the golden tones. >> when australia came out to field for that 45 minutes there was a very nice and very memorable moment. >> an dru -- andrew thomas, al jazeera sydney. lots more news on our website. aljazeera.com. >> assessing the damage, communities in illinois reeling after a major storm but the worst may not be over. >> new dash cam footage reveals what happened moments before a south carolina officer shot a black man. previous reports of excessive force against the officer. >> president obama and cuba's leader after 50 years of strained relations.

>> this is aljazeera america live from new york city. i'm stephanie sy. local officials calm it the worst damage they've ever seen, and the cleanup is just getting started after a tornado touched down in illinois west of chicago. one person was killed in fairdale in nearby rochelle, a restaurant was toppled over and more than a dozen people trapped inside. rescue teams overnight searched for the injured. let's go live in rochelle, illinois with the latest on the storms and cleanup. >> how much warning did residents have? >> well, stephanie we don't think that they got a whole lot of warning. it depends on the community. fairdale got very little warning, and so that could have been the reason that we had a fatality in that community. this storm hit in the heart of

corn country and these rural areas are used to seeing tornadoes and very damaging storms like this, but a lot of people who lived in this area said they have never seen anything quite like this. this storm cut a swath of 50 miles and hit around 7:00 to 730, just as it was starting to get dark. emergency crews went out door to door oh check on people after the storm hit. it was difficult at that point to assess the damage, because the nightfall came, so it was hard to see just how devastating this storm is. that's what they're going to be doing today. the red cross has set up a couple of shelters where people can go who have lost their homes. our understanding is that in fairdale many of the people that in community who did lose their homes are staying with family and friends so this is going to be a day of assessing the damage and kind of figuring out where people are going to go from there. stephanie. >> what else are you seeing on the ground there?

are there concerns more tornadoes could be on the way? >> that's a possibility. what happened yesterday a couple of days ago, we had very cold air and then yesterday it was very hot and humid so i'm not a meteorologist but i think those two conditions collided. today, it's colder, it's cloudy today. we think there may be more storms headed in this direction but we don't know the severity of those storms. >> all right let's talk about that. diane esther brook live in rochelle for us. the severe weather is tracking east and it could affect areas i understand from texas through much of the east coast. >> yes although the severe risk has really gone down, because the heart of tornado alley is where this system was yesterday so we won't have the same dynamics. obviously a lot of cleanup is going to go on. let's get to the maps we saw. so we're starting off looking

at some of the video and you can see a lot of assessment is going to go on today. what happens the day after a big event like this, national weather service goes back in and they look at things like was the house roof damaged or full structural damage. that will give them an idea of a wind estimate. we'll see if it was straight line damage, wind damage or circular which would be tornado damage. here's storm damage from yesterday. all those little pings this goes back 12 hours so some of the stuff in iowa isn't captured in this reflection. here's where we're going to be now. already into the overnight hours, we've been dealing with overnight, the storms, we still have some of that severe weather potential even this morning for places like ohio into west virginia. you can see the frontal boundary

extending into the south. it's dumping heavy rain. flooding is one of our concerns with this front, as well. here's where that risk area goes. anywhere from about the mid atlantic down through the south now unlike yesterday where our risk is a little more elevated, today it's dropped to a slight risk. i don't see we will see as many reports and the tornado threat has definitely gone down. our big threat today is wind and hail. we could still see isolated tornadoes, just not as widespread as yesterday. but today a lot of not only cleanup going on, but assessment of what exactly happened. >> all right, nicole mitchell, thank you. >> new video foot only gives more in sight to what happens moments before a white police officer shot and killed a black man in south carolina. the foot only is from the officer's dash cam. many are asking how slager was allowed to keep his job despite a prior claim of excessive

force. john henry smith is here with more. >> it looks like by most accounts the north charleston p.d. didn't consider slater a bat apple. his file included just one complaint. we'll delve moor into that in our next hour. we want to show you the newest images of the incident that resulted in the shooting death of walter scott. in this dash cam video, you can see the mercedes pulling into a parking lot. slager walks up and tells scott he's being pulled over for a broken tail late and asks for his license and registration, the latter of which scott says he doesn't have. you see slager walk back to his cruiser. several minutes later scott tries to walk toward slager's car, slager orders him back inside. later, scott gets out leaving the door wide open and runs away. while nothing more can be seen of the confrontation that killed scott in that video what's visible in the video released by an eyewitness is enough to put

slager in jail facing a murder charge. officer slager's mother talked about what she's feeling right now. >> i just have to let it be, and hope god takes care of everybody involved not only my family, but the scott family, because i know they're grieving just like i'm grieving, so i want them to know that. >> slager has been denied bond and is being held pending an august 21 hearing. his mother right there says she still cannot watch the video. the infamous video of the shooting of michael scott. >> a police officer in war chester massachusetts is facing charges this morning after allegedly assaulting a black suspect. >> this department is a big believer of transparency with. when something like this comes forward, no matter what it might

be if there's enough evidence to support the claim, we go forward and take appropriate charges against the officer. >> this happened in worcester massachusetts. the incident happened in december at the police station. it was caught on surveillance video. a suspect was hand custody in a holding cell when the officer allegedly punched him to the ground. he is a 17 year veteran of the force. he has been put on leave. >> president obama is in panama today for what is said to be a historic meeting with cuban president raul castro. both leaders are attending the summit of the americans beginning today. they arrived last night. this is the first time cuba has been invited to the regional summit. it comes when the u.s. and cuba are trying to normalize relations after 50 years. randall pinkston joins us with more. high level talks have already taken place between secretary of state john kerry and his cuban counter part. that in and of itself hasn't happened in a long time.

