in police cars and see it from their point of view. i'm ali thanks for joining us. >> secret service driving drunk? two agents under investigation for crashing a car near the white house. another black eye for the agency responsible for protecting the president. a shakeup in ferguson. >> after a lot of soul-searching and it is very hard for him to leave and for us to have him leave. >> the police chief there is stepping down. he's the latest official to quit after the justice department accused the police of racism.

a deadly military accident. searching for soldiers and marines lost when their helicopter went down off florida. what may have caused the crash. >> and execution by firing squad. utah moves ostep closer to how it executes death row prisoners. we'll talk about the bill. good evening i'm antonio mora, this is al jazeera america. tonight the u.s. secret service is once again, officers involved in aen car crash outside the white house. paul beban joins us. the hits keep coming. >> antonio, this is a long list of hits. the secret service has claimed that two agents are under investigation after they had a few too many got behind the

wheel and made a very wrong turn. it is just the latest in a string of embarrassing ep societies for the secret services. -- episodes for the secret service. two agent on the president's personal security detail went out drinking and crashed their government vehicle into a white house security barricade. other security officers wanted to arrest the agents and do sobriety tests but instead the supervisor reportedly let the agents go home and sleep it off. the first big slipup since october, came on the heels of a man scaling the white house fence actually making it inside the executive mansion and news that an armed man had ridden in an elevator with president obama. joseph clancy a 30 year veteran of the service was reportedly appointed to the job last month. when he was serving as acting

cloarkt,actingdirector clancy asked the american people to give the agency another chance. >> we've got a good record. gif us a chance. >> including putting an outsider in charge but clancy himself pushed back. >> we don't have time to train someone in this role. you got to have someone who has some history and knows where we need to go in the future. >> the panel's proposals didn't stop with new management. it called for a number of changes including better agent training and raising the fence around the white house. director clancy has asked that the investigation into this incident be handled by the homeland security inspector general's office, the two agents will be reassigned while the investigation is underway,. >> thank you paul. cheering the news that the city's police chief is resigning, the announcement comes nearly week after the

justice department accused his department of discriminating against african americans. thomsthomas jackson is the sixth person to lose his job and randall pinkston tells us he will perhaps not be the last. >> after a report from the department of justice about discriminatory practices. >> city of ferguson and police chief thoms jackson thomas jackson have agreed to a mutual satisfactory resignation. >> unarmed african american teenager michael brown by a white police officer jackson has said it's been an honor and privilege to serve this great city and to serve with all of you. last week u.s. attorney general eric holder announced darren

wilson would not face charges in brown's death. >> michael brown's deaths though a tragedy did not involve prosecutable conduct ton part of officer wilson. >> hands up don't shoot. >> but a separate justice department report into police practices found discrimination against african americans police stops arrests use of force and excessive fines for minor infractions such as traffic violations and filing cut weeds on residential property. >> both policing and municipality practices were found disproportionate to african american citizens. unlawful practices and constitutional violations, caused an atmosphere where people felt unit assault. >> the police chief was the

latest to go. two police officials resigned for same reason. the municipality judge resigned after the state supreme court took the extraordinary action of assigning his cases to a state judge. the doj report accused the municipality judge of charging unconstitutional fees. and judge shaw also resigned he was accused of endorsing the policy to use court fines as a means of raising revenue most of those fines is against african american defendants. attorney general holder called for a complete overhaul of practices. >> we are prepared to use all the power we have to ensure that the situation changes there and that means everything from working with them, to you know coming up with an entirely new structure. >> and does that include dismantling the police force? >> if that's what's necessary we're prepared to do that.

>> reporter: another finding is that police used tasers and dogs indiscriminately against african american suspects. randall pinkston, al jazeera. >> hundreds of protestors in madison, wisconsin are demanding justice in the shooting death of an african american teen by a white police officer. as diane eastabrook reports. >> on the streets of madison wisconsin this week anger over the fatal police shooting of 19-year-old tony robinson. >> they should not be able to kill us. they're always telling us getting away with it. >> reporter: and comparisons to michael brown's death last summer. >> in all instance we have a young african american male who is unarmed and subsequently

loses their life at the hands of the police. i can't negotiate any way out of that. >> reporter: demographically madison isn't another ferguson. 77% of madison residents are white while fewer than 7% are black. ferguson is predominantly black. the racial composition of the madison police department also reflects the community. 10% of the officers are african american. during demonstrations this week police blocked traffic so protesters could march peacefully. still many blacks here people anxious. >> what you do you hear from your congregation? >> they're afraid. >> alex gee supports the madison police department even though he says he's been stopped by police for no reason. >> i think the problem is we have people who have probably been trained well tactically but

