>> i'm ali velshi, the news has become this thing where you talk to experts about people, and al jazeera has really tried to talk to people, about their stories. we are not meant to be your first choice for entertainment. we are ment to be your first choice for the news. in syria. . >> american sir vail answer plays flying missions over syria. could it be a precursor to airstrikes and to the islamic state group. >> a deadly airstrike overnight raining fire in gaza as the search intentionfies for a new jersey student missing in israel. >> a nationwide call to action at an emotional funeral for

michael brown. this week, the grand jury looki looking at criminal charges against the police officer who killed the missouri teen. >> they have a lot of clean-up to do. a lot of people don't have anything to clean-up. >> shattered lives and livelihoods, the monument al clean-up. the full scope of the damage hits wallets out west. good morning and welcome to "al jazeera america." i am stephanie sy. >> i am del walters, the president authorizing surveillance flights over syria. >> could pave the way for u.s. air strikes against fighters from the islamic state group. >> group already in control of keyboarder crossings in syria and iraq. >> the pentagon says it will use drones and manned flights to collect intelligence on the islamic state group and will do it without the syrian president's approval. let's head to randall pinkston in washington this morning. randall could these flights be in danger because they are in

syrian airspace without permission? >> it is quite likely u.s. flights would be in danger since we know that syria's president objects to u.s. intervention over his country and he may choose to back up that objection by trying to bring down u.s. air craft. i roncally, any u.s. intervention over syria could end up assisting the president to stay in power. . >> once under the threat of u.s. air strikes for use of chemical we hopes, syrian considering whether to expand the current u.s. air war against the islamic state group from iraq in to their stronghold in syria. >> the department of defense has personnel who are responsible as they can tell you for ensuring the commander in chief has access to the kinds of plans and

contingencies that he may need if necessary. >> president obama reportedly authorized u.s. manned and unmanned surveillance flights. "the wall street journal" reports those flights are now underway over syria to gather intelligence on is targets. >> the president will not hesitate to use his authority, as he has already demonstrated to keep the american people safe. >> president obama vowed last week to relentlessly pursue after is after the brutal murder of james follek. now the group threatened to kill another american are reporter. the move to monitor is in syria comes after joint chiefs chairman martin dempsey declared the group could not be defeated without taking the fight to syria where the militants are based. but syria is warning the u.s. not to strike without its consent, saying that would be an agent of aggression. president obama's decision to strike will be further complicated by any coordination with syria's government which also opposes the islamic state group. >> would not view it adds being

on the same side because there is a common enemy. >> now, on capitol hill, some members of the house, senators saying they want the president to seek congressional authorization for any u.s. military action in syria. >> randall, as you know, syria's civil war has been going on for three years now. the u.s. has always stopped short of direct intervention. why is president obama choosing to take action with these surveillance flights now? >> reporter: well, we are hearing a ratcheting up of concern. u.s. military authorities are saying the situation on the ground in syria and, also, in northern iraq poses a direct threat to american interests. they have attacked american citizens. they have seized american assets and those of members of the islamic state are now trying to expand their sphere of influence. >> randall pinkston, thank you. we will have much more on the u.s. surveillance over syria including conversations with our military advisor mike lyons and a jurmentist who spends much of her time reporting inside syria.

the. >> morris recall is airstrikes pounding gaza. one leveled a 14-story high-rise. 20 people were injured. he mergency crews had to douse a fire that broke out after the blast. more than 2100 palestinians have been killed since the start of that conflict in israel. 68 people have died. the search is on this morning for a yash i have a student missing in jerusalem. aaron soker was hiking with a friend when they became 13r5i9d. officials are looking into whether the 23-year-old might have been kidnapped. >> area not far from where a palestinian teenager was found burned and killed last month. >> the white house says it was caught off guard after two arab allies carried out airstrike in libya. >> there has been intense fighting in the libyan fighting in tripoli are through rival malitias. the united arab emirates didn't

inform washington of their plans. both countries denying any involvement. john terrett, how is this affecting relations between all of the countries involved? >> reporter: long-term, no harm done. short-term: u.s. and egyptian relations are already strained. and this is not going to help. so good morning. why all of the fuss over libya at this time? there are three key reasons: number 1, it has super porous borders. no. 2, it's a key base for al-qaeda and other jihadists and number 3, the key point, that it has within its borders, limitless supplies of old weapons, conventional and, it is thought, chemical as well. >> for months now, a war between fighters and the government in libya, but last week, several arab neighbors entered the fray with egypt and the united arab emirates carrying out air strikes on rebel position. the attacks immediately condemned by militia leaders. >> based upon the intelligence

we have, egyptian and the uae governments are directly involved in this attack. we stress we have good relations with the good people of egypt and the uae but the rebels want to make it clear that we will always defend the sovereignty of our homeland against this aggression. >> according to the "new york times," u.s. officials were surprised by the strikes saying egypt and the uae lied to them about their involvement. several officials said the united states diplomats were fuming about the airstrikes. we don't see this as constructive at all said one senior american official. >> so why is the uae and egypt getting involved? former assistant secretary of state mark kimmett offering al jazeera this theory. >> like the united states, they want to be fighting terrorism from afar, not within their own borders. there is a natural alliance between egypt and the united arab emirates. particularly with the new president inside of egypt. and i would suspect that they

recognize it's in their interests to be fighting the terrorists from a distance rather than inside of abu daba or due by. >> some think it beggars believe the united states didn't know about this. the uae and egypt both deny involvement in these airstrikes. >> enemy of my enemy is my friend. john terrett, thanks very much. >> u.s. prosecutors say osama bin laden's son-in-law should spend life behind bars for his role in the attacks. prosecute orders say a life sentence would send a message to other would-be terrorists. he was convicted in march of conspiracy to kill americans in providing support to al-qaeda. >> in northern california this morning, safety inspectors trying to assess the damage that was caused by the worst earthquake to hit the bay area in 25 years. sunday's quake causing an estimated $1,000,000,000 in damage. economic losses could add another billion dollars to that

number. melissa chan is in napa, california this morning. melissa, the downtown area in napa and vallejo. what's the biggest concern locals are facing? >> reporter: well, the biggest concern and, in fact, they have done a pretty good job of it. for example, they brought power back to most people in the napa area. it's infrastructure. right? this is an area that sees a lot of tourism. 3 million people visit napa every year. this is high season. this is when grapes are being harvested, when wine is being bottled. sot officials, everyone here wants to fix infrastructure. it is critical for the economy. >> at the pace napa is working, traces of the earthquake even in the city's worst hit section will soon disappear. the faster downtown opens for business, the faster tourists will return. and they need customers badly. the owner of this antique shop says it probably has $25,000 in

damage. >> it's kind of sad because a lot of it, you can't replace. there are things in here that are 100 years old or more. >> for some, reopening isn't even an option. city workers decided one of michael holcomb's buildings is not safe. >> how long did the building inspectors take to make that determination? >> well, dan kavarian sentence an inspector out today. it's not because of our building but because of this building that's unreinforced masonry may fall this way. >> holcomb's building is fine. it's the one next door that might collapse on his. >> regardless, the coffee shop here is closed indefinitely. >> no tour of napa's damage is complete without an inspection of one of its 500 vineyards. richard ward shows us just how powerful the quake was. >> for us, we got the shock waves coming this way and it started moving, making the tanks sway and the wine inside was

sloshing it, and it actually pushed each of these other tanks over, and as you can see, it moved about, you know, 14, 16 inches. >> hundreds of his wine barrels also tumbled down in one dramatic jumble. they have to check each barrel for damage and repairing those in good condition to be put back into stacks. >> so about 500 bottles of wine were damaged at the vineyard and just to give you an idea of the value loss, this pino noir is worth $450 u.s. dollars. >> this earthquake surprised many in nana. until it hit, most people here didn't even know the valley had a fault line. the idyllic and quiet place, usually a destination for relaxation has for the past few days faced unusual stress. >> just to add a little bit to my report, i really can't emphasize enough how calm everyone has been. people here are just happy that

