>> hi, everyone. this is aljazeera america. i'm john seigenthaler. heartbreak. >> the world grieves with us. the bored mourns with us. >> kayla mueller the last known american isle hostage confirmed dead. lynching in america the disturbing new report and a survivor story that you have to hear. >> there were 10, 15 screaming. >> the nation's largest housing lottery, where millions rely on

luck for an affordable place to live. and frozen, a niagara first. the man who climbed up the falls explains how he did it. >> tonight hope has turned into heartbreak. kayla mueller's parents received confirmation ma their daughter is dead. according to isil, she was killed by a jordanian area strike. and tonight, her parents shared a letter that she wrote in days of captivity. kayla mueller wrote this letter to her fame in the spring of last year, she had been held since isil since 2013. abducted on her way to a bus station after spending the night in aleppo.

her captives delivered the letter to her family after she was released. please note that i'm in a safe location completely unharmed and healthy. put on weight in fact. i've been treated with the utmost respect and kindness. mueller we want on to say if you could say that i suffered at all in this experience, it's only knowing how much suffering i put you all through. she expressed not unwavering faith in god. saying i've been spoken in darkness light. and even in prison, one can be free. >> in prison, what we have seen in the letter, she continued to be free. >> and optimistic, her friends touched by her irrepleasable spirit. >> kayla tried to teach the guards crafts, and they told each other stories and sang each other songs and they tried to exercise in that small space, and kayla would stand on

her head. and those of us who know her know what a free spirit she was. and we delight in that, that kayla remained kayla. >> in prison, mueller thought most about her family and her wish to spare them any pain, apparent in this plea. i do not the negotiations for my release to be your duty. if there's any other option, take it, even if it takes more time. this should never become your burden. the only burden she wanted to share was her work with the syrian refugees, which brought her to the border in 2012. >> i want to tell the world about the situation in syria there's no fuel, no electricity, no food. and this is the situation there's shell something explosions and gunfire and violence. no one is working and there are no jobs. people are surviving day-to-day, for the sake of living. every human being should act and stop this violence. we have seen your suffering

reflected in kayla's eyes, and we want to do something about it. >> today there's one part of her letter that especially resonates with her family. she wrote i've come to see that there's good in every situation. >> sometimes we have to look for it. and right now that's what we're all trying to do. >> president obama promised to find and bring to justice those responsible for kayla mueller's death. she's the fourth american killed while being held hostage by isil. and jamie mcintyre is at the pentagon. what else do we know about kayla mueller's death? >> you recall that her isil captors claim that she was killed in an airstrike on friday carried out by jordanians. and they confirmed that they did destroy a weapons supply

area where isil claims that kayla mueller died. but they have no evidence that there were any evidence of hostages in that location. there's one freelance journalist being held by isil. and his parents said that they didn't believe that the u.s. government has a coherent policy to bring hostages home safely. is and president obama today disputed that. >> i deployed an entire operation at significant risk to rescue not only her but the other individuals that had been held. and probably missed them by a day or two, precisely because we had that commitment. >> the president today vowed to take however long it takes to bring those responsible for

kayla mueller's capitaltivity and death to justice and he issued a statement and basically called isil a hateful group. >> and her death comes as president obama is circulating a plan for the u.s. military to keep fighting isil. so what do we know about that plan? >> this is the so-called authorization to use military force, and the president consulted with members of congress on the language of that. and basically seeking a three year authority to put an official on the u.s. campaign against isil in iraq and syria and today specifically not bar the use of special operations forces, but it would however limit offensive combat operations, and the idea is to make sure that the u.s. doesn't get involved in the combat. but has the authority to carry out these operations against

isil with friendly forces on the ground. >> we'll see what happened. jamie mcintyre, thank you. and a group claiming ties to isil is claiming responsibility for a new cyber attack. they hit the twitter feed this morning, several with the cyber caliphate. the group took over the u.s. central command this year, and forbes magazine said that chinese hackers broke into his website last year. and they were using spyware for specific users. news of those two hacks comes as the white house announced a new plan to detect and stop potential cyber attacks. it's called the cyber threat intelligence center. it's mission is to gather data from across the government and alert other agencies to potential threats. white house today called the sony pictures hack a game changer, saying that data breachers are more sophisticated and more

