>> it's digging deeper it's asking that second, that third question, finding that person no one spoken to yet... >> you can't tell the stories of the people if you don't get their voices out there, and al jazeera america is doing just that. >> hi everyone. this is al jazeera america. i'm john siegenthaler in new york. escalation. the u.s. launches a second round of attacks in iraq. why the white house says this is an open ended mission. the ceasefire in gaza ends with no siz signs of a deal. >> i'm paul beban and we'll go deep underground for an exclusive look. >> and man on wire.

40 years later we'll here from philippe petite how he pulled off the artistic crime of the had stay. >> these are live pictures from gaza where it is just 3:00 a.m. the ceasefire is over. the deadly violence has started again. in gaza health officials say five people were killed by israeli air strikes after palestinian rockets were sent in a braj int gar an into israel. today, american war planes bombed islamic fighters, as they moved into erbil. tens of thousands of people are stranded in the mountains outside of erbil. the u.s. also dropped crates of food and water. president obama says american action is necessary to prevent a

possible genocide. lisa stark joins us again from washington with more and lisa more air strikes today. any idea what we can expect in the days ahead? >> well, as you can imagine john, white house says it will not be releasing any operational details but they did indicate that the president does not have to individually approve these air strikes. he has set out the mission parameters. it's up to the military to decide when and where to authorize these air strikes and to undertake them. there has been a number of air strikes today. u.s. air strikes did take out an artillery position, there was a drone strike and islamic state associated with that mortar and also there were four f-18s flying from a u.s. ship in the gulf, u.s. aircraft carrier took out a convoy, eight bombs dropped on that convoy, seven vehicles destroyed as well as a

mortar position as well as the islamic state fighters accompanying that convoy. now today at the white house, white house spokesman josh ernest says this is an open-ended mission. >> the president has not laid out a specific end date. we're going to sort of take this approach in which those kinds of decisions are evaluated regularly and are driven by security situation -- the security situation on the ground both as it relates to the safety and security of mairn mairch amn personnel but as it relates to supporting american and iraqi forces. >> worried about open ended mission that it could lead to american involvement again in iraq. the white house today reiterating josh ernest saying there will be no boots on the ground and that the president although he plans to help the

iraqis has no plan to resume the american fight in iraq. john. >> humanitarian aid lisa is the u.s. going to send more? >> well, there is every indication that the u.s. will send more humanitarian aid. that is what the state department is saying today and it is also reaching out to other countries for help this this regard. the president today had a phone call with king abdalla of jordan. they talked about the humanitarian crisis in iraq and the need for humanitarian aid. we heard from the british that they will drop humanitarian supplies in the next few days and the u.s. is likely to increase its humanitarian aid as well. spokesman maria harf says the u.s. has every authority to do so. >> we are talking about nations in the region how often they can help. but let's be clear, the government of iraq invited us to

help them. there is no question there. there is no legal question. >> already in the humanitarian drop that the u.s. made were 8,000 mres meals ready to eat as they're called and 5300 gallons of fresh water. but as you know john there are some reports that there are some 40,000 people that may be stranded stuck on this mountain with very little food and water, very hot temperatures. so clearly, more relief is going to be needed. >> lisa stark in washington, lisa thank you. the u.s. air strikes are aimed at protecting iraqis who are part of a little known religious minority called yazidis. jennifer london got to know them last year. >> many are trapped in the mountains with no food or water, others are headed 200 miles to the northeast to the holy city of lalesh.

i visited last year. all yazidis are expected to make the trip to the holy city. he told me yazidis believed in one god who created the world. the holes in this rock represent the good and evil that exist in each one of us. i asked him if the yazidi faith has similarities can other religionreligions. >> we haven't taken any from them. >> translator: these kids who introduced themselves to me are some of the estimated 600,000 yazidis in iraq. some have left the country to marry outside the faith and to

escape the 30% unemployment rate. they have also been the victims of massacres, they say 72 times in history. yazidis have kept their culture and face-to-face alive, despite persecution by saddam hussein and the violence after his fall. but their opponents are sunni militants who see yazidis as diseshing death. roxana saberi, al jazeera. >> a senior kurdish foish says the rebels have taken control of the dam in mosul. the kurdish leader said 500 kurdish leaders died trying defend the dam. u.s. officials say if the dam fails it could send a 15 foot wall of water all the way to baghdad. douglas oliphant is now a senior and national security fellow.