this magnitude 6.0 quake didn't cause massive fatalities. >> melissa, the studio moved when you showed all of the broken wine bottles. do we know how long it will be before thinks get back to normal? >> reporter: well, you know, again, you take a look at, you know, the damage behind me. we do have this in the downtown area. for those people impacted, look at this building. i mean it's probably going to take a few months of repair. some of these buildings are going to have to actually be destroyed. but it is a small percentage of people who have been impacted, who have to feel the impact months and months down the line. >> melissa chan for us in napa, california. thank you very much. despite, by the way, the risk of serious damage, the number of california homeowners with earthquake insurance down significantly in recent years. back in 1936, 33% haul

coveracoverage. less than 6% of napa homeowners were covered. it's the high cost of coverage. >> that's what added to the drop. >> del, a grand jury meets tomorrow to hear more evidence in the ferguson police shooting of michael brown. hundreds in the community came together on monday to lay the missouri teenager to rest in an emotional funeral: robert ray joins us from ferguson. robert, good morning. first of all, what do we know about tomorrow's grand jury hearing? >> reporter: good morning, sister knee. this will be the second time that the grand jury has met. they meet every wednesday, and they will, we are told, until likely some point in october, but the make-up of the in generals grand jury, "al jazeera america" has confirmed that it is nine white, three blacks on the 12-person grand jury. seven men, five women. so a lot of people actually are very critical of that make-up of the 12-person grand jury. but fact of the matter is, it's already chosen. they are going to sit through this investigation and all of the evidence and come up with a

possible outcome where officer darren wilson could be indicted. >> could occur as late as october. >> by all accounts, it was an emotional send off. give us a sense of what the mood was like inside the memorial service for him. >> reporter: well, there was a lot of music. there was a speaker, such as a sharpton. there was also his, michael brown's unchem, reverend -- one of the reverends came up and gave an exciting speech, a call for action and got the crowd going. 2500 people inside of that church, and let's listen to a little bit what have reverend al sharpton said in his eulogy. >> michael brown does not want to be remembered for a riot. he wants to be remembered as the one that made america deal with how we are going to police in

the united states [applause.] this is not about you. the. >> now, stephanie, where i am standing right now is the site of where a lot of the protesting occurred over the past couple of weeks. there was a lot of shootings actually in this parking lot of this barbecue restaurant, a lot of tear gas deployed. but you can see, all is quiet in ferguson this morning, and we are hoping it stays that way in the coming days ahead. steph? >> that message behind you, "we will be back" robert ray for us in ferguson. thank you. coming up at 7:30, we will speak about where the mic he will brown case guys from here. >> there is a new the report out on the department of veterans affairs found no proof those

long delays resulted in any deaths at the va hospital in 15ix. we follow the allegations shaken 40 veterans died waiting for care. it caused the former va secretary to resign. since then, the va has been under stepped up pressure to reduce weight times. >> a hundred off of the pacific coast, hurricane marie is hundreds of miles off of the coast of baja, california with waves as high as 25 feet are expected to slam beaches along los angeles and orange counties through saturday. the storm a category 2 and continues to weaken as it moves north. >> in florida, high surf and rip currents are in the forecast as hurricane cristobal churns through the at land lantic, warning from north of the state to new york city. cristobal is making its way 600 miles south of bermuda with wind speeds of 75 miles an hour. >> storm is not expected, by the way, to hit the u.s. >> for more on this twin hurricanes, let's bring in a look at the.

>> forecast is noland fall. >> that's the good news there. the storms will impact each coast. this is marie, once a very powerful storm. but now moving over cooler water and scenes showing this out over the pacific slowly pushing north. really not expected to have much of an impact along the coast. here is the water temperature and track of this storm going over colder water here it will continue to weaken and cause not much of a problem along the coast except for the high surf and the rip current risk. a lot happening in the at landic. a cold front, high pressure centered over the southeast. high pressure over the mid atlantic. this is a little corridor here this is steering the storm off to the north and it will continue to push north here over the next 48 hours, but the big risk is the rip current and the high surf on either coast. >> that's the thing we were watching. really nolandfall. >> what did they say?

don't swim against the rip current? parallel? >> don't try to fight it. >> dave warren, thank you. >> as we have been reporting, a deadly morning in baghdad. eight people killed in a car bomb blast. >> on the ground in iraq as investigators say they are closing in on the man who killed american journalist james foley. we will talk to mike lyons about the islamic state group in iraq and syria after the break. an image of james foley's execution being used in of all things, a political ad under fire of what some call a tas tasteless shot of the white house the. and the winner is... >> after parties just wrapping up in los angeles, the biggest snubs and surprises from the emmys, plus a touching tribute to robin williams. >> $11,000,000,000, that is amazing. amazon cutting a massive check for a gaming website that

doesn't even let users play games.

today's big number is 1 dots $1,000,000,000, the amount amazon is spending on twitch. >> that's the most popular website for watching people play video games. the deal includes stocks that amazon is pay to go retain switch employees and $970 million in cash. >> here is what amazon gets, 55 million unique viewers a month globally. the site is one the top 15 websites around the world in terms of traffic. twitch says people watch more than 16 billion minutes of videos each month. >> at least 11 people have been killed and dozens more injured when a car bomb went off today in a busy shia neighborhood in eastern baghdad. the parked car exploded during the morning rush hour in the new baghdad district. it was parked near several out door markets and a police station. zeina chodr is in iraq with what has been days of violence. >> reporter: more attacks in

the iraqi capitol, bombings in shia areas in the last 24 hours alone, 60 people were killed. there has been no claim of responsibility, but the shia-led government in baghdad has blamed what they call extremist groups for these bombings. clearly a message that the iraqi capitol is not safe, a message to the government that you are notability control. they have tightened security around the capitol because the islamic state group and other sunni-armed faxes have made clear their intentions to march toward baghdad. so far, they haven't been able to to do that. there are approximately 100 kilometers from the capitol. these bombings are a clear indication that they have support inside. and that's why there is an urgent need for political reconciliation. right now, the newly designated prime minister is talking about

progress. there is still no tangible progress he has two weeks left before the constitutional deadline ends. there is a need for political reconciliation or else it will deteriorate further. >> iraq's new prime minister says the government needs to control all military activity in iraq as his country battles the islamic state group. he says there is no place for armed civilian groups or malitias in iraq. >> isil has demonstrated in rather violent fashion their willingness to perpetrate terrible acts against american citizens. >> the white house press secretary explaining president obama's decision to send surveillance aircraft to syria. the move could bring the u.s. 1step closer to launching airstrikes against fighters from the islamic state group. >> mike lyons joining us from the truman national security project. major lyons, thank you for being with us. let me get your take on these

u.s. surveillance flights which we believe are happening over syria. what is the name of them. >> long campaign. it's to collect intelligence on the syrian government, to collect it on the terrain that's there to try to find formations that isis is currently having add to try to detect any kind of syrian air defense anybody else. we can't fly manned aircraft for the risk of having them shot down in 20s 12, they shot down a turkish airplane. we have to be careful of that. >> journalists in the last gulf war were accused of not asking tough questions. why should we be talking about any airstrike in syria and what makes isil or the islamic state group any different from boko haram or koni in congo? >> it's an act of war. we are going to violate the sovereignty of syria. i think the president's outline of a case where isis potentially is a threat to the united states, not necessarily -- >> we have heard that before. >> again, i think this is

supportive of our allies in the region, part of the president's vision of how he thinks military force should be used. >> what are the risks of further ex cassation by the u.s. within syria without the permission of bashar al assad. >> they could go on the tear. they have captured aleppo. they could move on damascus. they could really take down a greater part and escalate what's happening in sir yay itself. you could have this incredible awe humanitarian crisis. >> there has been a humanitarian crisis. 190,000 people that have died in the syrian civil war over three years. what is the core u.s. interest now to go in? >> that number could multiply by 10, i think. i think the issue is containing isis. now, again, we know we are not going to have to be able to do this just in iraq and say they have a safe haven in syria i don't think that's going to be acceptable as well. so we've got to understand that

there is a huge risk of isis gaining momentum. >> mike lyons, as always, thanks for being with us. >> the white house continues to deny any ransom was paid tofree peter theo curtis. curtis, you may recall was released after being kidnapped by syrian opposition fighters. u.s. officials say they played a small role in his release asking the qatari government to negotiate his freedom freedom. >> the republican u.s. senator is featuring islamic state fighterred who killed american journalist al jazeera. access has chosen not to see individual row. alan wei says he features shots of president obama with clips of violence in the middle east. >> lawyers for rick perry say

they want the indictment against the texas govern to be dropped. perry pleading not guilty to two felony counts of abusing power but now his legal team is asking the judge to dismiss the charges all together. coming up at 8:00 o'clock, a live report coming out of dallas with more on perry's developments and his leg issues as well. >> a rare meeting between two world leaders at war. >> russian president and ukraine's president live in belarus as the two come face to face as the violence tears apart eastern ukraine. >> caught on camera. how police are explaining the seemingly unexplainable amateur video. >> celebrating a dark chapter in american history. the tweet about the white house that sparked a british backlash.

