>> my sole purpose in coming forward, is to help change the culture of sports >> an america tonight investigative report only on al jazeera america on "america tonight": our investin into sex abuse and sport. some of the nation's top junior athletes and why even the most protective parents may not be able to save them. >> i was the helicopter parent on the other side of the door. right there. i was working out in the gym. so you can be as helicopter as you want and still miss it. >> young athletes at the top of their game. could the u.s. olympic committee do more to protects them?

also tonight, too much of a badly-needed thing. in the midst of california's brutal drought, heavy rain that left thousands stranded by a massive mudslide. we'll gel get a view as that way, came crashing down. and death on the streets. the insider's view of the arrest that ended the life of eric garner, correspondent adam may, with others who say it just didn't have to be that way. >> i have utmost respect for the police officer doing his job but you can't consul rot eneggs. yoten eggs.you have a duty to a. >> good evening, thanks for being with us. i'm joie chen. it's got the mak makings of a

hollywood blockbuster. what's happening in africa now is far worse. the outbreak of this usually fatal disease and how quickly a didldeadly outbreak might be mog from africa to our states, might be closer. atlanta is ground central for experimental effort to save two american missionaries. testing a man who arrived from africa and who might have brought ebola with him. we get details from "america tonight's" sarah hoye. >> according to mt. sinai hospital, the man was admitthis morning, with high fever. he had been traveling in west

africa country where ebola has been reported. worst outbreak ever of one of the deadliest diseases on earth. ebola kills 90% of people who contract it but for one boston doctor it is a risk she is willing to take. >> my parents are scared but they know this is something i wanted to do since -- as long as i can do it. >> she's headed to sierra leone soon to help save lives, like the two americans working there, fighting for their own lives treated by the virus. probably the most dangerous virus in the world, ebola spreads through blood sweat and saliva. dr. kent brantly infected in liberia returned to the united states over the weekend and is

showing signs of recovery. second missionary, 19th writebol, lands back in atlanta on tuesday. both were given a serum, which seems to be working, but it isn't widely available. in africa where the disease has killed hundreds. a second ebola case in nigeria's biggest city lagos, a church cancelled services. >> sell things so people from outside country come in, and buy something. and i don't know if they are infected. >> in liberia, fearing infection, some have refused to let aid workers bury any victims

nearby. you have to kill us first before can you bury the victims they say. health officials say with proper diagnosis it can be successfully treated. >> actually we do know how to stop ebola. it's old fashioned plain and simple completely. find the victims, treat them, make sure to do infection control. you do those things, do it really well and ebola goes away. >> sarah hoye, al jazeera. >> this hasn't been the first time ebola has been a concern. 25 years ago they faced an outbreak among monkeys. most of them were euthanized. this was highly contagious to monkeys but to not so to humans. further research and quarantine efforts.

dr. jerry jackson join jaks joim kansas state university. the monkey ebola outbreak, how does this remind you of what is going on now in africa? >> well, i think it really brings home that infectious disease is something we have to be very concerned about. and prepared for. and i think some of the lessons we learned in reston have been used as a blueprint for the kinds of reactions we're seeing now from our public health officials. >> we should note the experience you had then in reston was profiled in the hot zone, and the movie outbreak, both of which were significant, for those who are not aware of such diseases. we are quickly becoming aware of how quickly these diseases can move throughout the world.

>> that's exactly right. we're fortunate that ebola is not very transmissible from one person to another. and that make it reasonable to contain. however, there are diseases that would not be so he to control e. but it underscores our need to be prepared from a public health outlook. >> in reston did it profile to you how significantly these could spread? it was a crisis, you were in fact chasing down monkeys trying to control the virus. >> it was in a room the monkey had no chase of escaping but we knew all about ebola because we were working within the laboratory. we were concerned at u sam or fort dietrich, that it might be a potential biowarfare candidate. we knew how bad it was and what

a significant public health issue it would be. it was a complete surprise, an emergency situation, and reston virginia is part of the greater d.c. area. there were millions of people right there and we didn't know exactly what we were going to find and it was very exciting. >> and at the time you were also able to track which human beings might have come in contact. these were not people in this suburban community as i understand it. people within the research center but that was a concern at that moment too. >> yeah, it was. there are indications that the immune system of four of the five people that worked inside that nonhuman primate facility developed antibodies and reaction to the ebola virus. so had it been ebola zaire, which they are dealing with in subsaharan africa now, it would have been really trouble.

