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uber - the backlash from taxi drivers and what you need to know. plus - deposit malls - our first-person report from a photographer that captures haupting images of -- haunting images from america's abandoned shopping centers. >> we begin this hour with a story of loss and how one family search for justice led to a banking scandal that is shaping the industry. at the heart is a plot involving billions, a skyscraper m manhattan and iranian money laundering. jonathan betz has more. >> this is a huge case, accusing large banks of helping iran. it took years to up-ralph and be -- unravel and began with a bus bombing half a decade away and a devastated parent. >> reporter: in a new york court

a stunning d administration. >> i swear guilty. >> france's biggest bank agreed to pay $9 million for breaking american sanctions against iran. a multi-billon international banking scene uncovered thanks to a grieving new jersey father. 1995, this man's daughter was killed in a bus explosion. the bomber blew himself off. he blamed iran for funding the attack and sued the iranian government. at first it seemed hopeless. iran is blacklisted by the u.s. but the lawsuit planted a seed. it caught the integes of state and -- attention of state and federal prosecutors. they suspected a mann hat jp charity based in a skyscraper was a front. the charity was funnelling money

out of iran with the help much european banks. relying on whistleblowers and anonymous sources, the case blew. some of the biggest banks were illegally doing business with iran, leading to the settlement this week. >> in this case bnp went to elaborate lengths to cover its traps and deceive united states authorities. it began with a father seeking justice for his daughter. the charity insisted it had nothing to do with the government. earlier this year the government seized the skyscraper so it could be sold and split among victims of tax. plato received $225 million and seized assets from iran. >> steven flato the father whose lawsuit helped fuel the

investigation told us how he learned that the armed group that killed his tauter was funded by iran. >> we learnt in a matter of months that iran wag bank rolling the jihad to $200 or $300, which is -- $200-$300 million, which doesn't seem like a lot but in iran assist. into as you learnt the information, what was going through your mind? >> we wanted to get iran out of terrorism business. the only way to do it was to make them pay. we wanted to show the dirty laundry in the courtroom. >> efforts to get them out were not successful. they continued to be unsuccessful. we tried other means and other fam lace tried other means. the world's number one sponsor of terrorism. >> islamic jihad, iran is responsible. iran does not have the assets.

the search begins to try to fined iranian assets around the world. what led you to an office building on fifth avenue? >> we did a simple search. we knew there was a company. we entered it into the computers of the day, in the late 1990s, and located a property in manhattan, and others in new york city. but the lobby foundation building is a skyscraper. it must have been worth $250-$300 million and we looked at the paperwork and traced it to a foundation established by the shah of iran. and a series of name changes and mergers, and they were the foundation. we said "this is iranian property." >> and the connection in part because you had a u.s. attorney officer federal prosecutor assisting and they found a connection between iran and a number of other major banks. >> that was years later. we were basically to use the

fraz - the u.s. attorney claimed there was no connection and produced an affidavit by an iranian who said there was nop. 15 years later, we were shape that the fellow lied on the affidavit and, indeed, it was a front. and he seized the building. >> in recent weeks there has been settlements against bnt, a french bank, for $8 million, connecting them to money lawned aring for the iranian government. what has gone through your mind as we see the settlements and admissions? >> to the bank, it's only money. until we say "you're responsible, you're going to gaol", this money laundering will continue. >> have the banks made statements to you or other victims of the attacks about

their connections? >> they fight tooth and nal against admitting anything. they do not cooperate and oppose anything in court to prove iran has had money. >> what do you think your daughter would thing of the process? >> i think she's having a good laugh at my expense. >> how come? >> i'm still her father, she's my doubter. she drove me crazy and is spiritually. she has a great smile on her face. every now and then i hear her in the back of my head saying "do more." >> congratulations to you on the path that you travelled and the success you have in identifying iranian assets and helping other victims of jihad. now to israel where a funeral was held for the three

