>> welcome to aljazeera america, i'm del walters, and these are the stories we're following for you. peace broker, the u.s. offers to lend a helping happened to stop the back and forth barrage between the israelis and the palestinians. a baby, once believed to have been cured of hiv is now showing signs of it again. and where will the basketball fans waiting for lebron james' big decision.

>> 100 palestinians have been killed and 700 injured over the last four days. the israeli army says that hamas has fired 600 rockets into israel. those are the numbers, but behind the figures, there are real people. mothers, fathers, children, and of course all of them living with fear. nick schifrin reports. >> as israel launches an invasion, the israeli military has struck more than 1,000 locations. 300-pound bombs pulverize buildings, and small tactical missiles gut cars. all night and all morning, israeli bombs echo through gaza, and now israel feels its fighting on multiple fronts. the occupied west bank, protesters, and in northern

israel, for the first time in over a year, in lebanon, targeted an israeli farm, and targeting more than ever before. one directly hit a gas station. they're flying deeper into israel and the aiming for the most sensitive locations. including tel aviv. the symbol of the israeli state. >> we will increase our strikes. >> and as that happens, more gazans will be affected. the israeli airstrike killed an entire family. a missile gutted their house. more than half of those killed were children. it was an earthquake, the house was full of children, eight of them. what did these children do wrong? >> for the first time during the escalation. the wounded were evacuated to egypt. they're seeking medical care that was increasingly difficult

to find. >> she was unconscious for three days and had surgery, but it happened helped. egypt should have opened the border earlier, the hospitals are struggling. >> meanwhile, a draft resolution making its way through the united nations in order to stop the airstrikes. the ambassador calling for a ceasefire yesterday. and the president saying that the u.s. will try to help mediate a resolution. james bates has more on the diplomatic front. >> reporter: i'm told that the discussions were quite productive to begin with and suddenly there were objections from the u.s., with the various ambassadors from their capitals. u.s. it seems from washington had trouble with the language that was being disgusted. so that statement is not going to happen, and it's not going anywhere. and arab ambassadors at the u.n.

are very angry and they decided to take another move, which is to draw up their own resolution. i'm told that the draft resolution now exists, now calling for a ceasefire. the gaza conflict, it's before the international ceasefire from israel. if they go ahead -- they have to decide what to do about this resolution, which will be a security council resolution, calling for a ceasefire. the only clue we have to the u.s. position is what the previous administration, the bush administration, in its last few days, did back in 2009. they abstained. they didn't veto. they abstained. but it will be interesting if that resolution is brought foo vote in the coming days. >> meanwhile, secretary of state

john kerry is mediating a standoff in the presidential candidates in iraq. stalling the firsthand over of power. >> we obviously have high hopes that the questions about the election will be resolved quickly. can be resolved. and that a way forward can take place which will give afghans confidence that they have a presidency and a government that's capable of unifying all afghans and building a road to the future. >> kerry seen meeting for the u.n. proposal to audit 8,000 polling stations style. >> in iraq, that country's kurds taking another step toward independence, seizing control of two oil fields in the northern part of the country. and them they replaced all of the arab workers with kurds.

more on the deepening divide. >> the international airport's cargo terminal is practical empty. just hours after the iraqi government issued a decree, the impact is visible. the other airport, which serves iraq's region. on wednesday, the government banned cargo planes from landing -- and the politicians of working to split the country, and accuses them of turning the city into a base for rebel fight,. >> we will not be silent about their bill. it's a base for the islam ingstate and terrorist organizations. >> in response, the regional government occurreds called maliki a madman. >> he's doing everything that he can to put the blame on others.

he must step down. he destroyed the country, and he cannot save it. >> the airports on a normal day, this hanger would be filled with goods, particularly freights that are too sensitive to be brought in trucks. things that are heat sensitive like medication, for example, they would be loaded on to shelves but you can see that the shelves are empty. >> we're handling on average, 800, 900 tons a week. generally speaking, it's every day consumer goods. some of them needed more than others. a lot of pharmaceuticals for hospitals, drugs for patients. >> and will political tat for tant continued, and the kurdish politicians hit back. the prime minister, the foreign minister and the health minister all announced that they were

boycotting cabinet meetings. >> we declare that we won't take part in the upcoming cabinet sessions for our protests, and we cannot endure any such behavior and stances. among the people, the division is just as parent. there are those who accused government of being a failure, and saying that it was maliki's mismanagement that led on the chaos, and there are those who cougs the kurdish politicians of conspiring with the rebels. >> the kurdistan region was one of the main. and even the kurdish officials can not deny such information. >> iraq's kurdistan region, it should be based on evidence and proof. no one can confirm such allegations unless there's clear evidence. >> iraq's recent history has been defined by decades of authoritarian rule and wars. and for many, the only distance

about its presence is that the country itself has a real risk of being carved up. aljazeera. >> in washington, they're trying to figure out what to do about an immigration nightmare. tens of thousands of undommed migrant children, many of them escaping violence and poverty in south america. one of them who came here as an undocumented child is reaching out to others. >> at just 13 years old, jose luis started a dangerous and desperate journey all alone. leaving his family in honduras for the u.s.-mexico border. >> gang violence is tremendous in honduras, and i became a victim of it. and i was tired, and i made the journey to the united states not thinking that i was breaking the law, because i wanted to find my mother and reunite with my younger sister. >> during the 45-day trip, he was forced to rely on stringers

