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>> on "america tonight," the fury in ferguson. protesters in the street of a st. louis suburb after an unarmed black teen is gunned down by police. >> hands this way, if the air, being compliant. >> there was a struggle over the officer's weapon. >> why it happened and how this shooting adds to a growing national debate. are the police going too far? also tonight, hell on the mountain.
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terrified refugees flee northern iraq, beseeblgd by islamic state fighters -- besieged by islamic state fighters. what's next for unraveling iraq. and knowing the score. prime time makes a big play for education but in the texas charter school week why ne neon deon sanders does a come back. >> in the north texas, dallas, fort worth area, he came out last. >> correspondent michael okwu on a losing season. good evening, thanks for being with us, i'm joie chen. we begin this hour with a late-breaking story. hollywood in mourning. remembering the life of actor and comedian robin williams.
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the marin county sheriff's department tells us williams was found unconscious inside his northern california home, he was pronounced dead slightly later. the coroner suspects his death was a suicide. jamie on the phone, owner of the laugh factory. jamie i'm sure this is a shock for you. >> that's besides being a shock it is one of a loss to all of us. and to especially the come city community is one of the biggest losses we have because he was genuinely one of those guys that he loved to make people laugh. and he is, again, every comedian from richard jennings to richard pryor, they lost their lives, most of the comedians they had tragedy, it was a tragedy one
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extreme to another extreme. and it is one of the saddest moments of comedy history of laugh factory, we lost richard pryor, now robin williams we lost so many of them. it just breaks your heart you know away what's happened. >> can you talk to us a little bit about your own memories of him, what you'll remember, any particular acts you'll remember of his? >> robin he was one of the you know, guys that he was like his brain was like a sponge. he would sit down and you know, i mean i saw him one time with jonathan winters. they were both appearing and they sat down for an our and i did an interview with jonathan winters, he sat done four an hour and he made me laugh. i never laughed that hard. i remember my stomach was hurting, i laughed so hard.
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i said stop guys, i can't take it anymore. he was like a sponge, he wanted to make people laugh. among the comedians he was well-known, he was on tonight show, sometimes he was somewhere else. he want to make he's so much, so much addictive to laughter. that he wanted to make people laugh, that he didn't think were his jokes originated. sometimes the joke originated from somebody else's joke and he did it, he would go into the club and say jamie, i used this guy's joke, here's his check, he would give me a check to give it to them to make peace. and he's really one of those guys he care for everybody. and he had -- he have a tremendous, tremendous you know problem with the depression. and you know i remember one
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time, john beluchi and robin williams they came to the club and were in the club and said let's go to el trovado about one block from me and i say okay, we walk in the street almost recognize them, you know. and it was robin was dying for privacy. he didn't get that privacy. he wanted privacy. and he did not know that part of become a famous person, becoming part of making people laugh part of the stuff you do and you lose your privacy. he didn't want to lose his privacy. that's made him depressed, that's made him take substance, made him do all kind of problem with depression, that kind of stuff. finally took his life away. you know it was too much, he couldn't take it no more. >> jamie masada, founder of the laugh factory in hollywood, on
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the death of comedian robin williams. thanks. now on a devastating humanitarian crisis still unfolding in northern iraq. a political drama develops in the capitol city baghdad. former speaker of the parliament haider al-abadi as the new prime minister but the incumbent nouri al-maliki is not happy about it and refuses to step down. leaders of the islamic state, sheila macvicar on the effort to save those still trapped on mount sin. >> reporter: on the mountain there are still thousands of yazidis trand he. iraq's military is flying relief missions under islamic state fire. dumping cartons of water and food. most important for those trapped providing a way out for the few
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who can scramble on board. these pictures taken by british tv crew show the chaos as parents toss their children inside the chopper and pack in as tightly as they can. parents have lost their children. children have lost their parents. and kurdish officials warn of genocide. this little girl rescued from the mountain on the weekend by the iraqi air force cries as the officer carrying her promises they will go back to the mountain for her mom and dad. in the northern part of the sinjar mountains kurdish fighters have been able to open a path and thousands of people though strong enough to walk in a week in blazing sun and temperatures in the 100s with no food and very little water have reached the area of fairly safe kurdish territory.
