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precipitation drugs. ♪ ♪ . this is al jazerra america, live from new york city, i am david shuster. we begin tonight in missouri where governor jay nixon signed an executive order today di declaring a state of emergency and activating the state's national guard. the move comes as a grand jury is expected to decide any day if police officer darren wilson should be indicted in connection with the shooting death of 18-year-old michael brown. jonathan martin joins us now from ferguson, missouri. jonathan, what is the purpose of the state of emergency? >> reporter: good evening, david. in addition to the national guard being action did straighted the state of emergency means st. louis count, city, and police department along with the missouri highway patrol will work together as a unified group.

the mayor was quick to say it it does not mean a militarization of police, it was about law enforcement being prepared for the worst. even though they have no grand jury decision just yet. protests in some places have already started. organizers call this a preview of their plan to his protest if ferguson police officer darren wilson is not indicted. several hundred people rallied in clayton, missouri, promising to shutdown the st. louis suburb if there is no justice. [ chanting ] >> reporter: unlike ferguson, the 15,000 residents of clayton, the statement lewis county seat, are mostly white and effluent. >> clayton is the political hub of the document i it also houses some of the biggest businesses. like the olin corporation which manufactures the bullets, it's significant to be here to remind these people we are not quitting. >> reporter: for more than an hour, the group blocked traffic

and confronted drivers at intersections. some protesters shouted at police officers who mostly stood back and not engaging the crowd. the protesters here say they have little faith officer wilson will be indicted. regardless of the decision they say their message will be nonviolent and focused. >> we have been peaceful for 101 days, these protesters will continue to be peaceful, we are fighting for the press indication of life, so we will never endanger people for the cause. >> this is a systemic issue that goes just beyond this case and we have goals that go i don't understand just this case, so there is no reason for us to just wait for this one decision in order to make our voices heard. >> reporter: the clayton chamber of commerce tells al jazerra it received a warning from clayton official about his the protests. unlike many businesses in ferguson that are now temporarily boarded up in case there is vie excellence, businesses here in clayton remain open.

now the governor's executive order for the state of emergency is in effect for the next 30 days. again, he can extend the executive order depending on when the grand jury comes back with its decision and what actually happens with the protests. david. >> john than martijonathan liven missouri, jonathan, thank you. here a look at now quickly things unfold odd august 9th. at 11:47 a.m. central time that day officer darre darren wilson responded to a 91 call i 911 caa sick barry. ferguson market and liquor store officer search for suspect. at noon officer wilson reports he's done with the sick baby call and is back in service. he asks the first if they need hem. one minute later, wilson en can'ters michael brown and a friend on canfield drive. and 12:02 p.m., after police say brown assaulted wilson, the officer shot and killed michael

brown. joining us now is the brown family attorney, benjamin crump. mr. crump. first of thought thanks for being on al jazerra america. what's your reaction to the governor's announcement today, the sen sham state of emergency, what does it mean to you? >> i think as we have said all along that how enforcement will hopefully do their jobs in a professional sway and have civility. michael brown's parents have asked everybody that comes to missouri to protest that they do so in a peaceful, nonviolent way to express their first amendment constitutional rights to free speech. as long as we have the people who are exercising their free speech acting appropriately. we don't expect the police to act inappropriately because because before they said it was

the protesters causing the problems. but we caught on camera several law enforcement officers doing innininappropriate things. >> last week a pathologist hired by the brown family testified to the grand jury, i wonder if you can give us any indications that that pathologist received about whether or not the grand jury has cool to an end. what is your take on the fining of all of this. >> it is our understand that go the testimony has come to an end and the grand jury process is nearing the end. so we should be getting a decision any time here soon. and we all hope and play that michael brown's family can get due process and get equal justice, just as anyone else in america would be afforded. >> mr. crump, do you know what days this week the grandeurs is a meet something. >> we do not know. traditionally they have met on thursdays. but i understand they left it up to the schedule of the grandeurs ores to decide when they wanted to meet and on you often they wanted to meet to bring this to

