>> we have lists, we don't have their address. >> with mid terms around the corner are some states protecting the votes or suppressing it? also tonight, equality underwater, we dive into the

issue of women taking a new role in the navy, in submarines. >> women in those situations can be at high risk for sexual assault. >> "america tonight" on the risks and rewards of being in the silence service. and the war on ebola, encouraging reports out of west africa as one nurse faces a mandatory quarantine and the white house caught in the middle. good evening, everyone. i'm adam may in for joie chen. we begin with the case of ebola. maine is getting a court order to force a nurse into quarantine but kaci hickox is fighting, she just came out of her boyfriend's home a while ago and she said, i

wasn't expecting anything like this. i flew into new jersey on the wrong day and fighting for something other than myself, there are other aid workers coming back every day. west africa, positive news from the front lines, after months of spiraling cases of infection in liberia the tide may be starting to turn. the spread of the virus seems to be turning but it's far but contained. "america tonight's" christof putzel has the details. >> the actual number of newly report ed cases is beginning to decline in liberia. >> a statement from the u.n.'s world health organization that communities in the grip of the epidemic and across the globe have been hoping to hear. offering an update on the response to ebola in liberia and other west african nations, bruce ailward says, if people

simply stopped going to the hospital or if overwhelmed health workers had stopped reporting new cases. three main trends pointed to a positive change. an increase in the number of available hospital beds, about 100 in all, a decrease of ebola burials and lab cases seem to be plateauing. >> there are a lot fewer calls to the hot line in monrovia where you call to report a sick patient or a dead body, those drop to less than 500 a day. >> gena moor, has been reporting since august. >> technical specialists who are work in liberia, that something is shifting that we are seeing what actually seems to be a decrease in the number of cases and not just a possible under-recording error. but ailward warns that that doesn't mean that the outbreak was under

control. >> it's like saying your pet tiger is under control or something. this is a very, very dangerous disease. any transmission change in any area can rapidly result through a couple of dangerous events and many, many more cases. you know you've all seen that, couple of burials go wrong in a couple of places et cetera, you set a whole new set of transmission chains and the disease starts trending upward again. >> in neighboring sierra leone the disease is still trending upwards with more than 5,000 infections that have been reported. almost 2,000 in guinea according to the u.n. many of the infected have nowhere to go for help. only 15 ebola treatment centers have been built in hard hit regions, officials say 56 are needed. >> i thank god that none of my children have become seriously ill. >> u.s. efforts to help that are

ramping up. thousands of troops health care workers and others are making their way there, in a campaign championed by president obama. >> we need to call them heroes. >> stricter quarantine rules for americans returning from the region. policies that would discourage people from fighting ebola. >> when i hear about people talking leadership and then promoting policies that would avoid leadership? and have us running in the opposite direction? and hiding under the covers? it makes me a little frustrated. >> christof putzel, al jazeera. >> all right, so many new developments to talk about right now let's bring in dr. amish adolja. what do you think of this new news of this nurse in maine who

says she is fighting for other health care workers who doesn't want to be quarantined. she shows no symptoms. >> i'm on her side. even if she's incubating ebola she's not contagious to anybody and she doesn't actually pose a threat to anyone. that's what we have to base our decisions on. >> polls are coming out the vast majority of americans want to see these health care workers quarantined. is this something where the message is getting lost? >> definitely, we know the history of ebola that it is not contageous during its incubation period. when you have these blanket quarantines in new york and new jersey they don't recognize the nuance of what a person's exposure was and the cdc guidance does get that and we need to get the cdc guidance adopted by more states.

>> why not be safe not sorry, quarantine them, what's the danger? >> we have this general panic, and you are endorsing that panic by something they don't need to be scared about. ebola is deadly and scary but not that contagious a disease. west africa is the source of the outbreak and we are all going to be at risk until it stops. if you are subjecting people to a mandatory 21 day quarantine you will make it harder for people to go there. >> a chilling effect is what you're saying? >> exactly. >> what about new numbers from w.h.o, some encouragement from liberia that it appears there might be a slight plateau that test results are not coming back positive right now can we be encouraged by this? >> i think we can be cautiously

optimistic, we may not be seeing the whole picture but any time we see less cases it's a good thing. i hope it's reflective of the true state of the epidemic in liberia. >> have we seen cases before, that doesn't mean we're on a decline right? >> not yet, it's too early to tell that. we don't know if people are fully reporting the cases, some cases that aren't caught by the health surveillance system there. if it's truly on the decline it's good news. >> you have been studying this, watching this, how would you grade a response to the epidemic at this point? how are we doing? >> i think we're doing pretty well. there's been a lot of missteps specifically in dallas with the health care workers being infected and the initial case being misdiagnosed but all in all we are handling this as good as we can. this is an unprecedenced

