>> this is al jazeera america, i'm thomas drayton in new york. let's get you caught up on the top stories at this hour. >> this is obviously bad news, it is not news that should bring about panic. >> a health care worker in dallas becomes the first person to contract ebola in the u.s. >> we are confident about our ability to pull this strategy together. >> secretary of state john kerry remains optimistic that coalition forces will defeat

i.s.i.l. ♪ ♪ >> celebrating victory in bolivia, ava morales abouts the first person to win the presidency for the third time. in the weeks ahead the controversy over columbus day. how the traditional holiday is being rethought. a new ebola case in dallas, texas has authorities taking steps to contain the virus. tonight haz-mat crews are at the complex of the sick health care worker. she helped take care of thomas edward duncan at presbyterian hospital. the emergency hospital is diverting all emergency patients to other hospitals. meanwhile the president told the

cdc he wants answers. heidi zhou-castro is there. >> the worker's symptoms of ebola remain minimal though the worst still lies ahead of her. of course this worker is being treated in the same hospital where less than a week ago she was the care taker. the patient of course was thomas eric duncan the first person to be diagnosed and then die of ebola in the united states. now the hospital says this worker who we are not naming because the family has asked for privacy had extensive contact with duncan. >> texas health presbyterian says the work aerospace test results came in late saturday night. >> late last saturday evening a preliminary blood test on a caregiver at texas presbyterian hospital dallas proved positive for ebola. >> the worker took care of thomas eric duncan. the hospital said the worker had worn full protective gear. >> this individual was following

full cdc precautions which are barrier and droplet, gown glove mask and shield. >> we don't know what occurred in the care of the index patient, the original patient in dallas. but at some point there was a breach in protocol. and that breach in protocol resulted in this infection. >> reporter: cdc director tom freeden, unaware of how she could have contracted the virus. that means other workers may have been exposed and not knowing it. >> unfortunately it is possible that in coming days we may see additional cases of ebola. this is because the health care workers who cared for this individual may have had a breach. >> reporter: the cdc says it is evaluating other workers who treated duncan, in addition to the 43 other people previously identified as duncan's contacts.

so far they have not shown symptoms. >> you cannot contract ebola other than from the bodily fluids of a symptomatic ebola victim. you cannot contract ebola by walking by people in the street. or by being around contacts who are not symptomatic. there is nothing about this case that changes that basic premise of science. >> haz-mat teams are decontaminating the apartment where the ebola stricken health care worker lives. she had been self-monitoring when she discovered a low grade fever on friday. >> as a result of that process the caregiver notified the hospital of imminent arrival and was immediately admitted to the hospital's isolation room. the entire process from the patient self-monitoring to the admission into isolation took less than 90 minutes. >> reporter: a close contact of the health worker is also in isolation and the worker's car has been cordoned off in the

hospital parking lot. ambulances have been instructed to stop bringing patients to the emergency room until further notice. >> we will undertake a complete investigation of how this may have occurred. that's so important so we can understand it better and intervene to prevent this from happening in the future. >> reporter: the cdc says it's already moving forward with five new recommendations that includes more training for workers at this particular hospital and also in general keeping the number of workers responding to ebola patients to a minimum. limiting medical procedures to only those that are essential, they are also taking another look at the personal protective equipment that health workers wear and finally the cdc says for all ebola treatment teams going forward there should be one person whose sole job 24 house is making sure everyone follows protocol and ensures safety. >> heidi zhou-castro in dallas.

