>> this is al jazeera america i'm randall pinkston in new york. john siegenthaler is on assignment. accused in america. three men in new york arrested for allegedly trying to join i.s.i.l. tonight, a closer look at the islamic state's recruitment reach. death in pasco. the police killing of an unarmed migrant mexican worker strikes protest. we look at whether comparisons to ferguson are valid. out of the shadows.

bringing changes to the witness protection program. what our investigative report on one woman's story accomplished. plus a selfie from space. part ever the first from space part of a treasuretrophy that treasure trove that can now be yours. the propaganda, the promise to create an islamic state the pull. to join the fight. u.s. authorities believe i.s.i.l.'s message may have reached three men in america. tonight, all are charged with trying to travel to syria to fight with i.s.i.l. paul beban joins us with more, paul. >> right randall as you know these arrests happened earlier today. we're still learning more but here is what we know from now we have court sketches from brooklyn accused of plotting to

join i.s.i.l. barring that, those are the sketches there talk of waging war in the u.s., even shooting president obama. new york's police commissioner said the men represented a serious lone wolf threat. >> it was made plain based on their statements that if they were not able to go that they would seek to acquire weapons here handguns, machine gun and seek to attack very specifically police officers. >> the men have been on the gft's radar for months -- government's radar for months now, at least since august. one of them wrote on an i.s.i.l. propaganda website he was in the u.s. and didn't have any weapons but he offered to acquire them and carry out attacks and become a martyr. that website has been taken down but he said, i'm claiming to shoot obama or get shot ourselves and will that do? striking fear in the heart of the infin dells. infidels.

>> offering to shoot police officers and fbi agents, at one point he also told the fbi informant that he wanted to travel to syria but his mother knew what he was up to and taken away his passport. two are citizens of iz beckist of isbekistan and kazakhstan. arrested at home in brooklyn and the third was arrested in florida. these men are not alone. over the last year, more than 20 have been arrested trying join i.s.i.l. or other groups, including six bosnians, arrested earlier this month. they are of course being held without bond.

>> any indication the three were cooperating or communicating with each other? >> they were in touch and they were cooperating some sort of plan. one purchased a ticket for the other. owned stores up and down the east coast. how closely connected that remains to be he seen. >> obviously someone with means not a kid upset. >> one was 19, the others maybe better established, but not clear how extensive this network was at this point. >> thanks paul. >> what might have led the suspects to i.s.i.l the man you are about to meet, his name is misanurur rachman dana lewis spoke to him in london. >> it is a responsibility of

every muslim -- >> meet the so-called hate preachers in europe. britain and america are enemies of islam his world where christians and jews come under islamic law in an islamic state. >> one of the core tenets of the islamic creed every muslim believes in the duty of the caliphate. >> his internet sermons in which rachman goes by the name of abu bara rachman spent nine years in a jail, and today he says he doesn't take back his words. a few days after a captured jordanianjordanian pilot was burned alive by i.s.i.l. he justified the

killing and even the way in which it was carried out. >> do you condemn that murder or not? >> i condemn the jordanian pilot, i condemn the jordanian government and the american and syrian governments. >> this man is put in a cage, and fuel is laid out on the ground and he's burned alive. do you think that that's an act of war? >> absolutely an act of war. essential shocking that they executed him and i think they're targeting to terrify the enemies and i think it will have the effect, the desired effect. >> would you advise the young men to go and support i.s.i.s? >> i believe muslims are obliged to support other muslims wherever they are oppressed in the world verbally financially wherever they have the capability.

>> rachman is a danger to security. usama hasan is a london preacher or imam. he started speaking out against violence after the 2005 suicide bomb attacks on london subways. for condemning those who would force women to wear the vail, veil. >> they are extremist lun ticks because they actually believe the those and of course, that will lead to more violence and more terrorism in the future. >> many muslims consider you absolutely extreme. >> i don't speak in order to please people, to gain popularity, i'm presenting presenting the islamic viewpoint. >> if he's breached his bail he should be locked up. >> i don't break laws, i speak. yet i'm harassed i'm just

