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>> can the violence be stopped without more u.s. >> we will show you the science behind the aerial displays. >> we begin tonight with an unwanted holiday visitor known as hurricane arthur. right now the storm is spinning allock the north carolina coastline, it is expected to strengthen into a hurricane two. before heading out into the atlantic. the hurricane center has

just released some new numbers so let's turn to rebecca stevenson, what's the latest. >> this particular storm is spinning around it and it is impacting area with flash flooding is a major concern. as we hook at what we with expect, a current category one hurricane, will be increasing to a speed of category 2 that will take maximum winds to 96100 miles an hour. the frac of the storm is now forecast slightly further west. which means lit be impacting places like cape mattress, we will have a greater storm surge impact and flooding further inland as well.

all the way up to the del mar just offshore. so we do have a lot of concerns of flooding from the storms wrapping around this particular hurricane, rainfall amounts have not yet amounted to much. but when we hook at the highest rainfall records for places like wilmington, it is an impressive amount, it is approaching ten inches for all time records. so we will be totaling this, along with storm surge flooding tonight. david. as we speak, the hurricane is moving further. it has already forced thousands to pack up and head inland. our reporter jay gray is in the town of kill devil hills on the north carolina coast not far from where the storm is expected to make land fall, jay, always a pleasure to see you out there, what's the latest, what do you feel like, what are you seeing right

now? >> hey, there, david, great to talk to you as well with. the wind has gotten a bit cooler here, which signals the conditions are changing. take a look out at the beach. no question that arthur is on the way. >> as a line of clouds push across the coast, a line of cars crowds the road leading away from the outer banks. >> arthur is just not worth it. >> the first name storm continues to get stronger as it moves classier, the intentty too many for many tourist whose had hoped to spend their 4th of july here. >> packing up. trying to beat the storm, just in case. >> it is coming and the

road is weak, it's been weak for a long long time. >> sure to be tested by soaking rains and a possible storm surge. violent other spots along the evacuation, sand can be the biggest problem. >> the sand can get up to two or three feet on the road. from the winds blowing. >> arthur will be awful. even if if it just brushes across the east coast. still, the governor says his state is ready. >> we can get back online as quick as possible. rhodes, transportation, and anything else that needs to be repaired or fix within a short period of time. >> now the latest information, sustain

winds at 70 miles an hour, and it looks hikes the forecast track has been shifted a bit. they are taking it closer to the coastline here, not good news. also, most forecasters agree, this will be a category two when it does that. >> you have covered so many of these through the years how seriously are the folks there taking this one? >> i think, david, two very distinct categories. first the resident wills tell you, i have been through these,s this isn't the worth, i have a good fall back plan, i have preparations i knowky be without power. but a lot of the visitors they are not used to this. they hope that will continue to be a fast moving storm. they can get back in and salvage the weekend. jay, thank you. >> forecasters are pretty good at predicting where a hurricane will go, but it's not so easy to determine in add vance

how strong the storm will be. this summer scientists will be deploying drones to help show strength. request special instruments to do this, what are the limitations and what are the opportunities for the drone? >> well, it is right. the real problem right now is that we don't know that something like arthur is going to be a category 2 until it is just about to hit land full. very crazy kind of scientists flying in a p three orhine to get up close to a hurricane. that gives you very limited data, and so scientists want with to noah ahead of time, how strong these things will be, and so they are deploying drones in the hope they can do that. >> they will take a

mobile hawk, which are the kind we with have seen in arm conflict, put it up very very high, 65,000 feet above a hurricane and the real problem is persistence. which means you can have one take off, fly from virginia, fly all the way to africa, hang out there for ten hours come all the way back, and be at an altitude of 16,000 feet. and give us exposure to a hurricane. the other program is a noah program where you will be putting a three-foot drone into a hurricane, it will ride down through it and eventually crash, but give hours and hours of

exposure to hurricane winds. in a way that the parachuters could never do. >> jacob ward covering this for us, and by the way, hive pictures we were with showing you. u.s. security officials say there is new intelligence about al quaida thefts to commercial jetliners. and it all suggests that traditional pat downs and a ban on large liquid containers may not be enough to stop a new kind of bomb. so the department of homeland security has ordered airline with direct flights to tighten security measures. officials have worried they have figured out to turn them into explosives.

