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joins us now. what is the it's lamb i can state tryinislamic state trying? >> build its credential in this bizarre jihad i world. it might help with the recruitment with some people when they kill captives like this? >> other than that? >> i think terrorize americans. there is a sense in this among jihad is that the west is week, that we are obsessed with the policer your honor of this world where we fear death and they seek it and want to be -- they think paradise is waiting for them. so there is a sense that we will cave in if they kill enough people. >> one of the suggestions that you made during our last conversation is that a lot of these kidnappings are about money, these don't seem to be about money. >> the grim fact as we talked about before there were european hostages peld with these to american hostage that his died. sotloff and foley. they were ransomed and it

appears the american and british hostages are being used to propaganda. >> why are they targeting journalists? would any american do for terrorist likes this? >> i think, yeah. journalists are targets of opportunities. we are unarmed, we are in these places so it's very easy to abduct a journalist. and they might sense that journalists get a lot of publicity because we fellow journal assists care more about these cases. >> i think a lot of americans are trying to figure out what's going on here. and we discussed it before. this is hard to understand. this is sort of beyond comprehension. and to show these cruel videotapes, it's not just that they have been killing people, but to do it in such a horrific, visible way, it seems like it's -- is there some strategy to this? >> it's a failed strategy. i think -- and i think most people in the region are repulsed by this. it might give the islamic state

a boost short-term in terms of recruitment and funds raise, but it's turning populations against them. and as we heard in the report from the region, the strikes are working. you know, the kurds at least are fighting and taking back territory. this is horrific. it's horrible. arabs, muslims people in the region is see it as terrible as well. it's hard to believe this. and it's grim news i think it will backfire. >> we are also hearing, though, that there is an organization that replacing al qaeda as the popular islamic jihad group. >> it's a very small -- it's a very small group. and they essentially exist in a vacuum. one of the weird things that occurred to me in my captivity. they are young guys, young kids in their 20s who get to play this game, and it's not a game they are killing people. but when you are around them it's just amazing how they live in this bubble, just kind of alternate universe and have all this power because no one is challenging them on the ground. >> so in syria, no government in control. >> yes. the highest number for it lamb i can state fighters the

biggest estimate i have heard is about 17,000. you know, you've got militaries in the region, include the iraqi military with hundreds -- 100,000 soldiers. so there is no pressure them. the problem in the long-term issue very hard to solve is the safe havens the sanctuaries the lawless areas in syria, in pakistan, and somalia, it's getting rid of those. it's a huge, you know, year's long, decades long effort. but it's those kind of lawless areas. >> they are pretty empty, right, run by tribes? they are in very rural areas ran by tribal lead nurse most cases so how do you -- every country has tried to fight back in afghanistan and seems like has not succeeded every big power. >> but i can say for most afghans when this happens, they are disgusted when people are beheaded. whether it's an afghan or an american or a foreigner. these people in the tribes don't want to live under this kind of resume. they are disgusted by it. how can we help them more local

forces in, you know, push back and fight these people. not an american ground invasion, but i honestly believe people in the region are disgusted by this. >> stand by for a second, david. i want to go mike viqueira, he's at the white house. what's the reaction so far from the white house. >> reporter: john. >> , the administration was caught by surprise somewhat we were in the middle of a briefing with the president's spokesman when the reports of this second gruesome video depicting the murder of a journalist first surfaced. they deferred all questions and later the state department said the intelligence community trying verify the authenticity of the video. if you recall in the case of james foal at this took 24 hours for them to do so. in the meantime, if it's genuine the state department says they are appalled by the brutality of the acts this they have seen. really at this point for the administration, i should add, by the way, john, that president obama shortly after that briefing this afternoon took off to europe.

he's got a previously-planned trip to estonia to address yet another world crisis this one involving russia and ukraine, of course. and then to a nato such it's where issues like this are going to be on the front burner. but there is also a perception problem that the white house is face, of course, it all springs from last thursday when the president appeared in the briefing room in quite a sudden manner and is says there the no strategy yet. today a top state development official in a television interview said stay tuned. some i am told happening behind the scenes in terms of the deliberation is an effort and secretary kerse kerr kersey goie region to bring many sunni governments in a more coordinated strategy to go against this group which everybody publicly agrees is barbaric now we heard the president last thursday sort of an oblique reference to individuals and elements within some of these countries who say one thing and then go and support the islamic state group

and other jihad-yes and terrorist, but that's the state of play in washington right now. >> mike thanks very much. david back to you. >> it's a mess for the administration it's not good for the president to stand up and say we don't have a strategy. he was a at a fundraiser and saying the world is not more chaotic, just more social media. the region needs to hear there is a strategy, not boots on the ground but an effort to work with local governments and force to his confront this group. you can't declare them barbaric terrorists and say we are having this limited response. i think average people kind of hear that and they are confused. you are either, you know, going to be serious about this in a long-term effort or you are not or it doesn't matter what they do. >> david good to see you again. >> thank you.

