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with sanctions. al jazeera scott heidler met a group of children and teachers who say they're hoping the violence ends soon. >> reporter: 17-year-old lydia gets good grades and wants to be a journalist. she has been living in an orphanage on the outskirts of donetsk. but in the middle of the night last friday all these children were evacuated by separatist fighters to an orphanage in--onetsk city. >> we went to bed and the bombing started. it was the scariest thing, a city of sleeping people and then there is bombing. >> reporter: just on the other side of the orphanage,s also an orphan, this woman grew up

here. she's now a teacher. >> i hope god will help us, that the children will come back hear and we'll have peace in our land. >> his mother in law's body is in his car. he kim to check in on her and found her charred remains. >> we need to bury her but i can't find the right authorities. thank goodness my wife is not with me. >> reporter: ukrainian officials say nine civilians died in two days of shelling. the children got out just in time. for the 33 orphans here it's a peaceful and welcomed change, but how long will it last? there are still hundreds of separatist fighters in donetsk and the ukrainian army is still on the move. 11 civilians were killed. separatists blame ukrainian

forces for the attack. the military denied it and said their aircraft in the region were grounded suggesting russia had something to do with it. despite the fighting lydia is still hopeful. she's looking forward to going to university in two years. >> i think we can survive all the troubles, and in the end ukraine will be united as it was before. i think it will be the best option, not like now when there is one country inside of another. >> reporter: but with ukraine's accusation of russia's involvement it's uncertain oh how soon or if these children will live in an united ukraine. scott heidler, al jazeera, donetsk. >> californicalifornians facing good news and perhaps some bad news. president obama discussing

climate change and promised more help with drought relief. that after california water commission announced californians will be punished. >> reporter: this may cost you with water supplies running desperately slow, low, and the three-year-long drought show nothing signs of it clearing up. the water control board met tuesday to discuss mandatory cut backs. the new regulation include fines up to $500 a day for residents who are hosing their cars without shut off nozzles, hosing down sidewalks and allowing sprinklers are-to-run in the street. they'll also face fines for defying court ordered

conservation measures. most cities are likely to have a sliding scale for fines that starts with a warning and increases as citations continue. >> many people don't realize it, but they overwater. >> reporter: reporting neighbors and others seen flouting the rules. >> our water use has gone up exponentially over the last two years. obviously we can't be everywhere, so having people in the community helping us out is a great tool for us. >> reporter: but naturally not every is happy with that. >> personally i think that's inappropriate. you just go and talk to your neighbor. that's what you do. >> reporter: state regulators hope the restrictions will save enough water to supply about three and a half million people for a year. >> we need water. we're going to have to get water. >> reporter: earlier this year governor jerry brown appealed to californians to cut their water

use by 20%. but survey by state water authorities released last month showed consumption dropped 5% through may, and compared to may last year water use was up 1%. while the drought might mean a browner lawn for city dwellers, the impact for farmers and the state economy is far more serious. a new study released tuesday by the universe of california davis shows that the drought has brought lost revenue and 17,000 jobs. >> these are seasonal jobs, but they're seasonal and full time. they're from a sector of the population who have the least ability to roll with the punch punches. >> reporter: more than half of crops in the san joaquin valley are dying. cattle ranchers are also taking a big hit. when "america tonight" visited him last february he was contemplating having to sell a herd that was a livelihood for

three generations of his family. >> if we're going to go through the cow herd. we have a number picked out, maybe 20. we'll cut 40 to 60 in the next month and a half. i keep saying that in two weeks things are going to change. the it will rain more and the grass will start to grow more, but it isn't. >> reporter: many of his fellow ranchers already made the tough choice. people came from all over the state. normally 200 head of cattle would be up for sale. on this day more than a thousand hit the auction block. >> a lot of people have put a lot of effort and energy and time over the last 20 years to produce a high quality product, and when they sell their cows they have to start over. >> reporter: this is the worst in decades because ground water reserves are drying up, and for many farmers ground water is the only hope that comes with an agonizing rain. >> reporter: right now the

