thanks for joining us and have a great weekend. >> this is al jazeera america. i'm john siegenthaler in new york. oil rices tumble, what it means for the economy and your money . budgets battle if congress. what's been done to prevent a government shutdown. crisis in the air. a computer glitch creates chaos in britain. new protests expected, latest reaction to police shootings of african americans. firearms and fine art, guns in a museum with a message.

and we begin tonight with a plunging price of oil. good news for consumers. here in the u.s., but the price of oil is hammering economies like russia that dependent on an oil communicate. financial markets, dow down about 100 points today. gas prices are the lowest in about five years. aaa says average is $2.69 a gallon down 32 cents since last month. jonathan betz is here with more. >> jonathajohn as you just ment, it's now $2.66 a gallon down a dollar since april. europe imports most of its oil. it's also seen a big drop, 74 cents in just a month. after weeks of rising prices

russia's gas has already dropped but no more than a quarter in the past few weeks. china economy has been helped, gas down nearly 70 cents there. gas prices are dropping so fast it's caught many by surprise. american drivers are rejoicing this holiday. >> i'm liking the gas prices. it helps on my wallet and helps me save some money. >> reporter: while many others are growing. oil prices are dropping like rarely seen before. now less than $60 a barrel, down nearly half since june. bringing everything from low gas prices. >> travel more, go home more. it's nice. >> to cheaper heating oil for homes. >> a lot of customers are buying more. >> reporter: such as homeowners like sylvia robinson in north carolina who is stocking up. >> i watch the prices at the gas pump to see how low they're going figuring oil is going to

go along with it. >> reporter: yet the drop is crippinging russia already struggling under sanctions. low oil prices are driving up the cost of nearly everything else. >> translator: it really scarce me like nothing else to be honest. i don't know what will be next. >> reporter: the reason: the world is simply awash in oil. in north america the shale oil boom is driving up u.s. production. the economist magazine declared it sheets versus shale. the oil minister demanded keep pumping. >> the minority of the world global production so really don't have the power to influence prices like in the past. >> neighbors like iran are furious. its economy also runs mostly on oil and its president called a

shop drop in oil prices are treachery. >> the iranians who need about a $140 price and the venezuelaians who need $120 a barrel. >> if it went to $50 a barrel i believe you would see layoffs. >> reporter: for many drivers, they can't help but smile. >> with the economy they've made plenty of money in the gas business. >> reporter: it's unclear how long this might last, opec may push back prices by limiting production. that has not begun happening. that john could stop the slide in prices. >> all right jonathan, thank you. kevin kerr, commodities trader in chicago. welcome who do you think benefits from these oil prices

now? >> well, certainly consumers, john. look this is a great holiday gift for everybody. everybody is feeling good, extra money in their pocket, gas prices aren't as high, come down considerably. 45% lower than we were for oil prices were for year. after opec said they wouldn't cut production, that really drove the price down. trading below the $60 barrel, we closed near $57 a barrel. the momentum is to keep it going lower. the consumer benefiting in america. >> gasoline prices but tell us where consumers may not see any savings. >> well, at the end of the day we are going to see the short term savings but the long term picture i don't think people are seeing. the behavior isn't changing. behaviors change when things are expensive. when we had oil up near the 95, $98 a barrel level, we saw shale oil booming. we sauterne energies coming

online, more off-shore drilling. expensive oil is what pripts prs precipitates that . now i'm going to go on vacation, now i'm going to buy an suv not a hybrid. they're going to spend that money and think prices are going to stay low but they aren't. >> we're not seeing cheap are flights on airlines are we? >> well, you know the airlines, that's going to be really interesting. consumers are probably going to push back a lot with the airlines because those added fees that came in were all based on this higher oil price. hopefully travelers will get a break and airlines will say we will take back those charges since the fuel is cheaper.