dangerous, and with more on that, libby casey is at the white house. >> john, president obama is prioritizing cyber security this year, and hackers in recent months have launched an attack for everything from steel to personal information to cry to create fear. where media organizations and other important institutions have been compromised in some way, or at least their computer systems have been compromised in some way. >> security companies investigating the prepare of forbes.com, said that they are hacking defense contractors to hack information on their computerrers but everyone vulnerable. >> we need to take it very seriously. our daily lives are

intrinsically connected to the internet. >> andrew is chairman of cyber court.org and it's pushing them to work on legislation. >> every time there's a massive cyber theft that have scale it increases pressures that would lead to more cooperation between the private sector and the government. and simultaneously between democrats and republicans. >> to better help, the white house is creating a new agency to pull together intelligence. lisa monaco, the president's chief terrorism adviser made the announcement on tuesday. >> we need solutions codified in law to bolster the nation's cyber defenses. >> the new agency would be modeled after the counter terrorism center. >> we need to develop the same muscle memory and the government response to cyber threats as we have for

terrorist incidents. >> andrew mauerine said that the companies need to let down their guard for the government, if they want to ultimately protect their businesses and customers. >> we trust the government to defend our shores with the navy, and trust the government to protect the seas with the nieve. and protect the air with the airs and it's only important that we entrust them to protect the cyberspace. >> president obama will travel to talk about cyber security. it's an issue that gets more attention with every hack. john the sony hack hurt that company. and americans have seen their privacy breached over the past year but cyber security experts warn that without better cooperation and better prevention a far worse cyber attack looms. it could hit an electric grid or even take down financial

markets. >> all right libby, thank you. in new york today a rookie police officer was indicted in at fatal shooting of an unarmed black man. officer peter was in a brooklyn apartment building in november. and he fired one shot in a darkened stairwell. and the city's police commissioner later described the 28-year-old victim as totally innocent. now to alabama and the battle over same-sex marriage. it's now legal in the state. but many same-sex couples are having a tough time getting married. the chief justice is defying the federal ruling. robert has more on that. >> good evening the u.s. supreme court is expected to finally make that big decision on same-sex couple at the end of the year. and in the meantime, each state is battling their own fight with same-sex same-sex marriage, and

many here in alabama as many try to make it to the alter are hitting roadblocks. a woman who says that she's an ordained minister has been arrested for trying to perform a same-sex marriage in the county that is not issuing same-sex licenses to gay couples. same-sex weddings are only happening in a handful of counties. a federal judge turned over the ban on same-sex marriage on monday, when the u.s. supreme court refused the state's request to stop the marriages but alabama's chief justice is standing by his order to refuse marriage licenses to gay couples. >> i think that a redefinition of the word marriage is not found within the powers designated to the federal government. >> many same-sex couples

flocking to courthouses and offices were reassigned, saying that the marriage licenses would not be issued. >> we waited 33 years for this. >> we hoped that today was the last day that we were considered traitors in the eyes of the government. >> those who did get married they camped out sunday in montgomery to be the first in line. speaking to aljazeera via skype, they talked about the moment they finally said i do. >> there was this big leading up to the actual i dos. all of the political stuff and all of this legal stuff but when we got down to saying those two words and our vows, all of that just kind of disappeared. and it was just about us. >> john, the issue heads back to court on thursday, when a federal judge in mobile,

alabama, will hear arguments as to whether same-sex marriage licenses should be distributed in that county, john. >> robert ray reporting from montgomery county. president obama gave a warning, take tomorrow's peace talks on ukraine seriously or face the consequences. the negotiations will bring the rebels ukraine russia and the europeans together. and meanwhile they're trying to hold strategic territory in the territory. and charles stratford reports. >> reporter: destroying tanks, and heavy weapons abandoned in the snow. this town is virtually deserted. fighters with the self proclaimed army of the people's republic took control here a few days ago, and they say they are advancing, tightening the noose around the strategically important town. >> it's important because it's a railway junction, and we want to liberate it. we want to liberate all of the

