>> another night of protests turned violent in ferguson, missouri, the governor ordering the national guard to move in and restore peace and order. >> fighting over a damn in iraq as the u.s. steps up airstrikes, an exclusive look at the battle for control of the north. >> palestinians raiding and demolishing homes in the west bank where kidnapping suspects

lived. >> wikileaks founder juneian assange giving up his long time protest. >> welcome to aljazeera america. i'm del walters. >> i'm stephanie sy. schools are closed in ferguson, missouri and governor jay nixon calling out the national guard after tear gas and alludedding on the streets. civilian gunfire hit at least two people. >> earlier sunday, thousands gathered for a unity rally calling for peace but demanding justice for michael brown. he is that unarmed black teen shot and killed by a white police officer one week ago. >> the brown family will release more details from a private autopsy that shows the 18-year-old was shot at least six times. we are in ferguson. natasha, good morning. why did the governor call out the national guard?

>> it was a third night in a row of violence here in ferguson, several people shot, eight people arrested. police say there was molotov cocktails thrown, shooting and looting and that these attacks were premeditated and coordinated. this was one of the plash points, the window shattered, police say a big crowd gathered here last night, overran the employees inside this mcdonald's and were forced to lock themselves into a storage unit. it is one of several incidents last night to made this a very rough one in ferguson. >> it was another chaotic night in ferguson with gunfire and tear gas hours before a midnight curfew took effect. the violence is erupting where michael brown, a black teenager was shot and killed bay white

police officer. >> when we saw violent acts, including shootings and the throwing of molotov cocktails and destruction of businesses, we had to act to protect lives and property. >> the clashes between protestors and police comes as an autopsy shows michael brown was shot six times, twice in the head. the autopsy indicates bullets entered the top of brown's skull, suggesting his head was bent forward. sunday started with prayers for peace at a unity rally in ferguson. the dead teenager's mother was there with other community members. >> he was a son, an uncle, a nephew. he was not a suspect. he was not an object.

he was not an animal, but that's how he was killed. >> police department, you are violating the state-imposed occur grew saturday night, the first night of the curfew, most protestors left the streets, but police in assault vehicles moves in to disperse people who refused to leave. friday night, protestors deteriorated and businesses looted. the outrage is partially ignited by the release of this surveillance video on friday showing brown allegedly stealing just 15 minutes before he was shot by ferguson police officer darren wilson. brown's family says it's an attempt to discredit his character. the governor says he didn't know the video was being released. >> we certainly were not happy with that being reds, especially in the way it was. it appeared to cast dispersians

on a young man gunned down in the street. >> hundreds of people turned out. there were pockets of trouble makers, but for the most part, things were peaceful with a lot of children in the crowd and they inhaled a lot of tear gas. the new panther party organized this marsh and disputes much of what the police is saying. he said they were checking for weapons and there weren't any. >> speaking of children, the situation has spilled into the daily life in ferguson. wasn't today supposed to be the first day of school there? >> yesterday, they said they were looking forward to returning to school, but the school district cannot ensure

the safety of kids walking to school, getting on buses. there is still debris in the streets and driving down the street today, there's plenty of debris from last night. they took the step of canceling schools and undoubtedly, this is going to be difficult for parents who may have to make last minute day care arrangements. >> in another development, the family's autopsy, that private one is 13, the last ordered by the department of justice. what do you know about that? >> the department of justice in a statement has said that it is conducting having a federal medical examiner conduct another independent autopsy, due to the extraordinary circumstances surrounding the case. attorney general holder mentioned that brown's family requested that. the hope is that this will help assist in the federal government's investigation. keep in mind, the department of

justice is also conducting an independent investigation. there were 40 f.b.i. agents in town over the weekend, going door to door getting additional tips and information about brown's shooting. >> let's go live to libby casey in washington, d.c. this morning. libby, the president cutting short his vacation, going back to the white house last night for two days of meetings one with attorney general eric holder to talk about the situation in ferguson, what can you tell us about that? >> the president has asked the attorney general to brief him on the latest of the f.b.i. investigation into the shooting of michael brown. they'll also be talking this afternoon about what the federal role can be in cutting down on violence and encouraging the community that justice will be met. you can assume that they will also be talking about this autopsy, the autopsy that the f.b.i. has asked for. now, it's important to note that the president did have this trip back to washing on on his

schedule. he planned to come back for two days of meetings. it's highly, unusual, a break in the vacation. this the first time the two men will talk about the situation in ferguson, meeting at the white house. >> he'll meet with his national security team, some were in martha's vineyard with him and talk with vice president biden. even though the president had these two days of meetings back here in washington, the news has really dictated this set of meetings, specifically the ferguson meeting and watching the situation in iraq. the white house has been vague about why the president elected to come home at this time, but the news and the situation, the events on the ground are determining a lot of the meetings he's holding. >> a lot of airstrikes, the president sending a letter to congress in forming the legislative branch the new role

the military is planning on playing in iraq. >> that's right. the white house said this is part of keeping congress informed, in the process required by the war powers resolution. the president notified lawmakers of this expanded role, the fact that these airstrikes are taking place. he is however, calling them limited in scope and duration, specifically targeting the islamic state fighters who are going after the mosul dam. >> libby live in washington, d.c., thank you very much. >> staying in iraq, the ground fight for the mosul dam began sentenced. there are competing claims over who is in control now. we have the latest from iraq. >> day two of the military operation to recapture the mosul dam from the islamic state group. we cannot confirm that it is under the control of peshmerga forces and iraqi army as mentioned by the spokesperson of the iraqi army. the dam is behind me, you can

see it in the distance, the islamic state on the west site, the peshmerga on the right. the spokesperson for the peshmerga says the fighting is on going. it's the peshmerga fighters who are waging this battle with the help of the u.s. military. the u.s. air force are up in the skies, we can hear the planes, the armed drones targeting islamic state positions. it's going to be quite difficult to control the dam. what we understand is that the islamic state group has laid booby traps and explosive devices. they will have to advance slowly. undoubtedly, there has been progress on the ground, peshmerga forces recaptured three towns. the new front line now is 30 kilometers from mosul, which is the strong hold of the islamic state group. >> meanwhile, hundreds of women are being trained by the kurdish

peshmerga, learning to use weapons. the kurdish area is one of the few areas the women are allowed to serve in the military in combat roles. we'll be speaking with etired army major mike lyons about u.s. military involvement in iraq. >> the ceasefire expiring in 10 hours in gaza. israel taking new action against palestinians, raiding and destroying homes in the west bank. these are the homes of the men suspected of kidnapping those three israeli teens and that is the incident that sparked the conflict in gaza. nick schiffron is live now in jerusalem. tell us what happened in the west bank overnight. >> good morning. this was the early hours in the west bank. the israel military said it will demolish these house to say prevent things like that happening again, things like the

abduction and murder of these strehl teenagers. it is called collective punishment taken against the families, not only the people who committed these crimes, but the families. the targets were three homes, two were destroyed. the orchestrator, according to the israeli military, as well as another a kidnapped and committed the murder, they sealed off the home of the man accused of committing this kidnap and murder. the israeli military itself actually said in 2005 that these kind of demolitions does not prevent these further attacks, but now the israeli army taking the step, believing that this kind of destruction can prevent terrorist attacks in the future. >> the clock is ticking, now just under 10 hours. what are we hearing out of cairo about the ceasefire talks?

