>> but this cutting edge technology could be the answer >> the future of fracking is about the water >> protecting the planet, saving lives... >> how do you convince a big oil company to use this? techknow, only on al jazeera america ♪ this is "al jazeera america" live from new york city. i am tony harris with a look at today's top stories. >> everybody agrees our immigration system is broken. unfortunately, washington has allowed the problems to fester for too long. >> tomorrow night, president obama will announce an executive order to reform immigration. is dispensing harsh punishment in retaliation for a violent synagogue attack in jerusalem, and a snowstorm blamed for at least five deaths in new york. several more feet of snow is on the way.

. after months of pressure from activist, president obama is ready to move to fix what everyone agrees is the nation's broken immigration system. the president announced today that he will unveil his long-awaited executive order during an address from the white house tomorrow night. mike viqueira joins us live from washington. mike, what is the president expected to say when he speaks tomorrow night? >> reporter: well, tony, it's not so much the reform of the comprehensive variety. what the president can do does not have the force of law. it is inherentsly temporary, lasting only sloningsz another president comes along and decides whether or not that individual wants to continue these policies. what we believe and what's reported to be under consideration is deferring deportation. remember back in 2012, president obama deferred deportations for the so-called dreamers, the young people who came to this

country with their parents or otherwise through no choice of their own. the president deferring deportations for those young people. now, we expect him to do the same for their parents as well as other provisions. the white house is being sketchy, holding the details close to its vest, i should say, but the president made the announcement about the announcement to come tomorrow night. he took to face post and said this. >> what i am going to be laying out is the things that i can do with my lawful authority as president to make the system work better even as i continue to work with congress and encourage them to get a bi-partisan comprehensive bill that can solve the entire problem. >> that was football not fair to say the face post. the president will make a speech from the white house at 8:00 p.m. tomorrow night to announce what he intends to do to at least slow the rate of deportation. tony? >> all right. social media. republican leaders in congress have called on president obama not to take this move.

have we heard any reaction from them about tomorrow's announcement? >> well, here is the thing. republicans are so incens. isensed by this the base of their parties, they are going to be so angry they may get card away too far in terms of the retaliation they want to take. there is talk now, the bill to form the government, we are operating under a temporary measure, comes up on december 11th. there is talk of trying to defund whatever the president proposes. >> could lead to another government shutdown. there is talk among conservatives about impeachment. john cornyn is the senior republican senator from texas. here is what he said on the floor of the senate today: >> has given and our democrats friends have given us. we give up. we are not going to do our job as legislators. we are going to let the president with the stroke of a pen provide an executive amnesty

to millions of people. and create an awful lot of harm in the process. >> so the stakes could not be higher, tony, heading in to tomorrow night after the president makes his speech from the white house, he hits the road. he goes to las vegas to tout his new plan. but before that, tonight, he is hosting democratic members of congress to explain it to them in person over dinner at the whitehouse. >> wow. the next 24 hours will be something to watch. mike viqueira for us in washington. mike, thank you. for decades, immigration policies have been focused on keeping mexican immigrants from illegally entering the united states. new numbers suggest the laws are working, but not fixing the problem. thomas drayden has a look at the issue by the numbers for us. thomas. >> we are seeing a shift. since 2007 more undocumented immigrants have left the u.s. from mexico than those coming into the country. the total population has held steady at 11.2 million people since the great recession.

six states account for 60% of all undocumented i am grarnths states like california, texas, and new york. but, we are going to see the trend here change. only florida saw an increase by 100,000 undocumented immigrants between 22009 and 2012. mexican immigrants still make up more than half of the undocumented entries into the u.s., but here is the shift: in 1995, 80% of undocumented immigrants arrived from mexico illegally. now, 80% of immigrants coming from mexico enter this country legally. part of the reason why the total number has held steady is because undocumented immigration from el salvto do, guatemala, and hon did you hearas has risen 234% since the '90s. over the summer, a spike in unaccompanied minors forced president obama to overhaul the housing and policies for thousands of new arrivals.

