the first look at isil fighters inside the syrian town of kabane as kurd forces say they are pouring in reenforcements to take it over. ♪ hello, i'm live from doha and coming up, on the program we hear why the violence in syria is forcing young girls to have children with men twice their age. the moracco government calls for the football tournament to be postpone over fears of ebola. we meet some of the hundreds of thousands forced from their homes by boko haram campaign of

violence in nigeria. ♪ so kurdish forces engage in a desperate battle to defend kobane and isil sending in reenforcements and tanks and heavy weapons in the town on turkey's border and security forces has changed hands more than once but currently controlled by isil and kurdish representatives told al jazeera they are being pushed back in the south and in the east of the town. and stephanie decker is here on the turkish/syrian border. >> reporter: a couple hundred meters oi -way from the border from the town held by isil and hearing military activity and those sounds throughout the last couple of days since monday night when isil managed to get inside kobane on the eastern and

southern sides and what we hear from kurdish fighters in the town is the front line has not really moved because this is such gorilla warfare and street to street they push forward and they are pushed back and we don't have a clear indication of how the front line is moving inside but we know they are inside of course and you can hear it outside of kobane with the smoke rising and hear the light arms and fire and on the diplomatic front from syria saying to open the borders with the kurds to go and help the fight because isil can resupply itself and has access when you talk about geography in syria and can bring in more men and weapons and perhaps the kurdish fighters cannot do because kobane is surrounded from the south, east and west for a very long time and the northern border is turkey. >> violence forced hundreds of

people to seek refuge in neighboring countries and u.n. warning there has been a big rise in the number of child marriages among refugees and girls as young as 13 are having children with men more than twice their age and we report now from zaka. >> reporter: this is not the syrian girl's real name, she was 13 when she got married right after the war began and she is now 16 with a child of her own. the war forced her parents to marry her off to her cousin to make sure someone would look after her in jordan and war, displacement and marriage said she had to drop out of school in the 9th grade. >> translator: i advise any young girl to get an education and not take on the big responsibilities i had as a child, i had my son so young and didn't know what to do with him when he cried or got sick i had no clue. >> reporter: she was timid in the interview because mother and law and husband were there but in private she told us pregnancy

was an excruciating experience for her and a study by unicef revealed a sharp rise of child marriages from ages of 16-17 among syrian refugees in jordan and if that is not enough the study shows almost half the child marriages were to men that were ten or more years older. ngos are concerned that early marriages could leave some girls in abusive and exploitation and some designed specific programs that aim to prevent child marriages and help those who are already married cope with challenges. and she is 17 and divorced after a three-year abusive marriage. >> translator: so many of us were crammed into a small space and my ex-husband became more violent. he would beat me and scream at me all the time. >> reporter: some syrian families had to flee from the war find early marriage favorable for economic and cultural reasons.

reproductive health is another issue that worries ngo and studies indicate early marriages have a higher risk of pregnancy complications and miscarriages and that is why aid agencies are working to raise awareness. >> we are really looking at a generation of girls that will lose their future, their education is lost, they no longer go to school after being married so the cycle of poverty of one's ability is transmitted from a generation to another. >> reporter: early marriages have long been an accepted practice in syria, it appears the war has, encouraged them more and shattered the dreams of young syrian girls and i'm with al jazeera in doca. leader of the muslim brotherhood justice party has been sentenced to 15 years in prison. the same term was handed down to preacher and accused of torturing a lawyer during the revolution in 2011, the two are

already serving long sentences and after being convicted of attempting to kill a policeman during the over throw of ousted president mohamed morsi who also appeared in court. am academic year has started and are trying to curb protest and we have this report. >> reporter: university in egypt are now open but with tightened security and new regulations. the government's aim is to clamp down on anti-coup protests that were staged at universities over the last year. outside this campus in cairo new gates have been built and an unprecedented move, a private security firm has been given the job of guarding the universities and everyone is searched. and they say the extra powers given to dean's of ministry of higher education and include the

immediate dismissal of students and professors if any participate in any protests. egyptian media also reported on other restrictions. this newspaper headline says final dismissal for students who insult president sisi and university rely on students to monitor and report rioters. the government is eager to end protests. it passed new laws last year that ban protest that are staged without fire approval and july 2013 people from mohamed morsi held protests to his return and end to the coup and sisi who led the coup became president in june. supporters of morsi and muslim brotherhood and other factions held demonstrations on-and-off

campus. students who attend egypt university have a history of acvision and that is why it could be hard to contain them. i'm with al jazeera. and we continue to demand the release of three journalists in prison in egypt, fahme, mohamed and greste have been detained 28 seven days and falsely accused of aiding the out lawed muslim brotherhood and appealing convictions and fahmy and greste 7 years in prison and mohamed god additional three years for having a spent bullet in his possession which he picked up at a protest. ♪ post nation morocco is calling for the biggest football tournament to be postponed because of ebola outbreak and the nation is due to begin in january and would include teams from some of the worst affected nations and so far more than 4,000 people died from the disease with vast majority in

west africa. aid agencies in sierra leone say the international community needs to invest far more money and resources into fighting the ebola outbreak and sierra leone does not have enough resources for treating ebola patients, on average there is one doctor for every 50,000 people. dominick kane has this report. >> reporter: this is an ebola treatment center in western free town. it cares for people who have tested positive for the disease. and suspected of incubating the virus are placed in a separate ward and those with a full-blown disease are treated in special tents behind steel fences. >> in this moment there are nurse staff inside one ten that they are providing care to one patient and there is always another person outside following activities that we are doing in the risk area. >> reporter: in the outbreak many of the people treating patients have themselves become infected from accidental

contamination. that isomething the healthcare workers here take very serio seriously. >> translator: and the treatment center you have to be careful when you go inside there. it's a risky job for the cleaners, the nurses, the doctors. it's not easy to do the work inside. you have to take your time and take all the precautions. >> reporter: trying to contain the outbreak is especially hard for sierra leone. it is home to 6 million people. 75% of them live in poverty. the government spends $205 per person per year on health. and there are only 120 doctors. another problem is how to ensure the safe disposal of the bodies of the victims. they are highly contagious and with more people dying everyday, in some places the bodies can lie in the open for sometime. >> we use protective equipment and then we use gloves and then

we use boots, clothing, it's very risky and that is one. and it's a voluntary job to save our country. >> reporter: but if the people organizing the treatment center in lakar are correct, that on its own may not be enough. dominick kane, al jazeera. u.s. is set to begin screening passengers for ebola at one of the busiest airports team at john f. kennedy in new york will use thermal sensors to screen from guinea and sierra leone and airports in washington d.c. and chicago and atlanta will roll out screening checks in the coming days. weekend of protest in the u.s. town of ferguson in missouri. >> don't shoot, don't shoot. >> reporter: people demanding justice from an unarmed teenager shot in august and days of unrest and we have more from

ferguson. >> reporter: this is the combination of the first night of a holiday weekend of protests in ferguson and general and talking about the killing of michael brown, the black, unarmed teenager in august by a police officer. organizers are hoping thousands will gather in st. louis on saturday and will end with an act of miss disobedience on monday and it's not just about protest and not just about local politicians, they organized seminars and lectures trying to analyze why in the u.s. young black teenagers are being killed at a rate 20 times higher than white peers as a study on friday revealed. there are seminars on race, politics, class, gender, economics and to try to understand the concepts involved and mobilize the anger on the streets of ferguson in august to try and effect lasting change. still to come on al jazeera

we report from mexico on the rebels threatening to take revenge for the kidnap of 43 students plus. >> i will tell you why hundreds of schools across pakistan in the province are empty and teachers are not turning up to work. ♪

