this is al jazeera america. i'm john seigenthaler. incomplete. >> we don't yet have a complete strategy because it requires commitments on the part of the iraqis as well. >> why president obama says the u.s. has no full strategy for fighting isil. excessive force? a white police officer draws his gun on black teens at a pool party. tonight, questions from this racially charged confrontation. reunited.

>> this is the person that i had been searching for. it didn't matter she went standing in front of me. i had the link to her. >> a new law lets adopted children meet their biological parents. we return to see what happens after the connection. plus history lesson. hidden for a century, a school chalkboard re-emerges revealing how much has hanged and how much has stayed the same. we begin with the battle against isil and an admission from the commander in chief. today president obama said america still does not have what he called a complete strategy against the group. he went further announcing that the pentagon is reviewing the plans to train iraqi forces fighting isil. will that include more u.s. troops on the ground? our national security correspondent jamie mcintyre is

at the pentagon. jamie. >> reporter: john it won't include more troops at least not right away, because while the obama administration believes in a better trained, better equipped iraqi force is the key to turn the tide of the battle against isil that might require a few more trainers. what they really need is a lot more trainees. >> it's a pleasure to meet with the prime minister and his delegation. >> reporter: president obama met with iraqi prime minister on the sidelines of the g-7 sum nipt in the bavarian alps and mrefrjed in his words to ramp up training of iraqi troops who are the lynchpin of the anti-isil strategy. >> we're going to continue to provide the supplies that are necessary for iraqi forces to successfully mount offensive campaigns. >> reporter: the u.s. already has 3,000 troops in iraq training local forces but the president says the problem is there are not enough raw iraqi

recruits to turn into battle-hardened fighters. he's ordered the pentagon to figure out how to train more iraqis faster and ask iraq to find more building train -- willing traen yis. that part of the plan is a work in progress. >> we don't yet have a complete strategy because it requires commitments on the part of the iraqis as well about how recruitment take place, how that training take place. >> reporter: for his part the prime minister continues to plame recent setbacks on the ability of isil to get fresh reinforcements from seasoned fighters who easily cross the turkish border into sear wra and make their way to iraq. >> translator: the problem resides in the foreign fighters. the influx of foreign fighters into syria and iraq, and it creates more bloodshed and destruction and the bloodshed and blood-spilling of the innocents. >> reporter: on the ground in iraq there are small glimmers

of success. pentagon sources say iraqi troops are making progress after weeks of tough urban combat. they broke through isil lines and established a supply route to reinforced beleaguered troops. now iraqi forces are slowly taking control of the southern part of the city navigating booby traps and snipers. the pentagon said iranian-made artillery are supporting both advances though it's not clear who is manning the guns. then there's ramadi. >> translator: one round we lost was ramadi but we lost it temporarily. >> reporter: isil skill controls ramadi. there are skirmishes between the two cities but iraqi forces gather to the west to serve as a blocking force for the coming attack. it's a classic anvil and hammer maneuver. what's needed is another sunni

awakening in anbar that helped to defeat al qaeda in iraq in 2006 and 2007. >> we've seen sunni tribes who are not only willing and prepared to fight isil but have been successful in stopping isil. >> president obama says he's hoping iraqi lawmakers will pass a new national guard law that will put sunnis closer to taking care of their own security and he says he stressed to the moderate shia iraqi prime minister that a political agenda of inclusion is just as important as the military fight. john. >> jamie, thank you. isil is just one of several security issues on the agenda at the g-7. leaders also vow to stand up to what they called russian aggression in ukraine. they are threatening to hit moscow with enough sanctions to as president obama put it wreck russia's economy.

