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this outbreak is centered on the ronald reagan medical center at ucla. nearly 180 people there may have been exposed to a bacteria that is antibiotic resist important. jake ward has more. >> we are very sorry about some of the anxiety and concern. >> reporter: warnings are going out to 179 patients treated at ucla's ronald reagan medical center. all possibly exposed to a superbug. it has been linked to two deaths and infected five others. the centers for disease control says cre is fatal in up to 50% of cases, if the bacteria reach's a healthy person's bloodstream. it strikes most patients in hospitaling or nursing homes. the outbreak is linked to

endoscopes like these. it is inserted down the throats of about 500,000 patients each year. ucla's says the bacteria was found on two of the devices. hospitals routinely clean the scopes after their use, but the design makes that process difficult. >> if it's not, quote unquote cleaned out app app -- appropriately, it can spread from one patient to another. >> reporter: on thursday the fda issued a warning to doctors, saying that even following the recommended cleaning instructions may not be enough to eliminate the bacteria. >> jake ward join us now from san francisco. and put this into context for us. the scopes in question here are how the bacteria passes between patient, but they didn't create the drug-resistant bug.

how did the bug get into the hospital to begin with. >> that's right. good evening tony. the scope itself is not responsible here. it's a really the rise of antibiotic resistant bacterias in hospitals and around the world. we're looking at the overprescription and misuse of antibiotics, which is giving bacteria a shot at practicing. in this particular case we're talking about a specific thing, cre, the cis a specific category of antibiotic, and it is resist important to that. and the real difficult with it is it can be passed to other organisms, but forms of bacteria that don't necessarily kill you, but can be carried from person to person. so this is a deadly bacteria that can go anywhere. >> overuse of antibiotics.

so what options to doctors have in fighting a drug-resistant bacteria. >> it's not utterly hopeless but it is close. the reason that they are so concerned about cre, is it a very, very hard to resist. the category of antibotics that i mentioned, those are really an at antibotic of last resort and then you get into something that is almost like a detergent that hurts your cells in addition to destroying the bacteria itself. the only real hope is better management of equipment, cleaning things properly. making sure everybody washes their hands properly. we have seen israel manage to bring their rate of cre bacteria down by 70%, but they only have to coordinate across 27

hospitals. we're talking about over a thousand hospitals to get a grip on this problem. >> okay. jake. jake ward for us in san francisco. later this hour we'll talk with a doctor about your chances of getting infected by a superbug. iraqi forces are preparing for an offensive to retake a major city from isil fighters. jamie, you got to look at some new information today, what can you tell us? >> that's right. tony. in a briefing here a senior official laid out a plan to retake the city of mosul in what most agreed was surprising detail. the official spoke on anonymity saying the target time frame was april or may before the summer heat and ramadan, between 20 and

25,000 iraqi troops may be ready by then to dislodge what is believed to be 1 to 2,000 isil fighters. it will be made up of five iraqi brigades, and three peshmerga brigades who's job would be to contain isil from the north and isolate it from the west. and despite what the u.s. military dismisses at small tactical gains, the u.s. says that isil can no longer seize and hold land. it released video, saying that the almost 2500 strikes in iraq and syria so far are destroying isil's fighting capability faster than it can regenerate it. officials claim that isil have

lost the combat capability of three-fourths of an army division. and while arguing that isil is in decline, and that the u.s. is ahead of where it thought it would be in training up iraqi forces, the official stresses that the april time frame is a goal, but could slip until later in iraqi forces are not fully up to the mission. >> jamie why such detail on an upcoming mission? >> the pentagon says they are not revealing anything that wasn't pretty obvious. it is no secret they were trying to retake mosul, and part of the idea was to reassure the american public that iraqi forces will be up to the task when the time comes, and they insist they haven't given anything away that would compromise the operation. in fact they say that it may set isil on edge and even perhaps prompt some of them to want to

leave by the on slot begins. >> jamie thank you. turkey and the united states have signed an agreement to train and arm syrian rebels. the turkish government says the training could begin next month. the u.s. says the goal is to train rebels to go after isil. but turkish officials say the rebels could also target the assad regime. more americans appear to support using u.s. troops to fight isil. 57% of people surveyed favor sending ground troops into iraq and syria. the poll also found that 65% view isil as a threat and two thirds think congress should approve president obama's request for using force against isil. they president wrapped up a three-day conference on fighting extremism.

