like in all man made disasters the ecosystem is already paying the highest price. >> more details for you on all the news we are covering and of course sport on our website, the address of that is aljazeera.com, and you can also watch us by clicking on the watch now icon. a state of emergency in california. workers are doing everything they can to clean up an oil spill on the coast. the u.s. and cuba sit down again trying to hammer out their differences over reopening embassies in washington and havana. plus isil takes control of a strategic ancient city, now the u.s. is sending more weapons to help in the fight. >> .

>> this is al jazeera live from new york city. parts of california's pipeline are closed today after a big oil spill now the governor has declare add state of emergency crews are combing the shoreline. so far, they have scooped up about 7500 gallons of oil but upwards of 105,000 gallons leaked to a pipeline ruptures onshore, jacob ward joins us live. that is just outside of santa barbara. and jake, what's the latest oen the clean up effort there. >> well, tony what we are seeing here is over 300 contractors paid and trained workers who have come to the beach here to help basically clean it by hand, if you can imagine a job as hard as that. there were volunteers trying to make their way here to do this kind of work, but it -- they were warned away by rangers here that said not

only could they perhaps pose a threat to wild life here, but the actual petroleum product is a threat to human beings so they are trying to keep them away. the smell is very pervasive and is covered as far as we can see. we can see the tide bringing it on to the rocks. certainly the 7700-gallons so far, that's good, but certainly not nearly as much as needs to be cleaned. >> why do they hope to find out. >> well, the hope there is that there will be some sense of whether this was a structural failure the company prairie pipeline says that it does a weekly visual inspection from the air of it's pipelines, but and supposedly three weeks ago they had done a specific more deep look at the pipeline, but the results of that test have not been made public, so it isn't clear how this spill happened. the thing to keep in mind is that the amounts spilled was just a tiny amount of the

amount of isle that moves regularly on and off what people otherwise consider to be a very pristine natural environment. 100,000 gallons is almost three-quarters of what the daily intake and output of this particular line would have been, so this was a tiny blip in the amount of total oil that comes on and offshore here every day. >> when will the environmental assessment be completed. >> i think we just lost jake. >> we did we just lost jake, and we should tell you that we are standing by, we believe there will be a news conference within the half hour, of course we will bring that to you live on al jazeera america. the united states and cuba are at the negotiating table again today. in an attempt to restore diplomatic ties. but there are issues that are holding off deal, including whether each country will let the others ambassador travel freely, kimberly has more now from washington. >> the fourth round of talks with cuba, and the united states now underway, and

both sides are reporting there is a positive atmosphere, with a focus on re-establishing diplomatic ties as well as the reopening of both the cuban, as well as united states embassies. but this major hurdles that sides need to overcome. from the cuba standpoint, there is the concern about u.s. democratsy reforms. that there be pro democracy retomorrows something that the cuban officials have said made by their perspective be illegal under some international treaties. the other main issue for cuba is that involving the controversial detention center guantanamo bay being returned to cuba, something the united states says at this point it will not discuss. as well cuba is looking for a lifting of the u.s. economic embargo. something that is complicated could involve the u.s. congress, there is the resolution of u.s. property claims those properties in cuba, that were seized the the cuban revolution, and how

those owners will be compensated. so a lot of challenges still aed h, however, both sides reporting that they see things moving forward that there is a continued warming of relations if you will, one that was certainly bolsters by the meeting last month in panama, by president obama and raul castro. >> so the decision to work words nare mallizes relations is already having a big effect on tourism. airline are adding direct flights between the two and as usher reports now from havana, american tourists are already flocking to cuba. >> for cubans and u.s. citizens alike, there is little doubt tourism would benefit from normalized restrictions. it makes difficult from the states to visit the island, but not impossible. >> it is fantastic. the history here is unbelievable. absolutely unbelievable. >> cuba has long been a destination for travelers

from europe and canada. and international tourism here is big business. for news the industry, it is a phenomenal destination answered the prayer for the real traveler, the person who longs to discover places in the world that are different and unique. michael and his friend, have been giving tours in this chrysler car for the last year. i think it is going to be good. we are only 90-miles from the united states government, and we can receive very quickly a lot of tourism here. i think lit be a success. >> tonight, woe will have more on how cubans are preparing for a potential tourist influx, and some of the hurdles still lest to tackle. al jazeera havana.

