>> new airstrikes overnight in gaza and see israel pledges it won't stop until hamas tunnels are destroyed. >> this isn't about republicans and democrats. it's about defending the constitution. >> the house votes to sue president obama. republicans say he's overstepped his authority. democrats call it a witch count. >> an entire indian village wiped out by a landslide. the desperate search for

survivors as even more bad weather hits. >> you are what we used to call a drug dealer. >> i suppose. >> behind the scenes of the illegal pot trade thriving in a state where recreational marijuana is now legal. why the black market just won't go away. >> welcome to aljazeera america. i'm stephanie sy. >> israel is widening it's air offensive. >> airstrikes hitting dozens of targets overnight including a mosque. military officials say they are close to destroying all of hamas tunnels. >> calling up reservists to help finish the job and the u.s. revealing it sent israel ammunition despite white house calls for a ceasefire. >> foreign minister benjamin netanyahu spoke a short time ago. what did he say?

>> he wants his troops to complete the mission of destroying the tunnels with or without a ceasefire. he said he would not agree to any offer that doesn't allow his troop to say finish that mission and overnight, that mission continued with yet another heavy israeli bombardment. >> this tunnel was full of rockets. just a few feet away, a 45 deep tunnel the military said leads into israel. >> hamas is hiding rockets in places to prevent the israelis from going after them. hamas is taking steps that put

the israelis at risk. >> the targets aren't all tunnels. yesterday, the horror of this war exploded in a local market. the u.n. said three quarters of those killed are civilians. the shells kept landing. multiple rounds fired right into the crowd, and almost 200 wounded descended on the hospital at once. at one point, the hospital put out an urgent request. they needed blood because they'd run out. the hospital director said in gaza nowhere is secure. >> every day, we cannot be safe at any time, at any place. >> a market and a u.n. shelter get bombed, some families feel their only choice is to take shelter at the hospital. the families have no water, nowhere to cook and no barmes. for them and their more than 40 relatives, this is safer than anywhere else. >> you came here 24 days ago.

why here to the hospital and not a u.n. school. >> israeli strikes u.n. schools, so we run away. they've run to a hospital that is overwhelmed by the injured and homeless. >> there are more than 200,000 gazes who have threat their homes. that is one in seven. that's the equivalent in the united states of 35 to 40 million people. >> what about the revelation that the u.s. that just given israel another stockpile of artillery? >> u.s. and israeli officials say the request was made on july 20 for more ammunition. the approval came very shortly after when it comes to these kinds of requests, two or three days later, by july 23. it was about a billion dollars worth of ammunition and the pentagon spokesman yesterday coming out defending all of that

definition, despite diplomatic pressure on israel, saying it was interested in developing and maintaining to strong defense capacity in israel. the white house and pentagon both criticizing israel for attacks on civilians yesterday. >> what happens once israel completes its stated mission of destroying all the hamas tunnels. >> u.s. officials have been frustrated over the last week with israel's refusal to engage in ceasefire requested by the united including on a personal phone call between president obama and prime minister benjamin netanyahu. israel officials have consistently pushed back saying we need more time, we need the mission to destroy all of these tunnels. now that israel says they are one to three days away from completing that mission. u.s. officials hope israel will be much more willing to accept a ceasefire and willing to engage with senior u.s. diplomats about

stopping this violence once that tunnel mission is done. >> a lot of developments in gaza. nick schiffron reporting to us, thank you. >> bolivias president declared israel a terrorist state. president eva morals made the statement after ending a visa agreement that let israelis travel freely. he asked the u.n. to prosecute israel for crimes against humanity. they broke off ties in 2009 over a military operation in gaza. >> we'll explore how the fighting is affectedding children and how the conflict today could impact them long into the future. >> in washington, the house of representatives is getting ready to sue president obama. in a party line vote, the house wednesday authorized a republican led lawsuit against the president. house republicans claim he is not fulfilling his constitutional obligation. >> are you willing to let any president choose what laws to execute and what laws to change?

are you willing to let anyone tear apart what our founders have built. >> they warn this is the first step toward a potential impeachment. lisa stark is in washington. what is the basis for the lawsuit against the president? >> the republicans say the president is on a power grab. they are very upset in his use of executive orders to take actions that they say really congress has the authority to take, only congress under the constitution. every president uses executive orders, but republicans say obama's use of them has been so extreme that it does vital the constitution, in their view. what they're specifically focused on is the president's delay of some of the mandates of the affordable care act, so-called obamacare. they say that overstepped his bounds. ironically, of course, the republicans opposed to entire law and they've been trying to repeal it ever since it passed. >> what was the president's reaction to wednesday's house vote? >> well, the president was in

kansas city. he was taking part in a rally there and really used this vote to again call out congress for failure to act on a host of issues. >> they're mad because i'm doing my job. and by the way, i told them, i said i'd be happy to do it with you. so the only reason i'm doing it on my own is because you don't do anything. >> obama says that this lawsuit is nothing more than a political stunt. that's what he calls it. >> aside from the president, what are other democrats saying about this lawsuit? >> on capitol hill, during the debate, the democrats called it really just a waste of time and money. they see it as a move to rally the gop base ahead of the mid term election. here's florida representative debby wasserman-schultz. >> i wish i could say this is politics at its worse but i've heard too many raise the specter

of impeachment not to know better. >> speaker boehner said they are not trying to impeach the president, but the democrats are using this vote as a fundraising tool. they say they've raised $1 million in one day after appealing to their base about this vote that the republicans have now taken to sue the president. >> thank you very much. again, impeachment being high crimes and misdemeanors. >> coming up. we'll talk to a former senior aid to president george w. bush about his thoughts on this lawsuit. >> details about an american suicide bomber who struck in syria. "the new york times" reporting that 22-year-old returned to the u.s. for months after training with syrian militants. video has surfaced showing the florida born man ripping up and burning his u.s. pat port. he detonated a truck load of explosives in may in a suicide bombing. >> a new senate report says the

c.i.a. hid its post 9/11 interrogation tactics from top u.s. officials including then secretary of state colin powell. ambassadors who knew about the practices were told not to tell their superiors at the state department. >> ukraine's department approving more military after a day long pause in fighting. the investigators will get access to the site where malaysia airlines flight 17 crashed two weeks ago. we have more from donetsk. >> the ukrainian parliament in kiev agreed that 700 law enforcement officers and international investigators, some of them armed, obviously including large dutch and australian contingents should take control of the crash site with full authority for one year while they carry out an investigation as to how malaysia airlines flight 17 was shot down and while they look for the dozens of human remains which

are still believed to be in and around the site. now, this is all very well in theory, how it translates in practice to the reality of east he were ukraine where there is a war underway on the ground is not so clear. investigators have been trying to reach the site for several dis, and failing. today, the ukrainian army said it was calling a one day ceasefire in order to help investigators, but ukrainians are also saying they have been attacked in several places in eastern ukraine by pro-russian separatists. we are not able to confirm that independently. >> stephanie, in our next hour, we'll talk to retired army major mike lyons. >> they are trying to put out a

burning fire in libya. two days of fighting resulted in anti-government forces overrunning an army base. >> france is temporarily shutting down its embass, the u.s. shut down its embass there last week. >> the president of sierra low i don't even declaring the ebola outbreak a public health emergency. >> there was a shut down at a north carolina hospital. >> the scare was only that, a patient who just came from west africa actually has malaria. it's proof the american medical emergency is on alert for an outbreak. hundreds of american volunteers are being pulled from west africa. >> as the death toll jumps to 670 people across liberia, guinea and sierra leone, security forces are called in. medical experts call the virus relentless. with no treat, no vaccine and a