scapegoated for what's happening in dallas. today a nurses union heeled rally to demand more training-- held a rally to demand more training. >> we are hearing that they have not followed proper protocol when we have been asking our hospitals throughout the country to provide us with training that allows us to ask questions. >> we should point out the cdc has set up a training center to teach health care workers to handle ebola patients. al jazeera's robert ray talked to workers at grady hospital to see how prepared they are to handle the virus. >> for months, the cdc has been sending charts to 5,000 hospitals nationwide. >> doctor are you guys prepared for an ebola patient here in your hospital? >> yes absolutely. >> atlanta's grady is a few miles from the busiest in the

world. where passengers enter the u.s. dr. hally itala says the hospital has been updatings their electronic medical records system so communication between staff is spot on. itala and the hospital fully expect someone with ebola symptoms to walk through the doors at any moment. >> we ask them if they have symptoms that are concerning for ebola, regardless if they have those symptoms we'll put a mask on them and move them immediately to ran isolation room. >> the screening has intensified since thomas eric duncan was sent home with only antibiotics. exposing gaps in the process there. >> we don't know how the infection can be treated number 1 how best it could be supported. i don't think there is anything that could be said about an earlier intervention that may

have made the difference. >> when people hear that the patient went to the hospital in dallas they knew he was from liberia, and yet sent him home with antibiotics and he was infected it is hard not to panic. >> that where it lies on the hospital he and centers for infectious disease to have things ready. >> the response for ebola goes beyond the confines of emergency rooms. first responders in the field are a key component in communication. >> the triage operators are also trained in the right questions to ask so they can alert the crews, the paramedics and the ems crews that arrive. >> this week the cdc conducted specialized training for health workers on their way to the hot zones in west africa. robert ray, al jazeera, atlanta. meanwhile there is cautious

optimism in spain where the nurse who contracted ebola is conpolicing. convalescing. >> there have been brief glimpse of the ongoing effort to save teresa rom romero. her life hangs in the balance. she remains the only positive case of the disease here so far. responsibility for a tacking the ebola alert has been handed to the dispute prime minister. a special ebola commission will now meet daily . at airports in the united states and britain tighter monitoring has been introduced, target ebola affected countries. simply asking passengers whether they feel unwell will be of limited effectiveness.

>> if you bought your ticket and you say yes i've got a fever then they know they won't let you on the plane. are you really going to say that you have? >> ebola. >> the u.n. is urging against outright travel bans. >> recent cases of the virus outside the region have shown that this is a global crisis. but the answer is not to close borders or impose travel bans. such measures will affect the isolated countries not disease. they will prevent urgent aid from reaching those in need. we need international solidarity in the face of an international threat. >> so little is known of the dangers of ebola, initial infection the auxiliary nurse teresa romero. paul drennan al jazeera, madrid. >> my colleague richelle carey, asked what could have led to

this latest infection in texas. >> i don't know that anything went wrong so much as that there's so much activity in west africa, there's a lot of traffic, people coming to the united states, from west africa. and it was just bound to happen given amount of ebola that's going on over there. it's not surprising to see it here. >> what are the most common mistakes that happen in the process to prevent ebola from spreading to health care workers? where does it usually go wrong? >> well, there's a million details and i have confidence in what the cdc is telling us about how to prevent it. its mode of transmission et cetera. but the personal protective equipment and all the details of providing care to very sick people requires if you have it almost perfect at every juncture. that's why we've talked about earlier having spotters, having

very short shifts where people don't become fatigued, where they don't become mentally fatigued, is really critical because there are lots of junctures in taking care of these very seriously ill patients. >> doctors and nurses are demanding better pay and more insurance from the government. they have received very little in treating ebola patients. many are worried if there is a strike, some patients will leave the hospital before they are cured and spread the virus. scientists are working on three potential vaccines for the virus. they expect to introduce the vaccines in the next six months. >> one of them have passed preclinical tests. one is an inactive strain from the virus. >> now to the latest on the

fight against i.s.i.l. secretary of state john kerry says the u.s. is concerned about the possible fall of the town of kobani in syria but the defense of that particular town is not part of the coalition strategy. adding that the focus remains on iraq. >> kobani is one community and it's a tragedy of what is happening there. and we don't diminish that. but we have said from day 1, it is going to take a period of time to bring the coalition thoroughly to the table to rebuild some of the morale and capacity of the iraqi army. >> the government of turkey has had a slight change of heart in the fight against i.s.i.l. turkey will now allow coalition forces to use its bases to launch operations in syria. the decision comes as kurdish forces say they are making headway against i.s.i.l. with

