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>> the 72 hour cease-fire between israel and hamas is still holding. israel has agreed to extend it. this comes in the talks of a longer truce but the two sides have not reached an agreement yet u.n. secretary ban ki-moon demanded an end to the senseless cycle of ur suffering. we have more now from the united nations. >> this meeting was a chance for all u.n. member states to hear the latest information on gaza and to express their views. the meeting started with a
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serious of--a series of briefings. all recognizing israel security concerns in the region, but tended to focus on the suffering of palestinians on this confli conflict. we heard about the need of accountability for attacks on u.n. facilities in gaza. some goose were bombed, resulting in civilian casualties and we heard ban ki-moon and others call this for violation of international law and calling for accountability. we heard from officials about the need to lift the blockade from gaza and address the issues of palestinian rights which they say is fueling this cycle of violence. many member states also express these two points. the general assembly is not taking action on gaza. it's been relegated to the security council. the security council is toying
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with the idea of a resolution, but remains divided on the way forward. some members of the security council would rather wait and see how the talks in egypt play out. then respond to those talks. since the council is divided that means no action will be taken. >> hospitals in gaza are struggling to take care of the thousands of people who are wounded. we have reports now from gaza's main hospital. >> reporter: increasing numbers have come out to the streets here in gaza city and, indeed, along the gaza strip in this full day of 72 hour humanitarian cease-fire. people are going to banks to get cash, and seeking medical issues for sum ailments and skin problems, issues they have not received help for because hospitals have been so stretched dealing with the sheer volume of
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casualties since fighting began. still people are also paying attention to what's going on in cairo. they hope that leaders will be able to come up with some sort of agreement which will reach a peace that will see an end to this conflict. but many people are unconcern that they will see a lasting peace here in gaza. they say that the fighting can start at any time whether it's in days, months or even years, and have very little faith that war will not come back here. >> reporter: three brothers with three different diagnoses. the eldest receiving only cuts and bruises. the second oldest will need surgery but with the right treatment he should survive. but the youngest, his injuries
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are so bad doctors don't think he'll live long enough to see his second birthday. their cousin was also in the house where they were hit. >> these are just children. they did nothing. they since resist. they were just sleeping. [ baby crying ] >> reporter: mohammed cries out for his mother but she isn't there to console him. she and four others in the family die in the same attack. thousands of palestinian casualties are civilians and have called on world powers to determine if israel has quitted war crimes. medical workers say since the fighting began there have been a sharp increase in early bits. the doctors of the neonatal unit
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say they're struggling to keep the babies alive. >> one month into this conflict and close to 3,000 palestinian children are wounded. hundreds have been killed. medics say they desperately need help to save more children like mohammed. >> as you can see children badly affected by this conflict, the conflict which lasted nearly four weeks as we've been saying many people are paying attention to what's going on in cairo hoping that leaders can come up with an agreement for a lasting peace. >> again, that was reports from gaza. people in gaza are also using the low in fighting to sift through the rubble in search of
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bodies. >> reporter: this grim recovery operation has been going on for more than 48 hours. so far a number of bodies have been recovered. they think one more is left underneath a three-story building. it was a family home. this entire area is being annihilated. this was a mosque. what remains beside it. we spoke to one man who lives nearby, and he said that up to 30 people tried to escape. they were all caught in various bombings, shootings, and attacks been f-16 fighters. >> when we were running away from our homes we saw many dead people lying in the street. there were old people, women and children, all of them civilians. it was unimaginable. as this unfinished business of recovery goes on the questions are being asked about what happens next. over all its estimated it will
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be $6 billion to rebuild gaza. here alone the cost will be tremendous. the israeli say that hamas fighters and fighters from other factions were based here, which is why they hit it so hard. but collateral damage, look around, this is more than collateral damage in most people's books. it was some describe it as an earthquake, but this was not a natural disaster, and the humanitarian cost is very high, indeed, with so many people dead the number isn't clear at this stage and it is not clear as to whether any more bodies will be recovered. in terms of normalcy it will never return to this place. >> earlier i spoke to a team in happened building and firing a rocket underneath a tent next to a hotel they were staying. he described what was going on
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during a video. >> reporter: well, just to put in context, this was a spot where we had written a rocket a week prior. it had landed in gaza. we heard it go off. it was pretty clear that a rocket had taken off. a week later we wake up in the morning and we see this blue tent in this abandoned area. you see men working inside the tent. we could not see what they were doing but something was protruding outside of the tent. they appeared to be digging and then you see men running wires out of the tent. it did take didn't take a lot to see that they were setting up a rocket launch site.
