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power. >> governor rick perry vows to fight his indictment. good to have you with us, our top story - we are less than two hours away from the start of a curfew ordered for ferguson. the governor imposed the curfew and declared a state of emergency to stop the violence relating to the police shooting of an unarmed teenager. >> we can't allow the goodwill of a few to undermine the few. >> the evening starts with a peaceful protests, dozens marched through town, police looked on. officers were trying to prevent the violence and looting that took place friday night. several businesses were broken into, including a market that

video taped shooting victim michael brown moments before his death. ashar quraishi, we saw peaceful protests earlier. what are we seeing at this hour? >> let me set the scene for you. we are along the main strip running through ferguson where most the processions have been going on back and forth behind me. i want to bring you fresh pictures. moments ago a bus load full of police officers dressed in riot gear unloaded here and fanned out throughout the street. there are protesters on both sides of the streets. it is raining in ferguson, but that has not kept people away. again, the result of this - what's caused this state of emergency was - and the curfew to be instatuated was the unrest overnight which happened here in this location. protesters and looters coming through this area, causing

damage and burglarizing the businesses. the missouri governor jay nixon talked about that earlier today. >> last night, except for a very few, the folks on the streets of ferguson last night were peaceful demonstrators. but we also saw a pattern develop last night where after hours of peaceful protesting small groups took to the streets with the intent of committing crime and endangering citizens. that is unacceptable. so to protect the people and property of ferguson today, i signed an order declaring a state of emergency and the implementation of a curfew. >> we were here last night when some of that looting took place. it was a short distance from here. we saw a number of armoured vehicles and swat teams facing off with the protesters, and a number tried to stop some of the looting. they blocked the businesses and said they were there for the civil rights and not for the

looting taking place. they were elements that they couldn't control. today we also heard during that news conference with the governor a lot of anger about what has been going on with regards to the investigation into the death of michael brown, and how slowly it's been proceeding, and unruly. take a listen to some of the tape we have. >> excuse me governor, you need to charge that police officer with murder. >> this whole press conference has been turned into an explanation of why you are controlling people's anger and suppressing and and telling people to calm down. why is that the case? [ clapping ] >> who cares about the length of the state of emergency. >> we'll make a decision tomorrow morning. >> and the big question is how will the curfew be enforced. we've been told by the superintendent of the missouri highway patrol that they will

not use tear gas. it is a different sort of approach. we are seeing officers on foot going through the crowd as opposed to vehicle. that is different. we don't know what will happen as we get close to midnight. behind me, if you have a moment. we'll show you the police officers fanning through the area. they continue to walk through, which is different to what we have seen, it is a different strategy, and the question is whether or not they will enforce the curfew, starting in under two hours, peacefully, or where it will get under control. >> there's a lot of questions and talk. stand by, we'll be back in a few moments. we'll look at the crisis in ferguson. the investigation into michael brown's death and the response by police, a deeper look in a few minutes here on al jazeera america. >> i want to turn our attention to iraq, where humanitarian crisis continues amid the fierce fighting. witnesses say the islamic state

fighters stormed villages, killing dozens of men and kidnapping the wives. in as nouri al-maliki agrees to step aside for haider al-abadi. obama administration will give aid if there is an inclusive government. fighters died in a fresh round of strikes aimed at turning back the group much . we have more. >> the islamic state controls the territory up to 15 fighters were killed in attacks, but the peshmerga forces on the ground have not been able to advance to recapture the territory. this is not an easy fight. the islamic state is well armed and trained. the u.s. air strikes - the objective is to weaken the

group, defend the kurdish region and minorities, not to defeat them. this is going to require a whole new plan. they are going to need international partners, they'll need partners on the ground. but the air strikes have not prevented what officials here are calling a new massacre against the yazidi minority south-west of sinjar. 80 men were executed by the islamic state, and they captured an unknown number of women and children. the humanitarian crisis is continuing. the u.s. administration as well as the international community pressuring the new prime minister in iraq to form an inclusive and broad-based government as soon as possible. unless iraq's political factions unite, it will be hard to defeat the islamic state. >> zeina khodr in hobil. iraqi christians are hunted by the islamic state fighters.

