s. >> even if the government just turned a blind eye, and didn't do anything about it, then you have to start questioning the whole system. >> [rapping] this is los angeles. >> [rapping] crack in the system. >> [rapping] this is los angeles. >> this is aljazeera america. i'm john siegenthaler. key stone vote, senate bill one as amended is passed. >> the senate approves a new pipeline bill. the battle's brewing with the white house over the energy and economy. >> proof of life, the new demand from jordan as another isil deadline passes and two lives hang in the balance. >> mexico blast explosion at a

maternity hospital leaves a mother and child dead. >> an on air scare the dutch man carrying a fake gun determined to make news. we begin in washington and the showdown between the president and republicans over key stone. the senate pass add bill today prove that go key stone xl oil pipeline the house pass add similar bill early they are month. a version that have plan could reach the white house as soon as next week and the president has threatened to kill it. we have a report. >> senate bill one as amended is passed. >> less than a month after retaking control of congress, republicans in the senate have fulfilled a campaign promise make the ketone xl pipeline a priority, senate voting in favor of the project. only nine of the 44 senate democrats crossed the i'll.

the massive multi-billion dollars venture is slated to transport canadian tar sand oil through nebraska then to louisiana and the gulf of mexico. republicans frustrated by what they see as an administration dawdling are calling it a victory for job creation. >> we're hoping the president upon reflection will agree to sign on to a bill that his state department says could create up to 42,000 jobs. his state department says creates little or no impact on the environment. >> opposing democrats worried about the environmental impacts and say the job creation numbers are grossly overinflated. >> it's clear there are not the votes to override in the house and senate and we'll see what happens after that. >> the house passed its own version and now must pass the senate's tweak version or both houses will have to find a

compromise. >> it's likely to be symbolic with the president view to go cito. there aren't enough votes to overcome the veto. the president is expected to make his own decision. >> >> why would the republicans put this first on the agenda when the president threaten to say veto? >> president obama can go back to his base and say look at what he's doing to protect the environment. basically, it's cheap politics from both sides ultimately both sides are revealing a basic misunderstanding of economics because this is what this is all

about, a misunderstanding of economics. >> clearly no compromise here. does this stay a dead issue for two more years? >> i think it probably does and that's probably what both sides want because they can make ate campaign issue in 2016. what's got to be stressed is assuming the pipeline's built whether it is or not this oil is coming to the united states. president obama would like us to believe that if the pipeline's not built the canadian oil won't reach the united states. of course it will, it just will in other ways. republicans would like us to believe if the oil doesn't come here it's going to somehow drive up the price or the oil go to china. the oil is going to flow to the united states either way. the pipeline is just another way for it to do it. both sides are being dishonest. >> the president blocked some drilling in alaska and pitched a plan to drill off the atlantic. what's the message he's sending?

>> it's hard to say what he's sending there because really what's the difference? i think it's more of the same politics. my guess is he thinks the drilling won't take place in the first place. what needs to be stressed is either way the oil market is global. whether we drill in the u.s. or not and i for one am for drilling if the market supports it. it's not going to change the price of oil. we are talk about a very deep global market for it. >> both sides calling to work together during the state of the union. should we assume this is just more of the same? >> absolutely. i tend to think that's a beautiful thing, but the reality is neither party is going to pursue any substantial legislation over the next two years or better yet neither

party is going to pass any substantial legislation. ultimately, i think that's bullish for the economy. i think that the electorate clearly wanted gridlock, because it is the greatest path to growth at this point. >> wait, wait, wait, let me stop you. you say it's a beautiful thing and that the country wanted gridlock they voted for gridlock. explain. >> well, they clearly voted for it. they have a democratic in the white house and they have republicans in control of the two houses, and what you get with that is that neither party can accomplish much at all. >> why would the american people vote to do that? >> well, let's look at the last 12-14 years when republicans had control they did a really lousy job talked a big game about shrinking the size of government yet the fact opposite occurred. they made a lot of mistakes that led to what happened in 2008. when the democrats got control they didn't do much better, they

