joining us. >> hi, everyone. this is aljazeera america, i'm john seigenthaler in new york. no troops, the push for a ceasefire fails, with israel and hamas stepping up the attack and the wore of words. and cost of cholera. in haiti. the human toll and the epidemic. a opening, a medical break through with a small contact lens for diabetics. and losing gammel. atlantic city is facing long

odds as more casinos close. and we begin tonight with the crisis between gaza and scroll. we have been following it closely since it erupted two weeks ago, and today was supposed to be part of a ceasefire, but within hours, new violence. an israeli civilian was killed by rocket fire from gaza, and it was the first israeli death since it broke out. 119 palestinians have been killed. and 1,500 injured. israel's prime minister said that the military will intensify attacks in gaza, and benjamin netanyahu said that he has no choice because hamas refused to a ceasefire. >> following the death of an

israeli civilian at the arab border crossing between gaza and israel, we have been hearing statements from israeli officials that could indicate that things may be moving toward further escalation. according to the israeli media reports, the israeli prime minister, fet net, who secured a cabinet meeting in tel aviv on tuesday night, hamas is going to pay the price for deciding to continue with the escalation, and that israel would continue to strike hamas until it is able to bring quiet to israeli civilians. similar sentiments were echoed by the minister, and they said that they will never compromise when it comes to israel's security. at the same time, we're hearing statements from the white house in washington d.c., where a government official was quoted as saying that the rocket attacks on innocent civilians in

israel are completely unacceptable and israel is entitled to take the necessary actions in order to secure the safety and stability of its citizens. these i understand coo of statements give the israeli government a sense of legitimacy in order to widen it's military operation and intensify it against gaza. shortly after israeli resumed it's airstrike, we spoke to the spokesman from hamas, and asked why they refused to stop the rocket attacks. >> this can i may be legitimate if hamas started the attack against the israelis, but in fact, they started against the israelis, and the palestinians, and hamas is defending it's own people. so the question must be for the israelis, what do you gain from bombing and killing the palestinians, and what do you gain from destroying the peace process and the two step

solution? this is supposed to be a big question for the israelis, and if you said that for the first, it would be like this. the palestinians, no one would question them. and the palestinians have no rights to protect themselves or defend themselves, and they would be questioned why they are doing that the. >> nick schiffrin joins us live from gaza, and wha what are you hearing on the ground? >> yeah, john, good evening, and a ceasefire needs two participants. and the gazans and the israelis we spoke to feel the same way. >> across the street from the elementary school, the al-sadr family's windows. there are no pains. last week, they were all blown out by an israeli airstrike that created a 100-foot tall cloud. the family says it's not worth fixing them because even the talk of cease fires, they feel

that the conflict is far from over. they have survived three israeli conflicts in just six years. >> for a long time, there has been a war between muslims and jews. when we tried to asking for our land, they hit us. >> his son, only nine, reflects his father's views. >> they hit us with missiles and destroy our houses. >> the family lives in the israeli district closest to gaza. this town has been targeted by palestinian rockets for 12 years, but never as many as in the last week. >> to say that we get used to it, we don't. it's a fear that keeps coming back. >> it was supposed to be a ceasefire, and they were targeted 11 times, even during our interview. they run into the town's bomb shelter. 11-year-old nicole echos the fears. >> it's scary and difficult.

to be at home all the time, and you can't go out. >> each israeli town near gaza has a fortified bomb shelter, and they have a muscle defense system called the iron dome. in gaza, there's no iron dome. there's no bomb shelters. that the al-sadr family has is the ground floor apartment. this is the only room where abdul kareem, his brother, feels that the children are protected. >> it's more safe upstairs where you can hear booms, and there are rockets and they frighten my children. >> but despite the risks and on going conflict, the families in gaza and israel argue against the ceasefire. they want their enemies disbanded once and for all. >> why agree to a ceasefire when we're at a point where hamas is

defeated and scared? >> this war will make our lives much better. israel wants to take our weapons. and if the war is two months or a year, i'm in favor of it. all day palestinian rockets were flying into israel. and by 3 p.m., israeli military started strikes, and both sides are feeling pressure from the people to keep fighting. and that fighting continues tonight for the first time. a new tactic by israel has destroyed the homes of the senior members of hamas 'political wing. the officials were not in the homes, but they are trying to send a message, and you can hear the rocket fire, john, a few blocks from here, going out into israel. and that will give you a sense of how embedded they are in the residential neighborhoods

