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isand we begin with the response to the bribery and corruption scandal surrounding soccer's world governing body. ahead says that he's not ready to resign he's the one who can restore trust in the organization >> reporter: he's not going anywhere, at least in his own mind, that's for sure. fast and furious today. he said he won't go anywhere, and he is planning to go for an unprecedented fifth term in a re-election bid tomorrow on friday. 79-year-old in a defiant speech in fifa's conference said that the arrests have brought shame and humiliation to the sport of soccer. >> i cannot monitor everyone all of the time. if people want to do wrong they will also try to hide it.

but it must fall me bring stability, for the reputation and well being of our organization, and to find a way forward to fix things. >> now assuming the re-election vote takes place on friday, it's a mix. and in russia and africa, he has won many friends over the years. in the u.s. and europe, any re-election will be met with derision. >> fifa has taken a battle over it quite lightly. and it now needs a totally different leadership. and therefore the most important thing for fifa is that he steps down and someone else takes his place. someone who believes in transparency and honesty. >> honesty the man said. i think it's possible that he

may end up going but it's hard to imagine how fifa can emerge with one voice after all of this. >> what 1 vladimir putin saying? >> he's still keen to fight the old cold war this time through football. he's accusing them from trying to stop them super hosting the world cup. it was that one is the 2022 in qatar that sparked the investigation. we will hold it in in the america in 2016. >> are the linchpin sponsors weighing in? >> i think that linchpin, they are weighing n this could be the deciding factor in all of this. fifa, with stepladder or without it, cannot operate without the backing of the

corporate sponsors, and they have some of the best names in the world. mcdonald's coca cola, visa, and all of these companies are expressing concerns, and some of them say that they will reassess their sponsorship deals unless fifa makes changes. >> a look at how the sponsors could respond to the fifa scanned am. a former speaker of the house is facing a scandal of his own. dennis hastert is invited for paying $3 million in hush money and then lying about it to the fbi. libby casey has it for us. >> reporter: tony, the allegations say that dennis hastert, former speaker of the house, first drew the attention of the authorities because he crew $7.1 million from different banks taking out $50,000 at a time. and they asked him about it, so he started withdrawing smaller increments, to avoid hitting

that threshold. and that totaled a lot of money. the fbi asked him if he was doing that because he didn't feel secure with the banking system something that he has done in the past. and he said yes and the fbi said that was a lie. instead, the indictment charges that the former house speaker was giving that money to conceal his own prior acts, and this person knew what dennis hastert had done. the person is not named tony. >> wow we need to know a lot more about that. >> libby does this come as a surprise. >> it does. dennis hastert was a speaker of the house and spoke down in 2007 and became a lobbyist. he's a familiar face in washington and here at home. both felony charges he faces two felonies, both come with 5

years in prison, and $250,000. they go that way for first offenders, and we're looking at financial issues, but this has uncovered a potential gateway into in other unknown act that hastert was allegedly trying to cover up and pay someone not to talk about. and that's what is potentially so shocking about this, in addition to the financial allegations, tony. >> will find out and the door is wild open. libby casey, thank you. a flooding disaster in texas and oklahoma is far from over. at least 21 people have died. and rivers have yet to crest and more homes evacuated and there's even more rain in the forecast. robert. >> hey tony, can you see i'm in a pretty devastated area here and can you imagine this would be the remnants of your home, all of your belongings on the street because of a giant flood? well, it's pretty amazing and

if you think about how big houston s. the 4th largest city in america, there are 650 square miles for officials to travers to figure out how much damage and devastation curled. we spent the day with the officials from the city of houston today as they went around some of the baddest neighborhoods like this one to figure out exactly what the cost of all of this is going to be. >> while houston braces for more rain, another water rescue outside of the city. meanwhile, residents and officials from america's fourth largest city are cleaning up and surveying the damage. >> we have to do damage assessments. this is one of the forms that we use to collect data. >> melvin hopkins is a city inspector, one of the 40 teams documenting destruction so the aid can be justified. >> this is where some of the most severe damage curled. >> so what are you guys looking for? right now we see these bags of

people's belongings here, and are you just driving by and that determines what and. >> that's one of the things that we look for. the most importantly what we're looking for, 23 you can see some of the water lines in the houses. most of these houses in this area have suffered major damage. >> houston has until sunday to assess the damage and meet fema's federal made deadline. a major task for the neighborhoods. >> i think the perception probably from a lot of people s. there's a disaster, and all of a sudden, there's just money that comes in. but what people don't realize there are a lot of steps that have to be proved for the money to be brought in, and that's what you guys do, right. >> absolutely. and there's also the perception that the federal government is going to come in and purchase your house or whatever. and what we're really assessing 1, what they're after is the unassured or the underinsured.