but the precautions we took and the systems we developed as far as personal protective equipment and how we dealt with these animals really work. that's data that we understood that you know many people were protected using these kinds of procedures. and i think it gives you know it should give some solace to people that are concerned about bringing these infected folks back to the united states. i think there is little to zero risk of any you know escape of that particular virus, because of these precautions that are being taken. >> although probably a greater risk than when you have a traveler coming from abroad not contained in the way that these two medical workers are being very carefully contained. >> yes, you know clearly i think the guy from new york that's being quarn teend, thos quarante signs around symptoms that are like a number of other diseases.

someone who is not feeling well when they get here. that is -- you know i think precautions are probably in order right now. but again ebola is not some easily transmitted and it is certainly not possible to think that a case of ebola could get here on a flight but i think it's not very likely that we would get a cluster of a number of cases from an exposure. >> certainly hope not but a reason to pay close attention with what's going on. dr. jerry jacks, university veterinarian at kansas state university, thanks so much. >> thank you joie. >> disturbing story still in development we'll keep watch on that as well as on the mountains of mud now being shuffled out of san bernardino county in california against the harsh drought out there. very powerful thunderstorm triggered massive landslides, mudslides, at least one person

killed and thousands left stranded in two mountain towns. and there was a close call for hundreds of children on a camping trip. are maintain.'s michael okwu brings us the story. >> reporter: you could hear it before could you see it. and it came in a flash. carrying a torrent of mud. sunday, mudslides and flash flooding ripped and rumbled through mountain counties in san bernardino county about an hour's drive from los angeles. fierce thunderstorms thundered across southern california, like mt. baldy, when a 48-year-old was killed when his car was swept into a unique. oak glen, powerful debris flows packed with debris and boulders, cut off access to towns leaving 2500 residents stranded.

a sheriff's helicopter made several rest accuse. also stranded but lucky to be alive about 500 children and adults were on camping trips in forest falls. rescue crews performed rest accuse all day on sunday. >> this is popular for likers and campers so there's always more people in town than just the regular population. especially on a nice summer day. so those are more people that have to be accounted for than just the regular population. >> reporter: by monday morning everyone was accounted for. as crews got to work clearing roads of click debris. several homes were badly damaged and likely uninhabitable. sadly, these towns are not strangers to mudslides. >> mudslides come through the town and completely block everything off.

and more importantly, these slides can cause damage to houses and leave people trapped in cars, overturned cars. it is a very dangerous dynamic situation when this happens. >> a dangerous situation is now threatening other communities. as that thunderstorm system moves north towards the sierra nevada mountain ranges. in this drought stricken state fire is a major hazard. this past week there have been more than a thousand lightning strikes in one county alone. igniting at least 26 fires. thousands of acres burning in northern and central california have prompted fire rescue thin. prompt i governor brown to call a state of emergency. michael okwu, al jazeera. >> husband and wife and photo journalists who saw this mudslide firsthand. can you talk a little bit about

what that's like? do you hear something? do you feel the ground move? >> good evening, joie. we've been in these before. the scariest sound is the sound of the boulders rolling down the river. >> yes. i knew we were in trouble when i saw a tree go floating by. >> oh my goodness. is it the water you see first, the mud floating by, what happens? >> there's a lot of rocks and boulders moving through the mud. ists amazing. it takes big earth moving equipment to get them out of the way again and they'll take out anything in the past. >> and it starts out like a trickle. we were up there all day long and when it first started coming down pretty hard you'd see water running down the street and kind of sheeting on the street but then all of a sudden all the mud and rocks and trees started coming floating across and pretty soon it was four or five feet deep and you couldn't move. the officials there said that it