♪ hello again and you are watching al jazeera and here is a recap of the top stories, kurdish forces fighting to defend kobane say isil is sending in reenforcement and in the past 24

hours u.s. led forces led ten air strikes in support of kurdish forces but not preventing them from being over run again. government in morocco is saying the cup of nations to be postponed because of the ebola out break in west africa and it's do to begin in january and so far more than 4,000 people have died from ebola. a weekend of protest underway in the u.s. town of ferguson in missouri, protesters rallying once again to demand justice for unarmed teenager michael brown shot dead by police in august. iraq calling for help to prevent advance of isil on the western providence of enbar and we are in northern iraq. >> reporter: isil is controlling major centers and warning the province of anbar could fall to isil in a few days and if it does it will be a

setback for the government and u.s. led coalition because air strikes have not been able to stop this group. it's strategic and isil has an open supply line between strongholds in both countries and borders iraq capital and that is the target of isil for sometime now. so these air strikes really not changing much on the ground, yes, here in the north kurdish forces recapture some territory but battle lines have not shifted and isil adapted to air strikes and now they melted with the population in major urban centers. responsible for a mass killing in iraq and camera man was among 13 shot dead and according to a watchdog and he came from a village near takreet and target because he refused to work for the work. suicide bomb killed at least nine people and attack took place in the district and left dozens injured in the iraqi

capitol. typhoon has hit parts of southern japan bringing powerful winds and huge waves and the storm is making its way to the southern okinawa islands and nine people have been killed and it has been downgrade from a super typhoon but it's still very large and very strong. north korean state media say talks with the south have been cancelled after leaflets were going across the border and they went on friday attached to balloons and they exchanged fire after the north tried to shoot the balloons down. at least 19 people have died from a landslide in northwestern china and happened in the city of the province and the landslide burys a dorm that houses highway construction workers as they slept inside, 14 people were killed instantly and

five others died after unsuccessful attempts to save them. fighters killed after a u.s. drone strike on the pack stand, afghanistan border and official sources say the drone strike was targeting a tall band hide out in afghanistan. pakistan between anchor malala yousafzai says being awarded the nobel peace prize will encourage her in the campaign to push for education for all children. pakistan has a poor education record and one of the biggest problem in some areas is getting teachers to turn up for work and nicole johnston has this. >> reporter: not a teacher here for seven years and the classrooms are empty, the corridors quiet. people here call it a ghost school. a resent survey found more than 6,000 schools across this province are not functioning and means 1 in 7 of them are like this, an empty shell. today a new teacher has turned

up, when officials recently visited the area parents pushed them to appoint one. the kids are excited. even though they have no books or pencils or even a chair. until now these children have had no education. we asked their teacher why so many of the colleagues are not turning up to class. >> translator: i don't know. the order is to go come from the officer. if the officer doesn't order the teacher to go, he won't. >> reporter: for many in the province there is no chance to study. only 52% of children go to school. and 10% of all teachers don't show up at all or are regularly abse absent. the same government says it's trying to cleanup corruption in the system. this official shows us the teacher attendance role at one

school. the day he turned up, all eight teachers were absent. he says they have all had their pay earlier the appointments were based on corruption and brides and nepitism and sometimes political pressure and not married. >> reporter: this boy's parents sent him to a nearby city to study. >> my father told me to study but these students are very poor. they are poor. and they cannot provide specialities to work at city. >> reporter: the first day of school is over. the teachers here don't have a reputation for staying around. so parents worry that eventually it will return to being a ghost school. nicole johnston, al jazeera in pakistan. the rebel group in mexico

threatened to take action whoever is behind the disappearance of 43 students in the state. the group which has been dormant for many years calls itself the revolutionary army of insurgent people and we have more from mexico city. >> erpi marks the rebel group in the state released a video which they vow to avenge kidnap ings of 43 students last seen in the hands of local police in the city here and they said they will carry out assassinations to anyone who is connected to this incident, primarily most singling out organized crime. now, this group is one that has been dormant for several years but in the state there are several marxist group and they had a campaign called the dirty war basically to eliminate and exterminate any one who had any sort of ties to these rebel

groups. hundreds of people died. many people were tortured and it says something that the mexican government was never able to eradicate these groups. we don't know much about this new band that has formed in honor of these students if you will and don't know how big they are but know in the past when they made threats they have made good on them and kidnapped politicians, they have killed people, so the threats of this new marxist group are yet another element to another complicated situation in the state here. brazil the country's largest city south palo is suffering the worst drought in nearly a century and reservoirs have dried up and south palo governor is asking for help from the government. residents there say it's the worst drought they have ever seen. well, bolivia goes to the polls on sunday and the president there is set to win a third term in office and one of the issues that he is focusing on is a

135--year-old territorial dispute over the border with chile and we have this report now. >> reporter: a bolivian naval vessel flies colors as it sets off on patrol, not in the ocean but in, yes, a lake. more than 4,000 meters above sea level the lake here is the world's highest navigable lake. having its navy regular gaited to this body of water is a humiliation endured by bolivia since 1879 when it lost its coastline to neighboring chile in the war of the pacific. at the naval base sailors learn the basics so they will be ready for the day when their land locked country recovers a corridor to the pacific. in the capitol we visit a school

where a patriotism class is under w underway. >> translator: when the chile people arrive they told him to surrender and what did our hero answer? that your grandmother surrender answers this boy. >> reporter: as you can see from a very early age these children are taught that chile took away bolivia rightful access to the sea and when they graduate the boys at least will have to do the military service and there they will march around the lake and this is what they will chant, i want to bathe in the blood of chile. i want to bathe to drown my sorrow. so deeply rooted anger and sorrow explains why bolivians see this as a wound that refuses to heal. after decades of frustrated attempts to negotiate a sovereign corridor to the pacific the current president has taken chile to the

international court of justice in the hague. using his speech before the u.n. to make his case. aggressive approach angering neighboring chile and the group dividends at home ahead of sunday elections. >> that is one of the few issues that has a complete consensus about it and he is the leader of that consensus so that is why he is speaking to the u.n. about that because it brings him a lot of support in the country. >> reporter: a country that views the president's efforts as a national priority, as its children sing of their dream for a deep blue sea for bolivia. i'm with al jazeera. the government of cameroon says 27 hostages who were captured earlier in the year from boca haram at the nigerian

border and the wife was released and abducted by the armed group in july. inside nigeria five years of violence in the northeast forced hundreds of thousands of people from their homes and the state here was once a refuge for victims of unrest but now it's a battle ground between boca haram and nigerian forces and we have this report. >> reporter: tears and anger. this is the life lived by thousands of people displaced by boko haram fighters in northern nigeria and these are even lucky to have a roof over their heads and occasional treats like second-hand items and food. and she is one of them, her family of five lived a comfortable life but she says her world came crashing down last year when boko haram fighters killed her husband.

this camp is her third home in less than a year. >> translator: after my husband was killed nothing mattered. we had a happy family, a home and businesses, everything is gone now except the children. i tried to help them but i just don't have the strength to do this anymore. >> reporter: and she is one of hundreds of thousands displaced in the state. this is one of the newest camps set up to cope with the rising number of people displaced because of the fighting in the northeast and home to 4,000 over 500,000 people displaced in the state because of boko haram and a resent u.n. report says there are up to 6 million people forced from their homes in nigeria. authorities here are struggling but the government says the displaced have been taken care of. >> we are not approaching this, that is how do we teach them to make lives worth living.

>> reporter: some of the displaced feel differently. john bower and eight members fled in january after boko haram attacked the town five times and the other village's he sought refuge in were targeted and he found a new home in a church 200 kilometers away from his last refuge. >> translator: after being displaced four times we are all afraid boko haram will eventually find us here and there is no help than what the church gives us and we cannot feed properly and our health is suffering. >> reporter: the government is struggling to cope with a number of displaced people but security forces launch a new offensive to take back territory seized by boko haram fighters the feeling here is the worst is yet to come. i'm with al jazeera, northeastern nigeria. more on that story and a great deal besides on our

website including the latest on the ebola death toll which is now as you will see it on the website crossed 4,000, 4033 is the latest on that. all at al jazeera.com, plenty more besides at al jazeera.com. ♪ new questions are raised after the death of the first ebola patient in the u.s. now health officials say they may investigate the handling of his death in a dallas hospital. the battle for kobane, reports of a surge of isil fighters in the strategic border town as militants make more advances. [chanting] a weekend of demonstrations, protesters take to the streets