we have a report on a group that fled to lebanon. >> reporter: desperate iraqi christians line up on a hot day to receive food rations. the church is organising the aid. those who just arrived from northern iraq. like many, this woman arrived three days ago. >> translation: we were scared. it's hard to leave everything behind and flee. >> reporter: they tell the same stories. this man has been here for a month, living off charity. a christian lebanese family pays his rent for this small apartment where he lives with his wife and three girls. >> they threatened us with our children. they come and kill you. >> you were scared and left

everything behind. they took us from our own land, referring to the islamic state, forking them out of iraq. these are not muslims, we don't know where they came from, they have no religion, we lived with muslims for 40 years. they have nothing to do with islam. >> reporter: this priest has been organising a campaign to help the christians who got to lebanon. he said he is frustrated. >> translation: what is happening in mosul, where the original people are uprooted. what is just as worrying is the international community's silence. we demand pressure from europe and others to stop the massacres. >> this family came from kirkuk. under islamic states, full control. this one-roomed apartment became home for a family of six after they ran away from their town. this person says there's no more

room for christians to live in iraq any more. >> we never imagined anything like this would happen. nobody expected this. >> it was like a horror movie. he tells me. everyone was terrified. >> his children cry, wanting to go back to his home in iraq. he says see is not going back. we want security and stability. >> so his girls spent the day laying on the bed, waiting for something to change. >> back at home, rick perry was defiant addressing an indictment against him. he is faces charges of abuse of power, and says the case was motivated by politics. >> we do not settle political differences with indictments in

this country. it is outrageous that some would use partisan political theatrics to rip away at the very fab ridge of our state's con -- fabric of our state's constitution, this indictment amounts to abuse of power, and i cannot and i will not allow that to happen. >> governor perry is facing serious charges. mike viqueira has been following this story from washington. >> appearing before the press, rick perry called the charges outrageous, trumped up by political enemies. >> we do not settle political differences with indictments in this country. >> friday, an austin grand yourie charged perry with abuse of official capacity and conversion. both felonnize. >> you've been arrested with dwi. >> reporter: the threat began

last year when rosemary lem ber, a democrat for the state capital of austin was arrested for drunk-driving. she pled guilty and lead 45 days in prison. leading perry to declare her unfit for office. unless resigning he would veto $7.5 million for the public integrity unit which she lead. she didn't quit, perry went through with his threat. that led the grand jury to charge him with abuse of power. he was defiant. >> i said early on that i was going to clearly veto those dollars as long as they had someone in that office who i lost confidence in. and i did what i said i would do. >> reporter: perry has not ruled out a run for president in 2016, after the 2012 run collapse said after a series of gaffs. >> let's say i can't. sorry.

oops. >> the question now, will the indictments hurt his chances for next time. republicans see the charges as blitantly political, brought by a prosecutor and grand jury in aust join, a liberal island in a sea of red. and a prominent national development. david axel rod has doubts. tweeting that the charges seem sketchy. >> if the charges don't stick, it will give democrats an avenue of attack if perry runs in 2016. >> he'll go through a series of embarrassing events. getting arraigned, appearing in court will be damaging just visually. >> for texas's longest serving governor, a future that is clouded. where does rick perry go from here. al jazeera's political contributor weighs in on rick perry's chances of surviving the political scandal. >> yes, it is possible that he

could go forward, have a political career. he will not run for governor, but everyone has rick perry on their short list for potential presidential candidate. there'll be a silver lining, a platinum lining which is that republicans see this was a democratic witch-hunt and get behind rick perry in a way they are not right now. make no mistake, this is not a good situation for him, particularly in the here and now. he will face embarrassing situations over the next many weeks and months. this will not be something that will help his credibility among independence or people undecided about rick perry's future as a presidential candidate. it will be a rocky road. if you play the game and look down the road long and far, this is something that is survivable for him. >> the 2016 field is wide open, and there could be major hurdles for other contenders.

a fragile ceasefire in gaza. the latest on the negotiations up ahead. plus, a disturbing find inside a shipping container in the u.k. a dead man along with dozens of other migrants.