douglas, welcome. >> evening john. >> are these strikes working the way the u.s. want to? >> in the limited sense of what the president has set them out, yes i think they will. the president has said if i.s.i.l. or i.s.i.s, whatever you refer to them, awr you power will be used. if a force is out in the open and moving, going up the road going through mountains or an artillery piece set up and firing it's easy for air power to see it from the air for a pilot to see that is moving or that is firing. this is a type of mission in which air power really excels so this is a check he can cash. >> even if they had surgical and targeted air strikes hitting a lot of civilians allow account

united states be sure they are hitting people from the islamic state and not hitting people on the ground they don't want to kill? >> i think they can presume if people are moving towards erbil at this point and they are seeing the weapons and black flags that they are attacking the cities. air power, other places that the islamic state is taken over. >> are they lost? >> they're not lost but air power is not going to be the key. it's going to have to be a much more difficult much more combined operation and those operations will see more like we are seeing in gaza but the attacks in the open won't. >> but these air strikes can stop the islamic state in its tracks? >> i wouldn't be quite that definitive but this is certainly the type of environment in which air power does extremely well. >> the reason i ask this question, the american people have been told before about air

power, if you use enough air power it will work and often it doesn't. that's why reply question, i asked it several different ways. it seems to me this is not as easy as it might seem. >> it can be. i'm no air power advocate, i'm not a pilot. if we start talking about retaking mosul, i'm not going to write you a check and say air power will be definitive, it won't be. but this is a place where air power excels. >> talk about the islamic state having control of this dam. >> there are two pieces to this. we again need to emphasize, we don't know who holds the dam but if the islamic state has the dam they can use it, meter the flow of power, decides who gets what and use it as a resource or as

you indicated in your report, the u.s. agency published a report on this in 2007 thatted if this dam fails the wawfl water that comes out will be about 60 foot tall when it hits mosul and about 20 feet tall when it hits baghdad, there won't be a time to evacuate. if they were to use this, it could well be a weapon of mass destruction. >> as leastie mentioned, the king of jordan, king abdalla, are people in jordan worried about them going into jordan? >> if they aren't concerned they need to be. the next places are iraq, kurdistan and jordan. this is a very potent very powerful and very determined group that has a lot of capability and they've been very explicit about their claim. we used to call them i.s.i.l,

islamic state of iraq and the levant, what they call the le levant, is iraq and israel, and jordan. they are very clear about their claims. >> thank you for being here. >> thank you john for having me. >> how the conflict is affecting the global oil market. we're following another breaking story, renewed fighting between israel and hamas. shortly after the three day ceasefire was over, rockets were fired. 50 rockets were launched this morning. two people in israel were injured. the response from israel was swift, air strikes into ogaza. at least one child was killed. andrew simmons has more from gaza city. >> gaza's skyline once again blighted by warfare after

attempts to extend a 72 hour ceasefire failed in cairo. and then the grim familiar routine of the emergency response and tending to the injured. among the early casualties was a 12-year-old child who died after an israeli air strike. rockets have been fired at israel within seconds of the ceasefire expiring. some intercepted by the iron dome missile system. then, after israel's delegation pulled out of cairo its military was ordered to launch attacks. the stricken people of the gaza strip had seen it all before and with dread, many new heading for u.n. shelters, schools is the only answer. 4700 people are housed in this shelter, it's been full to capacity but during the 72 hour ceasefire, 1500 left to return to their homes. now they're all back queuing for

water, queuing for food. among those who have returned is the al asla family. their house was in shujayea, it was badly demand. but they're back to hear condolences for one of their adult children who had been killed. >> i remember him in every part of the house. how good he was to his family, how good he was to his kids. i miss him so much. >> palestinians in gaza only a brief respite and now back in a mindset of desperation. andrew simmons, al jazeera, gaza city. >> jane ferguson is live in jerusalem. what are we hearing from the israelis, jane? >> reporter: well, the israelis are saying john that that rocket fire has continued out of gaza. since the ceasefire expired this morning at 8:00 a.m., local time, the israelis say that 61