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>> i walk from sinjar mountain to syria walking. just we have the bottle of water sometime we take it, no more. now me, there's thousands of people. >> reporter: the u.s. military has released these pictures of nighttime humanitarian aid drops in the mountains, 14 so far with tons of water and military meals ready to eat. but u.s. officials say some of the drops fell too far from the yazidis and too close to i.s. gun positions and the british pilots worried their cargo would hit and crush them. still this is the only short term way to get the people the food and water they need. to stay alive they must get off the mountain and to do that the siege must be broken. i.s. gun positions and convoys have been targeted by u.s. gun
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strikes and cushedz fighter -- h fighters on the ground literally ran out of bullets. and i.s. have seized tanks which make them stronger. >> we may have blunted some tactical decisions to move in those directions, to move further east to erbil. what i expect the i.s.i.l. to do is to look for other things to do, to pick up and move elsewhere. >> all this chaos in the north while in baghdad a croag political crisis creates a dangerous showdown with militia and security forces in the streets as nouri al-maliki once sported by the u.s. refuses to give up as prime minister, but the iraq' iraq's parliament has
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appointed a new prime minister, haider al-abadi. >> last night vice president biden and i called haider al-abadi and encouraged him to form a new government inclusive of all iraqis. i encouraged them to work through political process in the days ahead. >> reporter: but if maliki continues to cling to power there might be more violence projected to the capitol. yesterday al-maliki insisted his out offing by the parliament was unconstitutional. politically he is on his other than. his allies no longer believe he can save iraq from civil war and they have all but abandoned him.
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>> interesting to follow, "america tonight's" sheila macvicar. ahead on "america tonight." big play, an nfl star's latest moves in the charter school filed field. >> it is a world class failure when it comes to charter schools. >> and deion sanders and the school's losing record. h
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>> it's a dream shared by many parents across the country. a college athletic scholarship for their child. for parents of modest means it could make all the difference in their futures. michael okwu has the story of a texas charter school that has been selling that theme and is now facing criticism both from the state and from some parents. are. >> reporter: charles hibler coaches college football in a community where even a set of football gear is a stretch. his son also charles is only six but his father has big hopes with them. he's letting him practice with the seven and eight-year-old. that's why hibler was excited when he heard national football
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league great deion sanders was starting prime prep academy starting charter schools in dallas and fort worth. >> sitting here with d.l. wallace my business partner and welcome to prime prep academy. >> i thought it was going to be amazing because they were going to have the prep school and dealing with athletes and education makers, the kids getting everything they need in their education and sports hands-on with hopefully a few nfl, you know, ex-players that can give you pointers. >> reporter: football as seen as a way out here. a ticket to college and beyond. perhaps nowhere is that dream more powerful than in texas. prime prep opened two years ago. a taxpayer funded charter school with no tuition and open enrollment. prime prep's high school is in
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dallas. the elementary school in fort worth. sandusky talked about the school's -- sanders talked about the school. >> it's a great school academics. they're not great school athletics or they're grat collectathletics,not great acad. we're allowing them ocompete. >> prime prep sports had lived up to the critics. ranked 33rd out of 10,000 in the nation. and the football team played in the state championship. not small feat in texas home of friday night lights. but prime prep has not racked up wins in the classroom. >> it's a world class failure when it comes to academics. >> bob sanborn is president and
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kerry -- ceo of children at risk. a texas nonprofit that ranks schools in the state. >> when we looked at the schools in the dallas fort worth area it came in last, the worst elementary school in k-12 part, and the wowrts school in texas and the school in the whole state of texas, the bad school. >> and you can't blame the neighborhood. the local elementary school sagamore high, finished 34 points higher than prime prep. children at risk says it doesn't have enough data to rank prime prep's high school but the ncaa which governs college sports has taken issue with the academic credentials of prime prep's graduates. initially declaring two star basketball stars their high school course work at prime prep
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was inadequate. the players appealed and were able to play. >> against stepup -- >> ok actbomb was too sold by prime prep's vision but said he quickly heard stories about athletes out of control. >> they are unruly to staff, teachers, live on campus without permission. come in when they feel like not following rules, not having a dress code. things line that, being completely disrespectful and that kind of hit home for me a little bit. because those issues, distracted the are kids from learning. >> we're talking about some of the athletic kids essentially feeling that they owned the joint? >> that's absolutely. >> and when the school moved to discipline the student athletes actbomb said deion sandersing
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stepped in. >> my biggest concern is we shouldn't have sanders sitting in the board room telling us what we need to do. it shouldn't be that way. >> sanders catering to the board's needs. >> the board members. >> at the expense of -- >> the kids' education. >> prime prep has had other problems. sanders received a misdemeanor assault ticket after a scuffle with a school administrator last october. 200 laptops were reportedly stolen from the fort worth campus in january. and more than $45,000 of federal meal money was not properly accounted for. on twitter, sanders blames his former business partner, d.l. wallace calling him a crook and heartless and offering to repay the $45,000 out of his own pocket if necessary.
