across campus, a capitol think say of the weight they carry as survivors of campus sex assault. columbia junior says she has been assaulted twice. it's not easy for her to tell her story or forget the pain.

>> what i need to heal, that's hard to do. when your school allows your rapist to be on campus. hard to heal, hard to move forward. so i would say time. >> time and a commitment to making a difference. speaking out to keep others safe. >> some don't realize that someone they know might be a rapist. their vision of rape and sexual assault is more of the common, alley and someone abduct them. they don't realize their fellow students are rapist. >> over the last two years more women have come forward seeking justice. sex swawlt assaults are up twint

america's universities. >> it is part of a bigger conversation on sexual assault across campuses. >> the d.a. in be rebecca's case is reconsidering his decision not prosecute. the school committed to do the right thing. >> we sit down with each survivor, each viment an -- vicm and discuss the appropriate consequences in each case. >> but in rebecca's case she feels betrayed by the system and feels that other victims might be betrayed.

>> rapes aren't always in back back -- alleys, it happens by people you lo of and trust. >> just days after we visited, rebecca's fears were realized. kaitlin flannagan spent a year investigating, the dark power of fraternities was published in the atlantic. kaitlin, you say there's evidence of the volume of sex crimes in universities in the claims made against them. >> we do know that of all kinds of insurance claims made against fraternities each year, the

number 2 kind of claim is for sexual assault, far more than hazing, which we fell was the most important source of injuries at universities. but overwhelming number of students coming forward saying, i was sexually assaulted. >> that rape cultural has actually been established within the greek system? >> you know, when you go on, you don't have these kinds of problems. but every single campus in america that has a greek system has at least one fraternity house about which everyone on campus, right up to the president of the university or college knows is a really bad operator. and on that kind of a chapter you absolutely have what

unambiguously planned parties and events women have actual sexual acts committed against them. the very slow process by which universities and national organizations will cut those fraternities off is part of the problem and i think it's rising to a level of a scandal in higher education right now. >> i'm curious because i hear from these women in the course of our reporting, there is often a sense that they don't even really recognize at first that what is happening against them is rape. do the young men necessarily view what they have done as rape, or maybe something of an entitlement? >> i think this is part of a broader conversation we're all having as a nation and partly it becomes generational. in my generation, we wouldn't have thought to call it rape,

and the expanded definition of rape is a very controversial issue for some people. i know when it comes to young women at fraternity houses, there will be people who say, what was she thinking of going to that fraternity house? she knows what goes on at the fraternities. there are active presence on campus. they're not just on houses off campus. they are promoted to the student union, here's the cafeteria, here's ten tables of greek organizations, presenting themselves, their college thinks it's a place for them to conduct their social lives, given the fact they do have what i call a rape culture within them.

>> thank you, kate flannagan, her investigation into the dark power of fraternities. next time on "america tonight": his view of sex crimes on campus. >> shi was confused. she looked at me and set, i'm sorry, i freaked out, it was just a misunderstanding. >> the grand jury said there was no rape, but often campus the accusation stuck and ruined his dream. our christof putzel with the story of how the universities responded, his story, tomorrow on "america tonight." next up this hour. missing in mexico. gruesome discoveries, now a new wave of protesters from the

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talk to al jazeera, only on al jazeera america >> there is shock, anguish and anger in mexico where authorities say they believe dozens of college students went missing six weeks ago and were dead. their bodies burned in a mass grave. government buildings have been fire bombed, even the national palace where the president maintained an office was ataik attacked. >> these are the faces that have inspired outrage. the faces much 43 miss -- of 43 missing students, their disappearance a potent reminder that mexico's drug war has not abated.

far from the screams of anger, scenes of sadness. magdalene oliveras cannot make sense of her son's disappearance. the government made their confession but she can't understand until the government has made their identification of the remains. this is where 20-year-old antonio studied slept and dreamed of a better life as a teacher. as she cares for youngest of her four boys, she can't stop thinking where her oldest might be. she has yet to tell his brothers

that antonio is missing. life is not as normal at the school. classes are cancelled, families are in limbo, they wait for developing news. images of the missing are everywhere. organizers tell them what action will be taken. and where they will demonstrate next. among them are survivors of the attack, like er ernesto guerrer.