but i don't think they'll do that, they're making a lot of money on that. >> what about 401(k)s, don't travel and transportation and depending on their business, right? >> absolutely. beer seeing a big pickup for mid western factories are really benefiting right now for some reason and that's because of these low prices. they're seeing the benefit immediately and of course many businesses will benefit for the short term. again i do not believe that opec can hold out for very long. it's a game of chicken right now for the shale oil producers, their break even is 60 or 70. a lot of the weaker players will get shaken out. iran is desperate, everybody kind of loses all around with prices down here. it's just who is going to blink

first? the shale miners or shale producers or opec? we don't know who is going to predict first. >> it's your prediction how long will these prices last? >> i think for first term, early in the first quarter we are going to continue to see prices dip. we could get below $50 and there might be a tipping point where opec willing say, okay, this has got to stop. but opec is certainly under a lot of pressure so they're going to have to cut production at some point. as soon or late or how long they can hold on is anybody' anybody. but this is could be a breakup of opec, there are those who are suffering including iran. >> kevin, thank you very much, good to see you. on capitol hill, the senate debates a $1.1 trillion spending bill to keep the government running. getting push back from democrats

including the president. mike viqueria is more from the white house. mike. >> john, the strange bed fellows this bill has produced. president obama in league with john boehner and jamie dimon, twisting arms trying to get this bill passed. who are they against? nancy pelosi, the democratic leader in congress and inserted in this massive bill, $1 trillion bill you said john to fund the government, next october the 1st, sliched into so it, the dodd frank bill, it's rolling back certain provisions in that, loosening regulations for big firms like citigroup on wall street. elizabeth warren took the floor and took out after citigroup,

here is what she had to say. >> here we are, five years after dodd frank with congress on the verge of ramming through a provision that would do nothing for middle class. do nothing for community banks. do nothing but raise the risk that taxpayers will have to bail out the biggest banks once again. >> reporter: so despite the democratic insurrection, both house and senate, the bill is expected to clear the senate, the only question is when. they're still debating, it could stretch into early next week or this weekend. >> thank you mike. a computer glitch led to partial closure of air space today. investigation into the specific cause of the ongoing is of the issue is ongoing. the u.k.'s air traffic control center does not suspect it was a

victim of a hack. dozens of flights were affected. we turn to our science and technology editor jacob ward. jake. why are these so vulnerable? >> these are woefully out of date i am not kidding. if you wondered for instance why it is the gate agents seem in a rush to get you seated and on the tarmac and you sit there in a line waiting to take off, the systems are not coordinated, it is one blind handoff after another. it is not prepared to handle an increase from 700 million passengers from the u.s. right now to well over a billion in 2021. entering a sprawling and complex system, it's quite asafe with only 0.2 major accidents per million passengers but the national air space is very inefficient. >> it's a manual process, starts

at the gate with a ramp controller and he or she will then hand them off to a tower controller for the airport surface and they will be held off to another controller in the departure or arrival area, and very likely many en route chromers. >> reporter: since no central controller coordinates those workers, the faa is working on one that will. the agency has commissioned nasa to build new tracking software for it. the system will replace the radar based ground control with gps, a technology capable of tracking every train. right now the system relies on humans handing to one another, which means it's impossible to coordinate in advance. >> these are limitations of the human mind, they can't plan far

enough ahead. >> we still use strips of paper to denote the planes we're in and the gates we're at. nasa will replace that system, with a recommendation when i leave the gate but then they have to integrate all of that with what the air traffic control tower is doing then you have to add in the en route process and the arrival process on the other end and you are looking at an incredibly difficult system to upgrade. >> the amount of fuel they're burning and the time they're paying their crew to operate the aircraft. >> reporter: most planes already have several easts of the necessary equipment such as adsb, the gps system that louse next jen to do away with radar. if next gen comes together by 2020, it will be practically impossible to lose track of a commercial flight in the united

states. john, today's system is fragmented, it is a patch work of 22 air rowrt traffi route trs in the country. that's why one area in chicago did such damage, under that center's supervision that had a cascading effect across the country. next gen would in theory make it possible to control aircraft anywhere in the country from anywhere in the country. which means the flients wouldn't bflight wouldn'tbe interrupted. but the system hasn't changed substantially since the 1950s. >> a fragile system obviously, jake is thanks so much. in peru negotiators have extended talks as they try to agree on a treaty. in lima secretary of state john

kerry said delay is no longer an option. >> more than half of global emissions, more than half, are coming from developing nations. so it is imperative that they act, too. and at the end of the day, if nations do chootion the energy y systems of the past over the energy systems of the future they will be missing out on the opportunity to build the kind of economy that will be the economy of the future. >> today was supposed to be the last day of the lima climate convention but talks continued past the end of official business. up next, covert hip hop, why authorities infiltrated cuba's rap scene and the hacking group anonymous. untold stories of the valor... >> they opened fire on

the english officers... >> sacrifice... >> i order you to die... >> and ultimate betrayal... drawing lines in the sand that would shape the middle east and frame the conflict today >> world war one: through arab eyes continues episode three: the new middle east on al jazeera america