and he faced gangs and drug smugglers. >> it's depressing whenever a smuggler awakes you up at 2:00 in the morning with a gun in his hand and a little girl is screaming because she's being raped and you can't do anything about it. they say whoever is going to do something is going to be next. and it's frustrating as a child to know that your mother and father are not there to protect you. >> after these details, he faced two months in a detention center where he faced deportation, and instead, he was released to his family in the u.s. more than 14 years later, jose has traveled to mc callum, texas, to be a voice for the children coming to the united states. >> what do we do when a child comes, running away from violence, where are we deporting them to? where are we going to send them back to? are we going to give them a

death sentence to send them back from where they are running from? >> the immediate care of unaccompanied children, children applying for refugee status are facing delays. >> there's a lot of sickness that the children are sharing in their cells because they're being treated as prisoners. >> jose says that politics should be set aside to address the humanitarian crisis, and under the action program, jose is allowed to remain in the u.s. while he works toward a ph.d and sees himself as an example of what undocumented children can accomplish if they are to remain in the u.s.. >> a major milestone today for the motor city, today is the deadline to vote on a bankruptcy restructuring plan. workers could reduce their pensions and it might just save the city.

>> thousands of workers have had months to vote on the $18 billion debt plan, and now it all comes down to a yes or no vote. the result will play a pivotal role in what lies ahead in detroit's future. determining how a once thriving city will emerge from bankruptcy. >> it's a huge deal. whether or not they're accepting what has been proposed by the city. >> the plan calls for cutting non-uniformed retiree pensions by over 4%. reducing healthcare coverage, and eliminating cost of living increases for retired police officers and firefighters. if the deal is approved, the state would kick in hundreds of millions of dollars. it's money that could offset pension cuts and protect a collection of prized artwork at the city's renowned museum. >> there has been nothing proposed like it, and granted, there haven't been many municipal bankruptcies but

nobody has come up with this idea. and the creativity itself is fascinating and incredible. >> russian worked for the city for 15 years. >> are you worried? >> i'm not. i'm not going to worry. >> he says his pension check already doesn't amount to very much, so for him, the decision to vote no was easy. >> i came to the decision that no self-respecting person votes to give up their rights with a gun to their head. >> but there are some who feel what the city is offering is fair. detroit's two retirement unions are urging them to support the plan. if it's not approved, pension cuts could go deeper, up to 30% or more. a proposal to save the art would be drawn, straining the entire bankruptcy process. if it's approved, the city will have crossed a major hurdle moving ahead. aljazeera, detroit. >> coming up on aljazeera america, she was once called a

miracle baby, cured of hiv. and now her doctors have revealed that she has tested positive again for the virus, and fears that a super typhoon could damage fukushima's nuclear power atlanta

>> the world health organization is expressing concerns about hiv case. men having sex with men. pref is a drug, also known as truvada. and it's known to cut hiv. howellusive a cure for hiv-aids can be, erica. >> a big blow to researchers trying to find a cure for hiv. last year, a baby born to a

mother made headlines as the dose seemed to cure her. >> they looked for virus in the sensitive way that we look for virus, and they couldn't find any in the baby, thinking that the initial 18 months of therapy actually eliminated the virus from the baby. >> dr. fauci said that once this baby is now admitting that it's not the case. the baby, now a four-year-old girl, tested positive for hiv. >> the virus rebounded and hiding undetectable for 27 months, without there being any they were at all. and then unfortunately, it rebounded, which is disappointing. >> how could this happen. >> experts say this is a very tricky virus, and that's why it has been such a long time coming to find a cure. others haven't worked. the virus can hide in little reservoirs of the body.

>> the mississippi baby is not the only infant who heard cured after therapy. this past march, another baby, born in long beach, california, also seemed to be virus free after undergoing a similar treatment. so far no changes in that case. while this seems like a devastating development, doctors say that it's not dashing hopes for a cure, though that's likely years away. >> i wouldn't say that we have come close it a cure, but the optimistic thing, we have to learn what doesn't work before we know what does. >> the mississippi child is gack on the the therapy and is doing brel. >> crews in florida cleaning up 1 million gallons of saltwater. the brian is coming from a pipeline last week. it came apart and the path of the saltwater destroyed more than 200 yards of vegetation. the epa making sure that the spill hasn't affected the drinking water of a nearby

indian reservation. cleanup could take weeks. tropical storm nagory, now as it brushes past fukushima, there are concerns about cleaning up the nuclear disaster. >> typhoon noguri made landfall in japan on thursday, bringing flooding and a series of landslides, as the slow moving storm turns north, there are fears of an even greater danger. rain could further bedevil the cleanup of japan's most natures power plant fukushima. when i traveled to fukushima last year, tepco, the owner of the plant admitted that tons of ground water was being contaminated daily by the reactors. their temporary fix was to build