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york city on this tuesday morning. sunrise over lower manhattamanh welcome back to "al jazeera america." i am stephanie sy, just ahead in this half hour, a deadly dog malling, a story we have been keeping a close eye on because there is brand-new evidence being heard as a couple stands trial for murder plus why some students in ohio are being told to stay home for the first day of school and they are going to need a bigger boat. why they are having flashbacks to jaws on cape cod. >> our top stories this morning, the president green lighting surveillance aircraft flying over syria. the pentagon saying the droughns will collect intelligence on fighters from the estate group. the u.s. says it's moving ahead with a plan without approval from bash arrest al asad. the uae carried out strikes against libya without informing the united states of beforehand. both deny any involvement. libya's government losing control room of the country's main airport this week.

officials in california are adding up the cost from this that, that massive earthquake over the weekend. the quake causing an estimated $1,000,000,000 in damage. it could be responsible for another billion just in comic losses. crews in napa and vallejo repairing water mains. >> del, the leaders of russia and ukraine are said to hold talks to try to broker an end to war. the presidents are meeting in minsk today. the summit comes as ukraine says it arrested several russian para troopers in donetsk today. al jazeera is in minsk. could the news of these captured para troopers affect today's talks? >> i think it will certainly put pressure on these talks and make them a more tension affair than otherwise. there have been numerous

escalations in the past few days but i think it also gives the ukrainians extra evidence that russia is an active belligerent in this conflict and not just a sympathetic party to the pro-russian separatists filing in eastern ukraine. i have to say that the expectations going in to these talks haven't been particularly high. these aren't peace talks. they are essentially customs union tauingz that are going to happen anyway between the russian-led customs union that ukraine was supposed to originally be part of as well what it is, is useful for contact between them and a chance for them to start negotiations. there is not any conclusions. >> rory, who has the leverage

heading into this summit whatever may be on the agenda? >> i think in the short-term, the leverage is probably with ukraine because it has largely been waging a fairly successful campaign in the east. the longer that goes on, the longer it dralingz out for, the more the al bangs of power swindle in moscow's favor. a because the pro-russian separatists can be supplied, resupplied from across the russian border. >> seems to be going on at the moment but also, as we get deeper into colder weather, deeper into winter, the more pressure is going to be put on kiev because russia has turned offer the gas taps at the ukraine and the colder the weather gets, the more that is going to be a very, very advantageous fwharning chip for mosque co. a challenge in minsk. a prison transfer is underway in

brazil after out of control fighting between inmates turned deadly over the weekend. two prisoners were beheaded during the riots and two others were thrown off of a roof. the violence began every several inmates demanded better living conditions and more flexible visiting hours. a liberian doctor who received one of the last doses of experimental ebola drug has died. a dr. abraham borber, the deputy medical chief for liberia's medical hospital. he was given a dose of zmap although he had ebola virus hospital officials have not caused the death. >> more than 2000 people packing the st. louis church on monday saying goodbye to michael brown. his funeral taking plates more than two weeks after he was shot and killed by police officer darren wilson. >> shooting, you may recall, triggering days of unrest and

rioting in ferguson. here to talk about future for ferguson is missouri state representative penny v. hubbard. she represents st. louis and joins us from ferguson this morning. ms. hubbard, thank you for being with us. you were at michael brown's funeral yesterday. 1 of the speakers called for ven answer is that a different form of justice and why not bother to have an indictment and trial at all? >> well, good morning detail. thank you very much for having me on and to respond to the question that you just ask ted , yes, i was at the service yesterday. and there are a lot of issues going on in regards to ferguson. so, it's kind of hard to guess at what the reason something behi behind it, but the real big factor is that they do want questions answered and the people that live in the st.

louis city area as well as st. louis county want answers. >> let me ask you this question. you have been in touch with the family. what do they want and would they be satisfied if the officer is indicted and tried and acquitted? >> you knew, actually, i can't speak for the family but what i can say in regards to the family is that the family wants justice. the family wants answers and the family wants to know and understand what our justice system has in place and what's going to happen based upon the loss which they lost, which was their son, michael brown. >> let me ask the question this way? >> and we certainly -- >> what would justice look like

look like the officials getting back with the family to let the family know what's going on regards to the case justice would look like them having factual information to show what actually ordinary and why their son lost his life out there in the streets like that and justice is whatever the issues are regard that so we deal with that so this certainly won't happen again here in the city of st. louis is there a deeper problem between at a time the people that they serve? and what needs to be done address those issues? >> what needs to be done. first of all, i feel like the police officers in st. louis county as well as st. louis city need additional training. you know, we do understand that there are some law enforcement officers that do an excellent

job out there but then we also, and based upon what happened to michael brown shows us that they are very much, though, in need of some training. we also need more black officers in those areas as well, and we need to get back to police community, police being notice community so they can, in fact, know what they are dealing with when they are out there and get to know the individuals that live in the areas as well. >> representative hubbard, thank you very much for being with us this morning. >> we also need to address issues. >> i'm sorry. yes mean to cut you off. go ahead. >> well, thank you very much for having me. >> okay. thank you very much. >> that's representative penny v. hubbard. she joined us this morning from ferguson. thank you. >> he is defenseless. please stop pumping him. >> this woman begging for mercy

as a police officer perched a man in the head. the unnamed woman recording the ince didn't. they say he was causing a disturbance at the wal-mart. >> so many times right here on the side of his head and then i saw them punch him in his back, the back area and i was like, please stop punching him. there is too many punches. >> everything that led up to this incident was not just us showing up and him resisting arrest. and that's what it led to. there is more to that. >> greenville police officers are saying the deputy seen punching the man in the video is on administrative leave. >> an data on a brutal dog malling we have been following. a newly released police report sheds new light on the a detroit area jogger's final moments after the attack. the dog owners are facing second degree murder charges. for more, let's go to bis

bisi oleiri. what can you tell us about this report? >> reporter: a new police report reveals 46-year-old craig cisma was bitt by and the singl father of three was screaming for help when a neighbor came to his aid. he was bleeding bad and said he was going to die. a short time later, he passed away. he had been in that neighborhood where he worked, jogging that afternoon when he was attacked by these dogs. these dogs are well-known and documented to have had a history of violence, but it took these doingdz to kill for authorities to take action. those dogs have since been euthanized, a couple are facing life in prison stephanie. >> you just alluded to this. the report actually says, brment bisi, doesn't it, that the neighbors were constantly on edge because of these dogs. so they knew that they could be

a problem. >> yeah. they did know that, stephanie. neighbors say that these dogs had a history of running loose and digging out of their kennel. in fact, they actually attacked two other people previously to most recent incidentiously so there was a history there. some residents said they were so fearful they armed themselves just in case they were stalked by these dogs. so clearly, there were some warning signs went up. residents say the owners, they were very well aware of the danger but they did nothing about it. stephanie? >> bisi oneil-leri in troy, michigan thank you. >> stephanie, ohio is dealing with an outbreak of mumps 481 cases reported in four counties, 254 of those cases have been linked to an outbreak at ohio state university. last year, by the way, there were only 438 reported cases of mumps across the entire u.s. officials saying most of the cases in ohio have occurred

