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plus, in search of kim jung ung. north korea's leader hasn't been seen in weeks. the world is wondering where he is. ♪ we begin tonight with ebola. the first person diagnosed with the virus in america died today in a texas hospital after being treated with experimental drug. >> same drug is being given to a journalist who is being treated in nebraska. tonight, another patient is in a texas hospital with ebola-like symptoms. heidi jo castro is in dallas with more on all of this. heidi? >> reporter: hey, john. so the death of thomas eric duncan has certainly shook the community here in dallas. there was a memorial service for him this evening at a church

with his fiance. although his death in no way augments the public health crisis, public health perspective, it does feed into the psychological fear in this fight against ebola. >> thomas duncan passed away wednesday morning at 7:51. the liberian man was hospitalized for 10 days before becoming the first person to die from ebola in the united states. though doctors have said duncan had a 50/50 chance of pulling through, news of his death shook the dallas community. >> first of all, i would like to express my personal condolences to thomas eric duncan's family on his loss, especially to our dear member, louise tro, and to those boys that are still in quarantine. >> the pastor where duncan's fiance attends church says the

family is still in quarter ante but healthy is seeking privacy? >> it was a painful and difficult time for her. she reacted as almost anyone would. >> the public health response now shifts to the proper handling of duncan's body which can still transmit ebola. the coroner said there will be no autopsy. those who transport the body will wear protective gear. >> the floods, the blood and, actually, those things are contagion and we have seen situations occurring where people are getting infected from being in contact with the body. so we know from experience in west africa that this is a significant risk. >> the family's pastor said duncan will be cremated. just hours after duncan's death, another man reporting ebola like symptoms was admitted to the same hospital. the patient is a dallas county

sheriff's deputy deputy who had served the quarantine order to the apartment where duncan had lived. the deputy felt fatigued and nauseated wednesday and an ambulance then too many hick to the hospital. >> he exhibited enough to trigger the preliminary screening. i think the important thing to note is once you get more in depth and you talk to the patient and they get more information, i think then they are able to rule out some of the risk. >> the sheriff's deputy deputy is now being monitored. doctors say he is low risk for ebola but are taking all precautions. >> low risk, now, that is very important to emphasize and public health authorities are saying they very highly doubt this man carries the virus. but of course, they are monitoring him just to be sure and it's important to point out that this sheriff's deputy deputy is not among the 48 people at the cdc -- that the cdc has identified as possibly being exposed. >> how many days are left before this quarantine period is over?

>> well, this virus takes up to 21 days. so count can backwards, we are about halfway through that period. the quarantine order on the four family members who had actually shared a roof with duncan, that expires on october 19th. so from now until then, of course, people will still be watching this. it's still the critical period when symptoms may develop. >> heidi, thanks very much. the president and the cdc were quick to respond to duncan's death. the government announced medical screening will begin this weekend at five major u.s. air ports. more from randall pinkston. >> reporter: 3,742 patients in west africa have been documented to have died from the disease. >> the five airports are dulles near washington, d.c., kennedy in new york, o'hare in chicago, hartsfield-jackson in atlanta and new york liberty in new

jersey. border protection acts will homeland security. >> they will answer targeted questions about whether they have had contact with ebola patients. we will collect additional u.s.-based contact information. should cdc need to contact them. and finally, we will take their temperature with a non-contact thermometer which can be a key indicator of potential infection. >> the focus will be on travelers come from guinea, liberia and sierra leone. the customs and border protection agents will give each traveler a packet of information about ebola, observe them for symptoms of ebola. if the traveler has a fever, the c bp agent will refer them for evaluation. also today in a conference call with state and local officials, president obama said that the dallas patient was proof there was no time to waste. the president said as we saw in

dallas, we don't have a lot of margin for error. if we don't follow protocols and procedures in place, then we are putting folks in our communities at risk. dr. thomas frieden for the centers for disease control says the new rules will apply to approximately 150 passengers a day. but he continues to resist calls for a west africa travel ban. >> it makes it extremely difficult to respond to the o outbre outbreak. it makes it hard to get health workers in because they can't get out. >> screening begins at jfk on saturday. the other airlines will implement the new guidelines next week. randall pinkston, al jazeera. >> now, there are some other questions about whether airport screening can play a major floel stopping an ebola outbreak in this country. one of them is infectious disease specialist dr. ames amesh adolgi, senior associate at the center for health security at pittsburgh handwriting medical center. >> the screen something one of a series of tools you can use.

