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>> deadly new fighting breaking out in gaza overnight just hours after the start of that three day humanitarien ceasefire. it appears that from this jail truce is close to collapse. >> an ebola patient is coming to the u.s. it has killed 700 people in africa. the steps taken to protect the american public. >> rain hampering the search for survivors. more than 100 people buried
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alive by a massive landslide that wiped out an entire village. >> anyone involved in any type of violence, my minister apologies go out to you. >> ray race apologizing after the nfl suspended him for a violent encounter with his then fiancee. the debate over whether the league is taking a strong enough stance against tommistic violence. >> the ceasefire in gaza appears to be faltering and aljazeera confirmed an israeli soldier has been captured. >> both sides agreed to a 72 hour pause, but israel says hamas violated the truce. >> overnight, palestinian officials say israeli tanks shelled, leaving 25 dead. >> first, ebola is coming to the u.s. an american aide r. aid worker is being flown to atlanta for treatment. >> the c.d.c. issuing its highest travel alert, warning
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americans to avoid guinea, liberia and sierra leone. >> has an ebola patient ever been brought to the u.s. before? >> never. according to the centers for disease control and prevention, a patient has never been brought to the u.s. or treated here in the u.s. although we don't know the i identity of this patient or patients, we do know their taking all the precautions and gearing up for that patient or patients to arrive in the coming days. watch this. >> the unidentified american will be brought to atlanta's emery hospital. the facility includes a state-of-the-art containment area built to isolated cases of the infectious disease. >> to ensheathes american humanitarien aid workers who are currently in africa can be returned to the u.s. in a way so
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they can have taxes modern medical facilities and technology that would allow them to get access to potentially life-saving aid. >> the c.d.c. is notifying health officials around the country on how to identify and isolate potential ebola patients. officials say americans should not be concerned about a widespread outbreak here. >> the half series and what not portrayed this as something that could easily spread and in effect a large number of people with a single introduction. that's just not the case. >> the only two americans currently sickened with ewheel are dr. kent brantley of texas, and aid worker nance of north carolina. they were treating victims in liberia, one of three countries at the heart of the outbreak. both are in grave but stable
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condition and her husband is there. dad's visits through a window, he's in a containment suit. >> before. brantley rejected the only dose of an experimental serum, giving it instead to his coworker. >> he's the type of christian people want to be and should be. >> the world health organization is pledging millions to fight the outbreak in africa. >> $100 million is needed to fund this response plan. >> the tatty rate in africa is 10%. the c.d.c. is a couple of blocks up the road from emery hospital. both the hospital and the c.d. ready and prepared for this patient or patients to arrive in the coming days. >> what makes the center at the
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university unique? >> it's one of four hospitals in the country that has the facilities to house someone with this sort of infectious disease. they have a certain air circulation system that allows the air to not go outside of the hospital. this not about air quality. it can't be transferred from person to person that in sense, only via human liquid. they said this is something they've been anticipating to happen here for the past few weeks. >> ms. brantley, the doctor's wife put out a statement yesterday saying that he is
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comfortable and at peace and that his faith in jesus christ is sustaining him now. >> the u.s. is warning travelers to stay away from the parts of africa affected by ebola >> the agency is sending first workers to the region to get the outbreak under control and issuing a travel warning to keep americans out of the affected area. >> we were concerned if you traveled there for a non-essential reason and had to go to the hospital, that might
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be a problem. >> a problem, because he says west african health facilities are overwhelmed and if someone needed medical attendance for another reason, he or she could catch ebola there. >> travelers from the infectious disease, ebola, also from the unstable security in the country because of the response to the outbreak. >> authorities in nearby countries like nigeria are taking precautions with incoming and outgoing flights. equipment is being installed in major international airports to screen suspected ebola cases. >> also ensuring that as soon as those passengers are ready to take off, we have lists of the manifests, which we look at and have professionals on the ground who look at passengers especially from areas that ebola infected. >> the feds are keeping a close eye on flights coming into the
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u.s. quarantine officers trained to spot sick passengers are in place at j.f.k. and new york and 19 other airports. if ebola is suspected, the patient will be immediately quarantined. >> stay with us, because in 10 minutes, we'll talk to an infectious disease expert about the risk of ebola and whether that patient should be moved to the u.s. >> the israeli military confirms that a ceasefire is over, and it will resume and has resumed full operations in gaza. overnight, palestinian officials say israeli tanks shelled the city of rafa hours after a truce began. dozens were killed in that attack. secretary of state john kerry and u.n. secretary ban ki-moon had happened this deal would hold while truce talks take place in cairo. >> this morning, a rare site in gaza, children playing outside, but just a couple hours into the
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72 hour humanitarien ceasefire, reports this morning that the truce is already unraveling. according to hamas, dozens were killed overnight by israel shelling after the truce went into effect. secretary of state john kerry had cautioned it was new time to celebrate. it's the opportunity to find a solution. president obama hopes all the parties will work diligently to do so. >> the israelis and a palestinian investigation including hamas were supposed to meet in cairo for formal talks to end the conflict. it's not clear now if that will happen. before this morning, hamas said it would abide by the ceasefire as long as the israelis did. >> if they did not act against the palestinians, it will be suspected.
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if they did anything in the ceasefire, there will be a reaction from the palestinian resistance. >> it has been a deadly week in gaza. an israeli air strike hitting this u.n. school where displaced families were sleeping. an explosion rocked this market and five israeli soldiers were killed onment gaza border yesterday. for gasses, the peace meant a chance to get food, water and other necessaries. it appear that opportunity may be short lived. >> we go to nick schiffron in gaza on the ground. he joins us by phone. that ceasefire over after just a few hours. what happened? >> it was over after less than 90 minutes. according to both sides, the other side has violated the ceasefire. let's take a look at both claims, very, very serious incidents on the southern bored pepper according to the israeli
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military, a soldier has been kidnapped, require, rather captured after a palestinian fighter came through one of the tunnels from gaza into israel and a suicide bomber was part of that attack against israeli soldiers, reportedly killing at least two israeli soldiers and capturing one of those israeli soldiers. at the same time or right around the same time, palestinian medical officials are saying that israeli strikes have killed dozens of palestinians and wounded as many as 200. so the violence is incredibly high right now. i can still hear the booms that are happening, that are coming from southern gaza, even though they are miles and miles away from me here in ga gaza city. this is some of the worst fighting that we've seen in the
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last few days. >> this ceasefire called by the u.n. and united states secretary of state john kerry, does this mean the diplomatic efforts scheduled to take place in cairo are now dead? >> not necessarily. the problem is that the location of this violence is actually preventing some of that diplomacy from happening, some of the officials from the palestinian groups that were supposed to go to cairo can't get there, because there is a huge fight right now on the egyptian-gaza border. that is where the soldier is suspected of being captured. for now, the diplomacy is on pause, but officials are saying they hope it will continue. the fear is that for the israeli military and military officials told me while the mission to destroy the tunnels continues and that mission was allowed under the ceasefire, this is a very different situation. this is a situation the israeli military is going to have a capture or recovery mission of