mike viqueira joins us live now from washington. mike, the president once again responded to people who have criticized the conference for not focusing specifically on islamic terrorists. >> reporter: yeah, that's the phase that a lot of the president's critics, many of course republicans have been wanting to hear from the president. tony this was an international aspect of this three-day conference. the first two days dealt with communities here in the united states. today the president broadened out the themes speaking to an international audience at the state department, and domestic politics front and center and president very forceful in refuting the critics. he had been attacked by the latest gruesome attack in libya on the beach, the 21 coptic christians were beheaded there. but when the white house put out a statement -- the president put

out a statement about the killing of muslims in north carolina, he did mention their killing. so that was part of the criticism as well. the president in releasing a statement after the killings in europe at the kosher deli did not mention the fact that they were jewish victims. he said it was a random shooting and the critics jumped all over that. but the president did both of those today, he named them as christians, the victims in libya, and the anti-semitism, a growing sense of anti-semitism in europe. but then the president doubled down, and refuted the critics in a very forceful way. >> the notion that the west is at war with islam is an ugly lie. and all of us regardless of our faith, have a responsibility to

reject it. >> reporter: and another interesting point that the president made there, of course many in the audience are close allies to the united states represents of close allies representatives at the ministerial level, but the president took out after many them about human rights civil rights, free election education for girls, and a number of other issues including poverty and corruption within these countries siting all of them as a reason for this extremism. >> thank you, mike. we'll speak with a person who attended the white house yesterday. and both the united states and afghan taliban deny they are planning new peace talks. the afghan taliban has said

recently it is open to peace negotiations with the governments of pakistan and afghanistan. in ukraine there are reports of more shelling today. further evidence a ceasefire may only be in effect on paper. we are also seeing the aftermath for the battle of debaltseve. >> reporter: these are the russian soldiers who are claiming victory in the battle of debaltseve. many of the vehicles are flying the russian flag. taunting the ukrainian president one fighter shouts hello from russia poroshenko. street by street combat continued here for four days after the supposed ceasefire deal. small numbers of ukrainian soldiers are still thought to be holed up stranded inside the town. the dead lie where they fell.

on the approach road to debaltseve we found the aftermath of a ferocious battle. the crossing was littered with the debris of an increasing struggle. there is a bunt-out ukrainian tank absolutely blackened by the intensity of the fire and the fighting. there are more vehicles here a further tank down on the far side. two bodies are still lying in the open over behind the camera there as well. a fighter from the russian city described the final assault. >> translator: the battle finished the day before yesterday. the ukrainians were running out of ammunition. we hit their main ammunition store. a truck came to resupply them. we managed to destroy that as well. yesterday their artillery was quiet and they were shooting with rifles. after that they retreated. >> reporter: ukraine's government says the retreat was organized, but the soldiers who

were there tell a different story. many speak of racing over open fields constantly under fire. and now there are fears that capturing debaltseve may not be the limit of the separatists' ambitions. attention to turning to the south of the donetsk region. >> translator: the area of mariupol, the concentration of rebel forces is being observed but the situation is being monitored. our servicemen are passing on intelligence that those forces are being prepared for possible offensive. >> reporter: on thursday ukraine's national security council agreed to a formal request for a united nations peace keeping force to be deployed to eastern ukraine. there is no guarantee that the request will be granted, but they are fast running out of options. the british royal air force says it intercepted two russian bomber jets close to the coast

of england. they never crossed into british air space. nato says it's members had to scramble jets more than 400 times last year as russian war planes flew near. ♪ america's biggest private employer is raising the pay for its lowest-paid workers. ali velshi joins me with news on wal-mart. >> wal-mart is raising the pay of about half a million pay, tony in its stores to at least $9 an hour by april. that's about one third of its u.s. work force by the way. it's $1.75 above the federal minimum wage. it says it is going to raise that to $10 an hour by next february. it has been a target of advocates for low-wage workers. they have pushed for wages of at least $15 for fast-food workers across the country, and other

