>> the c.d.c. releasing new guidelines to deal with health care workers returning from ebola-stricken countries. some are pushing back with they're more stringent plans. >> how the washington state gunman lured his victims. one victim has forgiven him. >> as fighting rages on in kobane, questions remain about who's in control of the town.

isil released a prop began at a video saying the fight is over. >> they can be very violent. there's times it can blow the ground open. >> hawaii an high alert, flowing lava is less than a football field away from homes on the big island. officials urge residents to evacuate. >> good morning, welcome to al jazeera america. i'm del walters. >> i'm stephanie sy. this morning there is a public health battle brewing between president obama and several states, the c.d.c. releasing guidelines, some states not going along. the dispute to handling health workers returning from west africa. >> chris christie defends his decision to keep nurse kaci hickobjection in containment.

workers have controlled monitoring in italy. the c.d.c. was under pressure to come up with these new guidelines. >> they were. another week, another day, new protocols, new guidelines by the c.d.c., but guess what? the states are now making their own decisions, so none of that may matter. >> the c.d.c. announced new guise lines for people who have been in contact with ebola patients in west africa, especially health care workers putting them into four risk categories. >> there's high risk, some risk, low but not zero risk and there's no discernible risk. you match that to the kind of monitoring you have. >> those with the highest risk of contracting the virus are asked to voluntarily isolate themselves at home, but the governors of new york and new jersey of standing by their decision to impose a mandatory quarantine and not other states are joining in.

this nurse, after treating ebola patients in sierra leone spent the weekend in this tent at a new jersey hospital. she says with no heat, no shower, and a box for a toilet. she called her treatment inhumane. she will continue her 21 day isolation at her family home in maine. >> her service and commitment to this cause is something that should be honored and respected. i don't think we do that by making her live in a tent for two or three days. >> new jersey governor chris christie insists he did the right thing quarantining her. >> i understand she's uncomfortable and no one likes being in the hospital but we are not going to take a risk with the public health in new jersey. >> new york mayor said he would rather be safe than sorry. >> the federal government doesn't agree with our policy. what's called the c.d.c. thinks

that we're being too cautious. i understand that. >> the army also announced that u.s. soldiers serving in west africa will also be isolated before heading back to the u.s. they will be ordered to a 21 day controlled monitoring period. >> that 5-year-old boy who was tested for ebola last week and the test came out negative, he's in isolation. they're continuing to try to figure out what is his situation, but he does not have ebola. in the meantime, dr. spencer, dr. craig spencer, the health worker doctor who has contracted ebola is in serious but stable condition at bellevue hospital in manhattan. >> any word on how niece new regulations are going over with the organizations that are now fighting ebola in west africa? >> not well. doctors without borders is against these new regulations, saying it's going to impede health workers from coming over

to west africa because if they go to west africa and treat patients and fly back to the u.s. and quarantined for 21 days even though they have new symptoms, perhaps they won't do that. they put out a release last night saying that they hope people look at the science and stop the panic. >> also, atlanta where you are home to one of the world's busiest airports said monday, georgia's governor announcing his own ebola plan. what is georgia doing now. >> it's not as stringent and new york and new jersey, but they are doing a three tier process. one of them, if you come into atlanta, georgia, to atlanta hardfield jackson and have a fever, you're going to be put into a quarantine unit. if you were in west africa and land here and you have not been around anyone with ebola, they're going to make you sign a document and self monitor yourself and check and see if

you have a fever over the course of 21 days. if you're a health care worker, they're going to make sure you monitor yourself. they're going to check in with you as far as video, make you sign a document and make sure you don't come down with symptoms. they are taking their own steps, not at stringent as the east. >> stay with us. coming up at 7:20, we'll talk to a doctor about those goo guidelines and also why so many states are having so much leeway in deciding what to do with people who are sick. >> the high school freshman who opened fire in the state of washington high school lured his victims. >> the 15-year-old specifically targeted five class might as by sending text message to say meet up in the cafeteria early friday morning. as soon as he walked up to their table, police say he pulled out

a handgun and started shooting. >> just before shots range out inside marriesville high school, the homecoming prince sent text messages, inviting five of his closest friends to have lunch with him in the cafeteria. >> witnesses confirm that the five victims were at the table when the shooter opened fire, striking the victims before turning the gun on himself. >> police say he gunned down his own friends with a 40 caliber berretta, the handgun purchases legally and registered to a family member. >> we are still trying to determine exactly how the shooter obtained the weapon. >> while classes are canceled for the week, students visit the memorial growing along the high school fence. this is a community still unmourning after two young students last their lives. one died at the scene friday, the other late sunday. >> i'm waiting to hear how the others are. >> two others remain in critical

condition. some hopeful news for another cousin, the fifth victim, a 14-year-old nate hatch, recovering from a gunshot wound to the jaw is able to communicate through written notes. tweeting from his hospital bed hatch wrote to his attacker saying i love you and i forgive you jaylen, rest in peace. >> it broke his heart to hear why would my brother do that to me, even though their cousins, why would my brother do that to me. >> digging through his social media is part of an investigation that could take months. the sheriff said in the end, they may not uncover a clear motive. >> we may never have many answers that most of you are seeking. >> as police continue their investigation, voters in washington state are about to vote on two gun laws, one requiring universal background checks, another would strengthen

gun owners' rights. >> >> we may soon see a video made by the shooter in last week's deadly attack in ottawa, canada. the head of the royal canadian mounted police plans to release that the shooter was lucid and purposeful and likely driven by political and ideological motives. >> many of these individuals often show few signs of being disposed to violent actions, even those under close examination often exhibit few signs before an attack is carried out. >> secretary of state john kerry is traveling to ottawa today. he pledged america's full support in battling violent extremist the. canada will pause to remember the soldier killed in the attack on canada's war memorial.

the private service will be held in his hometown of hamilton. his funeral will be broadcast live on line. >> a new propaganda video from isil shows a british hostage showing kobane. >> the u.s. says isil has heat-seeking surface to air missiles. recent images confirm the group shot down an iraq helicopter. >> how concerned is the u.s. over isil's missile capabilities? >> this is a major concern and comes for a couple of reasons. first it points pit falls in the american strategy, air power alone, new boots on the ground, relying on the iraq troops on the ground in iraq and free syria army rebels trained by the coalition in syria, but with these weapons now being used, some of which have been obtained from syrian rebels, these weapons, these man pads, surface

to air missiles were supplied by allies of the rebels trying to fight the assad regime now in the hands of isil. it just goes to show you how fluid the situation is there. the concern is the more you arm these grooms, the more these weapons will be used against you. the united states is flying apache helicopters backing up the iraq army, a big concern there. isil that driven close to the baghdad airport. they are pushed back at the moment. military aircraft, not to mention civilian aircraft flying in and out of that airport in danger so long as isil has those weapons. >> is this going to affect coalition strategy? clearly it's going to affect it tactically. in terms of the big picture whether or not ground troops from the coalition are put on the ground there, that's a very far stretch at this point. elements in washington, john

boehner among them pushing for a more robust u.s. involvement, including ground troops but that pretty much remains a political if not a military non-starter. >> thank you very much. >> we are getting word this morning that iraqi kurdish forces will be airlifted to turkey, according to a kurdish official. he says the peshmerga will cross the border and enter kobane. some 200,000 syrians are leaving kobane and entering turkey to escape isil. we report on the challenges they face on the turkey-syria border. >> we believe that most of the people who were living in kobane and it's envirans fled about a month or so ago. there are a few hundred people left. the problem is refugees come over, they bring only what they can carry. they are not allowed to bring cars, cattle, which is why a lot

of people were reluctant to come in the first place until the threat from isil became more apparent, so when they come, they have nothing. the turkish authorities provide accommodations to those who want it in terms of tents and they feed them and try and provide education. of course, it's all supposed to be temporary, but the worry for the people who can watch what's happening is seeing what happened to other refer gees who fled in the last couple years and fear that it will become more permanent than they hold. >> coming up, we'll talk about the isil fights and whether the airstrikes are making a difference there. >> britain is cutting support for migrants entering europe gees mediterranean sea, focusing on stopping smugglers instead. 350,000 migrants have been rescued in the last year.