>> start with one issue ad guests on all sides of the debate. and a host willing to ask the tough questions and you'll get... the inside story ray suarez hosts inside story weekdays at 5pm et / 2pm pt only on al jazeera america >> now disclosures where scaled so-called enhanced interrogation

techniques. involved cuban rappers to disrupt communist rule in cuba. andy gallagher reports. >> they call themselves los aldianos but this duo may be more than musicians. according to new documents, they were aimed at fueling political unrest in cuba and spread a message of advertise sent. it is claimed a program was backfired. paid for the development agency as u.s. aid, said to have been inspired by serbian protest concerts that helped oust sloab slobodan milocevich years ago.

on at least six occasions, putting innocent cuban artists at loggerheads with the cuban authorities. u.s.aid told the program was never a secret. the state department said safety of these involved was a responsibility of contractors. >> we recognize that ordinary cubans run the risk of upsetting cuban authorities by participating in initiatives and for that reason these efforts were managed with appropriate discretion so it was the responsibilities of the grantee. >> not the first time u.s. a.i.d. was accused. older cuban americans in miami programs like it are welcomed. >> i believe firmly that anything that can be done along those lines, praptsd no, perhaph

u.s. a.i.d. but anything that could be done is a good thing. >> reporter: the critics say u.s. efforts to undermine the cuban government are simply counterproductive. >> all it does is continue to bring out the worst in the cuban regime, a government that is very regressive, fo fomenting me mistrust. >> the program which ran for two years has now been closed down but those critical of it fear the only ones who will suffer now are cuba's real musicians. andy gallagher, al jazeera, florida. >> for years the federal government has pressured james risen, to reveal who gave him

the information for his book. the justice department said, attorney general eric hoarble hs determined risen is nod required to reveal his source. >> they've had nor leak investigations and more leak prosecutions and have jailed more people, in connection with stories that have appeared in the media, than any other administration ever has. they have cracked down on reporters, in various ways, over the last few years, as well as whistle blowers and they have tried to shut off the flow of information. information from the government to the people. which is the whole point of the first amendment. >> the government wanted risen's testimony for the trial of a former cia official accused of leaking classified information. this week several people

linked to bernie madoff's multibillion dollar scheme, sentenced to jail, but the defendants received less prison time than prosecutors wanted. daniel bonventure received the longest sentence, ten years. madoff's personal assistant tells her story in the al jazeera documentary, "in god we trust." >> we're not one of the big guisguysthat lost all our money. we lost our savings. >> we have lost everything, i have lost everything and you have lost everything. >> people have killed themselves, people have lost their health. >> $50 billion. >> $50 billion gone vanished and there are allegations that this long-running business was in fact a giant pon i.s ponzi sche.

>> banks all over the world all put money with bernard mad >> elie weitel, nobel laureate, this man had stolen all his money. >> the man has stolen life the hard work of so many people, people immigrants, jews, christians, muslims, a microkiosk over the world. >> my name is eleanor, and for the last 25 years i was bernie madoff's secretary. i discovered there was more to the man around the crime than i could ever have imagined playing out just 15 feet from my desk. the morning after the arrest i had come into work, the phones were going crazy, the fax

machine, one woman called in and sobbing and didn't know how she was going to pay her bills and she didn't know what she was going to do. there were so many people. they are left feeling victimized and ashamed especially older people. and all they wanted to know was, what should they do? so you tried to do what you could. and it pretty much was not much. >> sir, why did you do it? anything to say to your victims? >> i was going to do something about it. i at any time know what. but i was going to do everything i could to help the authorities. i knew that i was the person that worked directly for him and i knew that in my file there had to be stuff that would be helpful. >> eleanor is the ultimate pot of gold. she's honest. she knows all the players. she could basically teach you as an investigator the landscape of this business. >> they would create a phony spreadsheet on this old ibm

as-400. and they would create a phony portfolio on the spreadsheet and each month, you know, it would show a gain. and mail them out to investors every month. >> white collar crime destroys lives. and it can happen to any one of us. >> part 1 of the document in god we trust airs at the top of the hour and you can see the conclusion sunday night at 9:00 eastern time. up next on this broadcast, the woman behind the at which timer hashtag. plus. >> i'm allen schauffler in class with the macaw nation. in remote washington. >> this is al jazeera america,i.