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one of its soldiers and when it does that, historically, the violence is very, very high. the israeli military really goes very strongly after the people it believed captured that soldier, so we will see an escalation for who knows how long until the israeli military knows whether that soldier is indeed captured or has been killed. >> nick schiffron, as always, stay safe. nick schiffron in gaza this morning. we'll talking to doug waxman about the ceasefire that has fallen apart and what is next in gaza. >> congress was supposed to recess this morning, but instead the house remains in session, speaker john boehner scrapped a vote on a $659 million immigration plan, pulling the plug at the last minute under pressure from tea party
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republicans. a senate immigration plan could not get pass past a procedural vote. let's go to washington. john, why did the speaker prevent yesterday's planned house vote? >> he had no choice, really, because the speaker has rather lost control of his republican caucus in the house, and boy, do these people like to bring things down to the if i have ninth minute of the 11th our, of course crossed into the midnight hour, because the house was supposed to leave for the long summer recess yesterday and they are still here. the story of yesterday was we were told there would be no vote on this emergency funding for the border crisis. then at 3:00, there was a behind closed doors meeting of the republican caucus. they said they would stay until they got to the point of a vote. we heard members were returned from the airport, including a busload headed out to get a plane to go tour the border area. overnight in washington, according to john boehner, they've been burning the
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midnight oil to get a measure that can be voted on sometime today or tomorrow. here's two republicans to tell you why it's important to go to all this effort. first from oklahoma and texas. >> sends the message that this administration has been unwilling to send, that if you come here illegally, you will be deported. >> no nation can survive that doesn't secure its borders and enforce its laws. >> it turns out ted cruz from texas had a hand in all this. wednesday night, he threw a beer and pizza party for conservatives, urging them not to vote in the measure yesterday. he did put forth his own ideas in the measure that presumably will come forward today. >> what reaction are we getting from speaker boehner's failure to get a vote? >> they had to convene the rules committee yesterday, who had to change the rules so they could
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meet today and potential lip at late as 6:00 tomorrow evening. texas governor rick perry has been weighing in overnight. he is very cross with the congress. we have a full framed graphic to explain what he's been saying. it's beyond belief, he says that congress is abandoning its post while our border crisis continues to create humanitarien suffering and criminal aliens still represent a clear threat. >> secretary of state john kerry wrapping up his trip to india, meeting with the prime minister today to discuss the relationship between india and the u.s. the obama administration using moody's election as a chance to bother ties with the country. the prime minister travels later to washington later this year to meet with obama. >> 10 more bodies pulled from the mud and debris in western
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india after a landslide. 100 people still trapped and feared dead, heavy rains making it difficult for the rescuers still on the scene. 51 people are confirmed dead. >> california is in a state of emergency, suffering from an unprecedented drought. >> let's go to nicole mitchell. the situation is actually worse than once thought. >> it's just expanding so quickly. we've known this drought is pretty bad for quite some time. as you look out there, this is a look at some of the scenes as we get to california, a lot of the reservoirs are in some cases record low levels out here. the reason this impacts everyone is because especially once you get into that central portion of california, this is a huge agriculture area, impacting food supplies. the state is pretty dry here, even though we have the monsoon flow bringing moisture to the four corners region. this is the drought, 35% for the exceptional, the highest
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category. in the course of the week, this has spread to central and northern california. the whole state was in a drought at the beginning of the year but not in an exceptional drought. now that we have over half the state covered in that, that's very significant. the reservoirs that i was talking about, the average level, we are half that in a lot of cases, so really starting to suffer there, started to fine people overusing water. hot and dry conditions not only contributing to the drought conditions, but we're starting to see more fires pop up from all of that, as well, so that's one of our concerns under the ongoing pattern here. >> the ground water taking a hilt as a result of this drought, as well. >> yes, very hard. >> a travel warning from the c.d.c., americans urged to stay out of countries hit by the ebola outbreak in africa. >> we'll talk to a doctor about the risk that have disease come got to u.s. >> two explosions rocking a city in taiwan, killing dozens,
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injuring hundreds. what investigators believe caused these deadly blasts. >> a group of good samaritans pulling survivors from this burning plane moments after it crashed. >> today's big number is $15 billion. >> that's what one company is willing to pay for a slice of the american cell phone market. can you hear me now?
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built for business. >> today's big number is $15 billion. >> that's the amount of money the french telecom company will pay for control of t mobile, getting a 56% stake. >> it values the rest of t mobile in the u.s. at $40.50 a share. t mobile is the fourth largest cell carrier in the u.s., in merger talks with sprint for six months. >> investors keeping an eye on the latest jobs numbers. wall street took a major tumble thursday, falling 2% on news of argentina's default on its debt. the decline wiped out all the
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declines for the july on the dow. we'll have the july jobs report coming up. we'll break drown the numbers. >> an ambush overnight in eastern ukraine left 10 government troops dead. pro-russian separatists attacked the troops in an area near the crash site of malaysia airlines flight 17. the crash site is located between the rebel strongholds in donetsk and luhants. >> this is an indication of the kinds of challenge ukrainian forces face in their attempt to retake lost territory in the eastern part of ukraine. they came under heavy attack by separatists. as you mentioned, very important location connects the cities, two strongholds separatists currently control. now, the ambush claimed the lives of 10 ukrainian soldiers.
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perhaps that will go up. pushing forward, they are trying to retake more territory but face heavy weaponry from the separatists. they do have airplanes and aircrafts flying in this area, but in the past few months, the separatists have shown they are able to take down aircraft belonging to the ukrainians, using man pad missiles. the ukrainians are trying to take donetsk, surrounding the city. there have been more tower attacks in the city, one mini bus hit just by the train station. one person died there and three were injured. >> the u.s. is saying that russia is supplying these heavy weapons to the separatists, we should mention. let's talk about the crash site. we hear a group of international inspectors have arrived. what's happening at the scene?
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>> for the first time, there are substantial numbers of international inspectors at the crash site, going over the sprawling area of remains and wreckage and going through it forensically, looking for any human remains, also trying to collect the possessions of the almost 300 people who died on the plane, and what they're trying to do now is focus on taking those remains possibly back for analysis trying to identify the people who died. they still haven't got to the part to investigate the debris and wreckage. they need far more people to do that and need at some point to take that wreckage back to europe or the netherlands and piece it back together. >> reporting from donetsk, thank you. >> as we have been reporting this morning, doctors in atlanta be getting ready for the arrival of a patient with ebola.