between patient did who have been vaccinated already but they believe that unvaccinated people may be helping to spread the disease. >> all right. let's take a look at some of the other headlines making news around the world. the british embassy came under some fire on social media following a controversial tweet. not everyone is laughing about this. the independent says -- >> i am. >> it was commemorating the burning of the white house by british forces during the war of 1812. well, this is what the brits tweet, comment rating the 200th anniversary of burning the white house. sparklers this time. twitter users. >> some thought it was in poor taste. >> the british prime primary said things are looking better of the. >> they issued an apology. >> they did. a young cueban boy would dresses like fidel castro got to meet his idle. they say the retired leader of, his entire room is decorated

with all things fiddle castro. as you can see there, he had snoopy bed sheets so things are different. they sad all things fiddle except the beard and the cigar and that will probably come one day later fidel is 88 by the way. >> yeah. >> the boy is yeah. >> a big fan clearly. >> all right. you have heard of the burning manifest value. rained on, putting a damper on the opening day of the burning manifest value creating a muddy mess. >> "the wall street journal" reporting the venire was temporarily closed because of undrivable conditions. now, i have never been out to burning man but from what i understand, the roads are pretty much makeshift roads. so they are all muddy now. they have had to close -- they had to close it yesterday which was supposed to be opening day. they are expected to open this morning at 6:00 a.m. hippies and hipsters. >> the police told the protesters put your clothes on and go on. newty is allowed at burning man. >> some are calling it ex tin

extinguished man this morning. >> fizzled. >> it's a city in shambles. >> al jazeera getting an exclusive look inside aleppo syria after more than three years of civil war. we will be talking to one of the journalists who still reports from the war-torn country considered to be the most dangerous place on the planet for the media. >> the big winners and losers from last night's emmy awards with a tribute to robin williams. >> young boy's incredible find on the jersey shore, that is our discovery of the day.

>> it is time for our discovery of the day. today's discovery is literally one for the ages. >> a virginia boy found this 10,000-year-old paleo indian arrowhead while vacationing on

the jersey shore. he found it at the edge of the surf. >> it may have been used by ancient native americans to hunt mastedon. the family says he plans to donate his arrowhead to a museum. >> syria's president, bash arrest al assad is stamping up his campaign to punish the city of aleppo. sheila mcviccer has exclusive footage from inside the battered city. >> the helicopters circle slow beyond the range of any rebel guns. suddenly a black duck dropped from the belly tumbling toward the city below. then the explosion. >> sound means their workday has just begun. they called themselves a civil defense force or cdf.

their their self acclaimed mission, to help victims of barely bombs, their commander. an increasing number of these cheap indisriminate aerial ieds have been held on rebel parts of aleppo in recent months. two barrel bombs have just exploded in this residential neighborhood. the volume up tears managed. for this 12-year-old boy, it's too late. all the team can do is offer him some dignity in death. in his battle to retake the strategic city of aleppo, the assad regime has relied on barely bombs, dropping hundreds

in the last few months. the physical destruction and psychological terror inflicted by the bombs has driven tens of thousands of civilians to flee the area. a tactic many say is deliberate aleppo, once a city of 3 million has fewer than 300 ,000 residents left. the barrel bombs have killed over 2,000 in aleppo. the u.n. passed a ban on their use. in the midst of this battle for aleppo, what he and his team are trying to do is to save those caught in the crossfire. a simple idea so difficult to do. en though we lost a great deal, we are staying because our work is humanitarian. >> sheila mcviccer, al jazeera. >> this morning, american surveillance planes are flying

over syria. it could be a lead-up to american airstrikes according to some reports in syria let's go to hasha, a journalist and al jazeera contrib utor. for security reasons, we will use her first name. she is in lebanon via skype. rasha, thank you for being with us. the reason we conceal your identity is because you continue to report from within syria a dangerous assignment. what is it like on the ground there? do you see is's growing power? >> in fact, as the world's attention has been so focused on iraq in the past few weeks, isis has been quietly could be solidating it's presence in the eastern are prove i knew and that happen to be very oil-rich and they are committing a great deal of atrocities there toward the population that is almost 100% sunni muslims and arab. they are sunni muslims like the

islamic state. they massacred 70 omen from one clan because the clan refused to pledge allegiance to them. >> you are saying they are not just targeting minority religions. they are targeting sunnis that don't follow their extremist ideals? >> absolutely. in fact, in syria, the granted majority of those fighting isis and those who have victimized by isis, including brutal beheadings are sunni muslims and just as islamic state makes minorities convert to islam when it enters new territory, it actually also compels sunni muslims to pledge allegiance to it or face death. so, it expects everyone to convert to its ideology, even sunni muslims. >> have you had any conversations, yourself with is fighters? do you have a good idea of who they are within syria.

talked to them on skype to get an idea. a lot of them. there are a mixture of people. a lot of them are quite naive. they think they are fighting the good fight. they think they are saving innocent syrians from the brutal regime of assad. but others some are in it for the money. the horn fighters receive $800 a month just for showing up for jihad in syria. they get an additional monthly stipe in d if they have a wife and additional money for every child. so there is money involved. there is glory. there is all sorts of things. so they are really a mishmash of men. >> how would it change the battlefield to have the u.s. target isis in syria if that's what ends up happening? >> it's very difficult to say bays now things have become so complicated on the ground and isis, isis controls large areas of -- large civilian areas.

so how to target isis from the air without hurting the civilian population, you know, that's a big question. a lot of people on the ground are expecting that the est or the u.s. will carry out some sort of military operations against isis in syria. it depends upon who you ask in syria. syrian regime would like to see that happen with their coordination because that would bring them out of the cold as a collaborative partner against the quote, unquote fight on terrorism. the syrian rebels would like to see that because they have been fighting very hard against isis and they lost. i think, you know, something like 7,000 men in the past six months, again, in the past six months alone and this is according to some experts that we talked to. they would like to see some help with the fight against isis, but

then again, one of the major parties fighting isis is the al-qaeda affiliated area some of the that poses a huge question to the west and, you know who to target, who to help. it's just become very complicated. >> indeed. sharpa, a journalist in al jazeera, syria, joining us from lebanon. >> what a great inside look, by the way into that conflict. how do you cover conflict where journalists are being kidnapped and killed? flash flooding, torrential rain sending a river of water through the streets. five people were killed. five others reported missing. officials say a power plant there had to be shut down. >> there is searing heat in the midwest right now. sfo those two combined are creating a dangerous situation. temperatures in the 70s now. the mid- to upper 70s, factor

this plus the temperature of the 90s today. then you are talking about excessive heat. the moisture, humidity keeps the body ability to cool itself. >> that's the big problem. hewitt heat and humidity combined. >> will continue today. stay tuned. >> they are going to need a bigger boat, a massachusetts beach cleared after shark sitings. shark by the way was far enough away it could not be seen from the shore. it was spotted by helicopter. some beach goers inspired by "jaws" they scribbled some of the famous lines in the sand. >> and the winner is modern family. >> big night in hollywood as the starts came out to celebrate the emmys. >> let's bring in erica. this sealed to be a lot of back to back wins for shows. >> absolutely. "breaking bad," that's a big show. i am a personal favorite of that one. a big winner taking home five

major awards but it was billy crystal's sweet tribute to robin williams that seemed to steal the show. >> bre"breaking bad." the emmys send breaking bad out on a high note monday night, a second straight win for best drama. >> thank you so much for this wonderful farewell. >> that kindness extended to the coach stars who won. >> best actor for the second straight year and fourth time overall. >> i love to act. it is a passion of mine, and i will do it until my last breath. >> the one major drama honor breaking bad did not get we want to juliana margo list for t"the good wife". >> what a wonderful time for women on television. >> it was a wonderful night for other previous em mcmorries winners. >> jim parsons. >> the star of "the big bang theory" won for the fourth time

and julia dreyfuss was sealed with a kiss from brian cranston. >> the reining champ tied a record with its 5th straight win. >> modern family has been a big, bust dream, and we thank you for not waking us up. >> even as wins were celebrated. >> he mmade us laugh hard. >> a loss was remembered with billly crystal's touching tribute to his friend, the late robin williams. >> it's very hard to talk about him in the past because he was so present in all of our lives. >> robin williams, what a concept. >> coming up in our next hour, we are going to have much more on that moving tribute to robin williams. i promise you guys are going to tear up >> ilk it. thanks a lot. >> stay with us. we are going to be talking about a soccer match in our next match