police in the u.s. launched a homicide investigation. dock workers found a cargo container filled with people. they appeared to be migrants from south asia. >> it was a grim scene awaiting workers tonne tilbury docks east of london on saturday morning, as they unloaded cargo off a ferry from zebruga in belgium. >> staff at the ports became aware of screaming and banging coming from a container from that particular ship, or that particular ferry. as a result of that noise, staff were alerted and breached the

container to find 35 persons within that unit. >> reporter: the police do not know where the container originated but believed those inside came from the indian subcontinent. did they have any idea when they set off that this is how they would arrive in the u.k.? >> 35 patients were found in the container when we first arrived at just after quarter to seven. one of those patients has unfortunately been pronounced deceased at the scene. >> the man that died suffered a heart attack. this is a murder investigation in cooperation with european authorities and interpol. >> this is, in my view, from what we have seen, organised crime. you don't end up with 35 in a container for no reason. someone is behinds this, we have a homicide that we need to investigate and bring offenders to justice, be it in this country or any others. >> members of the group, children among them, were

treated for hypothermia and dehydration. they'd been at sea for 12 hours on the final leg of the journey, it's not known what means of transport, what conditions might have brought them to the belgium coast. this is one of the hospitals that a number of those people were brought to to recover. the police described it as a huge man tarian situation, and it's a criminal one. it's a reminder to the border authorities of the devious, dangerous and deadly lengths that criminal gangs are prepared to go to to smuggle illegal migrants into that country. hundreds of trucks from russia are being held at the ukranian border. among them an aid convoy, in suspicions that it may be a tro jan horse. we have this report. >> reporter: this man shows me where a rocket almost killed

him. like many ukrainians living to donetsk, he has ties to russia. his grandmother fought for stalin during the world war ii. he blames the dark history for what is happening now. >> at one point we were one country with 14 republics. politicians divided the republics, planting the seed of war. what is happening now is wrong. our ancestors took part in a war where we had the same ideals, values and beliefs of each other. >> the separatist beliefs are more murky. some see ukraine as part of an old imperial russia, others embrace the power of the soviet union. >> when you ask pro-russian separatists what they want, some say they want freedom from kiev's rule. others insist they are fighting fashism. most want to get on with their lives and don't understand why ukrainians are taking up arms against each other.

>> kiev proposed a peace plan in the south-eastern region, including more political and economic autonomy. and protection of the russian language. >> separatists say this is not enough. and they have local people's support. but in one suburb of donetsk, we meet arena. saying most people are like her - afraid to speak out. >> translation: i feel like my life is now a black cloud. every morning i hope that this is a bad dream, that i'll wake up from, and things will be as they were. >> the ukranian army is closing in. and separatists are calling for more ukranian and russian volunteers to join their cause. but they have already lost men, and many people here will be asking themselves whether their dreams are worth dying for. >> meanwhile a 5-day ceasefire

is holding. correctses for a permanent truce results on sunday. israel says it has not agreed to any deals. it was day 4 of the pope's visit to seaa. he butified 124 korean marters. hundreds of thousands were in attendance. >> i thank you. [ speaking foreign language ] . >> translation: their example has much to say for those that live in poverty alongside the wealth, where the cry of the poor is barely heeded, where christ calls out to us, asking us to love and serve him by attended to those in needs. 170,000 catholics in cited

from churches met him. our coverage continues on the shooting death of missouri teen michael brown. we look at the racial make-up of the police force in ferguson, and why some say recruiting more black officers may not improve race relations.

welcome back, it's saturday night, time to take a look at the death of michael brown. emotions are running high in a town no stranger to racial tensions. here is an update from ashar quraishi. >> reporter: this woman lived in st louis most of her life. tension between the police and young people had been stingering before the michael brown shooting. >> the police is a gang. how do you treat me like you're better than me because you have authority, no, ignorance for the law is no excuse. [ sirens ] . >> reporter: in the st louis suburb of ferguson, that anger

played out in the streets after a police officer killed michael brown, an unarmed black teenager. the predominantly white police force has a history of racial tension with blacks. >> i'm tired of black on black crime, all the killings, why this is happening. >> reporter: some commended the police for the handling of the attitude. >> i saw a lot of cops show a lot of restraint. i think the cops need to hear that from the african-american community. it's a 2-way street. >> in an interview with john seigenthaler, the mayor outlined challenges. >> african-american officers are not a dime a dozen, they are - it is hard to go out and get ferns who -- african-americans who want to the be in police work. we talked about the divide between young african-american and police workers.

