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buried three teenagers believed murdered by palestinians. after news spread of the kidnapping and death. the teen ujer was seen -- teenager was seen pushed into a vehicle. his body found in a wooded area outside the city. israeli prime minister binyamin netanyahu called the crime and motive loathe some and urged all sides not to take the law into their ob hands. hands. >> u.s. secretary of state john kerry said: at the white house, violence. >> we call on the ploort and
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israel to take all stems to prevent revenge and retribution. >> i'm joined nick schifrin. we have seen violence clashes following the news of the palestinian teenager's murder. are they calling for revenge. what is the mood like? >> they are calling for a ground swell of anger and revenge. they had a huge rally through the streets of gaza city. trying to tap into all of that anger, all of that fury that we saw on the streets of east jerusalem, and there's a notion here of anxiety, anticipation. what exactly israel will do, how will they respond to the death of it, three israeli teenagers abducted and murdered. it was that anticipation before the 17-year-old was killed, and so a lot of anxiety as to what will happen in the next few hours or weeks.
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>> mahmoud abbas responded to the murder saying jewish settlers were to blame, calling onst rail to meet out the -- mete out the strongest punishment if it wants piece, and culled on mahmoud abbas to condemn the palestinianian boy's murder. the israeli military reacted strongly to the investigation, by arresting many. are they acting the same. >> no. if you talk to people, there was a rally in jerusalem. my colleagues talked to many people, and they said the proirty should be to find who killed the palestinians. that is a leadership issue. the notion of how the palestinian leadership responds. it's a real question of whether the - both sides will be able to
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convince their people not to resort to violence. it's a question for israeli prime minister binyamin netanyahu, whether he will be able to calm the calls of revenge. obviously they were enacted this morning. it will be a challenge to calm all of fury on the streets of the west bank, and gaza for hamas here, following the death. it's a question of what the police will say and do, whether they will catch the people that killed the palestinianians. really, one of the most precarious moments for the palestinian israelis in 10 years. >> we'll talk about controlling the violence. the israeli defense force reports more rockets and mortars are being fired. an israeli war plane attacked a launch side in gaza, does it feel like this is escalating. >> it does to a certain extent. it's important to note that the numbers are escalating. there has been a few rockets
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fired 36 hours ago. there were 35 strikes by israeli war plans. today we have had a few dozen rocket strikes from gaza into israel, and you've had a number of israeli attacks on those rocket-launching sites. i have to say i talked to many in israeli military. there's a bit of an understanding between hamas and israel, so long as the rockets fired from gaza are falling into empty fields and the israeli army will not attack anything but empty training grounds, and a site where the rockets are fired from. an israeli military official tells me they don't have a desire to escalate. the israeli government has not come out with their response, and if one falls from gaza into an israeli town. all bets are off.
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>> the father of the murdered palestinian team called for both sides to stop the blood shed. you can only hope that people lisp. >> it's important to talk a lot about what is happening in the air, on the ground. not only has the palestinian father said both sides should stop the father, the father of one of the israelis said the same thing, it's nice to here it, but important to note that on both sides there are a lot of people hoping for calm. >> as i think people are around the world. good to see you nick schifrin. thank you. >> for more i'm joined from sil very spring maryland from a professor for peace and development, senior fellow from the brookings institution and advisor to president obama's special envoy to middle east peace. good of you to join us. we don't expect much good news to come out of israel and palestine. things have sunk low when you
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have what appear to be abduction sides. >> undoubtedly. this is a tragic period. obviously painful for both israelis and palestinians, and it makes it difficult because obviously they - both of these killings come as there has been little hope for renewing the peace negotiations. there was a sense that perhaps occupation will go on, and extend because of the failure, at least, up until now of american documents. and it's getting too late for the 2-state solution. there was a sense of resignation, despair, frustration. but, yet, because there was no violence, people dash there was no sense of urgency. at this point, despite all of this horror that people vase when they face killings of this
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sort, and obviously in the short term probably escalation of violence, it also brings home the fact that any given moment you can have an escalation, and this issue has to be addressed in a bigger way than it has up until now. >> talking about the violence, we have seen clashes between israelis and palestinians and other city, despite calls for calms from israeli leaders, tens of thousands joined a facebook page named the people of israel demand revenge, and talking about demanding attacks on palestinianians as revenge for the murders of the israeli teen, at this point can either control the people. >> it's hard to control the emotions. i don't know what revenge means. usually it's against people that commit a crime. what has been happening is in both cases people are going against innocent people not involved necessarily in carrying
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out any attacks. i don't think we should call it dick ni fide. they are killings, they have to be called for what they are, and have to be addressed. the bottom line is even governments what want to use this politically in one way or another to gain leverage in the negotiations or public relations with the international community face a situation where this might get out of hand. clearly the immediate reaction to the killing of the israeli boys was that it shifted the focus on the palestinianians. and the israeli government was putting the blame on hamas. we don't know the - yet all the details of who is responsible for that. but this new killing of a palestinian clearly takes in a different direction. the focus shifts. >> prime minister binyamin netanyahu calls what happened here with the palestinian teenager low some.