mcviqueira is in washington with that. >> in addition to the crisis in iraq the president is facing obstacles on several key issues. you're right. the situation in ukraine as well as several issues here at home. fighting is once again flaring in eastern ukraine, as pro-russian forces shell ukrainian towns in defiance of the shaky ceasefire adpreegreed to in march. one of the main goals at the g-7? to extend economic sanctions against russia and keep the pressure on vladimir putin to reverse course. >> does he continue to wreck his country's economy and continue russia's isolation in pursuit of a wrong-headed desire to re-create the glories of the soviet empire? >> reporter: the leaders gathered in germany threatened even more sanctions if russia doesn't back off. russia's foreign minister says

it's ukraine, not russia violating the ceasefire. while putin maintains as some see as a defiant stand. >> translator: everything we do we do in response to threats we're faced with and we do it to a very limited extent but big enough to ensure russia's security. >> reporter: the president defended two signature niche tifs at the g-7 summit both now under legal clouds. the affordable care act, obamacare. the supreme court is due to rule this month on a case that could deal a devastating blow. essentially denying millions of the subsidies they need to purchase health care. mr. obama was confident that the court will side with him. >> this should be an easy case. frankly, it probably shouldn't have been taken up. >> on immigration, mr. obama's executive actions allowing parents of legal citizens to stay in the united states have been halted in the dourtscourts. the president has put everything on hold while the legal process

moving forward. >> i don't want to bring in people and have them apply and jump through a lot of hoops only to have it deferred and delayed further. >> reporter: finally, there were hopes into the summit for an ironclad commitment to sharply reduce carbon emissions by 2015. instead the g-7 pledged to phase out the use of fossil fuels by the end of the century and to keep global warms below a 2 degree celsius rise. a threshold scientists consider crucial. and john on that last point, global warming, the leaders hope there is momentum building towards a big u.n. conference on climate change held in paris later this year. >> thank you. to turkey where a historic election is openeding an uncertain future. the ruling party lost the parliamentary majority. a major blow to turkey's president as he hoped to strengthen the powers of his office. now some opposition leaders say they're in no rush to form a

coalition. we have the report. >> reporter: the threshold destroyed read one newspaper headline on monday the morning after historic parliamentary elections in turkey. for first time since coming to power in 2002 they found themselves without enough votes to form a government on its own. it's leadership and supporters still called sunday's result a victory not only for them but also for turkish democracy. >> translator: the decision of our nation is the final decision. the will of the nation is the final vote. here i am addressing you from the balcony of the ech party, the platform of democracy in turkey and the will of this nation will be put in practice. no one shuf any doubt about that. >> reporter: despite winning the elections, the akp need says to find support from an opposition party if it wants to remain in

power. it could try and reach out to the pro-kurdish hdp to form a coalition, but that's a risky move. >> translator: most of the party members have nationalist views. the aph party would be better off considering a coalition with the fhp. >> reporter: another option would be to join forces with the ultra nationalist mph. it would have serious consequences for the kurdish peace process, which has up until now been a success story for the akp. >> reporter: the reason the government managed to make progress in the peace process of a string party government. with or without the co-lishgs it will be affected by the election results. >> reporter: it's not only the party that finds itself faced with touch decisions. turkey and turkish democracy are at a cross roads fchl. if a coalition government is formed, that could go a long way to narrow the political divide that gripped the country for so

long now. failing that however, early elections could take place, and that has the potential of increasing the current state of polarization. al jazeera the founds director to for the center of turkish studies in washington, d.c. what do you think this means for turkish democracy? >> this is great news because the ruling party has drifted toward a utilitarian course in the recent years. now we have a par la part of the actors and it has complained on a very liberal agenda. this is good news. >> they had suggested that he would like to change the constitution which could have a big impact on turkish democracy. some say would be the demise of turkish democracy. so this is a huge blow for him,

yes? >> well the presidential debate is over. his plan was to capture enough votes to unilaterally rewrite the constitution and switch the presidential system. the akp has lost it's parliamentary majority and it will be forming a coalition with one of the opposition parties. none of the opposition parties accept the presidentialism plan. >> will they form a coalition party? >> i think it will try, and the most likely outcome is if the akp forms a coalition government with the coalition there, the nhp is an ultra nationalist party and the akp has an important -- akp's base is very nationalistic. that's the natural outcome. just last night the nhp leader ruled out a coalition with akp.