>> it is quite historic. it has been more than 50 years since high level officials have held a formal meeting. it hasn't happened in more than 50 years. this happened at a hotel in panama city, secretary of state john kerry, you see him meeting with the cuban foreign minister for two hours. no details on the talks but it's obviously in connection with moving towards normalizing relations with cuba. before secretary kerry the last high level meeting took operation in the 1950's when then vice president nixon met. >> the irony of the timing of this meanwhile the state department has reportedly recommended taking cuba off the u.s. list of state sponsors of terrorism. how long has cuba been on that list and what would that mean

for relations? >> the list that cuba is now on with four other countries happened 33 years ago the only other countries are sudan iran and syria. removal would permit banks to deal with cuba without fear of heavy federal fines. it would mean that cuban officials at their intersection in washington would no longer have to pay their bills in cash. secretary kerry has submitted the review to president obama. there could be an announcement at summit of may when he meets with president rule castro. >> in terms of the overall process, i think they are proceeding as i expected. i never foresaw that immediately

overnight everything would transform itself. >> what with him getting off this list mean for cuba's economy, for investments in cuba? >> well, first of all let us say ill will not mean an immediate infusion of u.s. investment in cuba because there are trade sanctions in place that only congress can remove, but obviously it's a step towards normalizing relations towards increasing trade. there are agriculture corporation that for years have been asking for permission to sell to cuba. right now our allies are doing business there and they have diplomatic relations there but not the u.s., just 90 miles away. >> a lot of american companies itching to get in there. >> while the relationship between cuba and u.s. promises to dominate the summit, president nicholas maduro is

attending. >> this in many ways is what happens in venezuela. oil, venezuela has among the largest proven oil reserves in the world but because it doesn't have enough domestic refineries a relationship has developed with the u.s. which release on gasoline and crude imports for its economy. venezuela is the third largest supplier of crude oil to the united states. >> years ago even under hugo chavez when he's talking about our president being the devil or some of these rhetorical positions, the bottom line is the united states is the closest largest market for venezuela. >> the u.s. is still thirsty for oil. the u.s. imports 44% of oil needs, roughly 800,000-barrels a

day come from venezuela. u.s. based refineries churn out sins crude in places like texas and illinois before sending the refined products or gasoline back to venezuela. >> some venezuelan officials say their country should pump more of its oil revenue by investing in refineries and infrastructure. >> the government has neglected infrastructure and left our national oil company in a difficult situation because they seem to have abandoned the investment we need to keep growing. >> but those critical of the maduro government have often been sigh lends which stymies reforms. >> arrested on conspiracy charges, it was during that time the protestors took to the streets in several venezuelan cities frustrated by the economy and rampant inflation. for years the government has

tried to placate concerns by heavily subsidizing the price of gas. >> this is one of the few places in the world where this bottled water costs more than a gallon of gasoline. the government keeps it that way to prop up the economy especially in poor neighborhoods. to put that in a little bit of context, this pack of gum actually costs more than filling up this entire s.u.v. >> supporters argue that subsidies have eased financial burden is on the nation's poor, but that's led to a thriving black market and shortages as venezuela talking about on more and more debt to keep those programs afloat. refineries on the gulf coast have started replacing venezuelan crude with oil from canadian oil sands. as oil prices plummet it may be a perfect storm for venezuela as the countries economic woes give way to political unrest.

al jazeera venezuela. >> here in the u.s., judges are trying to help at-risk youth. coming down off the bench to teach responsibility and respect, we have the story. >> one in three black boys born in america i go at risk of imprisonment during his lifetime. for latino boys, it's one in six. minority men end up behind bars in far greater numbers than their share of the population. here in dallas, there is a program trying to turn that trend. it's a specialty court designed to help minority boys and teens wipe clean their record through a bigger risk rehabilitation program that keeps them out of jail. >> you would really hope that what we're doing is the same thing a good parent would do. >> now tonight we'll hear more about one boy's journey from setting off fireworks inside his

school to being charged with terroristic bombing to be then given a second chance. >> you can seen the full report tonight at 8:00 p.m. eastern. >> we're going to speak about a new special report on juvenile offenders and why most of the 21,000 people behind bars under the age of 21 are males. >> pakistan pushing back on a request for troops in yemen urging a diplomatic solution instead. what it means for two of america's strongest allies in the region. >> a new california bill that could force parents to vaccinate their children. r children.

welcome to al jazeera america. it is 7:48 eastern. a suspected gunman is in critical condition after police say he shot and killed a guard at a headquarters in washington d.c. it started when the man kidnapped his wife, leading to a car chase and gunfire. his wife has since been found safe. >> the p.l.o. said it will take part in any military action to free civilians from yarmouk. it has been under siege for days as government and isil forces

battle. 18,000 people still live in the camp. >> a pakistani plan accused of a series of attacks against india is free on bail. indian prime minister has condemned his release today. the 2008 attacks on mumbai killed 166 people. >> pakistan's parliament has voted against joining the saudi-led coalition in yemen. last week, saudi arabia formally accepted pakistan send troops. we have more. >> pakistan has said all along that it would take parliament into confidence and that the people's representative will decide whether the saudi request for help and what way to respond to that. after a debate, they came to a conclusion that while there was no compromise on the defense and security of saudi arabia, if their territorial sovereignty

was veiled, pakistan would go to any level but was against military intervention in yemen saying this was a tribal war not a sectarian war and what was needed was proactive measures to try to bring everybody to a negotiated settlement and to arrange for a ceasefire. the pakistaniion are saying that they will stand shoulder to shoulder with the saudis if they were threatened, however pakistan would remain neutral as part of the conflict inside yemen was concerned. >> planes carrying badly needed medical aid landed in yemen's capitol sanna. it is the first delivery since airstrikes began two weeks ago. the dropoff includes medical supplies for 1,000 people and food and water for about 80,000 people. >> ash carter said recent threats by north korea against south korea should be taken seriously. he met with his counterpart in

seoul today. >> china is disputing president obama's claim that it is bullying neighboring countries over a land dispute in the south china sea. yesterday the president said china was not abiding by international rules and using muscle to intimidate the philippines in vietnam. the three countries all claim to own parts of an island chain. china's foreign minister today said it's the u.s. that's pushing countries around. >> a new bill in california that would make vaccines hand foyer. the debate over personal beliefs and health, next.

