>> on "america tonight," death in texas. the first patient diagnosed on u.s. soil becomes the first to die of ebola here as well. "america tonight's" adam may with the victim's community in dallas and their questions about what could and should have been done to save him. also tonight: safe sports. a stunning series of high school player deaths raises new alarm for parents and coaches. >> my kids play, one is in

profootball, i want to stay for them also but i want to keep the game the way it is as much as possible. >> "america tonight's" sarah hoye reports. in the stretch of one of the tightest senate races in the country. >> we all knew this was going to be a close race. first time in 40 years this seat's been open. >> as iowa goes, so goes america? michael okwu, in battle ground iowa, as america votes, 2014. good evening, thanks for joining us, i'm joie chen. the fight against ebola enters a new phase in our country as the first person diagnosed on u.s.

soil becomes the first also to die of it. hours after eric duncan's death was announced at a dallas hospital, a sheriff's deputy who had been in duncan's apartment, had himself admitted with signs of the sickness. new screening set to get under way at five u.s. airports as early as this weekend. but the health crisis being closely monitored in texas is first a very personal one for family of eric duncan. "america tonight's" adam may visited the liberian community a community in mourning and fear. >> reporter: thomas duncan who became the first patient diagnosed with ebola in the u.s. now becomes the first person to die of the virus in the country. died at 7:51 wednesday local time. mr. duncan succumbed to an

insidious disease. ebola. he fought courageously in this battle. since last sat he had been given an experimental treatment. while it's not clear if the drug made a difference we do know his care was delayed by several days. he was initially sent home from the er when he first got stroms. duncan reportedly contracted the disease on september 14th in liberia. the new york times reported duncan helped a pregnant woman infected with the virus in monrovia. he helped take her to the hospital but the hospital turned her away and she died within hours. duncan boarded a plane for text with stops in washington, d.c, and according to the centers for disease control and prevention, he showed no symptoms of disease but five days later on the 25th duncan gets sick and

seeks medical treatment for first time. he goes to texas health presbyterian hospital and gets sent home with antibiotics, even though he told the nurse he traveled to the u.s. from liberia. on sunday the 28th, paramedics rush him to the hospital in an ambulance and doctors place him in strict isolation. health officials still are trying ofind out why he was sent home in the first time. officials are monitoring the ten people who came in close contact with him while he had ebola symptoms. they remain in quarantine halfway through the incubation period. so far none are showing signs of being sick. nearly 50 others are reported to have some contact with him and being watched. in frisco texas, a patient was rushed to the hospital this afternoon. he's reportedly an employee with

the dallas sheriff's office and is said to have been inside the apartment where duncan stayed in texas. >> this patient had reported that they initially had been in the apartment and the initial ebola patient in dallas and had some contact with family members. like to emphasize that at this time our information is they had not had contact with the patient. but family members. and they had also been inside the apartment. >> in jeefs name -- in jesus name. >> amen. >> the close knit liberian community has been shane. community leaders stop to comfort them. >> today, if you have never prayed before i want you to ask the lord to protect you and your family even here in the united states of america. none of us know we may have come in contact with that young man. >> reporter: the five dallas schoolchildren who may have had

contact with duncan are still being kept at home as they endure the 21-day wait. and so far none of them are showing symptoms. but parents with liberian roots are worried how other students will treat their children. >> we don't want our children to go out there or even play in the neighborhood. and knowing that their parents are from liberia. we don't want the other kids not to play with them. because you know, they might feel like oh, maybe he's sick or maybe she's sick. >> reporter: in kansas city, the first american successfully treated for the disease, dr. ken brantley is helping with the treatment of another american, freelance photojournalist ashoka mukpo.

dorkdoctors hope the antibodies brantley formed will help mukpo with his treatment. >> the fact is more countries can and must step up in order to make their contributions felt. >> reporter: the department of homeland security announced that ebola screenings for travelers, from the ebola hot zone of west africa will begin this week in new york. >> our cdc personnel have been directed to observe all travelers entering the united states for general overt signs of illnesses at all u.s. ports of entry. >> reporter: extra screenings will also take place at atlanta, new jersey, dulles airport outside d.c. and chicago o'hare.