they can still reconsider their decision, but i think a coalition government will be necessary, and if that does not has been the president will have to call for early elections. >> the kurdish party gained some seats in parliament. how important is that to the future of the turkish government? >> well it's quite important. first, irng historic for the kurd dish political movement. this was the first time that a pro-kurdish party ran as a party rather than fielding independent candidates. it captured 13% of the vote and that is a historic success. they have to appeal to a non-kurdish segment of the country. they attracted votes from the liberals, from conservative kurds who vote for the parties and the akp. they appealed to the people

lives in the western part of the country. so this is a big achievement, but i think now the big question is what will happen to the kurdish peace process? that will determine the future course of turkey's political movement. >> it's good to have you on the program. thank you very much. back in this country two convicted murderers remain at-large three days after a daring escape from a maximum security prison in upstate new york. tonight the manhunt is expanding, and investigators are looking into whether the killers had inside help. they climbed through a manhole and vanished leaving behind only this. inmate 2297 david sweat, was serving life without parole for fatally shooting a sheriff's deputy 22 times. inmate 1723 richard matt has reportedly escaped before while serving a burglary sentence in the 1980s. this time he was doing 25 to life on a murder rap for

torturing and dismembering his former boss. the two were in adjacent cells at the clinton correctional facility. a state prison in northern new york 20 miles from the canadian border. on friday night they rigged makeshift dummies in their beds and set off on a winding journey through the bowels of the prison. somehow the pair got their hands on power tools, slicing through a solid steel wall busting through a brick wall and even cutting through a steam pipe before reaching freedom. as the massive manhunt unfolded new york's governor andrew cuomo, got a tour of the get-away route. >> a lot of cutting. >> the escape is the first from the maximum security section of the prison since it opened in 1845. in addition to about 1400 guards, it employs hundreds of civilians and used contractors

and has recently been undergoing construction. the governor said on monday the assumption is now that the inmates had inside help. >> i would be shocked if a guard was involved and that's putting it mildly. we're looking at the civilian employees now and the private contractors, because they wouldn't have had the equipment on their own. that's for sure. >> reporter: state police confirmed monday a female prison worker is being questioned as a possible accomplice. karen ryder researches prisons at the university of california irvine. she's in los angeles. if it hasn't happened since 1845 how did it happen now? >> well at this point it's all speculation. we can think about the various ways that prisoners develop culture and are creative in prison. so in clinton -- again, this is

very rare but we could imagine that either prisoners communicated with each other and other prisoners helped these two escape or we could imagine they were being incredibly creative on their own. >> you think they're just sophisticated and using their in ingonzalez genuity. >> it's possible. it's not always associated with violent criminals. there's a prisoner naked mark depriest that escaped from florida prisons a number of times, and he's incredibly creative. he's able to see a key and represent indicate it. he's able to develop ways to get around doors and locks. one can imagine that's one possibility here. another possibility is that they befriended someone on the inside or the outside that helped them. >> get power tools? >> right. >> i mean it does sound quite remarkable. obviously, i would assume that other inmates knew and kept

quiet? >> that's possible. there's definitely a culture in prison, and it cuts both ways. there's a culture in prison of snitching, so that would be you tell on other people in order to get privileges for yourself. then there's also a strong culture of not snitching, you don't tell on people if you know something is happening and you're afraid they'll do something to you. it's a question of who the prisoners are more afraid of the ones escaping or the prison system? it's certainly possible. >> nobody could hear this going on? >> i mean given the likelihood that some prisoners might hear and find out, it seems like perhaps staff was involved or perhaps it the planned over a very long period of time collecting bit of pieces of things they needed. >> given what you know what's the likelihood that these guys are close to the prison? >> the likelihood that they're close? >> that they're somewhere in the neighborhood, they're not hundreds of miles away? >> it seems likely that they would try to get as far away as

they could. the reason we know so little about prison escapes is often people die in the process or never found, as in alcatraz in the 1960s when some prisoners escaped and never foupd. it's why we don't know. it often remains a mystery. it seems like they have searched around the prison carefully. the longer this goes on the more likely they're further away and the search area is getting larger. >> the manhunt continues tonight. thank you very much for joining us. coming up next on the broadcast, ohio unseals adoption records. how it helped one woman find her biological parents and how he reacted. plus they say they were cheated out of an education. a former for-profit students are getting student debt relief.