>> some of the nation's largest vitamin stores are pulling a potentially dangerous product off their shelves. researchers say weight loss suppplements contain a plant he

can tract that can have amphetamine like effects. sales are being suspended even though the f.d.a. has said there is no specific safety concern. >> a battle over vaccinations in california could impact the rest of the country. the state legislature moving ahead with a bill forcing motor parents to have their children vaccinated with very few exceptions. we have more on why it's so controversial. >> a controversial california bill that would require children be vaccinated before attending school passed its first test wednesday, winning legislative approval in committee after hours of debate. >> just for the safety of everybody's children, everybody should be vaccinated. >> i think it's a good idea. it should be the parents choice. >> parents are blocked from backing out of vaccines because of personal beliefs. >> california state senator richard pan a pediatrician

sponsored the bill. >> we captain have people fearing to go outside, to go to their school, to go to a store to get an public transport, to go to a theme park because they're worrying about catching a disease like measles. >> opponents aren't sold. >> we ought to of policies and current vaccination full coverage but that isn't going to happen until we have safe vaccines. >> i think forcing children to do anything is not right. parents should be able to raise a child according to their beliefs. >> measles vaccinations are required but 19 states give the choice based on religious and personal regions. the golden state is at the center of the vaccine fight. it has several communities with a high concentration of parents who opted out of vaccinations, including northern california. dr. john hicks practices there

and blames vaccinations for his son's autism. >> i have a stepson who developed autism after a full set of shots and he hit 105 for five days and that was the last he was really connected to what was going on. >> there is no credible scientific evidence that vaccinations somehow overload a child's immune system, but the belief persists. >> i see my job to figure out what it is the parents really want and what they believe and then support them in that, because if a parent believes these vaccines are going to create a problem they may create a problem. >> other doctors have decided to turn away toddlers who aren't vaccinated. >> our duty was not only to the patient in our office, but it was really to the entire community and to the many patients in our practice who could not be immunized against the measles. >> supporters say parents could

still choose to not vaccinate. >> certainly you have a choice still to decide whether to vaccinate your child or not however that choice has consequences. if you don't want to vaccinate your child, you can still do that you'll just have to homeschool your child so they're not with other children where they may in effect our children. >> california, mississippi and west virginia will have the strictest vaccine rules in the country if it passes. >> the doctor testified in favor of the legislation he spoke with al jazeera last night. >> measles is one of the most contagious diseases known to mankind. this out yoke at disneyland was introduced there and amplified by those who have the personal belief exemptions, leading to over 150 cases. nobody has died from that, but more kids have died from measles than any other disease and per

touses cab severe, too. >> california isn't the only state having this debate. washington state oregon and north carolina have recently considered legislation to limit family's rights to opt out of mandatory evacuation nations. >> crowds lining up to get the first in-person glimpse of the new apple watch. starting today consumers can try out the new smart watch and preorder it. they'll have to wait until april 24 to pick it up. prices start at $349. >> american art collectors have returned two long lost paintings to the government of bolivia the two pieces date back to the 17th and 18th centuries. they were stolen from a church in southern bolivia 13 years ago. an american couple bought the

paintings from a gallery in brazil but only realized they were stolen in 2013. they're duke the right thing. thanks for joining us. tony harris back in two minutes with more aljazeera america morning news.

>> secretary of state john kerry holds high level meetings with his cuban counterpart ahead of the summit of the may,. >> tornado outbreak, one dead as storms tear through the midwest leaving neighborhoods in ruins. >> he's over! he's over! >> the storms so strong even this truck is no match and filling in some of the gaps,

dash cam video shows the moments leading up to the police shooting of away african-american man in south carolina. >> this is aljazeera america live from new york city. president obama is in panama for what could be a crucial day in the u.s.-cuba relations holding a historic meeting with penalty rule castro. the two nations are working to normalize relationships between the two country for the first time in more than five decades. would you be ba says it wants to be taken off the list of state sponsors of terrorism. president obama said he is now

ve viewing whether to make that change. >> in terms of the overall process of establishing diplomatic relations with cuba, i think that they are proceeding as i expected. i never foresaw that immediately overnight everything would transform itself. >> david is live in panama city. david, good to see you. this expected meeting is not just a photo op. let's be clear about that. explain to us why this is really such a big deal. >> well, i think we have to first put it in context. the last time such a high level meeting took place was april 1959 when then vice president richard nixon met with fidel castro after toppling the dictator. it has been more than a half

century since high level leaders from either country sat down to discuss policy workings. president obama did meet with raul castro earlier in the year. president obama set to sit down to dinner with president raol castro we're expecting that handshake to take place. it's not clear what that meeting will entail, although john kerry meeting with bruno rodriguez yesterday. these are moments of history here that we are witnessing. tomorrow is where the real interesting portions of the summit take place. it's possible that as the bigger issues of migration and drug trade are discussed among these 33 member nation that rule castro or president obama might

discuss normalizing relations in more depth. >> what would it mean for cuba to be taken off the u.s. list of state sponsored terrorists? >> this has been one of the things cuba has long pushed for. it's one of the aspects or the parts of this whole process that's really needed for those flags to get raised in respective capitals, both havana and washington. to really normalize relations you have to have embassies. there's a sense of permanence that creates. it creates confidence for the business communities. that's really the key thing for cuba. when you see what's been happening with oil prices, the fall essentially half now, $50 a

barrel that puts his economy in essentially a bad situation. it's so reliant on subsidized oil, a lot of that has been taken away at this point so they're cash strapped. they need tourism dollars and finance that president obama discussed earlier. this really the beginning process of how we normalize relations between these two countries. >> got to ask you how will the u.s. be received in your estimation at this summit, given this new direction in foreign policy. >> you would think that this would be the last sticking point to create the kumbaya moment president obama has long been looking for. we have the pending deal with iran and cuba is part of this penalty's legacy. there is venezuela in the mix. sanctions were put on seven top officials seven months ago.

