al jazeera america's hard hitting... >> there blocking the door... >> ground breaking... >> truth seeking... >> we have to get out of here... award winning investigative documentary series... special episode ferguson: city under siege only on al jazeera america >> hello everybody, this is al jazeera america. i'm david schuster in new york. john siegenthaler has the night off. ethnic cleansing. islamic state accused of brutal war crimes as u.s. sends more air strikes to fight the group. hacked, celebrities and cyber-breach involving scores of

private pictures, what you can do to keep your personal information secure. we will ask the experts. and neon trees tyler glen opens up. being mormon, gay and front man for one of the most popular bands in the world. tonight the u.s. is stepping up efforts to fight islamic state group in iraq. president obama sent word to congress today about more u.s. air strikes. this time near the town of amerlie. iraqi forces have retain control there and today, iraqi importances reported a new victory in the town of sulaiman bek.

nadeen baba has the latest. >> when it comes to jihad there are two types of people. >> a suspected british fighter, home grown terrorists, the prime minister's held urgent talks with his coalition partners. on monday he told parliament exactly what should be done to counter the proposed threats. >> fill specific gaps in our armory. dealing decisively with those already here who pose a risk. >> reporter: among the changes the government's planning, accessing more passenger information from airlines, seeing suspects' passports and making deradicallization programs compulsory for people who fought abroad. there is broad cross-party

consensus on the points david cameron outlined in parliament. but many in his own conservative party are telling hin him existg laws should be enough. >> horribly they may be have lealgleagdalleged to have basedy would offend basic principles of our common la laws themselves. >> legal challenges and political differences could well put the brakes on some of the things the prime minister wants to do to respond. nadeen baba al jazeera, london. in addition to air strikes president obama also ordered drops of humanitarian aid. this u.s. military video shows

supplies delivered near amerlie. civilians received more than 50,000 pounds of food and water. there is a new report out tonight that accuses the self declared islamic state of war crimes. amnesty international said the group has brutally killed or kid madam thousands of people. will send a team to the area to investigate the mass killings. jonathan betz joins us with more. >> entire families have disappeared all at the hands of islamic state group. amnesty international calls it ethnic cleansing on an historic scale. many fled homes in iraq, mountain sinjar home to religious minorities like yazidis. one teen survivor reported they filled up the vehicles

indiscriminately. he and his cousin were lined up face down on the ground, cousin was killed, he survived by playing dead. the islamic state group is clearly targeting civilians based solely on their religion. pressured to convert to islam or be killed. pressure is increasing under surveillance and cannot leave. can someone get us out of here? the islamic state group is clearly committing international war crimes. shining more light on the atrocities happening in iraq. david. >> some parts of the middle east are using humor to try distance themselves from it. broadcasting cartoons mocking the islamic state group.

these images were aired on state tv in iraq. the message is that i.s. fighters do not represent islam. we are keeping our eye on a developing story out of somalia tonight. the united states confirms that american military forces conducted an braitio operation y against sloo beings al shabaab . in the presence of north korean officials, prisoners asked president obama to help negotiate the freedom. face to face interviews with the men for about five minutes. jeffrey fowle and mathew miller were detained this spring. kenneth bae who was sentenced to several years in a north korean

labor camp have this message for his family. >> well i'm sure they're very worried about my health at this time. and even though right now, last month and a half, my heart's been worse, not -- it's been failing. >> jeffrey fowle and mathew miller say they expect to face a trial within a month. the u.s. state department says it is still trying to secure freedom for bae and other americans. we asked his sister, terri chong, about her brother's interview. >> he doesn't seem like himself. he has lost so much weight, he has lost 15 pounds within the last month alone. i think he's usually very cheerful larger than life person. you could tell that the strain of being a prisoner in north korea for the past two years is really take a toll on his body

and mentally as well. >> he gave details on the situation he faces in labor camp. let's lifn. >> i'm work eight hours a day six days a week and hard labor i'm required to do every day. >> terri before your brother was taken was he in a condition to do that hard labor? >> we're not used to do hard labor, six days a week, eight hours a day. he has chronic conditions to begin with like diabetes. he has a back injury that flared up again. but since being in prison for the past two years it's taken such a toll on his health he was hospitalized three times and you know this is the third time he was sent back and forth between the hospital and to the labor camp. and our family, our biggest concern is that his health, his body is not going to be able to