low-wage earners. the average full-time wage will be $13 an hour. that's a bit of an increase. we have seen moves like this. we have seen it at costco the gap, shake shack. as you know president obama is looking for $10.25 as the federal minimum. back in january the insurance company said it would boost pay for its lowest workers to $16 an hour, and this amid ongoing distress over income disparity and inequality. wal-mart says this and other steps are going to cost it about a billion dollars this year. >> is this a sign that wage stagnation is easing? >> i think it's a sign of two things tony. one is the truth is this hole we were in because of the recession was so deep that we're now getting to the point that unemployment and job creation is

getting high enough that economies tell me that 2015 is going to be the year in which you see hourly income increase in the private sector. they rose only 1.7% in 2014 according to the u.s. department of labor, and that rose a bit more in january. so we're moving in the right direction. so i think it's a combination of wage pressures going up for political reasons, and the fact that this is a very political discussion. four states that through the democrats out also voted for increases in minimum wage. so there is something in the discussion a that says maybe it's not fair for people to earn $7.25. >> what else are you looking at tonight? >> the stigma and stereo types of mental illness in the workplace. the discrimination that people face based on misperceptions. we'll talk about the cost to the

economy and what companies are doing to deal with employees who suffer from mental illness. >> can't wait to see the program. you can watch "real money with ali velshi" every night here on al jazeera america. in texas for the first time a same-sex couple was legally allowed to get married. a county judge ordered a clerk to issue the who women a license. one woman has cancer and the two were married immediately afterwards. but the state supreme court stepped in blocking any other marriages of same-sex couples. lawyers for the accused boston marathon bomber are making an 11th hour bid to move the trial out of the city. they made their case to a federal appealss today. john terrett is hear to tell us

more. >> we have been waiting for this trial to start since the turn of the year and it hasn't yet, and one of the reasons for that is jury selection. but now with jury selection coming to a close. the legal team feel that time is running out. the presiding district court judge in the case has rejected such a move on three separate occasions. so the defense team went before a three-judge federal appeals panel today hoping for a different outcome. they argue that it's not possible to find a jury in boston, because everyone there knows someone who was directly impacted by the bombings. three people were killed and 260 were injured in the blast, and he is facing the death penalty if he is indeed convicted. >> is there a precedent for moving such a high-profile case to another city. >> i think the one that people will remember most was the

oklahoma city bombing. jamie floyd explains why that could play in the boston case too. >> this precedent is of course the timothy mcveigh trial. trial held in denver. he got a fair trial. death penalty was on the table there and ultimately imposed. in the federal courts you have real options to move it to a completely different jurisdiction. you don't have that in the other case we're talking about, state case. you can only keep it in state. and generally most people in a state know all about the case. >> and that is the advantage the defense have in a federal case which this will be. >> when will this start? >> it's very, very tough to say. they are coming to the end of jury selection, but that is a process that has been massively disrupted by the record snowfall that we have had in boston so

far this year. as of this moment the court hasn't given us a firm date but it is likely to be within the next couple of dates. the three-judge federal appeals panel will make a decision about whether to move the trial to another venue. >> john, thanks. coming up on the program. >> i got caught up. and you made choices. that was a very bad choice. >> the multi-billion dollars business that is making money off of people who can least afford it. also controversial comments from former mayor rudy giuliani. why he is questioning president obama's love for america.

