or the uses. >> that is our show for today. i'm ali velshi thank you for joining us. i'm ali velshi, thank you for joining us.^ below i'm ali velshi, thank you for joining us. a megacyber theft. >> the precise scope of this intrusion is one that continues to be under investigation by the f.b.i. the personal data from millions of current and former employees now believed to be in the hands of hackers. >> finding probable cause. an ohio judge sides with community activist showing there's enough evidence to charge two police ofng of tamir rice.

a new lead... >> blood hounds picked up a scent this morning authorities picked up the scent for two on the run health alert - a growing number of people in south korea, raising concerns the virus may show up in the u.s. good evening i'm jonathan betz you are watching al jazeera america. we begin with a shocking allegation. the federal employees union says the security breach was far worse than what the public was told and the hackers possessed personnel information of every current and former government workers. jonathan betz joins us. >> yes, this is a big trade yun unist. the american federation of

government employees, the biggest union that has government employees, 676,000 of them. tonight they are saying look, since the leak last week we have had little substantive information from the administration about what is going on. the union is saying they are hiding behind the fact that this is ongoing criminal investigation as a reason for not giving too many details out. it's written a letter saying that it wants more information, and suggested one or two things in the alert. it's an attempt to push back and get more into the public domain. >> reporter: the severity of the breach was never in question. the obama saying 4 million current and former employees was compromised. thursday in a letter, the president of the largest union announced how massive it was:

in that alert addressed to the office union box david cox said hackers obtained a treasure trove of information on all employees, including social security numbers, birth dates, pay history heath insurance, life insurance and pension information. the coupion based find ons on o.p.m. and accused the obama administration of downplaying the breach. thursday the white house denied downplaying the vogueses. the precise screp is under investigation by the fbi, and other technical experts that have the knowledge to figure out what occurred. >> on capitol hill it was fodder for the white house. >> a lot were shocked that the

obama administration was unable to prevent the information of 4 million americans being compromised by hackers. >> reporter: bringing a response from the other side of the aisle. >> he comes to the into and blames president obama for the hacking that the chinese did. >> harry reid doing what the state department refused to do which is to blame the chinese. the state department refusing to say which department may be behind the act. it is assumed who have is behind it was trying to get information for future spies in the united states to report to whichever foreign entity we are talking about. recent hacks at the pentagon and the white house have been blamed on the russians. >> thank you a judge in cleveland found cause to charge two police officers in the shooting of tamir rice. it doesn't mean they'll be indited.

bisi onile-ere who has been following the case tells us why. >> the judge made it clear he's offering recommendations. it's a case that has to go before a grand jury. sources say the judge's opinion will likely put pressure on prosecutors. >> reporter: thursday's decision comes days after a group of clergy and activists used a little-known law asking the court to order the roast of police officers involved in the shooting death of 12-year-old tamir rice in november. >> the people decided to take the opportunity to make the government work for them. this is not a contradiction. this is not a circumvention. it's plying the law that is available so that our government is responsible and accountable to us. the boy was playing with a pellet gun in a park. the shooting caught on surveillance video.

the judge released histhursday, stating that he found probable cause that the officer be charged with negligent homicide and der election of duty, and said officer loehmann who fired the shots should face the same charges, including murder involuntary manslaughter and reckless homicide. >> this is more than about law, but a moral obligation to give folks the power, a moral obligation to nieces and nephews on the streets of believe land and i fare for their lives. >> cleveland authorities said the officers mistook the weapon for a real gun. it took the sheriff's department more than six months to wrap up the investigation. the case was turned over to prosecutors, community leaders taking advantage of a law allowing them to bypass prosecutors and go to the court.

>> it's absolutely legal. there's a provision in ohio law allowing a citizen to file an affidavit with a reviewing management that could force them to file a warrant in this case. >> reporter: the judge noted in his order that his role was advisory in nature and did not order the arrest of the officer. the judge's opinion is in the hands of cleveland prosecutors. >> although community leaders pushed for arrest tamir rice's family say they are pleased with today's developments. >> thanks. >> a federal judge will re main on the bench in the denies hastert case after disclosing a personal conflict of interest. the judge left it up to the lawyers decide whether he could be impartial. he admitted to making campaign corrections to the loss speaker and worked with hastert's son

and one of his lawyers. hastert faces a million dollar bank fraud and lying to the f.b.i. o a hunt for two killers that broke out of prison. police are searching a wooded spot a few miles from the prison. >> we are looking under every rock aring behind every tree until we catch those two. >> reporter: several downs on lock down roads closed schools shut down residents urged to lock their doors as more than 500 law enforcement descend on the area. on the ground and in the air, officers are zeroing in on a small town south of the canadian border. >> we are exhausting resources at our disposal. >> reporter: they are looking for signs of the fugitives.