>> there is an egyptian plan on the table. it basically lays out fundamentally that the israelis stop shooting, the palestinian militants stop firing rockets and creating tunnels from gaza into israel. then it gets into the nitty gritty and these are difficult points. number one, the israel-gaza crossings would be reopened to rebuild gaza, five or $6 billion worth of destruction there. number two, the israelis and the palestinian authority would board nate that reconstruction. that's very important. that's not hamas, that's the palestinian authority. this is an families to strengthen them. the creation of buffer zones along the gas 300 meters, then 100 meters and by john one, filling them with palestinian authority groups, not hamas fighters. that's what this deal is intended to do and israel and egypt both want to undermine

hamas, strengthen the palestinian authority. it's the kind of deal that the speaker of israel parliament add volunteer indicates, forcing hamas to deal with moderate palestinian factions. >> the only way to negotiate with president abass, egypt and not hamas. hamas is a terrorist organization that don't want us here, think we don't belong here and willing to fight us military-wise and terrorist-wise and that is something we cannot accept. >> hamas is one of the parties to end the war and israel and palestinian authorities have to agree. this deal is probably going to be agreed to by hamas or at least some of the palestinian factions. right now, israel officials are the once pushing against it, trying to get more out of the deal. it's not clear, even though we only have 10 hours left, what's going to happen tonight. >> nick, thank you very much.

>> stephanie, with that ceasefire in place, gasses are going back to what it left of their homes. >> most of looking at a long road to rebuilding their homes and lives. we have the story. >> on july 27, this family was at home when israeli soldiers started bulldozing it. there's nothing left of it now. the war was raging around. as they fled, the family was shot at. he was captured and taken to israel. >> they didn't have enough information. they needed more. they were asking me about hamas, the location of families and rocket launchers. they wanted to know who in this area was from hamas, who was in charge. >> he lives in a farming village on the edge of gaza. six israel soldiers were wounded here during battles with hamas fighters. >> one of the main objectives of

the israeli army was to discover tunnels into israel. many believe the soldiers shelled and destroyed their lively who said in discriminately. even this little cemetery wasn't spared. >> the destruction along the eastern flank of gaza, trees uprooted, farmland radio i understand, factories and businesses destroyed. >> they destroyed everything. they want to us leave this place, but we're going to come back and rebuild once again. >> an estimated half million people are now homeless. >> he says an unprecedented amount of fire power was unleashed on gaza. >> they want death in the hazard

and minds of palestinians. no reason can justify what israel did here. this is war crimes. >> there is a call for investigation into war crimes by both sides and the u.n. has named a panel to look into the matter. for gazes living aamongst the rubble and for whom the smell of unburied bodies hangs in the air, an investigation may not be enough to bring an end to their suffering and pain. >> in tel-aviv, four people were arrested protesting outside the wedding of a jewish born woman and muslim man. the couple had supportedders, but police had to form a human chain around the building to keep the protestors away. >> it's time the muslims leave israel. this is a jewish country, they don't belong here. they don't have to be here. they have 22 countries, they can go everywhere they like. >> this is the country of

israel, it is a democratic state. they have every right to do what they want. >> supporters of the couple handed out flowers. the couple had sought a court order to bar the pro tests. >> renewed fighting in the pressure strong hold of donetsk, plumes of thick black smoke filling the skyline. ten civilians were killed sunday. >> captives taken by boko haram are still missing. >> taking a look at your first forecast, it was a very wet weekend in a large part of the country. >> ebony dionne is in for nicole mitchell. >> it has been a rough weekend all around parts of texas

especially as we head into the dallas-fort worth area. we are going to look at damage brought on by three inches of rainfall that fell yesterday morning. on saturday, they had damaging storms that even produced a micro burst, pulling down power lines. here's a look at flooding rain that washed out roads and in some instances closed roads, including i35. we expect spotty showers today, but the threat for severe weather north of the dallas-fort worth area. we are finding that we are dealing with a stalled out frontal boundary making its way eastward. we will be dealing with storms firing up through boundary. yesterday across the upper midwest, storms produced a tornado along minnesota into iowa. we are going to be watching minneapolis towards des moines today, we'll be dealing with the threat of strong, damaging winds, possibility of hail and more heavy rainfall.

>> thank you very much. >> the city of detroit facing a big bill trying to dig out of bankruptcy. >> that bill coming from one expensive storm, $1 billion. that is the mess left behind from last week's flooding. bisi onile-ere is live with who is going to pick up the tab. >> governor peristands behind killing funding for a corruption probe. >> spreading a message of peace and unit in south korea, but followed with a new threat. >> today's big number is 4,060.5 million. >> that is the number of americans who face very tougher choices when it comes to putting food on their table.

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>> 69% of those who rely on charities for food choose between food and basic utilities. >> let's go to brian moor in washington, d.c. unemployment dropping for the past five years, but the number of americans struggling to eat hasn't changed. why? >> this study has focused on a couple of things, one the overhaul hunger problem, but also the military problem and how this is basically affecting america's fighting men and women, those who have served and those who are currently serving. the numbers of really as shocking as they are heartbreaking. households seeking aid from charitable organizations and also the food banks that are supported by the outfit that did this study. it's done bay group called feeding america, which is affiliated with 200 food banks serving all 50 states.

620,000 current military households have been helped by these programs. when you look at the veterans, it's absolutely staggering, more than 2.3 million households ever had to ask for help to put food on the table. america's fighting men and women, who have helped this country are now fighting to keep food on their family's tables. >> a very bipartisan issue, 25% is the number of military families affected by this. are there any specific programs that are going to be targeting the former soldiers? >> yeah, there are. congress is working on a couple things to help get america's veterans back to work, those who are coming out of the military right now, the pentagon says it is taking a look at this study and concerned with what they are seeing, and pointing there are ways military families are helped out, given bar against on food, clothing, other items to help make ends meet.

>> live in washington, d.c., brian, thank you very much. a lot of military families want a hand up, not a hound out. >> now to the ebola outbreak. public health workers hope to reopen an ebola clinic in liberia that was attacked by protestors who rushed the clinics. quarantine patients ran. protestors carried away supplies, including contaminated mattresses. doctors without borders opened another treatment center outside the capitol. it's the group's largest. >> officials in detroit are getting the price tag for an historic storm. residents are still mopping up. the flooding destroyed homes and businesses and cars were left stranded on the street. the value of that was lost, more than $1 million. >> how are people coping? >> a week after the storms and

rains, there are still signs of did he ever station. i'm in huntington woods. 40% of the homes suffered some sort of water damage. this is a scene we've seen over and over again, not only here, but in communities throughout metro detroit, those are items that were in basements, basements flooded and now these items have been taken out here, left on the curbside to be picked up by garbage. this is one of the largest heaps of trash that we have seen so far throughout the past couple days. last week, governor rick snyder of michigan went to some of the hardest hit neighborhoods and assessed the damage. he sees that there is a really big issue here. one reason why there's so much concern and frustration is that many of these residents do not have flood insurance, so a lot of them are saying we need help. >> many cities declared emergencies in hopes of getting

federal funding with that how is that working? the federal emergency management agency, organizers out here in the field are assessing the damage, but there's still no word yet on whether fema will help out with the clean up efforts. hopefully residents here will learn sometime soon on which direction fema will go. >> bisi onile-ere for us live in detroit, thank you. >> problems in california, as well. this fast-moving wildfire scorching more than 350 acres just south of l.a., forcing campers out of the national forest. two homes may be threatened, but a main highway into the forest has been shut down. fire crews are dropping water using a helicopter. >> the northwest now facing a fire risk today. >> let's another check of the weather with eboni deon. >> an area that could use the

rain across washington and oregon, where we do ever fire weather watches in place. a frontal boundary is moving to the north of washington. ahead of it is strong winds. lightning from the storms could spark new fires. across this entire region, we are seeing 21% of the area dealing with drought. 9% exceptional and 50% of that is just in the state of california. more rain is needed, but it's mainly going to stay with the four corners. >> as we have been reporting, another violent night in missouri. now the national guard is on its way to ferguson. >> violence erupts between protestors and the police over the shooting of an unarmed protestor. we'll find out what it may take to restore calm. >> searches for the missing after a deadly landslide in nepal.

those rains could be spreading cholera. >> explosions rock a chinese city, we'll tell you what may have caused this. >> twitter making changes and that is not sitting well with a lot of twitter users.