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d.l. wallace resigned in december and didn't return repeated messages "america tonight" left on his cell phone. we wanted to talk to deion sanders, and he initially agreed to it but said he wouldn't do it without his reality show was there to film it something we couldn't agree to. we talked about importance of education. >> i'm in the hood trying to do some good and that's where we got to be on our game baby. we got to make sure these teachers are teaching and these people are acting like men and women trying to get to college. >> at 6'3", 300 pounds, john perkins is a promising tackle but struggling at his are residence high school. >> we feel like he does have some potential to play football. and --
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>> on the college level or you think maybe even a pro-football player? >> pro, would take care of itself down the road. but he has potential to play at some level at college. >> perkins enrolled that i child at prime prep after speaking with sanders. >> we asked him if he could grow our son academically and athletically. he said he will grow our son. >> he said he could grow him develop him which was what we weren't getting in the school he was in. >> the perkins say their son is already doing better in school and his self confidence has improved. >> i said thank you to deion sanders. he brought hi son's smile back, his passion back. >> i'm very confident with our
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decision to send him to prime prep academy. >> but for conjanika james and charles hibner, their decisions have changed. no curriculum no books and no parent teacher conferences. >> when you switched your child out of prime prep to the new school, did you get a sense that he was progress that much more quickly or that he was behind when he initially went in? >> the maybe three months that we were there we already had two parent teacher conferences then he got a reading award. at a matter of months he was at another level. >> the texas agency in july moved to revoke prime prep's charter. all this means prime prep parents and their children face another uncertain year.
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>> michael okwu, al jazeera, dallas. >> and for more on the up and down history of prime prep and whether deion sanders, can keep it from credit falling, go to aljazeera.com/"america tonight." the money it's due, meets a community determined the fight back. >> i don't know. you're not shutting off my water. you came to this point, put my fingers over here and took pictures of them click click click click click. >> should people be paying their water bills? >> chris bury, and what residents are doing to keep their water flowing.
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interjust outside st. louis a community remains on edge and law enforcement on guard at this hour following a weekend of first riots, after an unarmed black teenager was gunned down by the police. the fbi is stepping in and internet enforcers from the group anonymous have threatened to as well. the pressure is building on police in ferguson, missouri, to explain the deadly force used against the young suspect. we begin with "america tonight's" lori jane gliha. >> ththe emotions are raw but te message is clear, as crowd shouts, "don't shoot, hands up." a teen had no weapon, was shot, michael brown. protesters were nose to nose with police force in riot gear. the 18-year-old's family is trying to understand what happened. >> he's my first born son. everybody that know me knew i
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have ambitions for my son. >> he is a good boy, didn't deserve none of this, none of it. we need justice for our son. >> the st. louis county police department is handling the investigation with involves an officer with the ferguson police department. >> there was a struggle over the officer's weapon. >> investigators say officers approached brown and another man when they were walking in the middle of the street but whether the officer trite to exit his vehicle someone pushed him inside the vehicle and he was physically assaulted. >> these people in their heart, they reject what the police and authorities said at their press conference how this situation played out. they expect they demand and they will not shut up until they get the truth. >> police say at least one shot was fired inside the vehicle but the fatal shooting happened in
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the street. piajet crenshaw shot this video. >> he was walking this way, he was being compliant, he got shot in the face and chest. >> the ferguson police force many say doesn't represent the demographics of the community. the city that's 67% black but according to a 2013 report by the missouri attorney general, 88% of ferguson police stops are black drivers. >> everything i put into them, they just took. with no compassion. >> reporter: over the weekend some protests turned destructive. >> there were thousands of calls last night. everything ranged from shots fired to burglaries to destruction to assaults. it is a miracle that nobody actually got shot last night. >> city and police officials
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urged the city not to focus on revenge. >> we are focused on faith truth and justice. everybody deserves a safe place to live in and all properties should be protected. and our police chief chief velmar is doing an excellent job in supporting that effort. >> i want to assure you that this is a very complicated investigation, as it should be. a man lost his life. there are officers involved in this and we want to make sure it's done right. >> meantime, the police are calling for police as the investigation continues for michael brown. lori janlori jane gliha,ing al . >> the summer of 1965, routine traffic stop escalated into fears clashes, six days of un--
