this is "al jazeera america." a look at today's top stories: israeli airstrikes bring down a 12-story apartment building in gaza. dozens are killed in cash bombs believed to be retaliation for gruesome mosque attacks. thousand rally calling for justice for eric garner who died after a police chuck hold.

a russian convoy leaves ukraine after crossing without permission. today's move does little to ease tensions. ♪ palestinians make another effort to end the fighting in gaza. the move comes assis conducts 20 airstrikes. two missiles leveled a 12-story apartment building there today. palestinian officials say almost 2 dozen officials were injured. they say the hamas operations were in that building. palestinian authority reinforced the long-term cease-fire with el sisi in cairo. they talked about ways to reestablish talks between hamas and israel. more from there.

>> after more than six weeks of fighting, this is perhaps the largest act of property destruction in a single strike. residents fled with little more than the clothes on their back. some people were injured, including many children. this tower has 11 floors and 32 families were living there. the minute we evacuated, the plates was hit by warning rocket. after, the f-16s fired two rockets. the building collapsed completeli completely. items down the streets. help us all. >> it was said to be targeted because it was used by hamas. the destruction of the tower was the further sign of escalation between israel and hamas following the collapse of a temporary truce earlier this

week. >> once it happens, humanitarian aid must start. >> after mass destruction, many residents want to see an end to the violence and lefting the years long blockade. >> in the background of the renewed violence and calls for an indefinite cease fire, strong signs palestinian officials may apply to join the international criminal court. >> would enable them to call for an investigation as to whether israel may have committed war crimes but it would mean they, too, could face the same scrutiny. al jazeera, gaza. for the first time, iranian troops joked iraqi forces in the battle to push back the islamic state group. hundreds of troops crossed into iraq trying to help kurdish fighters take back the city of jalalla.

jane has more. >> fighting in the northeast of the country around the town of jalullah 30 kilometers from the iranian border. we are told for the first time, iranian units have crossed that border in support of the kurdish peshmerga. kurdish sources say crossing over hundreds of iranian fighters on friday retreating early on saturday. the pesh personal says because of bonds being laid by islamic state fighters. they say they will push on to try to retake that town. iraqi helicopters backed them but not u.s. air strikes. the u.s. has been limited in its response here it's focusing on areas of national interest, u.s. interest, and using those u.s. strikes to protect u.s. citizens and other assets here in the north. there have been reports of at least one bombing in baghdad

meanwhile. this one, a suicide car bomb near a police station that also houses a unit of iraqi intelligence attached to the interior ministry. several civilians and at least two police officers have died in that one. security forces and police stations are a frequent target of attacks that have been claimed by islamic state groups. >> jane arraf reporting there. the islamic state group that killed james foleyholds about 20 other western hostages, threatening to kill steven sotloff. several of those -- others that are being held are aid workers. two of them are italians, vanes a marchzullo and grannet a renelli, 21 and 20. threerots worksers were kidnapped last october. hundreds of iranian troops c vossed to help kurdish fighters take back from the islamic state group.

j. j. green talked to us about the very significant dpoechlt. >> isil is an existential threat not just to the kurds, not just to the shias in iraq, not just to the folks that are living under their dominance but it is an existential threat to iran. iran recognizes as the rest of the world is beginning to wake be up to this fact that isil is a big dollar organization and they are actually holding territory income, supposed providing social services, momentum, skilled fighters and they've got a plan. so iran recognizes that this plan is not going to stop at the iranian/iraq border. >> that's the reason why they are involvement. >> how is the islamic state group funding operations, and where is it getting members?

to some of the questions that we will try to answer tonight as we take a deeper look, so tune in tonight at 8:00 p.m. eastern, 5:00 p.m. pacific. it's been two weeks since a police officer shot and killed an unarmed black teenager in ferguson, missouri. since then, there have been daily protests demanding justice for michael brown. today there was a support in support of the officer. diane est brook is in generally, missouri right now. diane, what was the tone of the rally? >> reporter: the tone really was that support officer wilson wanted to come out in his defense. they say we have heard a lot about michael brown but not that we have heard about except online of officer wilson but they wanted to get the message out that officer wilson does, in fact, have supporters, too. this is part of a larger online effort to raise money for him

and this is what the organizer who is behind this said today at the rally. >> we are not speak okay behalf of officer darren wilson or his appointed rep presentative. we are speaking solely on behalf of the online campaign support darren wilson. our mission is to declare we share the united belief officer wilsonts actions were warranted and justified and he has our unwavering support. we believe that the evidence has and will continue to validate our position. >> now, this event was held at a bar today and tomorrow that is owned by a st. louis city police officer. he said the reason that he did it was, a, to show support for officer wilson. but he also wanted to get word out that the police officers are out there to protect and serve. he said he thinks that that has gotten lost in the last couple of weeks. richelle? >> how big had these rallies been in support of officer wilson? about how many people?