missiles have been fired from gaza. they have responded, they say, with over 40 air missions. of course each mission can drop several bombs. those are air missions over the gaza strip. now as you've heard, my colleague andrew simmons report there, there was a child killed in one of those air strikes. 5 gazans and three israelis injured in air fire. there have been clashes after protests that followed friday prayer, one palestinian was killed. in jerusalem city however today was quite calm. often there are clashes on a friday after prayers there but today people were in quite a thoughtful mood. we spent some time with people in jerusalem to ask them how they were really taking in what had been going in in gaza. >> friday in the holy city of

jerusalem and life here appears normal. muslims arrive on foot for friday prayers. devout jews practice their faith at the western wall. but the violence in gaza is on everyone's mind. in the mainly palestinian east side of the city locals say they feel a deep connection to the suffering of the gazans. >> some give some hope. >> people like kamal, a restaurant owner who lost his brother in the conflict here decades ago. >> same blood same people, we don't hate jews we just hate not fair. we must live as everybody around the world. >> reporter: as traditional coffee and shisha pipes are prepared, it's not easy to forget the war in gaza just 60 miles away.

>> does the war feel far away or close to you guys? >> in a way we feel about the people of gaza. we worry about the people gaza. practically it's far about. we're not getting harmed. we don't feel it materially. >> tourists fear visiting the holy land during times of tension but not all are staying away. >> i think it's being hyped up a lot. >> such a different thing. >> it's been overly hyped. it's more dangerous in chicago. >> attempts to find a political solution have so far failed. in the jewish quarter of the old city, many feel the demands of the lifting of the blockade in gooz argaza are urch realistic e unrealistic. >> they don't want to make a different arrangement. i haven't seen the way for the solution for this situation right now. >> but these ancient streets

have witnessed million and religious tensions for years. only more of the same. >> more wars, more wars, it will be more dead and more wars. >> until the conflict is resolved peacefully here the threat of violence will always remain in the background. so a lot of tension in the old city underneath the surface but also a lot of reflection on how people can try to resolve not just the current crisis but the consistent nature of this and the fact that wars break out every few years now with gaza. people really trying to think about the bigger picture there and how to prevent this happening again. >> so jane, more sirens in southern israel today and more people going into shelters, or not? >> well, certainly more rocket fire. there haven't been any casualties reported on the

israeli side today. three injuries as a result of rocket fire. and as i said earlier, there are over 60 rockets reported by the israelis into israel. but what we're not hearing is the basically reports of rockets firing being fired at extremely long distances which we have heard and that's been one of the most notable things about this recent conflict was that the hamas rockets were being fired distances that they have never been fired before. today that doesn't seem to be the case. it seems to be communities in and around the gaza strip on the israeli border that have been affected. nonetheless a worrying regression over what we have seen over the last month. >> jane ferguson thank you for update. at the start of this week's ceasefire israel said it had successfully destroyed hamas's network of tunnel. during the truce al jazeera was

given access to a hamas tunnel. paul beban has the story. >> deep underground in a secret tunnel somewhere between israel and gaza hamas fighters are on high alert. the masked men say this fortified passage way is their base for attacking military and civilian targets inside israel. al jazeera tamera machal was given access to this operation. >> we use this for military, and a number of zionist tanks. >> above ground a heavily camouflaged sniper locks and loads and in a concrete bunker an antitank unit keeps an israeli outpost firmly in the cross hairs. israel has known about the hamas

tunnels and fortifications for years but has reportedly been shocked about the complexity during the current conflict. the day before it began current operations, israel released this video. they were on their way to an attack before they and the tunnel were hit by an air strike. hamas spent $30 million building the tunnels using some 600,000 tons of cement. some of the tunnels are as deep as 90 feet underground, wired for electricity and communications. when the israelis released this video, prime minister benjamin netanyahu went on the television calling them tools of terrorism.

their purpose the destruction of israeli citizens and the killing of israeli children. a former ambassador to the u.n, suggested digging a moat 85 feet all around gaza to counter them. tweeted mission accomplished all the tunnels have been destroyed and all of israel is now safer. but john they certainly haven't gotten them all and there may be more than the one we saw here. >> paul beban, thank you. world health organization says ebola is just a global health emergency. so far nearly a thousand people have died from ebola. the worst outbreak in four decades. robert ray is live in atlanta at the centers for disease control. robert. >> reporter: john, good evening.

