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attacking the west. plus. world leaders at the united nations, promising billions of dollars to fight climate change, and new projections that ebola could reach nearly 1.5 million cases by january. >> president obama says air strikes in syria have stopped an eminent threat, and are the start of a campaign to dismantle isil. last night's mission was backed by five gulf arab nations. air strikes and tock hawk missles hit strong holds for the islamic state, this shows an air strike on a supply depot. the headquarters inside syria, the operation also

reportedly killed dozens of fighters plotting attacks on the u.s. and europe. something the pentagon press secretary called an eminent threat. a few hours ago, the pentagon revealed more details from the operations, mike is here with us what more do we know. >> after all the president was almost two weeks ago when he announced that he is expanding air strikes in syria, still came to something of a shock, and perhaps on top of that, most americans didn't dare say they had heard of the coreson group. in announcing the air strikes. but the official outlining exactly what they were trying to go after command and controls of infrastructure, logistics and things of that nature, ends at the end of that, this group. the group had nothing to do with planning the fight against asaad, and the asaad regime, they were there this highly seasoned as officials put

it, experienced group, they had been afghanistan pakistan training on how to build bombs to sneak through airport security, for the express purpose, a small group attacks on europe, and the american homeland. president obama appeared on the south lawn on his way here to new york this morning, and mentioned this group in particular. >> last night we also took strikes to against plotting against the united states by seasoned al quaida operatives in syria who are known as the cory son group. it must be clear to anyone, who would plot against america, and try to do americans harm, we will not tolerate safe havens for terrorists. they were done with tomahawk missles, sea launched from the red sea, and the irainian gulf. >> so there a sense that with these strikes, these attacks have cut deep

into isil's operations? even pentagon officials say this is really just the beginning. and the president has been preparing the public for a long campaign, of course there are many doubts raised about that campaign, but now this is a dramatic eggs collation. officials say he is the joint chief of staff point person on this attack, emphasize the so called precision nature of the bombs. here is general. >> headquarters, logistical nodes, armored vehicles and leadership. u.s. military forces also executed unilateral precision strikes against the consider son group.

one thing we have to emphasize about this coryson group. they say they are in the execution faze, advanced planning on the attack. i'm wondering to what extent it had notice, a warning that this was about to happen. >> there are allegation that they had notified the i asaad regime, that secretary kerry had center a letter, they had consulted them, the spokesperson was compelled to put out a statement, saying there was no heads up given. other the course of the last two weeks when he announced to the world that he was going to ex-collate samantha power, the american representative here at the united nations did communicate with syrian officials here in new york.

when they began, do not engang them, they are going to happen, but officials insist there was no special heads up to the regime. >> i have to tell you, part of the reason that these strikes inside syria were a surprise to me, is we were talking last week, and the policy was iraq first, it seemingly was iraq first, so i'm wondering even as that moved forward, what is happening with iraqi forces in if you watch the report over the weekend, iraqi forces seem to be losing ground first of all, yes, the refugees 130,000 syrian curds, flooding into turkey, now that may have been a precipitated factor, because the ice sell forces are gaining ground on the battlefield. officials insist the timing has to do with two things. he on the day after dave

this final okay for the officials now say, also, there was a period where the coalition was still forming and of course the administration -- you heard president obama on the south lawn mention this several times. this is a huge point of emphasis for the administration, they say within the last 72 hours, the five nations that ultimately joined in these raids signed on, and that was the final green light because that was essential before the administration was going -- >> and it gives this administration huge cover against the criticism that here it gones again. >> united states -- >> right. mike with us here in new york, mike, pleasure seeing you. >> great to be here. >> joint operation in syria is the first military action in that country since violence break out three years ago. the strikes were aimed at crippling supply lines. david is here with more. >> the pentagon says the

