to stop looking at the art and look outside at this amazing city. >> reporter: so while america may be hard to see, the whitney's collection has never been more accessible. kristen saloomey al jazeera, new york. more news on our website, aljazeera.com. turning the corner. as protests spread to cities nationwide. rescued from the rubble a teenager is found alive in nepal. and a hacker sentenced. ten men will spend decades in jail for the 2010 attack on malala malala yousafzai.

this is al jazeera america live from new york city. i'm stephanie sy. civil rights leaders are heading to baltimore for a summit about improving the relationship between the police and the community. last night was mostly peaceful in baltimore. the curfew held but there were protests in major cities around the country over the death of freddie gray. john what are we expecting from this morning this morning? >> reporter: i'm standing in war memorial square outside of city hall. this is the scene of last saturday's protests and there will be another one near next saturday. and you can see the line of police behind me. the summit is going to take place in west baltimore, inside the new shylo baptist church

where freddie gray's funeral was heard. the idea is to try to find a way of helping baltimore to turn a corner long term. now in terms of turning corners in the short-term the city has certainly done that since monday night, when we saw rioting also over the city until the early hours of the morning. when the curfew was imposed last night, it was families and religious groups out there, helping to keep the peace. the police backed off, and everybody as far as that aspect of the story is concerned, is very pleased. take a look at this report. >> reporter: the 10:00 pm curfew came and went without major incidents. >> tell me what democracy looks like. >> reporter: hundreds of protesters took to the streets again to call for justice for freddie gray who died in police

custody earlier this month, but on the whole calm prevailed. earlier in the day, as residents worked to restore normal life the governor praised the community's response. >> children were back in school in baltimore, people were back at work and city residents were cleaning up the vast majority of people in the city are being extremely helpful, and cooperative. people are picking up bags and brooms, and cleans up. >> reporter: more than 200 people were arrested during monday's clashes, but by wednesday almost half had been released. the next milestone is likely to come tomorrow when baltimore police are expected to complete their investigation into his arrest. those results will be turned over to the state's attorney's office. meanwhile documents reported by the "washington post" this morning, may shed light on what happened to freddie gray during

the half hour he was in the police van after his arrest. another prisoner in the same van believed gray was intentionally trying to injure himself. but he couldn't see gray only hear him. he two men were separated by a metal partition. and the baltimore city newspaper reporting this morning, the roughly half of the 200 people arrested on monday night were set free without charges. people said their cell phones were taken and never given back some say they were arrested for no good reason. one woman was threatened with pepper spray while she was in a cell. >> of course we can't confirm those reports, either. john about tomorrow should we expect any kind of resolution when this report comes out?

>> reporter: you know, steph, to be honest with you, this has changed in the last 48 hours. the implication was the report would be published tomorrow and we would all know what happened to freddie gray well city officials especially the mayor are rowing back from that. she said there is an misapp pree hengs of what will happen tomorrow. and the apprehension is that the report will be finished. and it will be passed on to the prosecutors. billy murphy who is one of the lawyers for the gray family said to us we do not want a rush to judgment on this. if you rush just advertise advertise -- justice, you miss something. so we have to be prepared to know very little tomorrow.

>> john thank you. thousands of people in several other cities across the u.s. came out to protest what happened in baltimore. more than 100 people were arrested in manhattan. organized hope 4 to 5,000 people would show up for the march, the numbers were in the hundreds but those who did attend were passionate about their reasons for turning out. >> every time i look on the tv there is another innocent black father, son, student, person that quite frankly looks like me being killed or unjustly handled in some type of way. >> that's why i'm here. because i have a son, and he's 15, and he's also black, and i just don't want to see him get killed. >> new york saw weeks of protests against police brutality last year when no criminal charges were brought against officers in the death of

eric garner. now some are asking if the city's struggling public school system is at least partly to believe for the problems. >> reporter: in baltimore on monday it all boiled down to a battle between books and bricks. many of those seen throwing the bricks should have been hitting the books. instead the situation calls attention to a long-standing problem in baltimore. is the educational system broken? >> i think it is. i think it's broken definitely. >> reporter: she should know before a corruption conviction forced her, she was the mayor of baltimore, and before that the president of the city council, before that she studied early childhood education. >> we have to go back to basic fundamental things. when is education going to become the priority in everybody's household, where that's first and foremost before anything else. >> reporter: according to a recent study of more than 800

residents from 55 baltimore neighborhoods, parents expressed dissatisfaction with the schools. they also said schools failed to prepare the children for the future and lacked extracurricular activities. facts not lost on the white house and president obama when he talked about the problems with baltimore's school system. >> if we're serious about solving this problem, we're going to not only help the police, we have to think about what can we do the rest of us to make sure we're providing early education to these kids. to make sure we're reforming our criminal justice system so it's not just a pipeline from schools to prisons. >> reporter: but dixon says for far too long washington has been part of the problem not part of the solution. there have been presidents who have campaigned on the theme of education. has there truly been an