withstand much more of the strains of the hard labor. we're pleading with our leaders. we know you are working there on the scenes. we're thankful for your ongoing efforts on kenneth's behalf but please bring him home. do whatever it takes to negotiate a conversation to lead to his coming home but the other american detainees as well. >> terri chung, sister of kenneth bae. good luck to your family. >> thank you so much. >> president accused russia of direct and open aggression. vladimir putin raided the issue, being accuses kiev of refusing to hold meaningful talks with separatists there. tonight in pakistan a nuclear armed state the turmoil is growing between demonstrators and the beleaguered government. over the weekend, three demonstrators were killed. the tensions have been building

in islamabad for weeks. sohil rahman reports. >> early on monday some of the antigovernment protesters overrun pakistan's state television channel. cut off transmission. it wasn't long before the army and paramilitary moved in to clear the demonstrators and resume tv service. seizing the news channel albeit briefly is the latest episode in an increasingly tense standoff. while security personnel fired tear gas and rubber bullets some protesters were arrested and few security personnel were injured. opposition continues to call for prime minister nawaz sharif to step down. >> translator: we came out

with our leaders and will stay with him until the success of the revolution and the revolution will come soon. >> reporter: the opposition accuses the prime minister of corruption and electoral fraud. >> translator: we are saying to nawaz sharif that he should now step down. because people will come out all across pakistan against him. there will be losses to the people and their property. all because he has no ground to continue as prime minister. >> reporter: while the opposition, others are adamant their demands must be heard. >> normally, we women are hidden behind closed doors unseen and unheard. we're so desperate for our economic situation to improve we have to be on the streets. we need change. >> reporter: on sunday the military said it would not intervene in the crisis suggesting that political leaders have to find a way out of the situation through dialogue. on monday the chief of army

staff relayed that position to the prime minister. pakistan is often observed the military taking over. no one has ruled out that option. now the chief justice has reached out. speaking to all the stakeholders to try to find an amicable resolution. a way to continue, democracy to flourish or usher in the possibility of another military coup. al jazeera, islamabad. >> the number of undocumented immigrants trying to enter the united states could soon go up again. tens of thousands of children have crossed the border this past year. all this week we are looking at the choices the u.s. has made and the people who deal with the consequences every day. including the people of brooks

county, texas. an estimated 600 u.n. documented immigrants pass through that county every day. the conditions are desert and harsh. try but fail to complete this final stretch of a very long but dangerous journey. heidi zhou-castro is live in texas tonight. tell us about your join. >> reporter: hey david, i've seen many describe this journey and two to three bodies are picked up in the desert surrounding this county every week. what are the conditions like? you don't know unless you have experienced it yourself. guatemalan consul has made more than 20 phone cals since to

guatemalan citizens. he graishedly accepted our -- graciously accepted our invitation to walk with us. guatemalan consul and i walk, in the area of others before us. by noon it will be emotional 100°. in these conditions a person per spires as much as two quarts of water an hour. we're headed to a highway, where smugglers cars wait to take migrants further north. they typically walk north to reach this stretch. it is unforgiving, many are literally dying for water. >> there is that flag from a rancher that's placed one of these voluntary water stations out here. and this means life. >> the station is a barrel labeled water in spanish. the only water source for miles.

