♪ hello everybody, this is al jazeera america. i'm david shuster, a leader in chicago charged with sexual assault, the woman who first went to police breaks her silence, final appeal and they ask to up hold the law to force the only abortion clinic to close, it's a huge case that can impact clinics across the country. storm damage a federal judge slapped insurance companies with new sanctions stemming from

insurance sandy and thousands said they were cheated when they needed help the most and guitar hero, is it the model that sparked a rock and roll revolution or is it an imposter the electric debate over a blockbuster auction. ♪ we begin tonight in chicago with an al jazeera exclusive, the woman at the center of a central abuse case against a reknown islamic leader and allegations sent shock waves through a tight-knit religious community and abdullah is now facing criminal charges. he is also facing a civil lawsuit brought by several alleged victims. now the woman who first went to police is speaking out. lisa stark is live in chicago tonight, lisa? >> reporter: well, david, i had an extensive interview with this

woman, she is in her 20s and asked us to call her lana and protect her identity and worked seven months as administrative assistance at this strict islamic school started by abdullah and over time the 75-year-old ammon made advances to her and turned into sexual abuse. >> he came into my office and introduced myself. >> reporter: it was her first meeting with her boss. her community's esteemed religious leader abdullah. >> i was honored to sit with him and sat with me and talked with me and said do you wear that veil outside of work and i said no. he said you don't have to wear it in front of me. >> reporter: newly employed at the institute for islamic education she wasn't concerned at the time and the boarding and day school strictly for bids contact between men and women but lana is what she asked us to call her claims over a few months he began mosting her

slowly, growing bolder. >> it would be from groping my backside or groping my breasts to kissing me on the cheek to massaging my body to asking me to massage him. >> reporter: as with many young muslim women lana never had any sex education. it's a taboo subject. she says she did not understand what was happening. >> i was so scared to like towards the end i was just terrified to go to work. i would take all the precautions i could and leave my office door unlocked when he would come in but he would come in and lock the door. >> reporter: lana says she confided in a relative who urged her to quit immediately. >> i was looking for another job. i had, you know loans and stuff to pay off and i was like as soon as i get another job i won't have to worry and leave and never come back. >> reporter: you didn't wait for another job, did you? >> i didn't. >> reporter: that is because of what she says happened in april

of last year when he again came into her office. as outlined in the civil suit quote she tried to leave the room to get away from him but could not leave because he grabbed her forcefully and pushed her on to his lap. you saved a piece of evidence didn't you? >> i did. i saved the pants that had his semen on them. >> reporter: did you do that because you thought you might need it some day? >> yes, i did. >> reporter: that evidence, her black pants is in the hands of police and quit within days and she and her family stayed quiet at first. >> when my mom first found out she wanted to go to the cops and she wanted to march into his office and she wanted to demand that he apologize and she wanted for him to you know be punished for what he did. but it was me who was so scared

because he is so powerful and i was like who is going to believe us, mom. >> reporter: eventually lana says she and her mother confronted him at a meeting arranged by a local muslim scholar. >> he apologized to my mom but never apologized to me. and he is like your daughter should apologize to you as well and my mom looked at him and say why should she apologize she has not hurt me. he is like she never said no to me so it was okay for me to do that for her and he stated it was consensual. >> reporter: what do you say to that? >> i was furious. i got out of my seat and i was like are you hearing what you are saying you think i'm comfortable with like you think any girl is comfortable with her breasts being touched by you know by you, by an elderly man. >> reporter: he is said to have signed a document and says he apologized to the victim and her mother. he has admitted his actions. the document does not specify

what those actions were. as word spread throughout the muslim community the man who arranged that meeting ultimately blogged about the alleged sexual abuse. that prompted a leading muslim organization to launch its own investigation. >> when we found out the same story from two or three other people, then we started to believe that this is probably true. we didn't have any legal proof. but we thought that it is basically true. >> reporter: he says he urged the victim's family to go to police but lana says people connected with the school pressured her family to stay silent warning that her reputation would be ruined. >> anything sexual whether it's good or bad is not discussed in our community especially if it happens to a woman. their reputation is tarnished, there is a sigma they won't get married, there is a stain on her, you know, stay away from that girl. >> reporter: lana ultimately did go to police after the