jewish teenagers whose bodies were found. prime minister binyamin netanyahu said it was a day of mourning, and those responsible for the deaths would be punished. nick schifrin reports from gaza. >> reporter: in three separate funerals for three teenage boys, the message was the same. in death they united a nation. this is a small country and the abduction and murder, and an outpouring of grief. this 19-year-old was from a town in central israel. 16-year-old, has his grandparents emigrate to new york, making him a u.s. dit zep. one was an only son. his father called him a hero. >> translation: kidnappers and murderers tried to weaken us. snow as israel grieved both sides launched the attacks. >> 15 rockets were fired from

gaza. many waited in fields. hamas, who won gaza had threats of its own. >> we warned israel against any rehabilitation. the price paid will be greater in previous wars. >> in response they increased the bombing campaign. three dozen strikes shook gaza. all of them anti-training ground. this is one of the sites of those israeli air strikes. it's been about nine hours. you can smell the sulphur in the air. it destroyed the structure which as metal. it ripped the tree in half. up until recently it created a huge crater. it's been filled in with dirt. so far both struck areas, thanks to an agreement of israel and hamas. >> translation: each party

reacts to the other side in accordance to the nature of the attack launched. >> reporter: israel must tried how it should escalate. prime minister binyamin netanyahu suggested he would. focus was not limited. >> translation: if they need to be will expand the battle. if anyone things they will find anything. they'll found an opposite result. they seem to have a majority support. >> nick schifrin reporting from gaza. joining us is ambassador, the consule general of israel. welcome. >> thank you for having me. >> a number of israelis are saying that the perpetrators were lone wolves, is that true, and if the hamas leadership did not sanction this, should that not mitigate the israeli response. >> we know who did it, we know the identity of the two

perpetrators, and we know the families they came from. one of them his mother said for israeli channel 10 is that she is proud of her son. we know what hamas stands for. whether they are denied or not. it doesn't change the fact. >> the fact that the leadership did not sanction this. that would suggest this is a more isolated not an organizational attack. >> look, in the sum are of 2005 israel fulfilled a palestinianian territorial fanta fantasy. we pulled out of the gaza, and gave the palestinianians a key to gaza. turn it into an oasis. turp it into a thriving community. the palestinians took this opportunity. since 2006, headed by hamas, and turned gaza, instead of turning

it into an oasis or a launching pad, attacks against israeli. only the last several days, several rockets landed in our area. >> in a number of news organizations sud there was an agreement between hamas and israel, but if hamas fired rockets. israel will respond with landstrikes also not in a population area. >> i'm not aware. >> a smart agreement. >> i'm not aware of any suf agreement. we are determinate to make sure that people are responsible for this crime, for murdering the three boys. them and their accomplices. whether hamas is interested in assuming responsibility is really not the question. there's a general directive.

a germ commanders spirit and hamas and its membership is acting accordingly. therefore they are responsible. there are a number of reports from the west bank in an israeli effort to go into the west bank to look for information that as many as six palestinianians were killed in clashes. what would you say to those families to the brothers and sisters. >> what the palestinianian society needs to do is rid themselves of hatred that reduces the crimes. >> if they were involved in the murder. st rail troops are knocking down door, going into home innocent lives are being taken. >> k, we are not happy to see innocent people getting hurt.

we are in the midst of this war. it's an assault on our right for national jewish sovereignty. we know what hamas stands for. we are tarmed to do everything within our power to protect ourselves and citizens. a member of the israeli knesset suggested that israel ought to build a new settlement. is that a wise idea. >> it's for the government to guide what to do. >> do you think it's what should be done. >> it's not for me to comment on decisions or statements. i can tell you the israeli government has a strict - we are making a strict decision. >> i'm a still surf apt. it will make is decision and

we'll know more about the israeli response. i captel you one thing for sure. there'll be a response. hamas will be responsible. >> fair to say as a civil serve able to, a lot of israelis believe the settlement was provocative, and don't help. >> if you believe that the conflict is a rhetorical in nature. then you know awe may hear beens from rite and left. i think what we saw in the last 19 days andiest are day since the discovery of the bodies, many israelis ask themselves the big question. what is the route cause of this conflict. what is it about. if it was about land, they could have resolved the conflict. the palestinians were covered several times, far-reaching compromise, and they decline to accept each and every one of

