o. >> this is al jazeera america. i'm erica pitzi in for thomas drayton. this is the top stories. >> i'm running for president. >> hillary clinton makes it official running for president. and former tea party candidate marco rubio is expected to join in. and conflicts intensify yemen conflict spills over into

saudi arabia. and the fight against i.s.i.l. and changing the way medicare is funded. in our week ahead segment. >> well, she's been secretary of state. a u.s. senator and of course she's been the first lady. but hillary clinton still has her eyes an a higher office. today on a video posted online she announced she's making another run for the warehouse. >> i'm getting ready to do something too: i'm running for president. americans have fought their way back from tough economic times but the deck is still stacked in favor of those at the top. every day americans need a champion and i want to be that

champion. >> libby casey explains the reason behind what seems like a soft launch. >> today's launch was not about power or throngs of supporters chanting her name. they hope it will be a message about the hopes and needs of the american people not the hopes and needs of hillary clinton. a presidential campaign rollout not on a stage in front of crowds but online in a video. >> i'm running for president. >> and with that hillary clinton jumped into the run for president for the second time. one she lost to now, president obama. focusing on her followers rather than the candidate herself. tapping into the pop the populism

that won her husband the presidency two times. >> eight hope you'll join me on this journey. >> as hillary clinton became mum about her plans a pac raised more than $15 million and laying the groundwork in key states like iowa where clinton's 2008 presidency bid rolled off the rails. community events and coffees and traditional grass roots campaign, as hillary clinton did today to spread her word about candidacy. in english and in spanish. the much anticipated announcement of this first democratic candidate drew immediate fire from republican contenders eager to capitalize on the attention and do fundraising of their own.

>> hillary clinton represents the worst of the washington machine. >> reporter: there is no doubt the race for 2016 is on. hillary clinton is staying out of the spotlight tonight instead, she's working with supporters and donors. she'll be in iowa this week in small towns part of the campaign's early strategy. they say they'll do a big event next month but by then they hope to gain momentum and establish a tone. earlier i spoke to al jazeera's political correspondent michael shure from los angeles. asked him what did the hillary clinton for president say about her campaign? >> this went as well it could have hoamed, what hoped. because it had gotten younger people talking a little bit different than her 2008 bid for

president. >> does this help or hurt her now? >> there's two schools of thought here. i think it's fine not for hillary clinton to have an opponent. there is a lot to look at what she did wrong last time and what she's been doing wrong with communicating with average americans, middle class americans. i believe by running against the old hillary 2008, she has to beat that hillary do better than that hillary. today's launch they are pleased with the way it's gone. >> as we head into this year 2016 does it still matter that she is a woman and would be the first smeafl female president of the united states? >> she would play it differently this time i have been told, erica. she does not have an opponent who will be a barrier breaker

she had that with obama the first african american serious account to run for office and to make it that far to run proirms as heprimaries this time. solely talking to women she's going to portray herself as a softer way as a mother, as a grandmother, who knows the problems of everyday americans. that is going to be the challenge for hillary clinton i'm one of you, in the way her husband said, i feel your pain, she's going to have to did do a bit of that, she'll have to play her gender. that's going to be interesting to watch. >> knowing the amount of money clinton will be likely to raise how will this affect other likely would be candidates do you think? >> you said a campaign that went out for draft biden i'd hate to work for draft biden today because as much as you love joe

biden, money going to the traditional candidate, hillary clinton will have that kind of fundraising ability it's going to be difficult if not impossible to match her in fundraising. there's going to have to be a niche candidate and it's not unprecedented in politics but very difficult going up against the behemoth clinton campaign. >> marco rubio expected to make his announcement tomorrow, is her announcement going to overshadow? >> if i were coe rubio i'd have to get my deposit back from the freedom tower. these are going through the motions that these candidates have to do to announce their candidacy. there are so many republicans who are going to be running.

