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>> have family wounds begun to heal? >> our relationship still is harsh. >> are their dreams coming true? >> 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. >> this is al jazeera america. live from new york city, i'm david shuster with a look at the top stories. u.s. military planes arrived in liberia, bringing aid and marines to the ebola crisis much as the americans contain the spread at home. shia rebels are in a standoff with the president, and the crisis is getting worse. u.s.-led air strikes target i.s.i.l. in the border town of kobane. i.s.i.l.'s hold on the territory
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is getting stronger. the hackers that stole data from jpmorgan have been linked to possible attacks on 13 other financial institution, including some of the world's largest banks. we begin with the latest on the ebola outbreak. military planes have arrived in liberia, carrying aid and 100 additional american marines. that brings the american troop total to 100 in liberia. about 500 soldiers were trained at fort hood texas today. officials in dallas confirm the remains of thomas eric duncan has been cremated, a liberian national who died, eight days after becoming the first person
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diagnosed with ebola on american soil. he is one of hundreds of cases worldwide, according to numbers from the world health organisation. ashar quraishi joins us from dallas. you have been reporting on the cremation of dunk thomas eric duncan. what can you tell us about the handling of his remains. ? >> an official told us that his remains were cremated shortly after he died, recommending that the body be handled personally. two options, one ce nation, one the body put in an her matticly sealed coffin. the body was cremated after he died. we heard from family members and a spokesperson saying they were not given the option in terms of burial, but it was mandated by officials. >> we saw a deputy who had been inside thomas eric duncan's
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apartment admitted to the hospital. what is the latest? >> the deputy was concerned about symptoms, he felt sick. he entered duncan's apartment. he did not have direct contact with duncan. precautionairily he was brought in, admitted to the hospital under observation for the last 24 or so hours. we are getting word from the texas department of health services that they have completed testing of the specimen and the result is negative for ebola, good news for the deputy, he was feeling sick, was in the apartment but tested negative. >> good news. the hospital is monitoring 40 people who had a level of exposure to duncan, what is going on with them, and when will they be in the clear? >> it's a critical time. we are looking at the offering exposure time where you see the symptoms emerge between eight and 10 cause.
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what we heard from an official is the latest update on the 48 people who may have had exposure, none are exhibiting signs of ebola, none have temperatures, and that is good news. they are not out of the woods. the incubation period is up to 21 days. we are looking at 10 days before they are out of the woods. >> thank you ashar quraishi. here is the picture on the ebola outbreak, what you need to know and how it is connected globally in the united states hospitals and texas. georgia and nebraska is treating ebola patients. across the atlantic, hospitals in spain, france and germany have and are still treating ebola patients. more than 8,000 have been infected in sierra leone, guinea and liberia. 3800 have decide. there has been a 34% sprees in
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liberia, 40 intrz increase in -- 40% increase in sierra leone. an unrelated outbreak in the democratic republic of congo led to 71 cases, 43 deaths. health officials in australia are keeping an eye on a nurse who got sick in sierra leone. five u.s. airports are starting procedures for everyone who is flying in from the west african countries that have cases of ebola - liberia, sierra leone and guinea. federal officials say they'll be taking people's temperature, the first sign of infection. international airports in chicago, new jersey, d.c. and atlanta will begin next week. it is starting at j.f.k. john terrett is there live. why are they starting at j.f.k. first? >> the busiest airport in terms of traffic numbers is hart land, but more enter the united states
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via j.f.k. than any other airport, i suspect that's the reason it begins here, rolling out around the rest of the country. not that you would know, there's no signs saying ebola testing it imminent. we ventured to the environs of terminal 4 to see what they thing. >> reporter: ebola doesn't begin at j.f.k. until saturday. passengers arriving from overseas seem to think it's a good idea. the fact that they are testing is a good idea. it's great, easing the fear. >> those diseases are hard, dangerous. i believe in the government, it is the safety of people. >> it's important to screen people coming from the countries that are infected. >> sometimes i think it's a good thing. they have to test people to keep others safe, then i believe it's a good thing. >> apart from tyler kennedy,
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four others will test for ebola. chicago, new jersey, and hart field and jacksonville, picked because 90% of track from west africa comes through their gates. at laguardia 200 cleaners walked off the job seeking better protective clothing, worried they may come into contact request ebola -- contact with ebola whilst cleaning up after the passengers. >> they are worried they've been exposed. you'd thing a contract will do more. >> we don't want those cleaning in the campaigns to get ill. we can get the sickness easy. the strike comes on the same day as the center for disease control issued guidelines for better coping with the outbreak.