another black eye for the transportation security administration. a new report from the department of homeland security inspector general says the tsa failed to identify 73 employees with possible ties to terrorism. the agency has apparently been vetting workers against an

incomplete watch list. the tsa says it plans to start using the more comprehensive database by the end of the year. this follows a recent investigation that found airport screeners failed to detect fake explosives and weapons at an alarming rate. the department of education plans to erase much of the federal loan debt for students at the now defunk corinthian colleges chlg they prayed on the poor charged inflated fees and encouraged students to take out expensive loans. the debt relief could impact hundreds of thousands of former students. the price tag could be in the billions. michael shore reports. >> reporter: at 33 michael thought he would be living the american dream. >> i was ready to get ahold of a nice career that would enable me to find someone special in any life start a family do the whole nine yards. >> reporter: instead, he was trapped in a for-profit college

nightmare. >> i was exactly that kind of sponge where they could just soak me into their pool of lies and greed and just squeeze me for everything that they could pick up. >> reporter: in fact everett college, a subsidiary took more than $37,000 in federal loans that he was responsible for paying back. according to a 2011 study by the national bureau of economic research students who attend for-profit institutions are more likely to be unemployed have higher debt and more likely to default on their loans. we asked education secretary aroundy arni duncan if enough is being done. >> what they're taking taxpayer money and not doing a good job, that's untenable at every level.

>> it's clear we fwheed to get wall street out of education. >> reporter: according to a 2012 senate study, the average cost of a two-year associate's degree at a for-profit college stands at $35,000 as compared to $8300 at a comparable community college. california representative mark tecano has seen enough. the former high school teacher wants to put an end to a perverse cycle. >> it is a huge obstacle, but i think if we can use this moment to shine a light on this horrible, horrible way in which this horrible model of education for low income americans, for single moms and our veterans the way that the bad actors and in the for-profit sector are being permitted to exploit the current system. >> reporter: now he and hundreds of others refuse to pay their

student loan debts, and they're demanding to have those debts discharged. >> by the end of my time i accrued $37,162 in student debt. >> how much of that have you paid? >> none. >> how much do you intend to pay? >> none. >> we asked what secretary duncan was going to do about it. >> this is in some ways new territory. i think the past 15 years we had maybe four requests at the department for discharge, and now those numbers are much larger. we're working very very hard and want to be as thoughtful as we can. where students have been wronged or poorly served we want to more than meet them halfway. >> reporter: john what you saw today was secretary duncan responding to those students. the students were refusing to pay their debts are saying it's not enough. they want a blang blang ket discharge of the debt. they say they won't stop until

they get that. i asked if this would set a precedent, because it's likely corinthian isn't the first domino to fall. in fact, he said yes, they're prepared for that. not everybody is going to be happy, but it's certainly a step in the right direction as far as the department thinks. it could cost taxpayers up to $3.6 billion if every single students issing for repayment of their loan. >> michael, thank you. still ahead tonight, caught on camera. a police officer pulls his gun on teenagers at a pool party. reaction from parents and local leaders. plus known as the iron pipeline a route for gun smugglers headed to new york. where the firearms come from and whether they can be stopped.

i'm john seigenthaler. disturbing the peace. an officer draws his gun on kids at a texas pool party.

the video sparking new debate about race and the police. north versus south. >> we don't want to hurt you with one of my guns but there's nothing that we can really do about it. >> a torrent of illegal and often deadly guns flowing out of southern states and the federal fight to stop it. kids and crime. >> i worry for myself for my kids nor anybody else's kids. >> alarming new findings. one in four american children exposed to or victims of violence. time capsule. unearthed in oklahoma a history lesson nearly 100 years in the making. we again begin with this video out of texas. it sparks an uproar and new debate tonight. a white officer draws guns on black teenagers at a pool party. the community is predominantly

white. many of the teens remember black. now many call for the officer's badge. erica is here with that. >> tonight we hear mckinney police have had to call in extra dispatchers to handle incoming phone calls from people asking for this officer to be fired. outrage in a north texas community after police clashed with teenagers at a weekend pool party. >> this simply could have been handled different by this officer asking them to get off of their property or they would give them a citation. this officer didn't do that. as a corporal he should know what needs to be done and how it should be done. >> reporter: what the corporal did was caught on cell phone video. on friday mckinney police responded to calls of a disturbance after a fight broke out at a neighborhood pool party. when officers arrived, the kids get scared and some start to run. a couple officers chase after them. you can see one dive into a body roll. >> don't take off running when