italy is ending sea operations this week. >> after battered by strong winds, the northwest now facing heavy rain. >> let's bring in nicole mitchell for more on that. good morning. >> good morning. that last sometime is now in the midwest. we'll have more on this, because there's a lot going on here too. lets if he can cows in the northwest on the next weather system, you can see this potent one. parts of the tropical storm that we talked about yesterday. through the course of the day, we are seeing more rain push in especially like the olympic range, you can see the heaviest core of this, two or three inches of rain as this moves through and the heaviest today. as this pushes in, wind gusts easily over 30 miles per hour, possibly even sustained at that level and then some of those gusts 40, possible 50 miles an hour, so it will be windy especially in the mountain passes. some of those higher elevations, shouldn't impact travel too much, but a little snow as all

of this comes through. this continues to push through over the course of the day. eventually, we'll have impacts for other parts of the country, but as i said, really the big news with this is going to be heavy amounts of rain and possibly a widespread area, an inch or two, but that being two or three inches during the course of the day. >> that's a lot of green on that map. >> as we've talked about, the c.d.c. out with new guidelines from health workers from africa. they don't include mandatory quarantines. >> do the guidelines go far enough? we discuss it next. >> 2,000 degrees is how hot the lava is creeping on the big side of hawaii. why some people aren't choosing to go to safety. >> police try to catch a driver speeding on the streets of ohio. we'll show you where the chase ended with more than a dozen hurt. >> 10 million is our big number

of the day. >> a lasting reminder of an oil spill that devastated the gulf of mexico. refugees in

lebanon has increased the population by over 20%, putting huge strains on water supply, which is scarce in that part of the world, on schools, on hospitals. this is a country which just emerged from a civil war two decades ago and is seeing speakingover violence from syria, so a situation you do not want to get out of control. it's about sending money to lebanon, jordan, helping the turks, as well, to stabilize the situation before a political situation can be worked out. that's what all of the speakers

were saying here, the foreign ministers and head of the united nations high commission for refugees can manage the refugee situation but ultimately there has to be a political solution in syria. >> is there talk of easing the burden on the middle eastern countries by having them take in more refugees? >> well, there was a comment made by the german foreign minister in which he skirted around the issue saying that of course we'll be talking about this, but most of the talk was really about how do we help lebanon, jordan, how do we help stabilize the country where most of those reef gees are now, because that is the priority, to just make sure things don't get out of hand in the safe havens that these refugees have managed to find. germany has taken on half of the refugees that have come to europe.

the foreign minister put the number at 70,000 syrians, some n.g.o.'s around 40. sweden is another country that has taken on a relatively large number of refugees, offering automatic asylum to people who can make it there. there isn't an overall e.u. wide policy in dealing with the syrians. each country determines whether or not it wants to take in a bigger or smaller share. >> nick spicer for us live this morning in berlin, nick, thank you very much. >> almost all residents of a small hawaiian town have evacuated as a river of fire threatens to destroy them. >> that fire is from the kilawea volcano. >> the slow moving lava is heading their way. the risk is one these people have accepted in return for

cheaper land and more open space. they're finding out the hard way that risk is very real. >> the blazing hot lava flow is almost 2,000 degrees, up to 100 yards wide and unstoppable. the lava flowing downhill from one of the earth's most active voluntarily contain knows cut a path of destruction across foliage, road and seminary. >> we know that is always a possibility. >> as the lava threatens homes, most but not all of the town's 800 residents have fled. >> i have my trailers ready, but i'm not putting anything on them until the guy across the street's house is burning. >> located in the middle of hawaii's big island, it is 22 miles to the left. lava from a late june eruption is making a marsh towards the remote town. for residents who have nowhere

else to go, the red cross set up a shelter. >> people are losing everything that we have and we're trying to provide a place people can have a safe place if they don't have family to go with. >> one of the biggest concerns, the possibility that the lava flow could cut off the town from the rest of the island. crews are laying detour roads and putting up concrete barriers around power poles. some residents believe the flow is the will of the who wine god pele. the hope is that the will does not include taking thor homes. however, should the lava do that, local authorities have given word that they will be allowed to watch as their homes burn. >> that would be a tough thing to see and this has been a tough few months for the folks, still recovering a tropical storm which made landfall in august. >> the c.d.c. has issued new federal guidelines for travelers who may have been exposed to

ebola. the plan does not include mandatory quarantines, those at high risk would be ordered not to use public transportation or work outside their homes. the new federal plan faces stiff criticism from some governors including chris christie of new jersey, saying the guidelines don't go far enough. >> an infectious disease physician joins us. we are just learning that the dallas nurse, amber vin son is now ebola-free, what is to say that so many people with bowl lo are coming here and being treated and surviving in west africa, they are not. >> so much of the treatment is about timing and about supportive therapy, so in the case of amber vin son, nina pham and some of the other americans who have been treated, they had immediate medical attention and i.v. fluids, something that is

very rare in west africa. >> the new guidelines don't jive with what certain governors are doing in their states. the new england journal of medicine called the reaction to kaci hickobjection unfair and unwise, beyond inconvenient, why do you think it was unwise. >> the problem is you have to remember that the way to control ebola, to protect ourselves is to control it in west africa and you're never going to get control of the epidemic there if health care workers don't want to go. i was signing up to volunteer with two other friends, one based in washington, d.c., she is still planning to go, the one based in new york is pulling out because she doesn't want to be inconvenienced and it's not small, 21 days when you can't work or see anybody. this is going to impact people

being willing to voluntary. >> let me ask you this. you raised it by saying that you thought bit and others, as well. the organization that you work for, were they going to be paying your salary for those 21 days if you had to be quarantined? >> that's a very good question. i emailed h.r., the organization last week to find out, because i don't have a clearance for that. i will be paid a stipend, not full salary while i am in-country, but i'm not sure about those 21 days. >> when it comes to kaci hickox, should she be self monitoring? >> i think the self monitoring is key. it's key to check your temperature twice a day also keeping tabs on a year symptoms, checking one of the two temperatures themselves and also going through a check list of

symptoms with the person. it's not letting that person do it all on their own. >> let's check the forecast with nicole mitchell. >> this system in the midwest are causing the most problems, you can see heavy rain from michigan into arkansas, places like south bend this morning you've seen that. along with a front ahead of that, really warm temperatures behind that, a little bit of a snap back to reality and much more fall-like and also ahead, especially around ohio, for example, could be some severe weather. some storms with high winds. as i said, if you're ahead of this, temperatures 10-20 above average could put you today at 80 degrees, new york at 70. this is the day i'm saying go outside. >> look out. >> yeah, when you can.

yeah. >> more arrests in connection with the disappearance of more than 40 students in mexico. >> the latest revelation in the search for the missing as their families are now demanding answers. >> they call it insult on top of injury, the loophole that forces victims of violent sexual crimes to pay for their own rape exams. >> rob ford not going to be the mayor of toronto much longer. we'll talk about his new job and how his brother fared in that city's elections. >> modern day robin who said, one town upset with teens putting change in parking meters. one of the stories caught in our global net.