joint air strikes relied almost entirely on weapons 96% as mike points out, that we heard from the pentagon, six regions in syria were attacked. the now in yellow are are the strikes against isil, the two in red, those are the strikes that were aimed at the group and the from. isil controls launches part of osyria, but strong hold os in these provinces form it's command and control network. racca prove vin is the de facto capitol, at least 14 strikes were carried out in raqqa. isil took the oil rich province in june, flexing it's muscle there while sweeping through iraq. locking up the district securitied isil supply lined into iraq enbar province. now strikes will ease pleasure on the curds,

that area was taken from front in the spring. weakening the strategy, but the moderate opposition groups say the defeat could pave the way for bashar al-asaad to reassert his authority. the summit military says it use uhed precision guided weapons to keep casualties to a minimum. civilians tell a very different story. there is anger in western aleppo. syrians there are blaming the u.s. military for the death of civilians. we continue independently confirm this. but activists say the u.s. was responsible for hitting this residential building which is not far from a known headquarters of syria's al quaida garage. they say 11 people including four children were killed. early on tuesday, the a bam ma administration

expanded it's operation against the islamic state. to syria. dozens of air strikes were carried out in the north of the country. two defense department did confirm a strike in western aleppo, but uh it said the affiliated group was the target. along the border with syria and turkey, there is no isil positions here. so why did the coalition target civilians with missiles? question have never seen this kind of missles ever. this is the first time. >> the air campaign is part of the strategy to defeat and destroy isil, which controls territory in iraq and syria. the fighters have been killed, but unlike in iraq, they do not have any martners on the ground in syria. isil is a strong and well armed force, and so called rebels are no match for them.

this is just the beginning of what many people expect to be a long war. unless you have a force to replace isil the syrian government may benefit from the campaign, it is already benefiting politically, by reiterated it's long standing narrative that it is fighting a war on terrorism. >> the ambassador receive add letter from the u.s. secretary of state john kerry, through the iraqi foreign minister. informing him they will strike against isil, inside syria. syria is obviously fighting isil. >> this will not be an easy fight, isil controls urban centers. air power alone has limitations especially when these fighters live among the people. isil managed to gain ground by exploiting the conflicts in iraq and syria. defeating the group will require settlements in both countries. al jazeera, beirut.

>> well, the strikes in aleppo were also aimed at shutting down bases for the al quaida linked group. and supporters show the after math on social media. we equantity to show to the world that we are against any form of aggression against us. >> so a majority of isils first fighters came from the front, the two groups broke ties late last year, and have been locked in fierce fighting. syria's position on the air strikes remains unclear earlier today, iran proclaimed the strikes were illegal, saying they should have been approved by syria, but syrian government officials have not gone that far just yet. james bays has more now from the united nations. >> the diplomatic spot light is now here on the united nations. world leaders here president obama now here,

in new york. and the issue of isil on the agenda, although they are supposed today to be talking about climate change. we are looking particularly at the reaction of the syrian government, to those air strikes on syrian soil. certainly from damarcus, they issue as state says there was a letter from kerry. to get clarification, i spoke to the syrian am was door to united nations. a monowho is very close to president asaad. and he told me they played by the rules. they informed us, he said that he was told by samantha power, the u.s. ambassador that the air strikes would take place. i then asked him, did you give them authorization to carry out the strikes did you give them your permission, and he said that's somethingly be discussing in 24 hours time at the security council. now the meeting of the security council which will be taking place here in new york on wednesday, is going to be presided over by president obama himself.