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the virus claimed 700 lives in africa. two americans working caring for the victims are already infected. the patient will be in america -- an american, there may be another patient, as well. we are joined by an infectious disease doctor, if you would, walk us through the evacuation. how does it work and how do you make sure others aren't infected in the process. >> sure. the patient or patients who are being evacuated or being put on a plane specially outfitted to minimize the risk of transmission to those on the plane, as well as the patients transported off the plane to the emery hospital. >> do we know whether there would be other passenger honest the plane? >> strictly medical if i as i says and then the flight crew, so this is not a plane that's really meant for commercial travelers or anything like that. >> there has been interesting reaction to this on twitter and that is to say at the very
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least, he writes: what is your reaction to that? >> appalled. these are two americans who went to help control the outbreak who have put their lives on the land. we have the ability here to prevent transmission to others. every hospital in the united states has infection control capacity. we isolate patients all the time, not with ebola, if you in flu season, patients have their separate rooms. we have gowns, gloves, masks, et cetera that developing countries don't have. >> is it because we are talking about ebola? we are talking about the disease that was the subject of a movie, and a back. is it that this particular disease incites so much fear in
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people? >> absolutely. that's part of what's happening on the ground there, a tremendous amount of fear, panic, stigma. that's part of the reason patients are being kept in hiding by families. that's worsening the situation. there's increased transmission to other relatives, and to health care workers as a result of this kind of stigma. >> right now, there is no cure for ebola, but one patient has been given an experimental drug. tell us about that drug. >> both have received something, so brantley received a unit of blood from a 14-year-old boy who has recovered from ebola that she helped treat. the doctor received the experimental sir rum. the idea is we don't know what protects against the disease, but somebody recovers, there's antibodies in their blood that might help protect somebody fight infection who's been exposed or infected. >> doctor, thanks for being with
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us this morning. coming up, we'll look at that outbreak in africa and how precautions are in place in this country to keep americans safe. >> a series of gas explosions killed 25 people in south taiwan. five of the dead were firefighters. witnesses recorded flames as high as 30 feet coming from beneath the streets. >> i saw victims laying on the ground after the explosion. they couldn't move. i assume the blast broke their legs. >> the exact cause of the gas explosions is not clear. some reports blame ruptured pipe lines. power was cut in the area, making it difficult for firefighters to search victims in the rubble. >> let's get a look at temperatures we might expect across the country today. >> meteorologist nicole mitchell is back. >> good morning. we will definitely get to that. i wanted to start off, though, we are having our next tropical storm moving through the island over the next couple of days. definitely could cause problems for the islands, but the pattern
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around the united states actually looks like this, we'll keep it offshore. something we'll have to monitor, not expected to develop past tropical storm strength because of some of this pattern and unfavorable conditions. certainly, this pattern also changing some weather for the east coast, including more humidity. i'll have all of that coming up. >> as we have been reporting, that ceasefire in gaza collapsing this morning. >> the risks there experienced by our own journalists. nick schiffron, just hundreds of feet away when an israeli air strike hits a hamas project. >> students in louisiana unclear what they will be learning when they go back to school. >> saving kodak, one of the
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>> you can sigh the smoke start to go clear from the latest missile strike in gaza. this is a live look. fighting erupted this morning just 90 minutes after a humanitarian ceasefire had begun. what this means for diplomatic efforts. welcome back. >> coming up, former president bill clinton saying he could ever stopped the attacks on september 11. he said he had the chance to kill osama bin laden but explains why he chose not to do it. >> ray rice apologizing for the arrest that got him suspended for two games. why some say the baltimore ravens apology is not enough. >> the announcement having a huge impact on wall street today. >> an american sickened by ebola in africa is going to be brought
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back to the u.s., treated at a high tech facility in atlanta. the c.d.c. warning americans to avoid track to the heart of the outbreak in liberia, sierra leone and guinea. >> the death toll is 51 in india from a landslide that wiped out an entire village. heavy rains are making it difficult fortress viewers. 100 people are still trapped and feared dead. >> the 72 hour humanitarian ceasefire in gaza over. israeli will resume military strikes in the area. the brief truce began at 1:00 a.m. eastern time. israel says it believes one of its soldiers may have been captured.
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>> it's more than just unease here, it's utter chaos and anguish. we talked about the humanitarian crisis here in gaza. this is the face of that crisis. this is the face of -- these are the face of the people caught up in this conflict. these are residents of the area that has seen some of the worst fighting since this conflict began. these people came here this morning a few hours ago because of the ceasefire to try to rereeve what they had left and in the hopes to return to their homes. just a few hours later, we're seeing a max exodus of people. these are internally displaced people, people who can no longer stay in their homes. most of their homes are rubble. they had a few hours to go back
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and salvage whatever belongings they had left. now here they are, even though they were told that it would be a 72 hour ceasefire, just a few hours later, they're all leaving. they don't want to get caught up in the violence. they don't want to lose their lives like the more than 1400 people who already have. they don't want to be injured, some critically like the more than 8,000 people who already have, and that's why they're fleeing. many will try to go back to the schools they were sheltering in but two of those schools were targeted by israeli she willings, killing well over two dozen people. many of these people are left with a very difficult dilemma. either they say here which has seen so much violence and destruction or they leave. for the thousands of people behind me, they are choosing to
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leave. >> doug waxman is co director of the middle east center for peace at northern university joining us from boston this morning. we have breaking developments out of gaza. an israeli soldier is confirmed captured in an operation the israelis say was a tunnel attack by hamas, including a suicide bomber. why is a ceasefire so difficult to achieve this time as opposed to 2012 when the u.s. was able to help broker a truce? >> part of it relies on the demands of both sides. from december's point of view, they are no longer willing to accept the formula of quiet for quiet, which was their initial demand at the beginning of this conflict and the demand that they made in 2012. now, israel is now insisting upon broader demilitarization of the gaza strip, preventing hamas' ability to rearm.
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their entire strategy in this conflict seems to be to get the international community to get israel to end its blockade of gaza an egypt to end its blockade have gaza. neither side is willing tag back on this. >> isn't part of the challenge as far as diplomacy that the alliances have changed in the middle east, and hamas no longer has egypt on its side. >> absolutely. in the past, we have egypt, which was able to act as something of a neutral intermediary. they had good relations under president morsi with hamas government in gaza, it also had relationship, no longer the case now. hamas doesn't trust egypt. egypt insists to continue to play this mediating role but doesn't have the relationship with hamas it once had.
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the only countries that do qatar and turkey don't have a good relationship with israel. there isn't a country that can work with both sides. secretary of state kerry has been trying but hasn't been able to bring the sides together. divisions among the arab world are making this harder this time around. >> does this continue, is this continuing violence an acknowledgment that efforts toward a two state solution are in essence dead? >> well, i think the efforts toward the two state solution have been in some ways dead even before this latest round of violence began. i think what the danger now particularly with the capture of this israeli soldier is that the israeli government will decide to now go all the way, take the gloves off so to speak. there's already been a lot of demands within prime minister netanyahu's cabinet for taking out and defeating hamas and
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reoccupy be the gaza strip. there's going to be increasing domestic pressure on prime minister netanyahu to do just that. if israel finds itself occupying the gaza strip, not only will the prospects for a two state solution be dead, but any process between the israelis and palestinians. >> this may be the understatement, since the start of the israeli-hamas conflict, nick schiffron that put himself in harm's way to bring us the latest. he witnessed a missile hitting in an open field 1,000 feet from his location, but last night, it got closer, take a look. >> here it comes. >> oh, [bleep]. [ explosion ] >> nick says that strike about 400 feet from his location, he says no one was injured. by the way, that is the third time that building was hit by israeli missiles. nick has seen that hamas rockets
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were fired from that location, making it a legitimate target. we want you to tune in for gaza, witness to war. it airs tonight at 11:00 p.m. eastern time. >> congress is in an uproar after the c.i.a. admitted spying on u.s. senators. after months of denials, the agency thursday said yes, it did hack into senate computers. the revelation was made during a congressional investigation into post 9/11 interrogation techniques. >> what disturbs me is a kind of attitude that seems to show up in both of these cases that the end justifies the means, and that's just unacceptable. >> senators are calling for the c.i.a. director to resign. he told congress in march there was no way the agency was spying on the senate. >> just hours before the september 11 attacks, bill
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clinton saying he could have killed bin laden. he is heard talking with business men in australia, the date, september 10, 2001. >> could ever killed him, but i would have had to killed innocent women and children and then i would have been no better than him, so i didn't do it. >> that opportunity clinton was talking about was back in 1998, when he was president. bin laden was wanted at the time for the bombings of two u.s. embassies in africa. the former president so far not talking about the audio release. >> apologize for that wrong video there. let's look at this. dramatic images from san diego as two women rush to help those inside a burning plane. taking video of the crash, he then ran over to help. >> i said we've got to get you out of here.
