>> this is al jazeera america. i'm david schuster in new york. john siegenthaler has the night off. demand for democracy in a tense standoff, thousands of people fill the streets again today in hong kong, calling for a change in leadership. we will tell you about their plan to escalate. changing of the guard. the head of the secret service has resigned. we will look whether her departure will put an end to the embarrassing security breaches. forces have moved closer to

being being turkey as turkey considers a counterattack. ebola, anybody who had contact with ebola in dallas, meanwhile how to contain the disease. decades old henry kissinger proposal to clobber cuba. we begin tonight with live pictures from hong kong where it is now 8:00 a.m. thursday morning and the cries for democracy continue to grow stronger. demonstrators in those umbrellas and tents say they intend to escalate their peaceful protests today, if hong kong's chief executive does not step down. and the activates are threaten to-d and the activists are threatening to respond. as they did had 25 years ago in

tienanmen square beijing. we will have the latest in hong kong just ahead. first our top story. the resignation of julia pearson. the secret service chief. after tough questioning, she offered her resignation and the white house accepted it. mike viqueria has the story. mike. >> when it comes to the safety of the president there is no margin of error. the writing was on the wall. wednesday morning the white house insisted julia pearson was more than qualified to continue as director of the secret service. by the afternoon she was gone. >> over the last several days we've seen recent and accumulating reports raising questions about the performance of the agencies and the president concluded that new

leadership of that agency was required. >> the latest shoe to drop: a contractor armed with a gun who had prior arrests for assault was allowed onto an elevator with president obama during his september 16th trip to atlanta. the white house says the secret service had left it in the dark about the encounter. >> but the white house first learned of that incident yesterday afternoon shortly before it was reported by -- before it was publicly reported buy news organization. -- by a news organization. >> after that report pearson'singin'spearson'sstar f. >> it just points to the need for atop to bottom reconfiguration of this agency. >> reporter: soon after resigning pearson told bloomberg news, it's painful to leave an organization reeling from a security breach. this was a noble ethnic do.

>> have you ever heard of these guys? it's not very costly. you could subscribe. >> pearson's departure came over technicalling grilling she took from omar gonzalez's entering the white house. with pearson now gone the white house has towrn turned to a famr face, joe clancy takes over as the interim intri head of the a. when will there be a permanent head? exeaactually an appointee. reviewing procedures within the secret service, their report is due within december.

it's likely we'll get a new head if not clancy before then david. >> it is clear members of congress were able to essentially humiliate the head of the secret service. what would it take to change the culture of that agency? >> we talked about the writing ton wall and certainly the leading democrat nancy pelosi coming out in favor of having pearson step down was a further erosion of support. and it obviously became untenable for her to continue on. i think david there are parallels with the va. you remember the scandals around eric shinseki over veterans having to wait long periods of time. the management structure needs a review, not just a review but a change in the culture. you look at the incident in atlanta. the difference between what happened on the north lawn with the penetration of the white

house, that was in private. they couldn't hide this one, the president wasn't told about it, the white house wasn't told about it, that really does raise alarms at the white house and in congress. >> mike viqueria, thank you. back to our other top story. the ultimatum, the bein directof hong kong needs ostep down. rob mcbride what do you hear now? >> in hong kong things gradually domgraduallycoming to life. looking to their barricades and shifting their positions as we get into yet another day of protest here. this is the second day of a public holiday celebrating

china's national day, so while numbers have been fluctuating they declined considerably overnight. we are expecting to see yet thousands more protesters out onto the streets today and today of course is also deadline day. thursday has been set as the day when organizers expect their demands to be met, or they will escalate this action. they want to see c.y. lunge, he is the leader of hong kong, the chief executive, resign. also commit hong kong to the reforms that organizers here will lead to true democracy. they don't want the version of democracy offered by hong kong or beijing authorities. those are the demands. they have said they will start targeting specific offices they haven't said which buildings or offices they will be but they