help from coalition air strikes. stephanie decker. >> optimism and positivity, there seems to be a change, coalition air strikes are helping, they're more on the attack rather than a defensive stance and this is also something we heard from one of the fighters who came out of kobani just yesterday. he was positive he said once he's fixed he's going back in and they are positive they can actually achieve that. however, when you speak to some of the people here the kurds who are watching all this fold out in front of them they think that international help has come too late. almost 200,000 refugees have had to flee into turkey, many of them living into extremely difficult conditions. many want to go back to kobani to help huma human human tearil.

>> imran khan has more from baghdad. >> three suicide attacks that included bombers in diala, eastern iraq. this was a facility with both kurdish peshmerga soldiers and the patriotic union of kurdistan. it is further evidence how bloody the battle is not just in diala but across iraq. more killed as a result of violence on saturday. this is the shula neighborhood. in the early evening two parked car bombs ripped through a busy marketplace. those in the vicinity didn't stand a chance. 38 were killed and 68 injured.

>> a car bomb exploded here at the checkpoint killing and wounding several people. my son was seriously injured and is now in hospital. this is his vehicle which was damaged in the attack. >> reporter: residents take a look at what's left. twisted metal and burned out vehicles. baghdad faces almost daily bombings of this nature and the city has become increasingly divided with people afraid to leave their neighborhoods. nobody's claimed responsibility for saturday's attacked but people here in iraq are worried about what the future might hold. in the western province of anbar, the head of the provincial capital said there needs to be boots on the ground. whether they should be nato forces or american boots on the ground but he said that's the only way you're going to defeet i.s.i.l. he says the -- defeat siel.

there needing to boots on the ground that the air strikes are simply not enough. imran khan, al jazeera, baghdad. >> u.s. military officials say, called in apache helicopters, to, i.s.i.l. was 15 miles from the airport and about to overrun iraqi soldiers. i.s.i.l. has been making gains in anbar province, causing more are call for coalition partners. says unifying kurdish forces is the best hope. >> a best example that is not aligned to islamist ideals and could actually fuse with a, key

here now that will require reconciliation between the kurds because the kurds in turkey, the pkk have been at odds with the kurdistan regional government in iran for a long time. there needs to be reconciliation there and with the pyd in syria. that will need to occur. once that occurs -- >> that takes time. >> of course it does. you can't fix things in a month that has taken years to break and that is syria. >> in ukraine, president petro poroshenko, putin has already ordered a withdrawal of russian troops from near the ukraine border. >> both sides should pull back nine miles with their heavy weaponry. as a result there will be an 18 mile demill tried zone.

>> earlier today poroshenko accepted the resignation of his prime minister, valeri hilite has been highly many decision to agree to a ceasefire but that has not stopped the large plumes of smoke billowing from a artillery fire from the donetsk airport. this is ukraine's government's last hold out in dobts don. donetsk. coming up. it's been two months since michael brown's death. we'll wrap up the week of resistance coming up next. >> ava morales wins and unprecedented third term. >> we'll look at our sunday segment the week ahead coming up

at 11:30 eastern, 8:30 pacific.

>> at the so-called weekend of resistance in ferguson 17 people were arrested during a sit-in at a convenience tort in st store . louis. protesting the killing of michael brown and another teenager last week. all around st. louis there was deep reflection about how to bring about meaningful change. shia britanzi reports. >> the ferguson october weekend of resistance reaches sunday and at the united epiphany church of cries the minister is asking why. >> shall we just call it us? for having settled into a rac rt

status quo for so long, we are accepting how its hatred has infected everything. >> one of the goals of the weekend's organizers is to build a broad coalition against police violence. the organizers are on board. >> they're using tanks and tear gas things that don't make us feel safer or feel that they're there to protect us. >> fact is we just pretend everything is fine. it's not but now we're getting conversations from those people and reactions from those people who have experienced suffering. you know it's breaking open some things that have been under the surface. >> as the service ends here, across town, the hip hop and resistance concert is getting underway and the message being expressed is the same.