the cops get here. what's up man? >> one of these guys -- >> i appreciate it. >> most officers remain relatively calm except for one. >> get on the ground! i told you stay. you [ bleep ] get on the ground! >> reporter: the officer proceeds to detain several young men. at first he wields his flashlight and orders kids to the ground. suddenly he draws his pistol and two boys swarm around him. then he goes back to the young girl sitting down on the grass wearing only a bikini. the 15-year-old is clearly unarmed, yet the corporal slams her head into the ground. >> on your face. >> she was later released to her parents. >> i'm guessing he thought we were saying rude stuff to him. he grabbed me and twisted my arm and i was telling him that to get off me because my back hurt really bad. >> reporter: now other parents speak out against the police like the father of this young girl who ran to help her friend whether the corporal initially

tried to detain her. >> my daughter came in. he just punched her to the side. >> i don't like grown men touching my girl. >> the mckinney chief of police success spepded him and said a full investigation is under way. for this father suspension won't cut it. >> i'm not indicting the entire police department because i saw some people doing the right thing. this guy was just out of control, and i'm not going to stop until he is fired. >> now, after detaining several young pool party-goers that day, mckinney police made one arrest. the aclu of texas is now calling the corporal's actions hostile and unnecessary, adding quote, increasingly in this country we see two kinds of policing. protecting and serving white communities and criminalizing and controlling plaque communities. john. >> thank you very much. darren is a retired lieutenant with the nypd. he's back in our studio tonight. welcome. what do you make of the video? we have a video.

>> believe it or not, complaints towards police brutality are going on the decline. however, when we look at the wave of innovations such as everyone having a cell phone, it memorializes instances like this and we all get a chance to see it. >> when i look at this video i see a police officer that appears to have lost his temper and pulled a gun. what do you see? this begs the request he for oversight. where is the oversight within that police department to ensure these types of incidents don't occur. >> after he pulls the gun, you look at that video where he shoves this girl down to the ground. i don't know what the girl did. i mean if -- it raises serious questions about a police officer and especially after we see all these other cases in the united states a video captures this sort of stuff on tv. this happens to a young teenage girl seems beyond the pale. >> take into consideration we have a 14-year-old in a bikini

so it's safe to say that she's not secreting a weapon on her person. i don't see her as a threat. >> she doesn't look like she will overwhelm him with her strength. >> absolutely. coupled with the officer brandishing his firearm at someone else i think this is a very problematic situation. oufr i will say this much. that department did do the right thing. they took swift action in suspending the officer, placed him on addministrative leave until further investigation. >> since all these incidents took place, there are a number of police officers that stood up and said look i'm afraid to do my job. i'm afraid i will make a mistake, and if i make a mistake mistake, it's the end of my career. what do you say to those officers. >> i can tell you from 20 years of experience the way that i policed the public didn't change from day one until the end of the 20-year career. it was always the same. granted, safety was my -- was the utmost concern. >> did you lose your temper?

>> we all do. >> did you do anything where you pulled your gun where you shouldn't? you know these are reasonable questions given the tough situations that you were in in some of the toughest neighborhoods. >> they are reasonable questions, but you have to conduct yourself accordingly. when that officer pulled his gun out, let's say he fell down and shot this person. you have to remain focused when you're engaged in these types of situations because ultimately police are here to protect the public. not bring the public to a subservant place. >> training could have a big impact on some of this. good to see you. thank you very much. stricter gun laws in many states force criminals to find new ways to get weapons. it is fueling the so-called iron pipeline on the east coast. the infamous gun smuggling route brings guns from southern states that have lax real estating lagss where laws are tougher.

one state is georgia. robert ray is there. >> hello. >> how are you? this is little's bait and tackle shop in the small town of perry, georgia. little is the owner. >> what channel are you with? >> al jazeera america. >> littles is also the source of the gun used to kill new york city police officer brian moore in may. it was stolen from the pawnshop in 2011. this cctv video caught the masked thieves in action. they took 23 weapons, nine ended up in new york city. the police never caught the guys that robbed your store? >> no. they were wearing hoodies and ski masks and gloves. no. they never caught anybody. >> they make their way up the iron pipeline. an illegal firearm trade route