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fierce clashes, six days of unrest, 34 people died more than a thousand injured and just as it did in missouri over the weekend, there had been friction between the predominantly black community and police. author and analyst afari jackson joins us to talk about this. are you struck with the similarities and almost 50 years ago? >> at the risk of dating smiex odating myself,yes. there are strict parallels. ferguson, missouri and almost a half century ago, the watts riots, they were angry, a lot of african americans we saw that in '65, we is see it today. we also saw when you have a spontaneous uprising, riot or
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any kind of violent reaction in reaction to something. we want to know where are the leaders, community letters, civil rights leaders. in 1965 they were absent. that went on for five or six days and at that point in time, really, the cities were an open city at that point. but as we fast-forward a little bit later this is different. there is a leadership that is stepping in right away. my understanding of the national action network, the reverend al sharpton, and various civil rights leaders are trying to get a handle on it. and this was focused on one young man, tragically michael brown, it appears he has relatives, a number of friends and people speaking out. yes there are similarities and there is a connect between it, between what happened then and what happened today. but at the same time, there's some clear differences too. >> but we have learned so much we have seen so many incidents and we have learned that law
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enforcement over the years have tried to develop programs instruction training something that prevents things from getting out of line like this. >> yeah and that's important too. because things have changed. i mean nothing stays the same. we know that law enforcement, in most big cities, and smaller municipalities, have a number as you put it training programs, sensitivity programs, community outreach programs and something else. when you looked at the los angeles police department in 1965, what you saw was, basically, a white male heavily southern police department. well, obviously, in most big city police departments and even smaller departments today, diversity is a watch word. you do see african americans. you certainly see hispanics. you see other ethnic groups and most importantly you see women. that did not exist in 1965. so however, despite all of that we still have to ask the question, how do these things a michael brown a marlene pinick
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in los angeles or eric garner in new york city how and why do these things keep happening? >> we appreciate you being with us, earl afari hutchinson. appreciate you being here. >> my pleasure. community outrage are not confined to a event of history or even an event in missouri. a situation on staten island where officers used a choke hold on a suspect, and video posted online, the man who recorded that video spoke from jail to "america tonight's" adam may as he and his family explain their side of the story. >> okay so start, no no, i'm not saying you stressed out but you taking it out on me. >> emotion is ran high when christopher ortiz gets a call
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from his wife. orta is the staten island man who shot a video, that caused outrage of police accused of killing a man in custody. the detention of eric garner accused of selling cigarettes without a tax stamp. ram diorta was held a hero for this video exposee but now is in jail. >> what are you going to do with this mess nuer now? >> i'm going to fight it to the end and hope people realized, i'm harassed.
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>> orta was set up in the bogus charge of carrying a handgun. >> not more than five minutes of being out of the house they stopped him for what? they stopped him for finding a gun on him. >> we met up with orta's mother, wife and two younger brothers at a pizza shop not far from where orta shot that infamous video. >> you have ever -- >> never, never. >> when you heard about the charges against tim what d did u do? >> i cried. i (bleep) what are you talking about i was in shock. >> orta's wife and mom said police had been following him around staten island ever since he took the video of police misconduct. >> what do you have pictures about? >> i have pictures and video of
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the police targeting around the street, he would walk down the street and circle a few times looking and pointing and shining the spotlight in our bedroom. >> ortiz said she could not show us the pictures or video because an attorney advised her to keep tonight a safe place. >> "america tonight" reached out to the nypd about ortiz's claims but got no response. los miller based out of miami, florida runs the blog called, photographephotography is not a. >> every day people are getting harassed and are e-mailing me. >> on his blog he shows video of police on every corner of america. the journalist turned activist is on a application to document cases of people arrested while videotaping police. >> put your phone away. >> why? >> i'm telling you.