90% fatty rate, one american doctor working with patients in liberia succumbed to the virus this week and two more americans are fighting for their lives in isolation. the peace corps is temporarily evacuating 340 volunteers from the region. two of those volunteers will not board a plane because they came in contact with a person who later died from the virus. the peace corps said they are not showing symptoms, but it could be weeks before they are cleared to fly home. back in the states, in a north carolina church community came together to pray for the two americans being treated for the virus in liberia. they are in serious condition. ripole is a missionary commissioned by the church. her son said shies improving, but it's tough to be thousands of miles away from his mother. >> i talked to mom this morning and she was continuing to do

well, she was still fighting through the symptoms and as she has strength, being able to move around a little bit. >> dr. brantley has shown improvement in the last 24 hours. two work for the same aid group in liberia that evacuated its volunteers. as those return to the u.s. from infected areas, the top infectious doctor in this country said it's highly unlikely we would have a problem with ebola here in the states even if travelers from africa come back feeling sick. >> it is conceivable that someone would get on a plane from western africa and come here, but we ever the health care capability that if someone does come and if ebola is taken care of properly, it should not be spread. >> at least one country is taking serious measures to stop the spread of ebola, closing schools and telling government workers to stay home and even canceling soccer games. >> thank you very much. >> heavy rains continue to hamper rescue efforts in western india where a landslide wiped

out an entire village. southeast of mumbai, at least 25 people killed, eight victims have been pulled out alive. officials fear 150 people are still trapped in the rocks and debris. >> rain also posing a major problem in parts of u.s. today. >> let's bring in meteorologist nicole mitchell for details. >> flooding in a few parts of the world. i'll get to the u.s. stuff, but europe to start, these different scenes come from belgium, romania and italy. you can see one of the residents in some of this flooding said they had about six minutes for this to get out, but very saturated, heavy storms and you can see even some of these homes falling into the water sadly. that's a concern there. we've been talking about that as we get to the west. we've had that monsoon flow. portions of the four corners region, it's been spotty. we have the reds in the areas where you could see heavier rain

today. the other area we are watching, a low pressure area moving through the mississippi valley causing concerns over the next couple of days, as well. as we kind of get a closer look at all of that, it's going to continue to move across today and more moisture into the caught during the day tomorrow. here's a look at the radar now. you can see heavy rain, places like arkansas, louisiana, through the next couple days, this will be cranking up as it moves along. still unfortunately very dry in the west, so that monsoon flow helping the four corners region, except where it's too much, not helpful for the west coast, staying under some extremely warm temperatures, as well. i'll have more on the temperature side that have story in a couple of minutes. >> nicole mitchell, thank you. >> congress counting down the days to vacation. >> unlike many americans, they'll be taking it without finishing their work. lawmakers head out for five weeks off. >> now i have to go and buy some

more pot. >> we'll take you inside the black market trade, even though it's now legal to buy pot in that state. >> caught on camera, the thieves making off with something worth thousands of dollars. it wasn't cash. we'll tell you what they stole. >> $1,270,000,000. >> that is our big number of the day. it's only a portion of what's being paid out for the mortgage meltdown.

>> today's big number is how much a judge ordered bank of america to pay for its role in the country wide mortgage scandal and it's not just the financial giant that has to pay up. >> the country wide manager was hit with a $1 million fine. the former c.e.o. of countrywide was find $67.5 million. the banks former president is now going to forfeit $5.2 million for his role in the meltdown. >> speaking of accountability, congress is trying to wrap up

its work before heading to summer break with a long list of issues still on the table. >> with all the bipartisan bickering, it may be tough to find common ground. >> the tone here on capitol hill may explain why things aren't getting done. >> why don't they say something nice once in a while? why are they always negative? >> i think they need help. i really do. >> what's not expected to happen today, immigration, the border crisis, an emergency bill has been sitting on capitol hill for weeks, whittled down by a billion dollars in the senate, house republicans want to spent much less and are at odds with themselves over the cost. the highway trust fund set tag bankrupt next month may stay that way until after the summer break. >> imagine how much further along we'd be, how much stronger our economy would be if congress was doing its job, too. >> there's a last minute push today to reform the v.a., hiring

more doctors and nurses, and allowing vets to go outside the v.a. for care. the house did vote to sue president obama. >> this is about defending the constitution. >> the president has gone too far. we take time on a suit to sue the president of the united states and we don't have a job to bring the bills home. >> a former senior aid to president george w. bush joins us from washington, d.c. this morning. good morning, mr. blakeman. on target or a waste of money, this lawsuit? >> it's on target. the house has no choice when a president exceeds his authority but to challenge the president. we have three co equal branches of government. when one takes power over the

other, they challenge the usurping of power by the president. the president baited congress. he said so sue me, he picked up that pen on the phone and the congress is doing just that. >> with that being said, then did the democrats blow it, because they argue that they didn't impeach your boss, george w. bush even though he misled and some say lied about the lead up to the war in iraq an costing lives and billions of dollars. congress voted for the war. this is a red herring to -- >> you don't believe the information given to congress was wrong? >> some of it was not accurate, that's true, but the same information that was inaccurate was given to congress that was given to the president, but the crux of the decision to go to war was correct. >> are you saying -- >> this is a diversion, the war is a diversion to what is now happening today and that is -- >> are you saying you don't believe partisan politics had any role in this lawsuit at all?

>> of course it did. the president exercised partisan toll particulars when he usurped the constitution. congress has no choice but to challenge the president. >> let me ask you this. in the past, the courts have said leave us out of this. they don't want to have anything to do with partisan games. they said if you think the president has overstepped his grounds, impeach him. why not use that mechanism, the one that's already in place? >> well, the mechanism that's in place is what speaker boehner is doing, challenging the president's overreach by going to the courts. impeachment is for high crimes and misdemeanors. this may not be -- reach the level of impeachment and i don't think republicans are talking impeachment. democrats are, because as you report prior to me coming on stage is they are using it as a fundraising tool. certainly absent a high crime or misdemeanor, the proper way of challenging a president is through a company equal branch

of government and that's the judiciary. >> if anything can be said about the court system, it is that it is slow. what is the practicality of suing the president if the suit lasts well beyond his time in office? >> that could very well happen. this is a procedural lawsuit. this doesn't go to the merits of what a president did. it's very simple for the court to say either the president had the power or didn't have the power. >> -- ruling, correct? >> not if it's heard in the supreme court. the supreme court is the court of last resort. if they decide to hear this case, then the president has no recourse but to accept the court just as the president was rebuke by the supreme court when he went beyond his authority in his nominations to national labor board. he didn't have the authority to do that. >> thanks for being with us this morning. the former senior aid with george w. bush joins us from washington, d.c. >> statistics say one in five

women are raped or assaulted while pursuing a college degree. a bipartisan group of senators introduced a bill that would hold schools accountable, fining them up to 1% of their college budget if they mismanage rape cases and make it easier for student victims to file complaints and get treatment. >> newly released emails involving a top i.r.s. official, low is lerner accused of targeting groups and delaying tax exempt status, in a hearing, she used salty language to describe them. >> we don't need to worry about alien terrorists, it's our own crazies that will take us down. >> clearly, she didn't like conservatives or their views and used her position as a high ranking government official to delay their applications. >> house republicans urge the attorney general to appoint a special prosecutor to

investigate lerner's actions. you know it's almost mid terms. when? >> when there is all kinds of fun political stuff going on. >> crews making progress against the huge wildfire burning near yosemite national park but the weather affecting it. >> the big role in this has been the heat and also wind fueling all of that. as we get across the country this morning, atlanta night quite as crisp this morning, 70 degrees. the core of the heat into the west. interior parts of california up to oregon is going to have temperatures up to 100 degrees today. for the coastline, that helps everything drying out.

>> the horrors are war for children. >> children in gaza have been through three battles with israel. we'll take a closer look at the emotional scars they'll be left with for years and have a live report from jerusalem. >> a small plane drops out of the sky into a shopping center. what led to this frightening crash. >> forget about please don't feed the bears. in one country, it's don't give the baboons alcohol. that's one of the stories making headlines around the world.