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so they take the temperature of an incoming passenger with a thermometer, they give them a form, which they hope will be filled in more honestly, which it is, if you are in north africa. they note the concerns of workers, and are happy to see them come back to work at midnight tonight. >> john terrett at j.f.k. thank you. >> the airport is getting increased security checks at chicago o'hare, new jersey's newark. a look at the numbers. they serve for than 268 million passengers. of those, 52,000 come from liberia, sierra leone, or guinea. that number represents 95% of all people flying into the u.s. from the west african countries, that's why the five airports were chosen for the enhanced screening. british officials will begin
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screenings of travellers, the screenings at heathrow, gat wick, and the train terminals. it comes amid information there may be a case of ebola in macedonia, where a british man died, after being taken from the hospital from a hotel. it is under quarantine, the hospital, for 48 hours. there's no indication the man had been to west africa. officials in spain say the condition of a nursing condition has deteriorated. teresa rome aero caught it outside of africa. the hospital is blaming it on romero, instead of reviewing protocols. the battle for kobane is growing more urgent by the hour. the islamic state of iraq and levant or i.s.i.l., controls about a third of the town right now. kurdish fighters say they have
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recaptured some areas. the united states and its allies launched air strikes against i.s.i.l. positions. kobane is on the border with turkey, which is urged to do more to help fighters. stefanie dekker has the latest from southern turkey. >> the future of kobane is uncertain. it's been another day of coalition air strikes. we heard another boom in the background to show you that this is an ongoing battle. we were a little closer to the town, and heard intensive street battles. we are told from kurdish fighters inside the town that i.s.i.l. made advances on thursday, in the east and south. talking about advances, we are talking street-by-street. this is fought inside the city. of course, the kurdish fighters have a small advantage in the sense that they are used to guerilla warfare, used to the up to , know it well and are faced with weaponry. at the diplomatic front we have
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action from turkey, and the u.s. putting pressure on the former general john alan. a special representative for the coalition. he wants more from turkey. a clear message that they want turkey to do more. >> stefanie dekker reporting from the region in south turkey. the white house is keeping an eye on the deteriorating situation much the administration is largely in monitoring mode. mike, has the u.s. potentially now given up on kobane. >> pretty close to it what you have seen from officials from washington to the pentagon to the white house - over the course of the last two days was preparing the american and world public for the fall of kobane and other cities like it. part of the attention of officials in washington that they attribute to the fight is many of the cameras that are across the border in turkey are trained on the battle. it's a higher profile, there's
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battles across iraq and syria, this has a higher profile. it's not holding on to kobane, not part of the larger strategy. no lesser figure than the secretary of state john kerry spoke to the issue. >> kobane is a tragedy, representing the evil of i.s.i.s. it is not the definition either of the strategy or of the full measure of what is happening with respect to i.s.i.l. it is one town, and there'll be others where there'll be conflicts with i.s.i.l. over the course of the next month. >> a follow on with stefanie dekker - she was telling us that officials in washington making no bones about the fact that they want turkey to do more militarily and financially. some of the families of the american mostages hold by islamic state have been critical of the white house, has the white house responded to them? >> well, the state department has in a previousing today.
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it's interesting. peter kassig is an american hostage that all sides ammed, appearing in -- acknowledged, appearing in the last gruesome murder of the last person. this is a former army ranger, going to the region to form an aid group to help the syria refugees. his mother put out a series of tweets and videos critical of the obama administration. we are on our own, she says, in the way of making a plea towards i.s.i.l. to spare the life of her son. there's an article in "foreign policy" magazine saying no one is in charge. hostage operation, and describes the alphabet soup of agencies telling families different things, and in the foreign policy report is that president obama met with the families at the white house. >> al jazeera's mike viqueira at the white house.
