>> there's been acrimony... >> the conservative ideal... >> it's an urgent need... and a host willing to ask the tough questions >> how do you explain it to yourself? and you'll get... the inside story ray suarez hosts inside story weekdays at 5 eastern only on al jazeera america >> this is al jazeera america live from new york city. we'll take a look at today's top stories. military officials say they will agree to a hue maintainaire cease-fire but they say the likelihood of a ground invasion after a cease-fire is very high. all this as the hamas rocket attacks and israeli airstrikes continue and one airstrike on a gaza beach killed four palestinian children. and squeezing vladimir put

putin's top officials and administrations. obama with a new round of sanctions. we begin this hour with the ongoing conflict between israel and hamas. israel has agreed to an united nations request to stop its airstrikes on gaza for a few hours tomorrow so the palestinians can restock humanitarian supplies. beyond that there are new indications that israel is preparing for a ground assault on gaza. nick schifrin joins us frag frofrom gaza city. what is the action from israel and hamas? >> this will start tomorrow morning local time last five or six hours or so.

basically calling for acr for a cease-fire. they will move in with things that are necessary, things like medicine. specifically because of the shortage in the hospitals, they've asked for supplies. they need to know that they can move in without the threat of bombs. there is a report that hamas has also agreed to stop its rocket fire. if israelis see hamas firing, then israel will fight back. >> what is the buzzing noise, and tell what's it looked like and felt like in gaza today.

>> reporter: yeah, i can never tell if you can hear these things. that is a drone. that is for me to hear and every at home to hear but every person in gaza. 1.4million people hear that buzz time and time and time again. last night, tonight, for the last eight days. especially in the north there are 100,000 people who have been asked to leave their homes across three districts. i was in one of them yesterday. you hear multiple drones. there is a reason that people hear and all over the world they use local words like buzz because it sounds like that. clearly there is violence in israel. >> there is a possible ground innation in gaza but it seems

that top military officials are advising if you want to go in and clean out hamas you have to put troops into gaza. how is that playing, and where is israel public opinion on th that. >> reporter: yeah, you heard outgoing rockets. what they're briefing, and you may see another airstrike behind me. what the military officials are briefing reporters is that increasingly likely we believe. [ explosion ] that was another big one if you could see that, but the israeli military feels they need to go into gaza if they feel they need to remove the capacity here. when this campaign began politicians were using words

like once and for all. every was saying you can't do that from the air. you have to do that from the ground. the problem is if you actually invade, you're going to create a large number of civilian fatalities in gaza. a large number of casualties and over a thousand wounded that they've already created also no doubt some dead israeli soldiers. it's not clear that the public will support that. but something has shifted inside the israeli military with reporters saying some kind of invasion is most certainly on the table. >> we keep hearing the buzzing, which you identified versus an israeli drone and the rocket fire. how often are you hearing airstrikes in gaza city? >> reporter: the airstrikes come and go. we saw and heard two or three airstrikes. the israeli military telling me those were either on training

camps, basically empty field or suspected rocket launcher sites. in the last five minutes you heard quite a few thuds. one of them, as far as i could tell, was an israeli strike. it is constant. it is happening, but i have to say nowhere near what it was two nights ago or at the beginning of this campaign. right about now it's 1:00 in the morning. there would be a volley of fire fromg from gaza into israel and from israel into gaza. sometimes it starts at 2:00 a.m. 3:00 a.m. 4:00 p.m. israel targeted 40 homes of gaza officials, and so it could be another long night for the people of gaza. >> nick schifrin with the drones and israeli incoming airstrikes and nick, thanks as always. here is a look at this conflict by the numbers.