>> you're looking live at a cloudy windy city, chicago, with high hopes for this year's little league world series. welcome to al jazeera america. ahead, there are questions this morning surrounding the health of wikileaks leader assange. >> an explosion at at florida gas station. who police say caused the blast. >> ukraine now making progress in taking back eastern cities from pro-russian separatists. we'll talk about what is next and why ceasefire talks are

underway. >> a look at our top stories. in iraq, u.s. air strikes helped forces retake areas held by islamic state fighters, recapturing several northern villages, intense fighting for the control of the mosul dam continues. sunday, american jets carried out 14 strikes, the heaviest day of attacks so far. >> israeli forces raided and destroyed homes in the west bank. the action in the suspects of the kidnapping of three israeli teens. talks continue over a long term piece deal. >> missouri governor is calling out the national guard after another night of protests and tear gas in ferguson. school has been canceled today. police say two people were shot by people taking part in the protests. joining us now from ferguson is patricia bynes, a democratic

committee woman. you had a late night, you were at the protest. what did you see and hear? >> complete chaos. there's a lot going on when you're out here. you're never able to see and know everything that's going on, but apparently, police say that there was a molotov cocktail thrown at them, and they had to use tear gas to disperse the crowd. this is well before the midnight curfew, and it was about 8:45, 8:30 time. police had to do that for crowd control. after that, things got chaotic. people all over the place. there was more gunfire, more incidences, there wound be being more looting. >> given that shots were fired

and molotov cocktails allegedly thrown, do you think the police are justified in the use of tear gas to disperse the crowds? >> well, i'm not a public safety expert, but from what i can tell, i think that that is a good reason to disperse tear gas, especially for public safety concerns, so the streets were -- they certainly tried to clear the streets well before midnight. >> what do you think of the national guard troops called in to your town? >> i almost thought it was going to have to come to this. what would quell a lot of this is if they would charge and arrest the officer that did this. this is the outcry from the community, but i understand the public safety concerns, and it seems that the authorities here just cannot seem to be able to deal with with this. you have a group of people who are content on making sure they

confront law enforcement, so we have this balance, but yet we need to have public safety. i'm very nervous, very scared, because i don't think that that's enough to stop people, people who want to agitate and confront law enforcement, so we're going to have to see what happens. >> now school has been can cred, the first day of school for the kids of ferguson, how long do you think this all goes on and do you think it goes on until criminal charges, which we don't even know they will be filed are leveed against this officer? >> >> i don't know what it's going to take to stop people determined to confront law enforcement. the peaceful protest want to see justice done, but this officer does need to be charged and arrested. that would help tremendously, and i just don't know how long this rioting is just going to take place.

i can't gauge that. >> democratic committee woman pot russia bynes joining us from ferguson. thank you for being with us. >> in our next hour, we'll go back to ferguson for an update. >> a lot of people wonder what next. >> protestors vow to stay on the streets of islamabad until the prime minister steps down in pakistan. tens of thousands of people flooding the streets say the government there is corrupt. >> investigators believe a natural gas explosion happened in an apartment on the second floor in china. >> an inaugural trip to asia for the pope, on his final day, he met with leaders of 12 religious

orders and attended a festival for youth day. he called for peace between the north and south. now a new threat from north korea, the government programsing to take action against the south. seoul began military drills with the u.s. among tactics tested, south koreaed ability to handle an invasion. >> there is a did he say pretty search going on this morning in nepal. >> scores are still missing from landslides and flooding. >> it is the same story every year, floods, landslides that take lives of hundreds and displacing thousands every monsoon season. behind me, the landslide site that took place two weeks ago where 156 people were buried and only 33 bodies recovered. the landslide blocked the refer and a lake has been created. the army has been working for the past two weeks to create channels to left the water out.

problems of disaster, every monsoon it's guaranteed something is going to happen. just the past week, three days of rain means 200 people have been swept away by floods. experts are saying that the issue is not only managing disasters after it's taken place, but to be prepared for it every monsoon season. >> things there are so bad, the government has deployed 3,000 workers just searching for victims. >> they are worried that the lack of sanitation could spread calendar are a there and in nearby india. >> brazil saying goodbye to a presidential candidate involved in a plane crash. edward campos lice in state before his funeral. his plane crashed in bad weather, coming less than two months before brazil's presidential elections. >> julian assange is leaf be ecuador and could face being arrested by police. the wikileaks founder held a

news conference inside the believe this morning. he's been there two years. he gave few details about his move and skirted reports that his health has declined. >> detained in various ways in this country without charge for four years. i've been this embassy for two years, which has no outside area. there's no sunlight. it is an environment in which any healthy person would find themselves soon enough with certain difficulties. >> assong is likely to be arrested when he walks out of the embassy. britain has agreed to extradite him for questioning in a sexual assault case. >> texas governor rick purree lashes out over a grand jury indictment. >> he has a pair of felony charges for abuse of power. >> what is he saying about this?

>> everything's bigger in texas. >> true. >> governor perry is waking up with a pretty texas style headache this morning. good morning. he says the charges against him are "a farce of democracy." it all began with a district attorney's drunk driving arrest and veto threat to the texas governor made good on. a grand jury in traverse county texas say perry used his power to try to get district attorney to resign. she was sentenced to 45 days in jail after driving while intoxicated. the indictment claims perry threatened to veto $7.5 million from her investigation department, the public integrity unit unless she quit. she didn't and perry vetoed the funding anyway. he says he stands behind that veto and claims the charges against him are politically

motivated. >> i stood up for the rule of law in the state of texas and if i had to do it again, i would make exactly the same decision. this is not the way that we settle political differences in this country. you don't do it with indictments. we settle our political differences at the ballot box. >> he does deserve to be held accountable. he clearly in our minds and minds of other republican jurists, looks like he broke the law. he needs to be held accountable for that. >> rick purree is the longest serving governor in texas history, but easy not running again when his term expires in january. he's spending a lot of time this summer in eye woo. oh really? prompting speculation he may launch another presidential run in 2016. >> oh really, governor perry. >> 2016, does this hurt his chances? >> i think it probably hurts his chances among the mod receipts, among the tea party who love and support him, they just see this as a democratic attack, a

politically motivated attack as governor per rye has said. among the moderate republicans, he's already in trouble with that group. november, 2011, he came up with the oops moment when he was trying to list three government agencies that he would get rid of if he won the election and couldn't remember the third one. he went oops like that. mod receipts really didn't like that. he's going to of to win them over if he's going to go all the way. if he is arrested and charged, he will of course have a mug shot and that will be another burden if you're running for the president it. >> could be a hurdle. john will join us pretty regularly on the morning show. >> thank you. happy days are here for me, as well. >> excited to have you. >> we'll talk to you in about a week. >> next talk on friday. >> a strange smell forcing the emergency landing of a southwest

airlines jet in milwaukee. passengers said it smelled electrical, so they radioed the tower. they asked to land early. crews are checking the plane for the cause of that smell. >> police in massachusetts investigating a sky diving accident that left an experienced jumper there dead. officials don't know if the equipment failed or he died when he hit the ground. friends say he made hundreds of jumps. the f.a.a. now is said to be investigating. >> police say a gas thief caused this major explosion in miami. police arrested a suspect, saying he pocketed over an underground tank at the gas station. police said he had equipment to siphon gas inside his minivan. no one was hurt in the blast. >> headlines making news around the world, a group of tourists in indonesia saved their own lives, swimming for six hours. their beat sank. once they reached an island, they found an erupting volcano. they were forced to drink their

own urine just to survive because there was no water. >> a real life survivor story. we should say that two foreigners are still missing. >> according to the las vegas review journal, hillary clinton likes to travel in style. only a $39 million private jet and presidential suite will do for the former first lady. this brought a lot of press in which people question whether she's in touch with normal people. she gets $250,000 to speak as this particular fundraising dinner. that includes expense, hotel rooms, you know. >> the plane itself in this case cost $300,000. one of the reasons they wrote the article was that the travel expenses were getting a little out of hand. >> right. >> twitter's latest update rustling feathers. users annoyed that favorite tweets by others are showing up in their time line. they said we get it. if we want to retweet something, we will do it on our own.