most of those around the table, normally occupy bid ambassadors will be world leaders, and the other country we haven't heard from yet, their position on all this, is rush are sha. going to be a very interesting meeting. >> as we told you, a number of nations joined the coalition to launch air strikes. lisa stark joins us from washington with more on that. tell us more about the coalition and what the strikes represent. we have five countries that joined the coalition. the u.s. has wanted to build this international coalition of about 40 nations. but they really wanted involvement, all of them sunni countries or sunni led. saudi arabia, qatar. secretary of state has spent weeks trying to the capitols to court these folks and we are told by a senior administration personals that the

coalition came can together finally in the last few days. now secretary kerry spoke earlier today, and in his speech you can kind of hear a sense of the argument, he used to bring everything onboard, here is the secretary. >> let me close by being crystal clear. the evil that isil represents is not something that iraq or even the region can or should take on alone. we face a common threat. and our response has to be allnd has on deck. >> a common threat, as he sate, and that's how many of these countries saw this, they saw that perhaps this group isil and it's activities could spread to their own countries. bahrain, for example, put out a statement saying their air force jets also launched air strikes on the attacks. as well as the jordanian royal air force took out selected targets. some of the other countries all of their air force i should say,

u.a.e., and saudi arabia also involved. some launching their own, some supporting u.s. strikes. this could boost the efforts to build and maintain this international coalition. it was critical for the u.s. not to be seen as going in there american on it's own, so this was a big win, really, for the president. >> i think you are right about that. >> absolutely. one quick question, is anyone missing from this coalition. >> well, turkey is the most obvious country, they were very reluctant to get involved because 49 of their diplomates and families were being held by isil, those folks have now been released they are free. so kerry said turkey will now be looking at what role it can play. >> with us now is retired admiral, he is the former central command. good to have you back on the program again. so, i am wondering if you

are surprised at all by the air strikes in syria last night, when we spoke last week, and based on what we were hearing from the president, and secretary kerry, it appeared to be an iraq first strategy. >> i think that's exactly what happened, tony. you have seen activity in iraq, you saw the puck bash that goes back to when this commitment started. and i think this is a logical got lowell, the president said we are going to target things in syria, and, in fact, it is a thing you need to do if you are going to push these guys back, because their support bases are in syria, the bulk of their forces are there, and whatever else they have been doing in concert with other groups, i think had to be disrupted. the remarkable thing to me is it looks like very very good operational security, i didn't hear about this any leaks

until it was underway last night. and that's no mean feat, trying to cordons those with other countries and obviously a lot of folks knew this because in the planning and for them to keep their mouths shut to pull this off is apheterner the hat of the planners. >> yeah, how significant -- i ask this question i am thinking about the times that we have actually spoken i know you spend a fair bit of time in the middle east. in the region. how significant can is it that five arab states participated in this. >> pretty rachble, i guess that indicative of the sense of country that they feel. the probable here is that you get a situation, as we have in syria, where it's pretty much complete chaos, there's no government, no control, and the rats come out of

the sewers and they gather around, and take advantage of this. and just this announcement, that in fact there was another group that no one knew anything about, at least outside the intelligence community, that was actively pretty far advanced in their terrorist plan against us. and so this is the kind of thing that happens in these ungoverned spaces where chaos reigns. so the message was received and they can can see the problem, and it's good to see them cooperate. >> yeah, in building this coalition, 40 nations in all, i am wondering, has the president to a large extent, shielded the u.s. from the criticism the accusations of waging some kind of religion lousily motivated war? there goes the united states again, taking on another arab country.

>> i think the administration is acutely aware of criticisms in the past, and frankly any time you take on an effort like this, the more friends and allies and coalition partners you can get, the better off i think you are. now what they contribute, the various capabilities that they throw into it, will probably be significantly buried, but to this get this kind of help is a great success. again, air strikes alone won't solve this problem, but it looks like a pretty good start, and hopefully we will be able to get other assistance, and others that haven't publicly come forward yet. so try to push back on these guys. >> and admiral, one last question, are you at all concerns about what follows isil in the areas in syria where fighters are defeated the free syrian army seemed to be talking about needing more information aheads

up suggesting i would like to fill any voight left. i am shush there's a lot of aspirations but lit remain to be seen. there eat device a bit yet to play out, and who knows. i think from our standpoint we would like to counter the most serious threats fist, and then try to work on this -- the ability of the free syrian army to fill in and do anything, i think is pretty suspect in the near term, if we can provide the training and support that might make them more capable in the future, then maybe they could do something. but i wouldn't look for any changes any time soon on the ground. >> great toe see you, the former commander of central command, joining us from washington, d.c. always great to talk to you sir. the fighting is driving more people across the border of turkey.

