♪ hello everybody this is al jazeera america, i'm david shuster in new york coming up, this hour destruction in iraq second largest city i.s.i.l. demolished artifacts and treasures as identity of jihad john is revealed heroin highway fuels the fix for suburb teens and we have a closer look. questions in pasco, reviewing series in washington state on

the shooting death of a migrant mexican worker his mother is speaking out. a story of an 8-year-old girl vanished from a washington d.c. homeless shelter and no one noticed for two weeks, the search for answers in a troubled system. ♪ we begin tonight with new details about one of the most wanted men in the world, he is the killer who carried out be headings and i.s.i.l. propaganda video the masked man with an english accent known as jihadi john and his name is mohammed emwazi a british man who graduated five years ago with a degree in computer science and we are joined live from washington and jamie what more do we know about this man and his past to i.s.i.l.

>> reporter: no official confirmation of the masked man's identity people identified him as the i.s.i.l. killer somebody who was born in kuwait and grew up in london and as you said dubbed jihadi john by the british press. until now the knife wielding masked man with a british accent seen in a video in august be heading journalist james foley was one of a group of british fighters that prisoners nicknamed the beetles and now intelligent sources put a name to the face mohammed emwazi who was reportedly born in kuwait and grew up in west london and studied computer programming at the university of westminster. >> you might be surprised to know the mohammed i knew was extremely kind and gentle and soft spoken and the most humble young person.

>> reporter: he is with cage a london based group working with muslims under scrutiny from british intelligence services and we can't be 100% sure the i.s.i.l. killer on the videos is the same man he says mohammed emwazi was radical by the british government who allegedly prevented him from traveling to kuwait where he planned to marry. the group says in an e-mail mohammed emwazi wrote i had a job waiting for me and marriage to get started but now i feel like a prisoner only not in a cage in london. >> when are we going to find and learn that when we treat people as if they are outsiders they will feel like outsiders and look for belonging elsewhere. >> reporter: in the london neighborhood where mohammed emwazi's family is believed to have lived one man who identified himself as iraqi said he was shocked to hear the reports reports. >> it's not jihadi you kill the people, not jihadi. >> reporter: in washington

there was no official corroboration of the identification. >> whether or not the person that is named in the news reports is the person in question it's something i can confirm nor deny. >> reporter: given mohammed emwazi does not come from a disadvantaged background the state department was asked how that squared with its previous statements that joblessness among young men was fueling extremism. >> our view that is a factor in terms of the lack of opportunity but we are not suggesting it is the only factor. >> reporter: investigators in london are now trying to find out whether mohammed emwazi was the sole survivor of a group of young west london people who traveled to syria in 2012 and killed the following year. the u.s. works closely with british intelligence to tractorer suspects but would not say what role if any it played in unmasking mohammed emwazi. it did however say it continues to aggressively hunt down anyone who murders american citizens

and president obama in an interview with a local television station said quote, eventually if you hurt an american, you're going to be brought to justice in some fashion. david. jamie reporting from washington, jamie thank you. we are learning more tonight about three men from new york city who are now under arrest accused of supporting i.s.i.l. 24-year-old worked at a restaurant but investigators say he and his brooklyn roommate 19-year-old friend were making plans to travel to syria and fight for i.s.i.l. a third suspect 30-year-old was arrested in florida and stands accused of bank rolling the operation and the men allegedly discussed killing police officers and fbi agents bombing coney island and assassinating president obama. a partner at mcginnis an attorney for one of the three of course charged, first of all welcome. >> nice to see you. >> did your client want to join

i.s.i.l.? >> at this point and i've said this before these are allegations, my client is a young 19-year-old from kazistan who i'm greated to the united states as a permanent resident my sense from the complaint and we have little information from the government is that a lot of what happened here is i think he has been led on by a paid fbi informant. >> that will be important as far as the actual charges and whether they can stick, but just overall did he want to join i.s.i.l. >> to be honest with you i have not asked and it's not really a concern of mine at that point. >> some evidence they have from the criminal complaint he wanted to join i.s.i.l. was a phone call february 19th that your client made to his mother in which he asked for his passport back and said he wanted to travel to join islamic state. any reason to question the phone call with the mother? >> again we have to look at the context, i really need to see the role of the fbi informant was in those activities. >> why do you think and you said

