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>> 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 this is al jazeera america. live from new york state. i'm david schuster. israel and hamas have been flaibl to comunable to come to n continuation of the ceasefire. gazans are nerves.
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in moscow, russian president vladimir putin is banning most food imports from the west as tensions intensify. in detroit, the man who shot a teenager who showed up drunk on his porch has now been convicted of murder. >> we begin this hour with the ongoing tensions between hamas and israel. at the moment the conflict is playing out diplomatically in cairo and not militarily in gaza. egyptian mediators are trying to extend the 72 hour ceasefire that took effect on tuesday. extending past the deadline fewer than nine hours away. hamas the current terms are unacceptable. while the talks continue, war
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weary individuals are getting nervous. nicole be johnston has the story. >> what happens after the ceasefire expires, 8:00 a.m. in the morning local timer. some reports are coming out from egyptian and israeli media that israel does favor idea of continuing the ceasefire without conditions attached. but hamas has not reached agreements. far apart on their demands in talks in cairo. reopening the rafah brotherhood crossing as well as a number of other demands and israel is talking about demilitarizing. something hamas would never agree to at this stage. >> nicole johnston reporting.
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ceasefire talks as james bays explains leaders are on tremendous domestic and international pressure to under the violence. >> reporter: after 29 days of death and bombardment it's now time for diplomacy. but the talks taking place in cairo will be extremely difficult and all sides have plenty to lose. the israeli prime minister bmentbenjamin netanyahu is alrey under pressure. israeli public have high expectations. israeli rockets may have only killed three people in four weeks but they want them stopped completely. there are those that wanted the military offensive to continue with the aim of destroying hamas once and for all. >> the perception of netanyahu in israel is very different than that of the international community. international community wrongly sees him as an ultrahawk that is
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goes to extreme measures. the israelis think of him as someone who sees things through and doesn't have the courage to take the step of capturing all of the gaza strip. >> mahmoud abbas will also feel the effects. gaza and the west bank. >> this war has the effect of marginalizing the plo learn to the favor of hamas and the other factions in gaza. it is very difficult to avoid the conclusion that this war ended by centering the political power -- by increasing the political power and the political plair popularity of h. >> it's lost fighters and
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military facilities. now israel is pushing for full dmilings. demilitarization. gaza has erupted in conflict three times in the last six years and arguably some of the issues involved need to be discussed in a wider israel-palestinian peace deal. none are talking about those talks resuming any time soon. james bays al jazeera, jerusalem. gaza health ministry says nearly 1900 were killed, over half of them singles. 190,000 are staying at u.n. facilities. at least 10,000 buildings in gaza were destroyed and repairing broken infrastructure is projected to cost at least $3
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billion. many people returning to their homes and apartments are finding almost nothing but rubble. a story about trying to rebuild. >> reporter: these are some of the steps mohamed has ever had to take. after three weeks of sheltering at a u.n. school he and three of his eight children come to see what's left of their home. along with the broken glass and plaster they clear away remnants of their past life. abu halima shows me where an israeli shell punched through his house and the damage done to his neighborhood after heavy fighting in the area. >> translator: the israelis hit our house with tanks and their f-16 jets fired missiles at it. we don't even recognize our own home. >> reporter: so to give you an idea what causes destruction like this you can only take a look at the shells used by israeli forces. this was fired by either a tank
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or some sort of artillery. you can see hebrew script on it but again it really gives you an idea of what causes so much destruction. etimada shows us the son she gave birth to. she tells me she doesn't want to stay here because a number of u.n. shelters have been targeted by israeli fire but feels her children are better here than back at home. >> translator: it was so much shelling and so many explosions near this shelter that i went into labor prematurely. even though it stopped i can't go back to my house. it's no longer fit to live in. >> reporter: mohamed surveys the top floor of his home. he had recently started construction on it to make more room for his family but it's now nearly destroyed and increasingly are his hopes for his children.