we have seen it used as part of the exit screening strategy. this is the first time we are seeing it used as an entry screen. he bowl a has an incubation period of 21 days. people may not exhibit fever but have ebola like mr. duncan. what ends up happen something you get a false sense of execute thinking this will stop cases. cases may get through. the only time you have zero risk is if we cut the head of the hydra off and gol after it where it's occurring in west africa. >> should the united states spend money, resources on this? >> it's definitely true there is a lot of political pressure and the general public has a lot of panic over this disease. >> may be what's behind some of the calls for this enhanced screening. however, i worry it may divert resources from other activities that are going to be more beneficial like getting hospitals prepared to take care of imported cases, to not have what happened with mr. duncan happen again because we need to make sure that hospitals are

asking travel history, that they are promptly isolating patients and that our cases that are identi coordin are identified. >> you say they can get past this screening if they take tylenol or ibuprofen? >> right. a fever is a general symptom. it could be due to anything. we often prescribe fever, fever reducing medications to people with fever like tylenol, that can subvert the temperature screen. >> do you think it would be useful if the u.s. refused entry to people traveling from the ebola-stricken countries? >> i don't think a travel restriction is the right answer here as dr. frieden stated, it does make response much harder because you can't get people out of there that go in there to help. we need to actually enhance what's going on at the site of the outbreak in order to prevent imported cases from happening. when you do a travel restriction, not only thattiously but it damages the economy of these places. it ice lates them, puts them on the precipice and form events

distrust. they are being isolated and left to become almost like a dead sta state. >> so if someone gets off of a flight on u.s. soil and has a fever, are the airports prepared to take care of them? >> the five airports that are being targeted with this enhanced screening all are places where the cdc has quar r quarterentine stations. if someone triggers that alert because they have a fever or symptoms that are consistent with ebola, they are taken to the quarantine station where they are evaluated and further testing is done. >> doctor, go see you. thanks for the information. we appreciate it. >> thanks for having me. fighters with isil are in a back and forth battle tonight for control of the syrian city of kobane, on the border of turkey. taking kobane would mean isil could control al big section of the border. they slaufrnli21 people were ki riots in neighboring turkey where kurds are upset with the turkish government. mike vick array has more on the

fight against isil. >> reporter: president obama went over plans with top commander as officials warned that the situation in syria could get worse before it gets bett better. president obama traveled to the pentagon sitting down with top officials and military brass, even as isil forces threaten today gain more ground in syria. >> it remains a difficult mission as indicated from the start. this is not something that is going to be solved overnight. >> this as isil forces lay siege to kobane. wednesday, coalition warplanes hit with 8 more airstrikes. a pentagon spokesmans said the town may well be lost. >> airstrikes alone not going to do it, not going to fix this, not going to save the town of kobane. >> saving it, the white house says may not be possible. >> our strategy is reliant upon something that is not yet in place, and that is a syrian opinion something else that can take the fight to isil on the

ground in syria. >> that's still in the planning stage. opposition forces have not yet been vetted to begin training. they haven't even been recruited. kobane lies just inside syria. a clear view of journalists on the turkish side of the border. unlike other battles, this has a been televised, spur worldwide calls to do something to save it. u.s. officials are pressing turkey to do more. turkey has been slow to respond and has renewed calls for a no-fly zone near its border. wednesday, secretary of state john kerry left the door top that idea? >> it's worth looking at. >> american officials fear that would be forces into the fight against the bashar al-assad regime who unlike isil has an air force. officials spent the day walking back his comments. >> this is not a new issue. this desire by turkey for a buffer zone, a so-called buffer zone, as they refer to it, it is now not on the table as military

option that we are considering. >> and john, the manponpon tapped to be his em sassy to the coalition in the region, general john allen travels to ankara with key tops to top turkish officials >> thank you. back here in the united states, there was some confusion today over same-sex marriages in nevada. earlier today, the supreme court justice temporarily blocked gay unions. idaho asked for the delay but nevada did not. justis kennedy said same-sex marriages can begin in nevada. legal angel wrongslings may tie up same-sex weddings in north carolina t state law requires all couples to waited 24 hours after applying to get their marriage license. the state's attorney general asked the supreme court to block it and asked them to do it within the 24-hour window before listens could be granted. the justices gave no indication