an end. >> how did the pathologist describe to you and to the brown family that the interaction that the pathologist had with the grandeurs ors and how involved were the grandeurs ors in terms of asking the questions and leading the discussion? >> unfortunately, david, because of the oath that he took, we can't talk about the substance or the nature of his grand jury testimony. but dr. bodden, you know, had his preliminary autopsy and his thoughts going in to the grand jury proceeding, he's always felt that the forensic evidence was consistent with the witness testimony that was out there that michael brown had his hands up in a surrender position and the police officer kept shooting this unarmed teenage never broad daylight. >> mr. crumbal to be clear as far as i understand grand jury proceedings there is no oath. a witness is not sworn to keep anything quiet, it's the grandeurs ors and the

prosecutors who have to. somebody can go not grand jury and come out and have a press conference on the courthouse steps and recite every question that they were asked, right? >> i am not certain about how missouri law works that issue, but they asked dr. bodden to take an oath not to di divulge e substance of his grants jury testimony. >> that is true, grants jurors do encourage witnesses not to talk about it. do you have a sense, mr. crump, about how you think this will go this week? >> well, historically, police officers are not held accountable when they are engaged in excessive force on people of color in police shootings. so it's going going t to be intg to see what happens in this particular matter. all we know is from the beginning the family has objected to how this process and proceedings were handled by the prosecutor's office. we always felt that it should have been a charge based on probable cause because you had

the witness testimony, you had the evidence, david, but you know, he decided to do it this way and said it was fair to everybody so the question i have, then does that mean that the other 20 some odd year he is did grants juries was unfair to everybody else? because we think why do you move the ball and chains in the groves when it's our children dead on the ground. that just doesn't seem fair to michael braun's family not many people in the ferguson community and a cross country. >> benjamin crump is the brown family attorney. very good of you to join us at al jazerra america, we appreciate it. >> thank you, david. >> you are welcome. reaction is coming in to the beheadings carried out this weekend by islamic state and iraq and levant. abdul rahman kassig's family spoke for the first time today he was captured last year while doing aid work in syria and also a former army ranger.

for more we go to jamie macintyre live in washington. his parents pled for his life a month ago after spending a year in ey silence, tell us what they said today. >> reporter: this is a hard wrenching time for the parents of abdul rahmen case i go who changed his team from peter when he convert today islam. he is a former army ranger who decided to go back and help the syrian people by creating an aid organization. his parents today despite the -- what they have suffered now with his beheading at the hands of isil fighters, still had a message of peace and reconciliation. >> hour hearts are battered, but they will men mend. the world is broken, but it will be healed in the end. and goodwill prevail as the one god of many names will prevail.

>> please pray for abdul rahman, or pete if that's how you know him, at sunset this everything. prealso for all people in syria, in iraq, and around the world that are held against their will. and aftly, please allow our small family the time and privacy to mourn, cry, and, yes, forgive and begin to heal. >> with the been heading of abdul rahmen case i go, there now has been brought to five the number of westerners who have been executed by isil fighters, they still hold a british photo journalist and an american woman, a 26-year-old woman whose name has been withheld because of fears for her safety. this video that was released today was different than the

previous ones, it did not point to a threat to the next victim who might be executed by the fighters. it's hard to know what that means, david. >> jamie, there were other victims in the video posted over the weekend, the 17 minute, 18-minute long video. and also some interesting i guess clips of the perpetrators, the people carrying out these beheadings, any new information on either group? >> reporter: there were more victims than just the american executed. there was a group of men about a dozen bless dressed in blue jumps suits scrike as syrian fighters and pilots, and not all of the fighters were masked. they fight one as a french national today. and there is suspensions that another one might be a british national based on his father's identification of him. they are getting a better idea

about who some of these people are who have taken part in these brutal tactics. >> jamie macintyre in washington, thank you, jamie. iraqis say their counterattack against isil which clouds taking control the beiji now targeting tikrit. but the recapture of these cities is is not as significant as it may sound, hundreds of thousands of iraqis have already fled and in the cities and suburbs the fighting has taken a heavy toll on basic needs and infrastructure. imran kahn has this exclusive report from a town south of kirkuk. >> reporter: she has nowhere to go and, nowhere to stay. when isil took control of the town they she would indiscriminately and shelling her house. the men in her family tried to fight back but they were over run. >> translator: isil attacked us in the early on hours of the morning and swept the houses in

the village and looked for those resisting him. when my husband and two sons ran out of ammunition they stormed the house and executed them. but i manage today escape in an under crowns hole. after two days i got out with migrants children. only to see that hour house was burned down and isil had taken our car and electricity generator. >> reporter: she becomes too upset to talk. but her cousin tells us what happened next. >> translator: we have lost 22 men from our family. we have been displaced for more than three months. our family has been scattered. some to the north of iraq, others to the south of course the rest outside of the kirkuk, after the village was liberated. some of us came back but only to see devastation of what used to be a peaceful suburb. >> reporter: she and her three remaining grandchildren now live in a garth room of this bombed out shell. in september, iraq's army came in to fight isil and retake the town.