them. but what we are beginning to see now is that this conflict was never about a palestinian state, it was about the jewish state. >> we had israeli tell us last night that the perpetrators would not have been identified had it not been for the cooperation of the palestinian authority. why does it make sense to therefore imprison 600 palestinianians, knock down doors and create anger amongst the people that israel is relying upon. >> i tell you why. the palestinian national movement, represented by the authority is failing to do the one thing that every national movement in history did, and that is to face their own opposition. at the end of the day every palestinianian that believes in the palestinianian state should know in the eyes of ham as,

palestinian nationalism is the enemy. the fact that mahmoud abbas doubt dit. >> israeli nationalism can be an enemy to the state of israel. a lot of israelis don't agree with the settlements. >> if you look at the history of zionism, and the history of the united states, when the mainstream of the israeli movement was willing to face the position from within. that moment never happened in the history of the movement. it's a tragedy of the people, and unfortunately is the tragedy of the three families that lost their boy. >> ambassador, thank you for booping on the programme. we appreciate it. a human rites attorney joins us from san francisco. anything that you want to respond to that the ambassador said. >> absolutely. i want to respond to almost everything. i know our time it limited. i'll begin by saying the root

cause of conflict is that israel from contension has continued on a colonial policy of requiring more land, removing is dispossessing the palestinianians, and those that remain are captive, truncated within small swaths of lapped and underan oppress if system that deem them as second-class citizens and themming lijable at worse. as we see happening now. >> there's a lot of people, israelis that agree with you and the principle that the second is provocative. if hamas is the only organization. the palestinianian authorities condemn it. there's hamas saying there's not anything wrong with this. i think that hamas is a scare

crow and it kund help my position to continue this manoeuvring. i can't imagine if hamas came out and don demed the kidnapping. it would find a new scare crow as it has during the - certainly during the years of a full peace process, and since its ipp essential. israel is mourning the trackic and unnecessary death of three children, and holds captive 196 children in israeli prisons, and tries 27 of them who are under the age of 16 or of the age of 16. for all of the cop inspector about children and family, israel exhibit little sim pathy, and that should begin to help us think about what is the root cause of the conflict, how is it that three israeli children can

garner international attention, and yet the death of six palestinianians, the arrests and kidnapping of 545 palestinianians, and the invasion of 1300 homes and the bombing of 34 sites elicits not a peep of condemnation. this is a racist underdon at play, and we need to investigate this. >> you described hamas as a scare grow, isn't it true that hamas is part of a unity government with fatah. how can you disavow part of your open leadership, given that hamas is part of it. >> hamas - there's not a shred of evidence that israel produced or the ambassador said we have evidence but are not made that available to anybody. hamas has publicly said it wasn't responsible. if it was truly interested in breaking with the government, which was not in its interest because of its own crippled

economy and depend eps on the unity -- dependence on the community government to be relevant they would have gaped responsibility. to attack hamas is the first problem, because there's no shred of evidence. to bomb the entiry of the gaza strip hope to... >> i have to stop you there, they are not bombing... we have to talk... >> the prohibition of government. >> they are not bombing the entire gaza strip , and as we heard from israelies and palestinianians, israel is putting air strikes into facilities not populated, as long as hamas doesn't hit populated areas, they are responding in couped. >> that's not true. on friday they targeted two men in an asass in addition. they are fatally wounding palestinians. in the gaza strip sealed off by see and land, a bomb anywhere is a bomb on society.