because i'm undermining the propaganda of the british government. >> he never admits he belongs to those organizations he doesn't openly call for violent acts. knowing he risks being put in jail again. he walks that thirn line between freedom -- that thin line between freedom of speech and incitement to violence. >> have you ever thought about going to syria? >> it's strange i grew up here. there is a strange notion i am a guest here. this land belongs to god. you're my guest. i'm not the guest here, i'm the host. so if people don't like people like me, part and parcel of british life and have been for

maybe 20, 30 years maybe they should leave. it is not an idea if what is going on in the country you should leave no, you should fix it. >> faisal patel, have you heard of this guy before? >> no. >> what is your opinion of his perspective on bringing sherea law to the muslims to be idea ofists? >> thatjihadist? >> it's his view. >> do you know people here in america who share his point of view? >> i don't think i've heard of anybody taking the position that people should go out and fight for i.s.i.l, if that's what you're asking. you know we've had -- there are

many imams across this country. there are many mosques across this country and they preach different versions of islam. but the kind of message that you hear from this gentleman is not something that's common in muslim mosques in the united states. >> i mean to praise or to support the death of that jordanian pilot that seems -- i mean is -- >> it's really kind of beyond the pale to tell the truth. when that jordanian pilot was burned that killing was condemned across the muslim world. so not just in you know among muslim communities in the united states or in france or in the u.k. but really, it came very fundamentally from cairo from saudi arabia, you had clerics across the spectrum of conservative religious ideology who were condemning that particular act. so i think it was thought to be very very heinous. >> how concerned should u.s.

officials be about i.s.i.l. recruitment in the u.s. >> well, they obviously are very concerned about it regardless what i think. we have an estimate of some 100 plus going to fight in that general conflict. now what we don't tend to know is exactly who they've gone to fight for. and there's lots of different parties involved in that conflict some of which the united states supports. and some of which we have declared to be terrorist organizations. now going to fight with the terrorist organization, is a crime. going to fight with somebody we support, well, not so much, right? so there's a lot of ambiguity about these so-called foreign fighters and what they're actually going to do. on the other hand, i can certainly see that when you have individuals who are actually planning to go to that conflict, officials here are concerned that they're going to come back and they're going to come back well trained and with some ability to carry out attacks in the united states. and i think what they're really

concerned about is that they're not going to be able to track those people. which actually surprises me a little bit. because over the last decade, we've spent billions of dollars in actually improving our ability to track who comes into and goes out of this country. so that is a little bit of a question mark in my mind. >> but of course just a few years ago in boston, of course, the brothers went out and came back and did what they did in the boston marathon. thank you very much faisal patel for sharing your insights. >> democrats and their intention to sit out the visit of benjamin netanyahu. testing an already frosty relationship with president obama. mike viqueria has more. >> randall, you're absolutely right. the split between these two

close allies, united states and israel is wide and growing more public by the day. as the day the speech approaches that split is only growing wider. with benjamin netanyahu's speech to congress just six days away, more bad blood and acrimony in what is already a tense relationship. in a television interview national security advisor susan rice put it bluntly. >> what has happened over the last several weeks by virtue of the invitation of the invitation invitation that was given by the speaker of the house there has been injected a degree of partisanship. it is not only unfortunate but it is destructive of the relationship. >> citing a desire to stay neutral in the upcoming israeli elections, president obama will

not invite netanyahu to the white house. netanyahu was ambivalent. >> it is my duty to do everything to prevent this great danger to the state of israel. >> the exchange comes after the white house accused netanyahu of cherry picking aspects of the talks over iran's nuclear program in an effort to cast them in the worst light possible.and says it will stop sharing information from the negotiations with israeli officials. >> well, there's no question that some of the things that the israelis have said in character triting our negotiating position have not been accurate, no question about that. >> on wednesday netanyahu turned down an offer from senior senate democrats to address them. and senior senate democrats have said they will skip the speech to congress. secretary of state john kerry says there's nothing to be lost for trying a deal with iran and

accused netanyahu of wanting it both ways. >> i'll tell you israel is safer today with the added time we have given and the stoppage of the advances in the iranian nuclear program than they were before we got that agreement which by the way the prime minister opposed. he was wrong. and today he's saying oh, we should extend that interim agreement. >> now, randall on the talks themselves, both the president secretary kerry say they will not extend that agreement again. every year about this time for an annual gathering the largest group of american supporters of israel called apec, will give another address there and apec says there will be dozens in the audience when he does. randall. >> mike, thank you very much. it's been six months since