in ferguson calling for justice in the shooting of michael brown and another teen in the st. louis area. powerful storm typhoon the size of wisconsin bearing down on japan bringing with it a mix of strong winds and heavy rainfall. good morning and welcome to al jazeera america, i'm michael in new york, this morning the u.s. taking steps to prevent the spread of ebola as the virus is quickly out paced the world's response. right now in new york passengers arriving from west africa are being screened for the virus at jfk airport, liberia 100 marines are on the ground to help build medical centers and deliver supplies and meanwhile hospital records for thomas eric dunkin show his temperature spiked 103 during his first emergency room visit and given antibiotics and discharged and told to take tylenol and died 13 days lather and health officials in texas say they may investigate the

handling of his death. and the world health organization says more than 4,000 west africans have died from the virus and now the u.n. is calling for a greater international response to the outbreak. patty has the latest. >> reporter: as the u.n. general assembly met for update on ebola they heard one clear and potentially terrifying message. >> we have to recognize it's spreading very rapidly. >> reporter: ebola infections will double every three weeks, no country is immune and if it is not stopped soon. >> the world will have to live with the ebola virus forever. >> reporter: the response. >> brazil shipped emergency support kits. >> reporter: last week they committed 10 million. >> support currently is close to $20 million. >> reporter: the u.n. says it's not enough and needs almost a billion dollars and so far a quarter of that has actually been provided. aid has started arriving from across the globe, almost 500

americans are on the ground and their mission is to take care of the logistics of getting more aid in and they will set up hospitals that will treat healthcare workers who get infected. up to 4,000 american troops are expected, those training to leave call this a dangerous mission. >> any time you send 3,000 guys and girls into a country that is ridden with ebola, there is a chance that u.s. soldiers could get infected with it. >> reporter: the disease has spread beyond west africa along with the fear of it. 25 hotel guests quarantined in macedonia after a british man died and tests if he is infected with ebola are being done. condition of the spanish nurse who treated ebola patient and became infected is reportedly deteriorating but the hospital staff insists she is stable. more than a dozen being watched there. increased airport screenings will begin at major airports in the u.s., the uk and likely other countries soon.

but the clear message at the u.n. it won't be enough to protect the global population if ebola is not stopped at its source and soon. patty with al jazeera, washington. the new screenings will also begin in four other airports next week including newark and washington dulles, and chicago o'hare and hartsfield-jackson in atlanta. and kobane is in the balance as battles are still taking place with kurdish forces despite air strikes this week and the "new york times" say they are bringing in reenforcement and it is on the town with turkey and word of more public executions by the group and more than a dozen people executed friday including an iraqi journalist and comes as the united nations is warning if isil is not stopped in kobane 12000

civilians could be massacred by the turkey border and they are putting pressure on the turkish government to help in the fight. >> certainly one of those questions will be would they be willing to provide training locations. as you know saudi arabia has already committed and we have other countries that have offered sites as well. >> reporter: stephanie decker has more on the on going conflict from the turkey/syria border. >> reporter: u.s.-led coalition has been active in kobane, more air strikes argeted isil positions in the northern syrian town but the fight remains relentless and angering the kurds watching from across the border in turkey. >> translator: the real enemy of kobane is not isil, it's president erdawan government and do not expect anything else from the turkish state or nation because of the stand against this atrocity. >> reporter: international pressure is growing too, united

states made it clear it wants turkey to step up military and the envow to syria is allowing them to open the doors to help kurdish fighters there defeat isil. >> appeal to turkey to take some specific additional actions to stop the advance of isil. we need that because otherwise all of us, including turkey, will be regretting deeply that we have missed an opportunity of stopping isil and sending a signal that that cannot continue. >> reporter: what is clear is that the battle for kobane is a fierce one and on going and another point the u.n. special envow made is if they go to isil the group will control almost 400 kilometers of border with turkey. isil is reported to have made further advances from the east

into the city. and there is no mistaking these sounds, it is a constant battle taking place street by street. and to make matters worse many who have been forced to leave kobane watch helplessly of no idea what will become of their homes, stephanie decker on the turkey syria border. 9 killed in a suicide bombing north of baghdad and dozens injured near iraqi capitol and unclear who is responsible. in the u.s. tensions are high this morning in the st. louis area. [chanting] who do you serve? >> reporter: hundreds of demonstrators took to the streets of ferguson last night protesting racial profiling in the killing of black teenager and anger began rising this week after another white police officer shot and killed a 18-year-old black man wednesday night. police say myers junior opened fire on the officer and meijer's family insisted he was unarmed and it has been two months since

michael brown an unarmed teen was killed by a police officer. and he was on the streets as the weekend of resistance began. >> reporter: this is the combination of the first night of a holiday weekend of protests in ferguson sub mersed in general by the killing of the killing of michael brown the unarmed between killed in august and they will get together on saturday and all end with an act of mass civil disobedience on monday and it's not just about protest and not just about local politics there are various seminars and lectures trying to analyze why in the u.s. black teenagers are killed at a rate 20 times higher than peers as a study and friday revealed. there are seminars on race, politics, class, gender, economics and in a bid to try to

understand the concepts involved and try to mobilize the sort of anger we saw on the streets of ferguson in august to try and effect lasting change. in hong kong thousands flooded the streets once again, this comes a day after the government cancelled talks with student leaders. the protesters are now preparing for a long civil disobedience campaign and set up tents in the city center and stocked with essentials. protesters demanding full democratic elections in 2017. the look from space is frankly down right terrifying. typhoon is a monster and it's burying down on okinawa japan with winds 100 miles per hour and the storm is a category three right now and expected to weaken somewhat as it heads for mainland japan, all u.s. air bases have been put on alert. for more on this typhoon we turn to dave warren and the pictures are pretty disturbing to say the

least. >> reporter: that is how we estimate the strength of the storm so that is what we have been watching but now the focus turns to the radar because the storm is actually in range of this radar coming out of japan, and this is a metrological society there showing the center of the storm to okinawa and to the north and the waves on the coastline and we will see waves pick up. this is a very large storm and well over 100 miles to the south and we see hurricane force winds effecting the island there of okin arc -- okinawa and rain will be in the area and flooding a big problem as well as the wednesday which is starting to pick up there. there is the main island and the storm moving to that and pushing the about 9 miles per hour and certainly looks intense initially but it has weakened just a bit as wind is 100 miles per hour and could weaken more

but with the independent over 100 miles per hour with stronger gusts and the fact it is moving slowly we see a lot of flooding and wind damage across the entire area, that is over the kadena airforce base in okinawa base and it will go north and effect the mainland of japan and could make another landfall there, that will be toward the end of weekend and start of the week. this is what we are watching. the u.s. is flooding and this is a big issue here with a lot of rain coming down, a front which is stationary and could lead to more flash flooding and look at that in detail with the complete national forecast. >> thanks and kmart is the latest victim of cyber attacks against retail changes and the data breach happened at stores last month and sears which owns kmart said it did not effect department stores and the company said there is no evidence that customers' personal information and debit pin numbers and social security numbers were stolen. news of kmart comes a day after

dairy queen confirmed 400 of the stores were hacked and customer name and card and expiration were gotten in the breach animal , malware was used and used for other retailers and jp morgan chase will debt will get more security and spends $250 million a year and ceo diamond says that will increase to half a billion and jp morgan chase said it suffered a security breach last summer and compromised the data of 80 million customers and these are latest attack and last year target was breached effecting 100 million customers and hackers hit home depot and putting credit information of 50 million customers at risk and ebay also came under attack, putting the data of 145 million customers at risk. florida state quarterback

winston will faced and charges of four violations of the student conduct code and he denied the charges against him and never charged with a crime. a neutral party from outside the university is expected to hear the case soon. this move by florida state comes in the wake of a fn fox sports report that officials and tallahassee police tried to put this to the rape allegation against the heisman trophy winner. 7 new jersey football players charged in a hazing case that prosecutors say involves sexual assault and six arrested friday night and charges stem from a series of locker room incidents on four victims, prosecutors say the victims were held against their will and improperly touched at the high school. the teenage players could be charged as adults. and in michigan one high school is shutting down its football

season due to injuries and concussions and both players at carroll high school agreed to the move after players got hurt and this month three high school players in the country died on the field and university of michigan football coach brady hoke was under fire keeping a player in the game following a big hit. dried up in california, research believe climate change may be to blame for the drought. exonerated, a woman set free after spending 17 years in prison she didn't commit. plus the pricey piece of art that is expected to fetch more than $100 million on the auction block.

