>> this is al jazeera america live from new york city. i'm tony harris. under arrest. three men from brooklyn accused of plotting to join isil fighters. what they're threatening to do sore sea overseas and at home. and continued debate over immigration and supreme court arguments in the case of the muslim woman and potential employer who said her religious head scarf did not fit it's east coast style.

>> the three new york men accused of plotting to help isil are held without bail this evening. prosecuteors say they they were planning to head to syria. >> tony, the details are still coming in. here's what we know at this hour. the men are accused of plotting to join isil. if they could not do that, they were going to wage war here at home against the united states, and even shoot president obama. new york city police commissioner bill bratton said that the threat was very real. >> it was made quite plain based on their own statements that if they were not able to go, they would seek to acquire weapons here, machine guns, and seek to attack very specifically police officers. >> the men have been on the government's radars for months, at least since august, when one

of them wrote on an isil propaganda website that he was in the u.s. he didn't have any weapons, but he wanted to carry out attacks and become a martyr. that website has since been taken down, but the complaint against the men said that he wrote, what i'm say something to shoot obama and get shot ourselves. will it do? that will strike fear in the hearts of the infidels. now federal agents interviewed that man a week after the post. he told them then that he wanted to travel to syria and if he had the chance he would hurt president obama or bomb coney island. he was recorded of wanting to shoot police officers and fbi agents and told an informer that he wanted to travel to syria to wage jihad but that his mother had taken away his passport. two of these suspects are from uzbekistan. anduzbekistan and another from

kazakhstan. these men are not alone. more than 20 people have been arrested in the u.s. trying to travel to syria to join isil or other groups, and the arrest arrested could face up to 15 years in prison and they're held without bail. >> thanks. isil fighters have kidnapped more than 100 men and young boys no northern iraq. the leader of the tribe said all the kidnapping took place east of tikrit. the leaders call this isil's revenge for fighting. funding for homeland security without overturning president obama's actions on immigration.

mike viqueira at the white house. so the senate has a deal, what about the house? >> it's all over but the shouting really. you called it a breakthrough. it's more of a break down in republican discipline exposing more of the divisions within that party between the conservative, the hardcore, the tea party folks who are irate and incensed with the executive order. calling it selective deportation deportation, in other words, reordering who will be deporting, the president saving 4 million were being deported. the republicans have called him anything from a dictate for a king, but they're not able to hold the line. here's the story they tried to withhold funding from the entire department of homeland security with implements to the immigration policy. then were willing to go to a shutdown. the deadline to refund that department this coming up friday at midnight. now john boehner and mitch

mcconnell seeing the writing on the wall. the republicans in the house are digging in their heels. there could still be problems but it appears there is a solution on the horror rye done. >> mike, the deal comes on the same day that president obama held a town hall on immigration in florida. what did he have to say during that event? >> this is what a typical playbook page from the playbook, communications playbook from the white house, from any white house, frankly. he went to florida talking with one of the spanish language networks. there was no question that the white house and democrats feel that it's an issue in their favor heading into the 2016 presidential cycle and the president can expect to take some heat as he has in the past. particularly on the executive order on the deportations that spiked over the first six years of his administration. but now that community largely

happy but wanting him to do more the president promising that he's not giving up yet on immigration reform in congress. >> i haven't given up on passing it while i'm president. we're going to keep on pushing and so far the republican party has been pretty stubborn about this issue if they start feeling enough pressure that could make a difference. >> a breakthrough with the republican-controlled congress over the remain two years of president's term. let's face it, tony, it's fairly dim. >> mike viqueira for us at the white house. we appreciate it. thank you. and jonathan betz is in miami for us. he caught up with one florida family who is counting on the president to help them. jonathan? >> reporter: well, tony, the president arrived in south florida this afternoon where people are impacted by this order. a lot of people are very disappointed by its delay.

leah straddled two worlds. an american by birth living in a house full of foreigners. >> sometimes the police are here and then i get nervous. >> why do you get nervous? >> because they look like they're coming here to deport my mom. >> reporter: the nine-year-old was born in the u.s. but the rest of her family is from nicaragua here illegally. >> i'm an immigrant in this country. it is not fair for the kids to be separated from their parents. >> reporter: she has built a life in the u.n. working as a nanny and raising her daughters. now she's among a select group of undocumented workers to request the president at at a town hall meeting in miami as he defend his efforts to shield parents from defor pacing. >> they can take you away. they can separate your family.