israel and hamas reached a stop of conflict in gaza. electricity remains in short supply. as nick schifrin reports. >> every night in gaza the electricity goes out. by candlelight children do homework. and their grandmother washes the dishes. it's been like this for years and right now there's only six hours of electricity a day ever since the only power plant went smoke. in july israeli jets struck the power plant four times. the fire burned for three days. by the time plant workers could visit the damage the pipes were mangled, the gas storage tank was a crump crumb crump crumped heap.

>> how important is it to gaza that this power plant is working? >> it's vital in gaza actually. >> without power gaza's hospitals can't provide high-quality care and sewage treatment plants can't ensure the water is clean. >> very first target were your offices. personal offices. >> exactly exactly. >> to this day israelis declined to answer why they targeted the plant. >> even after this kind of message. >> thanks to a backup generate and makeshift repairs the plant is running about 40%. until they are rebuild the tanks, the plant runs on emergency supplies. >> what do you need to recontradict the plant? >> we need the material to get into gaza. for example since two or three months ago the israeli side not

permitting the materials in to gaza. >> dual use could also be used by hamas. >> it would have been of course much easier if these building materials are removed from the dual use list and are simply coming in. we all know what happened during the last war. there was a vast tunnel underground network. >> robert serra leads the u.n. effort to reconstruct gaza. he's trying to get israel to authorize underground storage tanks. >> the only way you can address the issue is through gas. >> until that happens, the power will stay off 18 hours a day and gaza's future will remain dark. nick schifrin, al jazeera gaza. >> up next. two weeks after the police killing of an unarmed mexican

worker, grappling with the issue of race. plus. >> i'm happy,. >> can i see what i got? >> i got my passport. >> her identity lost and found. our investigative report helps a woman who grew up under witness protection gain answers about her past.

>> now for an update on the growing frustration over a deadly police shooting in new york state. antonio montezzambrano had been throwing rocks at passing traffic. some down play the fact that race played an aspect in the death. allen schauffler joins us from pasco. >> randall, what we found today is that's the last such press conference that is going to be held. they won't be releasing any more information to the public. they say they're concerned about tainting a future jury pool for the inquest which is expected in two or three months' time. we did find out today some very specific details about how

antonio zambrano the mexican immigrant worker was killed. >> we're talking about the five or six shots to mr. zambrano montez. we do know there were no shots in the back. that was a question you had asked. none of those shots were in the back. >> reporter: all three officers fired shots during this incident. and there were a total of 17 but that is about all we're going to hear about the very specific forensic details about this investigation for some time. they won't call an inquest until after the investigation is complete. figure a minimum of three months before we get to that inquest situation. so as this city tries to come to grips with all this, there's another city that's very much on many people's minds here and that city is ferguson missouri. they've been here ef every day for

two weeks. a small stubborn protest group. eddie enriquez and his wife joined the protest outside city hall. >> they didn't just shoot and kill him they killed everybody here in the way of killing our civil liberties and civil rights. >> two weeks ago people found a distraught antonio zambrano montez throwing rocks at cars. he ran ran again and when he turned three officers fired. the killing sparked outrage and a march of over a thousand people the next weekend. another much smaller demonstration last saturday stopped traffic and closed a highway bridge. people are still living mementos and messages at the spot where the mexican migrant worker died. >> will people like to see the

marches stop? >> yes, people stop no more march. >> marta takes us on a downtown pasco tour. lack of services especially for the mentally disturbed. >> you find people sleeping and doing drugs back here sometimes dozens of them? >> sometimes. >> she sold boots and western wear for many years here. police training and tactics need review. >> this is a problem. >> they need more training? >> yes, sir. this is the problem. the problem is no police make good work in the community. >> others say flatly the killing is ought about race. david brookbank drove more than a hundred miles from spokane. >> it is about policing

