>> hard earned pride... hard earned respect... hard earned future... a real look at the american dream hard earned only on al jazeera america >> part of our month long look at working in america. "hard earned". this is al jazeera america. i'm del walters in new york. with a look at today's top stories. a key nsa program is set to expire after senate failed to extend act. discrimination all about whether a can of is soda can be used as a weapon. and pressing issues in front of the supreme court at a can be decided in the coming days.

same sex marriage and religious freedom, all in our regular segment, the week ahead. in a little less than an e-an hour, key provision et cetera of the patriots of the patriotact, hoping to either extend act or replace it before midnight it will libby casey explains what happens when the clock strikes 12. >> reporter: del the senate is letting provisions of the patriot act lapse but most much them will likely owned go go dark for days. the freedom act setting up the body up for a vote later on this week and that is a compromise bill. democrat martin heinrich, still

voted tonight to bring it to the floor. >> i accept that circumstances require us to be pragmatic. require us to govern and move forward and to work with one another, in both parties. to find compromise. that's what the u.s.a. freedom act is. it's a product of bipartisan compromise. >> the ability to do roving wiretaps and lone wolf suspects. it stops the government's collection of phone records that information would still be held by private phone companies and senators including rand paul of kentucky thinks that still leaves far too much leeway for agencies such as the nsa. >> tonight begins the process of ending bulk collection. the bill will ultimately pass,

we look for silver linings. this will replace one form with another but no longer collect your phone records. my concern is that the phone companies still may do the same thing. >> and del federal officials had warned about the patriot act expiring tonight saying any lapse in surveillance abilities could be dangerous. but the white house tonight put out a statement after the senate advanced the freedom act. instead of forecast being doom and classroom it took the opportunity to support the act calling the senators delay irresponsible but at this point any lapse on most provisions would be very short term. del. >> libby casey, thank you very much. secretary of state john kerry is cutting short his european trip because of a bicycle injury. right now he is recooperating at a hospital in geneva,

switzerland. he will fly to meet with his own doctors. breaking his leg while riding his bicycle on sunday. the state department cancelling his diplomatic trips to spain and france. too soon to issue an all-clear. dangerous floodwaters still exist. officials say it should take days or weeks for those floodwaters to recede. jonathan martin has more. >> reporter: dell, with that evacuation order being wrawnl, manywithdrawn, many residents are returning home. many people consider this to be actually pretty minor compared to what could have been. sunday's sun brought with it a sense of optimism along the bayou. after a week of reported

downpours gary still had a chance to dry off and clean up. >> we will have to cut sheetrock two to three feet in the house pull out the flooring. >> reporter: 30 miles south of houston, the river is still 20 feet above flood stage. >> how concerned are you that the water is going to come to your home? >> very concerned. not too far now. >> but the mandatory evacuation order was lifted at noon, the crest on monday. >> so is the rising over? >> we sure hope so. holding at 49 feet. >> crews remain on a mission to rescue some 500 head of cattle that have been strand he for several days. while the people here in south texas are slowly returning to normal this epic week of rain has left its mark. >> we spent eight hours on our

kitchen counters with the floodwaters in our house. it really caught us all you know by surprise. >> and this storm will also be memorable for a lot of people because of how adevastating it was. because of the rain and floods and also tonight 11 people still missing, del. >> jonathan martin, thank you very much. in syria i.s.i.l. is saying it has captured a strategic town, sarwan, near aleppo, close to a major supply line through turkey. elsewhere there are reports at a 16 people died in government shelling in the northern city of idlib. in northeastern syria another 25 civilians died, gas slender burst, ignited an oxygen slender and gas tank. observers saying the death toll could top 50.

more than 200,000 people have died in syria's four year civil war so far humanitarian toll even higher. the u.n. estimating 10 million syrians are going to go hungry. caroline malone reports a new program trying to help feed themselves. >> reporter: this program providing food for a number of hungry people in syria. around 30 families get a regular supply of eggs, buying into a cooperative that makes a living off of a farm. they provide what they call smart aid finding the most effective and impactful way to help syrians based on their

requests. >> of course it creates food security for syrians. food security and general life security for the people we serve and that is why we are so passionate about giving this kind of smart aid. >> people in war zones are vulnerable not only to malnutrition but to exploitation. part of the campaign to win them over. the world food program is providing aid to nearly 4.25 million people in syria every month. including all of palmyra raqqa. including duma and yarmouk and is only able to reach some people in alkamun idlib and they resort eating whatever available. one of the many places that has been blocked off from food