>> reporter: according to a 2010 census report it is a poor community, making it prone to high crime rates. >> there's an undertow that bubbled to the surface, and it's our first priority to address it, to fix what is wrong. >> i guarantee you st louis will not be the same as it is, because so many people, and i'm one, that will not stand out from this issue. it could have been my nephew. >> reporter: people say a thorough and transparent investigation into the shooting would be a first step towards mending a history of racial tension. >> ashar quraishi joins us from ferguson. we are 90 minutes away from a curfew ordered by the governor. how are police preparing for the curfew? >> well, a few moments ago a bus load of police officers in riot gear got off and started fanning

through the main strip here in ferguson, and just literally minutes ago behind me a canine unit showed up. we are starting to see a bigger presence of police here in this area, as we get closer to the beginning of the curfew. no one is clear on how this will work. it's been storming here in ferguson over the last few hours. that has not dispersed the crowds. so the question is what will happen if these crowds do not disperse once the curfew goes in effect. we have heard from the superintendent of the missouri highway patrol saying they will not use rubber bullets or tear gas. the question is how will they clear the streets? >> what are residents saying? earlier during the press conference a number of the citizens saying that they don't believe a curfew is needed. will they clear the streets in about 90 minutes here? >> that's a big question. there's a lot of people here.

we have not seen a thinning of the clouds, despite the rain fall and the police presence that we see continue to increase by the minute, literally. we are seeing a large number of police officers right now - i don't know if we can pan to the left quickly, coming across the street here. can you see that over there? you'll see this is a number of police officers in riot gear coming through the parking lot to the left of us. what they are actually doing is we understand that they will be talking to the residents, trying to tell them to go home. they are also blocking off businesses. this is the area where much of the looting took place. last night, and also a few weeks ago, about a mile down the road, is where the main epicentre of that looting took place on a volatile sunday night. here they are, as you see, in front of the business that was load last night, they are

standing here, they are blocking, they are guarding. but again there are police officers and canine units walking along the streets, and they are supposed to be, as far as we understand it talking to the residents one on one and trying to get them to go home. whether or not that's going to happen, unclear. as you mentioned, we are about an hour and a half away and we have seen no thinning of the crowds on the street in this main strip in ferguson tonight. >> standby for a moment, we'll go back live. i spoke with a former police officer and i asked him what he made of the situation as a former police officer? >> well, i think it will take a lot of professionalism from the police to keep things under control there. i think most people, the obvious whelming majority of people are

expressing first amendment rights and are out there peacefully. the police and the public officials are looking out for what is best for the community, and that's why the governor declared a state of emergency. >> can you understand the frustration of the community, and how we got to the boiling point. >> i don't know the communities, i can speak for washington and new york, where i work. oftentimes i think what happens, something tragic happens, and there's a lot of people out there making prejudgments, and the police officer who was involved in the shooting - we don't know the facts. he may very well have used excessive force, we don't know. i would caution people not to jump to conclusions until our justice system, the process works, and we have a justice system. people need to let the system work. >> i want to talk about the actions of the police department in a moment.

stand by if you will. another concern is the militarization of the local police across the country. the pentagon have been given millions of surplus combat equipment to police, a move making officers look like soldiers going to war with the communities that they are supposed to protect and serve. >> paul beban has more. >> for days it's looked like a war zone. it's ferguson missouri. tear gas, rubber bullets, flash grenades used against american civilians. police confronting protesters in full battle gear. >> the force reserved for emergency situations when you are talking about hostage taking or shootings is spread over the country because a number of these policies. it's the default use of force. in far too many situations. >> the federal policy he's talking about is the defense department's 1033 programme,

moving surplus war equipment to america's local police departments. the programme started small. in the early '90s, it provided a million dollars to forces. this year the value is about $752 million, and $4.3 billion overall since 1997. the 1033 programme supplied police with everything from machine guns, helicopters, grenade launchers and heavy vehicles. st louis county law - those working in ferguson, are among 8,000 that received equipment through the defense department. now lawmakers from both sides are calling for the programme to be rained in. in an op ed republican senator rand paul called police militarization a serious problem: democratic

representative hank johnson proposed new legislation to demilitarize police forces, saying:. >> his team would stop the pentagon giving automatic weapons, drones and other equipment. it will be introduced in september, too late to change the situation? ferguson. >> you have to wonder if officers see themselves as soldiers more than police officers. >> i don't think so. i think what happened - there's key points in history that has brought us to where we are.