>> you're taking a live luke at capitol hill. welcome to al jazeera america. >> ahead in this half hour, a major south american country defaults on its debt, the role american hedge funds are playing in argentina's economy. >> recreational marijuana is

legal in washington state, so why is the black market thriving? we'll take you to people making big money outside of the law. >> are bad forensics putting innocent men and women in prison. we'll speak to a man convicted of murder and exonerated by d.n.a. >> ukraine's military will observe a day long pause in fighting in the east. kieving the temporary break to allow access to the crash site for malaysia airlines flight 17. >> ebola is a public health emergency. the peace corps is pulling hundreds of volunteers out of west africa. more than 670 people have died drop the outbreak. >> israel called up 16,000 reservists to help with it's offensive in gaza. another round of airstrikes killing five people. 59 israelis have died since that conflict ban.

james bays joins us live from jerusalem. prime minister benjamin netanyahu speaking just a short time ago. what are we gasolining now from his comments? >> well, you ever mounting criticism of israel, you have the u.s. president and the u.n. secretary general calling for an immediate ceasefire. the israeli foreign minister uncompromising. these were his words at the start of the cabinet meeting: >> i won't agree to any suggestion with or without a ceasefire that won't allow this operation to be finished for the security of israeli citizens. >> the u.n. continues to lash out -- >> those are the words of -- >> i was saying and we apologize, because there is a terrible satellite delay, but the u.n. continues to lash out

at israel over the latest attack. >> the latest comments come from the top human rights chief in the world. she's not only saying now that israeli has breached international law, she says it doesn't seem accidental that this has happened a number of times. she said israel is deliberately pursuing this policy, despite the criticism that has come from the u.n. secretary general. you heard the words of israeli's prime. it's clear that his main address is to the israeli people, rather than the international community. he's ignoring that mounting criticism and he knows, i think that the israeli public have high expectations, set by their politicians over the last few weeks. they want to see those ton themes destroyed. they want to see the rockets stopped and they've also been told by a number of israeli ministers that perhaps hamas can

be completely defeated. if you speak to people in the street, what i found is they want that, too. >> thank you very much. >> save the children says one in five of those killed in gaza are children. countless others, children, have been injured or forced to witness death and destruction up close. >> america tonight's producer spoke to one teen whose live tweets have bum the digital face of this conflict. >> ordinarily, this 16-year-old would have spent tuesday celebrating the holiday in gaza. >> i would be visiting my relatives or visiting my friends or going in the streets. >> instead, she huddled at home with family in the dark, live tweeting as israel bombs dropped nearby. >> they were bombing everywhere, so they could bomb our house any moment. the only sound we could hear was

bomb's people's houses and fire engines. the only light we can see is flares. >> she tried to comfort her sister. >> i told her don't worry, this is ok, we will not die, but she doesn't believe me. >> the shelling continued through the night and her tweets went viral, a minute by minute diary of a 16-year-old girl living amid war. >> i saw that many newspapers talked about shelling. that really scares me. >> her father, a doctor comes home with stories of wounded and dead. >> he says that he can't stand seeing people, that he sees them cut into pieces and full of blood and some of them are burned, so he says that he must -- he has to travel to enjoy his life after seeing what he sees. >> her life like that of her friends has been punctuated by

conflict. >> this is my third war that i have witnessed, but this is the worst one. >> even as the bombs continue to drop, she is keeping her eyes on one goal. >> i want to be a lawyer, because i want to bring some of our rights back. >> a professor and psychologist who has worked with children in many war zones including gas joins us from richmond, virginia verge this morning. professor, thanks for being with us. children in israel may also be living in fear of rocket attacks. as you can hear from our piece, in gaza, it is up close and personal. what cashing san francisco of gaza make the doses of violence children there experience to much greater? >> well, thank you, stephanie. first of all, the fact that they live in such crowding and can see everything that's happening. they not only have bombs

falling, but they have troops incurring and this is not as we just heard, an isolated situation. there was the operation iron cost, which had devastating psychological effects in 2007, 2008 and military incursions of 2012. what we're looking at is a situation of really chronic trauma and distress. some of the stresses have to do with every day things like as we heard not being able to go outside, not being able to mingle with friends, being deprived of education. things are getting so bleak that with the loss of life, loved once, destruction of schools and on going chronic poverty, there's a problem with finding hope. some children have remarkable resilience, others are completely overwhelmed and need

support. we knew from talking with the gaza community mental health program that there were well documented cases of post traumatic stress disorder. that led significant numbers of children to feel overwhelmed and to have nightmares and to be hyper vigilant. they would oftentimes avoid the places that were very dangerous. one of the things that really struck me was that the young women in particular, the teenaged girls said we have to be strong for our country, that is for palestine. we will now join the struggle in order to resist. what this means is is that people leave their traumas into their sense of victimhood and merge that into their social identity. >> it becomes a cycle of violence. >> yes. >> in essence is what you're

saying. >> yes, it becomes a warrant for revenge, a sense that the demonic other has done these horrible things and it becomes seen as something that is absolutely a requirement of you to answer for your people and your family. >> it goes beyond children. a study found a pregnant women who lived through the six day war in jerusalem in 1967 ended up giving birth to more babies with schizophrenia. even babies in the womb are being possibly negatively affected in these war zones. >> there is some preliminary evidence that the emotional state of the mother can have an affect on the hormones and development, physical, as well as psychological of the fetus, and we know very well through ecological studies of child development that it's really the child social environment and there's nothing more important than the mother-child bond.

the distress oftentimes gets communicated to children. this becomes part of on going narratives that get handed one generation to the next. what we're looking at is communal affects, as well as individual effects. these bode ill for peace. they mean you've got large numbers of people remembering and actually institutionalizing their trauma and then seeing that as something that requires retaliation and fighting. >> professor, we so appreciate your perspective this morning, thank you. >> we will have continuing coverage of the conflict in our next hour, including a live report from nick schiffron who continues to report from gaza. >> frightening plane crash in san diego at a shopping center. the pilot was practicing touch and go landings when her small

plane hit the top of a target store are and hit the parking lot and burst into flames. the pilot survived, a passenger was killed. >> a sky diving accident that killed a corrections officer, his instructor seriously injured. the parachoose was open when the two men crashed. the officer has not been identified. the head of the union said this would have been the man's birthday. >> 6050 people are now going off the g.m. in court over crashes linked to faulty ignition switches, calling g.m. to recall thousands of cars. power to the vehicle can be cut. g.m. established a compensation fund but many clients don't qualify for it, so are suing g.m. instead. >> they limited the plan to the very first recall, which is very small, you know, about 2.5 million vehicles, but they did not allow the injured or deceased victims of the subsequent recalls to go into the plan.

>> g.m. is not commenting on the lawsuit, but in a statement the company spokesman said g.m. wants to do the right thing for people who were injured or lost a loved one because of the faulty ignition switches. >> johnson and johnson is telling doctors to stop using a controversial medical device used to remove fibroids in women, but linked to the spread of cancer. the f.d.a. urged doctors not to use the device and is considering banning the device. >> argentina's finance in a state of flux, both sides failing to come to an agreement overnight, sending argentina into its second default in 13 years. >> the country must pay back wall street investors. we look at how argentina landed in this financial mess. >> the current crisis dates back 13 years to the last time the country defaulted. in 2001, the streets of buenos

aires had demonstrators protesting high prices and massive unemployment. with a stalled economy and drowning in foreign debt, argentina couldn't make payments. rather than walk away empty handed, a majority of creditors agreed to exchange that now defaulted debt for new bonds. known as exchange bond holders, this group agreed to payments of roughly 25 cents on the dollar, but a small group of investors refused that offer, led by new york hedge fund nml capital, these so-called vulture investors sued argentina for repayment in full. the outstanding debt, $1.3 billion plus interest. in 2012, new york district court judge thomas grisa ruled argentina could not continue discounted payments to bond holders without paying the hedge funds in full. the u.s. supreme court upheld that ruling in june, but

argentina said it can't voluntarily offer a better deal to the hedge funds without making the same offer to all bond holders. under this scenario, the payout balloons by roughly $29 billion. legally blocked from making payments to exchange bond holders, argentina insists it can't be blamed. >> the currency has taken a hit, the peso has fallen 25 cents against the dollar this year. >> a hair raising heist in houston, a group of thieves driving their truck through the front door of the building, making off with thousands of dollars worth of hair. expensive weaves and wigs generate cash on line. police are trying to find the culprits with surveillance video. >> let's take a look at other headlines making news around the world. nba hall of famer charles barkley offering to pay for funeral expenses of three children killed in a

philadelphia carjacking. the new york daily news said his generosity that sparked a flow of generosity nationwide. this was a terrible story out of philadelphia where these kids and their mother were raising money for their church and an s.u.v. plowed right in, charles barkley wanted this to remain anonymous. >> the washington redskins launching a new p.r. campaign defending the team's name. the on line effort is led by alumni who traveled to a native american reservation in montana this week. it's led by gary clark and mark mosley among others. they say they're proud of the name and believe they built up a good reputation during the years they played with the team and that should offset what the american tribes are saying that the name is a negative. >> part of a larger p.r. effort

paid for by the team. >> this kind of a fun story. kenya wildlife service issuing a warning to travelers, don't give the baboons alcohol. the daily nation said it's a risk to motor wrists as the animals can become violent and have in fact. the residents in that town have been complaining about these baboons being a real menace in the town and apparently think it's because people are stopping by the side of the road and giving them beer or local alcohol drinks. >> recreational marijuana now legal in washington. >> a black market business is actually still thriving. >> the prosecution resting in a racially charged shooting trial in detroit. we'll dissect the case and ask what the defense needs to do if they want to get an acquittal.