we don't need twitter to do it for us. people are not happy about the change. >> twitter and facebook are always tweaking their formula and usually people are pretty adverse to the changes. >> fit ain't broke, don't fix it or tweet it. >> the battle rages on this morning for control of a critical dam in iraq. >> u.s. airstrikes pounding dozens of targets in iraq this weekend, aimed at slowing the islamic state group. retired army mike lyons will discuss whether that u.s. involvement is helping or hurting. >> sunday, we got to see what the boys of chicago would do for an encore. little league series highlights coming up. >> turtles can talk, sort of. it's our discovery of the day when we come back in just two minutes. mi

>> in iraq, fighting over a dam in the north with dozens of u.s. air strikes, kurdish forces battling the islamic state group for control of the dam, a critical source of electricity and water for northern iraq. mike lyons is a retired army major joining us in studio. why is that dam so important? >> strategically it gives either side an advantage over the other. the fact that isis had it before, they controlled electricity and power into mosul, could have used it to collect taxes and the like. it's a very important side for the other side to make sure they have it. >> they could have flooded it and created a humanitarian nightmare by killing thousands of people in the process. >> that seems to be how the president justified going in with these more airstrikes that he asked congress for in order to get it back.

he said american lives in baghdad were now threatened if that wasn't taken back. >> you see we are seeing the obama doctrine. >> this is it. he outlined it back at west point a couple of months ago where he would not use u.s. forces on the ground but use air power and the like to deny the enemy certain locations as we're doing right now, but not use these ground forces, assist the kurds and iraqi security forces that had responsibility for that dam. >> was the humanitarian crisis, the yazidis on excuse for getting the u.s. more involved in iraq and can we see that humanitarian issue being used to press more buttons in hot spots around the world? >> i think he'll shift away from that. last week, when they said that crisis man averted, momentum broken, there were issues over the weekend, he's going to shift more toward the support mission. once the iraqi government gets

its house in order, that gives justification to continue air supports. it won't look bike we're supporting the iraqi government. >> this is really expanding. >> you bring the b1's in, it means we're getting more tactical. it was important to hit targets in a very specific manner at this point, because we couldn't destroy that dam. we don't take it by destroying. it they had to be very careful. you bring those kind of planes in, you have eye-gun target. >> al-maliki is out and now the new prime minister designate is saying they want more u.s. support and more weapons. are we looking at a slippery slope of supplying anybody weapons in this particular region? >> i think the president will say that this is what we need to do at this point to support our ally in iraq now. i think as long as we're not putting troops there at this point, i think the american public will be ok with it.

mike lyons, thanks for being with us, restored army major and senior fellow with the truman security project. >> something we all take for granted in the u.s., 90% of us have cell phones. that is not the case in myanmar where cell phones were a hucksry. the government is trying to change that. >> these people are all part of the telecommunications sweeping through the area. now being able to buy one has got people swarming into mobile phone shops. >> we've been selling 100 to 200 handsets on a daily basis. >> for a long time, the industry was mo pop lied by a state owned enterprise. the government allowed two

foreign countries to operate. a taxi driver just got his first mobile phone. >> the reason i bought the phone is so i can get taxi records from customers and friends. >> he hasn't quite learned to use it, though and sometimes has trouble telling an incoming call from an out going one. he wants to one day surf the internet with his phone. >> the booming phone sales mean more people will access the internet. industry experts estimate that only 1% of the population go on line. a recent survey suggests half who do use the internet do so through a mobile device. >> much more work needs to be done. there are between 2,000 and 3,000 transmission towers. the country is going to need at least 10 times that number. hampered by the infrastructure, the foreign owned companies are

only launching services in three major cities. many of optimistic. >> there is just an exponential amount of business possible with this new connectivity, going from e health to e money. it's a very exciting time. >> the internet still seems a long way away pepsi first got to master the basics of using his phone. >> some 6500 stores will be selling those cheaper as i am cards in myanmar. >> turtles are talking. new in sights how turtles talk underwater. >> researchers found river furtherles communicate using at least six different sounds. this turtle talk is going on between females and hatch links. the scientists say this is the first proof of parental care by

furtherles. >> they talk slowly, though. >> flooded roads and tens of thousands of people without power. some homes were struck by lightning in dallas. >> meteorologist ebony dionne is here. >> another wet day, at least in some parts of texas, but it doesn't look like we'll deal with the weather we did over the weekend. we've been tracking three disturbances through the weekend, across the planes, hey voluntarily and the threat for strong to severe storms in minnesota. it will be hot and very sticky, feeling more like the triple digits heading into the afternoon hours in texas. houston, temperatures stay above average for the rest of the work

week. average high is 93. we'll make it into the mid and upper 90's. the heat will stay across texas and spread northward. this is a ridge of high pressure, allowing the southerly flow to bring temperatures up to parts of oklahoma, well into texas. we are going to see those above average weather stick around, so more heat on the way. >> 87 in chihuahua. >> it is tough to say which story at the little league world series has been more inspiring. an that outstanding female pitcher mow anyway davis from the south side of chicago. >> they were both in action on sunday. john henry smith tell us how they did. the first thing you said was we're going to tell you and we wanted to know how they did. >> it's one of the reasons sports matter in this country, certainly an uplifting story.

the girls team in still afloat. tournament rules wouldn't let davis take the mound sunday after pitch ago shutout. she became only the fourth girl ever to drive in a run with her single in the second. scored to give pennsylvania a 2-0 lead, but rallying to take the lead, spear man hit one under the glove of adams to bring him him. he would be the winning run if shanahan could drive him in. at the plate, grounds out to short, but the throw to first, way too high. spearman scores to give pennsylvania the 7-6 win. also sunday, the eyes of chicago were watching as the jacki robinson west all-stars representing the south side and all of illinois in round two,

but the first african-american team make the series won friday by mercy rule. on this day, they would lose to the powerful team from nevada by mercy rule. 13-2. since the little league world series is double elimination, the boys from the south side still have a chance. >> tonight, the team from i will i am faces a must-win game against rhode island. chances are mow anyway davis will pitch against nevada. >> it's called neigh floats and we mean anything. boat builders showed or creations in the regatta in the florida teams. these guys paddling with their arms as they float along on empty luggage. an entry called coke float was the most creative, made from mastic bottles. >> and wilson the beach ball there. >> coming up, efforts to end the fighting in ukraine.

