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>> hi everyone this is aljazeerm jonathan betz in new york. john siegenthaler has the night off. making history. president obama plans to nominate the first african attorney for attorney general. breaking silence about what she calls the biggest financial coverups of history. breaking barriers, how germans are shedding light on a dark past. timed exposure. after years in obscurity, a
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brilliant street photographer finally gets her moment to shine. we begin tonight with the president's choice to replace attorney general eric holder. if confirmed, loretta lynch would be the first african american woman to hold that job. let's go to the white house and senior washington reporter mike viqueria for this, mike. >> her name leaked out in news records this morning. the president wasn't planning to name a new attorney general nominee, until after he returns from asia, but tomorrow at 11:00 a.m., the president will appear with lore lorett loretta lynch. she has deep experience in
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corporate fraud prosecutions. her bu biographical is informat. 55 years old, a greensboro north carolina native, first nominated as a prosecutor in 1999 by bill clinton. left the prosecutor's office for a while and reinstalled by president obama in 2010. now you talk about the civil rights experience for ms. lynch. she was involved in the prosecution of new york city police officers who were involved in torture of abner luema. this has been greeted with some skepticism, should not be a nomination that is handled in the lairm duck before republicans take over in january. that is goal of the white house, others are welcoming the nomination.
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>> mike, the president met with key congressional leaders, anything accomplished there? >> the president started things off on a good note. he presented each of the attendees, the house senate and democrat with a six pack of white house beer that's made in the white house here. evidently it went downhill from there. they were having lunch in the family state dining room just over my left showere shoulder h. the president spoke of the need to come together, in his final two years with republicans in charge. >> the one thing i've committed to both speaker boehner and leader mcconnell is i'm not going to judge ideas on whether they're democratic or republican. i'm going to judge them on whether or not they work. >> reporter: now one thing that came out of that meeting is more disagreement over the president's plan to take executive action on immigration
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reform. jonathan we know the parameters of this, president wants to good around congress, dreamers and their parents, something that his democratic base is urging him to do he put it off until after the election. kevin mccarthy, upon returning to the capital: >> why do executive orders legislative process which is what america expects to see. >> one other thing discussed here the authorization of the use of military force in the campaign against i.s.i.l. the president wants to put it before congress, something else that he could have done before the election, chose not to. many are on board including republicans. with that proposal. and democrats as well, warmly welcoming the president's initiative there jonathan. >> okay, mike viqueria live at the white house, tonight, thank you. kurds on the front lines against i.s.i.l, the number of kurds on the ground may soon
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double. our paul beban is here. paul. >> reporter: john, the congress asked the president to set aside $1.6 billion, and the administration is hoping that will pay big dividends in the campaign to destroy i.s.i.l. that money would go to the what president calls iraq train and equip fund. from 1400 to nearly 3,000. but the pentagon stresses this is not a combat mission. it's to advice the iraqi army and kurdish fighters on the front line of the battle. >> verthey have reached the poit they need are additional guidance particularly anbar. >> providing high level guidance, others would be spread across 12 smaller camps throughout the country working with nine iraqi and three kurdish brigades who number
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somewhere between 15 to 30,000 troops. the americans will begin deploying before the end of the year and the training program will last between six and seven months. >> these iraqi forces when fully trained will enable iraq to better defend its borders and its citizens against i.s.i.l. >> reporter: this new group joins 1400 military personnel authorized in september to provide security for american forces and provide training. the first wave from the u.s. in iraq since december 2011. keep in mind the height of the iraq war, 171,000 u.s. troops were in the country. again, the pentagon is stressing that none of the american troops will be used in a combat role but this is a combat zone. u.s. personnel traffic anywhere outside the u.s. embassy compound in baghdad or outside the relatively secure parts of erbil are going to be targeted.