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record rainfall triggered floods and landslides in nicaragua and 20" fell and five land slides in the volcano and 6,000 people effected and 500 of them are now living in shelters, more rain could hit the area again today. many californians suspect climate change played a part in the state's drought and scientists at stanford university confirmed suspicions and say they identified the precise cause of the dry spell and melissa chan reports. >> reporter: this is lake chasta, one of california's major reservoir, just one-third full because of the worst drought here in a century. now scientists at stanford have identified one of the culprits, a high-pressure region in the atmosphere they call a ridge. >> the ridiculous ridge so named because it has been so unusually persistent and has had such a large impact on the day-to-day

weather in california. >> reporter: so what are we looking at? >> so this is. >> reporter: the ridge like a big bolder in a stream has blocked rain from landing in the state for two years. and that kind of extreme atmospheric pressure they tell us is very rare and probably connected to climate change. >> it's really very unusual to see that kind of behaver in the atmosphere. >> there is evidence that the atmospheric conditions have been made more likely by global warming. >> reporter: in this year alone the california drought will cost the economy $2.2 billion u.s. dollars in direct and indirect losses and some 17,000 jobs. that's according to one study from the university of california davis. the impact so far has been felt most acutely by farmers, some have had to drill deep under ground to find water, others have seen the cost of cattle feed go up.

>> nothing works without water and i don't care what business you are in but if you are already in agriculture and if you don't have water you won't be in agriculture. >> land left to lie and migrant workers struggled to find work. >> i need water and if we don't have water we don't have jobs and the water is important to keep it up for people who work in the fields and working because then no water, no jobs. >> reporter: scientists consider this drought a natural disaster like an earthquake or tornado, one thing they cannot predict how long the atmospheric ridge preventing storms in california will last. >> i cannot tell how much rain is likely to fall this winter. >> reporter: this will drain the lakes dry. melissa chan from stanford california. bill clinton library released documents and 10,000 patients unveiled on friday and include colorful rochesterings from supreme court cousin 'tis a

member of the clinton white house and a top official who compared gay people to nazis, rapist and the ku klux klan and tony won a confidence measure in parliament today and 155 lawmakers in the conservative colist backed and 131 opposition rejected it and he called for the vote to push people to have an exit bail out program. haiti will not hold a funeral for former dictator jean-claude duvalier and it will be simple and private and arranged by friends and family and was going to have a state funeral but decided against it and he died a week an ago from an apparent heart attack. he was hospitalized for a disease and admitted his health

is deteriorating and suffers from a severe form of diabetes, the nobel prize led them away from totalitarian role. the gap between rich and poor, the wage difference is jeopardizing economic growth for the entire country. the end of an era as one of mark's premier soccer player hangs up his cleats. ♪

♪ take a look at the top of the screen here. that is a roof of a california strip mall collapsing on friday, the mall surveillance video captures the roof crumbling to the ground and crashing parked cars in front of it, several people in the building were trapped and had to be rescued and authorities say no one inside or outside was injured. welcome back to al jazeera america, i'm michael and why the growing gap between the rich and poor is threatening this country's economic growth but we will look at the forecast again with david warren and you were talking rain earlier, a good chunk of the country. >> reporter: a small area but over the same area is the big problem because the area of rain is not moving so that will lead to some flash flooding. high pressure on either side. cool air to the north, warm air to the south, this front is stationary right from the

mid-atlantic states right to the mississippi valley down to texas and moving a little bit but not quick enough where we are getting this rain to move out. here is the forecast along this boundary you see the rain over the next two days going about 2-3" and this could be the thunderstorms that dump a lot of the rain at once and get flash flooding, a number of flash flood watches in effect watching for a few warnings here is the rain and moisture from the south and going in the same boundary with cool air to the north and warm air to the south and go from 35-77 this is the focus of that rain. close up view you see thunderstorms slowly pushing oklahoma and texas and now it's arkansas and tennessee right through kentucky where the heaviest rain will come down. flash flood watches into effect and there is a few advisories where that rain has already moved through because of flooding continues but the flash flood watch is what we will keep an eye on because of warnings and leads to the flooding quickly and we get the flooding

happening very quickly and could easily flood out roads and we have freeze warnings and frost advisories and cool air will push to the south and watch for areas in indianapolis for cold temperatures tomorrow down to about the freezing mark. >> the crisp fall temperatures and david warren thanks a lot. the gap between rich and poor keeps growing and a new report says it's jeopardizing economic growth for the entire country and mary snow explains. >> reporter: 70 miles north of manhattan lies a city of pakipsi, new york and the income is $29,000 and 23% of the population is below the poverty line. there are some thriving businesses here. [cheers and applause] not just ribbons for the town supervisor todd cease being cut. >> we've had to make painful cuts. we have a number of major revenue streams and sales tax,

mortgage tax and we have seen all of those drop. >> reporter: according to a new study decline in sales and income tax is also being felt at the state level. according to the author of the report, there is a link between an increasing wealth gap and slowing state tax revenue growth. >> the correlation between tax revenues and rising incomen equality is -- appears to be a weakening of purchasing power among the consumer base and it is showing up especially in sales tax trends across the states. >> reporter: 1980 when inequality began rising through 2011 the portion of total income going to the top doubled from roughly 10% to about 20%. at the same time the and wall average growth rate of state tax is capped from nearly 10% to below 5%. >> when we look at the difference between how the

wealthy spend versus the rest of the population, it does appear that the people at the higher end of the income distribution save the larger share of their income. >> reporter: and the wealthy shield much of their income from taxes. >> they probably have a more sophisticated ability to manage their tax liabilities and of course any of that activity comes at the expense of state coffers. >> reporter: and states are feeling the pain. according to roiters and the states that level income taxes drops in collections were as high as 50% and local governments facing the difficult decision whether to raise taxes or cut spending to makeup for the deficit. >> infrastructure issues are a struggle, years ago when things were going well we were had an aggressive rebuilding, repaving program for our roads. we bonded $20 million over a course of five years and put the

brakes on that project. >> we still try to do, you know, a road a year. >> it certainly isn't what it used to be. >> reporter: mary snow, al jazeera. a gallop poll said americans were dissatisfied or income and wealth are distributed in the u.s. southern california grandmother is back home this morning after 17 years in prison, susan melon broke down on tears and a judge overturned her murder conviction and convicted of murdering a homeless man in 1997 and the case was based on a witness that the judge said was a liar and missed her kids growing up and remember the day their mother was arrested. >> it was the worst day of my life. the happiest day of my life. >> growing up i bottled it away and shoved it down and didn't think about it since i was the youngest and it p what -- happen.

>> reporter: innocence matters worked to prove her innocence, one of america's greatest soccer players is hanging up his cleats for team usa and donovan got a send off from the exhibition match in connecticut and the 32-year-old is retiring leaving the team as the all time leader in goals and assists and plans to finish the season with the a lagalaxy before retiring for good. a culture breaking the bank when it goes up for auction next month and it's the chariot and will fetch north of $100 million. the 1950 sculpture has a goddess with large wheels and one of two that remain in private hands and never appeared at an auction. coming up, in the next hour here on al jazeera america a rush to the alter, ruling in north carolina that has hundreds of same sex couples tying the knot and a young pakistan girl wins

the peace prize and many of her fellow students are facing a teacher shortage in school and that is coming up, and al jazeera and the 8:00 hour is coming up, next. >> some are living off natures bounty >> we're rich cause of all the resources we have... >> while others say they can't even afford health insurance >> the owners of this restaurant pay an extra $5.20 an hour to provide health insurance >> communities trying to cope i just keep putting one foot in front of the other >> what can people hope for come election day? an al jazeera america special report amererica votes 2014 5 days in alaska all this week