>> today while we were there for a couple of hours, probably 50 to 60 people there. this event is going on today. it started at loan a.m. it's actually going to run until probably 2:00 or 3:00 o'clock tomorrow mortgage and it starts up again tomorrow. so people are coming in and out. so difficult at this point to say just how many people will turn out. >> did the woman who was speaking or did anyone else at the rally actually have an official statement on behalf of the officer? have we heard anything from him? >> now, we have not heard anything from officer wilson. as the organizer said, she is not speaking on his behalf, nor has his family really come forward either. we have not heard anything from darren brown. i'm sorry. up until this point. >> we also know that the naacp talks about that and other things that are have been happening on the ground as this is kind of the lead-up to michael brown's funeral, which is monday.

>> this march is maybe 100 to 200 teenagers, they said they were out there today to connect with the community they said they want to bring together a dialogue so two sides can work better together. and for st. louis in general. >> thank you. thousands of people marched in new york city protesting police brutality. the march started on the staten island street where eric garner died. a police officer used a choke hold to restrain garner and it has been ruled a homicide. kaelyn forde was at that rally today. >> god is calling on you to change the minds of this raceit

regi regime. put these police in jail. and bring us some good police in this state. >> on the site were 43-year-old eric garner took his last break. >> i can't breathe. i can't breathe. >> an estimated 2,500 people took to the streets on saturday to express anger, grief, and a desire for justice. after the high profile acts of two men died at the hands of white police officers this officer. >> hands up. don't shoot. >> in the wake of garner's death, it emerged that new york's police department had received more than 1 choke hold complaints over the past five years despite the fact that the department regulations banned the practice and in this part of staten island alone, police have stopped and frisked people more than 1,300 times this year more than any other place in the city. after the stop and frisk, they started murdering them. it's an epidemic. >> a grand jury will decide

whether it was a crime. for many of the protesters, deaths like brown and garners are the all-too-common outcome of the kind of agressgression they see every day. >> they say their deaths at the hands of police are two of the many across the country that should be federally investigated. investigators say local investigations don't lead for justice. >> for its part, nypd said it hopes to learn from garner's death. >> we are hoping that we can come to some agreement that this will, out of this can come something positive and moving forward, we can get beyond this for his certain valling system? >> unselfishly, you know, we are fighting for justice. >> justice his family hopes will be the biggest part of his legacy. kaelyn forde, al jazeera, new

york. coming up, russia versus ukraine in the international supporters will examine the convoluted diplomacy and military aspects of this ongoing strife. trying to stop the strict new law. days after a man was shot dead by police, we look at whether it could have been avoided and how police are trained to handle situations like this.

german chancellor angela merkel says she has new hope for a diplomatic solution to the controversy in ukraine pressing for a path to peace between ukraine and russia. she is hopefully both sides can reach a deal when the presidents of each country meet, which is due to happen tuesday. merkel's visit comes on the heels of an emergency u.n. security meeting after a russian con vo crossed into ukraine without authorization. russian officials say they lost patience with ukraine's delay tactics and wanted to bring ruemanitarian aid. ukraine promptly described it as an invasion. more on the front lines.

