family itself. >> good discussion david. thank you for joining me. he's a senior editor at the international business tiemdz. that's our show for today. i'll ali velshi. thank you for joining us. disaster zone. >> i witnessed firsthand the devastation of the tsunami style river rise. >> record-setting rain and unprecedented flooding bring death and destruction to texas. swing reform. >> but let me be clear in light of the work that has brought us here today, i am deeply optimistic that transform saying coming to cleveland. >> cleveland's police department accepts tough new rules from the federal government over how and

when its officers use force. the i.r.s. hacked. cyber criminals attack the agent agency stealing private information from more than 100,000 taxpayers. and in harm's way. the volcano that's threatening rare wildlife on the galapagos islands. good evening i am antonio mora this is al jazerra america. houston is at a stand still tonight after being hammered by torrential down pours. nearly a foot of rain fell there killing at least 10 people. forcing shutdowns of area schools and mass transit. in other parks of texas and oklahoma being are struggling to recover from 72 hours of record-breaking rain, storms that have killed at least 17 people in the two states. we get more now from heidi joe castro in texas. >> reporter: antonio, this is the place where a 46-foot tall of water came careening down the

polanco river over the weekend carrying 72 homes with it. you can see the evidence all every the place the red mad restless that was slammed with such force not bridge it was stuck inside a crevasse here. this massive tree torn from its roots the park has been sheered off this tree. not to mention the household items we find strewn all about the place along with photographs and other keepsakes that families are dearly missing this is just where the disaster started. now the trouble is in houston. muddy water, as far as the eye can see. governor greg abbott has declared a state of disaster in more than 40 counties including houston's harris county. >> this will provide additional resources and tools that will allow everyone in harris county to be able to respond even more effectively to the challenges you face. the. >> reporter: houston was

swamped. >> homes have been completely wiped off of the map. >> reporter: every part of the city hit. >> we are the defining feature of houston is the small rivers that run through the city. and many of them went over their banks and began to flood neighborhoods. >> reporter: 11-inches of rain fell on the houston area overnight. rescue workers say they had to save more than 500 people from high water. mostly people stranded in their vehicles. more than 2500 cars and trucks were abandoned as drivers scramble to higher ground. farther north. the search continues for two families whose vacation home was swept in to the blanco river. witnesses described seeing the home careening down the river before it smashed against this bridge and fell apart in to pieces. at the time the water was not only my head, but over the height of the bridge. in all, 13 people from hayes

county are unaccounted for. at least three are reported to be young children. a body found tuesday more than remains unidentified. >> it's scary. i have children and to imagine that, you know, you couldn't help the children and you couldn't get out. don't know what happened. i just can't imagine. so very sad. >> reporter: junea brown lives up river and says she has never imagined this kind of destruction in her backyard. is that just a slap like over there? >> uh-huh. yes. yes. that's part of that. and all that's left is the rock work i think and the rock fireplace. everything else looks gone. >> reporter: and with still more rain in the forecast, texas is bracing for more disaster to come. here we are expecting clear skies for the next few days, but by this weekend this there could be another round of storms. and the trouble with that, antonio is that now this entire state of texas has its ground

saturated. its rivers and lakes saturated as well. so any additional rain will only add to the problem. >> heidi joe castro in texas. meteorology kevin core bow has been trackal the storms, he joins us now as heidi said more rain to come. >> meteorologist: there is more rain to come. if you remember last night we are here watching live video of the thunderstorms pushing through houston we never thought it was going to be as bad as it was. this is what we are looking at last night. this is the line of thunderstorms, i want to go close never and show you what it looked like. it was very extensive and very slow moving. that's why we saw so much rain come out of the area. it was on top of the already saturated ground we have seen through the month of rain. we are already above average and now above recovered for many places here. okay, let's go to google earth and show you here across houston. we had about 10.96 yesterday -- or last night through in morning just in about a five-hour

period. then to the southwest in richmond learn .35-inches there. and all of these highways and local roads, of course, we are seeing major problems, very hard to get around and provide relief efforts in that area. the big problem is the thunderstorms in northern tex we are seeing problems with those as they move towards dallas. flash flood warnings in the area, of course the existing flood warnings in parts of houston as well. >> it's terrible. thank you kevin. mexico's president is promising to help victims of a tornado that hit a border town near texas, the president of mexico toured the area at least 13 people died there including children when a twister touched down on monday. hounds of homes were either damaged or destroyed during the tornado. >> translator: we will go house to house and see how you have been affected and then begin the process of reconstruction.

