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>> the number two man in hamas, this man, his house was absolutely pulverized. very early this morning. that sets the tone for the next few hours. israeli air strike after israeli airstrike, after drone strike, artillery strikes, all struck the power centers of hamas. anything that represents hamas. so government buildings,

ministries, that's what was targeted. we saw the strikes. the israelis are confirming that it was them yet. this is gaza's only power plant before this attack. it was three or four hours of power a day for the gaza's 1.7, 1.8 population. now there is virtually nothing. i want to show you what's behind me. well, you can see what's behind me. absolutely nothing. that's not because nothing is back there. it's because there is a blackout thanks to that strike on the power plan. i want to show you one more emotion of video, tony, something that happened just a couple of hours ago just a few hundred feet from where i'm standing now. [ explosion ] >> reporter: so that was an israeli strike on a field right behind me, and the sounds you

heard at the end, that was shrapnel from the strike coming in to my hotel. there are targets everywhere in gaza. there are rocket launchers everywhere, and that will show you how close some of the rocket launchers are that is not a military target which is where we are standing right now. >> nick, are we any closer to a diplomatic break through. i don't even talk--i don't want to talk about terms of solution, a breakthrough at this point? >> look, there is some positive momentum. but rhetorically, publicly it's going in the opposite direction and certainly going the wrong direction. the last hour we heard from the senior leader of hamas' military wing, they have come out very strongly and said if israel invade even more than it has, it's soldiers will die in gaza,

there is no cease-fire until hamas' conditions are met. that is the opening up of the borders and the lifting of the blockade. those are two things that israel has not agreed to yet. in the middle of all these discussions is u.s. secretary of state john kerry. he has been tirelessly trying to get both sides on the same page, but he has failed to do so. he has defended president obama, who is really very aggressive with israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu, and kerry is saying that the goal for everyone is not only a short term but a long-term solution. >> president obama has it right, and the international community has it right. when we say that it is more appropriate to try to resolve the underlying issues at the negotiating table than to continue with tit for tat of violence that will invite more violence and perhaps a greater downward spiral, which will be much more difficult to recover

from. >> reporter: of course, that's what the u.s. wants. but right now as we were just discussing hamas is demanding things that israel is unwilling to give. israel continues to vow to continue t its mission with rocket launchers here. that mission, especially about the tunnels is days if not weeks away, so that will give a sense of why both sides rhetorically, at least publicly are digging in and moving away from any kind of cease-fire. >> nick schifrin, thank you. nearly two million people live in gaza. the attack on the power plant there will make life much more difficult for all of them. nicole johnston has more from gaza 2347 this is as bad as it gets. the power station up in smoke. no one has ever seen anything like this here before. it's been burning out of control

for hours. too dangerous to send crews in to put it out. >> reporter: now it's taken another direct hit. trying to repair this could take months. >> all the plant's fuel is burning. >> it has been targeted for the last couple of days. we have informed the red cross and everybody about the shelling. they say this is a mistake. i don't know, this has been repeated several times. >> reporter: al jazeera also visited the power plant a few days ago. then one of its four generators have been hit. and the main office even still the workers showed up to try to keep the place running. but they were nervous. >> it's death. this is dangerous. what can we do? this is our work.

>> there is no electricity since the israelis ground invasion started. >> talking about the situation, there is no electricity. there is no water. no supplies. >> this shop relies on a generator for its electricity. but the cost of running it is so expensive they can't use freezers and only one fridge. >> after destroying the power plant in gaza we suffered a lot from the loss of electricity, and we use our generators for eight to ten hours a day. >> now it's going to get much worse for the rest of gaza. with the electricity plant down people will be lucky to get a few hours of power every two days. nicole johnston, al jazeera, gaza. >> hamas has released new video of what they claim is yesterday's cross border tunnel attack on the israeli army. the video aired showing hamas

burrowing through a tunnel and open firing on israeli soldiers. israel confirms it lost four soldiers in the attack. this comes amid talks of possible cease-fire. al jazeera's report from the west bank. >> reporter: on tuesday night the leader of the brigade that hamas' military wing spoke in a pre-recorded dell advised statement, and said that there will be no cease-fire until the blockade, the seen of gaza is lifted. it has been a key demand of hamas all along. it could really continue to be the sticking point in terms of negotiations an and a possible cease-fire. also on tuesday the palestine liberation organization held a committee meeting, and as a result of that meeting said that negotiations with hamas and islamic jihad is ongoing to

reach a final cease-fire agreement that could be put to israel for its response earlier. the secretary general of the plo has said that the cease-fire had already been agreed upon by all the palestinians sections, but later it emerged that negotiation negotiations are still ongoing. now israel for its part has not yet responded formerly to this cease-fire talk from the plo, hamas, and the islamic jihad, but forces are telling us that they're moving towards the cease-fire direction. talks are ongoing. we understand that they're continuing to be mediated, and the middle man if you like, all of this is egypt. >> more than 1200 palestinians have been killed in more than 7,000 have been injured. the united nations said nearly