late wednesday searchers came across an area they believe the men may have camped out and slept. >> bloodhounds picked up a scent this morning and were pursuing that scent. i don't know if the bloodhounds are still on the scent. they are searching an area where the blood hounds picked up the scent. >> despite the lead authorities are extending the search area by posting billboards in nearby states. leads in peninsula and vermont are discredited, law enforce. is not taking chances. the governor of vermont is asked residents to remain vigilant and be careful. >> they'll do what it takes to maintain freedom. if that means harming you, that will not bother them. >> the escape is puzzling detectives and how the men got their hands on power tools.

the mother of one killer speaks out. begging her son to turn himself in. >> i love you. get back where you belong, before you get hurt. >> investigators are still questioning joyce mitchell the prison employee who they say may have befriended the men and helped them escape. new reports out suggest that they were supposed to drive the get away car. an the day of the escape. she checked into a hospital. she has not been charged as an accomplice. erica pitzi, thanks the nation's top general says the u.s. could significantly is and panned its presence in iraq to help in the fight against i.s.i.l. coming a day after 450 troops will be deployed. >> jamie mcintyre has more on that from the pentagon.

>> reporter: even before the boots hit the ground, joint chief dempsey said they could be used elsewhere in iraq, saying:. >> develop si says the lily pad concept where planners drawing on resources for surveillance work in the headquarters side by said and can make iraqi operations more effective. dempsey may be the top advisor to president obama, but the white house was cool to increasing bases and sending troops without seeing success in getting iraqi forces who fled ramadi back in the fight.

>> there's no immediate specific plans to do that. what i will say, though, is if a recommendation like this did come from the president's national security team, and his military advisors in particular. it would be a recommendation that reflects that the ongoing training efforts have been useful. >> dempsey said the addition of advisors is an adjustment, not a change to the current strategy. after relying on iraqi troops to do all the fighting on the ground. and says a similar lilypad in the corridor running from baghdad to tikrit, to kirkuk and mosul may make sense. the term lilypad refers to a launching or jumping off pad. there's no intention to sends helicopters or troops to the ground or putting u.s. spotters on the ground. a move that air power experts

agree would increase the accuracy of air strikes in urban contact. dempsey said they were not there yet. the outgoing chief of staff of the army says putting u.s. troops back in the combat role is not the answer. >> i put 150,000 soldiers on the ground to defeat i.s.i.l., yes. >> if you put 150,000 on it, it would defeat i.s.i.s. >> yes. >> but then what. >> the pentagon says that while teh u.s. can quickly dispatch i.s.i.l., the underlying sectarian divisions remain, and the u.s. faces protagonists down the road. the first american killed fighting i.s.i.l. has been returned to his family. hundreds turned out in a kurdish town in syria to pay respects to keith broomfield. the state department confirmed that keith broomfield was killed fighting along side kurdish forces this month an outbreak spreading across south korea, doctors have been unable to stop it.

next the dangers of middle eastern respiratory syndrome and whether we have been expect it to show up in the u.s. and why a lawyer says the legal system is treating suspects from a texas biker shoot-out as guilty instead of being proven innocent. innocent.

more than 126 people in south korea have been infected with middle eastern respiratory syndrome. the m.e.r.s. outbreak the biggest outside of saudi arabia killed 10 people. the government has new procedures. patients showing symptoms will be isolated in clinics instead of emergency rooms and outpatient centers. 4,000 are quarantined and most of the country's schools are closed. in the u.s. the centers for disease control is warping clinicians to be on the look out. dr debbie joins us tonight.

the fact that m.e.r.s. claimed 10 lives in south korea, how concerned should we be in the united states? >> we have to be concerned where there's a disease where there's an unclear method of transmission. we don't totally understand it. >> we don't? >> well the thing is we think it's through contact, respiratory contact. >> this is a relatively new disease popping up in saudi arabia. >> yes, it's new, and in the short time a few years, it's infected about 1,000 people. 25 countries, something that we have to keep an eye on. in terms of a direct threat to us in the u.s., i don't think we are in danger. >> henwhen it comes to the symptoms of m.e.r.s. how does it differ. ? >> that's tricky it starts with a virus, cold cough, and not think that anything is wrong. as it progresses you may get

nausea vomiting and diarrhoea, and causes a severe pneumonia and kid my failure. >> how do doctors treat patients? >> the only way to treat it is treat the system. we don't have a vaccine or a treatment that addresses the virus. if you have kidney failure you support the person. give them fluids to survive the pneumonia and treatment. >> when you look at the response, the quarantine, the closing the schools, are they getting a handle on the disease? >> they are taking an aggressive approach. it's a good thing. >> the world health organisation says that they don't really need to close the schools. it's not transmitted through the schools. but i think given the impact of what is going on it's important to be aggressive. her climate changing race taking a lot of moves.

