hi, everyone this is al jazeera america i'm john seigenthaler. beyond ferguson nationwide the big picture of police bias against blacks tonight the facts and what is needed to end the discrimination. shot to death, inside a police station, the troubled teen killed, the officers back on the job and the growing calls for accountability. delayed, brand new state of the art and empty, california's $200 millionaire port to know where.

and child's play. ♪ reinventing led except lynn's classics and getting a whole lot of love from a rock icon. ♪ for many african/americans ferguson missouri is not a flash point, it's a fact of life, the fear of law enforcement, the distrust and discrimination and allegations were spelled out by the justice department in the wake of the death of michael brown. we now know they go beyond the city and communities small and big, we will talk about that in detail in a moment but first the planned wrongful death suit by the family of michael brown and more from ferguson usher. >> good evening john the parents

of michael brown appeared at a news conference with attorneys today and said they fundamentally disagreed with the department of justice investigation in the civil rights violation against darren wilson in the death of michael brown but will continue to fight for justice for their son. >> the facts do not support the filing of criminal charges against the officer darren wilson. >> reporter: the department of justice could not prosecute ferguson officer for civil rights violation the parents say they will fight on their own. >> it's important that we remember the things they found in the city of ferguson police department were the same culture that existed on august 9 as officer darren wilson met michael brown in the street. >> reporter: will file a suit against the city. >> we felt that officer darren wilson did not have to shoot and kill mike brown junior in broad daylight in the manner he did. >> reporter: on wednesday doj laid out 26 recommendations for improving the ferguson police

department in the wake of brown's death including policing and court practices, improving training and oversight, reducing bias and ending over reliance on arrest warrants as a means of collecting fines. after months of hearing protest protesters chant the owner suggested a different approach. >> three words to start moving around the country and those three words are don't resist arrest. how many times do you think people would have gotten shot if they would not have to resist arrest. >> reporter: he says the spotlight on ferguson has hurt business, down 50% since august. >> i'm not hardly taking any salary out of my business today because it's not here and most of it is the local people are scared to come out. >> reporter: but in this small town there are many opinions on what needs to happen next a few blocks away one of the regular customers says the police force may have to go. >> i would say that the culture needs to be eliminated and if

that means the department dissolved and the county police department take over that might have to happen. >> reporter: ferguson council candidate ella jones disagrees and says the current city government and police force needs to finish what they started. >> i want the police department to stay intact. i want to press the police chief to have an opportunity to work and correct this. >> reporter: wednesday night protesters assembled outside the ferguson police department to call for action, something echoed by michael brown's attorneys. >> it's a wholesale systemic problem that exists in the department and the situation has to change quickly, sooner than later for the safety of the citizens of this community. >> reporter: it's a community that remains polarized with the right path forward. john, in the coming weeks

department of justice officials will continue to meet with city officials here in ferguson as they try to hammer out how they are going to implement reforms and some of the mandated recommendations that the department of justice will be making as they move forward in reforms here in ferguson. >> usher, thank you. ferguson of course is just one piece of a much bigger problem, across the country african/americans have been disproportionately targeted harassed and of course arrested by police and erica is here with more on that. >> civil rights group like aclu conducted studies examining data from police stops and surges across the country and many show blacks are more likely to be stopped and searched compared to white and happening in cities big and small. the justice department finding that ferguson police unfairly targeted blacks for arrests and prosecution did not come as a surprise to residentss who complained for years of police bias, the city's population 67% black made up 93% of arrests.