it will not happen overnight. we will have to clean up most of the homes remove the rubble. remove many houses and then rebuild them. until this happens there are shelters. >> tornadoes are extremely rare in that area. this was the first one to touchdown in northern mexico in more than a century. cleveland is determined to reform its police force which has been under fire for its tactics and conduct. today the city announced the settlement with the justice department that end a government inquire ifinquiry in to the police department. the agreement sets strict new rules for how and with when officers can use force. >> today may 26th, 2015, marked a new way of policing in the city of cleveland. one built on the strong foundation of progressive change. sustained trust and beingbility. >> reporter: cleveland mayor frank jackson putting an optimistic spin on a settlement designed to end years of abuse by cleveland police. the agreement with the u.s. department of justice comes

five months after the d.o.j. found cleveland p.d. engaged in a pattern of unconstitutional policing. among worst examples of excessive force cited in the report were patrol officers shooting at people who pose no threat. hitting people over the head with guns and using stun gun on his handcuffed suspects. >> the challenges that cause this agreement that this agreement addresses they didn't arise in a day, we are not going to get rid of them overnight. >> reporter: under the agreement it emphasizes community policing accountability and training of biased policing. >> you put your your lives on the line each and day our investigation revealed that you were being asked to do this tremendously difficult word without adequate guidance, training supervision or

support. and some some cases without adequate kweu6789 just best announcements, hundreds took to the streets. members of about 40 area churches marched over their disappointment in the nonguilty verdict for cleveland police officer. the former marine was cleared on saturday of manslaughter for firing fort nine shots at the vehicle timothy russell and melissa williams were riding in in 2012. including the 15 shots he unloaded through the windshield child stand on this hood of russell's car. >> everybody is talking about peace. we have been doing this for 400 years. >> reporter: his acquittal led to protests, peaceful demonstrations turned aggressive after dark. over 70 people were arrested. >> i am deeply optimistic that transformation is coming to cleveland. there is much work to be done across the nation and in cleveland. to rebuild trust between law enforcement and the communities they serve where it has eroded

but it can be done. >> reporter: but it's along road ahead in cleveland with an independent monitor in place to make sure the police play by the new rules. and it's important to know that there are at least two other high-profile case this is in cleveland involving police officers one being the shooting death of tamir rice. the 12-year-old was shot and killed by eye cleveland police officer last november while he was playing with a toy gun antonio. >> thank you. pentagon officials say chaos reigned in ramadi when iraqi military forces retreated last week and isil took control of the city. sources tell al jazerra america iraqi forces out numbered isil by 10-1, but iraqi troops were spooked by the coordinated isil attack. the ambushed involved eight truck bombs detonated during a sand storm. the pentagon officials say iraqi troops feared the storm would limit air support and make them vulnerable. meanwhile iraqi troops and shia militias have launched an offensive to take back rah mad

and i push isil fighters out of anbar province altogether. imran kahn has more from the edge of anbar. >> reporter: iraqi security forces gather on the edge of ramadi preparing to retake the city which fell to fighters in the islamic state of iraq and the levant more than a week ago. it's likely to be a long operation. there are reports of isil fighters preparing to meet government security forces. they'll leave the operation with backing from shia militia many of which are supported by iran and air strikes from a coalition of countries led by the united states. iraqi army is also gearing found other operations. with the fall of ramadi and isil in control of border crosses from syria in to anbar it's feared isil fighters could push in to baghdad. to prevent that happening, this man is securing the outskirts of the capital. the town just under 30-kilometers from baghdad is being fortified. >> translator: we are fighting a

psychological war. isil have an effective media campaign against us. we have been accused of retreating. we are not. we are now backing up our troops here and preparing for the fall of ramadi. >> reporter: the forces here are mainly shia ma militia. since prime minute is bad i brought them under the command of the iraqi government they are flying a new flag, each militia has its own identity but fight under their own banner including this sunni fighter group. fortifying baghdad comes with the unique challenges. this is the bridge the last safe place to cross from or ban province in to baghdad. with the operation now under way, it's likely that we'll see more scenes like this. fears of what comes next are common here. >> translator: as long as we sunnis marginalized the fight will take a long time. there are sunni forces willing to fight and i would join that fight, if the government accepts us. >> reporter: iraqi security fors have opened and close third degree bridge at random, concerned that isil fighters will enter baghdad disguised as