>> i asked an activist and farm worker if it is difficult for him to work. >> he said yes he's always in fear. he flew from his home to miami to speak with the president. many like him are working and waiting as courts now weigh in. florida is one of 26 states that have gone to federal court to stop the president's executive order. it would allow up to 5 million people to stay in the u.s. temporarily. and with the courts so far siding with the states, applications that were due to start last week are stalled. >> a lot of people are very critical of the president's decision and said that his move is illegal and he should not be with regarding or helping people who broke u.s. law. >> we don't believe that's the conversation that people want to

have and that america needs right now. >> how do you respond to that criticism. >> we think it's a direct attack for political purposes on using immigrant as scapegoats. honestly, this is just a temporary status. >> a temporary status that could forever change lives. >> first whatever you have to do for your family you will do it. and they have to under that. >> and others here, the very irritated at the president upset that his executive order does not go far enough, and angry at the number of deportations under his watch. >> jonathan betz for us in miami. thank you. iran's military blew up a full-sized rep mr. can of an u.s. aircraft carrier today. the revolutionary guard firing missiles and rockets at the ship during a defense drill in the persian gulf. the war games are a warning to nations that might attack iran. the u.n. navy said it is not

concerned about the practice drills, and israel's prime minister said that world powers have given up in their commitment to stop iran from getting nuclear weapons. benjamin netanyahu says that the west seems to have accepted tehran's nuclear capability, but secretary of state john kerry said it is netanyahu who is misguided in his analysis of the nuclear talks. >> i'll tell you israel is safer today with the added time we have given and the stoppage of the advances in the nuclear program than they were before we got that agreement which by the way, the prime minister opposed. he was wrong. >> onco. night yahoo is oh to speak before congress next week to talk about his opposition to the iran talks. president obama's national security adviser susan rice said that netanyahu's up and coming speech is destructive to u.s.-israel relations.

>> susan rice's comment about netanyahu speech next week are the harshest remarks yet by a white house official. she spoke on charlie rose's pbs show where she said that the concerns from israel and from the republican congress. >> by virtue of the invitation issued. >> by the speaker of the house. >> and the acceptance of it by prime minister netanyahu on two weeks advance of his election is on both sides there has now been injected a degree of partisanship, which is not only unfortunate, i think its destructive of the fabric of the relationship. >> december truck stiff of the fabric of the relationship between united states and israel. rice was asked to clarify. >> it's always been bipartisan. we need to keep it that way. we want it that way. israel wants it that way. the american people want it that way. and when. becomes injected or infused with politics that's a problem.

>> prime minister netanyahu was invited to speak to a joint session of congress by host speaker john boehner, who did not seek permission from the white house before extending extending that invitation. several lawmakers have now spoken out against the speech saying it could bring additional tensions tensions in talks over iran's nuclear power. patrick leahy called the boehner invitation a toddry and high handed stunt. . a run about to descend on washington, d.c. for the conservative christians known as c pac one of the best known republic cattle calls and this year it will have a new wrinkle. they will have to answer questions from the audience made up of the g.o.p.'s most

conservative and libertarian activists. they believe that the q and a will be more enlightening to activists. finally there was a political embarrassment of sorts for rahm emmanuel, president obama's former chief of staff. emmanuel faced re-election and failed to pass the 50% of the vote without a run off. emanual won 45% challenger jesus garcia. three other campaigns took the rest. that means that emmanuel and garcia will enter a more intense face with a run off vote on april 7th. >> we're still running. and we're going to win. >> we have come a long way and we have a little bit further to go. >> emmanuel has butted heads with teacher's unions and was

seen as the darling of big money. but still this result is a surprise. chicago will have a competitive mayor's race. >> thank you. in eastern ukraine signs that a fragile cease-fire mate be starting to take hold. ukrainian military said that no soldiers were killed in the last 24 hours. and pro-russian separatists are beginning to pull back. we have the update from ukraine. jimmy mcintyre is live for us at the meant gone. pentagon, what were congress told today. >> they said that russia's president putin cannot be stopped by military force. general breed love said it would take a combination of diplomatic political military, and information warfare to change president putin calculous in ukraine. >> clearly president putin is all in. >> it was a sobering images