>> mike lions a retired army major and senior fellow at the trump national true -- truman national security project. welcome god to see. >> you hello, john. >> what should the strategy be? >> limited to humane tar vinnie supporhumanitarian andinfrastru. we have to support iraq, w we cannot let isaac take over iraq, they would threaten saudi arabia, and it would be okay to say we are not letting isis to stake over iraq and then step the military incursions in iraq itself. 120 missions right now to date is nothing. we could be going after on the offensive these vehicles that we know exist that they took from the iraqi security forces. >> what sort of troop number does the united states have to have? >> on the ground, you probably need about 60 to 75,000 troop to his drive isis out of iraq. if you look at the way they are aligned they are along these road networks that exist between the major towns there.

it's unlike the europe theater or other place where his we fought wars where the inning my controls paths of lands they just control road works, if you martial troops along those and mass your fires you could drive them back out of iraq, as a minimum and deal with face two which is sear request ya. syria. >> if the united states puts 6,000 troops back on the ground that can't happen fast. it would take months or a year to conduct this at least? >> it would take a very long time. six months, you would have to have equipment there, come in through turk. >> i and you telegraph your message that you are coming. >> yeah. >> and isis prepares for it. >> sure. >> how would they prepare for it. >> they would have to get more people. they would lose a battle of attrition, they would lose a mass fire type exercise. they don't have the equipment that would come over. if we are going do that we have do decide we are going to total war. we jant just send the military. the country has to go to wore. we made that mistake in iraq and afghan stand. not during desert storm or

second world war. if we do this everyone has to be involved. >> can't the u.s. step up the pressure from the air? >> they can. and i think that would show more effects on the ground and it would get the isis vehicles and be easier to eject them first from iraq which should be the first initial strategy. >> we have heard the idea that the islamic state doesn't believe the u.s. is going to go in and do this. >> i mean, they are going to miscalculate h especially if thy continue to behead an american to a weekly basis which i think we have to expect thom them to . >> the regional players, the united states would like to see the regional players get involve. how involved could they be and who would be involved? >> the key is who is the army the ground force that goes in to syria and fights tell there, which i think will eventually happen. you have to look at saudi arabia, jordan, egypt, they have a tremendously trained professional military. how did egypt get there, go

through israel. >> is there a chance that will happen? >> we have to be as creative now as this enemy is against us. and i think that that would be a tremendous coup for the secretary of state to get that kind of coalition, but that's the kind of out of the box creatively that they have to do. >> where is iran on all of this? >> they are in the background trying to support and they become the winner if this sunni dominated isis lose says which they are going to lose. so it's our strategy never to have one player to have an overall -- >> we wanted to keep some sort of weird balance. >> right. and that's gone now, too. so we've got to figure out -- we've got to figure out what is iran's role. >> supposedly if iran is u.s. enemy, we are helping iran if we go after isis. >> yeah. >> this gets have a complicated. >> very complicated. >> traditional allies get thrown out the window or enemies. >> totally. you will be in the middle of a civil war that you will is be perceived to take a side on. and nothing more.

there is no way that you can be perceived any other way. >> and i am sure every regional player is concerned about the same thing, right? >> that's right. if you look over the horizon at this, you gotta think that the country of syria reichly going to get destroyed. the assad government is not going to survive this. so who rebuilds. >> and what's left? >> who rebuilds what's left. let's say the iranians disease to step up and lead the ground effort in to syria. then they become responsible for phase five, rebuilding syria. will the united states let that happen. >> take over syria. >> we have shia support dominated in iraq, shia in obviously iran, in syria, i don't think it will happen. >> it just adds to the point that the president said that he's still trying to figure out a strategy because it doesn't sound like it's a simple one. >> he has to take smaller bites and focus iraq, you can't solve it all at once, there are so many things unpredictable. luke putin and ukraine, he's doing it as it comes. the president has to look at the same thing, think through the