>>ing hong kong, demonstrators marking one month since the start of the umbrella revolution. protestors from the movement demanding deposition exhibit from beijing. good morning, welcome to al jazeera america. ahead this half hour, a new

joyce in the right to die controversy, a man with a brain tumor shares his story of how you can live with a terminal illness. >> the wife of a convicted amish leader talks to aljazeera america. what she says is the truth behind the allegations against her husband. >> in our next hour, america's political royalty, the dynasties that dominated politics and how they could do so in the next election. >> nurse amber vinson set to be released from the hospital today. she treated an ebola patient. there is resistance to guidelines for those returning from west africa, some saying president obama's plans don't do enough to protect the public. >> investigators say a teen who shot five people in washington state texted them beforehand, inviting them to have lunch with him in the cafeteria and that is when he opened fire. he took his own life. >> u.s. officials confirm isil

has surface to air missiles. the group released a new video featuring a british hostage. he says kobane is now controlled by isil. they pla>> colonel layton, good. this morning, the battle for kobane continues, so is this a sign that the airstrikes are working or that isil has taken the best the coalition can dish out and it's still standing? >> good morning. what we are hearing here is a really moderate air movement. it's not really even an air campaign, and so very limited airstrikes that do have an effect in a tactical sense but don't have an effect in the way that a normal air campaign

would. we're seeing a very little bit go on here. a lot of what we're hearing from isil is in essence, we're still alive, still moving and still gaining ground from their point of view. >> the breaking news is that those kurdish peshmerga sources are going to be airlifted to join the battle in kobane. are these the boots on the ground and will these particular boots be suitable? >> they're part of the boots on the ground that the administration was counting on, but they are suitable for the environment, there are probably not enough of them, though, to make a real permanent difference against the isil fighters that are in and around kobane at the moment. there's a lot more work that needs to be done and i don't think we've seen the last of the movements on the ground at this moment. >> by is it estimates, the battle against isil has cost adjustment taxpayers a billion

dollars. will the american public continue to fund this campaign if costs sore? >> i think that if the costs start to soar and we don't see results and isil's drastic containment, there are going to be questions. there's going to be a significant series of questions that we'll see not only on capitol hill, but the public at large and could have an impact on the election. >> thank you for being with us this morning. >> coming up, we'll have the latest from the turkey-syria border. >> a security scare delayed a plane from los angeles to london over the name of a wi-fi network. a passenger on an american

airlines flight named al-qaeda-free terror network. the wireless connection did not come from anyone on the plane. >> in yemen, 350 people are dead. a suicide car bomber killed houthi fighters including a prominent tribal leader who just defected to the opposing side. most of the fighting has been south of the capitol. >> north korea giving a rare glimpse of how it treats its citizens, opening the door to civil rights investigators. some warn it's an attempt to stop its human rights record from being sent to the international criminal court. the u.n. has not yet said if it will accept the invitation. >> jordan will request a security council meeting oh with the u.n. on israel, saying the meeting is on above of palestinians. palestinian officials called on the security council to address the tensions in jerusalem and

israeli's temperatures. israeli's prime minister has vowed to continue building those settlements. >> there is unrest in mexico after the disappearance of 42 students. >> there are already more than 50 people behind bars. who are these new suspects? >> they are four men believed to be members of the violent united warriors drugs cartel. they've reportedly admitted the students were handed over to them the day they vanished. a new grave site was discovered outside the city of iguala. that's the latest place the students were seen alive. parents and demonstrators called for the return of the children. the mayor, who's wanted in connection with the students' disappearance have not i should. he is accused of ordering police to stop the students from protesting at one of his

rallies. >> we aim to know the whereabouts of the young people, but also to identify as has already been done and catch those responsible for the planning and execution of these sad actions. >> the president was speaking side by side with the new interim governor of the guerrero state. the previous governor resigned. the hunt continues for the mayor of iguala and his wife. an arrest warrant was issued, but the couple nowhere to be found. >> the u.s. expressing concern about civil liberties in egypt. that countries president is giving new powers to its military after one of the worst attacks on his soldiers in decades. al sisi said civilians con now be tried in military court and out sides soldiers to protect power plants, roads and bridges. >> a new report claims 400 journalists around the world have been murdered with impunity over the last decade.

90% of those cases, the killer has not been brought to justice, iraq, somalia, philippines, and russia are listed at particularly dangerous places for journalists. >> today marks 304 days since three aljazeera journalists were detained in egypt. aljazeera rejects all charges against them. >> more charges against the colorado movie theater shooter james holmes. the judge won't accept anymore delays. holmes has pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity. that people left 12 people dead. >> a legal loophole in louisiana leaving victims of violent sexual crimes to pay the price for their own assault. men and women are being billed for rape exams. state legislators are looking to change that. jonathan martin has been following this story from new orleans. this has got to be very traumatic for women there.

>> i bet it is. it can be. this is something that has been happening for years. it only got the attention of the governor after the local newspaper here ran an article a few weeks ago in which they talked to several rape victims who came forward with their bills, sometimes $3,000 or $4,000 after having these forensic exams. you asked how can this happen, because it's not supposed to be happening, in louisiana, it's one of six states where if the woman's insurance doesn't cover the exams, the parishes are supposed to cover the costs. the problem is there was no consistent way that was happening. in some counties, the hospitals were covering it, in some counties, the coroner was covering it. in other counties or parishes abthat wasn't happening, so women were left with the bills. the bigger concern was on a state level, what's called a crime victims reparation fund, a possibility of money designed to reimburse victims of crime, including sexual assaults were actually turning women away, if

a woman had a felony within the last five years, she was not eligible for this reimbursement. you had situations where if a woman did not report the crime to police, she was also in eligible for this money. >> going through a sexual assault exam, even in the best of circumstances is a really awful experience. you'd rather be at home curled up, not in a hospital getting poked and prodded, so to get a bill after going through all of this and possibly even put in financial trouble for trying to do the right thing is just an awful thing. >> the governor has issued an executive order. he wants a solution to this. he's asking state leaders to come up with something at least for right now. obviously it may take legislation on a longer term scale to come up with something, but he said this should not be happening and right now the state is out of compliance with federal funds because these women are right now in some cases paying for their own

exams. >> i understand the state leaders are meeting today on how to fix this coverage. what do we expect to come from this initial meeting? >> this is what they're calling an emergency meeting. what we expect is that they will likely suspend the eligibility requirements. as i mentioned, sometimes if a woman has a felony record or if she hasn't reported the assault, she's not eligible for this money. they will suspend rules and make everyone eligible at least for now again until some legislation perhaps can be put in place. >> jonathan, thank you. >> the rob ford era in toronto is over at least in the eyes of the mayor's office. john tori was elected, defeating rob ford's brother, doug. he won on a platform that includes improvements to toronto's public transit system. >> as for rob ford, he pulled out of the mayor's race last month when it was revealed he