more shelling and pitched street battles sotted the town further. with so much focus placed on within the war against isil, very little thought has been given to what happens next. now, the iraqi army tactic is to go in to a town, clear it of isil fighters and hold that town, but what that means for the residents, the very few that remain, is that they live in squalor and the one that his come back, take a look at what is left and wonder what will happen next. graffiti supporting isil still covers the walls here and there the suburb was hardly well off before the war, it was at least functional. for now children explore the streets while the adults who returned to assess the damage can feel nothing but despair, they have no idea when they can return home or what help the government will give them. inning ram kahn, al jazerra, baghdad. palestinian protesters clashed with israelii police today in jerusalem. the demonstrations began after a palestinian bus driver was found

hanged inside his vehicle. israeli officials say the man's up showed he committed suicide. but the family of the driver says they don't believe it nick, tell us more about the tensions and what the latest is. >> reporter: yeah, david, the family doesn't believe it for two reasons, one is what they see as the facts on the ground. other thing happening right now say lack of trust. so for the first example, they say the palestinian coroner was in the up and he spoke to the family on lawyer who spoke to us and the lawyer says the coroner believe says that he was strangled and assaulted and then his neck was placed through a news annoose and he was hanged e bus and that was the story that the palestinian coroner told the family. we have zeina lost mistrust. we talked early today, even

before the autopsy came out there was an expectation that the police were going to say that it was suicide. and an expectation that palestinians were not going to believe it and would clash with israeli police and that's what we saw tonight for a couple of hours. palestinians upset with israeli police throwing rocks at them, molotov cocktails in response the police firing tear gas. and bullets over the head of the protesters. there is no trust right now especially in east jerusalem, especially among palestinians living there who have gone through al a summer of fall of tension and violence. >> you mentioned in our 4:00 show that tensions were not as bad as four or five days ago had this incident happened. are the israeli police doing anything to try to rachet down the tensions because naturally there are clashes between palestinians and police. any orders that the police have to keep things from getting too

tense? >> reporter: yeah, it is a good question. had this happened thursday before the age restrictions were lift odd alex action is mosque we would be talking about a different night. what we saw are a handful of protests. maybe we saw 2225 protesters in one spot israeli police about 300 feet way not only firing tear gas but live rounds over their heads and over our heads. and that is not a deescalation, that's an escalation what the israeli police say is that it was a crowd disbursal method by firing live rounds the protesters stay farther away. and right now we are not seeing a deescalation, we are seeing

the age restrictions are gone and it's a question of whether and whether israeli authorities keep right wing israelis from getting up to the compound which is known as the temple mount to juice whether it will keep this as samiering tension as we saw today that tension can increase at a moment's notice. nick schifrin in jerusalem, thanks for the update, we appreciate. dr. martin is leah became the second person to die of ebola in you the united states. he was sends after contract being the vice to sierra leone, he was diagnosed a week ago and arrived in nebraska in critical condition. doctor attempted to treat him with z-map and plasma from an ebola survivor. the pipeline is in front of the senate. the chamber is expected to vote tomorrow on whether to approve

the pipeline which will carry oil from canada through the midwest, the house passed its version on friday. there was strong opposition to the project. opponents say it will lead to spills and other environmental disasters. for one small town it means new life. michael has more. >> reporter: steel city, nebraska. the sign says 84 residents. the actual number is closer to 50. the elementary school is closed. only three kids live in town. the baptist church, closed. this used to be a grocery store. a bank was here. >> that building there is the old town hall. that was built in about 1915. that beer garden fence there, there was a hospital in there. i was born in the hospital. >> reporter: that was 70 years ago. bill is now steel city's mayor. and runs the post office.