tafpo is one of the organizers of the weekend of resistance. he says the diversity of those outraged by michael brown's killing is often ignored. >> media likes to paint the narrative that it's a bunch of young angry black kids. but when you touchdown on the ground you quickly learn that it's kind of different. >> reporter: what's been happening here in st. louis this weekend is about thousands of people from around the country and has gained international attention. but it all began as people began to gather outside ferguson police station after michael brown was killed. >> so we all stepped out into the middle of the street and a lot of people looked at us like that's a really radical thing to do but at that time we were like look this is not going to be one of those situations where it was like it was in the past where we come and we sing and we pray and we go home, like we're going to

resist. >> shia britanzi. al jazeera, st. louis. >> evo morales, exit polls give morales about 60% of the vote. >> my brothers and sisters, i want to tell you the result of these elections are on my own behalf and the behalf of the vice president and for bolivia we want to thank you, thank you brothers and sisters to the bolivian victory. >> no president had ever been democratically elected to a second term for evo morales, much less a third term. he is overseeing the biggest

economic boom that this country has ever, ever seen and he's doing it with a mixture of a very strong socialist rhetoric and social programs, mixed with rather orthodox economic policies that has really made this country's economy grow in a sustained fashion more than any other in latin america, more than any of this country's neighbors. so that explains certainly in great part his popularity. in fact he did very, very well in the opposition stronghold the eastern areas of santa cruz, the oil rich areas ever bolivia which just five years ago wanted to have him overthrown, wanted to secede from the nation. a lot has changed. evo morales promised to continue with socialism antiimperialist policies. he thanked the crowds for

supporting his priorities, and one of them would be to create a nuclear power plant, here in bolivia, he said for peaceful purposes to turn bolivia into an energy hub for the region. certainly most people expected him to win so there will be no surprise. a lot of the region's leaders are socialist left-leading governments. venezuela, ecuador, argentina, brazil, there are elections in just two weeks, just how that will go, they will be applauding it. chile is having very, very tense relations, with bolivia they have a maritime dispute. but chile will be surprised to note that the president of bolivia can continue economic stability, and that's something morales has been able to pull off against everyone's

predictions when he was first elected in 2006. now to hong kong where it is 11:27 on monday morning. these are live pictures. police have been able to remove some of the barricades put up by protesters. police took down unmanned metal barricades. police said they did not intend to clear the protest zone but reduce the risk for traffic accidents. police then erected more barricades at the odo other end. still ahead, celebrating columbus day, why not everyone will be celebrating the traditional holiday in the week lady. >> this could switch from republican hands to democratic hands >> with the senate and congress up for grabs... >> it's gonna be close >> these candidates will stop at nothing to get elected. >> iowa was never sent a woman to congress... >> i wanna squeal!

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for thomas eric duncan, who died on friday. the woman ask showing only mild ebola symptoms so far. in the battle for the town of kobani, kurdish fighters have made some strides. coalition forces to use its bases for operations against i.s.i.l. officials in ankara have agreed to train moderate syrian forces in turkey. exit polls giving him 60% of the vote, since taking office eight years ago, morales has seen bolivia through a period of strong economic growth. it is sunday night and time for our regular look at the week ahead. federal employees and some lucky schoolchildren are enjoying a three day weekend. columbus day which became a national holiday in the 1930s has traditionally been celebrated the second october i-

second monday in october. courtney keely explains. >> nobody discovered seattle, washington. >> seattle city council has vo voted unanimously. berkeley california has been doing it since 1992. christopher columbus has long been described as discovering the new world 500 plus years ago. but indigenous populations say that's impossible, people were already living there. >> it internalizes genocide in our are population. i felt it myself growing up it's time to change it so they can be proud of themselves and not honor a man that murdered their family.