doubled down on the republican policies of bailout and then added their own where they decided to try to create a market for health care out of thin air. that didn't work well. when you have a choice between two inept parties economically, really the best one is to put them together such that they can't do anything, so notice how with gridlock, realistically over the last two years the economy's started to recover and that's what one would expect when the two parties can't do any damage one get real economic growth. >> interesting. interesting point of view. not sure i gray with you but interesting point of view. thank you very much. >> the fate of two men held hostage by isil still unclear tonight. a proposed prisoner swap stalled for a second day. jordan wants proof of life or no deal. >> the call to prayer as the sun goes down, a somber moment in jordan because this had been a

deadline set by the isil hostage takers over the fate of a pilot. isil said that this woman if not taken off death row then it would kill the jordanian pilot. jordan demanded proof from isil, known in arabic as daish that the pilot was still alive. >> jordan is willing to exchange the woman prisoner for the pilot. at this point we want to emphasize that we have asked for proof of life from daish and we have not received anything as of yet. >> isil had wanted to exchange him for japanese filmmaker, and japan's government has a special envoy in jordan trying to make things work. as ordered by the foreign

minister we continue to collect information analyze and share it. we in the government are working at one for the early release. >> it's unclear whether there was ever any real hope of a three way deal. the family belong to a big influential tribe here in southern jordan. this is the gathering point for friends and family, wait to go hear some form of news. there's an anger here that jordan became involved with the alliance against isil. >> the pilot's brother had this to say: >> i think this war is not our war here, and all jordanian citizens said this statement and now i'm very sad about my brother, the situation but i believe god will -- i hope he will come back here to his

parents, to his home. >> so the lives of a jordanian pilot, japanese filmmaker and a would-be suicide bomber are all at stake. jordan and japan ever competing interests in getting their citizens reds and isil will play the next hand. al jazeera in southern jordan. >> the woman is at the center of isil's demands. she has been imprisoned in jordan for nearly a decade. we have her story. >> a few days before the attacks on hotels in jordan, the woman got married but it wasn't for love. the union was intended to give her husband access to a wedding where the couple in tended to commit mass murder. for more than nine years this wham has been on death row in a jordanian prison, front and center is a possible prisoner

swap with isil. >> in 2005, she and her husband attacked a muslim wedding party in jordan. both of them were wearing explosive belts like this one. his detonated killing 60 people. hers didn't. she escaped but was captured, convicted and sentenced. analysts say she showed no remorse. >> she had absolutely no qualms going into a wedding which there were sunni muslim women and children. >> "the new york times" reports she has close tie to say al-qaeda in iraq, the organization that gave rise to isil. one of her brothers was an aid to al-qaeda leader al zarqawi killed by u.s. forces. her brothers were killed by u.s. forces. she became a suicide bomber to avenge her brothers' deaths. no one considered her an important player, but she may now be seen as an inspiration to isil followers as one of the first female suicide bombers.

>> it may lead women who are inspired by her to emulate not being a wife or caregiver but an actual matterrer. >> friends spoke out on line against the prisoner swap: others including the groom disagree. i don't think she's very important. if it's 100% sure to get the pilot back, we support this. >> the groom says if the woman is released, he expects that she will try again to become a suicide bomber. >> an attack in afghanistan today left three american contractors dead. the shooting happened on a military base connected to kabul airport. an afghan national was also

killed. the shooter may have been an afghan soldier. so-called insider attacks remain a major threat to coalition forces in that country. >> a tragic scene in mexico city today, a maternity hospital was leveled by a natural gas explosion. at least three people were killed among them a woman and her newborn baby. we have more from mexico city. >> this is a children's and maternity hospital. much of the believe collapsed following the explosion apparently caused by a leak in the hose of a gas delivery truck. there have been some deaths, and more than 60 injured. many by flying glass. rescue teams are looking for patients and staff who may be trapped in the roll. the hospital's been cordoned off, but all day we've seen large numbers of police, rescue workers, doctors and the armed forces going in and out in what has been quite an impressive mobilization by mexican