practices in communities of color different than policing practices in white communities. >> but those who see this as pasco's ferguson moment, the city is an agricultural center drawing thousandths of migrant workers like antonio zambrano to apasco's fields. the police force about 22%. one of the police officers involved is hispanic and in three police shootings before the case the victims were white. >> what do you say to the people who call this a ferguson moment for pasco washington? >> similar to ferguson, there was a tragic death involved. contrary to ferguson our city didn't unravel. >> monitoring protests and avoiding direct confrontation the city has worked with hispanic community leaders since

before the shooting and in the aftermath, those leaders have helped plan events and keep the the peace. it's nothing like we saw last summer in ferguson. also pasco city leaders say they welcome federal oversight in this case. >> as we speak i'm putting together the records for the fbi they requested so they can have them, we'll be an open book. >> so you think the more eyes the better? >> i think so. >> ferguson didn't have the videos we have. >> reporter: videos that have now drawn close to 2 million views. >> david publishes the weekend newspaper, la vos. he worries this community could still come apart. >> if something doesn't happen to these officers we could well see another ferguson in pasco. >> if there isn't charges or

court proceedings? >> if there isn't charges and they have been found not to do a criminal act there could be problems. >> do you think town could blow up? >> i hope not. i hope not. i'm going to try my hardest not to make it go down that path. >> allen schauffler, al jazeera pasco. >> joining me, is it race is it training? >> we look at it as strange. we don't see this as a racial problem. we see this as a lack of proper police training. >> now, there have been other shootings as has been mentioned four in the past seven months and one of the fatalities was the son of a police officer. tell me about that one. >> yeah. well the police officer's son was shot by the police in a

confrontation coming out of his house. the son was struggling with mental issues just like mr. zambrano montez and police were aware he was suffering some mental problems and that he was in a moment of crisis the night they shot him. we see the similarities there. the police are not trained to recognize someone who is in distress especially from a mental side. and so they don't know how to really deal with them. that goes back to the basic problem we really said. the police force in pasco is not being trained properly to recognize problems and deal with them in the proper manner. >> the police force in pasco is primary white. the residents of pasco are primary hispanic. is that an issue for you? >> well, it becomes an issue because there is no communications between the police and the public. 65% of the public is hispanic.

80 to 85% of the police force is white. and there's a language problem there. if you can't speak with the peek that you are -- people that you are entrusted to protect you have a communications problem and once again that goes back to training. if you are dealing with a predominantly hispanic population you should find a way to be able to communicate with that community so you can service that community correctly. >> given tragedy that last happened, i'm wondering whether you think to the best of their ability, the pasco police department has done a decent job at least in responding to this latest shooting? >> it's difficult to say how correctly they've responded. because we look at where the shortcomings come. how they treated mr. montez, how they treated him after he was shot. immediately painting him as the

bad guy. you know coming out with the facts yeah, we've had problems with him in the past, he tried oassault officers in the past. this was a troubled man and so -- i don't want to say that he had it coming but the police paint a picture of a man that was a danger to the community. when in reality they weren't able to communicate with this man, to find out if in fact he was a danger to the community. >> rick rios, co-founder of consejos latino. thank you very much sir, we will be watching this story. up next: growing up in the witness protection program. our investigation helps a montana woman know more about her hidden past. and it is an oasis from the streets homeless gay teenagers what happens when that shelter has to close.

>> this is al jazeera america. i'm randall pinkston. john siegenthaler is on assignment.

starting over. our investigation into the witness protection program. we help a woman determined to get her identity back, find justice. shunned, seeking shelter. our eye-opening report on homeless gay americans and the groundbreaking new study on their lives. view from above. in other orbit pictures from space you have never seen before. it this, an important update on a story -- tonight an important update on a story we brought you weeksing aabout the witness protection program and one woman has a life has been defined and in many ways, derailed by it. jackie taylor, last been in the program, long trying to prove her identity, pleading with the government to give her a passport. carole mckinley joins us from

billings montana. carol. >> jackie is the dater of a former hell's angel who killed himself 13 years ago. and for 13 years for jackie it was a very big day. jackie taylor is on her way to finally learn who she is. we finally met her two weeks ago, a woman who is trying to overcome a life she doesn't control and a past she doesn't have control over. >> i'll never forget that day my father, i hated him but still loved him that he was my dad. >> 33 years ago a run down hotel across from the railroad tracks became home for billings, montana's newest family. >> we didn't know anybody here and there is what we're coming to. it's freezing and there's nothing to do in the hotel room and you know here we are playing in the snow. that was all there was to do was