182,000 have been displaced on the gaza side. 56 has been killed in israel. mike viqeira is live for us at at white house. what do the new sanctions involve here? >> reporter: tony, it's been a long time coming. president obama has been spending time to convince or cajole europe to take sanctions against russian economy. the president laying out a fresh indictment since the bringing down of flight mh-17. russia has not backed down. they've doubled down and they're actually firing artillery shells over the border of ukraine from russian soil. and quite an indictment from president obama, and he has the e.u. to go along with many of these sanctions.

it's no secret that many european countries have a lot more at stake here in terms of economic skin in the game, than did russia. president obama on his way out of the white house, he was going up to walter reed to visit wounded troops, stopped and talked about what he was going to do in the future. also the bite that sanctions have already taken out of russian economy. >> now russian's actions in ukraine and sanctions that we've already imposed have made a weak russian economy even weaker. foreign investors are already increasingly staying away. even before our actions today nearly 100 billions in capitol was expected to flee russia. russia's energy financial and defense sectors are feeling the pain. >> reporter: now once again president obama is leaving what he called all throughout this crisis an off rant for vladimir putin to include choose diplomacy, to back down.

president obama describes hits to his economy and expected to you feel more pain in the coming months with this coordinated action with interes from the e.u. and the united states. >> how are these measures expected to be and the important question here is will russia take them seriously? >> reporter: well, the jury is still out. you can argue whether or not the russian economy has suffered significantly as a result of the sanctions that were already in place, which were really just a nibbling around the margins. but it took the downing of that aircraft and russia's actions since then to galvanize public opinion, and put the spine in the backbone of european leaders to come on board. the arms industries in russia has been sanctioned. oil exploration equipment cannot go to russia.

all of these applied to only future transactions, tony, so it really is an open question, but there is no question that this is a significant upgrade from what is already taken place, the sanctions already imposed. >> mike viqeira for us at the white house. fighting on the ground in eastern ukraine with direct strikes on the center of donetsk, something that had been avoided up to this moment. 23 people killed in fighting as troops try to regain control of rebel-held areas. the fight something hampering efforts of international investigators to inspect the malaysian aircraft that crashed earlier this month. >> she shows where the shells hit her apartment. the shrapnel cut through their living room. he jumped out of the window to safety. the war has destroyed her home and is tearing apart they are family.

they are split by conflicting holy spirit. >> i'm not only shocked, but this is completely crazy. most of my family lives in central ukraine. the government has asked my brother to join the ukrain ukrainian army to come here and shoot at people and my son. >> reporter: the residential areas are pounded by artillery. this man was killed by shrapnel. the ukrainians say they're not targeting civilians, blaming the splittists for the violence. >> the shelling in donetsk is continuing, many are dying. they use children as human shield. they completely control the situation and don't allow citizens to leave cities. >> reporter: what happened here shows you just how close the fighting is getting to the center of donetsk 37 it is still not clear who is responsible for the shelling here, but clearly civilians are getting caught up

once again in the conflict. there is also fighting close to the crash site of malaysian airline mh-17. for a third day in a row the investigators have not been allowed to get to the wreckage. the ukrainians are closing in on separatist territory attempting to cut the fighters off from their supply route. retaking donetsk is their ultimate goal. people here are preparing for a battle for control of this city. al jazeera, eastern ukraine. >> sierra leone's lead ebola physician has died. sierra leone is one of three nations in west africa along with liberia where hundreds of people have died from ebola. two americans in liberia have also tested positive for the

disease. take we spoke with a doctor, the director for the division of global migration and guarantee at the cdc. he said not enough is being done to control the epidemic. >> this epidemic is not under control. the international community is fully engaged. who is assisting coordination with many non-governmental organizations and partners as well as cdc deploy teams. more needs to be done to get the epidemic under control. identifying cases early and make sure that contacts are on fever watch and not move and cross borders is a very critical aspect of the control of this epidemic. >> more than 700 people have died since the outbreak began. coming you up on al jazeera