under insured. >> though the officials can't put a price tag on the destruction, this neighborhood in southwest houston nearly 5,000 homes and the majority of them need complete gutting because of the water damage. >> is there a possibility that we're going to go into the billions as far as damage here? >> i think that's certainly a possibility. but right now, it's just really too early to tell. >> and with more rain and flooding expected, prompting volunteer evacuations in some areas, the federal and state dollars, it's going on and on around the clock. >> tony, nice bmw this person's front lawn here, and this actually floated from a black away, we're told by the people who live here, it's not their vehicle, and as you can see

there's a lot of work to be done. there's rain in the future here in the coming days. just west of houston 60 miles, a town called wharten they're under a mandatory evacuation tonight. and the mayor is considering a curfew because though there's no rain tonight and the skies are beautiful it doesn't mean that the tribute tears and bayous are not still rising. >> i remember somebody saying yesterday, it's just stuff . and in wimberley the search 1 still on for people washed away on saturday night. heidi zhou-castro is there now and what's the latest on the search some. >> hey tony, very sad news. late last night, the body of a young boy was pulled from the shores of this river. and it's exactly what the rescue workers had been dreading. no idea on this boy but most likely, he was one of the three children who were staying inside of a vacation home that was swept away by this river

early sunday morning. the home where six-year-old andrew four-year-old layton and their mother, laura macomb, all remain missing and their father jonathan macomb is the only person of the nine staying inside of the house who have been found alive. and he's recovering from a collapsed lung and multiple broken bones. the body of a family friend of the macombs michelle sherry carbowas found this week in a neighboring county. and her husband and six-year-old son and her parents are also among the missing. >> heidi, what are the chances of finding anyone else alive? >> well, realistically tony, as the moments pass, the chances grow more slim. we're already more than four days out from when the people disappeared. by there's an army of volunteers, and train rescue workers and national guard troops who are still combing through this area, searching

for any sign of life. it's still considered a rescue operation rather than recovery, and a spokesperson for the loved ones of those missing say they're not giving up. >> this effort is not over. we're 100% committed to finding laura, andrew, layton, randy will, ralph and sue. we will need your support to keep this mission and the stories alive in the days, weeks and months ahead. >> a lot of the focus right now is still on those nine missing and the people here are still teaming up. 72 families lost their homes completely destroyed by this flood, while 1,000 more homes were very much damaged. tony. >> heidi zhou-castro for us in wimberley, texas. president obama said that disasters like the flooding in texas are the reminder of the need to be prepared for natural disasters. during his visits to the

national hurricane center, he urged local responders to help flood victims. >> the coordination is good, and they appear to have the assets they need at this stage to respond. but there's going to be a lot of rebuild. and we as a nation are going to have to help the same way we do any time that folks are affected by these natural disasters. >> while the president blamed the climate change for making storms and hurricanes more powerful, there was a developing story we're following out of iraq. explosions set at two hotels in baghdad killed ten people, and dozens more hurt. hurt. >> it was at the babylon near the tigris river and the second went off soon after. the attacks appear to have been coordinated. isil said that it has killed more than 100 iraqi shoulder

soldiers and shia militia fighters in the last 24 hours and they said seven were killed in the ongoing fighting. and isil started soldiers in suicide attacks in anbar province. in week, shia fighters are working together to battle isil. and they have a common bowl goal to take the city of ramadi. yet sectarian distrust remains. >> at an air base in anbar province they're officially joining the fight against isil. after criticism that deploying militias the government is trying to recruit sunni groups. they have long been suspicious of the government, which had has discriminatory policy. me won the battle seven years to get rid of of the predecessor

but after that victory they abandoned them. and that led to the rise of isil. this sunni tribal leader said that the policies will make the fight of isil deliberate. >> it's not helping the sunni community to retake their province. they are biased and deal in sectarian methods. only solution is to arm the sunnis and ask for international help. there's no hope for this government at all. and the battle for anbar won't be over soon. >> tribes are suspicious because of anbar's politics. the shia militias have been in the areas that they cleared the isle fighters from. and the tribal leaders set that they won't be able to stop people from joining isil. the latest defensive against isil isn't about sectarianism.