>> meetings continue in berlin to reach a ceasefire between pro-russian rebels and pro government forces. there's not much both sides are agreeing on. >> a cause that has everybody chilling for charity. that we're revolutionary because we're going back to doing best of storytelling. we have an ouportunity to really reach out and really talk to voices that we haven't heard before... i think al jazeera america is a watershed moment for american journalism

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indictments. >> texas governor rick perry on the defensive, accused of abusing his power, his supporters cry witch hunt and come from both sides of the aisle. >> a week after record breaking floods put detroit underwater, residents drying out. the price tag is huge for extensive damage costs. >> the national guard will soon be on the streets of ferguson, missouri after another night of violent protest. good morning, welcome to al jazeera america. i'm stephanie sy. >> i'm del walters. the governor has taken the step of calling out the national guard, saying the situation there is so precarious police can't handle it anymore. the first day of school delayed twice has been canceled again today. >> before last night's violence there was a unity rally as family and supporters demanded justice for michael brown. today, brown's family will release the results of a private autopsy. it reportedly shows that the unarmed team was shot six times by police officer darren wilson,

including twice in the head. >> we were right in the middle of those protests in ferguson. >> police in armored vehicles fired sol lees of tear gas at protest marshes in ferguson sunday night. eyewitnesses in the group of several hundred, mostly young african-americans said police ordered them to disperse while they were peacefully protesting the killing of 18-year-old michael brown by a white police officer earlier this month. >> eyewitnesses said there were some children up there. you can see these explosions going on, so things are not calm at all. it was calm earlier. now, there's a whole line of police vehicles moving forward and just trying to sweep people in front of them. >> police said a single molotov cocktail was thrown at them, prompting them to act. large numbers of police in body armor, helmets and gas masks moved down the street toward the protestors. it was an entire different scene

earlier in the day, as hundreds of people packed a church to donate money for michael brown's funeral and hear speeches by ministers and activists. >> i wear this uniform, and i just stand up here and say that i'm sorry. >> there is as deeply felt anger among residents of this city, especially young people who said they are fed up with what they say are heavy hand understand and racially discriminatory practices by the locally predominantly white fleece force. the sun of slain civil rights leader martin luther king, jr. attended the meeting. >> my father often said violence is the voice of the unheard. >> federal authorities have sent agents to investigate the violation of civil rights law. a second autopsy is ordered to

be performed on brown's body. a midnight to dawn curfew remains in place for the foreseeable future. ferguson, missouri. >> natasha is live in ferguson. you've shown us the dramatic scene where you are. what can you tell us? >> >> people may just be waking up here in ferguson, but there are still many protestors lingering who were on the streets last night, angry and accusing the police are lying about the sequence of events. this mcdonald's, you can see the shattered glass of this front window. police say a big crowd amassed here and overran this mcconn dads and employees were forced to lock themselves inside a storage unit. police say this was just one of what they believe was a series of premeditated and planned attacks last night. we were speaking to protestors

who say it was peaceful. the new belong panther party organized last night's protest involving hundreds. there were many, many kids. he said they were checking for guns and as far as he's concerned, he believes that the police incited the violence and provoked the violence. i did speak to one of our photo journalists. he said that it was a rough one and that there appeared to be pockets of trouble makers amidst the hundreds. >> the mother of michael brown spoke with ron johnson, the highway patrol captain leading the police in ferguson. what did he tell her? >> >> you're going hear what he told her in just a second. she's been speaking this morning, saying the only way justice can be served is for the officer involved, officer darren wilson to be arrested.

>> a message for me said that it could have been his son, and he was sorry. he like everybody else is supporting and hoping and praying this doesn't happen again. >> now, we're told that the parents as well as their attorney are actually going to be having a news conference later on this morning. >> we can see them start to go clean up that mcdonald's there behind you. reporting from fer son, thank you. >> let's go live to libby casey in washington, the president cutting short his vacation, going back to the white house, two days of meetings, one with attorney general eric holder. of course they will be talking about the situation in ferguson. >> that's right, del, the president has asked the attorney general to brief him on the latest of the f.b.i. investigation into the shooting of michael brown. they'll also likely talk about the autopsy that attorney general holder has requested

done, the federal government do. they'll look at what else the federal rule should be in quelling the violence in ferguson. president obama and attorney general eric holder had been on vacation in martha's vineyard, but this will be their first meeting at the white house to discussion the situation in missouri. >> the governor of missouri in constant contact with the white house, approximately. the president will talk about the situation in iraq. who is he meeting with today? >> he'll meet with his national security team and the vice president. these meetings for the next two days have long been on the books. it's unusual for a president to break in the middle of the vacation and come back to d.c. he plans to go back to martha's vineyard tomorrow night, however the initial purpose of his trip to d.c. has been left vying by the white house, just here for a series of meetings, the news has driven and dictated who he'll talk to today, because of the situation in ferguson and what's

happening in iraq. >> what can you tell us about the letter the president sent to congress to inform ledge later of the u.s. military role in iraq? what did he say in that letter? >> the white house said this is part and parcel of keeping with the war powers resolution. this is the official notification that the operation in iraq has been stepped up, airstrikes have been launched and the president says this is limited in duration and scope, but the key target, trying to protect the mosul dam from islamic state fighters, wimp the white house says is a key strategic point. >> thank you very much. >> the ground fight for the dam in mosul is growing more intense this morning with help from u.s. jets that carried out 14 airstrikes on sunday. we are on the ground with the kurdish forces fighting for that dam. >> the peshmerga on the offensive. they are in battle with the islamic state group.

the kurdish forces are not fighting alone. the u.s. air force is covering their advance from the skies. the islamic state group is not making their task easy. we can see explosions from the towns they control. they have been leaving bombs on the side of the roads as they retreat. one of the objectives of this military operation is to recapture the mosul dam from the islamic group which controls one third of the country. it provides electricity and water to surrounding areas. there are many front lines in this war. >> the peshmerga advanced on more than one front. we are just 30 kilometers from the city center of mosul, the strange hold of the islamic state group. >> in this region in mosul, the peshmerga recaptured three

towns. one of them shows evidence of the fight. peshmerga maced to shoot one of the vehicles belonging to the islamic state group. we weren't able to enter the city. the peshmerga conducts clearing operations. commanders are confident, but it may be too early to declare victory. they hope the people of the towns will be able to return home. >> our president told to us save the christians and other minorities. we are here to protect them. we succeeded and pushed the islamic state back. >> the obama administration has repeated time and time again that their military objective is to protect minorities and the kurdish territories. it seems the military operation has expanded. the objective now is to allow their partners on the ground to go on the offensive. aljazeera, southeast of mosul dam. >> sunday's fighting was the

most highly coordinated operation with the u.s. since american troops left iraq in 2011. >> wikileaks leader is leaving the ecuadorian embassy in london. he's been living there two years as he faces extradition on sex assault charges. there are few details on why he is leaving. there are reports that his health might be in jeopardy. >> detained in various ways in this country without charge for four years and in this embassy for two years, which has no outside area and no sunlight. it is an environment in which any healthy person would find themselves soon enough with certain difficulties. >> assange is likely to be arrested when he walks out of the embassy. britain has pledged to extradite

him to sweden. >> we are less than nine hours away from the end of a ceasefire in gaza and talks continue in cairo. israel took new actions again palestinians, raiding and destroying homes of the member suspected of kid 23457ing three israel teens and their murder. what's at stake in cairo and however apart do these two sides remain? >> they are trying to get together with the help of egypt, who is the intermediate area between israeli and hamas. the first, stop shooting, israel stops firing into gaza, palestinian factions stop firing rockets or building tunnels from gaza into israel. then you get into details. here's three of the most

important points. number one, the israeli-gaza crossings, the first is to agree to reopen them for rebuilding materials and supply to say come in from israel. number two, huge coordination between israel and the palestinian authority. the coordination's not with hamas, it's with the palestinian authority and the part of this is an attempt to really kind of delegitimize or as you have aside hamas in gaza. number three, the creation of buffer zones, a three stage process to go from 300 meters to 100 meters to zero meters and instead of feeling that border zone between gaza and israeli with israeli forces wimp it is now or hamas officials, again, another attempt to elevate the palestinian authority, try and get palestinian authority more into gas and reduce hamas's strangle hold. >> what more do the two sides want? >> i think they want a lot.