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she said my leg's broken really bad. i said i know that, but we've got to get you out of here. the seat behind you is on fire, i've got to spray the fire extinguisher. >> everybody was heartbroken when they heard the passenger they helped rescue died from her injuries. >> it is august 1, students getting ready tag back to school. in louisiana unclear just what they'll be how long. >> the political squabble over the common core is pitting the governor against parents and teachers. >> a little more than a week until her children go back to school, this mother is frustrated and worried with louisiana's education policies still in limbo. >> are they prepared? we're really affecting thor foundation. as a parent, i'm concerned about the foundation, is it laid out properly, are we going to have gaps and holes due to changes and a total uproar. >> hill is one of six parents and several teachers who have
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joined a lawsuit against louisiana governor bobby jindal, saying pulling out of common core standards has sown say i don't say into louisiana's education system. she worries that changing standards will leave teachers unprepared. >> they've had all these years to prepare one curriculum and now there's going to be this uproar and change. >> the governor is a potential presidential candidate in 2016, once a strong supporter of the math and english standards. in june, he announced he views common core as federal intrusion into local education, even though common core is not a federal program. it was developed by the national governor's association and state education officials from across the u.s. >> the term government would like to assert control of our educational system and rush implementation of a one size fits all set of standards that raises serious concerns. >> most school districts have vowed to move forward with common core, but jindal
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suspended state contracts with vendors who create the common core tests. it's unclear which tests will be used this upcoming year. the state school board, known as the board of elementary or secondary education joined in a lawsuit against the governor. >> louisiana has a constitution that gives our governor an awful lot of authority, but this is not part of that. he does not have the authority to go ahead and change substantive policy or influence what happens. >> jindal disagrees and filed a counter suit aimed at canceling a legal agreement louisiana signed adopting common core four years ago. a judge is set to hear the case august 18. >> i've been very positive for a correct decision ultimately will be for the kids. >> hill says by suing the governor, she's speaking up for other parents in louisiana who are tired of seeing politics get in the way of their children's education. jonathan martin, aljazeera, new
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orleans. >> no matter what happens in court, state officials say louisiana's common core agreement will likely expire this school year. >> the group in charge of developing those standards that run out of money. >> let's look at other headlines making news around the world. a ukrainian news website said pro-russian separatists aren't the only ones patrolling donetsk streets. satirical cutouts are popping up, courtesy of artists that are clearly trying to make a point of what they people is a take over of their town by pro-russian separatists. not subtle. >> not at all. >> track and field officials in germany reviving a debate over whether paraolympians have an advantage. they say a man is not allowed to compete, saying jumps made with
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his pros they got reich leg are similar to a natural leg, but others disagreed. >> it took pistorius years to compete, and now he is undertrial. >> hollywood hope to go preserve kodak moments. filmmakers are among those helping to extend the life of film. kodak struggled with bankruptcy, emerged out of bankruptcy, but a decline in the desire for film in the last 10 years and now they are standing behind this iconic brand. >> they say it gives the film a unique look. >> ray rice apologizes. >> i wanted to just apologize once again to any woman who's been involved in any domestic or anybody involved in any kind of violence, my sincere apologies go out to you. >> will an apology be enough?
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real understanding... >> where you scared when you hear the bombs? >> al jazeera america real... news... >> you're looking live at gaza where all is anything but calm, the ceasefire broken right after it began this morning. >> calling his a,s inexcusable, nfl star ray rice publicly apologized to his wife for their highly. ized abuse incident. >> he faced the media after suspension from two games. some say the punishment didn't go far enough. >> one thing that i wanted to do today was, you know, apologize to my wife. >> these are the images that got
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ray rice in trouble. video obtained by the celebrity website tmz shows him dragging his then fiancee out of an elevator in a casino in february. police say before that, the two hit each other. >> i wanted to just apologize once again to any woman who has been involved in any domestic or anybody who's been involved in any kind of violence. my sincere apologies go out to you. >> rice's public apology came a week after he was suspended for two games and find $58,000. commissioner roger goodell has said the league won't tolerate violence against with him. correctics say they have to do more. >> what they are saying to the community, to their fans is that it's quite all right for there to be instances of domestic violence and there will be no real penalty if you play for the nfl. >> an estimated one in every
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four women experiences domestic violence in her lifetime. more than 1 million women are physically assaulted by an intimate partner each year. most of these cases are never reported to the police. critics say athletes often face longer suspensions for stance abuse and violence on the field. ray rice said he felt he was being pushed every day. >> when my children google my name, it's not going to be how much touchdowns i made, it's going to be what happened. that's a punishment i to have deal with the rest of my life. >> he said he is seeing a counselor and when the time is right, he and his wife will try to help others suffering domestic violence. >> joining us is a former sports agent and professor of business at nyu and a former new york state judge and domestic
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violence prosecutor. the nfl suspending ray rice for two games for southing his wife while players with marijuana for four games. one player taking the field in the first game that rice has to sit out has been accused of rape. judge, i'll start with you. some say the nfl's punishment does not fit the crime in this case. >> absolutely does not. the nfl missed an opportunity to send a message to its thousands of employees, men and boys around the country and the world that violence against women will not be tolerated. they missed that opportunity in a very profound way. >> they missed it, but also missed it under the microscope with the entire world watching. does the league not get snit. >> i think it did. it sees this as a significant problem. unfortunately, the commissioner and league are bound by their own rules in collective bargaining and a sense of proportion at. he couldn't suspend rice, who received a non-criminal disposition in this case, whose wife was supportive of him in
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this case, he couldn't send a longer suspension just to send a message other the whole policy would be overturned. >> you're a judge and have been bound by sentencing guidelines before in your courtroom. judges often say i would love to throw the book at you, but i can't. this is the best i can do. should the league have said something along those lines concerning the ray rice punishment if it was not enough? >> first of all, i disagree that they were bound by collective bargaining not to mete out a different punishment. it states domestic violence is unacceptable and i believe the commissioner could of disciplined him in a more serious way and if he felt he was wrongly disciplined, he could have appealed. >> ray rice weighed in on his own punishment. lets take a listen. >> whether it was two games, four games, six games, eight games, i was going to own my actions and be a man about it and take whatever was given to me, but i don't have any control over the punishment given or what happened.
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>> in may, he gave another news conference with his wife at his side. she was his fiancee. she issued an apology. >> i do deeply regret the role i played in the incident that night but i am happy that we continued to work through it together and we are continuing -- >> as we listen to that continue, you've tried domestic abuse cases. you were surprised at her apology? >> not at all. it is not unusual for a victim of domestic violence to feel that she is somehow responsible. there is traumatic bonding, threats of intimidation and we understand that as experienced prosecutors and advocates. we know that this is not unique and that we have -- the actions have to be taken irrespective of what the victim has to say in terms of being sorry or thinking she is responsible. >> thanks for being with us this
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morning. >> a three-month-old baby in texas is recovering from a heart transplant. she became the youngest baby to have a heart transplant. she is doing well at at texas hospital where the surgery was performed. her mother is fighting breast cancer. >> i told the doctor, i said i have breast cancer, and i'm pregnant, i can't have a baby with a heart defect also. i didn't worry about my breast cancer anymore, honestly. all your thoughts being a mother go straight to the baby. >> she postponed her radiation treatment until after the birth and doctors say her prognosis is also very good. >> time to check the weather again with nicole mitchell, including who might be able to see rain heading into the weekend. >> unfortunately, it's not where we need it to the extreme west coast with the continuing fire
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danger. the monsoon flow will keep arizona and new mexico seeing flash floods from time to time, because so much rain, not everyone getting it. we've had that boundary across the south. that's start to go shove moisture northward now. the mid atlantic is going to be one of our spots. it's also changing that cooler, crisp pattern we've had from the great lakes to the northeast. those temperatures are nudging up, the humidity is starting to get back in. it is going to be stickier heading to the weekend. new york at 84 for today. that moisture that's more sparse today, much more widespread up the east coast getting into tomorrow. back to you guys. >> it is time for our discover of the day, involving kuzmic lensing. some galaxies are so large, their gravity bends, magnifies and distorts light from objects behind them. using hubble space telescope,
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the most distance galaxy displays this. it looks the way it looks 9.6 billion years ago. the light is from another gal see that goes back 10 billion years. >> the humanitarian ceasefire between israel and hamas is over. fighting erupted in gaza shortly after that truce began. >> an american aid worker with ebola is being moved to atlanta for treatment. it will be the first time the ebola virus has landed in the united states. >> congress putting off its summer recess after failing to pass legislation to deem with the surge of undocumented immigrants crossing the mexican border. >> married same sex couples face divers. we're going to look at why breaking up is so hard to do for them. we're 30 minutes away from one of the most important pieces of economic data, the monthly jobs report. we are going to break down the numbers. numbers.