and current screenings may not be enough to catch them. could be used on american passenger planes. >> they are trying to find bombs that they believe can circumvent security, to get on aircraft. security is high, but the airport does remain open. this comes as u.s. officials are deeply worried that militants in syria are working with lawmakers in yemen, the same folks that came one with the underwear bomb of 2009. the develop new generation of nonmetallic ex-mostives. >> this will mean an increase in random searches. secondary searches, the

increase in the number of people that may be with shoes. >> that could make it easier for them to board planes. >> the u.s. has ordered security stepped up with nonstop nights to america. screeners are especially focused on shoes and electronics. more all items including cell phones, cameras are being pulled for closer inspections. it is always important we put safety first. >> this only applied to select airports. but more these security changes may very well be coming. >> jonathan, appreciate

it. >> israel has sent reenforcement to it's border gaza as tensioned with the palestinians grow worse. all of this stems from of three israeli teens. poll hing more rocket fire overnight. israel has been responding with air strikes of it's own. nick safe ron has the latest from gaza city. >> the battle lines are drawn. for two straight days when the jerusalem main roads have split in two. palestinians challenge an israel claim that jerusalem is a united capitol, israeli police fighting to keep the city under control. the rocks. stun grenades and for one palestinian fighter a solitary run to throw a cocktail that lands far short of it's target.

the 17 who they say was killed to avenge the murder of three israeli teenagers and outside tier gas hangs in the air, inside mohammed's mother says there's a hole inside of her. >> do you feel like you will ever be whole again. >> i feel, she says, hike my heart has been ripped out. >> the house is just up over that hill right there, you can see the smoke behind my. just as close as anyone can get to those fighters right now. >> the gaza border they are beginning to find their targets. israel raised the theft level after they scored direct hits. >> because the family whose live here are hide in safe rooms just hike this one. >> we spent a day with the ats family, four kids

ages four to 16. they have grown one a rocket threat. and they have memorize add 15 second song. 15 seconds because that's how long they have to run to a shelter before a miss sill could hit. >> we can and really normalized any other teenager in israel. but our normal life -- >> yes, i do. and it wakes me up a lot. but you get used to it. >> behind their fence is the army's fence, and behind that, less than a mile away is gaza. gaza is beginning to feel like a war zone, in response to the rockets the israeli military unleashed massive nightly strikes spreading fear across gaza. just outside the border it's massive troops were defensive purposes. >> hamas which runs gaza

says it doesn't invite invasion, but vows it would respond. >> hamas has tried to find defiance with those protestors in east jerusalem, and solidarity with a mother, her son wanted to be an electrician like his father. i hope the people that did this burn too. >> reporting up next, broken borders, divided family as six-year-old hon duran child is in state custody in texas, alone, after the aunt who brought her to america was deported. plus, why did they come? well, we will show you the crime statistics and conditions at home that are driving central americas to make the risky trek, and we with continue to follow hurricane arthur. and kill devil hills arthur is going to make land at a category 2, with winds in excess of

100 niles per hour, we will keep frac on the storm all weekend. blatche he says all

undocumented children should be sent back to their home countries. the governor who is considering a 2016 presidential run also called on the government to reimburse texas $500 million that's the cost he says the state has incurred trying to secure the border to try to keep undocumented immigrants out. allowing them to remain here, will only encouraging the next group. to undertake this dangerous and life threatening journey. >> more than 50,000 children, mostly from central america have cross the board zero the united states since october.