territory of donetsk. the people here believe in us, and they voted us in a referendum, because they trust us, and we want to bring them freedom. >> it's not known how many civilians were killed here. this is the town that as the crow flies, it was taken over by the separatists a few days ago, and hearing a lot of outgoing shelling here, and the rebels say that they have it completely surrounded. we saw the ukrainian tanks digging in close to the only route in and out of debeslvit. they were driving toward the front. in the ukrainian controlled military city, 50 kilometers away, the rebels hit the military base. >> we were feeding the kids, they were sitting at the table. and the kids started screaming

and the shells started to explode. it was judgment day. we started to roundup the kids in groups and tell them fairytales. it's in the middle of winter. summer is coming soon, and that's just thunder. >> authorities said the missiles have been fired from the separatist town. >> in front of you now is where the weapons landed. the long distance weapon from the artillery machine. it flew from a southern direction. >> the attacks are deeply significant because it's home to the ukrainian military's eastern command. and the separatists denied the attacks. the fighting is escalating, the separatists are fighting in the region, in a separatist base we find this ukrainian army

prisoner, bandages cover his face, and his tank was hit in the battle. outside hang the pictures of dead separatist fighters. a father dgrieves for his dead son. >> of course, he's defending his motherland and his people, his family. >> yet another attempt at ceasefire talks scheduled for wednesday. sons and daughters continue to be killed in the violence every day. charles stratford, aljazeera eastern ukraine. >> there are reports this >> coming up next on this broadcast, playing the lottery what some go through to find affordable housing in new york. and plus, walking while black. the 70-year-old u.s. veteran who uses a golf club as a cane, and why he says the police arrested him for it.

>> new york city one of the most expensive places in the world. housing is in short supply. the city holds a lottery for

affordable apartments, and many jump at the chance to get one but with so many applicants, the chances are slim. 61-year-old annette christopher won the lottery. one of the 2500 lucky new yorkers who out of 1.5 million applicants, won a subsidized rental apartment in the city's housing lottery just last year. >> this is the bedroom, and this is kevin's room, and this is the master bedroom with a walk in closet >> so you all of a sudden. i have everything that i wanted in my life. >> the market value, $2,100. >> so how much money do you pay now. >> 820 a month. >> you said that you dropped to your knees. >> i dropped down to my knees. thank you, jesus i've been waiting for this for a long time. >> annette christopher, who is

in home health aid had to qualify. >> $9.70 an hour. i feel safe and comfortable and happy. and i feel lucky. >> but not everyone is so lucky. >> so we're at a church right now in brooklyn, where people have come to learn to navigate the new york city lottery process, and how to best maximize their chances. tons of people are here tonight and here waiting for answers. >> i applied for the lottery and i haven't gotten a call back. >> i want to get into someplace better. >> people are so desperate for affordable housing. >> erica simms is going to seminars likes these to help them fill out their applications. >> the way the city is structured, there are a lot of jobs here that don't pay enough money for you to be able to live here. so someone can't work here and live in another state. >> what about critics who say if you can't afford to live in

manhattan, live in the outer jerseys or boroughs. >> living in new york is hard. it has one of the highest costs of living in the entire country. and in fact, in new york city, the medium rent rose between 2006 and 2013, while the renter's incomes remained stagnant or declined. and it's even harder to rent if you have bad credit, especially since new york developers are allowed to set their own criteria for their housing units. >> they say affordable apartments and they do a credit check, and a lot of us have had hardships. but why should we be crucified for that. >> a lot of people's credit has no relationship for whether they're going to be a good at that point in time. >> if somebody says if you can't pay your credit card bill on time, how are you going to pay your landlord? >> a lot of times, it's not about credit card, but you have

no credit, because you have a low income, and you're living paycheck to paycheck. >> and for living paycheck to paycheck the demand for an affordable home is even higher. take this brooklyn building for example. it has 48 affordable units and guess how many people applied? 80,000. and that's more than 2,000 per each unit. >> we should move through a market system. and we won't have these countries scenes of people lining up for a lottery. that shouldn't happen in america. >> howard husock is at the institute in new york. >> what about people who say a safe new york is a best new york? >> neighborhoods in new york are organically diverse. for fancy buildings and less expensive buildings, and i don't think that we have to

choreograph that. >> more than 1 million new yorkers are still holding on to the dream hoping that they will be lucky too. >> well, john, not everyone agrees with the market based theory, and it as a matter of as a matter of in fact, one urban planner said that the problem is that housing is a finite resource, and there's not enough of it that is affordable. >> we heard that they applied. and how does the lottery play out? >> you can apply by mail or online and you have to live within the city limits of new york and each building has it's own qualifications. one may have a different credit limit. and they may apply it to another one, and after they submit it, the chances are slim. >> you saw the crowd in the church. and their chances are very very small. it's interesting morgan, thank you. from the midwest to the northeast, there's no relief for tens of millions of people who are hoping to thaw out from the winter weather. here's rebecca stevens.