social worker who was counseling her told her there were other alleged victims. police opened an investigation in early december. he was taken in custody this week on two felony counts sexual abuse and aggravated battery. did you have any reaction when you heard he had been arrested and charged? >> yes. >> reporter: and what was that? >> i cried. >> reporter: you cried. >> yes. >> reporter: yes. >> because that is when it felt real, you know and it was like oh my god and it hit me again that his crime was real that he messed with my faith, he messed with my family. >> reporter: abdullah is now out of jail released on $25,000 bail. his attorney has told us he categorically denies the charges against him, that he is a man of faith and his faith is sustaining him. as for lana she is stealing

herself for a trial and hopes her story will encourage others to seek help. >> if they don't want to come forward, that is fine. as long as they are getting help, as long as they realize they are the victims and they didn't do anything wrong, i think i accomplished something and i hope i have. >> reporter: now we are told that this case as you can imagine has truly rocked the muslim community here. lana says she sees it as a generational divide and has gotten a lot of support from the younger generation but she said not so with the older members of her community. david? >> lisa the abuse alleged in the civil suit involved other victims as well happened over some four decades why did it take so long for those accusations to come out? >> reporter: well, we have been asking the same question and it seems there is a couple of different reasons. one is as we talked about as there is just so much stigma in

coming forward with allegations like this. also abdullah is such a respected figure here and also we have looked at the bylaws for his school and he really had absolute authority every decision that he made was a final decision, so he had a lot of control there. >> and lisa as far as that school is concerned, has the school conducted its own investigation? >> reporter: well the person in the piece and talked about his group looking into these allegations, he said the school said it would conduct an investigation but he has seen no evidence of it. however, his attorney did tell us that he and the school have done an internal investigation and the attorney claims they see nothing that points to any improprieties. reporting from chicago and thank you. now, to the fight against aisle, we learned tonight iraqi forces are preparing for offensive to retake a major city under isil

control, operation will take place in mosul which has been in isil hands since last june and jamie is live at the pentagon and what do you know about the planned offensive? >> reporter: david it was very interesting here at the pentagon today. what was essentially a routine briefing on background by a senior u.s. central command official on the fight against isil in iraq and syria actually ended up revealing some pretty interesting details about the overall plan to retake mosul. among the significant things we learned is that the timeframe, the u.s. is looking at is april or may. that is when they believe that iraqi troops there be ready and say by then between 20-25,000 iraqi troops will be ready to try to retake mosul which the pentagon estimates is being held between 1,000-2000 isil fighters. they actually gave a break down

of what this mosul attack force would be made of. five iraqi brigades of iraqi troops backed up by three smaller brigades and three peshmerga brigades whose job is to contain isil to the north and the west. in addition they outlined additional forces which when you add them all up amount to 12 brigade and include tribal fighters, some former mosul police officers and also some iraqi special forces that would round out the force. now, the pentagon says that despite some tactical gains on the ground that isil enjoyed in the city of baghdad to the west isil has been unable to take and hold ground and say the u.s. is continuing to inflict losses on them faster than the isil forces

can recover from them and they say that they are hopeful that by this timeframe of april and may that they will be ready to launch this offensive but there is a big caveat here and they will not force the issue although they would prefer to go before the summer heat in iraq and ramadan and not move until iraqi forces are trained and equipped and ready to launch the mission and retaking mosul by the way would not be the end of the war, it's still going to es esestimate to completely defeat isil. >> reporting tonight from the pentagon and thank you. president obama today dismissed the idea that the west is at war with islam. he called it an ugly lie. and president spoken the final day of a white house conference on violent extremism and mr. obama called on all countries to address the political and economic and social issues that fuel violent groups. >> we have to ensure our diverse

society is truly welcome and respect people of all faiths and backgrounds and leaders set the tone on this issue. groups like al-qaeda and isil pedal alive that some countries are hostile to muslims. >> reporter: president said improving economic conditions and having strong democracies could prevent violent groups from gaining power. california so called super bug is now blamed for the deaths of two people treated at a los angeles hospital and tonight officials are warning that more than 170 other patients may have been exposed. bacteria which is resistant to antibiotics discovered at ronald regan center and spread through medical equipment now cleaned sufficiently and hospital staff say they were following manufacturer protocols during cleaning process and after the out break hospitals say procedures have been updated. two years after super storm