>> this latest report we've gotten from the deputy going into duncan's apartment? >> reporter: yes, that is report that the deputy was inside the apartment, when he was issuing an order to quarantine the apartment. we were in dallas right around that time. it was really interesting to see firsthand joie, that apartment was not taped up. saw someone walk up to the door of the apartment and knock on the door and a security guard got out of an unmarked car and told that person, don't go inside that apartment. what the sheriff's department said that deputy should not have been inside that apartment. a lot of questions were raised, about the security of that apartment. what they are saying he is being watched under an abundance of caution. >> let's talk about mr. duncan's passing and his remains. obviously there has been a big

issue removing the materials from the apartment. now with his passing is there expert opinion how that should be handled? in the body is highly contagious at this point. the ebola virus lives on for days. it will not go off to a medical examiner for any sort of autopsy and very strict guidelines from the cdc what to do. the body has to be wrapped in plastic and put into a thickness of a body bag and incinerated along with all the medical equipment he was looked up to. and then once it is incinerated the virus will be dead and the remains will be given to his family. >> the community there must look to the time line of how he was treated and wonder could he have been treated had the time line been different. >> there are so many questions about the time line. the big question is why he was

turned away from the hospital when he first went in there. did he actually spell it out i was in liberia i was around people that were infected with ebola did he strongly make that case? and on the other hand, you have other individuals saying look the hospital should have heard the word library, they should have raised the red flag. there is so much concern there within the community. his own girlfriend has said the hospital should have kept him. she is one of the individuals currently in quarantine, halfway through that 21 days, still waiting to find out if she has the virus or her kids. >> so many concerns coming out of dallas. "america tonight's" adam may. joining us with answers as he has so many times on our program, dr. william schaffner, i would assume doctor that mr. duncan's death and the implications of this must be a big topic of discussion. >> they are a big topic joie not

only in the formal sessions but over coffee among all of my colleagues in the country. these are the infectious disease specialties that take care of such patients. >> you hear general fear from the public as we heard from adam may, concern about how mr. duncan was treated. we know he was a foreigner who was turned away the first time he went to the hospital. there's admission mistakes were made there. he wasn't given the medication as quickly, there were some days there. is there any reason to believe that he didn't -- he wasn't given every opportunity to somehow be treated in the best way here? because a lot of people are going to be concerned about that. >> well, the issues before his admission, you know he was reluctant to come in. so his disease progressed. and then of course there was the glitch in the emergency room where he was not recognized for his illness. and then finally however, once he was admitted to the hospital

we have every indication that he got absolutely first-rate care. you know, none of these so-called treatments of ebola are proven. they're all experimental. but all of his supportive care, which is essential to the care of ebola patients, he received in a first-rate fashion. >> so is it possible that we do learn something, you as doctors and scientific community you learn something from experience, the time line will make a difference on whether it can be effective or not? >> of course. the information from doctors without borders in africa and the information from doctors treating patients here is shared widely, so we all have the benefits of that information, should a patient appear at our emergency room in vanderbilt. >> certainly. and the time line of course talking about that now we're hearing that we're going to step up the airport screenings at

these five critical airports around the country. how will that improve the possibility for treatment if the next case should come in? >> well, it will, joie, improve the chance of detection somewhat. but we have to realize, all of these screening processes have limitations. very substantial limitations. but it is something that we can do. it's additive, and we hope it leads to early detection of people who need treatment. >> but not a foolproof, not a foolproof guarantee there. >> it's absolutely not foolproof. you know everyone doesn't supply in directly. there are people, i'm not sharing any secrets here, who could take some medication to reduce their fever, aspirin and the like. there are all kinds of reasons that people can just evade the detection mechanism. all screening methods have imperfections. substantial ones.

