that happens car owners could implement the options inside but design of the carrist. >> al jazeera knoxville tennessee. >> that does sound amazing a lot more on that and everything else we have been covering on our web with site the al jazeera aljazeera.com. today we are not taking actions against police officers we are taking actions for the people. activists ask a judge to bypass prosecutors and charge can the officers responsible for shooting t amir rice. former house speaker heads to court facing federal charges of financial fraud authorities focus on a woman who worked at a new york prison are convicted killers

escape. did she help the men get out? this is al jazeera america. community leaders in cleveland have ask add court can to do something that prosecutors have not so far. that's ocharge two police officers in the death of tamear rice. the 12-year-old was carrying a plastic gun when a police officer shot him. under a seldom used state law. and she joins us now from detroit, b.c., so the investigation is in the hands of prosecutors so why are these community leaders taking this step. >> tony, community leaders say they no longer have any trust in the criminal justice system especially considering the outcome of

several high profile cases involved african-americans and police in cleveland. several community leaders took to the steps of the justice center and said today that they no longer are going to wait on the prosecutor to make a charging decision in this case. they said instead they will go directly to the judge and ask that both officers involved in this case be charged in the shooting death of 12-year-old tamir rice last november. this group says that there is a a a 60-year-old law that allowed residenting to bypass prosecutors in this case. take a listening. >> we with believe that officers timothy louman and frank caused the death of tamir rice, in ways that were unconsciousble and yes criminal. we believe these officers charged and forced the law charged to enforce the law themselves stepped outside of the law and therefore are

subject to the same process of scrutiny examination and expedience of the judicial process it took the sheriffs department over six is months to finish this investigation and the sheriffs department was with criticized for how long that took. i can told this case could go before a grand jury in the next couple of weeks. >> so b.c., what is the judge likely to do with this request. >> welt, i am told there's a hand full of states that have laws like this one. but because this is such a high profile case, it took investigators such a long time to investigate and it will go before a grand jury, right now it is just too early to say. but i am just hearing that this group of community leaders for the most part they just want with it to make a point today. >> all right for news detroit, appreciate it, thank you. once the most powerful man in congress, dennise is is said to face a judge in just a few hours time, he is accused of

breaking federal law paying hush money, and then lying about it to the fbi. the hush money could be connected to alleged sex is wall abuse decades ago. am al jazeera political correspondent joins us now from los angeles and what is expected to happen in federal court can today. >> well, you know everything has been very closed mouthed about this case. as they have gone to court what we do expect can is that it he will be arraigned and given bail, and he will be pleaded presume my not guilty to the two counts against him, we have to remember there's obeen a lot of hear say about what these counts are, this is going to be about the money lit be about what is called structure and taking money out in imcements less than 10,000-dollar evers and also going to be about bribery and hush money as it were with. ten that's going to be about the money not about the secretary general librariesness. >> okay, what have prosecutors been saying if anything about this case. >> they have gone off the

structuring and it is ironic, because one of the authors of the patriot act, this law was with created to stop terrorism. to track money of more than $10,000. so his name is a big name in legal circles who is it. >> yes thomas green. he is with a d.c. firm, ironically also the firm where michelle and barack obama worked in their younger days he is not a stranger to washington corruption trials. he worked be richard sea ford the army general of back in the iran contra days.

represented people in watergate and in white water also helped with former senator in the wake of his ethical scandal having to do with charles keating. so he is a veteran of these things he also has not liked the prosecutor said very much about this case. very little from him. >> appreciate it, thank you. from los angeles. michael, thank you, two convicted killer whose broke out of a new york prison are still on the run and authorities acknowledge they could be anywhere by now. the focus has turned to the possibility that someone helped with the daring break out. investigators are focusing on prison employees and contractors doing maintenance work to see who may have helped two convicting kill canners with their escane. this prison worker joyce mitchell was questioned as part of the probe. the escape is the first in the lynn con correctional facility 170 year history. >> we with do not know if they had access to a vehicle but we presume they may have had access to a vehicle.

as well as they may have received assistance in their escape effort if for not other reason at least outside the secure perimeter of this facility. >> correction officials say no tools from inside the prison are missing raising the question if outside contractors helped out. what is certain is somehow david sweat and richard matt got their hands on power tools. slicing through the solid steel behind their beds. on friday night they stuffed makeshift dummies into their beds and made a winding journey, busting through a brick wall and steam pipe and escaping through a locked manhole about a block from the prison. leaving behind only this. these nearby residents say they may have been the first to see othe convicted killers. spotting them dressed in jeans walking in their backyard around12:30 saturday morning. >> i asked them what are you doing in my yard, get out of here. and he was like sorry i don't -- i know where i was i am on the wrong street.