authorities. mexico's minister was quickly on to the scene. >> the hospital is completely damaged. they are moving rubble to see how many people, if there are still injured people there. there still isn't an official number of the people dead or injured. the babies were transferred to hospitals in another sector. the secretary is going over there at this moment. there still isn't an exact number of deaths. >> the maternity wing of the hospital had dozens of newborns. these pictures carried on a local t.v. station give some idea of the difficult and dangerous conditions that the rescuers have faced. doctors and nurses have done what they can to help. ambulances which normally bring in to people here have been carrying those caught up in the explosion to other hospitals in the area. authorities ask for blood donation to say help treat the many injured. this is not the first devastating goose explosion in mexico. two years ago, 25 people died in

a blast on a highway north of the city. while much of the capitol said gas continues to be delivered by truck, there's also the danger of more accidents. >> a death row inmate who said defense attorney says he was mentally impaired has been executed in texas. robert ladd was killed by lethal injection tonight. his i.q. of 67 was within the threshold of mental impairment. he was convicted in 1996 for the murder of a woman. she had been beaten with a hammer strangled and set on fire. >> a chilling new video shows the death of a teenager by police shot and killed inside a police station. the department is defendion itss but the girl's family and parts of the community say it did not have to end that way. >> this happened to a 17-year-old girl with no criminal history who's friends and family describe as quirky

and on facebook expressed her love of u.f.o.'s. she was also mentally ill. no one knows what drove her to the police station thursday, but that is where she met her death. >> the 17-year-old entered the long view pleas station lobby at 6:28 p.m. she picks up the after hours phone on the wall and tells a dispatcher she needs help, to see an officer. moments later an officer enters. a police spokeswoman reviewed what happens next. >> going to attempt to talk to her at this point she holds her hand up, she has "i have a gun" written on her hand. >> there is a struggle to secure her. notice an eight-inch long bumper knife was tucked into her waist band. she gets up, the officer throws her to the ground. the officer jumps up without putting her in handcuffs. a second officer enters with his

taser drown joint by a third officer moments later. police used the taser. it doesn't stop her. they fire five rounds and she collapses. the shots are fatal. long view's police chief said the legal use of force was justified. >> the officers went right to how they were trained what they did is what they were trained for. >> but the deadly police shooting the third in a year has shaken the community. her aunt tells the website her niece had bipolar disorder and attempted suicide twice. she says it was a cry for help and something could have been done to save this young life. >> the three officers are now on paid administrative leave the texas rangers investigating the shooting. the case will be forwarded to the local d.a.'s office. this was the 30 fatal police shooting this town of 81,000 in a year. one victim from last year was a

15-year-old boy and police were not indicted in that case. >> tensions still simmering in st. louis after the shooting death of michael brown. a brawl broke out today at a meeting to talk about the creation of a civilian police oversight board in st. louis. people started shouting and shoving when several police officers started to speak. there were no arrests but the meeting was cut short. >> coming up on this broadcast cuban president castro has a list of demands for the united states. what he's likely to get as the two countries return to the negotiating table.

>> senators want to see the ban on u.s. travel to cuba

permanently lifted. legislation from four democrats and four republicans would end that ban but it's unclear whether the bill will come up for a senate vote. it was introduced on a day where cuban president made his own demands for negotiations with the u.s. he wants to see the trade embargo lifted and base at guantanamo bay returned to his country. a professor of black and latino studies and author joins us. i know you've been to cuba many tiles, right? >> yes sir. >> what do you think of the president's, of president castes comments? >> i see it as one of two things either saber rattling to impress domestic constituencies in cuba, but probably more latin america countries who need reassurance that cuba's not going to become too friendly too fast with the united states. he may be searching for other

pretexts to remind everyone we're still enemies and need to go slow. i think the engagement is a potential threat, because it changes the dynamics on the island. it's been convenient for cuba to have an enemy and he is right to point out that there is still a lot of water to go under the bridge but i think it's important to see it in that light. >> it's been tough for cuba's economy though and they're appointing people in cuba who would like to see better relations with the united states. >> absolutely. >> what advantage that doesn't give him much advantage with the people, does it? >> no, but cuba is a dictatorship. he doesn't have to get reelected. the hardliners within the government need to open up and maintain control that's their priority not the cuban people's necessarily, right? the ally that is he has in latin