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>> i have my rights, i'm allowed to film. >> get the (bleep) go away go away. >> unnamed officer -- >> according to miller he has been arrested three times for photographing the police and he says all three times he was acquitted. >> they've already sent the message to us that they're not backing down, that they're going to do all they can to arrest us, to prevent us from recording the truth. everywhere we go there's cameras but they have a problem of us turning the cameras on them. >> he wonders even though orta had a gun, why were the police watching him in the first place? >> are you are sorry that he took the video? >> i don't regret it. i'm sad that this man had to lose his life, but it should be exposed. it is not wrong for ramsey you
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know. >> this has not been the first time he has been in trouble with the police, a 2013 arrest for menacing a woman with a handgun. but his wife says, that's are wrong. >> regardless he was the worst person in the world the video shows exactly what happened. my man is locked up right now for standing next to someone who had something and he's being charged with it. this man choked someone and he still has work. and free. just to go home to his family. >> i want him to come home. i want him home, safe. i want this to be cleared up. i don't want him being punished for something that he did good. >> reporter: if the eric garner case results in criminal charges against the police, orta may be the proses accusation's star witness. for now -- prosecution's star
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witness. for now he sits at rykers island. adam may, "america tonight" new york. >> he said that garner's death was an anomaly. when we return, keeping the age are flowing. >> i followed them down the street as they were shutting people off. pleading with them, you know you're shutting off my 86-year-old's neighbor's water and she's not even going to be able to flush her toilet. i never seen anything like it. >> detroit desperate for dollars, is forced to shut off the taps but faces the steady drip of rebellion. it's the city's fault they can't pay.
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of detroit, a leak is draining some 10 million gallons of water a day. the commodity that many residents in nearby detroit have gone without because of past due water bills. some 15,000 residents lost their service and as "america tonight's" chris bury reports, the city has come up with a plan to help the residents deal with their water woes. >> when valerie blakelee saw the water truck, she knew what was coming. her water bill was more than $1,000 past due. >> i saw the red truck, i recognized them as they were about to shut off my water so i grabbed my camera, my phone and i headed out here. once i hit my porch i started taking pictures of the whole situation and filming it. and i told them no, you're not shutting off my water. i came to this point, i put my
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foot over here and i took pictures of them, click click click click click. >> reporter: with her foot on this water valve and her camera clicking blake li cents the shutoff crew pack.. >> i told them stop they're not going to shut off my water today. he packed his gear back into the truck. >> but her neighbors were not so lucky. >> they proceeded to in a very systematic orderly fashion shut off every other occupied home. i followed them down the street as they were shutting people off pleading with them you know you're shutting off my 86-year-old neighbor's water and she's not going to be able to even failure her toilet. i've never seen anything like it. >> until the moratorium on water shutoffs in late july, detroit had been aggressively cracking down. since february, the water department has shut off more than 15,00 15,000 residences.
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on average those customers owed $540. those 60 days late, or $150 behind got ten days notice before their water was shut off. greg eno is a spokesman for the detroit water department. >> we felt we would be derelict if we didn't be more aggressive in trying to reduce the amount of delinquents that we had. it's increasing water bills for people who are paying and that's not fair either. >> how much is the water department owed altogether? >> approximately about $89 million in delinquencies right now. >> $89 million. >> we want to be sure that the message is clear that water is a human right. >> the aggressive cutoff sparked outrage and protest in this beleaguered and bankrupt city where nearly half the residents are behind on their water bills.
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>> was it a mistake to shut off so many at the same time? >> um -- i don't think it's a mistake if you're trying to collect delinquencies. i don't know what pace or what rate people would have us go. >> okay we're good. >> for valerie blakely, the overdue water bill comes on the heels of a harsh winter and its high heating costs. >> we had a terrible, terrible winter. when they call it a vortex winter that doesn't put into context what our utilities did. just to heat our home it was that way for everybody in these neighborhoods. they're big old brick homes. >> since so many of her neighbors were shut off, valerie became an activist. >> i called that number. >> this number right here right? >> she wrangled donations and offered free water and food to those who needed it.