>> so this is a perfect example of the ceasefire, and what are people saying? >> people are hoping for peace, and to not have to be woken up at 3:00 in the morning by that sound, or on israel's side, the sound of a red alert siren. >> the rockets are pretty loud, and we'll have to pause for one second. each of them will be followed by something inside of israel. by a red alert and something going off. and one of them seems to be an israel strike. nobody wants these kinds of attacks, and nobody wants that kind of a sound at 3:00 in the morning, so a lot of people the piece. but those people that you saw in the package reflect quite a bit of israel and gaza. and a lot of people don't want this to keep going, period. and the israelis feel that the military has to go into gaza.

and gazans feel that they have to keep fighting israel to make their point. so there's a lot of pressure on the government to keep up the strikes. >> how safe do you feel standing out there? >> well, as you can see, i'm wearing a vest. this is a war zone or a conflict zone, and what we're hearing now is unusual. we're hearing the sound of apaches, and so there's some kind of an offensive going on ann far from me by israel. but i have to say, we're here, and we're relatively safe, wearing vests, and the people of gaza of course don't have vests, and they don't have bomb shelters, or anywhere to go to escape some of the attacks coming in, and most of the attacks are very precise that israel does, but again, a lot of them are inside of a residential neighborhood. so the attack has been very precise, but at the same time,

the vast majority of the people, according to the u.n., who have been killed or wounded are palestinian. >> nick schiffrin, it is the civilians, the people far from power who are suffering the most in this fight, but are they changing their political attitudes? david schuster is here with more. >> reporter: john, in order for the public to embrace the ceasefire, a lot of the moderates have to agree on both sides, but public opinion in israel and gaza is moving to the extreme and strength thing with those who want to escalate the war. the foreign policy analyst. as rockets and bombs stall, many polls suggest that the israeli public opinion is pushing to the right. >> people are one, fed up with

the rocket attacks, and two, given the fact that israel has already engaged in the military operations before, there's a desire on the part of the public to have this thing over. >> in gaza, hamas is supposed to be sharing governing power. but hamas is more aggressive with israel, even in the face of their military superiority. >> hamas is much more desperate and they're willing to play the cards, telling israel, we never accept ceasefire, and come in and invade us. >> over the past weeks, the human tragedy is gaining sympathy for hamas, and it puts benjamin fet net in a tight political spot. >> there were a few polls released today that shows that most people are not happy with the fact that israel had agreed

to a ceasefire. if this analogy seems to be weak, and if hamas is not subdued from an israel point of view, he could lose his seat. >> but an invasion might not be in the prime minister's best interest assort. >> the government wants to invade, but he knows it's risky and he might lose soldiers and its risky for him politically. >> the end of the ceasefire would help netanyahu the most right now, which is why many say hamas has rejected it. and that puts more pressure on netanyahu to deliver a forceful reply. >> it's going to be an air response, israel will make a show of force. among other things, in order to avoid a ground operation. >> some analysts say that hamas

will keep pushing regardless of the palestinian deaths, and gabrielle said that that will not hurt hamas, but in fact generate empathy in some quarters, when egypt has treated them with disdain. hamas has been eager ever since to reopen the border crossing and restart the flow of weapons, money and supplies. >> this is a vital moment. they can disappear as a political movement which is dangerous for israel. whoever takes their place, whether its islamic jihad, they would be on far more extreme than hamas. >> the ceasefire would keep hamas in power, but still in check, it's appealing. >> i'm not sure that the ceasefire is over. there are a lot of things going on behind the scenes, including efforts of qatar in turkey to