many of the young migrants come from honduras, known as the murder capitol of the world. 19 people are murdered there effective law day. one mother who sent her caught tore the united states for a better life, but wound up being held by the state of texas. >> it has been two months since sonia diaz last held her six-year-old daughter. she was thousands of kilometers away sitting in a home for unaccompanied migrant children in texas. >> i will not be at peace until my daughter returns home. as she attempted to immigrate to the united states. she manned on following with her two-year-old son. the sisters has heard that illegal migrant women were being allowed into the country if accompanied by a child. >> we heard a lot of mothers were getting through, and we were told that it would be very easy and this would be no

problem. >> but shortly after crossing the border between mexico and texas last april, sonia's sister were with detained. u.s. authorities deported sonia's sister back to honduras, but kept the child. >> they told us that since she wasn't the girls mother they would have to keep her, and only the rightful mother can claim her. >> sonia says she nearly lost her mind when she heard her young child was being held ahone in the united states. she eventually made contact with a social worker. she said if she could prove she is the childs mother, she would be sent back to her. stone yeah is a lot better off nan a hot of other families. she at least knows are her daughter is and can hope they will eventually be reuninated. marry on contact has taken mace in periodic phone calls.

the authorities in texas would ahow her to see her daughter in a video call if she was able to access a computer. and show her how to get online, and then stepped back to ensure the child's right to privacy. >> sonia's fist time ever using a skype video call was to see and speak to her daughter. it is better now that i have seen her, but the uncertainty is just too much. i don't know when they will return her to me. [but the technology is no substitute for an absent child's embrace. al jazeera. >> there are several reasons for the historic surge of undocumented migrants frying to cross the border. one of the most violent parts of the world, but we haven't talked a lot

about is why. the majority of this recent immigration surge, they are guatemala, honduras, and el salvador. first to put the violence in these maces in perspective. this is homicide per 100 people. there's been 40 or higher, honduras at about 80 last year, by compare sophisticated, let's add civil tan casualties in iraq. now that's probably on the rise, recent hi with the violence there, but still the point is these countries are a war zone. 4.7 per 100,000. the short answer is life or death. back to the map, the main

reason boils down to location, location, location. these are weak, corrupt, here is what latin american had to say about it. >> gall mall la, honduras, is sandwiched if you want to call it that, between north america, and south america. the consumers are the suppliers. just the criminal drug cartels and more powerful than the government themselves. >> it is half as much of half all the cocaine coming to the u.s. comes think honduras. a country the size of tennessee, about as many as new york city. it is totally unable to control the borders.

now children are vulnerable to gains. they recruit boys as new members sometimes as early as kindergarten. children who refuse their demands are tortured, raped, kidnapped killed even going to school can be dangerous. now, the u.n. has been looking closely at children leaving central america, and says based on what they say they are fleeing nearly 60% would be eligible for some kind of humanitarian relief, or international protection. for that they are looking north to the united states. so when there's talk of sending these children back where they came from, it is worth considering why their home hands are the way they are, and that they are more dangerous than even iraq was from 2008 to 2012, these children are more like refugees running from war, than migrants.

the more than 200,000 migrants. the proposition would give them six month pes to find a job or be expelled even if they hold passports. he followed closely and staying up late for us in london tonight. dealing with immigration issues germany, france, italy. it is all increasing exponentially. what is the reaction in europe to people moving from east to western europe? >> it's not just barack obama who has a hand full with his problem.

has to do with economic conditions and just as in the quite, we have been through a great economic roller coaster here. it isn't that surprising that there are great attempts to clamp down. with the idea that perhaps these people are taking local jobs. true or not is debatable, but certainly the politics by trying to play to fears. >> i know in the united kingdom, in terms of the number of migrants. something like 400,000 in a country of only 64 million. do you sense that when you talk to people? >> you are right. the report there about

issues in central america, let me throw a couple more facts. quite rightly refers to the population here. that's fifth of the population, but crammed into a geographic area. it took 37 years for it to increase previously, and some 60% of that was with due to immigration. so this cheerily is a problem here, there's a great demand in some sections of europe. is that the ability to remove anybody from the united kingdom, be there roma or anybody else, is difficult if they have a european passport, because the union laws allow free range and settlement of people. it would be very similar to mexican citizens or canadian citizens haven't the right in the united states, because the three