>> in 1492 columbus arrived on hispaniola his own journal describes the enslaving of the local population. but italian americans argue that the day is the recognition ever columbus as an explorer and changing it is an insult to their culture and heritage. >> italian americans everywhere are intensely offended. >> the city of seattle is actually named for a native american leader but the effort to celebrate as different holidays was shot down. the italian american group features, not to recognize columbus day on the state level. it's still a federal holiday meaning that mail is not delivered and banks are closed. south dakota has renamed it native americans today and in

hawaii the holiday is known as discoverers day to commemorate the state's pol state's polynes. >> maintaining control of their natural resources in a brazilian amazon alone there are 400 different indigenous groups. it is also home to more isolated tribes than anywhere else in the world. many choose to do so, after enslavement and exposure to disease. here in the united states there are roughly 300 native american revocatioreservations. some of the poorest people in the u.s. are said to live on these reservations. let's bring in shama shawant,

joining us from seattle and rebecca amison, founders of first peoples worldwide. ladies, glad to have you with us. >> thank you. >> thank you. >> columbus day tomorrow, perhaps an obvious questions but is that racist? >> as you just talked about columbus was not an explorer, he set off on a voyage of conquest and destruction and from his own generals we know he was a prolific slave trader and he was responsible, he was an instigator of the continualization and conquest. about the native americans, he says they do not bear arms they do not know them they would make fine servants. with 50 men we could subjugate them all. if we are to send a message of

empowerment to all our young people it is absolutely important for us to end this abomination of celebration of somebody who was himself personally responsible for a genocide of an entire peoples of an entire continent. >> what do you make of the criticism, it's more about the honoring of the italian americans than man himself. why not another day? >> i would say if we want to honor people whether they are italians or i as an indian want to honor indians, i would make the choice to honor those indians or those italians who have given up their life for the fight for social justice. there is a brilliant history prow history of italian americans who are social ichtsis like me, who are on the struggle

for social justice. played a role in the early labor movement of america, most of the early leaders were immigrant leaders and thanks to them we have the eight hour workday and many other workplace securities thanks to them. those are the people we should be celebrating not a mass murderer. >> why is there such a division if you will of certain sections of the population or indigenous people is there simply a misunderstanding? >> i want to first thank seattle minneapolis and san francisco because it's about time that we've had some recognition. and i think what you're putting your finger on thomas is the diversity within indigenous peoples ourselves. we don't have one way of thinking but we have values that hold us together in a sacred relationship with the land in respect for one another and respect for our differences.

so we don't really see taking away from columbus for our recognition. we feel we should have been recognized all along and we really, really stand up and thank cities for bringing this recognition about. because we face racial discrimination every day in this country. and in every country where there are first nations and indigenous people. >> you bring up a good point. roughary 5,000 distinct grupt gs around the globe. >> we have a variety of different cultures among indigenous peoples but we have a cohesive commonality when it comes to our world view and seeing ourselves as interconnected. that's where the basis of our respect for the individual peoples come through. we really do embrace italian cowltcultures, british culturesd

it is our right to embrace this where they come. >> ms. sawant what would you wish? >> that seattle and berkeley have done and an institution of an indigenous people's day at the federal level but it has to go beyond symbolic references here. as you yourself thomas, the unemployment that our indigenous communities still face and also recognize that the plunder and pillage that they faced in the past which resulted this their reductions in numbers and their deep poverty continues to this day all around the world. you know the carnage and violence continues around the world because capitalism continues to require exploitation. my hope is that we take this message to real empowerment to fight for social reforms and to actually talk about a fundamental shift away from capitalism into a culture into a