president maduro row coming to the summit calling for an end to those sanctions. it's become a thorn in the side of this summit and could steel the thunder from what is expected to be a very gracious or kumbaya moment between these two countries cuba and the united states who have been at adds for many years. >> the cleanup is getting started after severe weather ripped through three straits. one person was killed in fairdale illinois. suspected tornadoes hit iowa and ohio. in rochelle, indiana this is a photo of a restaurant before the tornado ripped through the community and this is the image after the storm obliterated the building near flattened.

diane esther brook is live in illinois. >> this is a massive storm that cut across 50 miles of northern illinois and struck just as night was about to fall. a twister damaged every building in the village destroying many of them. >> the west side was pretty well destroyed. >> some homes simply top would over. in nearby rochelle, a close call. the twister shredded this restaurant, more than a dozen people trapped inside. >> we pulled in here and ran inside got a couple of pictures of the tornado right across the street here and the owner said in the basement. we went down in the basement. >> fire officials say fortunately, no one was seriously injured. the system also brought baseball sized hail and torrential rain.

the wild weather was part of a line of severe storms that stretched from texas to michigan. authorities worked through the night and say they won't have a solid idea of just how severe the damage is here until later today. >> authorities think they hope that there was just that one fatality but they are going to be picking through the debris throughout the day to make sure everyone in this area is accounted for. >> live for us in rochelle, illinois this morning. nicole is here with more on the storms. this is what happens this time of year when we have the collision of air masses, right warm air cool air, and the collide. >> a lot of gulf moisture funneling in. >> then there's that. >> they all feed together. april and may are our big months because you have the pattern change going on and the change is so dynamic. we still have risks today. here's what happened as

everything went through yesterday, all those reports over 300 reports most wind and hail but 16 tornado reports and of course that did a lot of damage, as well. you can see where we have the moisture now including thunderstorms, places like ohio, west virginia, we're still under thunderstorm watches that means the potential this morning. even places like main are under winter storm advisories because of this. there's a lot going on in this system. the risks of today in terms of severe weather reduces somewhat. we don't have as dynamic as a setup so goes down to a slight risk. we will see some reports probably not at likely to see the tornado reports but wind and hail especially. here's what they'll do today now. they go back through the weather service does, of course the emergency managers are looking for people and helping put things back together, but the weather service does an assessment to determine the tornado intensity that is we

saw, make sure the reports are valid, that something reported as a tornado wasn't really wind damage. they look at the storm track and the width and assess their warning. a tornado warning averages about 13 minutes and they're always trying to get that better to give people a longer period of time to be prepared out there. you can see just how devastating these can be. all of those things are going on today, even well after the storm has gone through, and it will be interesting to see based on the type of damage, i don't think we'll have a high level e.f. tornado. >> high level would be what? >> the highest level is an e.f.5 and something really solid like a concrete building blown away would go a five where if you have a mobile home which isn't well constructed and roof is gone that might be an e.f.1 or e.f.2. dependency on what damage we see. >> two by fours turned into

project tiles and tossed into -- just scary scare requesty stuff. thank you. >> two women in mississippi responds jail for being part of a group that assaulted a black man. shelby richards was sentenced to eight years in prison and sarah graves to five for conspiracy to commit hate crimes. the women were riding in a truck with friends who deliberately beat and ran over a black man in the parking lot. on the agenda today a new round of peace talks between the columbia government and farc rebels begin trying to end latin america's longest running civil war. >> a postponed deal to buy french fighter jets is high on the agenda with the indian prime minister in paris. >> coming up, kids in prison, wipe the majority are black and

latino males and how a juvenile detention center is taking a different approach when it comes to rehabilitating them. we have a look at the new special. >> automated warfare. human concerns over military robots that kill.

>> welcome to al jazeera america. taking a look at today's top stories, a suspect gunman in critical condition this morning after police say he shot and killed a guard at census bureau headquarters in washington d.c. it started when he kidnapped his wife leading to a car chase and gunfire. his wife has been found safe. >> oklahoma will be the first to use nitrogen gas on death row. once the government sign that is bill into law several states are considering alternative execution methods. >> orthodox christians are mashing good friday today. in jerusalem they prayed into the old city to pray.

