war. sebastian younger joins us. and the conversation continues, we're on facebook and twitter, @ajconsiderthis and you can tweet me at @amora.tv. we'll see you next time. hi everyone, i'm john seigenthaler, and this is al jazeera america. >> the new political order - after the blow out at the polls, can the two parties get along and get something done. >> it is a pretty big thing. >> ray rice appeal - the disgraysed running back suspended from football for assaulting his then fiancee thinks the n.f.l. made a mistake. >> what in it moved next door to you? >> house rules. a crackdown on supersized homes

in los angeles and how builders are getting around it and rare find - former slave that fight to preserve a priceless part of american history. >> it is the day after the land slide. the republicans are in full control of congress. the democrats stung by defeat, both sides playing nice - at least in public. president obama pledged to work with both parties and chambers. already sticking points, the president said he'll use executive power to change immigration policy if needs be. >> i feel obliged to do everything i can lawly with my executive authority, to make sure we don't make the system worse. >> senator mitch mcconnell pledges cooperation, saying the president's threats of executive action will be a problem.

>> it's like waving a red flag in front of a bull to say you guys - if you don't do what i want, i'll do it on my own. >> libby casey has more from capitol hill. >> first thing i need to do is get the senate back to normal. that means working more. >> reporter: coming off reelection to the sixth term and a decisive win for his republican party, senator mitch mcconnell is talking like a majority leader. democrats will be in the minority in both chambers for the first time since 2006. voters were clear - they are angry, and not just with democrats. they are fed up with the slow economic recovering, and the partisan stalemate on capitol hill. the victors promised a push for bipartisanship. >> i do want to thank those iowans who voted for my opponent. i plan to work day and night to

earn your trust and confidence. >> amid the promises senator mitch mcconnell pointed fingers about the past two years of congressional gridlock. the senate was the problem, not the house. the house passed over 300 pieces of legislation, many on a bipartisan legislation. and pledges to battle president barack obama on issues regarding an energy bill and immigration and the big one, health care. >> it's no secret that every one of my members thinks that affordable care act was a huge legislative smoke -- legislative mistake. >> if i had the ability, i'd get rid of it. >> it could be known as the error of the veto. >> i am not sure if it will solve everything, but we'll function. >> for years the republican party in washington has been accused of being the party of no. they may now try to shift the

mantle to president obama, set ght the stage for the -- set ght the stage for the next fight in 2016. >> thank you, libby casey many democrats were voted out, liberal issues were voted in. jonathan betz is here with that. >> voters chose change on a lot of issues. the minimum wage was raised in every state where it appeared on the ballot, and medical marijuana supporters are enjoying big wins from last night as well. >> a great victory for oregon. >> three out of four for groups pushing for marijuana. better prioritisation of resources. most importantly, more freedom, and more equality. >> oregon, alaska and washington d.c. joined colorado and washington state in legalizing small amounts of pot. the exception, florida, which

narrowly said no to medical marijuana. this amendment was a train wreck. it had five loopholes to create de facto legalization of marijuana. heavy campaigning was not enough. before election day voters promised to keep fighting. >> on minimum wage, an issue pushed by president obama. >> no one that works full time in america should be below the poverty line. >> big wins in republican. arkansas bumped up to $15.25. nebraska raised it to $9. south dakota upped its wage by more than a dollar, and alaskans will make $9.70 by 2016. on more controversial measures, colorado, and north dakota rejected efforts to make it easier to limit abortions. washington state approved

stronger background checks on firearms, closing the so-called gun show loophole. berkeley california became the first city to pass a tax on sodas and other drinks. >> real hunters never do this. >> and the biggest losers - maybe the bears in maine. voters rejecting measures using dogs, bait to trap bears. maine is the only state allowing all three practices. and on legalizing marijuana, activists focus on massachusetts and california, hoping to get momentum going. >> jonathan betz reporting. thank you for the first time ever, 100 women can vote in congress. they still have a long way to go. roxana saberi has that story. >> reporter: it was a big night for female candidates across the country. >> people ask me all the time what my favourite part of the