up interstate 95 from southern states to new york. >> there's an awful lot of gun violence in our country. >> reporter: in spite of attempts by lawmakers and police to shut it down the pipeline remains open. georgia is ground zero. >> freeze! >> two new york city officers ambushed in their police cruiser in december were also killed by a georgia gun. >> what do you say to some politicians up north, in the northeast like new york city that say, you know these southern laws are way too lax, and that's why our police officers up north are getting shot and that's why bad guys are trading guns? >> well let me tell you something. they got the same laws here as they do in new york to purchase a gun. >> they are definitely more lax down here. >> why are they more lax here? >> well the gun laws down here are lax because when you go to

to pruch purchase a gun, you can carry it anywhere you like if you have the proper permits. you can't do that in new york or chicago or anything like that. >> well i tell you what here we believe in protecting yourself. >> purchasing a firearm in the state of georgia is quite simple. all you need is a georgia state i.d. or driver's license. you go through a background check, which takes about 20 or 30 minutes, and you can also obtain a gun online with no background check at all. georgia leads the country as a source of firearms used in crimes in other states. in 2013 3,000 guns purchased legally in georgia were confiscated outside the state by police with florida running just behind according to data from the bureau of alcohol, tobacco and firearms. we reached out to the atf, but they did not respond to our request for an interview. >> i was shocked initially when i heard what had happened and

it was one of our guns. >> up set it was a local gun that killed brian moore in new york keith dikes says law enforcement needs more funding to fight gun running. what can you done to stop that? it's clearly an issue. >> yeah. you know other than that putting -- we have drug units on the enter at a time that look for drugs and that basically stop cars and try to deter drug trafficking. people transporting large amounts of money and narcotics back and forth. those same units are also looking for weapons. they're not just focused on drugs. >> is there enough of them? >> well in my opinion there's not enough police officers. >> georgia state representative rick jaspers is the author of the safe carry protection law, which passed in april of 2014. it allows any georgia resident without a criminal record to purchase a firearm, obtain a permit and carry the weapon in

almost all public places across the state. critics have called it the guns everywhere law. there are some people that compare this gun trade up north to drug trafficking. would you say it's on that level? >> i don't know figure about it. you know i'm fortunate to say i've never been to new york city so i don't know anything. i haven't investigated or tried to look at what goes on in the northeastern corridor. the bills i sponsored having around georgia and how to strengthen our law and make it fairer for individuals, but most of all make it effective. the law we have is easy to understand and effective. maybe that's what they need a little state legislature up there in new york to work on theirs too. >> he says the iron pipeline and the gun running is just media hype. >> i don't know that there's a barrage of weapons. i think that's another tidbit thrown out there by media consultants and different people

that are trying to make something out of this when there really isn't. there's weapons that were unfortunately used recently that were bought years ago legally. then they lost track of them. as you do i mean we know who bought it initially. the subsequent owners you don't know. >> according to one report nearly 2800 firearms were recovered in new york's five boroughs have been traced back from georgia from 2005 to 2013. clarence littles wants to sell his pawnshop and since the robbery he has set up better cameras in his store. >> i mean i don't want anyone hurt with any of my guns. there's nothing that we can really do about it. these cops in town would spend more time in these areas where they sell guns then you wouldn't have near the break-ins you're having. >> reporter: georgia law does not require the reporting of stolen guns making it easy for people to buy guns legally, sell

them to criminals, and then later claim the guns were stolen making the iron pipeline even more difficult to clog and shut down. so john how do you stop the iron pipeline? it seems like a tough scenario after watching that. i think everyone would agree with that. chuck schumer, senator in new york is trying to get federal legislation to try and help add more atf agents on interstate 95 and beef up police out there looking for these gun runners. obviously, new york city mayor bloomberg has been outspoken on this. you know what? the second amendment is alive in well in the south, especially georgia. a guy washed into atlanta with a loaded ar-15, and that was legal. john. >> thank you very much. a new study suggests violence is a bigger threat to the health of america's children than diabetes or cancer.

it says 17.5 million kids haver either witnessed violence involving a weapon or have been a victim themselves. we're in chicago where gun violence has been rising. diane. >> reporter: in chicago about 30 shootings and 5 fatalities and health experts say this kind of violence can have a profound effect on the psyche of young kids and can lead to a variety of mental illnesses. in neighborhoods shattered by violence kids increasingly are caught in the crossfire whether they're victims or witnesses. for aspires football player christian campbell the threat of violence is a way of life. >> good catch. whether i go to school i get friends to walk to with me. >> reporter: for his father glenn, it's a never-ended concern. >> i worry every day.