we are talking about home to people who are undercaptivity, who don't have a right to become refugees, who are subject to bombings from israel and to the world, they are faceless, invisible people. i have tremendous sympathy for the families of the dead young settler boys. i wish there was an ipping lipping of that for the palestinianian families whose faces and names we have not seen aired on a news channel. >> the sympathy from the ambassador and the israelis that said there'll be military visions into how these palestinianian boys have been killed - what do you make of that. is that talk in your view? >> it we are students of investigations of itself, we need not go any further. in its open investigation of itself, and in response to the 2008 and 2009 aerial defensive which left 1400 killed, 300 of

whom were children, israel calm up with thrive indictments, and the only one na resulted in criminal conviction was for credit card fraud. i have no faith in israel's investigation, and no international institution that has respect for itself should either. this requires global condemn nation, israel needs to be stopped from attacking a civilian population under population that can't defeat itself. >> israelis have no trust in palestinianias policing their open neighbours knich that they have incidentslike this and bombing and areas. >> i sympathise with the gam lis. i have no sympathy for the narrative. palestinians are not neighbours to israel. they are subjects of israel living upped occupation. there is no palestinian state. the settlements that have been built in the west bank create a

series in the west bank. in 1993. the number is 600,000. the israeli settlers lived on palestinian land over demolished home and with israeli homes. they are protected by israeli soldiers who shoot to kill as shape recently on may 15th of two palestinianian youth. >> people may take issue with your use of the word. i appreciate the conversation. a proud american, a human rites attorney, it's a great conversation to have. one that we'll have frequently on this channel. i hope you come about and discuss this indepth. >> thank you for coming on the programme. >> you're welcome. war on truth. dangers journalists face for reporting the news. plus so close. team u.s.a. heads home. there are some things about the

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a tropical storm could ruin the holiday weekend, a weather event has been named arthur, and a lot of folks are preparing for its arrival in central florida where a tropical storm watch has been issued. kevin corriveau is here with the latest. >> we got the newest information at 11 o'clock. not much has changed. the storm is not moving over the last 12 hours. watch what happens here as you look at the radar. it begins to come together in the last three hours. that's an kags that we are seeing the storm come toot as a tropical storm. it will become a hurricane by tomorrow. we have tropical storm watches. you saw the video earlier of what the beaches are looking look. we have a lot of rekurps, so a dangerous situation if you go

into the water. the storm track looks like this. we expect the storm to make its way to the north. thursday night will get close to the carolinas, in the overnight hours it will be thursday, friday, and it will be getting close. we'll watch the storm track for a deviation. this is the gop of uncertainty. we can see the stone go to the left or the right. we could see a landfall. this is what cap hadiris looks like. a thin island, susceptible to the threats. we'll watch this carefully. >> thank you. >> tonight's mebbing's cup dreams were shattered thanks to a loss to belgium. the game went into overtime. crowds went crazy when the u.s. scored. >> in the end geale became pulls

off a 2-1 win. joining us in studio is michael eaves. >> depends on your mad loss. if you are an optimist you feel good. coming into the match, in was a game na if the u.s. team was going to be considered an elite team, this is a game you win. it's not good enough to get out of group play. you have to move on to the files. this was a moment, it could have been a watershed moment. what happened was in this came we discovered yet again that from an international standpoint other nations have deeper rosters than the u.s., and they have better players and it's harder for the u.s. team to control pace and the ball. tim howard was awesome in there today. 16 savesers the most of the -- saves, the most since 1966. it's a problem that he had to

make that many. a lot of footballs know if the free safety is making too many tackles, it sounds good, but bad because the other team is making too maybe plays. >> the 19-year-old, who is he? >> julian green. playing from munich in germany. he was a controversial pick by the coach. he is looking ahead. he didn't pick some of the experienced players, because the young kids are equally as talented. i need them to have the experience. at 19 he's the youngest american to score, the first time he maid in a true international game, and he gives the u.s. promise. younger guys on the squad scored key goals, so there is promise, but to get to the e leet level you have to have several greens. is cleanseman the man for the

job. seemingly he is. you can look at this from two stand point. the american squad reached the same level. you ask any soccer fan, any knowledgeable soccer plan. the u.s. played better. no one felt they got out of the group statement. they move on. and tim howard was phenomenal. some of the young guys stood toe to toe in what collinsman is trying to do, in terms of a style of play. >> michael eaves, thank you as always. there was drama at wimbledon when serena williams broke down on the court. the tennis star was playing a doubles match with her sister, when she had trouble gripping the ball. she was not able to hold on to it or get it over the net. she served four double faults.