people are not as interests in going out to public places. in hong kong they are concerned about travel. >> there's a lot of fear do you feel it's justified? >> well to some degree, i don't think we have to be concerned when there's something like this. the more steps you take, the more panic it creates. it's a difficult balance to know where to draw the line. >> where do you see this going, do you feel the outbreak could get worse in south korea, or is it getting it under control. >> i think they are getting it under control. >> i think they are getting it under control. they have a good hold of things they have over 3,000 people quarantined. you want to make sure each is kept separately you don't want the people sick to be put next to the people that are healthy you could have cross contamination and have people getting sick. >> we have seen in the united

states with the ebola, it's difficult to keep people in quarantine. >> exactly. >> it's been nearly a month since a shoot-out in texas where nine were killed. 170 have been arrested. dozens are in gaol because they cannot make bail. there are questions about whether innocent bystanders were kept up in the arrests a shoot out in texas between rival members of bandidos and cossack club. nine dead a dozen injured. more than a month later, fewer than half released on bond. among those behind bars john and jake wilson. >> they should be here.

bobby says her husband and son were motorcycle enthusiats at the wrong place at the wrong time. their bike shop has been shuttered. >> reporter: what would to do to you to lose this place? ist . >> we have put everything we have got into this place. >> could you afford the million dollar bond to get your husband out? >> absolutely not. >> reporter: on that sundays, her husband. president of the cos ag motorcycle club left home to attend a meeting at the twin peaks restaurant. >> i didn't think anything of it. >> reporter: did you know the bandidos would be there. >> no. >> reporter: do you think your husband knew? >> probably. >> reporter: why would he go to a place his sworn enemies would be present.

>> i never understood them to be sworn enemies. >> reporter: wilson said her husband and son significant bring weapons and when the shooting erupted. they fled from the patio where they'd been eating to the bathroom. >> not for a second do i believe my husband, son or anyone in his group was responsible for this craziness. >> nicole white is an attorney. >> they have taken these people deciding they were guilty because they were there and wearing certain jackets. >> 26 days later. the majority was locked up although a grand jury has not heard a case. >> texas law allows for people to be held for 90 days without an indictment. >> we reached out to the sheriff's office and the city of

wako. the waco department told us that the investigation is ongoing, and a lengthy process due to the high number of individuals. >> though not indicted all arrested faced a charge of engaging in interesting activity. >> to this date no one says what the activity might be. usually you are aware of what you are held for. >> wilson hopes a hearing will lower her husband's bond. if not, she has no idea what will come next. >> i adore this man. he's never given me any reason not to trust him. >> british actor sir christopher lee has died. he was 93. he died sunday morning at a hospital in london. he appeared in dozens of films. known for his role as dracula in

the horror films. younger fans know him as ducu in star wars and the world of jazz is mourning an iconic musician. [ ♪♪ ] ormet coleman passed away from cardiac arrest. the self-taught moussage is credited from developing the sound of jazz. he won a pulitzer prize and was honoured with a jazz master. >> albert einstein the scientist we know now we look at albert einstein the man. as his letters go up for auction much. >> and a rescue mission to save

members of a fishing boat crew have been rescued off the coast of alaska, the coast guard arriving moments before the boat sank pt the ship's captain called for help after encountering tough sees. they had to swim through the gulf of alaska and were lifted to safety. >> some of albert einstein's thoughts are up to auction. letters written to his ex-wife

and children will be sold in california. rob reynolds looks at what he thought about everything from god to sex. his name is a synonym for towering intellect. albert einstein, whose theory of relativity changed forever our knowledge of space time, and the universe and our place in it. he was also a prolific letter writer. 28 of his letters are up for auction. those letters from the 20th century's greatest genius are being stored here, in a warehouse stuffed with hollywood movie memorabilia. >> brian chains is head of a firm that will auction the letters. >> what makes it extraordinary is they get into the mind of einstein on an intimate level about very intimate and personal things. >> reporter: here is einstein on god and religion: the self-described agnostic writes:

writing to his ex-wife and fellow physicist, einstein laments his inability to reconcile relativity and quantum mechanics saying theoretical physics is currently enormously thorny. >> as adolf hitler takes power in the 1930s, beginning the persecution of german jews, the jewish born einstein wrote to family members explaining he would never return to his homeland. decades later he denounced joseph mccarthy's witch hunt in the u.s. calling it a systematic move to destroy the political rights of the individual these letters shed light on the human side of the great

scientist. on this one einstein writes to his young son hahns. congratulating him for his interest in mathematics and reminding him to brush his teeth. it was signed papa. >> einstein who was twice married and had many mistresses muses about sex, telling a correspondent he believes men are not naturally monogamous. einstein was an earth-bound human being, like the rest of us, even as his mind wandered through the limitless cosmos. incredible stuff. einstein would be impressed with this news much three astronauts are back on earth after 199 days on board the international space station. the soy us spacecraft landed in kazakhstan, and they were given chairs as they tried to adjust to earth's gravity. one of the astronauts set an endurance record for women in space much congratulations to

her. that does it for us this answering, i'm jonathan betz thank you for being with us. stay here ray suarez is next with "inside story". [ ♪♪ ] distracted driving is a plague a problem for all ages, but for the youngest drivers the digital natives who had a cell known in their hand since they were little it heightens the elevated dangers for them and other motorists on the road with them. driven to distraction - it's