was battling cancer. for his old seat on the city council, he took about 60% of the vote. >> a woman in her last days made it to the grand canyon. she has terminal cancer. she plans to legally end her life on november 1. she said the canyon was breath takingly beautiful. >> an ohio native has the same type of brain cancer but is choosing a very different path. >> in an exclusive interview, he shared his experience in his own words and speaks to maynard, hoping to convince her that there is another way. >> dying with dignity includes living with quality. hi, my name is joe, i was diagnosed with brain cancer november of 2012. i can relate to what britney is

facing. i decided to write that essay because i wanted to reach out to her. i felt connected to her process, to her condition, to the struggle she's going through and i really was deeply moved reading her article. i wanted to reach out to her in any way i could, not to change her mind or tell her what to do. i certainly don't have any interest in disrespectedding her choice, but i want to open up the possibility on how to live with a terminal condition. i'm two years out from the diagnosis and not bedridden and seeing improvement in all areas of my function. this is not a miracle cure. i'm still a human being dealing with the disease. there is so much pressure to conform to this is what it's going to be, all the charts and doctors say this is a condition almost no one makes it and that's really hard not to get

locked into i had to put the charts away and open up the research. i'm way past their time lines now. i will stay in my own space and stay tenantive to what i needed today, which is the most important thing, is being attentive to what is needed today. i wanted to open her to the possibilities that are beyond just the right to die with dignity, great story, very important story, but there are possibilities to live and live well with a terminal condition. it's not like the disease is gone. it's still part of my every day and i understand the dangers of it, i could die tomorrow very easily. that's part of the fact of the disease. it's the most dangerous brain cancer there is, but i can't live well today if i'm worried about dying tomorrow.

it's great to see the conversation brought into the open by britney and i would like to add to it about living with quality when given a terminal diagnosis. >> you can camp america tonight weekdays at 9:00 p.m. eastern time right here on aljazeera america. >> this is a high speed chase, just outside cleveland, ohio. it's from a police dash cam. the driver stole the white truck. the driver had a suspended license, active warrants from two other law enforcement agencies. he did eventually crash into a bar, injuring himself and 12 people inside. >> let's take a look at other stories caught in our global net. a group of self proclaimed robin hooders in maine are armed with pockets full of change and put them in the parking meters. the case is before the court. robin hooders say they are protesting what they consider to be an unfair system.

i like this, the parking meter maids or attendants say they are being harassed. >> they say they can't properly do their job if the teens are putting coins into all the expired meters. >> you're a harry potter fan. it seems the magical hype continues to cast its spell after the movies have ended. the new york daily news said there's a london hotel with harry potter themed rooms. it is so busy. on monday, the site crashed. this is just more of the harry potter crazy weaver seen over the years. university orlando just opened a site in july. you still can't book a room there. >> a worry of outbreak of head lice by teens said the problem is if you look at all these photographs, not those, but sometimes people lie on the

ground, put heads together and take a selfie. they say if you take a selfie with head lice, you wind up with head lice. >> it's possible. that's conceivable. apparently they put a mid evil guide to the spread of head lice in that same guide. that's how it's spread. >> more on the leader of an amish splinter group. some claim he's a piece of hemp on earth who speaks to got while others accuse him of committing crimes against his people. >> a team of deep sea drivers reach a wreckage that is one of today's discoveries. >> a spike in solar flares can cause g.p.s. blackouts. what's behind the biggest uptick in more than 20 years.

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>> it's time for today's discovery. a first look at a cargo ship off the coast of italy, first found in 2010, the wreck was too deep to study. >> an american team of deep sea divers make the journey into the dark mediterranean. they found wine, oliver oil and other goods destined for trade. still good, they say. when much of rome ruled the world. >> a nearly complete mammoth skeleton unearninged in idaho. see searchers have excavated the skull and tusk. >> they believe this mammal lived 70,000-120,000 years ago. at that time, much of north america was a lush landscape with large reservoirs and predators. >> a bitter divide in the amish community. >> a bishop named sam mullet is in prison on hate crime charges.

other amish groups renounced them. >> we look at what brought this isolated clan into public view. >> >> he definitely belongs in jail, because he is a threat to other people. >> i just find it incredible that about the only way to catch him was with hate crime laws. i mean, it surely seems to me that you would be able to charge him with some other crimes with the predatory things that he has done, but i guess that's -- if the victims don't want to testify, i guess the prosecutors hands are very much limited. >> when we first arrived, it looked like any typical amish community, women caring for many children all dressed in similar clothes. men and teenage boys working the land. they were leery of outsiders, silent until an older woman

emerged from a small trailer near the back of their compound, her name, martha mullet, sam mum let's wife. >> how long have you lived here then? >> two years. we had a very nice community until things started happening. >> like many amish, she did not want her full face on camera, siting heciting her faith. she said the charges are gossip and her family unfairly targeted by law enforcement and fellow amish because they're conservative and different. >> it's been a nightmare, unplainable. that's the part nobody wants to talk about. nobody talks about what happened to us. >> how would you describe sam? >> he's a very gentle, loving man, and yes, he can get stern, just like anybody else, but people say he has power. people say he has power over us

to keep us here. >> does he? >> no. anybody that lives here as of now can leave on their own free will. >> they have said that your husband believes he is a prophet, that he talks directly to god. is that true? >> my husband -- i'm not sure how to word it that anybody would even understand. i have heard and seen things myself that i know that is a man of god. >> joining us now is a senior fellow with the young center at elizabeth town college. he served as an expert witness in the mullet trial. he wrote a book on the case, renegade amish. thank you for your time. sam mullet senior and his followers is considered to be a breakaway amish sect. how did he he gain this power over these people? >> he was the founder of this community, he bought 800-acres.

he was the oldest man, he was other detained minister and later bishop. this is a clan where almost all of the families of direct relatives of his, so he had enormous amount of power. he viewed himself as a prophet of god, so god was speaking through him. that just gave him enormous clout over all the activities. >> what do you make of martha mullet's interview with our reporter adam may denying that people are not allowed to leave this sect? >> that maybe partially true now. it was very different when sam was there and very different before he was prosecutors cute and imprisoned. now they are in disarray and it's entirely possible that people can leave now. there are some of the young men, 18-24-year-old's have left.

things are very different since he was taken out of the community and since he was in prison. >> we should remind our viewers the reason he was prosecuted was because of beard attacks. in 2011, can you remind us the motivation he had behind those attacks? >> there were five attacks, three at night, two of them were ambushes at the compound, and they were attacks filled with revenge and retaliation. they were specifically targeted at people who criticized him. there were critics in various amish communities who felt that his unorthodox ways were absolutely contrary to fundamental amish teachings, and he could not tolerate dissent or criticism, and so subsequently, his men and some women engaged in these attacks.