get into the act of mediating, so i'm not sure that we should resign ourselves to the fighting for many more days, it could be over as abruptly as it started. >> the public opinion and catalyst on both sides could change very quickly. a hamas rocket that finds a target and kills several israelis could change the plan, and a ceasefire could hurt hamas and embolden the israelis more. >> over the years, we have seen the conflict unfold again and again, and what's different this time. >> too many things. on the israeli side, because of the iron dome, netanyahu is not under as much pressure because the israeli casualties have been kept down because of all of the rocket intercepts, and on the hamas side. because the relationship with

egypt has changed because the government is much more antagonistic to hamas, they have closed the border crossing and they can't get the supplies, and this is a desperate time for them. they need more from egypt. >> coming up next, detained. why well-known activist and undommed immigrant, jose antonio vargas, was taken into custody by the border patrol. and rebuilding america's aging infrastructure.

>> the border battle is heating up today. two texas lawmakers introduced a bipartisan bill. it would amend a current law that applies to migrant children entering the u.s. from central america, and it would make it easier to send the children back to their home countries, by

allowing for faster deportation. this after the congress pushes to pass a bill for emergency aid. arrested after trying to board a flight, antonio vargas is a prize-winning journalist and also an undommed immigrant. >> reporter: hey, john, so vargas was arrested this morning, at the mc callum international airport, trying to fly out on a filipino passport. he didn't realize until he was 15 that he had been living here without papers. and at this airport, there's a border patrol agent standing at every security screening and it is there that vargas admitted

toking in the country ill likely and was handcuffed and arrested this morning. as you mentioned, he has been released and ordered to pear before an immigration judge at a later date, but his brief detention does highlight an issue. the difficulty of getting out of the rio grand valley for any immigrant who doesn't have papers. there are checkpoints on every road and border agents at the airport. so the only way for someone who illegally entered here to get around the rest of the u.s. is to go around the checkpoints, john, and that usually means walking many many miles in the texas brush in the 100-degree heat and that's what the migrants have to do to avoid apprehension, and that's why the county sheriffs' office has found 37 bodies this year alone on the texas ranches. >> so much heidi, what are you seeing on th border today?

>> reporter: today, we have been on the border for most of the day, and it does feel like a militarized zone, and we see four helicopters in the sky, and multiple patrol boats in the water, and vehicles on the ground. but despite that, i saw with my eyes in broad daylight, young men sprinting past the border patrol and disappearing into the brush, and it's porus, and the border patrol is highly understaffed and indeed, they're in great need of more resources, and on the other side, the traffickers, the coyotes, are very sophisticated and always adopting and we heard that there may be a new method of getting across. more are fleeing the border patrol. and its different than the mass surrenders of many migrants that we have seen in the recent months.

and the people on the ground think of because of the massive deportation, the push for more has started here. >> thank you. many people in central america are desperate to escape because of the violence, and one of the most desperate places is in honduras where the gangs carry more influence than the government. yesterday, 40 mothers and children were deported from the u.s. back to honduras, and it's the first group of central americans sent home as the u.s. starts to crackdown on immigration. paul got back from honduras a few weeks ago, and he joins us tonight in the studio. why such a surge of people coming in to the u.s. from central america right now, paul? >> as you mentioned, from my reporting on the ground and from talking to analysts, the main factor by far is the explosion of crime and violence. these are not people seeking a

better life, these are people, especially children, running for their lives. these countries, in guatemala, honduras, they're the highest murder rates in the world. more dangerous thanking in iraq. children, unaccompanied children being caught at the border from may to this year. the biggest circles represent 2,000 children or more, and you see the biggest one over san pedro sula. that's the most dangerous city on the planet, the highest murder rate in the world. and 15 kids are fleeing the city every day. a snapshot of it, it's a staggering increase. the system is not prepared to handle it. 50,000 kids in 2014 and more on the way, and it's designed for