>> there was a barber shop over here. there was a little cafe over here. there was two hotels. and it's just gradually people moving out. >> reporter: trains roll through every 15 minutes or so. but they don't stop. not anymore. steel city near the nebraska-kansas state line was founded in 1873, after decades of decline, the tiny village is now back on the map. trans canada's proposed keystone xl pipeline would pump 830,000-gallons a day here. to a facility just outside of town. >> i hope they pass it, yeah. and everybody in town does. you can see rest of michael's report this evening on a"america tonight." don't miss ore special keystone boom or bust that airs at 8:30 and 11:30 on al jazerra america. coming up the "real money" team

take us to europe for a look the a how nato is respond to go russia's latest aggressive moves.

four months after malaysian airlines plane was shot down dutch investigators in ukraine are starting to clear the wreckage. flight mh17 carrying 298 people was shot down in july over the

rebel-held territory of donetsk. investigators say recovery efforts will take several days. thethere have been dueling accusations over who was responsible for bringing the plane down with russia and ukraine pointing fingers at each other. harry fawcett has more from donetsk. >> reporter: the wreckage now lies in what is separatist-controlled part of eastern ukraine. and so that's what has made it so difficult for the investigators and the international monitor to his couldn't and gecouldn't and gets they need to start removing the wreckage, they have done so, pieces of the wreckage are being brought out and taken to the ukrainian city of kharkiv and will be taken to the next he have lands where investigators will piece together part of the plane as they try to determine exactly what was the cause of its explosion and its coming down in ukraine. nato and ukraine accrues russia of sending more troops across

the border the president of ukraine poroshenko decreed ending banking services in this part of the country. now he'sing a he doesn't want war but his forces are in a better position than a few months ago and that the ukrainian side is ready for a resumption of total war. harry fawcett in ukraine. the crisis has prompted a new sense of mistrust between russia and the west and those tensions are spread to go other front in the world. all this week on "real money," ali velshi looks at what is being called the new cold or and ali joins us now to talk about it. >> david, yes, i will be reporting on the cold war all week. i traveled to europe and the high arctic to document the battle for influence for territory and for natural resources that is now raining between russia and the west. here is a quick look at some of what you'll see this week.

>> it's a routine exercise in readiness. but demonstrations like this have taken on a new urge have a for the west. here beside the carpathian mountains in romania, they are soldiers are training for bat. just a 7-hour drive from ukrai ukraine. despite good relationships nato is the eyes and ears in the sky when in comes to russia. norway runs that operation from its military headquarters. which it recently moved six hewn miles north becoming the only country with a military headquarters inside the arctic circle. one big reason for the move, to keep better tab on his russia. david we have never before seen video of brand-new russian fighters that, you know, traipsed in to nato territory.

reminiscent of the cold war the weapons and air ships going in to the other territory to his test the reactions, but there is definitely more and more going on right armed the arctic and in those border areas between nato countries that were former parts of the soviet union and russia right now as these debates heat up. and, of course, part of this is playing out, david on the economic side. all they are looking for oil, natural gas and these sanctions these tit for tat sanctions are hurting farms in eastern europe and people in russia. we'll be covering all of that all this week. >> and ali, the scramble now is because the technology is so much better in terms of getting at these resources? >> and because global warming is opening the arctic up to more shipping and oil and gas drilling. in some places there was ice that just isn't there anymore. so the stakes are much higher now. 30 years ago, nobody really cared where you were planting your flags now it makes a big difference because it's much easier not only to get to the oil, but coal and the natural gas that is in those areas that were covered by ice, but it is,

in far, also easier to ship your goods from asia to western europe and america using the arctic than it is using the sue hhe is canal it's one of the mot interesting stories of our time on a lot of levels. you can watch that tonight going on all this week on "real money" 7:00 eastern, 4:00 p.m. pacific. still ahead, federal agent showed up at national football league games after former players claim that team doctors were handing out painkillers illegally. the details are coming up. also republicans now promise they will not shutdown the government if president obama makes a unilateral move on immigration. but will that pledge stand up? that's next in power politics. >> one of the america's closest allies... >> we were not targeting israelis... >> suddenly attacked >> bullet holes... ...just red with blood...