eastern churches celebrate easter this coming sunday. >> defense secretary ash carter meeting with the korean defense minister. they talked about regional security issues including china. president obama accused beijing of using its sheer size and muscle to intimidate other nation in the south china sea. beijing hit back saying the u.s. is the bully. >> what's at stake here and why is the united states so interested in keeping these waters calm? >> they're very interested in keeping the waters calm. six countries have overlapping claims to the east and south china seas, including u.s.al lives, japan and the fill teens. if an armed conflict breaks out over disputed tore stories in these waters, the u.s. could get sucked in. the u.s. has a strong economic interest in making sure tensions do not flair. the south china sea is one of the world's busiest shipping

lanes. of the $5.3 trillion in annual trade that pass the through the area, $1.2 trillion involvement the u.s. five uninhabited islands and three rocks which the chinese wall one name and the japanese another are claimed by both and further south the spratley islands is claimed by china vietnam, malaysia and the philippines. why all the fuss over these tine hey specks of land? the south china sea contains roughly 11 billion-barrels of oil and natural gas. china's estimates are 10 times higher. most current reserves under shorelines but demand is pushing exploration offshore, including to the straitlies,

where beijing has been building artificial islands to cement its claim. >> does this artificial island really pose some kind of threat to u.s. naval superiority in the region patty? come on. >> not right now. the u.s. has 12 aircraft carriers beijing one. what it does allow beijing to do is project its power deeper into the south china sea. and also bear in mind that under the united nations countries have a 200-mile exclusive economic zone around their shorelines giving them access to all that area. >> you can see more reporting tonight and every night at 10:30 p.m. eastern time. >> newly released police dash cam video shows the moments just before south carolina officer michael slager killed michael scott. the officer had been accused of using excessive force before.

john henry smith is here. john what does that video actually show us? >> the dash cam video shows a traffic stop that started out by all appearances calm, order lier routine. the video was just one of a number of developments in a case that captured the nation's attention. >> the dash cam video from michael slager's patrol car shows the mercedes driven by walter scott slowly pulling into a parking lot. slager approaches, asks for his license and registration, then explains the stop. >> you've just been stopped because your brake lights are out. scott says he doesn't have all his documents. >> do you have insurance on the car? >> no, i don't have insurance. >> after slager returned to his cruiser, scott tries to get out. >> have a seat in the car! >> several minutes later scott gets out again and runs. you hear slager give chase but no more of the encounter between the two men is visible.

of course what's visible on the eyewitness video is slager shooting scott in the back and killing him. the eyewitness says slager's assertion that scott had taken slagers taser and threatened him with it wasn't true. >> he wasn't hurt. he might have tased him. he was just trying to move out of the way of the taser. that's all he did. he never tried to take the taser away or try to fight with the cop, no. like i say before, the cop had control of the situation. >> thursday, another north charleston man recounted an incident nearly two years ago when he believed officer slager used excessive force against him. he says slager came banging on his door at 4:00 a.m. >> he never even told me why he came. he was like i want to say it right. he said he came -- he had a call around the corner about a guy lived here, tried to break in or

something. he had his hand on his taser. i held my handled up and he still tailed me. the complaint was ignored and slager cleared of wrongdoing. with slager facing a murder charge his mother is struggling to reconcile the man she saw on the now infamous video and the son is that she knows. >> i can't imagine him. he loved being a police officer. i can't imagine him doing something that it's just not like him. that's not his character. i hope god takes care of everybody involved, not only my family but the scott family, because i know they're grieving just like i'm greaving. >> slager's mother said she can't watch the video of her son shooting walter scott. the man who shot the video said he never saw slager or any other officer administer aid to scott as he lay dying. on the report, slager said he did perform life saving

procedures. >> appreciate it. thank you. >> the state newspaper analyzed records collect the by south carolina's law enforcement division between 2010-2014. here's what they found. police officers fired their weapons at suspects 209 times 79 suspects were killed, three officers were accused of misusing force none of the accused officers were convicted. >> a fight over water is pitting a small community in ohio against the oil industry. residents are concerned about the negative impacts of fracking on its water supply. we have more now from barnsville ohio. >> gulf port energy is suing barnsville for water. last year an agreement was signed that allowed it access to a local reservoir. when dry whether hit this past fall, water levels dropped two to three feet and that's when the conflict began. in its lawsuit gulf port said

barnsville violated the terms of the contract when the town signed a similar agreement with a second fracking company. the village however is fighting back saying no one has exclusive rights to its water. later in a full report, we'll hear from residents who are concerned about the impact fracking could have on the town's water supply. right now the village of barnsville is working with the ohio environmental protection agency on a water source protection plan. we questioned the mayor on why it took so long. bisi onile-ere barnsville, ohio you can watch the full report tonight at 8:00 p.m. eastern time. >> a a debate over rot bots designed to kill on our science beat this morning. the united nations is still grappling with what to do over lethal autonomous weapons systems. we explain however the technology has come. >> human rights watch has now identified what it says is an

ethical loophole in the system. we're going to be entering a world in which there is no accountability. if a commander somehow set one of those lethal robots loose on the wrong people and people died there would be no one to blame. we would suddenly live in a world where you could casually activate a robot kill a bunch of innocent people and no one would be held accountable. no one would be punished and we would have no way of making sure this never happened again. let's look how close we are to a word like this. >> all branches of the u.s. military are trying to figure out how to make robots be more efficient. in virginia, a single highly valuable bolt was protected by 13 smaller bates that carried weapons, sirens, flashing lights but no people. they are completely autonomous, robot boats.

when the convoy encountered an enemy vessel, the boats surrounded it, coming close enough to open fire. that the weak link irair combat, the navy commission the the x47b., an autonomous fighter jet that can take off from an aircraft car injury on its own it can land on one too. the idea is that a group of these aircraft could be dispatched on very long-range, very dangerous missions, carrying bombs bigger than current drones can carry and flying as fast as regular fighter aircraft. you wouldn't have to worry about losing a human pilot and a robot aircraft can maneuver better than a human piloted one because there's no worry about g forces causing the pilot to black out. the line that everyone's worried about crossing is the actual pulling of the trigger. robots can guide themselves to the battlefield and make

recommendations which targets to engage but the robots aren't pulling the trigger yet. the next step is everything all the way through to the actual killing with the human sort of sitting there and being a veto vote at the end of the process. it's already sticky enough when you have a robot that can do everything exempt actually pull the trigger. what human rights watch and other organizations are worried about is we are interesting a word in which the robot takes care of everything in the kill chain, including the actual killing itself and human beings just kind of sit there half awake with a finger over a button that says canceled. >> human rights watch says this technology needs to be wreck graded, even though not yet in use. >> the technology is moving towards greater and greater autonomy and we feel it's important to stop it before its too late. the more countries invest in the technology the let likely they are going to be to give it up.

in addition, it could start an arms race. if one country develops it, another will want. taking care of it now preemptive live is the time to react. >> a session will consider addition to the convention on certain conventional weapons. >> a small indiana town fighting an epidemic, the worst h.i.v. outbreak in the state's history. >> the latest state pushing to allow college students to carry concealed weapons.