response and americans don't have to worry about ebola starting a generalized spread, it won't find the u.s. hospitable. efforts made from the whole of government to get a handle on this outbreak so i think we are doing agood job now with false starts in the beginning. >> some false starts in the beginning and we are seeing how that has consequences, in public opinion, though, has that eroded public opinion, could that be responsible for the 80% of americans now according to one poll that want to see these doctors quarantined? >> dallas was a setback. we weren't supposed to see health care workers quarantined or missing a case. >> doctor, thank you for shedding lights on this. the ebola challenge has presented us with another challenge, where do we do the

ahazardous waste, "america tonight's" lori jane gliha has the story. >> on a cleanup mission all part of the effort to stop the virus's spread. throw out anything an ebola patient may have touched. all deemed hazardous material, material that piles up, more than 400 gallons of waste per day which includes soiled linens and contaminated syringes and gear. where does all that waste go? the cdc recommends sterilization in a large autoclave machine. but most hospitals don't have these materials. in which case the material needs to be put in leak proof

containers and incinerated by an outside company. the cdc director thomas frieden says he was confident in the process. >> we know how to destroy the ebola virus. it is readily destroyed by incineration, by chemical means, it is not a particularly hardy virus environmentally. >> reporter: in the case of thomas eric duncan, his belongings and all the disds carded medical? sat in the facility for days before being transported for incineration. the cdc and the medical department disagreed on the method of incineration. louisiana state attorney general

issued a restraining order. texas health officials disagreed. >> he felt very comfortable with the procedure with incineration, with total inactivation of any virus and believe that the ash would pose absolutely no risk. >> ebola waste disposal is further complicated by individual state laws. california bans the incineration of medical waste so it would have to ship it somewhere else if it did have an ebola patient. it is a difficult issue one of the many that have sprung up in the wake of an ebola outbreak and one at the moment still lacking a clear solution. lori jane gliha, al jazeera. >> female submariners. >> what was your first reaction when you heard about women serving on submarines?

>> first reaction was whoa they are probably going to be in trouble. they are in enclosed space for a really long time with a lot of men. women in those situations can be at high risk for sexual assault. >> plus later on the show, america votes 2014. allegations millions of people may have voted in more than one state but who's behind them? our special investigation into double voters, just ahead.

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at sea, risk factors for sexual harassment, possibly even assault. al jazeera's tanya moseley has that story. >> traveling the depths of the ocean, they call themselves the silent service. for 110 years a dedicated brotherhood of mariners, no women's allowed. >> this is a popular place? >> this is a popular place. >> until four years ago, when the u.s. navy allowed women board a submarine. >> we asked her whether that concerned her? >> we are all professional sailors, i'm respected as a sailor -- lieutenant in the united states navy. >> 560 feet long, the submarine

space is at a premium. every room here serves more than one purpose. this officer's rec room doubles as an emergency surge karl center. >> this is what we call the supply shack, this is where our logistical supplies people manage their supplies. we have up to four people, i like to keep it to two or three. for obvious reasons. i'm probably in here a solid ten hours a day. >> long hours in tight spaces are the reality of submarine life. ten months at sea with no windows and no privacy. here is an example of the living quarters, the hallways are about two feet wide. around the corner here is a stateroom. this is where the officers often sleep and spend personal time. here is one of their beds. they're often three of them to a room. now when enlisted women are allowed on board there will be

nine to a room slightly bigger. the navy recently made the announcement it will now allow enlisted women not just officers as an effort to fully integrate the force by 2020. but when women are welcomed board they will not have the same amount of privacy as officers and that has females worried. >> what was your first reaction about hearing that women would serve on submarines? >> first reaction was whoa, they will probably in trouble, they will be in an enclosed space for a really long time with men. women can be at high risk for sexual assault. >> sarah blum is the author of a book of abuse in the military. >> we spoke with a captain who said she has had no problems. >> that's really good. but i interviewed 60 women,