the hashtag. >> when i first started seeing black lives matter signs it felt like an honor. >> meet the woman who helped start a growing national movement. helping young native americans. the remote reservation that refuses to wait for government help. plus going public, the former hacker from anonymous emerges

from the shadows with a warning. >> i want to emphasize that. >> and guns as art. artists make a statement about violence in america. >> tomorrow, thousands of people will take to the streets in several major cities including washington, d.c. and new york. they're demanding new laws to end what they call racially discriminatory law enforcement practices. tom ackerman has more from washington. >> on the steps of the u.s. capital this week black staffers from congress walked out to show their frustration at the deaths of unarmed black men at the hands of police officers. >> forgive o go our contribution to national pathology. >> the latest expression defense white power at the center of government. the 1963 march on washington, best remembered by martin luther

king jr.'s i have a dream speech, calling an end to police violence unleashed in southern states to suppress those demanding voting rights and integrated public places. two decades later with those laws on the books so-called million man march focused on black men's self image and their knead to stand up for themselves, and police abuse. >> that idea is pe pervasive in police departments across the country. and it is getting worse not better because white supremacy is not being challenged. >> that turnout in washington has not been duplicated in size. but mark a new chapter in protest. >> the fact that we've seen young folks protesting sustained for three months, i would argue that we haven't seen this kind of protest energy in the united states, in clearly young black and brown folks since the

antiapartheid movement of the 1960s. >> lost their way in pushing for change. >> gefntion police pursue data tipped into excuse-making for criminal behavior. racial politics could cut both ways. >> obama's comments, a warning that white backlash could blunt further progress. while polls show that most americans consistently oppose racial profiling there is a sharp division between whites and blacks over the recent cases of police inflicted deaths. about two-thirds of blacks say race was a major factor in local grand juries decisions not to indict officers in missouri and new york. but less than one in five whites believe race played a significant role. it's that disparity in attitude between the races that

protesters have only begun to reckon with. tom ackerman, al jazeera, washington. >> one phrase keeps showing up on signs, black lives matter. the phrase that has inspired a movement. >> my name is alicia garza and i'm one of the co-creators of black lives matter. black lives matter was started as a conversation on facebook. between myself and patrice colors and opal tometti and we were responding to the grief and the rage and the frustration of zimmerman being acquitted for the death of trayvon martin, collaborate strategy and take action together offline. people are coming together to really demand transformation.

what feels incredible about this moment is that there is a new convening and coalescing of young people and elders who are united in our quest to live in safe and healthy communities, to live in communities that are not militarized and to be better in the way that we live together. when i first started seeing black lives matter signs in ferguson, it felt -- it felt like an honor. it felt like a reflection of the relationships that we had built. and it felt authentic. and felt like it was bigger than us. and this it was a real battle cry that people in ferguson were fighting for their lives. and black people everywhere are fighting for our lives. when i see signs like i can't

breathe and hands up don't shoot, in addition to black lives matter, it feels like a poignant reminder that we have a lot of work to do. to make sure that black lives are valued in this country. this moment feels different to me. because we've had some experience now. there's been a lot of really powerful work that's been happening for a long time that's brought us to this moment. this isn't the first time that people have responded to police brutality. and we say that ferguson is everywhere, right? what i see for this movement, moving forward, is that it gets larger and larger. and i do fundamentally believe that there will be some major transformations that will happen. >> some that have marched in recent weeks have their own stories to tell. sean and benjamin were both