it matters to him as a republican more than it does against someone who would face off against hillary clinton. he'll get his due but not a great day to pick knowing that hillary was going to announce on sunday. >> as just said, florida senator marco rubio is expected to announcing tomorrow. if it happens he'll be the first latino candidate. >> coe rubio was given the top honor of announcing mitt romney in the republican convention. >> my dad used to say [ spanish ] in this country you are going to accomplish the

things we never could. >> he is a very attractive candidate to some republicans who feel that youth is being served with him. >> reporter: rubio's political dreams became a reality when he was just 26 years old. he won his first election for the west miami city mission, he went to the florida house of representatives and went on to the speaker of the house. it was a big accomplishment for a son of cuban immigrants. marco rubio was born in miami. law degree from university of miami, he is married to former miami dolphins cheer liter jeanette duceves. went against charlie crist in a race for senate. but a campaign that wasn't quite true. >> my parents lost everything, home family, friends even their

country. >> reporter: rubio repeatedly claimed he fled cuba during fidel castro's rule, but it was before the revolution. he says, the dates i've given have always been based on my parents recollection. i was not made aware of the exact dates until recently. rubio went on to win the florida senate race. now serving in the senate, politico considered cool and telegenic. it didn't go as planned. >> nothing is as frustrated than false choice on the president laid out tonight. >> watergate for marco rubio if you will, positive spin on it,

his campaign committee ended selling marco reub imroa water bottles after that andrubio waterbottles after that, maybe some other political candidates wouldn't have had and what. >> rubio conserve filing for limited free enterprise. >> he's long been an opponent of obamacare, opt out of mandatory coverage for birth control for religious reasons. rubio says he's passionate about fighting for the middle class and to restore the american dream, affordable education and reforming social security and

medicare. >> feeding your home and save for retirement, about the flexibility to work and spend time with your family. >> counting on his youthful message, much like a young senator from illinois did in 2008. >> john kerry, secretary of state, wants congress opponents to hold their fire until the negotiations are complete. >> and i think we've earned the right through what we've achieved through the interim agreement and what we've laid out in this parameter that has been set forth we've earned the right to be able to try to complete this without interference and certainly without partisan politics. >> it remains to be seen if republican lawmakers will grant kerry's request for patience, but one outspoken critic of the talks, israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu is not holding back. >> instead of making dangerous

concessions to iran now is the time for international community to reassert and fortify its original demands for a better deal. we must not allow iran the formal sponsor of global terrorism to have an easy path to nuclear weapons which will threaten the entire world. >> netanyahu says iran needs this deal more than any other nation and therefore should be the one making concessions to get it done. in afghanistan insurgents have been steadily gaining ground since the end of nato's combat mission in 2014. a report by the united nations details that more civilians are being killed and injured from ground fighting since nato troops pulled out. in the last three months 136 civilians died, another 385 wounded that's an 8% increase. syrian monitors said a government air strike killed at least nine people at a rebel

held school today in aleppo, five children and two women are reportedly among those killed but the group expects the number to rise. president bashar al-assad's military has stepped up attacks on aleppo's military recently but denies hitting the school. in yemen the battle is intensifying. iran has called for saudi arabia to end its air strikes but the saudis say they have no intention to back down. fighting killed 3 saudi fighters fighters. mohamed val reports. >> one killed by houthi mortar shells is about to be buried. among the objectives of the saudi led air strikes is to stop the conflict in yemen spilling over into saudi arabia. now, there are fears the kingdom may be forced to order a ground

invasion. yemen and saudi arabia share a 1800 kilometer border. hundreds of refugees are heading north. this latest wave including yemenis and saudi arabia e-saudi arabiafsaudiarabians. most of these people arrived on foot as they crossed the border there was fresh fighting nearby and fighter jets flew in the opposite direction. >> i'm from sada. i came here seeking a job. there are no jobs in yemen. and the situation is miserable only war and explosions. life there has become difficult. >> translator: we arrived to yemen by sea then we took the road to rada to ta'izz.

first we were only 30 then another 20 joined us. i paid the man 500 reales for his service. >> no legality up in the letup in the air campaign. slowly causing them to lose the fight. >> we have targeted a number of caves. they have been converted into weapons and ammunition stores. they have also become command centers. we have destroyed them. >> saudi arabia session it says it has managed to muster major support to confront the houthis and the forces loyal to former president ali abdullah saleh. but many believe without a unified command to coordinate their operations even those tribes may not be able to tip the scale in favor of the antihouthi campaign.