i worry for myself for my kids for other kids. >> reporter: a new report by the american academy of pediatrics says one in four u.s. children between 2 and 17 has been expose exposed to violence involving a weapon and 1 in 33 has been directly assaulted. the academy also says exposure to violence involving lethal weapons is causing mental health issues in children including depression anxiety, and aggression. >> there are kids with post-traumatic stress disorder and show the same symptoms as returning war veterans from growing up in these neighborhoods. >> rebecca has a violence prevention program in chicago. she says some kids are on such a high state the alert than nonthreatening actions can trigger violent reactions. >> say he's walking down the hall and another kid bumps into him. the kid always at a 9 on a scale

of 1 to 10 that could set him off and he might punch a kid for something that was really nothing. >> reporter: the report says kids encounter violence in multiple forms from domestic violence to street violence to gang violence. she says there is hope. she says communities can reduce the impact of violence through education, mentoring and counseling. >> children are nothing but potential. children will -- they will live up to the high expectations we set for them or live down to the low expectations we set for them. >> glenn camp bell says he can't keep his kids locked up at home. he can only hope for the best when they're out of his sight. >> you have to pray man. that's all i can say. >> and the academy says despite this study and its findings there is still a lot that the academy doesn't know about how violence affects kids and what

can actually be done to prevent it. john. >> diane, thank you. now to ohio in a brand-new state law that is already changing lives. it involves the birth records of 400,000 adopted peoplement. for more than 30 years those records were sealed. the new law is breaking the silence, and advocates say it could be a model rfor the nation. >> you knew from an early age you were adopted? >> yes, always. it's been common language in the house, and it's just kind of been a fact about me that i've known. >> lindsay west never knew much about her past. at the age of 18 the columbus, ohio native began to search for her birth mother. the first call was to an adoption agency in toledo. >> i told them under the impression at 18 i could call and say i wanted my records open and it was as simple as that. i was met with no that's not how it works. >> shut out by a law that sealed

her original birth certificate, west faced roadblocks for years. this past winter her life-long journey took an up expected turn. on march 30th there is a new law in effect to unveal adoption files born between 1964 and '96. west was among hundreds that day waiting to apply for records. >> there was no hesitation. >> two weeks later. >> to see her name was breath-ing breath-taking. this is the person i was searching for. i had the link to her that i wanted for so many years. >> west found her biological mother's e-mail address and reached out. in may she met her parents who are married with three children. >> i grew up with an older brother, and being the youngest person. now all of a sudden i'm an older sibling of four and i have younger siblings.

so it's kind of not only finding out -- it's finding out who i am a part of me i didn't know existed. >> seeing your mom and siblings and dad, do you see yourself with them? >> i have a picture standing between the two of them. i am her, a spitting image of her. >> you asked me how did you feel when you got that e-mail from her. i felt like a 17-year-old kid all over again. that's exactly how i felt. i mean the nervousness, the fear. >> we caught up with christina ramsey and her family at their home in toledo. how did the reach the decision to give your daughter up for adoption? >> i really did not have a lot of family support at the time. i was 17. i was a junior in high school. >> hu known about this law ahead of time do you think you would have chosen to have your name taken off the that list? >> i don't know. that's a hard question. i don't know. >> we've been trying to help people be as prepared as possible, because it's a very

deeply emotional journey. >> betsy norris is with the adoption network of cleveland. she pushed for the new open records law and sdz a number of states including missouri and new york are considering similar measures. >> i think a lot of people look to ohio to see how it's works, and i hope we set a positive example pour other states. >> i can't thank betsy and the lawmakers that stood behind this and said no they deserve this. enough. it completed a lot of people to find out who they are. >> now west as a deeper understanding of who she is. >> so exciting. you do feel like you are complete, and i think that obtaining the information partially does that for us. everything afterwards completes a part of you didn't know was missing. >> a new journey begins. separated by adoption they're working on building a bond that they hope will last a lifetime. al jazeera, columbus ohio.

the united nations is making a surprising change to the report on the violation of children's rights. david shuster is here with that. >> the draft of the report prepared by the united nations special representative on children in armed conflict including among other dprups israel and hamas. specifically the report focused on the war in gaza last summer that killed 540 children. however, after the united nations secretary-general approved the report israel and hamas were no longer listed as groups that kill children. >> it's a political decision. the overwhelming documentation really should trigger a listing. next hour, we hear from the united nations on what happened and why. john. thank you very much. coming up making history. the brooklyn museum. my conversation with the trail-blazing new director ann pasternak after this.