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no matter how they slice it this is a very dangerous mission.. >> paul beban, thank you. mechanism coe authorities say three gang members have confessed to killing the students. >> in a chilling press conference on friday the attorney general of mexico gave gruesome detail given by suspects implicated in the possible massacre of 43 university students that disappeared last month at the hands of local police in guerrero, mexico. when he gave the press conferences he showed taped testimony of these suspects where they described that the students were taken to a dumpster on the outskirts of town, where they were killed, some of them ax fiction 88the ad
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burned. they took the remains of these gentlemen and they threw them in the river, and into plastic garbage bags. now, this is very shocking, not only for mexico but for the entire world that has been watching this case very closely because it involves not only organized crime but also politicians and police. now, the families came out and they reacted to the statement of the attorney general, and they said that it was insensitive of him to give those details because dna testing has still not been complete. anonymity the attorney general says that the -- now, the attorney general say the dna tests were sent to austria, they will take a long time because of the state they found these remains. mexican president enrique pena nieto said it was a tragedy for whole country and there would be
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justice to anyone who was involved in this incident. jonathan. >> rachel levitt in mexico city today. there is encouraging news on the economy labor department says the economy added $217,000 jobs this year. 49 straight months of job growth, the best stretch since world war ii. and all that hieferg reduced unemployment now -- hiring reduced imroiment since july of 2008. >> if you would ask any pundit a year ago, when the unemployment rate was 7.2%, what do you think the unemployment rate would be by the end of the year? they would say 6.7, 6.8. if they would have better than told 5.8, they would say well
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you've been smoke something. >> at least 7 million people are underemployed. they work part time or earn below the poverty level. and the number of americans, 48 million people according to the census bureau. that averages out to 1 in 6 american children who live in poverty. joining me now is ali velshi, host of "real money" on al jazeera. all right ali, the lowest unemployment rate in six years, steady job growth, it seems good news right? >> it's mostly good news, jonathan, but what's more interesting is the trend, 49 months of straight job growth, that's the longest stretch since the early '90s. if you've looked bag on this year alone, we've averaged 219,000 net new jobs each month. and the unemployment rate 5.8% has dropped 1.4 percentage points in the last 12 months and
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jonathan here is the thing because you've heard the criticism before when the unemployment rate goes down, that it's going down for the wrong reason because people are leaving the unemployment force, i.tit went up because people jod the force. that's the percentage of people of working age who could be working who are actually in the workforce or looking for a job. very low, 62.8. when president obama took office for the first time in 2009 it was 65.7%. so if the number of people participating in the workplace were as high as it was at the beginning of president obama's presidency, the unemployment rate would actually be 8.8%. we're at 5.8%. that's why i don't like the unemployment rate. it doesn't tell you fluff of the whole story.
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-- enough of the whole story. it's not as good as that 5.8 number sounds. >> the wages are also a dark spot because a lot of jobs are being created, a lot of them are low-paying correct? >> the number is deceivingly low and the wages are the problem. increasing a little over 2%, still better than inflation but not enough to make people feel prosperous, not enough to 66 them into high gear. there are a couple of numbers that are contradictory, we are seeing really good consumer confidence so people seem to think that things will be better in the future. when asked about their specific job situation they seem pretty confident. but as part of the election that you and i were covering on tuesday jonathan, we saw 70% of the americans say they think the economy is doing poorly or very poorly. it's a weird advertise connect. the numbers are encouraging but
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the low wage environment we're in is causing people to be cautious. we need a little more momentum. if we get a few more months like this one, things will start looking better. >> the whistle blower that exposed toxic mortgages at j.p. morgan, give it a watch if you can. >> the woman featured there is the woman who the justice department it appears dangled before j.p. morgan. to say you bhert offe better ofs more money. the first offer was $3 billion, it ended up being $13 billion because of this woman who you'll see a little more of later on in the show. >> ali velshi, host of "real money" many thanks. >> the city of detroit is one step closer to recovering from a