>> living in isolation for years in brazil's remote amazon, researchers made contact with an indigenous tribe. details ahead in our discovery of the day. >> the only thing curious city did for this pooch, ok. he's embarrassed, very embarrassed. how he was freed from this predictionment and the irony of this puppy's name. are

you on? borderland, sunday at 9 eastern, only on al jazeera america. >> the latest now on a case we've followed here on aljazeera america, the defense making its case at the trial of that michigan man who shot and killed an unarmed 19-year-old girl on his porch. the prosecution resting its case on wednesday and the first witness for the defendant, theodore wafer, a forensic pathologist focuses on the victims drinking. she knocked on wafers door in the middle of the night. the defense maintains that

mcbride threatened wafer and he acted out of self defense. our legal cricketer here, jami floyd joins us. lets talk about that witness, this drinking. big deal or no deal at all? >> they brought in the lead medical examiner in this county, wayne county. he's nationally renowned, he's been in so many cases that i've covered in my career, and now testifies mostly for the defense. he's here not just to testify about her drinking as you said, but the defense had wanted him to testify about this thing we talked about earlier in the case, sudden fear. the judge has limited his testimony -- >> let's put that on the table. 19-year-old girl, even if drunk, does that rise to the level of sudden fear, pull my begun, shoot through the door? >> what the judge has said he can do is testify in a very limited fashion about how much he had to drink, because we have

her blood alcohol level and what that might have done to her behavior at the door. not everything she did that night, but how she might have behaved at the door. it should be noted that the prosecutor's medical examiner, who's currently in the office and examined the body and assistant medical examiner refused to testify about her behavior said you have to talk to the people who lot saw her life. i'm not going to speculate about this woman's demeanor. >> did they make their case for murder or leave an opening case for the defense? >> they made an excellent case, vermetteed tical, specific, and it's actually a quite easy case for them. this is a hard case for the defense and it's made hard bay defendant who has essentially put forward to defenses. on the night of the incident, he told police this was an accident but now is claiming self defense and those are two inconsistent theories. self defense is i know i shot

this person, i in tended to shoot this pepper because i was afraid. that's very different than saying this was an accident. the defense has a hard way to go. >> you maintain theodore wafer will probably take the stand. >> he's got to. >> in his own defense. is that a gamble? >> any time you put your client on the stand, it is a huge gamble. we rarely see it. when it is a self defense case, there is only one person who can tell you i was afraid, i had no choice, i thought i was going to die, and had to pull the trigger, and that person is the defendant. he's got no choice but to take the witness stand in this case and i predict we will see him on the stand before this case is over. >> we thank you for being with us. >> it's my pleasure. >> another trial, we're tracking, the government's key witness expected in the trial of virginia's former governor. johnny williams told jurors wednesday that he gave bob mcdonald and his wife cash and gifts. he said maureen mcdonald asked

for $65,000 in exchange for helping his dietary suppplements company. mcdonalds deny the accusations. >> recreational marijuana stores are legal and open for business in the state of washington. that hasn't slowed street sales. we looked at how business is coming along. >> meet ben. >> the big ben jamming. >> ben jamming. he agreed to take us for a right and what a right. >> so i've been repeating cars to get delivers made. tonight, i happened to have a limo. >> he's not worried. >> sell it in the black market is not legal. >> we watch as he sells pot on downtown street corners. >> fifth and pike in like a couple of minutes. >> door to door in residential neighborhoods. >> the client that i just visited bought a substantial

amount of the gummies, the edible t.h.c. >> in university district parking lots. >> quarter ounce of the berry. >> you don't think your business is going to go away. >> if anything, it might increase a little bit. >> if he is the little guy, this is seattle's corporate giant of black market marijuana. >> all right, have a good day. >> working a busy production line and dispatchers taking up to 600 calls a day. >> a dozen plus drivers at any given time, probably as many as 16 or so. >> they drive their own cars like the pizza guys do? >> yep. >> where do you go in the city. >> we shift them around. >> employees take animal names, this is jackrabbit making rounds. customers have to prove they're 20 an and say they get medical benefits from pot. >> it's a very high a.t.f.

>> the companies slick website there is, but advertisement says there's not. >> do you get in any trouble from seattle police? >> no. >> s.p.d. made it clear selling pot outside the law is a felony, but they make it just as clear they won't investigate these businesses unless there are complaints. >> i'm not a scall lour nor a lawmaker, but you are what we used to call a drug dealer. >> i suppose. >> you can browse the free weeklies for delivery services, some medical, some just selling we'd. you can find ben on facebook with his daily menu. >> i sold $400 worth of product tonight. >> for the small sellers and the big, business is good, seven figures good, says the boss at winter life. >> we are definitely a

profitable country. >> did you sit down at any point and write out a business plan for this business? >> i've been meaning to do that. >> now i have to go and buy some more pot from one of my couriers. >> seattle police have reassigned an officers because of excessive marijuana citations. one officer handed out 66 of the 83 tickets given for public marijuana use. >> ben jamming. >> that's his name. >> nicole mitchell, i don't know how we make this transition, nicole, let's get the weather green not touching it. we're going to see through the south, we already had the one boundary move, now an area of low pressure that's fairly slow moving will dump a decent amount of rain, and still that monsoon flow. four corners, watch for sporadic

flooding. i want to mention the broad picture in the atlantic. we've been watching it since it rolled off of africa, could be favored for development over the next ewe days. so far, this tropical season, we're rung slightly blow average. really starts to pick up. >> you just jinxed it, by the way. >> she didn't refer to it as a high pressure. >> final for our discovery of the day. producer saying move on. an isolated amazon tribe meeting members of the outside world. >> this video released showing a man in shorts giving bananas to two natives emerging from the forest wearing loin cloths. >> researchers have been watching this group since 2008 but just made contact last month. >> they say the group may have come from peru. there may be 70 uncontacted tribes in the amazon. >> you might want to call this a tight spot, an arizona pooch

letting his curiosity getting the better of him trying to see what was on the other side of this prick fence. the dog's name is chip. he spent the night with his head in the whole. firefighters had to chip chip away just to get him free. he was shaken, but no worse for wear. he was reunited with his owner who had no idea he'd been stuck. >> happened to me once. the house of representatives approves a lawsuit against president obama. republicans claim he is overstepping his authority. >> airstrikes overnight struck a mosque in gaza that is scoring weapons. israel is calling up 16,000 reservists. >> sierra leone declares a public health emergency because of a deadly ebola outbreak. hundreds of american volunteers are pulled out of the peace corps in africa. we talk about how u.s.

intelligence missed a return home. >> derek jeter getting a surprise from the former commander-in-chief, honoring the all-star wrapping up his final season. >> back in just two minutes with more aljazeera morning news. see you then. >> welcome to al jazeera america. >> stories that impact the world, affect the nation and touch your life. >> i'm back. i'm not going anywhere this time. >> only on al jazeera america.