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♪ ♪ this time over the distribution of painkillers. the dea visited the locker rooms of three teams after sunday's game. the san francisco 49, he tampa bay buccaneers and the seattle

seahawks. the dea says agents searched bags and requested documents from medical staff about controlled substances. >> there are random checks to team physicians as they travel that to see if anybody is transferring controlled substances across state lines, that's all the information that we have. >> the dea says it's part of an investigation spurred on by an investigation brought toy 1200 players. the suit alleges the team illegally provided pain killers to players to make sure they were ready to play. let's take a deep dive with ron pitch arprichard an nfl linebact retired. good to have you here on al jazerra america, what was your experience playing in the nfl when it came do controlled staupbs says. i can't imagine coaches would hand out drugs and leave them and tell you there they are. >> well, you know, it really had nothing do with the coaches. it had to do the trainer or doctors who were employees, of course, of the clucks.

so i have never received any drugs from a coach. >> but as far as the trainers it sounds like if they are saying, hey, this is the best way to get ready for the game, that's a lot of pressure to put on players. >> well, i think so. i think it's sort of exploitation of the mind set of an elite athlete that we have to get back on the field. no matter how we do that. and so by making certain drugs available, that athlete most of the time, not all of the time, takes that drug. and to get back and be what he thinks he is. >> did you ever see when you were playing football players that maybe walked in on crutches or looked like they couldn't evening make it up the stairs to the bus and a few hours later they are on the field as if they weren't injured at all? >> i never saw that, no. i mean i no fro i know from my e when i first got knee surgery, i was back on the field against the steelers in less than six weeks. this wasn't arthroscopic, this

was full-blown surgery and the bengals allowed me to do that. and, you know, three knee surgeries later, a year and a half later i am out of football. >> were you surprised by the raids this weekend involving the three teams? and what do you think that the agents may have found? >> i am not surprised by it. mine, they should do it. listen, we are talking about -- this lawsuit is about illegal precipitation drugs handed out to elite athletes and that was for a purpose. and i believe the purpose was to get us back on the field where we wanted to be. and therefore they were available, we took them, those that did, and thought it might do the best for us. not looking down the line, not knowing what may happen, you know, i had renal canne cancer n

2002, my family doesn't have a history of renal cancer. there is cancer in my family history i get that. but who is to say the bar bitch went or amphetamines weren't a cause for that. >> what about the argument that, look, we were simply giving some paipainkillers, making them available to the players it's the players' responsibility to look out for themselves if they really needed it to and to make sure that they were not abusing their bodies. >> yeah, that's awful weak. i mean, these guys are smart. you know, listen, going up again the nfl is like going up against the united states government. i mean, they have all of the resources. that doesn't even make sense. i find that offensively t offenk that somehow they turn it on us as being the abusers. >> what kind of reforms would you like the nfl to embrace out of this lawsuit? >> well, they simply have to stop making available

barbiturates and amphetamines unless they are prescribed to the athlete. i have got drug bottles at home that i take certain medicines and it says very clearly that the federal law prohibits anyone else taking those bills but me. and so if the nfl is breaking the federal drug law for decades, i think that they need to stop it. and i think they are. i think they are because we ventured out to challenge them and i think that the league will be cleaner and better for the up and coming elite athletes that play in the league. >> ron prichard, former nfl player, also plaintiff in a lawsuit against the nfl. ron, good luck to you and your colleagues in this lawsuit. we appreciate you joining us. >> thank you. in today's power politics, 454 days until the first voting of the 2016 presidential campaign and a potential republican candidate is now getting clobbered over comments about interim necessary rig

regulations. they are prepared to issue new rules that shape the future of the internet. last week ted cruz criticized the idea that all con it tend should be treated equally. that's known as net neutrality. cruz said it was like obama care. minnesota democratic senator al franker who rarely gives national television interviews is now hammering cruz. >> he just doesn't understand what this issue is. we have had net neutrality the entire history of the internet. so when he says this is the obama care, obama care was a government program that fixed something that changed things. this is about reclassifying something so it stays the same. >> the f.c.c. is expected to announce those new reclassifications in the next few weeks. president obama is now back at the white house following his trip last week to asia. white house aids say the president is reviewing executive action options and immigration reform and could make an