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>> israeli aggression... >> coverage of the middle east conflict continues al jazeera america >> an appeal court ruled that would close the only abortion clinic unconstitutional. it require physicians at abortion clinic to obtain admits privileges. so 98 days until the midterm election and both parties are trying to energize and energize. >> reporter: democrats are seeing a win fall in political donations thanks to a few conservatives in the house who are calling for president obama's impeachment. the threat embraced by sarah palin has motivated democrats like no other issue this summer.

house speaker john boehner poured cold water on removing the president from office. >> the calls for impeachment are from the president's own staff. why? to rally their party to give money. we have no intention to impeachment. it's all a scam. >> actually, coming congressman steve king and michele bachmann. has the white house highlighted and leveraged the claim? you bet. the new gun control measures sponsored would expand the bill.

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is an ideal work for middle class families. i'm all for it. i approve this message because i was so proud when the nonpartisan journal ranked me the most moderate senator. not too far left, not too far right. just like north carolina. >> it features a crucial set of campaigns. statewide campaigns tend to lead moderate, so jon ernest is now in trouble. >> we have talked about this at the state legislature before. but bottom line is as an u.s. senator why should we be tough in laws that the states are considering. >> maybe because federal law.

they say the video is taken out of context. finally in canadian politics. toronto mayor tom ford with one of the most memoriable photo ops one will ever see. the mayor in the wait shirt and his brother in the red shirt took a ride on the seesaw. there's the mayor going up and down like his political career. the brothers were trying to highlight the new improvements to the toronto park just a couple of months before the mayoral election in toronto. i'm david schuster, and that's today's power politics. >> well, consumers are feeling better about the economy than at any point in the last seven years. wow. but more than one-third of americans have unpaid debt that has been passed on to collection agencies. that's not a good trend. ally, that's the story here?

>> reporter: let's go back and talk about my mayor. >> yes, that's right. that was a nasty photo-op. >> reporter: all right, let me tell you what this story is. a study out by the urban stie, a washington think tank shows that americans that have debt that is passed on to collective agencies. although it can happen earlier. the average amount of debt in collections per person is $5,178. s concentrated in western and southern states. now the fact that 77 million americans have debt in collections is alarming, and of course it is. but also important to know that the overall percentage of americans in debt with collection actually has not changed that much in the last decade. it's not that it has soared to 32%. it's kind of been steady.

that's how many people have debt in collection. when asked why this rate is so high and what the implications are of unpaid debt for consumers, you know, you can imagine people who have debt in collections they're not spending money on other things. you know, it sort of holds you back. >> help me here with my memory. the late 70's, 80's, when economy started to stagnate and people tried to stay up with their standard of living. >> yes, history repeats itself. one of the reasons is stagnant income. people can't forward to pay some bills. and consumers, believe it or not, some consumers don't realize they have debt in collection. student loans and hospital bills frequently get over looked.

people move and the bill goes to the wrong address. by the way some of these debts include magazine subscriptions, jim memberships. they don't update their credit card or bank. this is not as bad as missing a mortgage payment but it's close. people have to look at this. as you know in the last several years employers have been using credit reports. if you have a delinquency, you'll pay more for it. >> what else are you working on. >> the latest round of sanctions, europe and now the united states are slapping on russia to make that country feel economic pain and persuaded to change its course in ukraine. we'll look at whether any of these things have teeth.

>> can't wait. ali velshi. thank you very much. secretary of state john kerry has taken a beating from the israeli press at his attempts of brokering a cease-fire. we'll look at this. a train rolls over two young women, and they survive.

>> returning now to the top story. the fighting in gaza has a riff between the united states and israel. israelis harshly criticized secretary of state john kerry as he price to broker a cease-fire between israel an and hamas.

>> reporter: secretary of state john kerry defended his support as unblemished. >> 100% voting record, pro israel. i will not take a second seat to anybody in my friendship or my devotion to the protection of the state of israel. >> reporter: as he returned empty handed to washington after days of talks in the region kerry was attacked on the israeli media. his proposal for a cease-fire was biased in favor of hamas. that triggered an outburst who accused negotiators who were plotting to make kerry look bad. >> people leaking things that misinform. >> that's not the way that partners and alleys treat each other. >> members of both party have