when i came on to the police officers early in my career, we were transitioning weapons, police were outgunned, from the revolver to the semiautomatic. in 1987 there was a landmark incident in north hollywood. the bank of america was robbed by two bank robbers. they were not prepared. there's a movie out. it took 44 minutes to neutralize. it lead to a residential neighbour hood where citizens were harped. we had the columbine incident where the police were not prepared to respond to that attack. then, of course, we were getting ready to come up for air. you have the '97 bank robbery. a '99 column bin attack. that's when police departments

started to realise they need to be egypt. we like to think of ourselves as law enforcement. we are protecting the sheep from the wolves. most citizens go about their businesses. police officers have the job of protecting people. >> you bring up a good point. you were in the marine corp. >> i was. >> how do you decipher between a community you are serving and protecting and what ultimately can be seen as a war zone with gangsters outpowering local police. >> i think now where we are in public safety in america. in a post 9/11 america, public safety are intertwined and will be. we have seen internationally, what happened in russia, what happened in mumbai. we saw what happened around the nation, aurora colorado.

sandy hook. we have seen the incidents time and time again. it's not right. police are not equipped to defend and protect the people they swear to protect. >> let's look at how many counties received military grade equipment through the defense department programme. these counties have aircraft, grenade launchers, night vision goggles, assault rifles. should we re-examine racial training among the police force. >> it has been going on for years. >> it's not been effective. can the white officers understand the black community. >> it's hard to answer. it's important that people are trained to treat everyone al, regard less what have you been looks like. it's important that americans treated americans like americans. >> it's interesting to look at the breakdown according to race. missouri, this is what the numbers reflect. in a city with a population of

16,000 people, over the age of 15, ferns make up -- african-americans make up 16%, whites 34%. the overwhelming amount of people stopped by police were african-americans, 4600, in contrast to 700 whites. the same is true of people searched by police of of 611 searched, 562 were african-americans, 47 caucasian, and last year police arrested 500 blacks compared to 36 whites. what do you make of the numbers? >> i don't like them. again, i believe that if people feel the need to have a more diverse police force, it's the job of community leaders, police force and county to recruit and find out why don't we have diversity, make it attractive to everyone. >> should there be transparency

in the police department. >> i think there is. i believe it's a difficult job. i'm not going to defend anyone we don't know the facts about. most men and women that serve on the police force do it because it's a nobel cause. >> should the officer's picture be released? >> i don't see why it shouldn't. if you release a suspect or a video, the officer's should be. there's nothing wrong with that. >> besides patrolling the neighbourhood, some police make an effort to connect with the community. we'll watch this story from diane eastabrook, showing how a police officer in chicago is trying to build a positive relationship with children. >> do you not make yourself a darght. >> reporter: chicago cop dowly is trying to keep the kids becoming a target.

>> reporter: she has a 5-week antiviolence programme for kids. >> i'm here, i don't see the police. i don't go, and i'm talking to my friend. here is what they do. look, look, look. >> reporter: the programme is part of chicago alternative policing strategies or caps. in neighbourhoods like this, police are seep as adversaries than advocates. the caps programme is trying to change that. have you made friends with the kids? >> we have. we've broken a barrier where a lot didn't talk, now they taking -- talking, we can't get them to be quiet. >> reporter: she is helping teens learn about opportunity outside the neighbourhood. they tour a radio station today. she hopes he makes an impression that will last.