it's nearly empty. people have used it before us. >> that tastes really good and this isn't even hot yet. imagine when it's 110° and you've already done this for eight hours. 400 bodies have been recovered in these deserts since 2009. in this two mile stretch of trail, 19 have perished. the ruthlessness of smugglers who leave the weak behind. >> what happens when you're the first in line, you say no, somebody fell, somebody fell, do you have the heart like to do this turn back? you have to keep going. >> because it's either your life or theirs? >> yes. >> we soon come across a makeshift cross. >> you see that sleeping bag? >> yes. >> where a young man was found dead in february. >> he was 28. like perez he was from guatemala. >> what was he thinking when he

was walking? was he thinking i'm going to go give my family a better life? i mean, and he just died here. >> it's now mid morning 10:00. two hours into our walk the temperature has already jumped 20 degrees. >> it's really getting rough out here. how do you feel allen? >> i feel like i've been walking forever. >> at this point we're alone. our camera crew has gone ahead to meet us at the end of the trail. >> we're sweating, thirsty, no matter how much water you drink it's just not enough. finally we catch up to our crew. >> i just want to stop in the is a shadow over there and wait for someone to pick me up or for the worse to happen. >> the truly inhumane way of trying to reach your dream. no one should ever try this. >> it's now 101°. perez and i agree we've had

enough. we get a ride to the trail's end near the highway. this is where migrants shed what little they carry. here they rest and summon up a last burst of energy. >> this is where we would wait for the smuggler to pick us up on the highway just a few -- a few yards over that way. >> but the thing is we just walk like forever. how are they going to have strength to run over there? >> i guess we'll find out. you want to try it? >> yes. [ horn honk ] >> we got to go. >> either sprint or be left behind. those who make it this far are lucky. those who don't perish in the sand. a grim reminder this journey towards a new life may end before it begins. and i want to emphasize that this was just a small taste of what migrants truly experience.

some of them walk as far as 34 miles in the desert. but just those two miles that we walked really showed that the human body is not built to operate normally under that 110° condition and the saddest part of this david is these migrants are given no warning this is what lies ahead. the smugglers lie to them saying houston is just a short walk away and once those migrants pay up front there is no regard whatsoever whether or not they make it out of the desert alive. >> terrific reporting from heidi zhou-castro. heidi, thanks for that. friday a one hour special five days along the border who's being affected most about the crisis and what can be done about it, that's friday at 8:00 and 11:00 eastern. president obama spent this labor day pucial pushing for a r minimum wage.

while congress has not agreed to raise the m minimum wage, he nod that some companies and states have agreed to do it on their own. >> four more states are putting the minimum wage on the ballot in november. here's the best part. you'll hear opponents say well minimum wage will kill jobs except it turns out the states where minimum wage had gone up had higher job growth than states that didn't raise the minimum wage. >> president obama also consolidated republicans in congress for blocking bills that would help the economy grow. picking up the pieces after severe weather swept through last night. thunderstorms and damaging winds uprooted trees and knocked down power lines. but more severe storm threats are now developing. meteorologist kevin corriveau is here with the latest.

kevin. >> that's right david, last night we were with thunderstorms iowa to nebraska. 90 mile-per-hour winds been through the area, as well as a gas main broke, people had to be evacuated with power out across the region. now what we're looking at is this. take look at the wind damage reports, as well as tornadic activity, missouri, right between kansas city and oklahoma, so that is our biggest threat tonight as well as not only severe weather but we're going obe seeing a lot of flooding going on particularly here in the northeastern part of oklahoma. over the next 24 hours we could be seeing about six inches of rain falling in this area. and of course most of of these thunderstorms are going to continue all the way through evening. so i don't think the tornadic activity is going to be a problem. i do think the rain, the hail as well as the flooding will

continue anywhere from illinois make its way towards mississippi river valley over the next couple of hours. back to you. >> all right kevin thank you. coming up next, the fbi is now involved in the hollywood hacking scandal. naked pictures of actress jennifer lawrence and other pictures were stolen and posted online. what you need to do to keep your personal items private. plus a doctor's life in the 21st century. not as glamorous as a lot would think it to be. a cardiologist talks to us about the challenges facing his profession.