>> we have been watching the storms since they moved out of the east coast right before the cold moves in. and we're seeing virginia and north carolina dry out and we're getting of colder for the upper midwest. the temperatures here are dropping, and in fact, by the end of the week, these temperatures, which are pulling our average lows and highs about 25° below where they normally are that's the kind of cold air that's going to blast across the east and the northeast so. form we'll feel that chill as we go across the ohio valley. and then as we go to new england and delaware, we'll feel that on friday night. this is incredibly cold air and we have single digits from the north. so we're watching the snow track across the great lake beings and that's the clipper system that will brush by parts of the northeast and bring a quick shot of snow as it passes through. we're seeing the low pressure that we are seeing bringing rains from the east coast move

away. that's good news, we don't see any more snow around field. they're dealing with up to 37 inches, and speaking of that encouraging it off businesses and homeowners because of the cold temperatures on the way we're going to see it get colder and colder with the warm spot still in the west. >> still ahead on the broadcast, we'll hear from the family of the former marine accused of killing american sniper, chris kyle. and plus -- -- i didn't know if i would be around or not. >> an elderly veteran arrested in seattle he says for carrying a golf club. race in america.

>> hi, everyone. this is aljazeera america.

and i'm john seigenthaler. trial of a killer of a sniper and the impact of war. the names identify thousands of victims of lynchings. we'll hear from a survivor about one one of the darkest chapters in u.s. history. and scaling niagara. we'll hear from the first man ever to do it. the accused killer of navy seal chris kyle, goes on trial in texas this week. kyle's life is memorialized in the controversial film, american sniper. eddie ray shot and killed him. heidi joe castro is there. >> reporter: this case has tremendous publicity. american sniper is playing two

miles away. and in texas they celebrated chris tile day but it took just three days to seat this jury of 3 women and ten men. >> 9-1-1. >> listen, my brother just came by here, and he's now -- he told me that he committed a murder. >> reporter: on february 7th 2013, three military veterans came to this texas gun range to shoot targets, and two would die her. chris kyle, described as the most lethal sniper in america history. and chad littlefield a friend. charged with their murders eddie ray routh, he had pickup trucks pickupptsd.>> who did he say he killed? >> he's all psychotic.

>> routh served two years in iraq and he also deplayed in haiti in 2010 to help that country recover from an earthquake and he killed more than 300,000. routh lived with an aunt before going into the military. and she said that he returned from haiti a changed man. >> his job was bulldozing bodies and putting them in mass graves. >> routh game incoherent and skittish. his mother called the police two times to report his strange behavior. and she removed guns from the home. his mother tried to reach out for help. and she called the police to report his son's behavior, and removed guns from the home secretly and reached out to the va for help. >> i did everything that i could, and unfortunately, the va takes him in, and gives him a little 15 minutes and turns around and gives him drugs, and ships him out. she tried to get them to hold

him, and they wouldn't. >> then came kyle. routh's mother knew of his fame. and asked kyle for help. they went to the gun range for a type of they were. kyle's widow told us that having pickup ptsd didern make him less responsible. >> i'm very sorry for what happened. other than that, i just -- there's no explanation for it. i mean, like i say he didn't just wake up that day and decide that he was going to go out here and kill two people. that's not him. >> now it will be up to a texas jury to decide whether more could have been done to help routh. and if ptsd can succeed as a defense for murder. according to routh's attorney, the dallas va hospital released routh just two days before the

crime was committed against the family's wishes. >> all right heidi, thank you. andrew o'brien is a u.s. army veteran, and he helps veterans with ptsd through his organization and it's called the welcoming home soldier project. and what do you think of this plea by routh? >> i completely disagree with it. i don't feel as though ptsd should be used as an insanity plea. because people with ptsd are not insane. >> >> so obviously, it's an attempt to save his life, and to stay out of jail, i guess but if more than that? when veterans watch this trial what are they going to say about this plea? >> we, i mean me myself, i completely disagree with it. i don't believe -- i've heard about the things that he said to the police, about taking