do you worry about them? >> yes, i worry about them even in the programme, they go back into the neighbourhood or the elements, some of them. >> reporter: she says all the kids in the programme last year stayed out of trouble so far. where do we go from here. how do we rebuild the trust for the community. >> we are on target. the youth are key. former relationships with the youth in america. if the police and the leaders in these communities don't have a positive impact, the wolves will somewhere a negative impact. >> it's hard to say we are on target looking at live video night after night, the protests, looting, rioting. are we on target? >> i would disagree. as the police chief has said, as the governor has said, this is a small minority of people, a small number of people causing the problems. the majority are peacefully protesting. >> there's a mistrust among the

community and police force. how do we build trust? >> the youth are the key. earn their trust. >> a former police officer. appreciate your time and insight. >> the conversation continues. there's a lot said about the lack of difficulterity on the ferguson police department. the city is 67% black, with three african-american officers. more on the social and economic fabric of ferguson. [ chanting ] >> reporter: racial tensions exploding on the streets of ferguson, a town of 21,000, where more than one in five people live below the poverty line - higher than the state average. a textbook case of white flight - half the city's residents identified as black or african-american in 2000. while nearly 45% identified as

white. 10 years later the percentage of black or african-americans had risen to 67. the percentage of whites dropped to 29. a working class suburb, the median annual income is 37,517. nearly $10,000 less than the missouri median. once a community for middle class auto workers and families, fewer than 9% employed hold manufacturing jobs. just over a quarter work in education, health care and social, 14% in retail. a low-paying sector. hit hard by the economic downturn, the real estate market is struggling to recover. half the home owners owe more. double the percentage of the st lewis metro area. prices have rebound with home

values, rising 6.7%. a trajectory several feel, the fallout of tensions racking the small missouri community. >> let's go back to ferguson, missouri, and ashar quraishi standing by live. as we examine the police force, has the lack of diversity been an area of concern among residents. have they voiced concerns before? >> they have. it has been a concern. it's something we heard a lot about earlier this week at a community meeting where the mayor of ferguson, the police chief and the police chief of st louis country struggled with the diversity problem. the mayor is saying on al jazeera, that you played earlier, that it's difficult to recruit them. there's a police force of 53, with three ferps on the -- african-americans on the police

force. it has a strap on the relationship when there's a distrust between the residents, not having the reflection of the democafics living in an area policed is a problem. >> they said it shouldn't be a problem. police should relate to any human being. again, the tension is not just racial, it's attention between the police force and also the youth. >> here we are 10:45. it's raining, people are on the streets voicing concerns. what will it take to brim the gap, to get the police trust again? >> well, first of all some of the things we have seen this week seem to be working. as the police ease off on the area and allow the protesters to protest without the reve presence or cop tinge si of police around them, it worked

for a small amount of time. what hoped was to bring in the superintendent, ron johnson, an african american from the area, who knows the community, who literally walked through the streets earlier in the evening. whether his presence helps to keep the curfew turning into something more violence, that's a big question. will he be here. police officers are lining the streets, and there's a lot of people still here. they are not making their way out of the area. there has been talk that possibly they would move out of the area to places nearby, adjacent towns where the curfew is not in effect. the possibility is that how do you bridge the gap between the police, the youth and the mistrust. which is exploding in the last week with the vital shooting. by that ferguson police officer. it will take time. it's not something that has newly erupted. it's been here for years,

decades. >> midnight curfew set for ferguson, missouri. many hoping for a peaceful night. ashar quraishi joining us live. other news - billions in retirement money is sitting in 401k accounts, some could be yours. ice and the intranet - how it's helping thousands suffering from a deadly disease.

welcome back. did you know right now there are tens of billions of dollars in unclimbed money from 401k accounts, accounts that american workers don't know exist. "real money"'s reporter has the story. >> reporter: estimates vary on the amount of lost retirement dollars. experts agree close to $4 million is lost by investors.

the average balance of a lot of account is $10,000. >> almost 40 billion is sitting in lost accounts. >> if you do maths quickly. you come up with somewhere between 30 and $50 billion. a person is lost when an address is wrong. or social security is off by a few digits. workers are to blame. lost participants are part of a larger dynamic that we are trying to solve in the retirement system. >> without help, many lose track of 401ks. one reason is large numbers are enrolled. some don't know the accounts exist. the age of direct deposits mean many don't examine checks to see what is deducted. >> government figures show people switch jobs a lot. more than 10 times on the career. >> 9.5 million change jobs every

year. >> another contributor is a dol rule. certain account notifications are sent through paper mill only. >> there's a younger generation used to getting things. a lot of people are not used to getting pieces of mail. >> the nest eggs can go untouched for years, decades. the balance is threatened by outdated investments and mounting fees. >> there's so many dollars locked up the u.s. don't of labour held a hearing, inviting companies like american airline, aon, and others. to testify about locating missing account holders. >> we are halfway through the weekend, what can we expect when we wake up tomorrow? >> there has been fog. there has been so much rain fall, three storms hitting the united states now. where all of our attention is