before that this was entrapment because of the confidential informant, why do you think so? >> well i mean i think what we have seen as a pattern with the fbi and with their investigations in this area is they take young men who are really susceptible to being manipulated by informants or paid or who are trying to work off crimes that they have already been charged with and so you know it's just it raises a lot of concern about the tactics that are used and about whether the fbi really is manufacturing crimes so they can turn around after making arrests and say aren't we doing a great job here. >> one threat they detected was before the confidential informant was a part of the caught august 8, 2014 there was an internet address of your client's roommate and wrote, quote, i am in the usa but don't have any arms but is it possible to commit ourselves as dedicated

martyrs anyway here what i'm saying is to shoot obama and then get shot ourselves, will it do? threatening the life of the president online would be a threat wouldn't it? >> this notion saying they want to threaten the life of the president and thinking that is a credible threat you know it's interesting when we look at the complaint, for example there are allegations that my client they said my client wanted to go out and buy a gun, there is no evidence he went to buy a gun, there is no evidence that this co-defendant ever did anything whatsoever to try to approach the president, put himself in proximity to the president, so these are just words. these are words that the fbi then inserts themselves in to with the confidential informant and tries to juice up and create something that really isn't there. >> in order to prove the case against your client and his roommate and the third person who owned the cell phone shop in florida, the government is going to have to prove intent that it's not enough just to say they somehow slipped in and were talking about they wanted to shoot the president or wanting

to join i.s.i.l. they have to prove they intended to do so, is that where you think the key weakness might be in the government case? >> i think so and what will happen and the public has seen it and we have seen it today from comments from people from all over the world that they know how the fbi goes around with their confidential informants basically manufacturing these cases. >> the government has suggested that this is widespread across the united states, that there are cases investigations in every state into young men who are wanting to join i.s.i.l., do you believe that? >> you know, i think that there may be investigations all over the country. i pray to god they are not similar investigations to this one where they are bringing in confidential informants to make cases that really don't exist. the other thing too. >> i have to stop you do you know the confidential informant in your particular case made this up? engaged, speculation as well to suggest that maybe the confidential informant entrapped your client but we don't know right now, do we? >> it's funny you use the word

speculation because there is an allegation in the complaint about travel documents and obtaining travel documents and that is the very word they use and say the confidential informant and my client speculated about how to get travel documents from my client. well i want to see what the nature of that conversation was. >> promoter is an attorney for one of the clients charged and thanks for being with us appreciate it. new questions being raised in washington state about the high profile death of a farm worker. just over two weeks ago police shot and killed a man, his family is demanding answers and justice, allen has been on the story from the start and has spoken with the victim's mother and allen is from pasco, washington with the latest allen? >> reporter: and david the latest is that one of the attorneys for this family is claiming that results of a second autopsy conducted privately contradict statements made by investigators. the attorney says that the investigators rather said that none of the bullets killed

antonio hit him in the back one came from the back of the right arm, existed and hit him in the chest. another bullet him him side ways in the left buttock and defines that being hit in the back twice and calls it a contradiction with what police detectives are saying about the case. also we have had our first chance to speak with antonio's mother here from mexico and learned more about her misery and his world. it is a face etched with love and loss. >> translator: i feel so bad. i say he is never going to come back home and we are never going to be together. >> reporter: the outside world knows him as the migrant worker shot and killed by police in pasco, washington the shooting caught on video widely viewed on social media. but she knows him as a son, a son she hadn't seen in ten years. we spoke to her on the day of

his funeral. >> translator: people come here to make a better living she tells us people come for work not to cause pain, he was looking for his future. >> reporter: but we know his life here was crumbling long before his death. in january a house fire put him on the streets. family members say he battled depression after his wife left several years ago taking two children out of state. so he occasionally slept at the union gospel mission, how many people do you have sleeping here? >> full at 45. >> reporter: half of the people seeking help are hispanic and many of them farm workers like him. >> these are people's fathers, these are people's brothers. these are people's sons. they are not to be feared. >> reporter: people who knew him here say he was a good guy and yes he did drugs and was clearly under stress. on thursdays the mission's