supplies and aid in yarmouk. >> in syria what we're seeing is two types of tactics using food as a weapon of war. the first is that parties are confiscating the food production and the food distribution services. so that includes farms and markets. the second is that they are impeding access to humanitarian aid. >> the farmers in aleppo with the help of international donors have created something more sustainable. there are more than 4,000 people who need more food in this neighborhood alone and at least with this project a growing number of people know where their next few meals are coming from. caroline malone, al jazeera. >> u.s. officials are holding peace talks with yemen's houthi rebels meeting in the aish arab nation of oman. meanwhile the houthi rebels are holding at least four american citizens captive in sanaa. the is state department says it

is doing everything it ask to get them out but they are not identifying those hostages at this time. a last minute deal will keep five taliban leaders from leaving qatar. part of a swap to free beau bergdahl. those measures were set to expire on monday. request of the u.s. earlier we talked to doug olivant a security fellow with the new american foundation. we asked him how much security threat these men pose. >> not that senior anyway, mid level out of the game for over a decade so how much harm can they do? on the other hand i talked to someone i trust very much today who described this as the afghanistan national security council that we are going to send them back. so it is really hard to determine exactly what the facts are, whether these are really senior figures that would

instantly plug back in and give capability or whether these are essentially a bunch of retirees who would go and gather their pensions in afghanistan. >> before they can come up with a long term solution. up next, allegations of religious discrimination, an airline peafng said she was denied an unopened can of soda because she was a muslim. another american presidential hopeful preparing to throw his hat in the ring, what you don't know about lindsay graham. say graham. >> al jazeera america, weekday mornings. catch up on what happened overnight with a full morning brief. get a first hand look with in-depth reports and investigations.

>> a woman who was recognized by the white house last year as a leading muslim female in the united states now accusing united airlines of discrimination in an incident that has gone viral. she says she asked for an unopened can of diet coke for

hygienic reasons when on board a shuttle flight operated by united. she wasn't given one. the man next to her was given an unopened can of beer. a fellow passenger cursed her out and agreed that she would use that can as a weapon. we reached out to shuttle america about serving unopened cans and we didn't get a response. however, to apologize for not delivering the service our customers expect when traveling with us. joining us from washington d.c is tahara ahmed. do you believe you were discriminated against because of your religious beliefs? >> hi, thank you for having me on your show. you know, i sincerely believe that what happened to me was a

very unfortunate circumstance of have dimtion whichdiscrimination. >> you were told you weren't given that can of diet soda because it could be used as a weapon. tell us exactly what they said. >> i was traveling on the united flight i'm premier status member i travel quite often. i have received an unopen can of soda many times before, meaningful and just dialogue between israeli and palestinian youth. when i was on the flight i requested the flight attendant when she asked me what i would like to drink i requested a can of soda and a diet can or diet coke. and she basically brought me an opened can of diet coke.

and so i requested for hygienic reasons as you mentioned i requested an unopened can and she said well this has not been consumed yet by anyone i said i understand that, i would prefer an unopened can for hygienic reasons. she said it's against our policy to give people unopened beverages. so then she asked the man next to me what he would like and he requested a beer and she brought him a closed can of beer. and at that point i looked at his tray table and i said strange, she just gave you a closed can but refused to give me one. he said, i don't know why she would do that. when she came back, i said, i feel it's strange you gave him a can but you wouldn't give me a

closed can. she opened it and said would you use it as a weapon. she basically was trying to say i would use a can of soda as a weapon and you know -- >> you said the other passengers then attacked you as well, seemed to concur with the flight attendant. >> after she said you would use it as a weapon, the man sitting across from me on the other side said, you muslims shut the f up. i was in shock. he leaned over, said, you know would you use it as a weapon, shut the f up. i was at that point in tears i couldn't believe what happened. i was hoping the flight attendant would even with bystander intervention, maybe we could be respectful but she did not.