>> thomas drayton with us. a little later on the program, we will take a look at just how far the president can actually go to fix immigration and what he has said in the past about going around congress. there are fears of more violence in jerusalem one day after five people were killed in an attack at a synagogue. today,is moved to demolish the home of a palestinian man blamed for another attack last month. nick schifrin has more now from jerusal jerusalem. >> reporter: we saw a stark divide between east and west jerusalem today. in east jerusalem. is handed out harsh punishment. we saw another generation being drilling into a divide. prayer for solidarity after the deadliest attack in jerusalem in six years. >> in a congregation so brutally stacked yesterday, today, they celebrated a birth. orthodox men mark a jewish ritual performed on a newborn.

upstairs in the synagogue, they complete their morning prayers in the same place that 24 hours ago was covered in blood. four worshippers died here as they prayed, including 43-year-old aria kapenski, born in rhode island. >> tell me about your brother? >> first of all, i loved him very much. we all did. he was a loving father, loving husban husband. he truly, truly cared about everybody around him. >> his brother, david, and the family citizens sh i have a, a week-long jewish memorial. last night, they buried him in the city the family moved to 30 years ago. >> i am going to miss learning from him of how to be so special toward your family, kids, community. >> the attackers were not foreign to this neighborhood. residents tell me they worked in that supermarket right there, which is just across the street from the rest of the community, only a few blocks from the synagogue. they were from all the way across town in east jerusalem and compared to the mood here in

west jerusalem, well, this is really a tale of two cities. the neighborhood where the attackers lived,isi police cracked down. yesterday, police clashed with palestinian protesters. the government says increasing punishment increases security and so one month after police shal shaludi drove his car into a crowd, today, the police destroyed his family apartment. at 5:00 a.m., police placed explosives in the living room. then they blew the walls out. the debris destroyed a car parked next door. >> translator: when we entered the house, it didn't even seem like ours. we have no where to go. >> palestinians argue home demolitions, police check points and, and unprecedented arizona fuel at a time violence. >> all of the destruction, this

>> the crack down, israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu urged everyone, quote, not to take the law into his own hands. contrast that to a phrase he used this summer after three israeli teenagers were abducted and murdered. he said, quote, may god avenge their blood. just hours after that speech, jewish extremists abducted and burned alive a palestinian teenager. >> helped fuel an incredible summer of violence. and right now, prime minister netanyahu and palestinian leaders are hoping that this

cycle of violence does not spiral further out of control. but tony, this city is still very -- >> nick schifrin in jerusalem. >> in the fight gis isil, iraqis fleaing violence, but today, the capital saw a rare glimpse of the violence carried out across the country. at least four people were killed, 22 others were wounded in a suicide attack. the bombing raises serious questions about isil's reach in iraq. imran khan reports now from baghdad. >> reporter: fire crews on site after a car was driven into the gate of the governor's compound. it happened in erbil in the northern region. security officers fired and it exploded, sending schrapnel and a thick black cloud of smoke into the air. the governor was in his office at the time of the attack and says that isil are a force they need to deal with. >> we will continue to fight.

f intelligence agencies are working very hard. they can protect and find these people. >> stacks like these are rare in this part of iraq. there have been two since 2013. already, questions are being asked: how could a vehicle like this full of explosives get so close to a government sfwhling how could an attack like this happen? particularly when the islamic state of iraq in the lavant made threats against the kurdish region and in particular, the capital city saying that they would send a volley of car bombs and suicide bombers to erbil. imran khan, baghdad. france says it has identified a secondference national who appeared unmasked in an isil video on sunday. he is reportedly from a paris suburb. earlier, they identified 22-year-old maxim hushar.

the video announced the death of american aid worker peter sakkig. france says it does not know what role either man played in the beheadings. official wants national guard to dmroimd deployed not just to ferguson but other cities as well and that 400 troops be assigned to his city. the move comes as they wait for a grand jury to trying to decide whether or not to indictment derek brown. jonathan, do we know what the role of a national guard will actually be? >> in st. louis, we understand the st. louis mayor as you mentioned wants those 400 national guard troops to be on standby in the community. he says he has mapped out 45 locations across the community where he wants them to be working 12-hour shifts. he was quick to point out that that does not mean they will be at active protests sites, interact with protesters. he says these national guard troops he has requested for st. louis against st. louis proper in addition to the ones that will be in ferg soverign, he