israel has lunched 1900 airstrikes on gaza since the hamas rocket attacks began last week. israeli strikes have killed 222 palestinians and injured 1700 more. on the israeli side officials say one person has been killed from a hamas rocket attack on tuesday. at least 26 israelis have been injured. hamas has fired 1400 rockets into israel. israel's iron dome defense system has intercepted 300 of them. the palestinian death toll has surged following airstrikes. officials in gaza saying 20 people from killed earlier, including four young boys who died in an attack at gaza beach. they're investigating the incident and the effort to target hamas, this is a tragic

outcome. >> i heard two explosions. i saw the small shack on fire and i took a picture. that picture clearly shows four boys running away from the area where the shells hit. then i heard a third explosion. what appeared to happen four boys were killed and their bodies were found further up the beach. one body was taken out on a stretcher from that shack on the peer. but certainly it seems that those boys were hit as they made their way up on the beach. we've had a statement from the israeli army. i did call to get a reaction. they said based on preliminary results the strike was for hamas terrorist operatives. the casualties is a tragic

outcome. and there were no fighting aids, just children. so certainly a tragic incident here that killed four boys. >> al jazeera's john hedron visited the side of one strike in the heart of gaza city. >> reporter: behind me is what remains of the home of a senior political liter of hamas, and 40 officials' homes were targeted overnight. let me take you on a walking tour. there are 400 homes that have been targeted like this. 4,000 have been partially damaged. 400 of them totally destroyed. and again one of 40 overnight. you can see that this is what his front porch looked like. and up here this is part of the four-story building that was his home now his tale is a long and

winding one because in 2004 israelis destroyed his previous home, killing one of his children. one of his children was killed in another offensive against the israelis, and then he and his wife were also injured when his first home was destroyed. this is the second time around for this official. they say targeting these civilian homes is violation of international law. they say targeting military sites is acceptable and israel has been very careful to declare the homes of military leaders as military operational centers. well, they'll have to come up with the same kind of justification for the homes of these political leaders, which has recently been destroyed. there is some concern about that being a violation of international law. down here in downtown gaza city there are also tens of thousands of people rushing in because the israelis have air dropped leaflets like this telling them to get out of the northern

areas, and telling them to come into the center of the city because the israelis are coming in to target rocket launchers and the silent fear is that they will launch a ground war. a lot of fear here and as you can see a lot of damage. >> john hedron from gaza city. each side blames the other identifside, and each side said they will not stop until the other side does. prime minister benjamin netanyahu said hamas will not win. >> hamas itself will meet its end because nobody in the world is going to pay for the killing or support terror. that will be the best news to the people in gaza itself. >> hamas has said that israel is to blame for this new round of fighting. an manner teen who was beaten by israeli police caught

on tape is expected to return to the united states. he's scheduled to arrive this evening in florida. earlier this month israeli police beat him as he protested his cousin's abduction and murder. he was not charged with a crime although he was quite injured, and he was put under house arrest. syrian president bashar al-assad was sworn in for a third seven-year term today. the lavish inauguration ceremony comes in the middle of a civil war. assad was reaelected in a landslide victory that the opposition and the west call a sham. used his inauguration speech to declare victory over terrorism. assad also said that countries that sort the syrian opposition will pay a high price. president obama is ratcheting up the pressure on

russia. not long ago the president announced new sanctions for russia's role for the conflict in ukraine. the treasury department is banning americans from financing certain russian banks and energy companies including russian giant gas. it's freezing the assets of eight technology companies and targeting two separatist ukrainian groups, a shipping firm and four government officials. the e.u. added it's own sanction banning european loan to all new russian projects. the president announced his tougher stance on russia just a few moments ago saying moscow has failed to de-escalate tension in ukraine. explain the timing for the president now in terms of taking the harder line at this point? >> reporter: well, as president obama put it when he came into the briefing room just a half hour ago, david, we live i live in complex world and challenging

time. he went on to list policy challenges, challenges thats the president has received his share of criticism over the last weeks and months. but the one that has lasted the longest this year, and that is the crisis in ukraine. russia's continuing aggression, and vladimir putin's refusal to reverse course even in the face of several threats president obama has made and continuing efforts to get the europeans on board for sanctions. now it's unclear whether or not the europeans are fully on board. the president has threatened broad secretary toral sanctions for the past several months. these are clearly narrowed down. the white house has described these as a scalpel as opposed to a sledgehammer approach. david, the president has difficulty bringing the europeans along. he did talk about vladimir putin, his continued techniques he's using to provoke splittists in eastern ukraine and destabilize ukraine as a whole. here's more of what the

president had to say. >> i've made this clear directly to mr. putin. many of our european partners have made this clear to mr. putin. we have to see concrete actions and not just words that russia, in fact, is committed to trying to end this conflict along the russian-ukraine border. so far russia has failed to take any of the steps that i mentioned. >> reporter: and therefore, that's why the president is announcing these further sanctions incremental to what is promised. the president, make no mistake, david, on the defensive of a number of things. he was promoting what he calls success in afghanistan and putting the two perspective presidential candidates locked in a dispute of who won the election in claim election fraud.