retoreically, publicly, the two sides are really far apart. israeli says we want no less than the demilitarization of the gaza strip, that means hamas gives up rockets. that's not going to happen. hamas wants the opening of the siege, opening the borders and maritime border. fishermen can only go three miles out. that is not going to happen. you get these very complicated, protracted arguments basically in cairo. negotiations over what the two sides can agree on, con we get enough for israel to say the war was worth it and hamas can say we haven't given up everything. it's not clear whether we can get there in the next eight hours. >> thank you. >> in libya, international calls for a ceasefire appear to be falling on deaf ears. a u.n. special envoy set to visit tripoli as soon as next

week. fighting rages on. choir line malone has more. >> five weeks of intense fighting between rival factions, but no sign of let up despite calls for peace. the brigades are trying to push rifles away from the main airport, which they've controlled since the revolution three years ago. forces appear to have made progress, taking over a military camp and a former club. the lives of hundred was fighters have been claimed. it's scared people who live in these residential area. many have fled for their lives. there have been calls from a ceasefire. the u.n. released a statement denouncing the shelling of residential neighborhoods, which has inflicted casualties among civilians, forced them out of their homes and caused property damage.

the mission warns that the continued fighting poses a serious threat to the political pros and security and stability of the country. libya has been unstable since rebels pushed out muammar gaddafi in 2011, but this violence is some of the worse since then. they are often paid by the state to fill a vacuum created when forces were disbanded. some fighters used to be in the military, others have little or no official training. they do have plenty of arms and a clear willingness to use them to their own end. that fighting killed more than 200 people since that conflict began in mid july. >> rescue across in nepal trying to reach hundreds after a landslide. 89 people were killed and villages buried. the same rain hitting the same

region two weeks ago, killing 150 people. >> the rains are affecting nearby people in india. officials worry the floodwaters and lack of sanitation may spread cholera. >> let's bring in meteorologist eboni deon. >> we have flooding concerns across parts of the south and into the upper midwest, where the rain has not just been coming into the same areas, but with i didn't think heavy downpours. that was the case in dallas where we received three inches of rainfall in spots. north of i-20 in arkansas is where the bulk of the rain is coming down, expecting a quick two to three inches of rainfall. also flash flood warnings across southern areas of tennessee, as well. into the midwest, rain is going to continue to come down.

we have quite a bit of moisture. in addition to blood advisories that are out, dense fog advisories are in place. vicabilitys will be reduced to just about a mile. minneapolis through des moines is a slight risk issue. in addition to the rain, we'll be dealing with the threat of strong winds and hail, so the active weather continue. >> a lot of kids going back to school are going to be soaked. >> texas governor rick perry is slamming a grand jury's indictment over alleged abuses of power. we have more on why perry says the changes are another case of lawmakers playing politics. >> detroit cleaning up from that record-breaking flooding as residents there who got hit first got a sense of how much the damage is going to be. we are live in detroit with how the federal government may be forced to help out. >> bringing a quick end to a

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>> time now for a look at videos captured by citizen journalists around the world. thousands gathering in the netherlands for a memorial service for victims of do you understand makes airlines flight one month after that tragedy. this village lost 13 people. balloons were released into the air. >> more than 100 people gathered in downtown st. louis for a rally for darren wilson, the police officer who shot michael brown. the demonstration took place in protest of the station's decision to air footage of wilson's home. >> a storm ripping through baker, montana. rick springfield performed on saturday at the fair. he captured this fattage of the storm blowing over the marquee. we were talking about the fact that it was just a year ago that lady antebellum was performing at the indiana fair with huge storms going through.

>> the high price tag detroit is facing following record breaking flooding. >> rick perry coming out swinging against entitles against him. >> he said it is politics at its worst. back now with more. >> i'm suspecting that governor rick puree probably didn't have the best of weekends. friday, he learned there are two outstanding felony charges against him for i will leally overreaching his powers as the governor of texas. governor perry said the charges against him are a farce of democracy. here's how we got to this point: >> rick perry reminding defiant in the face of a criminal indictment, taking total talk show circuit, appearing on fox news sunday, he defended a 2013 veto that cut state funds to the county d.a. >> i stood up for the rule of law in the state of texas and if i had to do it again, i would

make exactly the same decision. >> that decision led him here, where he's now fighting charges of abuse of power and coerce of a public servant, felony charges that are politically motivated. >> this is not the way we settle political differences in this country. you don't do it with indictments. we settle our political differences in the ballot box. >> it set or a chain of events a year ago when prosecutors say perry tried to force a democratic district attorney to quit or cut funding to her office. the texas governor said rosemary lenburg seen here should have resigned after bleeding guilty to a d.w.i., driving while intoxicated. lenburg refused to step down and perry carried out his threat. an ethics complaint was filed. in an interview, the group member said it's time for perry to face the music. >> he does deserve to be held

accountable. he clearly in our minds and apparently the minds of our republican jurists, looks like he broke the law. he needs to be held accountable for that. >> he's the longest serving governor in state history and perry said he's staying put for the rest of his term, with one eye on the presidency and a firm belief apparently in second chance. >> if the governor decides to run, it is thought that this won't hurt his chances among the tea party wing of the republican party but he may have more trouble with motte receipts. if he is charged and books, he will have a potential pepper walk and a mug shot. >> you're talking about the primaries, how do you get to a national election stage with this? >> thank you. >> john will be back with us in 30 minutes for a closer look at that viral trend, the ice bucket challenge. >> he took it and we will talk about it. >> fire crews near los angeles trying to beat back a fast growing wildfire in the national

forest. it forced hundreds of campers to lead and shut down the main road into the forest there. no homes were threatened. >> there will be no break for the dry conditions out west. >> we're really not expecting to see much in the way of help from mother nature. we've seen showers bubbling up across southern areas of arizona, but not quite getting into southern areas of california where we can use the rainfall. high pressure will be the dominant feature in our weather to keep us on the dry side. isolated storms, that will be owl. red throughs are up across southern or gone and northern areas of colorado where there are a number of wildfires. a frontal boundary stays to the west and lightning could trigger

new fires. we have changes on the way. as we get into tuesday, monson moisture continues to stream northward, take a look at the green shadiness, indicating the rainfall. we're also watching out for the rain moving back into the east, as well as the heat into the plains. back to you. >> >> it rained more than a week ago. we are learning the price tag for the flooding that hit detroit. the cleanup is still going on. the value of destroyed cars, homes and businesses topping $1 billion. bisi onile-ere is live in a suburb of detroit. how are the people there coping? >> it's been very, very hard. a week after the rains and storms, there are still signs of did he ever station. i am in a suburb of detroit called huntington woods where 40% ever residents suffered damage from these storms.

this is a scene that we've seen over and over again here in the neighborhoods throughout metro detroit. these are items destroyed by flooded basements and they've been put out by homeowners and residents to be picked up by the trash. michigan governor rick snyder toured metro detroit, some of the hardest hit areas. there is a serious level of frustration, because a lot of people weren't expecting these massive -- this massive flooding and because of that, a lot of people are not covered by flood insurance, so a lot of people hope that help is on the way. >> they need help, a lot of cities declaring emergencies in hope of getting if you recall funding with that how is that working? >> well, the federal emergency management agency ever across her. they've been surveying the area since last week. there isn't word on whether fema will offer help. talking to residents, right now, they are keeping their fingers

crossed. >> bisi onile-ere joining us live from michigan, thank you very much. >> the federal government ordering its own autopsy of the unarmed teen shot to death by police in missouri. we talk to a forensic pathologist about what the just department hopes to find with its own inquiry. >> renewed fighting and whether talks will help end the violence in ukraine. >> tensions in ferguson reaching the boiling point last night. >> riot police shooting tear gas and smoke grenades to disperse protestors. the national guard called out to restore order. restore order.