all over baghdad you'll see posters like these promoting iraqi army and popular mobilization forces, otherwise known as the shia militia. they are brought to you by the government. some say that they're propaganda, and others say that they're good information. promoting the idea that the fight against isil is a fight for all iraqis. but just a few inches away, political party linked to shia militias put up their own posters, highlighting the involvement of iran, and this has the sunni population both worried and angry. aljazeera, baghdad. >> well, the pentagon said so far, there have been no cases of anthrax exposure after samples of the substance were sent to nine states and south korea. jamie mcintyre is on this, and the initial report said that

these were live samples. what do we know? >> well, tony, let me tell you what happened here. so this is a case where the u.s. army has samples of anthrax that they use for research mostly to develop decks equipment. and last year, at the proving ground in dugway, they neutralized a batch of this and set it aside and began sending it to laboratories across the country, tiny vials that were sent through a secure fedex system in the laboratories. one laboratory in maryland took that supposedly dead culture and it grew live anthrax and said, wait a minute, it's not supposed to do this. and the army went back and tested the original batch. and they said, yes, it can be turned in the laboratory into a

live virus, 10 based on that, they recalled all of the anthrax that's being sent back through a more secure version of fedex and the cdc is going to test it. but there's no evidence that anyone was exposed dangerously to the anthrax virus and they're trying to figure out how it was that the radiation system that was supposed to kill the virus so it could be used harmlessly in research may have let the spores go through 10 they could be reconstituted in the laboratory. >> and what about the threat to the public? is there a threat? >> well, the pentagon says no, but people are saying, this is deadly anthrax going through the mails and it can kill you. the amounts were very very tiny and held securely, and the only time they got a live anthrax spore was when it was cultured

for several days in the laboratory. take the case in korea where some of these supposedly dead spores were sent. they were sent to korea where u.s. troops used them in exercises to test their own anti-anthrax protection equipment. and they were handling some of the samples. in that case, the base commander ordered the subject anthrax virus destroyed. and he gave everybody precaution but military personnel dermoid to korea they gettan flax vaccine and they should have some level of protection. they don't think there's any danger to the public, but there's a question of why these supposedly dead anthrax spores could be cultured in a laboratory where there was a live threat. and that's what the investigation is focusing on. >> yeah, and jamie, thank you. coming up on the program science fiction the experiment

meant to warn the gullible that you can't believe everything that you read. and now a word from the sponsors. what companies invested in fifa are saying about the corruption charges.

>> automakers are beginning to identify specific vehicles affected by last week's massive recall. bmw have been releasing information for 5 millionaire bags that need to be replace. 34 million are recalled so it could take weeks to identify all of the vehicles affected. earlier this year, a team of german researchers reported that people who ate dark chocolate lost more weight. and it sounds too good to be true. and it was. the journalist said that the goal of the study was to test journalists to see if they could tell a bad story are a good one. there was and there was an

actual clinical trial and the results are not. so how should your paper have been treated by one of the more reputable journals out there? >> well, it should never have been published. it should have been rejected out of hand. >> it should have been rejected out of hand, but you submitted this paper to a number of journals and what's the record? this is not the only journal we're talking about here that published it, correct? >> it's the only journal that published it, but i submitted it to 20 of them because i was crunched for time. i needed to get it published and 0 of them accepted it. >> so 0 accepted but only one published. >> we can only go to the ball with one suiter. >> you're teaching me something

about the business, so your paper wasn't peer reviewed. and that's really important for science, correct? >> it wasn't peer reviewed at all. if you're not peer reviewed, you're not eve a blog, just an echo chamber. >> if your paper been peer reviewed, how long would it have taken for someone to either start laughing or toss it in the fire? >> definitely under 5 minutes. maybe two. >> 2 minutes really? so give me a couple of easy tipoffs that this was a hoax paper. >> easiest is nowhere in the paper do we show how many subjects we testified. except in the caution where we off handled le said that the control group had five people. >> give me another one. how about we didn't even keep track of what the control group eight.