the sisters say serena williams is suffering a viral illness. coming up, uber universe, will ride sharing put cabbies out of business. should it? plus, secret study, the social experiment facebook did not want to tell you about.

welcome back to al jazeera america. i'm david shuster. coming up, numbing the pain. how a growing number of u.s. military veterans are coping after they return from war. and transportation turf war, a battle between taxi drivers and their competition, uber. we have new data about the war on truth. despite all the information sharing technology journalists are having a harder time than ever. the committee to protect journalists said since 2012 attacks on press freedom have gone up. 163 journalists are killed, five missing 543 in prison, including peter greste, mohamed fadel

fahmy and baher mohamed, serving long sentences in egypt on charges of spreading false information. in london britain's journalist union presented a petition demanding their release, al jazeera joins them in that demand. in ecuador they are being silenced under a gag law, allowing them to be imprisoned if they denigrate anyone. >> the sound of a helicopter woke her sleeping son, filling the boy with fear, that ecuador's president was aboard, and coming for his mother. the mother of three is a well-known investigative tv journalist in ecuador. she coughed themes like human and arms trafficking. ecuador's police and extrajudicial killings.

her work spurred reform and won phrase, but not from the president. who mocked her efforts, calling her blondy in his weekly television addresses. >> in 2012, she became more than an annoyance. a story about corrupt awoke fury. that's when the anonymous calls came. >> they were going to take my kid, my six-year-old and kidnap him. we were never going to forget what they are going to do to him. >> the government publicly vowed to bring the caller to justice. but it was suspected that the government itself was responsible. she says it was the last straw. >> i always thought i was prepared to confront this kind of thing. but when someone you love is

involved. you have to think twice. >> the difficult decision was made to leave her work to protect her family. she joined a wave of veteran journalists who resigned, that is closing media outlets and punishing government critics. >> to do what they are doing, they meet everybody in slps silence. if you have a small voice, they are not going to stop until you shut. >> but she is not shutting up. she's taking to twitter where 70,000 followers support her calls for freedom. >> i realise when i have something to say, they are hearing me.

so it doesn't matter - it doesn't matter from where, it's worth it. i'm going to keep fighting. >> other journalists fled ecuador. but she plans to stay. she runs a production company. although she left the spotlight, she will continue to talk occupant. >> i want my kids to talk all their lives, to say what they think, to express all the dreams and to, you know, get as far as they want. >> that's possible, she says, only with freedom and truth on their side. >> in southern california protesters blocked buses carrying undocumented immigrants. three homeland security buses

arrived in mary eta california carrying more than 100 migrants. they entered illegally. residents carried flags and signs. the buses went to a kust somes center? san diego. customs opposes the transfer saying assist a burden on the down. >> a study from doctors at the medical center revools a larger number of veterans are in pain, and they are using dangerous drugs to control them. >> nearly half of returning combat veterans in the united states are in the gripe of croppic pain, pain lasting 90 das or more -- days or more. 15% of using it to manage the pain, putting it at risk of addiction or overdose. >> that's the finding of a new study. it's a study that looks at a

brigade. 206,000 soldiers working together, setting a starpd on how they'll deal with an opioid drug problem. the v.a. needs starnds. they are starting programs for identifying high-risk soldiers, soldiers at risk of addiction, which can lead to overdose and death. the problem here is that we only barely understand the rigors that returning combat veterans have seen and how it can affect them. in 2010 a study identified a study. as man as 40% of veterans reported to one v.a. hospital, had a combination of symptoms. post concussion, p.t.s.d. and chronic pain. in tandem they put the soldiers at risk of developing a dependency on opioids and all