ferguson is not an exception, the problem is nationwide. in boston blacks makeup 25% of the city's population but in aclu study revealed they were involved in 63% of police encounters. only 2 1/2% of those encounters led to seizure of contraband and in chicago blacks are 46 of vehicle stops compared to 27% for whites. the pattern is not limited to major cities new haven, connecticut blacks are 30% of population and account for nearly 47% of traffic stops. seattle police is the target of a justice department investigation in 2011 and cases like this in which a police officer is seen stomping on an latino man with complaints against the seattle pd and found a pattern of using unnecessary and excessive force and it did

express concern that more than half of the incidents this which excessive force was used involved minorities in a city that is 70% white. and in north carolina protests broke out in durham after examples of police brutality and a shooting of a 26-year-old black man, the city launched an investigation earlier this year and acknowledged racial bias in policing with disparity and searches and drug enforcement of the kind of reflection that law enforcement across the country are being urged to make. >> those of us in law enforcement must redouble our efforts to resist bias and prejudice. we must better understand the people we serve and protect. by trying to know deep in our gut what it feels like to be a law abiding young black man walking down the street and encountering law enforcement, we must understand how that young man may see us. we must resist the lazy

shortcuts of cynicism and approach him with respect and decency. >> reporter: in some instances like the boston pd the aclu urged the department to publish data on all stops made every quarter, the police commissioner agreed while also pushing back a bit saying statistics should be seen as the work of a police department focused on crime, high crime areas, john and not race. >> all right erica thank you very much and we have a managing attorney at the southern poverty law center in san diego tonight, jody welcome, what would you say to police officers who suggest that these african/american communities are more dangerous and more crimes committed by african/americans african/americans, what would you say to them? >> thanks for having me it doesn't support that. if you have a system that is using racial disparities and racial biases you will get what you try to reduce from the system. that is what we are seeing here and seeing it all around the country.

systems that actually make that very premise that blacks a more dangerous and violent come true because of how you target the same individuals. >> but, again, the critics would suggest black on black crime is a huge problem in this country which goes unrecognized and that in the black community african/americans are arguing they need protection, they need help from the criminals. again, your reaction? >> yeah, i think we are talking about two distinct problems black on black crime is real and something the black community does acknowledge and try to take on. if there is a miss trust with the very people trying to protect the same community that is when you can't achieve either goal. we saw it recently in the department of justice report and looking at 50 years from selma, 150 years from slavery and these disparities that make this country the best country in the world has the largest incarceration population and it's a sad fact and we cannot

heal old wounds unless there is some bridge between law enforcement community and communities of color and recognizing that we both have to look at the data that supports that they have been marginalized and ostracized in a way sgr. >> other than a bridge how would you fix this? >> i hope ag will continue the great work of ag holder and not just a ferguson issue but across the country and see systemic bias in the criminal justice system that eventually just destroys the nation and we see it in schools and prison systems and employment gaps between have and have knots and the issues because we still can't have a dialog where people come to the table and say we have gotten it wrong america and have to do something better and fix the broken system. >> african/americans on the program argue we know this is a problem, we didn't need this study of this report to tell us about it. why is it do you think, that some others in american

including white america don't necessarily get it or don't understand it? >> take ferguson for example when they protesting around the death of michael brown, so many people questioned what actually happened to michael brown. but what this report shows and highlights is it's not just what happened to michael brown, it's what happens to every african/american in the community that is two thirds black but represents only four people out of 54 people in the police force. two thirds of the community represents 90% of people who are stopped and 93% of the people who are arrested so their frustration it stays and weighs on the community and it pushes the community to a breaking point which is what we are seeing now. i think a white america and black america can agree it's skew and disproportionately effecting people of color. >> emergency responders on a freight train derailment in illinois bnsf rail way was pulling the train was pulling

103 cars loaded with crude oil. smoke could be seen rising in the distance after several cars could fire and officials say eight cars came off the tracks this afternoon not known what caused it yet. north korea praised attack on u.s. diplomate in seoul, a man with a knife flashed ambassador mark lippert at an event and he tweeted he is in good spirits and recovering and north korea said it was deserved punishment for joint military operations between south korea and u.s. and called the assault the knife of justice and he is a reunification activist was at the scene and arrested. now to a ukraine and tough new accusations about moscow's role in that conflict nato says it's getting hard for moscow to hide deaths of soldiers on ukrainian soil and follows accusations from u.s. state department wednesday saying the kremlin has