♪ clamping down in the fight to keep ebola from landing on american soil again. stepped up security at several major airports as new questions raised in the death of the first ebola patient in the u.s. [chanting] who do you serve? who do you protect? >> reporter: outrage in st. louis, new calls for justice over the shooting death of michael brown and another black teenager, part of what is billed as resistance weekend. plus kmart the latest victim of

cyber criminals and why the company claims it's nothing to worry about. a lashing from mother nature, japan bracing with a brush with a typhoon the size of wisconsin. good morning and welcome to al jazeera america, i'm michael and a new ebola protocol taking in effect this morning as health officials curb to spread the virus, right now in new york passengers arriving from west africa are being screened for ebola at jfk and the first of five to begin the procedure and the world health organization says more than 4,000 west africans have died from the virus. that is more than half of the reported number of cases. and we are joined in the studio and ross new details coming out about the duncan death and the first patient to die in the u.s. to die of ebola, what is the latest situation in dallas? >> the passing of duncan sparks questions about his treatment

and if hospitals are adequately prepared and now his family has joined the chorus seeking answers. they grieve in isolation and the woman he came with the u.s. to marry is quarantined inside a dallas home with her son and two young men close to the family. a spokes women spoke about duncan on their behalf. >> i would prefer to stay in liberia and die then to come here and put the love of my life and and my only child through this. >> reporter: hospital records from the visit said duncan had 103 degree fever but after battery of test the hospital sent duncan home with antibiotics and his fiancee was surprised he wasn't admitted. >> she knew they should have done something better than sending him home and the first time it was just sending him home with nothing and the fever

was just too high to send someone home with such high fever. >> reporter: duncan would stay in the apartment for two days until her daughter, a nursing assistant called an ambulance that took him back to texas presbyterian and where he died on wednesday. >> his death was not in vane and his dying is a sacrifice for all of us because it's the awareness of ebola has been better known and the attention for ebola is widespread and that africa is being helped more than it would have been. >> reporter: indeed, two days after duncan's death congress gave final approval sending $750 million to help west african countries combat ebola and five u.s. airports will begin screening west africa travelers for fever.

meanwhile the congressional security on homeland security is examining whether u.s. hospitals are prepared. >> i am told that in a survey by nurses that they are telling me across the country 80% are saying hospitals have not communicated to them any policy regarding potential admission of patients infected by ebola, 85% say their hospital has not provided education on ebola with the ability for the nurses to interact. >> that is a concern. and we will reach out to our state and local health departments and medical and hospital associations to see that those things are addressed. >> reporter: the initial treatment of thomas duncan raised a lot of questions and now the state department may have investigate the dallas hospital and a spokeswoman for duncan's family saying they may sue the hospital once they finish mourning. >> international people are calling for a lot more help to go to west africa and we know the u.s. military is involved and more troops have gone there,

can you give details on exactly what they are trying to do to get this ebola? >> reporter: more troops heading to west africa and 100 marines landed in liberia on thursday bringing boxes of medical supplies and making centers and providing support the disease and they are in liberia and u.s. military may send up to 4,000 soldiers to help with this crisis and in hopes of containing the ebola epidemic in west africa, michael. >> outgrowing response right now and hopefully u.s. involvement can get a pretty good jump on that and russ, thanks a lot. this morning people traveled to st. louis from across the country and they are calling it the within of resistance. [chanting] who do you serve? who do you protect? >> reporter: hundreds protesting racial profiling and anger rising after a policeman shot and killed another man and he

opened fire on the officer. meijer's family says he was unarmed and two months since another unarm teen brown was also killed and we are live in missouri and early morning hours in the st. louis area but i wonder what is the scene like right now or a better question what is the feeling of what is going to happen later today? >> it's obviously very quiet and we are several hours away from one of the main marches that will commence from downtown in st. louis. so you know it has been quiet and we are out here in ferguson and downtown st. louis last night as well and very calm. there were several hundred protesters who came out earlier in the evening for a vigil for michael brown. that was very peaceful and largely people dispersed. it was very cold last night and also raining and that may have had a factor in the number of people that came out. later in the evening in ferguson we did see protesters who

marched rounds -- around the city department and chanting at police but no incidents and peaceful protests and you don't feel a sense of tension but what really comes off is their activism is really what they are focusing on for this weekend. >> usher, have protesters given any specifics on what they are trying to accomplish by holding this weekend of resistance as they are calling it? >> reporter: well, as you mentioned they are calling it a weekend of resistance and there are several things planned here with rallies and marches and panel discussions, there will be screenings, there will be an opportunity for people from around the country to come here to ferguson to talk to residents about what they have been feeling, what they have been complaining about in terms of the feeling of racial tension and this tension that has grown over the last few months in the wake of the michael brown shooting in ferguson and the police department. >> do we know if any city

officials will be involved in any of these events they have planned over the weekend? >> reporter: we have not heard about city officials specifically coming out. there will be people from around the country and last night we saw people from as far as new york who have come out here and what is happening here is they are looking for a way to create what they say is a national movement to fight what they say is police violence in these communities particularly where there is a racial divide as well and in the wake of the michael brown shooting they want to keep this very peaceful and yesterday we heard from michael brown's parents who said they understand the frustrations of the protesters coming out here but they want the weekend to be about michael brown and greater issues and a peaceful protest to try and promote change, michael. >> as you said several events planned through the weekend and all eyes on st. louis in the sports world because the cards will begin game one of the championship against the san francisco giants and there was an issue at bush stadium in the night and we will see how that plays out and we are live in st.

louis, thank you. in the fight for kobane isil pouring in reenforcement according to the "new york times" and coming from multiple directions and u.s. air strikes have not been able to stop them. meanwhile kurds in germany and france are protesting, demanding turkey do more to help their neighbors. mike has more. >> reporter: the mission to convince turkey to join the fight but after two days of meetings retired john allen came away with only a pledge for more talks. the state department vowed to keep trying. >> just because allies didn't come out two weeks ago and said they won't do something, we will have conversations and support going forward and we will need support in the long hall and it's not about one day or one week or one month. >> reporter: turkey promised to help train syrian rebels but that effort is still months off. friday secretary of defense chuck hagel called on turkey for coalition war planes and the war

base in turkey but turkey refused and meeting in geneva with u.n. officials the turkish foreign minister says air strikes are not enough and a no fly shown with the border of syria. >> translator: as we said we don't want a buffer zone because security and fly zone has to be put in place because this crisis is a different dimension. >> and officials say a no fly shown has a fight with the airforce and turkey want assad out and doing this militarily is not the goal. as isil makes military gains in iraq perhaps threatening baghdad itself, administration again braced the public for a long fight >> they have shown themselves to be brutal, aggressive, that is why we are taking the fight to them but nobody thought as soon as we took air strikes we would stop fighting. >> mike with al jazeera. for more on the on going battle in kobane we go to

stephanie decker with more from the turkey/syria border. >> reporter: a couple hundreds meters away with kobane on the eastern side of the town being held by isil. we are hearing military activity, there has been those sounds throughout the last couple of days since monday night when isil managed to get inside kobane on the eastern and southern sides and hearing from kurdish fighters in the town is that the front line hasn't really moved because this is such gorilla warfare and street to street they push forward and are pushed back and we don't have is a clear indication of how the front line is moving inside but we do know they are inside of course and you can hear it for the vantage point out of kobane with the smoke rising and hear the light arms fire and also on the diplomatic front of course strong words from the u.n. special envow to seer yo urging turkey to open the borders to kurds who will go and help the fight because isil can resupply itself, it has

access to talking about geography in syria bringing in more men and weapons and something the kurdish fighters cannot do because kobane is surrounded from the east and north and west for a long time and the northern border is turkey. >> pentagon officials tell the new york times that kobane hangs in the balance and isil wants to take it for propaganda value and ahead child brides, a look at how the fight against isil is impacting children in the war zone, we will also talk to a major mike lions about the group sending reenforcement in the besieged city of kobane, massive typhoon bearing down on japan right now and dave is tracking the system and when we say massive we mean massive. >> reporter: very large and big and the wind field and damaging wind extends far out from the storm and watching satellite and estimate the winds and strength and the winds 100 and radar

showing the bands approaching okinawa and wind impacting the area and hit the southern islands and turn north and impact the main islands of japan later in the weekend and the start of the week. so likely a number of landfalls, these bans of heavy rain moving to the north and storms moving slowly and will lead to big flooding as the storms slowly pushes over okinawa and this is the main island of japan and the south, this is the storm. look at the satellite picture now and it's not nearly as intense and a powerful storm and a super typhoon with the clear eye there but pushing to the north it will weaken and that is what it's doing and will continue to turn to the north then off to the northeast, so moving over okinawa and to the northeast as it goes over the main islands of japan pretty much the same track as the last storm that moved right over tokyo so another storm impacting the islands there and flooding