threatened to force themselves into these offices, technically breaking the law, they call it civil disobedience, technically unlawful, takes it to a new level. there will be different charges, different penalties for this kind of action. but they say they have to do this if the government is going to be moved. david. >> and rob, if they do decide to go into some of these government buildings, how easy or difficult would it about for a protestor to get in and beefing up security for these confrontations that may ensue? >> reporter: there are a lot of buildings here, a lot of government buildings, they are open because they are government facilities. it would be easy to get into a number of them which we saw at the end of last week. they managed to get into the area that preempted this whole mass sit in now when the students occupied the main

government headquarters here. it is possible to get in. the fear is of course that the guards are going to stop them, the police or the riot police. those people they tackled with, the use of tear gas, this action could prompt a return to that violence. and for several days these demonstrations have been peaceful. david. >> rob thanks for that update. chi ling joinings us from watertown, massachusetts. ms. chi, these demonstrations have been brought back to 1989 to all of you in tienanmen square. what goes through your mind when you be watch these actions in hong kong? >> great joy and we know in the past 25 years the chinese government tried to erase the

1989 movement and now we see the movement replayed in the new generation. we want the new generation to be protected from the devastating massacre we have received. as a prelog to this, the way they were able to stand up they have achieved a huge victory today. >> the anxiety they must feel, you probably have better insight than anybody. this is a picture of you, in tienanmen square, you have a megaphone to talk to people there. were you anxious at all in tienanmen well? >> probably and it was more a great sense of peace and as though we were standing on the front edge of our country asking for the very freedom, now i know

god put that longing in our heart. so i almost felt like i was meant to do that at the time. so seeing the young students now, rising up in hong kong, and just brought a lot of joy and delight in my heart as well. >> comparing these two protests in tienanmen square there were some pretty clear set leaders of the protest. in hong kong there isn't a leader per se. is that a positive or a negative in your view? >> i think both. one hand, it might be harder for media to try to figure out their emotion their voice but on the other hand it is pert because it create more of -- better because it creates more of a sent of equals and we as the new generation can really spread the movement and the message by our own social media, each become a hero in their own circle. no government will be able to erase that from their memory, from their own personal journey. it is a delight to see and to

watch. >> there are some experts that suggest that because this is not happening on the chinese mainland that perhaps china will stop short of the kind of aggressive tactics they took 25 years ago. do you agree with that? >> it's a great question. and it certainly would be wise for the chinese leadership to stop doing anything violent as they did in 1989 and their job is to be good servant for the people. and it's about time for them to really administer juftsdz for thufts -- justice to the people. one country two systems. it's time to deliver what they promised. >> ms. chi thanks for being with us. we appreciate it. >> you're more than welcome. thank you. >> coming up at the half hour we'll tell you about the intriguing way the hong kong protesters try the complk with each other -- to communicate with each other even though the

chinese government cuts on internet and cell phone service. turk yeah is ready to take on a bigger role in the fight against i.s.i.l. but turkey's being effort is in ousting bashar al-assad. in iraq the u.s. led coalition targeted i.s.i.l. positions near mosul, being and southern iraq. bernard smith reports. >> turkey's military is just a few hundred meters away from i.s.i.l. fighters. in some places all that separates them is washington, be marking the border. the islamic state of iraq and the levant advance across syria. as refugees continue the arrive turkey has been accused of its nato allies as looking the other

way. but speaking to the opening of the turkey's parliament,ing its president says they are committed to attacking the syrian government. >> turkey is not a country that will allow itself to be credit used for temporary transition. -- to be used for temporary transition. >> hesitation about joining the u.s. led campaign against the armed group was partly because 46 turkz were being held hospital taj in iraq. -d hostage in iraq. might be in turkey it is also worried about arming the kurds to fight in syria. turkey fought its own armed conflict with the kurds. then there's the risk taking part in a campaign to push back i.s.i.s. in syria may