weekly outreach brings long lines at least 75 families picking up donated food and finding clothing for third kids a recovering addict won't talk specifically about him but seeing many of those he serves facing the same demons drugs and mental instability. does it hurt to see people like him fall off the edge? >> it's disappointing to see any individual not be able to find the resolution, the freedom from the addiction and freedom from the negative lifestyle that i personally experienced. >> reporter: his death sparked protest marches and raised questions about whether police are properly trained to deal with those in mental distress. it is also focused attention on the challenges of getting mental health services to a transient often undocumented population and his body will be moved to native mexico and wants to see

the three police officers punished. >> translator: but not punished too harshly because they have mothers too she says and doesn't want them suffering the way she is suffering now. >> reporter: again, antonio will be buried in his native mexico, we understand that move might be made some time next week. >> allen yesterday we were talking whether race might have been a factor in the shooting did the victim mother say anything about that? >> obviously a big question in this case david and told us she does not believe that he was shot because of his race that echoes what we heard from person after person here who said they really think it's a matter of police training behavior response and ability to deal with situations like this when they blowup on them in the street. >> allen reporting live from pasco, washington and thank you. still ahead i.s.i.l. latest video shows the group destroying

ancient artifacts and it's more disturbing than most can imagine and we will introduce you to the people who are now racing to protect other ancient relics. >> reporter: were you afraid you would get shot or mugged or robbed? >> absolutely especially after i was robbed and but heroin has such a grip on you that it doesn't matter. >> reporter: among younger american adults heroin use on the rise and we will take you to chicago's dangerous heroin highway. ♪

in the u.s. government's first major internet regulation the federal communication voted today to commission voted today to approve so called net neutrality rules supporters say it guarantees fairness for all internet users but opponents say it could hurt innovation and lead to higher prices and internet providers can not sell special fast lanes to certain websites and cannot slow down or block access to any sites. the internet is a telecommunication service and gives fcc more power to regulate providers and force them to act in the public interest. if you look at a map of chicago

you will see an east west highway running through the city, it's officially called interstate 290 but many locals know it by a more sinister name heroin highway, young adults and teens mostly white use the route as expressway to buy drugs and al jazeera took a drive with a former addict and diane is live with the story from chicago, diane? >> reporter: you know, david i talked to several police departments in the suburbs and they said a decade ago they would say maybe a handful of heroin ar arrests a year and last year they saw hundreds and this is a problem that is absolutely exploding. as students criss-cross the halls of the high school there is a constant reminder of a growing danger. >> these are to doses of narcan. >> reporter: recently the first school district in the county to put narcan a drug that counter

acts heroin overdoses in all of its schools after three former students died. do you think there are kids here in this high school that could be taking heroin or are taking heroin? >> we believe that there are. >> reporter: wheaten with million dollar homes is a hub for heroin addiction and the town is one of the exits off of chicago's infamous heroin highway. >> 10, 10:30 is when i make the trip. >> reporter: takes us on a 30 mile stretch of 290 connecting the county to what drug enforcements call the nation's largest heroin distribution center. >> the palms are sweating and a while since i've been through the area. 11 months and up to a half dozen times a day. >> get off at cisero here. >> reporter: took us down side streets and cruised for heroin. >> those are true walkouts and looking to see what is going on the block is hot.

>> reporter: and down deserted alleys where he would meet dealers. >> i would stop by the fence, someone would come running through, roll down the passenger window, do a hand to hand and see you later. >> reporter: on every trip he said he tried to dodge police and danger. were you afraid you would get shot or mugged or robbed? >> absolutely especially after i was robbed and but heroin has such a grip on you it doesn't matter. >> reporter: young white addicts helping fuel chicago's heroin trade and the city has saturated the west side with police and we saw them stop and frisk a handful of people near the drug markets and still dennis who heads the drug administration chicago field office say the markets remain a huge problem. why can't you shut those down? >> people are working on it today as we speak and i point out too that i worked in other