when they might rule. in the upcoming mid-term elections, a few states could tilt the balance of pour in congress. one state is kentucky. it's senate race is on target to be the most expensive in u.s. history. outside money is flowing in to the state as the senate's most powerful republican fights for his political life. libby casey reports. >> am. >> these are serious times. >> reporter: everywhere you go in kentucky, political ads blast the airwaves. on t.v. alone, kentuckians have sat through almost 500 hours of political commercials. 500 hours of mudslinging. self-promoting and skeet shooting for just one race. the tight battle between republican senate leader mitch mcconnell and alison grimes. >> how much did an ad like that cost? >> well, on the current buy, last week, we spent about a million dollars for a week's buy

and this week, it's about 1.1 million. >> running all of those ads requires massive sums of money, and and more than half of it comes from groups outside kwent no connection to the campaigns. in fact, it's impossible to even trace millions of those dollars. louisville political operative scott jennings agreed to pull back the curtain a bit. he worked for two outside groups, laser folks us odd keeping senator mcconnell in? >> the volume of advertising we have been able to do, i think, has really made a difference in alter the political and public affairs discourse over the last several months. we have all kind of different donors from all over the place. of course, both campaigns do. >> the two groups very many sunk $10 million and counting into kentucky. wuvenl has donors like a texas oil company and big money private equity firms in connecticut and new york. they are betting the probe business mcconnell will have more influence if he rises to majority leader.

but the other group is funded with what's known as dark money. it doesn't have to say who gave it the cash. so even people in kentucky are literally in the dark about who is trying to influence their votes and why. >> it goes to show you just how important the race really is. we are fighting a race here in kentucky that has national implications. if mitch mcconnell wings, he is most likely going to be the majority leader. >> if alison grimes wins, democrats will topple the senate's most powerful republican. >> what if politicians started gambling with benefits by risking social security in the stockmarket? well, that's exactly what mitch mcconnell voted to do. >> listen to the commercials and it sort of confuses you, you know. >> angela few gait's vote determine which party controls the senate affecting policies for years to come. so outside groups have spent more than 2$4 million in kentucky. dark money, alone, has topped $10 million, and most of the dark money pouring in, 82%, has

been used against alison grimes. do the math, and outside groups have spent $16 on each voter. >> grimes embraced alabaobama's platform. >> these are about tying alison grimes to president obama. >> absolutely because she is tied to president obama. >> journalism professor al cross hassed covered kentucky politics for 40 years and says that barrage put the grimes campaign on defense. >> a campaign team allowed their candidate to gets defined by the other side before she defined herself. >> it's hard to out shout millions of dollars in ads, fighting back, outside groups supporting grimes, waging their own ditch mitch campaign. >> 30 years of mitch mcconnell. i don't think we can take any more. >> cross says there is so much money and noise that kentuckians aren't hearing much real debate. >> people say they get most of their information from television. they are getting a lot of miss information when it comes to

politics. >> but candidates are happy to let outsiders and their money in to kentucky if it gives them an edge. libby casey, al jazeera, louisville, kement. >> this quick report, fed up in kentucky airs friday, 8:30. 11:30 eastern time. let me bring in al jazeera michael schur to talk about the election. michael, first of all, with money coming in on both sides -- >> yeah. >> does that make it a level playing field? >> you have heard what libby said in her story, 82% of the money is coming in, going against alison grimes. so, it's not a level playing field. you know, the whole idea of money, join, means that it isn't a level playing field at all anyway because this dark money, these 501 c4s that are developed so that they can take money from people without even having to divulge who those people are means that it is by its nature. >> a lot of it is being spent on

t.v. ads. is that what you need to spend it on in a state like kentucky? >> well, that's a great question k a lot of it has to do with getting on t.v. and getting theses messages as al cross in that piece just said, the political reporter there in kentucky. a lot of it has to do with defining your candidate. i would take issue with the fact that grimes was defined because from the very get-go, she said that, you know, coal keeps the light on. i am with yoal. but going to your question, it's about organizing, too. in these rules states, it's very important for these campaigns to organize, get out the vote. >> mcconnell may be getting money from outside. apparently she is ahead in the latest poll anyway. so what does this level of spending tell you what's going on in the mid terms? >> they are saying right now, john, this is the most expensive election in united states history including presidential elections with the exception of obama versus romney in 2012. think about that. >> that's a mid-term election.