♪ now back to our top story, the fda warning about a superbug. two people died and nearly 200 may have been exposed and ucla's ronald reagan medical center.

they all underwent a type of medical endoscopy. the hospitals say it's really really difficult to properly clean the scopes. doctor great to see you again. the scopes that are being used -- tell me more about them. what are we calling them? and tell me why it's difficult -- they are scopes -- to clean them properly. >> yeah, we call this procedure ercp, and in certain patients who have certain ailments we need to take a look down their esophagus into some of the holes in the intestine. and the scopes are about a hundred thousand dollars a piece. it's a long tube with a camera on the end of it and it's really really hard to clean, and at a hundred thousand dollars you can't just replace it. in some of these patients particularly the sicker patients

they are often colonized by the superbug bacteria that are resistant to antibiotics, so you have this tool that is very hard to clean, it's going between patient and patient and the risk of spreading the infection. >> is that really the issue here, the overuse of antibiotic antibiotics, and the develop of these resistant strains? >> yes it's not really the scopes. it's that we're not doing a good job shuffling our research and we're developing strains of bacteria effectively by overusing antibiotics. >> using them for situations that we shouldn't be using them for? >> a, it's using them in situations that we don't necessarily need to use them for. and not necessarily using them

appropriately. so we are effectively cultivating bacteria that turn into these superbugs. >> what about the scopes? could we come to a day where we have a conversation about whether we use these scopes at all? >> unfortunately, we're really focused on the antibiotic resistant situation right now, but these patients need this procedure. >> yes. >> we need to balance the conversation, so what needs to happen is a, we need to pay attention a little bit more to the costs, and then b, think about how we better clean them. and potentially think about how to produce scopes that are less expensive. >> the cdc says on any given day about one in 25 hospitals have a

healthcare-associated infection. >> yeah. >> how do you protect yourself from that? >> it's really what hospitals do within their walls -- >> well you have to wash your hands. can we start there? >> that's where we start and that's the end of it as well. doctors and nurses moving between hospital rooms must be very diligent. making sure to do that and also making sure to gown and glove appropriately. >> doctor always great to see you. thanks for your time. appreciate it. historic cold is freezing millions of americans here. nicole mitchell is here and can we blame all of this on the polar vortex. >> in part. and i'm conservative about using that term. it's that arctic air all the way at the pole. you have to have a big weather

event to get it into the united states. and the national weather service has tracked this all the way back to siberia. all the way southward to billings and mom -- miami today had the same temperature today of about 60 degrees. and the high-pressure is still to the east. on the backside we're starting to get a little bit of a warmup with a southerly flow. but the east coast overnight, 20 to 40 degrees below average, and that put some of those temperatures themselves sub zero but you add in the wind and we're talking 20 to 30 below. atlanta starts to warmup however. the next system coming along could produce ice for places like tennessee.

it's a warmer system though so eventually it does turn into rain. it could start melting that snow off too fast. >> and then you have flooding. >> yeah. >> nicole thank you. poverty and political grievances. that's what president obama says causes extremism. we'll get reaction to that. plus the new defense secretaries first order of business hiring a new pentagon spokesperson, what his choice is such a big deal.

for millions of struggling americans it's their only way of staying afloat the so-called payday loans. but in some states the industry is barely regulated. john than martin is live for us in new orleans. is it true that some are calling this legal loan sharking?

>> reporter: yeah tony that has been one of the big criticisms especially in states like louisiana where there are about 900 of these storefronts. people need a short-term loan they take out usually 2 or $300 a fixed fee is attached and they agree to pay it back on their payday oftentimes people don't have the money to pay back on their payday so they take out another loan often leading to more debt. this woman learned an expensive lesson about payday loans. >> i got caught up and you make bad choices. that was a very bad choice. >> reporter: she lost one of her two jobs in louisiana. she went to a payday lender and took out a $300 loan. but in two weeks when it was time to pay it back she didn't have the cash so she took out a second loan to pay off the first, and that continued. >> so you just do it over and

over. >> reporter: she took out loans at seven-different lenders, in the end her debt ballooned to $2,000. >> it took a whole lot of praying for me to come up. >> reporter: her story is common. people looking for a short-term loan getting caught in a cycle of debt. >> if i believe what i read in the paper, i probably wouldn't like me either. but i know the truth and the customer base and 95% of our customers like what we do. >> reporter: troy owns 31 cash lending storefronts in louisiana. and his businesses someone taking out a $100 loan is charged a $20 fee. in that amounts to a 521% annual percentage rate. the lawmakers have pushed to 36% as the cap. >> that would absolutely drive the industry out of business. >> reporter: why?