inadvertently help bashar al-assad. >> erdogan told parliament, turkey isn't just in a fight against i.s.i.l. >> one of the priorities is to have a strong and just government in damascus. we can't be indecisive about the problem in the middle east. how can we remain uninterested given the be conflict on two of our borders. we will not stand idle. >> allowing turkish forces to join the fight against i.s.i.l. in turkey and iraq. it will also allow foreign forces to use its bases. that means u.s.ing planes taking offer from paces in turkey. bernard smith, on the border. turkish site, turkey's leaders have been clear, they

will defend it. jonathan betz joins us now. jonathan. >> exception has been this ancient tomb. for months, turkey's leaders have promised to defend it, it is a decision that may force turkey into battle. as kurdish forces try the keep i.s.i.l. from taking a key border town a warning from turkey. its leaders say turkey may now enter the fight, especially with i.s.i.l. fighters approaching a historic site. an ancient tomb inside syrian but guarded by turkish fighters. >> under international law we have the right to defend it under any threat. >> in an area heavily controlled by i.s.i.l. the stone mausoleum house test remains of suleman shah, the

small part is considered part of turkey, was visited by a turkish official as late as 2011. i.s.i.l. forces are approaching. >> translator: yes, islamist militants are getting very close to that region, however turkish forces continue their job with beings arrangementments. >> reporter: turkey is strange under the threat of i.s.i.l. tens of thousands of refugees are rushing into turkey for help and now a threatened tomb mate be enough to send turkey into the fight with i.s.i.l. it is unclear how close i.s.i.l. is close to that tomb but so far

the site has been largely untouched despite the years of war that have been raging around it. >> thank you jonathan. i be nick schifrin talks with the leaders fighting for survival okay two threats. the only place left where children can play is in rubble created by air strikes. aleppo is a strong hold, nearly half the city is destroyed. the fighters need help. what will happen on the front line if you don't get more american help on the ground? >> translator: i.s.i.l. will advance from the east and the syrian government will advance from the south. to be honest, the revolution will end within a month. >> reporter: 34-year-old hasan leads a thousand men leading for control of northern aleppo. they call themselves the fifth legion. their ammunition is in part paid

for by the united states. their fighters are trained by the cia. they need the u.s. and the u.s. needs them. if i.s.i.l. will be defeated, these are the men who will have to do it. can the americans win this fight from the air? >> never, the air strikes are never enough. the air strikes will cripple i.s.i.s. >> these areas are controlled by -- >> fight as the free syrian army. he describes as the fsa is fighting simultaneously on two fronts. is the fsa to the west, i.s.i.l. to the east, all the way to the turkish border. i'm standing in turkey right now. that is syria right behind me. the town of tal abiad, i.s.i.l. took it in january. the flags flying about a mile

and a half from me. i.s.i.l. is strong. it fights with equipment stolen from the iraqi army including night vision, artillery and tanks. on the other side the u.s. provides eanlt tan antitank miso fsa fighters it considers worthy. now the fs ampt is outmanned, f -- fsa is outmanned, outgunned. supporting the fsa is not without risk. this video shows fsa fighters who left moderate groups to join i.s.i.l. today the fsa says that won't happen again , it's now or never. >> i.s.i.s. have all of these weapons. the regime have a lot of weapons, aircraft, barrel bombs. now it's time to put them in the right hands.

>> not only weapons, the fsa needs to expand and dramatically improve. >> has there been inroads where the fsa is fighting? >> unfortunately no. >> until those who suffer the most will be the people of aleppo. >> what is the condition of people living inside aleppo today? >> 20-year-old abu omar is an aleppo activist. we spoke to him via skype. >> we have no ambulances no medicine, life is miserable. >> reporter: the u.s. must find and train fighters who will have to win two separate battles. until then aleppo's misery will continue. nick schifrin, al jazeera, turkey. >> can you see much more of nick's reporting from turkey this friday.

join us for a special report, five days of escape from i.s.i.l, 5:30 pacific, 8:30 eastern time. henry kissinger's secret plan to, quote, smash cuba.