>> and you can catch the full report tonight at 8:00 p.m. eastern time the senate has voted to move ahead on president obama's request for new authority, to negotiation trader bills. the procedure vote was 62 in favor and 38 against the bill would give the president the ability to negotiate bills with an expedited review by congress. it should be treaties this is not the final passage vote, when the senate does vote on final passage, the measure must still clear the house. the officials are speaking right now about the clean up efforts in california, let's have a listen. >> this incident continues to unfold, we quantity to make sure that the public understands the direction we are headed. we understand that the residents of santa barbara are seeing the effects of the oil spilled on the beach, and hazardous materials oen the land and we are actively working towards clean up and response. i do want to manage expectations. clean up doesn't occur

overnight. it a's long process and i ask for your patience as we continue our work. the care and safety of everyone effected remains our top priority in response. we urged the public to stay out of the effected areas that have been closed for the response. these sensitive areas have been closed because of health hazards of the crude in the water. specific protective equipment needs to be warn by trained fisk to work with the oil. many of us responding here work live, and play in southern california. and i understand the desire to help. but i must stress, that even the volar toos must be trained and wearing proper equipment. we are dedicating ourself to deploy the best assets available. at the federal state and local levels.

the website is california volunteers.org. we are continuing to boom, contain, and clean oil in all environmentally sensitive areas. as clean up crews continue to work 24 hour as day specialize shorelines and offshore assessment teams are continuing to move along the coastline. to monitor, and direct contractors and response workers to the effected areas. to measure the spread of pollution, we are using the daily overlay of bills. more than 3,000 feet of boom has been deployed. thank you very much. >> ladies and gentlemen may introduce michelle, united states environmental protection. >> my name is michelle rogo.

and i am co leading the federal side of the response with captain williams. i am going to talk a little bit more today about the focus at the release location. and moving down towards the ocean as captain williams mention the cleanup has been moved to a 24/7 operation and so last night we had cleanup crews in the area outside the release site, and today we are working with road closures that so that work can continue throughout the day on the area of the culvert that passes underneath the highway. so last night crews worked with archaeological support and monitoring to excavate more than 400 yards of saturated oil soil. starting at the far end south

of the area in the actual release location. air monitoring is being conducted in that area. for both volatiles as well as hydrogen. and this morning crews are moving down toward the highway from the source area, and continuing to excavate contaminated soil beginning to flush out the actual culvert, the drainage path way that led from the upland side of the highway down to the ocean. and are working to capture that oil and collect it. epa continues to work with our federal state and local partners in addressing the contamination as effectively as possible, and our continued focus is the protection of human health and the environment. we appreciate the cooperation

of the community and as captain williams said, we respectfully request for volunteers to plug into the process where they can rather than to go out on to beaches by themselves. we recognize the inconvenience that people over this long holiday weekend, and we hope that we can work to minimize the additional spread of contamination, and continue this clean up to return this area to say recreational environment. getting a update there. the coast guard park rangers, we are getting a sense of the clean up effort right now, jake ward was telling us and that was confirmed that at least what 300 or so volunteers right now, but jake, those volunteers as you have been telling us have been trained and the word is going out far and wide, don't just show up, right? you have to be skilled you have to be trained you just