rained three and a half to four inches an hour and it rained hard for at least two, three hours. >> can you tell? i mean you guys go straight up to the edge of these things. how do you know when to get out of the way? >> that -- that's always the challenge and that's -- sometimes we have a little bit of interplay there as to how close we get and always want to leave an out. and in this case i was concerned that we didn't have a way to back up and get out of there because we didn't know how big it was going to get. >> we know a battalion chief that lives up there. we were considering buying us a house out there and we said is there a safe area and he says in forest falls there is no safe area. >> do you have any sort of cue between the two of you? we've talked to you before when you've been covering wildfires as well. is there some kind of message you hand op off in between now is the time to go, one of you is going to be in charge here? >> it's the other one -- the

other person does not have a veto right. if one person says we have to go, we go now, absolutely. >> it's almost a sixth sense unified schoo,you've played it e to leave. >> if i get adrenalin i know it's time. >> you've made it out safely john and nancy casper, you see them doing their work with wildfires that so frequently come to california. we appreciate you being with us again. >> thank you very much, joie. >> when we return, his final breaths. >> i can't breathe, i captain breathe. >> a routine bust on staten island goes horribly wrong and raises new questions about officers' responsibilities to serve and protect. later in the program the latest ceasefire not to take hold in the gaza-israel conflict. and for the hundreds of

thousands caught in the middle, why there's so much doubt any ceasefire ever will. i

>> the mol model of the new york city police department. courtesy and respect, otherwise a routine bust, the case is doubly complicated both by an officer's use of an illegal technique and every moment caught on video. what happened on that staten island street. "america tonight's" adam may

focuses on those first on the scene. >> antoine robinson is on call driving an ambulance in brooklyn, new york. >> well, we responded to an assaulted person. the police called 85 so we do suspect the scene to be a little bit dramatic or hectic. >> reporter: by day he's a paramedic for a private ambulance company. >> when we get to the scene they always give us the highest amount of respect. >> reporter: in his free time he volunteers here at the bedford stuyvesant ambulance core, responding to million emergencies and training others how to do lifesaving work. >> don't touch (bleep) me. >> robinson says the high profile death of eric gardner

was especially difficult owatch. >> i try my best to remain unbiased. i know how very difficult the police job is. they get put in a lot of stressful situations. i had to watch it five, six, seven times over and over again. i mean i literally sat in my house ant started pausing it frame by frame writing down the time that i seen certain things in it. because i also teach emts, i train emts. so look at the way they were treating him or wasn't treating him it was really upsetting to me. >> the seven minute youtube video has sparked controversy. it started as a routine bust on staten island. >> i didn't sell anything! >> reporter: police say eric gardner was illegally selling cigarettes. when they tried to arrest him officers say the 350 pound man resisted. >> don't touch me (bleep). >> don't touch me (bleep).

>> what happened next is now the focus of investigations by the staten island district attorney, the nypd and the fire department. garner died after being held in a choke hold, a move illegal in new york for 20 years. with a finding sure to move investigations on the new york city medical investigator's office ruled garner's death a breaches condition of asthma heart disease and obesity were contributing factors. with eight police officers, two emts and two paramedics on the scene, garner repeats his last words. >> i can't breathe. i can't breathe. i can't breathe.

>> now those words have fueled a protest. >> i can't breathe. i can't breathe. >> residents of new york city hold up eric garner of a symbol of the community's long and complicated relationship with the nypd. but another question, the one between emergency medical services and police officers on the scene. >> i looked at the emt and she just didn't look as if she was comfortable. she looked like she wasn't sure of what she had to do. >> antoine's father james rocky robinson who was not at the scene himself is many volunteer fire captain. >> specifically when you look at the video what happened? why didn't he get some medical help in your opinion? >> the reason why he didn't get medical help was because i believe ems was intimidated.