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shades of gray racking up more than 36 million views in less than a week. >> and it is battle between presidential power and congressional oversight. good morning and welcome to al jazeera america. i'm del walters. >> i'm stephanie sy. in a vote divided along party lines, the house authorized a lawsuit against president obama. >> house republicans say he overstepped his constitutional powers during the rollout of the affordable care act. >> it is called an election year stunt and the first step before impeachment. lisa stark joins us. what happens next? >> there's no time table for when this lawsuit might get filed. it may not happen before the mid term elections. if the courts decide to hear it, it could drag on for years. still the debate over this bill was as bitter as the partisan divide. >> the resolution is adopted. the motion to reconsider is laid

upon the table. >> the house vote was along party lines. not a single democratic approved it, only five republicans voted against it. the legislation excuses president obama of exceeding the boundaries of his constitutional authority. republicans believe the strongest example of that is the president's move to delay parts of his signature legislation, the affordable care act. republicans have been fight to go overturn that legislation ever since it took effect. >> are you willing to let any president choose what laws to execute and what laws to change? are you willing to let anyone tear apart what our founders have built. >> the gop also considers the president's recent flurry of executive decisions a power grab, saying the lawsuit is necessary to keep a checks and balances system in place. democrats call it a costly distraction. >> when the do nothing republican congress finally decided to do something, it's suing the president for doing

his job when they refused to do theirs. >> as congress heads into its five week summer recess, democrats suggest the lawsuit is simply a way for the gop to rally conservatives ahead of the mid term election. >> the base of the republican party that tried to defeat president obama in 2012 voted against him in 2008 and disagreed with him on the issues think this is what's available to them. it is wrong. it is a waste of time. it is a waste of money. >> president obama addressed the lawsuit at an event in kansas, calling it a political stunt. >> they're mad because i'm doing my job. and by the way, i told them, i said i'd be happy to do it with you, so the only reason i'm doing it on my own is because you don't do anything. >> the legislation is technically based on a move by the president to delay part of the affordable care act known as obamacare to delay a mandate

that small businesses provide insurance for their employees or face a fine. really, this is a much larger question about the role of congress and the role of president and whether mr. obama has overstepped his bounds by some of the actions he's taken. >> and now a question of how the courts play into it, as well. lisa, is this unprecedented, this action by speaker boehner? >> there has been some individual members of congress who have sued presidents. those lawsuits have been pretty much tossed out. in 2008, then president bush was sued by the democratically controlled house because he wasn't complying with subpoenas for white house officials, they were trying to get white house officials to testify. the lawsuit ultimately was never decided because congress and the white house came to an agreement on their own. >> another wave of airstrikes hitting targets in gaza, including a mosque.

this is as israel's military have called up 16,000 more reservist the. prime minister benjamin netanyahu saying there will be no ceasefire until hamas tunnels have been destroyed. nick schiffron joins us live from gaza. will bending knelt's comments have any effect on the ongoing conflict? >> not only about benjamin netanyahu say he would wait for any ceasefire to be handed to him and wouldn't consider one that wouldn't allow the tunnel mission to continue, but that they would continue the tunnel mission regardless of whether there was a ceasefire or not. he is indicating that they want to finish this job. for the first time since this conflict began, we are having israel officials saying that they are actually only a couple of days away from eliminating all those titles. israel officials tell me they've gone through 40 or 50 of them.

they think there's between 60 or 70 but they are getting much faster as finding and destroying them. if that is the case, israeli officials, according to the u.s. officials i'm talking to might be much more interested or willing in considering a ceasefire proposal if and when those tunnels are destroyed. up until now, we've been saying those tunnels would take weeks to destroy. you might see the movement on the diplomatic effort at the same time. >> but at the same time, we're talking about calling up more reservists. do we have any idea how israel plans to use these additional troops? >> yeah, these are 16,000 reservists. an israel official tells me this is not about increasing the presence inside gas or increasing the ground offensive. this is about relieving some of the reservists who are currently on the border. anytime you add to the number of reservists, you are increasing the capacity of any military to increase their movements, and so yes, there is the capacity,

there is the ability now for the israel military to take that much more steps into gaza to send that many more troops into gas. israeli officials say that is not the plan for now, the plan is to relieve reservists that are already there. >> nick, thank you very much. >> the u.s. on wednesday revealed it had sent ammunition to israel despite white house calls for a ceasefire. the department of defense said israel requested additional ammunition on july 20. they accepted the request on july 23, saying the u.s. is obligated under past agreements to help develop and maintain israeli's self defense capability. >> the c.i.a. under fire for its post 9/11 interrogation and detention tactics. the agency hid its program from top u.s. officials including then secretary of state colin powell. some ambassadors who knew about the practices were told not to tell superiors at state departments. >> we are learning new details about an american suicide bomber

who struck in syria in may. >> it's reported that the florida man returned to the u.s. for months after training with syrian militants. we have the details now. >> the man we're talking about grew up in florida and became a suicide bomber in syria. what american officials did not know is that the young man was on u.s. soil for months after being trained by a syrian rebel group. he remained under the radar before returning to syria where he carried out the dead will i attack. you tube video surfaced this week showing the 22-year-old man ripping up and burning his u.s. pat port. he speaks out against the syrian government and rails against america, as well, saying he lived here and was never happy. >> america and their troops, china and all their troops, russia, nato, everyone have gone into lands and killed many

muslims. >> then he gets emotional as he seems to say goodbye to his mother. >> mother, i love -- i love you, mom. stay strong. >> he drove a truck load of explosives into a restaurant in syria in may. it is unclear how many people died in the blast. >> we'll be talking with retired army major mike lyons about how the man was able to return to the u.s. after training with syrian militants. >> the ebola outbreak is a public health emergency in sierra leone. >> there are worries more americans may have been exposed in west africa. >> as the virus spreads, the peace corps i is pulling hundreds of volunteers from west africa. it's quarantined two workers

after they came in contact with a man who later died from the virus. these volunteers are not symptomatic, but under observation. that could last up to three weeks. africa is facing its worst ebola outbreak ever, 670 people have been killed since march. there are fears the disease could spread, but u.s. officials say america i guess not at risk. >> people should realize that the risk of an outbreak of ebola in the united states is exceedingly unlikely and rare in part because of the infrastructure that we have for good infection control. >> still, the centers for disease control issued an alert to all doctors, urging to watch for anyone who traveled to the region and shows signs of fever. >> if there is even a suspicion, there ever protocols for began teening those people and making sure they do not have ebola. >> in charlotte, north carolina, part of an emergency room was closed on tuesday after a traveler who had been in africa

recently arrived feeling ill. doctors say early tests showed the person had malaria. the ebola outbreak infected americans, a 40-year-old died after collapsing at an airport in nigeria, traveling from liberia. two missionaries in liberia were quarantined, both in serious condition after working with patients. aljazeera. >> liberia is taking serious measures to stop the spread of the virus, closing schools, telling government workers to stay home and cans celling soccer games. >> in detroit, an 8-year-old boy shot and killed sleeping in his own bed. he was in his room wednesday when the shots range out outside his home. one bullet tore through the upstairs window, another through the brick wall, hitting the boy. no arrests have been made. >> thousands of detroit residents are living without running water. >> the city is looking at ways to better handle customers

behind on their bills but say more homes could see their resources cut, as well. >> we are live in detroit. bisi, good morning. what's being done to help people with this? >> good morning to you. the church here behind me is one of several sites around the city that people can actually come to get free water. shut offs have been suspended now for about 10 days, but as you mentioned there are still a lot of people without service. this is an issue that has gotten attention nationally and internationally. it's also generated quite a few donations. >> outside this west side detroit church. ♪ ♪ donated water passed through the hands of volunteers. they are here in support of residents who have lost their water service. >> there are thousands of people in detroit that don't have water. >> still. >> still.

it's just unspeakable what's going on here. >> out roughly $90 million in unpaid bills in may, the city of detroit launched a massive shut off initiative to collect on delinquent water bills. residents with past do accounts saw their faucets dry up. it sparked outrage with the united nations calling the aggressive plan inhumane. the city issued a 15 day moratorium on the shutoffs. still, donations are pouring in. >> this delivery comes from west virginia, a state that earlier this year faced a water crisis of its own after a chemical spill. >> there's a different here. somebody made the decision we are going to cut tens of thousands of people in the middle of the summer from access to water. >> bill is with the west virginia organization called keeper of the mountains. the group collected donations and loaded this 27-foot box truck with water for an effort they call thirsty for justice. >> we felt like we know how to

do something here. we can get 1,000-gallons of water up there, and it's a drop in the bucket, maybe for today, if it inspires somebody else to go get another thousand and somebody after that to get another thousand, then maybe it had an impact. >> the bankrupt city's emergency manager handed the mayor authority over the water department. he is now working on a plan to better handle an issue that gained international attention for all the wrong reasons. >> i still don't think the people in the city have a clear idea where to go for help. we're going to make the communication more effective. >> until then, long time activist maureen taylor is thankful for the support. >> to come from west virginia and drive a truck with tons of water in it, and to come up here to help folks is a pure act of solidarity and an act of love. i think it's what america is.