displaced people only increasing the tension in the capital and elsewhere, no doubt iraq has a huge challenge on its hands in secure anbar province and defeating isil, it's not just within anbar profits it's also secure baghdad as well. many people say if baghdad falls, isil have won, there are also other significant challenges that includes finding homes for these people who are fleeing the violence and making sure that they get back home eventually. imran dawn, al jazerra, on the outskirts of anbar province. police in afghanistan have responded to a an attack on a guest house pop player with international visitors, it happened overnight in an upscale kabul neighborhood where several em bass is are located. police have surrounded the building and gunfire has been heard in the area. no one has claimed responsibility. earlier this month taliban fighters attacked another guest house in kabul killing 14 people. nine of them foreigners, including one american. a blistering, dangerous heat wave has much of i india in its

grip. officials say more than 750 people have died. on monday, some areas in eastern india recorded temperatures as high as 117 degrees. the hot dry conditions are being made worse by winds blowing in from pakistan. officials say the intense heat is expected to continue for another two days. more than 100,000 u.s. taxpayers have just had their old tax returns stolen. who the i.r.s. suspects is behind the hack and how they did it. also the fight for free an american reporter month faces years in an iranian prison as his trial begins in teheran.

president obama urged lawmakers to keep identity parts of the patriot act alive. the senate left no recess saturday without renewing a provision used to justify several nsa surveillance programs, that includes the controversial collection of phone records from millions of americans. the provision expires at midnight sunday. if it does expire the president says there is no backup plan. >> this needs to get done.

and i would urge folks to just work through whatever issues can still exist make sure we don't have on midnight sunday night this task still undone. because it's necessary to keep the american people safe and secure. >> the president asked the senate to pass a house bill that reins in the nsa's collection of phone date actual the senate will hold a rare session sunday to work on the issue. one of the authors of the house bill is congressman gerald nadler. he spoke with our tony harris earlier tonight and said no matter what the senate does the house will not budge. >> we have this unacceptable massive surveillance, we want to stop it. the house after working for two years passed a very good bitch at least i think it was a very good bill. i am one of the authors of it. >> the u.s. freedom act. >> the usa freedom act.

it doesn't do everything, there is criticism it doesn't dough far enough which i agree but we got a very good bill which is a compromised, senator lay introduced the same bill in the senate central mcconnell and byrd want to continue the dragnet security indefinitely and renew it for five years. the section that was misinterpreted expires may 30th. may 31st. so the central paul filibustered an attempt to extend it, the house will vote to extend it by a day or an hour. >> no extensions. >> no. >> no hours no, weeks. >> not a second. >> okay. >> the congressman calls the demands by senate republicans a lot of nonsense. turn knawing to a security breach linked to the i.rs. the agency reported that hackers stole the personal information of more than 100,000 tax payers. john terrett joins us now. how does this happen, john?

>> it's shocking, isn't it. the i r.a. has an app. they have several. the one we are talking about is called get transcript. it's basically use today download previous tax returns we are told 23 million downloads have been made in recent months, it was supposed to be secure. turned out to be more like an open door. >> reporter: the i.r.s. hacked. thieves use thinking using an an line tool stole the information and potential refunds of hundreds of thousands of tax pay he the i.r.s. commissioner says there has been about 200,000 attempts to illegally access information from february to may of this year. about 100,000 of them were successful. i.r.s. commissioner saying we are confident these are not am tuesday, they are actually organized crime syndicates that not only we, but everyone in the financial industry are dealing with. he says the hackers used an app called get transcript. which calls up information from previous action tax returns to gain access to i.r.s. computers.

>> the information they needed was simple. name, social security, birthday, home address. these are things that are pretty much out in the public domain at this stage in the game. >> reporter: so what does this all mean for ordinary americans? >> it's a good time for be reminded take down your birthday from your facebook. your facebook profile. take down personal information that people can take and emulate you enough to the point where they can go to the i.r.s., go to the social security administration, go anywhere in the country with just enough about you that they can be you enough to do some real damage. >> reporter: the i.rs breach is the last nest a screen of serious hacks at major u.s. companies and government departments. the biggest retail hack so far was it. j max in 2007n that case, thieves got way with the date after 94 million customers. but no business is immune, like jp morgan chase and ebay and

america online. other government agencies have been hit too like the important gone in a hack defense secretary ashton carter blame on the russians and the department of energy where online gangs have said to have made mince meat of security. so who is behind attacks on this scale? >> this is a group of people how out to show the world that the hackers have the upper hand right now. and for as long as they can they are going to continue to disrupt our digital life. >> reporter: he says the hackers are not geeks in basements anymore, but organized gangs located all over the world. and some may be based a the home. the i.r.s. said the get transcript app has been disabled. i would hope so. the i.r.s. only ever contacts you by the u.s. mail f you get an e-mail from them it's a fraud. >> willall right, thank you john. amtrak plans to add video