>> at this teacher's college, they follow a leftist tradition. the night they disappeared, they were march honoring mexico's worst massacre, that of an estimated hundreds of students. the normalistas as they're known have long been a thorn in the side of authority. but on that friday night, their action was met with unexpected force. police and mass gunmen opened fire on the buses. six people were killed, many of the students fled, and the 43 were forced into police vehicles. according to the attorney general, they were handed over to the group, at a recent press

conference he showed video of the students reenacting the crimes. this is igualla, the town where the tragedy happened. it looks like a normal city and is known by mexicans as the birth place of the country's flag. now it is known for something else. this is fraught with danger.

you realize people are afraid they don't want to talk and they don't know who to trust. and when they do speak out they say they could be targeted. they say no one is immune from the threat of kidnapping. most of those taken, never returned. the guerreros unidos were allegedly in league with the mayor and his wife. ordered the attack on the normalistas, finally under arrest he's joined dozens in custody. he's become a symbol where not only the politicians are turning a blind eye to crime they've become the criminals themselves. in a town struggling to come to terms with its now open secrets

the people just -- >> adam ready? >> hello, hi joie. >> i'm not exposed to as much as you are going on. >> so tell me what you want to talk about, what can i ask you about? >> you know, i think what would be interesting for viewers and the u.s. especially is why is this case becoming such suffered years of violence, why now, why are they filling the streets on a daily level. why you know -- why are they unsatisfied with their

government's response at this point. >> okay -- >> so far, the deposit says none of the bodies match those of the students. will they ever be identified? 30,000 is missing in mexico and many believe the government would prefer to leave it dead in the ground. these are some of the first graifers discovered outside of igualla, some say this is the place they've used for years to dump bodies.

i asked a federal policeman on duty if he had heard the same stories. that this had always been a place where cartels bury their victims. now police won't let us go any further beyond this point but some of the graves found here outside of igualla are two kilometers up this road. and locals tell us at any time day or night through years, they would see cars go up the hill, full and when they came down they would be pretty much empty. this man sleeps on a dirt poor. hfloor.he would rather do so the

part of the gangs. many with few prospects do take the offer but he couldn't be one of them. two of his nephews have been missing for years. he writes poems to deal with the lateslatest deaths. >> the fate of the students is still unknown. their parents unwilling to consider the real possibility

that they were indeed surprised by death that night. more than amonth after their disappearance, finally, the mexican president granted them an audience. he is yet to travel to guerrero but it was a sign for this very telegenic president, hailed by the media that he was the savior of the country. after the broadcast of the news that the students were missing.

>> magdalene ah oliveras is not satisfied. her community has been turned upside down. in mexico, clarity sometimes never comes. just what happens that night in igwalla is still unclear. it may alls be despite almost daily protests on the streets. for now, the only decision she can make is, when she can tell her son's siblings that he will never be able to come home. >> adam rainey joishes us. why this time has it caused so

much rage in the communities? >> well, joie, to begin with these are students all between ages of about 18 and 22. their faces are plastered everywhere in this country. and it's reality inspired outrage because people see them as utterly innocent, despite the fact that these schools where they studied had a leftist and confrontation tradition, it's just infuriating to this country that has as you said seen so much violence and ton top of that, the federal government even though it's giving nearly daily press conferences, didn't come to this case right away, only when guerrero state, a state racked with corruption,

the country here is just fed up. they want to live in a place where they can rely on the government providing the most basic blanket of security and they say they just cannot hold their government account to provide that for them at this time. >> al jazeera's adam rainey reporting from mexico city, thanks. call it what you want. how cold will it get and is this a first alert for a miserable winter ahead? later in the program when natural disaster struck, one year after supertyphoon ravaged the eastern philippines, why the country's most vulnerable find themselves victimized yet again.

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at a train station in tel aviv. also on the weather, the winter weather, the official start of winter still six weeks away. but the first cold snap of the season is bringing snow, plunging temperatures and big travel blues. pucialg south from canada and heading across the country, parts of the north under its grips. as much as two feet of snow is forecast for the region as well as subzero temperatures. dozens of flights have been cancelled at minneapolis st. paul and as the storm moves east, not just minnesota, some 7 million people are underwinter storm warnings, what we can all expect here is meteorologist

cenkevin corriveau. fx. >> joie, tonight it's going to be that snow from dakotas, wisconsin and also the upper peninsula of michigan you can see there. in that particular region we do expect to see anywhere from 18 to 22 inches of snow. earlier today we did see in parts of minneapolis already a foot of snow did fall during the day. for the twin cities airport, three hour arrival delays. that will continue. as you can see, the snow is all the way to the dakotas, we'll see the temperature moving through. a lot of that arctic air coming down from the north, current temperatures right now minneapolis you are sitting here at 29°, rapid city at 9, gusty winds out there what that's