this is what we are. >> according to the mayor, the 15 day suspension on water shut offs maybe on indefinite hold. >> the city has launched a campaign to basically educate residents on what their options are, and it's very interesting as all this is going through. we have a number of people coming in from out of state to provide help, but the mayor has also made it very clear that residents have to be responsible for their water bills and pay up. back to you. >> reporting from detroit, bisi, thank you. >> water woes of a different sort, a large part of the country dealing with stormy weather today, could result in flooding. >> two areas we're watching, toward the central portion of the country, we'll still have that man soon flow, colorado, especially in the afternoon hours, we'll see that kick up again. we also have a boundary, a low pressure area moving through the

south. this dumped the heavy rain in oklahoma, now moving a little bit more into arkansas and through the south over the next couple days. that's widespread, more rain and that cool weather from yesterday going away. this will be the core of it. moving into louisiana later in the day and spottier as we head westward. already this has moved through flood concern areas. we'll see that pop up during the course of the day. behind that is another area of low pressure that doesn't have moisture associated with it that is helping crank up temperatures that we've seen. as we get to the west. some excessive heat areas, parts of california, and arizona, 110 degrees, not out of the question for a few cities. >> the ukrainian army is vowing a pause in its on going fighting with pro-russian separatists as investigators try to get to the site of the malaysia airlines flight 17 jet crash.

we will discuss the hurdles that have hampered this investigation. >> being sent to prison for a crime you didn't commit. a man suffered such a fate and new d.n.a. evidence set him free. >> a drone shows a special visit from a pair of whales in the pacific. that video and others captured by citizen journalists from around the world.

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>> time for a look at videos captured by our citizen journalists around the world. this fire on a peer in england. officials believe it started at an arcade on the pier. >> heavy rains in romania are causing widespread flooding, killing at least two people so far. here you can see homes that have fallen into the water or are about to fall from the eroded ground. 15 people had to be rescued from an island. >> a drone help to go capture these whales coming to the surface off the coast of california. the captain of a nearby boat said the animals were likely in the area because there are large amounts of food there.

>> how did intelligence officials miss an american returning home after training in syria. >> a military truce in place where pro-russian separatists are fighting. >> dutch and australian investigators were able to reach the site for the first time in several days. meanwhile, in kiev, the ukrainian capitol, parliament has voted in favor of a much larger international mission, several hundred, perhaps at many as 700, including a large armed contingent with it, which would be dominated by australians and dutch to take charge of the crash site for a period of up to

one year while they were doing investigation and carrying out forensic studies and looking for the remains of dozens of people which are still missing. that's all very well to make is that sort of agreement in theory. in practice, this is a war zone, and going through the crash site, securing it on a daily basis is far from straight forward as we've seen in the struggles of the last week. >> mike lyons joins us to talk about the plane crash site as well as to syria, too. the ukrainian parliament this morning voted to law seven civil dutch and australian personnel into the crash site to protect it. should this have happened earlier? >> it should have. there's a disconnect between the military and government. the military should have secured

the area. they have been in ept. the ukraine government likely should have stepped in, made that requirement and at least give a chance to get that crash scene secured sooner. >> we are -- do the rebels have a green light to keep fighting? >> we've got to respond in kind. i'm not sure why we didn't go after those air defense missile systems. there was a red flag to have any civilian aircraft in that area when the malaysian aircraft was shot down. the ukraine government should have responded. there should have been something. i think right now, it's taken a long time, but the ukraine military starting to get it together and move these rebels back. the question is whether russia continues to support the rebel groups. >> "the new york times"

reporting this morning that an american suicide bomber, you might remember him, crashed a suicide truck filled with explosives into an area in syria. he spent months in home in the u.s. after he had received extremist training in syria. was this an intelligence blunder? was it an air security blunder? what happened here? >> the f.b.i., likely local officials dropped the ball, didn't connect the dots in that community's jargon there. it's easy for a young person to go overseas, to go to turkey, cross the border into syria, he gets lost under the radar. we lose track of people overseas, gets back through turkey, comes back to the united states again, doesn't give any i understand cases on the internet. at the end of the day, they should have had some i understand case. >> is this an indication that all of the n.s.a. spying we hear about is still not what people think. >> the lorne wolf jihadist terrorist remains the largest

threat on some level. the person can probably only do small damage, but create a tremendous amount of terror for people. this is a good example of someone flying below the radar, getting trained and coming back and allowing themselves to even go back to participate -- >> this has happened in recent years before. clearly had he wanted to, he might have been able to carry out an attack in this country. how big a threat is homegrown extremism to the u.s. given the conflicts overseas. >> we're exporting this as opposed to having it come back here. when people come back to the united states, they go on line, put a tweet or something on facebook, sending a red flag. once you're red flagged, everyone knows you're out there, the government knows and they're tracking you. >> i want you to clarify something. if one side is using civilians as human she'd as israel claims hamas is doing, from a military

standpoint, is that target on or off? >> it's off. even if you have to -- if you're a pilot, if you have to land an aircraft to see whether civilians are going to get hit, you do that. you cannot endanger the lives of civilians. israel has to be extra careful with civilians in the area of targets, regardless whether they are used for human shields or not. >> thank you this morning. in libya, rival militias declared a temporary ceasefire in tripoli, giving crews a chance to put out a raging fire burning at an airport fuel depot. france shut down its embassy in tripoli and is evacuating personnel. last week, the u.s. shut down its embassy there. >> hundreds trapped after a massive landslide in india, rains hampering rescue efforts today. an entire village was wiped out southeast of mumbai. 25 people have been killed, eight victims pulled out alive. more than 150 people are

believed to be trapped in the rocks and debris. >> let's look at temperatures we can expect across this nation today. nicole mitchell is back. >> that front that brought the cool air from the great lakes to the south and east coast start to go moderate a little more. fewer 60s this morning, a few more 70s, places like atlanta, 71 or new york at 70, still the 60's in the northern tier of the country. where we're going to see the heat is heading toward the west. it's not out of the question that we see it here, but even warmer than normal, some places interior, parts of california through oregon, well over 100 degrees today. that's going to really help exacerbate fire conditions, as well. into the day tomorrow, a lot more 80s as we get to the midwest. back to you guys. >> mike lyons was talking about the deadly shelling of a school in israel. the pentagon admits u.s. forces are giving israel some of the weapons its using. we'll have a live report from

jerusalem on israel's continued military offensive. >> thousands of criminal cases are coming into question over flawed forensic testimony by the f.b.i. one man exonerated after 15 years in prison tells us what needs to be done to stop false convictions. >> coming soon to a theater near you, the film version of theheimer sexual book 50 shades of gray, but will it get an r. rating. why having a big studio behind it may give it legs. >> a look at our images of the day, wild ponies swimming across the channel on virginia's eastern shore. so called salt water cowboys, chasing the herd across the channel is an annual tradition dating back to the 1800s.