demand for wells is extremely high. we have a backlog of 12 to 13 months. we have six rigs running. everybody needs the water. it's just trying to get to them fast enough is extremely hard. some of the deeper wells, they might take a month to drill on the deep wells. >> reporter: along with access to water time is not on california's side. >> when we return, learning from the mayor. the longest-serving leader of a major u.s. city gently offers advice lawmakers in washington might want to consider. >> if your claim to fame is only with what people did before you, then you're not creating anything. you're not producing anything. >> reporter: our converse were charleston, south carolina, and mayor joe reilly ahead tonight. and a note about tomorrow's program. we ask is the american dream

dead. a groundbreaking study finds it is for many of us. if you're born poor in america escaping poverty is nearly impossible and skin color makes a big difference. americ"america tonight's" adam may and considering what opportunity really means. >> i hate to say it, but i wouldn't raise a dog in that part of town. >> your kids, where do you want them to end up? >> where they want. >> where they want. my son has always talked big. they have out of this world aspirations. my sons want mansions with ten rooms and seven bathrooms. >> they want the extreme american dream. >> exactly. >> blocked from reaching the american dream tomorrow on "america tonight."

>> no matter where you are in the country, likely saw the first signs of the election season. although it's not a presidential year it will be a busy one at the ballot box. all congress and a third of the u.s. senate is up for grabs.

we can hear a lot of voters say whatever, we don't care. throw all the bums out which makes the subject of our next story even more remarkable. the man "the new york times" recently called the most beloved politician in america is taking himself out of the race. >> there is a saying about the people in the city i first heard when i lived here in the 1980's. charlestonnen, they say, are just like the chinese. they eat a lot of rice and they worship their ancestors. it is a city married to tradition, inclined to sticking with what works, but which for two generations picked a visionary to lead it. >> i knew that a great city i

worthy 2347 he has had plenty of time to build on the path and to the further. riley is the longest serving mayor of any major american city. even know as he heads into his 40th and final year of office joe riley is thinking about building some more. >> if your claim to fame is only with what people did before you, then you're not creating anything. you're not producing anything. >> reporter: riley has been building a legacy in this city since his first election in 1975. at first, he tells me, it was about building relationships. a southern city with a grim history in the slave trade, race relations here were still tense in the mid 70's. their number one issue was crime, and the genteel downtown street streets were only faded

glory. >> the streets from bustling with activity when i was a child was almost dead. many of the commercial buildings were deteriorating before your eyes. >> reporter: the product of an old charleston family, a graduate of the citadel, the city's military academy. he had a brief career in law before becoming a somewhat unlikely candidate for the times. >> you're a white guy from an old family in the city. you were a native. there were others, afric african-americans, women, why were you the right man? >> well, that was for the voters to determine. i had been to the legislature in a very young age, and i gravitated towards working on progressive issues, and working on the challenges so the

african-american leadership in the white business leadership saw in me somebody who could unify the city. >> from the start reilly took surprising steps. hiring a roller skating african-american police chief named reuben greenberg, winning sister city ties with speleto, and creating what is today part of the city's landscape which was in the 1970's a pie in the sky dream a development called charleston place that faced enormous resistence from traditionalists who didn't like flashy newcomers. >> one guy tried to punch my lights out, but we knew it was the right thing. and then what that project did, it's been transformed. >> reporter: it turned out to be the first in a series of transformative projects.

the south aquarium. the waterfront park. the stadium that now bears reillys name, and the center set to become a world class performance hall, none of which happened without resistence and significant investment in both financial and political capitol. >> in 1983 when i first met you people didn't know that these things would work. >> no. no. >> but you knew. >> i was confident that what we were doing was right. i understood why people were opposed. the city had become afraid of people. you depopulated urban areas, and i understood why the people were afraid who from fighting it, but i knew they were wrong. i knew the only way to bring the