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al jazeera, gaza. deep impact on children. the united nations estimates at least 373,000 children need some kind of psychological or social help. nick schifrin spoke with one mother who is making some impossible decisions. >> reporter: nothing makes her happier than her children. that is four-year-old rami looking into the camera. the oldest is six-year-old miriam and two-year-old hasan is a bit of a ham for the camera. they're just like any kids anywhere. all three children were born in germany. last year her mother got sick. she chose to move them back into the neighborhood where she was born. she couldn't anticipate the the consequences of the choice she was forced to make. >> when israel fired missiles,
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they said we give you five minutes. >> reporter: on the one hand they feel lucky, their house is intact but the war is changing them. >> she used to talk about photos and pictures and then in two days i found she talk about f-16. oh my god. that's what's wrong. >> reporter: the war is inescapable and the trauma almost inevitable. >> reporter: and how worried are you about the long term trauma? >> because i don't forget, i don't think my children will forget. i try to look strong. because what i do believe as long as you are still strong your children will be fine. >> reporter: but the problem is: being strong is impossible. every night, she makes the awful shattering choice to separate them. she thinks if an israeli missile struck one room, she wouldn't lose them all. >> shooting if they fired
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missiles for our neighborhood like this, this place going to be destroyed. but this place going to be safe. so at least miriam will be fine. rami maybe not. what i did was to protect my children. so i feel like -- and i don't think that mothers in the war thinking in this way. i don't think so. they think, how -- what they going to -- wear them what they going to need them, what they going to live, how they should ask them to do this or not this. but they don't ask that they should sleep in there and even that and sleep there and put them bed, no, i don't think that -- i feel like i am a little bit crazy. and say no i'm not that crazy. when they target children they are crazy not i am. i'm saying when you wake in the morning, why you let me sleep
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here you sleep there? should i tell her that i'm afraid that she dies and it put her here and if she dies at least i keep rami for me, or if rami dice at least she stays with me? i tell a child six years old, i say no, i sleep there and i forget. look i lie, i lie, i lie, but that's what should i answer? >> reporter: there is no answer to that question. only a plea. >> our children are like any child in the world. they don't deserve what happened to them. >> reporter: one mother's nightly choice. in gaza there are hundreds of thousands of mothers. >> and that was nick schifrin reporting. in northern iraq islamic state fighters are on the offensive and have just made some major gains against kurdish
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forces. reuters made this report, the checkpoint is just over 30 minutes from erbil which is headquarters of the kurdish government. kurdish and iraqi officials are leading for international assistance to help iraq's religious minorities. mass executions and tens of thousands of ethnic minorities trying to flee are now surrounded with no food on a mountain near sinjar. the white house says it is assessing the humanitarian situation in iraq. lisa stark, tell us more about the white house reaction. >> reporter: well, david there have been meetings all day at the white house and the state department as the administration figures out what it can do about this humanitarian crisis. the ethnic minority, yazidis, are trapped on this mountain with no food or water.