play in the parking lot in the snow. so welcome to montana. jackie taylor. >> jackie taylor does not know her real name. her birth name evaporated the minute her father entered the federal witness protects program. clarence buch butch crouch. after participating in dozens of violent crimes in the '60s and '70s the club's bombing murder of an innocent child convinced crouch to turns against the group of. >> he couldn't do anymore. he had an epiphany he wanted to be a family man. >> crouch kept his biker past locked away in an old steamer trunk. we dragged it across the floor and flopped down to talk.

>> did they know something was in there? >> well, yeah, he had left a whole bunch of things for me. >> cayahoga county documents say he made a deal with the feds. in return for information he received a reduced prison sentence for his own criminal past and promise of new identities and protection for his family in a town 1600 miles away. >> i remember them coming the get us like it was yesterday. 1:00 2:00 in the morning we were woken up by guys in suits we were scared, we didn't know what was going on, i was seven years old my sister was five, my brother was two. >> happy birthday. soon you'll be ten. >> this video was taken before butch crouch was taken to prison. a kiss for each year he would be

in prison. jackie crouch's mother revealed to them their father was not a ship captain but a killer. >> we practiced what our new names would be, childhood note pads with the lines and i had to fill up that whole book with jack lynn ann taylor. >> for witnesses with targets on their backs a complete identity change is part of the bargain. what's less clear is the marshal's responsibility to their families as jackie was about to find out. >> no birth certificate. >> no birth certificate. >> and no passport. >> no passport. >> jackie said the department never provided her with a new birth certificate or passport. she could thought replace them. >> i tried call the fbi the department, victims advocates social security, nobody knew

what to do. >> it is a nightmare that has left her three children without health care. >> my children's medicare got cancelled because i do not have citizenship. >> jackie's citizenship does not exist. >> when it affects my kids i'm not okay. >> jackie drank heavily and even got addicted to methamphetamine but she kicked her habit years ago. she now coaches her daughter's basketball team, active in pta and works several jobs to support her kids. after ten years of roadblocks she almost gave up calling government officials for help. >> i'm on the witness protection program and i do not have a passport. >> okay. >> marshals are not answering my calls. nobody seems to know what to do. >> a lot has happened two weeks

ago, since we aired our report. jackie taylor is headed for a meeting with the u.s. marshals 13 years in the making. >> i'm gathering up some information my children were denied medicaid because i do not have a birth certificate. >> loaded up with a lifetime of classified documents and letters she has no idea what to expect and is afraid to hope. >> this day came as a complete shock to me. i'm really nervous. >> jackie, somewhere inside this federal courthouse building, pleating with the u.s. marshal's office. an agent who only called himself dave and wouldn't give her any contact information told her he would hand her paperwork that would allow her to prove her u.s. citizenship. no media could cover it. we're outside waiting. >> i'm happy. >> can i see what you got?

>> i got my passport! >> wow! i'm anxious to see it. after all this time. how many years has it been? >> a long time. so there's my passport. >> and what's your name? with the name jackie taylor. >> jackie's new passport now means she has a true identity and it means much more than a travel document. >> this is great for my life. this is going to help tremendously, my children can get back their health care. i think the ball's finally in my court. i won! >> jackie's become an informal spokesman for the second and third generation children of people who testified for government and believe me they are cheering her on from the shadows because they're too afraid still to speak out on their own. randall. >> the question i have, is she still in any jeopardy?