small steps. >> as always, mike, thank you very much. u.s. air strikes have hit an armed group that's been launching attacks in africa. the pentagon said manned and unmanned aircraft attacked a target about 100 miles south of somalia's capital. the strike was targeting the leader the al-shabab. the pentagon said it's not clear if he was one of the six people killed. handle pinkston has more on al-shabab. >> reporter: aal-shabab has been under threat for more than a year. >> reporter: fending off strikes and operations by the kenyan army and african union forces. the group has focused its efforts against ken yeah, most notably last september when the west gate ball in nairobi was attacked by sal shabob gun then, 67 people were killed. the u.s. retaliated sending navy seals after al-shabab's leadership. they came up empty. experts say this most recent strike puts the group on notice. >> al-shabab and many other terrorists group, al qaeda

included, have done over the past few years is use the anniversary or a few days before the anniversary to carry out a spectacular attack and then feed in to -- you know in, to the fence sift media coverage. which is the oxygen largely for these organizations. >> reporter: this is one of al show back's founding members, the 37 year olds was born in somalia, but went to college in pakistan. he and three others formed what we now know as al-shabab in two thon three. abu took leadership of the group in 2008, joining at qauda and expanding its ambitions. late last year, economy sol dated his power by killing some of his main opponents. without him, the group won't be the same. >> moist likely outcome -- most likely outcome is that the organization as we know it will go down to the grave with him. it might imagine different forms, but i think his departure

will be extremely significant to the group. >> reporter: reports say the group is already begun interrogating villageers suspecting of helping think americans, the u.s. and it's a regional partners say that they are committed to defeating al-shabab. about both inside and outside somalia's borders. randle pinkston, al jazerra. and now to the immigration issue in this country. dozens of migrants have been dieing in the texas desert as the u.s. faces a crushing flood of undocumented immigrants. this week, we are spending five days a lodge the border taking a closer look at this immigration crisis. the choices the u.s. has made and the people that deal with the consequences every day. some of those people are in brooks county, texas. about 80 miles north of the border. honest mate of 600 migrants pass through every day. but county can only afford four sheriffs deputy to his deal with them. heidi joe castro reports. >> reporter: once rich with oil fields, now nearly bankrupt with

feels of bodies. since 2009, the sheriff's hospital has picked up more than 400 sets of human remains. migrants who crossed the boarder only to die of dehydration in the 100-degree deserts. looking at this number, this is like a boeing jet going down in your brush every three years. that's how many people are dieing. >> yeah. >> reporter: is that number real to you? >> yeah. it's real. >> reporter: the immigration crisis is costly. in terms of both human lives and dollars. last year brooks county spent $156,000 to process bodies. coupled with the decline in tax revenue, county employees took a 3% pay cut. the sheriff a 38 year old veteran gave up 10%. he now works a second job in private security. you are ayou are the number onen in this county and you have to work a second job to make end meet.

>> yeah, $30,000 ain't going to make it. >> reporter: those who couldn't stick it out have quit. >> this is my staff when i started, in off '9. >> reporter: how many are left? >> four. four deputies who patrol an area nearly the size of rhode island. they, along with a meager staff of dispatchers, are the lifeline for 911 calls from the desert. >> brooks county 911. >> reporter: too often the caller is dead by the time they are found. so why so many bodies here 80 miles north of the boarder? the u.s. border patrol checkpoint down the highway is keep the sheriff says smugglers will drive immigrants no further than this points and here is where they would take off on foot through the rough terrain. the nearest town is 15 miles away. >> when i get on the, you know, everything that goes through. >> reporter: but because brooks county does not actually touch the board ter does not qualify for federal funding to deal with

immigration. so the sheriff's department resorts to selling its impounded vehicles to meet the budget. so we are talking through your sheriff's office car dealership. >> yes. yeah. this is my dealership. >> reporter: most of these vehicles were seized from smugglallers, 40 go found auction this month. >> this one right here probably bring about 3,000. >> reporter: the money keeps the department alive. but even this place speaks more of death. a family of five migrants from el salvador died when their smuggler crashed in this truck during a police chase. there was a girl knack there, way back in there. >> reporter: on the floorboard. >> yeah, on the border. >> reporter: and she died there? >> yeah. >> reporter: oh. >> there was another guy thrown right here in front. >> reporter: what does this say about the business debts operatiodesperation of thepeopl? >> the guy got out. he lived. >> reporter: the smuggler got

