you for being with us. >> thank you. >> that's it for now. but the conversation continues. you can find us on twitter @ajconsiderthis. we'll see you next time. >> hi everyone, this is al jazeera america i'm john siegenthaler in new york. the second wave. u.s. war planes target the islamic state in iraq. what you need to know about the mission. the risks. and the civilians president obama wants to protect. home grown hate. the kkk targeting undocumented workers threatening to use violence to keep them out of america. we get thousands of people calling us a day that accepted in money donations and want to see moraleys. they are begging us to come to

townd to do antiimmigration rallies. >> their immigration plans. train spotting, a watch group keeping a close look at the rails and its oil cargoes. philippe petit talks about the feat that stunned the world. >> we begin with two important stories tonight from conflict zones in the middle east. both have america and the world's attention. the u.s. air strikes in iraq and the war between israel and hamas where the latest truce collapsed triggering more rockets missiles and death. and in gaza city it is saturday morning. we'll get to that story in a moment. but first iraq. drones and fighter jets targeted

islamic state fighters. the pentagon said bombs took out mortar positions and a rebel convoy. u.s. airplanes cannot fly over iraq united states just too dangerous. the ban applies to all u.s. registered planes and a kurdish leader has cleared up the issue of the dam in mosul. it has fallen into the control of the islamic state group. if it fails it could send a wall of water all the way to baghdad. the u.s. has conducted another drop of food and water to yazidi group. lisa stark has the story. >> escorted by two f-18 fighter

jets. dropped two pallets of humanitarian supplies. more than 28,000 ready to eat males more than 1500 gallons of water to that group trapped on the mountain side. the pen pentagon will determine whether more is needed. >> falls under requirements of the war powers act right? >> exactly. the pentagon says he was going ofollow the war powers act and tonight he did notify machiningf congress on his rationale for going into iraq. he says the strikes are necessary to protect american personnel in iraq and to help break the siege on mount sinjar where all those folks are trapped and where the humanitarian drop was made this

evening. the military operation will be quote limited in scope and duration but at the white house today spokesman josh ernest said this mission is open ended. >> the president hasn't set out a specific end date. we are going to take this approach in which those kinds of decisions are evaluated regularly. and are driven by security situation on the ground both as it relates to the safety and security of american personnel but also as it relates to supporting the ongoing efforts of both kurdish security forces and iraqi security forces. >> as you mentioned there were a number of strikes today by u.s. military aircraft. in fact f 15 fighter jets as well as predator drones. they destroyed an artillery position a mortar position and a convoy. in the area around erbil where the u.s. has a consulate and a joint operations center between the u.s. and kurdish forces.

the pentagon says those strikes killed a number of fighters with the islamic state. the president does not need to authorize those strikes individually. he has set out the vision and john it is up to the military to determine when and if to take those military strikes. >> of course last night we watched the president make his announcement that he was going ohave these air -- to have these air strikes in iraq. what's the response from congress today? >> congress has been mostly supportive of the president's action and of course of the troops. speaker john boehner saying it was very appropriate but he and other republicans are also criticizing the president saying he took too long to act. on the democratic side there is some concern about mission creep. for example there is a democratic senator from connecticut that is worried this could lead to engagement in iraq. the president assuring that is

not his intention, no boots on the ground. john. >> this has caused tens of thousands of yasd yazidi to fle. near the city of erbil, jane arath talked to them today. >> almost overnight war has come to the kurdish region. many of these families were in fazr between the city of mosul and erbil. they sought safety in tent cities there when mosul fell to the islamic state, formerly known as islamic state of iraq and the levant. this week yasr fell then another post of the islamic state. replaced by the group's own. abu and his family left, two days ago he left the camp. >> we heard that the islamic state my come and storm the

camp. withdrawal of peshmerga forces i picked up my family and we left. >> heading west this was the only roof over their heads they could find. the kurdish region has always taken pride as being the most safe and prosperous part of iraq. in this area, apartments cost hundreds of thousands of dollars each. but in the last couple of weeks, this has become the outpost of nowhere else to go. >> for some rakes it has been falling a part for a while. he has been disabled since not getting proper medical care. >> i went to the hospital the doctors say i have to have my legs amputated. i said how will i survive

afterwards, they just said we need the cut them off. >> they've moved three times in the last two years. >> translator: we came at 3:00 in the morning the day before yesterday. we heard air strikes and there were fighter jets in the skies. >> for decades iraqi christians and other minorities lived peacefully together. no longer. she is six months pregnant and terrified of delivering her baby here. she wants to go to nejef where she hear they might find a house. here local people provide food but there's no shelter and no certainty that with a widening conflict they won't have to move again. jane arath al jazeera, erbil. for months the islamic state, now president obama has decided to take action. jonathan betz has more on that jonathan. >> the john the group was called