>> you also said she was in tears as well, you were crying she was crying, the flight attendant told you she would have a bad idea. >> at the end -- of the flight i said you know, this is not about a can of coke, this is not about going after you and your job i respect you you made this airplane a very unsafe place for me by targeting me as a muslim woman and tell everyone on the flight who could hear you that i could use a can of coke as a weapon. how does that make me feel? we're 30,000 feet above the ground, you're going to target me because of the way i look. you created a space where a man was able to say bigoted things towards me and you didn't intervene on my side. she was sorry for what happened

the pilot also apologized and said he does not know what it might feel like to live as a minority in this country and actually walked me over to the service desk where i was able to file an official report. i was hoping that united airlines would use this as a teaching moment for the whole united states, recognize discrimination and bigotry recognize it's wrong and we have many other circumstances in this country where our african american brothers and sisters and other minorities are in a lot of pain and suffering and i think united could have used this as an opportunity orecognize discrimination when it happens and use corrective opportunities. >> right, then let me ask the question that has to be asked. does this mean you are going to sue united airlines because of the way you are treated? >> you know honestly at this point i'm exploring all options where this kind of humiliation does not continue to happen to

minorities living in this country. >> tahara ahmed from washington d.c. thank you very much for being with us tonight. concealed weapons will soon be allowed on some texas university campuses. texas passing the measure this weekend. it allows licensed gun owners to carry weapons on school campuses. still most college kids won't be affected. you have to be 21 to get a license in texas. cleanse presidents declare their schools gun free. across the country what kids eat in school has also become a hot topic. new york city has declared war on meat. david ariosto explains. >> lunch is served just one way in dallas, texas. healthy. the broccoli is steamed.

the oranges are fresh. and the salads are in abundance. but this wasn't always the case. about ten years ago texas recognized that a growing number of its children were both overweight and suffering from diabetes. so state officials decided to take action. ban things like deep fryers and sow today mches from machines from school cafeterias carrots replaced potato chips and milk instead of sow today. >> we developed stronger nutrition standards. >> yet it's not clear it worked. one in six children are considered obese in texas. up from one in 7 ten years ago. enter sid miller, he was elected back in november as the state's

new agricultural commissioner and he has made childhood obesity a top priority. >> what we've been doing for ten years hasn't worked so we're going to try something different. >> but for some his plan may be a little hard to follow. miller's idea is to allow school cafeterias to bring back tho fryers. as well as certain kinds of sodas. miller says giving local school districts chance to decide what kinds of foods their kids should eat will ultimately yield better results when it comes to obesity. >> the reason we're doing that is because we believe in freedom and liberty and everything that is dear to texans. >> the idea of sodas and deep fried food is about as unhealthy as you can get. >> uh-huh. >> don't you think that allowing schools to put those in place would create the possibility of more unhealthy kids? >> okay, keep in mind if they bring back the soda machines which we're allowing them to do,

whatever goes in that machine have to meet the federal guidelines. you can't put a pepsi or coke or dr. pepper in there. you can be put in the diet sodas or the flavored water. >> but deep fried -- >> has to meet the federal guidelines. >> but health experts have often linked fried foods to obesity. obese people spend $1400 a year on average more on their health care. nutrition experts warn miller's plan is not the answer. david ariosto, al jazeera texas. lindsay graham is expected to put his hat in the ring on

wednesday. graham has not lost a single race in his state in 20 years. south carolina is a major primary state. eight republicans have already declared so far there's only one woman running on the republican side, former business executive karly carly fiorina. david schuster has more on what graham will say. >> he's been described as are a hawk lindsay graham from south carolina. >> if i'm president of the united states, if you are thinking about joining al qaeda or i.s.i.l, anybody thinking about that? i'm not going to call the judge i'll call a drone and we will kill you. (laughing). >> like other republicans graham says he wants limited government

and reduced federal spending but it's his foreign policy experience and blunt style that endears him to senate colleagues. >> do you agree with me that when russia says there are no russian weapons or troops in ukraine they're lying? >> yes. >> lindsay graham was born in south carolina to blue collar working parents. undergrad andundergraduate and law degree from university of south carolina. in 1994 with the support of republican senate icon strom thurmond, graham ran for a seat in the u.s. house and won. four years later graham was one of the most outspoken house republicans calling for the impeachment of president clinton. >> let it be said that any president who cheats our institutions shall be impeached. >> graham's firm yet

conversational approach made him aaagop star. and when thurmond retired from the senate graham ran and won easily. >> i'm here to talk to israeli allies about their concerns about the urch security u.n. security council security council defining the peace process. >> he was one of the president's harshest critics accusing president obama of confusing the war in syria. >> when it comes to selling the american people what we should do in syria given is indifference and quite frankly contradictions it's going to be a tough sell but it is not too

late. mr. president clear the air be decisive be firm about why it matters to us as a nation to get syria right. >> but on some issues graham is closer to mr. obama than to the guantanamo. he helped author a bill that was never passed in the republican republican-led house. >> the problem is al gore has turned this into a religion. >> says human activity contributes to global warming something most democrats believe and he has urged the republican party to take a clear stand. >> before we can be bipartisan we have to figure out, what is the formal be climate position of the republican party? i don't know, i'd like to come up with one. >> graham's stand on certain

issues so run against him yet one of the early contests in south carolina, his own turf, it all means if graham can reach the top three in iowa or new hampshire his campaign for republican nomination could go far. david schuster, al jazeera. >> up next in our week ahead segment. cases that could define the supreme court.