it's 2014 and this is the most expensive election. >> in 2016, what can we expect? >> more of the same and you are going to expect to eclipse whatever romney versus obama was. it's going to keep going. it's all a trickle-down from 2010, that citizens united rule. >> more spent on this election. gubernatorial risk, bloomberg, why is he spending money on gubernatorial races? >> he sees what we see, congress isn't getting anything done but governs can. state legislatures can get things done. he is giving money regardless of party to different groups that are taking this money and doing the things that he thinks are important for, you know, for not just his agenda but for seeing both sides work together. >> he cares about gun control? >> he cares about gun control. nick snyder, the governor of michigan, .1 of the officials is a pro--gun guy. when it came in the wake of sandy hook, when it came time for them to, in michigan, to rule that people are allowed to

have concealed weapons weapons in schools, he vetoed that bichlt those are the kind of things bloomberg remembers. >> what do you think is the most interesting thing about mid-term elections this year? >> this year, i think the fact that mitch mcconnell is up, the fact all of these candidates are up who are red-state democrats, defending their seats, that so many of the women are doing it, i think that is what it's about. i also think that this is the first time we have seen a mid-term election have to live by citizenship united. 2014, these rules are different now. >> is it about who controls congress or not? >> yeah. i mean i think it is. >> that's what people in washington look at because then if you control congress, you control the judiciary. if you control the judiciary, you chrome the way that social america goes. i think that's a big part of this. >> that's what a lot of these rural voters are looking at. not just who is going to vote on what. it's not just about obama care and immigration. it's about the judges, too. >> it's about the judges? >> yeah. >> but so if republicans get

both houses, then how does that impact 2016? >> well it's hard to say. i mean, listen. 2016, there is a whole slew of senate races with republicans in blue states having to defend it. it looks favorable from democrats from this distance. too hard to say, though. what i think is interesting to look at is what kind of republicans are going to win and if republicans win who are sort of the mainstream types, the republicans that have -- that they have tried to put out there this year instead of the extreme republicans, i think you will see them rally behind that kind of a candidate in 2016. it may help determine the type of candidate the republicans feel. >> all right, mike. good to see you. thank you very much? >> thanks. several banks have been hit by hackers. the group that recently went after j.p. morgan has targeted citi group, hsbc and several basics. they went after adp, one of the largest paycheck processors in the united states. they were able to access a small amount of information. they did not get account numbers and other personal data. the attacks are a major concern

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super typhoon gaining strength in the pacific tonight making it the strongest storm of 2014. it's being compared to last year's deadlyfy off and on hyan. our meteorologist kevin corvo is here? >> we are looking at wind speeds with this storm sustained about 166 miles per hour, gusting to about 205 miles per hour.

see it here on the satellite image with a well-defined eye. the difference between this and our past typhoon t will take a little bit of a different track. we will watch this carefully. fanfon was a deadly typhoon over okinawa. we lost three service members with that storm. this storm is expected to go to okinawa as well. it is located right here in the islands. we have over 50,000 service members located there. so we are going to be watching this. we think it's going to increase a little bit more in intensity. tas super typhoon, equivalent to a category 5 hurricane if it was in the atlantic. so we are going to be watching this all the way through the weekend. of course, we expect to see major flooding going on in that area. i do want to take you to the northeastern part of the united states. this morning, we saw some major damage due to a microburst. look at the video that came in. this is straight line winds coming out after thunderstorm, and it was estimated in easthampton, massachusetts, that

it was 1 miles per hour. we saw quite a bit of trees down, poor outages as well, as well as has been declared a state of emergency around that particular area. back to you. >> all right, kevin. thank you. a deadly crash led to the grounding of a fleet of air t e tankers in california today. one crashed while battling a blaze in yosemite park. the officials say the other aircraft are available to battle california's many wildfires but has not made it clear how long the air tankers will be out of service. coming up next, a disturbing report about the treatment of restaurant workers. plus, hospitals around the country are stepping up training for ebola including the use of haz-mat suits. we will show you how easy it is to make a fatal mistake.

john seigenthaler, suiting up for ebola. we will show you how difficult it is to put on and take off the protective suits. new video of a man being tasered by police raises new questions about excessive force, and a startling new report about working in the restaurant industry.