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it was fairly clear what had just happened. >> what surprised you most about the operation as you were witnessing it? as you were watching it unfold? >> reporter: well, it seemed somewhat rash. these operatives we believe belonged to hamas. to see this in the early of the morning, in the daylight. you have buildings on all sides and all these buildings are full of journalists. you have people waking up getting ready for the day. anyone who looks down can see the activity. they can see this striking blue tent right in the middle of this
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empty area. for a lot of people who are about to set off a rocket, it seemed almost foolhardy. >> he also told us this rocket was set off just moments before the cease-fire began and no strikes were carried out in retaliation on the area. israel says a man arrested in connection with the deaths of three teenagers in the west bank in june is a senior member of hamas. they made the claim in an interview on cnn. he said that the man was trying to cross into jordan when he was arrested. he did not elaborate on the role the man allegedly had in the kidnapping and killing of the teens. today marks 30 days since the fighting began in gaza. join us for 30 days of war. a special look at life, death and diplomacy. and during the latest conflict in the middle east it airs right here on al jazeera america. and new details are emerging in the attack in afghanistan
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that killed an american general. general harold green was shot and killed in an attack at a military base near kabul. afghan officials say the gunman hid in the bathroom before open firing and use a n.a.t.o. assault rifle in the attack. 15 people including several americans were wounded. an outbreak of the ebola virus has killed 932 people in west africa. the evaluation is holding a global summit in switzerland to discuss a spread. the head of the red cross said that the international community must pool it's resources to tackle the crisis. >> ' bowl la icrisis. >> ebola is not new. we will learn from all these experiences. we'll work with institutions that specialize in tropical
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diseases and this type of crisis ho on how can we best equip these areas. >> saudi arabia is testing whether or not a man who died earlier today contracted ebola. it will not issue visas to anyone from sierra leone, guinea or liberia. a nurse became the second person to die from the virus there. nine people are in quarantine. they're looking at using experimental serum to tweet with ebola. two are being treated at emory hospital in lappet. both were flown back to the united states from liberia while doing aid work there. in politics there is only 90 days before the midterm
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congressional elections and there is deep bitterness between the republican establishment and the tea party following last night's primary results. >> reporter: tony, th they are usually gracious in victory and modest in defeat but not in michigan. winning a tough primary battle, he's often criticized the national security agency. during the campaign the tea party bryant ellis described him as a liberal and called him all quite's best friend and a disgrace. well, here is the victory speech last night. >> to brian ellis, you owe my family and this community an apology. [ cheering ]
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for your disgusting, despicable smear campaign. >> reporter: and criticized ellis for having the audacity to call him to offer congratulations. they tried to ellis beat him, so he also took a dig at him. >> i want to say to lobbyist pete hokstra. you are a disgrace, and i'm glad we can hand you one more loss before you fade into total obscurity and irrelevance. you rarely see that tone in a victory speech. it follows some of the nasty tea party challenges. another challenge was settled in kansas. pat roberts narrowly held on to victory in his g.o.p. race. he beat milton wolfe by 18,000
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votes. both campaigns ran a slew of negative ads. in victory roberts credited his team for staying focused. >> we knew when we started a year ago it would not be easy, a and it has not been. my posse did not flinch. >> reporter: speaking of not flinching in north carolina, a republican congressman whose november re-election is not guaranteed is now doubling down on his extremism. congressman walter jones is a law make who are at the beginning of the last iraq ward and god mad at france and demanded that french fries be named freedom fries. he stopped carrying books in his district about islam. he talked about impeaching president obama. and he just called a healthcare lawsuit against the president a waste of time and money. >> mob problem with what my party is trying to do is will cost the tax payers between 2 million to $3 million.
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use the constitution. >> however, you can't just use the constitution to invoke to itch people the president. there has to be hearings, and those costs would far exceed the price tag of a federal lawsuit. last week republican house speaker john boehner said there would not be an obama empeachment. he said it was a scam spread by the white house. mr. speaker meet walter jones. and hillary clinton is trying to lighten her image. last night she had a scripted name dropping argument with stephen colbert and starting with george clooney. >> oh, i love george. i wish he could have joined us when i had lunch with merle streep and ecuadorian president rafael korriea? >> oh raufy he's such a cut up, especially when we go camping with oprah.