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the concern is for those who have had to flee their homes. >> we are seeing christians being persecuted, other religious and ethnic minorities being persecuted just because of their identities, this is bar baker and disgusting, something we are deeply concerned about and very closely monitoring. >> ernest was asked repeatedly is the u.s. thinking about humanitarian aid, air drops of food and water, he would only continue to say they are closely monitoring the situation. at the taint, spokesman maria -- at the state department, maria harp says they are considering what they can do. david. >> what about any possible military aid, any guidance from the administration about what they're considering? >> well as you can imagine they're playing those cards very close to the vest. josh ernest has repeated what the administration has said, no boots on the ground, no combat troops back in iraq but the
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question is will there be strikes, perhaps air strikes against the islamic state to create some kind of humanitarian corridor for those folks to get out. ernest did say the u.s. has taken action like this around the world and he said each case is considered on a case-by-case basis. monitoring everything and trying to figure out what the u.s. should and can do david. >> lisa stark, reporting live from washington, lisa thank you. edward snowden can stay in russia for another three years. snowden is wanted i by the u.s. government for exposing secret intelligence information. now to the crisis in the ukraine. ukraine is ending the ceasefire
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with the separatists. after suspending the recovery operation there, risk pose ed to plane investigators was too great to keep working. continuing sanctions against russia, russia is fighting back. vladimir putin's government announced a ban on imported foods from the united states and european union. rory challenge has more from moscow. >> the list of embargoed products is long and extensive. beef pork poultry cheeses milk and dairy and fruits and vegetables. all these things will no longer be imported from the european union, the united states, norway canada and australia. to give you an idea on how much reliance the country has been for these imports, 61% of its beef came from the united states
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and europe, 61% of its milk, dairy and cheeses. of course other countries will step in to fill void and russian production will have to up as well. but economists are starting to worry what installationary pressure these embargoes might have and russians have gone on social media as well, seeing pictures from the empty shelves of the soviet union days, whether those days are back again in 2014, 2015. >> secretary of state john kerry made an unannounced visit to afghanistan today, in hopes of speeding up an election recount. the feuding candidates, in the runoff election. kerry's visit comes just
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days after u.s. military forces suffered their highest ranking fatality in afghanistan. a plane carrying green's body arrived in maryland today, insider attack happened on tuesday in kabul. the 16.3 billion level will allow the department of veterans affairs to hire physicians at outpatient clinics. investigation concluded there have been systemic problems across the va. guilty verdict of a man who shot a drunk teenager on his front porch. bisi onile-ere has the story.
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bee sebisi what do the parents o say? >> renisha mcbryde's mother said justice was done. they found wafer guilty of mamanslaughter and felony firearms. wafer had very little emotion, meanwhile mcbryde's mother was in tears. wafer who is white shot and killed renisha mcbryde who is black on his porch one early morning last november. throughout the trial the defense argued that wafer was trying to defend himself, he thought someone was trying to break into his house when she ended up on his door. had he other options, he should
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have called 911. listen to her mother. >> he had nine months, worked around, nine months we suffered. if he could have so-called the police she would have been in generate and we would have had her and never been here. if you would have called 911 we would never have been here. >> reporter: and mcbryde's parents said they don't feel that race played a factor in this shooting. they don't feel that renisha mcbryde was being targeted. they don't feel that what happened to their daughter could have happened to anyone. david. >> what is next for theodore wafer? >> theodore wafer he is now in jail. his attorney tried to stop that, let him have some time outside of jail until he is sentenced
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august 21st, the judge denied that request by the defense so right now wafer is in jail awaiting his sentencing. >> bisi onile-ere, reporting from detroit. bisi, thanks for the update. just up, primary today, and hawaii is not paradise on this thursday. an earthquake just rocked the island and a hurricane that's getting stronger, not weaker is now on path for a direct hit.
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>> concerns about russia and ukraine led to more losses on wall street today. the dow lost 75 points. the nasdaq and the s&p also fell today. in today's power politics, 98 days until the mid term elections and primary voters are going to the polls today in tennessee. republican senator lamar alexander is the final gop senator to face a tea party backed candidate.
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fans of alexander he is expected to defeat tea party challenger joe carr an exceptionally conservative member of the house of representatives. alexander has responded on tv and radio with this: >> in the last few days of a campaign don't believe anything new that you hear. so if it's about guns, remember the nra gave me an a rating. abortion, national right to life endorsed me. >> staying in tennessee, a scandal is haunting republican congressman scott dejarlay. forced his wife to have two abortions and that he had extra marital affairs. facing a well republican financed primary against jim tracy and making sure that voters remember his record.