>> today we learned that nearly 40 years ago a you know, secretary of state was making plans to launch an all-out attack on cuba. henry kissinger's plan, the goal in kissinger's words, smash cuba. it's all coming from a batch of newly declassified government documents. paul beban is here with the report. >> these are transcripts of a series of conversations between

secretary kissinger, president gerald forward and a few national security members. just how willing kissinger was to go to war. in late 1975, the middle of the cold war, cuban leader fidel castro took a step that we now know almost provoked a drastic response from the u.s. castro sent cuban troops to the african nation of angola. global dominance between the u.s. and the soviet union. i think we're going to have to smash castro he told president gerald ford, in an oval office meeting in 1976. we can't probably do it before the election. the president's reply, "i

agree." recounted in a new book, "back channel to cuba." >> i think the president was personally offended he had held out an olive branch to castro and castro through it aside. >> months later, another oval office conversation with the president. kissinger:ment i think we have to being clobber them. >> kissinger was so angry, you could hear it in his voice when you read the transcript of his conversations with president gerald ford. we have to demand they get out of africa. >> reporter: kissinger's plan included mining ports, he warned any assault on cuba could trigger a superpower showdown. >> the way kissinger recommended

them opresident ford was really shocking. this would lead to a confrontation with the you soviet union. withdrawal of soviet missiles. >> there would be no halfway measures, we would get no reward for using military power in moderation. but in the end kissinger's plans went into the dust bin of history, in november 1976 when jimmy carter was elected president. they reached out to comment to kissinger and to donald rumsfeld and david no surprise, both declined. >> paul, it's amazing, this sounds like henry kissinger was basically contemplating world war iii. >> the cuban missile crises if

not far worse. kissinger said if the u.s. moves against cuba it needs to be prepared for general war. that sounds like an all out confrorconfrontation with the st union. liberia is at the breaking point. the african nation is in dire need to help the ebola crisis.

>> welcome back to al jazeera america. i'm david schuster. john siegenthaler is off. coming up new details on the first ebola case diagnosed in the united states including the children the patients may have come into contact with. plus the technology that will allow hong kong protesters to keep communicating even if china cuts off their cell phone and internet service. and an incredibly dangerous bridge some children cross every day just to duet to school. -- just to get to school. there are more questions tonight surrounding the first case of ebola diagnosed in the united states. doctors in texas admitted today they initially extent infected man home when -- they initially sent the nefngd man home when he

first came to the-d infected man home when he came to hospital. heidi zhou-castro explains. >> it is a nightmare. texas governor rick perry explained. >> we now know that some school aged children have had contact with the parent and are now being monitored at home. >> health officials say the ebola patient isolated within this hospital may have exposed five children in one home over the weekend and as many as 13 other people. the superintendent says those kids are no longer in class. those keeping an eye o on the children say so far they have shown no symptoms. >> we are going to be staffing those schools with additional health professionals. we think again we have full confidence in cdc that it's contained but just to lay fears,

additional health professionals will be on hand, additional flu like symptoms or other symptoms kids might have. >> officials are monitoring the healed of three paramedics who took the ebola patients to the hospital by ambulance sunday. they have ofar passed health tests but will remain quarantined in their homes for 21 days. >> do you feel your guys are okay? >> yes ma'am. >> what gives that you confidence? >> based on cdc, dallas medical directors, research we have done through cdc website every indication is that they have a very low risk of exposure and almost zero chance of contractincontracting ebola. >> the patient beings presented at the hospital on friday. but was sent home.