>> looking at the broader view, will his case have any bearing on the hate crimes act and how it was prosecuted. >> actually, what's interesting now is that the hate crimes charges, i should say there were other charges, as well, but the hate crime charges have been overturned by the circuit court in cincinnati, the sixth federal circuit court, and the prosecutors have responded to that, so we're in extra innings now. the key issue is the exact wording of the 2009 shepherd byrd hate crimes act and how that will be prosecuted in the future, whether there will be a very restricted narrow interpretation of the statute or whether it will be broader. it will impact on how hate crimes for people who were victimized because of their race, religion, gender, sexual orientation, whether or not they

have a disability in their country be origin, how those crimes will be faced. >> fascinating. >> two sun spots firing off solar flares. >> nicole mitchell here with an in-depth look. >> it's one sun spot, the biggest in 20 years, 80,000 miles across, the earth around is 28,000 miles, you could fit a couple of earths in there. that's a shift in the magnetic field. it's usually darker, because it's cooler area, but that fires off solar flares. we've had four major ones just in the last week. it doesn't cause human's interaction, but it's raid yankees, so as it hits the atmosphere can cause g.p.s. problems. it's very big, you can see it with the human eye, but don't look directly into it. >> ahead in our next hour,

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>> >> governor chris christie is defending his decision to hold a nurse in quarantine. she lashed out at new jersey authorities and hired a lawyer. >> now the u.s. army is developing it's own ebola plan, placing troops who serve in west africa over controlled monitoring when they return. robert ray is outside c.d.c. headquarters in atlanta. good morning. this new information about a nurse being treated in atlanta for ebola, amber vinson, she's

going to be touchdown today? >> later today, she will be discharged after a couple weeks of being treated for the ebola virus at emery university. she's going to give a statement at 1:00 p.m. there's been a lot of controversy around her situation and what happened at that dallas hospital, so it will be really interesting to hear what she says this afternoon in atlanta. >> that will be great news for her and her family. there's discussion about new guidelines. the federal government says it has let science dictate the approach to ebola. why are we seeing such pushback from governors, including governor chris christie of new jersey. >> he's looking out for his own state and the public health of his own state and he has that right to do that, as does governor cuomo and governor in

georgia. let's listen to a little bit of what christie said earlier this morning. >> the fact is that the c.d.c. has been incrementalists on this. this newest guidance from my perspective is incredibly confusing bond by the way, what is someone considered high risk, you don't want them in public, you want them to work from home. that sounds like quarantine to me. >> as we hear governor christie say, he doesn't agree with the way the centers for disease control has gone about some of this. to be answer with you, there has been different guidelines and protocols that ever come out sometimes on a daily basis, definitely weekly. it is confusing. you can't really point fingers to anyone in this direction. the governor at this point is trying to make sure everyone is safe who comes into their state and the u.s., but we cannot forget as we've been repeating on aljazeera america that the story and the issue is on the

ground in west africa. that's where it needs to be contained. what's happening in the u.s. is simply child's play compared to the situation across the atlantic. >> isil out with a new propaganda video this morning. we are choosing not to show it, but it shows a british hostage giving a tour of kobane. our senior washington correspondent is in washington this morning. this revelation of isil with heat seeking missiles is complicating the fight to slow them down. >> that's right. the fight is taking on a new intensity with isil making gains on the ground in both syria and iraq and through a new propaganda video saying the fight for kobane is over and isil has won. >> another bloody day in iraq, hallmarks of an isil attack. in baghdad, a car bomb killed 15

people lately monday night, while south of the capitol, a suicide bomber driving a humvee killed another 27. now isil says it has another weapon, boasting in a new video that they shot down an iraq helicopter with surface to air missiles, that threat coming at u.s. apache helicopters returned to iraq fighting the militants. >> we're assisting the claims. there's significant threat to aviation in iraqi air space due to fighting. >> after intense fighting in kobane, syrian kurds backed by more u.s. airstrikes say they've kept isil from taking over the town on the syrian-iraq border. isil said the battle is nearly over. in the video, the hostage delivers a foreign correspondent

style report where he says isil fighters are in complete control. sunday and monday have seen the heaviest fighting yet in kobane where kurdish forces are still waiting for iraq peshmerga reinforcements and in kuwait, the u.s. coalition building continues. restored general john allen is there, shoring up support. >> they seek to portray themselves as winners, true leaders worthy of financial support that attracts and radicalizes foreign fighters. i believe every coalition partner, every one has a unique and a vital role to play in striking down this image. >> there are challenges on the battlefield, new challenges with the shoulder-fired anti aircraft missiles in possession in isil. the propaganda videos, the wash

tong administration concerned. they help in fundraising and recruitment. >> are administration officials fearful that isil is on the cusp of taking over kobane and what problems would that create if they do capture the city? >> we've seen the administration explanation and take on kobane evolve over the course of several weeks. first they were preparing the public word wide for the fall of kobane. then they said isil is presenting military targets there as it steps up attacks. the air campaign there. there's a moral question that kobane must be defended. the united states wants to deny isil a propaganda video in realtime with cameras just across the border, filming these attacks. also little kurds in northern iraq, this has become a national

issue. the united states has a very big interest in keeping those kurds and peshmerga forces happy, so are now stepping up their defense of kobane, negotiating with turkey. >> thank you very much. >> to that point, a key player in the fight against isil are the kurds and kurdish officials say the iraq kurdish forces, the peshmerga will be airlifted to turkey. they will then cross over into kobane. we are in erbil with details. >> we've spoken to peshmerga spokes people here today. they have confirmed that there will be a contingent of peshmerga and weapons sent to turkey today. we have no confirmation as to how many peshmerga fighters will be going. the weapons they will be taking are heavy weapons, railroad tilery and armored cars.

we've heard today that the peshmerga say these fighters will not initially be front line forces. they say if necessary, this f. things get so hot, they will push up to the front line but initially no indication that they will be front line forces. we've just come back from the airport where we hear reports that this plane is due to take off. we did see a military plane in the air, but can't say whether that has anything to do with the convoy. around the area, there were no police, no check points, no military in the area to suggest they were moving the troops, the peshmerga or military to the airport. certainly, there is confirmation here from the peshmerga that some sort of movement will begin today. >> some 200,000 syrians have gone the other way, fled kobane to escape isil. they're seeking ref final in turkey. >> the 3.5 million syrians have

fled the country since the war began. representatives from 40 countries are brainstorming long term solutions for the refugee crisis in berlin. one is easing the burden on middle eastern countries who have taken in millions of syrians. >> jordan will request an immediate security council meeting on israel to address tensions in jerusalem as well as israeli settlements. >> north korea opening doors to the u.n., officials in pyongyang offered to let a human rights investigator see how citizens are treated. some warn this is an attempt for north korea to stop its civil rights records from being sent on to the international court. >> a shooter at a washington

high school lured his victims in. >> his victim for gives his attacker. what the victim is actually saying in this case is interesting, because he is the shooter's cousin. >> that's right. two of the victims are cousins of the accused shooter. one is still in critical condition, the other, 14-year-old nate hatch was shot in the jaw, but is communicating through written notes. tweeting last night, he wrote i love you and i forgive you, jaylen, rest in peace. just before the shooting friday, investigators say the shooter targeted five of his closest classmates by sending them text messages to meet up in the cafeteria later that morning. as soon as he walked up to their table, witnesses say he pulled out a gun and started shooting. the community wants to know why he did it, including his cousin, nate. >> it broke his heart to hear why would my brother do that to me, owner to their cusseddens,

why would my brother do that to me. >> two other teens are in critical condition. he used a handgun purchased legally and registered to a family member. there's no clear motive right now. detectives are digging through hundreds of text message, phone and social media records in an investigation that could take months. >> the trial for colorado movie theater shooting suspect james holmes now won't start until january. jury selection has been postponed to give lawyers time to look over the latest psychological exam. the judge won't accept anymore delays. he expects opening statements to started in june. 12 people died in that shooting. holmes has pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity. >> a second mass drive has been discovered in mexico. the remains are being investigated to see if they belong to the missing students.