campaign has been. i think tonight... [ laughs ] joni ernst, republican, will be the first woman in congress from iowa, and the first female combat veteran from the senate. we'll have the first black republican woman in congress. >> my generation can't just complain about our problems we have to help solve them. >> reporter: and at age 30, the youngest woman elected to congress. there'll be 100 women casting votes on capitol hill. after the ballots are counted. it could reach 106. >> i hope that the presence of women and their greater ability to negotiate, listen and not be anxious to fight might help us overcome the gridlock we see in the congress. >> most are in the house, most are democrats. >> congress looked a lot

different a century ago when janet regan became the first woman in congress. women make up only about 30% of congress, and an institute predicts they won't hit 50% for another century, for that to happen, it will take more young women like sara blare to go into politics. >> i'm trying to do this for a greater purpose to help all young people in the state of west virgin. >> at age 18 she became the youngest law-maker. it is significant if young women get on the electoral ladder at a young age. that means that the pool of women sort of groomed for leadership, whether this the senate or the presidency. the pool just gets bigger. >> another interesting first this year for a man - republican scott brown became the first man to lose to two women in senate

history. he lost in massachusetts two years ago, and in new hampshire this year. >> the g.o.p. sweep made headlines around the globe. the international press described the midterms as an embarrassment. world leaders will be watching to see how well the white house and capitol hill can work together on foreign policy issues. the fight against i.s.i.l. is a good place to start. >> i'll begin engaging congress over a new eitherisation to use military force against i.s.i.l. the world needs to know we are united behind the effort and the men and women are clear in unified support. >> jamie, welcome back. jamie is a bureau chief. how badly is president obama wounded when it comes to foreign policy. >> ultimately it doesn't make

much difference on the ground. the perception is he has been weakened by the wrath in the midterm elections. you would have thought there was an insurgency that happened in the white house, people talked of the republicans taking control, ousting the democrats, and these were the headlines we were seeing. >> so could advantage be taken? >> it will be interesting to see what the israeli prime minister binyamin netanyahu does in terms of doing everything that he will try to do to sir calm vent a nuclear agreement with iran. >> it's said that he's expected to launch a major effort to insight congress against any deal. the prime minister said this past week that the election could determine the future of israel. how do you see that? what do you think it means? >> it's interesting. right now i think that he has a

lot of allies in congress. whether it translates into something that will affect the executive branch and what the white house can or cannot do ultimately is something we'll see going forward. regardless, i think that what i've been told, and what i understand is that regarding the nuclear talks, the iranians and the white house put in conditions within the agreement meaning they can go ahead with something, regardless of how congress might act. >> anything that the republican senate may have an interest over. >> they may have a trade deal. >> there are some that are protrade, propartnerships and want to see a lot of things going forward. that may compel the president to move forward. >> senator john mccain has been

the most critical of the president when it comes to syria and iraq. is the fact that he has that power in the senate, does that matter. >> what he'll do and what he does, and provide the scrutiny that the white house needs, and call for transparency in trying to get the white house to be transparent with what the white house is doing with syria and iraq you spent your life covering stories around the world, including iraq. can you give us a sense of how closely the midterm elections are watched overseas. i mean honestly. do people pay attention. world leaders do. >> on the ground. i think what they will see is something happens in washington, but obama is still the president.

how that really translates to changes on the ground doesn't impact an iraqi or syrian, who is unhappy with the way obama is behaving. if they see it will weaken him and make him do less, it will affect them more street violence as been flaring in jerusalem, fuelling tensions between the israeli and palestinians. an israeli was killed, and more wounded. imtiaz tyab has more from jerusalem. >> reporter: after a day of tensions, a night of protests. this issue is about the occupied neighbourhood. protesters took to the streets about what they see is israeli aagrees. lighting fires, setting off fireworks. the protest follows what the israeli police are calling a hit and run terror attack. a palestinian man drove his car

into a crowd of people waiting at a train platform in west jerusalem. a security camera captured the moment officers shot the man dead, and he has been identified as ibb rah him, he was shot because he was trying to attack bystanders with a metal rod. >> in recent days we have witnessed growing incitement by the palestinian authority. including the sending of a condolence letter to the family and calling to prevent jews from visiting the temple mount in any way. that has consequences on the ground. the ramming attack in jerusalem is a direct result of the incitement of abu and his partners in hamas. we are in a battle over jerusalem, which i have no doubt we will win.