doing is bringing those wind chills down way across the region. right now or the next hour we're going to be seeing rapid city at minus 14°. as we go tonight, how about minus 20 there and as we go through rest of the day we're going to see those temperatures slightly come up in terms of wind chill but it's going to be extremely cold and extremely dangerous. down towards the south we'll see those cooler temperatures all the way into minneapolis. normally their high is 45. we're talking the air mass will pri the temperatures down anywhere from 20 to 25° lower than we would normally see. we expect that snow to phase outs as we go towards wednesday but looking these temperatures on tuesday. on wednesday morning we're going to be seeing minus 5, billings really low.

back to you. >> in the days the supertyphoon huyan swept through, remarkably improved are what we saw when "america tonight" arrived there a year ago. but there is enormous frustration about the pace of rebuilding. the prime minister benino aquino was burned in effigy. more than 14,000 in tacloban do not have shelter. this is what we saw. community after community, in the eastern pasaias flattened.

by the typhoon. the destruction so complete it is hard to know exactly how many died but it was well over 6,000 with hundreds more never accounted for. full families just disappeared into the sea. >> we lost everything in the typhoon. >> glen reale and his family are among many still living in ten tents. hot fragile environment. >> translator: it's dangerous to live here especially since all my family are navel. >> sharp spikes in sexual sloinls, 14-year-old daughter barely escaped being raped by a family friend. >> it was dark and when i refused to go inside of the tent he grand my arms and held me

like this. i struggled against him and i as was able to break free and run away. >> 13-year-old esther lee gaspar was victimized right outside her family's home. >> translator: i went out of the house after midnight to use the toilet. i had just taken a few steps out of the door when i saw a man. he quickly put his hand over my mouth and after that i became unconscious. >> she woke up in a field, one man on top of her, another nearby, somehow she got away. >> i saw a place where i could hide so i jumped in there and i hid myself in there. >> her mother found the terrified girl hiding behind their house. >> sleepers, it's sunday she's very dirty, wet, with urine and

she was shaking. >> her mother said they have yet to send anyone to investigate. >> i went to lay my hands on there. there's no justice, past justi justice. >> for me, getting worse. so we have plenty of cases coming in. >> merla arma is a social worker for abused girls. she says the number of girls at the shelter has doubled after huyan. >> it was my uncle. it was in the garden. i told my sister. she told a classmate who told a teacher and a social worker brought me here. >> since the assault the girl

has withdrawn. irma wants to get her more help but the staff is limited. >> they have referred her for psychological evaluation. i'm the only one for the group so i need that social worker. >> similar spikes of gender based violence against women and children in the wake of huyan. but the country is horribly behind. >> five years, three years to get the decision. >> isra is trying to move on with her life right now but with her attackers still roaming free, she rarely leaves home except to go to church.

>> my hurt becomes faster. >> and she has little hope the police will make her attackers pay for what they did. >> they don't care about what happened to me. >> when we return: women work, the microeconomics of a simple project and how it is changing lives in architecture, one deed at a time.

federal authorities have charged seven people with conspiring with al qaeda. >> since 9/11 the us has spent has spent billions of dollars on domestic counter-terrorism operations. >> i wanted to be in on the big game and to be paid top-dollar for it. that's it. >> many of these involved targeted informant led stings. >> to them, everyone in the muslim community is a potential informant or a potential terrorist.

>> we hear so much from africa that focuses on people, the mercy of hardships. there are also those stories about hope and those who make their own opportunities. from uganda, "america tonight's" special look at women trading their way out of poverty. ♪ >> in uganda there are many kinds of people.

more than poor. but even though most are poor, poorest of the poor, live in one room shan'ties, barely living on pennys a day. i'm one of those. we all have dreams of a better life. but is it really possible to ever escape poverty? through hard work and determination i have managed to succeed. today i'm helping to make a difference working with uganda's poorest of the poor. women, mostly, women who live on less than $1 a day. women who have experienced hunger, disease, and all that

comes with that. this is a ten year old organization that works with ugandan women to empower them economically. women who come in and earn income, through bead making, when the women come into our programs, they are living on $1 a day. they have absolutely no disposable income. once they start selling once they have a little bit of cash in their hands it is their responsibility to purchase their supplies in the local market and this has a dual effect. one is it starts helping them to run a business, it is their eventually goal to start their own business, you can graduate

from bead for life and support your family in the future. >> sometimes, we can get this from the training we attain. >> but we are limited by the number of people we can serve in these programs. so a couple of years ago, we launched our street business school and the issue is, the way we work with women in what we've developed our product based programs and taking those to women, who have a desire to start a business. >> we are going to see what kind of businesses we can do from. >> or maybe have a tiny tiny little business they can grow. the street business is asking the women to invest their time and energy in learning and getting coached to grow their business in a way that makes them more sustainable. >> my role today will be to guide them to see that each of them looks into themselves to see that the business that they're doing is it viable? will it be sustainable?