arrested while protesting the grand jury decision in the death of eric garner last week. how were you treated differently by police sean? >> i was arrested and they put the handcuffs around my arms. they immediately took me but they told benjamin that he can go. just get out of here which was painful for me to even listen and continue to talk about it. because you know, the fact that we're out here protesting the very thing that they're doing, they're showing how black lives and brown lives are treated differently than white lives. >> you were there right together. >> right together doing the same exact thing. >> were you anticipating this would happen, you were going to test the system or not? >> i wouldn't say test the system but we knew we would be arrested. >> we certainly weren't expecting to receive different treatment. that's what was so shocking

about the whole thing. >> you were there -- >> i was watching and the two officers ripped him away and another officer came and took me and at that moment, i was thinking i'm going to be arrested. i was fully anticipating my own arrest and the officer said get out of there. >> you said you were treated a different way because you were a different color than ben. >> the bible tells us god creates everyone in his image however in america that doesn't come across to a lot of people. black people are put into these statistics and stereotypes, that leave them dead like t irvetioimar riceand akan girly. >> the consequences stack up again and again and again. you have to say there's something greater and systemic going on.

>> sean, how painful this is to talk about, and what affected you that day and that night? >> this is painful because this is not the only time that the color of my skin has left me like i'm criminalized. i get the looks on the subway trains, the women clutching their purses as i walk by and people saying nasty things to me and my family because of my skin color. they don't know who i am, they look at my skin color and they think i'm less of a person or i'm a monster or something that would make me feel shamed or dehumanized. >> this was something you knew about because you knew sean or others or are you just learning about these protests? >> i don't think anybody -- if you really have your eyes open in america right now i don't think you can look and see that black and white lives are not treated equality in this country. >> you've never experienced anything like that right? >> no because i'm white.

>> aas you watched him go through it what was the experience like for you? >> well, honestly, it creates a real sense of shame. it creates a sense of shame because i was raised to believe in a country that doesn't exist. i was told you know in elementary school that under the constitution, all lives are considered equal and yet i saw them take sean's pen away from him because it was a weapon and yet they left mine on me. >> you both wrote an op ed piece for huflgh hught huffington pos. you think those police officers who arrested you, watching you are reading -- they're thinking about your skin. they're talking about your skin color, thinking about treating you different than you because

of who you are. do you think that this is so engrained in their head they're not even thinking about it? >> i will say you know we're not blaming police officers, you know we recognize that they are operating under a racist structure. the structure and the system is racist you know, there's a problem, there's a defect in the way you know they're trained. so we recognize that so we're not blaming all officers, we're not blaming specifically our officers we are blaming there's a system and there's a structure that is set up to treat black lives differently. >> i agree with you. i don't think it's necessarily a conscious decision, the officer looks and say that's a black guy and that's a white guy but at the end of the day that is the same thing. >> exactly. >> what do you achieve going forward and what do you plan to to in the coming months? >> i'm an ordained minister in

the baptist church. i'm the minister of youth and empowerment, continue to empower them to be all they can be, continue to empower them to know they are created equal in the eyes of god and that should be the same for the eyes of man. >> if there was a camera that day when you guys were arrested do you think it would help explain what you're talking about? if people had been able to see what you had experience what you experience? >> perhaps. but ten again there was a camera present the -- but then again there was a camera present the day eric garner was killed. no matter if you show them directly in front of them. >> sean and ben, thank you for sharing your story, we appreciate it. the white house launched a new initiative to improve the lives of native americans. allen schauffler traveled to the

renote makah nation on the washington coast. ♪ >> louie vitala's third graders sing the makah version of the 12 days of christmas. at the northwest tip of the continental u.s., the remote school is a source of pride. >> after i graduated i volunteered here and i read with older students who couldn't read and got pretty upset about it and decided i wanted to do something about it. >> she is an example of what makes this 95% native american schoolwork. a former student who cared enough to come back home and help. there are very few operational details and no new funding sources identified in the president's generation indigenous initiative. but it does stress the importance of including native culture in classes and putting more control over local schools in the hands of tribal leaders. >> telling someone to go outside

is quaiik. >> studying the original makah language is required, students build modern version ever ancient canoes. and until the tribe paid to bring in modern broadband just a month ago, the tribe relied on dial up internet access. the obama administration estimates federally run indian schools need nearly a billion dollars in basic repairs and upgrades. only about 50% of native american students graduate from high school. >> don't depress me with those statistics. i'll tell you the good statistics of students who are passion tests and learning their language. >> sit at lunch with joshua and you'll people the opt mitchell. the group tells me the tribe