>> what should the paramedics have done. >> first they didn't come on the scene, they were standing back. they were siding with the cops. the girl went over there checked the radial pulse first, she should have checked the pulse by his neck. that is not pulsating. she need to make sure cpr begins. but you can't do cpr with somebody whose hands are handcuffed behind their back because you can't roll him over. you tell the cops remove the cuffs, i have to perform cpr, i have to save the person's life. it's not a fight or struggle with ems. it is we could possibly keep him alive until we get him to the hospital. >> rocky robinson believes the work relationship between ems

and police officers can be charged with missions that sometimes conflict. the police set to protect the public. the ems their patient. working together is critical for day-to-day. but robinson says it can become a tense dance. >> why didn't you give cpr? >> i didn't do nothing. >> in the case of eric garner the investigation into the incident is underway before the medical workers on scene have been suspended without pay. >> you said you believe those emts were intimidated by police. does that happen more often than we know? >> more often you know they feel like they have to be on the side of the police. now i have utmost respect for the police officer to do the right job. but just like in any other organization, whether it's police, fire, ems, you got people who are not doing the right thing. you can't cover for rotten eggs

and you got to remember your oath of office. you have a duty to act. your duty is to that patient. not your allegiance to other organizations. you do what is right for that person fighting for their life on the ground. >> robinson blames a lack of training in how police and ems should work together in stressful situations. "america tonight" reached out several times to the nypd for comment but got no response. police commissioner william bratton has called the incident a terrible tragedy and ordered all 35,000 new york cops to be retrained in the use of force. >> every day in everywhere job we work hand in hand with the police department. they're very willing to help us and work with us to complete our mission. we don't have approximate with e problems with the police

department when it comes to their mission. >> israel miranda represents fire officials in new york city. while he wouldn't comment specifically on the garner case. >> they are highly trained ambulance drivers. the stress and the dynamics of every call is different. >> when do you determine it's good and safe to give medical care? do you have to wait for police officers to give you the go ahead? >> no, not at all. that's an instinct that you develop if pd is on the scene and you see no danger unless they tell you you can't proceed, obviously your mission ask to find out who the patient is and try to comfort them and stabilize them. as best as you can. >> reporter: and the busiest ems department in the country he

says the issue is clear and the orders precise. >> my focus is on the person who needs my help. i have a partner who can ask questions and deal with the rest of the situation. but my focus as the main patient care provider is help that patient. >> for antoine robinson and the thousands of ems professionals in the city like him, helping that patient is its own reward. >> when someone walk up to me and they just start crying and you looking at them like, and you're like yo you saved my life, you saved my mother life. you don't know how to react to things like that and that's greater than any paycheck i ever received. ever received. >> see if i see any signs of life. >> as for rocky robinson he is committed to make sure there are no more deaths like eric garner's. >> what needs tob to change? >> they need to be retrained, everybody need to be retrained,

know what their functions are. police matter, police should take care of police matter but let ems take care of ems matter and don't condense the two when one hinders the other. >> adam may, a al jazeera, new york city. >> and there is more about this, the man who shot the video of garner's death, was arrested. he's had a lot of unwanted attention even harassment by the police since he made that video. (w) had we return an update on the hour's latest news, the latest from gaza where another ceasefire dissolves within hours. growing skepticism. later in the hour, olympic dreams, elite threeth an athletd

hocking accounts of abuse. >> i don't know how to handle this go with it, i must have done something wrong. >> an "america tonight" investigation into the claims of young athletes and why top sports organizations in the country might not be able to protect them.

>> aljazeera america presents a break through television event borderland... >> are you tellin' me it's ok to just open the border, and let em' all run in? >> the teams live through the hardships that forced mira, omar and claudette into the desert. >> running away is not the answer... >> is a chance at a better life worth leaving loved ones behind? >> did omar get a chance to tell you goodbye before he left? >> which side of the fence are you on? >> sometimes immigration is the only alternative people have. borderland only on al jazeera america >> now a snapshot of stories making headlines on "america tonight." toledo, ohio says its water is now safe. city lifted its ban on drinking water but over the weekend more than 400,000 northeast ohio