global society that respects all ethnicities all cultures all languages but on the basis of equality and justice making sure every human being no matter what the color of their skin is they get access to all the living standards that we think all human beings deserve. >> seven years ago the u.n. adopted the declaration of rights for indigenous peoples. ms. adams has that changed for people? >> it has been a long and slows struggle, but united nations declaration of rights for indigenous people, while it's considered to be a declaration in a legal sense it is serving to cause laws and legal cases to be solved in favor of indigenous peoples we're working with corporations around the world trying to bring them to the

table, so that they can and will respect indigenous people's rights. we have an opportunity as indigenous peoples, controlling about 20% of the earth's land surface with 80% of the rage biodiversity. we want to respect all life. we care beyond the human race. we are protectors and stewards of all life on this planet. we want to come to the table and say on our lands there is room for development but it's on our terms and on our conditions. and it's within our culture. >> i know you see it as a sacred duties. ladies, stand by for just a moment, i want to talk about the issues. as we mentioned some of the challenges that native communities face is maintaining control of their frank stams resources. in the amazon indigenous peoples are fighting to keep these resources in the ground. >> it was a journey.

therese laguinga is asking world leaders for one not so simple thing. to leave ecuador's barrels of oil in the ground. >> our people believe that parole yum is the blood of our-- petroleum is the blood of our are ancestors. >> home to 1200 people and through a decades-long battle in international courts has successfully stopped ecuador's government from opening it up to bill oil companies. now they want to make their village a model for other communities around the world. we have a proposal that's based on scientist reports that say that 50% of the known petroleum reserves need to stay underground to avoid raising

there earth's temperature even more. so what have we been waiting for? we have been resisting, we do not want more contamination of our lands. >> the international oil agency has gone a step further. it recommends that not more than one-third of fossil fuel reserves be bender 502050. >> patricia shared sarayaku's story at a group of indigenous peoples in new york. each community shared stories of fighting for the earth. to opposing the construction of appliancpipelines to demanding t pollution be cleaned up. change they believe must begin with them. >> because we have time tested

experience and a relationship with mother earth. it's just hoping that the other world will catch onto that. >> catching on before it's too late to combat climate change. kaylin ford, al jazeera, new york. >> ms. adamson, where do they stand with their own governments? >> well by and large the governments are very, very eager to get the revenues from the corporations. so what we've been really looking at working with is getting the indigenous peoples in the communities and in our leadership talking directly to the corporations. some indij news communities may want to pursue development and when they do they want to pursue it on their own terms. what we have seen in the market today is absolutely no benefits flow back to our communities so even if there is some interest in development the benefits are directed out of our communities and going elsewhere. so our own children and our future children is not

guaranteed when we do enter into any kind of agreement for development. >> ms. sawana i see you shaking your head. what do you hear from your constituents? >> from our constituents it is very clear, it is a very progressive city. the city government like many governments under capitalism does not reflect the views of the majority of the people. the majority of people want social and economic justice and they want to fight change. indigenous communities everywhere in south america and the united states and in canada are conducting a courageous fight against big oil and big coal. the enormous climate marches that happened, where mills o whf people marched for climate justice, i think climate justice

is important, prairmin primarilt affecting the poorest people but in reality none of this is going to be possible. the ending of the use of fossil fuel, preservation of the precious and sacred resources, that is technologically possible but not going to happen unless the enormous enormous wealth of society is in the hands of a few really wealthy corporations of big oil and big coal. so it is really for us as human beings in general as the working class as a whole and as indigenous communities, the question that is posed almost immediately the question of there control of resources. as long as a few wealthy bill billionaires make the change, we

have to fight really strong political movements. >> i would like you to finish your thoughts, how would you describe your fight against indigenous people in the federal government? >> i'm like to tie into what's been said already, i think we have to develop a market. we have a market problem here. we don't have a market that penalizes bad companies. when a corporation goes in and violates human rights, destroys the environment, pollutes the water and the air, it doesn't get valued at the rate that a company that does do these things. we have got to look at this market and put in actually taxes, fines or declare a real material risks at the violation of human rights. it is material risk that these companies vital our hum rights. when the market starts charging bad companies for bad behavior we're going to see exchange.