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>> oh? >> does that surprise you? >> no, o is just what all her real friends call oprah. >> reporter: that's pretty funny i guess. >> all right, david. david shuster with us. coming up, 400,000 websites effected and those websites are still at risk. what you need to know about the latest data hack and if it's even possible to protect your information. and after chasing it, rosetta is the first spacecraft to board a comet but there is much more to the mission than that. we'll explain when we come back.
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>> let's see here. wall street, stocks, small gains making up just a bit of yesterday's lawsuit. the dow up above 14 days on the day. and the nasdaq and s&p 500 also up for the day. you will want to take more action to proked yourself online. russian hackers stole more than 1 billion unique user names and passwords and the combinations there have in more than 500
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e-mail addresses and many websites are still at risk. jacob ward has been looking into the latest technology that could protect us in the future. jake, good to see you. let's start with what exactly happened here. >> reporter: well, tony, this is really the largest such hacking event in history. 1.2billion users names and passwords with over 4 billion stolen. they pared it down to come up--they've got user names and passwords for 1.2 billion individual users on websites. and so far they're not using them to steal people's bank account or credit card information that we know of. they simply seem to be using them to send out spam on social networks for a fee, but they could be selling this for the future. that's how they would make big money. and it point out how incredibly value nery we are in the age of
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text base password. >> what more do you know that you can share? >> reporter: 9 thing about this is that the fundamental of a password, they'll put in digits and text and the user name can some how keep you protected. experts have been calling on us for years to move beyond that idea. we'll see computing come online that will make those kinds of passwords for an automated system crack because it will be a powerful piece of computing, quantum computing is what it's called. we'll come up with something that is not just held in a database that people can grab. we'll empt experiment with the angle of how you hold your phone. that could be an unique characteristic that would identify you. people type on a certain way.
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people have physical characteristics that you could use in the future. mit and other places have been trying to make that to replace outdated text passwords that have gotten us in so much trouble. >> jake ward for us in san francisco. thank you. first a first in space exploration today. an european spacecraft came face to face with a comet. scientists hope that it will help to learn more about the building blocks of life. roxana saberi is here with really face-to-face with a comet. i need to hear more about this. >> reporter: up close and personal. we've seen spacecraft speed by comets and take photos but this is the first time one has gone into or bet around a comet. it crossed 4 billion miles and took ten years to get there. these images taken 250 million miles away are raising cheers here on earth. >> today is the first time that
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we achieved a rendezvous with the comet. it's another smile tone in the history of planetary science. >> reporter: the european space agency launched the rosetta spacecraft ten years ago. since it launched it journeyed 4 billion miles. it orbited the sun five times in pursuit of comet 67 p. it went into hibernation to save power and woke up in january. finally on wednesday it arrived. >> today is the beginning of the real science mission because now we can actually start measuring things, analyzing the comet, find out where it's been in the solar system. what it's made of. >> reporter: it started circling the comet at a distance of 60 miles. they hope to find out if the water in comets is the same as the water on earth. >> we know today that the earth had a great deal of water on it. we don't know where it came from, and it's likely that
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comets had a lot to do with that process. >> reporter: one scientist said that he's surprised by the comet surface. >> in just the images we've seen on approach today we've got possibly a better picture of this comet than we've ever had of any comet before. and it's just the start of the process. >> reporter: the solar powered spacecraft is working its way closer to the comet. a lander will touchdown to take samples and a harpoon will attach the lander to the comet. >> we'll make major scientific discoveries and this will be a rosetta stone for the future of understanding the surface we live on and a bigger picture. >> reporter: it will be bright enough to see with a large amateur at th tell telescope. >> which i have one.
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why did they pick this comet. >> one scientist told me that this closeth one, an closest one, and that it's on rather small. >> thanks. nasa's curiosity rover landed on mars. since then the spacecraft has been crawling around the red planet taking pictures, looking for science of life. scientists now believe mars had a large water source that could have supported life. the next job is to climb and study one of the largest mountains on mars. coming up, russia is building troops along ukraines border. secretary of state chuck hagel choosing concerns about a possible russian invasion, and how one organization is helping
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>> russian president vladimir putin has launched counter sanctions against western nations. it's been putin's strongest retaliation since the u.s. and europe has imposed sanctions. it will not import poultry. it comes as activity on the border has been heating up. russia is planning to invade ukraine. troops have amassed as part of military exercises along ukrainian border. joining me now is a member of the truman project defense council. in your mind is russia preparing
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for a mass intervention of ukraine? >> that's the question on everybody's mind and it's a good one to ask. certainly there are reports that russia has increased its presence of infantry, armor, artillery, anti-air defense units near the ukrainian border. some of the numbers we've seen near 20,000. i think that may be a legitimate concern. >> then the question becomes why. to reset it, russian back separatist are taking a bit of a whipping, and russia isly afraid to have a western-leaning ukraine on its door step or is that too simple. >> no, i think the ukrainian situation is relatively clear.