>> regretfully that information was not fully communicated throughout the full team. >> that's now under investigation. why did they not admit this man when he first appeared at the er for help? do you feel any concern about how this played out? >> i will leave that question to other people, cdc will be heavily investigating that. >> a ten member team has now arrived in texas to help as the director put it, stop ebola in its traction in this curch. -- in its tracks in this country. if you go inside that emergency room today david there's hardly a soul, david, i saw one or two patients. not at alling like a normal emergency room. >> heidi zhou-castro reporting from dallas. liberia one of the hardest hit nations by the ebola outra

break, liberia continues to struggle. there are not enough ambulances and supplies for struggling health care workers. jarrod tan reports. >> gordon starts his day with the stop at the liberian health agency. he needs his personal protective equipment or ppe. >> they are calling me to get me more listing of cases but i don't have the first ppe to pick up the first patient. >> reporter: he's supposed to receive new gear from the government every two weeks but supplies are depleted. liberia is hardest hit by the ebola outbreak. its systems are strange to cope. >> unicef is now working with

the governments of liberia and sierra leone to set up interim care facilities in liberia and for unicef to be able to treat and care for children in the risk of being infected. >> in neighboring sierra leone schools have remained shut to prevent the spread of disease. >> make do what you have at your disposal and it will be strain our education system. it is better than the children sitting at home without being taught. >> the world health organization has estimated thatting the ebola outbreak ahas affected more than 6.5 million people. jerald tan,ing al jazeera.

>> ing madila cooper, joins us in studio. welcome. you were just in liberia this summer. what did you see? >> it is scare yeah. it was really scary. people are just panicking, not knowing, not really having enough information as to how this virus is contracted. and there were so many mixed messages and nothing really substantial. people are really scared. and so it's just chaos. >> and being that scared, how does it play out in terms of ordinary interactions people have with each other? >> life style has changed completely as a result of this virus. liberia, people are well connected, in terms of their physical contacts. and now you cannot touch even your children, you are almost afraid to hug them because

you're afraid who they may have been in contact with and who has this virus. it has changed our lifestyle as we know it. >> you mention the children. you run a school on the outskirts of monrovia. what is the situation there? >> all activities of schools had to be put on hold. you could not bring too many people together in one setting so we had to close down our school. the school i run is not an ordinary school, it is a school for orphans and kids who have no means of going to a regular school so they live there. that also becomes their home. we had to put them in foster homes, the staff had to take two, three, four students at home. so kids are spread all over. we have done an amazing job who took them into environments they are not accustomed to. >> you are asking them to care for these kids full time.

>> absolutely, absolutely, it is a huge burden but we all have to chip in, our responsibility as a result of this sort of new environment we find ourselves living in. >> what are the other problems you are seeing in liberia? >> there are a series of problems. we have a shortage of everything pfn our health care system is completely shut down. the big problem in liberia is not about contracting ebola, if you got sick there is absolutely no medical facility that you can go to. everyone who has access to leave liberia has left. >> is there also price gouging because people are so afraid? >> shortage of food, absolutely food is very expensive here. a gallon of milk, you can buy for three to $5 here, is now $15.

>> and you have 65 to 70% poverty line. they cannot afford to buy food so a bag of rice which used to be $15 is $40 u.s. >> people what can they do? >> they can help too credible charities. they can donate to us for example we are a 501 (c) 3 organization. they can donate to cdc, to unicef red cross, so many charities out there trying to reach people in the entire country and so we encourage people to -- can you not send things right now. you can only send money unfortunately. >> what sort of leadership has the liberian president been providing these days? >> i must give her credit. the first thing was to leave bit she stayed there, i give her credit for that. but at this moment it is beyond her. when we first heard about ebola

in february of this year its could have been taken more seriously than it was. it is now out of her hands, besides what she did to bring the u.s. government in with 3,000 military troops to sort of restructure the medical structure of liberia. >> thank you so much for joining us, and everybody at your school. >> thank you so much david. we continue to monitor protests in hong kong and the struggle for democracy may be just beginning. protesters are taking to the streets and chinese backed leaders say they will let the protesters stay for weeks if need be. the list of demands is fairly simple. they want beijing to revoke its decision to vet candidates prior to the 2017 election, they want hong kong's chief executive to step down. if he does not they sphwoand step u -- theyintend to step upr