says he wants them to be in certain neighborhoods and certain shopping sentencers and sustain places around the community with the goal being they will protect people's property. he says that was a big concern back in august of specifically in ferguson, with some of the looting and some of the arson that took place back then. so again, national guard troops, he says, at least in st. louis, will be here to protect property, not to interact with protesters. >> got you. jonathan, almost alternates information considered by a grand jury is sealed? right? after there is a decision, but it could be made public in this case. tell us why. >> reporter: this is a pretty rare move. is it would be a rare move if it happens. you know, trans piece has been a big issue. trust is a big issue among people in the community with this whole process. so the st. louis county prosecute working with this grand jury said if there is no indictment, if there is not one, he will push to make sure the evidence, the testimony, things that were considered by the grand jury are made public because he says he knows there will be people questioning whether this was a thorough process, a fair

process, so everything we understand at this point from sources is being documented. it's being documented by the officials working with the grand jury. but if there is an indictment, tony, things would not likely be released to the public because we know it would likely thin come out in a court hearing or a trial. >> all right. jonathan martin for us in ferguson, missouri. jonathan, good to see you. thank you. earlier, i talked to some of the reporters following the story lines in ferguson from the start. i asked al jazeera correspondent ashar how the protest movement has changed over the last new months. >> reporter: in the early days when we were there, it was very visceral, very smoels. people were reacting to the immediate sort of nature of what was going on there. i think that's more the last few months, i have been back there a number of times, spent a lot of time in ferguson and we have seen this evolution of the protest or demonstrators becoming more organizeds. we have seen a lot of training as laura jane mentioned, there is alternates of preparation behind the scenes when it comes to how these protesters are

going to react and engage with these police officers. there has been communication between the protesters and the police with regard to how is is going to play out. it's a very sort of unpredictable situation. >> unpredictable besides the people of ferguson simply don't trust the legal system there. you can explain that lack of trust and won't -- a lack of an indictment, in this case, feed that kind of mistrust and lack of faith in the process further? >> that's right, tony. further to ashar's point, there is very little expectation that did darren will son will be indicted. the community, there was a groundswell of opinion here calling for the prosecutor to recuse himself from this case. he has a record of previous cases of siding with law enforcement and a lot of people here just simply do not expect that there will be any proceedings against daryn wilson. that's really feeding into the anger on the streets, but as ashar says, this has

transformed. there is now a movement here which has leadership. there has been a new generation of activists getting involved and expanding the talking points and the issues that people here really feel are important. so, as to how it's going to unfold on the street, i think it's right that maybe that kind of visceral eruption of anger that we saw is going to be channelled in a different way. there might be a different kind of manifestation of that. there are issues here that mua much bigger than michael brown, the way the criminal justice operates in this part of missouri. you know, the court system and the small fines and tickets that have been used as a source of revenues for these municipali municipalities, this has become a bigger issue than the shooting of michael brown. >> lauri let me get your thoughts on this. what are your thoughts on the ways in which the community has changed since august. >> reporter: i think at a time community has changed a lot. you know, i sat down with the mayor earlier this week, and even his point of view has changed on what's going on. i

mean he was quoted as saying he didn't believe there was a rachel divide in this city at the beginning. and he is now kind of retracted that and says he regrets saying that. he sees there is a rachel divide. he originally said he saw more of the divide in the socioeconomic divide and was drawing on his own personal experiences where whites and blacks get along in his -- in his world. >> be sure to check out "america tonig tonight's" report at 9:00 p.m. observation only on "al jazeera america." upstate new york is being hit right now with a snowstorm kevin tells me of historic proportions. one man opened his garage door in buffalo to find more than five feet of snow blocking it. look at that. okay. these shots are captured by his drone, just the snowed in neighborhood, the lake effect storm is being blamed for six death did in buffalo and more snow is on the way. >> please do not be fooled by the beautiful sunshine. there is still tremendous