away? >> yeah 67 the driver got way? >> the driver gotta w5eu6789 the migrants had already paid him 2,000 a person. so as the smugglers get richer the county gets poorer while more migrants pay with their lives. heidi joe castro, al jazerra, brooks county, texas. and coming up tomorrow, how immigration is impacting others in the united states, one rancher deals with immigrants dieing on his property on a regular basis. and on friday, a one hour special, five days along the the border, who is being affected most by this cries discuss what can be done about it? friday at 8:00 and 11:00 eastern time. coming up next, it's known as red lining when a financial institution denies services to specific neighborhoods because of race and a bank in new york is accused of doing it. plus another american doctor infected with the ebola virus as the cdc issues a stark warning about the out break.

there it is, air force one landed in estonia. it's just before -- it's just before about 6:23 in the morning in estonia and the president landing there. scheduled to deliver a message of nato support for its newest members in nato from the former soviet empire. he's expected to meet with leaders from acetone yeah, latvia and lithuania. this is the heels of the crisis in ukraine. and concerns about russian movement in that area. again, air force one has just landed and the president has a busy day today in estonia. meanwhile, the newly-formed tropical storm dolsi making dolg

landfall in mexico. heavy rain and the potential for mudslides. our meteorologist is here. >> meteorologist: that's right. i want to mack a specific point about this. because it's a tropical storm doesn't mean that we don't have a lot of dang we are this. this particular storm has a lot of moisture with touch we are not going to be seeing the winds, not going to be seeing the storm surge but we will be seeing a lot of rain coming out of the storm. now, it has made landfall here in mexico. it's going to be making its way more towards the west becoming a depression. but the amount of rain coming out of this storm is expected to be anywhere between 10 and 14-inches of rain around the area of mexico. to the north and parts of texas, we can be seeing anywhere between 2 to 4-inches of rain. so flooding will be a page or problem in the area. on the other side of mexico over towards puert puerto valletta. another tropical storm norbert is expected to become a

hurricane as it makes its way up to towards cabo san lucas and out towards the pacific. what this storm is going to do is going against the moisture across much of the southwestern part of the united states. so those monsoonal showers that we have seen, we are going to be seeing moreover the next couple of days, back to you. kevin, thank you think politicians have already spent, get this, more than a billion dollars trying to get elects inned midterinnedelected inthe s not even presidential election year, david shuster has month. >> the money in this midterm election cycle has now almost reached the total spent in all of 2012. a presidential election year, based on the trend analysts say by longs day this november the figure reaches $4 billion, which is nearly three times the 2012 record. the money is pouring in from outside groups and wealthy individuals whose spending cans were lifted by the supreme court. and most of the money is going in to the battle for control of

the your honor senate. today there are a slew of new attack ads in arkansas tom cot is up trying to flip the december at seat from democratic to republican hands, his efforts against mark prior is getting a huge boost from a conservative group that just launched a two-minute long attack ad. >> mark prior has stood silent as liberals did he x-rayeded the combat readiness of the military we social experiments. he has supported left wing judges who have imposed their liberal views, mark prior did not frost what obama put politics ahead of national security. >> it kentucky where the campaign is on track to reach $100 million. a single rates record. republican incumbent mitch mcconnell has launch a new attack ad of accusing challenger of being too koez foy obama. >> whwhy did she support obama

after he declared for bankrupt the cole industry. obama needs grimes but kentucky needs mitch mcconnell. >> meanwhile in iowa a new campaign commercial targets republican senate challenging joy i ernst who is in a tight race with democratic, bruce raley, he supports medicare, ernst wants to change it so democrats are running this. >> joanie ernst wants to cut medicare and end its guarantee. seniors are going to pay thousands more while insurance companies rake in bigger profits. there is a lack of compassion just really bothers me. >> two months before lex day this new phase of the midterm campaign is prompting candidates to focus get out of the vote operations, democratic incumbent senator al frank en a former median gave marching orders to his volunteers this past weekend. >> now, the election is six eigh68 daysaway. now i know many of you have

jobs. many of you have families. ignore them. [ laughter ] >> clever. and that is the rap for today. john. >> all right, david shuster. we want to take a look at the live pictures again from estonia. president obama if we still have him there. air force one has just landed in estonia. the president is expected to speak to leaders from estonia, latvia and lithuania about the crisis in ukraine. at least that is a topic that is expected to come up. it's one of the many hot topics and hotspots ukraine in the world right now the president has a lot on his plate. at the same time, the president is in estonia, his secretary of state and his secretary of defense are headed to the middle east to talk more about the crisis regarding syria and iraq. and the so-called islamic state. and how to deal with that crisis as well.