>> reporter: on the road to luhansk, a city under siege. the redcross trying to reach the city for several days. the route is still too dangerous. this hospital close to the front line is running out of supplies. they are now dependent upon the red cross for help. >> most of the patients here what they can see. >> on a visit to kiev, the german chancellor called for an effective cease-fire. she also warned that russia could face fresh sanctions if it failed to bring about an end to the conflict. >> president plans are on the table about how to achieve peace with each other. now, follows and i think many initiatives have been taken from the ukrainian sides. >> in luhansk, the weak and vulnerable are suffering the

most. 83-year-old anastisia was injured while sitting on a park bench am she will never woalk again. >> high above luhansk ukrainian soldiers real poised for more shelling. this is one ukrainian artillery position used to bomb bard the city of luhansk, one of the last remaining separatist pockets of resistance. the battlefield shifts on a daily basis. >> in the nearby town, locals are scelebrating their allegiane to kiev. the town was recaptured by ukrainian forces a month ago. we need to live in a free country, in our ukraine, not russia. >> germany pledged $670 million to rebuild the war-ravaged region. with little prospect of a cease-fire in sight there can be

no hope of a new start. >> the future of europe's next generation navigation system may be up in the air after two satellites integral to the project entered the wrong orbits following their launch friday. officials are looking at solutions and whether it will affect the navigation note work. officials in iceland declare a no-fly zone as a new volcanic eruption threatens life in the air. the bartabunga volcano began erupting deep blow. it's calm on the surface. the rumblings are taking place under ground. hundreds of people have been evacuated in case the glacier melt leads to flooding. rebel fighters in libya have taken control of the capitol's international airport. rival malitias have been fighting for control for more than a month now. state-run t.v. is reporting fighters from the libya dawn militia took the strajegic

target. the airport was closed because of violence in the surrounding area. meanwhile, anti-government demonstrators say a massive protest in the capitol. they spoke out against a government request novembfor u. military assistance against the rebel forces. dominic caine reports. >> reporter: a mass demonstration against foreign intervention, these people took to martyr's square by the thousands to announce their government's request for outside military assistance. parliament believes that it would be the best way to deal with ongoing violence. on the streets of tipoli, few agreed. parliament is dead. they cannot i want policemen on the ground. on the other side, the rebels can >> reporter: the parliament is cysting in distance to brook more than 120 kilometers away. something these protesters criticized. >> the parliament is a coup against the february 17th revolution. nothing more or less. this is a coup against the

february 17th revolution. in benghazi, too, there were protests though not on the scale of those in tripoli. the airport that serbs benghazi has been closed for weeks because of nearby fighting between rebels and halis halish haftar. the council has taken control of hafta's military camp there. developments like these and fighting close to tripoli airport has come pled neighboring nations to stop all flights to libya. on friday, egypt and tunisia cap said their air routes, a further sign of how bad the situation has become. dominic caine, al jazeera. the latest in gaza, halting off of the marine fields. they have remained undeveloped since 2000. the gas is estimated to be worth around $4,000,000,000. some hope the revenue can allow

gaza to be more self-sufficient. ali velshi has more. >> reporter: >> with conflict always an issue in gaza, the greatest battle could be with what lies beyond the coastlines of both gaza and israel. in 2000, several massive natural gas fields were found in the teartorial waters of isis and gaza. estimates are that the natural gas fields off of the coast of israel, including the recently covered leviathan field could contain nearly 22 trillion cubic feet of natural gas. >> that's enough to meet the needs of 22 million u.s. households for 15 years making them the biggest natural gas discovers over the past two decades. they apply 45% of israel's electricity and could turn them from an energy importer to an exporter. gaza marine is another big

discovery. those fields might contain as much as 1.4 trillion cubic feet of natural gas and be worth more than $4,000,000,000 a year in revenue. it's a resource that would make the palestinian economy more viable and lead to reduced dependence on foreign handouts. no deal has taken place since 1999. >> deal was halted by israel in 2000 when the second intafata began and the gazan marine field remains undeveloped because of continuingiths continuingie us israeli concern that it would serve further attacks againstitsis. until peace comes to the gazan strip they will only be able to look out and contemplate the prosperity that lies deep beneath the ocean. >> the ebola crisis, lawmakers

in sierra leone have passed a bill that will hold up to two years in prison anyone hiding an e become ola patient. the worst in history, many people hide infected loved once due to a lack of faith in wards. a potentially discouraging development in niger were where authorities had hoped the outbreak was fade, the country's first second-hand cases were reported friday. both were wohealth workers who contracted it from the first patient in the crisis. the world health organization says nearly 1500 have died in the current crisis. hardest hit, linebiera with over a thousand cases and more than 600 deaths. sierra leone has seen 900 infections and 400 deaths.

