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we begin with a change coming to the u.s. department of the veterans affairs. this morning one day before veterans day, robert mcdonald unveiled the largest restructuring in the department's history. at least 35 people face disciplinary action with as many as 1,000 to follow. it comes after a nationwide scandal last summer over veterans waiting months for health care and employees falsifying dat to cover up the problem. jamie. >> reporter: when bob mcdonald and picked to clean up the mess, he knew he had his work cut out for him. he had no medical experience, but as the retired chief executive of procter & gamble, he knows how to run a big organization. now after three months on the job he's ready to act.

as the nation prepares to observe veterans day, the new head is laying out an ambitious plan to rebuild trust while improving va hospitals and clinics around the country. >> right now the department of veterans affairs has before it perhaps the greatest opportunity to enharass care for veterans in its history. >> reporter: the va has been realing from revelations of overwhelmed hospitals and secret wait lists, which infuriated members of congress and veterans alike. bob wheeler who worked at the va spoke to al jazeera earlier this year. >> as aformer employee and veteran, i believe that any waiting list, especially hidden and secret is a travesty. there's no excuse for it to happen. >> seeking to send a message of accountability, he's discharging 35 officials and targeting another 1 # -- 1,000 for possible firing. >> we're taking disciplinary

action. >> reporter: the problems are far deeper than a few bad apples. critics say it's underfunded and ill-equipped to handle the flood of service members from iraq and afghanistan as well as the aging population of vietnam and world war ii vets. it serves more than 2 million vet up -- veterans nationwide and it has to do a better job. >> we want them to think of our department as embracing them, giving them a warm hug and a place to go to get the care they need and a department totally veteran centric. >> reporter: it calls for hires 28,000 people more doctors and nurses and medical staff creating a customer service department with its own chief, simplifying access and modeling some services on private care. secretary mcdonald says he was incensed when he read an inspector general's report detailing phony wait lists that

made it seem veterans were getting timely care when, in fact, they were not. he's a veteran himself, a graduate of west point and he's given himself a year to turn the situation around. david. >> jamie, what kind of reaction has there been to the restructuring plan today? >> reporter: well, both the chairman of the senate and house veterans affairs committee have weighed in. bernie sanders, who is the independent on the senate side, has been very supportive. he says, though, that the problem is that they need more resources, and he's applauding the move to hire more doctors and nurses. on the house side, though, jeff miller from florida says he's upset that the obama administration hasn't taken more advantage of some of the extra powers congress gave them to fire some of these officials right away. secretary mcdonald says there is a process that he has to go through before he can get rid of people that he doesn't think are doing their job. >> jamie mcintyre at the white house. great reporting and terrific to see you on al jazeera america.

thank you. >> thank you, david. the obama administration said today it expects between 9 million and 10 million people to gain coverage through the affordable care act next year. that's fewer than the 13 million predicted by the congressional budget office. this comes as the health care law faces increasing scrutiny from the incoming congress and from the supreme court. lisa stark has more now from washington. >> reporter: this is the first time the administration has ventured an estimate about how many people will sign up under the affordable care act for 2015. the congressional budget office had its own estimate of about 13 million enrollees. the estimate from health and human services much lower, about 9.9 million, although that's still more than the proximate 7 million enrollees this year. the congressional budget office based its number on a three-years phase-in for obamacare figuring the numbers would be 25 million after three years. hhs is saying, no, it's a much longer phase. in four to five years, and

that's why its numbers are lower. the open enrollment period does begin this saturday, and health and human services secretary sylvia burwe will says consumers will find a streamlined application. >> the consumer has a better interaction. things are simpler, faster and more intuitive. >> reporter: the republican congressional leadership has promised to try to repeal obamacare or at least peel back some of the parts of the law. meanwhile, the supreme court has agreed to hear a case about a key part of this law, federal subsidies that allow many people to afford the premiums for insurance under the affordable care act. the court is going to decide if those subsidies are legal. in the meantime, health and human services trying to keep the focus not on the numbers but on individuals. the individual stories of those who can now get health care when in the past they could not. >> lisa stark reporting from washington. a doctor being treated for