we'll continue to cover both of those stories but coming up next. islamic state group allegedly executes another american journalist. former cia director james wool is a weighs in. plus detroit's historic bankruptcy trial. how a grand bargain could help save the city but take money out of the pockets of retirees. @j

live pictures of president obama in estonia. he just landed. it's a little after 6:30 in the morning in estonia. and the president obama's visit is really to reassure the baltic allies over the situation in ukraine and russia. and obviously concerns have been rising about intervention in ukraine from russia. president obama is expected to use this visit to neighboring estonia on wednesday to reassure the allies that the united states and europe are serious about defending the region. again, president obama spending

the day in estonia talking to leaders there. now, to ukraine. and president -- russian president vladimir putin was quoted today as saying his troops could concur ukraine's capitol in two weeks if he wanted them to. the comment report bid came during a call between putin and the outgoing president of the european union. the kremlin did not deny it. but one kremlin policy adviser says the remarks were taken out of context. also tonight, the ukrainian government says its armies continues to hold the donetsk airport. this follows reports that pro-russia separatists were close to taking it. hairy faucet reports on the fighting in donetsk. >> reporter: heading north, and we are far from the only ones, through an abandoned ukrainian forces checkpoint a bus crammed full the of passengers is on its way to donetsk. heading the other way military

vehicles bearing white flags, we follow another. as it turns off to the a village. for weeks a ukrainian artillery unit has been based here firing towards an donetsk. but late on monday might they simply disappeared. >> sometime between 1:00 and 2:00 in the morning the ukraine army went away. at the moment there is no shooting. it's quiet in the village. >> reporter: further north we mind the wreckage of a ukrainian forces tank position. the separatist fighters now guarding it, but staying decidedly off camera saying the remaining ukrainians centered and left on saturday. the frequency with which the front lines have moved around means it's difficult to be definitive of any such changes but the way the ukrainian forces have melt away from such a large area in recent days suggests a real shift in a pattern of the conflict. in keif parliament met quickly.

requiring a ship from anti-terror to preparation of a night in defense of a nation, donetsk's governor in exile says there is a month left to avoid an all-out war with russia. >> translator: if there is a fill scale military invasion there will be war, a war between youkraine and russia, and it's t a given that russia will win, there will be gorilla movements a huge number of those wanting to defends their mother land. >> reporter: russia continues to deny any invasion, president putin saying recently if he really wanted to invade he could take kiev within two weeks. many seem the preferred outcome say frozen conflicts. ukraine left as a defecator state in a russian fed vague. in donetsk, it has at least quieted. enough for some of its residents to venture home. >> i hope now it's much safer

here. >> translator: it's not very safe, there is still some sounds of fighting. >> translator: we are coming back because we are out of money and this is our home. >> reporter: others, though, were waiting to leave for safer ground, understandably mistrust othat. this lull in the fighting will last. harry faucet, al jazerra, donetsk. this are the so-called islamic state group claims to have killed another american journalist the group released a video of what it said was the beheading of american journalist stephen sotloff. the fighters had vowed to kill him if u.s. air strikes on iraq went on the pentagon says the air strikes are helping the fighters. josh rushing got a close-up look at the conflict. >> reporter: this is the village about a 10 minute drive from am i remember. yesterdaamerli.

yesterday the islamic stake was holding the area. there were air strikes and now peshmerga has gone in and taken the village. in fact it's so recently taken they haven't taken down the islamic state flags yet. you can see the black flag on silos. >> bomb a. >> reporter: firing here. at what? at anis iea. i am a bit startle. it's actually a peshmerga guy firing at something trying to see if it's an e. i.d. or not. -- d approximates i.e.d. or not. this is a booby trap from the islamic state. [ gunshots ] >> reporter: rounds are cracking off in the distance. we have just cross billion dollar three-quart he is of a mile of open territory. get hearing with these peshmerga

soldiers and finding out they are behind the wall because there is a snipe around the corner here and they sent a unit to clear out the sniper so we are taking cover and getting shade at the moment. the peshmerga are start to be gain momentum. but they say the momentum which is so important on the ground is at risk as washington stalls on the decision other whether to sends more support for the fight fight here. >> translator: o on the frontline we realize the per herring are are not alone. they are fighting in a coalition that would have been unmanageable only a few months ago. setting aside checkered histories. the per herring are are along the sigh rack i arm and i shia militias such as these fighters from the league of the righteous a hardcore group of iranian backed fighters who formed during the years of u.s. occupation here.