>> welcome back to be be al jazeera america. here are your top stories. key provisions of the patriot act are about to expire. the nsa has to stop collecting the bulk data on millions of americans, at least for now replacement bill u.s.a. freedom act which allows the nsa to spy

on citizens but with more oversight. the rain finally stopping in texas. officials lifting evacuation orders. houses still flooded days if not weeks for floodwaters to recede. qatar agreeing to extend the travel ban for the five prisoners would have expired monday stays into effect until the u.s., qatar and afghanistan can work on a longer term agreement. all eyes are on the supreme court, june the final month of the court's term. in the week ahead we look at the decisions that could be hand he down, same sex marriage forecast, religious freedom some cases have been pending for months. lisa stark has more. >> the u.s. sphrort will supreme court

will issue several rulings before the end of june testing whether the 14th amendment equal protection clause requires states to allow same sex marriages. and whether states have to recognize same sex marriages lawfully performed out of state. >> the issue of course is not whether there should be same sex marriage but who should decide the point. >> reporter: currently 37 states an the district of columbia allow same sex to marry, but marriage eligibility should be determined by the states and their voters. a new gallup poll says, every

republican presidential candidate has stated that marriage should be a man and a woman. probably the second most anticipated decision will be king versus burwell which could deliver a huge below to president obama's forecastpresident obama's affordable care act. requires them to buy it through quote, an exchange established by the state. the problem is only 14 states set up their own exchanges. sued on the technicality claiming subsidies in the remaining 36 states are illegal. however, supporters of the law say it is crystal clear. >> this isn't an ambiguity ambiguous position,. >> health insurance subsidies for roughly roughly 7.5 million

americans hang in the balance. then the case pitting the equal employment opportunity association against abercrombie and fich. fitch. eloff never specified she was a muslin e-limb or asked for any religious accommodation and the company didn't ask. >> now they're trying to claim they didn't know she was religious but employees should not have to wear a sign saying i'm religious before they are protected by the civil rights laws. >> the supreme court will also decide glossum vs. gross. lawyers for three condemned men argue that a new drug cocktail

violates crew and unusual punishment. >> will not prevent prisoner of feeling the pain and suffering of the second and third drugs. >> scefts say death penalty opponents have pressurize pharmaceutical companies not to supply the drug for executions. >> i think petitioners are fundamentally attacking the death penalty more so than the use of med med m beadezalem. >> attorney at goldstein and russell, he is a contributor for

scotus block. the supreme court as you know is not about tithes. what is the legal precedent that the court has to examine? >> there are a number of relevant cases. united states versus windsor dealt with the federal defense of marriage act will be very instructive in this case i think. and cases about marriage itself, loving versus virginia, where the court recognized an equal protection against interracial marriage and that may play predominantly, both of those cases came out in favor of greater rights and i think the smart money all thinks this case will be decided the same way. >> courts have to protect the minority and in this case the minority is very vocal, in the sense that 37 states and the

district of columbia has now passioned same sex marriage laws. but the other minority, the christian minority, which used to be the majority. which minority factors in? >> amendments to the constitution these are rights that apply to individuals. and these individuals gay people who are trying to get married, are claiming they have a fundamental right to get married. and the supreme court has gone on a long time saying marriage is a fundamental right and americans are saying it's available to us as well. >> but christian americans who are opposed to this particular issue, say it is an issue of individual freedom. >> but the state itself has an obligation they say if it's going to confer a benefit called marriage to anybody it has to

do it to everybody. an individual citizen who has a conscientious objection to gay marriage on a religious basis is something that may have to be dealt with later assuming the matter comes out and the supreme court grants gay marriage. the states are saying you have an obligation to provide this to everybody if you are going to provide it to anybody. >> mr. singh, what happens if the states that allow gay marriage are all those people then going to be unwed? >> so there is no prospect that the supreme court will trying down laws permitting same sex couples to get married. the conceptual protection clause doesn't require recognition of this right then judicial decisions that came out that way will be revisited. there is some precedent from the ninth circuit court of appeals that says once a marriage has

been performed it is undoocial breakunconstitutional to break it apart. where gay marriage has been legalized by judicial decision, i suspect that marriages probably would not ultimately wind up dissolved in large newspapers. >> this issue not going anywhere fast. i want you to listen to meet the press this morning. rick santorum had this to say about any potential court ruling take a listen. >> we're not bound by what nine people say in perpetuity. we have a obligation to rally the american public to overturn what the court wants to do. >> with that being said, gay marriage in principle is there a show the down brewing i'll start with you regardless what the court decides?