the attack happened after a violent confrontation between the police at al-aqsa. after a group of far right activists tried to enter the holy site. they were there as part of the plan to commemorate a week since the palestinian man shot and wounded a leader, who campaigned for greater access at the location. police used stun grenades and tear gas to disperse protesters, and reopened the mosque. >> for the first time since 1976, israeli police entered inside the al-aqsa mosque. they had shoes on and introduced weapons. there is has been near daily

confrontations between palestinian protesters and israeli police. while access to al-aqsa mosque is an issue, support for settlers moving into neighbourhoods inflamed things further. >> this is the second car attack by a palestinian driver in a week. there are growing concerns that tensions between the israeli authorities and protesters and the occupied east could lead to a new palestinian uprising turning to a sports story in this country, the n.f.l. commissioner, was the first witness in an appeal hearing for ray rice. commissioner roger goodell suspended the player after video surfaced of rice punching then fiancee inside a hotel elevator. his now wife, jena rice, was at the 2-day hearing. the pair will testify tomorrow.

commissioner roger goodell spent two hours on the stand stood. areva martin, attorney, joins us from los angeles to talk about this. explain how the hearing works. >> essentially this judge will take testimony from ray rice and witnesses that he wants to call, and the league, and any witnesses that they want to call. she'll have to decide whether the identification that ray ries told to roger goodell, prior to the tape being disclosed is the full complete information about what happened in the elevator. >> ray rice says "i was honest about what happened" recollection and roger goodell said, no, you were ambiguous. we didn't know the story until we saw the tape, which caused him to change the 2-day suspension to the indefinite suspension. >> ray rice is saying he didn't get fair treatment. >> ray rice is saying this is

double information. saying i gave you all the information, you punished me with a 2-game suspension, and then when it blew up and the league was embarrassed, you gave me another punishment, the indefinite suspension and violates my due process and is a form of double jeopardy. >> the judge's ruling, how can it be legally binding if rice violated a private company's code of conduct. >> they have a bargaining agreement, all the proceedings are taking place pursuant to that agreement, and ray rice and the league agrees to admit to a private arbitration before the judge. each side submitted and agreed by contract to abide by whichever decision the judge makes. >> reporters like us continue to do stories on this - this and this video is played over and over again. why is ray rice doing it, is it

about money? >> this is about his livelihood. ray rice is not working, he's not earning income. he's painted as a horrible domestic abuser, and he wants to regain his position in the n.f.l. he wants to play football, support his family. he wants an opportunity to make amends for what we saw in the video tape. >> let's move on to another disgraced player. he anticipated a plea deal in the child abuse case. what does that many? >> essentially he and the prosecuting attorney came to an agreement accepted bit judge to avoid gaol time. he has 80 hours of community ever service, he has a fine. he won't have to serve gaol time. the criminal proceedings for

aiderien peters -- adrian petersen is over. >> after beating his small child, could he go back to the n.f.l. >> we heard a lot of that, we heard his lawyer saying adrian petersen is not an abuser, he did not abuse the child and the ball is in the n.f.l. court, and he, too, wants to return. now the n.f.l. has to decide whether to allow him to go back to play football. >> what does it say about football? >> sorry. >> what does it say about football, professional sports? >> both of these cases say that the n.f.l. has a lot of work to do, on the front with respect to women and children. consistencies causes everyone to be frustrated. in some cases they say we have to wait for the criminal justice system to play out, in other

cases they act on allegations. they need to be consistent and take swift and serious action when there are allegations of domestic violence and child abuse. >> and maybe get to the root of the problem before it happens in some ways. >> absolutely. more preventive programs, more training, more advocacy, and support for the victim, we don't hear enough about the women who are subjected to domestic violence, and the children who are part of these situations. more support for the victims, more training, so that the guys don't end up in the criminal justice system, so they don't end up suspended or tainting and marring the images of professional football players. >> all right. good to see you. thank you very much. >> thank you. always a pleasure coming up next - a rare look at civil war history from a never before picture made famous

by a slave. [ singing ] and darlene love on her new success from her older hit songs.