on the way back from the battlefield we came across this convoy where troops are amassing alongside the road. these are shia fighters, in fact they are the medi army which is u.s. army is very familiar with when they were fighting in iraq. this is al sadr the head of the army. they declined to speak on camera but weren't shy about letting us film. strange bed fellows for the u.s. military in this all hands on deck effort to push back the islamic state, josh rushing, al jazerra, northern iraq. and you can see more of josh's reporting coming up it he top of the our on "america tonight." james woolsey say former cia director appeared on the "consider this" program tonight and said the u.s. make take the islamic state seriously. >> we are talking about a major movement with members forming

military units and carrying out some kind of sentence horribly by murdering people that they capture who will not sign onto their religion. this is something that we have to take seriously as we eventually took our major wars. >> and you can watch "consider this" with antonio mora every weeknight 10:00 eastern, 7:00 pacific time. al jazerra's sue has reported from some of the same places that journalists have been taken prisoner by the islamic state group. she has more on fighters targeting journalists. >> during 2013 we were becoming increasingly aware that more and more journalists were being targeted and kidnapped abducted as we went in our forays in and out of syria in the north of we took as many precautions as possible. make sure that the people that we were going in to syria with and the locations that we were

going to were checked as carefully as pass edge. but really, it felt like it had almost become a national sport in syria, northern syria. and i happened to be going in to syria in northern syria, and going through a town called binish, which is the same town that james foley was taken from and we were actually there, we were there the same day that he was taken but by luck or chance we managed to get through without being abducted but it really became almost impossible to move around. because obviously you thought you might be captured by president assad's forces but then there was this added problem that there was this group, growing campaign really against journal assists going in and out and we know these journalists have been held for this long we have even suspected that some had been killed before now. but we really have hoped that sense will prevail and they would be released because of course all they were doing was going in to syria trying to do their jobs, they weren't on any side, they weren't promote being

any side. but if this turns out to be true that a certainly journalist now has been beheaded by islamic state fighters, it's absolutely dreadful news, dreads. news for his family and pretty all of news for the journalistic community we are all still out here trying to tell the story and it seems now that we are being argued it more than ever. >> that's sue reporting. tonight a dire warn from the directofrom thedirector of the r disease control he just returned from africa and said the ebola out break needs to be stopped immediately. another american doctor has been infected he was serve in a hospital but not handling the virus directly when economy tracted it. robert ray has more o ottawaing. >> reporter: the cdc director says the ebola out break in west kafka is spiraling out of -- africa is spiraling out of control. >> there is a window of opportunity to tamp this down.

but that window closing. we need action now. >> reporter: he says this is the first time an ebola out break has spread across many countries. >> we need financial assistance. we need human resources, doctors, nurses, clinical management. we need measures for how can we do infection control. >> reporter: ebola has killed more than 1500 people this year. and the world health organization says there could be as many as 20,000 cases before the out break is under control. >> we thank you, but we need more from you. and we also need those countries that have not come on board yet. the whole world is responsible and accountable to bring the ebola threat under control. let's do it. action, action, and action. >> reporter: on safe burials and

caring for the infected without proper protection and isolation is worsening the spread of the virus and even with the experimental trials of a vaccine beginning this week in the u.s. the international health community says we can't count on that. there is no time to wait. >> that is robert ray reporting. ray new york bank is facing charges of discriminating against african americans refusing to give them mortgages and the bank might just be one of many engaged in what's being called red lining. roxana saberi has more. >> reporter: as more americans buy homes, new york's attorney general says some people in the city of buffalo aren't getting a fair shot. >> i an lefty never thought i would get to bring a red lining case or i would have to bring a red lining case because there is a problem we thought we put behind us a couple of decades ago. it is really unfortunate that a bank would resort to this sort of a practice. >> reporter: in this federal lawsuit he's accusing evans bank