ebola in new york city will get out of the hospital tomorrow. officials at new york health and hospitals corporation says that dr. craig spencer is now free of the virus and poses no threat to public health. dr. spencer was admitted to bellevue on october 23rd when he developed a fever. a couple days earlier he returned to the united states after treating ebola patients in guinea. his fiancee is under quarantine in harlem. in israel a palestinian man was shot today after stabbing three israeli sit sfwlcitizens. one of the victims, an israeli woman died from her wounds. it took place near the occupied west bank. earlier in the day near tel aviv there was a separate stabbing attack that killed an israeli soldier. prime minister netanyahu called it terrorism and warned the government will respond. >> translator: we're act decisively against the yi yoters. those who protest against israel

in favorite of palestinian state i say to them, simply move there to the palestinian authority's areas or to gaza. i promise you that the state of israel will not make it difficult for you, but for those who stay, we'll make it difficult for you if you're a rioter or terrorist. i've directed to deploy all the tools at our disposal to the full extent of the law. we will not tolerate this kind of disturbance. >> the stabbings are the latest in a string of attacks. tensions between israelis and palestinians have been hatcheted higher in recent weeks over religious laws in jerusalem. nick shifrin is there with the latest. >> reporter: this is the scene of the attack that happened a short while ago. you can see behind me the israeli police investigating the very spot where the attack took place scrubbing the ground, looking for blood, looking for any evidence. what israeli police say happened right behind me is that a

palestinian man drove up here, got out of his car, and stabbed three israeli civilians. at least one of those civilians lives up this road. that is a jewish settlement much considers illegal, this is the occupied west bank. it's very tense and violent over the last few months. in fact, about 150 feet that way or so this summer, three israeli teenagers were abducted and found murdered, and that has led the local council to call for blood. >> if you're martyr, we'll kill you. if you're a terrorist, we'll put you in jail and you won't get out. your family will have to move away from israel, et cetera, et cetera. we have to make them afraid from us and not the opposite. >> reporter: the violence hasn't been defined only to here. just a few hours ago an attack similar in tel aviv. a palestinian man went up to an israeli soldier and stabbed him as he waited for a train. over the last three to four days, there have been massive

demonstrations by israeli-palestinians in northern israel. there was an incident caught on tape. an israeli palestinian going up to an israel where i policeman and knocking on the door with a knife in his hand, but when the door opened, that man started to retreat and that's when israeli police shot and killed him. that has caused huge demonstrations throughout northern israel. now, in response israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu has suggested an iron fist. anyone protesting the israeli government should, quote, move to the west bank or gaza. these are lone wolf attacks. nobody believes that this is some kind of terror campaign dictated from the top, and so they are very difficult to stop. israeli government has tried to increase the penalties for anyone protesting or anyone committing violence. for example, anyone throwing stones at police could be sentenced up to 20 years in prison. the increase fines are quite the opposite. they're higher than in years,

and both sides are fearful right now there's nothing stopping the violence and it only will get worse. >> nick shifrin reporting from israel. in nigeria there was a sue sawed bombing at an boys school and it killed 50 people. it happened in yobi state, one of the three regions targeted by boko haram. approximately 2,000 students had gathered for an assembly when the bomber set off his explosives. nobody has claimed responsibility, but which is one of the worst attacks on western-style schools there in years. protests have erupted across mexico over the 43 missing students suspected to have been murdered by a drug gang. officials say riot police in acapulco have been injured in the latest clashes. add tam rainy reports from mexico city. >> reporter: protesters in acapulco, the latest of nearly daily demonstrations across mexico. confrontations followed, blood was spilled.

some protesters are getting more brazen, provoking authorities like these in acapulco. if guerrero state where the students were first attacked and abducted, angry dmron straighters have repeatedly fire-bombed cars and attacked government buildings. so protesters have even attacked some of the most sacred symbols of national power. here at the palace, a handful of protesters set the door on fire and tried to break it down. the mass movement taking shape in mexico is a largely peaceful one. it shows an enraged nation when calling out for justice. one tired of the fact that 30,000 went missing in a raging drug war. daniel moreno in the leading news sites. >> translator: the people are asking for a major change. what they achieve is difficult