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after president poroshenko caused a greater concern in moscow, and putin launched an illegal annexization in crimea, and the current situation looks not at the momently unlike the situation it did in march. >> how does russia respond, react when donetsk and luhansk, the troops are being amassed. what does russia ultimately do? do they just sit there? what happened? >> reporter: well, if you look at the way they conducted the last operation it was done under the guy guise of humanitarian efforts. as the u.s. has established leadership in confronting this russian expansionism, they have
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certainly won up after the shoot down of flight mh 17, an. >> and what is the u.s. prepared to do should russia take this next step? no one hopes that happens, but what is the u.s. in your mind prepared to do or should do? >> all right, the u.s. has shown leadership by moving forward in sanctions and putting pressure--but it's important to remember that the state of u.s. policy and the one i think we all agree with from an assessment agreement is not to break yo the russian economy,
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but to change russia's behavior and offer pathways to long-standing international borders and establish free peoples in ukraine. the last actions in the ukraine raised concerns in poland and the balkans states. that's where you'll see commitment to long-standing n.a.t.o. alliances by european partners. >> andrew, appreciate it. member of the truman project defense council. andrew, appreciate your time. thank you. in iraq 70 people have been killed in a government airstrike in western mosul. the strike hit the headquarters of the islamic state. it's fighters took control of mosul last month. the iraqi government has been battling to reclaim territory and hundreds of thousands of iraqis have been displaced by the violence. in lebanon mediators say there will be a 24 hour
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cease-fire truces have failed and fighters linked to the al nusra front, the attacks on the border town is the worst spillover of violence since the confront began. the death toll from sunday's massive earthquake is more than 600. crews are clearing rubble from towns. many are trying to return to see what is left of their lives. we have reports from southwestern china. >> reporter: the long walk home. migrant workers returning to homes in the quake zone. the silent pro session. on the way we meet a man who has been traveling for three days. walking the final stage because he has no alternative. >> it's hard to get a lift on a motorcycle bike. there are not a lot of people with good hearts.
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it's expensive to pay for a ride. >> reporter: unless you're part of the emergency services the only way into the quake zone is by motorcycle or on foot. the returnees have come back to a village where 70% of the homes have been destroyed. some have lost loved one. but he has been fortunate. under the shade of a tree a reunion of his wife and son. savoring what he thought he lost. he's brought gifts. new shoes and clothes. necessities now. and then it's time to see for himself what happened to his home. walking through his own neighborhood he's lost in his own thoughts. nothing is the same. >> i felt really sad. i was devastated when i first saw this. i almost burst into tears. >> reporter: he knew his house had been destroyed but nothing prepared him for this.
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the home he remembered gone. >> we still owe a lot of debt from buying this house. it's really heartbreaking to see it like this. >> reporter: in the rubble he recognizes familiar and mundane objects. he borrowed $13,000 from relatives three years ago to buy this house. now he's had to give up his factory job until he can get his family resettled. for now he's a man without a home or an income. but he walks away to what he does have left, a wife, child, and the hope he'll one day regain what he's lost. adrian brown, al jazeera, southwest china. >> so the army has started questioning the u.s. soldier held captive by the taliban. we have that and other headlines making news across america. >> reporter: tony, investigators questioned bow bergdahl, the u.s. soldier held captive in
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afghanistan for five years. they're asking about his 2009 disappearance and capture by the taliban. bergdahl's lawyer said he will cooperate with investigators. he was released in may in exchange of five guantanamo detainees held in guantanamo bay prison. in six cases lower courts affirmed gay rights by striking down state bans or forcing states to recognize the rights of gay couples married in states where same-sex marriage is legal. people are watching these cases closely because federal courts play a key role in flagging cases that may head to the supreme court. jurors began deliberating in the trial of a detroit man charged with second-degree murder. he shot and killed a woman who showed up drunk on his porch.