amounts of snow on the ground in south buffalo. the limited state of emergency in south buffalo is still in effect. >> did you hear that? tremendous amounts of snow still on the ground. take a look at this picture, 25 players and coaches from the niagara university women's basketball team were trapped on a bus on the new york state freeway for more than 24 hours. the buts finally started moving early this morning. check in with ken here south buffalo hammered. right? >> hammered. very, very localized effect in that area. i am going to show you why that happened. take a look at the radar right now. you can see here, i stopped at about 24 hours ago, and you can see the line of snow coming off of lake erie. buffalo there on the edge of the snow. most went to the south. i want to show you some pictures also that came in across that region. you can see here, the very heavy snow on the highways that closed a lot of the highways, especially highway 90 in that area. one of the good things in this particular case was that this

year, in this event, we had a lot of people with cell phones, and in previous years, previous events, people didn't have cell phones. they couldn't call for help. and it was very, very failed situation. i want to come back and show you what has happened over the last 24 hours. we have a bump or disturbance through the lake-effect snow right here, and what that means is the stream of snow, see it's being changed just a little bit. but we do think, tony, over the next 24 to 48 hours, that is going to go back to that narrow band of snow across that area. >> tremendous amounts of snow on the ground, and that's what he just said. >> another two feet coming. >> thank you t ukraine's prime minister says his government won't negotiate with separatists just as violence in the country picks up again. that's coming up. also, a mother opens up about losing a son as congress debates what dodo about military suicides.

craukraine's prime minister ruled out talks with pro-russian separatists in the eastern part of the country calling them terrorists. today's comments come after the russian foreign minister called for direct neg otherations. there are a growing fear of the breakdown of the minsk agreement could lead to more fighting. >> police comments from ukraine's prime minister go along with increasingly harsh commentary from kiefer recent days and weeks. i think it reflects real anger at what they see as breaches of the minsk agreement of september 5th which led to the cease-fire which has just been holding since then. they say that the elections that the breakaway separatists self declared doneesque's people and luhansk people's held broke the accord and they are angry at

russia for having recognized those elections. it was equal anger on the other side. we spoke to an official on tuesday who was saying that the ukrainians had broken the accord by cutting off officially any state payments to state services and threatening to take away access to the central bank and banking services for their region. in the midst of this, the low level fighting goes on around places like the airport in donetsk. we have had video over the last couple of days taken by a local television station, a drone being sentence up over that airport and damage and demonstration, months of fighting, this sort of attritional shelling that's been going on as ukrainian positions are trying to hold on to that airport and donetsk people's republic forces very idea. what is concerning people here is that these isolated outbreaks

of fighting will be replaced by a wider break down of the cease-fire and if that were to happen, this city we are in now, mariapol could be very much in the crosshairs. >> russia has been accused separatenists easternvan. the fallow has isolated moscow and made neighbors worried about possible russian expansion. all of this week, real money with ali velshi has looked at this cold war. what do you have for us. >> we are talking about the money here. >> yes. >> we talked about the energy, gas that flows spending time. we are talking to one of the ship yards where, you know, the solidarity movement started. we are talking to people who remember very clearly forty years of post-war soviet inflewsr flew he knew.

now part of nato. and they are very worried about soviet encroachment are worried about came independent. selling them to russia. russia imposed a blockade on refused fruits and vegetables a anding a cult toral goods now these people with apples and products that they make that aren't going in to russia. >> hurting the russians, they are paying more. inflation is setting in because they don't have access because of the goods the price of those goods are dropping so this is really affecting people in that region that used to be the old soviet block. >> ali, can't wait for the programcosming up tonight at 7:00 p.m. eastern time on "al jazeera america." president obama -- thanks, ali. president obama said it is up to

congress to fix america's immigration system. tomorrow, he will spell out what he plans to do without congress. take a deep dive on that. when a town in washington voted to raise its minimum wage, some workers were left out. now, they want a raise.

president obama is getting ready to act on his own to fix the nation's broken system in a video posted on facebook, the president said he will address the nation from the white house tomorrow night. he said he will lay out how he can act lawfully to make the system work better. republicans say what the president perhaps to do is illegal, but is it? let's take a deep dive into the president's authority to act on his own.