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thank you. >> i.s.i.l. fighters are on the offensive in northern iraq. iraqi soldiers and kurdish soldiers are trying to prevent i.s.i.l. seizing two towns. imran khan has more from baghdad. >> reporter: it may not look like much, but this key bridge is a strategic point in defending ball add. if it goes, ballad will be exposed. within the last week i.s.i.l. sighters moved to isolate salahaddin. everywhere wants to stop it happening. >> translation: we are the local fighters of the tribes. we are ready to fight. we have been attacked by i.s.i.l. over the orchard. we managed to foil the attack, and by the help of god we are existing. we have not slept for two days already. >> if ball add falls to
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i.s.i.l., it cuts off the province to the rest of the country. there has been coalition air strikes. it's not just ball add, there's another down jugel gearing up to fight. locals are worried. in that town they know what it is to fight. they repelled i.s.i.l. fighters for weeks. in the last 72 hours, they say i.s.i.l. advanced quickly and are getting closer. if they take the towns, iraq's supply lines will be cut. no supply lines, the fight is tougher. back in the united states wall street took a tumble a day after stocks had big games. the losses prompted by concerns of slowing economic growth and higher than needed oil production. energy stocks were the big losers, crude oil $86 a barrel. bad news for the market, good
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for people in terms of what they may pay at the gas pump. the dow fell 335 points, the biggest drop of the year. the nasdaq down over 90. in yemen, more than 67 people are dead after two suicide attacks in the country. the first targetting a houthi rally in sanaa. the other occurred at a military base in the eastern province, some of the worst violence the company has seen in two years. in a warning, there are graphic images in the story. >> this is the attack caught on a c c.t.v. camera. protesters on their way to join a rally, when a bomb exploded near a checkpoint. it happened in the capital sanaa, tahrir square. dozens were killed and injured. they were gathering at a rally
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to protest the appointment of a new prime minister. >> we demonstrate for our legitimate demands and hold others responsible for the bombing. >> reporter: this is the man at the center of the grove say, ahmed awad bin mubarak was chosen to form a government of national unity. hours after it was made. the houthi leader, abdulmalik al-houthi said it was dictated by the u.s. moments after the president met with the u.s. ambassador, he appointed ahmed awad bin mubarak. who gives the westerners the right to put their will on us. >> reporter: the suicide bombing targeted two more attacks in the eastern province. there's no claim of
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responsibility, but the area is an al qaeda stronghold. the political crisis raises fears of chaos and instabilities. the houthis that control sanaa insist they will only pull out once a government, where they have equal say, is formed. the sunnis are skeptical. they say the houthis want to overthrow the president and seize full power. u.s. state department spokeswoman jan sacky says yemen must return to its peace and national party solution. she added in a statement: the new palestinian unity government held its first cabinet meeting in the gaza strip. a symbolic first step to show
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the end of hamas resume. it's the first of its kind since the 2010 civil war between hamas and fatah. we have the latest. >> reporter: every morning this man works from his small rented apartment in the center of the gaza city, to what was once his home. all that is left of a spacious 3-storey townhouse is concrete and metal. the neighbourhood was one of the worst-hit areas during the bombardment of gaza. the area was visited ahead of a cabinet meeting. they hope the lawmakers ensure the area is rebuilt. >> translation: we trust in god, not the state. i pray the leaders will not fail us like the previous one has. look at our position. communities were destroyed. the leaders need to know we are
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struggling. >> the visit marks a first time a sitting prime minister has come to the gaza strip since hamas took over from fatah in 2006. both sides have agreed to work together to rebuild neighbourhoods like this, given the complicated past, not etch is convinced they can put aside their differences. few have forgotten the violence that saw the end of fatah's rule in the gaza strip. hamas sees itself as a lawful representative of the palestinian people, after winning parliamentary polls the year before the fighters grabbed control of enclave. relations between the two sides have been tense. the formation of a unity government it june, made up of professionals, raised homes. so, too, the agreement by the factions that the lawmakers will assume authority over gaza. abdullah the admits given the years of distrust.
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moving forward will not be easy. >> there's huge domestic challenges lying ahead. palestinian factions should live up to responsibility and transcend differences. this is a government of all palestine and the palestinians. >> which is all people like this want. some sort of normalcy. but depending on how much is raised at the international donors conference in cairo on sunday, that could take years. >> just ahead - bad news for pro-democracy protesters, talks with the government cancelled. and hillary clinton may not be willing to put her hat in the 2016 presidential race yet. someone with a lot of power did that for her. that's coming up in today's power politics.