>> i have another big issue that came up at the white house, where does the immigration crisis stand and the president has democrats who are hitting back at him pretty hard. >> reporter: oh listen, he's facing a rebellion not only on the money he wants, the $3.7 million, but the second part of that, the other shoe, that is to expedite the deportation of children and families who are now streaming to the border with the united states in the rio grand valley of texas. today we've seen nancy pelosi, the top democrat in the house saying she's not going to be backing changes to that law, at least not how the president envisions them. we see the president in the white house in a spat with a democratic governor, a perspective 2016 presidential candidate in martin o'malley of maryland who said the prospect of sending these children back to the conditions that they fled

is inhumane, and the most senior democrat patrick leahy, the liberal lyon of vermont drawing parallel to this policy and the policy of world war ii an making direct comparison to the holocaust. the vitriol is quite palpable. they're very upset with what these children want to do. >> mike, great stuff as always. thank you. an u.s. soldiers has obtained a

lawyer. the acting secretary of the v.a. sloane gibson told senators today the agency needs the extra money from private care and to hire more doctors. gibson said the v.a. has historically worked within the budget rather than meet demand. he said that the v.a. has taken 160,000 veterans off waiting lists and into clinic. hillary clinton is still playing coy about a possible run for president. leave it up to jon stewart to get it out of her. a few hints. and rupert murdoch has been rejected. of a buyout of time warner.

we'll talk about thi this with "real money" ali velshi next. @j

>> there is big news in the media industry. rupert murdoch's 21st century fox made a huge bit to take over rival time warner, but time warner rebuffed the offer. ali velshi joins us now. what does it mean for rupert murdoch after? >> i saw this after, and i thought, what? $80billion broken down in 60% stock, 40% cash. a lot of people own time warner stock, so this is important. that puts a $20 billion premium on time warner's $60 billion total stock market value. but that was this morning. time warner shot up 17% on the news. it was reported that time warner said no to the deal.

why did the stock go up? that's typically what happens when people expect another bid. now to avoid a row with regulators, fox said it would sell cnn which competes with fox news channel. time warner rebuffed the offer, stock is up and rupert murdoch may come back at another bite. and no one ever knows if the first offer is the best offer. >> what did rupert murdoch see in time warner that he wants so badly. >> what did he see in my space, the wall street journal for more money than anybody thought that wall street journal would ever be worth? time warner is not a toy. time warner cable is no longer part of time warner. time music is gone. time inc. has been shed from the

company. it's got its name. it doesn't have aol any more. it still holds hbo and tnt, warner brothers movie, but you know, this is a big prize for fox if rupert murdoch were to get this, he would have more negotiating power with the cable distributers saying pay us more for the content. that would an content powerhouse so much that regulators may have some issue with it. >> what else do you have coming up tonight? >> we have a packed show. we have southwest airline ceo to talk about what the future holds for the airline industry and the fees and fares that we all pay to fly. that will be an interesting discussion. >> it sure is. ali, thanks as always. now time for today's power politics. former secretary of state hillary clinton has not announced about running for

president but she has given a hint about her intentions. >> do you like commuting to work or do you like a home office. >> i've spent so many years commuting, i would prefer a home office. that's where i wrote my book. >> would you like it to have corners or not to have corners. >> you know, i think that the world is so complicated the fewer corners. [ cheering ] >> despite the campaign juggernaut that they are building, her campaign may not be very smooth. many progressives are not clinton fans. there is a website called "ready for warren," encouraging the massachusetts senator to run warren run. >> the way i see this citibank, goldman sanction goldman sachs