women vets, world war ii all the way up to current day and i know that officers have a very different experience than enlisted. in fact as an officer i had a different experience than an enlisted. from the officer level there is more respect. >> the most recent report on swawl assault found that the majority of sexual assault was enlisted women. becky wilson enlisted in the navy at 24. she wanted to see the world. >> i thought it would be exciting. my brother was navy, my cousin was navy. i loved the stories they told. >> but surrounded by men she found herself fighting them off. >> i had a chief that talke stad

me, he said if i didn't have sex with him, he would give me low evals. i was pretty naive so i accepted it. >> and she said it got much worse. >> i was raped a couple of times. and i never told anyone. it's like women are fighting two wars. and they're fighting one war with the men that are supposed to be there side by side and they're fighting the war over there, too. >> so when we talk about women serving on submarines, you have very strong feelings about it? >> yes, i do. i feel that if they're going to be aboard submarines then it needs to be all female because a submarine is close. you're walking through a

passageway, you're brushing against each other, i feel they're asking for a problem. >> does the fact that you're a woman ever cross your mind? >> there are moments where you remember that. i think when you're at work in the day in and the day outs of what i do, it's really general neutral. it's about a skill set, it's about training, it's about being a professional sailor. >> lieutenant commander eric lundberg is reilly's commanding officer. he agrees having women on board is no big deal. >> i come to believe it is a nonevent, a nonissue. there has been none of the concerns that there's going to be a rash of frat earnization f.

>> another 53 in the training pipeline, a fraction of the more than 22,000 sailors who serve. blum says the military track record is cause for concern. >> we know that there are 26,000 sexual assaults per year and that that's probably only a fraction of them. >> because those are the ones that are reported? >> those are the ones that are reported. we know that in 2012 there was a 35% increase in the numbers and in 2013 there was a 50% increase in the numbers. it's a cultural problem. it's in the can culture in the military about. . >> is navy says it is aware of the problem. >> sexual assault and sexual problems is, we are a component of society and that's where we come from and it's an issue we take seriously and we are dealing with. >> we talked to a navy veteran who had grave concerns with the safety of women on submarines.

with sexual assault, what will the navy tell you about that? >> they are used to the continuous drum beat of treating people with respect and integrity. putting sexual assault and harassment in the past is what we're after. >> the navy has said it integrates female officers first. as lieutenant reilly wears her dolphins, she is forging a path. >> when this opportunity opened up it was a chance to continue to improve myself professionally but then also to share my experience, my professional development, the time i've had in the navy with junior women who are going to make careers with submarines. >> for those who follow her joining the brother leod of silent warriers is both an opportunity and a risk.

tanya moseley, al jazeera, washington. >> with mid term elections less than a week away, allegations of double dipping at the polls. >> i got into this stuff. bush won by 52007 vote 527 votea decade later and i'm hearing the characterize voter fraud. there's a million people committing voter fraud. is there this big crime wave? >> are millions of people voting more than once? we'll separate fact from friction. also, defrokd defrocked . there's a lot road ahead when it comes to equality in the united methodists church. methodist church.

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>> we're here in the vortex >> only on al jazeera america >> and welcome back. now a snapshot of other stories making history here on "america tonight." a river of lava on the big island of hawaii, getting closer to dozens of homes. residents have evicted, but plenty have decided to stay, they want to see the lava cross through the town of pahoa. the second anniversary of the superstorm sandy. sandy crashed into the east coast, blamed for 165 deaths.

the police chief in ferguson, missouri is expected to step down at least according to some officials. in an effort of reforming the district in the aftermath of the killing of michael brown. the police chief is denying the allegation thousand, very much uncertain. electoral efers in 27 states have launched a massive campaign against voter fraud. they are using a computer name matching system to claim that more than 3 million citizens may be registered to vote in more than one state. the lists are based on common names, john jackson or david lee, and could stop voters from taking part in next week's elections, no one has seen these lists directly but in a special

investigation by al jazeera america, joie chen has more on the outrage developing in several key states. >> so you are talking about probably over a million people that voted twice in this election. the first concrete evidence we've ever had of massive voter fraud. we've talked about it ad nauseam. this proves it. >> greg palace is a private investigator turned journalist, who has voted in every election since 2000. >> when bush won by 527 votes now it's a decade and a half later and i'm hearing the cry of voter fraud. there's a million people committing voter fraud. is there really this big crime wave? >> the journey begins here in kansas where republican secretary of state chris kobakh