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>> what can't people do without water? >> they can't brush their teeth. they can't cook. it's completely totally debilitating in the home. as we were knocking on doors we found that people needed baby wipes to keep themselves clean. people are using food stamps to buy water, so they're affecting their food every month. >> reporter: a few blocks away eddie justice stopped watering the grass. he and his 85-year-old mother also cut back on laundry and doing dishes. >> and the way we do dishes is like -- we wait until we're done eating, for the day, then we reheat the dish water, and then we wash ought the dishes at once. we rinse them out, you know, but trying to not use a lot of water. >> they owe more than $260.
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but this shutoff notice has convinced them to pay. >> are you concerned now, about getting your water cut off? >> always. always. always. not just the water but all the utilities. >> what angers many here is that delinquent commercial customers, including this public golf course, have not received the same treatment. the water department says this golf course owes more than $400,000, more than any other business in detroit. and while that bill is being disputed, the water here has not been shut off. in neighborhoods most at risk for water shutoffs, activists such as brandon jessop who is running for state representative have been going door to door. >> we're educating the community now about resources that's available. >> they're talking to residents and spreading information packets about what they can do
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in case of a shutoff. >> should people be paying their water bills? >> yes, they should. you should think about detroit was one of the communities hit hardest by the economic downturn in 2009. >> the water company admits responsibility because for some time officials concede they were too lax about shutoffs. >> people come in within 24 or 48 hours to make payment arrangement or payment to get their water turned back on. that tells us that people had to take them being shut off to get the means, they had the means or somehow came up with the means to get themselves out of shutoff status get the water turned back on. we're not convinced it's an inability to pay, it's more of a lack of desire to pay. >> reporter: the public outcry here along with pointed criticism from the judge overseeing detroit's bankruptcy have led the water department to
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halt the shutoffs. instead the city is offering a new ten-point plan that among other things will offer financial assistance and wave late payment penalties, helping people like eddie justice and his mother. >> she's on a fixed income, okay, we budget to pay this, we budget to pay that and we may have to be late for this one, to, shutoff notice for something for that. >> adie and his mother and thousands of others like them may now feel some relief knowing their water won't be shut off. a break for a bankrupt city and its residents who have already suffered so much for so long. chris bury al jazeera, droit. >> and still to come here on "america tonight": bank breast milk to help other moms. we'll show how some moms in texas are giving premature
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babies a chance, the best chance they have, for a good start. start.
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>> this, is what we do. >> al jazeera america. start.
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and finally from us this hour, from birth the mom's focus is certainly what she can do for her baby to give the best start, doctors have said breast milk is the best but at a can be difficult when babies are born prematurely. adam west on milk banks.
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>> melody moy had no breast milk to give her premature son. two years later with new son luke she's donating her breast milk to other babies. >> you have an image of how it's going to be, a bum baby and all of a sudden you're caught off guard and you're so frightened. >> study after study, for premature babies, whose mothers cannot produce milk this is a lifesaving thing. >> i.t. immune lodge ds it's i'm un logical. immunological. to help this baby survive and walk and talk and win the nobel prize some day. that's why i do it.
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>> it's an unregulated industry in the u.s., prompting websites like craigslist to ban the sale of human fluids due to safety concerns. when you're doing ininformal sharing you don't really know what's in there. there's a whole range of infectious diseases that the population carries. so you pit your infant -- put your infant at high risk for contracting some type of disease if you do not go through a specialized milk bank like this. >> reporter: before the milk even revise the mother is interviewed for medical history and lifestyle. she's tested for viruses, her doctor is interviewed then the milk is tested for nutritionallal and bacteria content. it's sent to an outside lab and tested all over again and only then is it dispensed to babies. for melanie moy giving back is a way of saying thanks.
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>> we know that it was the best thing he could receive in those first three days of life before my milk came in. so just returning the favor. >> reporter: it's a favor that for some premature infants could mean the difference between prospering and perishing. john hendren, al jazeera, austin, texas. >> that's it for us here on "america tonight." tuesday on our program. >> for me to be able to see my hand open up and close after four years was just a great feeling and just gave me a lot of hope for the future. >> they're calling it a modern miracle and the dawn of the bi bio9bionic age. "america tonight" will have more tomorrow. >>
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