we got the unique opportunity to go inside the cdc at their emergency operations center earlier today where they have an all hands on deck approach and they're fighting the ebola infection for not only here but over in west africa. have a watch. as the ebola virus spreads the centers for disease control in atlanta has issued their highest alert, level 1. inside the cdc there's an emergency operations center. it's rarely activated and when it is, it means the situation is dangerous. the scientists here are monitoring the west african outbreak and planning their next move to stop the spread of infections. you guys know how to stop the spread, how is that? >> since this is only spread person to person, the way to stop the outbreak is to identify

cases getting them into isolation and treatment. >> this right here shows where ebola is i in infecting in west africa. >> easier said than done. its work has just begun. >> there are reports over there of citizens not going into hospitals because they think it's unsafe. some of them feel like they're being lied to. some are leaving bodies out in the streets. how do you guys change that? >> one of the real challenges is health education, component of this. to get people to trust the messaging and to comply with what our recommendations are. we understand that it's not just developing the message but finding that trusted person whether it's a village elder a religious leader, in a form where people will believe it and accept it and act on our recommendations. >> reporter: the center has sent an additional 2 dozen

scientists over to west africa in just the past week, another will be ton way in in a few days. >> is 50 enough? >> our 50 alone is not enough to solve this, we are working in coordination with other partners, world health organization, w.h.o. is providing the coordination. >> imagine having to work in this suit in high temperatures in west africa around ebola infected patients. it's not easy for the cdc. there needs to be more help and more bodies on the ground. they are also stressing there's no health risk in the united states and its goal for the infected countries after the spread is halted is to leave behind a strong infrastructure. >> so they can be better prepared the next time to both detect the unusual situation and to respond to it more quickly so it doesn't get to be the out of

control situation that we're experiencing today. >> but that's going to take a lot of money and a lot of health professionals a lot of scientists on the ground, right? >> so as part of the president's budget there's been some money that's been asked for specifically for what we call global health security and we see this as an investment globally in developing this capacity in other countries so they are prepared. >> the world health organization is calling a panel of medical ethicists to meet next week to include zmap an experimental serum used on the missionaries that are now here in atlanta. up the hill and down the hill about three blocks emory hospital, the two missionaries are there recovering. doctors say they are stable but still in serious condition. dr. kent brantly the aid worker released a statement to the

press. let me read a little bit of what he said. he wrote i'm growing stronger every day and i thank god for his mercy as i wrest will this terrible disease. i want to extending my deep and sincere thanks oall of you as well as for nancy and the people of liberia and west africa. so john the prognosis is unknown at this time for the two aid workers. the experimental serum they have received, not gone through any human trials. but we'll wait and see the cdc is getting people out to west africa as we reported at emory hospital has a long road ahead of them in getting these patients cared for. ahead, the islamic state and how their military are campaign

is so successful. and richard nixon had a history of being paranoid did it have to do with money?

>> this is al jazeera america. i'm john siegenthaler in new york. coming up: chased from their homes, displaced by the islamic state. what it's like to live on the run in iraq. plus 40 years after announcing the nixon resignation, what you probably don't know about his white house tapes. and it was a jaw-dropping stunt in 1974. a mid air walk between new york's twin towers. my conversation with philippe petite. we fin with another round of u.s. military attacks in iraq. the pentagon says drones and fighter jets again struck targets near erbil. the drones targeted mortar positions of the group that

calls itself islamic state. in afghanistan. secretary of state john kerry says the attacks will help stop a potential human rights catastrophe. >> it's grotesque targeted acts of violence show all the warning signs of genocide. for anyone who needed a wakeup call, this is it. i.s.i.l. is not fighting on behalf of sunnis. i.s.i.l. is not fighting for a stronger iraq. i.s.i.l. is fighting to divide and destroy iraq. and it's fighting to create a state of its own brutal oppression, a place where chaos and brutality, ruthless brutality governs. >> the fighting has forced tens of thousands of yazidis to flee into the mountains of sinjar.