sent thousands and thousands of troops to fight alongside pro-russian separatists, russia denies those acsakess and meanwhile a slow down in fighting is raising hopes that the latest ceasefire will hold. tonight we hear from the top u.s. general in europe airforce general phillip breeklove is the ally commander and does it in the word when it comes to russia's role in ukraine or about the importance of nato in the fight against i.s.i.l. and dana lewis talked with the general in brussels. >> reporter: in brussels general phillip breeklove is on the edge of a conference debating the security in europe with deep concerns about what the future holds. will putin attack a nato country? >> i believe he knows what it is and what article five means but we have to be wide eyed. we need to be open minded to the fact that there have been

statements that say that there is the authority to reach out and protect russian speaking people in nations and we have russian speaking people in nato nations. >> reporter: in brussels they call president putin's interference in ukraine a smokes screen and denies troops and weapons are there but nato says it has evidence and say if he tried a similar strategy in any nato conclude including baltics article five would be invoked and attack on one is attack on all and it would trigger mutual defense. no question in your mind putin is lying and there are russian troops there? >> no question in my mind at all. >> reporter: it's not continuing even with the ceasefire. >> today. >> reporter: based on how can you say that? >> there are still russian air defense system and russian command and control, today more supplies entered ukraine from russia russian is involved in eastern ukraine no doubt in my

mind. >> reporter: breeklove recently told lawmakers in washington europe and the u.s. have to ratchet up cost for putin for interfering in ukraine and talking about leaving in body bags and he said yes and they have the question should they provide ukraine with offensive weapons. don't you fear that it's going to increase the violence not decrease it? >> i think that that is a possible outcome and i've said before that i think we need to look at both sides of this equation. >> reporter: on the internal politics of russia and the murder of opposition leader borrow borris borris. >> they say a voice of decent and voice that may have led to a reasoned discussion about how that nation should be enact has been silenced. >> reporter: nato is also now helping european countries improve intelligence sharing to counter the threat from islamic

state. >> a lot of things as a result of the broader conflict in iraq and syria which are causing nato concern and one of this is this unconventional warfare and false narrative and incredible information campaign. >> reporter: nato faces some of the greatest security challenges since the cold war, when nations are cash strapped and cutting defense budgets like never before. dana lewis al jazeera brussels. next members of congress demand answers from the fdi after reports of a drug resistant super bug in california plus. >> san bernardino airport is open for business, there is a brand new passenger terminal baggage claim and ticket counters and jet ways and no passengers i'm jennifer and find out why critics call it the airport to no where.

a delta airlines jet crashed through a chain link fence and stopped at the edge of flushing bay in new york today after skidding off a runway at laguardia airport, six people

injured, the plane which came from atlanta was attempting to land in heavy snow officials say the runway had just been plowed minutes earlier. san bernardino has a shiny new aport that is empty and not used and since it opened not one commercial flight has passed through and critics call it the airport to no where and costs more than $200 million to build and jennifer london is here with that story, jennifer? >> reporter: john san bernardino is the second poorest city and yet to emerge from bankruptcy which it filed for bankruptcy protection in 2012 and although the plan for the airport was well in the works, well underway before then many here are questioning if this is really what the city needs right now. but airport officials insist that the airport will take off and the international terminal which is behind me and empty now they hope will soon be packed with passengers.

on final approach at san bernardino international airport airport. >> 416 for landing. >> reporter: i've just landed and this is quite an experience because there are no passengers at this international airport,, in fact, the only way to land here as a passenger is to do what i did and that is rent a plane. the reason even though this airport was completed a number of years ago, there are still no commercial flights scheduled. the passenger terminal deserted flight monitors dark curbside ticket counters and back adjust claim and departure gates empty and have been since the terminal was completed in 2011. right next door the international terminal completed in 2014 also empty and unused. where are the passengers? >> the passengers are in the local area roughly 4 million people so that those are the