directly into missouri, the town of ferguson, they are getting heavy rain, and the same storm. getting 8 inches of rainfall in the past 24 hours. it's tracking over ferguson, but it looks like it will wrap up by the time we get to curfew. thunder storms are a threat. look at the rain. we'll see the m by a dark red. >> it was heavy rainfall. we'll continue to see the storm. it continues to bring the rain into ohio as we get to the ohio. >> behind the hit of rainfall. there's a hit of thunder storms, they can bring down a lot of rain, we were seeing potholes. pouring water out. sometimes shooting up high. this was a picture in portland maine in the last day.

this is because of the record rain fall you have. the record. it was oversix inches of rainfall. all kinds of records were breen. roads too. mud and canned were washed out. a lot of folks trying to improve. and clean up what happened in the storm. that was tuesday. here is what happened to portland harbour, you can see where we had the run off into portland harbour. so the run-off is going to include anything on the ground, garbage, trash, it's not a pretty picture. it makes you think gis about throwing things that the groundwater. >> we see a lot of uprooted trees as well. >> bitter news for new jersey taxpayers. they'll foot the multi-million bill for the governor's legal fees related to bridge-gate. >> i'm john terrett in the shadow of the empire state

building, about to take part in the als ice bucket challenge, i'll be doused in freezing cold ice-filled water. i'm having serious second thoughts - i mean serious second thoughts, just saying. >> people over the u.s. taking ice-cold baths for a good cause. one of our own decides to take the plunge.

america mobile app, available for your apple and android mobile device. download it now new jersey taxpayers are not only paying to investigate chris christie's role in the bridge gate scandal but will pay the millions racked up by his office. federal investigators are looking into lane closures, ordered by an aide to christy, leading to four days of traffic jams. the attorney-general yesterday released the invoices of lawyers hired by the governor's office, spelling out the fees. you may have noticed friends

on facebook dumping icy water over their heads. it's a campaign raising awareness about a deadly disease. john terrett has more. >> reporter: if you have been online, there's a chance you have seen someone taking the a ls ice bucket challenge, dumping ice cold water on their heads and nominating others to do the same. too cold for you, you can make a donation. als is a disease known as lou garics disease after a baseball great diagnosed in the late '30s. it kills off motor neurons ending the brain's ability to control muscles. a viral campaign on the internet is thrusting the disease into the spotlight. according to the als, 15 cases are diagnosed each day. 30,000 have the disease at any given time. als affects 20% more men than

women. the life expectation si of an als patient averages 2-5 years after diagnosis. there's no cure, which is why money for research is important. ice bucket challenges are not new. this patient who cap no longer talk or walk decided to use it to draw attention to the disease, he and a friend are possibly for launching the viral campaign and starting the sensation. >> before this others didn't understand what als is. >> j.t. here, i'm accepting the als ice bucket challenge. >> celebrities and politicians joined in the trend. the als says from july the 29th to august the 14th, the national and state chapters saw 146,000 new donors. and they raised $7.6 million, compared to $1.2 million in the

same period last year. it's incredible the amount of money raised, because all of this has gone viral. you didn't think, did you, that we would do the story and nobody would get wet. you're right. and it's me. but, before i do this, i nominate my two fantastic colleagues tony harris, and del walters - that's walters, not waters, in here. someone put ice in here. gin and tonic flavour, terrific, thank you, appreciate that. the only way to do this is convictly i'm told. here we go. [ cheering and applause ]. >> reporter:. >> reporter: this is why al jazeera reporters are always totally immersed in their stories. john terrett, this may not have been a good idea - al jazeera in new york. john terrett - getting cold and drenched for a good cause.

president obama has taken part in the challenge. however, he decided to forego the icy water and donate cold, hard cash. that will do it for the hour. thank you for joining us. "consider this" is next. be safe. >> the killing of an unarmed teen in st. louis and the days of of rioting that followed raised the question of militarizing of the police in america. welcome to "consider this." we'll have that and much more straight ahead oh. >> escalating tensions from the police shooting of michael brown. brown.