>> they said the convicts ran off. al jazeera, new york. >> more trouble now for the tsa, an investigation found dozens of airport employees were with given security clearance even though they were on a terror watch list. officials say the tsa has been approving contract workers with a list that was not as complete as the government data base. it came up during a congressional hearing today where one with official said the problems of the t.s.a. could leave the public vulnerable. >> our audi results shows thatsa faces significance challenges. can espite spending billions on technology, our testing of certain is systems has yielded no improvement. >> just last week, a federal probe found agents were able to sneak fake weapons past security screeners. the hearing was briefly cleared due to a suspicious package. lawyers for the state of louisiana are meeting with the federal judge today trying to keep a member of

the angola 3 in prison. that same judge has ordered he be released after 43 years in jail. much of it in solitary confinement. >> the fifth district court can says 40 years years in solitary is long enough. ordered his immediate release. the court can has also barred the state from holding a second retrial on charges that he killed a guard during a prison riot in 1972. he could be set free as early as wednesday. the judge sited several reasons for his order including albert's age and poor health, in his ruling the judge said there were no witnesses available the ever the retrial and there was prejudice done to him by spending over 40 years in solitary confinement. the judge also expressed doubt, he could be provide requested a fair trial. supporter whose have long called for his relief, expressed concern can that

the state will apeople the judge's ruling the state community cases director said the state would indeed appeal to make sure this murderer stays in prison and remains fully accountable for his actions. wood fox's one of the group known as the angola 3. albert wood fox along with herman wallace and robert king can became members of the plan panther party while in prison. a fact that he has long believed kept him in solitary for so long. >> king was released in 2001, after his con can vices in the debt of a fellow inmate in 1973 was reversed. king spent 29 years in solitary and is now a public speaker. john henry smith, al jazeera. well, president obama is once again defending his healthcare law ahead of a supreme court decision that could wipe out insurance for millions.

>> natasha horns graduated cum laude day three years ago with a paralegal associates degree from an everest college in california. >> we are everest. >> part of the for profit education giant. >> today the went six-year-old is back in her native missouri. working part time at a grocery store for minimum wage. honest work, but not the

career everest promised her. >> they told us that we would have a job in the field that we studied within no more than six months. but horns couldn't get a foot in the door. she had nothing to show. >> $28,012. >> except $28,000 in federal student loan debt. >> now corinthian was hit with a flu of lawsuits alleging the for profit lied about job placement rates and enganged in predatory practicing targeting low income students. now all of the campuses have been sold off or closed down. it was developing a process where any student who believes they are detraded by the college could apply for student loan forgiveness. they are pushing for an

automatic discharge held by corinthian students. saying the department revictimized studenting by forcing them to navigate a bureaucratic process. the estimated cost of forgiving a loan is also drawing fire the senator accused the department of putting taxpayers on the hook for what a college may have done. >> how much this may cost taxpayers. >> this is a moving target, but they say that for all of the students who attended -- were with to apply through this program and get their loans forgiven, the price tag -- that's really a very narrow way of looking at the ripple effect of student debt. and of these loans. when young people are crushed with debt, they can't can spend, and participate in the economy, in a meaningful way and help grow it, so you have to look not just about student loans and who owes them and who doesn't but you

have to look at the whole economic ecosystem if you will. >> you have crushed this story, will you get arnie dunkin', who is he the education can secretary will you get him in a chair please to talk about this. >> i will. >> patty, appreciate it. >> the supreme court of virginia has temporarily blocked the planned closure of sweet briar college. now college officials announced they were closing the school due to declining enrollment. the state supreme court sent the case back to a lower court, college leaders will be questioned and try to put an end to the so called iron pipeline. bringing guns from south to north, and inside look at the massive effort to shut it down that's next.

>> a fire crew say they are now in control of a huge blaze. we will show it to you in a

second here. in ukraine, a drone -- shows what it looks like. three others are now missing. the owner suspect arson. >> robert gray reports. >> hello. >> how are you? >> this is little's bait and tackle shop. in the small town, one of nearly 4,000 licensed gun dealers in the state. >> clair rance is the owner. lit salt lake also the source of the gun that was used to kill new york city police officer, brian moore in may. it was stolen from the pawnshop in 2011. this cctv video caused the mask thieves in action, they took 23 weapons nine ended up in new york city, and the

police never caught the guys that robbed your store? >> no, they had on hoodies and ski masks and gloves. >> no. >> they never caught anything or anybody. >> the guns make their way up what is known as the iron pipeline an illegal fire am trade rout that runs up interstate 95 and southern states to new york. in spite of ae. thes by lawmakers and police to shut it down, the pipeline remains open. and georgia is ground zero. >> two new york cities ambushed in september were also killed by a georgia gun. 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 20n't manies and you can also obtain a gun online with no background check at all.