guinea has 600 cases and over 400 deaths. in nigeria, 16 people have been infected and five people have died. joining me is dr. dan kelly, an infection specialists at the university of san francisco, founder of the well body alliance which manages. in sierra leo. we will try to put this through. i appreciate you joining us, doctor. so i guess the first question is: what's your take on criminalizing people who hide loved ones who have this disease. is that the way? i don't think quarter ante is effective even where i am now. the hospitals we are seeing refugees, seeing people breaking through the quarantines, walking

past barriers, getting in under the radar and they are being in the communities. in sierra leone two days ago, i have spent past eight years working in sierra leone. it looked very similar six weeks ago when i was in sierra leone. you said people walking around public gathers are banned except for religious organizations. but i do not -- i repeat. i do not think a quarter antee is an effective measure for controlling this outbreak. >> what is effective? >> there is huge media buzz about emap.

however, i think we need to take a step back and just consider strengthening the public health strategies we used for ages. >> includes getting doctors into the field working. isolation centers becoming functional all except one is out of commission right now. i was in one today. there are no patients because there is no house to house screening going on. there is no kong tact. it is a weak-community based response. i think we are looking at challenges on the whole health system. right do you know from the community going up to the material and protective equipment. some of which is in place the. others which are not. finally, a lack of confidence in those here and for those in america to come help fight this in the rest of the world. >> you talk about these drugs

that may be giving people hope. victory on who had been an aid worker in the united states who walked out of the hospital today is there any reason to have hope or is it unrealistic to think that people in africa, unfortunately, will ever get their hands on the. treatment that helped this doctor recover? >> i can't see enough about how happy i am that he had a successful outcome. it pains me to have to put listen top people putting their lives and to tell them that if they are getting sick, we can't

provide experimental drugs and pushed through the who in sierra leone. my hope is for us to move away from the academic and ethical argument and focus what we can do now to stop people from dying. house to house screening and working on the patients, and if we can do all of that with more materials in place. >> put your energy into what you know works as opposed to being frustrated about something you can't control. all right. doctor dan kelly thank you for the work you are doing. thank you for joining us. we appreciate it. up ahead on al jazeera, could this have been avoided?

a cell phone video captures police killing a mentally ill man with a knife. a look at how the children of fergson are dealing with two weeks of chaos in their city. why many americans are unable give their students the benefit of modern technology.

. >> welcome back to "al jazeera america." here is a look at your top stories: at least 20 israeli airstrikes hit gadz today. a 12-story apartment building destroyed. it was a site of a hamas meeting police place. mahmoud abbas tried to restart peace talks in egypt. three bombs went off in a commercial district in kirkuk. hundreds crossed into iraq trying to help kurdish fighters take back the city of jallalah

from the islamic state group. there is a rally for darrin wilson who shot and killed michael brown two weeks ago. his supporters rallied in st. louis where he held signs for wilson. they say they don't speak for him but believe his actions were justified. the unrest in ferguson prompted officials to delay the start of school this week. some used it as a teaching moment. natasha explains. >> you are just on your way? >> 8-year-old jabrill hasn't had a chance to wear the outfit he picked out for the first day of a school year. for two days this week, he did get the chance to learn more did animals and make new friends at this pop-up school at the ferguson library. >> it's been dubbed the school of peace. due to the turmoil in ferguson, school was postponed more than a week for the district's 15,000 students. >> left families scrambling to

make last-minute day care arrangements. jabrill's mom said she and her husband had to take days off from work. they had to send him to class even if it's non-traditional? >> you still have to teach your children, in the midst of the storm. >> volunteers say they have tried to create a sanctuary in a time of crisis. a counselor devoted hours this week to talk to those who appear to be struggling with the emotions and fear of almost two weeks of intermittent violence. on monday, a dozen kids lined up to go to school. on friday, as word spread, there were more than 200. >> i will tell you we are doing something wonderful and magical. we actually had to turn a child away yesterday because this child's school was in session and they tried to skip their school to come here to go to school. >> earlier this week, jabrill joined his parents to protest. when he saw the police lined up as he walked by, he was initially nervous.