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on how much damage may have been tallied up. >> in a face to face meet, ukraine and russia's presidents hold rare talks. they will try to end a war that's been raging for months. >> good morning. >> welcome to "al jazeera america." i am del walters. >> i am stiff knee sy. president obama has given the go ahead for surveillance flights over syria. >> the pentagon saying it will use drones and manned flights to conduct intelligence on the islamic state group. presence already in the region in control of key cities, border crossings, oil refineries in syria and iraq. >> vandals pinkston, good morning. is the u.s. moving closer with this latest announcement? >> stephanie, the white house is careful not to confirm or deny that the president has made a decision to launch airstrikes but clearly, the reports that there are now surveillance flights over syria gathering intelligence on possible is target did is an indication that

strikes may be underway because the u.s. considers is to be a threat to american interests. >> isil has already demonstrated in a -- in rather violent fashion their willingness to perpetrate terrible acts against american citizens. >> in reference to the brutal murder recently of american journalists james foley. stephanie? >> the u.s. is going ahead and flying into syrian airspace without bash arrest al assad. could the aircraft be in danger? >> keep in mind that we have not been told officially that the u.s. is in fact flying in the syrian airspace but a couple of points. >> the american military has the ability to defeat any kind of anti-aircraft military assets that syria has plus some military analysts that american air strakdz could indeed be launched from outside syrian

airspace. >> would minimize the danger. >> randall pinkston for us in washington. randle, thank you. >> stephanie, the white house expressing alarm over air strikes in libya have two, the united arab emirates and egypt carried out attacks targeting rival militia groups. >> the u.s. is now demanding answers. for months, but last week, the conflict reached a new level of violence. the reason? airstrikes militia positions carried out not by the libyan military but by their allies in egypt and the united arab emirates. >> based upon the intelligence we have, the egyptian and uae governments are directly involved in this heinous attack. we stress we have good relations with the good people of egypt but the libyan rebels want to make it clear that we will

always defend the sovereignty of our homeland against this aggression. core to the "new york times," u.s. officials said egypt and the uae lied to them about their involvement. several officials said the united states dim diplomats were fuming about the airstrikes. we don't see this as constructive at all said one senior american official u.s. officials have brushed off suggestions they remember deliberately kept in the dark and called for a political resolution the to the crisis. >> we believe outside interference undermines the transition and that's why our focus remains on urging all faxes to come together to. >> the e the job description prime minister appeared to be acting as peacemaker. >> the new initiative that egyptian delegation presented to members which were announced to those presents at the meeting. it suggests a roadmap for a

return in the nation's role without exception and all parties involved in libya. >> the obama administration said it's up to egypt and the united arab em rat to explain what they have been doing in libya. even as its clear the u.s. wishes they weren't involved. rosalind jordan, al jazeera, the state department. both denying involvement in the airstrikes, struggle to go maintain control since the long time dictator was ousted back if 2011. >> the white house continues to deny any randsom was paid to free theo curtis. he was released after being abducted two years ago. u.s. officials say they played a small role in his release asking the qatari government to negotiate the release. >> his father says that he is delighted that his son is free. michael pa d & o s who lives on this boat sharing his joy on

monday during. >> you can imagine, you know, you don't want to have your son a prisoner someplace where you can't communicate with him and you don't know what's going on and it's just nothing is happening that you can, you know, it's terrible. it's terrible. it's terrible thing to have. >> as if there was a huge weight lifted from my shoulders shoulders. >> patnos was the original last name of theo curtis. his father said he changed it for safety reasons two years ago before leaving for syria. >> a st. louis grand jury will meet tomorrow to hear more evidence in the ferguson police shooting of michael brown after hundreds gathered on monday to lay the ms. you're e teenager to rest. robert ray joins us from ferguson. robert, before we get to the grand jury, take us back to yesterday's funeral. >> you know, it was almost 2500

people packed inside after church in st. louis. there were celebrities there. there were people from the ministries around the st. louis area. a person that was absents was the governor of missouri. al sharpton did give the eulogy and the funeral lasted nearly two hours. michael brown was laid to rest later that afternoon and in the evening, many gathered to soak in what's occurred over the past two weeks. >> a town hall meeting last week following the funeral of michael brown. >> racism is alive and it runs rampant. >> the unarmed teenager was the shot and killed by a white ferguson police officer two weeks ago. >> we have the right to be angry. just because we are black, that doesn't mean we are aggressive or that we are hostile. we are american and this is what america looks like right now. >> i am still angry in my heart. >> just hours early, thousands

of mourners packed a st. louis church to remember brown. some walking with hands up, a symbol of protest against police. a funeral with music. ♪ his prayers. >> god place add special calling on our lives. >> not just a call for justice but a call to action. . >> we have had enough of the senseless killing. show up at the voting polls. let your voices be heard. >> celebrities, politicians and members of the community came to pay their respects to michael brown and his family. >> michael was a big guy but he was a kind, gentle soul. >> his cousin said the teen loved religion and rap and dreamed of a career in music. >> one day, the world will know his name. he did not know he was offering up a divine prophecy.

>> parking days of sometimes violent protests. >> michael brown does not want to be remembered for riots. he wants to be remembered as the one that made america deal with how we are going to police in the united states. his family is hoping their son's death will be a catalyst for change. they called for a day of peace on monday. and the streets were quiet as michael brown's body was taken to his final resting place. >> now, the streets this morning are not so quiet. not protesters and demonstrators, stephanie, but a stream of people driving up and down this road where all of the demonstrators and the rioters came out and there was violence. people were headed back to work. see the sign behind me, "we will be back." this is the parking lot where there was multiple gunfire just literally a week ago and tear gas deployed. life getting back to normal but

a long road ahead here, steph. >> there is that grand jury case. we learned last week that there will only be three african-americans on the grand jury, nine whites. has there been backlash to that? >> well, it's interesting because you talk to people here in the community. they are sdraching their head wondering how that's possible. there is only three black people on this entire grand jury and people were wondering, you know, wait wait a second. our community is like over 75% black here in ferguson. they are starting to wonder whether that's a fair deal is as far as people looking at the evidence on that grand jury of 12 people. but the grand jury is already assembled. they meet tomorrow. they meet every wednesday. >> could go all the way up until october, stephanie. >> we will continue to get updates from you. robert ray in ferguson missouri stephanie, they are cleaning up in northern california,

inspectors looking at the worst earthquake to hit the bay area in 25 years. sunday's quake causing an estimated $1,000,000,000 worth of damage. economic losses could add another billion dollars to that number. melissa shan is live for us right now in napa. melissa, the napa area known for wine and tourism. how much damage did damage's 500 wineries suffer in sunday's earthquake? >> just to give you an idea, it's a $13 billion wine industry in this area that supports 46 ,000 jobs, 3 million tourists come here every year. so the impact could have been big, but definitely quite a number of venues were impacted. there was one vineyard that saw their bottles go crashing on to the ground. >> there is significant damage. the thing is the monetary value of the inventory, you can replace that but, you know, some of our wines are collections,

private collections by the owner and the, you know, our library wines. some are those are irreplaceable really. >> just to give you an idea, the initial early days, there is still no proper assessment of all of the vin jars impacted the innumber is that will many are fine. >> we can see damage behind you, downtown areas in napa and vajejo. what are they working on this morning? >> one of the things they are working are water mains, a few hundred people without water. on the power front, they managed to bring power back to pretty much everyone. it is appreciate dawn here at this intersection for example,

the building you are looking at essentially has been red tagged. >> means they post a red piece of paper on the door. it means it's too dangerous for people to enter. right after the quake, there were about 30 building red tags. the latest is intent. building inspectors, it's about safety where i am standing right now. if there was an after shock, that would be bad. >> melissa chan of the we hope there are no after shocks. thank you very much. at 8 co 50 eastern time, we will talki to a napa valley resident. one of 26 gallon fish tank broke apart while sleeping. >> the leaders of russia and john boehner are set to hold rare talks to try to broker an end to 5 months of war. vladimir putin and petro poor are meeting at this hour and the summit comes as ukraine says it arrested several russian pair atroopers in donetsk today. rory challenge is in ninsk. an hour into the summit. any news thus far?