cities like st. louis and other cities that every city in america is just about got an open air drug market because of the demand that you are speaking about diane. >> reporter: if you are a heroin addict you don't have to drive to the city to score drugs and sometimes the drugs will come to you, a lot of addicts will buy extra heroin downtown and take it back and sell it in their own communities. >> we recently made arrest close to right where we are standing. >> reporter: mike heads the county drug enforcement group and says his team busts dealers almost daily in public places like this train station based on tips from users caught with heroin heroin. but even though his team made nearly 300 arrests last year he says heroin demand is stronger than ever driven by new users who are mostly teens and young adults. is there a sense of outrage in these communities among parents? >> i think outrage is a strong term. i think there is a sense of

concern but there is also some complacency where a lot of people feel not in my backyard or not my good kid johnny or sally or whatever and unfortunately that is who we are seeing that end up with as victims is the good kid johnny and sally. >> here you are. >> reporter: nick says he was one of the good kids who made a bad choice and making better ones now and managing a restaurant and staying clean for three years. he thinks he is on the right path. i'm guessing you feel pretty lucky. >> i'm the most blessed person that i know of. there is people right now as we are driving back from this that are not going to make it through today because of their heroin addiction. >> reporter: gore will always be an addict but confident he exited the heroin highway for good. and this is such an insidious

drug and some can use heroin a couple times and become hooked david. >> we heard from the county talking about a sense of complacency that people have but as they hear about these suburb suburben white kids who are dying is that changing? >> reporter: you know, it is the state's attorney in the county and coroner go out regularly and talk to the public. i went to one of their meetings and the room was parked with probably 100 people there and said a couple years ago there were maybe 10 or 20 people at the meetings so people are starting to take notice and they are starting to come out. >> diane reporting from chicago and thank you very much. dr. richard jorgenson is a coroner in illinois and thanks for joining us when did you first notice problems in your county and how bad has it gotten by your estimation? >> well i was a practicing physician in dupage county since 1985 and seen it from the physician's viewpoint but became coroner in november of 2012 and

immediately saw that there was an increasing number of heroin deaths in early 2013 and it really hit home in the summer of 2013 when during july we had 18 drug overdose deaths during and after the 4th of july weekend and 11 of those were heroin overdoses so we literally had a person come in to our morgue everyday from a drug overdose. >> what in your mind is causing that explosion of heroin use? >> well, i think you have covered it very well in that we are physically very close to a highway that dumps off into a place where people can get very cheap and very very strong heroin. so that is something new and it's based on the fact that chicago is a distribution center for all kinds of goods including heroin. but secondly we have a new

complacency about the idea of drugs and of strong drugs especially that heroin is no longer being used by people that are injecting this drug into their veins, it's being used by younger and younger people and it's being smoked and snorted because it's so pure and it's so strong that it doesn't need to be injected any more. >> what is your county doing to try to change that complacency? >> we have a number of things we are doing, number one, the thing that was mentioned earlier we are increasing the awareness. we are trying to get out and talk as much as we can. we appreciate being on the press as we are doing tonight so that we can raise the awareness among the community as it was mentioned. dupage county is a very nice place to live and it's very quiet in a lot of ways and we were not willing to accept the fact that we had a problem in our county. we are beginning to accept that and to do things like teaching our schools even down in junior

highs about the dangers of heroin and cocaine. we also started a program called the dupage-narcam project where we fitted every police with narcan which is a pure antidote to counter act someone who is having an overdose. >> and does it work? >> it works very well if you catch the person before they have died or they before they have brain death it's a very very strong antidote for heroin and people will wake up within one minute and be completely awake from the heroin overdose with the drug. >> can it be used in other cities or is it being used in other cities as well? >> yes it is used around america, the department of justice has put out quite a number of advisories that narcan and neloxin is the regular name that should be used and be available to anyone who has got an addiction problem, to all

first responders again, it was mentioned that we are now outfitting nurses and schools and actually had a couple of overdoses in our schools. so this should be available to help save these people from overdosing because that is not the path to recovery we need people to get into recovery so they can be productive citizens. >> dr. richard jorgenson and thanks for being with us and good luck to you. >> thank you very much. >> you are welcome. up next, they are young, gay and homeless, we will show you what life is really like for some of these teenagers on the streets with no where to go. plus we have an update tonight on the search for a little girl who disappeared from a dysfunctional washington dc homeless shelter in a year since she went missing and it now appears the system for protecting kids like her has not gotten any better.