activists have activists have called on. >> professo of law at temple university and a fellow at the center for immigration studies. what i would like to do is play another clip because we are building a bit of a case here. i want you to respond. this is from another interview the president gave. this time to univision, march f march 2011. >> with respect to the notion i can just suspend deportations through executive order, that's just not the case. there are enough laws on the

books by congress that are very clear in terms of how we have to enforce the immigration system that for me to simply through executive order, for me to ignore those congressional mandates would not conform with my appropriate role as president. >> professor tinge, what do you make of the president's comments there in light of what the president seems ready to do tomorrow? >> i think the president is his worst critic, his strongest critic. the constitutional idea is that the american people govern themselves through their elected re7 convenientives through a deliberateberative process through not through an imperial presidency. we don't elect an emperor. and i think the president is proposing to operate illegally. now, the administration is going to come up with all kind of precedent and say other presidents have done this. i think in every example is,

it's distinguishable. a lot of them are small numbers based upon special cases. a lot of them are foreign policy based. no one questions the president's acting on a foreign policy. the gig one is in 1990. that was done in consultation with congress and rat need by congress three months later i see worked in that administration. i think there is a big difference between a few thousand people and 5 million people people say the numbers don't matter. the numbers matter. >> that's guy antic change. i don't take for granted that the immigration system is broken. >> you don't buy that? you don't buy it as a proposition? >> we have a limit on the immigration because we are trying to protect american worker's jobs. we have 20 million people in the united states who are unemployed or under employed. we have very high rates of unemployment, particularly in the minority communities in the

united states and we have did be. >> isn't outsourcing american jobs than this i willgration flow into the united states? isn't outsourcing a bigger threat? >> you can have multiple threats. there are certain jobs that can't be outsource did. the president is about to add 5 million people into the labor pool that's competing for the remaining jobs in the united states. >> all right. >> good luck to american teenagers. >> i think i know the answer based upon what you have said. i want to get you on the record clearly. what's your answer to the question: does the president have the constitutional authority to act in the way he is said to act tomorrow on immigration? or does that depend upon what exactly he does? >> he does not have the authority. the supreme court has spoken in a indication called youngston sheet and tube which every american law student studies and the supreme court said the president's power to act unilaterally is at its peak when

he is acting with the support of congress and at its lowest ebb when he is acting in opposition to congress. >> you believe -- >> this is a situation. >> what it's going tomorrow is illegal and unconstitutional? >> absolutely. >> and beyond his power? >> it is illegal and unconstitutional. it's inconsistent with how the constitution provides that we govern ourselves in the united states whether the courts will intervene in this case or not is a different question. is it inconsistent with the constitutional design of how the american people are supposed to governor themselves? absolutely. >> putting aside the constitutional question, that will be hashed out depending upon what he does and what he announces and what the fallout to it is, do you think that it is the wrong thing for him to do? >> i didn't. i think it is the wrong thing to do. the system isn't broken. the american people are just confused about immigration. they don't understand immigration. >> let me jump in.

you are making the same point again that gives me a moment to jump in. two president did, two recent presidents, as you know, of boat parties have repeatedly called upon congress to pass comprehensive immigration reform. not just a democratic president but a republican president as well, to take up in this case the case of president obama to at least take up the senate bill. i am a little -- i want to know why you aren't sharing some of your frustration with congress given that two rooebt presidents and this issue has been on the table for 20 or 30 years now. >> the american people have to decide whether they are in favor of unlimited immigration. hey, both my parents were immigrants. so, of course, we admire and respect immigrants, but given that, are we in favor of unlimited immigration or in favor of enforcing some sort of numercal limit on all of these good people who want to come to the united states? and there are a lot of them.

is there any limit that we are prepared to enforce if it means turning away people who are not criminals, who are not national security threats who just want to seek a better life in the united states like our own an cestors did? if the answer is, no, there is no limit that we would ever enforce against people that remind us of our ancestors, we are for unlimited immigration. >> okay. ? >> we could save a ton of taxpayer money by just saying that if we are going to have a numercal limit, you have to enforce it. otherwise, it's meaningless. >> should the president decide to take action without congress to, in this case, follow up on his suspending enforcement actions against the so-called dreamers -- you know what i am talking about, back in june of 2012, is he within his discretion to do that, to deploy law enforcement resources as he sees fit, i.e., to prioritize