mohamed val, al jazeera on the saudi border with yemen. largest oil refinery, images that the group says show its members storming the area around erbil, earlier the group released a video showing its fighters destroying the ancient city of nimrod. during a visit with president obama on tuesday iraqi prime minister haider al-abadi is planning to ask for more support in the fight against i.s.i.l. will request drones and other weapons to combat the group. he is also expected to request a deferment in paying for the weapons due to the $21 billion deficit iraq is expected this year. earlier our michael eaves spoke

with the ambassador. >> the challenges ahead are numerous and layers of them, including economical and also relation to oil prices. we have high dependency on the oil prices. we hope that any recovery in increasing oil prices will help us in a positive way. we also know that we are already outreaching to world bank, imf and others, we are selling bonds and so on to make up to some of that deficit. war, as by its own nature is not -- is just a process which requires substantial amount of fund. and we will be seeking support from our partners united states and others to make up for that and to accelerate the liberation of our land from i.s.i.s. daesh. >> salee said he is also hopeful that the obama administration will listen to the prime

minister's request for reconstruction process. today in florida a 36-year-old man was killed at a crash at disney world. according to police, the passenger was a in a lam lam bor lam borborghini. party of nigeria's goodluck jonathan, some say the process is marred. we'll explain. and if our week ahead segment a fix to medicare how the proposed change could affect millions of doctors and the seniors they treat. treat.

>> at least 14 people were killed in two bombings in egypt

sinai peninsula today. members of i.s.i.l. have claimed responsibility for the attacks. army vehicle exploded, killing six and later another automobile exploded killing at least six. first genocide of the 20th century, the comment made during an anniversary to mark the 100thth100th contemporary, anniversary. turkey contends the incident was the result of a civil war. reports of violence and voter problems. yvonne ndege has more from port horcourt. >> d.k.d.k. lawrence is waiting to

vote after no election materials arrived on saturday, when the election was supposed to take place. voting was extended into sunday because of the problems. at least 11 people were killed in violence. >> i am disappointed, i'm frustrated, i'm angry because i'm a nigerian. i have a right constitutionally to elect my leaders. through ballot. >> an opposition candidate says the election has been handled poorly. >> democracy it's a wonderful world, it is and i can't believe that this is happening. in this 21st century in nigeria. >> reporter: and there were problems in other places, too. at this polling station voting was extended into sunday. but ballot boxes ballot pairns papers

and other election materials arrived late. by the time they arrived most voters had gone home. but in other places, voting went smoothly. >> for the result is good. >> election officials say they are investigating election processes. >> what we have seen did not represent acceptable electioneering. rivers is the richest oil producing state in nigeria and contributes millions of dollars into the coffers that's why the competition is so fierce. the election should be counseled because of the election and should be investigated.

yvonne ndege port harcourt, nigeria. natasha guinane is in the capital khartoum. >> there is a sudanese proverb that says, whatever you want to abolish, ignore it. this applies to the elections in sudan. they have called a boycott saying it is a one man race. a significant number of people haven't even bothered registering. >> portraying himself as a clown. >> a block of candidates including liberals, secularists and communists. >> we want a peaceful united

sovereign sudan. with equal citizenship and transitional justice. so and the top of the the regime is completely opposite. >> last august liberals and secularists formed an historic alliance. worrying the major opposition block which includes former government officials and islamist groups. they feel sidelines. >> it is so defeating for opposition parties to demand the seclusion of certain political elements. it runs against the grain of democracy itself. and reconciliation. >> having deemed the opposition irrelevant trying to end the conflicts in the south and west of the country and enlisting the

support of the international community. what remains unsolved is whether they will recognize the new government. natasha guinane, al jazeera khartoum. police arrested cesar cancel wanted for running large shipments of cocaine. tens of thousands of people across brazil took to the streets today calling for president to step down. demonstrators accused dilma rousseff and her workers party. up next in our week ahead segment, the senate returns from recess facing a major rewrite

of medicare. .

>> welcome back to al jazeera america. here is a look at your top stories. hillary clinton ended the speculation today and formally announced that she is running for president in 2016. the former secretary of state senator from new york and first lady made the announcements anonymity by way of an online video. hold your fire. that's john kerry's message to critics of the nuclear deal made with iran. before it's finalized the deadline to seem the deal is june 30th. and in yemen, saudi arabia has hit four more cities with air strikes today. they said they will continue their assault despite calls from iran to stop. houthi fighters have been firing across yemen is's border into