we just told people, spend a three-week period following a general low carb diet or not. >> so in the final analysis, these open access journals, are they junk that we should avoid or just keep our critical thinking hat on here? >> open access journals are just fine. open access is just a business model. and there are lots of business journals. it's hard to tell a difference. by design, you have these huxster journals that are imitating, and it's very hard to tell the difference, but the important thing is, when something does get passed it, it's up to us journalists to catch it out >> so why do you think that so many health reports and it probably says something about this industry. >> it's amateur hour. >> wait, what did you call it? >> i think that it's amateur

hour. basically, if you want to call yourself a reporter who is covering the diet science beat, can you fake it. it's food. you know? there's nothing complicated about it. and it's as complicated as astro physics, it's real science, and it's less hard. that's why we know less about what you eat and your health outcomes than a super nova. >> but we wanted to believe that you could loss weight by eating chocolate. >> i know, it was tempt. >> john, thank you for your time. joining us from cambridge massachusetts. a 97-year-old woman who never got to go on a field trim as a student took the field trip of her dreams this week. vivian bailey was invited after someone saw a story about her fundraising for an elementary school. she was greeted by vice president joe biden and then

president obama. and spent time with them both in the oval office. earlier today barbara spoke to billy about her trip to 100 pennsylvania avenue. >> so it was an exciting piece of business, and i felt very honored to meet both the president and the vice president. the first lady was not there but she sent a nice letter to me saying that she regretted that she was not there. and i certainly hope to meet her in the future. and i have a hope and wish that at some point we might be able on get the first lady to come out to our school. >> you can watch the rest of barbara's interview with a 97-year-old white house visitor at 11: p.m. pacific. still coming up on the program -- the issues that have students in chile taking to the streets. and plus, two siblings seeking asylum reunited after a

harrowing journey.

>> welcome back to aljazeera america. good just a few hours the embattled president of the fifa could be leaked to a fifth term. he said that he will not step down despite a massive bribery and corruption scandal. he said that he 1 the person to restore trust in world soccer. >> i know many people hold me ultimately responsible for the actions and reputation of the global football community. whether it's a decision for the hosting of the world cup or a corruption scandal. we or i cannot monitor

everyone all of the time. if people want to do wrong they will also try to hide it. >> the fifa corruption scandal $100 million in sponsorship deals, jonah hall has that part of the story. >> reporter: fifa may be learning that in the big brand world of advertising bad publicity can be the most expensive. the current corruption scandal threatens to rub off on fifa's world cup sponsors. they're not happy. this lengthy has tarnished the reputation, and mcdonald's says that it takes matters of corruption and ethics very

seriously. saying that it will monitor the situation closely. visa expresses disappointment and concern saying that it expects fifa to take immediate steps, and technology reassess its sponsorship. >> the tipping point might be the negative that this becomes 10 large that fifa becomes a toxic brand. and it may be that the companies feel they can't pursue this relationship. and it might be that they feel they have their own legal liabilities if they're giving money to fifa inappropriately so there are a host of things that might make them think again. >> last year's world cup in brazil broke records in the u.s. and europe. watched by more than 1 billion fans worldwide. and thia users in the hundreds

of millions. which may be why they have had scandal before, but perhaps not anymore. >> it's not only the sponsors. there are plenty of people in the community, minutes ago government fans, associations who said we want reform. refuse to engage and refuse to listen so the only people that have the power to make this happen are the sponsors. >> some names have already dropped out. last december, so-called second tier sponsors, castro, continental and johnson and johnson, opted not to renew the deals for the world cup in russia. but it's the top tears that they worry about most. all of them may need more of this. aljazeera. >> peter shankman is a check media and marketing consultant