lined to "r" up to give support to israel. >> we can do better and we can go further to protect israel. >> reporter: as for public opinion, a pew poll asked americans who is most responsible for the current violence. 40% say hamas. 19% say israel. but international criticism of israel is mounting, in some cases leading to diplomatic isolation. an u.n. panel voted 29-1 to launch an inquiry of human rights violations. >> we're the only nation who objected to this resolution, which i think should make every decent person in the world feel the shame of the united nations. >> in an interview with al jazeera in the wake of the supervisor a kerry spokesman was careful not to further anger his critics. >> would you like to take this opportunity on al jazeera and call for an end to the israeli

siege? do you see that it is normal for palestinians to go on under siege, yes or no. >> it's not an easy yes or no question. the secretary kerry has been working for a peace process for the last year where we could have two states living side by side in security. >> the cease-fire proposal which upset the israelis calls for both sides to end the fighting. within 48 hours israel and hamas would meet and discuss opening the borders and other humanitarian issues. it also calls for other countries to support the cease-fire through humanitarian assistance. joining us now is former ambassador philip wilcox, the president of the foundation for middle east peace. ambassador, good to talk to you. can i get to the portion of criticism that was particularly stinging here. officials in jerusalem with an

outline as a strategic terror attack. given the amount of u.s. aid. that's language but it's particularly harsh. given the amount of u.s. aid that goes to israel, isn't that particularly tough criticism? >> it's not only tough, it's insulting, and entirely unjustified because for decades the united states has provided massive support and aid to israel and commitments to its security. john kerry spent the best part of the last year trying to broker a peace agreement between israel and palestine so that the two states could b agree, but he was rebuffed an it failed. >> here's the other side of this, hamas is equally upset because as you know for

palestinians it's all about ending the occupation. and that's not on the table here. am i right in saying--well, i know i am--america is viewed as not being capable of fairness where israel is concerned. >> well, in the past the u.s. has been committed to israel and less committed to the rights and equities of the palestinians. i think that is changing. indeed, the u.s.-israel relationship is changing because our interests are no longer in sync with israel's interest in peace with the palestinians. >> let me try something here. i just want to run this by you. you know, i'm curious as to why it seems, from afar that each side continues to fall for the same provocations over and over again. for example, in the current conflict, and a marginalized

hamas pulls israel into another conflict where innocents are being killed. israel obliges with airstrikes. it's drawing the wrath, it's all over the press, even with the international community the u.n. human rights setting up a council to investigate alleged war crimes committed by israel. what is your take on this idea that both sides continue to fall for the same provocations time and time again. whether it was 2012, 2008, 2009, again and again. >> well, once the guns start firing, the first victims is truth. that's happened again where both sides are making exaggerated claims. i think the preponderance of evidence is it was not hamas that started this conflict. it was israel with a massive "dragnet" operation of the west

bank that arrested hundreds of hamas supporters on the grounds that hamas was responsible for the kidnapping of the three israeli boys. it's since discovered that it was not responsible. so-- >> can i jump in to say that israel was carrying out an operation trying to get to the bottom of who was responsible for killing the three teenagers, and when the rockets started hamas said it was outside groups not hamas central that was firing those rockets essentially, but the rockets were fired and that's how the campaign began. >> this conflict has gone on now since 1967. both sides have made exaggerated claims that they're all right and the other side is all wrong. the fact is this is a terribly dangerous conflict which is mortgaging the future of israel and palestine. >> that's what i want to get to. thank you for teeing that up. is it possible in our lifetime

here, yours and mine, to get a two-state solution with sovereign--a sovereign anticous state called palestine with israel being protected. >> israel now has settled 350,000 israeli settlers in the west bank. the people of israel and the people of palestine want peace. i think they would respond positively to a good faith and balanced and honest american peace plan. we have never offered such a plan. indeed, we've never defined our policies towards these big issues of settlements in

jerusalem, security, and borders. until we do i think the two sides will continue to fight each other. periodically there will be new wars, and they no longer have the capacity to resolve this by them because israel is the arc pine powers. the palestinians do not have a functional political system that works. that calls for much more vigorous american and international intervention. >> ambassador, thank you. former ambassador wilcox, president of the foundation for middle east peace joining us from washington. ambassador. thank you. in libya militia has greed to a cease-fire to allow fire fightsers to battle an oil tanker fire near tripoli. fuel was set on fire on sunday. a second depot was hit on monday. the government said that it needs international help to put it out.