>> i think there's always a lot of rhetoric about this heated issue. desegregation cases in the 50s and 60s there was a tremendous backlash against that. senator santorum is right we can amend the constitution but i believe people will follow the dictates of the supreme court if there's a clear and definitive statement that there is a right to marriage. >> mr. singh people are saying this is a rowe v wade type decision. >> no absolutely not. as i said before, most people are predicting that the court will say there is an equal protection right for same sex people to get married. in a couple of decades we won't be talking about this anymore. with the republican primary you haven't even heard republicans talking about this as a real campaign issue acknowledge this

will be the type of issue that will get resolved and nobody will be talking about it in about five years. >> issue number 2 king versus burrwell better known as obamacare, isn't this a case where the court will be deciding depends what your mining meaning it is. there are millions of people whose lives are literally hanging in the balance over the wording of the act. >> yeah, that's correct. the ultimate outcome of this case will turn on a relatively technical issue of statutory interpretation. i think everybody agrees, congress meant to extend this to everybody, but it's unclear whether the text actually accomplished that goal. i do think that what it will come down to is at least five justices are willing to say that there is a portion of the text

that accomplish those purposes. >> do you agree? >> none of them, from republican to democrat from house to senate ever said that this idea that the subsidies would not be available to people on either of exchange set up by the federal exchange. what happened, there is a stretch to read this language so narrowly. >> be why is it a stretch? if everybody grace that agrees, why would it be? >> you wouldn't get this deeply into dissecting four little words, exchange established by the state. it would have been read in context of the language of the statute and we would have said, it's clear the subsidies are meant to go to all parties. >> mr. singh, how is it that as

much attention could be paid to a singular law and yet the wording somehow get botched? >> well, i do think it's important to know that it is a big statute right depending on which version of the pagination you're looking at, you're looking at 900 plus pages. and the place where the wording is allegedly botched is in a corner of the statute. it is not in the statute that says who gets subsidies. it is in a portion of the statute that is a technical formula for calculating how much of a subsidy you're supposed to get and the way that formula works is you multiply two variables together. and these, when you multiply by zero you get zero subsidy. an issue not on anybody's anybody's radar it certainly is not the the first time something like this has happened. when a complex law was passed with very little precedent for

it on the federal books. >> eeoc versus abercrombie and fitch, because an employee wore a head scarf she claimed religious discrimination when she got fired. is this an issue whether you have to declare your religious beliefs up front, do you? >> i think that will ultimately what the case will be. when we heard the oral arguments in the case, the supreme court -- the government takes position that employers really have to inquire and make sure that they're extending proper accommodations. the employer, abercrombie and fitch in this case takes the position the employee has to put us on notice, we don't want these be awkward conversations during job interviews.

justice alito posed the question, why can't this happen, why can't the employers say we have a no-beards policy, do you have a problem with that? the conversation won't that be awkward. yes, you have identified the situation be straightforwardly. >> this is a rather sensitive area that is cropping up not only in the united states, but also france, which said that women cannot wear full burkas at work. is this a tip of the iceberg in cases coming down the pike? >> who has the right to raise the issue? the employer is afraid to raise the issue. >> do i have to say what my religious beliefs are when i go in for an interview? >> you should say i'm a muslim i'm wearing a hajab.