sandy went through new york and new jersey some people are unable to move back in their homes. federal government is working to settle all pending litigation involving sandy claims but that only includes a fraction of the victims. erica has been following this story for us and joins us now in studio erica. >> david these are people who really didn't know they should have hired a lawyer to push for a full payout of their claims. some people thought they just couldn't afford an attorney or they thought how can i fight a big insurance company that has the backing of fema which is the federal government. they represent the true voice in this and tonight we are making their voices heard and one u.s. congresswoman is listening and she is taking action. >> so basically we are living in a basement and this is our living room bedroom, toy room whatever. and don't mind the toys. this is our bedroom, my husband and i and one of our kids. >> reporter: living in their

in-laws basement in queens new york is not ideal situation for her and her husband and four children two-year-old anthony and nine-month-old triplets were all born after super storm sandy slammed in their new york home in october of 2012. >> our refrigerator was in the middle of our kitchen. the door to the crawl space was up in the bathroom. >> reporter: nearly 2 1/2 years later they say their home on long island is still unlivable. the main reason they say is because of major cracks in their foundation like this one here that shifted the house. they say their home really needs to be demolished and rebuilt but they simply don't have enough money to do that. >> it's bureaucratic bologna. >> reporter: red tape from fema insurance company and state prevented her from rebuilding despite foundation damage that local officials acknowledged her flood insurance contracted by fema did not give

a full pay out and qualified for grants by fema and yet to see the money so her home sits empty while her family of five cramps in this tiny living space. >> i want 130,000 to build the house, not like i want $5 million, i want to put my children into their own home. >> reporter: she is not the only one, u.s. representative cath line kathleen rice say there are more people fighting the bureaucratic battle on their own, as member of the committee she has a role in over seeing fema and agency needs to make changes now, not only to protect future storm victims but also take care of sandy survivors. >> if it's through an act of legislation, then we will get that done. but i think this is one of those. >> reporter: when? >> as soon as possible. >> reporter: what about the people who had engineers come out and adjusters look and say denied, from the get go? >> i think what about those people. >> we are grossly under paid and now they are still struggling

still out of their homes, what can you do for them? >> what i think has to be done is every single claim has to be reviewed if they were denied or paid out and how much they were paid out. >> reporter: victoria welcomes the news that a member of congress is going to push fema to fix this mess but she is skeptical. >> i don't believe anything anybody says until they actually start doing something. give us our money. we all want to get back in our homes. >> reporter: if the congresswoman can make that happen that would make this mother of four elated. >> to know the money is coming would be a huge relief and of all the bologna could go away and break grounds on my house it would be we are finally home. i love you. >> i do. >> reporter: of course moments like that keep a family going. so many people are just like victoria, she is lucky to have the space at her parents house but still pays rent on top of

their mortgage payment and that is the case for a lot of people which is why they are desperate to get back to their homes and start their normal life again. >> this tight fistness of fema how much comes back from katrina when they were too loss with the money they were doling out? >> this goes back to katrina with an over payment issue at that point so congress stepped in and helped to tweak things a little bit for the agency so that allowed them for future storms to contract private companies to dole out flood insurance. and they really said to these private companies be careful we have a threshold, do not over pay claims. and that may have led and appears to have led to some serious underpayments in this which is why it's good this congresswoman is stepping up. she just got elected to this office so she really is eager to make changes and it sounds like she is going to follow through and of course we will wait and see what happens. >> erica reporting and thank you

very much. up next, preventing accidental gun deaths so called smart guns could help but they are facing a lot of resistance. and is this guitar really worth millions of dollars? tonight's auction is for a piece of rock and roll history and it's sparking a loud debate.