>> tonight we are taking a closer look at health care in america through the eyes of a doctor. the white house says more than 7 million people have enrolled for coverage under the affordable care act. but not all is positive and doctors continue to be jaded by the system.

dr. sandeep johar, author of the book, doctor, the dissolution of an american institution. >> i'm disillusioned with the way health care is done in this country. >> it's the for-profit model? >> there are a lot of reasons. i think money and sort of the commercial consciousness is pervading the profession and it has a corrupting influence. and you know, most doctors i'd say the vast vast majority of doctors go to medical school to be car caregivers. we want to be taking care of patients but the system is so diseased that it's created all these obstacles to creative

care. >> there was an example of a fish bone, tell us about that. >> i had a patient that went to the er because she swallowed a fish bone and she came to me a couple of weeks later and told me about her experience. she said you know, they called, they did a cat scan, they did an mri, they called an ear nose throat specialist and they told me to follow up with my cardiologist. i said that's not it, it's the fish. that's emblematic, when doctors don't have enough time to talk to their patients and hear what they're saying. the system is such that doctors are running on a treadmill seeing patients every eight to ten minutes. you can't provide good care and you very often end up providing very wasteful care because someone comes in to see you with

a run of the mill symptom like lower back pain. and you could probably diagnose that as a benign problem if you had some time to spend and really sort of you know find out exactly what the issues are. and examine the patient properly. but when you have eight to ten minutes you're more apt to order an mri or refer the patient to aan orthopedic surgeon. >> you would order all these testless to cover your bases. but how can the system get back to providing an incentive for doctors to spend time with their patients? >> you have to change the incentive scheme. today the dominant i payment model is fee for service. you're paid for doing more and more for patients. and a lot of doctors unfortunately have milked that system to earn very healthy incomes. some doctors are being forced to take advantage of that system

just to make ends meet. you know especially primary care physicians. so there's a lot of income inequality in medicine today. but i think you have to change the scheme so that it's not all about the money. that it's about delivering excellent care, and satisfying patients. >> and there have been a number of annals that have suggested that what we ought to reward is the quality of care, results. the forecas affordable care acte of that in there. is that the right step? >> i think the affordable care act is actually doing some good things and it's not very popular among most physicians but i think some of the pilot programs that advance paying for clinical excellence and paying for patient satisfaction and looking at other pilot programs like bundled payments so doctors are not paid piece work for every little thing they do but they have a lump sum to divide

amongst themselves i think that will go a long way to removing the sort of reverse financial incentives. >> you hung out did moonlighting with some unscrupulous folks. it was cathartic to write the about the greed you had that was driving you for awhile. >> i'm not sure how much of it was greed. that's the crux of the book, is that soon after i took up my first job, my wife and i had our first child. and i had a lot of loans to pay back. and i ended up really struggling financially. so i had to take a job moonlighting. and most people don't know that a lot of doctors in academic practice have to moonlight. they have to take a second job. so i took a second job with a private practitioner who did a lot of testing and that's how i learned how that is done. >> again, the author of doctor,

the disillusionment of an american physician. thank you for coming. >> thank you for having me. >> a california school district is getting a new mascot after the old one was called offensive. offensive.

>> welcome back to al jazeera america many about i'm david schuster. coming up there's more to libraries than books.

especially for the homeless. how some cities are adapting and bringing in help. plus how naked pictures of hollywood celebrities got leaked online and how you could protect your personal information. ♪ >> also he's gay and mormon. tyler glen, the lead singer of neon trees, talks to us about his decision to come out. >> more than three weeks after a police shooting in missouri prompted protests nationwide, police in ferguson have begun wearing body cameras. randall pinkston has the update. >> reporter: this is the latest gear for the officers of the police department in ferguson, missouri, body cameras small enough to pin to their shirts with pocket sized

recording units. >> my understanding the red light this automatically comes on. >> police were not using them when michael brown an unarmed teenager was shot by officer darren wilson. this shows the scene of the shooting after brown was killed. if the officer was wearing the body camera police chief jackson says it could help knowing the true facts. >> was one running away, was he advancing retreating? >> reporter: brown's death led to a week of angry protests in ferguson, prompting missouri's governor to appoint a state police officer to take charge and across the country some americans petitioned the white house website for a mike brown law to require all state, county and local police to wear a

camera, to ensure that all police are following procedure, and to deter misconduct. supporters of the measure say video would have helped set the record straight in brown's case. >> instead we had a situation of he said, he said, and we had the police officer insisting he did knowinnothing wrong and the comy feeling that he should not have been shot by police. >> reporter: body cameras are being tested by a growing number of police agencies. pointing to success on the west coast. >> a city in california experienced an 88% drop in police complaints. >> body worn cameras can help because it puts the jury and the public in the place of the officer to see what the officer is seeing. >> reporter: something supporters of the mike brown law