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>> conservatives say he should resign because of his hypocrisy. scandal makes him ineffective in washington. >> outcome expected tonight. in the general election to a slew of aggressive and expensive campaigns, this year's campaign has become the most expensive for candidates. voting against children's hospital funding. >> tom cotton was the only member of congress from arkansas who voted against it. i don't know where his priorities are but they're not with arkansas children. >> in colorado, democratic senator mark udall is attacking republican candidate corrie
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gardner. >> antiabortion laws even sponsoring bills to make abortion a felony even in the cases of rape and increst. insa. incest. >> attack grimes in return. >> have you ever noticed liberals feel entitled to speak against every woman, as if every woman is against obama. >> incumbent democrat senator jeff murkley of fiscal irresponsibility. >> senator murkley voted six times against balancing the budget wasting even more of our money. there it pays to own a television station in a battle ground state. fueling advertising revenue records. finally there's an intriguing election taking place
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in the washington state town of oak harbor. owinger is 87 years old and he is a nudist. he's tired of seek change and optimistic in his sheriff's race. his wife says, i think he watches too much of that jon stewart. that's it for power politics. two hurricanes move towards the state of hawaii. no damage from the 4.5 quake. residents are bracing for hurricane iselle and hurricane julio. dave warren joins us for what hawaii can expenditure. >> quite usual for seeing this happen. hawaii is normally in an area of wind sheer, will relationship ra
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storm. all this is in place. the storm has to be tracking just right to avoid all of this. now we have two storms doing just that. iselle and julio, tracking in that trough that is reach for damage. it could maintain the hurricane status, right now winds about 80 miles an hour. minimal category 1 hurricane forecast to impact the area overnight tonight. then two days later, what could be tropical storm or depression julio passing just to the north. the stork is tracking to the south but the eastern-facing waves, highest gusts and most likely the highest storm surges. we'll be tracking what happens in hawaii. coming up. why the experimental ebola drugs used on the two americans is not widely being produced.
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>> the ebola virus continues to spread in west africa despite a multinational effort to contain it. the death toll now stands at 932 and the virus appears to have taken hold in nigeria. that's why u.s. health officials are sounding the alarm. >> reporter: the centers for disease control has increased its threat level to level 1 basically all are on board. watch this. >> the centers for disease control taking the ebola threat very seriously. >> the worst outbreak we have ever recorded.
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>> maps in the cdc's war room show why they are calling this disease a crisis in west africa. >> you could see for instance sierra leone it's almost the entire country that's covered. >> in nigeria, the country's most heavily populated nation, plans to limit travel with west african countries with the most hard hit cases. the president declared a state of emergency. bodies being dumped in the streets. >> out of control in these west african countries. >> a spanish victim flew home for treatment. first patient of the outbreak to be evacuated to europe for the treatment. the first americans evacuated are now here in atlanta. aid workers dr. kent brantly and
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nancy writebol are being treated at atlanta's emory university. >> frequent vital signs, treating problems as they arise. >> reporter: both brantly and writebol have been showing signs of improvement after taking a serum. >> not all the information is in on whether this drug is helpful. what we do know is the ebola virus both currently and in the past is controllable. >> reporter: the world health organization is holding an emergency meeting in geneva on ebola. one topic on the agenda is whether that experimental ebola medicines that haven't been tested on people should be used in the outbreak in west africa. that's the question that comes into play big time.