to say. every time people speak out, the political class tried to shrink the movement and divide public opinion. >> reporter: today he says is different. perhaps the tragedy has awoken mexico. for now the families of the 43 students and those of thousands of other disappeared still seek justice in a country where that alludes so many. adam rainy, al jazeera, mexico city. the parents of michael brown killed by a ferguson, missouri police officer are seeking help from the united nations. brown's parents are in switzerland presenting their case and arguing that the killing of their teenage son meets of u.n. standard of torture. the united nations defines torture as severe pain or officering inflicted by public officials and based on discrimination of any kind. back in missouri there's month protests the community waits for a decision from the grand jury. the panel has been hearing

evidence against the officer who shot brown and will decide perhaps soon if criminal charges are warranted. that grand jury decision could come at any time. iraq's army says it's made a break through in cutting into isil's illegal oil profits. iraqi forces have reached the center of the northern town that's home to iraq's largest oil fields and has been under isil control since june. we have more on iraq's counteroffensive in this exclusive report. >> reporter: just a day ago, isil was said to be firmly in control. today the graffiti tells the story. the flag used by the group has been covered in an iraqi security force slogan as the army takes large parts of the town from isil fighting. the taking of the town and nearby oil refinery was an early victory for isil in june. once again, this victory is seen a tribe for the iraqi army and

the squad fighting alongside them. >> translator: let all the young men join the armed forces. let them come here and join arms with their brothers to defend the country and expel isil. if we don't act now, isil will sweep us. we have to give big support to the youth to join the fight against isil. it is considered the breaking point for isil's advance towards baghdad. >> reporter: fighting continues, though, for the rest of the town. very early on isil established baji as a command and control center for all the territory it controlled inside iraq, but it wasn't just about military strategy. it was also about business acumen. from here they control the lucrative oil smuggling operation which netted them millions of dollars. iraqi security forces used helicopters to push isil fighters from the center of the town when they entered from the south and the west.

the oil refinery is now the next big target. located about 15 kilometers away, isil fighters remain in control of parts of the facility, but they're cut off from the town itself and are voundzed by iraqi forces. back in the united states there's new evidence today that general motors knew about problems with ignition switches for months before telling anybody. the detects have been linked to at least 30 deaths. we have the report. >> reporter: "the wall street journal" got ahold of e-mail exchanges between general motors and delphi. in the report it shows that a gm worker placed an order for over 500,000 replacement switches back in december 2013. this came after a meeting with senior officials. what's troubling is that it was a couple months later earlier this year when general motors issued a massive ignition switch recall, and we eventually learned that general motor was

aware of this problem, knew about it for over a decade but did nothing about it. the problem is that the ignition switch can slip into the off position, and when this happens, a number of features can become deactivated including the air bags. a number of deaths and accidents have been attributed to this defect. earlier today we heard from general motors, who released a statement saying these e-mails are further confirmation that our system needed reform, and we have done so. we have reorganized our entire safety investigation and decision process and have more investigators move issues more quickly and make decisions with better data. now, people simply right now aren't bringing these vehicles in to get repaired. if they have these vehicles, a number of these cars are still out here on the road. as an incentive, general motors is offering $25 gift cards to places such as appleby's and walmart just to get people in

their doors. i'm told that the automaker has been in talks with the government trying to find ways to get people to get their car fixed if they have these vehicles. earlier we spoke with robert hilliard who is an attorney for crash victims, and he disclosed the gm ignition order. we asked what he thought of the latest evidence against general motors and its new ceo. >> well, she was vice president of purchasing and supplies, and they did purchase 500,000 supply parts under her watch. it was an unbudgeted amount. that means they had to go find $3 million unexpectedly to pay for the parts. it simply stretches the imagination to think that the vice president of purchasing and supplies was not in the loop on that. keep in mind that if you give her the benefit of the doubt, if you say that she did not know,

why didn't she at least be honest with congress and the senate and tell them, look, i didn't know about it, but you need to understand that we purchased 500,000 parts without telling the national highway and traffic safety administration for 57 days. we didn't tell our customers for 117 days. >> do you believe that the ceo lied to congress? >> i believe she should be brought back to explain a clear omission. you know, in the law an omission of a necessary and fundamental fact can be considered a lie. you don't have affirmatively misrepresent something. if you leave something out that is fundamental to the truth of the story, you may in trouble. she left out the most explosive piece evidence to date, and the only way we found out about it is i was able to get the

confidential designation removed so that news agencies could see that she didn't tell congress and evening more surprisingly it's not even mentioned in the 380-page lucas report that gms said was independent, thorough and complete. it's mind-boggling. >> the ceo has tried to go a long way to placate victims and gm customers. you represent victims of gm crashes. how are they reacting to the latest evidence? >> they've reached just a level of anger and sadness. first, they had to deal with the fact that gm hid this problem for ten full years. then i have some clients who literally were in -- they were actually involved in accidents, and one individual passed away after the parts were ordered but before gm notified its customers. what i can't understand is on the day they ordered the parts, why didn't they contact xhirs and say, take off the keys off your key chain.