>> in afghanistan, an attack happened today after morning prayers on the day of eid. and in belgium a special prosecutor says senior members of the kosovo liberation army targeted people--listen to this--to harvest and sell their organs. we have more. >> reporter: the mass graves held the bodies, but how many died of a horrific trade in body parts. it's been claimed that many were detained and killed so their organs could be harvested and sold. an e.u.'s prosecutor backed that theory. >> i can say there are compelling indications that this practice did occur on a very

limited scale, and that a small number of individuals were killed for the purpose of equities tracting and trafficking their organs. the hand full of individuals were subjected to this crime. >> reporter: more than 3,000 people disappeared during the conflict, which began in february of 1998 and ended in june. the claim was that the organs were sold on behalf of the kla, the kosovo liberation army. indictments have been prepared against senior political figures. >> i think it is now confirmed that war crimes did happen. you mention the world indications. he said there were strong indications. he didn't say proof. let's wait for the indictment to see what the evidence actually means. >> reporter: this house in northern albania was raided by the u.n. ten years ago. one of a number of properties suspected of being used of carrying outs the operations. traces of blood and empty

medicine bottles and other paraphernalia were found but the owners still insist that this house has no part to play in organ removal. >> we demand moral compensation because this is not justice. they brought investigators in our house and three us out. we had to sleep in snow. >> reporter: those who lost family members the news is unlikely to bring much peace but they will keep searching for answers and for justice. phil lavel. al jazeera. >> a nine-year-old hit by a plane on florida beach has now died. marie has that and other news making it's way across america. >> reporter: the aircraft crash landed on the beach earlier this week killing her father. the girl was airlifted to the hospital where she died of her injuries. the pilot of this single-engine plane called air traffickers on sunday saying he was doing an

emergency landing on the beach. the passenger and pilot were unharmed. cruz have discovered homes in a wildfire. 1200 residents have returned to their houses. 19 homes and 48 other structures have been destroyed so far. and appeals court said a cross-shaped steel beam with stay on display. a judge allowed the beam to be part of the 9/11 museum. a group of atheists sued the museum on constitutional groun grounds. in indi indiana, two women survived. take a look at this. supreme court cameras.

two women were walking on the tracks. >> he thought h he had killed two people. he yelled back and asked them if they were okay. the other one said she stubbed her toe, otherwise fine. i'm sure their nerves were as shattered as his were. >> they've been identified and prosecuted for criminal trespassing. >> you're not supposed to be on that. and the conductor. >> reporter: he tried to stop. >> it was a far drop. >> reporter: they took their chances. >> thank you. the ncaa has agreed to settle a class action lawsuit over head injuries in college sports. but the deal doesn't provide any money for treatment. details.

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>> the ncaa greed today to settle class action head injury lawsuit. now under the multi million dollars deal it will create a fund to diagnose college athletes are brain injuries. in. good news, bad news in terms of the perspective of the settlement. $70million, that's how much the governing body for college sports is setting aside for student-athletes for the diagnosis and treatment of concussions and other head-related injuries. the lawsuit settles ten straig separate lawsuits. but it's not limited to football players. it's for all athletes who competed in the past 50 years. to give you an idea of how many athletes may benefit from the settlement, consider from 2004 to 2009 nearly 30,000 ncaa

athletes suffered concussions. we're talking about millions of student athletes. those student athletes who do qualify will receive free free physical examination, neurological measurement and neurocognitive assessment. the treatment will be have to be paid by the student-athlete themselves. and it spells out how teams must treat players who received head blows. it still has to be approved by a federal judge. it could take months. we'll hear from seven athletes, and we could say these terms do not seem right. >> really this, when is $70 million not a lot of money? probably in this case. >> reporter: it's not a lot when you doctor the number of athletes potentially who might have to stop in that amount if you will. theful settlement there is $1 billion, and the judge said

that's not enough. they have way more athletes in the ncaa than the nfl. they do not have money set aside for treatment. if you have concussion, that's usually the fearest hinge. many threats will have to sue the school and see if they're willing to yo--eligible. >> tanya mosley shows us how one zoo in seattle is making very difficult decisions. >> reporter: all of these people eagerly waiting in line are about to get closer than they ever have before to an 8,000-pound giant. >> hi there. >> reporter: at 47 years old, bamboo is the oldest elephant here at the woodland park zoo.

she shares this space with two other elephants. 35-year-old chi and 45-year-old ritoto. all of them have spent their lives here but you'll never see them interact all at the same time. ritoto is aggressive towards about a bo bamboo. >> even though we have elephants sharing space, they oftentimes share t choose to go to different parts of the area. >> reporter: they are required to increase their herds or phase out their elephants. animal rights advocates say it's in the enough.