near the city of erbil jane arath talked to some of them. >> almost overnight war has come to the kurdish region, between the cities of mosul and erbil, they sought shelter there, when the islamic state, formerly known as the islamic state of iraq and the levant. now another outpost of the islamic state, the kurdish flag replaced by those of its own. when it fell to the i.s.i.l. in june two days ago he left the camp. >> we heard that the islamic state might come and storm the camp. it was in complete chaos with the peshmerga forces so i picked up my family and left. >> reporter: this was the only roof over their heads they could find. safest and most prosperous part

of iraq, in this part of iraq apartments cost hundreds of thousands of dollars each but in the last couple of weeks, buildings like this have become the last refuge for those with nowhere else to go and an indication of how quickly things can fall apart. for some iraqis, things have been falling poord for apart fa while. he hasn't received proper medical care. >> translator: we went to the hospital. the doctor said i need to have my legs amputated. i said how will i survive afterwards? they just said, we need to cut them off. >> reporter: his family is shia, from iraq's ancient shebac mile-per-hour. >> we came the day before yesterday, we heard air strikes and there were fighter jets in the skies.

>> reporter: for decades, peacefully they lived together no longer. sahir, also a shia shabac is six months pregnant and terrified delivering her baby there. she wants to go to an negef. where she has herd they will find shelter. perhaps they will not need to live again. jane arath, al jazeera, erbil. slowly advancing on u.s. targets in iraq but the events in the last 24 hours show the u.s. is taking the newly formed islamic state very seriously. jonathan betz has the report. jonathan. >> implying it's not focused local hi, it's trying to establish a caliphate, a religious state where women are

not largely part of the home. a bold move osama bin laden made. >> the islamic state is so violent and so feared, not even al qaeda will work with them. islamic state fighters are quickly becoming a growing threat not just to iraq but the world. >> what we see in syria and now in iraq in terms of i.s.i.s. is the most serious threat to britain's security than there is today. >> rampaging across syria and iraq, slaughtering people destroying sliens and demanding people of other faith convert to islamic islam, pay a tax or be killed. it's forced tens of thousands of minorities including christians to flee. >> its grotesque targeted signs of violence show all the warning

signs of genocide. >> it's fighters are armed with american weapons abandoned by retreating iraqi forbes and flush with millions in cash from looted iraqi banks. >> given advances that i.s.i.s. or i.s.i.l. has made i think their accounts have grown substantially above any other group. >> fighters are trying to carve out islamist state, forcing executions to enforce islamic law. the leader has boldly declared himself the leader for all islam. >> have prepared themselves well for the day we will fight you. >> he's been using slick social media campaigns to recruit foreign fighters. >> i'm in the front line.

>> reporter: including hundreds of westerners. >> these are quite battle-hardened veterans who have real commitments to jihadist cause. >> those fighters have captured.much of iraq and syria but they don't want to stop here. they want to control all of this area within five years they say. they do show that the islamist state have big ambitions beyond the borders of iraq and syria. >> covering the middle east for more than ten years. david welcome. >> thank you. >> we've heard the term genocide used by the president and the secretary of state. with regard to iraq. how is this different from syria? >> excellent question. i was honestly surprised this was how the president framed the situation. another i don't remember w. geod

others might have said this is a humanitarian mission because they are trying to limit it, given the unpopularity of anything in iraq at this point but i don't know if this is going to play politically. essentially why this genocide? >> the united states committed to iraq once before. how long can this last? >> they can save erbil and slow the advance of the islamic state, but it doesn't deal with the basic issue how do you take mosul, the second largest city in the country, how do you control the islamic army, they can head in a different direction and go towards jordan. that gets close to israel. >> based on what's happened so far what is that going olook like? >> i think it could look very similar, a few months from now. a few years from now, barring a big change in the government in

baghdad, eventually sunnis moving away the islamic state could still exist. >> taking part ever iraq, could that remain in the hands of islamic state? >> that could. >> and essentially into jordan. what's the likelihood of that? >> i wouldn't tell you they would take the second largest city mosul and then move on to erbil. one person has told me they mount in areas they can win and win decisively. everyone is surprised by their military abilities so far. >> when american people look at this and they think about the investment of so many dollars and so many lives, how can the president -- what's the best way to explain what's going on do you think to the american people? >> well, i -- it's hard to say.