sobering message. no amount of firepower defensive or otherwise the general told alabama representative mike rogers to turn the tide of battle in favor of ukrainian forces. >> i'm not sure that they could stop a russian advance in eastern ukraine even if we supply aid. >> lethal aid? >> lethal aid that's correct. what we're talking about changing the call clues of the calculous of the decisions mr. putin has to make and the cost to him in his internal environment rather than external environment. >> you're talking body bags. >> that's right. i think we should talk about raising the cost for russia in many dimensions, yesterday. >> it was a message that nato commander hammered again in a briefing later today for pentagon reporters arguing that

providing more weapons to ukraine could provoke the russian president and not providing weapons could embolden him. >> we do not know what mr. putin's reaction is to a change in any of the instruments of power. we have to understand the risk calculous of what we're doing and find a way to change his decision calculous in eastern ukraine. >> is there a red line that exists that if russia crosses it nato would step in and help ukraine? >> no. >> but at another hearing secretary of state john kerry hinted that the red line for more sanctions and more weapons would be a russian back separatists took the strategic city of mariupol, which way would give them a land bridge to crimea. >> are we on a downward track or

is there a marioupol that would immediately mart merit a response. >> what he called russia's creeping land grabbing has ended. >> jamie mcintyre reporting for us. we have an associate dean of international affairs here in new york. also the granddaughter of the former soviet premiere nikita crew chef. kruschev. >> thank you. >> is the cease-fire deal finally taking hold here? >> the only one day. it may not hold on to tomorrow. we have to take it one day at a time. i think it's a good sign. it's a good sign that the rebels are saying that they would consider the heavy weapons.

there is movement going on. that's a good sign. on the other hand the rebels declared they're going to make mariupol which is a strategic town on the sea. >> do you support the idea of spending lethal defensive aid. lethal defensive aid to ukraine. >> i'm not supporting it not that ukraine does not deserve lethal defensive aide. we know that putin would see it as an attack. if we're serious about de-escalating the conflict, it's a bad idea. >> have i heard you say this? his end game is that he wants to be assured that ukraine is under his control. >> he wants to be assured that ukraine is not outside of his sphere of influence. it does not necessarily mean that it's going to be invaded by russia but it's enough to have

frozen conflict there or or donetsk as a trojan horse so to speak. >> would that be enough? or does he want to know that ukraine is in his sphere of influence. >> that would be enough because they have industries that russia relies heavily on that industry. and he need more land. crimea's annex indicationization would not be in vain. it's making sure that ukraine is does not get out of the russian sphere, and does not become a member of nato. >> i want to you hear some comments from secretary kerry. >> they have been persisting in their misreputations, lies, whatever you want to call them about their activities to my

face, and the face of others on many different occasions. >> what is your reaction to that? that's really, really strong language. is he correct in his characterization? >> well, he is and he isn't. >> certainly last april vladimir putin came forward and said yeah, there were russian troops in crimea. >> right. >> after saying no they're not there. >> vladimir putin may admit it, but only as kind of an after thought. but the thing about politics is that unless the leader you accuse of crimes admit it actually it's very difficult to prove because you can prove all you want and they'll continue to say we have nothing to do with it. we have nothing to do with it. unless international institutions like criminal courts in the hague, geneva, it would be very difficult to prove unless putin decides that he is going to admit some of his involvement. >> if the idea of sanctions was to get vladimir putin to pull

back where do we stand in that process? i'm reading polling that internally he may be as popular as he's ever been. he has 85% approval in the country. and my question is have sanctions worked? if they're working, what are they working to do what? >> how long has iran has had sanctions. how long has cuba? the idea was that russia was reasonably close do the west in terms of partnership and so the idea was that the minute they cut a bit of economic much development or oil development russia is immediately going to go back. we discussed that. it's not going to. putin never apologized, and he never backs off. but the sanctions are working because as we see this cease-fire, i don't know how long it will last or if it will be incredibly effective but it's been more effective than two

cease-fires before. but the russians will stand behind the flag. they'll rally around putin because you guys in the west are against him. that's how all nationalism works in all country. >> that's a good point. in all country. great to see you. >> thank you. >> she's associate dean of international affairs. a pleasure as always. thank you for your time. >> thank you. >> it's a high stakes battle that abercrombie and fitch discriminated against a muslim woman for wearing a head scarf. why southwest airlines growned dozens of flights. >> and on the court and off the court. >> the president's long-time body man reggie love is giving us an inside look at his former look boss.