>> they have just recently set down as you say. putin was about half an hour later. >> that's prompt by putin standards. usually, he is more late than that from what we understand, they call a family photo where all of the presidents come out and present themselves together to the press of the there was quite a clear divide. putin was joking and talking with the belarusan president and the cosack president where poroshenko was standing separately with catherine ashton, the eu foreign affairs diplomat, the representative here i think that probably shows you that there is olbermann a clear divide here and a much work that needs to be done. is there an expectation that this leading could lead to more

extensive piece negotiations between the sides? the expectations for this meeting as it stands alone are not particularly high because these are not peace talks. this is a customs union forum. the custom union being this economic union between russia and belarus and cas i canstan. they have invited ukraine and the eu to be a part of it what this is hopefully going to turn in to is the stepping stone for type of more developed negotiations to try to find a slooings to the conflict in ukraine. >> what is the latest on these captured pair atroopers in eastern ukraine? >> the latest is that russia has admitted that, yes, these men have been captured but russia's justification for this is it was

a mistake, that they crossed in to ukraine because of some sort of navigational error that they have been patrolling the border. this wasn't, as russia is saying, any kind of incursion, military incursion in to eastern ukraine now, the ukrainian account is these men were picked up 20 or 30 kilometers inside of the border. if that is true, if that's the case the t would have to be a fairly serious orientseering mistake by these supposedly trained men whetherp who strayed so far into ukraine. >> we have heard these den aisles over and over again. rory, thank you. >> stephanie a hundred right now off of the pacific coast bringing huge surf to california. waves as high as 25 feet expected to slam beaches through sunday hurricane marie is

hundreds of miles off of the coast of baja, california, it is a cat 2 and continues to weaken. >> in florida, high surf and rip currents as hurricane cristobal turns through the atlantic stretch, warning from the north of the state to new york city. making its way about 600 miles of bermuda with wind speeds of 75 miles an hour. the storm is not expected to hit the u.s. >> dave warren has been tracking both storms or both coasts. let's go to him for an update. >> two different storms here one powerful one in the pass inc. impacting the coasts, not expected to make land fall this is marie, very powerful, big storm here it's weakening as it moves into colder water. this is the water temperature, the track of the storm moving over this colder water, it will continue to weaken and create rough surf and rip currents but not expected to make landfall there. different story in the latlantic. minimal hundred is cristobal but

what happens over the eastern u.s. and over the central atlantic will steer this storm right up the coast. not expected to make landfall. video shows we are looking at a lot of preparations for rip currents here, a lot of warnings issued because of the storm out over the openings but the swes crating rip currents all the way up to new york city. >> that's one thing to keep in mind as the storm continues to track north. it will go between bedroom urmu the atlantic coast. >> no land fall expected. watch the warnings there. a lot of roads in mexico. >> dave, thank you. >>isi airstrikes leveling one of the tallest buildings in gaza. we are on the ground there as the israeli military ramps up its strikes on the strip. >> rick perry's legal team not backing down in their indictmfi get the indictment thrown out. joining us live from dallas with the latest shot that was fired by his lawyers. >> one man looking to goldly go

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>> the presidencial compound at the gate. citizens throwing malatov cocktails as well. >> five people are dead following heavy rains that triggered a landslide. some parts of the country saw nearly 10 inches of rain on sunday. excuse me. on monday. >> some people there always trying to break ground. this man in iceland doing so in the world of motor sports. footage of hav thor grant. performing the first back flip on a snowmobile in iceland although it's unclear whether or not it has been done before and how many times he failed trying to do it. >> that's probably why they call

him half thor. >> impressive. just ahead, the latest blow in the fight against the outbreak of the ebola virus. >> as we have been mentioning, intense israeli airstrikes hitting gaza, one leveling the tallest building on the strip, the high-rise is the third tower to be targeted in as many days. jane ferguson has hor from gaza city. >> this building was known to locals as the italian tower. it was one of the best known in gaza city. the top 11 floors were all residential apartments where people were living at least 70 families living inside this building. on the bottom two floors, there were mainly commercial properties. we know there was a pharmacy there, a coffee shop as well as offices. there were some hammack offices in the building, which could be a clue as to why it was targeted. people were given a warning to leave. however, they were given three knocks on the roof action essentially as theisitsis call it to warn people to get out. then, it was struck, we believe,

five times in the night. there was a break in it being struck by those airstrikes. however, as people came to the area. 20 were injured. four of them were medical workers and one journalist. this is parts after growing pattern across the gaza strip. last night, another high multi-story building was also brought down after warnings were given to those inside to leave. >> jane says more than 2100 palestinians have been killed since the start of that conflict. 68 israelis most of them soldiers have died. stephanie. >> nigeria says a group of almost 500 soldiers crossed the border into camaroon are not deserters. officials say the soldiers were conducting a tactical man oofr. groups have been engaged in fours battles in a town that board it will cameroon and in a new video, boko haram says it established an islamic state in northeastern nigeria. >> we are learning a liberian

doctor who received one of the last doses of the ebola drug has died. >> the deputy medical chief for liberia's largest hospital. he was given a dose of zmap. health officials are scrambling to bring the virus under control in west africa doctor abraham borbor was the medical doctor who is another victim of the virus he was hoping to stop. he was one of three africans given experimental and unproven drug called zmap but it was unable to save him. >> he finished a full course. >> what went wrong? >> he also had some co-morbidities. >> what is that? >> he had other problems other than just ebola. >> the lie beerian president has been visiting the west point neighborhood. tens of thousands people are being held in quarter an teed

reliant on food aid. >> we are getting collaboration and particularly communities who have been quarantined. >> in neighboring guinea, the first cases were detected in march. many are too afraid to travel. board remembers closed and fear is affecting business. he specially the export of palm oil today, there is no work business people are not coming to buy any more palm oil because everybody is afraid of ebola virus. before, people used to come here to buy. but today, nobody. >> a number of airlines have stopped flying to affected countries. the u.n. says the restrictions are making it difficult to treat the virus. >> understandable decision of some airlines to not continue to fly in to free town or mon rope

i can't. it has enormous impact on our ability to bring in staff and to bring if goods. on the one hand, yes, we understand it. but on the other hand, it's making the job a whole lot harder. >> the u.n. says the ebola outbreak is still spreading and to stop it, all of those affected need to work together better. but with growing fear of the virus and affected communities becoming increasingly isolated, that will be a continuing challenge. >> terrek baseley, al jazeera. >> the current ebola outbreak claimed 1400 lives across west africa. del? >> there is a prisoner transfer underway in brazil. out of control fighting between inmates turned deadly over the weekend. two were beheaded during the riots. two others thrown from a roof after several inmates demanded

better living conditions and more flexible visiting hours. >> heat will be on. dave warren is back with more on that. dave, what have we got? >> not just the heat. the humidity. those two combined will create a dangerous situation like it's been doing here over the past few days, 70 now. is the st. louis. see that number not drop below 80 at this hour for a hot day today. the number to look at is dew points above 70 degrees, 75 in st. louis. when you get the moisture in the air plus the high heat, your body can't cool off like it normally can with the dry air in place. we have the excessive heat warning and advisories because the heat and humidity makes it feel like it's 110 to 115. this is just the temperature there in st. louis at 95. feel like it's over 100 degrees when you have the heat and humidity keep fans on. dave, thank you. >> raising new questions about how ready california is for the

next big one. whether early warning systems kept dozens from being hurt. >> a soccer match quickly turning violence before the game started. the local gang being blamed for this crazy stunt. >> it's very hard to talk about him in the past because he was so present in all of our lives. >> remembering one of the biggest and brightest stars of comedy billy crystal's heart-felt tribute to his friend.

