>> a not so special delivery. a postal worker lands a small aircraft just steps in the u.s. capitol building. how this is raising concerns about safety and security in washington. guilty of murder. >> aaron hernandez may have been a well-known new england patriots football player. however in the end the jury found he was a man who creat who committed

a brutal murder. >> grief a year since a south korean ferry accident. so close and yet so far. a video showing the spacex rocket falling back to earth but failing to stick the landing. good evening i'm antonio mora, this is al jazeera america. how a florida mail main was able to breach air space in washington, d.c. undetected and land a small helicopter on the west lawn of the capitol building. lisa stark reports it's raising more concerns about security in the nation averages capital. >> a 67-year-old wanted to

galvanize the country something he feels very strongly about campaign finance reform. he certainly grabbed the spotlight but at the same time, he violated the security of the nation's capital. this cell phone shows what tourists on capitol hill saw and heard. the loud noise of a single person aircraft flying low and landing on the capitol lon. it took capitol police nearly a minute to converge on the gyro-copter. >> you could see him piloting the thing into the lawn. >> the man reportedly at the controls, doug hughes had apparently made no secret of his plans. he had talked extensively with the tampa bay times which posted this video and interview on its website. >> i have got a plane. a gyro-plane. and i'm going to fly it, i'm gt to violate the no-supply zone,

nonviolently and for nobody to get hurt and i'm going to land on the capital mall, in front of the capitol building. >> what hughes wanted to do is deliver letters to every member of congress bemoaning the influence of big money and calling for campaign finance reform. what he did was create a security nightmare. >> he just violates so much air space it's not even funny the fact he got even down the mall to the capital. >> the police quickly closed down the area, the straily prime minister was in the building, covered by a no fly zone put into place after 9/11. but small aircraft close to the ground such as the drone that ended up on the white house lawn and this gyrocopter are nearly

impossible to pick up on radar quickly the air space reopened about and investigation is underway to determine how this happened. military were not on alert because the faa never picked up the gyro-copter and authorities were never notified. the secret service talked to doug hughes more than a year ago, when they got wind of the fact that he was planning to come to the capital. did they lose interest in him or just determine he was not a threat? antonio. >> thank you lisa. aaron hernandez was found guilty of the murder of a friend pz. john terret, has more. he had a life, many dream of. and he threw it away. as a killer. >> just a few miles from where he played football at the very

highest level in this country for new england patriots of course the up and coming tight end could only mouth the words "you're wrong" when the jury read the verdict. he barrel reacted, at the same time his parent and the mother of the man he killed, odin lloyd wept openly. guards immediately shackleed earned had to listen to his sentence. >> you are committed for the term of your natural life without the possibility of parole. >> that sentence, the final blow for the 25-year-old hernandez fast rising star in the nfl who ended up from catching passes from tom brady to a convicted killer. >> aaron hernandez may have been a well-known new england

patriots football player in the end the jury found he was a plan who committed brutal murder. >> lloyd's mother said she publicly forgave him. >> he was my strength. i love him dearly. i thank my family who has been there with me for two and a half months and for two years. >> it was june of 2013 that aaron hernandez was arrested at his home for the death of odin lloyd. he was released by the patriots that same day. lloyd, an amateur football player was found dead in an industrial park near the nfl star's home. he had been shot six atimes. prosecutors never produced a concise plot, video of hernandez

appearing to hold a gun at his home, cell phone records and testimony from over 100 witnesses all enough for jury to convict. >> some of us got there for different reasons but ultimately reached the same conclusion. >> reporter: by late wednesday afternoon hernandez was seen arriving at the prison where he will spend the rest of his life pending an appeal. hernandez problems do not end here, he faces another trial for another shooting, a case that is thought to be stronger than the one just finished. antonio. >> thank you john. boston paused to remember those whose lives were lost in the boston hair on this bombing. moment of silence. killed three people and wounded more than 160. the sentencing phase of

dzhokhartsarnaev trial begins next week. investigation of another bombing this one in new york city it happened seven years ago in the middle of time square. damage limited to a military recruiting station. the fbi says it has recently identified several persons of interest in the case. the government is offering $115,000 for information on the crime. accused shooter james holmes is accused of murdering 12 people in aurora in 2012. one witness said he was at the columbine shooting and good friend with the columbine shooter. one juror. >> a ferry capsized and sank off