56 people have been arrested in conclusion, including police officers and gaining members. >> family and friends honoring a soldier killed last week at ottawa's national war monument. >> a funeral will be held today for corporate nathan cirillo. thousands lined the streets to pay respects. >> obviously an emotional day in canada. >> a sad day. he was just 24 years old, a single father, a reservist whose duty was to stand guard outside of the tomb of the unknown soldier. a seemingly safe assignment turned deadly when he was shot from behind. the suspect would himself be killed later that day after he attacked canada's parliament. many in cirillo's hometown, hamilton will turn out for his funeral today. they are expected to line the streets to see his body taken to its final resting place. the ceremony is open to family and invited guests but will be streamed live on line.

the prime minister and other politicians will be there. american military and political leaders are also expected to join. secretary of state john kerry is travel to go ottawa today. he has pledged america's full support in battling violent extremists. the head of the royal canadian police will make public a vote made by the shooter. the clip was reported before the attack. the commissioner said he was lucid and purposeful and likely driven by political and ideological motives. >> the latest suspect to try jumping the white house fence has been ruled incompetent to stand trial. a federal judge said monday that the 23-year-old should be held for further psychiatric valleys and treatment. he wasn't happy with the ruling. he struggled with u.s. marshalls and was heard screaming for help as he was led out of the courtroom. >> police are search forego a

missing broncos fan who disappeared during the game against the chargers. his son went to the bathroom. when he came back, his father was gone. police say tracking him is not going to be easy. he doesn't own a cell phone or have credit cards. >> hawaii's big island on alert today as creeping lava draws closer to homes. those in the path have been told to evacuate. the lava is moving 10-15 yards per hour. the red cross is opening a shelter to aid possible evacuees. >> a cold front making its way across the country, bring ago stormy end to october, that heat we've been seeing. >> let's bring in meteorologist nicole mitchell with more. i can see it coming this way. >> still heat in some areas, if you maybe want to get outdoors for launch today. great lakes to the gulf coast, some of the heaviest rain, south bend, now moving into the edge

of kentucky and through the course of the day. this will be possibly the firing line for strong storms. on the southern edg edge of thi, there's been a flow. not only do we have the chance for severe storms to kick that up, but on the southern edge, high winds in ohio. moisture has been settling in. about a quarter mile visibility will make a slow start for the day. then the moisture movers through, more of a wet day for the east coast. i'll talk about the temperature side of all this. it's been rather splendid. >> there is a major milestone in afghanistan, the last u.s. marine turning over control to of a dan forces. we'll have details of the top secret pullout straight ahead. >> a health care worker is

returning home to maine after held against her will in new jersey. we will discuss the merits of quarantine for health care workers. >> a better look at the damage from a volcano in hawaii. that and other videos from our citizen journalists around the world.

>> bank employees in santiago killly, workers confronted riot police over lack of pay raises, despite the bank seeing large profits. >> local activists in syria capturing airstrikes outside of damascus, saying the strikes were government forces attacking rebel strongholds across the city. >> some of the coolest pictures weaver seen in recent weeks have been from the kill way i can't

volcano. >> the southern region in afghanistan has a facility now in the hands of afghan forces for the very first time in modern history, after the last british combat troops and the only u.s. marine unit left in the entire war-torn country pulled out. >> it took 24 hours and almost constant flights, a fleet of helicopters airlifting the last of u.s. and british forces from the camp leather neck. it was once the regional headquarters of the u.s. led coalition in afghanistan,

housing almost 40,000 contractors and military personnel. now, 13 years later, it's in the hands of the afghan military, wimp says it's ready for the challenge. >> this is a good opportunity for the afghan army and security force to say put into practice capabilities they've already demonstrated over the last 12 years in the defense of the country. >> british officials seemed to agree. >> there is a better chance of a more stable future in afghanistan because we have a government there of national unity and an army that i also supported by the local population. >> some u.s. lawmakers think that confidence maybe misplaced, saying they don't want to see a repeat of what happened in iraq. closing this base is wrapping up the international mission in afghanistan and the troops prepare to leave afghanistan in the coming days or at the very least by the end of the year. this as afghan troops are left

to ramp up their fight against a resurgent taliban. as american and british troops were packing up at the camp, in the city in northern afghanistan, local officials say four taliban members attacked the prosecutor's office. a taliban spokesman said it targeted the court this because they believe government trials are unfair and biased against their fighters. >> attacks like that one have driven military and civilian casualties to record highs this year, despite the withdrawal of troops, afghan forces will not be left on their own. a small nato contingent made up mostly of americans will remain until 2016, then the cards in afghanistan will fall as they may. >> thank you very much. >> back in this country, a dallas nurse who contracted ebola is said to be discharged from the hospital today. officials at atlanta's emery hospital say amber vinson is now

ebola-free, she contracted the virus while treating a patient. her release comes as new federal standards are issued for health care workers returning from africa. an assistant professor of epidemiology will discuss this with us. thanks for being with us. amber vinson was one of two people in the u.s. that contracted ebola. we are talking about new protocols. are they an overreaction, do the facts betray the fear? >> we have to remember that the two people who contracted ebola in the united states are people who dealt intimately with a patient. they spent hours upon hours with that patient, taking care of him, cleaning up his -- the result of his ebola, and that is certainly a situation that can transmit ebola. some quarantines, they're meant

to protect the public from health workers coming back. the likelihood that they are going to be transmitting ebola to somebody in the public is minimal. it's important to put this in context. the guidelines are just meant oh allay fears. >> the nurse said to chris christie, look, i have worked with these ebola patients. i would know if i'm symptomatic. she said her conditions were inhumane. did chris christie go too far. >> i think it's clear that the governor had gone too far with this. we know, so number one, we entrust our health care workers to take care of others when they're sick. we need to trust them to take care of themselves and self-police. we have to go back to the science. people are not infected until they show symptoms. we can trust nurses and doctors to know when they start showing symptoms. they're responsible for when any of us show symptoms.

this is overstepping boundaries, not consistent with federal regulations and it's pandering to political fears. >> u.s. army soldiers who have been working in west africa will be isolated and they're also calling it controlled monitoring, which is not pentagon protocol. do you think that is a necessary move? >> i don't think, again, i think it's important for us to remember that at this point, from what we understand about ebola, the likelihood of spreading it is contingent on having symptoms. if smart protocols were in place that allow people to come to care when they start feeling symptoms, we can give people their freedom when they come home and make sure nobody is at risk for spreading this deceased. the thing tomorrow is the real show is what's happening in west africa and anybody that's going to keep people from going there and taking care of people is going to contribute to the epidemic and increase the likelihood that it comes here. >> thanks for being with us this morning. >> thank you. >> parts of the west once again

battered with heavy rain today. nick mitch is back with more. >> we had that last system over the weekend, high winds were really the story and that's the one now in the midwest. now, this newest one is actually remnants of a tropical storm. we've had pattern after pattern bringing weather in, and ever another one now. the olympic range, we could see two or three inches and widespread one or two inches through this. also with this onshore is high winds. 35-40, possibly even up to 50 miles per hour, as all of this movers in. higher elevations could be cold enough to get some snow, but that would not be the travel areas, mostly a rain event. >> two families could face off again in the run for the white house. we're talking to former aids to president's clinton and bush about the power of their

political dynasties. >> an unexpect consequence of flooding in michigan, raw sewage polluting the famous great lakes. we'll have a live report from michigan. ♪ ♪ >> the band ok go known for visually stunning music videos pushing the limits once again. we'll talk about the new video that has racked up more than 2 million views in just one day.