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decade of despair. our bisi onile-ere joins us, is this a fresh start detroit has been fighting for? >> good evening, jonathan, it certainly signals a new beginning. the bankruptcy judge explained more than an hour his opinion and in his opinion the city's restructuring plan is fair and feasible. federal judge stephen rhodes approved a settlement that would bring the issues to an end. >> this is a day that should be firld with joy but we have more work to be done. >> reporter: the plan will eliminate $7 billion of the city's debt but it comes to a cost at pensioners and others. city retirees will endure a 4.5% cut to their monthly pension and a 90% reduction in health care
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benefits. bond holders such as ber bermuda based sincora. an historic bankruptcy that 15 months ago ignited age are and protests concludes sooner than many people expected. >> i think what you saw today was the best of us. the best of detroiters, the best of michiganders, the best of americans coming together through a difficult but managed judicial process to get a result that's for the benefit of the citizens of detroit, the region and the state. >> reporter: once the target of a potential selloff a deal was also reached to save city-owned art in a town when a call to 911 didn't always guarantee a response, detroit will invest $1.4 billion to improve essential city services and eliminate blight. judge rhodes relyin ruling brina
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sense of optimism to sumsome but to others -- to some but others disappointment. >> we are supposed to be a country of laws and what i saw in there was lawlessness. >> reporter: out of bankruptcy and free of an emergency administering mayor mike doug ann wildugganwill have the powed oopts state and city leaders admit there's still a lot of work ahead. as part of this restructuring plan the city plans to invest over $1.4 billion into eliminating blight and improving essential city services. this is supposed to occur over a ten year span. the city is expected to emerge from bankruptcy before thanksgiving. jonathan. >> okay, big day for detroit, bisi onile-ere, thank you. one of the world's largest suppliers of air bags reportedly
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waited years to warn the public of a danger are yoous defect. the company ordered no recalls until 2008. the problem has reportedly caused at least four deaths and 130 injuries. 14 million cars have now been recalled. benjamin zang joins us on set and thanks for being here. >> my pleasure. >> let's talk about this new york times investigation. these are pretty serious allegations that the company had been covering up these issues for years. >> absolutely. based on the new york times discretion, it showed that according to two former takata employees the company had some inkling that something was wrong as early as 2004. they started going around scrap yards and finding wrecked cars
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with their air bags in them and they started testing those air bags and according to the new york times had was some very troubling results until executives high up allegedly squashed the whole investigation. >> as far as deleting the information from the hard drives and throwing away air bags. >> absolutely, everything was thrown away. they did everything they could to wipe out. >> and instead what should have takata have done at the time? >> as with any scandal, the coverup is often worse than the problem itself. time and time again we have seen this happen and coming forward to the government might have pen the best option for them. >> how do you expect this to play out in the next couple of weeks? already, senators are calling for a full investigation. will there be more recalls? >> absolutely. quality control at their factories are the factor.
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these are delicate creatures, they don't like moisture and don't like temperature. they come into humidity or water anything wet they have a tendency to go off and to explode and to fire explosive shards. and you never know what more can happen. if they keep digging. >> and jimmy that's a big point of confusion. we keep hearing that people who live in humid states, mainly in the gulf south, are more at risk. but isn't anybody who drives one of these cars at risk? >> oh, absolutely. what the national highway traffic safety administration have said, people in the more human cons ar -- conditions are more at risk. they said go check with your
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auto manufacturer, go call your service departments and see if your car ask at risk. >> this is a big concern for consumers. what do you do with the new information? how do you trust the new air bags they're putting in these cars? >> the question is, we don't know. hopefully takata has gotten beyond their quality control issues. we don't know. >> benjamin zang thanks for coming in tonight, we appreciate it. >> thank you. >> up next, 25 years after the fall of the berlin wall, the new wall, we look at the new challenges. and the new york nanny who only became known after her death.
