taking place just in saw nah from what you understand? >> as of nah. had has been explosions and gunfire in the streets of aden. but the target right now is sanaa. taking place just in sanaa from >> people must be panicking is there any place to flee and get cover? >> people are trying to find basement and place to harbor, keep their children safe in sanaa. again this just started. people are just starting to panic, by team tomorrow when the damages are seen and destruction, then people will really start panic. >> a member of the houthi governor council says this will trigger an all-out war in the region. >> i do expect the houthis within this week to start invading saudi arabia, that's what their officials informed us

if saudi intervened they would attack. this is going to be a long war. it's not over today. it's not a one-day success saudi arabia for my experience will see a lot of devastation because of the houthi houthi militants who were able to defeat president hadi within hours will have a very hard time with saudi arabia. but they are insistent that they have the manpower to do so with 10s of thousands ready to fight for them. >> the saudis say they want the houthis to take part in the pretty cal process won't this push them in to too long? >> anything is possible. but as of now the houthi, we have to forget the idea of dialogue and talks doesn't make sense that you bombard a nation and then call for dialogue. right now the houthis have a clear reason why there is no dialogue and i was hopeful before that the houthis would be involved. but for now this is the

beginning of the war. you have been watching al jazerra's rolling coverage of the saudi arabia-led air strikes on yemen's capital in sanaa against houthi rebels. now, these air strikes come after the houthi rebels rejected doha-sponsored peace talks. stay with us here on al jazerra we will have more news for you right at the top of the hour. of course, more rolling coverage on those air strikes in yemen and also the regional implications on those strikes. up next here on al jazerra a letter to my child.

this new mark place has many unhappy consumers left in sticker shock. >> told me it was going to are to be a fixed rate. a specific rate. told me it was a two-year contract. >> gretchen and her husband own theo's downtown diner in new milford, con. she says she's quickly found out there was a problem with her new electric supplier. >> it ended up being not a fixed rate. not even starting at the rate that they gave me. and it ended up being a 36-month contract. >> it's not what you were promised? >> no. >> from the very first bill it tells you what they were charging for kilowatt hour. the very first one is 8.13. >> within months she was paying five times the rate she had been promised costing her thousands of dollars, almost brunt bankrupting

her business. >> did you feel like this company was like -- >> ripping me off. yeah. a lot. >> horror stories like these are quickly mounting. as a growing number of private companies jockey to sell you kilowatts. >> they just came nothing on the ground my door. and started offering this wonderful rate. >> the wonderful rate for electricity didn't last long for her. a nurse in connecticut. >> my bills went from i owe average 300 to 350 a month. to all of a sudden 600 $700. >> for this town house? >> for this town house. i was shocked. >> connecticut was among the first states to give the green light to deregulated power in 2000. allowing 3rd-party electric providers to market to

consumers. in connecticut these companies don't generate power, don't control the power lines they don't even read the meters. that's still up to the state's two regulated utilities. what these third-party providers do is buy energy wholesale and try to sign up retail customers. with offers like these. >> call now and start earning 3% back with direct energy's 3% plan. >> 23 states have passed laws deregulating their electricity markets, electricity suppliers are now actively selling to consumers in 15 states, including texas, and most of the northeast. >> it's as if the electric utility is owning the roads and charging you tolls. but you can choose which cars to drive on. >> el an heads the office of consumer council in connecticut which has fielded hundreds of complaints about electricity suppliers. >> the marketers who go door to door during the day or are

really aggressive on the phone during the day. there are reports saying i am from the electric company you need to make choice or the governor wants you to switch. just really outrageous claims. and so part of what we are doing is really trying to crack down on the marketing standards too. where consumers are being misled as to what they are even talking to. >> she says she was misled. and the variable rate caught her off guard. her electric bill wounds up amounting to half of her month's wages. >> they said if i didn't pay off my bill it was a simple as that they were going to shut my power down and there was nothing that they can do. >> does it make you mad? >> it makes me furious. it's called legal robbery. that's what it is to me. >> what happened to her is common accords to go katz. customers lured by a lower teaser rate not realizing price could and would shoot up after a

few months. >> the basic model is still you sign up for one rate and all of a sudden you look at your bill and the rate has gone up to doubled or gone up 50%. >> one problem with a variable rate katz says, you don't note the cost of electricity until you have already bought it. >> so it's like you go to the gas station, fill up your car and drive around and use the gas and get a bill and tells you this is how much it cost per gallon. >> greg good man defends the new marketplace he represents third-party providers and says texas regulation brings competition and lower prices. >> i think the state of texas is bragging that their prices today to the consumer are significantly lower than they could have ever been under a regulatory regime. >> goodman says texas is the model and pointed us towards this report from the texas public utility commission, showing prices lower now than in