he sewaid to me, i wanted to be policeman but i don't know. are they scary? we had him take a picture with the policemen and had him get the feel that they were okay. he was walking past and scared. i was like, you don't have to be scared to uphold the law. >> why would you like to be one? >> you get to have fun being one. >> you also help people. he will beability wear that knew back to school outfit on monday. the parents have tried to use the unrest on their street. >> he learned that first of all we have to stand up for what we believe in and nothing is given to you. you have to go after the things that you want in life. so, he's learned a great deal. >> natasha, al jazeera, ferguson, missouri. >> the michael brown shooting

has drawn a lot of attention but another shooting, st. louis city police released this cell phone video of the shooting. officer shot and killed kagini powell after they say he robbed a convenience store. police sad a knife and did not respond to officers'commands. in the video, powell could be heard repeated l.l.c. telling officers to shoot him. when he moved near officers, they opened fire. the shooting is still under investigation. joining me now is dave bic linger, an associate professor of criminology until missouri and a former officer. we appreciate you joining us. let's talk about this video. the st. louis police chief, one of the reasons he released the video, he said it was in the interest of transparency and we can assume because the department, even though it's under investigation, i think that they released this because they felt it was a justified shooting. there are some people that see this and they see that as sump.

there are segments. community who don't see it as such. there is a big divide, david. what do you see when you see that video? what are your first thoughts? what i am supposed to do is look at it from the perspective of a police officer. >> okay. >> the reason do i that is because the supreme court in 1985. excuse me. in 1989 in a case called green versus connor said that the way the courts are going to analyze whether a police officer used any type of force is not with 2020 hand sight but with from the from the perspective of a reasonable police officer on the scene. putting that cap on is what i see is i see an individual disregarding officers'lawfully orders to drop the knife and start, advancing across -- the driver officer. what that tells me is he has decided to attack the passenger officer and he hops up on to that elevated parking lot on that curb line, continues to

refuse to comply with their commands. in my mind, he is seeking high ground to attack the officer from a superior position. >> okay. >> so that's what i saw. >> let me ask you. if you have never been a police officer, you don't know what that experience is like. at that moment, with you thinking: is there a way for me to neutralize this and can you assess this person may not be stable? does that factor into your decision? >> yes and no. the yes part is probably when an officer someone saying shoot me, kill me, off in his mind is going to go you know, a click. hey, this guy is not mentally stable. so maybe what we can try to do is calm him down. if you listen cable to the officer's commands, one of the officers says something along the lines of, drop the knife, bro.

he is trying to establish, in my mind i am not a cop. you are not a blood guy. we are two human beings here let's see if we can resolve this. form, the suspect fails to comply with that order, fails to take the officer up on that offer essentially to begin a dialogue and continues to move aggressively towards the officer. yes with you merely because someone is mentally deranged, only someone who is, so officers understand. they are trained you try to deed deescalate verbally. tri they tried to do that. in a situation when someone is within about 20 to 25 feet is what officers are trained, if a person aggressively moves past that point, your life is now in jeopardy and deadly force is an appropriate response to protect yourself. >> let me ask you a couple of other questions, then. one question that has been asked

is: did these particular police officers have a taser and why didn't they use that if they did. and the second question is: is there another place to shoot besides shoot to kill? can you answer both of those questions for me? >> i will answer in reverse order. >> okay. >> first of all, officers do not shoot to kill. they shoot to stop. >> okay. >> what police officers are trained to do is to shoot for center mass the. two reasons why officers are trained to shoot for center mass. the center mass is basically the area between theirnisms and the zyphoid process, the center of your ches. police officers like everyone else in a situation of stress are liable not to execute a task exactly like they want you've e

been. >> shut down their central nervous system by having a shot in the brain or clip their spinal column at some point and they will drop, or -- >> is that not shoot to go kill? >> their circulatory system. it's not shoot to go kill. >> okay. >> it's shooting to stop, ma'am. obviously, the odds are good that if you shoot somebody in the brain that they will die, but the purpose is not to kill them. the purpose is to stop them. similarly, when you shoot into

the center of the chest area where all of the vital organs and blood vessels are, the unfortunate by product of the way the human body works is in order to shut somebody down, you have to have a huge amount of blood loss. >> can only be accomplished by shooting vital organizages and major blood vessels getting back to the issue of shooting for legs or shooting for arms, that goes back to the issue of: is it going to stop the individual? the likelihood of stopping an individual with a shot to the legs or the arms is far less than a likelihood of stopping the individual with with a shot to the chest. another thing that people understand because it takes awhile for someone to bleed out, the individual remains a threat until they collapse. and if you look carefully at the video, all of the shots the officers fire are in about two seconds. the suspect falls toward the passenger officer indicating to me that he was moving towards the officers or the passenger officer when he was shot. there is a horrible thing.