customers. is there a guaranty they will fly out of here? no. that's a business decision for an airline. >> reporter: 20 years ago ago the authority made a business decision and would convert norton airforce base that closed in 1994 into a commercial airport. >> it's a decision over time. >> reporter: a good decision do you think? >> i think it is. i think it is. >> reporter: and tell me why. >> because the airport itself is here for a long time. norton airforce base was here for a long time and investments in aviation and infrastructure we have here whether it be a passenger terminal or maintenance hangers or even a runway you flew in on are lasting improvements that provide over time employment opportunities which is exactly why these organizations and these communities came together to undertake this base closure effort. >> reporter: an effort that cost more than $220 million.

and although taxpayers didn't have an opportunity to vote on the airport conversion plan they did help pay for it. local tax money paid for both the international terminal which cost close to $23 million and the domestic terminal which cost more than $100 million. federal dollars paid for runway improvements and other airport upgrades. today there is some activity at the airport, the sheriff's department relocated its air fleet here and maintenance facilities and distribution centers and a fixed base operation for private jets but the passenger terminal has yet to take off. in fact, the only commercial use for it has been well for commercials and movies. >> what are they doing here? >> reporter: is there a need for an airport here? >> keep in mind when you build an airport you don't build it for what it's like today but what it will be for 20 30 40 50 years. >> are the projections for a need for an airport? >> there is a need now.

>> reporter: when you say know my question is where are all the passengers where are all the planes? >> they are all going to lax. >> reporter: no surprise and san bernardino airport is surrounded by airports los angeles international airport, the nation's third busiest is 70 miles away and ontario is less than 25 miles away and nearby airports in orange county and interbank. >> the fact this place is empty is not an indication there has not been the need or desire. so now that we have our customs building and we have now actively talked to a number of airlines. >> reporter: which airlines? >> i'm not privy to say. what i can tell you is if you look at the data. >> reporter: we looked at the data. a study commissioned by the airport authority found that the airline industry has retrenched their operations for many smaller, secondary markets adding this trend is going to make it very different for sbd to recruit new airline service.

>> more likely to hear crickets at this airport than aircraft. >> reporter: former san bernardino supervisor has been against the airport conversion plan from the beginning. you have been a very out spoken critic of the airport to call it the airport to no where. why do you think it's the airport to knownoeknow no where? >> we don't have an airline and not having one soon and they will have to repurpose it. general aviation is a possible use and still be used for that. unfortunately the millions of dollars that have been building the beautiful buildings that you toured today will actually not be used. >> reporter: one word to describe san bernardino air international airport. >> boondoggle. >> reporter: doesn't agree it's a boondoggle but questions the passenger terminal viability. >> when they subscribe to the build of dreams theory if you build it they will come it's not

successful so as a taxpayer i hate to see the money to go to waste and hope they are able to turn it around. >> reporter: so do airport officials banking on landing a commercial airline contract soon otherwise themty terminal will be the stuff of make believe $220 million dream waiting to take flight jennifer in san bernardino. >> director of aviation at the san bernardino international airport and joins us tonight, so, mark it strikes me it must cost money to maintain the building, how much a year does it cost in maintenance? >> you know there are quite a few expenses tied up with any operation, this is a good sized facility you are looking at 1500 acres of airport property which consists of taxi ways runways, control towers hangers and actually 19 buildings that we maintain. so like with any large

industrial facility of course there is going to be on going maintenance costs. >> reporter: how much? >> the actual dollar amount tied up to maintenance varies by building, i don't have that data in front of me at the moment. but it would be comparable to most industrial buildings of similar size. >> reporter: millions of dollars? >> for a year around maintenance, no. >> reporter: okay, we won't get that answer. let's try this, you got how many gates at this airport? >> we have four gates available at our domestic terminal and one gate available at our international terminal. >> reporter: and so why do you think it is the commercial airlines won't come and decide to fly out of this airport? what is the reason for it in your opinion?