has launched a nationwide campaign over voter fraud. >> he has voted in kansas and colorado. the obama administration is not interested in prosecuting surprise surprise so we have to do it. >> flag anyone whose name appears in the voter rolls in more than one state. it's called cross-check and across the country 27 states are using it to investigate possible voter fraud. among them, 22 have an election board controlled by republicans. >> otherwise you've heard from. >> palace and his team contacted every state and only three complied and now al jazeera is making them public for the first time. >> it took us months of harassing these officers until they finally gave up the list

from washington and virginia and georgia. and i looked at these millions of names. jorge rodriguez, david lee, joe black, common names. that's the only identifier. then i say who are these guys? >> palace went to north carolina where electoral officials have taken the unusual step of hiring a former fbi investigator. he's been given a list of more than 190,000 names flagged by cross check to determine if any of them should be prosecuted for voter fraud. >> hi, how are you? good to see you, welcome. >> josh lawson is a spokesperson for the north carolina border of elections. >> have you busted anyone because of cross check? >> we have not referred anyone, there hasn't been a presentation. >> not even a referral?

>> we have had referrals, whether the d.a.s have made prosecutions, we don't know. you have to have evidence of a crime. >> of the 3 million names identified by cross check in the last two years not one has been convicted of voter fraud. but virginia, another state using cross check, has already struck more than 41,000 voters off the rolls, admitting that some of them may have moved out of state. other states like north carolina have been reaching out to voters on the cross checklist by mail. those who failed to confirm their identity will be denied the right to vote on election day. >> but you have this whole like hysteria over the fraudulent voters but do they exist? >> we know that -- >> you know that you can't find them even though you have the address? >> is there a question? >> if you can't find them,

addresses social security numbers, signatures? >> i never said we couldn't find them. i said we had not prosecuted. >> the problem is identification, there are millions of names that are mismatched. james elmer barnes junior is supposed to be as the same guy as james cross barnes iii. >> james ratcliff barns junior is the same as james anthony barnes, the barnes is nothing, senior. >> georgia's cross checklist has half a million names on it. palace went there to find out what was going on and few knew that it was even going on. >> vincent hardy williams voted in georgia. vincent h. williams vote in virginia, so they say that's same guy.

>> and how do they know that's the same person? >> stacy abrams is the top ranking democrat in the georgia state assembly. palace went to see her. >> i sit as the minority in the howpts, i certainly intend, to investigate and request information from the secretary of state about this program, about the nature of the program, about the origin of it about the resources and about whether or not we are systematically attempting to disenfranchise half of our georgia voters. >> for someone to vote in three places is kind of odd because we have a hard time to get them to vote one place. >> helen butler is the director of get out the vote initiative. >> according to voting protection groups that we've met with in carolina, according to

dick morris on fox tv that the obama campaign for example may have had a million people voting twice and that he stole the election. >> oh, that's crazy. that's totally crazy. there was not people voting twice in any election. and if they're basing it off of this they are crazy as well. because that tales you that that is not good information. >> in a lead-up to mid terms georgia has begun to send post cards to anyone suspected of being a double voter, asking them to verify their registration. but butler says they're they're easy to miss. >> do you think if somebody got this their vote would be safe? >> no, more than likely they would throw it out. that's the way junk mail comes, like me i go whoop, i don't know who that is, whoop. >> tomorrow night. what's behind the double-voting lists? >> i didn't know that you guys were going to give us this

bombshell, my god. >> immigrants and minorities are being focused on more than ever. >> first off any evidence right now of real people that are being affected by this? >> very real people. virginia has told us that they have already removed over 41,000 voters, about 10% of their cross-checklist. that's just one out of 27 states. the other states won't tell us how many they've removed so far. >> so do we know in the state of virginia, were these names cross checked with birthdates? the did they use social security numbers? isn't that how cross check markets itself? >> yes, there's a great wonderful powerpoint presentation by the secretary of state of kansas saying we use

birthdates they use social security numbers but in fact they are not used. indeed in the instructions, we got our hands on the cross check instructions, if they get social security numbers and they don't get many they ignore that. >> how can you possibly ignore that? do we have any explanation for that? >> they want to get the widest group of what they consider suspects of double voting. if you use birthdates, if you use social security numbers you wouldn't have a half million double voting suspects in the state of georgia alone. it just wouldn't happen. >> do you have any idea how many we would have if they actually did that, if they used birthdates, social numbers? >> about 1%, you would have basically a few thousand people who once lived in georgia and moved away or moved into georgia never notified the state that they are no longer voting there. you don't have -- you don't have people voting twice. >> you're saying it's evident of