thousands of tanks to store the flood of radioactive water. >> what's the long-term strategy to deal with? >> one of our aims is to reduce the source of the contaminated water. tepco said that it planned to build a massive ice wall around the plant, to freeze the soil and protect the ground water from ever coming in contact with the radioactive fuel. last tuesday, aljazeera was allowed into fukushima. tep coplans to begin freezing the ground next march. but as work gets underway, serious questions are being raised about the technology itself, which has never been tested for this purpose, and never on this scale. two months ago, a smaller scale version of the ice wall was deployed in a tunnel between reactors two and three, to halt the flow of the contaminated water, but the water has yet to freeze. if the ice wall ultimately

fails, not only will tepco have wasted half a billion-dollar. but it may be forced to take a step that many say is unthinkable. >> will you have to dump some contaminated water into the pacific? >> we're doing a testing of the system tad alps. the policy is to decontaminate the water to a safe and harmless level in order to reduce the risk that it poses. >> david mcneil, a journalist who has covered the fukushima disaster from day one, believes that the release of some water is inevitable. >> once they get it to the decontamination that is acceptable to dump into the ocean. there's no way they can not do it. >> i asked what if tepco fails to first time out more dangerous forms of radiation? >> all over [ unintelligible ].

>> long-term words, as typhoon neoguri rages on. >> if you look at a forecast map with all of the swirly lines around the u.s., you might think of going out in time this week might look like the january maps. as in a lot of very cold air starting to seep down and drop into parts of the midwest and the northeast. it's not very cold air this time around, burr we're going to see a significant difference in temperatures for summertime in the midwest. so as we look at temperatures now, near 80° for parts of the mid-atlantic and 79 in new york,

and the west coast has temperatures mainly in the 60s, and warmer, 92 for phoenix. but here's what we have got. today, we're going to get our hottest temperatures, texas, denver to phoenix with temperatures primarily in the 90s, but we'll also see temperatures popping up in the pacific northwest. and in fact, over the weekend, we're expecting temperatures to be so much warmer, we'll have a typical high of 75. that's what we would normally have in seattle. but instead, you're going to get 91. so nighttime last name cool off like normal either. so it's going to be very hot. an ex tessive heat morning in place for western washington for the weekend ahead. and even potentially for the beginning of the week, but watch how temperatures here, especially in minnesota, start to drop by sunday, and then monday, mid 60s, and overnight will be cooler than this. this will be impacting the great lakes as well.

over to the northeast on wednesday and thursday, and you can see the temperatures continuing to fall. even chicago getting in with much cooler weather for this time of year, mid 70s on wednesday, and this is the time of year that we're usually hitting our hot temperatures, and instead, we're dropping temperatures. 15-20° below normal for most. so today, we have things calming down for the northeast coast. but we're going to watch for severe thunderstorms in the midwest. and iowa, a severe weather threat. with cold in the midwest. >> but we can't say polar vortex. >> we can't, because it doesn't qualify for the temperature or the depth. >> we'll just call it summer text. thank you very much. art lovers in tokyo taking advantage of a unique multisensory aquarium. more than 50 containers with

neek combinations of lights and japanese goldfish. the artist behind it produces it each and every year. and this year's aquarium runs today through the end of summer. basketball superstar, lebron james, has grown used to life in the spotlight. and right now, the spotlight is on his decision of whether he will return to cleveland. lebron maybe. next on aljazeera america.

>> welcome back to aljazeera america. i'm del walters, and these are the headlines at this hour. the israeli prime minister is holding a news conference right now. he said that the airstrikes in his country will continue. we're watching this news conference and will bring you any new developments. and meanwhile, the death toll in gaza continues to rise. more than 100 palestinians have been killed and 700 injured in the last days. the army said that they hit 1100 tars in gaza. the decide between the iraqi kurds and shiites is growing

deeper. seizing control of two major oilfields in northern iraq. kurds began boycotting the government of prime minister nurial maliki after he sided with the sunni rebellion. will he stay or will he go? fans of lebron james want to know. james is a free agent, deciding between leaving the miami heat and going back to cleveland. fans, beside themselves, apparently crashing a lebron james website yesterday. john henry smith has more on the mania. >> on tv, lebron james might be returning about a return to cleveland. >> and on the streets. >> i'm from akron, and i'm onboard for lebron james. >> sports fans can't wait to find out if lebron james is staying in miami or coming home to ohio, four years after he made his decision to leave the cleveland cavaliers. >> i am going to join the miami

heat. >> fans burned his jersey in anger then. but now the move is forgiveness for their prodigal son. >> come back home, man. >> in township, ohio, they let him know they care. >> went to eat at reb lobster and came by his house so show my support. >> he didn't show it as he played pickup ball with high schoolers at his camp in las vegas on thursday. james met thursday with heat president, pat riley for an hour. james' only known personal meeting so far with the teams during free agency, and then james flew back to miami with heat teammate, dwyane wade. the longer james takes to decide, the more confident cavs fans seem to be that he's coming home, despite the fact that he has won two titles with the heat and the heat can offer him more money. >> thank you for watching aljazeera america, i'm del

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