can't show up. >> that's right. it is reflects really tony the toxic nature of petroleum product. you should not come anywhere near it, and they are warning away volunteers not just because of the danger that an untrained volunteer may pose, but the danger that the toxic substance that covers this beach poses to ordinary people. we can smell it in the air it is definitely a contaminated scene. you heard the officials talking about how this will be a long and pain staking process, and that is true. what strikes us is that this is also -- it's not a unwith time thing, the beach -- they go up and down the beach sort of scraping and encluing but the tide continues to bring in oil. they are going to be at this for the foreseeable future and you also heard officials using terms like 7,700-gallons have been cleaned so far, that is not a true totally true statement in that is serve thousand 700 gallons

of an oily mixture of water and oil with every passing second, the oil that has spilled is diluting and coming harder and harder to take out of the environment, this isn't just something you can pull out it is by it's nature going to dilute, and that will make clean up even harder. >> is it 7700 gallons cleaned up so far we are talking about 105, is this number correct, 105,000 gallons leaked. >> that is the worst case scenario estimate right now 105,000 gallons cape out of the pipeline, what they say so far 7,700 gallons of a oily and water mixture has been taken out. that doesn't mean that 7,700 gallons of oil have been removed have u.s. a picture of that has been boomed off so far. as question look across the horizon, we can see the boom boats trying to contain this, trying to skim what is on the surface, but it isn't going to all stay on the surface most of it is not nerve the

water yet. it is all in the environment under a us here. so the clean up effort is going to be pain staking but it is also going to take just an incredibly long time, simply because of the nature of oil. it gets into everything. it's just a very very difficult thing to get out so the numbers here, the numbers of how much you have removed won't be an absolutely number. how much boom has been put down, is it to keep the spill from moving rides the current on to shore? does it capture it so you can skim it off. >> it's basically a skimmer. if you imagine skimming off oil off the top of a pan. >> so the boom itself is the skimmer. >> that's what this does. >> it's basically absorb want device. that pulls oil off the surface of the t wayer, but right now crews can only do the easiest work.

and that is picking what they can here and skimming what is on the surface. it doesn't just stay on the surface, thises who they can get to right now. so this has pervaded the landscape, and lit be here for a while when you consider how much oil moves on and off the coastline every day, it just reminds you the stake of this kind of industry, and what it can do to the environment when something goes wrong. >> it is interesting so the people behind you, those volunteers who are in the suits and everything and they are working what using their hands and i know they have whatever they are using but they are cleaning this up by hand, right. >> they are literally raking the beach as they go, they are picking up dead fish, oily vegetation trying to put it into marked places but this is absolutely an incredibly pain stake process, this idea that somehow you can come along with a magic chemical that takes care of it, it isn't that at all these workers are in fact, working to pick

this stuff up by hand, there is a bird rescue station just up the way that is supposed to clean up the birds that they can find, but it is empty at the moment, and presumably because they are not finding any living birds mop mostly dead animals. so this is very difficult work they are doing, and that's why they don't want volunteers here. this is pervaded by oil they don't want every day people getting into their bodies. >> we jumped out of the prez conference to talk to you you mentioned disburse saints has there been any conversation about whether dispursuants will be applied? i know that's a whole another can of works. >> right now, they are looking mostly at containment, and trying to get off the surface what they can. as we understand it has not been deployed yet, it can create a tremendous problem. this is also an echo system because it is a coastline ecosystem, there is kelp, and criminal, and all sorts of

wild life and vegetation that serves a as food source for animals that pass through here. that break down the oil into such a fine particle that it could get into them and all kinds of other ways so the stake of using it are very very high, they haven't done that yet, this is just trying to -- imagine you are on your kitchen floor sopping it up which what they are doing right now deeper methods may go, but that's all it is at the moment. >> you have done a good job of explaining that, it sounds like you are on your hands and knees and scrubbing the rocks. and trying to rake the sang, to skim it off the top to the best of your ability, thank you. appreciate it. jake ward for us following events out there in california on the coast. let's take a break we will come back with more of the day's news, right after this, this is al jazeera america.