>> well i don't know that i would go down that route to be honest with you, john. but i think first and foremost it's important to realize there is a lot more to an airport than just a commercial airport excuse me, than a commercial terminal and a parking lot. that's what people generally associate with an airport but the reality is we had nearly 30,000 aircraft operations at the airport last year in addition to that we have a bus with mro. >> reporter: what does that mean? >> airport of all sizes and shapes, airport operations, the maintenance repair organization is what the acronym mro stands for and do maintenance on aircraft of all sizes and we have several mros in the field and a new one about to open and opening the doors in the coming months and quite a bit of that activity as well but airports are really rounded out, ours included and we have mro and

corporate activity cargo activity and general aviation activity and poised and ready and looking forward to the day we will serve commercial aircraft as well. >> reporter: you won't say how much it cost to maintain the airport and you are not making any money or very little money, you got these buildings that are empty, as much as you try to make this an airport operating and carrying out some activity your 30,000 operations whatever that means, isn't this a huge problem, if you can't get airlines to fly in and out of there, aren't you going to have to decide to do something else with those buildings? >> well back to your original question, which was why do we not have commercial service today. and the reality is if you look at the demographics and the statistics in and around the san bernardino area take for example the larger regional aspect of the england empire which is approximately 4.4 million

residents, now that is separate from the metropolitan area of los angeles. the region has 4.4 million people and to put that in context that is the 13th largest metro area in the united states. and right now it's currently under served in the commercial airline capacity. so the demographics around the community can support commercial service and i'm confident that they will. >> reporter: well, you don't have to convince me but you have to convince the airlines and we will check in a few months to see if that happens and good to see you and thank you. growing calls for accountability after a teenage girl is shot and killed by police in texas. civil rights icon andrew young looks at history changing events in selma 50 years ago.

hi everyone this is al jazeera america, i'm john seigenthaler. police killing, a troubled teen

shot to death. was she really a threat? we talked to a texas lawmaker about police force and accountability. super bug, deadly and drug resistant bacteria, now a second california hospital and the unapproved medical device being blamed. race in america, civil rights pioneer andrew young talks about the 50th anniversary of selma. ♪ plus a whole new riff on some rock and roll classics. ♪ police shooting that demands answer and one we followed for some time a teenage girl shot at a police station in texas and there is video of the incident and it's graphic and as you will see it end with only more questions, we will talk to a texas lawmaker in a minute and heidi has more on the story and

what you are about to see is disturbing. >> reporter: why did 17-year-old go to a texas police station armed with a knife? her parents say she was mentally ill and was looking for help. they say her backpack most likely contained clothes she packed for anticipated stay at a psychiatric hospital and hoping police would take her there. >> police station is usually a place you would think you can get some help. >> reporter: surveillance camera captures the confrontation inside the long view police station lobby. police say no other video exists and no audio except her last words recorded on the lobby's after hours phone. >> hi i'm in the lobby and i need some help. >> what kind of help do you need? need? >> reporter: the video shows an officer enter, and she raises her hand. police say a message is written on it i have a gun. she and the officer struggle for

five minutes. although he overpowers her he never puts her in handcuffs then more officers enter and the young woman charges with a knife in her hand they shoot, striking her four times. >> i think that perhaps with more thoughtful action on the part of the police officers maybe the death of the young woman could have been avoided. >> reporter: assistant professor of law at southern methodist university. >> we have to keep this in context and think about police officers having to make a split-second decision however i would like to know or be curious as to what the police officers were doing, why the girl was not handcuffed and why she was not immobilized. >> reporter: this is the telephone she used and where she stood, we are inside the long view police station. within 13 seconds of the officer entering she is struggling with him through this area he pushes her on to these seats and here