saudi arabia. it's sunday night and time for our regular look at the week ahead. tomorrow the senate returns from a two week recess and they will have a day and a half to take up a bill that will completely overhaul the way medicare payments are made. 392 to 37, if the senate does not pass its own version by april 13th, doctors who treat medicare patients could see their fees cut by 21%. courtney kealy has this report. >> in a rare show of bipartisan ship congress overwhelmingly, approved the chip bill, the way for doctors to get paid. in 1997 the balanced budget act mandated that medicare physicians be compensated by the sgr, the idea was to keep

reimbursements in medicare everybody year since the cost of health care exceeded that of gdp. rather than revise, congress reauthorized and spent $156 million for doc-fix. >> we've patched this problem 17 times over the last 11 years. and i decided about a year ago that i had had enough of it. >> transitions medicare away from a fee for service system which critics say among other things spurred fraud and the ordering of unnecessary tests and procedures. >> we will transition medicare away from volume based system to one that rewards value. with this legislation we give american seniors confidence. >> doctors receive rewards or

penalties based on patient outcomes. and while there's little argument that the current medicare payment system needed changes some are concerned that this may not be the best way to do it. the measure passed by the house would cost an estimated $214 billion and add $141 billion to the federal deficit in the next ten years and in order to get it passed house minority leader naifnsnancy pelosi agreed to let more affluent seniors fit the bill, 65% of medicare premium cost up from 50%. and those making between 160 and $214,000 would have to pay 80%. rather than 65%. however, a program to help lower income medicare beneficiaries would be extended. chip the children's health insurance program would see its

program extended for two years and community health care centers, set up by the affordable care act. president obama said he would sign the bill if it could make it through the rest on april 16th. >> it was encouraging that this passed the house with such a large bipartisan majority and i want to assure everyone we will move to it very quickly when we get back. >> but may demand the measure is fully paid for before they move. courtney kealy, al jazeera. >> libby casey joinls us joins you us now from washington d.c. we saw some surprisingly bipartisan support from this bill, why is that? >> reporter: that's right erica. they have done these temporary fixes 17 times. what's unique is they were able

to compromise in what was a dividerred congress. nancy pelosi and john boehner came together for the first time and for the first time both sides were able to give up a little more ground. agreed that the enrollees would foot some of the bill, about $35 billion of the $200 billion price tag. that was one of the republican givers. wouldn't have to be paid for and they agreed to extending that children's health program and funding for community health centers, something democrats really wanted. it wasn't a magic formula it was a process of give a little, take a little. what's so surprising is it doesn't happen more orchl often erica. >> why didn't the senate take this up before recess? >> we heard from mitch

mcconnell, that was from 3:00 a.m. voter ama. they basically decided we could do this by the light of day basically when we return this week. the pressure was off a little bit because the centers for medicare and medicaid said there was a little bit of wiggle room, even though there's an april deadline doctors could see drop in reimbursement rates it takes two weeks for bills to come in. even longer if you do it by paper. the crunch will finally be on. >> what do you see as some of the sticking points in the senate? >> so it sounds like they will be able to get this done but it's never over till it's over right? so there are a couple of bumpy areas, one is that some conservative republicans really do want to see this directly paid for. the other is that some democrats are concerned about afternoon an

anti-abortion provision. nancy pelosi who is a strong pro-choice legislator says look this isn't a change in existing law, the pro-choice caucus did support this in the house. so we are not likely to see as many democratic defections as we would otherwise. if they focus on the idea of give a little take a little they should be able to pass it this week. you never know whether the two ends of the spectrums the conservatives and the liberals will suddenly ban together to stop something erica. >> safety net programs in the u.s. along with social security and unemployment, an estimated 54 million elderly and disable people rely on it. the ranking senator in the finance committee is telling doctors not to worry about there week's deadline though. he says they will be able to paid retroactively up to april

1st. likely fows on the focus on the $141 billion impact in the next years but a net savings will be available in the next decade. let's bring in our guests, all right, both of you thank you for joining us, dr. al said, i'll start with you. first how important is this issue that it actually brought both parties together supporting this bill together in a level like we've never seen before. >> well medicare is one of the most important and largest issues that we pay for as a national government. it's a huge issue. we have known for quite a long time that folks on both sides of the aisle hate the way medicare is paid for. this is one of these rare issues in our national discourse that actually brings together

multiple sides on the same conversation. >> what do you think about this? >> i think it's an important plan it starts the conversation around how you pay for value rather than how you pay for service. one of the big issues in the way we pay for medicare is it incentivizes doctors whether it's best for their patients. how do you make your patient's health better is a good pivot. how do you tween what's better? this is left to discretion and in this way kicking the can down the road. >> we'll talk about this issue of value-based care, take us back to 1997. why was this mladenoved in the first place? >> well, the volume of physician services under led carey has been growing for many, many years -- under under medicare has been growing for many, many years.