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as this ebola virus continues to spread in west africa. that gentleman that checked himself into the hospital in new york with ebola type symptoms, doctors say he doesn't have it and is he improving in mt. sinai. >> doctor give us the update, we talked about the zmat serum and how effective is it? >> it is not easy to say. we have not formally tested zmap. the only two humans who have received this are brantly and writebol. >> but it appears to be helping them. >> we assume so, we think so, could they be getting better because brantly is a younger person? is it the supportive measures we have been providing? they clearly have better access to medical care than the average
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west erveg aafrican. it is -- west african. >> if the zmap proves to be effective on these two case he, would it be ethical to get this to west africa perhaps without the clinical trials? >> there are a number of ethical are issues. how quickly can you produce it? it needs to be froze frozen refrigerated, tha that thawed. do you give it to the sickest people who are on their death beds? do you give it to somebody serial in disease when you are able to prevent mortality. >> can you answer your own questions? do the infrastructures exist first of all? >> we have some of the
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infrastructure, is that the right use of resources when there are things we know work, isolating quarantining and providing supportive measures. >> is it going after the sickest, isolating them, how do they go about doing this? >> essentially the method is contact-tracing. finderring out who is expose, testing them for ebola and quarantining and providing with supportive measures so we can get them through the infection. >> the head of the centers for disease control tom freeden said the virus must be stopped within west africa. he described this outbreak as an unprecedented crisis. watch. >> at the current trend within the past few weeks, there will have been more victims of the
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outbreak than in all previous outblaiks puoutbreaks put toget. >> when you compare it to other infectious diseases, nowhere near those kinds of numbers. 700, 900 cases of ebola and deaths from ebola, completely different scale. that said, yes, the key to containing ebola is to contain it in west africa before it spreads nationally. >> university of illinois just cancelled a program that they were going to do in west africa. is that going too far? are people too frightened by this? >> i think that actually makes sense. cdc has put out warnings saying we should not be traveling to west africa if that's nonessential travel. that's a renal reaction.
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but not continuing are are investigation in this country that goes too far. >> thank you for coming. violence from warring militias have swept through the capital of libya, tripoli as well as benghazi. the fighting has forced the united nations from the country. >> oscar pistorius repeatedly lied on the witness stand, legal team floatone too many theories about what happened that night that steenkamp died. the defense says pistons fired in self defense. pistons has pleaded not guilty. three al jazeera journalists acknowledge peter greste,
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mohamed anmohamed fahmy and bah, were sentenced to seven years, president obama said they should be able to have tree dom acrossm across the globe. al jazeera maintains their innocence. maria ines ferre has news around america. maria. >> david, researchers say they have identified the remains of a boy buried 73 years ago. george smith was 14 when he disappeared from the dozier school for boys.
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some former students from the 1950s and 60s have accused employees and guards at the school of physical and sexual abuse. so far researchers have found the raimtio remains of 55 piem . new details on detroit's plan to collect millions of dollars in overdue water bills. the mayor announced a ten point plan, including waiving turn on fees, extending customer care hours and providing financial assistance for low income customers. more than 15,000 customers have had their service cut between march and june. many have had it restored already. in tacoma washington, four manipulators are accused of are manipulating match orders and dumping shares of marijuana stocks. the promoters are accused of making more than $2.5 million in
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illegal profit. wildfire in oregon, residents from another 90 homes are under evacuation warnings if the blaze spread. so far no homes have been destroyed. firefighters plan to work through the night protecting structures. helicopters have been dropping water on the fire as well. and a florida teen who was in critical condition after being struck by lightning is recovering today. doctors thought the boy had permanent brain damage but he talked about -- for first time about life change experience. >> i just remember going to the beach and getting there, that's all. >> you consider this a miracle? >> yes. i had doubt, so much doubt now it's getting better and better and better, here we are like 15 days later i never thought but he did it he's a fighter.
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>> machines kept zack alive for 15 days but then his spirit kicked in. doctors think there's a very good chance he will make a full recovery and his mother says he is talking about wanting to go to church and do well in the community. it's a medical miracle. >> it's a wonderful story, maria, thank you. deporting illegal migrants, hamtion too quickly? some say we are skipping due process. one man hacked into satellite systems for commercial jet just proves how vulnerable the system is. next.