she doesn't move for a full minute with him leaning over her. why does the officer not put her in handcuffs? we go to long view police spokeswoman christie bryan for answers. >> i can't speak of what was going through his mind. >> reporter: is that protocol not to subdue someone when you are overpowering inging someone like that? >> not necessarily no. >> reporter: this is not the only time. this is the second moment we noticed and she is now sitting up and he is leaning against her, holding her and now 22 seconds pass with her not moving. >> right. >> reporter: why doesn't he put her in handcuffs then. >> he seen the knife too. you have to remember she still has the knife. >> reporter: explain that to me, why does seeing a knife mean you don't put someone in handcuffs? >> like i can't speak for him. >> reporter: finally what appears to be a third missed opportunity, 12 seconds pass where she is face down he is

kneeling only top of her and at that moment why does he not put handcuffs on her? >> i can't answer that. i have not talked to him so i can't answer that question. if you were to zoom in on that instance where she is coming at him with a knife and he shot or she is shot that would make more sense, right, that would be justified to use reasonable force to protect himself but i'm surprised that it escalated to that point. >> when this video was initially released the chief spoke at the press conference and he said this officer followed his training training. do you guys still stand by that? >> yes. >> reporter: the police department would not immediately share information on its use of force policy. al jazeera's public records request is pending. what kind of mental health training do officers receive here? >> critical incident training. >> reporter: that is classroom training long view police go

through once every four years and there is 7 minutes after she is shot, 7 minutes with the young woman lying on the floor, surrounded by officers trained in cpr. none check her vital sons or come to her aid. >> many people would see that and say that is a sign that police are heartless and not to help a young girl. >> definitely the three officers are not heartless at all. >> reporter: what are they? >> they are good officers and they are very caring officers. >> it's horrific to be able to watch your daughter die over and over again. that is really hard. >> reporter: how much responsibility do you think the police have to bear in this? >> all of it. >> reporter: how much responsibility does your daughter bear? >> because the situation was mishandled i don't think -- i don't think that there is

anything you know on her where she should still be alive. >> reporter: the officers who shot her are now back on full duty. investigation led by the texas rangers is on going, police say they are cooperating with the district attorney and the case will go to a grand jury. heidi with al jazeera, long view texas. david simpson represents long view and texas house of representatives in austin tonight and representative welcome and thank you for joining us and did she have to die? >> that is difficult to say but i sure regret that she did. and i do hope that perhaps it could be handled differently if something similar were to happen again. >> reporter: parents said it's mishandled and there are questions as we saw in that videotape about why the police took the action that they did.

with all the scrutiny on excessive force in police departments across the country, does this police department need to look more carefully at the way they train police officers? >> i'm sure they are looking very carefully at it. they are kind and faithful people. it's very unfortunate what happened. you can't hear any audio in the videotape. we don't know what she is saying or he is saying. it does raise some serious questions as to why the officer didn't handcuff the woman. she was clearly in need and she -- when she raised her hand and warned that she had a gun, it would have told me she was thinking about suicide by cop. anyway, i'm sure they are going to do their very best to learn

from this and not just long view but the whole state of texas and hopefully the nation. >> reporter: are there some changes that should be made with regard to either regulations or the law or the way police officers are trained? >> i'm not aware of that. i am informed that when someone does pull a knife, and i couldn't tell it from the video, but people who said they could, it was only in that last officer when he backed up and say you are supposed to do my concerns were more why didn't he handcuff her before and wait for other officers to come if he didn't have handcuffs or i'm not sure and why didn't he let her up two times and seem to walk away from her? that is the questions that i have. but of course i'm not the

officer and hindsight is 20/20 and i'm sure not only the family has been it's a tragedy for them but the officers involved as well. >> reporter: the young girl had a history of mental illness and suicide at items and the police officers didn't necessarily know that. is this an example of the huge mental illness problem in this country and how do we deal with it? >> well i don't think we should deal with it with force. unless of course that officer was when he was threatened with the knife. it was a tragedy before the young woman got there and we need to meet those people where they are at when they are escaping on drugs or whatever, we don't need to just threaten them with force and put them in jail. we need to lovingly and voluntarily engage them invite them over get to know them not just have responsibilities and