stephanie decker reports on the mass exodus. >> this is a very difficult situation, they are now bringing a gentlemen in on a stretch fresh the other side of this opening. this is a medical makeshift medical center that's been set up here, but the people do keep on streaming in, the syrian kurdish town is just a couple of hundred meters away, and this is basically what is happening here. this is the turkish side of the worder, people will get processed with the details are taken, the checks for medical conditions and then they are taken to other points. a lot stay with families or makeshift shelters. official refugee camps but it is incredibly difficult, the stories we are are hear willing people petry fied of the advances and also when they get here, they don't know what the future holds. one family says i don't know why we came, because basically we don't know where to go from here, and this is of course the congress flick that's been going on for 3 1/2 years. and many people don't know when they will be

able to go back home. question have just moved further down from that crossing point the refugees are using to show you the geography. so you can can see how close it is. that highlights turkey's concern about isil and their push. they already control over 100-kilometers. inform they took this town, you can can see how close they would be. >> and coming up, details of president obama's plan to battle climb change, and how he is urging over nations to get involved. >> @j

the u.s. led strikes in syria, combined with some weak earnings reports led to a down day in the u.s. markets. the dough was down more than 116 points. that's a pretty steep cross. the s&p 500 also followed south. president obama faced the world stage today, during the speech at the united nations, he urged countries to come together to tackle the issue. kristen joins us live now from the united nations. and kristen, tell us more about president obama's plan and how he is urging over nations to get involved? tony what the president talk uhed about, is nothing new, it is a review of all the steps that the united states has been taking to reduce carbon emissions. many of them were

announced last year in his climate action plan perhaps more significantly, working with states and utilities to reduce dangerous carbon emissions from power plants. the government has also been working with the private sector. and just last week, president obama announced new steps to promote sustainable energy and efficiency. and the president also touted the fact that the united states has cut carbon pollution more than any other country can in h the world, in the last eight years and he called on emerging economies to take similar steps and make similar commitments. nobody can staged on the sidelines on this issue. we have to set aside the old divides. we have to raise our collective ambition. each of us doing what we can to confront this global challenge. this time we need an agreement that reflects economic realities in the

next decade and beyond it must be ambitious. it must be inclusive, because every country must play it's part. and yes, it must be flexible, because different nations have different sixes. there you heard president obama calling on china and india to step up to the plate, a lot has been made about the fact that neither china nor india sent their head of state to this climate suggesting that perhaps they are not as committed as some would like them to be as the leading emerging economies in the world. and in china's case the world's largest polluter. >> so kristen, secretary general, called for bold commitments from world leaders when we look back, will we see the summit as a success or less than that.

>> well, there was some good news to come out of today. the european union and france made some major financial commitments. $5 billion between those two entities. to help developing countries small island states who are bearing the brunt of climate change to deal with the effects. and promote sustainable development in those areas. ten that was a positive announced today. i think the real success has been shining the spotlight on the issue of climate change, and once again putting it front and center, for the world. we had marchs over the weekend in support of the summit. 400,000 people, the real test is going to be in 2015 the drop dead deadline, when they are hoping to get an agreement to reduce temperature rise. to two degrees celsius, by 2020. >> at the united nations, and the white house says

the khorasan group posed a threat to the united states, but we haven't heard much about the group, why some say they are more dangerous than isil.