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york and john is on assignment and coming up in a half hour war and antiquities and bragging about going through a museum and destroying priceless relics going back thousands of years, a girl disappeared and the truth of a shelter system has now been revealed and night falls the life of a homeless gay teenager and we will show you what our investigative report uncovered. in a battle against aisle there is more evidence the group is determined to change history and to erase it what is unfolding in mosul and iraqi city of 600,000 people, a city that is home to precious antiques dating back thousands of years. i.s.i.l. latest video shows them with sledgehammer toppling statutes and crushing precious works of art and what they could

not smash they attacked with power drills and it represents this but to religious minorities in mosul they are precious links thousands of years old to a civilization long forgotten. >> look at it. they are all made of stone mostly. and what they call mosul marble. >> reporter: some pieces were plaster but they were original and genuine and demolition to museum curators is beyond comprehension. >> i can't believe it. it's something for me sometimes i wish it's a nightmare and i wake up and it's not true. nineveh was the capitol of the world, the empire of the people and was even bigger than egyptians which everybody talks about. >> reporter: these were sculptures of princes and kings that once ruled the empire and they said they were symbols of

harrasy and needed to be destroyed and took control when they over ran mosul and the museum pieces including a wind animal meant to protect the city from harm reflected 7,000 years of history. >> antiquities and gives us a glimpse into those moments in time and they were so carefully preserved and carefully taken care of and brought to life that that just erases the art from a huge period of history. >> reporter: worked as an under cover operative for the canadian intelligence service and before that he recruited for jihadi groups after 9/11 but a spiritual advisor talked him out of it and joins us from toronto and let's talk about the destruction of the artifacts in mosul and what is the point of doing this? >> well like you introduced in your piece, you know this group i.s.i.s. resemble other groups

that have come in history before and they did the same thing when they came from saudi arabia they did the thing of destroying graves and destroying any symbols of any sort which didn't comport with their particular understanding. so like you suggested they call this herassy and idolatry but nobody worships the figures. >> i.s.i.l. is releasing this video and publicizing efforts does that really help the group recruit? >> it does i mean for those individuals who hate the west who hate any kind of identity that is not like theirs it shows that look we are powerful we are strong. our culture, our identity is stronger than their culture and their identity. >> i want to ask you about the news tonight confirmation from government agencies about the identity of the most wanted man in the world the i.s.i.l. killer who beheaded some men in the

videos, jihadi john and name is mohammed emwazi are you surprised to learn he is from london from a fairly well to do family with a western education? >> not surprising at all. in fact, i'm surprised that we engage in these simplistic characters where we assume a person must be deprived and a person must be poor for some people that might be the case but it's not true in all cases. and so your typical profile is they come from normal backgrounds. >> officials say that he was obsessed with al-shabab at the start of his radicalism and why al-shabab? >> i think you will have to look to see if there is some kind of proximity to peer groups or individuals that he might be friends with that initially got him interested in al-shabab. you know this happened with the so-called american al-shabab and

he called himself and he had somali friends and married an somali girl and ended up there as a fighter and likely there is some kind of friend link or peer link to somalia. >> when you are recruiting for so called jihidi groups were there people who were easier to recruit than others? >> definitely there were and we would look for converts and especially whose families who didn't want them to be muslim and they were at odds with each other. we knew that this was somebody that would stay with us because they probably didn't want to be at home. same thing for born muslim who might have begun to express some kind of religion and again cause friction at home and they would come to the mosque and stay with other individuals who thought and walked and spoke like them. >> what is it about i.s.i.l. that makes them more effective in recruiting? the numbers dwarf other groups