america are key constituents that he needs to reassure. >> this sounds like fidel castro and you sort of wonder whether or not maybe he feels like he was perceived as too easy on the united states when this was announced. >> i think that could be it, but also he's trying to rattle the sabes to get more leverage when they go into the next round of talks to say this isn't going to be easy and we have demands. some demands are likely to be met not as demands but negotiating points. cuba will be taken off the list of state sponsored terrorism. i think some of his other demands are more beating the drum and beating his chest to show that cuba will not bow down to the united states. >> what's the difference between

normalized conditions and diplomatic relations. diplomatic is having an ambassador in either one's country so that you can talk, but normalized relations is really something that's only going to happen over a long period of time. when he said i want these things to happen, many thought we're not even going to have diplomatic relations until you do this. he was saying we are going to have diplomatic relations. >> just the beginning of the discussions here. it's good to have you on the program. >> fabulous to be with you. >> more many american businesses, the new relationship between the u.s. and cuba could represent a big sails opportunity. we have that story. >> american businesses have been cut off from trade with cuba for more than half a century. many americans still see the

communist reseem as an enemy. for this fourth generation louisiana farmer, it's promising. >> the rice crop here is a very high quality crop. >> before the u.s. trade embargo in the 1960's, cube baffs the largest importer of louisiana's rice. >> they import a lot of rice. it's almost the size of louisiana's whole crop. id be significant if we could get back to doing what we did before our mower. >> with louisiana's port straddling the mississippi river and 700 miles from cuba. louisianas agricultural mile an hourster expects things to be deported. >> we expect a 30% increase

intelligence of louisiana products going into cuba. >> opening trade could add millions to the state's economy and accurate jobs. critics say the excitement is premature. >> the embarring dough cannot be lifted absent congressional approval. >> george fowler fled cuba in 1960 when he was nine years old. he's now an attorney for the cuban american foundation. under castro, he said opening trade does nothing for the people still struggling. >> what about other countries that the u.s. does business with communist countries? >> the chinese and the vietnamese can make money from their transactions. they can become millionaires and a billionaires. >> kevin is sensitive to the needs are those in cuba but said

current restrictions put u.s. farmers at a disadvantage. >> we're the ones in my opinion that are getting hurt from not being able to trade about cuba. rice farmers they get their rice from somewheres else. >> 10 months after malaysia airline vanished, the search for survivors is caught off and called an accident. 239 people onboard the marsh 2013 flight are presumed dead. officials say today's announcements allows 60s' families to move on and begin the process of claiming compensation. >> crash investigators say it was the less experienced co pilot at the controls of the fate am air flight 81 last month, based on information from the plane's black box.

162 people onboard were killed. >> still ahead series of deadly attacks in egypt aimed at the police an military. the government struggled to contain the growing violence. a man forced his way into a t.v. station and demanded air time.

>> a state of emergency tonight in parts of egypt sinai peninsula. a series of deadly attacks targeted the egyptian military police and jonathan betz is here with that. >> this is one of the deadliest nights in egypt's history, 29 killed today. parts of egypt have been under a state of emergency since october with the government struggling to stop the violence. >> explosions lit up the sky after a group which just recently pledged allegiance to

isil attacked police stations, military bases and check points, killing dozens of soldiers. >> it's a large scale attack not just scope but in the level of casualties. it sends a stark message to the government that its measures to bring security are not working. >> in the northern planes, a restless area repeatedly rocked by violence is where 31 egyptian soldiers were killed in october leading the country to crack down by impose ago curfew and bulldozing dozens of homes. >> procedures to crack down, if you hit harder, the problems will go away, i think this will eventually end in disaster. >> prom protests to the attacks there's been high tension in

egypt as the anniversary of the arab uprising occurs. >> last month the countries new president said he is facing a huge war largely against the group responsible for today's attack and many others. it's aligned with isil and carried out suicide bombings and beheadings many targeting egypt's military. >> you had a collapse of a process in egypt after a 2013 coup. >> the group is knew, stepped up attacks largely after the ouster of president morsi in 2013. they can shoot down military