this is really a needle in a haystack phenomenon that we're dealing with here. many thousands of patients have come to the united states, and the rest of the developed world, from west africa, since the beginning of ebola outbreak. we've had only one importation. so this is needle in a haystack phenomenon. >> dr. william schaffner, from vanderbilt university. thank you for your answer he doctor. >> thanks joie. >> when we return, playing the field, "america tonight's" shoiz osarahhoye and how those tragedy be changing the game. later on the program, as iowa goes, so goes the senate? >> 1-2-3 four, who you gonna vote for? >> in an otherwise bucolic

background, michael okwu, what's at stake on america votes 2014.

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>> this saturday, a horrific outbreak. >> the death toll from this epidemic could be much higher than anyone knows. >> the search for answers. >> 8000 people are already dead, mr. president. who should answer for those people? >> who brought cholera to haiti? >> so you don't have to explain yourselves? >> no. >> "faultlines". al jazeera america's hard-hitting, >> today, they will be arrested. >> groundbreaking, >> they're firing canisters of gas at us. >> investigative documentary series. watch the emmy award winning episode: "haiti in a time of cholera". saturday, 7:00 eastern. only on al jazeera america. >> it's a height of the season. you know homecoming, friday night lights, across the country it will, the high school football season well underway. but flags on the field after delts of three high school -- deaths of three high school football players in just one week, raising questions about safety and high school sports. "america tonight's" sarah hoye. >> football at stone bridge high

school in northern virginia is about the fundamentals. >> come on, come on, come on, you got to close that. >> reporter: head coax mickey thompson has over 200 wins and has table his bulldogs to the state championship. his standout aaron crawfd crawf, going to university of north carolina. reacting to three football related deaths in a week coach thompson says he wants it safe for games but not at the expense of the sport. >> i'd like to see the game remain intact as it is and make the changes to make it safer. my two kids play, one in college, one in pro football right now. i want it safe for them but want to keep the game as it is as much as possible. >> 16-year-old varsity

linebacker, was went down, long island teenager was rushed to a hospital where he was pronounced dead. >> the game involved contact and it was a result of a freak football play. >> reporter: in north carolina 17-year-old linebacker isaiah langston collapsed during warmups. >> not only did his family love and cared for him, but his team loved and cared for him and they made a mark on him. >> demaris collapsed on the field and died two days later. >> it is a summation of everybody doing something to honor his name and what he was all about. >> ongoing debate about player safety. there was more outrage recently

when the university coach, after the big hit left the sophomore struggling to stand up. an average of 12 high school and college players die everyyear accordinevery.year. >> number of kids playing pop warner dropped to about 225,000 in 2012. nearly a 10% drop from the previous two years. u.s.a. football, the national youth football development program funded by the nfl said participation among players ages 6 to 14 fell nearly 7% from 3 million to 2.8 million in 2011. is football killing kids? >> no, it's not. i think we're making progress. i feel good about -- we don't go

live very often if at all. we don't take running backs to the ground. we don't sprint, we don't do full out scrimmages, we do heads up tackling every day. we have better equipment. >> reporter: coach thompson says player safety means better equipment. >> you put your players in danger. >> coach thompson admits there's still a risk. indirect contact such as heatstroke or cardiac failure occurred twice as often as blunt force trauma. according to a report by the national center for catastrophic injury research, deaths in football are rare but tragic events with 17 direct or indirect deaths in the 2013 football season out of the approximately 1.1 million high

school players. >> everybody has had a few concussions, but we've been lucky so far. i attribute it to practice and some of it is just luck. >> coach thompson, a former defensive lineman, isn't giving up on the job he loves. >> i'm sure there will be changes. i hope it will look like the way it looks now. i don't want a game that people are afraid of. >> ata baby. you get better. >> "america tonight's" sarah hoye is with us. this is a coach with how many years experience and yet this, all of these sorts of incidents are really changing his game. >> that's what was interesting about coach. he himself is from the area and played football his entire life. played in college, lineman, his daughter plays soccer. he's seen the game evolve, he