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>> an american tonight investigative report >> i never would have thought this would happen to us >> athletes going for the gold >> i've had a lot of people ask me... why didn't you scream?... why didn't you yell?...kick... why didn't you go tell your mom? >> betrayed by those they believed in the most >> there's bad people out there in youth sports >> could this happen to your child? >> my sole purpose in coming forward, is to help change the culture of sports >> an america tonight investigative report only on al jazeera america >> a live look at gaza, where

israel's military operations continue. prime minister benjamin netanyahu saying there will be no ceasefire until the tunnels of hamas have been destroyed, calling up thousands of additional reservists. welcome to al jazeera america. i'm stephanie sy. >> i'm del walters. >> a palestinian america teenager seen on tape beaten by israel forces while visiting jerusalem set to testify in washington, d.c. tomorrow. we'll talk about his message he plans to delivery to lawmakers. >> we have heard of hands-free devices in the car. what about hands-free driving? >> a special gift that president george w. bush gave derek jeter for his final season. >> the white house wants israel to do more to prevent civilian deaths in gaza. the administration has been calling for a ceasefire. >> some of the tools israel has been using in its latest offensive are coming from the u.s. >> as the fighting rages, the

death toll climbs, the u.s. military has supplied the israel military with mortars and grenades to help it keep up the fight on gaza. israel has asked for even more weapons, but the u.s. won't say what those items are, or when decision munitions might be delivered. the obama administration is using its strongest diplomatic language to date, condemning the attack on a u.n. school, but it is not condemning israel. insisting that despite the u.n.'s own evidence, they don't know who is responsible for this. >> well, we do condemn the shelling of a school in gaza, killing an innocent palestinians, chewedding children and u.n. humanitarian workers, we would condemn those responsible for hiding weapons in the united nations facilities in gaza, as well. >> the united nations expressed less doubt about who is to blame. >> all available evidence points to israeli military than the

cause. nothing is more shameful than attacking sleeping children. >> the white house is quickly moving to help israel pay for and improve its so-called iron dome missile defense shield. it's on the verge of approving $225 million to be given immediately and an additional $620 million for next year. the obama administration calling for a ceasefire with words, but with weapons and with money, ensuring israel's ability to keep fighting. >> james bays joins us frow from jerusalem. good morning. what has been the reaction to the revelation that the u.s. sent more ammunition to israel this month? >> i think a lot of people have looked at this and looked at the timing of this, because the announcement of the pentagon came just hours after the shelling of that school. there is a very long term

defense relationship between two countries, it's $122 billion of military aid that has been given by the u.s. to israel. that figure would be higher if you addressed the historical figures for inflation. it's a two way trade, variances between these two countries, there are american hardware that goes to israel, also some exported back. sometimes you find that israel takes american hardware and then uses it, adapts it and exports it back to the u.s. >> u.s. officials are calling for an immediate ceasefire at the same time in gaza and demand that go israel take more precautions to prevent the many civilian casualties that we're see go there. how does israeli prime minister react to those concerns? >> well, you actually have right now the most important figures in the world, the u.s.

president, the u.n. secretary general, the u.n. security council all saying there must be an immediate ceasefire, yet prime minister netanyahu was uncompromising, saying i will not agree to any ceasefire deal that doesn't allow the military to continue their work destroying the tunnels and rockets. >> reporting from jerusalem, james, thank you. >> a palestinian teenager heads to capitol hill tomorrow. he was beaten by israeli soldiers. he is recovering now, but not forgetting. >> as the fighting rages, the death toll quickly climbs, the u.s. military confirms it has supplied the israeli military with mortars and grenade to say help it keep up the fight on gaza. israel has asked for even more weapons, but the u.s. won't say what those items are or when decision munitions might be

delivered. the obama administration is using its strongest diplomatic language -- >> that of course was not the right package. this is the story of the teenager who says that he was beaten by israel soldiers. when he returned from israel, he said he would never go back again and here is his story. >> back home safe and sound, he leads a prayer at his house in tampa. his wounds have healed now, but the family says what happened on a trip to see relatives in jerusalem is still a painful memory. his young cousin was burned to death in what palestinian said was retaliation for the deaths of three israel tine agers. tariq was arrested by security forces. his family says this video shows the teen being brutally beaten. he said he was blind folded and denied medical treatment. >> my ribs hurt a lot.

i had a fractured rib, so it hurts a lot. i have a lot of headaches. i'm always drowsy and my head hurts and i just feel like laying down and just going right to sleep. >> the video has led to demonstrations. tariq has been asked to speak to officials in washington, d.c., something the teenager said he is looking forward to. >> i will try my best to tell them what is happening over there and try my best to make them think about it, to make them think we're all humans, they don't deserve that. we should all have rights. >> the family said that without his status as an american citizen, things for tariq might have been very different. his friends and cousins are still in jail and the family refutes claims that he was resisted arrest or was involved in violence. >> he cares about his family a lot. it's not about himself, it's more about his family that live there, and here and he's just a very caring person, and wants to

make a difference. >> for any teenager, this amount of attention is unsettling, but tariq will strife to speak on behalf of palestinians and send a message of peace. >> i want to be a spokesperson for palestinian. i want to make a change. i want the people over there to understand that one day, it will stop. one day, that you're going to end up being happy one day, but with every to wait for that day. >> the u.s. state department is said to be shocked at tares treatment and called for a full investigation. this teenager is planning to go see his palestinian family in east jerusalem again soon. aljazeera, tampa, florida. >> tariq said no child, whether they are palestinian or israeli deserves to die. >> the death toll is up to six from a suicide bombing at a northern nigerian college. a female bomber dealt nailed explosives as students were checking their names on an admissions list.

this is the fourth time in a week a female bomber has been involved in attacks in the city. >> a clash in western china leaving 100 people dead or wounded, authorities saying a gang armed with knives and axes attacked a police station and government offices. dozens are dead. the home is home to the area -- is home to the country's minority. 67 people have been arrested. >> secretary of state john kerry is in india for the first talks with the new prime minister, hoping to put pressure on to accept new trade rules limiting how much food india could stockpile and subsidize. the world trade organization said the deal could provide a trillion dollar stimulus to the global economy. >> a $16.3 billion plan approved to fix long waiting times at v.a. hospitals. the bipartisan compromise provides more funding and new centers. senate leaders hope to vote on

the bill today before leaving for their august recess. >> a g.a.o. investigation finds it was poor planning that caused major problems for the health care.gough website. an administration spokesman said it is all right making improvements. >> the f.b.i. crime lab is said to ever mishandled hair samples. >> death row inmates could see convictions tossed out. there are no clear standards when it comes to crime scene science. >> forensic science is deeply flawed. in 2009, the national academies of science issued a scathing report that said the techniques for linking fingerprints, hair and other evidence to individuals had never been scientifically validated. it recommended creation of an independent federal research lab that sets national standards. that hasn't happened.

even cutting edge d.n.a. analysis hasn't been validated in rigorous open way that science otherwise demands. the f.b.i. which oversees the national d.n.a. database called codus does now allow it to be used by researchers or defense lawyers, only law enforcement and selectively. >> we wouldn't have access to it, but we would be able to send a known d.n.a. sample from a profile from a crime scene to the department of justice and they would be able to access it to see if it cross references with another sample. >> this woman says most d.n.a. samples submitted are incompletely. >> they are not robust. they're what we call partial, which means there's a lot of missing information, and conclusions are being drawn that someone matches based on these really marginal samples. >> here's now incomplete d.n.a.

can point to a wrong person. a profile consists of 13 locations mapped, but often, labs don't map that many because they only have partial samples or they save time or money testing fewer locations. even an exact d.n.a. match doesn't always identify the guilty party. investigators at the scene of a 2012 homicide in san jose, california discovered a stranger's d.n.a. on the deceased. running it through the state's database, they identified a former convict. but on the night in question, lucas anderson was here being treated for alcohol poisoning. how could his d.n.a. have made its way from the 4079 where he was unconscious to a murder scene? >> the ambulance that transported lucas from san jose to valley med to be treated for the alcohol intoxication was then the ambulance that responded to the homicide. that thing that goes on your

finger to measure oxygen levels was put on lucas's finger and when they got to the scene of the crime, put on the victim's finger and it was transmitted in that method. >> he did five months ever months of maximum solitaire confinement due to d.n.a. evidence put him at the scene of a crime he was nowhere near. >> we want to turn to jeffery, who served 16 and a half years behind bars for rape and murder. he was exonerated in 2006, even though he spent time behind bars through advanced d.n.a. testing. every case we've reviewed, 160 in all was found to include flawed forensic testimony from the f.b.i. involving microscopic hair matches. what does that say? >> that the justice system is broken and junk has led to many thousands of people wrongfully convicted. >> you served more than almost 17 years behind bars for a crime

you did not commit. d.n.a. evidence prove you had innocent. what needs to be done now to make sure what happens to you doesn't happen again? >> the reforms need to be enacted into law. we need to videotape investigations. we need a better system of public defense and the system needs to be willing to admit error when it has happened. >> lest we get ahead of ourselves and target there is another side of the story, how con are you that people say if they get it wrong the first time, they could get it wrong the second time and let the conviction stand? >> can you reask the question? >> in the case of evidence now coming out, some people say they got it wrong the first time, it was flawed f.b.i. evidence, but it's flawed evidence this time. how concerned are you that they may be getting it wrong with the new evidence presented? >> i'm really not concerned.