it's a very difficult thing to explain. >> you've been covering this for a long time trying oexplain it to the american people. >> i believe that groups like this are a threat mostly to moderate muslims in the region. what they're doing in the region is i think unpopular to most people in the middle east. they don't want to live under this kind of brutal rule. the problem is the united states has done a poor job of backing moderates in the middle east gaining effective governments. we can see what happened to maliki in iraq but he gutted the situation the u.s. worked hard to maintain. it's not easy to create stable tolerant governments in the region but i also think we captain ignore it. >> the united states says it went after the record in terrorn afghanistan, it's concerned that the islamic state group has taken over a portion of land where they can create and do

what they'd like to do. and i mean, is that -- is that more frightening than what was going on in afghanistan or in pakistan or in iraq before? >> i think it is. i think it's a major setback and i think it shows we cannot ignore region. later on you'll be looking at oil price in the wake of what's happening. the president clearly didn't want to use force but in past speeches he's made clear there are three strategic priorities for united states. one is the price of oil, the second the stopping iraq from obtaininon -- iran from gaininga nuclear weapon. there has to be some other new approach. >> david, it's always good to have you on the program, thank you very much. thank you. >> the price of oil has remained relatively steady. global supplies increased last month. .only supply in northern iraq

has been affected. fields in the south provide 3 million barrels of oil a day but the market is watching russia. it is not clear how economic sanctions will affect its oil industry. economic sanctions in russia are in response to the crisis in ukraine. today the u.s. warned russia against sending troops across the border. during a u.n. security council meeting today u.s. ambassador samantha power said, escalating the violence, international agencies not russian troops should be sent to help those in need. the downing of malaysia airlines flight 17 in ukraine has hurt an already struggling airline. the malasian government will be overhauling the airline. it will be removed from malaysia stock exchange.

leel twist in the attempted assassination of president ronald reagan 30 years ago. jaimed brady died on monday. the 73-year-old's death was the result of being shot in the head, during the 1981 assassination attempt. that would make it a homicide. there's no word on whether the shooter john hirch -- hinckley l face new criminal charges. 30 years ago, the day president richard nixon announced his resignation. >> i shall resign the presidency effective at noon tomorrow. i regret deeply any injuries that may be done in the course of the events that led to this decision. i would say only that if some my judgments were wrong and some were wrong, they were made in what i believed at the time to

be the best interests of the nation. >> the president delivered the address to the nation thursday evening, then on friday morning, he made that now-infamous walk across the white house lawn to marine 1 for one last time. lawyer nick ackerman was part of that watergate special prosecution force. thank you for being here. >> thank you for having me. >> there were a lot of issues about why richard nixon taped hihimself. you have the answer. >> it rises out of the taxes of 1969. in 1969 the congress passed the tax reform act. couple of things happened, they changed a allow as to whether or not the president could donate his papers to the government and get a tax deduction.

nixon lobbied abou against that change. they did it anyway. he ended up back dating, essentially creating tax fraud so he was left with no option at that point after 1969, co-not donate his papers. so one way to get around the law, the law did not apply to tangible goods like tapes. so one way -- >> so he did it for atax break? >> it was a tax break. this was a guy, i twhras a was a young assistant prosecutor. i remember the letter he wrote to his lawyers asking if he could deduct cost of his papers. he was basically paying the same rate as people making $15,000 at the time. >> in some way this was a tax dodge? >> it was a tax dodge

absolutely. the irony of the whole thing is it was really this greed in trying to get around the law that led to his demise. it would have been his word against john dean's word and some other people. >> what else don't -- you think american people don't know about watergate that they need to know? >> i think there's a couple of things. the new york times had the story about watergate the day after it happened. todd schultz a reporter for new york times was called by a source he had in the white house by the name of manuel. who told him this was all done by colson and howard hunt. >> one source? >> that's why they didn't go with it. >> so you talked about this bringing down the presidency and ironically because it was an attempt at a tax dodge. but can you characterize the

abuse of power by the president of the united states in this case? >> it was enormous. you're not talking about wiretapping the opposition. you're talking about using government agencies to go after political opponents. by using the toir irs to try aut people and beating up demonstrators. >> what was the worst in your opinion. >> the breaking in of elsburg, one witness to kill elsburg, on the steps of the capitol during an antiwar demonstration. there was some bad stuff that happened. we have had mini scandals, the contra-gate, they put gate on the end of everything. i don't think anything else comes closer than this nixon

administration to undermine the government of the united states. >> you were a young man -- >> i was. >> and you worked for the special prosecutors, leon jaworsky and archibald cox. what pressure was on your office? >> the pressure was to do a did job and to come off as fair and judicious in what we were doing. everybody was looking at us and here we were going after the president of the united states. two people very high up, two attorney generals were convicted of felonies. i think the real pressure was to make sure that what we were doing was totally by the book, that we were proper in what we were doing, that we weren't going off the reservation -- >> did you talk about that? >> all the time. it was something underlying the ethic of what we were doing. it was very, very important that we not appear partisan.