say could improve the relationship between police and the people they serve. >> imagine the difference in the message we give police when we give them cameras to wear rather than military equipment. >> the california are community that experienced the 88% drop also experienced a 60% reduction in the use of force but it's an open question as to whether this can be attributed to use of body cameras. in albuquerque, not a significance difference than before they wore the cameras. david. >> thank you randall. fewest murders to date since 1963, police say that overall crime is down 14%. the department superintendent says the there is still more work to be done. >> even with the best policing

and the best policing strategy in the world, without better laws to help keep illegal guns off the streets and out of the hands of criminals we will continue to face an uphill battle. last year the fbi labeled chicago the murder capital of america. "america tonight's" christof putzel was on the ground and noaa now he's back to see what if anything had changed. >> i never thought the police would take my child away from me. but they did, they did. . >> you remember the last time you and i were walking together? why won't you cross the street? . >> this is one of the blocks i was beefing with . >> so you don't feel comfortable being over there? >> i'm claustrophobic. i don't like to be around people. neighborhood, i don't walk out anymore, i get in the car. >> why is that? >> because too much stuff has happened. >> like what? >> lot of shooting and stuff.

>> he was like one of my first kids that i trained out here with the boxing program. >> really? >> i actually held him in my arms trying to keep him alive. >> ain't nothing i'm not used to, it's the neighborhood. >> getting shot twice isn't something normal. >> not normal if you want happened to you but something normal what's going on. >> i want to go over the footage we shot last year. >> i want to thank all of the good people that continue to support my family. >> enough. listen you're good man, you're a leader, can you read. >> what are you learning on the streets? >> drug dealing. >> what's your name? >> bob. >> i'm derek bob. i promise you i'm coming to get you. i'm going to look for you and i'm a boxing coach. >> it's sad to see. real sad. >> christof putzel reporting from chicago. in washington, d.c, the homeless population is

overwhelming city agencies responsible for help and assistance. so many of the homeless are turning now to libraries. but that isn't going over well with everyone. lisa stark has the details. >> reporter: the sun isn't up yet but david gadesky is, gadesky has been homeless in washington, d.c. for three years. like most last night he slept outside. >> there was no rain, it was dry and cool and that kept the insects out. >> he is a self-described computer expert. he lost his job and then he lost his home. there's been a spike in the number of homeless, churches, the city all scrambling to meet the demand, so would be a place that would surprise you.

the public library. some are dropped off by a shuttle bus from the homeless shelters. once inside they log onto computers. to check e-mail, read, protected from the elements. the director of the d.c. public library says for too long libraries have done too little for this population. often their most loyal customers so this library system has now joined a growing trend. it has hired its first social worker. >> i think for many years, we would sort of open our doors and say okay we've done our job because we're providing them a warm place to go if they've got no place else to be. >> now social worker jean will help provide information on sensitive topics and help sensitize staff. >> if they're tired and cranky but they still might want to connect with their friends and loved ones on facebook or

e-mail. >> but for some homeless customers make the library a less welcoming place. >> i try to exercise patience and kind of focus on what i'm doing and leave as soon as possible. >> and the head of the downtown business district worries the library is just an easy fix for the city. >> the library is being called upon to be a daytime shelter for homeless. >> rick rinehart believes the downtown area is targeted for these dropoffs. >> a neighborhood with a lot of residents would never put up with this. >> while government residents and local businesses argue about the role of the libraries, david is just glad they're here. >> having a place like this where things are controlled, it's a godsend. >> so he will be back every day he can. lisa stark, al jazeera, washington. >> the ravel hotel casino in atlantic city began the process

of closing its doors. two more casinos are expected to close by the beginning of next year leaving up to 8,000 people unemployed. the city began the year with 12 casinos but will only have eight left by the end of 2014. a massive leak of what appears to be celebrities' personal photographs has created an internet fire storm, prompted an fbi investigation and led to lawsuits. 4 chan seemed to show dozens of credit actors naked or partially clothed. including some of the biggest names in hollywood including jennifer lawrence and kate upton and u.s. soccer goal ah hope solo. judge peter what do you think of