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>> that ceasefire between israeli and hamas over this morning just hours after it began. dozens more are dead and an israeli says one of its soldiers may have been captured. >> an ebola patient is coming to the u.s. to be treated at an atlanta hospital as health officials take new steps to stop the virus from spreading. >> congress is furious after the
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c.i.a. admits it speed on members of the senate. >> the godfather of soul looking to be the king. an inside look at the new movie about a man that forever changed music, james brown. >> welcome to al jazeera america. i'm del walters. >> i'm stephanie sy. >> we're following two big stories this morning. for the first time ever, a patient infected with ebola will be coming to u.s. shores. >> an american aid worker set to be moved to atlanta for treatment, the c.d.c. telling americans to avoid travel to three african nations at the center of the outbreak. >> we begin in israel where the bombings resumed in gaza hours after a ceasefire began. >> dozens were killed in rafa and israel says one of its soldiers were captured. full military operations are underway again.
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nick schiffron joins us by phone. israel says it is resuming all military action in gaza. tell us what you are hearing and seeing right now. >> we heard an explosion of violence in the last couple hours following the collapse of the ceasefire, which seems to have been around 3:00 a.m. new york time. what happened according to the israeli military was one of its soldiers was captured by gazan fighters who came through a tunnel. that included one suicide bomber, willing multiple israeli soldiers and that is when that soldier was captured. when an israeli soldier is captured, the military no longer focuses on the tunnel mission. we talked about it so much, instead, it is a recovery mission, leading to so much violence and onslaught from the air and ground. it continues along the
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gaza-egyptian border. for palestinian officials, they say there was a lot of violence aimed at civilians, at least one tank shell landing in a big crowd in this same area. like you said, dozens wounded, as many as 200 wounded and dozens killed, so that ceasefire that the u.s. worked so hard on. it took john kerry 12 days to secure both sides for a three day ceasefire, ended in 90 minutes. >> part of the deal was that diplomacy would happen in cairo between the parties. what do we know about whether that is still happening? >> everyone wants to to continue, but logistically it's now impossible. representatives of the fighters here in gaza and representatives of hamas in gaza can't get to cairo. that capturing of that israeli soldier, that spike in violence happened onar very near the
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gaza, egypt border. it's closed. they cannot get to cairo. hopes to have a meeting today is definitely dead, u.s. officials hoping that eventually everyone can get a cairo so these discussions can take place. john kerry and his aids really needed some space on the ground, peace on the ground in order to come to a long term solution and it's anything but that. this is some of the violence in days. >> you, yourself had a close call last night. i want to show our hours. >> this video. >> nick, tell us what happened and what was going through your mind. >> this is our live shot location that we stood on for the last couple weeks every night, and that target, that building that you saw hit right there is a few hundred feet from me, and it's next to a field.
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from that field, we heard and seen palestinian rockets being fired. so, we've seen about three or four strikes on that field in the last week, and so that will give you a sense of how close the targets are to residential neighborhoods, commercial neighborhoods, and how close the rockets are kept to civilians, to normal people and of course, what we experienced last night is just a fraction of what so many gazes have experienced for the last three or four weeks, that the strikes from the a irby israel, some are 200-300-pound bombs. they rattle your spine and so many gazes have struggled with that for the past few weeks. >> we are reminded how densely populated that little strip of land is center. thank you for joining us this morning. tonight, we take you inside the israeli-gaza conflict, tune in for our special "gaza, witness
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to war" at 11:00 p.m. eastern. >> his reporting has been incredible. >> to our other top story, the egoaebola outbreak. >> an american aid worker was infected in west africa where 729 people have died since february. >> two americans working in liberia affected helping others with the disease. robert ray is in atlanta. do we know who is getting the treatment here in the u.s.? >> we can't confirm exactly who's coming here. the c.d.c. will not tell us that because of confidentiality reasons for the patients. we do know there is an american or americans on their way here to atlanta. we don't know when, they may be here today, tomorrow, not 100% sure of that. the c.d.c. said this is an
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unprecedented situation. no one has ever been treated for ebola in the united states of america and doctors, nurses and staff here at emery are preparing very much in high gear. watch this. >> the unidentified american will be brought to atlanta's emery hospital. the facility includes a state-of-the-art containment area built specifically for the disease. >> these humanitarian aid workers currently in africa can be returned to the u.s. in a way so they can have access to modern medical facilities and technology. >> the c.d.c. is notifying health officials around the country on identifying and isolating potential ebola patients. officials say americans should not be concerned about a widespread outbreak here. >> the movies have portrayed this as something that could easily spread and affect a large number of people with a single
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introduction. that's just not the case. >> the centers for disease control has also i should a travel warning, usuallying americans not to travel to the west african nations affected by the ebola outbreak. >> we were concerned if you traveled there for a non-essential reason and had to go to the hospital, that might be a problem. >> here at home, 20 international airs in the u.s., including j.f.k. in new york have staffed health care workers to screen passengers returning from overseas. the only two americans currently sickened with ebola are dr. kent brantley and aid worker nancy of north carolina. working at missionaries treat be ebola victims in liberia, one of the three countries at the heart of this outbreak. both are said to be in grave by stable condition, and isolated for mothers, her son said her
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father is there. >> dads visits are through a window at the home where she is isolated and he's in a containment suit. >> dr. brantley give the only dose of an experimental serum to his colleague. some are not surprised. >> he's the type of christian people want to be and should be. >> the world health organization is pledging millions of dollars to fight the outbreak in africa. >> $100 million is needed to fund this response plan. >> we should remind our viewers and anyone else that there is a 90% mortality rate with this ebola virus. there is no cure and no vaccine at this point. del. >> i want to show you a tweet, because a lot of citizens of the united states are very concerned about this. this is from david seaman,
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writing: why are officials in atlanta so confident they can keep this person isolated at the hospital? >> i understand the concerns from that person who tweeted, but here's the deal. the centers for disease control is just a few blocks up there, emery hospital is behind me. they are working in conjunction, built this isolation unit, one of four in the entire nation, the cdc and emery built this together. there is absolutely no risk to anyone here in the u.s. and atlanta to contract the ebola virus. remember, ebola is not like the flu or anything where if you sneeze or are sitting next to somebody on a bus you can get it. it's transmitted through human liquids and it's very hard to get, believe it or not. the people here are 100% sure they'll be able to isolate this person or persons here in the three bed facility behind me, which is on the first floor.
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the atlanta airport where they're likely to come into the country, they have their own containment center there, the c.d.c. has an isolation unit there, as well, nobody is at risk for the airport. >> many of the same fears when aids was in its in fancy. >> thank you very much. >> the leaders of three west african nations affected by the outbreak likely will not come to washington next week. a summit was scheduled to take place while the president of sierra leone said he will not be attending, the leaders of library and guinea are also expected to cancel. >> explosions rocking taiwan. it is believed a gas leak caused the blast. we have more. >> away inferno caused by one of the worst gas accidents. shops and homes went up in flames after explosions in taiwan's second largest city.