residents had no drinking water. the water was likely contaminated by toxic algae blooms. a federal judge finding it unconstitutional to require doctors at abortion inclination to have admission rights at local hospitals. alabama's attorney general says the state will appeal. former white house press secretary james brady has died. he was 73. brady suffered a head wound during the 1980 assassination attempt on ronald reagan. then an advocate for gun control. the conflict claiming 1800 lives may are near somesome kind of an end. as israel is winding down its

offensive, authorities have agreed to 72-hour ceasefire, beginning tuesday. israeli leaders later signing on. talks are expected to follow. israel's military says it's committed the core mission of the gaza campaign to destroy the cross-border tunnels used by hamas. but israel would keep up its operation until rocket fire from gaza ends. tension spiengd in jerusalem -- spiked in jerusalem as a man used a backhoe to strike a bus. shot dead by israeli police. al jazeera's charles stratford is on the ground with more. charles as you talk to people on the ground there do you have a sense that they have hope that one of these ceasefires is going to stick that they're going to have an opportunity to return to their homes and find whatever is left?

>> frankly after the pummeling they've had over the last month or close to a month now there is absolutely no hope in any real ceasefire at this stage. as i say it's dark now. the streets are empty. there has been nowhere safe to go over the last few weeks here in gaza. you can walk into the schools, the u.n.ra schools that have had people left their homes, have said they could start going back, this is an area of gaza with a population about 60,000, vast areas of it have been absolutely flattened, go back to what? a similar scenario, in bat laher, israeli officials say it's safe to go back now. you speak to these people they are very skeptical, very afraid of going back. what happens when school term starts in a month's time where

people sheltering there are homeless? very very little faith, very little hope in any kind of ceasefire. i was in the south looking at the farming situation down there. there is increasing fears over food. have sufficient food and products being able to be brought up from the south farming area into the north. absolutely no faith in anything down there. constant fear of being -- of attacks and certainly being exposeexposed to attacks down t. we saw tank shells being fired in rafah where there seems to be a concentration of the israeli campaign over the last couple of days. there were two children killed in a house fire and attacks here in gaza city another child was killed in an air strike in a shati camp. there were at least 30 rockets

fired out of gaza towards israel. ministry of health said hundreds of bodies pulled out, at least 20 other people killed across the strip. and as we go tonight, now, the sound of drones above, and the potential for more air strikes and more attacks and actually only ten minutes ago we heard the dull crunch of what we've been told was tank fire on the east of the strip. >> al jazeera's charles stratford in gaza city. last week you may recall we brought you the story of fara boker. azmat khan brings you the story from the other side, a young woman who made a video.

♪ you say only hear what i want to ♪ >> when she auditions for voice israel, sarah knew she was finally getting a chance to be heard. what she didn't know was just how much. >> in times i lay under ♪ >> this music video sarah recorded from inside a bomb shelter. in the southern israeli town of astod has been viewed about 1,000 times on youtube. ♪ sometimes i hear a drone no i never let it get me down ♪ >> the video features scenes from ashtod. her boyfriend's family fleeing to abomb shelter amid rocket attacks. >> i had been seeing so much 18th -- israel and negative comments on social media about how nobody in israel was really dying and they must not be

getting rockets to israel. completely, completely not the case. and i thought it was my duty as somebody who could to share what my experiences of what were happening. >> reporter: though though she lives in ashtod now, sarah is from palm gardens, florida. she visited israel on birth right, a free trip for jewish girls. >> my free trip, land of moses with deserts and camels everywhere. but it really introduced me to these warm people who are surrounded by neighbors who hate them. they still want peace with them and try so hard. >> sarah went back to israel every summer and became a pro-israel activist. she moved to ashtod to teach english. she now lives life under the threat of rockets.