voter registration in two states but not evidence of double dipping. >> no, there's nothing wrong with having two registrations, as long as you don't vote in two states. that's a crime. >> right. what are the implications of the mid terms and what about 2016? >> in the mid terms it's going to have some effect because the races are so darn tight in north carolina, in georgia, where they're removing tens of thousands of people. but the real, real impact will be felt in 2016. because some states are taking a long time to remove people from lists and that's when we're going to feel it hundreds of thousands of people if we go by the virginia numbers. we're going to see several hundred thousand people mostly minorities lose their vote for the presidential election. >> purging of rolls is nothing new, it is highly controversial. how does this number compare to what we've seen over the last

few decades? >> i did a story where i uncovered that in florida before the presidential election people were removed because they were marked as felons criminals not allowed to vote. but not one of them that were removed was a fell on not entitled to vote. that shifted the presidency of the united states where george bush won by just 500 votes. this is much more sophisticated and is going to roll into the voter rolls over a long time so the big impact won't be felt until the presidential elections of 2016. >> more about that, al jazeera investigative journalist greg palast. thank you. >> you're welcome . >> you too can funded out if you've -- you too can find out if you have been accused of double voting that and a whole

lot more about double voters on aljazeera.com. well, the campaigners are out there stumping. send a message to lawmakers, calling it dear congress. make up your sign there and tweet us the picture of it, use the hashtag, #dear congress. don't forget to join al jazeera america next tuesday november the 4th, a complete roundup of election results, we'll also have analysis, our special election night coverage begins at 7:00 p.m. eastern. a power struggle at the pull pet over same sex marriage. >> my evolution from being a silent supporter to becoming a advocate for the lgbt community is very similar to an outing process of a gay person. so i started talking about my

beliefs, that i did not think that homosexuality was a sin. >> defrocked for officiating at his gay son's wedding. a methodist minister, and hi gay son, join us to talk about same sex marriage.

>> now a follow up to a story we

have been facing very closely on "america tonight." officiating the wedding of his gay son, a methodist minlts into the spoministerinto the gay rig. now there is more to it. the church this week ruled that schaefer can remain a minister. "america tonight" first introduced you to schaeffer last year when he was waiting to learn his fate from the methodist church. [♪ singing ] i >> the very beginning would be myself receiving a phone call from a lady that wanted to remain anonymous and this lady said, i need you to know that

your son is considering suicide and it's because he's gay. and i remember thinking, my son is not gay! and we talked to him that day, we asked him straightforward, are you gay? maybe secretly i hoped for a different answer than yes, because even though i embraced him when he came out, i still had to struggle with it. i asked myself did i do something wrong, did i raise him wrong and this was in 2000. that was a different world back then. he prayed to god, he said he cried himself to sleep many times and he prayed to god that he would make him normal. we just couldn't hold back our tears. my wife and i just embraced him and told him we love you son, we affirmed him, it doesn't matter, you're still our son, we love ad fell in love. they had been dating for two and a half years, and one day he

breaks the news to us that we just got engaged. i was ecstatic. the next thing out of his mouth, dad would you do the wedding. and i reacted from the heart and said absolutely son. >> in 2013, almost seven years later someone from his church found out about the wedding. >> i received a phone call from my district superintendent back in late march saying that somebody in my congregation had obtained the license of my gay son's wedding that i performed, the complainant was invited to tell his concerns and share with the bishop. she appointed a clergy person a colleague of mine to conduct the investigation at the end of which he proclaims there needs to be a trial. >> "america tonight" was there when schaeffer delivered his final sermon before the trial.

>> as i'm addressing all those out there who consider me an enemy, who consider me their enemy i want to say to them, i love you. and i will never harm you. >> the jury deliberated on the second day and came back much quicker than i expected them to. they suspended me for 30 days and they said at the end of those 30 days you need to make a decision. we want you to surrender your credentials if you cannot uphold the united methodist book of discipline in its entirety. >> schaeffer never wa wavered, e said he would continue to perform same sex marriages. we followed schaeffer when he went to norristown to receive

his fate. >> i've been a minister for 20 years, i can't understand why they would take my credentials for doing this one thing that was against the rules but that was clearly an act of love. >> reverend schaeffer met with the board of ministry conditioned, when asked to surrender his credentials he refused to do so. the jury was compelled to deem his credentials surrendered. >> she had tears in her eyes because she anticipated of what was going to happen. there were about 40, 45 of my colleagues. i made it pretty clear in my statement, i will not voluntarily surrender my credentials. and i hope you understand that. and she said yes we do. we will have to take them from you. >> we're very fortunate to have reverend schaeffer and his son

tim from opposite coasts tonight. when we last checked in with you we heard you in the car you were telling us you were extremely nervous. now the new news, you are refrocked, how are you feeling tonight? >> i'm on cloud 9. it's not only great for myself, my family, you know we've better than through quite a story in the last year and a half but it is also big time great news for lgbtq community, who have been watching this carefully, closely. the highest message out of the united methodist church is there is room for you to minister to the new united methodist church. >> tim would you weigh in on this? your dad really went to bat for you, didn't he?