they may be discriminated against at that point. and the employers may say i don't want to be accused of raising a religious discrimination. >> cruel and unusual punishment by 8th amendment pharmaceutical be companies who are opposed to the death penalty have made the cocktail of drugs for lethal injection difficult to get. this is an unusual interpretation of the law that is leading to a new interpretation of the law. >> you have two very different perspectives. the petitioner in the case brought a narrow issue does the first drug render the patient in a position where the two drugs

that follow are not painful? isn't this just a back-doorway of going and trying to eliminate the death penalty in the first place? they say that what's happened is that the death penalty poanlts opponents have made getting the drug that makes this easy impossible. the european union itself has prevented its pharmacies to get this drug, they do not allow the death penalty in those countries nor will they allow their companies to participate this a death. >> mr. singh i will give you the last word. >> i think the issue has been identified correctly. technical small band of death penalty abolitionists, have created a guerilla war right? everyone from the pope to pharmaceutical companies there

is staunch opposition. that has made be gls what the supreme court will do is recognize that imposed limitations or throw up its hands and say well states can use whatever drugs they will get. there is concern that the latter is the most likely the case. >> be be tajinder singh and curtis geringer, thank you very much for joining us tonight. let's take a look at the events in the week ahead. the house transportation committee is going to hold a hearing on the amtrak accident that be killed 80 people, amtrak now to install cameras in all of its locomotives. on saturday, the president is going so head to germany for

g-7 summit. major issues on the agenda is the global economy and security development policies. up next india's heat wave are grows nor deadly and more than a month after the devastating earthquake in nepal school resumes.

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as harry fawcett shows us, it's more than about reading writing and risk. >> after 40 days it is time to take out uniforms, pack school bags, remember how to tie a tie. >> translator: i want to play board games and hide and seek with my friends. i want to hang out and find out what happened to the houses. >> reporter: finishing touches come from mother along with reminders that not to panic if there's another earthquake. >> i know they'll be safe at school but i'm still worried, my mind is not at ease today. >> reporter: on the outskirts of kathmandu. school staff reassures students that their building has been declared safe. but the teachers were taking no chances. earthquake drills practices even this a welcome chance for a laugh with friends. across nepal schools were marking an important day.

here at patanhaya the principal welcomed his students far more than he was expecting. he offered assurance. if there was shaking outside it was like dancing. >> while they're in school they become engaged in activities like this and our focus is to help them overcome their fear and trauma. >> classes in brand-new bamboo huts put stowing in less than two weeks by the staff and two nongovernmental organizations. all of this in the shadow of the original school building which is just over here. it was damaged in the quake. the contraction are visible but worse inside. that red sticker says it's condemned. the principal wants to act as soon as possible to bring it down to avoid any further threat to the children that will be coming to this temporary school. 8500 schools across the country have been damaged beyond repair. many aren't in a position to put

on lessons and games but all are asked to put on something today to show the earthquake didn't disrupt but only delayed normal education. >> up next, your water bottle. bottle.

>> al jazeera america >> the epa says more and more americans are recycling. the number has tripled since 1980. with millions of americans are using bottles for water be sunshineshinirvetionshini somara explains.

>> our land fills landfills are overflowing. the world is addicted to plastic. the earth is choking on it. seems to have been a material that was developed for convenience but we are now you know almost 100 years later paying the price. >> if you look at the population as a whole probably the majorities have not yen realized the magnitude of the problem. >> and nothing symbolizes the problem like the omni present plastic water bottle. americans consume water from about 50 billion bottles a year. made from what's called pet or foil ethylene terysalate, two glycols are combined to create a polymer. resulting in a light weight but

strong material. >> why then does it last almost to infinity in a landfill? >> these essentially are the same type of bonds that hold together a diamond. >> if you are conscientious to throw a water bottle into a blue recycle bin like we do at "techknow," that may not be necessarily the case. "techknow" wants to know what happens next so we followed the water bottle. this is the massive puente facility near los angeles california. located near a large metropolis, it can take a lot of trash. >> if you take a football field from post to post ten feet high, fill it up with trash about a third of that or a fourth of that comes over here every day. >> 3,000 tons a day. this facility offers a glimpse

into the world of single-stream recycling. because all of the recycled material it receives comes from a single-source bin like this. convenient because all recyclables end up in one basket. but there's a price. >> once materials get mixed together too much like glass shards ending up in paper or plastic bottles ending up in the paper stream or aluminum cans ending up in the plastic stream, all of that is detrimental to recycling. as you see on tomorrow's "techknow" there is no foolproof system to recycling but we'll show you exactly what happens when a plastic water bottle is trashed. in los angeles i'm dr. shini somara. for al jazeera. >> airs 6:30 p.m. eastern 3:30 p.m, pacific.

accomplished tennis players doris hart has died. she pulled off a grate feat, winning three finals in one day singles, doubles and mixed doubles. i'm del walters. third rail is next. rail is next. gay marriage. what does that say about the power of the vatican and the pope. they wanted to pope to be something he may not be. yes, he has a great story and a great history and he's doing a but nowhere has he said he's going to change