in nashville tennessee. and good to see you. let me start here. it seems to me we have seen this before. many of the bankers at the helm at the time of the financial crisis are still in place and none of them have gone to prison. and seth blatter says that he's in the position to fixle problem. he couldn't stop it, but now he can fix it. does the buck stop at blatter's desk? does he stay or go. >> it's hard to say that you can stop the problem that you potentially started. i'll stop the flood. shut off the water. we have seen it from a sponsor perspective. not just in the world cup but remember tiger woods,? he announced i'm going to robb and i'll be back in 2010 and the sponsors stuck with him. sponsors know there's a lot of

money to be made with this. and these companies are not above putting a little money in an interview and sending it their way if it helps but the thing is that there are specific cases going to trial. and you have brands here, visa, for instance, who is a financial institution, and there's a potential that their books might be looked at and this is not making visa very happy. and all of a sudden, this becomes a of bigger issue with serious ramification. >> i want to stay with the whole banking analogy for a moment here. blatter says, we're 10 big if people want to cheat, they will cheat and hide it, right? 10 the question is, is this organization, it's global football, global soccer, 1 the organization too big to face? >> can you ever imagine another ceo using that and expecting it to be taken in a positive way?

when he said that, my mouth dropped. but here's the fascinating thing. you have to separate soccer from fifa. soccer 1 potentially the world sport religion. everyone knows soccer, and everyone watches it in europe and africa, and fifa, much like a religion, they have taken that and done nefarious things with t the question becomes you have two things, one is there's a financial potential for millions and millions in fines and jail time and things like that. >> but on the flip side, a lot of credence of the story that has been bubbling in the past year about human rights violation in qatar on building the stadium and things like that and things in russia as well. so all of this done adds a lot more fuel to what 1 becoming a of, much bigger fire. and the department of justice you can shave off allegations

and push away human rights abuse allegations. but you can't tell the department of justice to go away. they're very much like a fungus, and when they're there they're not going away. >> let me put this one you peter, does it matter if the advertisers bail? the sport 1 bigger than visa, nike or coca-cola. blatter survives because at the end of the day, he has mesi' and rooney. >> but will fifa survive if they don't have the advertisers who bring them money? everyone 1 under the impression that it will bring them money but who makes the money from this? not the countries feverra and where does fifa make the money? the advertisers if the advertisers bail, the second they start to bail, blatter

will months if not all of, a ton of his support. the second that visa or adidas or coca-cola or budweiser fifa is the company that convinced brazil to sell beer at the games after they stopped doing it for 15 years and they passed something called the budweiser law. are you kidding me? as soon as the money starts to go away, i guarantee you that the people will not have the support. >> in a month, this is probably a test, right? election will happen, and blatter will probably win. >> he will win because the money is still there. >> so we get the women's world cup in a month's time. and you'll have a conversation about this in the first week, but in the second week, when it's winning time, and third week when it's winning time, i feel like there's nothing that's going to be discussed in terms of the scandal. it's going to be where is your

country's squad and how does it do? >> that's where you separate fifa from the game itself. and again doj is involved. if you want to bribe someone do it in a domination of a country that doesn't have such strict laws. that's rule number one with organized crime. don't bribe people with u.s. dollars. next time it, the doj they put their reputation on the line with in. >> one more, but blatter is saying these are a few bad apples and i'm going to cooperate? when you find them guilty and you won't get me, and we're going to be the first ones to kick the bad apples out of our game. we don't want them in the game. and there will be lovely news. >> remember the great scene in the untouchables where robert

deniro said i don't kill people because it's bad for business, and this is a situation where if i can't trade back, of course he's going to say that. but what this comes down to $1 and as soon as a major company i guarantee that visa, budweiser, all of these companies have canceled their summer plans. the crisis management teams have been in the room and they will be there for three months. they're not going anywhere. and until they know exactly what level the doj is going to go, they could subpoena the records for ten years if they want. >> peter joining us super nashville, tennessee tonight. and reminding you that aljazeera 1 funded in part by the government of qatar. the dalai lama 1 urging leaders to speak out about the persecution of minorities.