crimes he chooses to prosecute? >> no. he has a constitutional it obligation to faithfully execute the laws of the united states and they call for a limitation on immigrants being able to come into the united states, a new mer cal limitation for protecting jobs for americans. if he is failing in that, he is acting unconstitutionally. we have a lot of people waiting in line legally. some have been waiting, qualified i am grant waiting for 20 years for their chance to come into the united states. the president is doing nothing them. he is going to amnesty the 5 million people that jumped in front of the line. i think that's not only illegal. it's also i am moral. we have told people to respect our laws and wait their turn to immigrate legally. millions are doing just that they are being made to look like fools. the message this sends to all of the other people in the world that want to come to the united states is get yourself into the united states by hook or by crook. what are we going to do with the

next 5 or 10 million people who will come in, inspired by this big amnesty? get ready. they have coming. >> professor ting, pleasure to talk to you. i am going to sends you an e-mail. i have a couple of points to take up with you on this. he is the professor of law? >> any time. >> at temple university and a fellow at the center of immigration. thank you. a footnote here it is ain casing how quickly interest groups in this country mobilize minutes after the president announced his plans for tomorrow night. i got a robo call for the group for californiaians for population stabilization, a group that is, as you will hear for yourself here, very much against any executive action on immigration reform from this president. >> hello. this is jo white man. i have an important recorded questi question. your help is needed right now to

stop the president's plans to grat executive amnesty to millions of illegal aliens. you can help by calling until kevin mccarthy's. mccarthy, his district is in the bakersfield, california, area is in our own backyard and has enormous power. please call toll-free. >> okay. so amnesty, opponents say helping immigrants living in a country rewards people who have broken the law and encourages more illegal immigration. so amid the fight against isil, there is agent of focus on american forces in combat. the senate looked at new legislation designed to reduce the number of veterans who commit suicide now. the proposed changes would improver suicide prevention programs and enlist help from more psychiatrists and help mental healthcare make it a bit assier to access jamie mcintire, the numbers are staggering. ki

>> a tour of duty in afghanistan never left him? >> his last words on facebook were: i see death in every thought. they taught me how to put them in my mind. i just can't get it out. these are lyrics flu a soldier's memoire: our son's last text to his father was a link to this song. ♪ i just can't get it off".

>> hshe says hier son was traumatized while two were of his friends were killed when he talked about moving in with his beautiful girlfriend other times rant can. one says don't join the military and be an infantry. no one wants you in the civilian world. another says why is it an hour-long proses to set up an appointment at the va? our son was pronounced dead at 2:17 september 23rd, 2014 at the age of 25. his death certificate should havetated the cause of death was ptsd or traumatic brain injury, nots from a self-in conflicted wound. >> this story is not unique but it doesn't, also, explain the steady rise in schmitt suicides since 2004 which now exceeds the rate in the civilian population. many of the troops that have committed suicide weren't

actually suffering from ptsd. in fact, more than half, the military suicides were from troops who were never deployed in a combat zone but the inability of the veterans administration and the military to effectively identify high-risk troops and get them the treatment they need, a source of big frustration for the lawmakers on capitol hill. the bill they were debating was named for one of those troops, corporate clay hunt, a marine who was just 26 when he took his life after tours of duty in iraq and afghanistan. the bill named for him would do a number of things. it would increase the number of psychiatrists in the health service by helping to pay for their student loans change the way they classified people discharged for ptsd or traumatic brain injury and increase the i peer outreach to get help to the veterans who need it. >> jamie mcintire, thank you. let's do this now. let's take a look at other

stories making headlines across america. >> a university of california school board committee tentatively approved a tuition increase today. board members had to make their way through a crowd of student protesters to vote. they formed a human chain at the school's conference center and some said they faced aggressive force from the police trying to contain the protests behind the barricades. >> a little bit traumatized but we are staying strong, standing in solidarity. >> this increases our, i probably won't be able to go to school because i won't be able to afford it. >> the full university board has to vote on the tuition increase tomorrow. if it passes t would raise tuition as much as 28% over the next five years. a network man is expected in court today accused of pushing a stranger in front of an ongoing supway train. kevin darden is charged with second degree murder for the death of 61-year-olds wi kwok.