protests. being lidy dutt has the story. >> they support the protests. >> chapman is 30 years old and works in advertising but he can't afford to move out. until recently that was the biggest concern for young people here. but it was overshadowed by worries about hong kong's government when authorities cracked down on protests on sunday what they say was excessive force. >> when i see thing policemen using tear gas i'm little bit afraid because this is the first time we see that weapons, that police use to the hong kong people. but afterwards we feel angry. >> reporter: and it's that

anger that's bringing these protesters back day after day taking over the city's main financial and retail district. under the holt sun, chapman and his friends settle down for another day of standing ground. >> you guys settled in hong kong, it was obritish colony before -- it was a british colon colony before. i'll start with you, chapman. >> it's the trouble of one country two systems. >> how do you feel about the beijing government, do you trust them, do you think they have been running hong kong well? >> no, i don't trust them. >> reporter: so why are you carrying on with these protests? >> for me personally i think there's a great atmosphere here,

throots great spirit hire. -- there's a great spirit here. for the struggle for democracy. >> reporter: many of the people here say they will go home if beijing reopens discussions about selection or the chief executive steps down. but they warn that this is just the beginning of hong kong's fight for its future. libby gopalan, al jazeera, hong kong. in response demonstrators have begun to use a system of decentralized communication. jake ward explains. >> transforming modern protest movements. but it depends which technology you use. it's the first rule of crushing a modern protest. either shut off

telecommunications, that's how north korea does it, or use technology to monitors the protesters, we saw that in kook. but protesters are not using cell phone or internet communication. the general term is mesh networking but this is a little different. protesters are using fire chat, developed in san francisco, for those who want to exchange text messages vie bluetooth. a central system controls both cellular service and the connection to the internet. if the government blocks access to that system, phones and computers are disconnected from one another. but a mesh network doesn't have to connect to a central system. phones and computers communicate directly. there is no central plug for the government to pull. and if someone is lucky enough

to have an internet connection, it is shared with everyone else. it's really a dictator's nightmare. but it can also be a protestor's undoing. the founders are quick to point out that all messages are public. >> we did not so much design it as a tool for protest. had we known about hong kong before, what would chieng? well -- change? well, probably a few smaller things would change but fundamentally, the product would be a same product. >> mesh is not a silver bullet to prevent surveillance or censorship. same way you wouldn't want to send your credit card details over the internet without encrypting them. on the mesh you want to encrypt as well. >> free open and secure connectivity. a mesh network links thousands of people. technology like this was an important factor throughout the

arab spring and in hong kong it could be the difference between a coordinated protest and a blind mob waiting in the darkness to be arrested. david there are in fact reports that malwear has been put out there, to make it look like it is created by protesters but is in fact created by the chinese government to monitor the protesters. it goes to show that it's incriddably important that protesters not be too trusting in how much of their personal information they give otechnology and that they really -- to technology and really they know what they're doing to coordinate. >> fascinating jake, thank you. today the leader of the boz

bosnian seshz takbosnian serbs,s laws. yen stoltenberg is new secretary-general. stick to international law and stick with its international obligations and responsibilities. his first trip is to poland, being. here in the united states a string of deadly police shootings have put a spotlight on police at tha tactics . maintain'sing christof putzel

reports. >> what is your emergency? >> walmart, there is a gentleman walking around with a gun in the store. >> has he got it pulled out? >> yes, he's like pointing at people. >> on august 5th, a 911 call came from a walmart. crawford picked up a bb gun talking distractedly on his phone. >> he went to the store to get some items for the cookout. >> "america tonight" sat down with his mother for her first tv interview and her lawyer. they said the 911 caller was incorrects. >> he didn't point the gun to anyone in the store. no one was in imminent danger. >> the 911 caller was this man, ronald richie.

he described what he saw to the radio station who. >> a black gentleman called police waving at people, at little children thinking he is either going to rob the place or there to shoots somebody else. it looks kind of serious as far as he didn't really want to being be looked at, and when people did look at him, he was pointing the gun at people and everything so just really off-putting. >> reporter: acting on that information, beaver creek police officers stormed the walmart, raced to the back and shot and killed john crawford. he had the bee bee gun pointed towards the ground and the cell phone still in his hand. >> tell us about the gun he was holding? >> it was anmk 177 and it does kinds of look like an ar-15.