silenced about the violence for thousands to fleemy flee myanmar. the dalai lama said that he feels she can do something. many who flee are unaccompanied miners. and some of them have been separated from their families. each had thought the other had died. and stephanie reports on it. >> at home in myanmar with her eight-year-old brother looking for piece and a life without persecution. they spend months at sea and navy ships have towed them away. after the 16-year-old was rescued by fishermen the first thing she tried to dos with find her brother. he ended up on a different boat after smugglers had found them.

the picture taken in another refugee camp turned out to be of her brother. >> i was so i want and devastated when i could not find him. my family and i assumed he was'd and we even held funeral rituals for him. i could not find anythingful can you please help me find my brother? >> her mother was killed when the house was burned down in myanmar, the father had fled the violence and is now in china. exhausted and dehydrated, she's in the province with 800 asylum seekers and mig rants. >> they have destroyed our house, and we could not move around freely anymore. many girls any age were being raped and that's why i decided to leave. >> her brother arrived five

days after his sister. he's in a shelter 20 minutes down the road. we got permission from the local authorities to bring the two together. he also thought his sister had died they started tell each other about the horrors at sea. how a fight broke out. and many were thrown in the sea and died. and how they had to struggle to survive on very little food and water. >> i feel like i'm at home now seeing her. it's like i see my parents and everyone. i'm so happy. if we survived, i told her we would meet again. we were very close to dying. >> she meets many others in the village that she presumed dead. they all want to hear her stories. [ singing ] >> a religion when he was still in myanmar but he was forced

to drop out of school due to the violence. in the refugee camp, he leads the others in prayer. >> the only thing we were looking for is peace. they should decide what we should do or where we have to go. >> finally, they have been reunited. but only for a few hours. a real family reunion can take up to a few months, because they have been stranded in two different districts. >> the u.n. high commission for human rights said that it wants to reunite separated families as soon as possible. here they are saying good-bye again. it's painful. but to cope with the journey and trying to resume lives in this new country, it would be a lot easier if they would at least have each other. aljazeera. >> protesters and police have been clashing today on the streets of chile.

[ sirens ] well the demonstrators are mostly students, but they march through the streets of santiago this afternoon protesting police brutality. the police are bracing for potentially violent demonstrations overnight. and today a special investigative unit turned in its report on the police shooting on an unarmed hispanic man in pasco washington. allen 1 live for us in pasco washington. and allen will this new report lead to criminal charges against the officers involved? >> well, it's fair to say that if there are eventually criminal charges against these officers, the results of this report the special investigation report, will be the basis of those charges. but we have to remember that this is an incident that happened 3 and a half months ago when antonio zambrano was shot and killed on the streets of pasco and it looks like it's going to be another 3 and

a half months at least until we get more solid answers for the charges that you were talking about, tony. the prosecutor held a press conference today. and he has just received a report from the special investigator's unit, four three ring binders and as many as 15,000 still framed images, perhaps dozens of different videos and many, many pages 10 he has a lot to process and he says he's not going to make a quick decision right now on whether they there are going to be criminal charges. he's going to let the process play out and he's also going to let the coroner call an inquest if in fact the coroner decides to do that. so for the folks looking for quick answers and quick resolution on the shooting of antonio zambrano and the police they're not going to get it. >> justice is not about winning, but getting it right. and as in the case like, as the

other hundreds that we review on an annual basis we need it get this right. and i'm not going to sacrifice quality for speed. i know that the public wants to have a decision and answers and i share that concern, and i think it's a valid concern. >> the results of that investigation are going to be made public. but it will take at least 30 days to work through the public disclosure process before we can get that position and get a look at it. when we talked to the prosecutor in the past, he said that the charges that could be appropriate in this case, murder one and two are what he referenced. but again those are possibilities that he considered. >> alan with us in pasco washington, and why former new york governor, george petaki says that he should be the next president, and plus, a

final tribute for forgotten veterans. veterans. >> making sure that every vet is buried with honors.

>> so add the name of george petaki to the police of those running for president. he kicked off his campaign with an event in new hampshire. >> i saw the horrors of september 11th firsthand. in the days and weeks that followed it, i saw the strength of america. >> in 2001, two planes slammed into the world trade center, he was the governor. >> everything that can be done to save every life is being done, and we'll continue to make sure that that's a priority.