>> why the islamic state is a greater threat in the long run than al-qaeda before 9-11. a former cia director joins us. >> only on al jazeera america. >> looking life at washington, d.c. where the talk of the town is the possibility of manned and unmanned aerial surveillance over libya good morning. or rather syria. welcome back to "al jazeera america" ahead in this half hour, a new fracking project in pittsburgh that could bring in about a billion dollars to the city. there is a huge catch. the gas reserves are right under

the city's airport. the m the man who scaled the brooklyn bridge for a photo is going to the judge for his daring climb and the security changes in the wake of the stunt on the iconic bridge. >> the morning's top stories, a gshingsz is set to meet on wednesday to hear more evidence in the police shooting death of 18-year-old michael brown. >> meeting comes after friends and family said their final goodbyes to brown at his funeral yesterday. the white house said it was caught off guard after two arab allies carried out airstrikes saying the united arab em rants did not inform washington. both current trees deny they fired on libya. president obama authorizing surveillance over syria. it's a move that could pave the way for u.s. air strikes against fighters from the islamic state there? >> al jazeera's, what role will these planned surveillance aircraft play in syria?

>> good morning, del. they are necessary to identify possible islamic state targets but they are necessary to come up with some ideas to eliminate possible threats to american aircraft. florred to defeat the islamic state, it is going to be necessary to strike them inside syria but the white house points out that other states in this region also have a role to play oh, my goodness, you have to make gangs against isil in syria in order to defeat isil. what you shouldn't necessarily do is jump to the conclusion that that means robust american military action is required in syria to further or a accomplish that goal. >> suggesting that other players will be involved, exactly which states, which nations they are, has not been identified nor has it been made public so far of

any white house specific plans to launch a military strike. del? >> this is interesting and curious parts saying it will help the u.s. fight terrorism is there. a change of policy on the side of the assad regime here? >> everyone in washington in the white house say that this is a very complicated situation. pom pom as we know has been against the regime, asking him to step aside. the u.s. has been assisting some fighters in fighting asad. so they are saying that any strike against the islamic state in syria is not intended to assist asad but rather to protect american interests and allies in the region. >> does not include bash arrest a al-assad. >> iraqi descriptions who fled mosul after it was taken over are now in neighboring jordan. >> as al jazeera reports, many are hoping to settle in the west

permanently. >> these helpless people are among the first iraqi christian refugees to arrive in jordan. all were forcefully ex friendliest their homes in mo l mosul. all received death threats from the islamic state group just because they are christian. 72 people are living in this church in aman. most are too afraid to be filmed. juan came here with his pregnant wife, their children and the elderly men and women and their family who were able to get out. what he wants is a basic human rights. >> we dream of security, stability and freedom to live like normal human beings without intolerance, without constraints. we wish to live somewhere where people can relate to each other. >> everyone here has a hor inc. story to tell. most had to flee mosul on foot when fighters from the islamic state group seized control of this city. they say the group stole their homes, from cars, shops and

jewelry. george seban, not his real name is sfraed to show his face because he has family members trying to leave iraq. >> we want to live in any country that accepts us. we have been under threat in iraq since 2003. no one is protecting our rights. we are considered infidels. >> iraq's christians are one of the oldest christian communities in the world. now, these people say it's hard to accept that mosul no longer has a christian presence. jordan has agreed to host up to 1,000 iraqi christians. they are arriving gradually at shelters across the country, set up by the catholic church. but jordan is only meant to be a transit point for these iraqis who plan is to request asylum and resettlement in western countrieses. >> the ngo is providing food, healthcare and lodging at churches and monasteries. but it says it can only afford to do so for up to a year. >> for the future, i don't know

because maybe you can do something. to interfere and, you know, tleefrt to be able for a settlement in the future. >>. >> there are the internalli displaced, the u.n. refugees agassi has been air lifting aid from erbil to refugees who fled to the kurdish region. the fight something leaving hundreds of thousands of people homeless, desperate and shattered. documents filed in a manhattan federal according. prosecutors say a life sentence would send a message to other would-be terrorists. he was convicted for conspiracy to kill americans and providing support to al-qaeda. >> an army base in research, a soldier apparently committed

suicide. he barricaded himself in an office at fort lee. officials were trying to talk her down when she shot herself. the base was temporarily put on lockdown. >> a new internal report from the department of veterans affairs says there is no proof that long waiting teams at a phoenix va hospital resulted in any deaths. this follows allegations that as many as 40 vet transdied while waiting for treatment and caused eric shinawatra to resignseki t lawyers for track rick perry want the charges to be dropped. now, his legal team is asking a judge to dismiss the charges all together. coming up at 8:00, we will have a live report. >>a two dead after a blast at a recycling plant east of st. louis. officials say it was a mortar

round that exploded. they say the plant offer recycles items from the military. the plant was closed in that explosion. >> a landmark day for the s & p, the stock index crossing the 2,000 level for the first time on monday sparked by news from central bankers in europe and japan that more market stimulus is on the way. the index didn't stay above the 2,000 marm for long but closed at 1,997.92. >> the comic news in europe is less than positive. france is struggling threw three months of zero growth. many analysts think austerity may have run its course. ali velshi spoke about that whichw with chief economic advisor. >> if you look at the second quarter, not only didrop as a whole stall but the 3 largest economies hoad weakness. we should worry.

>> he says unemployment needs to be reduced. >> the u.s. is inned midst of an energy boom. natural gas is expected to slow. >> david shuster reports advances in technology make it easier for companies to access reserves previously out of reach. >> this may look like your normal airport but pittsburgh international is anything but normal. in the mineral rich marsellas is floating atop natural gas reserves. allegheny county signed with consult injury to drill for natural gas the. the county expects to collect a half billion dollars over the next 20 years, about 25 million a year. rich fitzgerald is executive of allegheny county. >> consol is going to spend

about $500 million in building out the infrastructure needed for the airport property, the drilling, the pipe work, the engineering, the excavation, et cetera. when you add that to the righties, we have a billion dollar deal without any tax dollars going in to it. >> deal could not have come at a better time. pittsburgh international made a billion dollar gamble partnering with us air on expansion project designed to handle 30 million passengers a year. traffic peaked at less than 21 million in 1997. in 2002, u.s. air by then rebranded as us airways filed for bankruptcy the next year, the airline broke its lease leaving airport officials holding the bag. >> what it meant was we didn't have the money coming in from all of the airline operations pay off the debt of our airport this is a source of revenue from the extration of the natural gas that will help pay down that

debt. >> consul officially broke ground on the first drilling site monday located just outside of the airport fence t will bore more than a mile deep to extract natural gas the. it can drill horizontally sucking up deposits from been either active runways airport officials say it's safe with all flights and runways operating as usual. >> in addition to paying off its debt, pittsburgh international plans to invest some of the new found riches back into the airport. it's goal, to attract more airlines with lower costs. but with the natural gas deal under its belt, the airport hopes to diversify even more. >> of those 9,000 acres we own out at the airport, we are developing those for commercial development, office space, research and development and able to use that money to build out the infrastructure that's creating jobs for the residents of the this region. >> david shuster, al jazeera. >> meanwhile, neighbors are

complaining the project will take a long time and could disrupt their way of life. >> amazon is am making a up to increase video streaming business. announcing a deal to purchase twi twitch for around 9 wen $0 million. it will help amazon compete against netflix. am zoning ceo says developing original contents is part of his plan to extend the company's online video offerings. >> there is a new study that cased there might be an unintended consequence on easing up on medical marijuana laws. there has been a 25% decline of overdoses. researchers believes legalizing it makes it more available for chronic pain patients. it provides less lethal alternative to pain control for the long-term. >> a russian tourist who scaled the brooklyn bridge for an extreme selfy has been forced to surrender his passport. the 24-year-old was charged with

reckless endangerment on monday. the mayor is ordering a full scale review of this security breach. >> getting caught in the dangers of a major earthquake. >> we will be talking to one napa resident bad l.l.c. injured in this week's tremor plus we will here from a sizemologist about predicting the next big one. >> honoring robin williams, the t tribute by billly crystal. >> a look at the images of the day. these coming from london england for the 50th annual notinghill carnival, the largest street festival in europe. >> more than a million visitors expecting to participate. colorful floats, costumes and traditional dance.