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last night's air vehicles in syria, deviated from the threat. there were eight air strikes and a number of missles west of aleppo against the so called khorasan group. it is made up of al quaida veterans that fought, the pentagon says it was close to attacking the u.s. or europe, al quaida links fighters with the front were reportedly protecting khorasan after monday's strikes unnamed officials told abc news this man, ibraham was actually helping. he is best known as the top bomb maker in the arabian peninsula. more on this is al jazeera's national security contributor, all right, j. j., how credible is this group, and how serious a threat is it to the u.s. homeland. >> extremely credible,

and the reason why it's a big threat to the u.s. homeland is because of three things. one, experience. they have been out there for decades, some of them have fought in the afghan and the pakistani conflicts and fought in the iraqi conflicts. the other thing, is that they have doorability, they know how to survive, they know how to keep going, they know how to get by to make sure they can live to fight another day, and the most important element is they actually know how to engage the u.s. having fought in all of these conflicts their number one target has been the u.s. and they have also learned from the oldest greater if you will, in their minds al quaida fighters. so they have a lot to bring to the table, to some of these young new fighters including al ziri who is developing these bombs saying you develop it, we will place

it where you need it to be placed. >> so j.j., what kind of attack, what are you learning about what they were planning to launch against the united states. >> so three months ago, u.s. officials began to hear very credible rumbling about the fact that they are exiting essentially the design and testing phase of some pretty exotic explosives into moving into the next phase which was the execution phase. sew they starting to see that they were beginning to recruit werners, people who have passports who could get in and out of the u.s., to come and train they have enough of these reports to make them belief that they needed to engage in some kind of activity to shut them down, before they get a chance to kick this plot off. in real time, and to execute it.

>> the group we are talking about here. has this group launched any attacks. on it's own? or in partnership with other jihaddy groups. >> absolutely. all of these fighters are decorated if you will. essentially these are special operations team that's been put together, by al quaida, and it is -- some of these fighters that go back decade whose have teamed up with the folks, and from the al quaida and the arabian group, but all of them in their own right, have achieved and accomplished what jihaddist groups want to see when it comes to terror operatives. being able to pull off attacks and they are deadly attackens that have killed people, miamied overs, but they are chosen the best of the best from the al quaida and these other organizations. that were selected to go into this group, to launch this special series of attacks.

so the khorasan group plots attacks against the united states, maybe your as well, are we seeing the resurgence of al kade do as a competitor to isil? you know, a lot of people probably don't realize this, but they really were working on different tracts. isil wasn't trying to attack the u.s. hope land, they were essentially trying to use their brutal activities in the middle east to scare the west, and essentially to say to the west we are here, and we are going to be a force. but which special ofs group, was designed specifically to attack the west, and to attack aviation targets and if you look back over the summer, you might remember, there have been a number of situations are there has been bread crumbs dropped by intelligence officials that told us what this group was up to. essentially, the laptops and cell phone

activation, where we had to turn these on was one thing. and another thing was later on we realized there would be extra people in the airports and in some places checking tickets. so this group is a very potent group. we know they can develop clothing bombs where you dip your clothes in the liquid and it become as bomb. we know about the tooth paste bomb, the underwear bomb. so this is group is an extreme danger and i understand why these air strikes had to take place yeah, al jazeera national security contributor, joining us from washington. good to talk to you, as always. so near the border between iraq and syria, forces say they are already seeing the impact of last night's air strikes. near the crossing in iraq

thigh think there's been rah direct result of the air strikes on monday night. they say they have orders not to fire on the isil fighters just a kilometer away from them here. but they are also seeing during the course of tuesday, that they haven't taking any incoming fire. it's become a stagnant front line, what they are not sure if this will continue. the general that is in the charge of this area, spoke to his opposite number on the syrian side, who told them there were two key areas that were hit othernight on monday. the main oil town, that was hit they say about 30 times. and a town just outside of the border area, not far from here, but on the main road, coming to the border crossing. what they don't know is whether these air strikes will have a long lasting result, they often see a fire fight at night here, they are waiting to see whether tonight the fighting ensues once more. in today's power politics