thanks to advances in technology there is a new debate raging now over gun safety. guns are the only consumer product not regulated by u.s. government safety standards and c.d.c. estimates more than 32000 gun related deaths occur each year. in 2010 accidental shootings killed 606 people and since then the number of children killed accidentally has averaged 62 per year. a lot of gun safety advocates believe the numbers could be reduced dramatically. the key they say is to use what is known as smart gun technology. jacob ward reports. >> at least 60 children a year are killed in gun accidents in the united states. in 1994 15-year-old dicks wrote down a ten-year plan. >> animals and young kids and maybe a pediatrician. >> reporter: a month before summer went to a friend's house and brought up a handgun and

thinking he unloaded it he pulled the trigger and the bullet if the trigger struck his heart, killing him. he was killed by a baretta-92 compact l and he tried to punish the manufacturer for making an unsafe gun. after ten years he lost his suit. guns are exempt from the typical product consumer regulation from ladders to car seats for kids and gun rights group say they need more training and not more regulation. >> when you do it right with holsters and lock when unattended you don't have these kinds of accidental discharges but yes there are still the anecdotal few who have this happen but nra teaches kids stop, don't touch, tell an adult. >> reporter: some children are just too young to understand. just after christmas last year a toddler accidentally killed his mother with a gun she kept in her purse while they shopped today in idaho.

>> accessed a concealed weapon that was inside the victim's purse and discharged it striking the victim. >> reporter: and on january 31st a three-year-old shot both his father and mother in their hotel room in albuquerque. >> that is what happens when you don't secure a firearm and unsafe around firearms children have easy access to them like the case yesterday and people got hurt. >> reporter: a child cannot use a cell phone locked with a pass code but nothing in the gun design prevented children from simply pulling the trigger. >> owners can unlock their gun in under a second when they need it. >> reporter: gun manufacturers have been wrestling with the design problem, one company has built a trigger lock that requires the owner's fingerprint to open a company called aramticks tried to sell a smart gun only fired by someone wearing a special electronic bracelet and the idea is to prevent a child from firing a gun and prevent gun theft and

law enforcement endorses this idea. certainly what could the objection be to coding the gun to the gun owner so go ahead, own your gun, but it's your gun, it's specific to you and it can't fall into the wrong hands, it would be a very good thing. >> reporter: but gun owners are hostile to the notion. >> gun community is not necessarily afraid of technology. you see news type technology like aiming system and pull the trigger and move around until you are on target and shoots. most of push back for private citizens is the liability question, is the battery dead and didn't know and you had not looked at your gun for nine months because well some people don't. >> reporter: politics does play a role here. a state law in new jersey would essentially mandate that when a smart gun is available to buy in north america all handguns in new jersey must be smart guns within 30 months. the law was written to promote the research, development and manufacturer of smart guns but seems to be having the opposite

effect. when the pistol went on sale in california and maryland stores were swarmed with angry phone calls, demonstrators, even death threats. >> a lot of really core gun guys who want to do this but the stigma of i might screw up gun rights by a product that is interesting you can't be that manufacture. >> reporter: the father can see where his son is buried from his house but 21 years after his death he says he doesn't visit the grave as much as he used to. do you find yourself marking the time for some reason? >> yeah, i ran into a friend of his going to graduate school and studying english and getting his ph.d. and i think i wonder what he would have been doing. >> reporter: david, there is obviously a great deal of emotion and politics around this issue but look at the statistics for a moment the statistics you listed in leading into this story really are just sort of the tip of the iceberg, there is

really only a dozen states that reliably collect this sort of data, it's really not clear how many children are killed by this and thousands more at least over a thousand that we know of that are injured by these kinds of accidents and so it really is just sort of brings you back to the design question of guns they are one of the only sort of valuable mechanisms we own in modern life that doesn't come with an integrated safety system and you can lock your phone and car and cannot lock your gun and that seems to be creating a great deal of tragedy here. >> reporter: live from san francisco and thank you. still ahead, the brother of one of the north carolina shooting victims talks about coming to terms with the violent deaths and how his faith is helping him cope. and the photographer discovered after decades and we will talk to who brought her back to life in an oscar-nominated film.