ask the government to take care of them. we need to respect their liberties and even if they differ from us and if they need help to get to know them take them to church and love them where they are at and we need more parental involvement. so i don't think you can just blame the officers and i'm sure they did their very best and they may have made different choices looking back but i think in treating mental illness, one of the things we criminalize even marijuana and i don't advocate smoking of it. but it's also allowed for synthetic drugs to be developed and she may have been on that. and there are some really crazy things that happen from synthetic substances. >> reporter: representative simpson we appreciate you being on the program, thank you very much. congress demanding answers as a drug resistant super bug appeared at a second california

hospital. lawmakers have asked the fda when it first learned of the risk posed by certain medical devices used for endoscopy and the manufacture is saying it didn't have clearance to sell them and it says a review would have prevented infections and cedar sinai has four new infections and last month 7 patients had bacteria and two died and america tonight michael sat down with a survivor in seattle. >> i lost a lot of blood, my femoral artery was severed and it was spraying everywhere. >> reporter: david ritchie is remembering the horrifying moments after he was hit by a train in the slums of calcutta and he was walking along the

tracks with friends and slipped and fell under a moving train, his bone crushed, he was rushes to a local clinic where medical students held him down on the table. >> the doctor pulled out a bundle of knives and untied it and a bunch of surgical knives and i said i know what is about to happen. >> reporter: when he woke much of his leg was gone a month later he was flown back to seattle for more treatment but he was about to get more bad news. >> they did routine tests and a couple days later some of my blood tests come back and they said hey we need to isolate you and put you in a room by yourself because you have an infection that we've never seen here before and, in fact there has only been a couple cases reported in the u.s. ever so we really don't know what to do. >> reporter: david was carrying a gene called mdm 1 and causes bacteria to be resistant to multiple antibiotics.

>> everyone, i want to thank you so much. >> reporter: in other words david ritchie had brought the super bug back to the united states and it was spreading through his body. doctors carved off more of david's leg but that wasn't enough. out of options they turned to a drug of last resort colostin, a 40s antibiotic so toxic it is rarely used but it worked and you don't have to go to calcutta to catch a super bug. just 20 minutes away from david's home at virginia mason medical center in seattle, 11 people died and another 32 were sickened between 2012-2013 after being exposed to a super bug. it's unclear if that bug actually caused the deaths because the patients had other health problems. but this much is clear, up to half the people who get this super bug called pcre will die.

centers for disease control has called it the nightmare bacteria and says it infects more than 9,000 people a year at healthcare facilities. and it's on the move. michael with al jazeera. coming up next 50 years after selma civil rights leader andrew young on how the match has changed america and what has not changed. and a viral video young musicians play the hits of led zeppelin plus reaction from jimmy page. ♪

president obama will be in alabama this weekend along with thousands of people commemorating the 50th anniversary of the selma to montgomery voting rite rights marches, the first of three on march 7, 1965 became known as bloody sunday, the world watched in horror as 600 unarmed demonstrators were attacked by state troopers. they were hit with clubs and tear gas and tried to cross the edmond pettis bridge and months later the voting act was signed in law and he was a part of martin luther king junior's circle and it was at a conference that helped organize

marches in selma and young sat down and talked about the importance of what happened in alabama 50 years ago. >> excuse me i want to have a press conference about 5:00. >> invited to the white house to see president johnson and in that meeting which was a very cordial metal he said that he had just broken his back in order to pass the 1964 civil rights act. black people were just 10% of the population to get something through for 10% you really had to mobilize in that time 60%, so it was a very difficult task and the president said he didn't have the power to do that right then. when we left i asked dr. king what do you think? and he said and i thought he was

being flippant he says we need to find a way to get the president some power and he said i'm serious, we need voting rights almost as soon as possible. why we couldn't wait was because he had never felt he would live very long and he wanted to do as much as possible in that lifetime. mrs. amelia-boyington called and said she was coming over and didn't come and didn't ask for permission, she said we are coming over to see dr. king. when she got there she told us the story of how sheriff clark had locked down the town. it was against the law for more than two people to walk down the street together. he didn't allow political meetings in the church. and anything involving race he