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even before the border crises a migrant could wait years to see a judge, and now many migrant will go to court without an attorney. >> representing a child acrossing into the u.s. illegally, all came alone, facing deportation. one is 17-year-old jose from gawguatemala. we asked we not use his name or show his face. >> it was very tough for me leaving my family but i left the country because i wasn't safe. >> reporter: ohio sai's been in the u.s. since february but still doesn't be david schuster jose's been in the u.s. since february. every few weeks his aunt calls the immigration court hot line and hears this: >> your case has not been filed with the immigration court. >> reporter: when jose and thousands of other migrant children are given a court date
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this is where they'll have to appear. cameras aren't allowed to record the proceedings but we were given access on a day there are no proceedings. immigration court is rather intimate. this is where the judge sits, right next to the judge is the translator. this is where the attorney for the government will sit. this is where the child must appear. for the fortunate few like jose will have an attorney with them. but many will appear alone. >> no one is guaranteed representation. >> nonprofit based in los angeles gives free legal help to undocumented minors. >> i've even been in immigration court where you have a five-year-old who's sitting here with a highly trained government attorney who probably went to a top law school, arguing their case for why that five-year-old should be deported and the judge is asking them questions and their feet don't even reach the
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floor while they're sitting in the chair. >> the just department's office of immigration review runs the court system. the agency would not speak with al jazeera on camera but in an e-mail wrote, all respondents have a right to representation at no expense to the government. the e-mail also said the department ododgehasdoj haslaunl provide representation to all who appear in immigration court. >> even though jose's case will take years he knows he's got a head start because he has an attorney. >> translator: i pray to god that everything goes well because i do want to stay in this country to study, to be someone. >> reporter: but as he sings of hope and never giving up he also knows the longest part of his journey has just begun.
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>> that was jennifer london reporting. joining us is bryan johnson, immigration attorney whose clients are facing deportation. most agree, speeding up deportation is fine, as long as you offer the immigrants due process. >> problem with this is that these children and their families they don't have a lot of resources. and it takes them some time to obtain an attorney. and so making the court go faster is possible that people are going to miss their court dates and possibly get ordered removed or deported from the united states. >> if they do find an attorney are they given the normal resources that criminal defendants are given, make phone calls to attorneys? >> if they're given a right to an attorney they have a much better chance to stay in the united states.
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there are a lot of options for unaccompanied minorless to stay in the united states. >> what's it been like to you representing some of these cases and trying to help them? >> for us, we do these cases a lot. it's rewarding helping these children. they face harm if they return to their countries and we like to help these children out and this crisis has been very upsetting to us to see so many people attack these children and try to harm them including the president wanting to expedite their deportation, still want them, attacking their immigration rights. >> for a lawyer it's pretty challenging. >> yes it can be very challenging because it's hard to speak to children to get them to open up about what happened to them. and it's hard to emotionally to hear how bad things have happened to them. but right now in terms of the speeding up of cases in new york
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we haven't seen too much of that yet. >> is part of the problem if you speed up the case and i would imagine as an attorney it takes you some time to get the children particularly to open up to trust you to be able to talk about the dangers they face at home, if they speed up the process, it's less time for you to get this information out of them. >> the children should not be a priority to remove them. the children are not a national security threat. around 50,000 have come in. they're not going to overwhelm the country's resources. it doesn't make sense at all, i believe it's purely a political rationale. >> teen white house suggests by speeding up the process that sends a message perhaps to some of these central american countries and families to don't send your children to the united states to begin with. >> but the welfare of children is going opay, that's going to pay, they're going to get harmed. >> if there is something the white house or congress could do right now given the fact they're
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speeding up, to protect the due process of the children or families, to make it a little bit easier for lawyers like yourself to get involved, what would it be? >> make sure people have attorneys. our clients are lucky enough to have funds to represent us. but the children need to be represented in order to be protected an if they don't have an attorney their chances plummet. >> brian, thank you very much so much for joining. >> cyberattacks are new normal. the pentagon has invested billions of dollars in securing american networks but many are still vulnerable. one man revealed how he hacked into satellite systems that guided commercial airliners in las vegas. jake ward, how widespread is the threat here? >> well, david, it's actually
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pretty widespread. this hacker basically took on the hardware made by five different manufacturers who all create satellite communications systems which turned out to be are integral to all -- to be integral to all sorts of things. we know this system in the television industry because sending the images you're sending of me right now. but it turns out that nawght nao relies on this. hard wired password, if you've got that password which is in several of the manuals of systems like this you can reset it and inject your malicious software into it. vulnerabilities in all kinds of systems that pipeline industry and certainly the military rely on. >> aunder never mind sort of military. what about civilian commercial systems and what the airplane
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systems and cockpit displays might be vulnerable too. >> well, that's right, that was the most alarming thing what he did. the idea that he could get into the systems that commercial jets use to communicate with air traffic control, he can play around with the in-flight entertainment system if he wants to which is pretty sort of annoying but i guess not quite as scary but the really scary part is he can mess around with the multifunction display units, computer screens that sit in the cock pits of many commercial jets and give the pilots crucial information. he can misinform the pilot if he wants to and in some cases gauges and dials have been replaced by these screens. santa marta will have many companies scrambling to revamp their hardware.