hello everybody, this is al jazeera america, i'm david

shuster and coming up this half hour. students slain in north carolina a week after a shocking triple homicide we return to chapel hill where a family member of one of the victims is speaking out. access denied in mississippi where there is just one remaining abortion clinic the state is urging the supreme court to help lawmakers shut it down. we will talk to a doctor on the difficulties facing mississippi women and their physicians. in focus, a photographer rediscovered after disecades and you will hear from an oscar documented one to bring him to light. rock of ages and holy grail for guitar guides and a prototype is on the auction block and will it really fetch millions? ♪ the killings last week were senseless in north carolina three muslims shot to death and

police charged the neighborhood tear craig hicks with first degree murder over a long dispute of parking spaces and members of muslim suggest a darker motive hate and we will speak to the victim's broth about the grief in the community and lives lost. this is the wedding photo they did not live to see and married less than two months when they were shot to death along with her sister a neighbor is facing charges. the motive remains unclear, investigators say it was a parking dispute, the girl's father says it was hate. >> each one of these children had a bullet in their head. this was an execution-style. this was a hate crime from a neighbor neighbor. >> reporter: family members and friends are grief stricken over the loss but mourners have found

solace in what had been the victims' passions. >> i'm a dental students at unc and i need your help. >> reporter: he had been organizing a campaign to bring dental supplies and relief to syrian refugees today that campaign raised nearly $500,000. the money is expected to support syrian american medical professionals in the united states and syria. >> a few days ago my brother, his wife and sister in law's cyst were murdered at my brother's apartment in chapel hill but nothing but good has come out of it. >> reporter: other humanitarian projects organized in their memory, money being raised to build wells in so mallsomalia and miami and raised $4,000. >> they made such a huge impact and it's crazy because you wouldn't wouldn't -- there are so many things i did not know about until now they did and it's like, wow, that is the way, that is the way to be a role model.

>> reporter: the brother of one of the three victims of the shooting attack on february 11 and joins us tonight from raleigh, north carolina and how are you and the other family members doing? >> hello, mr. david, we are holding in there. i guess we are human too in a sense, anxiety and other things like that are settling in but the prayers for our family has become strong. >> i understand that you spoke at a vigil just the other day, rave reviews when you talked about ignorance not breeding ignorance and i wonder if you can expand on that a little bit? >> sure i watched that recently again and i was kind of wondering who was talking there because it definitely was strong in the vigil speech and it's our initial reaction to the shock of let's not have this propagate into more violence and into more hatred because all we lived for

and my brother stood for and his wife as well is the fact that we may be a victim of hatred and ignorance but at some point a cycle has to end and we are hoping we can use this to dignify the end of such a cycle. >> are you satisfied with what the f.b.i. and the department of justice are doing at the federal level, they opened up a review about whether or not this is a hate crime although local law enforcement say they don't have the evidence of that just yet, are you satisfied with the direction this is going? >> i'm satisfied they have they opened up a parallel investigation and they seem to definitely take interest and hear us out on the fact this is a concern of ours that can affect other people's lives and the reason we push for this idea that we really need to recognize this is a hate crime is the fact that it can effect other people's lives so we are satisfied on that front and hope

it continues and cooperation incredible. >> sounds like the reaction from the north carolina community has also been incredible in terms of how people have unified across so many different religions and so many different backgrounds, what has that meant to you and other family members as you deal with this unimaginable grief? >> the support from the north carolina community has been one thing and also we had international support. and first thing on a personal level it helped me remember the fact that i get all these messages he is in a better place and you guys have been so strong for us and all these words of encouragement that help us keep going and also i love hearing stories about my brother and his wife. i know at first it's like is it too hard to handle such stories but to me i kind of let the punches come in as they please and love learning about my brother and it brings tears but also smiles knowing my brother was such a great person. >> is there a story you can share with us or a story you

witnessed with your brother or an anda an and friend or colleague or students has shared with you? >> i'm still trying to identify what it means to have lost a brother. i hope this message goes out to others and don't take your siblings for granted. so many times i reached for the phone to try to text him, the relationship with your brother is not something in your day-to-day life define or think of and again it's very easy to take for granted. you know, what helped me is my faith. i don't want to push this on other people but it gives you that sense of calm and understanding that god is in control of all things. >> ferris the brother, thank you so much for coming on. we all wish you strength and hope that the many happy memories that you have of your brother, of his wife and her sister are a source of comfort to you in these difficult days thanks for being with us. >> i'm here on behalf of my brother and hope to do big