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would be impossible to create dialogue after protesters called for a resurgence of efforts of the not all are demonstrating in the name of democracy. the protests are fuelled by the threat to close the widening wealth gap. >> reporter: hong kong is one of the world's richest city, but it doesn't seem that way in this working class city. this man is 72 and spends each day collecting cardboard. on a good day he makes $8. his young daughter makes $1300 a month, disqualifying him from welfare. every cent counts. >> translation: life is miserable. no one feels pity, we are on our own and have to live a frugal life. >> reporter: nearby two children return after school. one is 11, her brother almost 7.
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this is where they lived for the past three years. a room measuring less than 8 square meters. it's a subdivided apartment - kitchen, bed room, bathroom, study and no privacy. >> translation: we do not have enough money to live on. half of what we receive goes on represent. on top of that we have to pay utilities, it's a struggle. >> reporter: she is from china but can't work. she's separated from a hong kong partner, meaning she can't apply tore citizenship. she can remain because her children were born, but they can't apply for public houseing. >> i feel helpless, before i came to hong kong i didn't understand hell on earth. or life is no longer worth living. now i know what they mean. >> reporter: the government admits more than 170,000 people live this way, a third migrants
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from the mainland adding to the demand on public houseing. the city's wealth gap is one of biggest in the world, and the lack of affordable houseing is a reason for discontent. people complain that public utilities, transport, telecommunications and supermarkets are in the hands of a wealthy elite who dominate the property sector. >> young people say they can't buy house, represent a house, because rent is totally unaffordable. therefore they have a hard time getting married, and after getting married, cannot have children, because there's no room for them. >> long kong boasts a free economy. this week it announced that its foreign currency reserves stood at more than 325 billion. that's unlikely to make much difference to the life of this family and others like him.
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in mexico hundreds of thousands of protesters demand the return of 43 students who went missing in guerrero state. they were last seen put in police cars in the city of igguala. forensics are being done to see if any of the bodies were the students. so far 29 people, including 22 officers have been arrested in connection with the disappearance. >> the proposed merger between comcast and time warner is the big step forward. shareholders approved a $40 million deal with comcast. federal regulators are yet to sign off. critics say the deal gives the combined company too much power over cable and brode wand market. if approved. it could close next year. >> kurdish fighters are trying to save territories in syria
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from being seized by i.s.i.l. it created thousands of refugees. we talk to a kurdish turk donating millions to help the refugees. >> don't shoot! >> what do we want? justice! >> when do we want it? >> now! >> they are running towards base... >>...explosions going off we're not quite sure... >> fault lines al jazeera america's emmy winning, investigative, documentary, series...
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>> i.s.i.l. fighters and kurdish forces are in a dense battle for control of kobane, a turkish border town. more air strikes were launched by the coalition. i.s.i.l. is said to control part of the town. kurdish fighters say they recaptured interpret portion, as the u.s. urges turkey to do more. caught in the middle are thousands of refugees crossing to turkey. joining us to talk about this is the c.e.o. of a company, and a
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kurdish turk donating $2 million of his own money to aid for the refugees in his home lan. welcome to al jazeera, and tell us where the money will go. >> we had a good conversation with unscr, they are in the field with a good understanding of what the needs are. we'll do a field trip with them in the next couple of days. >> you have a special connection and allegiance for the people caught in the middle. can you explain what that is like personally and for family members. >> i'm from the eastern part of turkey, i'm kurdish, and i'm familiar with the people. the kurd live in northern syria and northern iraqi area. as an individual, of course, it's close to me, but they've been conscious of humanity from the beginning. we go to somalia, and haiti. this is close to my heart, of course. being from turkey, see what is
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happening inside turkey, and what more could happen in the coming days from the iraqi and syrian side, i have to do something. this is the result of that. >> are you disappointed by the turkish government? >> turkey, you said earlier, has been really at the borders, there's a lot of refugees that you have is within turkey, millions of them, and in the few days, more came from the kobane side. we are disappointed that more could be done. as you said from the white house and state department, they are expecting more. as an individual the country has been doing great, but with the refugees, we must do more. >> you have customers of your yoghurt company. explain how quickly it has grown. >> we had a humble beginning.