and damaging wind will be a problem and the slow-moving storm put agree lot of rain over the same area for the flooding problem and a foot of rain in some areas. >> the winds are not bad and potential flooding could be more devastating and dave thanks a lot. kmart is the latest victim of cyber attacks against retail chains and happened last month and sears that owns kmart said the hacking incident did not effect its department stores and the company said there is no evidence the customers' person information, debit card pin numbers and social security numbers were stolen. news of kmart comes a day after dairy queen confirmed 400 of its stores were hacked and customer names and card information and expiration dates were accessed in the august breach. the company says the back off malware was useed in attack and the same malware used to hack other retailers and jp morgan will double security in the next five years and the nation largest bank spends $250 million

a year and ceo diamond said it will increase to half a billion dollars and said it suffered a security breach last summer that compromised the data of more than 80 million customers. these are just the latest cyber attacks. last year's targets security was breached, affecting more than 100 million customers and hackers hit home depot putting credit information of more than 50 million customers at risk and online retailer ebay came under attack of data with 145 million customers at risk. snapchat says it's not to blame for the leaked photos and pointing to a third-party app arguing hackers entered through through there and got 100,000 snapchat photos and will public on line and says they offer a false sense of privacy and photos can be saved using several different methods. a rush to the alter in north carolina.

[applause] hundreds of gay and lesbian couples raced to tie the knot after a judge struck down the ban on same sex marriage and this ruling is a few days after the u.s. supreme court said it would not hear a case from the fourth circuit court of appeals on gay marriage, that court has jurisdiction over north carolina. the governor who supported a ban says the state will comply with the ruling. barely old enough to conceive and already forced to give birth. >> i had my son so young, i didn't know what to do with him when he cried or got sick i had no clue. >> reporter: from the potato the fire, refugees fleeing civil war in syria becomeing child brides in foreign lands. they already cancelled the entire high school football season in new jersey and now criminal charges coming down in a hazing scandal rocking the community. land locked and water logged,

torrential land that left parts of the plains sopping wet.

♪ you are looking live on the border between turkey and syria, smoke rising over the ba sieged city of kshg obane in the background and isil fighters nearing full control over that town. a group of iraqi women who escaped from isil abductors shedding light on suffering, the women from the religious minority group shared stories how they were forced to marriage and slavery after being abducted in northern iraq in august. >> translator: he told me i'm going to change your name to abir so your mother doesn't recognize you and you will be muslim and i will marry you and i refuse to be a muslim and why i fled. >> they confirm many women still remain in captivity with no way out. meanwhile the u.n. is warning of the big rise in child marriages and talking about girls as young

as 13 years old having children with men more than twice their age and as we report from there. >> reporter: this is not her real name, she was 13 when she got married right after the war began. she is now 16 with a child of her own. the war forced her parents to marry her off to her cousin to make sure someone would look after her in jordan, war, displacement and marriage said she had to drop out of school in the ninth grade. >> translator: i advise any young girl to get an education and not take on the big responsibilities i have taken on as a child. i had my son so young, i didn't know what to do with him when he cried or got sick, i had no clue. >> reporter: she was timid in the interview because hi her mother and law and husband were there but in private she told us pregnancy was an excruciating experience for her and a study by unicef revealed a sharp rise in child marriages between the

ages of 15-17 morning syrian refugees in jordan and if that is not enough study shows half of the child marriages were to men that were ten or more years older. ngos are concerned that early marriages could leave some girls in abusive and exploitation and some designed specific programs that aim to prevent child marriages and help those who are already married cope with challenges. and she is 17 and divorced after a three-year abusive marriage. >> translator: so many of us were crammed into a small space and my ex-husband became more violent, he would beat me and scream at me all the time. >> some syrian families who had to flee from the war find early marriage favorable for economic and cultural reasons and reproductive health is another issue that worries ngo and studies indicate early marriages have a higher risk of pregnancy

complications and miscarriages and that is why aid agencies are working to raise awareness. >> so we are really looking at a generation of girls that will lose their future and education is lost and no longer go to school after being married, so the cycle of poverty of vulnerability is transmitted from a generation to another. >> reporter: although early marriages have long been an accepted practice in syria it appears the war hasn't , encouraged them and shattered the dream of girls and this is in daca. in france we are hearing quite a different story and about teens and women leaving europe to fight for isil and officials say there are 100 from france who left to join isil in syria and up from a handful 18 months ago. >> reporter: psychological kidnapping because they are being watched and i don't know how long she was in there via the internet and spending a lot of time on the internet but they

must have told her various things and brain washed her to make her reach this point. >> reporter: officials say the women come from all walks of life, first and second generation immigrants and from muslim countries. retired u.s. army major is a senior fellow with the true man project and we will talk about the on going battle for kobane and these are pictures from curbing -- turkey and these are fighters who believe they 40% occupy the city and maybe got to the middle of it so mike turkey agreed to support and train moderate syrian opposition, will this help in kobane looking at the scene now? >> no, it will not help and they are on the oversight watching this happen and they will have a humanitarian crisis if they don't get involved and more for turkey to cross the border and

they can get in there and surround kobane and cutoff isis and from this point it's not going to help kobane. >> turkey is concerned in another regard there is international pleas for them to allow kurdish fighters in turkey to go in syria and help kurdish fighters in kobane and turkey not allowed to do that, why? >> they perceive them as a threat going forward and as they cross the border and gain more kurdish parter ers in syria they can come back and from turkey's perspective they are going against each other and let them deplete and decide before they step in. >> turkey will decide how this thing kind of plays out because if they get involved they want some support from the u.s. and don't want assad coming over because that is a huge issue as well so they are trying to get something out of this in terms of giving their help to what is going on to the fight against isil. >> that is right and if the border is protected the

president can tell the citizens they are fine and turkey is fine and in their best interest and look at it from their eyes and best interest to let this battle go on and not join it. >> but they would also have issues with the kurds in turkey who are upset with what is going on and protests across europe from kurds up set how turkey is handling this. >> that feel that is the lesser of elves and can damp that down and have in the past and recognize at some point they are going to have to deal with that but say the coalition will get more involved when that happens. >> assad was a focus for america not too long ago especially with the chemical weapons and now all of the sudden isil is the top priority in that area but according to turkey it's still assad. if you are the u.s., is battling isis and isil eventually going to put you in line with facing assad head on? >> we are helping him as we are treating isil and turkey wants to refocus the mission on assad

and degrade him and they will train some forces that we talked about before some forces and turkey will dictate who will be on the ground fighting assad and the forces may not fight isil as it is. they want to focus on taking down the assad government. >> complicated to say the least and it seems like turkey is playing head master with everything that is going on. >> many dimensions and you bring in the ground, airforce and all those together it's incredible. >> and appreciate that. torrential plains under water and dave warren is back with an update. >> this is texas and oklahoma with flash flooding yesterday and a video coming in shows there was a lot of flooding in this area from the very heavy rain and this is what it looks like, we had the rain coming down and of course that led to this flooding so we had streets under water, poor drainage areas and still under water with a number of flood advisories in effect. this area of flooding will slowly push to the south and

east. there is more flash flooding expected today not in oklahoma and across this area in tennessee and kentucky between two areas of high pressure we had this boundary and this is a front which has stalled out and right over oklahoma yesterday and it is slowly drifting south and not moving through so this will be the focus for the rain today, another 2-3" of rain, we have flash flood watches still in effect across the area. >> keep us updated and thanks a lot. battling deadly ebola virus and scientists turning to complex calculations to predict the future of the epidemic and ebola is winning and ebola by the numbers after the break. >> in the army you are part of something. >> people want to kill me and don't have the right to live here. >> two teens, to very different decisions, joining the army or going to jail. living on the edge of 18 in israel. that is after the break.