islamic state of iraq and the levant. but it dropped the last words. people are not allowed to pray toal together. a very bold blood and something not even osama bin laden made. the islamic group 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 to 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 that there is today. >> for months, rebels have been rampaging across syria and then iraq. slaughtering people destroying sliens and demanding people of other faiths convert to islam, pay a tax or be killed. it's forced tens of thousands of

minorities including christians to flee. >> it's grotesque targeted acts of violence. show all the warning signs of genocide. >> its fighters are armed with american weapons abandoned by retreating iraqi force he and flush with millions in cash from looted iraqi banks. >> given the inroads that i.s.i.l. has made, above any other group. >> strict islamic state, where even man cins faces must be covered. enforce being islamic law. its leader is abu bakr al-baghdadi. a mysterious force, captured by american forces in 2005 but then released. >> soon enough you will find yourself in a direct confrontation with the sons of islam who have prepared

themselves well for the day we will fight you. >> he's been using slick social media campaigns to recruit foreign fighters including hundreds of westerners. >> these are actually quite battle-hardened veterans who have real commitments to the jihadist cause. >> those fighters have already captured much of iraq and syria. they don't want to stop here. the group has said they want to control all of this area within five years. probably more of a propaganda ploy but shows the islamic state has big ambitions beyond the borders of syria and iraq. john. >> the war between israel and hamas. the ceasefire is over. it ended with rocket fire early this morning. the first shots were from gaza. 60 rockets were launched towards israel and israel responded with air strikes on gaza. andrew simmons has more from

gaza city. >> reporter: gaza's skyline once again blighted by warfare after attempts to extend a 72 hour ceasefire failed in cairo. 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 are had 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 before. heading for u.n. shelters, schools was the only answer. frefer 00 people -- 4700 people are housed in this shelter,

during the ceasefire 1500 left to return to their homes. now they're all back coug for cg for water queuing for water, qug for food. >> this family's house was in shujayea, now they're back to receive condolences for one of their adult sons that were killed. >> i remember him in every part of the house. how kind he was to his kids. i miss him so much. >> palestinians in gaza having only abrief respite and now back in a mindset of desperation. andrew simmons, al jazeera, gaza city. streets appeared almost normal but looks can be deceiving. we get more from jane ferguson. >> while violence continued in the gaza strip on friday as well as protests across the west

bank, in the city of jerusalem things were quiet and contemplative on friday. al jazeera spent a while there talking to people on both sides about how they feel about the currently conflict in gaza. friday in the holy city of jerusalem and life here appears normal. muslims arrive on foot for friday prayers, as devout jews practice their faith at the western wall. but the violence in gaza is on everyone's mind. in the mainly palestinian side of the city, residents say they people a deep connection to the suffering in gaza. >> send us some hope. >> a restaurant owner who lost his brother here in the conflict decades ago. >> same people. we not hate jews, we just hate

not fair, who must live the same as everybody around the world. >> as traditional coffee and shisa pipes are prepared, violence taking place in the gaza strip just 60 miles away. the war in gaza feels far away or feels so close to you guys? >> no to us it feels close and we feel with the people of gaza. we worry about the people of gaza. actually it's far we're not getting harmed, we don't feel it materially. >> tour guides with little work, tourists fear visiting the holy lands during times of tension. >> i think it's hyped up a lot. >> 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 city many feel demands of the

lifting of the blockade against gaza are unrealistic. >> what they're asking is close to impossible now. they don't want to wait or make a different arrangement. so i happen to see the way for the solution for this situation right now. >> but these ancient streets have witnessed political and religious tension for centuries. the people who live here know a failure to find a solution will mean more of the same. >> more wars, more wars, it will be more bad and more wars. >> until the conflict is resolved peacefully here the threat of violence will always remain in the background. talks in cairo continue to be fraught with difficulty. technically, the israeli delegates have left and they are not officially taking part in any talks with the palestinians anymore. however those were always indirect talks. the egyptians shuttling between

either side. the hope right now is there will still be some indirect discussions between both sides to try to come to a diplomatic solution. >> that's jane ferguson in jerusalem. now earlier this week israel announced it had successfully destroyed hamas's tunnels. but not all were taken out. earlier this week al jazeera was given access to aa hamas tunnel. paul beban has that story. >> hamas fighters are on high alert. the masked men say this fortified passageway is their base for attack civilian targets inside israel, inside hamas's underground operations. >> we use this hideout to launch attacks, and this place here was surrounded before by a number of