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emergency services had responded to reports of a gas leak a few hours earlier and were among those hit. security cameras caught this explosion. terrified people ran out into the street, some tried to help the injured. the military has sent 1400 soldiers to take part in the recovery effort. many lives were lost. the relatives of a firefighter killed came to the hospital after hearing the devastating news. >> six seriously injured people are being monitored in the intensive care unit, one suffered a fracture of the spine, the other a brain hemorrhage. >> this is what people saw in the morning. some said it looked like an earthquake hit. the force of the explosions became clear are in the daylight. >> i live nearby and i heard a loud explosion last night. i was shocked when i saw the street here. it was a mess. >> hundreds of people have
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evacuated from the affected areas. >> we have brought heavy equipment to search, and search dogs to search for the missing firefighters trapped under the debris. >> the government says it's likely the explosions were caused by a grand slam used in manufacturing. there are a number of petro chemical companies operating in the area. the gas company that supplies local households said its pipes were not affected. aljazeera. >> taiwan's economic minister said the pipe lines were carrying propane. so far, the company that controls them has not been identified. >> 51 people are now confirmed dead from a landslide in western india and heavy rains are hampering rescue efforts again today. ten more bodies pulled from the mud and debris there, about 100 people are still trapped and feared today. >> congress is supposed to be the key word being supposed to be away on its august recess this morning, but the house still in session. >> pressure from conservatives
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forced house speaker john boner to cancel a vote. >> a proposed immigration package didn't get past the procedural votes. we are joined live from washington. why did the speaker stop the house vote on immigration thursday? >> good morning. he had no choice, he didn't have the votes and knew it. the republican caucus is in turmoil in the house at the moment. the house was supposed to leave yesterday, they are still here today, may be here tomorrow. we were told there would be no vote on this emergency funding for the border cries. at 3:00, there was a behind closed doors meeting of the republican caucus. they said they would stay until they got to the point of a vote, members returned back from the airport, including a busload going to a plane to tour the
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border region. the caucus has been burning the midnight oil to come up with some kind of measure that they can vote on later today or tomorrow. here's two republicans to tell you why it's important to go all this way from oklahoma and texas. >> sends the message that this administration has been unwilling to send, that if you come here illegally, you will be deported. >> no nation can survive that doesn't secure its borders and enforce its laws. >> ted cruz from texas had a hand in this, a party for conservatives on wednesday, served beer and pizza, we are told, bill, how american that was, and the message was don't vote for the measure on the table. i've got some better proposals, listen to me and presumably those are now incorporated into what we may see a vote on later today. >> that put the senator at odds with the house. what has been the reaction to
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speaker boehner's inability to get a vote? >> they had to convene the rules committee to change the rules to the house could sit today. here's the texas governor, rick perry weighing in with a statement, saying: not mincing his words there. >> a din billion dollar bill to overhaul the v.a. is headed to the president's desk, the senate passing the measure thursday. the money will help vets get private care if they can't get points at v.a. facilities. more doctors will be hired and more than two dozen new clinics will open around the country. >> congress approving a $10 billion highway bill, the senate patting the measure thursday after rejecting it
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earlier in the week. it represents a cut for highways during the busy construction season. >> we're going to know how many jobs were created in july, the latest figures due out at 8:30. wall street keeping a close eye on those numbers, the dow fouling 2% on news of argentina's default on its debt. coming up, patricia will have the empty employment physician. >> california's drought has gone from bad to worse. >> let's bring in meteorologist nicole mitchell. >> definitely some critical situations here. the entire west coast, particularly california, you can see the dry flow. the earlier frames with more moisture is that monsoon flow and still moisture from that now. a lot of that, other than a few stray showers has missed california. we haven't been getting the benefit of that. last weekend, 35% to this
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weekend, almost 60%, that's exceptional drought, the highest category. the entire state is in drought. the start of the year, though, we didn't have the exceptional drought at all and then it seems expanding and has almost doubled in the last week because in part really warm temperatures helped dry everything out. this is what it's starting to look like in some of other reservoirs and we are at least half in many places of our average is what the current level is, so california has finally authorized start to go find people that are overusing the water or not using it appropriately. here's the flow over the next days, a ridge of high pressure keeps things hot and dry and those situations will continue, obviously it's leading to fires we've been having. >> no relief in sight, thank you. >> the c.i.a. under fire after it speed on congress, a report that has lawmakers walking for the director to step down. >> a new tape featuring former president bill clinton talking
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>> time now for a look at videos captured by citizen journalists around the world. a large fire in england at a power station. you can see the thick clouds of smoke rising as fire crews try to contain the blaze. no one was hurt. >> a fire in kiev, a makeshift monument for the demonstrators in independence square earlier this year. it featured tents who protested in clashes. >> it was an encounter of the adorable kind. awww. this is in finland, gliding along the countries coast, he came across this baby seal, who
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was crying. he said the animal warmed up to him and would not leave his side. >> that's about how slow i ski, too, by the way. >> you plod along like that baby seal? >> there have been calls for the c.i.a. director to resign now that he admitted he speed on lawmakers. >> >> another story. he could have killed osama bin laden in 1998. a new audio tape recorded a day before the september 11 attacks. in the tape, clinton is heard talking with a group of businessman in australia on september 10, 2001. >> could have killed him, but i would have had to destroy kandahar in afghanistan, and killed 300 innocent women and children and then i would have been no better than him, so i didn't do it. >> bin laden was wanted at the time for the bombings of two u.s. embassies in africa.
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the former president has not commented on the release of this audio. >> some members of congress still reeling this morning after the c.i.a. admitted it speed on u.s. senators. >> the agency seemed to flip the script on this. >> it certainly seems like that, because the agency denied it for months, but now admits it hacked into senate computers. this came out thursday, as part of an overall congressional investigation into post 9/11 interrogation techniques. the senate intelligence committee has been looking into the spying for months. back in march, john brennan insisted the agency was innocent. >> let me assure that you c.i.a. in no way was spying on the senate. >> some senators like dianne feinstein have been outspoken about the c.i.a. not telling the whole truth. >> i have grave concerns that the c.i.a.'s search may well
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have violated the separation of powers principles embodied in the united states constitution. >> who authorized the search? we need to know why they thought it was legal, and we need to know how that person is going to be held accountable. >> some senators now calling for brennan to resign or demanding he be fired. that five year long torture investigation is set to go released any day. >> thank you very much. >> edward snowden's temporary asylum in russia has run out. the permission to stay expired at midnight. snowden's lawyer told russian state media he has applied for an extension and his client plans to remain in russia until a decision is made. >> a senior judge in the u.k. opening a public inquiry into the death of a former k.g.b. agent in london. he died in november, 2006 after swallowing a rare radioactive
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isotope. he was a fires critic of vladimir putin. they found high concentrations in a tea pot at a london hotel where he had met with russian associates. >> more fighting overnight in eastern ukraine, an ambush left 21 troops dead. military officials say pro-russian separatists attacked the troops near the crash site of malaysia airlines flight 17. that crash site located between the rebel strong holds in donetsk and luhanst. what can you tell us about this latest attack? >> getting more information about it. it happened in a key town on the road. we are hearing that at least 21 ukrainian soldiers were killed in the ambush, 11 injured and 13 unaccounted for. this shows you the difficulties forces face in their fight to
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retake territories held by the pro-russian separatists. ukrainians are pushing ahead, taking more towns. there is still heavy fighting around the crash site of malaysia airlines flight 17. >> i understand the leader of the pro-russian rebels has been making a bold statement about the city you are in now. what is he saying? >> things are tense enough here in donetsk, but igor gerkin has said that this city and the surroundings are now under under siege, meaning they can confiscate cars, medical equipment, food and phones. this will lead to more fear here in donetsk. many have left, but those still here are going to worry about this latest statement.