mapper of other problems. there's simply few options for any veteran once they are addicted. there are reports that they are looking a distributing some drugs. and looking at veterans sliding from an opiate dependency to a heroin dependency. the new study could move them forward grappling with what is a serious problem. >> they are apps that let you order a cab. many taxi drivers are doing everything possible to shut them down. >> from washington to paris. now madrid. it's the threat that united cabbies across the world. >> we will not accept a north

american company that does not hire staff or buy vehicles. >> they are mad at lift, sued car and uber. they are checking the taxi industry by letting regular people pick up paying passengers. uber's growth had been stunning. since lumping in san francisco, uber has grown to 39 countries, its value exploded five fold. now worth nearly 18 billion. >> u.s.ers push a button to higher a car. but is the app a taxi meter. uber insists no. the taxi drivers say yes. they are angry the company is not bound by the insurance and traffic regulations. taxi owners point out that uber and others are undercutting fares.

critics called them iltaxi operators. many cab drivers are demanding uber drivers play by the same rule. >> it's a pirate transport system that competes unfairly. these people have no regulation. some states like new mexico denied operating permits. others require drivers to submit background preps. uber did not return our calls. joining us is jessie black, a taxi driver in washington dc. welcome to the programme. the taxi business is regulated in most cities. what regulations would you want to see on uber, it looks like it is a business that is here to stay. >> we would like to see the

playing field made fair. it regulates them where it regulates us. they would have to do all physical tasks and you have to do a clean hands test in d.c. >> that's correct. >> what is that? for people that are not familiar with it. >> every two years you have to renew your face id. in your process, one of the things you have to do is go to d.c. office, government office, and you have to get the cleans hands act saying you don't owe the government any back payers axes or federal government and you have clean hands. in that you don't have a criminal record. >> you have to pass a criminal background record every two years. there's no... >> sorry, go ahead. >> no, no, i was going through some.

things. physical background check. >> uber, in washington d.c., there are some pirate taxi cab companies, limo sons. how is uber any different from them? >> well, they come in and they are unregulated, so i mean, just plainly stated they have to be regulated the same as the cab industry. it's not a pair playing field. i can't go into another person's jurisdiction and take the work. why should they come into ourselves and take our work. >> and finally, what, if anything, can taxi drivers or what do you think taxi drivers ought to do to try to make your point, is there a protest. is there talk in d.c. about having a taxi strike? >> i haven't heard anything about a strike. we had a rally the other day.

we didn't call it a strike. it was a rally, a protest. i am sure that probably more of those will have to happen. in the meantime we have to work with the local government, city council specifically, and try to work these things out. >> jessie black, a cab driver in washington d.c. thank you for being in the programme, and good luck to you. >> president obama is urging congress to fund highway and transit programs saying hundreds of thousands of jobs are at stake. >> the prosecutor said infrastructure is crucial for economic breath, and president obama called the republican leader that instead of doing their job, they are threatening to sue him over executive orders. >> middle class families can't wait for republicans and congress to do stuff. so sue me much as long as

they're doing nothing, i'm not going to apologise for not doing something. >> the united states could lose as many as 700,000 jobs if not renewed. a controversial experiment carried out by one of the world's biggest social networks. half a million facebook users are part of a study and they didn't know it. the news feeds were manipulated the positive and meg difficult posts. facebook is upped fire for the culvert study. david worked as a software engineer, a contributing technology writer. >> how is facebook profiting. >> at the moment it's hard to see how they are profiting from it. the ultimate goal is to make money by ads. one of the things they discovered in the study was the preps of any increased emotional

cop tent making facebook so that's one of the applications there. but the way it was presented in the study was this is interesting, we can make people feel good and bad without them realising. >> a lot of businesses has apologised, some of the researchers have apologised for not bean more transparent about what he was doing. >> they've apologised for how it was phrased and presented. but not made app amoll any for not getting more direct concept. facebook users and not being upfront about the reach that was being done. so i wouldn't say that their apology hits at what they are being criticised for. >> conadditional apology. >> can you give us examples of how websites use data without