cameras inside their cabs to record the action of engineers in the. the move is in response to the deadly amtrak crashing. the driver says he doesn't know what happened. jason is charged with spying on iran for the u.s. the post has said he faces at least 10 years in prison if convicted. but his trial is being conducted behind closed doors. the newspaper the u.s. government and jason's family deny the allegations guns him. >> he looks older. he looks tired. certainly it's taken a huge toll on him. psychologically it's taking a toll on him. he's been isolated the entire time. he just wants to get the message out. he wants everybody to he's innocent he didn't do anything wrong, these charges have no basis in fact. >> the state department is calling on iran to make the proceedings open and

transparent. the islands and species that helped inspire charles darwin are being threat threatened. up next what a volcanic eruption could mean for the animals of the grab goes islands and remembering an american artist through her iconic work.

a major cable deal could create a new giant in the industry. charter communications says it will buy time warner cable for

$55 billion. the announcement comes a month after comcast backed out of a deal to buy time warner cable following scrutiny from federal regulate he charter says if the deal is approved the new company would any be smaller than comcast. student loan debt in the u.s. has reached a staggering number $1.2 trillion. most of the debt tk*et is owed by people over 30 who spent years trying to pay it off. as john hendon reports, one group has come up with new option to his help borrowers get rid of their loans. >> reporter: in his a found a way beat the student low system, by following a piece of simple counter inning thankcounterintuitive advice. >> more expensive schools have more money to give w5eu789 as a strong student from a low income household she qualified for grant at some of the expensive private universities in the u.s. northwestern university as an undergraduate and the university of chicago for graduate school at a cost of nearly $50,000 a year. >> it's like a came back to chicago. >> reporter: now 30 for 32 years old

she owes $35,000 but they are deferred while she's earning her ph.d in sociology at the university of illinois in chicago. but her is his a rare story. for many students big loans are the only way they can make it onto a campus like this, once they leave the loans can become crippling. statistically the older they are the harder it is to pay those loans off. increasingly students are paying of on those loans later in the their 30s 40s and even 50s and owing more. the u.s. federal reserve says while those in their 20s owe on average just under $20,000 those in their 30s owe just under 30,000. that trends also holds in canada and the u.k. shaun says the reason can be explained in two words. >> compound interest. right, so the older you get and the less able you are to pay your owns, that compound interest is going to build and build and build. which makes is a lot harder. >> reporter: his company

sponsorchange.org linked skilled graduates in pittsburgh, washington d.c. and chicago with companies that pay off their student loans directly out of their salaries. companies like blue 1647. a nonprofit technology center. >> we have a lot of students that are really talented, but their one small digital scale away from being highly employ immaterial. what we try to do is while we are working on that side of make them more em playable we want to reduce their debt to start companies to take on more risk. >> reporter: with one in four graduates in the u.s. behind on their loans melissa says her loans will impact her her lifestyle for years to come. >> i think the combination of growing up in a low income household, not placing value on material things, blues learning how to manage a very small budget for a long period of time like there are certain thing that i can continue to do without. >> reporter: the job she takes after she finishes her latest degree she says, will be determined largely by how it helps her pay off her student loans. john hen hendon, al jazerra

chicago. a mile high volcano has round on the galapagos island, lava is still flowing but now the explosions have stopped. some fear the eruption could affect the island, fragile ecosystem made famous by charles darwin and his there i have evolution think the lie amends are home for eye number of unique species not found anywhere else on earth. including inning dangered pinky kwan as whose only habitat is the islands. we are verifying the come if is of pink y ghana it i ghanas. >> the park service says the he runs cut not pose a theft to tourtourists. mary el an mark has died her work has been in many magazines and hang in hugh seem ups all

over the world. >> reporter: the pictures. intimate. startling. confrontational. heartbreaking. for more than 40 years maryellen mark traveled the world to reveal humanity's forgotten people. children living on the streets of seattle. prostitutes in mumbai. women in a mental hospital in oregon. she documented the grim reality of street life. and the fantasy world of movie sets. and movie as far stars. she would spent week, even months living with her subjects. earning their trust so she could photograph their truth. john siegenthaler, al jazerra. i am antonio mora, thanks

for joining us, for the latest news any time you can head over to aljazerra.com. ray suarez is up next with "inside story." have a great night. daily life is getting worse. in the thousands they leave places where they are neglect today places they are not welcome. for them, the risk are starving or drowning on boats packed with desperate migrants is better than the intense suffering they face at home. but the countries to which people are fleeing are far from figuring out what to do next and for now provide reluctant mercy. desperate journeys is tonight's "inside story"