i don't trust our governments to make this change. i have very little faith in our political governments except to note who's in with us on this tv program right now. i think we've got to direct this to the market and get the market and the rating agencies and the ensurers of these, to ruining the environment violating our rights. >> critical conversation to have. rebecca and shama, great to have you both with us on the week ahead. >> thank you so much. >> thank you. thank you very much. >> before we go let's take a look at some other events coming up in the week ahead. in monday paralympiann oscar

pistorius will be sentenced. united states and the soviet union. in vienna. and the united nations security council will hold elections in new york. voting for five nonpermanent members of the council. coming up next, the pump for drierves, why gadrivers, why ths continue to slide.

>> alaska's ban on gay marriage has been ruled unconstitutional. the federal judge in the case wrote, this court finds that

alaska's same sex marriage laws vitals due process and equal protection under the law under the 14th amendment. the state is expected to appeal the decision. have you noticed? gas prices are down again this week, this is the sixth week of plummeting prices at the pument. the lundberg analysis. >> hurt the market but that's been good news for refiners buying crude oil. in this week's final installment of "edge of eighteen," alex gibney show parents are the guiding light for young adults even if they're not around. >> i know that. >> my mom and i started arguing one day jokingly i was like why don't you send me to boarding school and she did. >> i can share the gospel and

maybe people who don't know christ will come to know him. >> i don't know if that's a good idea. i'm the number 1 guy in charge of the 180 cadets. >> i am their brother, i have been through a lot with them and you know i don't want to see them on one of those plaques that we have over in the foyer for former fib fishburne cadets passing away. >> to become a disciplined 81 man. >> i'm on my way to see my mom for first time in six years. i feel so ners righ nervous. >> my mom was having an affair. >> i know that, i don't blame you. >> that's all we did.

>> me doing anything is never complete without somebody else. and that person was christ. and so i'm not thinking most of you are coming here to hear about jesus but i can't do anything without him. >> i'm so proud of you. that was kind of crazy to me, to see that that was coming from my child. somebody who's you know so young and has this bold face, and his strong belief and strong connection with god it was amazing to me. >> virginia. [applause]

>> 2013-2014 school year hereby dismissed! [ cheering ] >> for more on the challenges facing teenagers across the u.s. we invite you to tune in to "edge of eighteen" the final episode it airs right after this program. still ahead on al jazeera, the devastating effects of cyclone huthut in india. rebecca. >> severe weather, watch out, dallas, oklahoma city, details coming up in the weather.

>> at least two deaths were reported on the east coast of india after cyclone hudhud hit. rebecca stevenson joins us now. where do we stand with hudhud? >> we'll continue to see it move into central india.

dumping rain on the coast of india. we're expecting the track of it in the next two days to continue and turn to the north gradually so we'll see another round of heavy rainfall into the mountains of nepal. let's stick with that theme because we're currently watching tropical storm gonzalez, threat thing puerto rico tonight and the virgin islands. we're expecting this particular storm to gradually strengthen to hurricane status. dangerous winds and it still stands as a tropical storm but it must be watched. this is a lot of rainfall very quickly. now let's address a lot of rainfall very quickly and wind gusts up to 70 to 80 miles an hour. oklahoma city down to dallas fort worth are planning for a stormy night, as a conceptual

line moves through. these wind gusts coming down like straight line winds can easily cause a lot of damage here. brought to you by incredibly cold air. wind gusts across the southwest up to 50, up to 45 to 50 in northern texas right now that's some cold air behind it, so cold it took snow levels 5,000 to 6,000 feet, jackson hole wyoming. beautiful shot snow in the mountains. that is the big story. breckenridge colorado, gorgeous fall colors out there but boy it doesn't feel like fall, it's starting to feel more like winter as temperatures are dropping by about 20°. >> always like to look out but no fun to drive in. thanks so much for joining us, that's going to do it for us this hour. don't forget can you get the latest news at aljazeera.com.

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