things in his name for sure. >> thank you to mississippi where officials are trying to close the state's last remaining abortion clinic. a federal district court recently blocked a mississippi law that would have forced women seeking abortion to go outside the state so mississippi lawmakers are now asking the supreme court to take up the case reverse the lower court ruling and let the restrictive state law stand. last year we reported on the difficulties women and doctors face in mississippi, and we have the report. >> this is a key to the apartment here in chicago. these are the keys to my apartment in mississippi. >> reporter: dr. parker lives and works in two worlds, twice a month for the last two years he packed a bag and hit the road. the chicago-based gynecologist travels to where he sees need. >> travel midday and sometimes i leave later and arrive at night

and then have a full day the following day in the clinic. >> reporter: his final destination, the heart of the deep south. here in jackson sits the last remaining abortion clinic in the entire state of mississippi and known as the pink house, many travel hundreds of miles from some of the poorest rural communities looking for medical attention here. >> we are in mississippi so you have a right to stand your ground. >> reporter: outside protesters try to discourage women from going inside. >> does anybody care? little black boys and girls are being decimated here. >> reporter: inside the waiting room is full. expect to be here 2-3 hours, no bags purses or children are allowed. >> reporter: on the day we visited 39 women were waiting to see dr. parker. >> tell you what the risks are, he is going to tell you what to expect. >> reporter: once inside they undergo group counseling and meet one on one with dr. parker. >> dr. parker and taking care of you. >> reporter: after the 24-hour

state required waiting period is met he goes from exam room to exam room. >> i know you don't want to be here, i know you are a little scared and don't know what to expect and i tell you everything in advance. that was tough and never had a pelvic exam before. >> reporter: rachel is 23 years old and committed relationship and using birth control she became pregnant but they were not ready to be parents. she didn't want to show her face but if the clinic were closed she would have to travel three hours to new orleans for care. >> i think that people don't realize that people who need abortions are not only the ones who cannot afford to have a doctor in the first place. >> reporter: the governor vowed to make mississippi an abortion-free state. >> now there are all these barriers that make it so difficult as to be impractical. some states have parental notification laws some states have waiting periods, some states have face-to-face counseling. mississippi has all of them and that makes it harder for women

to access abortion. >> reporter: in 2012 legislature passed a law requiring doctors who perform abortions to secure hospital admitting privileges, so far no local hospital granted them to dr. parker or his partner, the only two abortion providers in the state, a lawsuit barred the clinic time but if it fails it may be forced to close. >> the essential question becomes is it right. and so even when it's not popular or politically expediant you have to do what your conscious tells you is right and about 12 years ago for me my conscious told me the right thing to do is make sure this care is available for women. >> reporter: for now dr. parker will continue travelling to mississippi providing abortion care to women who soon may have no where else to turn. i'm with al jazeera, jackson, mississippi. dr. parker who you saw in the piece joins us from berming birmingham birmingham, alabama and the law being passed and the federal court striking it down and

officials in mississippi going to them saying we want you to reenstate this to reinstate abortion and what goes through your mind in each step of the process? >> what goes through my mind is that as dr. king said, progress never rolls in on the wheels of inevitability so it's going to always be necessary for people of good will to put forth the effort to make things happen that need to happen. >> if the supreme court reverses the lower court and upholds the state law restricting abortions, what will you do will you follow the law and stop performing in mississippi, will you go under ground what do you see happening? >> well i would rather think about what will happen if the court recognizes that this is a very necessary service for women and if they realize that then they will stand behind the

circuit court. i believe the circuit court got it right and understand this is a necessary service for women so i choose to think that women will remain safe. i am a law abiding citizen and i believe in the process of trying to do things the right way. that's why i make every effort to do advocacy as well as provide care because i want to make sure that when women have access that it is safe legal and protected. >> i understand that the state of alabama where you also practice is headed in the same direction, i wonder if you can tell us where that stands right now? >> well there was recently a ruling with regard to similar legislation that was in play to require hospital admitting privileges and judge thompson the federal court judge who presided in that case found that those rules don't add anything

to the care and decided that they were not enforceable and so those rules were not allowed to proceed into law. >> based on the patients that you are seeing in alabama and those that you see in mississippi do you get a sense as to how many of them would continue to seek out abortion even if it's illegal for an abortion to be performed in their state? >> if history serves us correctly, there has never been a law or a rule or the ability to shame a woman publically enough that if she is determined to end a pregnancy that she will -- there has never been a rule to prevent a woman attempting to end a pregnancy. we know right now that even as even though abortion remains legal as things become scarce there are do it yourself recipes on the internet for women to take desperate measures and when abortion is not accessible