generally speaking when there's a retesting, it usually proves to be more accurate. the answer would be to have an independent lab, independent expert do it. >> the prisons are, and this maybe the understatement of owl time. the most common letter coming out of a prison begins with the sentence, this may be impossible to believe, but i am innocent. not everybody behind bars is innocent. how do you handle the backlog of those who claim in sense versus those who could be. >> you analyze the case carefully. look at what the evidence is, is it flawed or not and you go from there. >> is that one of the reasons you believe the courts and law enforcement have been reluctant to allow the defendants to review their cases, because a lot of them are not innocent? >> i think it has more to do with, i think that's an element of it, but it has more to do with the system not wanting to admit the error. you know, our system is the best in the world and we're not

making mistakes at the level that actually we're making them. there may be concerns as to the financial aspects of it. in terms of how many cases get reopened, if you have innocent people, if you have 1,000 innocent people that actually are innocent, you only want to let out half of them just for expediency, you would want every single person wrongfully in prison to be reds. >> 17 and a half years behind bars, thank you. >> thank you very much for having me. >> one of the most wanted men in the u.s. has now been caught. jose manuel garcia has been on the f.b.i.'s most wanted list since 2013. he's been on the run for seven years. he's accused of raping and killing a 26-year-old woman in a mobile home park in louisiana in 2008. this week, he surrendered to mexican authorities and now is back on u.s. soil. >> a guilty plea from a new jersey teenager who snuck to the top of one world trade center while still under construction. the 16-year-old is expected to serve 23 days of community

service. the teen got through a gap in a construction fence and used a combination of ladders, scaffolding, elevators and stairs to get to the top of the then unfinished tower in march. >> running back ray rice is ready to talk to discuss the incident in this video which got him suspended by the nfl. he is excused of hitting his then fiancee. he is caught on a camera dragging her out of a casino elevator. he will miss baltimores first two games of the season. >> it is one of the most highly anticipated films of 2014 and facing controversy. >> 50 shades of gray, and the way we rate movies. >> the future of automobiles, driverless cars set for the big test.

>> talk to al jazeera only on al jazeera america >> sunken treasure found offer the central florida coast.

a family diving discovers a gold necklace. it's 300 years old. it's the missing piece of a chain discovered at the wreckage 25 years ago. the ship sunk in 715. the necklace is the type worn by spanish priests to carry the communion. >> very controversial already, the battle over the movie adaptation of 50 shades of gray. >> a new study from educational lender sally may finds american families are relying less on student loans for college. they are using more of income and savings to pay tuition bills. the average family borrowed 22% have college costs, down from 27% a year ago. >> a popular messaging app could be one of the biggest byes ever. snap chat, the price tag could

be as high at $10 billion. snap chat lets you send a video or picture to friends. last year facebook put down an offer for $3 billion. >> a provocative editorial on aljazeera.com is taking the motion picture association of america to task arguing that the movie ratings are fixed. they benefit the studios. fifty shades of gray is said to be too risque. some call the subject matter pornographic. here to talk about it is the film editor for crave on line. he joins us from los angeles this morning. thanks so much for getting up early with us. fifty shades of gray for anyone who doesn't know is a best selling rerottic novel, whose movie adaptation promises to be as graphic as the book. what determines whether it gets an railroad rating or n.c.17

rating. >> the motion picture association of america determines that. the film is submitted once completed to that organization in which at that point, it is going to be looked over by about 10 people, all of whom are supposed to be parents with kids between the ages of 5-17, and they're supposed to judge the film based on its own context and decide if it's r. or n.c.17 rating. if the studio gets a rating it doesn't like, it is free to trim it down for a more friendly rating. this is the kind of movie i predict will be r rated in theaters and on video with a cut, advertise it too sexy for theaters, that sort of thing. >> what our editorial on line suggests is that it's not always about the content which rating the movies get and sometimes

it's about big movie studio politics. what are your thoughts on that? >> the motion picture association of america was founded by the big movie studios to sort of protect their interests in the market and also to the government, it was originally designed as a self regulatory system to prevent legal sensorship, prevent laws being on the books about what can or can't be in a movie. a lot of people accuse them of playing favorites. they take you into the organization, and they show you the many instances of hypocrisy in which a movie with a big studio behind it is given a much lighter rating than an independent film with smaller people behind it that had the exact same content. a movie produced by speilberg gets a p.g.13 while another gets an r. rating by someone you haven't heard of.

>> why is p.g.17 considered a death sentence anyway. >> original the duties only rating was an x rating. the x rating was never officially trademarked and began to be used by pornography. a lot of newspapers wouldn't carry advertising for an x-rated movie, a lot of movie theaters wouldn't show it and as a result, it became a financial death sentence. they tried to fix that trademarking the n.c.17. by that point, the damage had already been done and the they were seen -- >> playing favorites. >> midnight cowboy won best picture, that was an x rating, a clock work orange. >> talk about shades of gray when it comes to these ratings. more than 50 shades perhaps. thank you so much.

>> now for something completely different. driverless cars no longer a thing of the future already being tested in california. next year they'll hit the roads in britain as an experiment. we have more. >> machines that fly hundreds of people across the world in one go in one day? unimaginable a few hundred years ago, yet look how that turned out. technology's latest target, the roads. the premise of how a car is driven has never changed. you sit behind the wheel, control the pedals, steering and the experience. now, because we are told a revolution is coming, and the roads is the battle grounds. >> cars that drive themselves have been tested in the united states, singapore, germany, too. sweden gets them soon and in january, britain gives the green lights, testing them on public roads in the cities for the first time. >> once cars become fully independent and can exercise

control over speed and braking, that makes them potentially much safer and the really big step forward will be when they're linked with satellites to whole fleets of cars can be control and operate more efficiently. >> a range of technologies are employed to keep them on the road. millions of laser beams are fired every second to capture information about what is surrounding a vehicle. ultra sound and radar can also be used. cameras film images around the car to help identify roads to follow and objects which need to be avoided. g.p.s. is also used to track exactly where the car is and where it's going. it's high tech, all right, but is it safe? >> been knocked over twice since i've been here. >> as a cyclist. >> yeah. >> but you would still rather a human being was behind the wheel than a machine. >> yes. >> can you legislate for other cars pulling out in front of it

that quickly and will it be able to act and think and respond in the same way that we do? >> there's this new generation. >> privacy is another concern. cars with their own i.p. addresses mean journeys can be tracked, monitored, hacked. technology and the traditional way are at a crossroads, but wimp direction does the future lie in? aljazeera, london. >> >> the driverless technology still at the prototype stage. >> let's get another check of the weather now with nicole mitchell. >> a couple of places we're going to have to watch that rain, because we could have flood concerns. starting to pick up with the disturbance moving through the south dumping heavy rain and that monsoon rain in the four corners region, already getting saturated. disturbances coming across from africa, this has a high

probability of developing. my colleagues at the military with the reconnaissance are going out to check it and see if it has circulation today. >> you'll have to give us the inside information on what they get. >> president bush had a surprise for derek jeter last night in texas before the game between the rangers and yankees. the president gave derek jeter a fold of the two of them from the 2001 world series. the president threw out the first pitch that have game. it followed the 9/11 attacks when jeter famously told him not bounce it or he would get booed by the fans. he gave jeter a custom made pair of cowboy boots. he went 0-4 at-bat. >> he's going to be missed. >> ray rice speaking out for the first time about his well publicized domestic abuse. we'll tell you what he had to say about that and the controversial two game suspension from the league that some feel doesn't go nearly far enough. that's it for us here in new york. >> coming up, the latest on the

situation in gaza. >> have a great morning.

>> welcome to the news hour at aljazeera's headquarters in doha. no truce will stop us, israel threaten to say destroy cross border tunnels with or without a ceasefire. we'll speak live to the israeli prime minister's spokesman. >> running out of food, water and medical supplies. how much more fighting can the people of gaza take? >> sierra leone declares a state of emergency and sends in the army to enforce an