the first death of an ebola patient on u.s. soil occurred early this morning. thomas eric duncan caught the disease in liberia and flew to dallas last month. he was admitted 10 days ago and treated with experimental drug. >> didn't work. and he died this morning. also today, a sheriff's deputy deputy who was inside duncan's girlfriend's apartment was hospitalized with ebola like symptoms. plus, in omaha, nebraska, blood from dr. kent brantley is being used to treat a freelance photographer. and the cdc announced they were sending medical screeners to five u.s. air ports to screen passengers arriving from west african nations. >> anyone with fever should be asked if they have been in west africa, specifically guinea, sierra leone and liberia in the past 21 days. and if so, rapidly isolated, fully aced and if appropriate,

tested for ebola. >> the enhanced airport testing begins on saturday. and there is new information about the nurse contracted ebola in spain. officials now say they think she may have touched her face with a can tamnated glove. teresa rammeros' case is the first known incident from someone con tract that disease outside of west africa. she cared for a spanish missionary who died of ebola last week. en with the right equipment, healthcare workers can make mistakes jake ward explains how the biohazard on suit works. >> reporter: when experts talk about putting on and taking off a suit like the one i am about to display here, they talk about ritualizing the process because you have to make sure everything is perfect. now, the ritual begins with drinking water. if you get dehydrated, bad things can happen to you, not the least of which would be fainting while you are on the job. so you are supposed to down water. now, i am here in a climate controlled western office building and i will still going to sweat my brains out when i do this.

imagine doing this in western africa where you are dealing with 90, 100 degree temperatures, high humidity and having to wear this kind of thing for hours on end. imagine that i have just come from treating an ebola afflicted patience and have gotten blood or other body material on to me. the seal around my gloves is a really krufshl thing, and so you're instructed to prepare these sort of pull tabs that make it easier for you to get it off. the trick is you have to make sure that they are on the outside of your wrists and not on the inside where walking can wear them away and break that seal. so, i am going to get out of this suit. i am going to show you the critical mistake that the can get so many aid workers in to trouble. they are exhausted. they have seen a lot of blood. they are panicked. they want to get this off. they pull it off off.

the fresh air hits their face and their first instinct is to wipe their brow because they are so sweaty. this glove is contaminated and that's where you are getting contaminated material into mucous membranes. it drips into the eyes, makes the mistake. >> that's the moment. the thing to consider here is that for every person you want in one of these suits out treating people, you are going to need a second person also trained in the use of the suit to get that first person out of it. >> budb buddy system is essential, doctors say, in creating the kind of ritualized processes that's going to keep me from being infected. >> that's jake ward. and an update to a story we reported last night. the ped pet dog of the nurse died with ebola in spain is dead. the 12-year-old dog, excalibur, was put to sfleep madrid. officials say it's necessary because of possible transmission of ebola between animals and

humans. nearly 400,000 people signed an online petition to keep that dog alive. >> tomorrow marks two months since michael brown was shot dead by police. the events in ferguson, missouri, over the summer gave way to weeks of soul-search okay issues of policing. a slew of more recent cases has police facing more scrutiny. >> the nation's attorney general said it's time to review how police officers do their jobs. this, after a string of controversial incidents. >> operation. >> are you going to open the door? >> this is the moment that touched off a federal lawsuit: >> taser, taking, taking. i felt defenseless that i couldn't even help my family at that time. >> jamal jones was in the car with his girlfriend and her children when they were pulled over for not wearing seatbelts. jones did not have his id. the indiana police say they asked him to get out of the car multip multiple times. the officers say he reached into

the backseat and that twhoerd he had a gun. that's when an officer broke the window, takesed jones and arrested him. jones says that was excessive force and he's taken the officers to court. the police say they have their own footage of the incidents but haven't yet released it. >> around the country t video confrontations like these are raising questions about police conduct when it comes to force and race. new york city police say they are reviewing an incident in which officers chased down a black teen in brooklyn in august and pistol whipped him. they arrested car e-mailtribble for marijuana possession. the teen's lawyer said he did nothing wrong and wants the officers charged with assault. one officer has been suspended without pay. the other is on modified duty. this week, police near raleigh, north carolina, caused an uproar after they mistook a black teen for a burglar ? >> put your hands on the door. i was what? this is my house. i was like, why are y'all in

here? >> 18-year-old deshon curry lives with a white foster family. the officers involved accused him of refusing to cooperate. it's one of many cases shaping the debate over how america's police forces operate. >> conversation was reignited this summer by the police killing of an unarmed black teen in ferguson, missouri. >> but in the week sense, it's still producing far more questions than answers. >> in that ferguson shooting is why the attorney general says the justice department is working with police associations across country to review tactics and training to become more effective and safer. >> jonathan betz, thank you. attorney riva martin joins us from los angeles. riva, are these cell phone videos now becoming a big part of making these cases? >> absolutely, john. you know, i don't understand police officers and why they engage in some of the conduct that we are seeing, you know, being played out in the national news, particularly when they know that they are being