education president in your opinion? >> no based on the funding and -- >> reporter: so it's all talk. >> in most cases, yes. >> reporter: in baltimore, far too many schools are still closed, and as you can see from this one the chains themselves have rusted. this woman runs an early childhood learning center in neighboring baltimore county. her kids come from the city. what are these kids lacking? >> the lack of educational programs. the lack of recreation centers for these children. the lack of people actually being able to believe in them. >> reporter: in the meantime schools like this are symbolic of a bigger problem, abandoned buildings in a city that many believe has abandoned its kids. del walters, al jazeera, baltimore. and now to nepal where there is some good news in the middle

of tragedy. rescuers have pulled a teenage boy from the rubble alive five days after the devastating earthquake. there were cheers as rescuers took the 15 year old out of harm's way. many hope he is not the last survivor. the death toll is now more than 5800. let's go live to our correspondent in cat man cat -- kathmandu. what is the latest? >> reporter: the latest is there's a tinily bit of good news and there's a rescue effort going on where rescuers have found a woman under the rebel. they are continuing to excavate that area. it's an ongoing rescue so hopefully we may have some good news later on. >> you have also been i know observing the conditions at hops

today -- hospitals today, what have you been seeing? >> reporter: well i was at the main military hospital in kathmandu, where i was being shown around by military medics as to what the scenarios were for them as many helicopters air force and private helicopters were ferrying those people with severe injuries outside of kathmandu into the capitol. many areas around the epicenter and the area affected greatly by the earthquake are badly damaged. landslides have blocked or buried villages and it's difficult to get medical help. and the only way to get those injured to the hospitals is via helicopter. they have been ferries to this military headquarters on the first day maybe 300 survivors managed to get here. today when i went to go meet the

head of the establishment, there was barely 50. they don't old out hope of getting big influxes of survivors but everyone that comes gets very good treatment in terms of the wounds that they have. and they are dealing with open wounds broken bones, even broken backs. a tough time for the medical profession and certainly those trying to help the civilians. >> yeah such a sense of urgency there. thank you. many of the people in kathmandu are trying to get home to their remote villages. as andrew simmons tells us that's making it very difficult to get aid to those who need it most. >> reporter: well this is a vast area and i'm actually in a village at the start of a huge swathe of damage.

no one realized how extensive the damage was here. we drove for something like 30 kilometers through village after village. devastated villages. in one small settlement there wasn't one home left standing. the original estimates of dead were put officially at around 1600 here but in actual fact many unofficial estimates put it at around 5,000, even 6,000. i have not seen anything quite like it in rural area. buildings constructed from boulders and mud are absolutely devastated. if i show you over here now. in this village, there is a search operation going on by the chinese. they are convinced that they have around 5 to 6 bodies beneath this rubble. they feel pretty pessimistic they will find anybody alive.

but the issue here is the late nature of aid getting through. only a couple of aid vehicles have gotten through and a few tents. right now people are absolutely crying out for assistance. this is a remote area. takes a long time to get here. there are land sides on the way, the weather has been very, very wet, unreasonably so it is a mixture, a concoction of utter disaster. in nigeria, military officials say they have located and rescued at least 100 children and 60 women. they were found in a boko haram strong hold in the northeastern part of the country. this a day after the army said it liberated nearly 300 women and girls in another operation. >> they are hostages who are in the forest against their own will, and [ inaudible ] profiling [ inaudible ]

intelligence have been extricated and we're finding it useful. at the moment they have been moved out of the forest and what -- you know trying to give them relief from the trauma. >> it does not appear the people rescued include the girls taken from a school last year. a court today sentenced ten of the men involved in the 2012 attack on the pakistani peace activist and nobel piece recipient. kamala harris has more. >> reporter: an anti terrorist squad has sentenced ten people to 25 years in prison. the case was handed over to the anti-terrorist court by the military. the military says that it was able to arrest the key people

involved in the attack back in september, which gave them vital information and lead to the arrest of all ten members. however, four members are said to be still at large, possibly hiding across the border in afghanistan where the taliban leader is also based. now it must be remembered that the taliban in pakistan has taken responsibility for this particular attack. kamal hyder for her. we'll visit annen during memorial to the vietnam war.

welcome back to al jazeera america. it is 10:48 eastern, taking a look at today's top stories. nasa is watching a russian cargo spacecraft spinning out of control around the earth. it suffered a malfunction

shortly after takeoff. police in germany have arrested two people in frankfort accused of having chemicals that could be used to make an explosive. investigators are trying to determine if the two were trying to carry out an attack. and faa documents show a german wing's pilot was initially denied a medical certificate in 2010. he did eventually receive the treatment after receiving treatment for depression. he deliberated downed the plane last month killing all 150 people on board. today marks the anniversary of the end of the vietnam war. jamie macintyre has a look at the legacy of that war.