6-8,000. what happens when the children get here? first, they're caught and detained by border patrol and held temporarily, and transferred to a she wanter. if they're from mexico, they will probably be deported very quickly. but if they're from central america, they are transferred to the office of refugee settlement and then they're registered and held to see if a family member is found. to deport them, they have to turn themselves in, and then the government will pay to fly them back to their open country. this is costing a lot of money. homeland security secretary, jay johnson said that they will run out of money. and here's how it's going to be used, john. they're going to spend about $1.1 billion on immigration and border patrol for customs

enforcement and spend the remainder -- let's see the graphic. $1.8 billion on department of health and human services to take care of these children, and $1.1 billion for ice, and border control agents, and the rest is going to go for more judges and foreign aid to discourage the people from coming in the first place. >> this is a big question in congress, so let's talk about a couple of things. what struck me about what you said, in central america, talking about these places where children, it could be as dangerous as iraq, and it's unbelievable. you've been on the ground, and how do you think that the situation has changed since you were on the ground in honduras? >> in the past couple of weeks, it's expected to hit 90,000 uncompanied children. and there's no sign that things are getting better. we spoke to a lot of people on

the ground there, and one of them was a crime photographer for the local paper. and they start their day every day by going to the morgue to see what bodies come in overnight and going out to crime scenes. and here's what he says on the job. >> interpreter: the fear of crime and violence here in san pedro sula makes people afraid to go to work, and this is a place where you see ugly things, like bodies and pieces, think of waking up to a photo splashed across the front of the newspaper, it affects you, and people want to pack their bags and leave. >> all right, so the situation, it's really hard to imagine. and i think it's hard for the american people to understand exactly what's going down there, and exactly how the situation is right now.

>> the kids, particularly boys, have so few options. it's either the gangs, kill or be killed or leave. and here's a prison social worker that i spoke to in san pedro sula. >> the future of those kids if they have to come back or worse. most if not all have come to family over there, and if they come back, they're going to return to an empty house and going to end up in the streets. >> we have been following one particular young man who made it to nogales, new mexico, and he was reunited with his father. and i spoke to his mother. she's talking about what would happen if he were deported and sent back. >> axel is in the u.s. now, but he may have to come home. he may be deported. what's going to happen to him if he has to come home? [ speaking spanish ] >> interpreter: if he ended up here and he didn't go back to

the states quickly, they would kill him. that's what would happen. >> reporter: and axel's mother said that if he is deported, she will tell him to turn around and go right back. it's never going to be safe. >> thank you. and we'll have more on the immigration crisis tomorrow morning. aljazeera america, republican congressman, blake farron thal will talk about the situation. water in california. r

>> this is aljazeera america, i'm john seigenthaler. and coming up, taking the fight to iraq's rebels. why the islamic state cannot be allowed to succeed. smart contacts, what google's new lenses could tell you about your blood sugar levels and other things. and folding your hands, a look atlantic city, as casino after casino prepares to close it's doors. we begin with a story that's

unfolding in haiti, about the devastating cholera outbreak today. there's a moral duty to eliminate the disease, and he will try to raise $2.2 billion in aid. more than 8 now haitians died from cholera shortly after the 2010 earthquake, and peace keepers may have introduced the disease during their deployment to the country. we covered it extensively with a peabody report. and here's a firsthand view after it affects nations years after the earthquake. more from sebastian caulker >> reporter: the death toll from toll are a continues to arise, the most famous lawyer in haiti, he has won landmark victories for victims of political persecution, and today he's collecting medical records. with very limited resources,

mario is representing thousands of haitians who have been affected by cholera. it's the case of his life. they're trying to sue the united nations. >> . >> the lawsuit, filed in november of 2011, claims that the u.n. failed to screen its workers for cholera, and constitutes gross negligence. it's based on the u.n.'s own investigation which concluded that the nap olese base, leaking sewage into the river, was the likely source of the outbreak. [ foreign dialogue ] >> and it's composed of

thousands of stories of personal loss. each one documented by mario and his team. >> joining us is fault line's correspondent, sebastian, and he cost the outbreak in haiti in 2010, and he joins us tonight from washington d.c. we just learned this week, sebastian, that your piece was nominated for an emmy. congratulations. and tell us about haiti, what's the situation with cholera and haiti today? >> thanks, john, there's no doubt that the situation on the ground has vastly improved from when the crisis broke. we were there at the time. and the first few weeks of the outbreak were as bad as the early days of the earthquake. and there were people dying everywhere you looked in the hospitals, in this part of haiti where the disease was centered. and now the rate has gone right down, and the situation is far