videotaped. in the ham monday, indiana's, case the teenage kid was videotaping the entire incident involving the officers and his mother's boyfriend. these tapes are very valuable and they are exposing some of the conduct, you know, not all, which is good conduct on the part of the police officers. >> so what are the legal standards governing the use of force? >> well, you know, clearly in the hammond case, police have a right to, if there is, you know, believed to be the violated some law. in this case, the parents were driving without their seat bolt. stopped the car. they can ask you to get out of the car. they can ask you for your license but this is all in the backdrop of african-american men who have been shot, unarmed bhoen have been shot by white police officers. so this man in hammond said, look. i was afraid to get out of my car for fear i would be harmed by the police. >> is that a reasonable position for a citizen?

or are they refusing to cooperate? >> you know, that's a difficult question, john. clearly, we don't want people wholesale disobeying the orders of police. nor do we want to see, as we see time and time again, police officers using a level of force. they are supposed to serve and protect. they are trained how to deescalate situations. when we watch that videotape of what happened in hammond, indiana, it seems that rather than deescalate the situation, they actually escalated the signature. you hear this woman on the phone calling 9-1-1. she is actually calling the police on the police saying, we are afraid. we want a supervisor here we want some help. so, i think the training that eric holder talked about needs to go further. not just technical training about the use of force, but sensitivity training on the issue of race and race relations which plays a big part in a lot of these cases that we are following. >> so when departments are found to use excessive force, what's the punishment?

>> major lawsuits. we have talking about money damages. most of these cases, they are civil lawsuits filed in federal court. sometimes filed in state courts, but the victims who are allege that they were victimized by the police are seeking money damages, pun i have been damages and compensatory damages. police departments are having to shell out millions of dollars, not just in judgments and settlements, but also in legal costs. so there is a great cost to taxpayers for these lawsuits. sometimes, we see police officers, themselves, being disciplined, fired, suspended and in some case, criminally prosecuted. >> if you don't mind standing by for a second, i have another iss issue. a new report parents a scathing picture of widespread sexual harassment for workers who depend upon tips. a report from a watchdog group says 90%n of women in restaurant jobs say they have been victimized at work. women living on $2, $0.13 an hour are twice as likely to be

targeted as women getting a full minimum wage and are three times more likely to be told by managers to wear sectionier clothes. catherine bryant is a restaurant server, a member of restaurant opportunity centers united, a group that put out the study. she joins us from washington, d.c. catherine, thanks for talking with us. >> thank you for having me. >> tell us about -- tell us about what you have experienced as far as harassment in restaurants. >> i have experience truck driver on different levels. as a server, you do experience it from other co-workers. i have experienced it from management and from customers. so in any sense of the way imaginable, you know, i have experienced sexual harassment. >> well, talk about customers. what do customers do? >> well customers, you know, a

lot of its verbal. you know, a lot of it can be, you know, by touching especially, you know, if they have been drinking alcohol, their inhibitions are lowered. or if, you know, they are with their friends and they are trying to show off. it also happens, you know, if there are regs or if it's just they are passing by. it happens, you know, pretty frequently, especially when customers and if you are a tip worker, you feel vulnerable. if they are a regular, perhaps they have business connections with the owner of the restaurant or the management or, just knowing, hey, if i complain, my business lose money and that's where i make my money, through how much i sell. so, you know, you try to normalize the situation. you understand, well, my appearance is what sells anyway. so i will just carry on. hopefully this flot happen again. but, you know, eventually it will does. >> catherine, is this about the way the system is set up for

restaurant employees for those who wait for a living? is it because they get tips? >> the way they make most of their money? >> it kind of is twofold because, from, let's see, say, from my perspective, you know, if i get harassed by a customer, i think, well, i depend upon tips, you know. if i make this customer angry, then there goes my money. and then, from, say, the business perspective is, if i complain, i only get paid 2.15 an hour. i am very, you know deposable. so they can find another server with a similar set of experiences as opposed to, say, you know, if i were to make a salary, you know, obviously there has been some investment made into that employee. >> did you get harassment for anything while you were working at restaurants? >> am did i get harassment training?

not -- nothing extensive. you do get the typical orientation where you go over the company policy like benefits, how to behave. what are certain things that are expected of you? and then arrest it covers the sexual harassment part, either the management is either very uncomfortable and, okay. if you have a problem, just call this number. or they are like, yeah, you know, it's part of the job anyway. i mean, you know, whatever. you know, and they turn the page of the handbook and go on. sometimes, you watch like a cheesey 15 minute video, probably tape recorded in, like, 1985 and it's just you feel completely out of touch with it. a lot of co-workers just find it cheesey and silly. so really, honestly, nothing in depth whatsoever. >> how can restaurants -- >> i don't think people really -- >> i was go to go say how can restaurants and how can the country fix this?