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as i discussed with nick schifrin, when the israeli teens were kidnapped and killed, the reaction from the israelis was very powerful. hundreds of palestinianians arrested. is binyamin netanyahu doing enough in rehabilitation to the palestinian tooep -- reaction to the palestinian teenager's murder. >> that's an important point. it's important to condemn it. they continue to do so. in the end, what do you do about it. part of the frustration for the palestinians in the west bank, it has been that with come of the settler violence, and the price tag operations against properties and individuals in the west bank, what happened is little pursuit. some get arrested, investigations go on forever, people are not punished sufficiently, sometimes not at all. that's been the issue. i think in this particular case,
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where you have a clear - clearly a teenager is apparently kidnapped and killed... >> as revenge. >>..the pressure is on to see not just what is said, but what happens in reaction to it. >> then there's the pressure of what is going on in gaza. palestinians fire rock the and mortars at israel, israel is sponding with air strikes, including a series of them in the overnight hours there together. hamas is staging mass rallies in gaza in the meantime. i guess the question going back to something you mentioned, is this building to a major confrontation that is going to put the peace talks further in the back of our minds? >> first of all, let's disconnect it from the peace talks. the peace talks weren't getting anywhere before this. this may complicate it, create an opportunity.
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in the short term, the danger of escalation is there. i don't think they want an explanation. they entered into a government with more acceptance internationally. clearly they were shifting away from that. they don't want to see a huge escalation, it will hurt the israelis, and hurt them more. i would think that israeli government, while it was trying to blame hamas, and if, in fact, there's a smoking gun linking the killing to hamas, they'll be forced to do something. in the short term, they are not anxious to do that. all the firing on each other. you can see they are trying to minimise the casualties for now, because it's more anger, venting anger, asserting intention, asserting power, but neither side made a decision to escalate. but still somebody could do it
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for them. hamas may not control some of the factions that might want an escalation. the israelis may rability to some new element that they can't control in terms of public opinion, so it's really dangerous undoubtedly, and that makes it hard for anybody trying to bring it down, especially american diplomats who are trying to prevent an escalation in large part also not only because it's dangerous, but it's hopeful that maybe they could turn this around and bring the parties back to the netting table after, you know, a failed diplomatic effort up until now. >> hamas has to be concerned because it's been losing popularity according to polls in the west bank. which is why they are anxious to join the government. they had been hurt by the ents in egypt -- events in egypt and alliances have parade.
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nonetheless the u.s. saw in this possible opportunity. >> it's a pleasure to have you with us. >> thank you. >> turning to iraq. and a poll that shows while many in the muslim arab world fears extremism some of the worst extremists and suicide bombings enjoy substantial support. iraqi government troops battled insurgents for control of saddam hussein's home city, on wednesday, a day after the parliament met for half an hour and adjourned for a week. prime minister nouri al-maliki, whose sectarian agenda is glamed for fuelling the crisis told iraqis that fighting the islamic states should take precedent. nouri al-maliki offered amnesty to sunni tribesman in western iraq who fought with islamic state fighters and said he hoped the new government could be formed next week.
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for more information on iraq i'm joined by jessica lewis, research director, a former u.s. army intelligence officer in iraq, great to have you with us. with nouri al-maliki saying that a military solution needs to come first, is he trying to scramble and hold on to power that many including the u.s. want him to give up. >> i think that is possible. and i think that it's a tall order for the sunni population to which he is messaging with this amnesty proposal is clam as to -- callous to nouri al-maliki's proposals. i'm sorry how that will differ with the model of a new government in place. it's worth asking whether or not a new government is something that would achieve a different response from those who have taken up arms against the government. it's not likely that nouri al-maliki will achieve a different response. >> you mention the amnesty
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offered to tribes fighting with the islamic state insurge ents. amnesty and bags of money bring the tribes under the u.s. side in the days proceeding the surge in 2006. now? >> well, i think that sunni tribes would say that it didn't work out for them. it would have happened in the intervening period. it's made it difficult to make the same argument gain. no, i think it's the right argument to make. i think the most effective counter strategy against the islamic state is one involving the mobilisation of the sunni tribes with iraq. at this point i don't think they would claim the government as a force they'd support. >> talking about the islamic state in an appointment of a caliphate.