better than it was, and it does continue to improve. but the controversy surrounding haiti, people who died so far, and there are 8,500 haitians who have already been killed as a result of the disease, and that's really why there's so much anger on the ground and people are asking the u.n. to take some kind of responsibility. >> you prepped the u.n. on this issue and it's story, and how significant is this visit? >> . >> well, it's the first that he has come face-to-face with victims of the disease, and he sat down with families, and he has been speaking to families about the impact that the disease has had on hagues, and he feels sad about the outbreak, and he said that the u.n. has a moral responsibility. but he stopped short of offering an apology, and he has not

accepted responsibility. and that's what the families have continued to demand from the u.n., for damage that they have incurred. and the consequences can be absolutely monumental. because it commits generations of families to poverty. this is a very poor country, and it's the bread win -- if the breadwinner of the family dies, it's a sad situation, and they're asking for compensation about the u.n. >> what about the fact that the earthquake and the cholera epidemic began so long ago, and why is it taking until now to have a visit like this? >> that's a really good question and something that a lot of haitians were asking throughout my time there. it took the u.n. more than two years to get it together. they were going to raising the

profile. and they are trying to raise $2.2 billion for the eradication of the disease in haiti, but that was in 2012. and the u.n. has struggled to raise the cash needed to get that in action, and in fact, they have struggled to raise the first 400 million of that to contain the epidemic in the first two years. so definitely, there's a lot of anger about the pace with which the organization has tried to come top grips with the crisis, and with a lot of the haitians that i've been speaking to, it's too little, too late. >> you've been on the program to talk about haiti at the height of the ep dick, and compare that to today. >> the fact is it's the world's worst cholera ep dickic, and cholera is an easily treatable disease.

if there are adequate supplies of drinkable water, it can have a massive impact on bringing the death rate down, and eradicating the disease, so it's definitely something that haiti is still struggling with. the last time we were there, it was a time when the mortality rate was right down, but if you visit the rural communities, where the disease is centered, there are families suffering every day from the disease and people getting sick. you bet a sense that the scale of the disaster is much bigger than the official toll suggests, and many of the health official that's i have spoken to say that the real death rate could be two or three times higher, because some of the people are dying in such remote areas, that nobody knows. >> sebastian walker, i know you'll continue to update the story. thank you very much. the house has approved billions of dollars in extra

dollars for road and transit projects, and without the cash, they will run out of money next month. mike viqueira joins us from the white house with more, and the fund will be until may, but what about after? >> reporter: there's no gage of partisan gridlock in washington than when they can't agree on transportation. there are hundreds of billions of dollars, something for everyone to vota, but they can't agree on the funding level or how to pay for it. but what they do, when something has to pass and they can't agree, they kick the can down the road with a temporary stop gap measure, and that's exactly what the house of representatives did today. and in somewhat startling fashion, 367 to 55, with many republicans defying outside

groups in voting for the measure. the outside groups said that they will hold it against the republican members if they vote for it in the fall midterm elections, and president obama, meanwhile, pushing infrastructure and transportation, and he wants to spend $300 billion over four years. he visited a high-tech consulting firm in mcclaine, virginia, and got into one of the futuristic cars, and this everyone said the president is the wave of the future, and he bashed the republicans for their intransigence on funding it fully. >> the republicans should pat themselves on the back for averting disaster for a few months, careening from crisis to crisis when it's something as basic as our infrastructure. instead of barely paying our bills in the present, we should be investing in the future. >> what hangs in the balance

here, john? no fewer than 700,000 jobs in transportation related fields. and no one has to be reminded about the decaying infrastructure in the country. the society of civil engineers, john. >> talk about the urgency here, and how did we get to this point? >> right, so the highway trust fund funds all road construction in this country with a tax on everyone's gasoline, and it stands at 18.4 cents a gallon, and that's what everyone has been paying for 20 years, and the problem is it hasn't risen and it's not indexed for inflation, and when you couple that with the fact that people are driving less, and car efficiency is rising, and the highway trust fund is depleted, and congress is scrambling for ways to pay for it. no one wants to raise the touchy

subject of raising the gas tax, and that's the problem as congress tries it come to grips with the infrastructure spending. >> mike outside of the rain at the white house in washington d.c., and thank you. in california, residents could face tough new fines for using too much water. the state is dealing with severe drought, but water usage is not going down, and melissa chan is in san francisco with that. >> reporter: essentially, you have a situation where some cities and towns have been self regulating to deal with the drought. and they have been conserving but others not so much. so you have a situation where some are doing more than others, and that's where the state would like to step? in order to have a bigger impact.