of denying mortgages to the city's east side because the population there is largely african american. >> we will not tolerate able discrimination in the state of new york and we have to be clear about this. this map shows what the bank callings its trade area or the zone where it makes loans the the blue area outside it have is predominantly african american. this map shows that same area with no branches or atms. >> evans has chosen to exclude these communities, it has chosen to discriminate against the people living in these communities, the only difference being race. >> reporter: the result is that over a recent three year period less than 1% of the loan applications evans received in buffalo came from african americans. evans bank says it will challenge the lawsuit saying these allegations are without merit. we remain confident that our residential lending practices meet all applicable laws and regulations the attorney general says it is deepening the

described. and housing advocates say the city's minorities are sieverring. >> a large section of the city is being excluded from ever owning a house again. >> reporter: the attorney general's office told al jazerra it's investigate ago new york banks too but not ready to announce which banks or how many. roxana saberi, al jazerra, new york. nicole anna-jones say reporter at pro publica and writes about chris kim nation in-housing. >> thank you for having me. >> what is relining? >> it was created by the federal government in the 1930s when the government decided it was going to get in to insuring home loans it began for mark up maps and literally used red ink to determine whic which neighborhot would not inning is sure loans in and they were either bake or racially mixed. >> it was outlay in 1960 date? >> it was outlaid in 1968 by the fair housing act. but it still continues. now it's not blatant so before

1968 a lot of banks followed the federal government and began red lining as well, now we see it as is the case with the evans bank. >> all right socks what he do they do? they put mortgages that are predatory mortgages on these homeowners? is that essentially one of the ways? or no? >> well, there is red lining and reverse red lining. red lining basically means that there are entirely pat parts ofa community where loans won'ting matwon'tingmade at all. >> right. >> they won't make them at all. that's what the attorney general is accusing evans bank of doing the blackhawks part of buffalo was not getting any loans. they are only loaning -- >> how is it possible that we are dealing with this issue when it was out loud in 1968? clearly the country recognized the problem. why has it continued? >> i think there is a few

reasons, i did a long investigation showing that just because a law was passed doesn't mean there was enforcement of the law. for the last 45 years since we passed the fair housing act. federal government has not been a strong enforcer of the law. so many banks get away with it. it's kind of the cost of doing business. >> what do the banks say? what is their argument? do they make -- do they have a comeback for? >> of course. banks are going to deny that they are residence lining and what banks will say is that certain communities there may not be credit worthy people to loan in or for a variety of factors that they don't choose to loan in certain communities, so you are not going to find a bank that's going to admit that it's red lining. >> what do the cities want from the bank? >> i think when cities sue they want two things, what happens when you red line it happens a very at this tim detrimental eff coming back in the cone my, they want banks to change their pros a lot of times in the

settlements they will require banks to open branches in the communities where they haven't lended in and punish them so they don't did it again. >> what sort of difference could it make for communities if banks were to begin to lend? >> well, what we know is that the main way that americans build wealth is through homeownership. so when you exclude entire communities from that ability it has a big impact on tax base, because homeowners are the ones that pay property taxes and when you have a lot of vacant gnomes a community that lowers the tax base. it also drives down product values so there is a lot of affects of that. >> besides that, it is the vestige of the horrific discrimination that existed in this country. but much more serious because it really goes to the heart of economics for every african american family, right? >> that's right. we have a tremendous wealth gap in this country. and a large part that have is

because historically black americans have been denied homeownership and also they have had to pay a premium. so everybody if they are giving loans a lot of times they have to pay more for them never to the able to buy in to wealthier neighborhoods even if they can live this them. with see in buffalo and new york city and a is who the country that segregation has barely budgeed in many communities because there is a lot of discrimination still happening. >> nicole hannah-jones good to have you on the program. thanks very much. >> thank you for having me. in detroit house of retirees are watching a trial in federal court close had this week it's where a judge will decide whether to cut their pensions. bisi onile-erie reports. >> reporter: with the start of the crime the city's restructuring plan is in to intense scrutiny. much it have has been worked out in mediation and deals. including the so-called grand bargain, ideal that included pension cuts and the spinoff of

the detroit institute of arts in exchange for state and private funds. but not everyone thinks this deal is so grand. [ hands off our pences ] >> reporter: outside the federal kraut are courthouse protest for retires many could lose 5% or more from monthly compensation checks. >> the retirees should never have been included in this. the michigan constitution began tease our pensions. >> there are a number of things that i could have recommended or other people recommended that could have improved city services and increased the cash flow, the city of detroit has a cash throw problem. >> reporter: detroit emergency manager kevin orr's plan would also slash what the city will pay other cred torque. a major bonds insurer stands to lose hundreds of millions of dollars. >> it may be they are taking the approach that we have nothing to lose and we are going to find to the end and not agree to anything short of what we want.