on a piece work basis as if you were paying could be lers cobblers to make shoes, regardless whether the shoes were any good. the incentives were for doctors to do more and more and more because they got paid on this piece work basis and the rates of those expenditures were going way way up. congress said enough, we have to come up with some kind of a formula where if the volume of service goes up, the doctors will get paid less, so the combined expenditure wouldn't be less than it was otherwise. essentially what would have happened is that would have dictated these cutle these cuts in physician payments boehner said in the setup piece because the degree of the cuts were going to be so big because these expenditures were going up so rapidly.

>> yeah and i want to stay with this point. let me bring in libby casey. libby, 17 years band-aid fixes. why did it take so long to tackle this? >> a lot of it was the nuts and bolts how to find a lasting solution. but also these patches have worked. congress always functions on a deadline approach, wait no. the last minute and then fix this. the thing about this ultimate change though that is not a patch, would be a fix really the biggest change to medicare in 20 years is this has been increasingly anxiety producing from medicare patients. i may not be able to serve you they have been hearing from physicians if this payment changes. and so that has been an ongoing lunching situation a lot of frustration for the doctors. remember you talk to the

congress who are themselves doctors, it comes down to figuring out the right formula for compromise. >> dr. al said, if you are a doctor treating medicare patients how do they get paid? >> a doctor will see a patient log what they do for that patient and bill for those services and then medicare will then pay the doctor for those services after the fact. this is the way it works. you can imagine as ms. casey said, this causes a lot of consternation on both the patient's and the doctor's behalf. if you guys are not going to pass this thing i'm not going to be paid. i'm going to find people who are ensured and take care of them. i'm going to stop taking medicare patient. a medicare patient by definition

is elderly could not travel far to see another physician. this limits their access to care. this becomes at the doctor and patient level such a big issue. >> why do they need to tackle this? the idea of fee for service the system is responsible for fraud right, that some doctors would be potentially ordering more tests than actually needed to get those reimbursements. >> as my colleague said, cobbler making shoes for people who don't want shoes. that's challenge. if you know you are going to get paid, you have incentive to do that thing. one thing we go to the mechanic for is to tell us what's wrong and to fix it. you don't know if they are telling you what's really wrong or if they are overselling you. doctors getting paid for the shoes they make or the engines they fix.

the challenge is upselling. that increases cost in medicare services and that's something in society in the federal budget that we want to bring down. >> going back to what you said earlier, value-based care. exactly how does that process change and who determines these outcomes? >> i'll give you the first question first. what happens in this version of the doc fix is that after five years, where physicians are going to continue to be paid the way they are after those five years, physicians have a choice to move to a different payment plan where they are now paid on the health of a particular catchment area, a group of patients that they see. if you can imagine that their goal is to improve a patient's health rather than do the number of services they can that has opotential to bring down cost. that comes to how we ask how do you decide what quality is?

that's anybody's anybody's guess. patients what do you value? some of the things are the same and some are different. the question we have to ask is, those things duet worked in and that unfortunately comes down to deeds to this particular law. in someparticular -- edits to this particular law . >> let's bring in ms. denser. do you think this is a good policy? >> absolutely. first of all it is ridiculous to go through this exercise year after year after year where congress knows these payments are coming and forestalls them. it gets us away from what we need to do in this country which is shift the way we pay physicians under medicare. already one in three medicare beneficiaries is not affected by any of this because they are in the part of the program called medicare advantage. the two out of three medicare

beneficiaries are still in this traditional program where this fee for service dynamic prevails. we need to move away from that as a country and if we spend time year by year doing a doc fix we can't focus on the innovative ways to pay physicians. as the doctor said, there are certain models we are testing. we need to test other models, paying for value not volume. we will be able to focus on the variety of ways that we need to test out to see what really is the best way to pay physician under medicare. >> this is certainly going to cost quite a bit of money to offset the cost. the bill is talking about making more affluent medicare recipients to pay higher premiums. is that fair? >> well, we already charge higher income medicare beneficiaries more. we're just now going to charge them a little bit more for both