welcome back to al jazeera america, you are looking live on the border between turkey and syria and smoke in kobane in the background and isil fighters taking control of the city trying to complete a take down of the kurdish-held city. here are the top stories we are covering at this hour, as we mentioned isil fighters pouring reenforcements in the syrian town of kabane trying to take control of the region the turkey border and the battles have been fierce despite dozens of u.s. air strikes in the last few days and u.s. people say kobane hangs in the balance and it's dubbed weekend of resistance and thousands expected to show up in st. louis for racial profiling and police brutality and two months since michael brown an unarmed teen was killed by an officer.

airport screening underway at jfk in new york and passengers will have temperature taken and answer questions and airport screenings in chicago, newark, washington d.c. and atlanta will begin next week. meanwhile scientists are facing long odds to contain the ebola virus, the disease can't and won't be stopped until each infected person infects on average less than one other person. but a science and technology correspondent shows the math still favors the virus. >> when experts assess the danger of an out break like ebola it all comes down to math, at the simple level they rely on a measurement called the basic reproductive ratio and how much the disease is likely to infect and for one person infected the ratio describes how many other people infected and the reproductive for the disease varies widely and pertussas or whopping cough is infectious and

one person infected 17 infections can result and small pox infects 7 people and ebola because it involves direct contact with bodily fluids doesn't spread as easily and the ratio is 1-4 and it's 1.5-2. the trouble is although it's far less commutable it's far more deadly and once someone is infected they are communicable for a long while with supplies to treat them and thomas frieden says reproductive ratio for ebola needs to get below one in order to stop this, epidemic. this is how we would theoretically get there, they reported 70, 70 and 60 to control the epidemic 70 percent of burials need to be conducted safely and no one should be infected while preparing the dead to be buried and nobody should touch the dead and 70% of infected people need to be in

treatment within 60 days. at the moment only 18% of infected people are in treatment centers. we are no where near we need to be. by this math we need between 10,000-15,000 people in treatment right now. if we don't do anything, in one month, that number is going to go up to between 45,000-50,000 people. in two months that number will become more than 100,000 people. now, handling even a single patient requires major investment and treating and cleaning um around one patient for just one day requires 52.8 gallons of water, 20 gallons of bleach and 8 pair of rubber gloves and three body suits and incredible supplies and this is the bigger problem, there are 1100 betz available in guinea, sierra leone and liberia the heart of the ebb epidemic and in the u.s. we have 1700 betz

and they are pledged to build 17 treatment centers by mid november but we are looking at probably 50,000 people needing betz. even if those treatment centers are huge with 200 betz a piece that is only 3400 betz and this is the scary and we will be short thousands of betz worldwide and the people will not have a place to go in the countries or any other unless we drastically increase the amount of supplies and real estate we commitment to the problem. >> reporter: u.n. special envow for ebola says cases are now doubling every three to four weeks and the response needs to be 20 times greater than it was at the beginning of october. a southern california grandmother is free from prison after 17 years, susan melon broke down in tears friday, a judge overturned her murder conviction and convicted of murdering a homeless man and this was based on one witness

who the judge said was a liar. >> i had freedom on the bottom of my shoes for years and freedom and i was in prison but it was not in me. >> reporter: innocence matters worked to prove melon's innocence, florida quarterback winston will face a discipline hearing stemming from a december 2012 incident result and a letter sent to his attorney on friday he could be charged with up to four violation of the student conduct code, winston denied the charges against him and never charged with a crime. a neutral party from outside the university is expected to hear the case soon. this move by florida state comes in the wake of an fox sport report that school officials and tallahassee police tried to impede the investigation into the rape allegation against the heisman trophy winner. high school level and new jersey players charged in a raising case the prosecutors say involves sexual assault and six players arrested friday night and officials say the charges

stem from a series of locker room incident on four victims and prosecutors say the victims were held against their will and improperly touched at the high school, the teenage players could be charged as adults, in michigan one school is shutting down due to injuries and concussions and at carroll high school they agrees to the move after several players got hurt and three players in the u.s. died and university of michigan brady hoke kept his player in the game after a big hit. when teens face 18 they have lots of questions and in israel one decision is made for them, compulsory military service and two teenagers have chosen very different paths. >> reporter: when 18-year-old dara packs her bags. >> these are the fancy uniform i have to wear outside of the base. >> reporter: to the toiletries and clothes.

>> i need lots of under shirts because you are sweating all day. >> reporter: a prayer book. >> i love praying and very strong relationship with god. >> reporter: her dog tags. >> weird to see my name on it, have very grown up. >> reporter: shares the expectation shared by thousands of israeli 18-year-olds. >> mostly going in with a lot of my friends and we are all in this together. >> reporter: can you show me what you pack to go to jail? >> when 18-year-old prepares his bag, so you have no clothes. >> they are giving me their uniform. >> reporter: no toiletries. >> they give me also. >> reporter: only books, sheet and a towel. he packs for protest. what gives you comfort in prison? >> the means of telephone they have everyday. >> reporter: every able jewish israeli 18-year-old other than ultra religious must complete service and three quarters of men and majority of women serve. dara will serve in the military

education wing and train the e generation that follows her. >> it's the right thing and what i'm supposed to do. >> reporter: israel the military fills the society, soldiers walk openly and joining the military is a right of passage even if that means going to war. soldier's unit helps open career and society doors. >> in the army you are a part of something and a language and way of speaking and going about it, it's a real, it's embarrassing not to go in the army if you can. >> people say they want to kill me and they don't have the right to live here. >> reporter: he refused to serve so he is shunned and imprisoned and filmed this video of himself right before he told the army no. he refuses because he disagreed with israel's wars and his occupation. >> occupy the palestinian nation and when you occupy people you can be surprised there. no one just say, okay, i will be in prison and it's the biggest

prison in the world. >> reporter: his friends support him but it's not easy and his brother fought in gaza and father and grandfather thought and say young israelis are indoctrinated. >> reporter: and they are in school and education system and going to brain wash. >> there are people who refuse to serve, what do you feel about those people? >> on a personal level i really understand it. on the more national level i think it's a disgrace. i think it's absolutely the most selfish thing you could do. >> for dara service is a religious and national duty in a country all too familiar with war. >> i have so many friends who have been killed like over the years, so many like and it's crazy no one, a 18-year-old, no one my age in the world knows death as much as me or my fellow friends, no one. >> reporter: decision about war and peace that each israeli 18-year-old must make as soon as they finish high school.

nick with al jazeera jerusalem. more on the challenges facing teenagers tune in to edge of 18 this sunday at 9 p.m. eastern and 6:00 pacific. hong kong thousands flooded the streets again a day after the government cancelled talks with students and leaders and preparing for a long civil disobedience campaign with tents in the civil center and stocked with essentials and demanding full democratic elections in 2017. the former soviet leader has been discharged from the hospital according to russian media and hospitalized thursday for a disease reoccurrence. and he admitted to russia media his health is deteriorating and suffers diabetes and the nobel prize person led eastern europe away from totalitarian rule. a private funeral in haiti for former leader jean-claude duvalier and a casket led to a

school in port au prince where a funeral is head and they said the leader known as baby doc would get a formal state funeral but they backed down and we are live in port au prince and andy what is the feeling in the streets there today? is there a sense of any sympathy for jean-claude duvalier? >> reporter: well, there was supposed to be a talk of at least a state or an official funeral, that has not happened. this is simply a small family gathering although there are great powerful people here today. what is interesting about being here for the past week remember jean-claude duvalier died last saturday at the age of 63 of a heart attack and the muted response by the country. we arrived on sunday a day after he died and the flags were not half mast and not made it in the newspaper or the radio room. this is a man that still has -- >> we lost the signal from andy

in port au prince where a funeral is being held for jean-claude duvalier. some 200 international observers expected to be on hand sunday as 6 million bolivians cast presidential ballots and says the current president will be reelected and we will see that he is capitalizing on one issue that unites all people, 135 territorial dispute with chile. >> reporter: a naval vessel proudly flies colors as it sets off on patrol, not in the ocean but in, yes, a lake. at more than 4,000 meters above sea level the lake is the world's highest navigable lake. having its navy regular gaited to this body of water is a humiliation endured by bolivia since 1879 when it lost the coastline to neighboring chile in the war of the pacific.