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this is a threat that one guy came up with and has revealed publicly. if you think of the systems that many people are working on privately, this is a greatly concern. >> jake ward, thanks as's. researchers have found a link between vitamin d and developing alzheimer's later in life. more likely to develop the disease. researchers found that people who did not have enough vitamin d had a 53% higher risk of some form of dementia. alzheimer's is the leading form of dementia affecting more than 5 million people in the united states. coming up the ncaa has voted to let the five richest athletic conferences have more autonomy. it is a very big deal. and why the receipts from this restaurant are going viral.
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>> critics of the ncaa, ruling over student athletes with an iron fist. today that fist got a little bit looser. michael eaves joins us with that story, michael. >> david, today's vote represents a huge shift for the ncaa, to limit the benefits of those who play college sports in the name of amateurism. under the current model, those players who receive athletic scholarships, were only able to receive tuition and fees, room and board, but for anyone who has sent their child to college, know there are more expenses involved in college. extends benefits for student athletes to also include the full cost of attendance. now that sum could be anywhere from $2,000 to $5,000 per student athlete depending on the
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school. the new measures also allow for athletes to receive better medical coverage and more opportunities to purchase disability insurance with assistance from the actual schools. an example of of something similar to this is heisman trophy winner jamison winston, could be agents who pay for extra, but right now this new autonomy model, big 5, acc, big 10, big 12, pack 12 and the sec. however this new model is open to any division 1 school but the other conferences would have to decide whether to implement these measures across the board or to leave it up to individual schools. now the earliest these measures can go into effect is january of next year. so david that means the michigan wolverines will have to wait, to
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give those big football players more to eat going to the training table. >> michael thank you. receipts are going viral, they cover the extra fee to cover the state's new minimum wage like. maria ines ferre is live. maria. >> customers started seeing this on their bills, a minimum wage fee of 35 cents. no matter what you buy you're going to see those 35 cents for that minimum wage fee. that's the restaurant's way of covering the recent minimum wage like to $8 an hour. hundreds are sounding off on social media about this. jake writing just raise menu prices a little. to put a fee on a receipt! and? any restaurant that would raise their fee on my receipt wouldn't get my bis.
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i spoke to the owner of the restaurant craig beamer and he says he didn't do this to make a political statement. he wants to be transparent with the customers about the extra cost. he does believe he will lose some customers. but he says right now business is up, david. >> all right, maria, thank you very much. going up for auction. 30 coins from the collection of a dallas businessman who died in 1988, are going up for auction. the auction is expected to bring in more than $300,000. the u.s. mint sold the coins to the general public nearly 200 years ago. i'm david schuster. we're tracking developments in cairo at this hour trying to see whether or not israel and hamas might be able to agree on extending their ceasefire, that ceasefire is due to expire eight hours from now so far the parties have not come to some agreement. we will keep you posted on that.
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also coming up at 6:00 eastern full day's wrap on the business news including what happened with the u.s. stock market today giving new sanctions that russia has put on the united states. i'm david schuster. thanks for watching. private. two years after community college, veries four years at a residential program, when the diploma will look the same to the world, value verses perceptions of value, it's real, and it's forcing tough choices on families that would otherwise be happy to reward their hardworking high schooler. >> high school senior of epicenterville virginia will head to radford this fall, the first in her family to go to college. >> i got the reeled
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