expects them to succeed. >> they are pushing for kids to go off to college and apply it here where it counts. >> the makah made budgets changes six years ago to focus on learning. >> i bear a responsibility and this body bears a responsibility to make a better future for those that come after us in the leadership. >> would you rather act than wait for more outside help? >> absolutely. yes. >> reporter: back in nuey's classroom the next generation including her daughter moves ahead. if current rates hold 86% will graduate on time from high school. >> what about when you see one of your former students graduate? >> it makes me want to cry because i'm so proud. >> allen schauffler, neah bay, washington. >> hacking to sony employees. reports say a message flashed on some company computer screens

warning that the hackers plan to do more damage. they've already released private e-mail conversations between top company officials. some believe the hackers are tied to north korea which is upset about an upcoming sony movie about a north korean assassination plot. the online hack group anonymous has carried out international cyber-attacks on corporations and government including our own. one former high profile member named hector sabu monsagur was once a top hacker who became an fbi informant. monsagur told me knew h me knews going to get caught. >> the ancient hackers in the '80s and so on, most of them got caught so you expect it and once you start hacking i guess there is a point of no return, you're thought coming back, you're getting caught

eventually. >> by getting involved in anonymous what did that mean? >> anonymous is not what it is. it's not what people think it is. it is an idea that has deterred stayed away from what it was supposed to be. once you had the i.rc servers up once you had twitter up, once you centralized the movement the idea has already flown. >> how did you get involved in what was going on in the arab spring? >> at the height of the tunisian uprising, all governments went down in and outside tunisia. i went on a full scale attack on the tunisian infrastructure. >> you liked that? >> i thought i was doing something great. >> you got in trouble. >> i did, that is one of my charges. >> tell me about what happened when you were approached by the fbi. >> they said, we know who you

are we know what you're doing. they sat me down, they said we know you did this, that. the evidence they had at the time was only for like one charge. i could have fought my charge if they didn't try to extort me with the children. >> you saying you didn't do it? >> did what? >> that you didn't commit crimes? >> i didn't say i didn't, i did commit crimes. >> you started this deal and you started working for them as an informant. >> i cooperated. they said do what you do, be sabu. my computer was logged. whenever somebody would hit me up, message would fly back, we just hacked into the department of justice, or the fbi -- >> they would see it? >> they would see it immediately. >> jeremy hamm who was a -- >> he was a random hacker.

>> serving ten years in prison. did you help put him away? >> no. we had conversation but i never asked jeremy how can i, i need something out of you can you give me information, none of that ever happened. >> he says you entrapped him by helping him hack into government-run websites. >> well, you know that's a good argument for an attempt at an appeal but i didn't entrap him. >> you know this anonymous has said and let me just quote, we believe any attempt to paint sabu as a victim in this case are wrong. sabu was not a victim, but a willing participant in taking some anons, next individuals but in sabu's position. how do you respond? >> i respond well this is a situation we're at, right? they were the same people that were like we lathe the united

states government and we hate fox news. but as soon as fox news and the government came out with this propaganda theory, they instant ate the spoon-fed rechewed story. how did the government destroy a movement without a hierarchy without leaders, you tell them they do have a leader, sabu is a leader, look what happened to anonymous post-my arrest, post-my exposure. i.t. wasn't what it was when i was involved. they're not doing what we're doing. >> how vulnerable are americans to this kind of hacking? >> there is no security. >> there is no security? >> there is no security whatsoever. there is no security. >> even the government? >> i mean i think we frofd point right? not only did we -- proved a pont right, the same people that are paid to protect the government, we hacked. i think that's a good lesson.