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we have five factories. business went national, and we said while we build we need to look at community, farmers and people in the company and open our arms to more and more people. and that's how we create the foundation. 10% of our profit goes to do good this the world. we are focussing on regions, and in america for child nut riss and supporting entrepreneurships in small towns, but in an event like this, you watch a humanitarian crisis on tv. you see it on newspapers, and pictures of girls, mothers and fathers, you have to do something. >> you have been engaged by corporate responsibility. what is the reaction through the years and now, when other business leaders, where you are doing tools with, and you talked
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about the engagement. >> i love the question. america is a generous country, there are people too. more and more people are understanding that the problems would be solved with people, ordinary people. and then we are solving it, we are doing an understanding that something like this would not happen again, and companies are becoming an important part of this, the companies have a foundation side. it's important. it's apparent that it is not separated. >> it's within the company, the belief that when everyone goes to war, and you make a cup of yoghurt, we want to be part of making good in the world, humanity. >> it seems it's a growing trend. if you had advice to other business leaders or other titans of industry about how to get engaged what would it be? >> be real. what is the issue that you are
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passionate the most. is that something that the whole company is lying around it. i would say do not keep it away from it. it should be part of our job that we are aware of our community, our surroundings, and what can we do to make it better. it could be your products, factory, office or issues like this, and refugees. we will be remembered with our products and words, not, you know, how much we are profitable. which is important for the business to be sustainable. what do we do to make the world in a better place. >> the c.e.o. thank you for coming. good luck. we are all, of course, paying close attention to what is happening in turkey and hope for the best. in today's power politics, 26 days until the midterm elections and there are new contrasts to consider. this is the busiest for debate,
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and pat roberts scared off against independence greg orman. one of the biggest issues health care. >> all said, obama care is the first step to national health insurance, we don't want o need national health insurance, we need a market-driven system. >> any senator that stands up and tells you he'll repeal the affordable care act is ignoring the reality that president obama would veto the bill. >> they'll work with both parties to change the system. it is resonating with the voters, and it's suggested that orman is ahead. another highly competitive race is colorado, and could determine which party controls the u.s. senate. mark udall is trying to market concerns about human rites and hammered cory, his opponent for outlawing caution.
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here is the question from the denver post moderator. >> mr udall, your campaign has been dubbed on women's issues you are dubbed mark uterus. any image of you as a bipartisan walk across the aisle guy has been significantly diminished. >> how do you respond to that nickname? >> well, here is the udall response. >> reproductive rites are important to millions of coloradoans. if congressman garden didn't build his career on limiting women's choices we wouldn't have this discussion. >> women's rites are an issue in new hamp sure. democrat is fending off a challenge from scott brown, and he is responding to sha heen with this. >> you may have seen senator sha heen is running an ad calling
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into question my support for women's health care. i want you to know the facts. i'm pro-choice and support funding for planned parent hood, and women should have access to contraception. >> brown is underscoring a current rule in politics, respond quickly to negative attack ads. >> in the north carolina ad, the state house speaker has been attacking kay hagan on military issues. hagan has gone on the hair with this. >> speaker tillis should be ashamed for running an ad saying i'd let our soldiers die in vain. it is outrageous. my husband served, i have two nephews on act if duty. >> intriguing news. billionaire warren buffet, who was close to hillary clinton just told "fortune" magazine that she's in. >> is hillary going to run?
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>> hillary will run. >> when will she announce it? >> as late as possible. >> is hillary going to win. >> hillariy is going to win, i'll bet money on it. >> imagine how vice president joe biden must feel. mr biden would have the endorsement of the people of india, he spoke about his heritage with india's prime minister. >> i actually had relatives in mumbai. for real. in the three biden families are in mumbai, so i'm going home with you. >> biden may not have the organization or fundraising that hillary clinton has, but his assistance of humour is political gold. that is the power politics today. >> in the upcoming midterm elections race is not just a few states. they are likely to decide who controls the senate. one is kentucky, one of the most