>> unpredictable... uncontrollable... and under eighteen >> you have kids here who've killed someone. >> award winning journalist soledad o'brien takes us inside the violent world of kids behind bars... will a new experimental program be their last chance? >> i have to do my 100% best so i don't end up in a place like this again.. >> al jazeera america presents... kids behind bars: a soledad o'brien special report only on al jazeera america

>> welcome to al jazeera america. cleanup is underway west of chicago where one person was killed when a tornado touched down in fairdale. the severe weather was part of a line of storms stretching from texas to michigan. >> a security guard was killed at u.s. census bureau in maryland. the suspect was shot several times. he is in critical condition this morning. >> president obama is in panama for the start of the summit of the may. he is expected to meet with cuban leader raul castro for the first formal talks between the two country's leaders in 50 years. let's bring in the director for latin america risk analysis at the center for control risks. good to have you on the program this morning.

let's get to the oil and gas signaturor here. what's going on in that sector serve business as the underpinnings for meetings going on. countries that benefit from oil and gas deals from venezuela how much influence does venezuela have on caribbean nation as a result of those arrangements which as you know are a lifeline for many island economies during the great recession. >> you have to look on a country by country basis the country that has most influence over the closest relations with is cuba. the economy dependency very, very heavily on venezuelan oil in particular, but other assistance, as well. certainly the venezuelan economy and social services depend very heavily on cuban influence, as

well. i think kind of beyond the caribbean as a whole, kind of the real sub text to the whole conference over the next couple of days is really kind of the u.s. relations with cuba, how those are improving but also at the same time, how the same dynamic is working with venezuela on things that seem to be on a downward path with recent sanctions image posed by the u.s. on certain venezuelan officials. >> that's what i was going to ask you. i was thinking along those same lines about how president maduro is going to approach this summit in panama. president obama slapped those sanctions on seven venezuelan officials, the charge human rights violations. will he be antagonistic, will he look for ways to work with the united states? what are your thoughts? >> i think the chances of that were more likely two or three days ago. the u.s. in the last couple

which days has made a sustained diplomatic effort to try and reduce the tensions. i think what they really wanted to avoid at this summit was venezuela overshadowing what in essence was very positive news with rewards to relations with do you believe ba. i think overall you'll see a fairly kind of low ketone to the event from that point of view, but at the same time, kind of the whole issue is something that everyone is aware of and hoping doesn't come to the surface too much. >> what are your thoughts about the meeting between rule raul castro, president obama and the significance there? >> it's obviously a huge significance. it's the first time they've officially done it. they shook hands at nelson mandela's funeral last year. it indicates where the relationship is heading. it's a long way to go, certainly the trade embargo and other practical issues, but this is a significant first step, and you

can say they've kind of given a period of time, give it two or three years that there's a real chance that ties between two countries will be properly formalized. >> appreciate it. analyst with the control risks consulting firm, simon good to see you, thank you. >> the n.r.a.'s annual convention kicks off in nashville today. and a handful of rupp presidential hopefuls are taking the stage. the speakers include senator ted cruz the first to announce his bid for the oval office. florida governor jeb bush and marco rubio will address the crowd. >> concealed carry laws on the agenda. all 50 states have regulations over where you can bring a gun. eight states allow them at public universities and florida could be the next to make that legal. there is still some strong opposition. >> there has been a shooting in the library.

stay where you are. >> in november, former student myron may stormed the campus of florida state university and started shooting. police killed the gunman but not before he shot three students, paralyzing one of them. >> i think people have the right to defend themselves. >> no drama, i don't deal well with drama. >> some state politicians are pushing a bill that would legalize concealed carry of handguns on florida's public university campuses. >> we can carry in a restaurant a shopping plaza. >> iraq war veteran and republican state representative greg stuby is sponsoring the bill. >> a lot of people think 21-year-olds don't have the experience that backpacks and bullets don't mix. >> my first response to the age issue is we don't have a problem with 17 and 18-year-olds swearing an oath and entering

into the u.s. military. >> the director of the florida state university student government association doesn't agree. >> there's going to be a lot of suspicion, a lot of worrying. it's going to be a state of absolutely chaos and only going to lead to a dangerous situation and it's only going to lead to more opportunity for students to get injured or possibly killed. >> if the bill is passed, it would require that each person be 21 years or older and have a concealed gun carry permit to walk on any campus in the state of florida with a loaded handgun. the main concern is weapons training of which there is very little required. >> we're talking 45 minutes and then you walk in the back of a trailer, shoot a 22 into a little target and call it a day boom you're certified with a permit. >> some students say kids are kids and they're going to do whatever they want. they're drinking, some doing

drugs, hormones raging, some say guns shouldn't be in their hand. >> all of that didn't happen on campus all that have happened on fraternity houses and apartments off campus and they can carry there now. if they're carrying off campus where the parties are going and there hasn't been a problem then why letting them carry on campus would create all these problems? >> the florida board of governors, university police chiefs and presidents from all 12 public universities voiced strong opposition to the campus concealed carry laws. they wrote: >> al jazeera reached out to florida state's president the campus chief of police and students for concealed carry at