>> assault weapon. >> assault weapons. shoots pellets, it's essentially an air rifle. but usually something is behind glass, in packaging and this wasn't. this was just out in the open. and so usually this isn't something somebody would have can access to, just to grab and walk around with. >> you found some people who have carried guns into the store before. what do they say? >> well right now, in the state of ohio it's an open-carry state so technically you can walk around with a real gun and that's perfectly legal. can you walk into walmart with a gun. for them they're really upset because somebody which is essentially a fake gun, can get shut, they are worried about what can happen to them. >> "america tonight" starts at the top of the hour, 9:00 p.m, 6:00 p.m, pacific.

incredible risks children in nepal have to take just to goat school. and a long lost score by mozart himself, written out by the master, has now been found.

>> i'm meteorologist dave warren. we are looking at a storm that is impacted the midwest, golf ball size hail coming down tornado watch in effect and few warnings in effect, will impact eastern it's here, in the next d states here. hail over 2 inches with this storm now. now it will really not move much over the next 24 hours. here's where it is now. here are these strong storms.

look what happens though. it continues to develop and sit over the same area. finally starts to move out by tomorrow evening. now we are seeing this severe weather area widen get a little larger and even out a bit. mississippi valley to the northwest up towards chicago. not only severe storms but flooding possible, two to four inches of rain, flash flooding likely across this entire area. you may not see the storms you may not see the flooding, but impacts of cooler temperatures. more news coming up next.

>> hundreds of children in nepal face a treacherous journey each day just to go to school. they travel over a dangerous rope bridge and some kids have been hurt even killed on it. it's a risk they take to get an education. this story from right outside kathmandu. >> this student wishes there was an easier way to get to school. the nearest bridge is over an hour's walk away. so he has to rely on the rope

bridge to cross the river. >> translator: no matter how difficult it is to go to school and how late we get there, we have to go. once we're educated we can build a proper bridge for other students. >> reporter: more than 50 children use this crossing every day. once the basket starts moving, gravity pulls it halfway across the river. other children have to push and pull the basket, balancing precariously. >> it is safer when the basket is here and but half the time the basket is to the other side,. >> neighbor 15-year-old, is often given the task of bringing the basket back. >> the rope got tangled and i ended up in the water. i was really scared, scared to go to school. >> that was two years ago. many have lost their fingers and

several have been injured trying to cross this river. the local government says it doesn't have enough money to build a proper bridge. >> the demand is, right now we are 10 million rupees. from that 10 million, how can we complete five or six bridges? >> in the nearby village, a suspension bridge was finally installed last year but only after the old bridge snapped killing five people. 15-year-old managed to survive. >> i still dream of people screaming, asking for help. at times i dream of people crying. now i'm afraid to cross rivers. we have to cross the river to go to school every day. there isn't even a twin there. a student got swept away recently. i am scared. >> the government has allocated $15 million to build suspension

bridges but students wonder if they will ever be replaced. america's education system and the role race plays in the learning gap. plus, environmental concerns that have walruses crowdings one beach in alaska. 11:00 eastern 8:00 pacific. the world knows how mozart wanted his music to be played. four pages of a motte auditor sonata penned 50 maestro hems. himself. >> the scholar says he recognized mozart's hand wring, and when he looked closer he realized it was the piano sonata in a major. presented to the scholar

community in salsberg on saturday. ruined during the seven week israeli offensive. focusing on overcoming obstacl obstacles. demonstrate invention. i'm david schuster. "america tonight" with joie chen is next.

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