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s huge... >> no noise, no clutter, just real reporting. the new al jazeera america mobile app available for your apple and android mobile device. download it now ann is atrailblazer. she's the first woman to lead the brooklyn museum. one of new york's largest. her message goes far beyond the city. >> why did it take so long? there's a glass ceiling, and the articled world is like many

other worlds like corporate america, and it's taken women a while ascend. we are ascending, but it takes some time. >> i would think that the art world is more progressive especially in new york city but there are problems in the art world just like other industries in america, right? >> you're absolutely right. so we like to think of ours as progressive and in many ways we are. that means that we have women in leadership positions, for example, that are the chief curators of many of our museums, and they have risen over the recent decades, you know. in terms of a major institution with billions and trillions of dollars worth of assets in it i think that probably historic ally our boards are more conservative and thought of them as male roles. >> did people raise questions about whether a woman could do this job? >> not to my face they didn't. >> you got the job now. what do you want to do when you walk in the on first day?

>> first of all, i'm trained as an art historian. i love the brooklyn museum so the idea that i get to work with an extraordinary collection. we have one of the best african art collections in the country, egyptian art collections, native-american, asian, you name it. this museum has extraordinary collections. so i cannot wait to dive in and learn about them. in terms of my you know beginnings i'm going to listen very carefully. there are a lot of people who have long histories with this institution. i want to hear about their dreams and their hopes and their aspirations for the museum. i want to connect with the people who don't have those histories and learn about why not. >> you have a personal history, personal connection to this museum. your mother grew up in flatbush and used to go to this museum right? >> i hear these stories all time. she was dropped off at the museum and took her first art classes there. two days ago i was with the new york city parks commissioner and he had his first art classes at the

brooklyn museum. so many artists i know had their first art classes. today over 300,000 people have arts education classes at the museum. >> other than your mother's interest in art, why were you drawn to the art world? >> you know my parents -- my father was a wanna-be historian and my mother is an antique dealer. we grew up going to museums and historical sites. so i grew up in a family that really cared about visual culture and how it told us a lot about mift and the lives and cultures of other people. also i grew up in an environment that we were told again and again that our actions and our inactions mattereded in world. being in the mee sglum for me is an opportunity to connect cultures and histories and stories that we all need to learn about in order to understand who we are as a

society, where we've come from and where we're headed. >> we know that public schools in many cases are undered gun whether it comes to funds and art classes and they're cutting art classes. how do you connect with the younger generation and try to turn them on to art? >> i think about our public schools, and the fact that they have all these great physical resources perhaps like theater spaces and dance studios but in recent decades they've been locked up. could we mayor de blasio put artists into the schools and have them activating these spaces and working with our youth? i hope so. >> clear you have the enthusiasm and the drive and you're excited about this job. we're pleased that you got it. congratulations. it's great to meet you. good luck. >> thank you very much. i'm thrilled to be here. it is a teaching tool from a different time. 1917 to be exact. literally tucked way in an oklahoma school for decades, and it has surfaced giving us all a

revealing education. pilgrims, penmanship and pictures all coated in dust. they were frozen in time and would have been remained hidden but then came the renovation at amorson high school in oklahoma city to make way for the new whiteboards, they stripped off the old black boards and there they were. lessons learn a century ago. traditional thanksgiving stories about the pilgrims with carefully drawn and colored pictures. there's also math basic addition and multiplication tables on the black board. a multiplication wheel. one of the more colorful sketches is of a little girl in a pink dress. there is more. here an old pledge of allegiance along with the traditional musical scale. a calendar in chalk. the last day marked wednesday december 28th. what would become of these

educational artifacts? a spokesman says the hope is to preserve them as a slice of school life for this generation and the future ones. >> that's our broadcast. thanks for watching. see you back here tomorrow night. the news continues now.

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