souls, and about all of these things that he was saying, they had nothing to do with ptsd, and i speak around the world about this, and i've never heard anyone talk this way. i feel like he's using ptsd as a scapegoat to stay out of trouble, and that's going to frustrate veterans, because we have been trying on so hard not to intimidate the civilian world and this is not going to help. >> because of the movie the american sniper and the book, and chris kyle, what's the significance of chris kyle's story to american veterans? >> well, chris kyle did something amazing. he went out and became a military hero, but not only was he a hero in service but a hero back home. he continued to serve after his service was over, and it gave us hope and trust. and it made us believe that we can get better with time, by helping other people. >> what do you think about the controversy surrounding this

film in and the question about the way that chris kyle was portrayed, and how the war fits into american history? >> . >> well, here's the thing. everybody has controversy any time anything comes out. and there are people who are disagreeing, shaking that this is not a real life situation but no one was there and they weren't chris kyle. and they can't say if it did or didn't happen. and i believe that it's a great story, and i believe it's true, and it's helpful for us. >> what do americans not know about the war that they need to know? >> the biggest thing that they need to know is that the war doesn't end overseas. warp doesn't really begin until we get home. and that's the hardest war we face and the best way to get through it is to not be intimidated by it. but to talk to us and treat it

like we're normal human beings. post-traumatic stress is not something that makes you insane. >> thank you very much. >> thank you very much. >> now to a part of american history that is deeply disturbing. mob justice carried out against black americans in the decades after the civil war. today the justice initiative issued a report on lynchings in america. it said between 1877 and 1950, nearly 4,000 people were lynched in southern states. 4,000. and some of the images are extremely graphic and we believe it's important to show them to show what happened, not just in the south but other countries as well. this is a picture of one lynchings in the early 1930s in indiana. two african-american men hanging from a tree. some of the white people in the crowd smiling. tonight, the story of the third man who was also supposed to be lynched that night but he survived.

>> this is the piece of the rope that was used to hang one of my two buddies. august 17th, 1930. >> on that summer day james cameron was lynched and survived. cameron was 16 years old accused with two other black men, of rape and murder. there was no judge, there was no jury, but there was a mob. >> the crowd because beginning to gather. and we were put in jail. and by morning, they were crowding up the jail yard. and all that day they kept coming. by nightfall, there were 10-15,000 whites out there screaming for the blood of us three blacks. the sheriff said please not to shoot us, there were women and children and three or four men got sledge hammers in their hands, and they started

knocking on the steel blocks. >> he was the first to be pulled from the cell. beaten and brutalized, each before he was hanged from the tree. smith was next, and then they came for cameron. >> they came in and opened the door and they said james cameron come forward. well james cameron wasn't about to come forward after i seen what they had done. and the crowd said, cameron is in there and they began to chant like a football player, we want cameron, we want cameron. >> the rope was put around his neck, and the clamoring for his death grew. >> a voice came out of heaven, and it said take this boy back, he had nothing to do with a killing or raping, and that mob suddenly got quiet as a pin. you could hear a pin drop. they took the rope off of my neck and they allowed me to

stumble and wobble back to the jail which was just half a block away. >> one voice out of the thousands spared his life. cameron was at the crime scene accident innocent, and still convicted of being an accessory and he served five years in prison. cameron wrote about his experience, and founded the american black holocaust museum. and he died in 2006. >> former assistant attorney general worked at the civil rights administration in the carter administration, and he's back in the studio. it's part of our history. and we like to forget. we don't want to look at those pictures they're very very painful. what does the history tell, and what about the law and these lynchings? >> well, the law failed. by definition when there's a lynchings, and that was what was wrong with the system. there was no law behind it.