so what is it about i.s.i.l. in your estimation that makes them so effective. >> no vetting procedures with young and old and not that great of a surprise that most of these people are joining i.s.i.l. and with al-qaeda and affiliates you needed to be yetted and needed to know who you were and what your family is and what they were up to and what they did and i.s.i.s. doesn't do this and opening the door to anyone. >> an expert from the inside working under cover operative for canadian intelligence and recruiting for jihadi groups after 9/11 and thank you for being with us. more on the destruction of cultural history later in the hour including syria monument men who are risking their lives to save ancient artifacts leader

of yemen shia houthi rebel group accusing saudi arabia of splitting the country in happen after the power grab this is saudi arabia moving ambassador to the city of aiden where president hadi has set up base after fleeing the capital sanaa and he met with the u.n. envoy trying to end the political crisis, in washington d.c. on capitol hill republican house speaker john boehner is not backing down in his battle against the obama administration over nuclear talks with iran and is standing by his decision to invite israel's prime minister to address congress next week and boehner fired back at advisor security susan rice of the criticism of the speech and rice said the speech by netanyahu would be destructive and they fear the obama administration will embrace agreement that allies tehran to

develop nuclear weapons. this week marking six months since the ceasefire took effect in gaza and shown you reconstruction efforts in gaza and fighting on children there and we go to the town near the gaza border where israeli families are feeling the impact of last year's hamas rocket fire. >> reporter: he can shoot hoops and he can throw punches, he can play x-box but he can't forget the war that ended six months ago. he remembers each time he looks at his legs. >> translator: everyone was running and after a second i was flying through the air. >> reporter: on august 26 mortar fired by fighters from gaza landed right next to him, he lost his legs. two of his friends died. just one hour later israel hamas

ceased fire. do you have any regrets had you known when the ceasefire was going to start you might still have your legs? >> translator: i am not looking backward whatever happened happened, i cannot change it. everyday i'm getting stronger look at me i can walk and i can walk without help and you see i walk with a limp it hurts, it's difficult but we shall overcome. >> reporter: today his optimism comes from state of the art rehabilitation x-box helps coordination and the basketball his balance. and the boxing his strength. what really provides strength is family. his daughter 17-year-old libby is not afraid of looking at his injury and he is not angry but warns those who fired the mortar. >> translator: we cannot live in near, if we live in fear we will also have no peace. >> reporter: during the war palestinian fighters fired more

rockets deeper in israel than ever before. more than 3,000 rockets and mortars killed 15 in israel and wounded more than 150. one of the rockets landed in the middle of this residential neighborhood. >> translator: we survived because people were in the bomb shelters and because god protected us. >> reporter: mark is the deputy mayor and gaza is only a mile from here the damage from that mortar is still visible on his car and on a nearby wall. we first met him six months ago when the skies were filled with rockets. on july 10 we filmed israel iron dome made three interexceptions. and residents walked in the city's bomb shelter and he brought his son there because it's also the city's daycare. >> translator: my work is 24/7 i don't see the kids and my son being here gives me a sense of

security. >> reporter: today it's booming and construction everywhere and residents refuse to leave. >> translator: for us the solution is not leaving, it's the opposite the solution is to stay and evolve. >> reporter: and he lives behind the wall. this is your home. inside he shows me where he slept everyday for six months. a bomb shelter. the windows are 2" thick steel. . >> translator: gaza is that way, i have to keep the window closed, there is nothing between here and there, a missile may come directly in. we have no alternative. >> translator: people say there will be another war in the future, whether we want it or not this is our way of life. >> reporter: he knows there could be another war. israeli military did not destroy the rocket launcher that targeted him. >> translator: my daughter told me she is afraid the same

launcher will be used in the next war. >> reporter: six months later israel is on its feet but you can still feel their fear and see their wounds nick with al jazeera, israel. back in the united states and now to another in depth al jazeera report all week we have given you exclusive live in the marginalized group homeless young people who identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender and show you what life on the streets can be like for them and erica has been following the story and what are these kids going through? >> they are literally living day by day. in fact, the kids have a term for it and call it pumping which means jumping from shelter to sheller jumping in for a hot meal and warm bed during really this brutal winter here. so they have to keep moving because every center has different hours and offers different services, a place like new york city has dozens of shelters for the general population but a lot of lbgt