f.s.u. they all declined our request for interviews. >> they did not want guns. >> in the meantime, state lawmakers have until may one to vote on the bill that could allow guns on florida campuses. robert ray, al jazeera tallahassee, florida. >> there are 60,000 young people under the age of 21 behind bars here in the united states and the statistics show they are predominantly young black and hispanic men. new mexico developed a program to reform these offenders to make sure they don't end up back behind bars. journalist soledad o'brien got a look inside. >> inside these walls teenage thieves and arsonists gang bangers, drug abusers even kids who kill. >> my anger was pretty bad. >> this once notorious juvenile lockup is trying something new. >> what does playing the piano do for you. >> it's therapy and a hobby an

interest. >> education counseling, offering a second chance. >> put gas on his car. >> set it on fire. >> it blew up. >> yeah. >> he used to be an incredibly aggressive young man. >> to as you can sealed at the j. paul taylor center, they'll have to control their rage. >> honestly, i think this place has just made me a better criminal. >> inside new mexico's juvenile system where the fight for redemption begins. soledad, hi! soledad o'brien is with us this morning, she issues the c.e.o. of the star fish media group. her special report, kids behind bars airs this sunday on aljazeera america. good to see you. >> great to see you, good morning. >> hi! i got to know more about this program, can't waited to see it. >> i was really interested, i don't know if you've heard about the missouri miracle where people look at the state of

missouri which really aggressively tried to reform what it was doing in juvenile justice, so a lot of states have been trying to model their own changes on what missouri has done fairly successfully. not exactly the same, but similar in that in no mexico, changes began at many do with a big lawsuit. the a.c.l. sued and alleged it was physically unsafe, there were sexual assaults happening in some of these juvenile detention facilities, and so under the law, they had to make changes. they brought in something called change and it really was a look at how could they rethink these juveniles in detention. now they call them clients not inmates. now they offer counseling, a full day of school, opportunity to get a g.e.d. they don't do solitary confinement anymore. there was a time when a 12-year-old could be locked up for 23 hours a day. now no one at any time is allowed to be in solitary confinement. they have to be in their room with a guard who frankly

operates more like a mentor/counselor. >> really? >> yeah. >> it's interesting. the idea of these facilities before this program being physically unsafe, you could even set up this program and things happen, right? kids in small spaces, whatever their grievances are some troubled obviously. you captured some video of a bit of a dust up, didn't you? >> yes this is a great example. let me play this video and we'll talk about the difference on the other side. >> the boys are quiet today. then suddenly, tempers flare. 15-year-old wipe i can't tell swings furiously at another 15-year-old. kedrick gets in a single punch.

>> nothing too much? >> what started it all? >> i have no idea. i was doing my chores and he ran in and hit me. >> wyatt blames kedrick who is in the room, not talking. >> in the past, both boys would have been separated and probably put in solitary confinement. the way now, part of that conversation that was the superintendent for the juvenile facility and shies coming out and they're discussing it. the first thing she does is meet with one of the kid. she'll talk to the other kid

bring them all out and they'll have a session about what happened how it precipitated, how it will not happen again. the guards will also have a session about did they have any advance notice, what were they paying attention to. it's a really different strategy. >> class icon applicant resolution stuff. >> the $64,000 question is does it really work. unclear, this is a new program hard to tell. but they've seen great results in missouri, which is the model and they're hopeful that they can change kids while they're incarcerated as opposed to just locking them up and by that bring down recidivism rates, as well. >> which would change the system. >> that's the goal. >> as looking at the video, you know it's a prison and yet it's not quite a prison. >> they've actually put a fair amount of money into the design of it, the couches even though the organization, the before and after, it really was your standard prison.

i know you've gone into prison to shoot stories and it looks the same. it still has some of that, but they make there are more couches, more of a common room area and again by calling the young people clients the theory is they don't think of themselves as prisoners bub as themselves to have an opportunity to change while they are incarcerated. >> we've done so many pieces on education and now how it can transform lives in this country and beyond and making kids competitive in the country. one of the components of this program that you outlined that seems the most important to me, certainly among the most important elements, is the full day of school. >> absolutely, yes, six and a half hours every single day. they have a school that's on campus and the for the students who have maxed out of high school who are old enough to be working toward college, they are doing their g.e.d. and g.e.d. prep. absolutely. i think again that's all part of this philosophy outside of even this particular facility, which is what do you want to do

with the kids while they're there? are you investing in rehabilitating them or just punishing? that i also not a question for this facility or even juveniles it's a question for our american system as a whole. they're trying here to invest in these young people who are salvageable. they don't necessarily have to graduate to an adult prison facility. if you take kids who are traumatized, who have had really bad past experiences and help them can you change them and take them off that path? the answer of course is down the road a bit. >> soledad great to see you. >> great to see you. >> well, well, well. [ laughter ] >> again soledad's special report kids behind bars airs this sunday at 10:00 p.m. eastern here on aljazeera america. >> in today's healthbeat, we've been telling you about an h.i.v. epidemic hitting a small rural community in indiana. jonathan betz traveled to austin indiana to find out what's causing it.