city back to life is to have it energized with people living in it and visiting it and people on the sidewalks. people on the sidewalks in a downtown that's been dead is like you put people on the sidewalks, and it's like irrigating the park's lawn. all of a sudden it comes back to life. >> and it did. charlton stay turns up not just on the list of best places to visit, but increasingly on the top tech and opportunity lists as well. weathering the worst of the recession the city has a triple-a credit rating. riley is careful not to say "i told you so" for those who may have doubted him over the years. instead he gently suggests it's the leader's job to swim often up stream. as a successful progressive democrat in an increasingly red state he can be prodded to give

advice to washington's politicos. >> why can things happen at the city level that just get stuck at the federal government level? >> well, at the city level participat partisanship doesn't sale. and i tell you something else there are no polls. i never taken a poll to help me decide what to do. i think in washington so often, it's upsmanship and polling and data and all of that. and the trouble with polling is, you're never leading when you're doing that. >> now, headed into his final year in office, riley is determined to lead and to belt begin. >> and so -- >> this is future? >> this will be the museum. >> riley's vision now is for an

african-american history museum in the city not like the ones he says other cities have built. but one which confronts charleston's history as a port where four out of 10 africans arrived as slaves. >> there were 880 slave ships and we know where every one came from. >> the museum he says will help african americans retrace their history. it is the least the city can do and, he says, the only projects that can complete his legacy even when he is gone. >> i think you know people will do very well and i'm sure that they will do better than i will. and that would make me very happy. you want a city to keep getting better. >> it does appear that mire riley is going to -- mayor riley is going to fulfill his dreams. he announced the african

american museum that will go forward 13 years after the idea was put fostered. if it's gone as planned, it will open in 2018, that is three years after he officially leaves office. to a far more remote part of our world, traveling the long road, to a fishing community in eastern canada. where an unlikely combination of artists and tourism offers a better home hope -- hope for the future.

>> we're here in the vortex. only on al jazeera america. >> and finally from us. saving a once bustling rural community in eastern canada with the help of artistic vision. little bay island, once supported thousands of residents

before overfishing moved it to decline. little bay island, newfoundland. >> at the edge of canada where the icy atlantic waters a bleak shore, are the island is the home of just over 2,000 people. the landscape shapes their lives their community. >> i think i grew out of these rocks and there's nothing i are are know i didn't learn from these rocks, somehow. >> zita cobb was born here 50 years ago. became one of the country's top businesbusinesswomen, now she f, attracts jobs. >> the only way to cure the playing of unemployment is to build economies that are based on culture. care. and craft. and that's what we've tried to do leer. >> reporter: -- here.

>> culture and craft. a stunning have mix of contemporary design. momotifs drawn from local life. the island is known for its quilts, blankets sown from leftover fabric in an endless variety of fabrics. cobb's are craft translates into income creating jobs. doing what they've done for generations. >> during the period i've been here on residency, this is the perfect home of this message, inside a quilt. >> international artists are part of the mix, drawn by the setting, the culture and fully paid for residencies. starkly positioned in remote bits of shore taking full advantage of land and sea.

rural communities cobb believes have culture and human -- cultural and human capital. you can't put that in the bank but it has immense value. the challenge is to support those assets. to get outsiders come and appreciate and vest in what's here. >> i made a quilt, a patch work quilt. toronto is a bigger patch but neither of those can keep us warm on a cold winter's night. the ability we have is to stitch together the patches, you actually have a quilt, therefore you have a country. >> in time cobb hopes to share her philosophy and ideas with others, but it is all about this island. that communities exist in this environment, is a testament to human willpower and determination. keeping them viable in a fast-changing world is going to take even more of that. daniel lack, foa fogel island,

newfoundland. >> realizing the american dream for many americans. it remains just that, a dream. escaping the clutches of poverty is nearly impossible especially if you were born poor. "america tonight"'s adam may explores the question: is the american dream dead? and remember if you would like to comment on any of our stories, log on to aljazeera.com/americatonight. we'll have more tomorrow.

>> continued bloodshed in israel's bald with hamas. four dozen children are killed in an air strike. former ambassador to the u.n, are bill richardson joins us. hello, i'm wajahatali in for antonio mora. >> for a few hours tomorrow. >> they're calling this a humanitarian