considered political. mrs. boyington husband died and he was a political lawyer and political activist and they wouldn't let her have his funeral in a church. he was buried from the middle of the street. the emancipation proclamation ceremony, jim clark had said that could not be held in a church. and so that was almost the straw that broke the camel's back so that was the beginning of the selma movement. the beating of the bridge on bloody sunday occurred sunday afternoon while i think one of the stations was featuring the movie judgment at nerumberg and it was a story of hitler's brutality and they broke into that and showed what was going

on in selma. there is no way people could not make the distinction or the association. and decided they didn't want to be on hitler's side or jim clark's side that america had to change. my father always told me that white supremacy is a sickness. and you don't get angry at sick people you have to help them overcome their sickness. then when you compare skrim clark's ranting and raving and george wallace ranting and raving and martin luther king brilliant flourishs around freedom. >> 100 years from now historians will be calling this not the b generation but the generation of integration. >> you immediately wanted to be free with martin luther king. what has happened is that we

have moved from racism toward a poverty. i would contend that the problems we are having now are more green problems than black and white. it takes different forums. it's probably as much or more economic than race now. and for the most part well educated upper middle class black people are doing fairly well, very well. poor people whether they be black or white or hispanic or asian or arab are being taken advantage of. we still got a way to go. but we know that if we remain

open and honest with each other, if we are determined that we are going to reign in violence and workout rationale intelligent solutions to problems which do not destroy a person or property, there is almost no problem we can't solve in today's world. >> reporter: andrew young and a look at the story you will see in our next hour a bleak economic outlook for venezuela and what it could mean for the country's economy and the president antonia is here with that story and more. >> reporter: the former president died two years ago after a long battle with lung cancer, with cancer excuse me and he stepped in immediately and later won an election by a small margin and in the last two years the economy nosed dive because of falling oil prices with inflation and unemployment

soaring and lack of basic necessities and one of the highest murder rates many there are yearning the days of chavez. >> translator: if he had not died they would be working better and not like now our situation is critical and we can't find basic products. shortages are becoming too much to bear and that effects all venezuela people. >> reporter: many others want the end of this altogether and left approval rating at 20% with congressional elections later this year. some say the recents arrest of the mayor of caracas leader is looking to be sure he can't be run out of office n the next hour we will speak with one of the country's most high profile leaders and get her take on venezuela which is growing. kentucky 7-12-year-old

musicians is finding internet fame and reimagining classics in the classroom and called the louisville leopard percussionists and we talked to the director of the group. >> we recorded three led zeppelin songs and put them on youtube in november and everything was very quiet then jimmy page put it on his facebook and it blew up. ♪ we chose kashmir because it's epic and they feel like rock stars. we try to introduce the kids to all different kinds of music because most kids know what is on the radio and there is so much more than that. it really doesn't matter what we play with the kids, as long as they are excited about it it's going to sound great. ♪ i don't want the story to be about going viral, you know. it's bigger than that. look what little kids can do if

you just give them the opportunity. ♪ with all the cuts that are happening in education, with taking the arts out of our world we are going to have a bunch of gray boring people if we don't be careful. music is so important to our society. i mean there is music in everything. music can change lives. i can watch it happen with my little people. you know they are becoming very interesting human beings and i still have contact with a lot of the older people that have moved on in the group. one of our leopards has grown up hanna ford and she is the drummer for prince. so music is just changing who they are and who they are capable of becoming. but as far as what comes next well we are going to definitely play another rip roaring rock tune because you know what happens when you do that. ♪

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♪ iran in iraq as forces fight i.s.i.l. for control of tikrit uses is keeping a close eye on iran allies and secretary of state john kerry is reassuring that a nuclear deal is a good thing. crisis in venezuela. >> the crisis we are living right now is the resignation. >> reporter: the president under fire two years after the death of former president