the coast a year anniversary killing most of the people on board. harry fawcett joins us from the memorial. it's a day of grief and commemoration but also a day of controversy. are. >> reporter: that's right. there is a very keenly felt sense of pain and grief here . we've seen family members crying and hug each other saw those images from yesterday wednesday south korea time, where something of the people were taken out to where the sewall sank. they were grieving for not being good enough parents to the 250 children lost in this tragedy. there is still a good deal of controversy and tragedy till, these families have been arguing for a full investigation of how this happened, there have been criminal convictions of the captain and the crew and the operator of the ship and there's been a government investigation

as well but they say they really haven't uncovered the full story. they want a special independent investigation. they say the government has been hampering the terms of the remit of that committee which has been set up. they want the sewall to be razed to recover the bodies that were never record ferred. recovered. turned away from another site in jindodo near where the ferry sank. the families have packed up the memorial site and gone away in protest. we have heard the national assembly has passed a resolution calling for the ferry to be razed. >> you have spoken to the parents, do they expect to get satisfaction from the

government? >> they are certainly hopeful that they will try that they will get some sort of movement on the special investigation and indeed presumably now after this resolution of the national assembly that more will happen in terms of razing the ship. it is an extremely expensive project, projected to cost $110 million at least. meaning public consultation equivocating somewhat, it's been a difficult year, one man father of a missing girl, said that time essentially stopped for him in april of last year, i went to an emotional news conference, a sense of jealousy that they had to contend with as well and the 75 surviving students who have had to deal with survivor's guilt one apparently trying to take their

own life. a sad story. >> heartbreaking on so many levels. harry fawcett, thank you. u.n.'s peace envoy has resigned and nearly 200 citizens have fled to the african nation of djibouti. even the country's former president is trying to get out of the country. hashem ahelbarra has the latest. >> coalition officials say the tanks were on their way to aden where fighting continues. these war planes were spotted on the runway of a military base near the capital sanaa. they were also hit. >> the houthis are now disorganized. their action he disorganized. they are trying to redeploy in aden and other areas but their convoys were soon targeted by coalition forces. >> there is no indication that

the military operation may come to an end any time soon. for saudi arabia the use of force was the only way to prevent the houthis from controlling yemen. >> i would not describe the military operations in yemen as a proxy war i would consider it a war of necessity. >> backed by troops still loyal to ali abdullah saleh still hold ground in many provinces. many want the saudis and their allies to send ground troops to defeat the houthis. but for the time being the saudis have no plans for a full scale ground judge vacation. forces loyal to abd rabbu mansour hadi are gaining ground in aden and some areas in the south. vehicles speed away carrying people speeding from the fighting traveling in the office

direction, ambulances head towards the fighting but can't get very far. >> translator: there are injured people over there. but the houthis are targeting our vehicle. they shot at us. we can't reach the injured. >> reporter: the saudi led coalition is ramping up its campaign to force the houthis and their allies to disarm, pull out from the cities they control and join political talks to solve yemen's crisis. the houthis say they will not hold talks if the air strikes continue. hashem ahelbarra, al jazeera. >> today president juan manuel santos says the government in colombia will resume its assault on the groups. the two sides have been holding talks in cuba since 2012. chicago comes to term with a dark period in its history.

how the city is trying to make amends for decades of police torture and forced confessions. also. >> you know i drive a pretty old crummy car so maybe we'll yum grade that sometime soon or something like that. >> employees of a seattle company are now planning what they'll do with their minimum $70,000 yearly salary. the ceo describes why he made the risky move. sky move.

>> thousands of workers staged demonstrations is across the u.s. they are calling for a minimum wage of $15 an hour. walmart and some mcdonald's restaurants have recently increased wages but many workers say they still rely on public assistance to supplement their

wages. in seattle one company is taking the living wage concept a big step further. allen schauffler reports on a ceo who is slashing a million dollar salary to pay his workers $30 an hour. >> it wasn't another day at gravity payments. >> my hands were sweaty i was getting nervous. >> employees were call to an all staff meeting where ceo dan price had a new plan. >> we're going to have a minimum $70,000 pay rate here. >> organized labor across the country to raise the minimum wage above the federally required $7.25 an hour, that their ceo had just under the ante standingly. when it did sink in he got a

standing ovation. >> people were crying happy tears and saying things like, i can afford to have a baby now i can afford to buy a home now. >> i drive a pretty old crummy car maybe we'll upgrade that pretty soon, i don't know, it makes my life a lot better. i don't know, better, it opened up a lot of choices. >> 70 employees here will be getting a raise some of them very significant. 30 or so will be bumped up to double or more than double their current salary when they hit that $70,000 level. that adds up. how do you pay for all this? dan price the ceo will take ocut from a million to down to $70,000. >> it's going to impact me personally but i'm prepared to do it. i think it's a scraf sacrifice that will be well worth it and pay off in the end. >> payoff in more productive and more customers. >> i think we were averaging

about 2 males a day for customers who wanted to do business with us. kudos to you smart business. >> i want them to have the right pay at a minimum where they could keep that focus and not be distracted by the basics of trying to pay your rent and those that could be a given for somebody who's smart and working hard. >> reporter: where the new minimum could push the happiness quotient to a maximum allen schauffler, al jazeera seattle. >> the city of chicago agreed to pay a settlement to those victims of torture. lawrkash-har quraishi has the story who said they were beaten and shock when in custody. >> they played russian roulette with me.