>> yes, absolutely. it's been a roller coaster for the whole family. we are so proud of our dad to stick with his message for what was right in the entire process. >> tim i have to ask you, your story of coming out, the story of your marriage, all of this rather private and suddenly you are thrust into the spotlight like this. how have you handled this attention? >> i am a very private person. and in the beginning it was very difficult. but i felt that i owed it to my dad and i owed it to other people, other teens in particular, who are christians and who are in churches hearing the same message and going through the same struggles and that i think that sharing my story will help. and obviously it supported my father, and he took a big risk. and so i had to kind of jump in with both feet and take a risk myself and share my story and be more open than i would is

ordinarily be. >> you see how this story impacts people, do you hope we're seeing a change now? >> yes, i think that this decision by our highest church court definitely signals that the message is being received. i think people are starting to listen, and they're starting to realize, oh, wait a minute, you know, i can understand that this kind of message from the church that if you are a homosexual you can't go to heaven, how that would have a terrible impact on a person of faith. i think united mefsd methodistse good folks. they don't want to harm anybody that didn't know how much of a negative impact this doctrine of ours has so they're starting to see that. we're taking another look at the doctrine and the dialogue is in full force and hopefully at the next general council in 2016, we will come to a resolution and

change this doctrine. >> what's your reaction to those who say that the church here has made a mistake? is there any changing their mind, reverend? >> i believe so. because just seven jeerings thee same judicial council, the same body has actually defrocked a colleague of mine again after she was reinstated. this is a new day, this is giving us so much hope for the future. and i truly believe that it's remarkable that they went with a lot of my language in their decision, in their argumentation. >> tim, what is your message to other lgbt youth in the country right now that may be struggling on how to reconcile their faith and their sexuality? >> first of all i want to say there's nothing wrong with you. god created you just the way you are. gay, straight, you know,

lesbian, bisexual, transgender, doesn't matter. and you need to find somebody that you can talk to about this. it may be difficult to come out to parents. i know for me it was easier to come out to friends at school who were very supportive but you need to find somebody to talk about these things and don't be ashamed of who you are, who god created you to be. >> on that note isn't it amazing when you started on that point here you are together with the success in the battle that you have waged. reverend slaifer an schaeffer a, thank you very much. >> thank you, adam. >> apparently if you got what it takes you can actually get a free ride to college! that story is coming up next.

>> check this out. a university in chicago is offering a new kind of sports scholarship, and it really has nothing to do with a person's true athletic ability. the university is fielding an e-sports team. a squad that is playing its games not on a field but instead on a video monitor. al jazeera's ash-har quraishi has more from chicago that's where it's game on for gamers. >> college athletic scholarships are awarded to the cream of the crop of student threats. athletes, robert is no different. but for the first time rmu has awarded substantial slarp money to video game players. no speakers or head phones required, 35 competitors, 33 men

and 22 women are some of the nation's highest ranked players, 27 million players log on each day. like their counterparts on the soccer field or tennis court, the e-sport team practices 16 hours a week in a custom built reason with coaches monitoring strategy. freshman derrick was ranked 116th in america when the university recruited him to play league of lejts on a room and board -- legends on a room and board scholarship. >> i got recruited to play video games. what are you evening talking about? it's video games and he comes in and explains the whole thing and i show it to my parents and they say it's a really great school. >> rmu' e-sport coordinator cooo

also coaches women's soccer. >> same thing in that game hey they're coming around here so that sort of just clicked woo me, it's a team game and why can't we do something as we would for any other sport and try get the best players to our school. >> means publicity and sponsor ships. while rmu may be the first to offer scholarships, 197 colleges and universities have e-sport teams including princeton cornell and m.i.t. derek knows he needs to strike a balance between playing the game and making the grades. >> it is a good thing to practice. it is also not good to get too wrapped up in it. >> so far he's maintaining a perfect 4.0.

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