>> reporter: the judge is expected to hear from about 80 witnesses with the stream of evidence that could take more than a month to present. his job will be to make sure the plan is legal, and fair. if he doesn't approve it's back to the drawing board for all parties. bisi onile-erie, al jazerra, detroit. coming up, our image of the day. plus gone but not forgotten. efforts to save an iconic movie set. 75 years later.

>> meteorologist: today was an extremely warm day across the much of the north cease, some cities saw highest temperatures they have seen all summer long, including new york at 92 degrees. people took to any means they could to cool off across the city. staying in the shade in the parks. and we are now looking at severe weather push ago cross much of the region. we did have tornado warnings that came ba here across the southern part of new york state. flood warnings as well as severe weather. a lot of problems tonight and in to the early morning hours are going to be winds damage, associated with these thunderstorms pushing through by the time we get to tomorrow, late morning, most of these will be out of the way. things will be clearing out. tomorrow's highs, though, are going to be a little bit cooler than what we saw today, new york 87 agrees, boston 84 and washington 95 today down to about eight a degrees tomorrow.

now, the big threat over the next couple of days will be really down here towards much of the southeast. a lot of that activity a lot that have moisture is pushing down here and we are going to be seeing severe weather anywhere from alabama, kentucky, tennessee tennessee a, as well f minnesota and that continues as we go in to thursday, much of the west will remain dry. that's a look at the national weather. the news is next.

on the seventh anniversary of "gone with the wind" an exhibit is texas is looking at 300 artifacts that survived from the making of the film. in tonight's first person we talk with peter bonner a man from georgia who is rebuilding the facade of the tara plantation piece by piece. ♪ ♪ >> tara is the name of the home that the fictional o'haras lived in this nba moved i "gone with the wind." it was built in 1938 in hollywood. after the filming this '39. david owe sells anything left it there like they did a lot of

things on the back lot and he said nothing ever lasts more than 90 days, it stayed 20 years. and by the time it left, dry aarnes and lucille ball owned the back lot. they gave it on a man who took it to atlanta, hoping to start a museum. tara today is not in the state that it was in movie wise, it doesn't look like a house. it is the doors, windows, side porches, all stacked and numbered. inventoried here in a barn on the south side of the town. the "gone with the wind" book touched a nerve somewhere. it became an iconic book, of course. then the movie. >> open your eyes and look at me. >> what i am finding is people like to sea a piece it have. it brings them back to some connection there. the look of tara is so iconic, because of the big white columns, the brick columns, in fact, the studio actually built a picket fence in front of the front door and columns while it

was on the back lot because as they filmed nearby they didn't want rory calhoun's scene to be ruined in the show the texan because you could see tara less than 100 yards away from where he got off his horse in front of the saloon. we are restoring pieces one at a time. they are being set up in that old dairy barn like pieces of art. when i first walked in there and took to my left was the big, huge window that scarlet and the twins stood in front of, in that opening scene in "gone with the wind." that was the point where i was like, wow, i am here, i am here amongst this stuff and i have an opportunity to save it. >> where shall i go, what shall i do? >> frankly, my dear, i don't give a damn. >> and that's a great story. ♪ ♪ and now bonner is documenting the respiration process, in his new book called the official guide to saving

tara. now to our picture of the day. tonight's freeze frame comes to us from new york. two children cooling off in a fountain after a day of intense heat in the city. the temperatures hit seasonal highhighs as summer comes closeo an end anyway. "america tonight" with joey chen is next. see you tomorrow. >> it's a clear violation of their human rights. >> we have strongly urged the government to release those journalists. >> journalism is not a crime. vé.

on "america tonight," the fight for chicago rages on. one year after our in-depth look at stories behind the violence, we revisit a community trying to move forward. >> how have you been coping over the past year? >> trying. trying. trying not to cry in front of him. you know, it's days i can go and lay on my bed and tears just flow. >> our correspondent back on the streets to learn what a difference a year and a full-on push by law enforcement has made in the fight for chicago.