>> the faa has given southwest airlines the okay to fly 120 planes.

the faa insists there is no risk to the flying public. >> a backup hydraulic system should the main hydraulic system should fail. the airline immediately ground all 128 of the planes, a fifth of its fleet and canceled 80 flights on tuesday and impacted thousands of customers. southwest notified the faa and consulted with boeing and determined it was safe to allow the planes to fly for a maximum of five days while checks were completed. the impact on customers stay was minimal.

15 flights cancel. the airline has an excellent safety record but it has been in hot water over maintenance issues before. the faa imposed a $14 million fine against southwest for faulty repairs, and the airline played a multi million dollar fine because it flew a number of planes on 60,000 flights without checking the fuselage for cracks as required. southwest insists that safety is it's top priority, and says it is working to resolve this latest maintenance issue as quickly as possible. >> lisa stark reporting for us. nasa wants to know why water showed up inside one astronaut's helmet on a spacewalk. a small amount of water was discovered after the nearly seven hour walk was completed. the two astronauts were not in immediate danger. they were doing outside work to help the station to dock.

many colleges professor want a salary increase, and it has some walking out of their classrooms, and calls for the justice department to step in and investigate an controversial police shooting in washington state.

>> the supreme court put workplace fashion against religious discrimination. it centers on the dress code of abercrombie and fitch. during oral arguments the justices sided with the women saying it's up to the companies to explain their dress codes. other women face discrimination for wearing face scarves. >> the head scarf is seen as an extension of one's religious identity. but it can also make the woman

wearing one a target. >> with the hijab you feel that you're representing--you're saying that i am a muslim. >> she said that she and her family were recently harassed on a delta airlines flight. she believes she was discriminated against because of her hijab. >> little do people know that we're going through this every day. you know, we're denied service sometimes. but we just say you know what, we just want to be calm. we don't want to cause trouble. >> hider has filed a complaint can delta and the airline tells us it is investigating her accusations. >> so the minute you see the cycle being primed again of all of this pre-occupation with isis and everybody agrees. isis is an awful threat. but when you see that cycle start, and you have the glorification such of times like

"the american sniper," you can predict the sole logical sociological i am preplacings and that is people are more vulnerable. >> 70% of women wearing the hijab face discrimination. but as anti-muslim tensions rise not all of these cases are just aimed at women wearing head scarves. >> former michigan state representative is a muslim american who doesn't wear a hijab. but says she's also faced religious prejudice. >> i never expected in the michigan capitol that as a member of the legislature i would be asked for my birth certificate as a joke. the audience gasp but none of them came up and said that is uncalled for. >> she's part of the take on hate campaign for politicians to stand against anti-muslim and anti-arab sentiments. hider said that the abercrombie

and fitch case now in the u.s. court shows that more muslims are taking a stand. >> we're so afraid to speak up, but any more. we should not be afraid. we should always make a stand. i'm speaking for all minorities. >> although some muslim women have chosen not to wear their hijab out of fear, hider said for her that is not an option. bisi onile-ere detroit. >> an employee of anker come by and fitch sister store and was fired for not taking off her hijab. thank you for joining us. >> thank you for having me. >> a pleasure. what happened to you? what was the reason given at the time of your firing? >> well, i was working at the sister store of anker come by and fitch without any incidents. without any problems from my coworkers and managers. a district manager decided to pull me aside and ask questions about my hijab.

i never met him a before. i didn't know what was going on and i was told that was against the look policiel policy. again i was told that my hijab was against the look political they asked me to take it off. i refused and then i was suspended from work. >> honey, what is the look policy. >> the look policy is a nice beachy vibe look, and that's what they aim to promote within their employees. >> what is it again, a natural what? >> a beachy vibe. they try to go for so-cal type of look. >> gotcha, and you sued, and my understanding is that you settled. did abercrombie ever admit you were actually fired for wearing a hijab? >> well, i mean, they were very up front about it from the beginning. they let me know that my hijab was the issue and said that's why i got suspended. a week later i got fired.