lynchings were not designed to take the place of law. because there were no arrests or trials or convictions or sentencing or prison. and it was just a killing. and that was probably done as much as anything, not to subverted the law but to spread terror. by using lynchings as a message to the community you really terrorized them. >> when you see those pictures, you think there are plenty of reasons why african-americans in this country didn't believe in the law because they didn't come to the rescue in the thousandses of lynchings. >> you're absolutely right. it was worse than that, because in many cases, you had highways and local legal officials who were conspiring with the lynchers to subvert the law. so it was not just people going around it, but the law was subverted. >> in some ways does the united states justice system owe an

apology to these people? >> there's no question it does, but that doesn't mean that you were going to get it. because it's not the way that americans think and maybe it's not the way that anybody thinks you try not to do this. you look at the armenian situation, and all kinds of things the holocaust. but it's really really hard to get people to apologize. >> when i look at them, i think of some of the horrible pictures we're seeing from isil. i mean, the horror of that, and you describe it as terror, trying to spread terror within the black community? >> that was the ulterior purpose, you're absolutely right. the situation with isil is that there is also a terrorist effort behind it, and i'm not making a moral he equivalence between isil and what happened, but as a technique, there are things that are pretty similar. there was a man in 1922, who

was a -- three men who were cass straighted and burned and beaten. and not that far away is a technique from what we saw with the jordanian pilot. and so it was many years ago and i'm not trying to say that it was the same thing but the technique was terrorist. >> if you will stay here for a minute, i want to talk to you about other issue. in tonight's race in america the story of an elderly man in seattle. he was arrested. and the 70-year-old said that he was just walking down the street and now his case has sparked a protest movement. allen is in seattle tonight. >> good evening john, this is where it happened. a police officer says william wingate threatened her with a golf club. he says that he didn't. and the seattle police department has apologized for

it and released a videotape of the incident. but this is far from over. [ chanting ] >> in seattle golf club carrying protesters call for police reform and rallying for william wingate. he marches with a cane instead of the putter that he has walked with for years. and all of this because on july 9th a police officer confronts him saying that he threatened her with his golf club. >> put that down, please. >> what? >> put it down. >> what about my golf club? >> put it down. >> in the video he appears startled and tells us he didn't know what was going on. >> i thought she was looking for a shoplifter or a jaywalker, and i had no idea. >> 22 times, the officer asks wingate to drop the golf club. >> put it down. >> it's my golf club.

>> i'm not going to take it from you but it's a weapon, set it down. >> five times she accuses her of threatening her. >> i haven't done nothing. >> you just swung that golf club at me. >> i did not. >> right there. >> it was on audio and videotape. put it down, you're not free to leave. >> i'm right here. >> sir, put your golf club down. set did down! >> but four in the dash cam video released by the police is wingate shown swinging the club. >> i had a reason for the golf club. >> so you never swung it at her in a threatening way? >> no. >> the airforce veteran and retired bus driver, who says that he has never had a problem with the police before, is hauled off to jail to face harassment and obstruction charges. his putter, legally defined as

a weapon and confiscated. >> -- ride i ever had. i didn't know if i would be alive or not. because you're helpless, and your hands are be behind your back. >> a month later former washington state representative, don mason heard about the arrest. >> if this had been a white man of this age doing exactly what mr. wingate was doing, the officer would have never stopped him and this would not have come up. >> quietly the nation went to work on win gate's behalf, home that they would clear his name. >> we had a grand new white police chief. and it was a white female officer who did the arrest. >> seattle police have cause for concern. department is operating under federal justice rules, a monitor keeping an eye on things after a series of

racially charged incidents. long after the request brought the wingate video to light mason and her supporters at city hall made progress. the seattle police officers made an apology and wingate got his golf club back. but wingate is suing the city for $70,000, and he has become a symbol. we tried to contact the officer, but we were unsuccessful. she has been put on administrative leave and her boss the chief of police, has not been available for interviews. dawn mason admits that not everybody on the streets has a team like hers behind them. but they failed wingate. >> police chiefs don't apologize, not in this country. not in this state.