they don't have those personal interactions so i think they default to some of the old perspectives when they're interacting with people. >> officer michael var easy is trying to forge astronger relationship between the community and law enforcement. he says the robinson shooting has been the topic of conversation with many of the residents he meets. >> you know it's a tough situation, 19 years old it doesn't matter. i was not a smart person when i was 19 years old. >> ality var easy says >> alvarez says he understands it's a teaching moment. >> how do i respond to people? should i respond to people differently? there's nothing wrong with that. >> gee hopes that people will respond differently. >> we need people to look through new lenses, there is too much power we cannot have another unarmed black man shot

in this community or anywhere in this community for that matter. >> a state agency is in the middle of the investigation right now into the robinson shooting. we don't know when that investigation will be complete. antonio. >> thank you diane. off the coast of florida the search goes on tonight for 11 service members presumed dead, when their blackhawk helicopter crashed. john terret is here with more. terrible tragedy and investigators are trying to find out what brought the chopper down. >> that's absolutely right antonio. officials say so far there is no indication of anything suspicious. right now it is believed that the weather may have played a role. >> this is what rescue crews had to contend with first. fog. >> we had one clearing then it fogged up again. >> a blackhawk helicopter went down in the gulf of mexico last night. those 11 men are now presumed

dead. the service members on a night training exercise took off from eggland air force base near pensacola, florida. another blackhawk turned back because of difficult weather conditions. it's difficult to tell acknowledge whether weather had something to do with the chopper going down. >> they are very cognizant of weather many but you can depart from one station and hit weather you didn't expect. conditions have to be right for them to take off. what they run into while they're arab isthey'reairborne is a different story. >> the coast guard is still conducting a search and rescue operation but the hope is fading. >> our hopes are high still but

there's no word. >> national guard unit from hammond louisiana. >> a reminder to us that those who serve put themselves at risk both in training and in combat. >> our thoughts and prayers are with them and their families as the search and rescue continues. >> the white house has promised a thorough investigation into the cause of the crash and also passed along president obama's condolence he to the families. >> the president reassured the commanders of the deem appreciation of the many characterization this our men sacrifices that the men and tbhoms uraniumwomen in uniform make. >> the search continues. >> thank you john. shia militias entered the city of tikrit, a key point along a major supply route.

meanwhile in the city of ramadi, i.s.i.l. remains on the attack, targeting a dozen car bombs. i.s.i.l. has also released a disturbing new video i.t. shows the apparent murder of an israeli at the hands of a child. his family denies the accusation the video shows a fighter speaking in french and a boy who seems to be around 12 years old shooting musalam in the head. several tom obama officials were on capitol hill today seeking authority to go against i.s.i.l. but iran quickly became the focus of heated conversation. as libby casey reports the secretary of state and defense didn't pull any purchase. >> reporter: it was supposed to be a hearing on iraq and syria and whether congress should authorizing forces

against iraq and syria. >> iran is the most dominant power is that correct. >> negotiation over iran's nuclear program. >> i believe much of our strategy with regards to i.s.i.s. is being driven by desire not to upset iran so they don't walk away from the negotiating table. tell me why i'm wrong. >> because the facts completely contradict that. >> secretary of state john kerry. >> there is no grand bargaining discussed here in the grand bargain, this is about a nuclear weapon potential that's it. and the president has made it absolutely clear they will not get a nuclear weapon. >> the president's team appeared on capitol hill amid tension amid the white house and 47 republican senators who sent an

open letter to iran's leaders. wary to give broad authorization to fight i.s.i.l concerns too on how much leeway to give the white house. >> what i think democrats are not willing to do is to give this or any other president an open-ended authorization for war is a blank check. both >> reporter: both parties more fights over just how to respond to overseas threats. libby casey, al jazeera washington. >> new questions tonight about an alleged confession in the killing of russian opposition leader boris nemtsov. nemtsov was gunned down near the kremlin nearly two weeks ago. human rights defenders say one of the men was beaten nearly to death to confess. across the country states

have been running out of the lethal drugs used to put inmates to death so utah may bring back the firing squad. coming up, we'll talk to the lawmaker who is leading the push. also a new report shows that the state department's e-mail issues may extend far beyond hillary clinton.