>> they were up front about it. >> they were very up front and blatant about it. there was no hiding behind a bush or anything. they asked if i could take it off when i came in for work and then put it on when i left. i said that was not something i felt comfortable doing. >> has abercrombie changed their policy. >> when i filed my political, it was to enact policy changes. i didn't want to happen to me living in the bay area happen to another girl living anywhere else. whether she was muslim, sheikh or of a different faith. i just didn't want this to happen to anyone else. >> were you offered your job back? >> i was offered my job back, and i refused because i didn't feel comfortable being in that environment at the time. >> what are your thoughts about the case being held by the supreme court? >> i'm very proud of samantha for taking it this far. this happened to her when she's

17. now she's in her 20s. for her to be taking the steps for having gone on for so many years, i'm proud of her and i'm proud that the supreme court is listening to this case of discrimination. >> have the two of you communicated? >> i haven't been in communication with her. >> it's a pleasure, and obviously you've moved on with your life. are you proud of the stance you took? >> i'm really proud. i mean, this could happen to me, this could happen to anyone. that's what i stood for. it happened to me when i was in college. now i'm working null time. i've been through a lot of changes in my life, but i'm really proud of what i did. >> hanii, good to see you. hanii, thank you. >> another of american retailer is raising pay for its workers. real money's ali velshi is following the story and he joins me now.

ali, good to see you again. it was walmart last week, which employees are going to get a raise today? >> a company that owns tj maxx. it said in june all of its employees will earn $9 an hour, and next year any employee who has been there six months will earn $10 an hour. tj maxx is a big company and this follows' walmart's move last week. walmart will boost wages to $10 an hour next year. this is part of a moment where we're seeing highing wages across the country. but some of the companies saying they find it difficult to get workers at the wages that they pay. they haven't had difficulty for several years which tells you something about what i've been talking about economists saying to me this is the year where we're going to start to see the slack in the economy taken up. we've seen strong hiring for a

long time, but we have not seen wage growth. this may be the trigger for wage growth. this is evidence that the wages are about to climb. but janet yellen said too many americans remain unemployed and under employed, in her words wage growth is still sluggish. >> some republican lawmakers are finding fault with the fed right now. >> look, the fed has always had its enemies. senator rand paul following on what ron paul said that the fed should be audited. but really, the criticism is this low interest rate run has benefited some people in society more than others, and that the fed should sort of get out of it. it's a traditional conservative janet yellen has not had an easy run of it.

she has been getting it from conservatives and liberals i guess that's what you get paid for when you're on the fed chief. >> what else is on the program. >> rum cuban rum and businesses and property lost after the revolution. we'll look at about a cardy bacardi and people who lost wealth in that revolution. >> terrific, rum, yum. here at 10:30 on al jazeera america. >> see ya, buddy. >> apple has been told to pay half a million dollars for infringing on patented ideas. now the jury agree apple said that the claims are baseless, and smart flash is trying to make money off apple's innovations. some part time college professors walked out of their

classes to protest low wages in higher education. most get little to no benefits and no job security with little hope of getting a full-time professorship. >> when 39-year-old darren brown became an university professor he never imagined his career would end on such a low. >> i envisioned that i would climb this ladder, and as you can see i did not climb the ladder. i'm in my parent's basement. >> brownbrown, as a part time adjunct professor could not make enough to get by. he had hoped for a professorship but those are increasingly scare scare. by 2009, thing ranks had swelled to over 50%. in ohio, adjunct english

professor was just an in away before the course she was contracted to teach had received the go ahead. they banned and formed the new faculty majority to raise awareness of their working conditions. questions with potentially important implications, especially given the soaring cost of tuition. there is a large and growing body of evidence that working conditions for adjuncts could be shortchanging students. >> studying the impact of shifting faculty dynamics on student success. >> students who take lots of classes are adjuncts have lower graduation rates. they don't tend to move from two-year to four-year institutions. we also know that it affects their performance in future courses. >> it's not the quality of

adjunct professor but cuts in higher education budgets that are to blame. >> money that would typically go to faculty has been declining. >> at the university where darren brown used to teach they're putting off physical campus improvements to put in money for more hires. >> i hope the discussion gets louder. >> but not in time for darren brown. >> teaching was my passion. you know, i wasn't--i wasn't rewarded for that. >> darren brown is trying to move forward with his life. he got married and he's no longer living in his parent's basement but his struggles are far from over. brown spent $7,500 to earn a certification in bicycle repair but he has not been able to secure an apprenticeship for full time employment in the