>> when you put 36%. that would mean i would only be allowed to charge a dollar 38 on a hundred dollars loan which breaks down to $0.10 per day. >> if the business model of this interest is that they can't make money without charging triple-digit interest rates, maybe they shouldn't be in business. >> reporter: he runs a policy group affecting the state's low and moderate income families. >> they keep coming back month after month after month, and we're talking about people who are always working people but who don't make a lot of money, and really need some help to make ends meet. >> i feel like they prey on people, because there are so many of them and they know what neighborhoods to put them in.

black people because that's where they are. >> reporter: your industry has been called predatory and abusive. is that fair? >> no we're not predatory at all. >> reporter: louisiana law limits the amount someone can borrow to $350 but recent bills to cap the annual rate and the number of loans a person can take out each year has failed. 12 states have banned payday lending all together. >> this industry has grown out of control in louisiana. >> reporter: muller hopes the consumer protection bureau will introduce a set of national rules for payday lenders. >> the federal government regulates all kinds of industries. they regulate the banking industry. the payday loan industry should be absolutely no different. >> i don't see the need for a national mandate that is going

to overreach what we have been operating successfully here for 15, 16 years. >> reporter: but there should be limits, you agree? >> i think we have the limits that need to be in place here in louisiana. >> reporter: thelma is finally out of a financial hole. now retired, she is raising her grandkids. she lives on a tight budget but says payday loans will never be an option again. many lenders say if the government comes in with more regulations, people will just turn to the internet. so everyone is waiting to see what the regulations could be. >> okay. jonathan. long before the police shooting of a black teen in ferguson missouri a police chief in michigan discovered his officers were routinely stopping a disproportionate number of

african-americans, so he decided to do something about it. >> reporter: in kalamazoo, a small city of 75,000 more than 20% of the population is black. but only 21 of the 212 public safety officers are african american. 10% of the force. a year and a half ago, the chief confronted an ugly reality, concrete data from a year-long study that his officers were racially profiling blacks in the city. >> it kind of takes your breath away, and so -- but -- but what do you do? do you sit there and act like a deer in headlights or pull yourself up by the bootstraps and say what are we going to do from here. >> reporter: for this sergeant and many others on the force, the study's conclusion that police seem to be targeting blacks came as a shock. >> i think the unofficial reaction by officers were to be

offended. >> reporter: but the numbers were as stark as black and white. the study found that blacks were more than twice and likely to be stopped by police as whites. >> this is where i was picking my friend up and i was pulled out of the car by the police. >> reporter: for some young african american men, getting stopped by the police seemed par for the course growing up in kalamazoo. >> yeah, just think about growing up and experiences with the police in kalamazoo, and just very much feeling intimidated by the police. not like the feeling of police being here to serve and protect me but really more so to harass and come get me. >> reporter: and if the profiling study shocked police officers it was hardly a revelation for them. >> i myself was not surprised, and most people i talked to were not surprised. >> reporter: after the study the

chief made three changes. requiring officers to undergo racial profiling, ordering them to document probable cause for every suspect they search and building better relations. the chief cautions that his officers won't ever resemble those from that classic tv sitcom. >> i'm not going to paint some picture like every interaction is going to be andy and barney in may berry, we deal with some complex stuff. >> you can watch chris's full report on "america tonight." president obama again took on the issue of violent extremism, speaking on the last day of a white house conference. he said the only way to put an end to the extremism was to educate people, and expanding

human rights and eliminating poverty was part of that. >> when young people feel entirely trapped in impoverished communities, that feeds disorder, and makes those communities ripe for extremist recruitment, and we have seen that across the middle east and north africa. >> richard coen attended the white house summit yesterday, and joins us from montgomery alabama this evening. great to see you again. let's dive into this together here. >> okay. >> you attended the summit yesterday. the president said this is not about a war against religion or islam. does he have it right or is he dead wrong on this? >> we're not at a war against all muslims in the world, obviously. we're at odds with a verlent