until we get a new part to you as a safety measure, please take all the keys off your key chains. instead, they covered their own financial self-interest and were silent to their own customers who made money to drive gm cars for 117 days and people were injured and some died. >> robert hilliard is a lawyer representing gm crash victims. coming up on al jazeera america, high-level negotiations that could have a huge impact on america's economy and most people have never heard about the talks. "real money's" ali velshi explains the trans pacific partnership and why it could be so important.

world leaders are gathered in beijing for the asia-pacific economic cooperation summit known as apec.

one of the main topics of discussion is the transpacific partnership agreement. president obama is pushing the talks. ali, tell us about the transpacific partnership. who would be included, and what are the goals of the deal? >> you don't have to pretend to be as interested as you sound on that one. come on! asia-pacific economic. if not for this other thing, this trans pacific partnership, it would be less interesting. here's the thing. the president and all other world leaders are in beijing talking up their relationship with china, how important china is, and then after this whole thing where you see this picture over at the u.s. embassy, the president hosts the leaders of 11 other countries, all of which touch the pacific, talking about expanded trade deals. guess what? china is not involved and not violated to the whole thing. at the same time that the u.s. is trying to increase the relationship and trading an economic relationship with china, it is hedging bets coming

with a transpacific partnership, which would create the largest trading bloc in the world. much bigger than nafta. much bigger than the european union. it would remove trade barriers between the u.s., japan, australia, canada, mexico. china has been left out of this. china doesn't want to be part of this right now. it's a thing where once you build it, china can come. it will be fine. it is playing into the idea that there are growing tensions between the united states and china. >> ali, is it standard protocol not to include china on the talks? >> no, but you know, we kind of spent the last 20 years building the entire trade infrastructure around china to the exclusion of a lot of other places is more to hedge your bets. if china sees fit to fit into this thing, china doesn't do this as much. china may see fit to fit into this later on, and that will

mean making changes. china is making deals with russia and that suits russia just fine as everybody put sanctions on it. china is devising a new maritime silk road, so it will benefit more from trade in south asia and the east coast of africa, central asia, things like that. china is doing its own thing right now. russia and china are doing things, and america is building better relationships with other asian countries. for the moment it's okay. we have to see how it all unfolds. >> what else is comie ine ing u "real money"? >> we're talking about wealth. if you're middle class and close to retirement, this entire economic recovery might work against you. i'll explain why on the show tonight. >> interesting stuff. ali velshi with "real money." the u.s. postal service reports it's become the victim of a hacking attack. postal authorities say that a cyber attack happened in mid-sement and it compromised

information about postal service employees and the social security number. those using the website were not affected. people who call the customer care service may have had their information compromises. they have over 800,000 employees. president obama announced his support for net neutrality in a video message reese released today. they will reclassify internet access as a unilt like power, water and telephone services. the president wants a ban on deals between internet providers and online services such as netflix and amazon to move content faster. those companies want essentially a high-speed lane. net neutrality would say no, everybody has to be treated fairly. the cable industry says the president's comments are a gross overreaction. the new head of the veterans administration announced big changes to the agency today. we will talk with one of the whistle blowers who helped to bring the problems at the va

under focus. also, a former president hints at the possibility of a third bush running for the white house. that's next in today's power politics.

returning to the top story. robert mcdonald unveil the largest restructuring of the department in its history. mctonld out lined the goals. >> we set our sights on three nonnegotiable goals. first is to rebuild trust with vept rans and with stakeholders. second is to improve service delivery focusing on only veteran outcomes. third is to set a course for long-term excellence and reform. >> secretary mcdonald's plan involving hiring 28,000 new

medical professionals for the va, creating a customer service department with its own chief, simplifies access to va programs through a single framework, and modeling some services on the private sector. here to engine us for a deep dive into this brian turner. brian, the secretary has announced the dismissal of 35 employees, and up to 1,000 more. what do you think about it all? >> in other words, more words no actions. this is the same stuff we've been hearing for years. nothing's changed. >> what's changed is you have a new va secretary only on the job for three months. >> three months. been given a lot of power in those three months, and weights been done? nothing's been talk. there's a lot of talk of new things in the future. we're going to continue to push this and that. nothing is actually being done.