nations are part of nafta. and the union, of course, as a free trade agreement. president obama has been quite aggressive in demanding reform. tell us about the leaders david cameron and the rest, are they also taking an aggressive stance, but mindful. are they moving towards the center on this. >> of course, it is very rare for 3086s to come unstuck by playing too hard to the right on these issues. it is a very easy card to play. we have seen barack obama talking about that. here in the united kingdom, there's talk about trying to end child support payments the same in germany. they appear to be on the same page here. in the united kingdom, the conservative party

coming under great pressure from the united kingdom independent party. heed to the exact reversal of what they wished for. if he is returned as prime minister after next year's election. but, of course, if you can continue to chip away and ebb at way at his polls the conservative party may not get that, which can lead to a labor party result, which would of course commit britain to remaining in european union. which is what you don't want. >> james, thank you for being with us. >> thank you. >> coming up, demanding their independent, why kurdish leaders are talking about breaking away from the rest of the country. plus, the science of celebrating america's

birthday. how they create those displays. continue to follow hurricane arthur, you are looking at live pictures, a lot of folks there on the beach, anticipating may come later tonight, again what is coming is a category ii hurricane, perhaps two or three hours from now. blatche the first

hurricane of the season is moving closer and closer, you are hooking at live pictures a few hours from now. happen people will not be on the beach. the new report on jobs still sounds great, so why are so many people having a hard time finding rate. >> . >> in iraq, in the midst of the instability and violence posed there's been a bold move by the countries kurdish minority. the president announced they would be taking steps toward achieving an independent state.

instructing them to start making preparations and separation from iraq. >> we are the only ones who decide our destiny. without a doubt, we have many allies. and no one can blame us for doing this. >> positively the crowd of people gathers outside the parliament building. >> we support him saying that they have become almost impossible.

and his significant nonetheless. moving toward as referendum, the results of which many predict will be in favor of separation is a big deal. especially as they have several power struggling and arguably more divided than ever. with with thousands of soldiers kneeing as a result, the kurdish troops moved in, taking control of new territories. a city that's up until now is disputed between the kurdss and arabs. on wednesday, prime minister accused kurdish politicians of taking advantage of the turmoil to eventually capture new territory. but kurdish politicians say malachi has no one to blame but himself.

and the one mention he has been in the hahs eight years and his military responsibilities for the other areas. strong words from kurdish home runs here who are adamant they will move forward, despite warnings by the prime minister that he h not recognize a move towards holding such a referendum. the u.s. military top officer said today that iraqi security forces are capability of defending the city. he told reporters today that the troops train bedty united states will be able to keep baghdad from falling but he says the forces are not strong enough to counter attack and retake territory already captured by sunni

fighters. what do you make of the assessment, they can protect baghdad, nothing else. >> that's not going to be good enough. if they want -- get that land back, re-establish commerce, they have to go on the attack. what concerns me is the security forces outnumber six, seven, eight, to one. to go on the attack, usually three times more troops. so i am not sure where that is coming from. >> and what does it say about use training them, or maybe their inability to retain what we were teaching them. someone said that the army has been trained to run a check point type military, where they monitor movements, and that's just again not going to cut it. they will have use the great technology that has been given to them.

ner a concern they won't just go marching into baghdad. is it possible to protect baghdad against that kind of threat. >> that is the theft of staying on it. if they sit this on their heels that i will be very likely to have these kind of attacks. the confident they have in the government, and then you will see the situation go downward very quickly. >> as far as the vacuum, it does appear it may be turning to iran. nevermind politically but militariry, what does that do? >> it came from the iranians i just think we have to keep them at an arm's length.