announcement of a decision by the end of the week. several republicans in congress, including republican jobar tonight have threatened to begin impeachment proceedings or shutdown the government if the president act on his own. mitch mcconnell said there would be no government shutdown and that's now been repeated by mississippi republican senator roger wicker the head of the a gop fundraising pact. >> we are not going to have any government shutdowns, we are not going to have any threats of impeachment. we are going to return to regular order and show america how the senate is supposed to work. >> and as you can see a clash between republicans in th the he and senate i may be becoming a year ago the house set down the government in an effort to defund the affordable care act. known as obama care. that effort failed and now the second enrollment period for obama care has begun. over the weekend administrations

officials said over 1.2 million people window shopped on the site. 10s of thousands of other people went to one of hundreds of in-person sign-up events. >> this has been extremely fast. very, very fast and we are just about done now finishing up with the enrollment. in california election officials say they are nearly finished tallying up all the ballots in the midterm elections and say the total of californians that voted by mail will break the record set in 2012. the first time more than half the states electorate voted absentee. the up tick has more californians pushing for the state to go all wait and ditch traditional polling places. some election officials believe it could increase voter interest and general savings from avoiding the task of recruiting and training polling task workers. finally elections officials are still smarting over a clerical error that kept one voter, 48-year-old dale from casting a ballot. >> called whenever they call, you know, to check on me and

said, no, he's deceased. he can't vote. >> that's right, officials told hopfinger the county records indicates that he was dead. and had died september 25th. after some persuasion he says officials finally allowed him to cast a ballot. social security administration told him there had been a clerical error responsible. oops. that is today's power politics. let's take another look at stories making news around america. morgan radford joins us. >> that's right, a lot is going on across the country today. in fact, reports police right here in new york city are closing down on a suspect who pushed another man off a subway platform killing him. police released surveillance video of that incident which happened sunday in the bronx. the 61-year-old man was standing with his wife on that platform when he was pushed from behind and then shoved in front of an on coming train. >> the mta workers, the people that's supposed to be trained for this, they weren't paying -- we heard whispering, like, you

know,. [ inaudible ] >> well, david right know it appears the men didn't know each other and didn't have any interaction before that incidents. and over in california, a ship operated by princess cruises had to dock in san pedro after more than 150 passengers and 14 crew members became six with the norovirus, the cdc official is expected to investigate the outbreak. while the ship undergoes a deep cleaning before its next trip to mexico. and two brothers are among the four who died from a chemical leak at the dupont plant near laporte, techs, th tt began leaking early saturday morning. the company says a faulty valve may have been a cause and federal agents are country investigating it. >> the wthe we are new to the industry and it's very real like she said don't become too come complacent because anything could happen. a little mistake. because it's very scary we live within two miles of the plants. so we are surrounded bay area

boulevard and 2225. hopefully we likely get the answers that we are looking for. officiallies say the leak is not harmful for residents. two employees of a prison were injured because of a tornado. their injuries are not serious, the door made owe damaged the warehouse and facilities' fence but no other reports of injuries on are damage in the area. bringing it back to new york, a french tourist was aest rested after scaling a cable beam on the brooklyn bridge to take photos. he was charged with wreck little endangerment and trespassing before he was release odds bail and forced to surrender his passport. this is the third case like in this years three different people climbed the bridges apatowers can you imagine climb to go the to the top to get a picture and then having your passports make en. >> i hope he got goods pictures.

>> i hope so. coming up we'll go back to ferguson missouri and speak with a local lawmaker, people there are anxious waiting for the grand jury decision in the michael brown case, and the protests it could bring.

protesters gathered in ferguson, missouri missouri to creme indicate 100 days since michael brown was killed. waiting for the grande grand jury's decision on whether to indict darren wilson on the case. as we have been reported today the governor of missouri declared a state of medical and activated the national guard, ferguson's mayor has pledged to move the city forward no matter what the grand jury says, mary jane gliha spoke with the mayor. >> knowing the grand jury will do something soon, what do you hope the grand jury does? >> i don't care one way or the other what the outcome is. as long as it's the legal and fair outcome under the law. no matter what happens, the city