what is the competition? is there enough demand, does the business have a possibility for growth in the area where they're located? if not this is the time for them to be about to change, because many of them already have a small business but they may not have thought about these things. this is their chance to think about these things. they are able to stand alone and they don't need to depend so much on their husbands to provide for them. so these women are more empowered and this is something that is going to be in their life for along time to come. she knows what to do. she knows like the quality. she knows it's important to bring good quality. >> what we do is we teach women how to be competitive in those markets. if there are five people selling produce, how do you have the best stand? how do you keep your customers coming back? these ideas around marketing and

customer service are really critical. there are things that women have never thought about or never learned. but it can give them an edge on having a really creative business that provides great value to the communities and sustains them. >> over there there are many vegetable stalls, as you can see they are not busy. no one is even walking there. maybe the owner is sleeping, waiting for the customers to come, or they're all running to her. if you take care of your customers they're come back for more and more and more. if not that is what will happen. >> this is a kitchen where she cooks her meals but this is a lot better than her former house. this is mary naega, mother of four. she is one of, she has a house, has goats and pigs and really done quite well. she's very happy because she is

not poor anymore. >> she's saying that she sees everything is here now. she just couldn't believe that before life was many of those organization he that maybe just say what they want to do and they don't do it. but she is saying this is all evidence of what she's done through this program. edith is one of the successful members of the business school. she is about to change her life drastically after having undergone this training. currently she is able to make over 60,000 beads and has start ed another business. this is a job that is basically a man's job but the very bad

situation in which she was forced her to engage herself in this work. she's not so shy anymore, after that training. she's confident in her work. she will not hide from the fellow women who come to see her do this work.. work.she does it very confidently now. >> it's always been our philosophy that business was the way to help women out of poverty. and what we really do is we create an opportunity for those women to create the lives that they want. >> that statement whether one can escape poverty i think yes,. i know this for a fact. >> she says there is nothing that is impossible.

great message and more opportunity. hundreds of those women in uganda are now working to create a market for shea nuts. that's used for moisturizer. we'll see how they're doing. a number mission, using art to honor finally heroes.

>> ahead of veterans day when we honor the sacrifice of so many who have given so much. as we end this hour, a salute, and gift to their families and he has given away thousands of them. al jazeera allen schauffler found these extraordinary tributes in edmonds, washington. >> ten hours a day michael reagan draws.

>> as much as i'll be drawing them. i draw dead soldiers every day. men and women, old, young. >> back from vietnam where as a marine core rifleman he saw so much. >> he looked me in the face and said mike, i just want to go home and he closed his eyes and died. but i remember those eyes every day. when i start those portraits i see those eyes. >> on this day, marine corporal 10 looking back at him. whoever wants one gets one, no military family pays a sent. one day, a marine wife, wanted hymn to draw her husband, killed in iraq. >> i've done over 3500 of these. >> simple lines that add up to

complex images and demand answers of the artist. >> why are you here? why am i here? i think i'm here to do this wo work. >> every portrait is sent to recipients with a personal letter from reagan, who thanks them for allowing him to share their loss and ease their pain. we brought this portrait to corporal 10's girlfriend. >> amy, we have a delivery from michael reagan. >> thank you. >> and amy frost can once again look into fefn' fenn's eyes. >> this is a broken heart, there's nothing i can do to fix that but i can help to effectively that. >> you want to get as many as you can.

this will help a lot. >> and even though he draws war dead, he insists his art is not a statement about war or death. it's an acknowledgment of loss and service, a mission and a calling. >> i didn't have a choice. i don't think i'm the one drawing at the table. it's my hands. i'm never alone down here, even though i may be by myself. >> so many finished, so many left to do. >> until someone has to draw my portrait. >> allen schauffler, al jazeera. >> and that's "america tonight." remember if you want to comment on any of the stories on our program, join us on facebook. we'll have more of "america tonight" coming up tomorrow. the

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