this? >> it is a massive leak. in 2010 we saw scarlettl joe scn and a lot of photo you take, automatically gets backed up and saved in the cloud. so the phones of the celebrities weren't hacked. that's a really important point. no one dialed into, when you see it in tv or on the movies, they pinpoint a certain phone. didn't happen like that. what happened was the cloud service where. 'where. everyone's photos were stored was hacked. the damage was done, who knows how long it was open long enough for someone to collect all of these photos. brings up a secondary point that you can be a lot smarter with

what you do with a phone. what you do with these phones. technically they're not just phones they are servers that connect with the world. >> i have pictures of my daughter bathing and that goes to the cloud. what is the chance? >> the chance of that happening to you or i, laypersons, but what can you do is disconnect with the cloud so the photos don't always go to the cloud. they don't automatically have to go on the internet. and that's i think the first and foremost thing, no one understands that, you can shut that off, under settings on your mac and android as well. there are ways to know if someone accesses your cloud. amazon twitter drop box, dual

authentication. chances of them stealing your phone and your password are very minimal. the chance he of them doing that that won't happen. hey you know what, someone is trying to get to my account, i should change my password. the word "password" is very bad password. >> somebody looked at these pictures, some of it was very graphic, anthony weiner kind of photographs. why take pictures and put them on your phone to begin with? >> the reason in the 1500s, artists culminate sculpted the y were with. polaroids, once you saw the photo you could burn it, it couldn't go anywhere. it is very, very difficult, once

a photois digitized, you keep it to yourself it's there and easy to share. >> maybe this gets to our procure yern -- prurient style,t isn't there something a bit odd about that? >> it's almost a thrill. the kind of excitement we've seen mainstream commercials phones have nfc, you can tap the phone and give one to another. there was a commercial, with a woman tapping her husband and saying, have a good business trip don't show that on the plane. the ability to be able to do that is something we do desire as a society so it's never been easier and because of that that's how people get in trouble. >> peter shankman, thank you for coming in. we appreciate it.

in southern california controversy over a school mascot has officials saying, it's time for a makeover. coachella valley's mascot is offensive, they will be changing some of the aspects of the mascot but not everything. roxana saberi has the story. >> reporter: the mascot at coachella valley is retiring after objection he that it was tasteless and racist. an arab american rights group said last september it was appalling showing images like this. the image shows the mascot at a basketball gaming entertained -- game entertained by a belly dancer. it's glad the mascot and side kick genie have retired in the

sidelines. >> a very stereotypical view, and many offensive to the many in the community. >> the mascot was inspired by the area's date palm trees imported more than a century ago from north africa. drawing of a horseman in the 1920s. in the 1950s there were two men one carrying a sword and another one snarling wear wearia fez. this is what still adorns the school's walls today. the school will keep the nickname. >> mighty arabs, a positive logo and name for us. >> they will also soon announce a new logo. one that the arab 18th discrimination committee prefers. it hopes the new logo will not inspire another arab mascot at

school games. >> it's always dangerous to create a caricature, out of an arab or native american, it's always dangerous. our advice was not to create a last cot out of the character and maybe we could explore with them and work with them again to find out a way to highlight the arab heritage. >> didn't mean to offend airbus witwitharabswith the mascot. >> our picture of the day. plus tyler glen lead singer of the neon trees talks about his decision to come out as gay despite his religious beliefs.

>> tonight we're watching the gulf of mexico in the bay of

comepeche, tropical depression 5. what we're expecting it to turn into is tropical storm dolly. not a major storm but it's going to bring quite a bit of rain, believe it or not 12 to 14 inches of rain is expected but of course we're watching all of the models to determine how far north or how far south it will go by the time it makes landfall on wednesday. we are watching the rest, very, very slow this time of year compared to what we usually see, wave off of africa we'll be watching as well. major downpours across, this is what the u.s. open looked like last night when he was rained out they had a rain delay. as you can see, for tuesday and wednesday those temperatures are still very, very warm. tomorrow 89°, 41% of rain but as we go for the rest of the week we are looking at some better conditions. no rain in the forecast but things are still going to be

quite warm. temperature there 85°. that's a look at your national weather, news is coming up next.