trade. >> what is it for the working professor that has a knock on opportunities. >> it's not the professors themselves. it's that the working conditions do not set them up for success. if they're hired just in time they how often don't have time enough to prepare. they don't have a say with the text they use to teach. they're not familiar with the department or how to bed that course into the rest of the curriculum. this all harm students. they say thed a jumping adjuncts are not fully integrated in the department. >> is there also some kind of cultural shift attributing to this? >> one there is cuts in state funding to higher education at state schools. but also a lot of university boards are now stacked with people who worked in corporate america and they brought their ideas to universities. one of those ideas is just in time hiring. which may work in some

environments but students really need to be nurtured. you're nurturing them for two to four years and this just had time hiring has a negative impact on students. >> fewer tenure positions available. could this have an impact on diversity? >> there is a huge concern about the potential impact on diversity, especially with the more humanitarian liberal arts kind of specialty that is you're looking at. because you can wrack up tens of thousands of dollars in opportunity debtstudent debt to get a ph.d and a lot of times people can pursue this passion if they have a trust fund or a wealthy spouse to carry them through. >> two weeks after a deadly police shooting in washington state, prophesiers are still on the streets demanding answers in the death of a hiptic migrant

farm work. we're live inch pasco this evening. and the police gave us an update just a short time ago. what did they have to say? >> reporter: yeah, tony, we just got out of a press briefing by a special investigations unit. the multi agency group that is looking into this recent police shooting, and it's going to be the last one of those briefings that they'll hold we're told. we're not going to get more detailled information about what happened that tuesday night. they say they don't want to release information that might taint a jury pool for the future inquest that is expected when that investigation wraps up. however, today we did get information. some interesting stuff new details very specific about the shooting itself. >> we determined that they fired their weapons 17 times. 17 rounds from fired. of those five or six rounds struck mr. zambrone.

>> so there is some discrepancy in the total number of bullets that hit antonio zambrano. they're saying that there were two different autopsies being conducted, but they said five to six bullets and they've determined that none of those bullets hit mr. zambrano in the back. not in the back of the leg. not in the back of the arm not in the back. that's been on the minds of a lot of people in this community. >> we've seen these kinds of facts start to develop in other cases here and i'm wondering if we might see a federal investigation on this? >> well, the department of justice is involved to a degree right now. they're getting regular briefings by the special investigation investigative unit and the prosecutor here in franklin county. also we talked to the police chief in pasco who said he's

assembleing files right now to difficult to the fbi. some community members though, the members of the hispanic community say they would like more involvement, and they're asking the department of justice to very specifically have an oversight role with this special investigation's unit. they say there is some doubt in their community that this is an investigation that can be done evenly straight ahead and dispassionately without federal oversight. so they would like to see more. >> thank you. alan, thank you. unusually heavy snow has been falling hard today in parts of the deep south. nicole warned us about this. in alabama businesses and schools closed early in anticipation of half a foot of snow. nicole mitchell is back with the latest on this for us. you warned us. >> we knew it was coming. we don't make the snow. we just tell you what is going to happen. here's a look across the country.

so a little bit of snow in the rockies, iowa, illinois getting another band. we expect it there. the fact that we've had system after system making it through the south because of all that cold air that had been in place. you can see the dividing line anywhere including northern mississippi, alabama georgia all getting snow. now on the south side of this you can pick out a couple of thunderstorms. actually dynamic enough that we have through this area tornado watch. that does not mean that we have that activity right now but something that has that potential and to be prepared and listen to your weather. the rest of the region, the winter storm warnings are up, and we'll continue to see snow and ice tapering off by tomorrow morning. it could get a gust dusting even in d.c. as this clears out. then another system. look at this, into saturday we want to watch places like dallas for freezing rain. there are a couple of days out here that there are chances that are the biggest day.

look at this. part of the reason why the average is 63 for dallas. temperatures into the 30s, 30 below average. that's why the moisture we've seen coming in recently has been snow and ice instead of rain, and it's the eastern two-thirds of the country that is below average right now. >> is it right? you just said it's the case. good to see you. thank you. bad weather was responsible for pretty nasty pile up. 75 vehicles involved on interstate 95 in maine today. officials blame icy roads. you can see it for yourself. the cars, a school bus. tractor trailer was involved. 17 people in all were injured in the crash. two of them in serious condition. but the children, the children all of them okay. coming up next on the program. >> it's really hard to trash talk back to the president. >> right right. >> the body man, reggie love on

the lighter moments of working and playing basketball with president obama.