kids choose the streets instead of shelters to avoid being bullied or assaulted just for being who they are. >> right now we are in harlem and in the projects of harlem. >> reporter: 9:00 on a wednesday night and these two young people are homeless and they are gay, forced out of their families because of who they are and met them over the weekend staying at the aly center, the 24 hour drop in center is the first of the kind opened seven days a week around the clock dedicated to homeless lbgt kids and they want to be open seven days a week but the resources are not there yet. two days when the center goes dark these kids have to pack up and leave. >> i can't carry all this stuff with me so therefore i am consolidated to one bag. >> what do you have right there? this one, me too. >> reporter: what are your options? >> my options are either the train

train, station outside or i can find me a lovely date who will be nice enough to let me crash there until the morning and then start all over again. >> reporter: before king was living day-to-day the aspiring fashion designer was working everyday for a clothing company. >> they had me doing embellishment with sequence and beads. an apartment with the boyfriend but when it ended and ex moved out he couldn't live there any longer. >> sleeping on the trains and i did not miss work but going in work exhausted or just wearing the same thing so the boss had to let me go. >> reporter: one year later and he is still homeless and jobless. >> extremely tough. you are kicking to survival mode. >> reporter: sometimes survival mode means selling sex in exchange for cash or shelter. >> that happened to me randomly on numerous occasions where guys like pick me up like you drink

wine, want to come to me apartment and like a quick date for the night. i don't mind quick cash you know, money in your pocket you didn't have before. >> reporter: in the past year he had to resort to that way of life often. >> enough times. >> reporter: more than you can count? >> yes. he seemed happy go lucky earlier but this day his disposition changed. >> your energy is a little different. >> yeah because i'm bummed i have to get rid of my stuff. >> reporter: is that the only reason? >> no. i just a little stressed about this and it takes a toll on you going through this. >> reporter: after the center closed wednesday night king treated his friends to fast-food and said good-bye to faye another homeless lbgt kid who landed a spot at a shelter downtown. >> see you later love. >> reporter: and king and eli walked through the public housing to smoke synthetic marijuana known as k 2.

>> it's closed or we would be inside and not smoking k 2 in the warm about to go to bed and take a shower. let's walk girl. >> reporter: high at about 10:00 p.m. they hop the subway to the bronx. >> we are in the bronx waiting for the b 6 bus and going to a 24-hour drop in center. >> reporter: accepts adults over 25 years old but since the temperature dropped below freezing the shelter makes exceptions for younger people like king and eli, one night down and one more to go and who knows where the next night will take them. >> after a while you just start to crash and i'm a trooper and a survivor. >> reporter: this is the second night king eli and friend faye need to fend for themselves and we connected with faye today and was turned away last night from a shelter she thought she had a spot and spent the night sleeping on the train and king and eli since the temperature is below freezing again tonight they will probably get in the

bronx shelter for men or 25 the same as they stayed last night and are good for the weekend because the other center will reopen for overnight services for all three of them. >> the only one of its kind in new york and one of a kind in the country. >> absolutely and breaking ground and the idea is to have this particular shelter open 24 hours a day, seven days a week and means they give day services medical needs, free meals, any sort of counseling or therapy as well as the overnight services where kids can rest their head brush their teeth and take a shower and do laundry and solely dedicated to lbgt kids who are homeless. >> thanks for the report. it has been one year since an eight-year-old girl vanished from the largest family shelter in washington d.c. and city leaders promised to shut down the facility but a year later the shelter is still open and more crowded than ever and there is still no new leads in the case of the missing girl.

america tonight has the story from washington. >> reporter: this old hospital building was once home for eight-year-old rudd and her mother young. >> it's a mess to be honest with you it's no place for children unfortunately. >> reporter: in 2013 the family was among nearly 300 others living at dc general, washington's largest family homeless shelter. at the time it housed nearly 600 children. jim graham is the former head of dc human services committee charged with shelter oversight. after she went missing he held hearings revealing massive concerns about the safety of children at the shelter. >> a lot of different things involved but the bomb -- bottom line was we failed. >> reporter: the promise to shut down the shelter and one year after she disappeared the shelter is still open and still home to nearly 200 families and now the mayor is pledging to end