helicopters and as we've seen today, pull off coordinated attacks. >> the family of our al jazeera are hopeful he will soon be reds. it's been 397 days since he and two our al jazeera journalists were detained. his father is waiting for answers. >> part of the stress and the difficulty and the pressure and all of this is the way the whole matter is being dealt with especially on the egyptian end. >> the three were falsely convicted on charges of aiding the muslim brotherhood. an egyptian court order add retrial, still hasn't set a date. al jazeera rejects the charges and demands their immediate release. >> no new skirmishes reported today along the israel-lebanon

border a day after two israeli soldiers and a u.n. peace keeper were killed. the shooting between israel and hezbollah, but the area remains on high alert. we have the story from the golan heights. >> there is a tense calm here. i'm standing in the occupied golan heights. above me are the lights of lebanon between here and the lebanese border, the giant mine field. today israeli prime minister blamed iran for yesterday's attack which occurred just about half a mile from here. both israeli and hezbollah officials indicated that each other they did not want to escalate, so there were no incidents today. that gave this region a sigh of relieve and gave israel the chance to grieve. >> in jerusalem's new military

cemetery in front of a crowd of thousands, israel buried a beloved company commander. the major draped in the flag was killed yesterday by a hezbollah missile. his man called him a father figure behind their purple berets his father bereeved and shattered. the dust from this attack has not yet settled. israeli soldiers working on the same border think they might have found something. they are searching for ton else, worried that hazard blah is plan to go go underground. they snake cables with cameras deep underground. they can see what they dig up.

that's a screen right there. for now these are precauses. they and local security officials hope the border stays quiet. >> we do not was not escalation at all. we want to routine. >> throughout the area, israeli soldiers try to maintain the routine. outside the attack site, they block the road. at israel's northern most point they stand guard. beyond those mountains is syria. at the base is the only ski slope. it might seem a strange location for a resort. the attack was only a few miles from here, but the families who came today play in a form of defiance. >> if it's not safe here, it's not safe in all israel. >> he is teaching his son to ski. >> there was an attack just a couple of miles from here yesterday. why are you here today? >> it's educational for my

children. they need to learn the lesson that hezbollah might be able to square us, but life continues. >> he hopes this troubled border stays quiet so he can teach his sons to ski. >> whether this border remains calm may depend on a speech tomorrow given in beirut, responding for the first time to the attack by israel that hezbollah said it was respond to go yesterday, which was an attack inside syria that killed six hezbollah fighters and the general two weeks ago. both hezbollah and israel do not want an escalation. the area is still on high alert. >> dutch police had to confront a man who forced his way into a

t.v. station with a fake gun. >> the 19-year-old wanted to address the nation during the evening news. a security officer led him to an empty studio. the motive remains unclear. the suspect told the reporter he belonged to a hackers collective. >> saudi arabia's new king is making changes. he removed two of the late king abdullah's sons from government positions. he fired his nephew as head of the national security council. he's been a top advisor to the coming. hefty bonuses and pensions were authorized for all current and retired workers. homeland security chief jay johnson is warning the threat of an attack on u.s. soil remains ever present and said americans should be on the lookout for potential threats.

>> jay johnson's message that is more than a decade after the september 11th attacks the threat against the u.s. has einvolved into something he says nor decentralized confused. >> tight security is put in place for sunday's superbowl the nation's premier sporting event and headache for law enforcement. >> johnson inspected the superbowl site this week and after a small recreational drone bunt don on the white house grounds, the f.a.a. issued a warning to football fans that the stadium is a no drone zone. in his state of homeland security address johnson said

the recent attacks in paris as well as sydney prompted him to order increased police presence at federal buildings i have not major cities within the united states. he chastised republicans. in one of those buildings the u.s. capitol trying to link homeland security to their bills. >> the homeland security budget of this government should not abpolitical football. i urge congress to pass an appropriations bill for d.h.s. free and clear of politically charged amendments. >> johnson shared a foam photo from 1966 of an 8-year-old johnson and his sister. >> as recently as 1966, a private every day family of fourists like yours could drive our car on to the grounds of the u.s. capitol and park it with no inspection or prior