president obama will ask congress for $6 billion to fight ebola. the emergency money would be used to fight the money in the u.s. and africa. obama will ask the lame duck congressman to approve the funding. the committee will review the request. >> it is an astonishing part of history. a rare photograph of a slave by robert e lee's family was found. the story doesn't begin to sell the story of a woman. sheila macvicar has the story. >> reporter: the civil war, one

of the first conflicts to be captured on camera. of the thousands of images, there's one rarely portrayed - enslaved african-americans. still more rare - photographs of slaves who can be identified, which makes this photo, taken at general robert e lee's estate, arlington house, truly one of a kind. there is no name on the photo, but in the collection there is another picture, clearly the same woman. when a national park service volunteer, collector of early photography found this listing on ebay. he now the appearance of the women and alerted the group. saved arlington house. heated until the last minute. ultimately arlington came out on top. purchasing the rare photograph for $700. the mysterious woman was selena

gray. shown here with two daughters in front of two slave daughters. >> brandon is with the national parks service. selena gray is something of a legend. when the lee family fled, it was selena who mary lee entrusted with the keys to the estate. >> within a few short weeks the entire area is occupied by thousands. tens of thousands of union soldiers. >> the union soldiers looted the house, filled with personal belongings, many of which belonged to george and martha washington. >> that stopped because selena gray confronted the union general and told him that these were objects critical to the history of the nation. >> among the objects, the china that george washingtonate from, paintings -- washington ate from, paintings and furniture. >> how is it that selena gray could approach a union general

and reproach him. >> she had monumental courage to approach armed union soldiers, and a major general in the u.s. army, and tell them that they maded to protect the objects. >> selena and her family stayed at the estate throughout the civil war, and for time afterwards. >> general lee freed them before the emancipation prom lackation, and -- proclamation, and they pooled resources and brought land. selena gray's's legacy remains. the stories and mementos over liking the house ear coming up next on this broadcast - why you won't see many new mcmansions popping up in l.a. any more plus, now that the midterms

are over, talk is turning to 2016, and the billions poured into this presidential race.

this is al jazeera america. i'm john seigenthaler. coming up, about a third of voters showed up at the polls for midterm elections.

how voter turn out impacted the results. now the focus shifts to 2016, and the billions of dollars being poured into the presidential race. and singer darlene love on her love of performing. less than a day after the republican tide rolled through the midterm elections, the g.o.p. began to make plans. with control of both houses of congress, pledges of change have been made. patty culhane has more from washington. >> reporter: the republican celebrations just kept coming, taking back the senate. winning the majority of the governors races and picking up seats in the lower house.

seen by most as a repudiation by president obama, most, but not the president himself, who was asked about that as a news conference. >> all of us in both parties have a responsibility to address that sentiment. sting, as president, i have a -- still, as president, i have a unique responsibility to make the town work. >> the man that will lead the house major si, mitch mcconnell agrees that he needs to help make it work. >> there'll be no government shutdowns or default on the national debt. >> talk of bipartisanship and ending the gridlock may end. president obama saying he'll go ahead with plans to end the immigration before another takes over. ending deportation and undocumentation for undocumented workers. >> i'm not going to wait. i've shape a lot of patients. >> republicans claim that could

end cooperation. >> it's like a red flag in front of a bull, to say you guys if you don't do what i want, i'll do it on my own. and the president has done that on obama care, immigration, and threatening to do it again. i hope he will not do that. i think it poisons the well. >> the two areas where the leaders say they can work together increasing infrastructure, corporate tax reform, fast-tracking trade deals. that will be possibility if they are talking about bipartisan shop cooperation after the president has had his say on immigration. and one issue that the republicans are looking to get though the united states senate is approval of the keystone xl pipeline from canada. we have more on that from a state with a lot riding on it, louisiana i'm randall pinkston in new

orleans. louisiana is a top 10 oil and gas driller, second to texas in making petroleum products. it means jobs and funny. energy bills bottled up in the senate after having been passed in the house is at the top of the agenda when they take control in jan. the g.o.p. made clear that approval of the project will be at the top of their list, with a handful of democratic supporters, republicans have a filibuster majority for approval. >> jason johnson is al jazeera political contributor and joins us from washington. can the republicans get the pipeline through? >> no, probably not. i mean, look, this is - this is the kind of thing that you talk about when you know you are going to take over the senate, and you want to test what kind of backbone you'll face from