and try to form that coalition government, iraq will only survive if they bring them together. they don't want to give them that power back. the military situation for the forces can it get better with with time. assuming that the rebels don't advance, does the military sitweigh change over time? >> i think that would be catastrophic if they went on the counter attack. and it looks hike that's at least a stalemate. if they suffer defeat, or in the outskirts of the city itself, and i'm afraid they will be tremendously set back, they will have to re-evaluate the entire campaign. on a typical 4th of july weekend, nearly a quarter of a million tourists traveled to the outer banks. today thousands were getting away from there. now a category i storm,

expected to make land. jay gray is live tonight, jay, land fall just a couple of hours away, but update us on the conditions? on the p.a. and warning those who are going to ride this out that the storm has taken a different tract that was not favorable to this area. and what that means basically, according to the national hurricane center, is that this system is getting a bit closer to the shoreline. then initially was thought. it is going to be a stronger storm. so it is going to pack quite a punch. we will see winds blowing and gusting. at times over 90 miles an hour, right now, and it is going to continue to intensify. it can climb to more than five people. we will see power outages

it is going to be a rough go. it is the fact that it is a fast moving one, so a lot of people are hoping it gets through the area, they can get back in and at least salvage a bit of the weekend here. and then come back as you mentioned once it is done. >> bridges that can be closed at the water piles up too much. hopeny those visitors many who have an experienced these type of storms before, have taken the advise of the emergency managers which have been stressing this. and understand that it's just going to be a process.

if you do ride it out. etch after the storm passes because the rip tide, is going to be very severe, and very dangerous. >> veteran reporter in dig devils hill, thank you for the update, and of course be updating all of you about the arrival of hurricane arthur. as the labor department reported that more americans than expected found jobs. employers add about 288 workers far more than have been forecasts. and that's a five year low. president obama says there's more work to do, but he is happy with the numbers. so it gives you a sense that the economy has

built momentum. that we are making progress. we are now seeing almost 10 million jobs created. into record territory today, and a shortened trading day, the dow gained 92 points. those numbers reflect plenty of optimism, yet, millions of americans are still struggling to find work. in a few states the jobless rate remains higher now than it was before the recession. have been unemployed at least six months. kimberly has their story. >> come on in. >> twice a month. to feed their families. >> 85% of the people that

we serve now are due to be unemployment crisis. they are out here with no income, no resource. that number goes up by 70,000 each week. with the u.s. unemployment rate stuck as just about 6%, the adult daughter hasn't been able to find work. five people now live on helen's small pension. actually since i retired i have been taking care of her and her three boys. she says has taken its toll, not alone. survey of more than 350,000 americans last year revealed the longest they were unemployed the more likely they were to

be depressed. almost doubles to 19%. this employment says that's because the u.s. economy may have improved from it's collapse five years ago, but only for some. >> the recovery worked well for the people in the upper echelons of our economy. the bankers the millionaires the executives. >> the working class told us u.s. incomes haven't kept up, but when a paycheck doesn't cover the bills they come here. making the best of it, before the u.s. recession she had a high paying salary position. now she works multiple jocks at an hourly wage, for tens of thousands left, and little job security. >> i am working just temporary, nothing permanent. which can end at any minute. >> and there's a real

possibility that can happen, with u.s. economic news continues to decline. al jazeera, washington. >> and back overseas in ukraine, the fighting in eastern part of that country, intensifies against today. following a shaky cease fire that ended this week. officials blame pro russian separatist for the deaths today of at least nine people, foreign ministers from russia, ukraine, france, have called for a new truce, many ukrainian soldiers are not ready to lay down their arms. >> ukrainian forces are on the move, tanks personnel carriers men and supplies are pushing eastwards. the army says it has the separatist in their sites and another cease fire would find little support here. >> if there's a truce it should be for one day

only, just to give them the chance to get out of the here. >> they were not allowed to proactively attack separatist positions and now just as the anti-terror operation is getting going again, it seem as new cease fire may frustrate them once more. >> the frustrationen the front line is clearly being felt all the way to the top. the president told parliament that several generals are to be sacked. he is appointing a new armed forces chief, and nail add colonel general as the new defense minister. the army need as new commander, a soldier, who is not just taught how to fight, but fought himself. >> a general who knows from experience, what a war is, and how to win that war. >> in the army too, there is a burning decide to oust the separatists once and for all.