>> so what is it like to be the president's chief of staff--no chief of stuff. is reggie love knows. he spent five years as president obama's body man and was with him in the senate, too. he's writing all about him in his new book. i asked him what it's like to be in the high stakes position. >> it's a job. you think of the board body guy. gender neutral because there are some very good body girls out there. i think that the work that they do is just as--it's harder than my job. because the president no hair, no makeup, the guy rolls out of

bed and 20 minutes he's ready to go. but the job is that you're an extra set of eyes. an extra set of ears and hands for the principle who is trying to do what is most likely a pretty difficult job whether or not it's governing or campaigning. you're the guy who he looks to make sure that people are being followed up with appropriately. that the commitments that he's verbally made are executed on. he's prepared for writing a speech or he knows what state what city he's in, who he's melting with, why he's meeting with them and how long and how far behind schedule he is. >> that's one of the things that the president says about the work you were doing for him is that you were his eyes and ears and also responsible for getting him to where he needed to be on time. so as someone who sits here on this set and is waiting for the president to arrive, why is the

president late often? >> look, i think some of it is--the team, the advance teams do some very good--they leave-- >> are you about to throw the advance team under the bus. >> there is a lot of buffer time because you want to make sure that things are set up, and when he rolls in there things are ready to go. that requires advance preparation set up for people who are not in that presidential party. also, i think, too he's very--he always wants to respect the time that he's spending spending with the person who is right in front of him. there are times where as staff we fail him and don't always know how much time he needs for a specific event or specific meeting. and those are things that you learn--you're constantly learning those on a daily basis.

>> what is your big take away from your years with the president. >> i write about this in my book "power forward," i had like great parents. the day that he was--the day after he was inaugurateed. we were in the west wing. my mom and i were in the back and forth of tickets who is where, and the president said to me oh, i didn't see your mom or dad at any of the balls or the inauguration. you should bring them by the oval office. i said sir we're in a thing right now. let me handle it. he goes, look, i'm the command center chief. i want-- >> he dropped that on you. >> i want you to bring them by the oval office. he said to me, and all seriousness. he said look i lost my mother unexpectedly at an early age and you should never miss the opportunity to appreciate your parents because you never know

how long they're going to be here. >> what is the--what kind of ball player is he? >> he started at duke, i mean, he can definitely be on the team. the president is one of those guys he's the guy that everyone likes to play with. because he's the guy who cares more about winning than he does about his own--that's the person that he is. on the court and off the court. he's the guy that wants to get the policy right for the american people. he wants to get the right guy the right shots so his team can win. >> reggie, that's wonderfully spoken. but he's also a trash talker. come on. >> he'll trash talk you. if he winds, oh my god. there have been weeks at work that i've just been totally despondent because we lost a game. >> and you know what's coming. >> exactly. and you know it's coming.

you're just like, i got to listen to this for seven more days until next weekend in which we play. you're just like biding your--it's hard to trash talk back to the president. >> right, right. one other thought from you. we're going to put together a couple of pictures here of the president when he was on the campaign, and then the early years of the first term, and looking at the president. you look at the president now you see all the gray and white and you remember those early days. what do you think? >> i mean, i can't talk too much smack because if i had hair i'm sure it would be twice as gray, but i think it says--it shows how hard the job is, man. there are no easy moments. i know what people do think does he color his hair? i'm like, no, have you seen it?

it's a stressful job. >> reggie, a pleasure. appreciate your time. >> tony, thanks, brother. >> yes, yes. >> we'll look at what's coming up at the top of the hour. >> we have an update on a montana woman who entered the witness protection program as a child, 33 years later jackie taylor has had to fight for her identity. no birth certificate. no passport. now things have bun to change for jackie. we'll tell you how. also teenagers forced to live on the streets. a new york facility gives them shelter but often it has to close its doors because of funding. a look at what's being done about that. and rebuilding gaza. a 50 day war left infrastructure in ruins. how families are coping. we'll have those stories and more in just a do you minutes. >> can't wait. >> it is a first surgeons in

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