police arrested him yesterday. police say the motive is unclear since it doesn't seem like the two men knew each other. a federal judge has overturned the gay marriage fwhan montana allowing couples to get married immediately. a similar situation in south carolina where a judge started issuing same-sex marriages mineraling listenses. one couple wasted no tight. a judge said a court decision cleared the way for him to grant listens. the state challenges the ruling. >> a fire department is working to become the first in the nation to use drones to help fight fires. the department says drones can go where heavy machinery cannot reach into areas too dangerous for people. >> you can't get a helicopter up because of the we think but maybe get one of these up in the smaller areas to go look for those folks and find where they are at. >> the drones can be used in structure fires as well as in search and rescue missions. >> all right. maria, you are back a little bit

later? >> sure. >> you have a story about the doll again? are we going to do that? >> right. dolls and female body images. >> that's a good one. appreciate it. thank you. protests are expected today near seattle at the headquarters of alaska airlines, administrators are angry over efforts to block an increase in the minimum wage. the city raised the minimum wage to $15 an hour on january 1st, but he knewed some businesses, including airlines. alan schauffler is live at ctac ent international airport. give us a little bit of b.c. why alaska airlines? >> pretty simple, alaska is the big dog at this airport. they fly more out of here and pay the wages of more employees here than any other private company. >> that's why they are being targeted in this action tonight. as for the tiling, it comes as an airline industry group has filed another lawsuit about wages at this airport. that was filed in federal court in seattle last week the airline

industry group is saying the port of seattle did you not have the right to tell businesses operating at the airport what to pay their people which they indicated they wanted to do to raise the wages of low-level paid workers. we talked to an alaska spokesperson today who said this lawsuit is really about a lot more than just a $15 an hour minimum wage. >> the airline industry believes that we are appropriately regulated at the federal level. the concern is if a local airport authority can start setting regulations, it creates a precedent that could then lead to a patch-work of local regulations across the entire country. that would not be in the best interest of the align industry. it would create confusion and complexity that again would undercut the efforts to regulate the airline industry at the federal level. >> again, protesters say they will be outside of alaska's headquarters at 8:00 p.m. eastern tonight. they say they are ready to be arrested if that's what it takes. they want to call attention to alaska's continuing involvement in this fight and they say they

also just want to let everybody know that they are still here and still fighting. >> all right. you are going to be following that for us at ctac international airport. coming up, one of the personal stories behind the hundreds of murders in chicago. how a mom is coping with the loss and what these killings say about the cycle of violence in chicago and a $3 billion payday for a charity raises questions about the role of non-profits and the cost of drugs.

a foundation fighting the deadly cystic fibrosis disease has just made more money than any charity ever. we are talking about over $3,000,000,000. they did it by investing in a new drug. the drug is encouraging other non-profits but raising all kind of concerns. roxanna is following the story for us and has more on it. >> the cystic fibrosis foundation invested $150 million in a pharmaceutical company developing the drug and today, the foundation announced it sold its rights for more than 20 times that amount. it says it will spend that money to support more research to find a cure for cysticfibrosis. the deal has some critics. >> when i recognized that i had cystic fibrosis, i was on a playground and i started coughing.

>> about 30 thousand americans have cystic fibrosis a lung disease with no cure. the foundation describes a new drug called colidaco that slows the progression of the employees. >> when i started it, within four days, i stopped and took a deep breath in. i wasn't coughing. i could actually breathe. >> the foundation inverted in the drug's government starting 15 years ago. >> colidaco is a prescription medication used for cyst cystic fibrosis. it sold its rights for $33,000,000,000. other foundations like leukemia and lymphoma society and the national multiple sclerosis society have been involved in what's called venture philanthrop pi but the cystic fibrosis foundation is about to go the largest ever. it costs $300,000 per person per year. some critics worry the promise of big profits could lead foundations to focus more on money than patients. >> i walked in and said, i think i've got cystic fibrosis.