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he was told he should have stayed inside in he was scared. the largest drugstore chain purchased the remaining part of alliance boot. this allows a company to move its headquarters overseas to avoid paying more taxes. >> today i had a discussion with walgreen's. i congratulated him on this decision. to stay in america and stay in illinois. we talked about the pressure that he faces for a short-term gains, stock prices and the like, and we talked about the long term for businesses like walgreen's. >> michael: walgreen's said it's not sure a move overseas would have withstood scrutiny from the irs any way. and an administrator wants to stop hiring smokers. he said his proposal is part of the commitment to employee wellness and decreasing medical
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costs. it would propose not hiring smokers for county jobs and testing for nicotine among employees. it still needs to be approved. >> that is controversial. see you again. now to the immigration crisis in america. chicago's north side has become a landing place for political refugee. since 1975 illinois has settled 145,000 refugees from more than 60 countries. ash har quaraishi has more. >> reporter: far from the ravages of their war-torn country young teenage girls finds refugee inside that is walls on chicago's north side. >> before i came to the united states i was in a shelter with my family. >> reporter: this is girl forward, the non-profit that help refugee. >> it's a challenging time.
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it's already difficult when you're 15 years old and american, and when they're new residents of chicago and new to the united states they have to deal with cliques, what clothes they're wearing and are they cool and it's all impacted in this experience. >> reporter: this 14-year-old has experienced a number of first far from her myanmar. >> first day it was like snowing here. it was really hard for my sister. >> had you ever seen know before. >> no, i didn't. that was my first day. i'm from malaysia. >> reporter: her family escaped the violence in myanmar where a genocide is underway against the minority muslim population.
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>> reporter: after years of living as refugees, their father gained status here in the united states. they live in this basement apartment. >> reporter: but here in chicago far from the flood shed the challenges are decidedly different. >> we found that in-home mentoring is important for this teenage girl population especially for refugee families so they can learn the skills they need at home and help them do the things that they're required to do at home, care
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give, cook and clean with their families members. they have a lot of responsibilities from their parents. >> reporter: all while learning to take care of themselves. >> did you ever get on a bus before you came to chicago? >> no, i never got on a bus before. >> reporter: she had also been learning how to navigate life in an american me drop polic metropolitan. >> if you stay home, it looks like with your family. and here you enjoy your life with your friends. >> reporter: while she has found safety with new friends who share her experiences her american dream is to return to the country she has never known. >> my dream is to go there, help them and get them to be here. >> reporter: ash har quaraishi, al jazeera america chicago. >> coming up on al jazeera america silicon valley is known for its big job boom, but that's not the case for blacks and
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real understanding... >> where you scared when you hear the bombs? >> al jazeera america real... news... >> so wikipedia is fighting back against europe's right to be forgotten. the wikipedia foundation is posting all of the right to be forgotten notices it has received friday google. so in may an european court ordered google to take down link to pages if a certain member of the public demanded it. google has criticized that rule. the technology boom in francisco has meant that francisco bay area is a boom for those looking
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for a job but that's not the case for those whthat's the case for white or asian men. >> reporter: the bay area is one of the most ethnic parts of the country. you walk into a start up or tech company and you're not seeing the same people that you see outside. there is a major problem. luckily there are a few promis programs out there trying to change the situation. it's the middle of summer. but these high school students have opted to stay in class in order to learn how to code. >> after taking these classes i realize this is something that i'm good at and i'm interested in, and i actually enjoy doing. >> reporter: so the students here have taken classes for two summers. they've learned basic coding. over the past five weeks have created a video game. >> so, in class we learn how to make a game.
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>> reporter: here in the bay area tech jobs abound but women and certain minority groups are not landing very many of them. this program looks to change the balance. by google's own admission only 2% employees are african-american. 3% hispanic, and women make up 30% of its workforce. twitter is also predominantly white and male with only 3% hispanics, 1% african-americans, and again a gender divide where only 03% of its workforce are women. now tech companies defend themselves by pointing out the problems starts years before people hit the job market. the college board which oversees advance placement examines, last year who took the computer science, no one knows exactly why this is the case.