president obama. the keystone pipeline, whilst important to some democrats and republicans, is not a nationally galvanising issue. you have battles as to how effective or how the impact of the pipeline will be. i don't see it has being a rallying cry. >> other than one state, what are the other challenges for republicans, that the republicans face to get this pipeline built? >> well, first off, you have to have this thing making between the states and everyone will want so have a piece of the pie. there's infrastructure are, road, electrical improves, and then different environmental and impacts on every state. every member of the senate and house will ask. it will be expensive. the jobs it produces may pail in comparison to what it will cost.

>> the importance of norge independence. is that a reason to build the pipeline? >> yes. there are a tonne of ways to get energy dependency. john nabbing cane talked about -- mccain talking about taking the federal fleet, cars for federal marshals, police, making them battery cars. there are tonnes of ways to make them less dependent on oil. the pipeline is a way to get it done. i'll be shocked if the ground is broken for building the pipeline any time before president obama leaves office. >> let's talk about voter turn out. who did not turn out yesterday? >> white democrats. that's the group of people that most of the pollsters miss. if you look at key states like georgia and north carolina, the african american turn out numbers hit the targets that democrats had, but white

democratic turn out and young voter turn out was low. sometimes it was at 2010 midterm levels, sometimes less, that's a reason democrats struggled to hold tonne seats, but basically didn't gain ground. >> let's hear what the president had to say in the press conference about voter turn out. >> part of what i think we have to look at is the two-thirds of people who are eligible to vote and didn't vote. one of the things that i'm very proud of in 2008, and 2012, when i ran for office, was we got people involved, who hadn't been involved before. >> white democrats. what about latinos. are latinos - were they excited to get involved in the campaign in a big way. not really. if you look at the states where the democrats were defending their turf, they were defending

in red states. you are talking about georgia, arkansas, louisiana, north carolina, these are not places where latinos were going to be this play. maybe in colorado. that's not where the democrats were bleeding the worse. some of the things you have to understand is you get a different group of people turning out, and republicans and democrats find a way to get the same group. >> i didn't see a change in the president or his approach to congress at the bres inference. what did you see? >> i saw a buoyant president obama. after his shall acting four years ago, he was down trodden, i said he was surprise

at how much the voters were unhappy, and how much of a sweep there was in congress. president obama basically said hey, bring it on, i don't care, i'll do what i have done before. for him to be enthusiastic and excited about impending battles, he did not seem to be as upset about the loss. >> that surprised me. a lot of democrats were surprised. jason johnson, good to see you. thank you very much there were unusual midterm contests, recognised for gaffs and quirks. david shuster has that story. >> we started the 11th congressional district where congressman michael gram was under an indictment, threatening to throe a reporter off a balcony and break him in half. >> we wanted him on camera on that, but he refused to talk about that.

back to you. . >> it should been an easy race against gram, right. the problem, democrat michael, an inarticulate candidate the district had seen. gram beat him by 13 points, indictment and all. in illinois, fending off republicans mike bost, known as melt down mike after shooting a neighbour's dog, and blowing a g gasket as a state law-maker. >> enough. let my people go. >> despite the accusation. that it will make washington worse. he won by 11 points.

>> michigan's 11th district, the law firm served as a foreclosure mill and trott was hit in the campaign with this... >> trott profited from human misery as tens of thousands of michiganans were evicted. people like 101-year-old mrs. holize, thrown out of her home of 50 years, and left on the streets. foreclosure king trott, he caused too much misery to represent us in congress. >> just about everybody in the political world agreed that was the most brutal ad of the campaign, yet trott still won by 16 points. amazing. minnesota eighth congressional strict, stuart mills faced democratic rick nolan son on the west. democrats took aim at mills health and care. >> it cost a lot to get this look, lucky for stuart mills iii

he inherited millions and a job with six figures. that's not enough. he is running for congress to give millionaires like himself another big tax break. >> that worked. nolan beat the democrat mills by a whisker. 3700 votes. >> louisiana's fifth congressional trict. republican vance got in trouble caught on surveillance casing a campaign -- kissing a campaign staffer not his wife. mcallister finished fourth there was a glitch in texas at a polling location. greg abbott was left off the ballot. in his place it lifted republican lieutenant governor david duhurst, an insult because he lost his primary. we'll remember this because a dment uhurst staffer put