was knowing about. >> websites are experimenting to look at what works better and what works worse. so, for example, if you use google they may try showing you different ads or different search results to say is a person more or less likely to click on an add. >> the end result is to get people to click on the ad. >> here what is affecting people is the end result is to modify people's moods scx that strikes people as more orwellian than getting people to buy something. >> is this something that is the future, that as companies are more sophisticated in terms of tracking where you go or what you do, if they match emotions with it, that's part of doing business. that's a good question. and what this - what this studies raises, what the revelation raises is how much power these companies have.

and making us wonder are how much responsibility are they taking for what they do with it. don't we give them that power. when we set up for facebook or yahoo. you have to sign okay certain boxes and read through the fine print in order to read through the websitement once we do that, you are giving a green light. >> you read the fine print. >> no. >> okay. >> but that's the point. they can put what they want in the fine print, but the responsibility is on us to read it if we are going to complain about it. >> well, cases happened in the past where the law said if you shove, you know, 10,000 words of fine print in people's faces and require them to click on it before they do something that 50% of the population does, you can't say that let's us do whatever we want. there are limit, and one. limits is that a lot of expert

psychologists were saying there were, from the perspective of psychology, ethical guidelines may have been violated. the editor of the study was creeped out. >> given that, does facebook put a stop to it. is it a waive of the future. >> they've given no indication that they'll stop, and it gpd on what's in the coming weeks, how people react to it, and what - and what facebook users decide. >> david is a contributing writer for slate magazine, thank you for coming in. >> a developing story out of philadelphia. 11 people were hurt, two critically after a food truck exploded. a propane faping in the truck was -- tank in the truck was believed to have blown up, enguming two cars. police are investigating. coming up next -

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ja well, we are well, we are looking at tropical storm arthur making its way up the coast. we expect to see tropical storm turning to hurricane category 1

there. turning thursday and friday. as well as wened on the north side of the storm causing a lot of problems. what else is happening is the zalent and severe weather we are seeing together. anywhere from ohio down to parts of "okay.... this was the same storm that brought all the damage from parts of chicago, through illanois, and we don't think the storm will be the same strength as tomorrow. we'll watch that carefully. going towards friday, it's 4th of july. how will it affect your holiday. we expected heavy rain showers. across the outer banks, as well as into long i would. it will be a rainy day here in new york. 50 to 75% of rain through the day. beautiful conditions across the grate lakes.

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almost 50,000 shopping mauls across the states, and sense the recession numbers have plunged. the landscape is being without in a book, "black friday, the collapse of the shopping mall", and seth talks about his work. >> my project started from an earlier project i did in 2012 and 2013. i travelled across the country photographing some of the most broken and abandoned parts of the country. i came across shopping malls and got a profound response when i shared those imuges on facebook and instagram and social media platform. people find abandoned malls

fascinating. a lot of people share happy times. for the most part it was a happy time in america. the economy was vibrant and thriving. people shared happy times, they missed those. they don't just mess the malls, they missed everything attached to it. it's a sobering reality for them to see the pals. if i had to describe my images in one word, i guess i would have to say haunting, you know. there's just - there's just something hauntingly beautiful about it. i do want people that come across my images to seat the beginning of the end of the greatest economic machine that the world has seen, america. i want them to see the fact that we shipped millions of jobs overseas, that we created the largest amount of accident in the world. if i'm able to show that in an

image, i think the work can be powerful. if a picture can speak 1,000 words, i think my work can exemplify that. i thought i could share it on facebook and instagram. and that it could exploit the platforms and transform, if you will, social media, into a chang to engage social solutions and get people to talk. that's always the goal and the goal moving forward to any project that i do. >> the book "black friday, the collapse of the men shopping mall" is available now. and that is admiral mich ale howard the first 4-star woman all smiles as her husband places

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