homelessness by 2025. mayor can you tell me why anyone in the community should have faith this plan will work when so many previous administrations have tried to fix the problem of homelessness in dc and have been unsuccessful? >> we know we are dealing with a very tough issue and it is incumbent upon us to look at the programs that have work and make them better. >> reporter: are you confident kids there today are safer than they were a year ago when rudd went missing. >> i don't think any of us can be happy when we have such a large facility where families are living. >> reporter: are they safer? >> i have answered your question. >> reporter: we wanted to see firsthand what kind of place it is and asking for a year but city officials walked away from us. >> we wanted to see if we could get in dc general to see it and i wanted to know how many recommendations have been put into place. the city has yet to answer our

questions or let us into the shelter. the process is slow dc general has seen some improvement since rudd disappeared and there are two more security guards a new attendance protocol and a new playground making the shelter a little more child friendly. but homeless advocates say the resent changes at dc general just scratch the surface. lori with al jazeera, washington. you can see more of lori's report on america tonight at 10:00 eastern, 7:00 pacific. there is snow across much of the southern united states tonight in greensboro north carolina snow pulled down trees and tore down electric lines leaving thousands of people without power. the weather also affected transportation, more than 100 flights in and out of raleigh durham airport cancelled and nicole mitchell has more. >> a lot of this was last night so the snow you are dealing with today was as you can see dried

out was on the ground. however, temperatures got above freezing today what is going to happen overnight tonight, birmingham 25, charlotte 22 that is back below freezing. so any of that moisture from the snow that melted today is going to refreeze overnight and make those roads slick once again and looking at a widespread area of potential of black ice and i would say outside of this be careful on those roads in the morning. so temperatures, still well below average, that is what is influencing all of this with high in the midsection of the country and a clockwise flow so on the east side of that brings air north to south and widespread 10-30 degrees below average, here are temperatures as low as 15 degrees as a high temperature in minneapolis, all the way down to houston at 52 and dallas should be in the 60s 30s for tomorrow. maybe right around freezing as the high that means the next round of moisture that comes in once again instead of rain it is snow.

so we could see that plus on the backside maybe a little freezing precipitation friday night and then this moves for saturday night up into chicago but that is why we see the systems in the south as snow it's just been so cold to support that. >> all right nicole mitchell thank you appreciate it i.s.i.l. destroying ancient artwork and one man is fighting to save the middle east cultural legacy.

only a few years ago stories of pirasy on the coast of somalia were common and international response put a stop to that and stephanie has a story you will see coming up, at 9:00. >> tonight we will look at the other side of somalian piracy

and consequences of nato on piracy and the stretch of the coast is the town after ale and the boats that once lined the shore and the men who crewed them are to gone or prison or graves and explore why the men of here became pirates and how they are coping in the absence of the bread winners and what forced them in piracy and coming up in the next hour in off the radar segment. >> thank you i.s.i.l. released video showing fighters destroying priceless artifacts in iraq and confirmed the video is indeed real some of these works are plaster casts of original works but at least four of them were authentic and up to 3,000 years old and aisle considers the displays hiracy and trying to stop them from

destroying the ancient sites and in the first report we speak with a real life monument man who advise z the u.s. government on how to save historical sites before it's too late. mu extremist organizations are waging a war on culture, looting and theft in many different forms has been an important part of the revenue streams of jihadi operating in iraq and syria and aisle takes the cultural property of ethnic and religious minorities and loots archeological sites and repositories. brave syrians and many of them former employees of the department of antiquities are risking their lives to photograph to damage to sites in syria to monitor what is happening in the intiquities

trade to gather data and risking their lives and could fall prey to extremist or killed in decline in the rule of law and the introduction of large members of extremist organizations in here looting accelerated and we see mosques, shrines and tombs being blown to pieces with explosives destroyed using heavy machinery and it's difficult to keep up with the rate of destruction. the scale of the destruction across north africa and the middle east for right now is unprecedented since the second world war but i'm hopeful that the conflict will be ended soon and we can begin the important work of putting it all back together. that is our report for this hour, i'm david shuster and thank you for watching the news continues next with antonio and stephanie sy.

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