and all those guys on wall street they've got plenty of folks in the united states senate who are willing to work on their side. we need more people to work on the side of america's family. >> her message has excited a lot of the democratic base but she has dismissed the ready for warren presidency website. she has raised more money for democratic congressional candidates than anybody except for president obama, and hillary clinton is not even close. in iowa where the senate race between joni earnest and bruce bailey is bringing in attack ads. the comment that braley made about grassley that offended some farmers. >> if you look out for iowa or

washington special interests. >> you might have a farmer from iowa who never went to law school, serving as the next chair of the senate judiciary commission. >> that was a gaffe. and a candidate is eating crow. he face as republican primary next month was speaking about migrants being moved into his district when he got word that the bus was heading down the road. he tweeted, the bus coming in. this is not compassion. this is abrogation of rule of law. he included a photo of a yellow school bus. >> i was able to actually see some of the children in the buses in the fear on their faces. this is not compassion. >> the problem is as you can see these were not migrant children on the school bus. these were ymca campers from a

local school district. after being corrected bay reporter, he said, those kids were sad, too. eventually, though, he apologized. finally a nonpartisan group that wants to pass campaign finance reform and bolster laws is getting a lot of attention in kentucky. they're promoting and advertising a candidate named honest gill. >> i spend 70% of my time raising funds for my election. my name is gill fulbrigh but i'll a change my name to phil fulbright. >> what? they plan to have more ads and have fulbright show up at more

events. that's today's power politics. the chemical spill that left hundreds of thousands of people without water in west virginia may have been more dangerous than originally thought. we'll speak with a local who still refuses to turn on her tap.

um. >> the. united nations has issued a new warning about the children of south sudan. the u.n. said as many as 50,000 are malnourished and may soon starve to death. many have fled their homes since the fighting last september. $1billion has is needed to help but so far $5.6 million has been

pledged. dominick cane shows you how people are dealing with the pain of that massacre. >> reporter: in the hague they called themselves the mothers. they filed a lawsuit against the dutch government for the actions of its soldiers in july of 1995. the mothers accuse the soldiers of failing to prevent a massacre that the international court of justice has called genocide. bosnian forces seized the town while under the protection. >> we're not talking about the loss of a brother or child. we're talking about the extermination of entire families. in many cases there is no one left to carry the family name.

>> reporter: but it's the soldiers that the hague is concern: the government of the netherlands denied responsibility and said it had no direct control of its soldiers because they were under u.n. orders. the families believe the soldiers had a responsibility to protect their relatives. for years they campaigned for the u.n. and dutch government to be held to account. >> they're looking for compensation. first, they're looking for who is in the civil sense of the law, who is responsible. and then after that compensation. >> reporter: the two men believed to have ordered an overseen the massacre are now on trial in the hague. they have both denied the charges. despite the almost 20 years since the murders more mass graves are found regularly. the mothers hope we know's court

decisio court--hope wednesday's court decision will g hold. >> israel and hamas has agreed to hold its airstrikes for five years. 222 palestinians and one israeli have been killed over the last week. other diplomatic options have failed including egypt's proposed cease-fire. that fell through and was rejected by hamas almost immediately. we go to a retired u.s. brigadier general. general, a number of israeli military officials openly talked today about the growing likelihood of a ground invasion into northern gaza. from a military perspective would that achieve israel's goals in terms of going after

hamas? >> well, i don't think it's going to change the groundca ground calculous. they'll start taking a lot of casualties during that ground action. so i'm surprised to be hearing this coming out of israel because militarily it does not make any sense. >> does it make sense in terms of the ephesians and the psychological warfare, what a lot of israelis saying it will be crazy for israelis and palestinians but it perhaps puts more pressure on hamas in terms of a cease-fire. >> david, i think that's right. it has more affect as a threat than actuality. if we actually have or see a ground incursion, if they believe its necessary for their security to do that, they've upped the stakes considerably. up to this point they've seen