exactly six weeks until the midterm elections president obama's approval rating may soon get a crucial boost. >> tony, democrats have long feared that if the president's approval rating which is around 41%, if it dropped much more, it could sink the ability of key democrats to hold control of the senate. because country united behind the commander in chief, tends to have at least a short term boot, and president obama is getting strong bipartisan support over the coalition air strikes in syria. house republican speaker. and our allies i support the air strikes launched by the president. democratic senate majority leader issued his strong support, but also took a shot at military action under the last republican president. i support president obama's decisive action, the presence of arab

nations in these air strikes and president obama's commitment that we will not use u.s. ground forces in combat are clear evidence that president obama will not repeat the mistakes of the past. the obama administration has articulated it's policy, some of the strongest criticism has come from republican senators john mccain of arizona and lindsay graham of south carolina. they have said their breathe, the mission needs to be more robust, but they noted the coalition helps the u.s. attack positions. we commend president obama for orders last night's air strikes against isis and the u.s. military for the skill and courage what which it carries out the operation. we especial lisa lieutenant our arab partners. however, last night's strike should be an opening against isis and sir have, this will be a long and difficult campaign, we are and our partners will need a

limited presence of troops on the ground. again, congress can is out of session, but many law uh makers were very surprised to learn last night that arab nations were taking part in the military attacks. and you can see a sense of optimism, we watched last night, as he grilled senator kerry, even he put out a fairly optimistic statement act the actions and when you have again that kind of support, the president's approval rating tends to go un, and that comes at a crucial moment for democrats. >> david, appreciate it, david with us, thank you let's get you caught up on other news. >> tony, police are investigating a shooting that left three people dead at a u. p.s. facility in alabama. officials say the gunman opened fire this morning he killed two people before taking his own life, the shooter was an employee of the company, no word yet on a motive. >> police have taken some clothing from the home of the man believed to be

the p last person seen with a missing college student. the university of virginia student was last seen on september 13th. police won't elaborate on the importance of the clothing taken from his home, authorities are still trying to locate him. an ohio student faces several charges after he arrived at school armed with a pistol. he was subdued during a struggle with an officer who later found a loaded semiautomatic pistol on him. ken can moore high school was locked down for about an hour. crews are making head way with a wild fire threatening thousands of homes. about 35% of the fire has been contained. the wild fire has destroyed about 150 square miles. more than two how people have been evacuated. everybody is tired, hot, and uncomfortable, suck

it up and move on. >> that's how you roll. >> yeah, until the fire is out. >> and the biggest priority is to get everybody back in their homes. that's safely. that's the priority. get containment, and full containment, and get these residents and these businesses back up to where they were. a bit of rain in higher elevation have helped slow down the fire, and a sign of normalcy, six months after a deadly mudslide, a one mile stretch of state rout 530 is now reopen. contractors had to realign the highway, and raise it more than 20 feet. the realignment will make the highway less likely to flood in the future. >> yeah, reminds us how horrible that was. >> it certainly was. >> maria, appreciate it, see you later. a new warning from the centers for disease control that ebola cases could reach nearly

1.5 million in just the next four months. and osama bin laden song in law sentenced in the u.s. for conspiring to kill americans.vé

humanity... >> sharks like affection >> tech know, only on al jazeera america hours after the united states launched air strikes against isil and syria, israel's defense force is shot down a syrian plane that flew into the air space, of the occupied heights. but in the west bank, one of the largest man hunts seemed to be over, reports on a raid that killed two palestinians, suspected of kidnapping and kills three israeli teens back in june. >> well, in the early hours of tuesday morning forces surrounded a property here, a fire