also understands the risk in football and somebody who says okay listen i love this game, we want it to be safe hypothesis how can we keep it safe and also keep football pure? >> the practice is not like we expect the hard hits, everything happening even at the practice level. >> that's exactly right. you hear them whistle, you hear the coach in their face but you're not hearing the helmets or the pads. what is here that is different? it all really comes down from the program and the coach. you have to take care of the guys. they don't go super-hard in the practice. they're not going for the quarterbacks and hitting them into the ground. football is a sport we like to watch, it's a gladiator sport. >> we expect to see that happen. >> absolutely. >> he's still got to win games right? >> absolutely. you find this balance. you understand the fundamentals,

you are going to be able to win games, it's not about the hardest sack or take down. it's knowing the game and translating that onto the game. >> they're still doing it well. >> yes. >> we've talked a lot about concussions and now these injuries and deaths that you report about here, is this what is changing the interest in football? that much of a decline? what's happening here? >> you have to ask the question, right, is everybody pulling their kid out because of concussions, because of the long term effects or is football an expensive sport? as a parent you have to decide too, can i afford to play this? not only physically or mentally but also financially. there is a risk, but everybody who isn't playing is because of a head injury or the possibility of getting a head injury. >> it would be interesting to get a look at other contact sports such as lacrosse or

soccer or something else. sarah hoye, thank you very much. when we return. at the border and on the fence. turkey's amg biff lens. how far will ankara go in supporting the u.s. led fight? also ahead, why one vote in iowa could be the key to raising america's minimum wage. "america tonight's" michael okwu in battle ground iowa, how this race could play into control of the senate as america votes, 2014.

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>> it wasn't my first choice, but i'm glad i made a choice. >> the edge of eighteen class reunion. immediately after the final episode. sunday, 10:00 eastern. only on al jazeera america. >> now a snapshot of stories making headlines on "america tonight." pennsylvania state police come up empty after another possible sighting of a man suspected of shootings of the troop ergs in thers in thepoconos, failed to frieh. other aircraft are available to help battle wildfires. riots against turkey, across kurdish southeast, protests rose

up against the deposit's failure to help syrian kurds against i.s.i.l. much of the kurdish anger is focused against the battle for kobani. poorly armed kurdish militia there are fighting to save their city from i.s.i.l. only help is from above. eight air strikes above kobani hitting arms depot barracks but so far air are power has failed to drive i.s.i.l. out. al jazeera's bernard smith is just a few miles away inside the turkish border. bernard how has the battle been going? >> joie, a new level of intensity on monday night. the defenses set up by the

syrian kurds defending kobani. since then the fightin fightingn building to building, street to street, i.s.i.l. has come up against a motivated syrian kurds. when they swept through parts of iraq and parts of syria they've had comparatively little competition, have not been motivated or determined. kobani it's different. the kurds are determined to defend their town but they're doing it with light weapons and their big concern their big demand is to be given heavier weapons. there have been u.s. air strikes that have increased in intensity, and those air strikes, the syrian kurds tell us have made a difference. and now it's wednesday evening in turkey and the syrian kurds say they have managed to push back i.s.i.l, push them back towards those boundaries, those defenses they've breached on monday. they have not yet pushed them

out of the town. the syrian kurds say they need more weapons and they need turkey to join them. turkey has been reluctant to do that, because of its long history of corc conflict with te kurds, they don't want to arm them. they are having to manage with the resources they have and with u.s. air strikes to keep i.s.i.l. at bay. joie. >> al jazeera's bernard smith reporting from the turkish syrian border. omar tashfenar, please bring us up to date on this. turkey has the i.s.i.l. threat on its border and yet seems reluctant even with firm requests from its ally the united states to help. >> well, it's simply because turkey has a different threat perception.