>> i would say, you know, the restaurant industry is a professional job. most of the time, it is not perceived as one. so, i think if among the employees, if they understand this is a professional job and your job matters. your job is important, it makes a difference in this world and you do matter in how you feel and how you are treated on the job. it matters. and you know what? it's not, you know, what you get paid hourly, 2.15 is not a true reflex of how much you are worth. you are worth it. and so, i want to speak directly to other restaurant workers. you are worth it. if you are at any moment, if you feel uncomfortable, you speak f up. you deserve standards for yourself as we do for this industry. and we deserve bert. >> absolutely catherine bryant, it's good to see you on the program. thank you for sharing your story. and i want to bring back any attorney r i have a martin. areva, how can restaurant workers prove sexual harassment?

>> you know, sometimes, john, these cases are very difficult to prove because you don't have a third-party witness. it becomes am question about whether the conduct was con 70 wul. >> that's often the defense used by the defendant in these civil lawsuits is that, you know, i didn't make an unwarranted advance, that we were engaged in some kind of consent annual conduct. so, it can be very challenging for a woman in these cases to actually, you know, go north lawsuit and establish her case. >> doesn't mean that women shouldn't speak up. i agree whole heartedly with catherine that women in these jobs should feel empowered to complain because things won't change as long as don't talk about these issues. >> and yet, they are paid, as she said, $2 an hour, a little bit more. it's not a reflection of their worth, but if they -- if they bring a sexual harassment claim, how easy is it going to be for them to get another job? >> that's the dlementa we are

facing. many make below the federal minimum wage. they are afraid to speak up because they are afraid of retribution, losing, you know, the small amount of income that they have. guwe know without some kind of pressure, without some kind of advocacy, without those lawsuits that often result in large judgments against restaurants, it's going to be impossible to move the needle on this. so these kind of conversations are very important. and i think what is shocking is that this conduct is not just coming from the customers but it's the managers and co-workers and there are laws throughout this country that prohibit sexual harassment in the work plates. in many states, the lauds say that a supervisor that engages in sexual harassment of a subordinate is strictly liable for that conduct. so, you know, this culture that allows this conduct to exist can be very cost that's correct restaurant owners? >>. >> can't the restaurants do something about this? >> absolutely, they can do something about it. you know, we have been talking a lot about zero tolerance, you

know, as relates to domestic violence but similarly, you know, restaurants have an obligation, if you are an owner of a restaurant, to change that culture. they can, you know, managers can be fired. employees can be fired. the culture can change as long as someone in a leadership role is willing to step up and say that this conduct is unacceptable, that women do have rights and you have to stop treating women and men differently. you know, why should a woman be forced to wear a corset and a miniskirt to work while men get to wear slacks and long sleeve shirts. everything from the way women are forced to dress to how women are treated in the workplace can change if the owners are willing to make those changes. >> surprising study, and we will be talking about it more. areva, martin, good to have you on the program. >> thanks, john. >> with mid terms right around the corner, one issue getting attention is immigration. activists are trying to reignite the sanctuary movement. in the 1980s, sanctuary protected more than 14 ,000 undocumented my grasped from

deportation. the idea was to use churches as a place of refuge. jennifer london has the story of one migrant at a church in tucson, arizona. ♪ francisco perez are gore dozena is seeking salvation. but unlike the small group of parishioners who attend a village for him and his family, he can't leave the church at the end of the service. >> how long are you prepared to stay in this church? >> i have no idea how long it's going to be t i have no other option. >> no other options because francisco is facing deportation back to mexico. while his lawyer tries to halt the proceedings, francis 0 has taken sanctuary in the church. >> why should you be allowed to stay in the united states? you don't have papers. so why shouldn't you be deported? >> it's very long story, but --