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they anointed himself as leader of all groups. is this attempt at taking power - is it tearing the movement apart. i think there is a sincere chaps that the islamic state has exposed itself to a strategic vulnerability by occurring nonsupport or that it is an circumstances. >> what is important for us to do is see that this is occurring strategically for this organise augusts at a moment that showcases military strength and they tried to sinner guise the messages. we have a strong military. it's time to declare the calafat, accept the message and spread influence of the organization. it's a transition from a
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military to a political and religious, and is a vulnerability for the organization. >> let's turn to the pew research poll. it those large majorities are concerned with the growth of extremism to lebanon, jordan - concern is high, growing over the past year. what is worrying is that 50% of palestinian support some suicide bombing in defence of islam, and so does substantial numbers much people throughout the muslim world, including people in indonesia and pakistan. hundreds of millions of muslims don't act to suicide bombings. >> it was a fascinating study. i'd like to address both of those. first that there are countries where the concern is growing, increasingly, and some countries more than others. the concern over al qaeda in particular is cited in the poll. it's a strong indicator of where people know that they are in
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contact with that threat, in their own neighbourhoods and countries, and as we look at these countries that scored high on the poll. it's a strong indicator that we should look more closely at those countries. >> go ahead. >> on the second poll of willingness to consider a suicide bombing, as something that is not heinous, i find that to be extraordinarily alarming statistic. i usually use attitudes about suicide bombing as a metric for radicalization, and for specifically the palestinian population to score high, i think that is something we need to take note of. >> i found that to be a shocking number. majorities oppose al qaeda. there's pockets of support
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throughout the world. despite everything that happened, a lot to play for in ta poll. >> a pleasure to have you with us. now for some more stories from around the world. >> we begin in washington dc where u.s. officials said wednesday that security would be tighteneded at all foreign airports with a direct flight. al qaeda was developing more difficult to detect bombs in syria and jemen, that could be smuggled on the planes. the department of homeland security said enhanced measures would be put in pleas at certain overseas airports. the move coming during the busy travel season. nest we head to berlin, where the foreign ministers of russia, germany and france agreed to work during a ceasefire.
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included is the reopening of talks with a goal of reaching an unconditional and mutually sustained ceasefire. fighting continued where pro-russian separatists were reported killed. finally, we go to the florida keys where fabian koousto bested his legendary grandfather when he emerged from a deep water lab after spending 31 days under water, one more than jacques managed half a century ago. facebook yn's mission was not about one -- fabian's was not about one-upping his grandfather. he studied many things. fabian joins us in new york to tell us about the record-breaking underwater adventure. that is some of what is happening around the world. coming up southe
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coming up southern california has become the center of the immigration debate as bus loads were met by protesters. we get the fall out. and heath data - why medical records may be in danger and what that can mean to you. and our social producer harmeli aregawi is tracking top stories on the web. >> americans celebrate after a lose. tim howard's record-breaking performance is a gift that keeps on giving. while you are watching - share your thoughts with us. join the conversation on twitter and facebook and google+ pages. so many money stories sound complicated. but don't worry. i'm here to take the fear out of finance. every night on my show i break down confusing financial speak and make it real.
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a day after buses filled with undocumented immigrants were stopped in california, this town has become a barometer of how americans feel about the preps of unaccompanied minors and adults with children living temporarily in communicatize in the u.s. >> they shouldn't have been brought here.
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it should have been stopped at the border. >> residents are fearful of the december crime and new arrivals. they are furious at plans by the government to bus 140 immigrants there. on wednesday it was asked if the reaction was causing the u.s. to re-assess the strategy. >> not a this point. it's treating in a humane way people that enter this country, and sending a message to people contemplating a dangerous trip, that the law will be enforced. that is what is happening. >> joining us now is al jazeera america correspondent jennifer london. good to see you. you spent the day talking to residents. what is the mood like.