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>> reporting from donetsk, thank you. >> we're following a developing story in the weather front, a tropical storm causing problems for folks in the caribbean. nicole mitchell joins us with more. >> bertha is not quite that ominous yet. here's tropical storm, pretty easy to pick out. it hasn't been in a very favorable area. we've watched this for days, finally was able to get enough conditions to move it along and upgrade it. i mentioned yesterday there is now hurricane hunter aircraft flying into these storms. one of the things they do is take different pieces of data. all the tracks that you just saw are different computer models and what they think the storm will do is going through parts of the islands and off the southeast coast. it doesn't look like a direct u.s. threat. we have high pressure, steering it along the backside. we also with the flow we've had
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coming off the united states, that kind of, if you can get a front coming off the united states, can serve as a shield for us. that is good news for us, but squally weather for the islands. >> thank you very much. >> an ebola patient will be coming to the u.s. for treatment, the first time that has ever happened. we will talk with a doctor who's traveled to africa about the dangers of evacuating someone with the deadly disease. >> that fragile truce between israel and hamas broken this morning, gaza rocked by violence. our james bays is live in west jerusalem with the very latest. >> we're awaiting the monthly jobs report, we will break down the numbers.
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welcome to al jazeera america. >> ahead, the u.s. warning travelers to stay away from parts of africa affected by ebola. we'll talk about what needs to be done to curb the epidemic. >> same-sex couples facing a new battle, this time to end their marriages. >> he told you to get on up, now the folks behind the new james brown flick hope you go out to the theaters. >> we begin on the serious topic, israel, where a 72 humanitarian ceasefire is over in gaza, israel resuming military strikes in the area, palestinian officials saying israeli troops she would rafa after the truce began. israeli said it took action because several of its soldiers were attacked. one has been captured. we have the latest. >> we've been speaking to sources and now have confirmed with the israeli military the name of the soldier who is
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unaccounted for, believed to have been taken captive. he is hada golden, 23 years old. we are getting more information of the israel military's account of what happened. they say that this happened about 9:30 local gaza time. that's about five and a half hours ago. they say that their troops were trying to decommission a tunnel. they say that when that happened, a suicide bomber, they say, emerged from the tunnel and detonated his explosive belt. when they tried to treat the casualties, that's when more palestinians, we're told by the israeli military, emerged and captured the soldier and took him away. >> another angel to this. officials say water short ones are becoming dire in gaza. we have that story.
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>> the mosque was hit by an air strike. beside the mosque is a drinking station. the air strike destroyed its generator and nobody comes here now. he takes it to his family nearby. 35 of them share this tiny space. >> we came from the bomb be. we found new room in the u.n. schools. how can we live with no water and no electricity? >> there are thousands of rooms like this in gaza where families have come together to try and seek shelter from the constant israeli bombardment. the conditions are poor, no electricity and no water. >> the israeli blockade means there isn't enough fuel to run water pumps. people are forced to rely on
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truck deliveries. he fills his truck at the water station. four drivers have been killed doing their job since the conflict began. >> i'm scared of driving because of the bombs, but i worry about the children and families who desperately need water. >> he stops and fills a water container by a shop. omar rushes out with his bucket. he takes his with his brother into the family home. his father shows us his kitchen. they haven't had electricity or water for four days. >> we can't live like this. last night, we left at 10:00 p.m. to find water under the bombs. there is nothing for the children to drink. we have many people in the house. >> there are 28 people living here, including a one-month-old. the women of the house didn't want to be filmed. he buys 200 liters of water
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every day for $7. before the conflict started, it was half that price. his brother-in-law said the duties in the house haven't showered for the last four days. >> we are living in a catastrophe. there's little to show that we are alive. there is no water, no power, dying would be better than this. >> donkey carts ferry water from home to home. i'm not afraid of the airstrikes, this boy tells me. everywhere you go in gaza, people crowd water trucks to fill containers. they are unsure when the next delivery will come. >> in some areas of gaza, the price of drinking water tripled this week. >> tonight, aljazeera takes you inside the israeli-gaza conflict. tune in for "gaza, witness to war" at 11:00 p.m. eastern. >> an important meeting today between secretary of state john kerry and the indian prime
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minister moody, discussing the relationship between two countries and a possible trade deal in the future. the prime minister will travel to washington later this year to meet with president obama. >> an american missionary feels abandoned by his government according to a pro north korean newspaper. he has been imprisoned in north korea for more than a year in failing heating. the christian missionary was arrested in 2012, convicted of trying to bring down the government through religious activities. he is serving 15 years hard children. >> as we have reported, the travel warning in effect for three west african nations affected by the ebola virus, americans recommended to cancel non-essential travel to three countries as an ebola patient is about to enter the united states for the very first time to be treated at emery hospital in atlanta. a senior fellow at fordham
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university who has made a a number of trips to africa to treat diseases there joins us. congressman of florida wants to ban all travel to the u.s. for citizens from liberia, seer leone and guinea and travel alert upped to level three. >> the congressman, this is low hanging fruit for him. his constituents don't think -- >> you think it's politics, not public health. >> i think he's going to look great if we have one case of ebola in the united states. it's very bad public health to do what he's recommending. but it's politically inexpensive. >> why are people so afraid of ebola and should they be? >> we're afraid of it because it's in movies and two people who have caught it wearing protective gear. the guy that discovered ebola who now runs the london school
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of tropical medicine said he would be confident sitting next to someone on a subway who had ebola. >> you have two doctors that have treated this, one now dead, the other in treatment. some argue if the doctors can't be protected, what about the public? >> the doctors can be protected, but are working under very, very conditions, dealing with lots of blood with high viral loads. they're doing it in 100 degrees. it's very easy to have breaches of protocol when you're understaffed, the suits very uncomfortable. if you had ebola sitting at this distance, i would be very, very unlikely to contract it. >> ebola patients have never been brought her for treatment. you point out there is a huge difference between an african hospital and an atlanta at a hospital. >> they are much more likely to survive if they are here, they
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will be better looked after. the process is very interesting. it's quite exciting to see these planes. it will have a tent in it, no air can escape from it. the people dealing with them will be wearing full protective suits and the patients barriered, as well. >> the world health organization announcing it is going to give $100 million in aid to the countries affected by this. should there be a concern? you've been on the ground, that this money might not reach the people who need it the most? >> because of corruption concerns? >> yes. >> i don't think so. these governments have a real incentive in controlling this disease and w.h.o. is pretty good as dispersing money. it's sub hair ran africa, there's an international interest in making sure this money is spent correctly. i wouldn't worry about that. >> thanks for being with us this morning. >> thank you. >> in colorado where recreational marijuana is legal,
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they're taking a look at pot edibles, foods like brownies and candy that have marijuana in them. there have been a number of accidental overdoses because the portion sizes are not clear. the new regulations would fix that. >> it's called the most significant change in food safety inspection in 60 years. operators are chicken processing plants will be able to do their own inspection honest birds looking for defects. the u.s. agricultural democratic said this will free inspectors to focus on salmonella. >> aljazeera has the monthly jobs report. >> what we have here is a mixed bag of a report. i'm going out on a limb to say even though the headline number is lower than expect is as, there's very encouraging signs. the headline, adding 209,000 jobs last month. slightly below the consensus estimate. economists were looking for 230
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those. the unemployment rate edged up to 2.6%, but edged up for the right reasons. the labor force participation rate increased to 62.9%. labor force participation measures the number of people who are working or who are actively looking for work, so its encouraging that we're having more people going back into that job market looking for jobs. it's a sign their encouraged they can find work. that's all good. >> average hourly wages is the discouraging thing in the report, only up by a% last month to $24.45 an hour. that is a sign of further slack in the market. >> quick question, how was wall street going to react this morning to the report? >> very interested, of course, because we had a big sell off yesterday, the market eraised it's gains for 2014, biggest sell your in the last six months. that was do in part to signs there was wage inflation. is a showed you, hourly wages
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inching up slowly. that might help cheer wall street. really they're worried about when the fed is going to raise interest rates. they're worried about standing on their own. >> one expert said this will become political issue, because if the jobs number was better, it would look good for democrats, it's not good for democrats or republicans, it's a mixed bag. >> it is a mixed bag. we have quality jobs, adding construction jobs, 22,000 and manufacturing jobs, 28,000. we got good quality jobs. >> thanks so much, good to see you. >> they faced an uphill battle for the right to marry. >> some same-sex couples are ending their unions. >> he packed in arena seats back in his day. the new bio pick on the life of james brown, looking to get people to move into their theater seats. theater seats. vés.