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about. gas prices fall to their low effort level in four years. we break down what's behind the drop. >> a look at headlines we are following this morning. new worries over isil's fire power, surface to air missiles. a new propaganda video features a british hostage saying kobane is controlled by isil. >> there are new details about the high school shooting in washington, the shooter invited his victims to have lunch with him in the cafeteria where he opened fire. two victims died, three others are still in the hospital. he later took his own life. >> there is stiff resistance in states to new c.d.c. guidelines for those coming back from west africa. some say current plans do not include mandatory quarantines, so governors are sticking with

their own plans. live outside the c.d.c. headquarters in atlanta. more ebola news coming out of atlanta this morning, amber vinson, the infected nurse is now given the all-clear? >> she has, she will be released. she is ebola free. she is expected to give remarks today at 1:00 p.m. it will be interesting to hear her take about the past couple weeks, especially what occurred in dallas and her being flown from the dallas hospital just about a week ago. interesting words today, but good news on her front as she is on her path to health. >> some governors sticking with their own ebola restrictions. why are they opposed to what the c.d.c. wants? >> as we listen to governor

chris christie of the state of new jersey, he thinks the c.d.c. has been behind and been confusing at best. partly cloudy they are the heads of states and not the nation, they do have constitutional rights to make those decisions, at least that's what they say. let's listen to what governor christie said earlier this morning. >> here's the bottom line as governor, my first responsibility is to protect the public health and safety of the people of new jersey, and i will not submit to political pressure in doing less than i believe is necessary. we're now backed up by the american military and a nobel prize winning doctor. >> you hear him talking about the nobel peace prize winner, dr. boitler, winning it on the human immune system. the doctors doesn't think that there's enough evidence and research out there as to exactly how easily the ebola virus can

be transmitted, which is exactly the opposite of what the c.d.c. has been saying, that it's only in close contact, close bodily fluids being exchanged from one person to the next. now we have a nobel peace prize winner taking sides with govern chris christie of new jersey. >> thank you very much. >> we are just a week away from the mid term elections and a name more commonly uttered six years ago came in in john boehner's stump speech. he criticized president obama saying former are president george w. bush would ever handled the russia owe ukraine crisis better. >> do you think vladimir putin would have gone into crimea had george w. bush been president of the united states? even putin's smart enough to know bush would have punched him in the knows in 10 seconds. >> in 2008, when bush was president, russia invaded the republic of georgia.

bush said he looked into putin's eyes and said he found a man he could trust. >> hillary clinton said don't let you tell you that it's corporations and business that is create jobs. she said businesses grow when entrepreneurs start businesses in america. >> the clintons and bushes have dominated u.s. politics for the last 25 years and they could for another generation. >> for centuries, american government has been filed by dynasties, the kennedys captured the imagination of americans, a homegrown version of royalty.

>> they wanted other candidates to fill his hand date. >> the new england clan spawned a president, with caroline kennedy appointed u.s. ambassador to japan. another family with branch that is stretch far into the political world, the bushes. george w. bush selected at president in 2000, eight years after his father left office. jeb bush served at florida governor and may be eyeing the presidency in 2016 and know george p. is being groomed for a life in politics, running for texas land commissioner. then there are the new political families, the clintons, the former president and his wife, a former secretary of state and the most buzzed about potential

presidential nominee. >> it makes more people feel this disillusioned in the political process. they think you're not part of political royalty, you have no shot ultimately and if you are part, you will instantly get the nomination and ultimately president of the united states. >> a bush-clinton matchup could make things very interesting, both enjoying a built-in fan base, voters and fundraising machines, and both carrying political baggage. >> let's bring in two people who know he these families, david good friend is a former aide to president bill clinton and in philadelphia, joe watkins, a former aide to george h.w. bush. thank you for being here. joe, barbara bush herself said recently it was silly that america can't seem to find more than two or three family to say run for high office. do you think she'll be eating her words now that it seems her second son is coming up as a presidential prospect?

>> barbara bush of course always speaks her mind, but i wouldn't count jeb bush out, not at all. he would be a great candidate if he decide to say run for the presidency. he would be an affordable candidate, able to raise money. this will be a great matchup if jeb bush was pitted against secretary of state, former secretary of state hillary clinton. >> are democrats nervous about a bush entering the race? >> no, i don't think democrats are nervous about bush. i think they welcome that fight as my friend joe watkins pointed out it would be a very spirited campaign. i think your piece leading up to this interview show how there have been political dynasties in the past. i would add the name roosevelt to the list. it lends itself to looking at an establishment candidate. by that i mean in 2008, there was a great hunger for a massive

shift, a transformational candidate and barack obama fit that bill. i would argue today americans are worried about the future, about i vents in the world and i think an establishment candidate said voters might actually feel more attracted to than say a change candidate. >> we didn't have video of the roosevelts, sorry we didn't include them in the piece. do you think this is good for democracy, these political families? >> i don't think it's bad for democracy. theodore roosevelt was actually sent to be vice president by his party because people in new york didn't want him around as governor of new york, he was causing too much trouble and he ends up being president when mckinley was assassinated and became a great president. these political dynasties not bad for america.

franklin roosevelt, a democratic really admired his cousin theodore and followed in his footsteps and certainly was an awesome president, served for four terms, nearly four full terms. these dynasties aren't bad for america. as long as people are able to provide excellent leadership for the country especially in troubled times, americans care about that. >> the mid terms as you gentlemen know are one week away. there are a lot of legacies running. jimmy carter's grandson running, former senator sam nun's daughter running bens george drew. do they have a shot in a political climate like we have?

>> it really depends on the moment we find ourselves. some moments in history, it could be that a recognized established name could be a detriment. i think it's a different era we find ourselves in right now, the comfort of having some family experience in the family business of electoral politics, voters may get comfort. i would add that my friend in alaska who does come from a political family faces an uphill battle as somebody who is a storied history in alaska politics. this rule of thumb i don't think always applies. >> last word from you. >> i think political dynasties can be a good thing, because people do like the fact that families have history not only

in politics but around the world. hillary clinton and jeb bush are people who have had certainly national exposure, but their families and their brand is known worldwide and that's important in a time like this. >> all right. former aid to president george h.w. bush and former aide to president bill clinton, thank you for your time. >> keep it here for all of your election coverage. tonight, america votes takes a closer look at major issues driving the election and we'll have complete covering on election day, just two weeks from today. >> switching gears, in michigan, officials are measuring the environmental impact of the summer's historic floods. billions of gallons of raw sewage made its way into the great lakes. bisi onile-ere has more from detroit. how are residents there reacting? >> many residents that i've

talked to are very concerned, because this report is coming out months after those historic storms that made their way here through east michigan and caused billions of dollars of damage. that raw assuming, as you mentioned, billions of gallons made its way into lakes and also rivers like the one here behind me, and this is a big concern, because when you have raw sewage like that making its way into the water system, there's always the possibility for e-coli contamination. this isn't the first time something like this has happened, but certainly we haven't that heard about billions of gallons of raw sewage, so there are a lot of people saying hey, something needs to be done to prevent something like this from happening again. >> already concern over the overall quality of the great lakes. how deadly and detrimental is this?