>> bank accounts? >> bank accounts? >> you hacked bank account? >> what's the point of hacking a bank account when you could just hack the bank, understand? >> you're pretty proud of that right? >> i'm not proud of -- >> proud of your abl ability too that? >> it's not pride, it's a skill, knowledge, something i have. >> i can't do it. you are saying plenty of people can. >> you can, it's about understanding security of course there's got to be ethics and values. >> why not go to silicon valley and get a job? >> because they don't trust me. i would love to work for anybody that wants to you know approach me would say hey i would love to hire you we think you could have good skills we could put to use. i'm open to that. but to answer your question we

have no security. i want to emphasize people want to accept that. that's the first step to fixing our problem and the major issue is with the government. the government needs to stop paying federal contractors billions of dollars a year to secure us when they're getting hacked themselves, you understand. >> you're no longer helping the government? >> i haven't seen an fbi agent since march 12, 2006, when i got exposed. it's a great thing i'm trying to move on with my life. >> hector thank you for sharing your story, we appreciate it. >> thank you, i appreciate it too. >> guns seen through the eyes of artists.

>> one storm system continues to track inland. from the west coast this storm brought record high temperatures for about six days. all along the west coast it sprouted record rainfall, had

incredible wind power and we're seeing problems alt along the west coast, california, oregon, washington, british columbia, the next storm lined up, however this timed out a little differently. if you look closely you can see where we're getting that moisture, what we call the pineapple express. all that moisture tapping in south of the tropics and all we need is a front to lift up that moisture and dump more than enough rainfall. california definitely in a drought condition needs some rain. we just want it to be stretched out over a long period of time so it absorbs more into the ground and starts to refill the groundwater supply which is a developing science. we're still studying that as it goes. you can see here from the rain amounts we have estimated up to satellite up to eight inches in the mountains and the coast of california. we had more than twice the daily record for fresno for rainfall and bakersfield, three times the amount of rainfall of a record

set in 1951. record-breaking and flood continues in parts of california along with a landslide risk that will continue for the rest of the week. lancheal jazeera america news continues.

>> artists from around the country are taking aim at the problem of gun violence. they are transforming guns taken off of new orleans streets and creating a provocative new exhibit. >> each piece designed to tell a personal story or make a bold statement. >> there are three different perspectives on the issue of guns and gun violence in our country. >> new orleans has long ranked as one of america's deadliest cities, jonathan ferrara was compelled to create this exhibit. >> you have conversations about the second amendment. you have conversations about murder. you have conversations about solutions, you have conversations about who cares. >> consider the artists from

around the country use decommissioned firearms taken off the city streets as raw materials. ferrara had to work closely with the new orleans police department. >> when i walked in they said, you whatnot to do what with these guns? i met with the evidence department and selected 186 guns. >> this chain is made from slices of the barrel of a shotgun. >> debra lester is afternoon award winning photographer, her mother was killed in a home invasion more than 20 years ago. >> if you ask a question there's another person on the other side. >> another piece called one hot month uses guns superimposed over 30 faces, summer of 2002 where someone was murdered nearly every day in new orleans. >> first you see the guns and then you see the faces of the people and then you realize that these are obituaries and it is a

whole month of death. >> i'm not trying to give you an answer. i'm trying to encourage you to look for your own answers. >> some messages are clear. there's a map of new orleans, map of more than 100 people killed in the city this year. and small bullets. >> what is happening in this country that this happens the on a regular basis? >> this exhibit has become the gallery's most popular to date. jonathan ferrara stresses this is not an antigun exhibit but is designed to press a discussion surrounding guns outside a highly politicized reason. a room filled with art, that's one step in the right direction. jonathan martin, al jazeera, new orleans. >> coming up on our broadcast, legendary journalist gay talese.

>> i believe among all the professions including the medical profession and the business profession and the clerical profession, i think within journalism you have people within a larger number trying to avoid lies. lies are a part of educational life and political life and wall street and even the clergy but i think per square yard there are fewer liars in a journalism city room than any other comparable space environment. pure liars, when there are liars such as jason blair the new york times some years ago, it is really the people within the office that call him out and fire him. they destroy the career of two outstanding editors the new york times because of jason blare, the executive director editor and the manager were kicked out because of this. you have to respect the pursuit of truth, not 100% but i think the profession has always been trying to get at the truth and i

think that's a great thing. >> more of my interview and the rest of the day's news, tonight at 11 eastern time. now our picture of the day, from california, wild weather. look at this, you can only see the top of the house. mostly covered by debris from a mudslide. 2 dozen homes were damaged there. that's our broadcast. thank you for watching. we'll be back here at 11:00 eastern time. the bernie madoff documentary, in god we trust, ask coming up next. we'll see you later tonight.