i.s.i.l. is only half of the picture as far as turkey is concerned. turkey is also very much worried about kurdish separatism both in turkey and in syria syria. the entity that is fighting i.s.i.l. is in the eyes of turkey a terrorist organization linked organically with the pkk. the turkish nemesis in the 1980s and 90s. the fact that the pkk and the pyd its sister organization in northern syria is doing the fighting against i.s.i.l. is part of the problem. because helping the kurds against i.s.i.l. would mean helping basically kurdish separatism and this is something turkey is reluctantl reluctant . >> because of the situation in

syria. >> not just to address i.s.i.l. but the root cause of the problem which is the regime in dmasks. and so far-d damascus. so far turkey has been very frustrated by the absence of u.s. involvement in syria, not with boots on the ground but with help for the free syrian army. turkey has a position of leverage and wants to push the americans to take a more serious military action in the form of either a buffer zone or a humanitarian corridor or a no-fly zone in northern syria and in the absence of more serious involvement, turkey is reluctant to take unilateral action on its own, because this would basically put turkey up against regional rivals such an iran and potentially russia who are protectorrors of the syrian regime. >> all politics is local, public

opinion within turkey about how to handle this. >> well the turkish public opinion is very polarized, the peace process going on with the kurds for the last three years has practically collapsed. the last time i asked, the were 27 people who were killed as a result of violence in turkish streets mainly kurds who are protesting against the turkish government. what's going on in the government is not only unraffling turkish stability, not only destabilizing iraq but it is also destabilizing turkey. want united states to play a stronger role because only the u.s. is in their mind able to provide leadership here. absence of u.s. strategy to address the situation not just with i.s.i.l. but with damascus

is part of the problem in thize of ankara. that's why they want to get america more involved. >> thanks so much. >> thank you. >> another fears attack have left families accustomed to violence and government corruption. but a stunning case, 43 young people now missing for a 10th day frustration is growing. >> at this small teaching college in southern mexico murals of revolution ris decorate tharies,decorate the w. 43 of the college students have been missing since september 26th after a protest turned violence. on that day, clashes with police left three students dead and 25 more wounded. the police who let the students

away were said to be working with criminal organizations. >> translator: the police took them. we saw when they took them. i don't know why the local police said they didn't have them and now they said they did and handed them over to the drug traffickers. it just means we have a narco government in guerrero. >> violence here as become a norm. between 2006 and 2012, 60,000 people were killed and 150,000 displaced as a result of the mexican drug wars. 98% of all crimes went unpunished. in an effort to curtail the violence the u.s. formed the marida initiative, a regional agreement in which it poured military aid into mexico. these funds have been

distributed, a mass grave of 28 bodies near where clashes broke out, raised alarm among the relatives of the missing. but the remains won't be easily identified. after largely avoiding speaking out about the case the mexican president, enrique pena nieto spoke. >> i'm deeply outraged and dismayed about the information that has been coming out over the weekend. i'm particularly saddened by the violence that has taken place and moreover, the students had their rights violated in igaula. >> we are not asking for a favor because neither us nor our children did something they shouldn't have, for this to happen. if president can't deliver us our children alive and as soon as possible.

>> al jazeera's adam rainey is in chiilpancingo. adam, can you talk specifically about the protests underway at this hour? these folks are asking for what at this point? >> well, basically they're asking for more action from their government. but the state government here in guerrero but even more at the national government. like i said it's been nearly two weeks, they have no idea who took these people. no one is really presenting witnesses or suspects other than police who were arrested right after, because they're considered to be corrupt police from that city where this happened. but they don't know where these students were taken. the parents of the students at a nearby teachers college, are distraught, they want to know how police can work with cartel gunmen to attack their children