women will still do what they need to do to try and accomplish their goal that is why the mortality rate related to abortion before abortion was legal was so high. even when abortion was illegal women still tried to accomplish the goal of not becoming a mother when they were not ready to do so. >> willie parker from alabama and practices in mississippi and good of the you to join us tonight, thank you. >> thank you. some parts of the united states could soon say the coldest temperatures in decades, metrologist nicole mitchell is here in the studio with more. >> this is historic air in some cases, it's february and know it's going to be cold but what is so impressive is the national weather service and noah backtracked some of this air and it has come all the way from siberia and across the pole and into the united states and usually it's from canada and moderated but we had a front

chill things down and a second arctic blast set and by the time it's said and done back to the 90s such widespread air and such record-breaking cold. >> give us a sense of scale how far south does this stretch? >> a lot of the fronts in winter don't make it through florida, this made it all the way through the keys key west could set record lows overnight tonight and as you see the jet stream dipping there it made the cold air to ukatan and cuba and i looked up havana and usually in the 60s and tonight could plunge in the 40s and it's impressive and a couple of days before we get the temperatures back to normal. >> thank you very much. in arizona one of the world east largest mining, companies tapping into a rich copper deposit and it's considered sacred by tribes in a federally protected forest that is about

to change and adam may explains why. >> reporter: on the san carlos reservation oak flat is holy land, to be protected from the top of the sky to the bottom of the earth. oak flat part of arizona's tonto national forest sits on top of one of the world's richest copper deposits a company called resolution copper trying to acquire the land for nearly a decade, in december they finally succeeded. were they consulted on this before it was put in the defense bill? >> no, we are not consulted at all. >> reporter: tribal council member has flown to washington d.c. to fight against the land exchange for years. >> i imagine a couple years from now they break ground at oak flat and you are standing there watching it what is going to go through your mind? >> i probably will cry. i mean i definitely will cry because the history of our

people, those dreams those ways that goed blessed us and to turn to our children and know there is no more is gone. >> reporter: resolution copper a subsidiary of foreign mining, giant tinto made a dozen attempts to acquire the land through special legislation in congress but this time a new tactic, the land deal was inserted into the defense spending bill. a move critics say allows the company to privatize the land and bypass critical environmental and cultural protections. >> i know you have given up your personal time to be here this evening and i'm very grateful for that. >> reporter: resolution copper and parent company rio-tinto declined requests to talk with america tonight so we decided to attend one of their public meetings hoping to get some answers and we ran into david the head of government affairs,

adam may how are you? >> good, i think we were trying to get ahold of you to talk about an interview. we wanted to ask him a few questions about why the land swap was tacked on to the defense bill. how did this get through congress? >> you can join the meeting and listen to the answers given in the community meeting, thank you, we are done. [car honking] they have not given up yet. but just up the road resolution copper has already completed work on a new exploratory shaft. it will be used to gather information on the ore body in add anticipation of one day when the land will be their, adam may with al jazeera. you can see more of adam's report at 10:00 eastern on america tonight. the name paul is synonymous with the electric guitar and he was a

guitarist and pop and jazz legend and built the first solid body guitar but this les paul that changed the sound and style of music forever, tonight what some call the prototype for the innovation went up for auction and al jazeera john joins us with this. >> this is a story about how much would you be prepared to pay for a guitar and we will find out at the end of this sequence but i can tell you first off it's a mystery as deep as any william patterson novel because less paul loved tinkering and the one you saw 1954 black beauty there it is look at that to the development of music and ultimately in many forms played by rock stars the world over and worth a cool $2 million say some people not true say others. it's all hype. and you are looking at the wrong instrument. ♪ the 1954 gibson prototype black

beauty once owned by the legend less paul played by tom doyle his right hand man for years. >> i'm working with less paul one of the greatest geniuss of the electric guitar. >> reporter: less paul was famous and frugal and worked long hours with no money and he gave him the black beauty in lieu of a paycheck and tom said thanks. >> that is how it happened. would you consider it, it's yours tom, it's yours. >> reporter: he is selling the black beauty in new york complete with the pioneering electronics that would go with it and not things he would show be tom and they call the black beauty the grail and he is playing it in the early 50s t.v. show sponsored by listerine mouth wash. ♪ word the street is the instrument could fetch up to $2