until we see words being put into actions, until we see the people be fired that are causing all of these issues, the va is not going to change. >> let's suppose that -- look, i hear you when you say these are just words and plans from the secretary. let's suppose that these plans come to fruition and he hires 28,000 more medical professionals. would that help? >> that would be great. that's just a drop in the bucket. you got to look at 28,000 new professionals. what about the ones exiting now? we're losing providers every day. the problem isn't just getting the 28,000 new providers into the system. it's retaining the ones that we currently have now. finding more office space for them now. let's cut the red tape and get rid of all of this political movement and get these providers in here so they can take care of these veterans. we lose 22 veterans per day to suicide. 22 yesterday, 22 today, and 22 tomorrow will commit suicide. >> what about the customer

service department? i didn't realize the va didn't have its own customer service department and the va had no specific place to call to get help. again, assume that that actually gets put in place. does that help? >> anything is going to help. don't get me wrong when i say that, you know, the ideas are not great. what we need is action. there's a lot of good veterans that are working in this system and civilians have worked there for decades. there's great providers there. there's people giving great care, but yet, there's still a lot of time that i hear from other veterans, 90% of the time they're not seeing a change. none of us see the change we need to see. when we lose this many people to suicide, to lack of proper care, nothing being strategically put in place for us, you know, we have to sit there and say, something has to get done now. don't tell me what's going to

happen ten years from now or what you do down the future. we want to see action as veterans and see it now. >> it will surprise a lot of people that you and other veterans have not seen any changes in terms of in the field. have you seen attitude changes from the people that you deal with at the va? is there anything about the culture that at least has changed since the scandal erupted? >> no. nothing's changing in the va except for that we have a new leader. we have a great leader that's there. i think his intentions are going to be one that we can all inspire to see as a great va employee. the problem is we still have those same people that have been there for years and decades that have done nothing but sour this entire system. you know, they are untouchable. they have the attitude that no one's going to do anything, and they're right. no one has done anything to them all these years. there's no actions being done. no one is looking at criminal

charges right now. these are crimes being committed against our own veterans every day. still today as we speak right now, i guarantee you 100% that i still see issues within the va scheduling that won't be resolved. i've asked them to get resolved, and they're not being down. >> brian, if there's one thing to see to bob mcdonald today and assume he was listening to you, what would it be? >> answer an e-mail we send out to you. the employees on the front line. sir, you claim that you respect us. you claim you respect the whistleblowers that have the courage to stand up and say, we want to take care of veterans and do something right. all we ask is maybe since talking to directors of the facilities where there's issues and instead of talking to people in charge of the medical administration inside it, why don't you talk to the front line people that care? call me. e-mail me, because i've been trying to get ahold of mrs.

sloan and mr. mcdonald, but i'm getting nowhere. i've reached out to them, and no one has reached back. i want to see changes as well as all the other veterans do. let's start listening to the people on the front lines. >> brian turner is an army veteran and whistleblower in antonio. keep us posted if you hear from robert mcdonald or any associates. curious to hear about that. thanks again. one day before same-sex couples would have been allowed to get married in kansas, the supreme court put those marriages on hold. justice sonya societimy oior gaa stay. they ruled they could get married in spite of the state ban. kansas officials ask the u.s. supreme court to extend the ban until all court appeals are exhausted. over 13 months until the first voting in the presidential primaries, and form president

george w. bush is talking up his brother jeb's potential presidential campaign. he spoke about his brother in an interview on cbs muse and provided the odds that jeb will run. >> i think it's 50/50. he and i are very close. on the other hand, he's not here knocking on my door agonizing about the decision. he knows exactly the ramifications on family, for example. he's seen his dad and his brother go through the presidency. i would give it a toss-up. i know this about jeb. he's not afraid to succeed. in other words, i think he knows he can do the job, and nor is he afraid to fail. >> president bush is now promoting "41" a book about his father. bush 41 and bush 43 both launched wars against iraq's