>> taking a live look at the capitol building in washington this monday morning. president obama returned to d.c. last night from his vacation, he will be holding meetings today on the u.s. military efforts in iraq and tensions in ferguson, missouri. good morning, welcome to al jazeera america. ahead in our next half hour, people in africa on high alert after an ebola clinic was looted over the weekend. some people are relying on old medical practices to fight the virus. >> on social media, chances are you've seen someone doing the a.l.s. ice bucket challenge. the man that inspired this booming trend, that's coming up. >> a look at the top stories, missouri's governor calling out the national guard following another night of violence on the streets of ferguson. the family of michael brown set to release for details from this private autopsy that shown the unaround teen was shot six

times. >>s ceasefire in gaza set to end today. israel raided and destroyed homes in the west bank connected to suspected kidnappers there. >> in iraq, u.s. airstrikes helping the iraqi army and kurdish forces for control of the mosul dam. >> the ukrainian military continues closing in on the separatist held towns in the east. there is renewed fighting in donetsk, the military says it has control now of parts of neighboring luhansk. volunteers join the fight to bring their country back together. >> a few months ago, many of these men had never picked up a weapon. they were paramedics, students, builders, lawyers. now they're firing live rounds, getting ready to fight.

the ukrainian army is using volunteer fighter to say try to win back territory. the men here only have a few weeks training before they head off to the front line. then it all becomes very risky and real. this is where they could end up where the separatists are still in control. the battle for this land is fierce and intensive. this was once the regional airports, welcoming flights every day. sunday, separatists brought do you know fighter jet close to the area, but ukrainian forces say they still have the upper hand. >> yesterday after a fierce battle in the residential area, the anti terror operation forces restored control on the believe of the neighborhood police station and raised a flag of ukraine on it. the donetsk region is freed.

>> back at the volunteer battalion, the commander told us ukrainian forces can't win this battle without them. >> i think the work the volunteer battalions are doing in ukraine is very important, because it is the future of the ukrainian army, also the future of the police force. battalions are often guided by ideal. >> in their fight against the enemy. >> a fight these men say they're willing to risk everything for to keep control of their borders and they say their future. aljazeera in eastern ukraine. >> let's go live to william taylor, former u.n. ambassador to the ukraine and vice president at the institute of peace in washington, d.c. thanks for being with us. sunday, the foreign ministers of ukraine and russia meeting in berlin for ceasefire talks. do you anticipate there will be

progress coming out of the talks? >> well, there could be. there are things that each side needs to do. on the russian side, they need to stop supporting the separatists in southeastern ukraine. they are providing equipment, their weapons. we know that the weapons have been used to shoot down aircraft, not just military aircraft. on the ukrainian side, they need to change their constitution, to give local regions more autonomy, more ability to make decisions about budgets, about language policy. on the international side, the international community needs to support ukraine as it rebuilds the southeastern part of their country. >> now, as you saw in emma's package, ukraine's military saying it controls the center of luhansk. is this a sign that the separatists there are falling apart? >> this is a clear sign the

separatists are falling apart. three of the russian leaders have recently gone back to russia. they've resigned their positions in the separatist movement and gone back to russia. there are reports of separatist soldiers taking off their uniforms that were supplied by the russians and putting on civilian clothes. there was one report of separatist soldiers masking themselves as orthodox priests that are going back into russia. there's clear signs that the separatists are falling apart. >> if anything can be said about russian president vladimir putin it is that he does not like to lose. are there concerns that the military gains will lead moscow to get more involved or is this a sign that he may be backing off? >> he does have a hard decision. he can double down on the separatists and the accept are a activities are claiming that they are anticipating reinforcements from mr. putin and the russians interns of

tanks, of weltering soldiers, so he could continue to support them, or he can enter into discussions and close off the support, disown the separatists, disown these separatists who have shot down that malaysian airliner, so has he that hard chose to make. >> i want to go back to the humanitarian convoy stopped at the ukrainian border. was it a trojan horse? they targeted that separate convoy, russia denies it. what's going on? >> it's hard to tell. it does look like there's a large convoy of humanitarian assistance, although many of the trucks appear to be only partly filled, and there are a lot of trucks that have very little in them. it makes one wonder why they are being sent. there's a separate convoy, a military convoy that apparently entered ukrainian space,

ukrainian territory and targeted by the ukrainian government and disabled. the rues deny this, but the ukrainians are very clear that this convoy, military convoy came across and this was observed by western reporters. >> ambassador william taylor, thank you for being with us. we apologize for the satellite problems. thanks for being with us this morning. >> dozens of people abducted by boko haram have reportedly been rescued by soldiers from neighbors chad. the captives had been in a convoy buses trying to cross the border. they had been taken from a nearby nigerian village. hundreds of school girls kidnapped by boko haram back in april are still missing. >> liberia waries ebola could spread to the slum. looters stole infected items from a clinic. residents were angry that patients with the rye of us were

brought from a holding center into their neighborhood. >> doctors without borders that opened the large evident ebola treatment clinic ever. the unit can hold 120 patients and expanded to hold hundreds more, but doctors without borders said it won't fill all at once. they want to fill it slowly to ensure the best care. >> as that virus spreads, doctors taking steps to help the public there. >> efforts of limited. many are relying on traditional healers for protection. >> claim to go have a potion that can protect against the deadly ebola virus, all he will reveal it is made from chick wood from a local forest and several secret prayers. he tells me other healers are trying it out in guinea. >> the government has yet to place enough measures of protection. if there is a case of ebola, we

are equipped to handle the patient. >> it is traditional practices like this that hinder doctors without borders. they've been pushed away from ebola infected villages sometimes violently, because locals don't trust them. >> in most owe sites here, traditional healers are the first point of contact for people needing treatment. they live in areas without access to a medical facility. they are not used to medical staff. >> only 50 health officers are stationed along this border separating senegal from guinea. ebola outbreak is within a few hundred kilometers and spreading. there is no real sense of panic here. authorities are monitoring the situation at border posts and have put steps in place to protect the pop litigation. >> these citizens have come to senegal to work. this enter, they only need to wash their hands with soap and

detergent. no one is taking their temperature or asked if they've come in contact with sick patients. >> i'm surprised no one asked us to fight ebola. this portion works for all types of diseases. ebola comes from nature, its cure will come from nature. >> there is no shortage of patients fearing they have the virus. often they suffer the flu. he has a remedy for that, too. his potions have never failed him yet. aljazeera, senegal, guinea border. >> since marsh, the virus has killed more than 1,000 people in guinea, sierra leone and liberia while four of died in nigeria. >> rescue crews searching for two after a tourist boat sang in indonesia heading from a resort island going down in the water.

officials say bad weather is considered the cause. >> north korea promising attacks on the south. seoul began military drills and the u.s. said it will take action. among drills held, troops are going to test out korea's ability to handle an invasion by the north and the south is calling for high level talks. >> pope francis will be back at the sat ken after a trip to southee. he left seoul last night after meeting with leaders of south korea's 12 religious orders and attended a youth day. >> 25% of military families in the u.s.a. rely on food banks. many veterans make tough choice to say provide food. the pentagon said if service members have financial troubles, there is counseling available.