and spirit them away and dump them about a grave. even though it's a poor and violent state they say that's enough, we want no more of this. this is catching on throughout mexico. we are seeing protests in mexico city and all throughout mexico, this is a government that promised to bring down levels of violence in mexico, what they are seeing if not more at least the same level of violence they have seen after a raging drug war here. >> adam so far they have not been able to confirm the identity of those found in the mass graves? >> reporter: no they haven't but what you have is officials at least from the state government giving symbols or messages that they think they're going to confirm this. this is all implied but the message to the parents is wow, they want to wash their hands of it and not look for the perpetrators. the officials aren't saying these are the bodies but they are phrasing their responses in

ways that if you are here you are clearly implying they want these to be the bodies, they want this to disappear and disappear fast. the president was supposed to visit the state of guerrero. he cancelled, it was a trip to do other business, but he was nervous to get too much into the fray now. you have the u.n. the organize of american states and the united states, saying we need to you get to the bottom of this. how with 43 students be attacked shot at and disappear and the mexican government doesn't know where they are and doesn't know who did this? >> "america tonight's" adam rainey, thanks very much. right after the break, an open seat and a wide-open contest. iowa's all important senate race. why it could be key to control of the senate and to american paychecks. also ahead: the sound and

motion of music? >> at some level we're all dancers and musicians. this is really in our genes. you don't have to teach children you know. young children will dance and make music without knowing what they're doing at all. >> a creative movement and how it's inspiring some new moves. moves.

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>> a look at our capital under renovation. there's a saying, as iowa goes, so goes the nation. we may have to change that to, so goes the senate. iowa's open senate seat has become a key piece in the control of the senate. as we look at america votes 2014, "america tonight's" michael okwu, reports a key issue is close to the pocket books of iowans and workers all across the nation. >> reporter: republican joanie ernst, campaigning at a cedar rapids coffee shop. >> i care about every iowan iown

whether you're from the city or the rural areas. in her bid to fill the seat of democratic senator tom harkin. >> we are putting more of our friends and neighbors to work which is what the federal government needs to do, too! >> ernst is rung against democrat bruce b raley a four term congressman. campaign is picking up momentum in the polls now up six points in what was once a dead heat. >> we think it's about equity. >> reporter: raising the minimum wage is one of the defining issues of the campaign. he's for it, she's against. and who wins this race will go a long way to determining if minimum wage workers across the country receive a pay raise. the minimum wage here in iowa is $7.25. the same on the federal level. what would you say to those

people in the stay of iowa and elsewhere, look that is what i make and it's not a living wage. >> what i would say is here in iowa we are growing good-paying jobs. that is real overarching issue is that we have to get our economy going. >> reporter: at the first senatsenatorial debate, pushinge wage well below the average. >> we're turning 4.4 billion to iowa taxpayers. >> reporter: but congressman grayley, her opponent, says io iowa's economy has left the working class behind. >> fighting for work class families. if 300,000 iowans would get a pay raise, raising to $10.10 an

hour that tells me that millions of iowans are missing out on this booming economy. >> try not use her position against her. >> is joanie ernst to conservative? >> i do not support a minimum wage. >> joanie ernst what does she think is right for iowa? >> why are you against the minimum wage being hiked on the federal level? >> well, on the federal level. it needs to be decided by the states. our cost of living in iowa is very, very low compared to other states. and so if you look at our economy across the board what might be right in texas or california or new york city, may not be right in iowa. so i think states should make that decision. >> reporter: the u.s. chamber of commerce has endorsed ernst but a majority of small business

owners nationally support raising the minimum wage to $10.10 an hour. mike draper, the owner of a clothing store in des moines is one of them. >> we make more money when more people purchase more things. so when more people have more money, more products get purchased. it's an incredibly simple formula to grasp. >> draper says workers at his store start at 12.12 an hour. many workers receive food stamps subsidized housing and other government grants. >> the minimum wage is so low and so whenever my tax money is going to support competitors that's when i think should be changed. >> reporter: the national restaurant organization has