>> she is not. her father died a year and a half ago. a lot of the hells angels who wanted to kill him have told her they have nothing against her. she is not afraid to speak out for these children and grandchildren even who are too much involved and are still afraid to reveal their identities. >> thank you very much. facinateing report. now to another al jazeera investigation last night in an exclusive we brought you the story of homeless kids who identify as lesbian gay bisexual or transgender. the yale forney center is home to many of these kids. and while many kids call it home it's only temporary due to strange circumstances. aimps is liveerica pitzi is live.

what happens to these kids when the center goes dark? >> well, good evening randall. you know, many of these kids are basically scrambling to find a place to stay overnight. this center just closed about a half hour ago. many of these kids tell me they have friends who allow them to crash on their couches. they will likely perform sexual acts tonight just so they can have a warm place to sleep for the night. we met 21-year-old fay at the yale fornay center a place she calls home, where lesbian gay transgender and transsexual kids can take a shower and feel like they won't be bullied. >> feel like any negativity, we're just a number to them. we just another paycheck to them

them. they actually care about us. they're all i have. >> fay is bisexual and from a devout muslim family she has not seen in months. her options are limited to places like this but tonight fay will need to find someone else to stay. -- somewhat e-somewhere else to stay. they're open five days a week and this is the fifth day. >> if that don't work then i will go to sylvia's place. >> which is another shelter? >> yeah. >> she says another friend is letting her stay at his place over the weekend. young king must also leave tonight. >> what are your options? >> my option he are either the train, penn station outside, or i can find me a lovely date. who will be nice enough to let me crash there till the morning. and then start all over again. >> for king, nights like tonight are nothing new.

he has adopted a different survival mode, swapping sex for money or a warm bed. it is something kids like king adopt in order to survive. >> there are 400 beds for all homeless youth and there are probably 4,000 homeless youth in the city. you have a situation where kids are forced to do what they have to do to survive and many young kids turn to survival sex or prostitution. >> the only loam for lgbt kids in the country, the home is not immune to federal budget cuts. >> it's lost about $1 million of support. it is a miracle we were able in the midst of that get some added support from the city of new york to get our drop in center opened overnight but both locally and facially there needs to be a much greater commitment

to the needs of homeless youth in general and homeless lgbt youth in specific. these kids are being grossly neglected. >> those vital dollars could help ease a growing cries of kids living on the streets. >> i'm just a little stressed about -- it stays a toll on you to keep going through this. after a while you just start to crash. but i'm a trooper. i'm a survivor and a soldier. >> reporter: and the founder of the yale forney center calls homeless lgbt youth an urgent crisis that we need to fund to get these kids off the street. he really says it is a growing crisis because of the success of the lgbt movement. really more and more kids feel emboldened to come out and some parents not necessarily feeling comfortable that and possibly kicking them out of the home or

some kids just decide to run away. now as a response to this growing crisis is why the yale forney center started up this 24 hour drop in center. only open five nights a week but their goal at the end of next month to be open seven days a week 24 hours a day which will be the first of its kind in the entire country. as for these kids king and fay we are staying with them throughout night. we're going to see what they do and follow them along their journey and certainly we will bring that to you randall. >> thank you, erica pitzi. the urban institute just released a study of lgbt youth engaging in survival sex. definition, what is survival sex? >> when a young person engages in sex for things of support.

>> isn't that, the survival sex is illegal but underage, that is another possible criminal conduct, not on the part of the young person but on the part of whoever is paying for it. >> exactly. technically under the trafficking victims protection act any person under the age of 18, who is engaging in sex is trafficking. as a result, they're not -- they're overlooked oftentimes by services and by other agencies because there's -- isn't that person to arrest at the end of the day. >> so the yale forney center that we just heard for erica's report, they're trying to stay open 24-7. i'm curious, how many centers are there like that in existence? >> there are -- i don't know off the top of my head how many there are.

but for lgbtq the services they provide, the services they do provide are so essential for those people, without those services, food shelter support counseling, there are few option he open to them to be able to survive. >> other than that shelter what kind of safety nets exist for lgbt youth? >> there are other organizations like yale forney, however they are often failing people, because of system wide racism, transphobia, homophobia. these are barriers these young people are facing. even if these services do exist if they are not affirming if they feel they'll be judged or discriminated against if they access these services they are

not going to. >> what do you think needs to be improved for situation for lgbt youth? >> we hope the report sheds light on this issue and this is a population that is very vulnerable and in need of many services and without the proper funding, without services like alley forney and other services, both short term and long term without a stable address that these young people can put on a school application then they're not going to really seek these services and they're not going to be able to be helped. so we're really hoping that more services are funded like that i think it's more services are around family acceptance and helping families view night with their children. >> meredith thank you for your several. meredith denk of the urban