the two who want the least to be involved in this are the two cops who shot him. >> are there moments where sometimes splerz are asked to be social workers for lack of a better word? police officers should try to communicate with people, establish dying log but there is a time and place where that has to go out the window and police officers have to take the role that we have given them, which is you are the ones we call. it may be their eratic behavior is going to lead where someone might be injured and we want the cops do on to protect us and they have the right to protect themselves. so once somebody does something that leads a police officer to believe that his or her life is in imminent jeopardize, police officers have the absolutely

right to protect themselves because they get to go home at the end of the shift. >> let me ask you again about the taker -- the taser. was taking him not an option? >> i don't believe it would have been an option in this case, but, you know, i haven't been out to the scene. i haven't talked to the officers. i don't know exactly the distance. the effective range of a taker is about 12 to 15ser is about 12 to 15 feet. police officers are trained when someone gets across a threshold of about 20 to 25 feet, that's when your life is in jeopardy. so the person has to come about 5 feet into that lethal threat zone before that taker is likely to be effectiveser is likely to be effective if its effective and the personnel drops, it's great great. you prevented a shooting but if you hold gunfire, it doesn't work, the passenger officer, let's say the moment the taser, the passenger officer is risking his life. he is gambling that the taser is going to work. tasers don't always work.

a couple of reason why takers don't work. actually, three, number 1 both probes miss. no. 2, both probes hit but what happens is the person fights through it and then, three, both probes hit but the contact in the shirt doesn't go all the way through or where the clothing the person is wearing and you don't get what we call the electrical discharge that would lead noto neuro muscular incapacititation which makes somebody fall to the ground. so consequently, officers are gambling with their lives. >> so but bottom line, when you see this, you do see a justified shooting. >> what i see is based upon what i am looking at threwmize eyes an as anna police officer and i see nothing that would indicate anything other than a justifiable shooting. however, there could be information i am not privy to that would change my mind. that's always possible. >> okay, david klinger with the

university of missouri in st. louis. david, thank you. college football kicks off in a week. who stands to win? who stands to lose? who stands to make more money? michael phelps is competing again. kie

join us sunday night for the week ahead when we take a look at the death of michael brown and at fergson ms., missouris efforts to move forward. >> that's the week ahead tomorrow at 8:30 p.m. eastern, 5:30 pacific. the college football season kicks off in a matter of days, big changes in the upcoming season. we will determine who will be number 1.

jessica taff explains how ball is expected to play outed. >> reporter: there are few changes to the rules of the game b, but the biggest changes will determine the national champion and who gets paid to play. here is a look at how the two rules are change the landscape. an end of an era has come in college football. after years about the bowl champion series they will a have 14 brackets to crown the national champion. the select quartet will be chosen by a 13 member committee that includes past and present athletic officials as well as former secretary of state condoleezza rice. the committee will place four chosen teams and two elimination games which will switch among six bowls, cotton, fiesta, orange, peach, rose and sugar. them the two winners faceoff at a rotating championship game i

site. the move extends into mid january has been a long-time coming for the bcs's biggest critics. each year, it seems a worthy team or two is left out of the title party. one of the biggest discrepancies came back in 2004 when an undefeated auburn team watched southern california and oklahoma play for the championship. while the committee is charged with choosing the four most deserving teams without regard to the polls, it now moves the line of contention from the number 3 team to the number 5 team. the move is big business for college football. in 2013, forbes.com said espn paid over $150 million for exclusive t.v. rights an under it to 7.3 billion to broadcast all of those games through 2025. cs paid about 18 million per neim major bowl games which is divided amongst the schools and

conferences. >> number will increase dramatically. the move won't be without critics. there are 5 power conferences and four spots. no the to helps at-large teams and those from the up starts that can make some noise. >> another new rule, now athletes interact with advisors and agents for nearly all contact was forbidden. conferences will be left now to determine hour the athletes can cash in on their image and night righty. jessica taff, al jazeera a. >> that's where we pick up this discussion, joining me now is sonny vaquero, the former ceo of nike and adidas and now an advocate for athletes. let's talk about the money. a big win for athletes now that they are no longer under the them, necessarily, of the ncaa. so how does this change things for players and sponsors >> the whole ball game in that