strand of ideology, aaron alexis -- and the president gets criticized for phrasing it that way. >> with your work with the southern poverty center what is your perspective on this conversation and the overall take away from the conference yesterday. >> it was very interesting, tony, you know the president said we're at this summit because of the threat posed by isis and al-qaeda yet the first terrorist incident that he talked about was the 1995 bombing of the oklahoma city building that left 168 people dead that was carried out by a white supermist gun nut. the problem is you know, we

tend as a country to ignore the equally serious threat from other forms of domestic terrorism, and it's a real problem when we don't devote enough resources to it. >> right. so this is interesting. is it true that since 9/11 more people have been killed by home grown terrorism, than by terror crimes linked to so-called muslim extremism? is that true? >> it is true. but i don't want to make too much of that count. if we started the count the day before 9/11, the figures would be very very different. what happened -- it's very interesting, tony after the oklahoma city bombing, this was a task force set up for domestic terrorism. on 9/11 it was supposed to meet but didn't for obvious reasons.

the problem is it has never happened again. and now we're again in danger of having a disproportionate attention to so-called jihadi terrorists in this country. >> what is your take on what happened in chapel hill north carolina. do you consider that a hate crime? >> well, look it has all of the earmarks of a hate crime it seems to me. this was a person who hated religions. who supposedly had said denigrating things about his muslim neighbors before. a lot of people are talking it is just a parking dispute. but he had a lot of parking dispute, but it was only this time, against muslims that he killed people. so i think it's an apparent hate crime. >> let's take a look at a statement from the former mayor of new york city rudy giuliani. i do not believe is -- is the line here from major yulegiuliani.

i do not believe that the president loves america. he doesn't love you and he doesn't love me. he wasn't brought up the way you and i were brought up through love of this country. what is your reaction to a statement like that? >> it's disgusting. it reminds me of something that john sununu a former presidential chief of staff guide who said i wish the president would learn to be an american. this effort to portray the president as something other than an american the secret muslim who has designs to impose socialism is really -- is the kind of thing you expect from the lunatic fringe but not main stream political figures like mr. giuliani. it's disgusting. >> richard it's good to talk to

you. >> thank you, tony. >> richard thank you. a key face of the obama administration is changing jobs. state department spokesperson jen sake is moving to the white house. she served as a traveling spokesperson for the president's 2008, and 2012 campaign and was his deputy communications director. there are also be a change in the pentagon briefing room. the top spokesman is stepping down, and will be replaced by a civilian as jamie macintyre tells us now, it is a decision with political implications. [ applause ] >> reporter: the new defense secretary, ash carter was introduced to the pentagon work force in an all hands meeting as a man of action. and just 24 hours into the job, he reacted to remove john kirby. kirby isn't the first high ranking officer to hold the job,

but he acknowledged there has always been an internal debate about having a military officer defend policy. >> one of the questions that i think he wants to rhetorically ask and consider is not just who the individual is but -- but what that individual represents, and whether it's appropriate or not to have a uniform up here. >> reporter: does that put you in a difficult spot sometimes? >> it -- it -- >> reporter: like now? [ laughter ] >> honestly it hasn't been a big issue for me. >> reporter: except it was an issue just last week when a reporter tried to pin down the admiral. >> reporter: would you say that barack obama as commander in chief has had a positive impact on the morale of the men and women of the united states armed forces? [ laughter ] >> i think -- look i -- i have

to -- really take issue with the question. >> tonight got very personal last friday between fox news correspondent and pentagon spokesman. >> reporter: just let the record reflect i didn't ask you a political question -- >> yes, you did. >> reporter: he said he asked the question to put on the record what he perceived as dis dissatisfaction with the president's action. article 88 of the uniform code of justice says: kirby said he stayed largely out of trouble, because the pentagon press corps knows full well the kind of things he can't say as an officer. >> now you heard in the briefing room at the pentagon where i am not a regular, this sort of

titters from the pentagon press corps. >> reporter: no one denies that admiral kirby has been effective, the problem is the perception that the president is using the protection of the military to advance political options. the clinton administration has raised about $2 billion since 2001, but now some of those donations are being criticized. plus only the toughest will cross the finish line. our daniel lack is following an international marathon through the yukon.