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expensive in u.s. history, outside money has flown into the state as the powerful republican fights for his political life. libby casey reports. >> these are serious times. >> reporter: everywhere you go in kentucky political ads blast the air waves. tv alone, kentuckians sat through almost 500 hours of political commercials. 500 hours of mud slinging, self-promoting and skeet shooting for one race. the tight battle between republican senate leader mitch mcconnell, and alison lundergan grimes. how much did an ad like that cost? >> on the current buy, we spent about a million last week for a week's buy, this week $1.1 million. >> running the ads requires large sums of money, half coming from groups outside of kentucky with no connection to the
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campaign. it's impossible to trace millions of dollars. >> louville operative jepings pulled back the curtain, working for laser focus, keeping senator mitch mcconnell in office. >> the volume of advertising made a difference in altering the political and public affairs discourse over the last several months. we have different donors from all over the place. both campaigns well. >> the two groups jennings works for has sunk $10 million in kentucky. one has equity terms in connecticut, and new york. they are betting that mitch mcconnell will have more incidents if he rises. the other group is funded by dark money, and doesn't have to say who gave it the cash. people in kentucky are in the dark about who is trying to influence their vote, and why. >> it shows you how important
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the race is. we are fighting a race here in kentucky, that has national implications. if mitch mcconnell wins, he'll be the majority leader. if alison lundergan grimes wins, democrats will topple the democrat powerful republican. >> what if politicians gamble. well, that's what mitch mcconnell voted to do. >> listen to the commercials, and it confuses you. >> angela's vote could determine which party controls the senate, affecting policies for years to come. outside groups spent more than 24 million in kentucky. dark money topped $10 million, most of the dark money poring in, 82% has been used against alison lundergan grimes. do the maths, and outside groups have spent $16 on each voter. >> candidates are happy to let outsiders and their money into
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kentucky, if it gives them an edge. >> coming up, libby takes us to a kentucky town that redefines itself in a post-economy. be shower to tune in for the america vote programme "fed up in kentucky" tomorrow night on al jazeera america let's look now at other stories making headlines today from the united states. we are joined for those. >> protest over the shooting death of another black teenager in st louis missouri, killed by an off duty police officer. the police chief says the officer was patrolling a neighbourhood for a private security company when three males ran off. one fired three round at the officer, the officer returned fire. >> he went to the gangway, the
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young man pulled a weapon, shots were fired. the officer returned fire and unfortunately the young man was killed. >> however, some people who claim to know the victims say he was not armed. the identity of the officer and victim have not been released. west virginia will allow same-sex marriages, and his office will honour a supreme court decision declining to rule on a ruling striking down the ban. in alabama, the federal bureau of investigation is exhuming the body of a john doe in 181, saying he resembles photos of william, bishop junior. he is accused of murdering his wife, mother and three sons in maryland in 1976. it's the last year bishop was seep. the john doe was killed in a hit and run accident along a highway in scots bro alabama.
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a massive rain storm kept others busy. it had to be pulled from the ban when floodwaters overwhelmed streets. nearly an inch and a half of rain fell overnight in the latest round of storms. police in florida busted a man on the roof of a convenience store, trying to break in, covered in tar. 30 yooerld joshua hollowman was found after two in the morning. he tried to rob the shop by busting through the airconditioning shaft. it was the second roof he was spotted on with a crime tool. he denies the allegationment covered in tar. >> the man has issues. he has some creativity as well. >> thank you. check your bank statements, the hackers behind the data breach of jpmorgan likely hit 13 other
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it appears that the hackers targeted jpmorgan chase attacked other financial institutions. bloomberg news reports the hackers hit 13 other companies, including citigroup, e*trade, fidelity investments and payroll firm. it does not appear that any data was stolen from the companies. jpmorgan chase revealed 83 customers and small businesses were affected by the breach. tom paige ler, former security officer with jpmorgan, and is chief information officer at doku sign, a digital security company. give us a sense of the scope of
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the breach and how a bank like jpmorgan may clean it up? >> thanks for having me. with this, the scope is not just, you know, for chase, but the other banks and merchants that we are seeing. it's looking at trying to recreate what happened and why is it targetting so many areas at once. what they need to do is treat it like a crime scene. they'll go in there and find out where was the weakness, and as we are seeing in the media, over and over reported, it's looking like it's the legacy or smaller systems. they are massive structures. jpmorgan chase, other banks large, and some merchants at the news, almost too big to secure. they have a common framework, following the best industry standard and prs. there's a lot of smaller units bringing things in, older systems.