i'm not going to take that from her. does she have a lot of work to do? yes. she has to put things together in that department. she did. a lot of people. >> the charges have now been dismissed. and the arrest is still on william wingate's record. dawn mason is hoping that action at the state level and the legislature can make it possible to wipe that record of the arrest completely away as well in cases like this. >> so what is next for this regarding the police officer? >> not sure at this point. police officer is on paid administrative leave after first being put on desk duty. and other things have come to late after racially charged facebook postings that were linked to the officer. so we don't know what her

future is with the department. >> i want to bring back in former assistant attorney general, and give me your opinion of what you saw. >> this is a lopsided case if you look at the evidence. usually, even when there's racial profiling the police will have something that they say provoked them. it might be resisting arrest, or illegally selling of cigarettes but here you can't even find the something and it's really difficult. >> i mean, i'm not comparing the limping to this, but when you think about where we have come in this country and how long it has been, and this and ferguson, how could americans how should americans view this? >> i think on two different levels. one is the big picture and that is we do have a problem and we still have racial profiling, and then the smaller picture, how do we look at any ditch case? whether it's ferguson or staten

island or in this case seattle. where we have to do investigative work and adjudicate it. and sometimes those worlds collide. >> does it take awhile for the federal government to get involved? >> in this case, no, because the seattle police have dealt with it, and i think they have, and they have made an apology and taken administrative action against the officer. it's not a good idea to assume that the federal government has to come in on every case. the local authorities have got to be able to step up and do this. there are not enough people in the federal government to monitor it if you wanted them to. >> stan, thank you very much. our race in america series continues through the week. movement for civil rights has gone on for decades but a new generation of african-americans, say traditional leaders don't represent them. and tomorrow, we'll tell you what they believe should be the way forward. >> the reason why people like al sharpton and jesse jackson

are getting booed they come to be the representation of blackness, but not necessarily the movement right now. >> we need fresh perspectives and new approaches. >> the reason that aljazeera found that nearly 50% much african-americans believe that it's time for new leadership in their community. coming up next in this broadcast, the frozen journey that no one has completed before. one man shares his journey climbing up niagara falls.

>> an unwelcome for the village in napal. what's coming up in the broadcast at the top of the hour. stephanie. >> good evening john.

we take viewers to a village just outside of kathmandu known as the center for the illegal organ trade. 100 people there in the small village have fallen prey to traffickers, and they are donating blood and drugged only to wake up missing a kidney, because many of the villagers are very poor, and afraid to come forward and report the crime. >> i've with the cases we had only came after many people had their organs trafficked. there's a strong network this is an international network. >> media attention on this tiny village seems to have scared away the traffickers, but the reality is they have moved onto other areas, and million dollars of dollars change hands every year in the illegal trade of kidneys and we'll look at the efforts to stop the trade. >> again in the new schedule,

stephanie and antonio are coming up after the broadcast. and thanks. now, in national geographic, he is the adventurer of the year, and he became the first man to climb up a frozen niagara falls. he tells us in his first person report. >> the big thing that i did recently was crime niagara falls. i was the first to start at the bottom and climb to the top. most go to the bottom in a barrel. >> get through this, be safe. >> which is not what you want to do. niagara falls is the largest in the world. 6,000 cubic feet a second, which is like 4,000 semi trucks every second off of lip of that thing. niagara falls will never freeze completely. there's too much water going off the edge of the waterfall for it to freeze completely. but in good solid cold snaps

parts of it frees up just enough to climb. i wear a harness and use a rope. so that way if i fall off i don't die that's the first rule of ice climbing, the bay that works, i have a ball air on the bottom. and hopefully if i fall off the protection is good, and the rope catches me before i hit the ground. niagara falls has a lot of risks, it's all of the standard things that gravity comes with, you fall off and you get hurt. but it's niagara falls and that brings special things along. normally if you fall off the first 10 meters you might break your leg but you're going to fall off in soft snow and it's going to be good. the falls if you fall off you go to the bottom of niagara falls, and that's not a good place to be. and the ice is not good either,

it's made of the spray of the falls, and it has onion skins and they can break off inpredictably. so i had to do a lot of cleaning so it wouldn't take me out. i knew that everybody is going to be safe, and the waterfall is not going to fall down on us and i and the whole team have done something that's pretty cool. >> william gad told us that he's not sure what his next expedition will be, but he knows it will be an adventure. now to our freeze frame, jon stewart announced that he will be leaving the daily show this year. he has been hosting since 1999. and it turned him into one of the most influential entertainers in american politics. and stewart claims to be retiring. thanks for watching, and i'm john seigenthaler. and the news continues next with antonio mora and stephanie sy. they will be right back.

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