>> it's been 10 years since going the went public, august 19, 2004. it was just $85 a share. if you bought back then, that was less than expected, but it put the value of the company just six years old back then at $23 billion, almost as much as g.m. two months later, google jumped to over $190 a share. last october, each share was trading well above $1,000 a share. today, google stock is involved at almost $390 billion. only exxon mobil valid at $222 billion and apple are larger. if you happened to guy that google stock, you scored what is called a 10 bagger, earning a return of more than 1000% over

the last 10 years. >> there has been a lot to cheer about as the little league world series. two big sources of inspiration, an outstanding female pitcher and tremendous team from the south side of chicago. we've followed their progress. how did they all do on sunday? >> just cheer for them all. it's been a wonderful, wonderful story thus far. mow anyway davis's pennsylvania team and the chicago team representing illinois still afloat. one of these teams won their game on sunday. >> after pitching a two hit shutout, 13-year-old phenom mow anyway davis came into round two sunday as more than a key player. she's become a role model. >> being a role model is really cool and hopefully more girls will play. >> tournament rules wouldn't let davis take the mound sunday

after pitching a shut out. she became the fourth girl to drive in a run with her bloop single into second. by the sixth, the game was tied, grounding to short, the throw to first, too high. spear man scores to give pennsylvania the 7-6 win. >> we have to keep in mind they're children and they're doing an excellent job just because they made it there. >> no one person, no two people, it's a team. >> the eyes of chicago were watching as the all-stars represented the south side and all of illinois in round two of the llws. >> actually, they're role models and don't even know it. >> the first african-american team to make the series since 1973, they lost by mercy rule, 13-2. since the world league series is dowell elimination, the boys

from the south side still have a chance. >> great chance to come back and win it all. >> tonight, the illinois team faces a must-win game against rhode island. moan anyway davis will pitch again wednesday taking on nevada. >> if i was at-bat and looked into mow anyway davis's white, i would be scared. >> a new autopsy for michael brown offers insight into his shooting death. >> we'll talk about a difference in the investigation. >> the challenge that's taken the internet by storm. how dump ago bucket of ice water over your head is helping fight a neurological disease.

>> a major explosion in miami. police say it was all because of a gas thief. they say he parked over an underground tank and tried to syphon the fuel. police arrested the suspect, saying no one was hurt. >> just ahead, the big impact the viral trend of the a.l.s. ice bucket challenge is having in the battle against the disease. >> first, tensions rising in los angeles after the shooting of an unarmed black man there. hundreds of protestors rallied in front of the lapd headquarters. the man had severe mental disorders. place say he attacked the officers. protestors comparing ford's death to that of michael brown's in ferguson. >> we are learning more about michael brown's death. the private autopsy shows the teenager was shot at least six times, including twice in the head. one of the bullets entered the top of brown's skull. the pathologist hired by his

family said it doesn't look as though he was shot at close range, because there was no gunpowder on his body. >> doctor, thanks for being with us. let's talk about that, no gun powder found on his body. i understand for this autopsy, they didn't have access to his clothes, so that conclusion could change, correct? >> that conclusion can change. you have to consider that during the first autopsy, the body is washed, so if there are minor or small flecks of gun powder, that can be washed after the first autopsy. >> what about the shots to his head? how significant that is? >> those are significant in that from the doctor's description, one was towards the top of his head. it would be as he's leaning forward collapses or lunging at the time that that shot was fired. >> how conclusive is this autopsy and how does it differ from the one already conducted

at the local level antone that's coming on the federal level? >> the most important autopsy is the first one, because that's the one where the body has not been disturbed yet and is within chain of custody. that's going to be the post important in terms of document be the physical findings, the gun powder, the condition of the flying, all conserved in the documents and photographs. any information garnered from the second and third autopsy is going to be scrutinized because of potential artifact from the first autopsy. that means the first autopsy, you cut into the body, wash the body in certain parts, take samples of tissue, altering the evidence. >> what about this justice department autopsy? how rare is it to see a federal autopsy then conducted? >> it's not uncommon for the justice department to review autopsies are local agencies. it is unusual for them to request in this case this would

be a third autopsy. that is unusual. >> if criminal charges are filed against the officer who shot and killed brown, how important will this autopsy evidence be? >> the autopsy evidence is crucial for not only potential criminal charges, but civil litigation that the family might have against the agency. things like where the strike marks are, the trajectory on the body are going to be compared to the witness statements and what the pathologist does is comment on whether the injuries are consistent with the witnesses or not consistent. >> dr. judy mellinick, thank you for your expertise. >> a breakthrough for one form of badness. a drug used to treat a ban marrow condition reversed baldness in three patients that suffer alopecia. they regrew their hair in five

months. it doesn't seem to work with mail pattern baldness. >> getting drench ford a good cause, the ice buckets challenge has taken the internet by storm. >> if you haven't seen it, it involves dumping freezing cold water on people to race money or lou gehrig's decease, a.l.s. >> a.l.s. is the new name for lou gehrig's disease. you've probably seen all your friends shrieking and shuffling in videos. they have been taking part in the a.l.s. ice bubble challenge. here's the story. >> there's a good chance you've seen someone take the ice bucket challenge, people dumps ice cold water on their heads and nominating others to do the same. too cold for you? you can make a donation.

a.l.a., also known at lou gehrig's disease after the baseball great diagnosed with it in the late 1930's. it's degenerative and kills off motor neurons. today, a viral campaign on the internet is thrusting the fatal disease into the spotlight. according to the a.l.s. association, 15 new cases of a.l.s. are diagnosed each day and as many as 30,000 americans have the disease at any given time. a.l.s. affects 20% more men than women. the life expectancy of an a.l.s. patient averages two to five years after diagnose. there's currently no cure, which is why money for research is so important. ice bucket challenges are not new, but peter who can no longer talk or walk decided to use it to call attention to the disease. he and a friend are responsible for launching this viral campaign and starting the

sensation. >> before this, so many people did not understand a.l.s. >> i am accepting the a.l.s. ice bucket challenge. >> celebrities and politicians alike have joined in the trend and it's paying off. the a.l.s. association says from july 29 to august 14, its national and state chapters have seen nearly 146,000 new donors. they've raised $7.6 million, compared to $1.2 million in the same period last year. >> good news. you didn't think that we would do this story without anybody from aljazeera getting wet, did you? the bad news, it was me. on saturday, we took an aljazeera crew outside the empire state building and here i am, taking part in the a.l.s. ice bucket challenge. there was a small crowd of del walters's fans there cheering me on. we'll watch this for the third time because we can. here you go.

>> can't get enough of this. >> it was a lovely sunny day. stephanie and i now formally nominate you to do this. you can either do it or pay a fine. >> i shall do it. it's a good cause. if stephanie does it. >> i'll do it. >> we were betting that you wouldn't pay the fine. >> what i liked about it was bill gates designed a contraption so that it was done correctly. we have to come up with a unique way to do it. >> you've done the entire program without looking up at the bucket of water we put above you. >> nor shall i look up now. >> flash floods in texas, rain rushing in so fast it trapped drivers. this woman was trapped in the waters. as you can see, the water is thigh high. firefighters escorted her to safety. meteorologists say the break from the heat will be short lived. >> let's turn right now to our meteorologist, because parts of

the u.s. dealing with stormy weather today. >> northern texas, we could see more scattered showers and stores. yesterday, nearly three inches of rainfall came into this area. we have a stalled out frontal boundary, disturbances moving throughout the deep south keep the rain going. we're dealing with flooding concerns here and into southern areas of tennessee, flash put there warnings in place. in addition to the rain, we'll be dealing with the threat of strong to severe storms. right now, mainly quiet, but that same area of low pressure that's going to be moving across the upper midwest will make its way across the great lakes into the mid atlantic. >> tomorrow, 10 years since google went public. we'll look at what made that one sore when others tanked and how many millionaires it created. that's tomorrow morning. that's it for us right now in new york. >> coming up in two minutes from

our newsroom in doha, the latest on the fierce battle taking place over the mosul dam in iraq.

>> hello and welcome to the news hour. live from our headquarters in doha. we have your top stories. iraqi and kurdish forces say they're close to retaking the country's biggest dam from islamic state fighters. the destruction of gaza, we hear from a palestinian family who say that israelis shot at them after bulldozing their home. after another violent night in the state of missouri the governor said he's sending in the national