zionist tanks. >> above ground a heavily camouflaged sniper locks and loads and in a concrete bunker an anti-tank unit keeps a neerp israeli out post firmly in the cross hairs. israel has known about hamas's tunnels and fortifications for years but is said to be shocked by the extent of the network it has uncovered. the day before it began ground operations the israeli military released this video. on their way to launching an attack before they and the tunnel entrance were hit by an air strike. israeli media said 100 tunnels to 30 tunnels have been discovered.

building with 600 tons of cement. some as deep as 90 feet underground wired for electricity. fighters climbing out of a tunnel and launching an attack that left five israel soldiers dead, prime minister benjamin netanyahu said, a former israeli ambassador to the u.s. called the tunnels a medieval tactic and suggested digging a moat 85 feet deep all the way around gaza to counter them. on tuesday just before the ceasefire began israel's military tweeted, mission accomplished, but clearly they still have work to do. so far they have been relying on intelligence actually using dogs to sniff them out and robots to

look for the branches and entrances. apparently they are developing sensor technological but that's two years away. >> coming up next. >> leave the corpses laying on the border. >> more hateful messages from the klan. kill undocumented immigrants. plus crowd sourcing. a new way to find out when potentially dangerous oil trains are passing through neighborhoods.

>> tropical storm iselle slammed hawaii today, leaving thousands without power. now the island is bracing for more weather. kevin corriveau. >> julio back here but i want to give you a little bit of perspective for storms across hawaii, believe it or not it has been 56 years since a tropical storm has made landfall on that island. 20 years since a hurricane has hit. let's put this into motion if we

can. there we go. northern shore of oahu. you can see conditions have been improving across the region. we're looking a little bit better in terms here but for the main island of hawaii we have seen about 17,000 people without power across this island right now. so let me tell you what's going to be happening with this storm. julio is going to be making his way towards the north and skimmed northern parts of hawaii over the next several days. unfortunately because we have seen so much rain on the main island of hawaii, we've seen about 15 inches of rain and flash flooding a major problem there, incredible amount of rain still falling across that region. julio is a category 2 storm. as it makes it across, it is going to be a category 1, not making landfall but making a lot of rain over an area that's already saturated. john back to you.

>> thank you kevin. how safe are trains carrying oil? allen schauffler explains. >> dean smith is on the watch for oil trains, monitoring tracks a few feet from buildings. when he found, nobody told him exactly how many trains rolled through town, he organized a train watch. >> everybody seem to be turning their back on this problem so we as citizens have to do it. >> they counted 16 trains that week carrying an estimated 52 thousand gallon of crude, from the bakken oil field. 1267 placard denoting bakken crude. >> the first train moved into washington state in september of

2012. this is new for almost the entire country. >> eric admits he would like to stop everything that expands our use of fossil fuels. he sees railroad trains as rolling bombs. >> you're looking at 3 million gallons of potentially explosive fuel. not something that railroads are stepping up to deal with. >> railroad spokesman gus malonis says they do step up. he cites bnsf efforts, better train cars. >> right now there's a demand and we move the products that america demands. >> railroads hauling bakken oil have been ordered by the

department of transportation to provide information about how often the big trains run and how much they carry. information public over. >> for security we do provide it to the people that need to know. >> dean smith and his volunteers are hardly alone in their efforts. vancouver, washington caichts as are encouraging twitter reports. rail line blast zones across the country. urban train crossings are easy targets for growing protests in the west like this one in seattle. smith knows his group can't stop the railroads but wants to track the numbers they give out and have as much information as possible for a matter of safety. >> you've got a real job here to do. and if i have to tell you what that is then okay i'll tell you. but i want you to pay attention.

>> track side on the train watch, allen schauffler, al jazeera, everett, washington punish. >> coming up next, u.s. war planes dropping bombings over iraq. we'll get a military assessment of the mission. plus. >> we in many ways lost our guts. we don't have the guts we once had. >> dan rather explains and talks about journalism after the break.