very few casualties because of the spectacular performance of the iron dome system. so aside from the value of the threat i don't see the tactical value of actually going into gaza by the israeli military. >> given the performance of iron dome has that perhaps made the situation a bit easier for israel to continue the status quo, to continue to bomb gaza knowing that while the rockets are fired from hamass they're not going to be able to reach their targets in populated areas? >> well, i agree with you up to the point where you believe that the israelis are intentionally targeting civilians. i don't think that's the case. the israelis go through excruciating detail and call off a significant number of operations if their collateral damage estimate is too highs, but i do agree there is no real reason for them to get to the

negotiating table. >> i get your point not targeting civilians but there is valid argument from the other side that even top israeli leaders know when you're trying to target hamas leaders in urban areas there are going to be a number of civilians. i may be able to get this hamas leader but i might kill 20 innocent civilians by this attack. >> well, that's frankly where the rules of engage in come in. that's more of a political decision than a military decision. the military has got to turn to their political authorities and say this is what we predict will be the consequence of this attack. you may get a high leader but you may also be putting a lot of people's lives in danger. what makes it particularly dreadful in the case of gaza is that they use civilians as human shields either to make sure that the israelis don't attack the target or if the israelis feel necessary to attack the target, gaza gives the photographic

appeal of a lot of dead civilians as a result. >> to be fair hamas denies they're using human shields simply because gaza is so populated that civilians are killed on the strikes of hamas leaders. >> reporter: i under that's what they say but we have seen it time and time again in iraq. when we targeted al-qaeda targets only to see on television innocent civilians being killed, and further in the investigation demonstrated that these people were put there specifically to create the casualties, i would take issue with hamas' statement statements in that regard, and i think it's historically proven that they do that. >> thank you for coming on al jazeera america. we appreciate the insites. >> sure. >> in russia two moscow subway workers have been arrested when

two trains went off the tracks. the police insist this was a safety issue and not a terror attack. in ukraine separatist rebels say they have retaken a village near the russian border. if true it would disrupt kiev strategy to cut off supply lines. russia has moved 12,000 troops to its record with ukraine. the e.u. is also discussing new sanctions on moscow. western nations believe that russia is giving heavy weapons to separatist fighters. in mali the government is close to signing a military deal with france to help secure that country from touriq rebels. mali had just bun peace talks.

tourig control the north and accuse the government of excluding them from power. some 3,000 french troops will be left in mali as part of the new agreement. and in central africa republic a new report shows the extent of the violence there. according to the french aid organization doctors without borders one-third of families have lost at least one family member since december. the study paints a very grim picture for the country's future. we have more now from paris. >> reporter: the new findings find the country steeped in extreme violence. doctors without borders spoke with 3500 families. those interviewed reported two and a half thousand killings during the crackdown against the country's muslim minority, a disturbingly high proportion of

bloodshed. the refugee stories tell of the mass murder of men, women and children, many killed while trying to flee the country. >> what is surprising was that we saw that the highest criminality rate and the level of violence during this exodus of these people. >> reporter: the chaotic situation across the central african republic has made it very difficult to know exactly how many people are dying and how many people are being killed. the research conducted by "doctors without borders" is a grim snap shot of what has happened to one community painting the impression of violence on a massive scale nationwide. when muslims seleka rebels seized control last year it plunged the country into a religious conflict between the muslim minority and christian majority. the rebels have been locked in a

vicious cycle of attacks and counter attacks with christian militias. but ordinary civilians are suffering in thousands. many are living in protected enclaves. others are desperate to flee. despite the presence of french and african union forces the violence goes on. the u.n.'s planning to send 10,000 more soldiers to the country by december but for now the deadly cycle of sectarian silence continues to claim more innocent lives. al jazeera, paris. >> back to the united states. a texas woman has learned her sentence for sending a ricin-laced letter to the president. >> reporter: david, a judge sentenced the woman to 18 years in prison. the 36-year-old sense the rici ricin-laced letters to president obama and former new york mayor michael bloomberg.

richardson mailed the three letters and then claim that her estranged husband had done it. tsarnaev's backpack was filled with fireworks following the bomb. the defendant claims he never touched the items. three suspected cartel members are accused of kidnapping a man from south carolina. they traced phone calls from the abductors and asked the- the rescued the man earlier this week. the coast guard is waiting for high tide to possibly remove 123 passengers from a boat stuck off the coast of georgia. the casino boat ran aground near a popular beach destination close to savannah. no injuries or medical issues have been reported.