>> a couple months ago in ohio, lake erie had algae bloom in the water, causing very big health concerns. water had to be shut off to the area for a couple of days until authorities there were able to make sure that the water was safe to drink and bathe and to cook in. it's a really big concern. i'm told that it's the infrastructure, it's an aging infrastructure causing a lot of issues and that money needs to be invested in upgrading these water systems, but a lot of communities like in detroit, they're having a hard time coming up with funding. >> bisi onile-ere, thank you very much. >> oil prices are dropping around the world, goldman sachs saying prices could fall another 20%. >> there's a home gap in crude and the price you pay at the

pump. >> it's a good time to own a retail gas station. profit margins have been fattening for months now. right now, retailers and marketers are having a fantastic fall. the average margin is 36 to 37 cents a gallon. the price of crude oil has dropped more than 25% since june. dragged down by increases in global supply and diminished demand seemed to have taken producers by surprise. >> we're in a pretty unprecedented situation. we haven't seen prices drop this fast and this must have in quite some time. you probably have to go back to 2008 when we were in the middle of an economic meltdown. >> goldman sachs expects west texas intermediate to fall to $75 a barrel and brent to hit ate $5 a barrel in the first quarter of 2015. >> it's a savings.

>> despite the steep drop in oil prices, the average price of gasoline is down only 15%. the top reason for the lag is that crude oil only makes up around two thirds of the cost of retail gas. the other portion is driven by transportation costs, the competitiveness of the local market, the density of motorists in an area and the rent operators pay. >> which explains the wide differences across the country. on october 27, the average national price of regular unleaded was a little more than $3 a gallon, but it was as low as $2.78 in south carolina and more than $4 in hawaii. >> the average margin is 18 cents a gallon at the pump. you throw in credit card fees and creating expenses, most retailers make 3 cents a gallon or 30 cents on a fill up. >> the only good news is because

retail prices lag whole scale by two weeks, prices at the pump could keep falling through the holidays. >> i think they could drop another 10 to 15, maybe 20 cents between now and thanksgiving. >> this is like the big box retailers of the world operate on almost no margin, so almost always respond quicker to market fluctuations, because they use gas as bait to lure in more customers. >> how much are americans saving because of the drop in gas prices? >> compared to how much we were spending last year, we're talks about $110 million a day. that's substantial, but more importantly, right now, there are about 70,000 gas stations in the u.s. where you can buy gas for less than $3 a gallon, compared to 10% of that last one. >> where are the places where gas prices might rise the fastest, the places we should avoid. >> you're always on the downside, dell.

in the plains states, some seasonal supply chains have been slightly disrupted, so you're likely to see slight increases in the midwestern parts of the country. >> gas is always expensive in hawaii. >> thank you. >> there is now a new colon cancer he test to make tests accessible to more people. >> using a sometimes controversial piece of technology. >> it is time for our big quote. >> a veteran singer challenging members of the gay community saying we have lost ground on the fight that galvanized the gay community to deal with, h.i.v. and aids. >> who it is and the changes he wants to see happen.

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on the fight that so intensely galvanized the gay community to begin with, h.i.v. and aids. >> the quote is from sir elton john. he criticizes the gay community saying rates of h.i.v. infection in the u.s. are still unacceptable. >> could a spoonful of sugar be the detreating your child's cough. a dose of sweet agave works as well as cough medications without side effects. >> millions have co lossoscopies done every here.

now there is a new test. how accurate is this test? >> if you look at whether it can detect cancers, it's 90% or more accurate, so that's a good number, but not a perfect number. we have company compare it to colonoscopies, our standard. if you think about colon cancer, remember that it doesn't just appear out of nowhere. it takes 10 years to develop, so is considered a preventable cancer. you have the cell that gross into polyps, normally, you get a colonoscopy, they see the polyp and remove it. that's why you get it done every 10 years. the test looks at your stool to see if there is d.n.a. it die texts the cancer, but doesn't treat it. >> are there down sides? >> it doesn't treat, so you still have a get a

colonoscopies. it's not as good at finding those polyps that lead to condition as her. maybe you would benefit from removing the polyps, but the test doesn't actually find it. >> motor people hate getting the colonoscopy. is this a suitable substitute for going to the doctor and getting that procedure? >> i wouldn't use the word substitute, but at the same time, it can help people. a lot of people are very scared about getting a colonoscopy. so completely miss out on the screening and develop cancer and it kills so many people. this test, if they get it done, maybe it will take them a step forward so they can know if they're higher risk or not. if it's negative, they don't have cancer, they mid avoid the colonoscopy altogether. the test, 90% ready, the 10% if they think they don't have cancer and they do, we risk losing them.

>> people do this in the privacy of their own bathroom and sends it to the lab, cutting out the middle man. is there a possibility for human error in this test, false positives? >> of course. that's the thing. you can get false positives. that seems to be less of an issue. you wonder about that, because it's look are for genetic material. we actually get mutations every day from the sun, pollution and other things, not just chroncancer but in general, but our immune system destroys that he is cells. it is difficult to tell if something detects the cancer whether you need to go forward and do different steps, but this is very exciting. >> what makes this test better than others on the market? >> there are a variety of different things trying to fill the gap for people afraid of colonoscopies. you have pill cameras where you swallow. those require prep to clean out

your bowel. manufactures are trying to get their tests approved, they don't necessarily want to compete with their competitors and do a head-to-head comparison. because this is looking for d.n.a., it is less invasive. the accuracy number is actually high, which is a good thing. >> you are now free to continue eating breakfast. doctor, thanks for being with us. >> exciting stuff, del. >> a group of parking meter robinhoods have saved drivers from $80,000 in tickets by putting change in expired meters. they face legal problems, because of their tactics. local officials have asked the state supreme court to order them to stop. >> a jogger causing a security scare for british prime minister david cameron was caught on camera. the man bolted across the street, nearly slamming cameron

head-on. he said he was running to the gym and didn't notice the prime minister. he was quickly taken away by officers and reds an hour later. >> shthis video shot using a drone. ♪ ♪ >> this is the latest single from 101, go, known for their energetic and highly choreographed video. this starts with men on uni cycles and then they take off and capture. i'm going to shut up and let you keep looking at it. >> that is really cool. if we had the coordination, we could do a video like that for the morning scene. >> i hear a plan being hatched. >> let's get another check of the weather. >> i thought you could right a uni cycle. >> i can't do that. the key phrase was if only we were that coordinated.

we have poe tended storm systems from the great lakes causing fog in the south that kind of overnight moisture coming in, too. very warm air and potential for severe weather is the core, places like ohio today, really the biggest threat would be high winds, as all of this moves along. >> as this continues to move across the country, it's not that the air behind is so cold this time of year, it's that the air ahead is very warm for this time of year. 10-20 degrees above average, which people are loving before you have to deal with the stormy side of this. washington, d.c. at 80 degrees, new york city, the average is 70 or the average is 60 and we're at 70 degrees, so very warm, then you get on the backside of this, 50s and 60s much more

typical this time of year. by this weekend, new york should be stuck in the 40's with another front coming through, so enjoy it while we've got it. >> we were so poor when i was growing up, we only had one we'll on our bicycles anyway. >> so you can ride a uni cycle. >> the latest on hawaiis volcanos. we'll explain how destructive that lava can be. >> that is it for us here in new york. >> coming up from doha, the latest on the massive syrian refugee crisis and what's being done to deal with it. >> here are our images of the day, being tagged as they make their journey up stream to spawn. >> salmon levels have reached the highest levels in decade. >> have a great morning. we will see you right back here tomorrow morning again at 7:00 a.m. where the news never stops.

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