together a video mocking taert your from changing his name from danny to patrick. ♪ ♪ we won't let them in ♪ won't let them see... >> danny gof, patrick, he beat duhurst to win the republican primary, and last night patrick was targeted in the ad. he won election as the texas election governor and will take office in january. that's the power politician. >> david shuster reporting. despite the ads, the dualling news conferences today and differenting political sides president obama said he would like to sit and have a drink with senator mitch mcconnell. >> you know, actually, i would enjoy having kentucky bourbon with mitch mcconnell. i don't know what his preferred drink is. >> but the president says if mitch mcconnell is not up for a drink, there are other things he'll offer in the spirit of

bipartisanship. >> if the ways that we are approaching republicans and democrats are not working i'll try different things, whether it's having a drink with mitch mcconnell, letting john boehner beat me again at golf. or weekly press conferences, i don't know if that would be effective. >> he could try. the election is over the the other election is around the corner. 2016 - mary snow has that story clinton played a supporting role for congressional candidates through the midterms, but the prospect of a 2016 presidential bid is not nah away. >> are we ready for hillary. >> behind the scenes a different campaign is under way as outside groups are raising cash backing 2016 contenters, ready for hillary, a super-pact that can raise and spend unlimited money,

but not donate directly to a candidate raised $10.3 million to date, according to the sunlight foundation, that tracks money in politics and counts this group as leading the pact. among republicans, it cites one group supporting rand paul raising $1.3 million, and a group in wisconsin, for rand paul raised $2.3 million. millions for ted cruz in texas, and florida senator marco rubio, that is some of the money with an eye towards 2016, raised by outside groups. it does not include candidates like new jersey governor chris christie, who has been visible on the campaign trail, but doesn't have a political action committee. >> and jeb bush, widely seen having access to donors, and there'll be the money raised by the candidates, all pointing to

expectations of an unprecedented price tag for the presidency, beating the 2012 record by president obama and mitt romney, who raised more than $1 billion. to be a top tear candidate at the store, a former official estimated they'd need to raise between 100, and $150 million to be a contender our image of the day is coming up next. plus... [ singing ] >> singer darlene love talks about her incredibly successful career after this.

we'll take you to the western pacific, it was a super typhoon, why are we talking about this system. well, over the next couple of days, as it makes its way to the north-east, this storm will cost major impact to lavka, and we -- alaskaa, and we expect it to become one of the strongest storms, and with pressure between 990 mill bars or lower. we'll watch it carefully, we expect to see sees up to 45 feet high. for the rest of the united states, we expect a cool down coming into play for the

northern plains. over the next couple of days, textures from minnesota, 43 as the high, going up on friday. we'll see it go down by the time we get to the weekend, and down towards chicago. take a look at what happens on sunday. the temperatures beginning to drop. as we get to monday - well, minnesota, high temperatures are only going to reach 29 degrees. the overnight lows - anywhere between 16 and 18 degrees. up towards new york, not looking too bad at 60. that is a look at the weather. more news coming up after this.

some call them eye source, others call them mcmansions. one big city is saying no more. jennifer london has the latest. >> reporter: they have been called starter castles, garage mahalls and mcmansions. >> we call them hummer mansions.

>> reporter: beverley say it's ruining their homes. homes here are single-storey bungalows. >> our gardener of 10 years said oh, my goodness, they have built your apartment next to your house. >> reporter: this is no apart. it's a single family, 40 square foot supersized house. we can't go in, we don't have permission from the developer. if i climb the ladder and look over the fence, you can see how large the house is, and the size of the house in relation to the lot. it's an issue that home owners that isodora and others has. >> a house like this eliminates any sense of privacy that they may have. >> we feel like we are in a petrie dish. it looms over the backyard. we feel like we have lost our home. >> the mansionisation of l.a. is happening over the city.