>> reporter: on this beautiful spring day in washington there would be no touching discovery of fallen comrades, no poignant rubbings of their engaved names, no somber reflections if the polished surface if it weren't for this man. >> i decided back in 1979 that there should be a national vietnam memorial. he describes his 12 months in nam as unremarkable. but he did get shot up pretty bad and spent months recovering for -- as he puts it -- scoring points for the other side. he says he didn't accomplish much as a corporal it was as a civilian that he left a mark. >> i started an organization with a number of talented people including a number of graduates from harvard. >> reporter: to build the

monument required money, $8.4 million land some of the most valuable real estate in the u.s. on the national mall and a design and the design almost killed the dream. >> the vietnam veteran's memorial design was controversial because it was black. they said all other monuments are white. what statement are you making because it was black? >> reporter: the winning design entry was an amateurish design from this person. they saw the proposed black chevron as an ugly gash on the ground. the concept wasn't immediately clear to a lot of people. >> i have seen the original drawings and they don't look like much. did you get it right away? or did it grow on you? >> it had to be explained to me

by a group of highly experienced architects. once they explained it to me i understood it was going to be brilliant. >> reporter: what makes this memorial work so well? >> the basic elements are the qualities of the stone, the reflective qualities, the names being in chronological order. >> reporter: now he wants to point out how the design has helped make the memorial the most engaging memorial in the nation's capitol. >> slowly as you get to a point -- and we'll be there in just a moment where the memorial is over your head there's no longer the destruction behind you of the cars going by on constitution avenue. you are now a part of this -- this situation here. you are enveloped by this sea of name. and this starts creating the

emotion. >> reporter: considering it was so controversial at the time it just seems amazing that you could talk to any of these tourists here today, and no one would dispute the power of this wall. >> most monuments, you have to jump back to sort of enjoy it. this one you -- you make physical contact with it. that's a big distinction. it draws you in and you -- you know, you have to touch it. >> reporter: the wall is very much a touch-stone and what no one anticipated and how many visitors would leave a piece of themselves behind. >> jan royce gillham, killed in action at age -- age 20 in vietnam. probably a draftee. >> reporter: at age 65 jan scruggs is retiring as head of the memorial fund but he has one last mission to build an education center nearby to house

all of the artifacts left at the wall over the years, and teach about the sacrifice of all americans in all wars. >> that will be a crowning achievement, but it's kind of hard to top this. >> reporter: and adding a traditional element to its radical design a statute of three service members. and the outrage is now in his words, just a footnote in history. jamie macintyre, al jazeera, washington. there are questions this morning about the fbi's involvement in paying ransom for a hostage held by al-qaeda. the fbi vetted a middleman who transported $250,000 from the family of warren weinstein, an aid worker held by al-qaeda for years. he was accidentally killed by a u.s. drone strike in january. why some in los angeles want to take control of an elementary

school. and users find a big glitch with their apple watches. ♪

parents in los angeles are trying to force change at what they call a failing public school. a 2010 law gives them a so-called parent trigger. as jennifer london reports. >> reporter: if your child was attending a failing school what would you do in how about trying to take the school over? that's what a number of parents here at this elementary school in south central los angeles are trying to do. they say 60% of the students here can't read at grade level, and they have tried for more than a year to work with the school to make changes with no success. so they have signed a petition to take it over using the state's parent empowerment act in 2010. commonly referred to as the parent trigger law. in california pash trigger allows parents to effectively take over a school from the district and turn it into a charter school. this is one of the parents actively fighting to take over

20th street. her daughter is in the fourth grade, and she worries amy will fall behind. >> this is first and second grade work. >> reporter: when she brings this home and sits down at the table to do this is it easy for her? or challenges for her? >> this is easy for her. it's just one digit. >> reporter: this is the second largest school district in the country. we saturday down with the regional superintendent. when the parents say this school is failing, and they worked for over an year to enact changes, and they are not seeing the changes, you say what? >> i say there are pockets of excellence at this school. i also say that there are problems. there might be two, three teachers, maybe up to six teachers that are -- that have challenges. >> reporter: so why hasn't the district taken action then.

tonight you'll hear the response. plus -- what grave would you give the school? you want to miss the answer. the nfl picks it next class today. the draft begins this afternoon in chicago. it will take three days for the teams to choose new players. but the wheeling and dealing is around underway behind the scenes. and the controversial florida state quarterback is expected to be the first draft pick of the buccaneers. some apple watch users are reporting an interesting glitch. tattoos confuse the sensors inside the watch. in some extreme cases the watch will not even recognize that it's on a wrist. apple has not commented on the issue yet. thanks for watching. i'm stephanie sy in new york. the news continues next live

from doha. have a great day. >> announcer: this is al jazeera. ♪ from al jazeera's headquarters in doha. this is the news hour. i coming up in the next 60 minutes, scenes of utter devastation in nepal. the flow of aid is still slow. not backing down. anti-government protesters are on the streets of burundi for a fifth day. and pakistan puts ten men in jail for life over the attack