>> californians are going to be restricted for wasting water. and it's not an outright ban, but one more step in the statewide efforts to combat the drought. >> one of the interesting things about the droughts, you do not foe when it's going to end. you know in a flood, it's going to end in a few days or hours, and with an earthquake, it's going to end in a few minutes. >> earlier this year, the governor asked them to cut water by 20%. and they have only see a 5% decrease so far, so the regulators decided to get tough. >> i think that a lot of people use water without thinking about it, and for watering their lawns and cars and driveways. >> i mean, i've always been concerned about my water usage. i grew up in suburban settings, southern california, and we went through a drought there.

and it's time to take shorter showers, and not run it while i do my dishes. >> a new report, californians must get by with one-third less than normal. hardest hit, farmers face $2.2 billion this year, and half a million acres lie fallow. >> you in washington and elsewhere will all get your fruits and nuts and raisins, vegetables and wine, but there are pockets of extreme deprivation, where we're out of water, and out of jobs. >> forecasters say that the state will see rain next year, an el nino year, but experts say that any relief will fall short of the state's water needs. california will need many more rainy seasons before the worst drought in a century is a memory. >> seen by farmers in california and rural areas, we have seen that in the past months, where it's the farmers, and now we're looking at a situation where finally, the people in the urban

areas, los angeles, and san francisco, may be impacted and start anything about the water crisis. john. >> it continues to be a problem there, melissa, thank you. and on the east coast, big trouble in atlantic city. at least $38 billion, the industry is about $38 billion. but gambling in new jersey is sturning out to be a bad bet. jonathan is here with why there's a casino crisis in atlantic city. >> reporter: consider that this year, atlantic city had 12 casinos, and by the end of the summer, it could have just eight as the mecca gambling city is down on its luck. >> the fourth atlantic city casino revealed that it will shut down this year. the trump plaza will close it's doors by the end of september. >> my daughters take me here for my birthday. and i'm very disappointed. >> the atlantic will close in

january, and showboat in august, and revel is in bankruptcy court. that means 1/3 are closing, leaving up to 8,000 people without jobs. >> this is going to be a very difficult time in atlantic city for employees losing their jobs, but the properties closing are not totally unexpected. >> atlantic city has been trying to shift away from gambling, but the big casinos are having a hard time. even donald trump slimmed down to a 10% stake. and he said many mistakes were made by government, tremendous mistakes, including no reinvestment in towns, and they would put them in investments that had nothing to do with atlantic city. legalized casino gambling, for years, it was the only place to go, and now analysts say that

the businesses are shutting down because of a crowded market. and neighbors who had no choice but to travel hundreds of miles to atlantic city have closer choices close to home. >> you come for a convention, entertainment. and shopping, anything outside of the casino. >> new jersey announced a five year plan in 2011 to help atlantic city move away from gambling, with a campus and money to clean up the boardwalk. money has risen in the last two years. >> gambling is down across the country. las vegas suffered a $1.3 billion loss in revenue last year, and just last morning harrah's casino, the largest between las vegas and new jersey, also closed. >> you see more casinos across the country, but they're still not ready to turn off the lights

in atlantic city, right? jonathan, thank you. turning now to a new innovation with a potential to have a huge medical impact. google and a swedish drug maker teaming up to make smart contact lenses, jake ward with more on that. and tell us more about this and who benefits from this eyewear? >> well, the principle market here, john, is diabetic patients, and diabetes is a huge market. 25 million adults and children in the united states have it. it's the 7th leading cause of death in the u.s., and 25% of the country is prediabetic, so obviously there's a huge potential there. up until now, the only way to monitor a blood sugar level in a patient is to prick the finger or wear an insulin pump. and they're very difficult and sometimes painful ways of monitoring one's blood sugar levels, and this is a contact