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the boarder patrol facilities was the last stop before the migrants are released. with the reessential they have, are -- reception they have, are city officials spectsing buses to come every 72 hours. >> today we are not seeing the protesters, about the the feels, fearful and furious - they are the sentiments. residents are taking this "not in my backyard stance" against the federal government to bring the undocumented detainees here for processing. we are not seeing the today. but when i talked to them they say it's not that they are afraid of the migrants themselves, but afraid of what having them come here may mean. how will they be housed, fed, clothed. they have concerns about how
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they'll be treated if they were medical issues. this facilities was not large enough or adequate enough to deal with the numbers of the detain ears expected to be brought here for processing. if they keep coming. are protests expected to continue? that is the big question today going forward. we know the three buses were blocked yesterday and turned around on tuesday. the detainees were transported 80 miles south to another holding facilities near the san diego border with mexico. the question is will they keep coming. the plan as told to the major by federal immigration officials was that these bus loads of migrants would be coming to his town every 72 hours. the next bus loads is friday, july 4th. will it happen given happened on
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tuesday. it is unknown. the mayor says they are planning for the arrival. if they do, income, come. they'll be protesting. >> there is compassion for the kids, activists demonstrated on their behalf. but there is growing concern about disease, children on the buses stopped and taken to hospital. seven were diagnosed with scabies, which is highly contain ours, there's reports of swine flu among some. migrants at the texas border. you said that the protesters there are concerned about their community, it their anger not aimed at the children or the families, but the deposit? >> those resist department i spoke to say they are not angry at the migrants or fearful directly. they are angry at what they call the government's broken immigration policy. broken, failed. they say look, this is a
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compassionate community, we are open and toll rant. there's 26% of the population is hispanic. they say this is not anti-immigration or anti-illegal immigration, this is antithe government's failed, broken immigration policy, and are using this moment in time to take a stand aknaps that policy. >> thank you for joining us. joining us to talk about the politics surrounding the border crisis and other political news, including a bad poll for president obama is michael sure, and rick wilson. a rough week for president obama, especially on immigration. republicans are pounce k. here is rick perry. if he doesn't go to the border, it's a reflection of his lack of concern. if the president of the united states is serious about securing the border, we can show him how
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to do that. i haven't had a phone call from the president. >> does he have a point. it doesn't look good for the president to go to austin and dallas for a fundraiser. in one case you can say, yes, he should go to the border, perhaps he will. the fund razer is part of politics. i agree with your characterisation of it being a rough week. a lot is happening on immigration, for the president, for the congress, for the fact that there is no immigration reform out there. i don't think this falls on the president. every once in a while the president goes to a fund razer. maybe if they change a little of the fundraising rules and the power of money in politics that will not happen. there's an art to be made that the president would go to the border. it's good to see the president do that. >> i'm not arguing that it was a
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rough week, and i want to go there much the anger we have seen in mary eta and elsewhere, is that misplaced. focussing on kids and mums coming from countries where there's terrible violence and there was a better life. >> what they are troubled by is the fact that they are not getting a heads on some of these things. they are not in communication. they are not hearing from the white house, or told that these things are happening. all the time greyhound buses show up. everywhere is moved by the plight of these children. no one is heartless. what people are concerned about is it shows that there are record deportation, border is stur, and the southern border is a wall of steel. well, it's not.
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it's permiable. not om are the -- only are the folks coming crooks but a lot of bad actors are exploiting what is going on, coming across with human smuggling and the traditional mexican industry of drug smuggling. >> president obama was angry when he vowed to take executive action, without congress to deal with the immigration problem and that fact it has gone nowhere. they faced backlash. the going it alone can't fitch the problems. does john boehner have a point. is this much ado about nothing, because the president can't make significant reforms without congress. he can do things. he can grant deferred status or amnesty.
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regan did that. there's deferred status gip to the dreamers, can by given to families of the dreamers, immigrants here illegally now, waiting until there is reform. the president can go it alone more than congress. the president seemed to say that he doesn't want to, that congress is introns get about -- introns get about passing reform. doesn't this hurt the president and republicans, lawsuits challenging the power of the president's pen. hispanic and latino voters are done. >> i think now the surveys that are out there demonstrate that the president is deeply upside down. 61-25, or 61-31 on his handling of immigration. >> you saw a number of surveys that americans should have less
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immigration. 2% say it's the their top priority. this is an issue playing to a specific narrow window. that the president wants to play in. he doesn't care about refor, but wants the political benefit. republicans will not pander to a president on the wrong side of the lemna. ballot. >> this is a question that republicans have to communicate better. they have to talk more and go out. they have to talk to them, rather than hoping there'll be a miraculous fix. they don't buy into the republican and conservative philosophy. we have a lot of work to do, but
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it will not be solved by an amnesty politics game. a quick response. demonstrators will be what people are saying. the surveys sited are important. the one that is important is the one you talked about. in the same way and i'm not likening rick to this. the history is repeating itself if you think of the way people talked about during the anti-segregation in the south. we look at the same people arguing the same way. >> i brought up survey and a survey that came out which looked at registered vote exercise asked who the best and worst presidents were since 1945. it came up with 33%.