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>> you're looking live at gaza, where that ceasefire disappeared, broken 90 minutes after it began. >> a new film about james brown and his lasting legacy. >> first, a new study is linking birth control pills to increased risk for breast cancer. researchers say women who took contra septemberive pills are 50% more likely to contract breast cancer. low dose pills were not linked with an increase risk of breast cancer. the findings were published in the journal cancer research. >> same-sex marriage will wind up before the supreme court by
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2016. in an associate press interview, beginsberg does not think the issue will be ducked and promised if the case is presented, the justs will take it. two federal appeals court ruled same-sex marriage should be legal. >> a florida woman fighting for the right to dissolve her civil union. she said her partner of 12 years disappeared. >> we are in miami, where her legal case could make history. what is the latest with this story? >> like many relationships, this one did not end well. the woman said her excheated on her, broke up with her and moved out. now she says she doesn't know if her exis dead oh are alive. >> heather is stuck in a relationship she can't find. she doesn't need to see or speak to her former partner. she just wants her signature so
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their 2002 civil union in vermont can be dissolved. >> thank you that she would intentionally disappear so that you couldn't dissolve your civil union? >> i don't think she thought that far. i just think that who i was with and who left me were two different women. >>. it's been four years since she and her ex disappeared. she would have to move to vermont and establish residency for a year. she can't afford to up end her life. >> i feel like i have an invisible string that runs off my body and i would like to sever that.
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>> she hopes to be treated the same as another couple to dissolve the union. the state attorney general is expected to appeal. she already has appeals pending in two recent cases, challenging the state's gay marriage ban. >> an appeal is exactly what they want. >> we welcome that. we want the florida supreme court to decide this case and i am extremely confident that the florida supreme court when they get this case, they will declare that this ban is unconstitutional. i hope that what i do here today that ever lasting effects and moves florida forward in help to go protect all of its citizens.
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>> she felt compelled to pursue her legal case after the supreme court ruled last year that married same sex couples are entitled to the same federal benefits as straight couples. >> joining us live from miami, this morning, thank you very much. >> they're discuss the difficulties surrounding same sex differs is alan drexel. thanks for being with us. there are 31 states that don't recognize gay marriages or civil unions. what are the primary complications for same sex couples that want divers? >> the primary problem is basically. in those 31 other jurisdictions, they simply don't have the ability to divorce. they may go to a state that's legal, but return home to reside in another state, which bans
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marriage rights, and because their marriages aren't recognized legally, courts lack the power to make decisions. >> is that why people are watching this case closely? apparently the judge in her case said he is not going to grant the divers without addressing the constitutionality of the same-sex marriage ban. is that why people are looking at this so closely? could it lead to sort of a larger federal case in which the supreme court looks at it? >> well, i think it absolutely could be one of the cases that the supreme court looks at with interest, when as justice ginsburg predicted the court takes the case of same-sex marriage again within a year or are two. if the florida court finds that the right of equal protection or due process or the fundamental right to marry has been violated, that trend, the trend that that reflects, because remember, many courts now over
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the last year since the decision was issued are affecting gay marriage rights. >> was any of this unanticipated when states started legalizing gay marriage, that they would want to get divorced in certain cases? >> i don't think people gave that much thought. i always start when i talk to groups talking about the topic by saying that divorce is not romantic, not what people want to be thinking about when planning a wedding, but the right to legal divorce is one of the most important incidents of the right to marry. the right to have a systemic rules based breakup where a property is divided, issues of
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spousal support, child custody. >> that's part of the right of gay marriage. >> it's absolutely -- >> the other side of the coin, all right, thank you so much. >> break out the popcorn, the butter, it is time to toff a superstar, the brand new film about james brown hitting theaters today. the movie shows the singer getting down while breaking down racial barriers. >> these moves and grooves laid the foundation for pretty much every soul, rock and roll and hiphop song to follow. james brown "get on up" hits theaters this week. the film shines a spotlight on his chaotic life and revives memories of those who knew the godfather of soul. we spoke to one of the film's producers.
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>> i always thought the moves, he gave his best. >> he met brown in 1964 at an all star concert filmed in california. >> the rolling stones took the stage after brown. one of them later called it the biggest mistake of their career. brown wasn't going to let a bunch of kids steal a show from him. this may be the james brown most people know, but brown's contributions went well beyond music. he was also a prominent social and political figure. those who knew him best say that legacy is one that also should be celebrated. >> who is james brown? >> well, it's a difficult question to answer, because james brown had a lot of different personalities. >> filmmaker thomas hart, close friend of brown's produced the
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documentary "james brown, the man, the music and the message." >> he of course expressed himself best when he first on stage with the music, the band leader, the charisma, the style. off stage, he was a different guy. >> brown's influence on the black community is based on both words and deeds. as the 1960's wore on, brown became deeply involved in the civil rights movement. in 1968, after the assassination of dr. martin luther king, may years and even the president turned to brown for help. >> we're looking at when he stopped the riots in boston. >> that's right. it was a very dramatic time in his life and in the life of the nation. urban centers all around the country blew up in flames. >> this concert in boston took place the day after dr. king was killed. many urged brown to cancel it, but he insisted the show go on. it was put on t.v. and kept
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people at home, and off the streets. boston was spared. washington, d.c.'s u street corridor, historically black neighborhood wasn't as lucky as boston. it was the scene of intense rioting. then brown showed up. >> he came to washington, d.c. and did the same things by walking around the nation's capitol and telling people in the community to take the second thought, don't just react emotionally, don't destroy your community, rebuild your community. >> aljazeera, washington. >> they said they'd pay me $500 if i would do that scream. the lead actor who played brown spent two months thin to go dance. one day, he performed those leg splits 90 times. >> ouch. >> that will make you scream. >> absolutely.
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the boxing gloves that muhammed ali wore with his bout with joe frazier have sold at auction for $400,000. a bidder purchased the gloves in cleveland. the bout, held at new york's madison square gardens became known as the fight of the century. >> let's look at who will be in for wet weather this weekend with nicole mitchell. >> a couple places we've had it and it is on the move. more into the southwest, especially the four corners region, new mexico, you could see flash flooding under heavy storms. we've had a bit of a disturbance, the boundary moving up the coastline now, so the mid atlantic can look for more rain tomorrow. that is also surging the humidity northward. the cooler air in place through the south and east is going to start to nudge up places like
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new york city at 84 degrees. it's going to feel more humidity and more moisture makes it into the area tomorrow. if you want to blame the meteorologist for a rainy weekend, we do not control it. i'm doing one of those obstacle course races tomorrow. it's supposed to have a couple of muddy obstacles. >> you can't make it all about that? >> that's why i said i'm not participating, it's going to be wet. >> scientists think they know what caused those huge, gaping sink holes in northern siberia. a crater was 260 feet wide and since then, two new craters formed, including another one that big. this has people they're rising the end of the world, aliens or meteorites. scientists say it's because of global warming. >> tonight, a special report on the gaza conflict. >> it's called "gaza, witness to war" and features nick
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>> announcer: this is al jazeera. ♪ welcome to the news hour, i'm in al jazeera's headquarters in doha. coming up over the next hour, a u.s. attempt to halt the fighting in gaza implodes after just a few short hours. there has been intense fighting on both sides accused of violating the truce. israel says one of its soldiers is missing apparently captured by palestinian
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