saddam hussein. >> when you say something as president, you better mean it. words mean something. he was very clear at times during his presidency. i thought i was pretty clear at times during my presidency and meant it. sad da saddam hussein didn't believe us. >> data is analyzed by the 2014 elections, but they report that the turnout from the voting eligible population was 36.4%. that's down from the 4 is% turnout in 2010. the turnout percentage this year is the lowest since 1942 whether it stood at 33.9%. many americans could not vote that year because they were busy with that thing known as world war ii. one of the big winners last week was wisconsin governor scott walker. he won re-election and is now considering a 2016 presidential run and he's taking shots already at hillary clinton. >> i think if we're going to beat hillary clinton the next election, we have to have a

message that is hillary clinton is all about washington. i think in many ways she was the big loser on tuesday because she embodies everything wrong with washington. we offer a fresh approach. any of us, no 31 governors across the country have the executive experience outside of washington to provide a much better alternative. >> hinting at a 2016 run, walker said that governors make better presidents than members of congress. there are still a few congressional races that remain unresolved. in louisiana democratic incumbent senator mary landrieu is facing a december runoff election against bill cassidy. landrieu's campaign is hitting cassidy with this. >> on may 31st bill cassidy gave a speech that was nearly incoherent. >> senatbut his record is cryst clear to cut medicare to pay for a tax break for millionaires

like him. >> incoherent is a stuff charge. cassidy ran an ad about his record on energy policies. >> in louisiana we know energy creates better jobs and better benefits, and in congress i have fought to expand oil and gas exploration and the jobs it brings. i oppose barack obama moratorium. his climate czar and his regulations. >> finally, let's end in iowa where the caucuses, of course, are the first voting in 2016. avery brawl leaves in the state and she's 3 years old and infatuated with vice president joe biden. >> joe biden? >> joe biden. >> why? >> i just do. >> the little girl said that she saw biden on television and asked her parents who it was and for several months had a serious of pretend phone conversations with the vice president. we asked the vice president about avery, and out of the blue she got a phone call from biden himself. >> he said, this is joe biden,

and i said who the is this? when he said no, really, it's joe biden. i said, i am so sorry. i'm so sorry i said that to you. >> the vice president said he saw the note and thought he would call. he and avery's grandmother spoke for five minutes about family. biden told stories about his grandchildren. expect another phone call to that iowa family a year from now before the iowa caucuses. that's today's power politics. let's check on other news around america with morgan rat ford. what do you have? >> a lot going on across the country. in los angeles sheriff's deputies located 15 hikers reported missing last night. they were part of a church group that went hiking and they got lost and were forced to spend the night in the mountains. they were able to send texts to relatives asking for help, and the sheriff's deputies did find them this morning.

in massachusetts prosecutors say a rape suspect actually cut off his ankle bracelet and went on a crime spree. prosecutors say after gregory lewis was charged with the rape of a 13-year-old, he cut off the court-ordered monitors device and took off. he was caught in new york after police say he committed other crimes all across the country. now prosecutors are asking a judge to completely deny the bail. there could be a shift in policy right here in new york city. "the new york times" reports that the nypd is considering not arresting people for possessing small amounts of pot but instead issuing tickets. it would represent a major shift in policing here, david. finally, the wisconsin man who stole a $5 million violin has been sentenced to seven years in prison. he attacked a musician with a stun gun after a performance in milwaukee and snatched that 300-year-old violin.

court documents say the robber actually told a friend that stealing the instrument was his dream crime. police found the violin nine days later in the home of one of his friends and thankfully it was in good condition. i cannot imagine calling that a dream crime. why can't he have simpler dreams like hearing from vice president joe biden and little avery. >> can you imagine have that violin worth so much money and beat you up and take it. >> and then leave it at a friend's house. the winter is more than a month away, and millions of americans are already bracing for an arctic blast. more than a foot of snow fell in parts of central minnesota, and it's not unusual for minnesota to get snow this time of year, but this much snow this early in the season is quite rare. a strong winter storm amoving across much of the country and will bring bitter temperatures by the middle of next week. we have more on the cold temperatures headed or way. >> the temperatures are dropping right now as we speak. the cold front is moving through