>> i spend time inside my house. i very, very rarely leave. it is a scary thing to see this happening, iron dome doesn't intercept all the rockets. what would happen every single time? there would be tenfold of civilian casualty, thousands among thousands. no i don't get osleep. maybe that rocket will fall on my house maybe it will kill me. >> weeks after she first recorded the video sarah is less certain that the one day she is singing about is coming soon. >> with every passing day i believe this day is getting further and further away. >> still she hopes the region will find peace in her lifetime or her children's. >> and our children will play ♪ ♪ one day, one day, one day, one day ♪ >> her thoughtful young vote

digital producer azmat khan joins us. she mentioned how she got to israel, a very american ak sent, very american girl in some ways. is that particular with jews? >> since it started in 1999, birth right has sent hundreds of american jews, to israel, they walked away with very different kinds of trip. a secular, even lgbt trip. they meet few palestinians. it's about ideology and creating strong pro-israel activists here in the united states. >> both the young lady sarah and the one you profiled last week in gaza, these are young women with strong messages. there are other shared

commonalities? >> yes, cara's individual -- sarah's individual ends with her giving thanks to the israel army. the other girl said she wanted peace and advocated for hamas. these are two young women who said they wanted peace but backing up the military structures in their area. it shows you how difficult and deeply rooted can this conflict ever be resolved. because this is next generation. >> would be interested to see if they could have a conversation with each other. >> would hope so. >> "america tonight's" digital producer azmat khan. next athletes at the top of their game, playing out olympic dreams but vulnerable to those guiding their careers. >> of course you tell use kids, don't get in a car with a stranger but you don't tell them

don't trust your coach. >> why young athletes coming forward to say, it's not enough. enough.

>> it is a horrifying tale we've heard so often. a vulnerable child sexually abused by a trusted adult. a teacher a relative a clergyman. and now evidence of another area in which children can be victimized. elite junior athletes, olympians, olympic hopefuls. they value winning over anything else including protecting children. >> of course you tell your kids don't get in a car with a stranger but you don't tell them don't trust your coach. >> monica stremco could have kept silent about the coach she said raped her daughter for

years but she chose to speak out to warn other young athletes to try oprotect their olympic dreams. >> right now as we're speaking i am sure a wide eyed 12 year old olympic wannabe is being abused. the situation sets itself up on every club teem in every part of the country. >> anna's dream began at the water's edge. by middle school anna had the makings of a star athlete. a distance free styler, she was a baby, the youngest on the national team. recruiters began calling when she was in eighth grade. >> this was the first time i made a top 16 national time when i was 12. >> you were 12 years old? >> yeah, it was really -- >> and you were one of the top 16 swimmers in the country. >> yes for my aim, for my age. >> as the medals and ribbons

started piling up, anna's relationship with her coach took a dark turn. she was just 13. >> it was not only rape, anal rape and violent rape, he hit her. >> he would ask me, you know why didn't you scream, why didn't you yell kick why didn't you go tell your mom? because i hated it. i hated what was happening to me and it was terrifying and ugly and disgusting and it was horrible. but i loved him. >> he was your coach. >> i didn't think he was my boyfriend. i just thought that he was the most important person in the world. >> looking back, her mother dplidz, she should have -- admitadmits she should have seee warning sign. >> she said it was like cocaine, i keep going back. i'll never forget those words. it's about cocaine. >> the rapes weren't about sex. even anna said, they were

another way for the coach to control her. >> he had screamed at me in front of other coaches, in front of other people's parents. he also praised me and made me feel amazing. i was young and felt, okay, well, i don't know how to handle this other than to just go with it. and you know he must -- i must have done something wrong. >> you were being sexually assaulted. >> yes. >> but you didn't understand this was rape. >> i didn't even know that if i told somebody they would say that it was wrong. >> but the strain began to show. anna was diagnosed with anorexia. she crawled into her parents' bed night after night. she considered suicide. finally she confessed to a friend who called her parents. knowing how crushed her parents would be was the toughest for anna. >> it's oven imaginable. it hurts more than anything,

seeing them trying to shoulder this guilt. >> i was the helicopter parent on the other side of the door while he was raping her. i was working out in the gym. so you can be as helicopter as you want and still miss it. >> furious and determined to protect her daughter and other gills, stremco reported the coach to the y. he was put on leave and eventually forced out. reaching out, he never responded to our interview requests. but the stremcos were ostracized by other parents. blamed forkin for causing troub. >> parents don't want any interference. sexual abuse is nasty dirty and nobody wants to admit it happened in their backyard. >> she got less support from u.s. swimming, the governing