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>> instead of focusing on the darker part of that i decided to celebrate what the outcome was, and write about that. and that's why i think the record is so fun and colorful. >> it's about your personal life and journey. you held the secret for a large part of your life. >> yeah, i -- coming out as a gay man just released a real -- a real weight. and i've -- i've loved being able to talk about it now, being able to share my story. because i didn't know it was going to be such a big deal for people. because i don't think it's as surprising anymore when guys come out. but it really was important to people. and to share that i not only have faith in god, but i also am

gay and this is who i am and i'm figuring it out and i'm trying to be honest and open. >> it's surprising because your friends pretty much call you an open book. >> yes. >> was that torment, holding it back? >> yes. i got good at compartmentalizing, leading a double and triple life that you do when you are hiding something. music was my security blanket, i could be whoever i wanted, that free flamboyant performer. ♪ ♪ ♪ note take it easy on me ♪ ♪ i'm afraid >> what was that release like when you finally told your friends your family and your band maith? >> it was awe -- band mates? >> it was awesome. the first person i told was my producer, one of my closest

friends. when i got an answer that was exciting and loving versus the, like, things i always expected my world was rocked and i wanted to tell everyone. it's been wonderful to tell everyone in my life and have them all still here. when you are brought up in certain areas of the country that maybe are more suburban and more conservative, you're told that you could lose family and friends and there's a lot of fear. ♪ ♪ ♪ i've been here looking ♪ alone again ♪ girls like you give it all so cold ♪ you look so cool you better tell me the truth ♪ >> along the way in the journey you held onto your faith. when you were 18 you doubled

down on mormonism. >> i served a mission in nebraska. i loved it. if it wasn't for being successful in music i would say that's my two favorite years i grew a lot. >> was it a battle with the teachings of the church? >> there's definitely the teaching but something about it that i feel connected to and i also feel like leaving, plenty of people leave but i'd rather stay and try to promote maybe a new face of homosexuality and maybe be modifier a role model for those who do struggle like me with their faith and sexuality. there are a lot of people like me that i discovered and that i hear from constantly. ♪ why mess up a good thing baby ♪ the risk you could fall in love ♪ ♪ so when you give that look to me ♪ ♪ i better look back carefully

♪ >> does it change your approach in song writing? >> no, i wrote the record and then i came out. so i haven't really written a new material since so i don't know. i don't know the answer to that. i'm sure it will, yeah. >> was it a little bit of a release writing the lyrics? >> yes, i was really frank in a lot of the material and yet it has a lot of pop sensibility in it. ♪ i love you but i ain't your friend ♪ ♪ i love you i love you i love you but i ain't your friend ♪ >> home town fans 80% mormon look at you differently? >> that was a concern. i definitely felt that somebody won't keep coming to the shows or -- but we played this summer in salt lake and it was sold out. and when i talked about my journey, on stage, the applause

was immense and it was really, really -- it just felt good, felt like i had arms around me. >> fans those who look up to you, what would you tell those who are battling with their faith and sexuality? >> don't feel the -- i would say don't feel the pressure to ever be something that you're not. but also, take your time and figure it out. and the one thing i can hold onto this whole experience so far is that i've been true to my heart and spoken from it. and i don't have all the answers. and i don't think any of us, any of us do. but i think when you're true to yourself it really -- the happiness comes tenfold and that's a personal discovery of mine so -- >> what's next for tyler glen neon trees? >> world domination. keep going. yeah. >> good to see you tyler glen

neon trees. >> neon trees are currently gearing up for their fall u.s. tour. picture former congresswoman mary bono, a rainbow is at the end of every storm. you can see, what appeared above the washington monument, there were thunderstorms in washington putting a damper on labor day activities, celebrations in the nation's capital, at least it all ended with the rainbow. i'm david schuster. al jazeera america "fault lines" is up next.

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