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out of hand before a big match. the crowd clashing. out of control fans throwing bottles and objects at officers much they ripped up, yes, that is the security booth injuring protesters. officials are blaming a local gang for the violence. >> just ahead, a touching tribute to robin williams by one of his long-time friends at last night's emmy awards. >> seismologists said they had advance warning, 10 seconds before the ground started shaking. >> tech know's phil norris explains how this could be used in the future earthquake, lights, shaking expected in three seconds. >> this is quite the test for you? >> by and large, everything worked. >> it's a scene played out in homes across the san francisco area. families suddenly shaken awake lie a large earthquake. most were caught totaly by

surprised. what if they had an early warning? >> most of the san francisco area would have gotten some sort of alert that the shaking was coming. >> techno got a sneak peek of the earthquake early warning system in may. >> it is the sure way that has host of the heavy shaking. the closer it gets to us, the stronger the shaking. >> the system first senses the quake's p or primary waves, the yellow circle inside model. it tells scientists a quake is coming but don't cause any shaking. the red s or shear waves follow. they are the damage causing waves. in this animation, the p waves hit los angeles 30 seconds before the s waves and the shaking starts. that's how it predicted the skwakz to hit los angeles. i roncally, the public never got an early warning because california's system is only a prototype. >> we are having an earthquake. >> this is how mexican t.v.

covered the 7.2 quake that struck off of the coast of acapulco april 18th. mexico's early warning system has been around since the devastating 1985 quake that killed more than 9,000. japan was moved to action as well creating their early warning system after the 19956.9 cobe quake that killed 5,000 the the science works but california's early warning system is years away from being early operational with an estimated price tag of more than $50 million, it is less than appealing milwaukeely. the napa quake could registered $1,000,000,000 in damages but even that may not be enough to get the system online. >> phil forres, al jazeera, in pasadena, california. >> and here is a live look right now in napa valley one of the dozens of buildings damaged by sunday's powerful quake. an assistants professor at uc

riverside and napa resident stephen smith, they both experienced the earthquake in different ways. they join us from faba this monk. steven, you look better than you did in the pictures i saw of you. i understand you had to go to the emergency room. tell us what happened? >> yeah. i was sleeping by my friend's bed. we just got back from the party i was sleeping. i had my face down and adjacent to my head was like a 35, 40 pound fish tank, and it was standing on a medal frame and it just shook and just fell right on the back of my head and shattered. i have several staples in the back of my head. i don't know if they are visible or not, but i had to get like my hand stitched up. >> yeah. i can see the staples? >> all over. >> and the stitches. professor funning, this quake

didn't occur, i understand, on one of california's well known fault lines. is it surprising to experts that it could do this kind of damage? a 30, 4 pound? >> 34 or 35 gallon one. it was about four or 500 pounds. >> okay. >> yeah. >> that's quite a bit of damage. professor, is that surprising, that kind of damage? >> not entirely. what we know about the west map default is certainly large enough to sustain that magnitude six earth quake yesterday. so in that sense, it isn't surprising. it is one of the faults that doesn't immediately come to mind, it's, for most people studied earthquakes. there are other faults that are more dangerous in the vicinity of apa. that's what we mostly focus on

did it wake you or did you not wake up until the fish tank was upon you? >> i didn't really wake up until d -- well, i mean mentally, i didn't really wake up until i was downstairs because i don't really remember waking up because my friend said i was talking gibberish like he doesn't know how i got downstairs or anything. it was just really blank to me. it was mainly the fish tank that woke me up and i started rubbing my head. i felt blood and freaked out and i had to hold my hand because there was blood gushing from it. i had to kind of butt skotch down the stairs and get down and get help. it was it was a mess. >> garrett, professor, where are we when it comes to early warning detection. the scientistsits got it 10 seconds' warning. where are we in terms of people

like steven being able to know with alarms or sirens in the same way that we have for hurricanes when it comes to these major earthquakes? >> as i understand it, the early warning systems are really a benefit to people who live some distance away from the fault that causes the earthquake so if steven was living in san francisco, he would have got 10 seconds warning or 12 seconds warning. so this is really a benefit for the larger earthquakes which take some time to get going and it is still able to damage things a lot. i am afraid there is not much the early warning system could have done for stephen but in general, the technology is proven and it works. it's just an i mplementation problem as i understand it. >> and an expense problem. stephen, one last question for you. you were in napa working in the wine industry. how long until you heel and are back at work? >> well, probably another week

and a half or so. i have to go see the doctor and see how long it will take these stitches. a lot of handiwork. i am hoping to get back in the next week and a half because it is crush season. i have to get back out there. >> crush season. steven smith joining us from napa, california, this mornings as well as professor gareth funning. assistant professor of geo physics at uv riverside. thank you for your time. >> of course. thank you. >>. >> he made us laugh hard. >> that the moment last night when celebrated in hollywood but they took a look back at the life and legacy of robin williams. >> you heard bilk crystal there with a touching tribute to his friend. >> he had more to say. let's get to it with ergica. robbip williams, really friends on and off. >> absolutely. they worked a lot together. you could tell from the speech

last night, they were definitely close friends. not just fellow comedians. robin williams went to billy crystal's family gathering. so this tribute felt like an intimate moment to witness. >> as genius as he was on stage, he was the greatest friend you could imagine. supportive, protective, loving. it's very hard to talk about him in the past because he was so present in all of our lives. for almost 40 years. he was the brightest star in a comedy galaxy. >> then the academy showed a montage of robin williams clips including this one that proves how the funny man knew just how to pull on your heart strings. >> there are times my son looks at me and gives me that look in my eyes like, well, what's it going to be? i don't know. maybe along the way he take my

hand, tell a few jokes and have some fun. come on, pal. you are not afraid? are you? no. >> the academy also paid tribute to other actors who passed away this year including phillip seymour hoffman, james garner and i have seen that clip at least 4 or five times this morning, and it gets you. >> pulls at your heart strings every single time. there were some wins last night. >> yes. there were on a happen year note, breaking bad, new fan of the show. >> i actually never watched it. clearly i need to. >> a good show swept most of the categories. modern family pulled in the best title as well. >> what about the upsets? >> net flicks. this came a couple of years ago, orange is the new black, house

of cards. nothing. got shutout completely and my personal favorite, hbo's game of thrones, nothing. shut out. >> you have been watching t.v. clearly. >> watching the news all the time. erica pitzi, thank you. . >> got to love it. let zeppelin with the top guitar riv of all time, whole lota love by british radio in additioners. entries from guns and roses, acdc and, yes, deep perm. >> let's get a quick check of the weather? >> looking at a few showers and strong thoormz the cooler air makes it to the midwest. see the temperature difference, chicago 73, 56 minneapolis.

showers and storms developing. a few could be strong or severe. the moisture is coming back to the southwest that could lead to flash floods that happen as long as with severe storms pushing south like we had yesterday. showers and storms could develop across southwest. the drop in temperatures here but flash flooding a problem here. you get the moisture coming in, showers and storms developing. seen it before. flash flooding likely across much of arizona, new jersey, even parts of colorado. so we will is watch this area closely. this little advisory, just the surface that's ripped, becoming higher there and the rib current risk across areas around los angeles due to the hurricane in the pacific. >> that's it for us here in new york. i am stephanie sy. >> i am bill walters, the latest on the potential surveillance mission over syria. >> we will see you tomorrow at 7:00 a.m. have a great tuesday. >> we leave you with a look at new york right now. a sunny day in manhattan. brooklyn looking at the

manhattan skyline. have a great day.

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