>> he has the disease. he says he is glad the foundation is profiting from its investment but said more should be done to make the drug less expensive. >> i think most people would agree $350,000 a year for a drug is an awful lot of money and when that is the cost for the rest of your life, it becomes unimaginable. >> in a statement, the foundation's ceo told access, while the foundation has royalty rights to these drugs, it is not involved in setting the price of them. he added, the foundation's mission remains unchanged to find a cure for cystic fibrosis. the difference is we will now be able to advance our mission at a rate never before imagined. >> another concern the deal raises is that some donors may think they don't have to supported foundations anymore. the ceo of cystic foundation if told me hopes people realize they need their donations. they raise about $130 million in donations a year. >> the $32,000,000,000?

not a bad investment for them. >> thank you. there have been 347 murders in chicago so far this year. nearly 300 of them with guns and shootings are up despite pretty strict begun laws. diane esterbrook, where are all of the guns coming from? >> reporter: well, tony, chicago police superintendent gary mccarthy says some might be stolen but he things the lion's share of them may be coming from other states like indiana which have less is string events gun laws than we have here in chicago. an individual can sell a gun and not do a background check. mccarthy thinks some may be sold here, wind up on the streets here in chicago and evened unflu some violent situations. >> what is the city doing about taking on this issue, combatting the increasing gun violence? >> it's been an ongoing problem

here in the city. .1 of the things they tried doing is putting more boots on the ground and put officers back in neighborhoods and they have also adopted some after-school programs for kids so that they are not out and not likely to get involved in gang activities. but when you talk to people in the neighborhood, one of the things that you hear over and over again, sort of an ongoing conversation is the lack of opportunity in some of these pour neighborhoods. >> yes. >> there aren't any jobs. so people are getting involved in gangs and they might actually be getting involved in gun trafficking and so, they really are looking to the city for some answers as far as providing jobs and more opportunities. >> all right, diane. diane esterbrook in chicago. earlier, i spoke with wilson dyzar, the author of the aljazeera.com piece about one family's reaction to the gun death of a loved .1. i asked him about the murder, and the aftermath. >> reporter: well, bail what happened is this guy got shot by another individual, and the

first 24 hours that his family experienced his loss were just full of basically panic and sadness. and it's jut one example of the kind of ripple of, you know, grief. >> we don't see that reported on often. we don't see the ripples often. do we? >> no. we don't. one issue is that the individual in question had a criminal record and in that case, it's hards for stories to be built around that. it's hard to build the narrative. >> yeah. yeah. yeah. but i am wondering, though. we can feel sorry for the loss of life. but is it fair that the portrait that is painted here is of a family that's trapped in a cycle of poverty? perhaps poor education, some bad decision making, and because of that, we are talking about a lack of real opportunity to break that cycle? is that part of the narrative

here? >> indeed. >> that's definitely part of the narrative. i feel, also, that the psychological consequences of gun violence play a big role in making it so that people are more likely to take out their anger really through more violence and participate in cycle did of revenge. >> so it person pet waits? >> indeed. >> is there real engagement here between the community that is impacted by this and law enforcement? >> well, when i was in chicago, i went to a press conference with if gary mccarthy in chicago and he it alluded to the idea that basically, programs for youth are necessary and for instance, this summer, everyone was all behind jackie robinson west. >> yes. terrific. right. >> you know, people would be talking about the most sad thing but when you mentioned a jackie robinson west, it was like this is a real beacon of hope for everybody. >> you can check out the full

report aftermath of a shooting, on aljazeera.com. coming up, a new take on children's dolls, with everything from cellulite to tatto tattoos. that's next and then "real money" with ali velshi. >> our series, the new cold war continues with an interview with the man who helped end soviet communism 25 years ago. lek louwenza tells us why russia is to be feared again. and uber may have sgroiven a ditch. i will examine if it can be towed out. all of that and more on "real money."

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of less than -- listen to this -- less than 1 usd or face two weeks in jail. barbie is getting some competition, a doll reflecting average size women went on sale today. back with reaction to that. anes? >> we have reported on toys aimed at improving girls' body images. today, nicolai lamb started selling what he calls dolls resembling an avenue woman? >> i wanted to show an avenue -- that average is beautiful. i looked at the website of the cdc and took the measurements of the average 19-year-old american woman, a 3d printed model is made using these measurements and this model was later painted over and photo shops to make her look like a toy doll. >> lamb crowd funded his creation posting videos of the progress along the way. he wanted to include imperfections on the body so he created stickers you can put on

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>> tonight from the front lines of the new cold war to the front lines of innovation in america, silicon valley, we are looking at powerful rich men, men that get what they want by not following the rules, but only occasionally get caught going too far. this is "real money." i'm ali velshi.