fight ensued and the two key suspects of those three young israeli settlers men by the name of gilad, and that tally, those suspects were killed in that firefighter. their funerals were held shortly after their bodies were returned to their families. thousands took to the streets to take part in those funeral processions. and situation here, of course, very intense indeed, at those killings calling on their leaders to end any kind of security cooperation with israel as a result of the killing of those two men. whatever the case, this has cast a shallow over those talks. at 1 point, the delegation says that the killing of these men could effect it very seriously, but what we understand is that israeli officials did go to cairo, that those indirect talks are on going. so it appear that neither

side has any real interest in fighting in gaza to continue fighting which of course, claimed the lives of over 2,000 palestinians. and six israeli civilians. >> reporting for us, osama bin laden's son-in-law has been sentenced to life in prison. a jury convicted him in march, of conspiring to kill americans. he worked as a spokesman for al quaida, he is the heightest ranking al quaida official to be tried in the u.s. since the 9/11 attacks. sierra leone has closed it's border in an effort to stop the ebola virus from spreading. now the country discovered 130 new cases during the lock down over the weekend, it comes as the centers for disease control says ebola cases could reach nearly 1.5 million, by january. rob getter ray joins us life now, good to see you, the c. d.c. certainly gave us the best and worst scenarios concerning this. put it in perspective for

us. >> indeed, tony, they did, behind me, dr. thomas freeden the head of the c.d.c. gave us the best and worst. we will start off on a positive outlook, they say that if the dead are buried properly, in the coming weeks and months, that 70% of the patients that have ebola, could be treated properly, in isolation units and by january that would almost be done as far as the infection and the spread. let me give you the worst now, a staggering number, 21,000 people they say could be infected by september 30th, and 1.4 million by january. if this continues as it is. >> so robert, has the c.d.c. outlines any new plans to try to contain the virus. >> they have, this morning one of the biggest things in this new model they brought

out is they want patients isolated. they say that's the biggest thing, if they can get the people into tents and out of the public, then this infection should slow down out there, they also think there's a lot of mistrust and misunderstanding, in west africa, as far as what the disease is, and what some of the health aid workers are there for. so they feel like if that can be stopped then they can put an end to this infection. also, we should note, that the u.s. is sending 3,000 troops over there to help build other 25 isolation units. big tents with beds, that they are hoping they can get a lot of these people that are infected in there, and stop family members and friends from having close contact with the infected. one other thing i should note, that is quite amazing when you consider it, some of the people that have the infection that have died of the infection, are just being tossed into rivers because they haven't been treated and family members don't know what else to do. so some of the burial

procedures a big problem. >> request you imagine, robert ray for us. robert, appreciate it, thank you. western africans are also taking on a social media challenge to try to stop the spread, enes is back with that part of the story. >> tony, it is a modification of the ice bucket challenge, this one involved soap, and it all started with a blogger from ivory coast, who challenged her friends to this. watch. >> so instead of dumping ice water on themselves they are pouring soapy water and the #that they are using in french, translates to rather against ebola. it is a way to just encouraging good hygiene, and to also raise awareness about the deadly disease, and ink stead of making monetary donations people are ask to donate bars of soap, bottles of ant sectic. but the country recently closed it's borders with

liberia, and locals are very concerned about the disease spreading so the challenge is just another way to try to slow it down and raise awareness. >> raise awareness, you said it. thank you. so parents of hundreds of babies in texas are having their children tested. they are worries the children may have come in contact with a hospital worker who was diagnosed with tuberculosis. heidi joe ocastro reports now from dallas. >> he was houred old when he was exposed. and not even realized until almost a year later. >> i need some answers. >> she gave birth last october at province memorial hospital. sebastian is one of more than 700 patients who came into contact with a nursery worker who had active tuberclois sis. >> t.b. is a serious disease. >> it is spread through coughing and sneeding. the bacteria melee dormant for months or

years before signs of cigness appear. 43 hospital employees were also exposed none have tested positive so far. but the concern is for the babies. like sebastian who may have inhaled t. b. into their lungs. the bacteria can then spread to the kidney, spleen, and brain. >> even if you are are not sick, it is just that fear that it gives you that he could be i couldn't prevent it. >> the hospital says the hospital worker tested positive last month, and she is now on leave. >> one cannot say that 100% of all employees at any hospital, will be free of any communicable disease, because that is not possible. lu we go the best that is out there. >> letters have gone out to the families of exposed fishes and parents began rushing their young children back for toasts.