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president obama in last place, saying he was the worst president since then. george w. bush second worst. richard nixen third worse. jimmy carter came after that. most americans were not around or old enough. rick, president obama worst than nixon and carter? >> i mean, it's hard to say we look at the carter years fondly. i was 12, i have a vague memory. there was a lot of parallels and drifts and delays that president obama presided over during the course of his administration. you have seen a lot of people that lost faith in a guy that promised miracles economically in terms of where a country would go and restoring confidence as a nation, he couldn't deliver. he's reaping a whirl wind.
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>> raying number one -- regan number one, bill clinton number two - what do you think. >> i think it's the number one worst poll ever. you don't have people sitting around - this is maybe a summer project in conet ket to learn about polling. >> you can't ask someone over the phone. it should be left to historians. what people think today of president obama. i think it's a silly poll. >> i think i agree with. >> never gets old. >> fun to talk about. michael, rick, great to have you as always. >> thank you. >> time to see what is trending on the web. aregawi. >> the u.s. lost to belgium in the tuesday world cup game. tim howard has become the internet mvp.
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he had an incredible game, so good that president obama called to congratulate him. the new jersey native set a record with 16 says in a 2-1 loss. the internet fell in love and fans found creative ways to honour howard's excellence. the star was appointed secretary of defense on wikipedia. someone started a white house petition calling for the ronald reagan airport to be renamed the tim howard national airport. over 10,000 signatures, far from the 100,000 to get a white house response, but hilarious. the hashtag things tim howard could say was progressive. for example, he could have stopped the "titanic" from sipping, jay z from getting attacked by solange, saved a life in the lion king and if tim howard had anything to do with
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it, the matrix take over would have had nothing to do with it. tim howard gave everyone a reason to celebrate. if you can share with us on twitter. a lot of creative people there. >> the crate. >> ahead - health care hackers, why are people after your medical information, and what is being done it stop them. and why more americans than ever are spoiling their appetites, and a spar-spangled surprise. >> now inroducing, the new al jazeea america mobile news app. get our exclusive in depth, reporting when you want it.
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you may be surprised to learn your personal medical information is a tempting target for criminals, and less secure than you might think. in fact, experts that monitor crime say the health world is flirting with disaster because hackers are likely to subseed in gaining access to medical and financial records of thousands of americans. it's not just your records and insurance, but your social security number, birth date, bank account numbers. the list goes on and on. >> what can we do about it? that's part of the problem. not a lot. dr rob art war serves as the president of the medical association and global chief medal officer for computer science, an information technology and solutions company. you are quoted as saying this is an arms race between criminals and people trying to protect health data, and goes across the
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health care world. there's vulnerability at hospitals with the obama administration programme, state governments. montana health officials said a breach compromised the records of 1.3 million people. how serious a problem is this? >> itself a soars problem. i'm concern -- serious problem. as a physician i'm concerned about the health of my patients and in regard cyber health. there's a lot of vulnerabilities in the health system. part of that arms race i talked about was criminals highly value health information. the street value of the credit card is less than the value of record. if the health record is more valuable, then they are going to go after the valuable health record, that's why i believe there's an arms race between the criminal elements.
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>> will you explain why is it that that health information is so valuable. >> what my colleagues at cst tells me is the criminal elements value the health records because there's so much information, so rich. they can create a strong identity, false identity which they could use fruit u leaptly to obtain loans to purchase things, and do fruitulent procedures using the strong identity. a credit card can be held off. you cannot turn off the rich information in a health record. >> corn sievably -- conceive automobily they could get prescriptions forrar cottics, down -- for narcotics, in your nam, the name they steal. it seems the amount of attacks is tremendous. montana says there's roughly
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17,000 attempts every hour by hackers on some part of the state system. 6 billion attempts a year. how do we keep up with that volume. i assume if that happens in mon dan e -- mon tan e, it will happen else were. they started to use cyber security to protect the records entrusted with the patients. we have seen the strength and security in other industries like financial services and the government. one of the lecture at csc is i work with people to protect secrets for the agencies and the government and financial services corporations. i believe it's time to use the experience and expert sees, because the same criminal elements targetting the streets are targetting the health records. we have to gain the strength in that area.