million. >> the point is this guitar was the beginning of what less always wanted in electric guitar. >> reporter: which is why it is seen by some as the mother of all less paul's that followed. ♪ where are you going to find iconic history like this guitar? it's just not going to happen. >> reporter: here is where the story hits a bum note some rock stars say it wasn't the gibson black beauty for sales and many played by rock legends but earlier models like gold top made up to two years earlier so is the black beauty the so called grail of guitars. >> a relic of the true cross. >> reporter: tom crandall restores and sells guitars in new york and says the problem is while the frame is from the 1950s the electronics are from a different decade. >> it has pick ups from the 1970s which never really caught on. they are long with a very

distinctive sound and interesting sound but that is not the sound we associate with all those records that were made. >> reporter: back at the auction room tom supporters say it's that combination of original frame and more up to date technology that make the black beauty so valuable. as for that figure of $2 million, it would be nice but cash isn't king here. >> he would take that smaller check knowing that this would be appreciated and enjoyed as he has been privileged to do for these last number of decades. >> reporter: and that's music to everybody's ears. ♪ oh and he is such a nice man, let me tell you, but he is not a rich man. we have just heard that the black beauty sold not for $2 million but $335,500. >> no wow, that was less than expected and john thank you very much. we will continue our series on the other side of this break on the films that have been

nominated for an academy award in the documentary category that is after this.

the film finding vivian meijer up for best documentary feature at the sunday oscars and focuses on a hidden life of a nanny who took thousands of extraordinary photographs that only surfaced after her death. john seigenthaler spoke with the director of the film and began asking what we do know about the

reclusive and rediscovered master vivian meijer was a nanny and she was known to everyone as a nanny but she harbored a secret. she was actually a brilliant artist, sort of hiding out as a nanny and when i learned that story, when i learned that a trove of photographs, over 150,000 photographs had been discovered and the artist behind them was unknown and when it was discovered that the person who took all those pictures was someone who is known as a nanny and not as a professional photographer, i thought that was a fascinating story and a real mystery. >> what surprised you most about vivian? >> the real surprise is that vivian wasn't just a casual photographer. she wasn't just, she was lucking out, she didn't just happen to

take great pictures she labored for five decades, day after day, year after year taking some of the most incredible images of the mid century really of urban life. >> one of the best street photographers ever and yet the moma still refuses to show her work explain why. >> it's true. i think institutions have been slower to accept vivian meyer and it's one of the things that we hope will change over time. john, when he first made the discovery, john maloof who discovered vivian's work really championed that work and tried to get the help of moma and tape modern and institutions like that and needed the help at the end. what he did is because they refused he mounted a show in

chicago of his own and the story really grew from there. >> she died at 83 in 2009. did anybody suspect, did she have any family? >> she did not have any surviv surviving family member no close family members and show in the film there was family in france a distant cousin who actually had photographs that vivian had taken and so it was really wonderful to find some relatives through our detective work in the film and go to this tiny village in france where vivian had spent some of her childhood and return with some of the photographs she had taken when she visited that village. >> what do you want viewers to take away from this film? >> i think really you have to look around and wonder how many great artists are there among us who never have their work seen who never have their work discovered vivian took over

150,000 images for decades she worked and she never had the recognition during her lifetime that she is getting now. and so that was only possible because someone found her work and championed it. there are, i imagine, many artists out there who are doing great work who haven't had their work discovered and may never have their work discovered and it does make one pause to think that many of the great works of art that we as human beings have created over the years may have been lost. >> charlie congratulations on the nomination and hope he wins and good to see you thanks very much >> thanks for having me. >> before we go we will check in with stephanie of what is going to happen. >> i.s.i.l. has been successful with online prop propaganda and it involves a serious propaganda push of its own, a team in washington working to under mine

the presence easing media to target families of potential recruits and in the next hour we will take you in the state department program that is tackle the battle against i.s.i.l. online and speaking david with the writer of a controversial atlanta in this month's atlantic magazine about the end game. >> next i'm david and thanks for watching the news continues now on al jazeera america.

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