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was destroyed. along the path where the wall once stood, built in 1967. it stretched from 87 miles dividing east and west berlin. more than 100 people were killed trying to cross it. the last pieces were dismantled in 1991.about. ukraine is accusing russia of sending a convoy of tanks into eastern ukraine. residents have observed a significant buildup of russian weaponry. ukrainian troops continue to clash with prowrg pro-russian separatists around donetsk. what do you think has been the main legacy of that moment? >> well, you know it was a moment of tremendous freedom for
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the east germans certainly, but i think also for the rest of the world we watched on television transpire, certainly that one particular date is the marker when in fact the east german administrators said indeed that east germans could cross into west berlin. but it took days and weeks after that for people to take down the wall and pass on into west berlin. >> i remember the iconic images, pick shovels in hand taking down the wall. there is controversy about the 25th anniversary date correct? >> yes, it is. i think it really represented a moment of tremendous freedom and people taking their future into their hands and really changing the course of history. but november 9th is the particular history first of all of the abdication of the ciers r
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and the date of kastalnacht, which was essentially a nazi pogrom, in which a lot of the synagogues and businesses were destroyed. i think it's a very controversial date in german history. it is an opportunity to discuss some of the darker moments in german history and also those that are celebrated with freedom as the germans are doing today. >> we saw the fall of communism, 25 years ago, the fall of that wall and yet there is still this conflict between the west and russia. >> there is. it is not a second world war by any stretch but germany is the leader of the european union, quite frankly, and many of the eastern european countries are members of the european union or
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on track to be. there is trepidation about the meaning of russian expansionism. >> do you think we have fallen back in some ways? i know we're not approaching another cold war but relations have degraded and russia may be returning to its old soviet ways. >> there cock. coulcould be.they may have an e in that future. >> they remain the middle man between the two sides. >> they do. i would think the unification of germany itself is not complete. still, there are difference necessary equality, in employment, in industry, in the quality of life between east germany and west germany. >> the germans that are born and raised in the western part, there is a difference between east and the west? >> i do.
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living through repression of the communist east germany have wounds that are difficult to heal. the younger germans did not live with that but the opportunities are clearly in the west and that is considering unemployment in germany and the economic issues, that is important. >> well, 25 years ago seems like a long time but it really is a flash in history. 25 years since the fall of that wall. professor rosemary wakeman, appreciate you coming in. >> thank you. >> what has happened since this historic moment? join us at 8:00 p.m. eastern, 5:00 pacific. a woman who held the secret how bad the j.p. morgan toxic mortgages were, really. she's speaking to al jazeera america. and typhoon hynan how much needs to be done to help the people of the fip peens. philippines.
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biggest financial investigations in history. plus, unnatural habit, climate change are threatening birds across the northwest, how birds are adapting. the woman who left behind 100,000 photos, hailed as a master. one year ago, the justice dparmd announced a $13 billion settlement with j.b. morgan chase. cost millions of jobs and triggered a recession. former alform ali velshi sat doh the form he employee. >> this article you have to read, is titled the $9 billion witness. meet the woman jpmorgan chase
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paid one of the largest fines in american history to keep from talking. joining me is matt taibi and elaine fleischman. elaine what did you do at jpmorgan chase? >> i was a quality manager, making sure the loans were being reviewed properly and they were good enough to sell to investors. >> you are a lawyer? >> i'm a securities lawyer by trade. >> jury deal was jpmorgan chase would be buying loans from a bank that makes lobes from individuals, they would be buying a bunch at the same time, they would then package and sell them to investors. i think most americans know that part of the story. but you were actually reviewing the loans that were being bought by at this point green point bank and others. >> that's right. part of our process was really the quality control so we could say to investors these loans are good to be sold to you and if there are any issues here's what they are. >> and you had rules. they were rules that said, you
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are not going to bundle these, alt-8 a little higher than subprime, certain requirements had to be immediate and and you are saying your team was under some pressure to fudge that. >> exactly. for example when you are doing these loans relying on people saying what their income is, you have to match up their job with what they're making, it has to at least make sense. when you have the man curist, making $117,000, it is five times more than our programs were telling me she should make. >> when you pushed back, your team pushed back, there was pressure to let some of these go through. >> what happened was, when some people were saying no and we were at the 40% rate, the managers started yelling at them
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and berating them, making them do reports over and over again, keeping them late at night, and it became clear he would keep doing this to clear the loans. >> matt, you described this in the article as trying to beat a confession out of a witness. you wear them down and they don't sleep and eventually they will say what you want them to say. >> the message was very clear. they would keep asking the question until they got the answer they wanted. the answer they wanted was, these loans are fit to be sold to other investors. but the answer was we clearly can't resell this stuff but that wasn't acceptable to the upper level management. >> elaine you said to jpmorgan chase, either you have to represent the quality of these loins, what they are if you don't it's fraudulent and if you do represent it nobody is going to buy them that way. >> that's exactly right. i even actually stopped the purchase bit it happened to try
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to get somebody to talk about the problems if they ever put it into security. >> there are several references that you have the confidential agreement. why do you -- confidentiality agreement. why do you have this? >> it's standard for anybody who works in these banks, we were blowing past our internal warnings but you don't see people talking about it publicly. for me i just decided that this is more important. there are still investors who are trying to get their money back out there and i think public has a right to know what happened. a lot of the information that we're hearing from holder, the top level of the justice department just doesn't match what i saw and what i believe the doj knows very well. >> we did of course ask j.p. morgan to comment on this. they didn't comment on it for matt's article that appears in rolling stone nor did they comment to us. they told us they would have no comment to make.
