner. >> the biggest ship in the world. i couldn't believe it when i painted the ship, it was this big. apainted it. they -- i painted it. >> they loved it. >> you've been the official artist for the olympics. >> five times at least. into you painted for six presidents. >> seven, eight. >> you painted for the world series, the super bowl, the u.s.

open, nascar, the kentucky derby, that's to start. >> and, you know, every time i did one of those i thought to myself maybe i shouldn't do it, i should just paint regular paintings. but they begged me and said it was a nice thing. >> what is he most proud of? >> for max, it's not his art but effort to restore the statue of liberty. >> you made so many contributions to the world and this country, i think the contribution that strikes me as one of your biggest is the statue of liberty. how did you get involved in that? >> i wanted to do something that was american. it was july 4th, 1976. someone showed me a picture of the statue of liberty and th do you know, let me paint one of them. i pulled out a large canvas, 8 foot tall.

if i stood up, it would be up to here. i painted it that day and signed it middle afternoon, early middle afternoon. max, july 4th, 1976. wow, i found it's america's bicentennial. i got it. looks could be deceiving, max learnt the statue was falling apart and in an instant the painter was a fundraiser. you went to hem. >> i called lee and he said "i'll be there tomorrow.". >> what happened? >> i told him about the statue of liberty. he dialled a number and said "larry, it's lee. i'm with peter macks, we have to get the statue of liberty renovated. when he lefts it was 20, 35, he

raised $45, 50 million bucks. >> the 76-year-old doesn't stop working with his art and a brand attached to his name. >> you have people working for you, this amazing gallery, and you are churching out art constantly. >> i paint every day. people mix my paints, get the canvases stretched and get my paintings done, set me up with pripters, where i make posters. i'm in the arts, i love it. >> i don't look at it from the point of view. it's hard to think about things that please the ego, you know. i know that i was popular and want to bring beautiful things to the planet and hope it

continues. >> we hope it continues for a long time. peter mansion, it's a pleasure to meet -- peter macks, it's a pleasure to meet you. >> nice to have you in my studio. >> the picture of the day has a hula hoop to it. it's called hoop eshia. see you next time.

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