the department of public health began screening them. so far they have not released any patient tests but saying it is working with the center of disease control and prevention. al jazeera, dallas. >> president obama layed out a plan to battle global warming today. i think we are calling it climate change? that's -- up next that's one of the issues right there, what are we calling this? jake ward, we are going to sort through the myths and the facts with jake ward and he is here in new york. we will do that right after the break. hello, i am ray swarez. the planet is hotter the atmosphere more filled with heat p thatting gas than ever. so why is a global plan to address climate change so hard for developed and developing nations to agree on? we are life with guests from the u.n. climate summit, at the top of the hour.

woe mentioned that president obama announced several initiative initiato fight climate change, but there is still a lot of controversy. jake ward is here to give office reality check on climate change, and separate some of the myths -- hey, good to see you. >> first of all, where are we at this point in our evolution, in our understanding of this whole issue of climate change? won, tony, we have ruled out the possibility that natural cycles may account for what we are seeing. only three things can cause the earth to warm the way it has. our orbit, the sun's output of energy, and green house gases in the sphere, now, our orbit should have us in ale cooing period for the next i don't know 23,000 years. so it is definitely not that, and the sun's output of energy should have us experiencing cooler temperatures. if that was the only factor, that would be the case. so greenhouse gases in the end are what is doing it. they act as a blanket

over the earth, and we are seeing more in the atmosphere than we have. and in that time, they have never crossed 300 parts per million, so that's happening right now, and that's obviously what is bringing everyone to the table. >> we continually hear scientists talk about this, in theoretical terms, why is there still so much doubt, and so much back and forth? when octoberively, it looks like so much of the scientific evidence is in favor of climate change. >> well, the truth is that if any scientists tells you that he or she is sure about something, then you should check their i.d., because science is a process of constantly revising and refinishing your publicized findings so in this case, we know at this point, that 97% of the world's climate scientists agree that global warming is the result most likely of human interaction. >> right so it is almost a certainly, but you will

never get to a certainty with science. >> tell me about the president's climbs today. >> well, the president had a love of interesting things. first, he pointed out what the u.s. has been doing. which is kind of a strange boast considers how high emissions are now. and he spoke of the special responsibility that the u.s. and china share as the world's biggest polluters. now that's a tough position to be in, because we have given all manufacturing to china, all of our pollution along with that china produces 90% of our computers, seven out of ten cell phones and to have handed them that burden, and then ask them to meet the same standards that is pretty hard to swallow. when giving development money to other countries and he also talked about releasing new data tools from organizations like the u.s. gee logical survey and bringing private sector partners

to come in to help combat change. these don't seem like the measures they were hoping for. holding others to higher standards while we continue to export. it is really a no win situation for them, and we already have a lot of data, that doesn't seem to been the missing piece. and the private sector can only bring things so far. the idea to bring world leaders together, to show what it is they are willing to commit to, what caps on carbon emission, what goals for heck tri-fies vehicles it is like asking a poker player to show his cards early. president obama had very powerful rhetoric, but when it comes to signing a treaty, we don't know what his administration is willing to put on paper. >> we need people like you to teach people like me, and other correspondents more about the nuts and bolts of this, because it seems to me that we need to create a better story, a better

narrative for people to understand the effects of climb change today. >> i appreciate it. >> so help us out. >> all right, i am trying. >> see you back here at 6:00. >> all right, and that is all of our time for this news hour, i am tony harris in new york city, inside story is next. on al jazeera america. >> once again scientists and politicians are streaming from across the globe for a science fest on climate change. can new york 2014 escape the fate? it's inside story.