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we asked the department of justice for a comment and in each, we have refused to provide waivers that shielded the banks from criminal liability. as a result we have preserved our ability to conduct criminal investigations where they are warranted. as always, we will pursue all available evidence wherever it leaves however, matt, j.p. morgan's one of their early offers to the department of justice in exchange for not going through criminal prosecution, was $3 billion. it worked its way up to 9 billion, the number most are familiar with is $13 billion but we'll use 9 as argument. the woman standing beside you seems pivotal moving it from 3 to 9 tell me about this. >> the government was about to fight civil charges against jpmorgan chase. jamie dimon called up the
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justice department, they agreed at the last minute to cancel that proceedings. in the subsequent weeks news reports leaked that there was a cooperating witness that was willing to testify against the bank they even -- >> there were reports it was a woman. >> it was clear who it was, at least to elaine at the time. and i think that was intended as a shot across the bank's bow to let them know they had a case and after that the bank under its offer and they eventually came to this agreement which depending how you look at it, 13 billion or $9 billion but they eventually settled. the truth never came out. they agreed on a statement of facts, they never went before a judge and they essentially just exchanged a little bit of money and the whole thing went away. >> so in conclusion not only the whole thing seemed to go away, jamie dimon the kerry of jpmorgan chase, actually got a
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70% raise, after his bank was hit with the largest settlement ever. israelis and palestinians, some jews have been pushing for the right to pray at the al-aqsa mosque. our mts tayeb has more. >> that huge security presence right around the old city ahead of friday prayer and during friday prayers has now filtered away into palestinian neighborhoods right across occupied east jerusalem. israeli forces bracing themselves for another round of protest in east 800 number. the scene of major protest for some time. in the backdrop of that we are now hearing comments from senior israeli officials including prime minister benjamin netanyahu appealing for calm.
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we have heard the chief rabbi in east jerusalem, and the israeli leadership has become very concerned about what's going on in the occupied east with the protests with the violence. there's still a huge security presence and that certainly isn't helping calm things down. and indeed we are expecting more protests. whatever the case, this issue which has been brewing here in the occupied east of jerusalem it's quickly becoming of international concern. we of course have heard jordan raise concerns, and we have the eu foreign minister discuss the item with the israeli foreign minister, the measures they have been using heavy security forces and indeed heavy policing tactics doesn't seem to be doing the trick if you will. and so one would imagine that is
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why we're hearing these comments and these appeals if you will for calm by the israeli government. >> mts tayeb in jerusalem. it was a year ago when hurricane hyan slammed into philippines. church bemtio bells rang in tac. >> in this special section of a provincial cemetery a testament to shared grief. thousands of unidentified victims of typhoon hyan here, lynette de la cruz who added the name of three missing members of her family on these crosses. doesn't matter who is buried here she says, she just needed closure. >> translator: this is the mass grave. they must be here, i feel they
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are here somehow. >> reporter: typhoon hyan swept across the central philippines a year ago, the strongest storm on record, left 6,000 dead and millions of others displaced. many who survived said they still live the nightmare. they're doing what they can to make life seem as normal as possible but it hasn't been easy. some fannie,000 people are still -- some 15,000 people are still living in temporary shelters. many tents like these, no running water no electricity no latrines. nothing has changed in almost a year. aid organizations have continued to play a role, as the government has found itself stretched and bogged down by bureaucracy. the master plan that would have released funding was only signed by the philippine president a month ago. >> we have been without the signature, we have been rebuilding the items listed in