2001 when electricity was regulatessed but deregulated electricity has sparked allegations of deceptive masking and financial leapt practices in six states, connecticut energy plus agreed to pay a 4 1/2 million dollars fine after at the misled their customers. >> good. if they did, they should. we have been way out in in front in consumer bill rights. >> massachusetts energy just agreed to pay a $4 million fine. >> again -- >> new jersey the attorney general has actually filed lates against three companies. who is watching these couple ofs to make sure that they are behaving properly. >> apparently all these people are, everybody is watching them. >> electricity supplyers have caught the attention of the attorney general in illinois who filed a complete against 15 companieses accusing them of price manipulation and $4.3 billion in excess costs.

and in pennsylvania the attorney general sought for suspend or revoke the licenses of hyphen i didn't suppliers last area. after more than 3,000 consumer complaints. are there some bad operators in your industry? >> there are bad operators in every industry. >> so what do we do to keep them out of it any am working on it every day. bad ethics in the marketplace stevens, i don't like them. consumers don't like this. it doesn't do any good for the company either because they lose money. and they lose their investors' money and it's all private money. it's not utility money it's private man money there is no gain here in playing the game wrongly. let me take you back to the winter when prices went skyrocketing. people got hurt, my members got hurt. they got caught in this very strange market. >> a lot of people blamed. >> us. >> you guys. >> but the reality is, we are price takers in the market. we are not price makers.

price is formed at the wholesale level. >> but connecticut attorney robert has filed class action lawsuits against four electric suppliers, alleging what they charged customers last winter was not based on wholesale prices. >> these contracts are supposedly tied to the wholesale costs of power. we found that when the wholesale price of power goes up the rates go up, but when the wholesale price of power goes down the rates stay high. all we are asking is for them to live up to the bargain they made. we are not asking for anything more, had they said we could charge whatever went. we'll gouge you then we wouldn't be here but they didn't say that. they said that the price of power charged to consumers will be based on market conditions. and market conditions is the wholesale price of power. >> she has now switched back to the regulated utility at a fixed price. she says she's pulled the plug

on third party elect tri providers for good. >> i don't care how wonderful they make it sound and how attractive the offer is, the bottom line is they are counting on you not following up and not monitoring your bills so that you fall through the cracks and you end up paying double and triple for the same services. >> services everyone needs with prices all over the board. >> well, in just a few weeks ago this new report came out. it paints a very grim picture of how this competition is actually affecting consumers in con. in september of 2013, almost nine out of 10 people who switched for a third party paid more than the regulated utility up there, which is clnp. and all of those power bills they add up pretty fast and total making the switch to have connecticut consumers more than

$10 million. comping up, the state of execution. and the struggle to find death drugs. is there a humane solution for death row? later in the program the mother of the civil rights movement. >> she was not just a one-play. it wasn't just one protest on december onest, 1955. >> it wasn't just the bus? >> no, there was so much more. >> the real rosa parks revealed through her own words. and hopped on "america tonight" tonight's" website. dc the black market. watch it. >> the stream, >> your digital community >> you pick the hot topics and express your thoughts the stream it's your chance to join the conversation

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will be, you know, pain and suffering that is unavoidable that will be inning inflicted upon him. and it shouldn't be. >> reporter: pain and suffering is what the family of condemned prisoner dennis mcgwire claims he endured during his execution in ohio. mcgwire was convicted in 1994 for the rape and murder of a pregnant newlywed. the prison system had run out of lethal injection drugs so ohio turned to a new combination. the sedative and the painkiller. drugs that no state had ever used before. in an exclusive interview with "america tonight," mcgwire's son says his father feared what might happen with ohio's new lethal cocktail. >> he had a feeling something was going to go wrong. the doctors had told him, you know, something was going to happen. and he just had a feeling. he just had a gut feeling something was going to go wrong

during the execution. >> reporter: that gut feeling turned out to be a valid premonition. >> we didn't expect to see what we saw. expected it to look like he just went to sleep. that's what we expected. >> reporter: mcgwire's son read from an affidavit about exactly what he saw in the death chamber. >> after making the first noise my father then tried to lift them self off the table by arching his back and pushing his head and wrists against the gurney. he then made a noise that sound luke i was fighting for air and grunting tame. it was extremely loud. while this was happening the warden and the guard in the white shirt had horrified looks on their faces. and it appeared that they were in shock at the way that it was happening. >> that states such as ohio and louisiana are having trouble finding lethal injection drugs

is no accidents. major pharmaceutical companies have stopped chipping shipping them to american prisons. they buckled under pressure from death penalty opponents. including the group retrieve based in london. >> it's a massive problem it's a p.r. problem and a commercial problem for them. >> reporter: so state prisons start ahead choiring the drugs in secret turning the to specialized companies called compounding pharmacies. mcgwire says ohio used his father as a test subject for an experimental drug combination. >> i believe that my dad shouldn't have been an experiment. i believe that she shouldn't experiment with anybody let alone my father. >> fast forward to new pressure on those compounding pharmacies to stop supplying those secret cocktails. the international academy of compounding pharmacists a trade group has now advised its members to stop creating and distributing medications used in

executions. up next, she ignited the civil rights movement. by her refusal to vendor her seat on a bus. >> she was never tired. and that is the myth that people have told for years. that she was tired. >> people would be surprised. >> i think they will be. >> was there more to rosa park's act of defines we take a look at the just released treasurer trove of her writings and memories. and thursday to the program. the fight for shy a high murder and unemployment rate not to mention under performing schools, can the incumbent mayor get the city back on track or will the people put their faith in the up start challenging america tonight's chris top putzel returns to a city divided. that's thursday on al s "america tonight"."