>> and you thought it was important for the country. >> it was absolutely important. we had not one week out of the office. you wouldn't see me doing this 40 years ago. most of the players are dead, most of the stuff i'm talking about if you got into the archives you could find a lot of this material but i think this was a very important part and part of it was set by archibald cox who had a very high ethical standard. >> and had the courage to do it. >> that's correct. >> nick ackerman, it's good to see you and thank you for telling your story. journalists are also remembering the nixon administration. and the contentious relationship he had between the white house and the press. >> they saw cbs news and myself as the enemy. as the nixon tapes later revealed. and he wanted in effect to

destroy us. >> i also talked to rather about jfk and the state of journalism, you can see our interview 11 eastern, 8 pacific time. the summer of 1984 is not only remembered for water gate. how philippe petit pulled it off over the streets of than hat an coming up.

>> geerng, i'm meteorologist kevin corriveau. 70,000 people are without power this evening across the big island of hawaii because of iselle, making landfall at 2:00 a.m. you can see how it made landfall across the southeastern coast. we saw about 15 inches of rain in some locations. flash flooding is still going on across the island. we're dealing with rain across some of the other islands as well. still a tropical storm, still getting waves and surf across

some of the southern shores. over the next couple of days we're now going to be watching the next storm system making its way across the islands. previously julio was a category 3 hurricane. the storm track is going to take it to the north of the hawaiian islands. this is cone of uncertainty. it's going to remain a hurricane just to the north, it's going to be bringing some additional showers, those could be quite heavy across some of those areas, that have already seen incredible amounts of rain. the flash flooding will continue as we go, we might get a break on friday but as we continue friday, saturday and sunday, w that is the weather. more of your news in a few

minutes. >> it was 40 years ago this week, high wire artist philippe petit walked between the towers of the trade center. >> six and a half years of dreaming and crazy work. >> you brought a piece of the cable that you used to walk across from the two world trade center towers. obviously that's heavy stuff right? >> i'm going to lend it to you

but be careful it will break at 60 tons. >> 60 tons? >> yes. >> you shot this with a bow and arrow? >> not actually, this is so heavy, i couldn't shoot it across. what i did was pass through a bow and arrow and a fishing line. we pushed a cord then a rope then very heavy cable. so it took us all night of rigging. >> while you're watching this happen right, what's going through your mind? are you starting to get nervous? >> i'm the leader, the engineer and the rigging master behind all my high wire walks. so i was very concerned am i going to get caught in the middle of the rigging between the twin towers? would i have enough time before the workers finish the roof the next morning? all of that was part of the angst of the illegal walk.

>> you walked back and forth eight sometimes? >> it wasn't just walking, it was improvised. the police who were waiting for me to give myself up said he is not walking he is dancing. >> you were lying down on the wire? >> othe salute the sky, to dialogue with the seagull. i was trespassing in the territory of the birds and when i saw that see gull there i started a friendly dialogue. i didn't want them to come back and eat my liver, you know? >> you are thinking all these things while concentrating on staying on this little wire. >> exactly. yes. well, it's a big wire you know for me. it's a boulevard. >> it doesn't look that big to me, when you talk about being on top of the world trade center. can you talk about what 9/11 meant to you? >> no, i cannot because it will be wrong for me to talk about a

personal loss of two magnificent towers that i love like human beings when actually when they fell they took with them thousands of human lives. how can you talk about the loss of an architectural marvel and a loss of human life. since i spent six and a half years of getting to know those towers, and i married them with my wire, that cannot be compared to the human tragedy of that day. >> that was a conversation with philippe petit a few years ago. he used the same wire that was stretched 40 years ago between the twin towers. freight trains loaded with dozens of oil-carrying cars can be potentially hazardous to the community but people never know when they are rolling through.

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