going to work to move forward. >> what has been the hardest part of this for you? >> the hardest part has been seeing the community that i grew up, the community that i love and have been committed to serving, i have been on the city council for almost 10 years now to see it em brailled in this kind of racial tension, to see this kind of uproar. never seen any kind of racial frustrations or strife, i have never seen this kind of out cry, never seen any kind of outcry really. we are a community that really kind the bucked the trends when it came to white flight. >> some people may say how can you be the fair o mayor of fergd say this exists or people are upset and feeling this way when you have lived here your whole life. >> well, i think let's be clear, too, ferguson say community of 22,000 people. this is a metro region of 2 million people. we are only about a mile and a half from the city of st. louis which has a very long and

storied history of racial division, racial politics, racial strife. you haven't seen that permeate the suburbs over the past, you know, decades. >> what would you say has been your worst moment or the most difficult part of this whole process? >> you know there has been a few times where i felt like ferguson was alone therefore i felt alo alone. not personally as the leader of the community. the issues here transcends the city of ferguson. they are not just county issues, not just state issues, national issues are at play and a small community, a small community police department and city staff is not really equipped to deal with, you know, the issues that the united states hasn't dealt with for 400 years. >> you can see much more of lori jane gliha's interview tonight at 9:00 eastern on al jazerra america. joining us live from ferguson is missouri state

representative courtney alan curtis. you had a meeting today with officials from the department of justice. what did they tell you? >> i actually didn't make that meeting. >> you did the make the meeting. do you know what the meeting was about? >> prem raises for the impending indictment or decision, that's as much as i can tell you. >> it's as much as you can tell us, is that because what the discussion was rule is 60, which is grand jury proceedings have to be kept quiet by the justice department? was this about the grand jury? >> no, that's been the procedure throughout the several weeks that we have been meeting since the beginning. >> you don't know if the grand injure jury has reached a question since or not and the officials you met with with don't know either, is, is that right. >> as i stated i didn't meet

with them today but we have met previously. we have been planning and coming tote as a community trying to identifyinfigure out what we cad when the announcement is made so the community stays together. >> let me ask it a different way. do you have any indication that the announcement is coming this week? >> no, i am just like everyone else just guessing. the government has the state of emergency i can only assume it will be in the next 30 days. everyone is on pin pins and nees waiting and hopefully the tension and frustration will ease soon. >> regarding the governor's declaration of emergency, what do you make of that? is that a wise move by the governorrer? >> it is and it isn't. it is to make sure that we are thoroughly prepared for whatever may happen. this is a situation of unknown, we don't know what will happen. but it isn't in the sense that he could have been more proactive early on in this situation and could have possibly not have even needed a second state of emergency if he

would have removed prosecutor mccullough. >> and of course they didn't remove prosecutor mccullough. in the weeks since and you i spoke, i believe it was a week ago, we had seen a number of businesses that were boarding up and getting ready. how have things changed over just the last week? >> people were getting more tense. there is -- >> okay representative courtney allen curtis, obviously we are having satellite difficulties there if we can establish the connection again we'll ask him a few more questions. in the meantime earlier this afternoon we spoke with nicole paul treble. her fiancé shawn bell was shot and killed by police in new york city the night before their we hading in 2006, we can obviously relate to some of the anxieties in ferguson, three new york city detectives were tried and acquitted of all charges in her case. we asked her what she makes of the community reaction to michael brown's death in missouri.

all right, i think we are -- all right, here again, nicole talking about similarities between her incidents and new york and what's going on in ferguson, missouri. >> it's like opening up a wound that was only, you know, somewhat patched up. but the people are angry. and justice needs to be done. justice doesn't need to be a civil suitor settlement. justice needs to be accountability. the people who -- or the man or the person who did this crime needs to be held accountable. and until that, i am afraid people are going to react. and it's getting worse, you see it here in ferguson and i can only pray for the people in at that town. it's scary. >> there is a lot of anxiety and i fear in ferguson that the officer, darren wilson will not have charges brought against him. that the grants jury will decide not to en diet. that causes such anger among

some people when they hear just about that possibility. >> as it should. we live in america in america when someone is killed and they have done anything wrong that person should be he would accountable no matter who any work for or what agency. i believe the officer who done this should be held accountable and i strongly support this family. and other families who lose their loved ones when they had such a bright future. he was a young man. his mom just from watching her, she is destroyed. these families are destroyed. the community, the nation, is in uproar because we live in a society where police officers are not held accountable. when an innocent man is killed at their hands, so people are angry. and we need federal change. >> when we get word that that indictment or nonindictment or whatever from the grand injury is coming and haven't announced it. is that something that you are going to watch at that moment or is it too hard?