and this is it right here. 16 inches of snow just to the west of the minneapolis. now, we saw over three-hour delays at the airport and we saw over 390 car accidents around minneapolis. the piles of snow are building up. we expect to see up to believe it or not in the upper peninsula of michigan 30 inches of snow in the next coming days. rapid city is at 15 and bismarck at 18. when you factor in the strong winds right behind the system, we are looking at minus temperatures. this is a dangerous situation if you're going outside, you cannot stay outside very long because this is really doing some damage on that exposed skin. >> 30 inches of snow in the upper peninsula of michigan. is that lake-effect snow? >>no, that is not lake-effect snow. that is the snow with this system. >> that's crazy. thanks so much. appreciate it. coming up, many sex crimes on college campuses go unpunished. up next, see what happened when one family and her family tried to fight the system.

some colleges and campuses have failed to report rape. on america tonight we debuted a series about sex crimes on campus. joie chen looks what changed one year from now and later. >> i remember waking up and he was kiting me and before i knew

it he was trying to have sex with me. i tried to push him off, but i was so weak because of how intoxicated i was. it, obviously, wasn't effective and i told him no to to and to not to do it. >> did you know you were being rained? >> no, i don't remember leaving the party. >> one in five women will be sexually assaulted in college. most don't have the courage to do what rebecca did, tell the cops. she's never been able to see the complete police report, but in it, according to rebecca's lawyer who has seen it, the attacker admits having sec with her long after she said no. >> he fully admitted to continuing to have sex with me after i said no. >> we began just to think, you know, really something needs to be done to remove this young man from this campus. >> reporter: they found it the "america tonight" series sex crimes on campus. >> we had seen al jazeera

america's expose last year about the title 9 cases and the young women coming forward. >> it mandates schools that get federal money protect students from sexual assault and fully investigate abuse claims. >> i had never even heard of title 9 before. i was one of those people that thought, it will never happen to me. >> reporter: in the years since the "america tonight" series aired, the number of title 9 complaints filed has more than tripled. right now 90 cases are under investigation at 86 colleges and universities. >> rapes aren't always in back alleys. it happens in the presence of people that you love and trust, which i don't think the general public realizes. >> joie chen joins us live from washington. is there any indication that colleges and universities are doing a better job both in reporting and handling sex crime allegations on campus? >> good evening, david.

you know, there certainly is sort of a chak of perception about how the cases can be handled and should be approached and really a lot of discussion is taking place now that wasn't happening a year ago. we see some progress on that sense. there are also a lot more reports. sex assault reports are up 61% at the top 25 academically ranked universities in america. there's a lot more reporting being done and a lot more young women coming forward and a lot more conversation about all of this. universities are still showing some resistance. in fact, one of the things we notes is they were still quite resistant to talking to us assist reporters and journalists interested in how universities deal with sec crimes on campus. it is obviously still a challenging conversation for them to have, and it's certainly one we have tried to pursue but difficult. >> jo ie, what are other issues you can being at thatle?

>> tonight we have talk about what changed over the last year. tomorrow night we look at the story from his side of things. that is from the viewpoint of the accused. now, in some cases there are plenty of evidence that individuals have been falsely accused, and this can still derail a student's career, an academic career because an accusation might not stick in court but it might stick on campus. there are two sides to the story, and we are going to pursue that tomorrow. on wednesday, david, really, really disturbing information about sex crimes on high school and middle school campuses and how those are dealt with. it is really shocking. some of the young witnesses to this and some of the young victims who have experienced it really stunned and changed forever because of their experience because of at high school and middle school. >> thank you very much. sec cri -- sec crimes on campuse

dee bays later. officials at the ashland are trying to change the way they handle sex crimes called you have options. it's designed to get victims to trust the police. joining us is the ashland police chief. chief, how does your police department handle these cases differently from the way other police officers handle them? >> we differ in three major ways. the first thing we do that's substantial substantially different is having control of the situation. sexual assault is about loss of control by a survivor. in a traditional law enforcement setting we bring them in and tell them they will ask for questions on tour time line and you're doing what we say. under our program we let them tell us what they're ready to do at the time and we proceed with the investigation at a time line that works for them and give them control over when things are done and had people are contacted. >> go ahead.