notice just a few feet from the believe. this is the same spot today. the public parking lot is gone, replaced by a few black suburbans, police vehicles and heavily armed members of the capitol police. >> con john said the effort is centered often taking the fight. he's calling on americans to be hyper vigilant, doubling down on the see something say something campaign, which he says has to be more than just a slogan. >> thank you. senator john kerry came to the ate of henry kissinger today. >> i have never seen anything as disgraceful and outrageous and

despicable as what just took place. you are going to have to shut up or i'll have you arrested. if we can't get the capitol hill police in here immediately get out of here, you low life scum. >> the protestors were eventually escorted out of the hearing room. president obama says it's time for mandatory budget government cuts. his 2016 budget plan calls for an increase in government spending. that is sure to get a strong reaction from republicans. lisa stark has more. >> the president calls his budget middle class economics and it does include reversal that sequestration those across the board budget cuts that went into effect in 2013. the president laying out his vision at a retreat of house democrats. >> let's make sure that we end

this across the board sequester that doesn't differentiate between smart government spending and dumb government spending. let's take a scalpel and fund the things we know help american families succeed. >> president obama will propose increasing spending 7% over the current budget limits, $74 billion extra, and the white house said it would be divided equally between defense and domestic programs. how would they pay for it? by cutting waste and closing tax loopholes for the wealthy. of course, there will be a lot in the president's budget for republicans to dislike closing tack loopholes they see that as a tax increase. many will not support a spending increase. doing away fro sequestration there are people on both sides of the aisle that support that, but staffers with both republican leaders in the house

and senate have now said that they will not support doing away with sequestration. >> the boy scouts of america settled a lawsuit with a former scout who says he was molested. lawyers for the alleged victim said they would introduce files introducing sexual abuse allegations. not clear if the settlements will prevent those records from becoming public. >> researchers are containing the ebola outbreak but warn the disease could become more contagious. we go back to the university of virginia after sore routes ban their members from going to frat parties this weekend.

>> health officials believe they may finally be winning the fight against ebola the number of new cases down in west africa.

researchers warn the virus could be starting to change. we have more. >> some good news in the fight the number of no ebola cases is dropping in the hardest-hit countries to below 100 for the first time in seven months. >> the countries know what to do now, have the capacity they need. this could be driven to to zero. >> the world health organization said sierra leone had 65 new cases, guinea 30 and liberia only four. in all the three countries have seen 22,000 cases of ebola leaving nearly 9,000 people dead. >> to end the outbreak, the world health organization is shifting efforts to what is calls contact tracing. >> you have fewer cases but for every case, you want to identify everybody that's come into contact with them, monitor them and make sure that they don't come down with the disease. >> just as the focus is shifting scientists say the

virus is evolving. the virus is similar in some ways to h.i.v. or the flu virus. these are sloppy when they represent liquid. they mutate at a very high rate. >> researchers in paris want to find out if ebola has become less deadly but more contagious, on liesing blood samples finding in effected people had no symptoms at all making it harder to track victims. >> the ebola virus mute states, the drugs treatments, vaccine that is we have in the pipeline may not work against the new strain. we're concerned this could stall efforts to have new drugs and vaccines for ebola. >> researchers said this week that early results show an ebola vaccine is safe to use. they will be tested on health

care workers in liberia. >> new new hampshire's college will ban liquor at all college sponsored events, saying misbehavior on campus is affecting dartmouth's reputation. little under government investigation over hazing. >> women on campus react to go calls that they skip frat parties. sorority members were told they shouldn't attend. we have more. frustration is certainly growing on campus. now you have sorority sisters

fearing backlash. this doesn't mean they are not frustrated. they are. they say this mandate to keep sorority sisters indoors physically limiting what they can do this weekend is not the answer to solving sexual violence. they call the new rule sectionist and degrade to go women. some fraternity brothers feels this ban paints a bad picture of them, as well. major party weekend for this school on saturday. you've got the u.v.a. men's basketball team playing their rival, duke university and also that night arguably, the biggest nice of the year for fraternities it's the boy's big night welcoming in in incoming