at the naval base sailors learn the basics so they will be ready for the day when their land locked country recovers a corridor to the pacific. in the capitol we visit a school where a patriotism class is underway. >> translator: when they arrive they told them to surrender and what did our hero answer? let your grandmother surrender answers this boy. >> reporter: as you can see from a very early age these children are taught that chile took away the rightful access to the sea and when they graduate the boys at least will have to do the military service and there they will march around the lake and this is what they will chant, i want to bathe in the blood of chile. i want to bathe to drown my sorrow. such a deeply rooted anger and sorrow explains why bolivians

sees this as a wound that refuses to heal. after decades of frustrated attempts to negotiate a sovereign corridor to the pacific, current president has taken chile to the international court of justice in the hague. >> translator: . using his speech before the u.n. to make his case. and aggressive approach angered neighboring chile and dividends at home before sunday's election. >> that issue is one of the few issues that has a completely natural consensus about it and he is the leader of this and so that is why he is speaking to the u.n. about that because it brings him a lot of support in the country. >> reporter: a country that views the president's efforts as a national priority, as the children sing of their dream for a deep blue sea for bolivia. i'm with al jazeera.

his opponents accuse of violating the constitution and for bids anyone to run for a third consecutive term. a 17-year-old girl becomes the youngest nobel peace prize winner in history. this morning hollywood comes out in support of malala yousafzai, hear what some of the country's biggest stars are saying. we will also talk to the chief of child protection for unicef after the break. plus girls in malala yousafzai native pakistan not getting access to education right now, the shortage that is keeping them out of class. and some preseason magic for a team that has been out of it for decades, the hero from last night's game one of american league championship series. >> we need to make sure that we have clean air >> some are living off natures bounty >> we're rich cause of all the resources we have... >> while others say they can't even afford health insurance >> the owners of this restaurant pay an extra $5.20 an hour to provide

health insurance >> communities trying to cope i just keep putting one foot in front of the other >> what can people hope for come election day? an al jazeera america special report amererica votes 2014 5 days in alaska all this week

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was injured and you didn't even know if she was going to live and not only has she lived she is living a life even bigger than herself and impacting the world, we are talking about it here in california, so i think it's wonderful. >> reporter: hollywood reacted to 17-year-old malala yousafzai being awarded the nobel peace prize and inspiring women in hollywood and around the world for her fight for girl's rights and award two years after malala yousafzai was shot by a gunman for insisting that girls deserve the right to an education, she is now the youngest ever nobel winner. malala yousafzai hopes being awarded the nobel peace prize will help her campaign to give other children access to children and pakistan has a very poor education record and nicole johnston reports the big problem is to get teachers to turn up to work. >> reporter: no teacher here for seven years, the classrooms are empty, the corridors quiet.

people here call it a ghost school. a resent survey found more than 6,000 schools across the providence are not functioning and 1-7 are like this, an empty shell. today a new teacher has turned up, when officials recently visited the area, parents pushed them to appoint one. the kids are excited. even though they have no books or pencils or even a chair. and until now these children have had no education. we asked their teacher why so many of these colleagues are not turning up to class. >> translator: i don't know. the order is to go and come from the officer, if the officer doesn't order the teacher to go he won't. >> reporter: for many in the province there is no chance to study. only 52% of children go to

school. and 10% of all teachers don't show up at all or regularly abse absent. the government says it's trying to cleanup corruption in the system. this official shows us the teacher attendance role at one school. the day he turned up, all eight teachers were absent. he says they have all had their pay suspended. >> translator: early the appointments were based on corruption, brides, nepitism or sometimes political pressure. and not merit. >> reporter: this boy's parents sent him to a nearby city to study. >> translator: my father told me to study but the students are very poor. they cannot provide specialities to go work at city. >> reporter: the first day of

school is over. the teachers here don't have a reputation for staying around. so parents worry that eventually it will return to being a ghost school. nicole johnston, al jazeera in pakistan. joining us now to discuss malala yousafzai and the issue of education is susan bissel child protection division at unicef and joins us for a weekend conversation and thanks for coming in this morning. first of all the youngest ever to win the award, that is the back drop were you surprised they honored her with this award? >> i think we were all surprised and at the same time you know incredibly proud of her and recalling the fact that she was actually shot when she was 15. >> right. >> she was a child who was target by violence and to see her now and her voice and frankly there are many, many, many children like her all over the world who are powerful,

articulate and so committed to their own country but to the causes that they represent. we are proud of her. >> typically in the history of the award it has been given to people who are dealing with armed conflict for the most part. what does it say about the committee that this year's recipients, two of them will share the prize, are dealing with children's rights and issues dealing with children specifically? >> i know them both and i have known kailash satyarthi the whole time i've been at unicef and it's extraordinary the committee recognized the two individuals. this year is the 25th anniversary of the u.n. convention on rights of a child and to have this announcement on the eve of that anniversary is it propels these issues and our concern for the rights of the world's children to center stage and i for one have been wanting this to happen for a very long time and didn't know it would come in this form, a nobel peace prize to these two remarkable people but we are delighted and hope it's a rallying cry, call

to action to the leaders of the world to pay more attention and to step up and really end violence against children and child labor and make the kinds of financial investments that needs to be made for change to children. >> if it's violence against children or poor education or do you think the awards will actually bring forth a change that you and unicef and other organizations hope or at least believe it requires? >> i have the good fortune of taking a historical perspective in the work at unicef over the last 25 years, the world is a different place and incredibly violent for children and at the same time more children are being saved and more children are in schools and better water and sanitation conditions. so to have kailash satyarthi and malala yousafzai center stage on what has been under recognized issues, i really feel that we are at a turning point. we are talking now about what

happens after the mellinium and what are the next set of goals and protecting children from exploitation and abuse and neglect has to be there and we have advocates and attention of hollywood and nobel committee and i cannot imagine we cannot do it as a human society. >> interesting that kailash satyarthi is from india and malala yousafzai is pakistan, two rival countries to see the community honor both of them simultaneously speaks volumes as well. let's go to malala yousafzai as we mentioned 15-year-old and 17 now and in school becoming a worldwide icon for the rights of young women. where does she get this from and you spend time with her, she is not the typical 17-year-old. >> no, she is not. and recalling that she was shot at the age of 15, targeted. >> yes. >> right. for going to school. for advocating for the rights of children to be educated, extraordinary. where does she get her power and

conviction? i think we have to look at something very, very important for children all over the world and that is to have a family that is supportive. her family are around her, behind her and i think there is nothing more important for an adolescent girl than the love and support of her father and she has that. she also has and i've seen millions of children in my time in 15 years in south asia who have this incredible faith, this incredible conviction and this desire to go to school and i'm from canada and look at north american kids and dying to get out of school. >> she displayed the desire yesterday when she found she won and she didn't leave class, she waited until school was over to address the media and loved it and thank you so much aren't keep fighting a good fight. >> thank you. facebook founder mark s zuckerberg is trying to get people connected and talking about internet and 10% on

facebook. and it's october and it's snowing in the rockies and metrologist dave warren as a look at the forecast. >> talking about the snow coming down and you have to go up an elevation to see it and temperatures have dropped and seeing snowfall there and could see that slowly spread east in the colder air but likely we will keep it in the mountains for now. what we are also watching is the flash flooding across the southern plains and this is rain out of oklahoma and texas and more showers and thunderstorms are forecast to develop there, it's along the boundary right through here from texas to washington d.c. and you see change in temperatures here, this is a front which has stalled out from 71 down to 42, flash flood watches are in effect and there are a few flood advisories from yesterday's rain but more flooded is expected today. thanks, dave, appreciate it. in the air to deep right.

and the kansas city royals have taken the lead! they have done it again, kansas city alex gordon blasting a home run in the 10th inning and a two-run shot moments later as the royals edged out the oriols 8-6 and game one of the american league championship series, this is the victory this season and a major league records and other teams had extra innings and all five of the previous team won the series and a lot of people think the royals will do so as well and a game against the st. louis cards and giants starts tonight and tomorrow on al jazeera getting in the ballot box in mid term from the state court to supreme court and taking stands on who can vote and when and we will look at the issue tomorrow at 8 a.m. and that will do it in new york and

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