and today's power politics democratic leaders are angry at

former mayor rudy giuliani. michael shure is joining us now from los angeles. good to see you. where did giuliani make these comments? >> last night in new york city at the 21 club in -- to 60 business leaders. the 21 club tony a former speak easy. so these were things that were perhaps spoken too easily for the people in that room. it was basically about business leaders that are there. he is trying to court the money, the money that was left when mitt romney decided not to enter the race and from people who might not be in favor of jeb busch. >> let's take a look at what giuliani said here: what do you make of -- of these comments? >> well, you know, without

editorializing, as emphatically and eloquently as richard coen did, you look at the political side scott walker is trying to be the reasonable conservative this year. and trying to court some of that money, trying to court those people and something like this is said something that is a little bit inflammatory -- or very inflammatory doesn't help walker. and that's the real issue here. giuliani is not really a factor here. he is a draw as a surrogate, but he is not running. >> gotcha. so staying on 2016 politics here. the "washington post" reported that the clinton foundation has raised nearly $2 billion since its creation in 2001. so where has this money come from? and why are some calling it a bit of a conflict here? >> the money comes from all over the world, both governments,

individuals, corporations the mission of the clinton foundation is to help worldwide with disease and other sort of initiatives. what you are seeing here though, and it's very interesting, is the very first time that two -- that the bush-clinton dynamic is working, and the fact they both have foundations may neutralize itself here. but people are having problem because of the influence of foreign governments. >> michael good to see you. michael shure joining us from los angeles. for a look at what is coming up at the top of the hour david shuster is here. lisa stark sat down with a woman who said she was the victim of sexual abuse by a ammon. >> no one should feel scared to go into their workplace. >> in her first and only television interview, the

23-year-old woman talks about the shame she felt and what she did to bring the alleged abuse to light. plus there is a new debate over guns. smart gun technology exists and is getting better but pro-gun groups are putting new pressure on gun makers not to implement it. we'll talk to people on all sides of the issue. and some call it the holy grail of rock and roll. a guitar known as black beauty is on the chopping block. the instrument could go for millions of dollars, we'll explain why with a little history. and we'll continue our look at the oscar documentaries. we'll look at the life and the work of this hidden master. >> all right. david, appreciate it. thank you. one of the coldest marathons in

the world is drawing to a close. with temperatures hovering at negative 40 degrees, few athletes make it to the end, but daniel lak was there from start to finish. >> reporter: from this less than two weeks ago, a joyful start to nearly 700 kilometers of tough going, to the first finishers in the historic town of dawson city. it has been quite an event. there were a record number of entries, but extreme cold made for a powerful challenge. >> i laid down for an hour and it was too cold. >> reporter: kyle mccoy of the u.s. won the 160 kilometers. to stop he says was dangerous, possibly fatal. all around him racers were feeling the effects. this racer from poland had to be

rescued by helicopter with severe frostbite. these two newly married entered as a couple. injuries forced her out early, her husband kept going, but a sore ankle stopped him short. but not even the cold or the nights diminishes enthusiasm. >> when you are going into night, there is just a tunnel one part of you wants to finish the challenge, and one part of you, the realistic one is telling you, you know, it's your health. >> reporter: the fastest man on wheels italy's did his 690 kilometers in just over a week. he has won twice before once on foot, once on skis. at 61 years old, he is the only old-age pensioner in the race. >> i'm happy.

>> reporter: this athlete also italian, won the long race two days behind his fellow countryman. it is competetive, of course, but it's as tough as the going can get, there's a powerful feeling of sportsmanship. >> we call it a race and it is. people like to say, i finished third, fourth, but in the end it's more about camaraderie. it's about finishes and the journey. >> reporter: and what a journey it has been to here, an historic gold rush town where the relics of a bygone era surround the finish line of what is probably the toughest and coldest race in the world. very cool.

gold. not for me. but very cool. that's all of our time for this news hour. i'm tony harris in new york city. thanks for watching. if you would like more information on any of these stories head over to aljazeera.com.

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