>> in the days and months that followed, governor petaki was tasked with trying to help manhattan rebuild. it turned into a political struggle and a design nightmare. 9-1-1 families were infuriated when petaki refused the plan to rebuild the twin towers to make them strong. and instead, he supported a design called the freedom tower. backed by political supporters. it can affect his legacy as he seeks the presidency. that's not however how petaki views his political fate. >> i learned early other that you can't control what you can't control. you can control your ideas and vision and how you work and that's all i'm worried about. >> he began his political career as mayor of his hometown, and in 1994, he ran

for governor against three-term democrat mario cuomo. defeating him in a stunning upset. petaki went to serve three consecutive terms as governor of new york state. since then, petaki has gun a businessman and chairman of conservative causes, revere america, he went to campaign against the affordable care act. pet beingy has toyed with the idea of running for president before in 2008 and in 2012. >> i kid around new hampshire this is my 8th trip, that every four years there's the olympics picks and world cup and petaki running for president. >> by this time, it's real. >> i've never been one for problems, i'm a solutions guy. when you grow up on a farm, and you have a problem you don't ask the government to solve it. you just figure out what needs

to be done and go do it. that's the american way. >> there's even a super pact to support his presidential bid. he has a record as an environmentalist and supported a woman's right to choose. petaki supporters believe that his moderation on social issues could help him stand out in a crowded field. >> martin o'malley organized the super pact days before expected. the committee 1 called generation forward and it's expected to vocation heavily on young voters. for a look at what's coming up at the top of the hour, john seigenthaler. >> chris christie says common core education standards are a failure and need to be changed. why parents oppose it, and teachers oppose it, and others say that it's working. plus:

>> when people call for the police, it's going to take them a long time to get there if they get there at all. >> why new orleans is struggling to find and keep police officers. the problem is 10 bad that the city is lowering it's recruiting standards. government sharp shooters are killing thousands of birds along the columbia river. why they're doing it, and why some say that it's a big mistake. scientists say that they have discovered the world's earliest known murder case. how they pieced together the evidence from 34,000 years ago. and the hardest rocking head backing guy in music. the croatian duo two cellos. [ music ] pretty cool. those stories and a lot more coming up in about 6 minutes. >> see then. thank you. and california's riverside national cemetery, u.s. veterans are buried with full military honors.

among them, those whose bodies have gone unclaimed. veterans without family wants to make sure that men and women who served their country receive a proper burial. [ music ] >> on every wednesday morning every year for the past nine without fail, doyle tolbert has been laying brothers and sisters to rest here. paying tribute along with doseses of other veterans to the fall and not forgotten. [ gunshots ] riverside national cemetery is home to more than 225,000 veterans. doyle, a former investigator with the coroner's office started his weekly trips to the cemetery after he noticed the number of veterans whose bodies

were left unclaimed by next of kin, and as a result, without proper burial. >> if nobody claimed them, they would be cremated by the county. and then the remains held for a couple of years and after that, they would be taken to the county cemetery and buried at that site, which is with just a marker on it, saying the year of the day of death. >> since interstate, veterans without family has honored more than 3500 veterans. each memorialized with a dog tag. there's one for ronald needless a vietnam paratrooper who found his way after years of war and quickly lost his way. nicole is his niece. >> i think that it was hard perfect mim to live with himself because of the things that he had done, and because that have, i don't think that he liked to be sober very much.

he stayed under the bridge on mission behind us. >> he lived under that bridge? >> he lived under the bridge. >> ronald passed away under the mission bridge in august of 2014. it would be four years before any loved ones learned of his death. and another six before he was laid in his final resting place, not far from the bridge he had made his home. rett rans without family learned of ronald's story and made him one of their own. on another wednesday morning in 2014, he was buried with full military honors. what does it mean for you to be able to give that man dignity in his death? >> it gives me a lot of pride a lot of self-satisfaction knowing we're able to be there and give him his final military honors that he earned and deserved.

at the time of his burial. >> aljazeera riverside california. >> boy and you can watch michael's full report tonight on aljazeera. john seigenthaler 1 up next. .. .

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