lens that would monitor the glucose in tears. >> so are there any uses beyond helping diabetics monitor their blood sugar? >> yeah, the amazing thing is the hardware itself. google x developed it with an eye toward the monitoring and the contact lens that could change shape dynamically in the eye, so they sandwiches it between pieces of plastic film. a wireless chip, thinner than a human hair, it can power remotely. and the glucose monitoring has a tiny pinprick hole, something that can detect glucose in your tears, and in the future, it could be used to power something like a display, to tell you where you're going in the future. that's the kind of hardware that we're looking at.

but for the moment, the potential for diabetics. >> so the eye and the contact lens, it's easier to get this information from inside of the boat than slipping something under the skin. >> well, that's exactly right. and what has been so difficult in the past, it's very very hard to get anything out of human tears, which is what this uses as it's people. and you have to pinch somebody and stick paper in their eye? it's very hard to ex exact tears and understand what's going dynamically with them. so something as unobtrusive as a contact lens that you can put in, and monitor the tears every second, which is what it can do, it's going to make it so much easier than have to repeatedly on the hour prick your finger. >> jake, i'm almost out of time, but how far away is it? >> well, they're talking about developing this in the course of several years, 2017, and its

extraordinary. >> jake, thanks again. an image is coming up, and next, breaking the deadlock, iraqi lawmakers taking the first step in forming a new government. reza weighs in on the politics in iraq.

making its way to the south china sea, and right now, you can see the storms here, and much of manila is below sea level. so we're looking at potential flooding across the region, and we have casualties, as well as thousands of homes have been destroyed or damaged. over the next four days, what we expect it see, as the storm makes its way into the south china sea, extremely warm water

in the area, and the storm is going to pick up in intensity. by the time it makes its way to china, it could be even stronger than it was when it made landfall in the philippines, so a very fit situation in the next few days. so we're looking at the southern coast of china being affected and as well as the potential of northern vietnam by the time we get to sunday. that's the weather. and the news is coming up after this.

>> a major political break through today in iraq, a new speaker, salemme, a first step of forming a power sharing government to beat back the sunni fighters called the islamic state. we talked to reva as lanerly year. >> reporter: they have no nationalist ambitions and not looking to build a state.

term islamic state is a misnomer. is is is not a political group, it's a jihaddist organization, it does not the syria, it does not the iraq, it wants the world. and we have to remember that's a completely different state of affairs than dealing with organizations like his bowl or hamas, that have nationalist ambitions and not global ambitions. isis is a stateless organization, it's a jihaddist group that wants control over the entire globe, and that type of organization cannot be negotiated with. we need to destroy isist militants, and we need a robust strategy to do that. >> you're talking good destroying isis, and it seems that the only military force in the world with that capability would be perhaps the united states, and the united states has no interest in redeploying to that region right now. who is going to carry that

burden? >> that's true. deployment is not an option, but airstrikes nevertheless are, and we're in the position where we have the intelligence apparatus that neither the iraqis or the iranians have. and it would not the first time that we used our intelligence gathering apparatus, we did that in iran and afghanistan, and there's a presence here for cooperation here between the iranian military and the united states. and that needs to be much more robust. we're not talking about american troops in iraq, and that's not happening. but nevertheless, air superiority and intelligence gathering is something that we can bring to the table to help the iraqi and iranian forces on the ground root out isis militants. as i say, this is not a nationalist organization, and

they're not an organization that wants something concrete and negotiable and that's something that we have to get into our minds. we talk about them as an islam organization, and i say it as clearly as i can. isis is not an as lambist organization, they have no nationalist ideology, iraq and syria are just a staging ground for a of browder and regional ambition, and those cannot be allowed to succeed. >> a lot to chew on there, and thank you very much for your time. >> thank you for having me. >> and coming up all new tonight on our broadcast at 11:00 eastern time. our nation's swimming pools and water parks. why more and more people are turning down the chance to be a lifeguard. and when it comes to sports,

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