>> give me a reason why you think you should be able to stay in the united states. >> because the reason i thing is my kids, my family. i have five kids. they are u.s. citizens. i don't have any record criminal. >> since late september, he has been living here. >> it is a place where i sleep. >> hiding in plain sight from immigration authorities who are unlikely to take action. the 2011 policy document known as the morton memo issued by then ice director john morton states deportation orders would not be carried out at quote sensitive locations such as schools and churches unless prior approval is obtained. pastor jim wilt bank says francisco can stay at his church for as long as it takes. >> why is the church gaifblinging him a hiding place? >> first of all, because families should stay together. our policies in the united states should never be to differ i'd families. >> sanctuary isn't without

sacrifice. attempts to keep the family together have temporarily torn them apart. >> francisco's wife and his five children live in this trailer. it's only being 10 miles away from the church where he has taken sanctuary. it's close, but he can't come visit. the risk of returning home is far too great. if francisco were caught, he would immediately be deported without even the chance to say goodbye. >> confined to the church, francisco's family must come to him. >> my children need their father in the home. >> south side presbyterian church in tucson pioneered the sanctuary movement back in the 1980s. pastor alison harrington says offering a safe haven for my grant did is the right thing to do, especially now. >> it's devastating folks like francisco have been waiting on the president to do something. he promised he would do something. he promised. he promised he would. and then he said, i'm sorry. i can't act now. >> earlier this year, danielle

ruiz, an undocumented migrant in tucson was issued a one-year stay of his deportation after a month isn sanctuary giving hope to francisco and others that their prayers will be answered, too. >> i hope tomorrow when they call me, they say, hey, everything is okay. everything is over. but i don't know how long it is going to be. >> jennifer london, al jazeera, tucson, arizona. >> and join us next tuesday for more on the immigration crisis and its impact on mid-term elections, part of the special report, america votes, 2014, tuesday night, 8:30 eastern, and 11:30 eastern. our picture of the day is coming up next. plus, the mystery surrounding king jung ung. where is he?

we were talking about the typhoon in the western pacific

now the bay of benga of l this is cyclone hudhud. it is organizing. we are going to see a landfall unfortunately with the storm over the next few days on the eastern coast of india. >> means it's going to be meeting up with the monsoon season, the ends of the monsoon. heavy rain showers are expected in this area as well as some very high storm surge just to the north of where we will see landfall. we will keep you updated on this over the next couple of days. for the southwestern part of the united states, this is the remnants of what was simon and tonight, we are going to be seeing heavy rain across parts of arizona as well as in to new mexico. we are seeing heavy thunderstorms right now pushing across parts of alabama. it has been reported already that we have seen hail in that area the size of softballs. so we need ton watching this area very carefully. as we go to the next couple of days, that will start to make its wait toward the east.

we expect to see much better weather in this area over the next coming days and we are going to be seeing heavy rain showers as make its way towards parts of oklahoma as well as in to missouri. >> that's a look at your national weather. news is next.

north korea is a mysterious country. maybe no surprise there is a puzzle about it's leader kim jong-un hasn't been mean public for weeks. jonathan betz reports. >> not seen in public for more than a month, kim jong-un has not only skipped key event after key event. but surprisingly, some of his top leaders showed up in south korea and discussed renewing talks. it all has the world abuzz with theories ranging from a coup to illness. >> i think kim joung-un is politically healthy. he says the 31-year-old leader is in charge only saying he suffers from discomfort after

last seen walk with a limp. >> the party decided, i am pretty sure, that it's not good idea to show him in that physical condition. >> many others aren't so sure. >> recent visit to the south by three senior north korean leaders was interesting. they officially cheered on athletes at the asian games. but the add heres of - -- appearance of one of them caused the biggest stir. it's seen as the country's anywhere 2 figure and raised hopes the north might be will toing talk with the south. >> i hope north korea lives up to its will to improve the south and north korean relations. >> there are reports kim's younger sister may have taken over. and further adding to the mystery, a flurry of headlines from north korea's willingness to talk with the south to a party official's admission this week that nort korea does indeed have labor camps. surprise announcements from a country where little changes and less is shared. jonathan betz, al jazeera, new

york. >> an i am alan that caught our attention today, our freeze frame tonight, it captures the lunar eclipse. north americans had a prime view of this full lunar eclipse this morning. here is the earth's shadow begins to fall over the moon. >> silhouette on the freedom tower in miami, it's showing up right there in front of the lunar eclipse. see you tomorrow. "america tonight" is next. ♪

>> 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 prtb