>> this is al jazeera america. i'm john siegenthaler in new york. we're going to have more on the u.s. air strikes in iraq in just a moment but also coming up this half hour a ral ying cry against undocumented immigrants. what the kkk is planning to keep the borders closed. plus legendary journalist dan rather on watergate. and 40 years later, philippe petit talks about his legendary high wire walk between the twin towers.

but first, iraq and the second wave of u.s. military attacks there. the pentagon says drones and fighter jets launched from the u.s.s. george h.w. bush hit two targets near erbil. against the islamic state, the u.s. fighter jets also hit a rebel convoy. three strikes in less than 24 hours. mike lyons, welcome back. what is the mission here? >> the mission is protecting erbil, it seems like that city cannot fall to i.s.i.s. at this point. our relationship with the kurds and if there is any future of kurdistan. >> genocide when it comes to the

mountains of sinjar and the 40,000 people that are trapped there. how can the u.s. government and apparently that's part of the mission as well right? how does the u.s. government get those people protect those people? >> we haven't seen the details of how they are going to secure that operation. they had another drop in there, there's more supplies that had given to them. they had lost some pallets, they were concerned that some might have gotten to the enemy. they need to get them down and out of there somehow. >> so there's a line in the sand that's really been drawn by the united states, islamic state don't go here? >> there's no question there has been. definitely into erbil given what they're attacking now. the kind of air power is the right kind for the offensive operations they are doing. they are going to kick up a lot of dust as they come towards the city. but you have to go a couple hundred miles to where the refugees are. how do we secure that operation,

does the iraqi force do that, who does that? >> there is confirmation that the islamic state holds the dawm in mosul. therdam in mosul. controlling the dam means what? >> that's not good, some the iraqi security forces have to get back right away. if they open that dam, some of the people i.s.i.s. weren't able to capture on the way to erbil at this time. >> if they don't they could cut off electricity to people. >> and their water as well. the key if they control it they control a tragi strategic asset. >> the worry has been that this group might head towards jordan. what's the possibilities of

that? >> we'll see that if that happens. you'll likely see a similar scenario that the united states will become a de facto air force for the jordannian jordanians oe ground. this could be a situation where if they continue to try probe and get north and start this attack if we attrit their vehicles one at a time that would be a good thing but it's going to take reenforcements from other countries. >> more than just air strikes you say? >> i think you could do it with air strikes with the drone technology, giving us a competitive advantage so to speak in that arena now. >> that's just stopping the islamic state and it's now got a good chunk of iraq. is that what we're facing in the next several years, islamic

state having its own couple in iraq and syria? >> we would not want to see a group like this have as much power. what we could do is cripple it. we've got some of the sunni that's been disenfranchised. bring them back into the fold get them to fight against these islamic radicallists that they fought once before in the sunni uprising. >> syria is much more complicated. >> it is much more complicated. that is a place where we just don't have anybody on the ground. we are not allied with anybody. the president said months ago, that regime has to go. >> you have president assad on one side and the islamic state on the other? >> the rebel forces haven't been strong enough. we don't want to see again a

situation where we give weapons to a group that they turn around and use them against us or our friends. >> mike lyons, thank you very much. a story we have been following about the ku klux klan. spreading message of hate. more from robert ray on a story you'll only see from here. >> reporter: john, this saturday the kkk will hold a rally in believe it or not a town called welcome in north carolina. shoot to kill campaign on american borders that's in an effort to increase their membership as they say across the country. well recently we caught up with these guys and we went head to head. rolling hills, nice homes. and small churches. but some residents here worry the so-called invisible empire

the ku klux klan is growing up around them. >> kkk asked us to meet them here at this post office. they say from there we'll be driving somewhere to do our interview. as a matter of fact, here they are, turn the camera derrick. they've got their hoods. hello guys. this is right meeting spot. >> follow us, we'll follow you. will only take five minutes. >> we'll do that. the kkk has been around since the 1860s promoting white supremacy. classified as a hate group by the fbi some members have been convicted of crimes including murder torture rape arson and racial intimidation. today they're here to talk about the crush of women and children immigrants crossing the border. guess i'm going to pull up over

here and we'll get out. this group in north carolina is called the loyal white knights. and it claims to be the largest active kkk operation in america. its members led us to a field with thousands of sun flowers. a place where they say the klan gathers, plans recruitment and burns crosses. but now they have a new call to arms. the immigration crisis that's going on on our borders right now when we called the hot line for the kkk just a couple of weeks ago there was a call for a shoot to kill law. how do you describe that? that seems incredibly full of hate. >> these people are criminals to begin with when they come to our country. they are breaking the law. once they come across our borders, what makes you think they're going to stop committing