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but poor public schools in ethnic neighborhoods are less likely to offer screen courses. and some say it has put off women. many women in tech have stepped forward as mentors. >> we do a lot of programs around diversity and women in computing in general. >> the vivian works at a tart that looks to change the way hiring decisions are made. she works with uma, who will be a senior, who will be worrying about college applications very soon. >> in the future i can see myself running a tech company. i like computer science and i like business a lot. so i think about doing something like that. >> reporter: change won't happen overnight but perhaps in a few years women may have a better chance to take on tech. >> well, you think a situation would at least be getting better but one study said that diversity has slipped in the last ten years and silicon
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valley it's a big mystery why that is the case. >> i want to dive down on that. why is this racial and gender bias, and where does this come from? >> reporter: there are a lot of reasons. think about the superstars, bill gates, steve jobs, the younger generation, mark zuckerberg, i don't see women there. buthat's one issue for women. they need some mentors. the good news carnegie melon with one of the most prestigious program for computer programming, of those interested, 40% are women. but does not answer the question about hispanic and african-americans, and why they're being left out. >> melissa chan joining us in
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san francisco. joining us now, a columnist who has reported on diversity or the lack there of in tech companies. i have a headline on this topic from a few months ago and it read google has an embarrassing diversity problem. can we say, if i go too far, let me know, that silicon valley doesn't care about diversity if you're anything but a white male or asian male you need not apply. >> i think they've been embarrassed by the headlines that have come out over the past few weeks. i think it is a problem that they're agreeing to take on. but the bigger problem is silicon valley is an old boy's club. they hire who they know. they hire from elite colleges. they want to hire the smartest people with the biggest degrees. i won't say smartest, but people who go to the ivy league
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colleges who get those big degrees tend to be white. they don't go outside of their circle of stanford university and columbia university and mit. that's their focus and that's where they've been getting people from. >> if that's the reality how shocking is this really that you have this situation where people are hiring within their club and don't really invest in people, right, for start ups who are not a part of the club. >> reporter: yes, i don't think it's shocking. i think the headlines are a wake-up call that they are responding to. i don't see huge changes about to happen, though, because of the way they do business. forget about the engineers. forget about the smartest kids in the room. what about the other people that work at these companies? tens of thousands of people, p.r. marketing, i've never seen an african-american at apple,
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facebook, linkedin, twitter, etc., etc. i've never seen hispanic not in the top jobs. not the minimum jobs. not the medium jobs. so it's not just the engineers. >> well, this is interesting. you believe that the companies are being embarrassed by the headlines. you believe they are--they may be at a place where they're about to start responding, what's the evidence of that? >> i just think that the headlines are so were yo brutal that they have to do something. these are people, most of these companies are liberal organizations, and they--i would believe that they like the whole, you know, they don't want to be seen as a an all-white club, and i think they'll take action. i think the way they've got their system set up it will take a while. >> let me try this on you before
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i lose you here, is there anything in your reporting, anything in your observations over years of reporting to suggest that if more blacks and hispanics earned more computer science degrees they would be accepted into sell con valley, anywhere near the rate of white males and asians? >> sure, yes. i think they would. you know, i think the whole system is based on them going to the ivy league colleges, looking at the engineering departments and recruiting the graduates. if there were more diverse group of graduates they would probably pull them all in. >> jefferson graham, at "usa today" who has been reporting on diversity and the lack there of at silicon valley. a ceo from a supermarket chain is ousted, and why they
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android mobile device. download it now >> it was on this day 59 years ago that the world changed forever. thousands of people in japan are remembering the bombing of hiroshima. on this day was the dropping of the atomic bomb. lanterns were lit near a peaceful park. more than 100,000 people died in what was one of two attacks on japan. the u.s. pratt said that it would end the war faster and save more american lives. have you been voluming this story. employees and customers have gathered outside of market basket, a chain of grocery stores. it's all part of arthur tdemolis
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who was ousted. it has been part of a family feud, and hundreds of workers have walked of off the job. we go to ines. >> reporter: it's hard to believe that so many employees would rally for a ceo. one of the signs inside of market basket it said boycott market basket, show your support also stores nearby this auto sales shop said bring back arthur t. truck drivers have walked off leaving the shelves completely empty. this facebook has more than 32,000 likes on it. i spoke to a former market basket employee. here's why he said protesters
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are willing to risk their jobs to bring back arthur t. >> do we want to work for another chain or do we want to talk for arthur t. he makes you feel like you are a valuable part of the business. >> reporter: tony, hundreds of consumers have been protesting. one customer even made a song about this and posted it. >> a song? >> reporter: several songs. this is one of them. >> reporter: that song has gotten more than 86,000 likes. >> is it demo oh u las.
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it's the demoulas family that owns it, and arthur t.demoulas is the former ceo. a fund has been set up for drivers who have been missing work. they've been receiving more than $75,000 in donation over the past few weeks. other people who--other workers who are protesting, they're also risking their jobs, and the company has said they will replace people who don't show up to work. >> michael: we got to get arthur t on the abraham some how. i know everybody is vying for him but morale is here. >> reporter: this is an incredible story. >> and missing work is importa important. >> reporter: it really is about a family owned business. many say they started out as a bag boy. >> right, and worked their way through the company. you've got an assignment now. an incredible moment caught on
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