students. this rule is certainly a step back say some and takes away a student's ability to make their own choices. more and more signing an on line petition on change.org that calls this latest rule victim blaming. at last check, 2400 signatures. >> the university leaders now also steering clear of this, saying when the greek system decides is what the greek system decides, as for the conference, they are saying that they're standing behind the rule, saying the base of this is safety. meanwhile tomorrow there's going to be a meeting between the u.v.a. student council and the national organization representing the sorority. the hope is that the students can get across that this rule is not good for the university as a

whole and will have a big impact on a big weekend here. >> you get the sense sorority members will follow these rules? >> yeah. it seems the majority potentially will, because there are serious consequences. sororities could face fines or suspensions. some are angry. they may well go and break the rule so they can continue celebrate ago big night on campus for years. >> his former team is getting ready for the superbowl former patriots star aaron hernandez was in a massachusetts courtroom today. opening statements began in his murder trial. he is accused of killing a semi pro player, odom lloyd in 2013. his layer said he is innocent and tarted by police. prosecutors say the evidence will show hernandez is

responsible. his former team is head the to the enter ball this weekend. >> still on the ground in new england, another storm moving in tonight. >> the storm system tracking across the northeast tonight is a fast-moving system and we'll just have lighter accumulation of snow around boston. one to three-inches, the bulk into canada. it's a clipper moving quickly but we will have cold weather to coven tend with as we get into our friday and saturday. overnight, you can see we're in the keeps and 20s whereby the closer i get there to canada. it's going to feel more like single digits. there will be snow that's going to track down across parts of married. where we're tracking the next storm is all right in the southwest. we'll start to see a winter mix

developing tracking its way saturday across missouri, ohio valley. it's going to be slippery roadways when it comes to travel saturday in the mid atlantic. we get hit in the northeast with snow as we get into sunday and monday. watch out for the monday commute and also the new storm developing in the pacific northwest. >> thank you. coming up, the promise of bio fuels fizzle out. a new report says turning plants into gasoline may do more harm than good.

>> some people are so allergic to peanuts that in everytiming one could be fatal. researchers in australia may have found a cure. every day for 18 months they fed peanut prosecutor teen to children while slowly increasing the dose. after a year and a half, 18% of

the children could eat peanuts without a problem. >> bio fuel was supposed to be a solution to high gas price. it hasn't turned out that way. farmers are worried their subsidies could go away. >> while winter bears down, illinois farmer paul taylor tracks corn prices. >> nearby corn, $3.70 on the board. >> corn prices have risen boosting his bottom line. >> it's brought a lot of young people back to the farm, helped farmers my age put money away for retirement which wasn't so easy to do before with narrow margins. >> grain based ethanol in gas reduced dependency on facile fuels. it sparked a boom in corn production. when the rule went into effect eight years ago american

farmers produced 18 billion-bushels of corner, less than a quarter used for ethanol. this year, they'll produce more. critics long argued what has been a boon for farmers has been a bust for the environment and economy. those critics have more ammunition thanks to a new report by the word resources institute saying ethanol has reduced the u.s. depends on facile fuels by only 1%. a lead researchers on the report also says swapping food for fuel drove up the price of food all over the world. >> there was a huge run up in prices a crippling of crop prices from 2005 to 2011, it really started in 2007. since then, we've had a moderation of food prices, but an important reason for that is that bio fuel production has basically stabilized, only risen

a little bit since 2011. >> the environmental protection agency considered rolling back volume requirements on ethanol or scrapping the mandate entirely. that has farmers worried. >> what would happen to you? >> it will cut our margins reduce our profitability. >> he said that could cast a chill over rural communities like his. al jazeera illinois. >> a new word record for a pair of alone pilots, two set the record after traveling more than 5200 miles over the pacific taking off from tokyo last saturday. the men hoped to break another record for flight duration before landing in mexico. >> a small plane turns a new jersey highway into an impromptu runway.

the pilot had to make an emergency landing on the highway. the plane's right wing struck a street sign. nobody was hurt. i'm john siegenthaler. i'll see you tomorrow. omorrow. on "america tonight," who is watching you and why? with cameras on every corner of our lives "america tonight" we ask are they really there to make us safer or just targets for a government drag net. >> i would not think of another surveillance technology that had the potential to be as invasive. >> reporter: russians on the run. what's behind a surge of russian immigrants to the country and exaggerating. >> having your head shaved and