crimes? they are bringing third world diseases. >> these are little kids, ucalling shoot to kill little kids? >> to me they're breaking the law. we pop a few of them off leave their corpses laying on the border maybe they'll see we're serious about stopping immigration. >> the klan said they were christians they insist as usual they are not a hate group but simply white separatists. but the fbi says the klan is responsible for domestic terrorism and crime. >> the only thing responsible is for european descent. >> a white home land. more and more people joining the klan and getting fed up with immigration. >> you only have 8,000 where you

used to be millions. how is that on the rise? >> that's picking up, doing recruitment drives and tv interviews. >> and using bags of can't and fliers that say save our plan join the klan. southern poverty law center, just a few years back there were more than 200. a spike in claverns as they call them just after president barack obama was elected. >> what do you think of the current administration in washington? >> i think obama has sold out the americans, i truly do. stop the immigration problem, put a stop to it then we have it pouring in. >> precisely what they need to recruit new members they offered no proof. >> you realized the perception of most people in america and around the world, when they see

the hoods and they listen to some of the things you guys say they think it's pure idiotcy, you know that right? is it a mental problem? what is it? >> depends where you come from like i said, y'all doing one side of the view. sending in money and wanting to see moraleys. they are begging us to come to their town doing antiimmigration rallies. >> again we asked for details and they offered none. so john the kkkkk clearly trying to take advantage of the immigration issue on the border. they were handing out candy bags in san diego california, with the same old rhetoric, they say their numbers are up because of this new campaign but if you ask them questions they can't give you any concrete numbers or any

facts. john. >> that's robert ray reporting. new legal twist in the attempted assassination ever president ronald reagan 30 years ago. james brady died on monday. the 73-year-old's death was a result of being shot in the he head. during ronald reagan's assassination attempt. there is no clear word whether john hinckley will face more charges. earlier i asked nick ackerman part of the watergate prosecution force, why president nixon taped himself. the answer might surprise you. >> in 1969, the congress passed the tax reform act, they changed

the law on whether or not a president could actually donate his papers to the government and get a tax deduction. nixon lobbied against that change. congress passed it anyway. he wound up back dating the deed on his gift to the u.s., prior to the time that the law went into effect, essentially committing tax fraud. and so he was really left with no option at that point after 1969, he could not donate his papers. so one way to get around the law. the law did not apply the tangible goods like tapes so one way -- >> he did it for a tax break? >> it was a tax break. this was a guy -- i was there as a young assistant prosecutor. i remember seeing a memo that he wrote to his tax lawyers asking if he could deduct the cost of his businesses. >> how much money could he have made on that? >> quite a pit about. >> really -- wide a bit. >> really?

>> he was paying the same tax rate as persons making $15,000 at the time. >> it was a tax dodge? >> it was a tax dodge absolutely. >> white house correspondent for cbs, and to the events that led to nixon's downfall. i asked dan rather what he remembers about watergate. >> first the image of richard nixon saying good-bye, i'm outta here, that's image. but what sticks to him the most was the system worked. we are a nation built on laws. no person stands above the law. it didn't work perfectly, he was not brought to trial but the system of law is what sticks with me most. >> talk to me about your white house correspondent by cbs, how

was your relationship? >> it was hospital style. from the beginning it was a great surprise the me. i had covered most of the lyndon johnson presidency and frankly looked forward to a new administration coming in kind of excited. you never met anybody who had more respect for the office of the presidency of the united states than i do. i wasn't ashamed to say every day i walked through white house gates i was proud of it. but they saw me as the enemy as the nixon tapes later revealed and he wanted in effect to destroy us. >> let's look at a little piece of pain during a press conference with president nixon. >> thank you dan rather, cbs news. are you running for something? [applause] >> no, sir mr. president are you? [applause]

mr. president -- >> what did it feel at that moment that the president got pointed with you? >> he had done it before. part of president nixon's technique, when he thought you were going to ask a pointed question, he would try to throw you off balance. it was not unexpected. i didn't have any idea what he was going to say, i wanted to get on to the next question. >> when did you realize that richard nixon was going to leave office? >> i came late to that realization. i thought until as late as april or may of 1974, the president resigned in august of 1974, i believed that some way somehow he might be able to stay in office. but once it became clear that barry goldwater was leading some republican senators and telling goldwater, mr. president, you have to go in effect, at that

time i began to say i think he's going to go. >> i talked to jill abramson and she told me she believed the obama white house is the most secretive white house she can remember. do you agree? how does that compare to the nixon white house? >> it's such a different time. i do agree that the obama administration is the most secretive administration since the nixon administration. but you're not going to convince me it was more secretive than the richard nixon white house. >> why? >> these are the facts this this is not dan rather's opinion. widespread criminal operation out of the oval office itself and kept it secret. we are talking about conversations about killing jack anderson who was a reporter,