and a pennsylvania girl is home from the hospital after being swept through a flooded drain pipe. the 12-year-old said she was checking out the flooding at the drain pipe earlier this week and got pulled under. she was swept several hundred yards before emerging into a creek. >> i didn't know there was a drop in the ground there, and i went under, and i was trying to get up, and my friends tried helping me, and i couldn't. it was scary dark. scary. my mom helped me through, though. i was thinking of everybody, my dad, my mom, my new mom, my sister, my brothers. i was just praying that i would make it through. >> and she came back from the hospital with some bumps and bruises, and she certainly knows she's certainly lucky. >> hell of a story she has for the rest of her life. amazing. in west virginia investigators with the chemical safety board have now released

their findings on the toxic chemical spill that tainted the money for hundreds of thousands of people back in january. the board said it found visible failures to keep the tank from spilling into the river. the leak left 300,000 people without water for days and some residents in charleston, west virginia, are still refuse to go drink the tap water. earlier we spoke with karen ireland, a resident of charleston, west virginia, and was affected by the chemical spill. she told us she is still not using tap water. >> a lot of us are not using it. we--there are a lot of people that feel like there just wasn't enough information about the chemical to assure us that we were safe to go back to drinking it. certainly not when we lifted the do not use ban we could still smell the chemical. it has very low order threshold, and people were getting sick.

immediately after they lifted the ban, in fact, there was an increase in hospital visit, and the er visit. you know, a lot of us think we have real reason to doubt and be worried about what is in our water. >> what did you make of the report that came out that found that there was no record of inspections in any of these crucial tanks before january 9th? >> it doesn't surprise me at all. we live i in a culture here that's very much anti-regulation, and we rely on industry to self-report, self regulate, and it doesn't work. it doesn't work for the citizens. >> what sort of inconvenience is it on you to make the decision that you're not going to drink the cap wate tap water? >> it's inconvenient in many ways. i have a coffee addiction, so when i want coffee through a drive through i have to consider whether i'm risking my health

long term. i have a teenage son who doesn't understand, you know, my kids here, the message that the water is safe to use, so it's a bit of an argument for me to explain why i doubt that. i'm not saying that i believe that it's unsafe, but i simply think there is not enough information. now you know there is a report that says that the chemical was more toxic than indicated, and that's a problem. >> i understand that you got sick from airshow jus a a shower just a my days before. tell us what kind of impact that had on you. >> we had a really cold winter, and i took a long hot shower in the morning. i had smelled what i later knew to be the smell of mchm upstairs

in my bathroom. i didn't know what it was or where it was coming from. i didn't necessarily associate it with the water. it was just a lingering odor. i showered and became quickly ill with flu-like symptoms. i had chills and a deep cough, and i felt poorly. i was still in bed on the morning of the ninth when i started seeing social media posts about the odor, particularly in my neighborhood. and then, you know, ultimately we got the report from the water company that, in fact, there had been a leak. >> carolyn ireland, a resident of charleston, west virginia. a billionaire wants to break up california into six straight states. even managed to get his plan on the state ballot. we'll hear from him next. and half a million people running for cover is another deadly storm hits the philippines. we'll have the latest on the

typhoon.

"talk to al jazeera" saturday 5 eastern only on al jazeera america >> the detroit institute of the arts is taking steps to save some priceless works of art that could be sold in bankruptcy. museum donors announced they're pledging $26 million as part of detroit's grand bargain. the money would ease cuts to pensions for city employees. california might be on its way to trying to become six separate states. the silicon valley venture capitol tim draper is pushing the idea and has collected enough signatures to get thinks proposal on a state ballot. the six california proposal could go up for vote in 2016. we spoke with draper earlier and