at the most, 5,000 of them. so there's going to be civilian deaths. separatist say this carnage was called by government air strike. the outcome is indisputable. ukrainian forces are certainly closing in on separatist held towns and cities. but it is far from clear whether the soldiers will be given time to actually reach their destinations. al jazeera, ukraine. >> just ahead, our photo of the day, the technology used to paint

the july night sky with colorful lights that cannot be done without chemicals we will look at the science behind big time fireworks shows. a mott of weather that we are monitoring here. there's a threat of a thunderstorm as the umpire state building is lit up blue indicating bad weather ahead. also, red, white, and blue, for july 4th.

expecting another update as we get into the next hour, the forecast models that were following three in particular, the one farther inland is the one to follow that appears to be the one with that's

been developing tracking closer to the coastline, bringing in stronger winds and a lot more rain and higher storm surge to the coast. the outer bands are effecting a lot of us this month. most of the rain will be into the showers of the rockies. hurricane warnings in effect, impacting mainly the north carolina coastline. pretty powerful still. potentially up to 50 mile-an-hour winds in some places all the way through the northeast. especially as we get towards boston and the outer coast. are caughting tornado warnings and severe thunderstorms and flash flooding. something to keep an eye to the sky and in tune with your local forecasts. >>

technology correspondent explores what it takes to light up the night sky. this is one of several

barges that thatly use to launch the 4th of july display. the hardware onboard is basically tubes connected by circuits to an operator, who ignites these individual shells. back then, really the purpose is just to scare goats so it is a little tube with gunpowder and you threw it into the fire that was the original firecracker. but today they are incredibly sophisticated. there is a blast charge at the bottom. that powder that basically fires it up into the air. this uses explosives to send it up. it is timed out to a particular length or 500 feet in this case. hit go offer at this altitude, sets off this

inner explosive. and then chemical compounds inside make it the colors that you want them to be. things i feel unconfidentble just holds one of them. the idea of core graphing thousands of these is pretty unbelievable. we with have a big arm full, tell me what we have here. >> we have arielle shells. this is representation of what we will be shooting off. and a variety of sizes. >> how reliable is it? just -- i always assumed that there was a matter of timers and remote controls and electronics.

the way we ignite them has changed. this has been p happening for centuries. >> really not supposed to do that. >> so on the side there is a module. and it is addressable. >> right. >> so all of these racks will have those on them. and they will all be cables together. >> wow. >> so there's a control they are will be at the operators shed. he send as signaling out to the entire network. it h go out and find it and launch nit the air. these are bout from high ground manufactures in china and japan. world class expertise on

display, but the thing is when you talk to jeff thomas who is a very experienced pyrotechnician, is to say that he is trying to go from the as and awes that we are used to to a full on whoa. which is the mark of a great fireworks display. jacob warden that was awesome. all the new tonight, on al jazeera america, at 11 eastern, a list of demands after a stint behind bars the activist jailed for hitting a police during an occupy rally in new york, she has a new cause. we will get into that, those stories and much more at 11:00 even. christmas in the netherlands may look a little different this year, amsterdam court has declared a traditional dutch character offensive. his name is black pete, he has said to bring presents for kids but he has also brought plenty

of controversy. both in the nether-lands and overseas. the great fanfare handing out presents. >> now, defensive and continuing a negative stereotype. for back people, amsterdam will have to rethink the parade. >> debate has intensified in the past few years with complaints about the u. n. he can be portrayed with mumbling, a bit slow, and hue manage rights activists argue that he was a racist caricature that should be banned. >> a millions more like

this page, saying he is a harmless figure, a past of dutch tradition. they have also celebrated black pete, it is a celebration for children. >> in a time of growing globalization and migration. >> and our freeze frame tonight comes from a very tense part of the middle east, where anger between israelis and palestinians has been boiling over. they haves say the response ha maz fires more than 40 rockets into israel. america tonight is next.

iraq. >> the united states will continue to increase our support to iraqi security forces. >> don't miss america tonight exclusive reports front line iraq only on al jazeera america

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