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>> "the week ahead". sunday 8:30 eastern. only on al jazeera america. >> turns out hillary clinton isn't the only state department employee with e-mail issues. workers there have had a habit of deleting nearly all their messages. the agency's inspector general says in 2011 only 61,000 e-mails out of a billion were saved. sued to make clinton's e-mail milk. the tsarnaev brothers shooting and killing an mit police officer. an eye witness who identified

disarnz. disoarkz. dzhokhartsarnaev. >> texas hasn't the only state that has a problem executing prisoners. rg. >> the idea of a firing squad is raising a lot of questions. the bill to bring back the firing squad has now passed the state house and senate. if the governor signs it utah will join oklahoma as the only other state where the firing squad is a legal option.

since the supreme court reinstated the death penalty in 1976, three have been executed by firing squad all of them in utah. in 2010, a man had chosen death by firing squad. lethal injection is the most common form of execution in the u.s. used in over 1200 executions in the last 40 years recently the are drugs is been in short supply. utah isn't the only state looking for options. wyoming and oklahoma. >> representative paul ray is the man who introduced the bill in the utah legislature. representative ray good to have you with us. most people look at execution by firing squad as something --

people argue that it's humane. >> absolutely. if you understand the physics of the lethal injection vs. the firing squad your body slowly shuts down takes several minutes for that to happen. the firing squad happens within 3 to five seconds. if you want to look a at the most humane way iforts the firing it's the firing squad. >> only supporting this now because of the recent botched executions in obtaining the lethal execution drugs? >> before we had the botched executions, and we were out of the mix needed i started drafting there bill. utah back in 2004 when we changed we actually left the caveat in that if it became unconstitutional we would revert

back to the firing squad. that is already in. so we've just added the fact that if we get within 30 days of execution and we don't have that drug available we would revert the to that method at that time also. >> will the governor sign it into law? >> you know i would suspect that he will. he's not indicated that he's going to veto the bill. and so my opinion would be that it will probably get signed into law. >> utah is the only state in the past 50 years to use a firing squad. only three times since the u.s. supreme court reinstated the death bent in 1976. the last time a few years ago triggered international condemnation. aren't you worried about how this will affect the reputation of the state? to international consequences? >> no matter how you put a person to death the european manufacturers stopped

manufacturing these drugs. whether you have firing squad or the electric chair or leetdal injection you will have a lot of media interest in what's happening. >> getting people to be willing to be a member of a firing squad and carrying out an execution? >> we've never had a problem with that. it's law enforcement, they start where the murder takes place and there is always an over abandons of people volunteering to be on the firing squat. >> thank you mr. ray. >> thank you. >> promising scientists who are still teenagers. coming up we will meet some of the students breaking ground on physics to the polar vortex. and a crew of restaurants return to solid ground brp

>> four years have passed since the deadly tsunami slammed into

japan. today the country paused to remember. ♪ ♪ ♪ in many of the hardest hit areas residents gathered to remember the more than 18,000 people who died. the prime minister and the emperor took part in the remembrances. the tsunami destroyed entire towns and led to a nuclear leak at the fukushima power plant. some 230,000 residents have yet to return to their homes. leads after a highway robbery netted millions in jewelry and art. police today found two hijacked advance burned and abandoned near a vineyard in burgundy. armed vans seized near lyon. in south africa a robbery that happened to a journalist when

two men threatened him at gunpoint. they took laptops and cell phones. he posted on his twitter account that he was not physically harmed. best and brightest competed, in a talent search and as tomg tom ackerman shows us, they were impressive. >> scientists admire what they do for the climax of intel's national talent search. the judges chose just 40 students for the final round. what triggers the cold weather phenomenon called polar vortex. >> the more you learn the more connected everything seems and the more beautiful it seems i've always been drawn to topics like this. >> physics of a maneuver called

the flick. >> they think they know what they're doing but i really wanted to take a scientific approach and figure out the they were right. >> her conclusion, the coaches were wrong. michael winer's theory of physics have practical benefits that most wouldn't appreciate. >> superconnecting wires are wires with no resistance which would like make electricity half as expensive. that's where things like that come from. >> there is quite a bit of fortunate for the top teenagers each collecting a record $150,000 prize which michael won in the category of innovation. both amazing and delighting his parents. >> oh my god he won! >> eight nobel prize winners have been winners in this type of competition. science has been falling short on two counts. >> one was high risk high reward

research and the second was support for young people. both of those indicate the future both of those must be supported at both national and international levels. >> but on this gala occasion comes recognition that what they do really matters. tom ackerman, al jazeera washington. >> science was on display over the skies a soyuz catch sul was carrying three astronauts, including barry willmore. in orbit know three months. nasa successfully test fired its next generation rocket this morning. engineers described the two minute burn as a significant milestone towards their goal of putting astronauts on

particulars. a booster is slated for 2017. i'm antonio mora. thanks for joining us for the latest news. for any time, go to aljazeera.com. "inside story" is up next, good night. hello, with its invitation to israeli prime minister netanyahu to speak to congress about his opposition to negotiations with iran republican leadership had already shown it's ready to jettison that idea that party politics already stopped at the water's edge. plus reminding the