opposed the minimum wage campaign and supports ernst campaign. a marketing director for five restaurants in des moines, he says he's okay to increase to 10.10. his kitchen staff all right starts at $10. he doesn't think it should be extended to those receiving tips. >> i will say this, that there will be no protests out here like there are in front of mcdonald's because we pay our employees a living wage and they're happy to work here. there are a lot of places like mcdonald's or your local gas station that serve subs and pizza that pretend to be restaurants that are paying people what they think they are paying them, but we pay them what they're worth. >> reporter: on capitol hill

outgoing iowa senator tom harkin. >> trying to leave the minimum wage as his legacy. and joanie ernst wants to take over just on republican lines. >> reporter: iowans have traditionally not been too tied to party line. now widely considered a purple state, iowa is occasionally red. backing bush in 2000 and 2004, now and then blue, voting for barack obama in 2008 and 2012. the state's u.s. senators are split. chuck grassley is a republican, harkin a democrat. kathy obradovich is a columnist for the iowa register. >> dwighted government state so

people have a lot of interest in this state. >> outside interest has resulted in a slew of ads, many of them no holds barred. the des moines register reports, campaign spending approaching $14 million by mid september. tv ads alone, more than 30,000 of them in what promises to be a spending record for statewide race. >> the majority of the ads i would say are being purchased by somebody other than the two candidates. so for example, the super-pac ads are blan blanketing the sta. and from the national republican and democratic committees. >> on election day braley may be heard as much by the video shot at a fund raiser by texas lawyers as any of his positions on the issues, including the

minimum wage. >> you may have a farmer from iowa who never went to law school, never practiced law, serving as the next chair of the senate judiciary committee. >> bruce braley got in big trouble earlier in the year essentially disparaging chuck grassley on video. wouldn't want chuck grassley as chairing the judiciary committee because he's an iowa farmer who inner went to law school. >> the iowa farm bureau endorsed ernst and the ad became fodder for a campaign against him. >> chuck grassley is the most popular politician in the state. his approval ratings are generally higher than tom harkin's. >> tom harkin is using his plairpt to get behind --

popularity to get behind bruce braley. >> we saw the poll and always knew it was going to be a close race. first time in 40 years the seat's been open. the campaign my friends is not over with, it's just begun. >> how the campaign ends here in the hawkeye state might hit the delicate balance on capitol hill. michael okwu, al jazeera, des moines. >> and we'll keep a sharp eye focused on iowa's race as well as the other battle ground states as we continue to watch, america votes, 2014. after the break here tonight, a creative movement, how motion detectors are giving a creative outlet to the disabled. tomorrow on "america tonight," the hidden homeless, they are on the street but camouflaged in their cars.

>> and finally from us this hour, the joy of motion and of music. once out of reach were people living with physical or developmental disabilities. now there's a new composition which makes it possible to give music to emotion. the technology and the composer behind it from al jazeera's nick spicer in dresden, germany. >> quiet, just listen. and watch. ♪ ♪ >> an artist at work. there are two motion detectors helping here. one working in 3d. the other precise enough to catch the blink of an eye. together, they unleash

creativity. >> at some level we're all dancers and musicians. this is really in our genes. you don't have to teach children you know. young children will dance and make music without knowing what they're doing at all. >> six contemporary composers provided the sound environment where every gesture produces some kind of a sound. this is a chord. this uses the space for the kids to create, to compose. >> it all feels like a game. the children can't decide whether they're dancing or composing. >> nail-biter. >> and the person who oversees therapy at their school says it doesn't really matter. >> translator: at the school we have various methods of communicating but the motion communicator is adding something new. because sometimes you can't

express your emotions well with words but with the motion composer you can give feeling. before thinking they could help people living with disabilities. >> artists are people who are on the margins of society and people with disabilities are on the margins of society. they're in a great position to give us comments on what we are as a society. and what people are. >> reporter: the motion composer has moved children from physical and mental disabilities from the back of the auditorium to center stage. taking things to the next logical step, a concert performance will happen in germany in half a year's time. nick spicer, dresden. who is in charge in north korea? the leaders kim joh john jong-uy

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