institute. in other news tonight senate democrats reverse course, they support the republican proposal for shutdown of homeland security department. democrats say the two issues should not be connected. and when senate republican leader mitch mcconnell agreed to a vote without the two issues linked democrats said they would support it. southwest airlines has cancelled about 100 flights after failing to inspect its fleet of 737s. grounded planes on tuesday because their backup hydraulic systems had not been inspected. that backup system controls the rudder if the main one fails. keeping those planes flying as inspections are carried out in the next five days. parts of the deep south saw unusual amounts of snow today.

schools and businesses were closed in alabama in anticipation of half foot of snow. the governor even declared a state of emergency. several states in the southern region. more now from meteorologist nicole mitchell. >> that expected half foot did occur in a couple of isolated place et cetera franklin county alabama, places like that. a ridge of high pressure that buckles up the -- bubbles up the air to the north we end id up with a trough of cold pressure really to the edge of the country. a lot of february we've been under this pattern. so a lot of places running 20, 30° below average eastern half of the country. by tomorrow at least the eastern half. when you get the moisture in it is going to be snow instead of rain when you you are colder in places like the south. let's get through south. also want to mention, you see

the oranges tornado watches oranges are thunderstorm warnings for high winds that are actually possibly occurring now with the storms going through. the rest, the winter storm stuff and we can see mississippi alabama, georgia all places we have been getting snow, a lot of showntsshutdowns going on with this. behind that, we are in the cold air pattern dallas could be 30° below the normal. ice as well, the best chance of that is into the day on saturday. >> who was saying this is one of the warmest winters on average so far? >> if you look at the globe yes. yeah but don't look in certain places. thank you nicole. up next, snapshots from space. historic shots of early days of space travel are up for auction.

>> a human rights group had some harsh words today for some members of the united nations security council. stephanie sy joins us with a preview of what we'll see in our next hour. stephanie. >> amnesty international. violent attacks from i.s.i.l. and boko haram to crack downs on freedom of expression by governments. >> our report this year for

2014-15 provides quite shocking details of the horrific violence and human rights abuses that civilians from syria to ukraine from nigeria to gaza, have faced in this period. but the response so far has been dismal. we've called it shameful. >> and in this report amnesty international lays blame on the u.n. security council veto rule which says any permanent member including the u.s. and russia can veto resolutions for self-interest. coming up in our next hour we're going to take a look at the impact of an action, randall more than at any time since world war ii. >> thanks stephanie sy. astronauts at the international space station were outside getting ready for a privately owned spacecraft.

later, inflatable taxis or habitat will arrive. astronauts today were doing prep work to attach docking adapters for the habitat. while space exploration continues to advance we're getting a chance to look back on the golden age of spaceflight. hundreds of rare pictures from the early days are up for auction. >> explorer this is houston. >> long before the fantasy of space, was this. an unmanned missile launch in 1946. 19 years later the very first in-flight portrait. ed white aboard gemini 4. taken by ed mcdevitt. part of a collector's archive of 600 vin vintage photographs.

and here, the image more than up close. it's historic, documenting the very first american spacewalk. on another gemini mission james lofllovell took this picture of the andes. looking down to staring straight ahead and the first selfie from space. buzz aldrin, peering into the camera of gemini 12. and the first high quality color image of the earth taken by a tv camera. included in the auction photographs of the first american to orbit the earth john glen, who was the first person to take a camera into space. and the last man to walk on the moon astronaut gene sernan, who said, "i captured the earth the moon the man and the country all

in one." cernan said, i'm proud of this picture . the individual images are expected to sell for up to $15,000. i'm randall pinkston. that's the news, continuing with antonio mora and stephanie sy.

the lure of i.s.i.l. on u.s. soil. three american residents are under arrest tonight accused of trying to join the group in syria. and they may not be the only ones. in ukraine. suddenly and surprising quiet. >> the guns are falling silent. you can listen. there is no sound of artillery here in donetsk for the first time in many many months. >> also sharp criticism from amnesty international. >> the united nations