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seems there's a disproportionate number of breeches in the industry. doctors want to spend their time and funny. they may not have focussed on this is much. what can individuals do. is there anything we can do to protect our informs. >> just like we protect the financial information, we need to be careful who we give it to. we need to ask the same kinds of questions we ask the financial institutions and others that we give personnel information to -- personal information too. patients and people need to pay information. >> that's certainly a brave new technological situation. thank you for calling attention to this problem. >> coming up, is the national anthem supping all wrong. -- sung all wrong.
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. >> today's data dive grabs a snack because we americans have become snack obsessed. snacks have become a 35 billion industry, and that's not counting cookies, crackers and gran owla bars.
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no wonder the number of americans that stack three times a day has shot up from 10% in the late 70s to 76%. the "wall street journal" took a look and found sales of nuts et cetera have skyrocketed paster and soups have not kept pace. amazing when you consider snacking bim a habit. the journal reports it started circuses and fairs with peanuts and candy's apples. snaps have gone from an indull fence to an alternative to meals. your mum was right. snacking spoils your appetite. half of us skip meals three times a week. snack foods have been blamed as a reason more than 31% of americans and mexicans are obese. it got so bad the government in mexico introduced a jupping food
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tax -- junk food tax. >> health concerns stopped growth and soda sales. the slack has been picked up. snacks and breakfast food made up 62% of pepsi's business. they have become the industry leader grabbing 40% for snacks. general mills meals decision snuck, but the snack diswugs grew 6% in the past year. the company made granola bars and a variety of trips. hate to say it. show. >> you have been singing the national anthem all wrong. >> al jazeera america presents the system with joe berlinger >> i think the prosecutor has the greatest power of anyone anybody in our society >> lawyers are entrusted to seek the truth... >> i did't shoot anybody,
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. >> this is what we believe the national anthem should sound line. ♪ say have you seen ♪ by the dawn's early light. >> this is what was intended ♪ say-cap-you-see, by-the-dawn's-early-light ♪ the song has changed. the library will give a tribute to the song with a consrt. thomas will sipping at the celebration, he's an opera singer and the founder of a foundation that promotes cultural understanding of music. great to have you with us. the version we played is hugy different to what we are used
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to. drastically. >> what you played is another mutation. the first tune would be the orange jip na key had -- origin that key had in his mind writing the poem "the battle of fort mchenry", in his time someone probably sang, a professional voice sang the refrain and haves and others -- verse and others scumped in. and the -- jumped in. and the tempo was quicker. we have gotten it. there's a lot of differences like that. >> we are more magestic. is the version you'll sipping with the -- sing with the quicker tempo. the -- sing with the quicker tempo. . >> it's part of the foundation
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which i participated in, with the university of michigan, mark clague, who did the research, we'll tell the story of how this music started around "79. it was used in social clubs and so forth. keep now the time. the different words. >> let me interrupt you. we have a little of that. >> good. >> [ sings ] . >> it's sounds a lotlike our national n them. that music, that tune was adapted for cause, including the french revolution, and other tup.
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>> what is -- for the tune. >> what is hard for people to realise is a tune would be the tune for different broad sides. before the civil war, you see 80 different versions of the "star-spangled banner" fun. the confed rahsy and others had their own -- confeder acy and others had their own take on it. the wonderful thing is so much of what song is, whether it's the poet and composer or text and composer, songs tell our story as a culture. this tells our story. what bim, what we know -- became, what we know as the national anthem, whether in 3/4, or 4/4 or whitney houston or whoever else mutated this, this
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is our story. what we see is a history, a mirroring of our culture and issues, it's beautiful. >> whitney houston sang it in a 4-4. let's listen to part of a version of 1914 available on the library of congress's website. [ singing ] a distinct religious tone. that is one of three other verses that we rarely ever hear. >> absolutely.
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there are so many of - even of the accepted star spangled banners, there are verses we don't here. you'll hear them tomorrow at the library of congress in the concert and online, because the star-spangled music.org will have the concert and get it up online. the foundation has been founded to celebrate the star spangled banner and will exist looking at all the patriotic songs and origins, celebrating the way we have celebrated our culture and events in the country. >> good luck on the third with the musical efforts. i erge people to go on -- urge people to go on line. i got stuck for an hour looking at the music and history. there's a lot online. >> that's all for now. thursday on "consider this",
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