of the 295 homes, there's 18 with a dozen more under construction. los angeles has updated zoning for single-storey homes since 1946. ad hoc amendments like the baseline mansionisation ordnance has done little. it was supposed to set limits on building large homes on small lots, loopholes allowed developers to find work around. like building a home that is 20 foot larger if it's environmentally friendly, and not counting garages as square footage. alan is the deputy director of planning for the city of los angeles. would you be happy if one was built next to your house? >> no, absolutely not. there are flaws in the original ordnance, we need to have it fixed. we sympathise with those concerns. the planning department is committed to dressing them michael, an urban planning

professor is sympathetic. >> when you purchase that home, you didn't necessarily by the air rites. you didn't buy the rites to have a view in perpetuity. you don't purchase the rights to have a structure next to you. >> what about somebody who says well, too bad. if someone can buy up the lot next to you and about what they want on it, what if it moved in next door to you. how would you feel? >> any sectors could take 18 months or more, meaning more mcmansions and protest signs will continue to tear apart some of the city's beloved neighbourhoods now to my conversation with darlene love. darlene love has sung on songs everything from "monster mash" to "that life", her voice is heard on some of the popular

songs and only now is getting recognition. she was a backup singer, sometimes uncredited on hit after hit, and recently getting paid for astonishing performances, her life and career put on the big screen. i started by asking her asking how it can be acknowledged. >> i haven't felt like it was 20 feet. it was just doing this movie that brought everything back. well, i was a back up singer, the great thing about being a back up singer when i started, nobody treated me like a backup singer. they always were so excited about me and my group being on their records. so it was always great, you go in the studio, you felt like you were a star. the thing that made it star, we

were black, and we were the first background singers to do recording sessions. it was a white world. the singers were white and they were the readers of the they could read music. we could not read. they had great ears. >> what about financially, did you make good money. >> i don't know why i became an artist. i was going '60s scale, $22.50 an hour. in a year i can make over $100,000 in a rear. >> and residuals. we started getting riddeduals a couple. of years ago. why didn't you? >> there was no law in the union that said as a background singer you got residuals. they just passed the law. >> you began in recent times to

get the money back or nod? >> big time. >> i got a check from sound international. i got a check from them for $56,000. [ laughs ] for money that we had not got. >> what was it like working on "that's life", and "do-do-run run", "do-do-run-run", wasn't as much fun as working with fran sinatra on "that's life", he was funny, he played with us "all right guys, make me sound good". >> "monster mash", the biggest thing was working with elvis presley, doing this backup on a comeback. >> you didn't read music? >> not at all. >> you didn't read music. >> no. >> did you learn as you went along. >> no, we could sight read. we followed the notes, as they

went up we went up. you go down, what we call sight music. >> phil expect ra had a huge -- expect ra had a huge impact on your life. talk about working with him. >> during the time i worked with him, it was great. we found out later that he was trying to make himself a name, not us. that held me back for years. he was a great producer. and this picture you were in the foreground, and the star bruce springstein. >> i love that. that's when i was abducted into the rock'n'roll hall of fame, and the writer said we saw a guitar on the stage, no one was playing it. the minute you started singing, bruce pickednd played the guitar. that made everything that i have done so much fun. that these people said years ago i should be a star. and i finally got there.

>> and you are getting ready to release hour first full-length album, is that correct. >> yes. >> all these years and you never did a full-length album. >> back in the day when we were recording, people didn't make albums, they made 45s, or singles. you go to the internet and buy a record. my good friends, steve, when i met him said "we are going get together, and i'm going to do an album with you", here we are, just doing it. >> what strikes me about having a conversation, and i watched you on the documentary a couple of times. and i honestly - you seem to have absolutely no regrets. you seem to be joyful about everything that you have done and continued to do. despite some of those setbacks. how do you remain so positive? >> it's something i want to do. and something i love to do. there's nothing more precious to me than standing on the stage in

front of your friends, and lifting their spirits. >> you have given us a lot of joy. we thank you for it. nice to meet you. >> you're welcome. >> great lady. darlene love. >> that's our programme, thank you for watching. "america tonight" is next. we'll see you back here tomorrow night. dick cavett. >> steve jobs said, "how does it feel to be dick cavett"? about the only question that's ever floored me, you know? >> "talk to al jazeera". saturday. 5:00 eastern. only on al jazeera america.

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