>> jeannie mccarthy has struggled watching her hometown change. >> i get tore up. >> and loved ones die. >> i've had five family members pass away of drug overdoses. >> you yourself? >> yes so it's pretty dear to my heart. >> so dear, she now works as a nurse, joining what she seen as a fight for the town's life. austin indiana only has 4,000 people but this piece of the american heartland is suddenly at the heart of an epidemic facing the state's worst outbreak of h.i.v. ever. 89 cases in just four months. 17 times more than a typical year. >> how easy was it for you to get this drug? >> easy. >> much of it fed by a raging drug problem that joey madden sadly knows too well. >> it's become austin's favorite past time, because, you know. >> a long time alcoholic, he

said last year, he began using the town's drug of choice, a pain killer that addicts cook and inject. dirty needles spread the disease. he says it's a miracle he's h.i.v. negative. >> you want to get high. you don't think about that. >> you don't think about h.i.v. >> i didn't think about h.i.v. to be honest. >> one in five now live in poverty. with only seven officers, the police chief struggles to contain the crime in a town plagued by abandoned homes. >> if we could stop it here, we could stop it everywhere. >> we have signed today an executive order. >> the governor declared a public health emergency. >> to stop this h.i.v. outspread in its tracks. >> teams of workers set up a command center to offer testing doctors and counseling. state budget cuts in 2013 shut down a planned parenthood

clinic, one of the area's few h.i.v. test centers. the town only has one doctor. >> we could have averted this by addressing the drug problem five, 10 years ago but we didn't and now we're seeing the end result of that. >> it's an end result the state health department insists was impossible to protect. >> in a perfect world, he would have all services available in all counties, but state budget and reality is that that's just not the way it is. >> she says the state is here for the long haul, devoting considerable resources and launching programs like a needle exchange where workers give users clean needles for dirty ones. >> i'm trying to make a bad situation into a good situation. >> he is getting help to turn his life around in a town struggling with far more than a disease. >> researchers say the first human trial of a new type of h.i.v. therapy holds promise in the fight against the virus.

using powerful antibodies could actually reduce the amount of h.i.v. in the blood by up to 300 times. researchers say the study those the therapies could one day replace the supplement -- or supplement the current h.i.v. drugs. >> pulling dangerous products off the she was. harvard researchers say some weight loss supplements contain a chemical that can have amphetamine like effects. now the vitamin shop is no longer selling the items. the f.d.a. has said there is no specific safety concern. >> stepping out of his father's shadow. we hear from jazz basist kyle eastwood as he foregoes his own path in the music business.

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access, more conversations. so you don't just stay on top of the news, go deeper and get more perspectives on every issue. al jazeera america. >> welcome to al jazeera america. newly released dash cam video shows what happens moments before a white police officer shot and killed a black man in south carolina. the footage is from the patrol car. the mother is grieving for the family of the man he shot, walter scott. the international air cross airlifted industries to yemen. many civilians are cut off from food and health. pakistan has decided not to send troops into yemen. >> 31 people dead off the a head-on collision between a bus and truck. officials say the bus was

carrying athletes from the country's north and crashed near a southern city. >> the recycling city supports people in india those who dig through garbage to make a living known as rag pickers. critics say strong economic growth in india is encouraging a vicious cycle of addition and poverty. >> no words adequately describe the filth he works in. for 25 years he's dug through this waste land in search of recyclable items. he can earn up to $5 a day collecting plastic. to do so, he needs to be drunk or high, he says. >> we have to use substance to work here and then we become addicted to them. when it gets hard and the sun hits the garbage the smell is over powering. we get high to work in it.

>> after years of picking through garbage he set up his own recycling business. he says this tin shed is a determination oftestament to his determination to work a better life. >> i work 18 hours a day picking through garbage. i save from the little i earned, so in the 10 years i've stopped collecting garbage i've problemmed a lot. >> hundreds of thousands of people live and work where mumbai dumps its garbage. as this mountain of waste has grown, so too have the number of people who rely on it to make a living. >> this is full of danger, a place activists say is unfit to live near, let alone bourque in. rummaging for garbage is a job few choose to do, but the only way to make money for some of india's poorest people.

>> because of the stigma attached to this work, most people who do it remained trapped in post. groups trying to improve conditions here say the best way to change the community's fortunes is to invest in its young people. >> we are working to ensure the children don't follow in their parents' footsteps other focus is educating them and giving them the opportunity to do something else. >> with the little he has, he is trying to build a better and safer life for his family. his children are his best chance of leaving the dumping ground that has sustained and scarred him, and this, he says is a chance worth fighting for. al jazeera mumbai. >> american art collectors returned two long lost paintings to bolivia. the two pieces date back to the 17th and 18th centuries stole from southern bolivia.

they only realized they were stolen in 2013. >> in today's culture beat, a famous son is talking about a path far from his father's shadow. kyle evidence wood is as. >> bassist son of clint eastwood. we spoke with kyle for this morn's first person report. >> i'm am jazz musician. my mother is maggie eastwood and my father is clint eastwood. i started listening to jazz around the house from my parents, really. ♪ ♪ >> that was kind of my earliest memories of music so count

bassie duke ellington. very happy i found something i'm passionate about. >> my main instrument is bass. >> playing live is kind of that magic, you know, element of music happens. i think i'm my own worst critic, always trying to work at your craft and better yourself, and you know, there's always room for improvement and room to grow. >> come with me. >> i've scored a few of my father's films let's see invictus gran torino. >> you're playing a supporting role supporting what's already on the screen.

it's a matter of sitting down and watching the film through and picking out the key musical moments and trying to come up with a strong theme. ♪ >> i think music's a really important part of film, you know it's probably -- some people probably wouldn't even notice it until you took it away, you know. ♪ >> what do i enjoy most about it? well just miking music, you know, if you can do something you love and make a living at it and career at it, you're ahead of the game. game.

>> welcome to the news hour. i'm rochelle carey live from doha. cargo planes carrying urgent medical supplies unloaded in yemen as the saudi-led airstrikes go into a third week. >> calls for a diplomatic solution in yemen. >> face-to-face, u.s. and cuban leaders set to meet following the highest level agreement between two nations