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the plan. using different sources of funds including ngos, including our own funds, including savings of national agencies, they were able to. >> didn't just sit around waiting for help. she replanted her farm with seeds in an aid agency. the new crops can be harvested faster and more frequently making her more money now than ever before. >> translator: we persevered so we could rise and work again. we strove to survive. >> reporter: signs of progress are visible in certain areas but much has still to be done. officials say it will take years to recover but no matter how tired and frustrated they are, people here are determined to rebuild their lives one piece at a time. marga ortigaz, al jazeera,
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central philippines. forced to weigh thousands of migrating birds from forest and where they're going may come as a surprise. our science and technology editor jacob ward has that story. >> humans are forcing big bad changes on the lives of birds. the national awd don societ audy session climate change will imperil millions of birds this century. the swift used to roost in the hollowed out trunks of enormous trees as it migrated down the pacific coast each year. but those stumps have been so hard to find that the bird has adapted to a new habitat one built by humans. >> this is a holy place for birders. they come to watch a spebl spece
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each evening, we are here in the hopes we get to catch it on camera. >> rusty discovered this place simply because he knew the birds liked industrial chimneys. >> i got out and walked up the road and there was a huge vortex of swifts in the sky. i just about had a coronary. >> reporter: every month the pour out of the chimney and return every night. the problem is even though the group of devoted birders tries to count the birds, no one knows exactly where they slef slept be this or where they'll sleep next. >> there must be others who go to central america. >> reporter: so why have they chosen these chimneys?
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>> the search image in their mind is that of a giant redwood trees. it has quawls where the birds can sling. >> it is amazing to see the vortex of birds signaling around the symbol of pollution, here these birds are clinging to the sides of this thing. literally clinging to the sides of it to survive. >> while we stood there literally thousands of birds converged into this one hollow space. we're looking at this swarm of hundreds, thousands of birds, i don't know if this reads on camera but it's amazing to look at because this massive storm of birds is all stuffing itself down into this one chimney. they are all going to bundle up together, stay warm at night so they can get ready for the big push to los angeles. although it's making the most of what it has this bird is still in danger. >> they're vulnerable. and these antique smoke stacks
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are themselves vulnerable. they are in a state of decay all of them. these particular stacks have been landmarked by the state of california as historic sites but the way you preserve landmark smoke stacks is to fill it with concrete. >> for this moment the humans and birds have formed astrange balance but that balance could soon be lost. jacob ward, al jazeera, california. >> vifian maier is now getting wide acclaim. plus. ♪ ♪ >> singer darlene love talks about her hugely successful career.
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>> brace yourself. we've got cold weather blasting into the nosh part of the united states -- northern part of the united states as we get into the weekend. that arctic air slowly sags into the southeast, as we get into the middle of next week. it won't be arctic air as it gets to georgia or alabama. it will modify oa bit but still a big chill compared to what we're used to. cold weather is bringing in snow too. special advisors for places like montana because you're the first place that will get hit with
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this very cold air as it starts to blast in. saturday, temperatures on the cool spots especially near the canadian border but that cold air moves into the lows and teens. on monday he we'll stop into single digits. 11 for billings, 21 for minneapolis but down for 5, when we hit montana and the north and that's when those temperatures drop also further into memphis, tennessee into the mid 30s to start the early morning hours. we're watching this large storm that could be record-setting hitting the western aleutian islands, coming up i'll show you the impacts this will have.