>> years ago darryl cannon said police officers got the barrel ever a gun into his plowt. >> theymouth. >> what did you think? >> i was scared to death and i didn't want to show it. my mind was such that it felt like my head was being blown off when i heard that click. and then they took the shotgun barrel back out of my mouth. they put me in the back seat of a detective car and had my feet outside the detective car. i was still handcuffed. they pulled my pants and shorts down and they started to shock me with electric cattle prod. >> cannon said chicago police officers used illegal methods to force a false confession. he spent years in prison for acrime he didn't commit. cannon is one of 120 mostly black men who endured torture

from chicago police between 1982 and 1991. under the direction of chicago police comirksz commissioner john burge. this week the city finally acknowledged the victims of the burge case. 5.5 million in reparations for dozens of torture victims connected with the scandal. joey said it was significant on many counts. >> this is the first time any city in the united states of america has ever acknowledged racist police practices and provided reparations. and to be clear we are talking about reparations for black people in this instance. that is a huge landmark. >> reporter: mayor rahm emanuel supports the proposal which some hope could close the

book on one of the city's darkest chapters. >> to own up and be accountable for this and more importantly have the victims have their own sense of closure. >> the deal which still has to pass the city council vote, offers free college tuition for victims and their families, recounseling and a formal apology issued by the city. one thing city could not take back is burge's $3,000 monthly pension. he still collects it, after being released from prison last year. >> even after that conviction he was able to keep his pension. we have no recourse. >> it is something cannon would like to fight and although no reparation would begin to repair the pain of his life, it is a start. >> it is a partial victory and it sends a message throw the unitedthroughoutthe united states that at some point in time you can bear enough pressure on government

without a physical riot or something of this nature here, and make change. >> ash-har quraishi, al jazeera chicago. >> a federal judge said today general motors general motors is not responsible the claims center around deaths and injuries that resulted from faulty ignition switches and other defects. gm was restructured in bankruptcy court in 2009, and that shielded the new company from previous legal liabilities. today, the european union officially accused google of behaving like a monopoly. we'll explain why officials there are so concerned about the internet giant's business. and the first video that shows what happens when spacex tried to land a rocket on a barge floating at sea. sea.

>> the u.s. military is launching a new effort to identify the remains of hundreds of sailors and marines killed on the attack on pearl harbor. the military says it will exhume and conduct dna investigation on

the pearl harbor area. they ridicule will return any remains that they can identify. as jake ward jacob ward explains, google'sgoogle's antitrust violation he could be far reaching. >> as long as user have choice they are safe from monopolies. now, google doesn't just lead you to the stuff you want to buy, it actually sells a lot of stuff and that blows apart the whole regulatory model we are

used to. let's look at google's airline flight search tool. here is a few of the competitors in that space on travel, kayak expedia, hipmonk and online flight. at one point google would come back with a list of airline companies. but now when you type in travel, hip monk isn't on that first page and might as well not exist in that case. but off to one side there is a convenient list of air fares and prices and that's google flights. it also owned ita software which sells pricing information to these rivals, google could in theory hold to hold back the best deals, there is no evidence that it's doing that but that's extraordinary power. google owns search, it dictates

results it owns one of the big flight companies and across the field, if you look at ad placement, shopping, media, if you choose to experience the media like so many people do by going to google first the company has extraordinary ability to influence what you buy when you get there antonio. >> thank you jake. we are looking at the unsuccessful landing of the rocket booster of spacex. the rocket did hit the ocean platform it was supposed to land from but it veered sideways crashed and blew up. it didn't come as a big surprise. spacex said in advance they only gave it a 50-50 chance of

success. its ultimates goal is to land rockets safely so they can be reused. i'm antonio mora, joan join us for the news, "inside story" is up next, have a great night. [ ♪ music ♪ ] the unwillingness of the pharmaceutical industry to sell its medicine to state for the purposes of executing condemned prisoners are giving states a problem. if you carry out the sanctions you need to come up with new measures. a state decided on the firing squad as an option. problems coming with using medicine to end life instead of prolong it -