board, rick curl, one of the top swim coaches in the country from one of the nation's most successful powerhouse teams had sexually abused one of his star swimmers for years. he was sent to prison for it hypothesis monica expected u.s.a swimming would act quickly and ban her coach. >> i thought this will be easy. he's not abig coach nationally. they've got a firsthand statement from a young girl who was raped by this guy. this should be easy. they can ban him. >> was he ever banned? >> no. he could still coach now if he wanted to. >> bridie farrell says it is a huge problem and not just in swimming. >> it's huge in olympic sport whether it's in rowing or ty kwan do, or volleyball, across

all sports. >> farrell has her own story. an olympic speed casing hopeful, ten-time olympia andy gable allegedly sexually abused her. she was 15. he was 33. gaibl did not respond to oour request for an interview but eventually admit an inappropriate relationship with a female team mate. >> andy makes the point that we did not have sex. but you're not allowed to tux 15-year-old girls, put your fingers on 15-year-old girls. that is not a justification of what he did. >> by the time farrell came forward the statute of limits had run out. but he was investigated by u.s. speed skating. a report was not made public and as far as farrell knows, there

was no action taken against her alleged abuser. >> because the olympic committee and subsidiaries to the national governing bodies are not educational institutions they don't have to go by title ix. if something like this happens in schools there are rules and national guidelines. a narch governing body doesn't have to. >> u.s. speed skating declined "america tonight's" requests for interviews. but some outside experts say the governing bodies are stuck between a rock and a hard place. often there's no clear proof of abuse and the organization he aren't equipped to conduct full investigations. >> the attitude initially for everyone that i knew of was to attack the victim. >> mike salstein is a former swimming vice president who once served on the governing board.

>> no one on one contact, an athlete should never be traveling with a coach of the opposite gender. they should not be sharing hotel rooms. if a complaint wasn't acted on timely that member of our headquarters staff should be disciplined. >> salstein said his suggestions made him a pariah in the swimming community. >> i was called and told by one of the olympic coaches that i had made a grave mistake and i should not have published it. >> victims say the organization he do not investigate -- organization he do not investigate aggressively and it is on the part of the victim to prove induce. anna mourns her replied opportunity. >> i loved swimming, i was good at it, i wanted to swim division

1, go to the olympic trials. those were being important to me. >> my soul purpose in coming forward is to help change the culture of sport and make it safer. in doing nothing and taking no action against perc the perpetrs it is creating a culture where athletes are not going to speak up, they'll speak up less. >> athletes may not but strong mothers like monica will speak up for truth. >> people ask me don't kids lie? i say kids lie but adults lie lot more. >> stremco says they continue to follow developments in the case. we'll watch and report what they learn. studying images of this far-off and too hot to italian planet, knowing more about mercury helps those of us closer

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perspectives on every issue. al jazeera america. >> and finally this hour, the roman god mercury among other things was recognized for his power of communication. especially fitting for nasa's attempt to learn more about the world's closest planetary

neighbor. mention engineer. tom ackerman reports quite a message has been received. >> it took messenger six years to ocialt around mercury. -- to ocialt around mercury. the -- to orbit around mercury. 2,000 images of a planet to close to the blinding sun for telescopes to observe. now they have a wealth of data from mercury, where temperatures are vary from 450 to 150° celsius. why sent back just a few months ago. messenger has produced conclusive evidence that inside lie deposits of water-ice.

human settlement in deep space an eventually reality. >> this is saying to us that one of the processes that takes place in our solar system can trap water, and have it there if we ever get there. >> the facts learned about the properties on, below and above mercury's surface are small pieces of a grand solar system puzzle that the scientists want to solve. >> there's a great difference how the scientists look their composition is and we're trying understand how it makes one consistent picture of the formation and evolution of the solar system. >> mefng is projected to lose -- messenger is projected to crash into the planet next april. in the coming dade -- the coming decade, tom ackerman, al jazeera, laurel, maryland.

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