>> it's very hard but i will be watching. i will be watching because i strongly believe that this family needs something. i am just going to pray, i am going to continue to pray that justice is done the right way this time. >> nicole told us know your rights programs can improve the situation and the reaction in ferguson. child homelessness is on the rise in the united states. the national center on family homelessness says nearly two and a half million children were homeless at some point this year and that is up from 1.6 million in 2010. researchers estimate about a half of homeless children are under six years old. reports says kentucky has the highest level of child homelessness, while connecticut has the lowest level. coming up a controversial update to a fundraising song from the 1980s. ♪ bring peace and joy this christmas ♪ ♪ to west africa

>> the new version of do they know it's christmas is get something serious backlash. that's next. and then it's "real money" with ali velshi. coming up on "real money," the new cold war between russia and the west. ale a take toui'll take to you n north with a that you in the arctic has led to a dang restless chill in relations at the ender of it all, oil, gas and money a week-long report begins tonight on "real money."

get back to ferguson, missouri, state senator courtney allen curtis joins us again. representative curtis, we understand that the st. louis schools will be given the first notice. they will get a three-hour warning when the grand injury has an a fountains think.

what would be the necessary hess tank you want younger people know, okay, the grand jury is coming out with something and they may not like the result? what would you like those young people to know? >> essentially i want them to know that the justice system is at work. this is how the justice system works. i mainly want them to know this is how it works. >> i want to you describe the tension that hangs in the air there in st. louis rights now. >> it's something like i have never seen before. the only thing i can use to describe it is movie scenes, you know, it's essentially a situation whereas i stated before, nobody knows what will happen. it's an opportunity for emotions to be very raw and what happens is yet to be seen. >> i know that you are very pessimistic about what the

grants jew will do, that you think that the prosecute h prosr because of his record will not return an indictment. have the meetings been productive in your estimation. >> they have. most recently, early on we didn't necessarily know what was going on, or where we were going and that may just be because this is something new to most people. i don't know many towns or cities that are prepared for something like this. so early on, they weren't very productive, but they did start moving that way in the past a may have and a half or so. >> are you confident that any reaction from the police will be a little different than it was back in august when it seemed like at least several officers were going way beyond what was expected of them? >> i am actually not. that's mainly because i believe that some police officers may be

walking around with ptsd from the first experiences. as well as some of the protesters. once we find ourselves back this that situation, it's very well that someone that is undiagnosed or untreated for ptsd could act irrationally and, you know, could make the situation more dangerous than it already is. >> representative courtney allen kurt advertise who represents the area in missouri there. good of you to join us again, we appreciate you hanging in there for us. >> thank you. the charity group band-aid has release aids new version of its original song do they know it's christmas it was aimed at fighting famine in ethiopia. this one hopes to fight ebola some of the lyrics are controversial. maria has more. >> here is the latest version of do they know it's christmas, take a listen. >> note here is to you ♪ ♪ raise a glass to everyone

♪ here is to them and all there is to come ♪ ♪ do they know it's christmastime at all ♪ ♪ >> and this version of the song features singers like bono, rita o r.a. and one direction. and it's aimed at fighting ebola. they are using the slogan by the song stop the virus, some of the lyrics have been changed to include lines like where a kiss of love will kill you. it's sparked some responses like this: >> despite the criticism just hours after it was released it shot up to number one in europe. here in the u.s. it's at number two on itunes they are already

seen a ton of expert. >> thank you very much. that is the news for this hour, i am david shuster, "real money" with ali velshi is next. you can always get the latest news online at aljazerra.com. thanks for watching, everybody. america stands on the brink of a new cold war with russia. i journeyed to the frontlines in the frozen north where america's nato allies are already locked in a high-stakes standoff over huge deposits of oil and natural gas. tonight i'll begin a five-part special report with a first hand look at how arctic melting has unlocked a wealth of opportunity and fueled new tensions between olden mys. also, iran's controversial nuclear program, i'll lack at how world powers are trying to curb iran's ambitions as a ia