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seat defined her as the mother of the modern civil right movement. now "america tonight's" joie chen find new evidence behind that small figure was a very big voice. >> what did colored people now hope to gain by pressing the segregation fight at this time? what immediate results do you hope to achieve? >> we hope to achieve equal rights as any human being before me. >> a simple hopeful but from her earliest days rosa parpgz knew the struggle for justice was far more complex. the history brooks remember rosa parks as a soft-spoken seamstress whose sole act of defines was to refuse to give up her bus seat because she was just too tired to move. but a friend who bass at mrs. parks' side for decades says that just wasn't so. >> she was never tired. and that is the myth that people

have told for years that she was tired. >> people would be surprised. >> i think they will be. i think they will be. >> they will be now. a decade after parks' death, as a treasure trove of her writings, memories and picks is finally made public. deep inside a vault at the library of congress, curators poured through 10,000 items crammed in to some 80 boxes that make up the parks collection. >> each box that we opened had a different kind of surprise in it. >> the gift rosa parks left for all of us is a look at the most intimate details of her life. from the earliest memories of her grandfather working at home through the tumultuous days of the montgomery busboy cot ask the decades of activism that followed. >> she knew who she was and she

wanted to share that with the world. >> still, her writings in precise penmanship expose her doubts about her how much of her private thoughts she should reveal. adrian cannon curated the rosa parks papers. >> she begins by saying, is it worthwhile to reveal the intimacies of the past life? would people be sympathetic or disillusioned when the facts of my life are told? would they be interested or indifferent? will the results be harmful or good? >> whatever her miss givings parks collected all of the details of her life. she documents the every day hurts of a black woman in the jim crow south. from her first look at the morning paper. >> black star edition which was the edition ma mainstream newspapers made for the black community. >> colored news separate. reason? white readers would resent reading the title miss and

mrs. preceding colored women's names. >> to the indignities of the colored water fountains. segregated dining areas and, of course, the seats at the back of the buses. >> in the heart of the deep south montgomerys pattern of segregation touched all forms of the city's life. >> the bus arrived in parks' lifelong after she became an activist. she was born in to this sense of activism of stepping up for what was right? >> she was born in to that. she was born in to a tradition of rebellion. >> in her notes parks recalls desperate hours as a child waiting with her grandfather for the clan to arrive at their door. >> i stayed awake nights keeping vim ill with grandpa, i wanted see him kill a clue cluckser. >> he is the first to invade our home would surely die. this was when i was sixer is he have. >> later her marriage to raymond parks inspired her work for

social justice. >> rosa credit her early activism with raymond. he was one of the people that she identifies in her life as as a role model. at. >> at first she at any time like the fact that raymond was so light skinned. but overtime love grew between them. >> the couple helped lead the local naacp. which had been considering a busboy coit well before that december day when rosa parks refuse today give up her seat. on a few yellow sheets rosa parks explains what she was really thinking when the business drive told her to move. >> i had been pushed around all my life. and felt at this moment i couldn't take it anymore. there is just so much hurt, disappointment and oppression one can take. the bubble of life grows larger. the line between reason and madness grows thinner. >> though her husband clearly supported her practice tests

she also writes of his distress. >> he was very angry. and, again we don't know why she writes that. but she writes about his anger. >> he was a madman. furious. his fury was directed at himself for being a financial failure. he was angry with the driver for causing my arrest. he was also very angry at me for refuse to go give up the seat. >> faced with death threats and the loss of their jobs as a result of the busboy cot. the parks move north. through hardships even evictions she somehow kept much of her collection together. and she wanted it to be used for her foundation she created in detroit. you would protect that make another generation know. >> and respect it. >> and help another generation learn.

>> absolutely. because her focus on was on youth. she thought if the youth knew, if he youth understood. the youth would carry forth. >> with an exhibit now on display at the library of congress, rosa parks is finally able to speak to a new generation. >> she was not just a one-act play. it wasn't just one protest on december 1st, 1955. >> it wasn't just the bus. >> it wasn't just the bus. there was so much more. she was this quiet seamstress who wrote a full volume. >> with a voice that still rings across the ages. joie chen, al jazerra washington. and that exhibit runs through the end of this month. but the full collection is on loan to the library of congress for a full decade giving us all a chance to get to know the real rosa parks. well that it for us here on "america tonight." tell us what you think at aljazerra.com/americatonight. you can also talk to us on twitter or our facebook page.

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