keep going. >> we also interview all the victims in a trauma informed manner. all of our officers have been trained and the impact of traumatic events on people. we also look for serial perpetration. one of the things we found out when we look at the research is most sexual assaults are done by serial perpetrators, and even when we were arresting people prior to this program, we weren't identifying additional victims. now we're doing that. >> by identifying these serial perpetrators, what kind of results has the approach yielded? >> well, we're making a lot of arrests in cases where we didn't make arrests before. we're making a lot ber cases where we identify multiple victims with one offender. it's no longer just the victim and the offender's word against each other, and most of the time where we identify additional victims, the cases now go to trial. the defense has no place to go other than plea out the cases. >> i appreciate for police officers whether they suspect a rape or sexual assault they want

as much information as possible. is part of the change, though, to convince them you have to let the victims go at their own pace? is that key in this in terms of establishing trust between the victims and the police? >> it's not only letting the victims go at their own pace, but we don't tell the victims what's best for them. traditionally we've always pushed for prosecution. in our program we tell them that it's their decision. we tell them what their options are, but we don't push them to make a decision in one direction or another. we explain the system to them and let them decide. >> how often do they decide that after that sort of discussion to go ahead and prosecute? are there ever cases where you wish they would prosecute but they decided not to? >> yeah, we do have cases that haven't gone forward that we'd like to go forward. right now we don't know. we've been in this program for a couple of years and kicked it off hard in the last year. the people we're working with, sometimes we work with people

for a year or two. ask me in two or three years and we'll have a better idea how many people go forward. we have seen 106% increase in reporting, though, which is a substantial accomplishment. >> it sure is. chief, good luck with the program, and thanks for coming on. >> thank you ifrments co. coming up. nasa is ready to take a big step to test the orion spacecraft. that's next. coming up on "real money," by almost every measure america's economy is turning around. if you're middle class and close to retirement, you could be headed for trouble. what else when wellness programs at work go too far? all that and more on "real money."

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>> this is another significant development... >> we have an exclusive story tonight, and we go live... nasa is getting ready to unveil the space program. the orion space plan will be revealed in a few hours. it's part of a shift for a mission to mars. jake ward has more. >> the orion is a big, bad, bold new exploration vehicle. it can carry six astronauts deeper into space that humanity has gone. it's full of extraordinary new technologies. what's most striking is how much it looks like the system that is brought us to the moon in the 1960s and '70s. it's a crew module on top of the classic configuration.

a sort of huge skyscraper of a rocket balanced next to a tower and launched vertically from the ground. there's an abort launch system, which is a second rocket that sits on top of the crew vehicle. it's the long, pointsy thing on the tip of it. the crew module is a big, dumb, hockey puck at lift-off. it's a can that everybody sits in, so it can't glide back to earth if something goes wrong. the abort launch system is a second rocket to pull them away from the booster if something goes wrong. it would accelerate the crew to more than 11 gs. it will carry those astronauts a mile up and a mile away from the tower of burning propel ant where something is going wrong. the module itself is amazing. it's over 8 tons of habitable environment much bigger than apollo was. it's a place to sleep and eat conduct science for months on end. it has to be roomie and sturdy,

and that's the point of the unmanned launch on december 4th. the idea is to test whether it can survive the rigors of the trip into deep space. it will circle the earth twice over four and a half hours. it's 15 times higher than the international space station. there are a lot of dangers out at that distance from earth. at that height it's twice -- it will go twice through the van allen belt which is an area of intense raid indication to see whether it fries the navigation system or fry the crew through the heat shielding. the real test is re-entry. the capsule will turn around and re-enter the atmosphere and do 25 miles per hour at that point. at that speed the air pushed out of the air creating burning plasma around the capsule. the plasma is so hot it makes communication with the capsule impossible at that point. it will be kind of blind, because no data can pass through the burning layer. then the parachutes deplay in

stages to slow the ship from interstellar speeds from 175 miles per hour to a 20 miles per hour splashdown without jerking the crew so hard it injures them. it's a crazy ride for an unmanned vessel. whether it goes well will determine whether they test the ship with a crew on board in 2020 or later. the timing alone makes this crazy ship truly the next generation of deep space exploration. >> al jazeera's jacob ward, amazing. when you hear the phrase, all you need is love, it's easy to think about the beatles and all you need is $1 million to possibly own this. it's the guitar john lennon used to record the song "paperback writer" in 1966. lennon gave the guitar to his cousin, david bunch, in 1967. so why is burch selling it now

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