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her story is being told, and john siegenthaler asked her how it feels to being acknowledged as a star. >> i didn't feel i was 20 feet from stardom for a long time. it was doing that movie. >> what did it feel like back then? >> well, i was a backup singer. the great thing about being a backup singer when i started, nobody treated me like a backup singer. they were excited me and my group the blossoms being on their records. when you went in there you felt like you were one of the stars. the thing that made it great about the blossoms, we were black and we were the first background singers to do recording sessions. it was a white worlds, they were the readers, they could read music. we couldn't read music but we
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had great ears. >> what about the financial situation, did you make good money as a background singer? >> sometime i don't know why, i became an artist. during the ra '60s, scale was 22.50 an hour. i could make over $100,000 a year. >> and residuals? >> we didn't get residuals as background singers. >> why didn't you get riiveldz? >> residuals? >> because until they passed that law a couple of years ago. >> did you try get some of that money back? or not? >> big time. i got a check called sound international, i got a check for $56,000! for back opinion that we had not
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got. >> what was it like working on that's life and da do run run? >> amazing. da do run run wasn't as good as working with that's life with frank senate atra because he was you such a great guy. he would say all right guys make me sound good. >> and monster mash? >> monster mash, i think biggest thing we did was working with elvis presley, working with his 1968 come back album. >> you didn't learn music? >> not at all. >> you didn't know music? >> we could follow, we could go hear where to go on our parts. sight music is what we read. >> phil specter had a tremendous influence on your life. tell us about working with him. >> he hadn't going such a big star yet.
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we didn't find out until later that phil specter was trying to make himself a name not us a name. that held us back for years. but he was a great producer. >> in this you were in the foreground and bruce springsteen was in the background. >> we saw this guitar on the stage all night long and nobody was playing it but the minute you started singing bruce picked up the guitar and started playing the guitar. that's what made everything i've done over the last 50 years so much fun. these people said years ago i should be a star and i finally got my due. ♪ ♪ >> and you're getting to release your first full plengt album is thalength album isthat right? >> yes. >> all these years and you've never done a full length album? >> back in the days people
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didn't make albums, they made 45s. you would go and buy one record. my very, very good friend steve van zant, years ago when we met, he said, we're going to get together and do an album and here we're just doing it. >> i watched you on the documentary a couple of times and i honestly, you seemed to have absolutely no regret, you seem joyful about everything you've done and continue to do, despite some of those settle backs how do you remain -- setbacks how do you remain so positive? >> it's something i want to do and something i want to do. there's nothing more precious to me than standing on the stage in front of your friends and lifting their spirits. >> you've given us a lot of joy and thank you very much. >> you're welcome. >> darlene love a backup no
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more. what some of the world's leading experiment experts are d about lacquers. much more tonight at 11:00 eastern, 8:00 pacific. in life vivian maier worked as a nanny but has been hailed years after her death as a rare talent. she left behind 150,000 photos and art experts are only beginning to unlock their mysteries. first person report,ing art greenberg. >> she chose to be a nanny, a woman who lived with feamed and helped bring up -- families and helped bring up their children. she never married and didn't socialize with people. she had a box brownie camera. this is where the mystery begins
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because we don't know anything about how she may have been so informed. where did her eye and her mind about photography come from? there's no records of her having studied with anyone. obviously, this is such an interesting part of the story. she never shared her photographs with anyone. she had a great eye to see the pictures she had great timing, when to snap the shutter. she had a restlessness about photography. and what i mean is that she was constantly searching for agood photograph. she loved what happens when she photographed through glass and reflecting back. and what was going on on the other side of it. that's real evident in this particular photograph where there's so much going on. i think that's a fabulous photograph. i would hang that photograph in my house in a second. because it just -- it's so amazing, it has the light on the hand, you don't know where it's
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coming from and it's so prevalent and strong, and creates almost a dream like quality. it's so, as i say, unusual and so beautiful and evocative to see the light and what it's creating in this picture. and again you have to give her so much credit as a photographer to notice these things and so quickly and pull out the camera and make the picture. so here we have this in color. it's fascinating to see the dress in its redness and it is more evocative of that period because of it. but what makes the photograph great is really the gestural quality of the hands behind the back. extraordinary large quantity of really fine photographs. and she was a great photographer. but should we say that she was one of the greatest who ever lived? i'm not so hurry. i think time will tell. we'll have to live with her for another ten or 20 years and we'll see how it shakes out.
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