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a lot of the time it's coming from the smaller systems, not following the best common controls, security practices, and once they are into the smaller systems within the large entities, they can elevate the privileges and get throughout the organization. >> as the investigation goes through some of these smaller entry points, i suppose, how should the clients of jpmorgan and chase be. >> one of the nice things that chase is doing is it's been open, giving out the information they think may be out there. as a customer, i think best practices, make sure you are using the password, challenge the password, have strong passwords, and being diligent, looking at the financial statement, runs a free credit check. what is important is the employees - just in general, the public - we are working for the large companies, we are learning
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that we are responsible for trying to keep these big companies security. if you look at it a lot of it came from what you call fishing attacks, spam. it's an employee that may click on a link allowing infection to come into the company. if you think about it, post 9/11, in the airport, we know if we see a suspicious package, we report it right away. when an email comes in and it looks suspicious, we think about it and we move on. the security leads need to hear this. a lot is education amongst the injury, everyone needs to check in. protector cells and the companies we work for. >> the whole idea if you see something, stay something, and that applies to the internet. when we hear these breaches, reports say it's the work of increasingly sophisticated hackers. i wonder if you can describe this hacker and how they gain
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the sophistication. >> absolutely. i do grey. we are up against an organised group. i was with the secret service and i have been following the hackers. and really, when you look at the groups getting more sophisticated, they are specialising. some are fighting the breach and the vulnerability. others specialise and push out malicious software, others looking at financial data. others are looking for addresses, varies areas, and then coming together as a group in selling their wares. so basically you don't have to do it all, but one thing well, and do it over and over and share with each other. that's where we see the sophistication. you see multiple breaches taking data, but not all the data. not even with the recent example in the news with jpmorgan, it
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was names, email addresses and addresses, not account numbers. it's taken from somewhere else. again, just making sure that we are on top of it, communicating together, working together. i like the fact that the banks and merchants are telling the public what is going on. we need to inform people. it's difficult. there's a lot of big groups, hackers, and we need to work together to do that. >> tom, thank you for coming op. >> thank you. >> ray suarez will have more coming up on "inside story", and ali velshi looks at the international venue in "real money", coming up right here on al jazeera america. >> lego took a stand, refusing to do more business with shell oil, the viral campaign is next.
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tes la is to make two big announce said. jacob ward is here to break it down. what do we know about what is coming? >> this is a matter of reading the entrails. elon musk has been out on the road tipping his hand. this came from a tweet where he said he'll show off the d. whatever that is, and something else. in various purposes he hinted that the d could be something like an all-wheel drive version of the new tesla model s, making is available and practical for people driving in snow. headlights thought it would be a supercar equivalent. a blogger reported that he had it from an inside source that this could be the kind of char could sell rate from 0 to 1600 making it a ferrari or booug
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arty. elon musk said this week that he was confident that the tesla cars would be 90% autonomous, putting it ahead of car-makers, a 90% autonomous car, taking care of the driving on the highway, which may happen, this could be that announcement. >> tell us about the ambitions that elon musk has, and the scope of his ventures. >> it's amazing when you look at the guy. a car start up - this is a mu i multibillion company, and musk replacing n.a.s.a. with private sector rockets. he says he'll have charging stations within 100 miles of u.s. population, and he is building platforms. he made the platforms open source, unimaginable for ford,
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chevy, or g.m. to do so. in june he did that. he's trying to build platforms, an eco system that evolves under the innovations. we'll see the latest revealed at 7 o'clock pacific tonight. >> glad that you are on top of this. science and technology correspondent jacob ward, thank you. environmentalists are celebrating. the toy maker lego says it will not review its deal with shell oil following a campaign against arctic drilling. >> the marketing relationship between shell and lego has been strong for years now. lego toys are distributed in oil gas station in 26 countries, and lego made toys with shell's logo on them. for the last few months environmentalists from greenpeace have been pressuring lego to end its relationship with shell. because of its arctic drilling programme. they did this using this viral
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video. watch. ♪ everything is going ♪ if you're part of a team ♪ everything ♪ when you're living on a dream ♪ >> the song is a rendition of everything is awesome, and shows an arctic landscape with a shell-building programme, made with lego, swallowed up in oil. since the start of the campaign lego told environmentalists to take up the issue with shell oil, not the toy make are. they hold the position. but the company's c.e.o. said in a statement, "lego does not plan to renew its contract with shell", and environmentalists posted celebratory images showcasing lego figures. this is from greenpeace saying "thanks a lot", with all the
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lego figures. and nick says "it's over", showing shell and a lego nan. and another "everything is awesome." >> thank you very much. i'm david shuster. "inside story" is next. for more stories go to joms. -- go to aljazeera.com. do you know me? when i go to a restaurant the waiters may not know that i host a daily nags at news programme, but hackers rooting in my credit card records already do. it's "inside story". [ ♪ music ] hello, i'm ray suarez. another day, another data
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