>> when i see the elements i think it's a very sad commentary on our humanity. >> reporter: she said that the elephants are stress with highway noise behind them and less than an acre to roam. >> i would like to see them retire to a sanctuary where they can walk acres of land, swim in a lake and heal from the arthritis and the lameness that they have. and become as much of an elephant as they can for the remainder of their lives. >> reporter: but the curator believes that zoos have a duty. sanctuaries are meant for the animals to live out their days not pro create. >> the breeding is difficult to do. woodland park has unsuccessfully tried to artificially inseminate

chi 108 times. >> given the difference between living in a zoo or roaming free in the wild, they'll be safer in the zoo because they don't have the threats that they face in the filed. >> reporter: ramirez hopes that the experience will inspire everyone in the efforts to save the elephants. al jazeera, seattle. >> coming up, dating sites. an okay cupid. admits manipulating data to mess with user's matches but they say it's all part of making the site better. then it's real money with ali velshi. >> you could be in collections for a debt that you don't even know you owe. what is the deal with twitter. the company announced that it lost money but it ended the day worth more. i'll explain that and more all on "real money."

>> i'm told i shouldn't be bothered by this, but a popular dating website said it has been lying conducting social experiments with their profile. it comes a few weeks after facebook that said it manipulated some of the users news feed. we have more. >> reporter: tony, cupid said it noticed a lot of people were upset when facebook made their announcement but said you know what, websites run experiments on people all the time. it said that it tried tests like pairing incompatible people to improve the site but people are angry. for people looking for love online cupid is one of the hottest spots. it offers free matching and many, many choices. but now one of the site's founders said that it tricked some youers running experiments on them without their knowledge. it told people who were bad a matches that they would be great

together. the result the matches were nearly twice as likely to start a conversation. christian rudder said that it helped the site learn a lesson. cupid works. bucritics say cupid's test are unethical. >> if you're investing your time in a good faith effort of finding a relationship, and the organizers of the website, the owners are using it for their own social engineering, that might not be okay with a lot of people. >> reporter: it isn't okay for some users. this person tweeted, i just deleted my account because of this story invading privacy is not good. another wrote, nice to know i can blame all those bad dates on someone else. >> they're overestimating the user's tolerance to be used as a

guinea pig. >> reporter: the company that owns cupid owns tinder. it's an online effort. if you don't want to be on any of those services, always e-harmony. or meet your farmer.com. >> roxana, thank you. earlier i spokes with christian rudder, the co-founder of okay cupid, and i asked why his users should feel comfortable giving up their information, and if other sites are doing these experiments. >> reporter: i didn't ask for anybody's information. we just changed the number of two users. but also, every single website, every single website, everyone is testing stuff.

that's how these are built. no one launches on a brand new thing without launching it with 10% of the users, watching how it goes, seeing if it's good or getting rid of it if it's bad. >> are users canceling accounts? >> no, not at all. >> you told me if it were happening. >> sure. >> are people canceling. >> other journalists have asked me. you can corroborate with other places but we have millions of people checking the site every day. at least a million and less than ten complaints. there is just not--i think the ok can you bid usecupid analyzes. >> if you are actually telling someone who you're not necessarily a great match with,

take a closer look. is that crossing a line in any way? >> i understand--look, i understand how it feels weird but it's part of a continuum we're always changing the match algorithm. here at the end of the line wher we're testing it against the scientific method. >> again, that was okcupid co-founder christian rudder. it is neighbor versus neighbor. people are using social media to call people out for wasting water. ines is back with that story. >> reporter: in california not only can you be fine fodder using too much water outdoors but your lawn and driveway could end up on social media. that's because residents are posting images like these with the hashtag drought shaving.

this has been on for over 35 minutes. the sidewalk here is all wet. this is a gentleman on the sidewalk in beverly hills. he's hosing down the sidewalk. something that you're not supposed to do. also, my building thinks there is enough water to hose down our court yard, hashtag drought shame. >> you're not supposed to go doing this. >> they write, save water to be used on golf courses. and all this area is wet. residents are using this app posting images with the exact location of the pictures you're looking at. these are some of them. water spilling out on the spee

street. >> the idea is you are breaking rules and could be fined. >> thank you. that's all of our time on this news hour. i'm tony harris. real money.with ali velshi is next with al jazeera america. >> president obama says the brand-new sanctions just slapped odd vladimir putin's russia will have a bigger bite. but i see mostly bark. how america could really show its teeth and put an end to the ukraine crisis. and also, more than a third of americans have an unpaid debt in collections right now, and here's the surprising part, you could be on the list and not know it. and plus, if owning your home is the american dream, here's your wake-up call. we haven't seen a home ownership rate this low