shipments were accelerated they are expected to arrive early next month the rockets are intended to combat the kinds of suicide truck bombs isil fighters use in ramadi. the prime minister had requested the rockets on his recent visit to washington. ramadi is the capitol and it fell into isil hands earlier this week. iraq's military was not able to handle isil's onslaught there, the military is looking for volunteers to help fight the group. >> there are a new front line in anbar province. in the east of ramadi there is a fierce fight. isil has taken some towns in the district. forces loyal to the government are trying to prevent the armed group from getting closer to a main base a few kilometers away.

the levant hasn't lost the momentum, just days after seizing the capitol ramadi. there are those who believe the armed group may not just want to grab territory, it wants to drain the resources of it's opponents. >> does isil want to settle or to be a moot group? this is the idea of being a moving combat. our a you have mooing group that you are always threatening so many fronts especially when the defensive military forces are not equipped. and not ready shia commanders are moving some of their troops across the front line towards an bar. this is part of the on going preplations for the counter offensive. >> these men are known as the popular mobilization force

and they will lead the fight in the sunni province. they were called in after the regular forces and unbar's local police were not able to hold off the isil assault. there is a shortage of government solves in on bar and authorities authorities are now asking for volunteers to join the prime minister also says they will speed up the training of the local police, and arm and recruit sunni tribesman, it is not the first time they make such a promise to integrate sunnies into the security forces. many are skeptical that this plan will work, especially because there has been long time opposition from shia politician. >> onen bar's front line, militia men are seen fighting alongside the local police, the government has been trying to show that this fight is being waged by iraqis and is not a shia war against anbar sunnies.

there is a need to create a nonsectarian army in iraq, attempts in the past have failed. but the country is at a dangerous cross roads and with multiple front lines iraqis need to unite now more than ever. al jazeera, baghdad. >> up next, protestors on the streets of illinois today they want better pay at mcdonalds. also. david lederman says goodbye after more than three decades on late night television.

indiana has approved a needle exchange program. about 30 miles north of louisville kentucky it is the first to receive approval for the one year program under a new state law. 160 people have been tested and are positive for hiv. in the area since desks state officials have tied the outbreak to drug user sharing needles. mcdonned thats workers are back on the streets. demanding better wages ahead of today's shareholders

meeting. protestors are marching for a second day not far from chicago. they want a $15 minimum wage. earlier this year mcdonald raised starting pay from $1 above local minimum wage. that is a wrap for david letterman, the light night host signed off after more than three decades on air. randall pinkston has a look at his final show. >> our long national nightmare is over. our long national nightmare is over. >> our long national nightmare is over. our long national nightmare is over. >> our long national nightmare is over, letterman is retiring. >> you are just kidding

right. >> that was how david letter mapp kicks off the finale, of his 33 year late night career. introduced to a standing ovation in the ed sullivan theater. he has done 6,028 episodes. >> a pretty high percentage of those shows just absolutely sucked. but it wasn't filled with tears just that classic letterman self-deppry case. >> i will be honest with you it is beginning to look like i am not going to get the tonight show. >> and clips of the most memorable moments oevery the years. welcome to taco bell, what do you want. >> hi can, i have a kids meal with soft taco. >> are you mexican. >> no, i am not. >> if you are mexican the meal is half off. >>you are not you are not you are not funny. >> some of his biggest stars showed up to do his final top 10 list. >> i am just glad your show

is being given to another white guy. >> thank you for letting me take part in another hugely disappointing series finale. >> dave, i will never have the money i owe you. >> the the closing moments letterman honored his wife and son sitting in the odd jens. >> thank you for being my family, i love you both. and really, nothing else matters, does it. >> and then, he said goodbye. >> people who watch the show, there's nothing i can do to ever repay you. thank you for everything, you have given me everything. and thank you again. randall pinkston, at al jazeera. >> a space ex-cargo ship is back home. the dragon capsule touched down a short time ago hours after leaving the international space station. the capsule is carrying 3,000 pounds of lab samples and research notes. that is all of our time, thank you for joining us, the news continues next, life from london.