the part b of the program which is this physician payment part, as well as for the drug benefits in the program. so this just continues a trend that we've had in place for some time and frankly we have to come up with a way to continue to finance the medicare program. and some people think the fairest way is to ask people who are really fairly well off to pay more. keep in mind, only 2% of medicare beneficiaries are in the category that would be required to pay more. and they're paying more already. >> and miss denser really quickly overall do you think this is worth the hundreds of billions that this is going to cost? >> well, in the best case scenario if we really do move to a system where we're paying doctors in a much smarter way and really incentivizing them to make medicare beneficiaries healthier, then we will save money over the long haul. so we could get caught up in a kind of narrow fight about adding to the deficit over ten

years. but really what we need to do is revamp the program. we've already seen per person medicare spending very low for the last couple years in terms of the rate of increase. but we really need it to be falling. because we have so many more people who are going to be enrolling in medicare as a consequence of the aging of the baby boom generation. so over the long haul if we can come up with a better way to pay physicians, pay for value not for volume, we will be spending more over the next ten years to get to that point. >> dr. al said do you agree? >> i do. we all agree that medicare provides a fantastic service to our nation's elderly and it is a service we all want to benefit from when we get there hopefully. the question is how do you make medicare more sustainable in the long term?

altering its costs. how do we get physicians to do the right thing the best thing by their patients and also to come out making a good living. this moves us in a good direction and a good step in that respect. >> dr. al said and susan denser and libby casey, thank you all for joining us. let's look at other events coming up in the week ahead. on monday, general election in sudan, general al basheer is expected to win. and president obama is in the white house for talks discussing details inside iraq. the morgan library is opening a new exhibit featuring

letters and speeches written by lincoln. up next, another germanwings aircraft a scare. and scientists have developed a technique that could revolutionize solar production. and spiderman takes on one of the tallest buildings in in the world. stay daw with us.

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it's been over a month that a germanwings pilot crashed into the alps. a technology being developed in australia har nenses solar energy in a whole new way. andrew thomas reports. >> it looks almost like an act of worship. but this is science. mirrored panels turn in unison towards a tower. they direct onto it a powerful glow sunlight, it's the latest frontier for solar power. >> really, these types of projects are really where you can push the boundaries a little but also demonstrate exactly what the potential of the technology is. >> the technology works by concentrating sunlight on a single point.

liquid there is heated to extreme temperatures, almost 600 degrees sells celsius creating supercritical steam. that drives a turbine at high speed and high power. the use of the sun's energy to create the steam to power it is new. >> something like 19% of the world's energy comes from making that hot fluid today and expanding it through a turbine. all we're doing is having concentrated sun to make that hot fluid and the normal heat production which comes from coal or gas or biomass or even nuclear. >> the potential is enormous. it wouldn't take huge areas of sun baked land to create large amounts of power. the hope is that in years to come there could be fields of

solar mirrors in deserts around the world. 50 by 50 kilometers could produce enough for a quarter of all australia's needs. the cost is very expensive and the fall of fossil fuels don't make green energy attractive. but this could make a break in electricity production. andrew thomas, newcastle australia. the price of gas has gone down 5 cents in the past two weeks to aan average of $2.45 a gallon. the drop comes despite the rise in crude oil prices. the beginning ever rainy season storms and potential flooding. kevin corriveau is here for today's forecast. >> today was the last day of the

cherry blossom festival in washington d.c. but not the last day to see the cherry blossoms. all this week is going to be optimal. washington today you saw about 70°, tomorrow you are going to be seeing about 78° and it's going to be quite beautiful. for the rest of the week we made showers on tuesday not looking bad wednesday as well as into thursday. down to the south rain has begun all the way from louisiana to pensacola. over the next 72 hours this is what the forecast looks like. anywhere from four to six inches of rain expected here across much of louisiana biloxi and new orleans you are going to see thunderstorms all day.

all the way towards friday, we don't expect to see much of a break. even up to the great lakes. are western oregon and idaho you are going to see very heavy rain, turning over to snow in the higher elevations. >> in augusta georgia today golf history was made. 21-year-old jordan speith set a new record, 28 birdies over 72 holes, this was speith's first major tournament win. first time that one player led every round. french spiderman his exploits are not confined to the

pages of a comic book. he scaled all 1004 feet, with tape he reached the 75th floor in one hour and 15 minutes. i'm i'm erica pitzi. good night.

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