georgia leads the country as a source of firearms for crimes in other states. 3,000 guns were confiscated outside the state by police. with florida running just behind. according to data from the bucher ow of alcohol tobacco, and firearms. we reached out to the a.t.f., but they did not respond to our request for an interview. >> you know, i was shocked initially when i heard what had happened and it was one of our guns. >> upset that it was a local gun that called officer brian moore, two police captain says law enforcement needs more funding to fight gun running. >> what the heck can be done to stop that? because it is clearly an issue. >> yeah. welt -- other than putting -- we have drug interdiction units out. that look for drugs and that basically stop cars and try to deter drug trafficking and people transporting large amounts of money, and

narcotics back and forth those same interdiction units are also looking for weapons. >> is there enough of them. >> well, in my opinion there's not enough police officer. >> georgia state representatives rick jaspers is the author of the safe carry protection law which passed in april of 2014. it allowed 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 is on that level? >> i don't know anything about it. i have the fortunate to say i have never been in new york city. so i don't know anything, really and i haven't investigated or tried to look at what is going up in the north eastern corridor. my bills that i sponsor involve around georgia and how we with can strengthen

our law make it fair for individuals but most of all make it effective. is it easy to understand and effective. maybe that's what they need a little state legislature up there in new york to work an theirs too. >> and 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 they were stolen. robert bert ray, al jazeera. >> history uncovered a hidden blackboard unearthed less sons from nearly 100 years ago, plus, a big glitch in the sat that could impact test scores for thousands of students nationwide.

development... >> we have an exclusive story tonight, and we go live... the ohio supreme court has heard arguments. sentenced to die for a 1984 rape and murder. his first execution attempt in 2009 was stopped after a

teen couldn't find his veins. his lawyers say a second execution would be the same as double jeopardy. as troubling trend in healthcare jails are emerging as one of the large most ciders of mental health providers. reports from inside chicago's cooks county jail. >> let me get three more. this is morning in take in chicago. it is where the newly arrested go for processing. >> how are you doing? my job is to help you okay? sometimes it sounds more like an intervention. >> what am i trying to say is why are you drinking so much? are you stressed out? what is causing you to drink all that? don't lie to me because i know you have anger problems. >> you get angry like zero to 10, just boom, like that. okay. >> alley montgomery is the jail's director of mental

health. >> any suicidal thinking ever ever feel sad for no reason. >> othis morning she and her staff screen 59 detainees while 18 of them have self-identified as having mental health conditions the mental health professionals will probably find even more. i am worried you aren't shooting straight with me, i am your mom for the day. >> most are here for petty crime, and drug related charges. >> typically we are looking for schizophrenia by polar disorder. and ptsd. >> lock sup rapidly becoming the asylum for chicago mentally ill. the largest single site jail in the country some 9,000 inmates. 2500 to 3,000 of them suffer from some type of psychological illness, and that fact makes it the largest mental health provider in illinois, some go to desperate lengths to get help. >> do you find people that

deliberately commit crimes to get back here just to get some care. >> yes. >> what does that say about the state of our system right now. >> it's been a dirty little secret for a long type. it is a population that no one cares about and we do. >> coming up tonight the cook county jail get as new executive director, a unique ray pointment for a jail sha is breaking the mold. >> al jazeera chicago. >> you can can watch that report at 8:00 p.m. eastern 5:00 p.m. pacific right here. it is a teaching tool from a different time. 1917 to be exact. hidden chalk boards have surfaced given a glimpse into the past, randall kingston has the story. they were frozen in time, and would have remained hidden but then came the renovation

at emerson high school. to make way for new white boards they stripped off the old blackboards and there they were. less sons learned a century ago. traditional stories about the pill grams be carefully drawn and colored pictures there's also math, basic addition, and multiplication, tables on the blackboard, a multiplication wheel. one of the more colorful sketches is of a little girl in a pink dress an old pledge of allegiance along with a traditional scale and a calendar in chalk. the last day marks wednesday december 28th. what will become of these? a spokes woman with said the hope is to preserve them, as a slice of school life for this generation, and future ones. >> randall pinkston reporting there, hemmerson high school is 120 years old. the renovation is part of the

city's metropolitan area projects initiative, which aims to improve the quality of life in the city. the college board is insisting a mistake won't cause issues with with scores in this week's s.a.t.s. some were told they had five extra minutes but not every test taker was with given that same benefit. it says it simply won't score those sections and will calculate accurate scores from other parts of the test. and good news from parents that sit their children in front of a t.v., if you turn on sesame street your child may be learning as much as if they were this preschool. five new study from the university of maryland says the famous tv show helps improve school readiness perhaps most surprising, the benefit seem to last through high school. and that is all our time, thank you for joining us, the news continues next, life from london.

this is al jazeera. >> this is the news hour live from london. coming up in the next 60 minutes. the number of migrants reaching europe by sea this year passes 100,000. libya's elected parliament reject as u.n. proposal for a unity government as isil seizes a power plant. the people of ireland backed gay marriage now and the abortion ban amnesty international message to the irish government.