asked why he thinks that they cannot function with one capitol in sacramento. >> they're trying too handle 38 million points of view from this one location. it's hard to get to. it's very awkward, and we really want t a state that is close to us. we want them to be local and we want people to have a choice as to which state they want to be governed by. >> let's look at the map, and let's assume for argument sake that the voters approve of this and then it goes up to a national referendum if they were to become states. you're looking at three solidly democratic states or constituencies. two that are sort of in the middle, could go either way and one republican. it's simply because that have dynamic it would never get approved unlike a previous plan to divide california into north

and south and then it would be more equal. >> we have one state and it's a monopoly. and the service they provide is really the worse in the country. we can only do better. this is a new platform. six new platforms. we can try new states. >> when you say worse in the country, with you be more specific because a lot of statisticians and economists would disagree that california provides worst services than anywhere in the country. what are you talking about? >> 40 years ago california was a beautiful place to live and it was it's best-governed state in the union. now it's still a beautiful place to live, but it's the worst. we are--we were first in education, we're now 47th in k-12 education. we now have 20% of the population living below the

poverty line. we have four times the number of prisoners we had then. >> can you understand on the other side all those things us listed may not have anything to do with how government is organized and may have more to do with the people ho are moving to california, to the changing demographics, to trends that are happening nationwide. and again how do you get to the main argument that even democrats make that this is a colossal waste of money? >> well, it's interesting. it's not really a political issue on either side. it's been grassroots. people need this. they're saying, look, california is out working for our region doesn't agree with what california is saying. that's true of all six states. >> that was tim draper in silicon valley. typhoon swept through the philippines killing at least 20 people. the storm brought back some bitter memories of last year's

super typhoon haiyan which killed 7,000 people. many fled their homes this week and fled to government shelters. for the latest we turn to kevin corriveau. >> this storm could have been so much worse. i truly believe with half a million people being evacuated across the country, that is what really helped in limiting the casualty numbers that we saw with this storm. remember, this storm made landfall as an equivalent category 3 storm. if it was a hurricane in the atlantic. right now we're seeing the storm pushing through the south china sea starting to intensify again as it falls over the warmer water. this water is warmer than it was in parts of the pacific. we're still getting more showers. that will end in the next couple of hours. we're going to be watching what will happen over the next couple of days. as it makes its way towards china and then vietnam we do think it will increase in

intensity and then we'll see it make its way in an equivalent category 2 and category 3. we'll see a lot of rain falling. if you do have travel plans across southern china it will be very rainy. of course, as the storm makes its way towards northern vietnam, it's a very hilly area. we're going to be watching another area here. this is the word out on this. this could be the next system over the next couple of days. we'll keep an eye on that. >> thank you very much. coming up on al jazeera america, 200 days, that is how long our fellow al jazeera journalists have been detained in egypt. in just a few minutes we'll see the global support they're receiving today. then it's real money at the top of the hour with ali velshi.

>> it now has been 200 days since three al jazeera journalists were arrested and detained in egypt. mohamed fahmy, bader mohammed, and peter greste are all falsely accused of helping the outlawed muslim brotherhood. in a letter given to al jazeera by his family. >> news organizations around the world are speaking out against the imprisonment of our journalists, maria ines ferre has more on that. >> reporter: david, news rooms worldwide aring ca are asking

for the their release. john snow from channel four writes al jazeera journalists, 200 days in jail. egypt, journalism is not a crime. that's the same message that five news has, and these are employees of the bbc outside of their building with signs that say free aj staff, and jonathan miller with his colleagues in gaza writes 200 days in an egyptian jail for committing the crime of journalism. we also want to show you this video posted today. more than 100 employees gathered at their london offices. many of them held signs over their mouths with the words free aj staff, and in unio said journalism is not a crime.

petitions have received tens of thousands of signatures. >> all right, marie y thank you so much. m marmaria ines ferre, i'm david david. for news updates around the world you can always head to www.aljazeera.com. thanks for watching. >> rupert murdoch aims to make his media empire even bigger with his eyes on an archrival. i'll tell what you time warner has that 21st century fox wants. and also southwest airlines is flying high. we'll talk to the man who is piloting the company about the recession, and all the fees that it's industry slaps on passengers. and the key to safety. i'm calling it something else. let's see if you agree with