we know these players can be compensated. they can be paid something more than a scholarship and that the money is put in a trust, the way it's stated right now, the judge defined the case, these kids are going to be employees. they are employees. they have been employees and the amateurism word will be vanished from the ncaa. life is changed on the football and basketball court. >> how does this work if a company wants to work with an individual player and not the entire team? >> they have given ruling in this particular case, 0 ban on, has not allowed individuals to materialize themselves. >> will come about in future cases when we go down the road. that is one of the things, a named image and likeness. the owner of that is the individual. >> that's quite obvious. the obannon suit is covering awe team members, specific teams playing these games and

tournaments as you presented it at the top of the show. so, it is a little bit different. but the only, it will trickle down to individuals like johnny manziel, sign his autograph, the memorabilia company and the way it it's spelled out right now as long as he receives it four years after he enters college in a trust fund. no one is paying or going to give these kids money the minute the game is over. >> that's a myth. it's not pay for flplay. it's pay for playing. >> that's what's happening. >> that's a very important distinction amount of people actually aren't real clear on. they are not going to walk off the field even though you call him money manziel.

the rules the conference. >> the big 5 are the ones that monetize everything. they have the greatest t.v. contracts individually as a conference, the big 10 network, southeast, back 12 has one. those are the ones that those $12,000,000,000 are going to go to. other schools have a chance or a if they want to, they can join money distributions because the judge said individually you can give your players a 5,000 dollar minimum over and above the cost of scholarship. >> that's an opening in the door. you should not put a ceiling on that. >> that's being discussed now in the appeals by the ncaa. but the judge ruled it can happen. the big 5 own sports unless an

up start, the you university of connecticut who won the championship of basketball this year but technically was not a member of the big 5 because they used to be in the big east. now they are in the aac. >> that's where a school will pay the going rate so to speak. >> we needed you today. thank you so much, sonny vaccaro. it was an honor to have you. >> i appreciate that. thank you. >> all right. that's another gold medal for olympic swimmer michael phelps, a pan pacific in australia, his first individual titleception returning to the international competition world. he had been in retirement for a year and a half towed marked a world record for his team make, katy ledecki. john lennon's killer goes before the parole board. will he be set free? >> a major rain event is

underway as we have heavy rain coming down up to 4 to 5 minutes in parts of montana. i will show you where snow is falling this morning coming up.

>> parole has been denied again for the man who gunned down john lennon. the department of corrections rejected it for the .8th time. he shot lennon four times outside the singer's new york apartment. he pleaded guilty to second degree murder and was sentenced to 20 years to life in prison. rebecca stevenson is here with the weather. rebecca? >> richelle, we have a big rain event happening in montana, illinois, you are dealing with a line of thunderstorms that have not only a ton of rain. we are looking at about three inches of rainfall in spots just the last three hours and a lot

of lightning. but it is montana that we had some snow coming down, glacier wilderness or actually the glacier peek national pediatric. around 7,000 feet above and above. slushy and this is the first we are starting to hear about this this season. it's because we have a large, very cold storm system much colder than normal for this time of year. we have is this amount, six to eight inches fall in the last 24 hours from the storm. it's because it's pumped from down south where hurnl season has picked up. it's been very active comparing to the atlantic this year. >> that moisture, you could see on a water vapor satellite training up, this cold low

pressure exiting idaho and over montana eastward and northward. canada will get in the rainfall as we get through the next 24 hours, 36 hours. expect great falls over to bismarck to continue to get some of this heavy rain. we are going from flood warnings in these spots because of the rain coming down so hard it is so hot it feels like 97. denver, 59 degrees. a 10-drear warm-up for every mile that you go from denver to wichita. very hot. coming up, we willdeal detail more of the hot water but also the flat sys coming up. richelle. >> rebecca, thank you. a big celebration.

a cabe, the second panda at the zoo who has lived long enough to sell ambulate a first birthday. happy birthday to you. thank you for joining us. ism richelle carey. stay tuned, fault lines, a city under siege coming up now. "fa city under siege" [ explosion ] ferguson, missouri - the spark for what would become daily street protests was the kit killing of an unarmed african-american teenager. 18-year-old michael brown was gunned down by a white police officer. in the days that followed police responded to the demonstrations with massive force.