fire bombing, breaking into homes, reporters homes, burglarizing homes and able to keep that secret. as bad as the obama administration has been about with secrets up to and including now, there's no empirical evidence that they have been that secretive with that vision a campaign. >> could a coverup of this magnitude happen again? >> i'm sorry to say it could and in some ways i think it might be easier if you will because the power of the presidency, always great, the power of the presidency in relationship to the other branches of government has increased since the nixon times. >> i know you're an optimist but tell me what you don't like in television news these days. >> you and i have been around this business for a while. we in many ways lost our guts. we don't have the guts to say, listen, it may be bad for the ratings, it may be bad for the demographics, the demo, it might

hurt me professionally but i'm an american journalist and i believe of quality journalism of integrity and to get as close to the truth or humanly possible as the truth to the american public i'm going odo it. as much herd journalism as -- >> herd journalism, pack journalism? >> exactly. >> more than your day? >> it existed my day, i'm not secluding myself in the criticism. perhaps i'm as guilty as many if not most but today, there's a tendency to be, forgive the expreks likexpression, like a ff turkeys. if a few go near the cliff and go over the cliff, the whole flock will go. you're afraid that the powers that be, how does one say this,

i'm pausing so i want to use language you can use on the air, big corporate media is in bed with big government. in the hands of republicans or democrats, and they want the news presented to their mutual benefit not to the viewer's benefit. i think this is dangerous for a country such as ours where a free and truly independent press is the red beating heart of freedom and democracy. >> we hope that the corporations and the journalists and the news organization he hear dan rather's clarion call. ists great to be with you. dan. >> my pleasure. >> and another recall for general motors. more than 200,000 vehicles. 2002 to 2004 turn vie saturn vu.

this is the 66th recall this year impacting more than 29 million vehicles. our picture of the day is coming up next. plus, that walk, 40 years later. philippe petiit takes us back to his tight rope journey across the world trade center.

>> it's that time to look at your weekend forecast. for some it is going to be hot. not much rain in the area that's going to be down to the south. what we are seeing is a lot of humidity into the area, 86 in new york, hazy skies, going to feel more like 92 across the city area and then not until next week do we get showers into play there. speaking of showers it's been rainy all week long southeast and florida. these showers will come through and for atlanta we are going to see thunderstorms pushing through. if you have travel plans to hartsfield international we expect delays. temperatures stay well into the high 80s there. dallas no rain in your forecast but the temperature 100° is expected. up here towards the northwest for seattle you're going to see temperatures well above average for this time of year.

down towards the south we're going to see spotty rain showers. your average temperature for this time of year is about 75. that's a look at your weather, news is next.

>> it's been 40 years since high wire artist philippe petit soared 1300 feats before the sidewalks of new york walking across a wire between the twin towers of the world trade center. petit talked to me about his iconic stunt and i asked him to tell us how long it took him to plan the walk. >> six and a half years of dreaming and of 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. >> and you shot this with a bow and arrow? >> not actually. this is so heavy i couldn't shot it across. what i did is pass a a fishing line with illegality and invisibility. then a heavy rope and heavy cable so it took it all night of rigging. >> while you're watching this is happening. what's going through your mind are you getting nervous? >> i'm not only getting nervous i'm the engineer and the rigging master behind all my high wire walk. i'm concerned am i going to be caught in the rigging between the twin towers, can i get done

before the workers come to the roof of the twin towers. >> you walked back and forth eight times? >> it wasn't just walking. it was completely improvised. the police who waited for me to give up, said he is not walking, he's dancing. >> you laid down on the wire? >> yes, to salute the sky, to speak to the seagull. i was trespassing in the territory of the birds. i wanted a friendly dialogue, because 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. >> yes, well it's a big wire 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 the day 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. i keep that for myself. you can imagine since i spent six and a half years of getting to know those wires towers and i married them with my wires, that cannot be compared with the human tragedy of that day. >> thanks to philippe petit. petit reconstructed the stunt at a sculpture garden. picture of the day. a balloon festival in bristol,

england. first day of the 36th bristol international balloon fiesta, hot air balloon event. thanks for watching. i'm john siegenthaler. have a great weekend. borderland is up next. we'll see you next week. >> thousands calling for their freedom. >> it's a clear violation of their human rights. >> we have strongly urged the government to release those journalists. >> journalism is not a crime.

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