>> this is aljazeera america live from new york city. i'm tony harris, and bringing more suffering to soggy texas days of heavy rain. and officials warn that there's no place for the water to go. drone strike, al qaeda confirms the death of the second in command. and what should have been done to protect the personal data of federal employees.

and one of the first tropical storm systems of the season, tropical storm bill. it's expected to bring rain to texas, louisiana and arc a.. and the area is still reeling from most month's record floods. heidi zhou-castro, what are the officials telling you? >> here in dallas, the emergency operations system will open at 6 a.m. tomorrow morning in anticipate of the localized flooding. you can see the storm clouds hovering over the city and much of the rainfall is expected overnight, upwards of 6 inches. that may not sound like of, but the fact that last month the rain saturated all of soil and the waterways in the entire

state, any additional rainfall creates the potential for more flash flooding. as you said, tropical storm bill is making its way here after making landfall in houston earlier today. and serious winds upwards of 50 miles per hour, and torrential rainfall. there was some coastal flooding there, and now much of the state is under a flash flood warning. >> and so they're warning people that the system is coming and it's going to bring a lot of rain. how have texans been preparing for this new round of drenching rain? >> you remember the memorial day rains last month tony, those were so terrible for texas. there were 2 dozen people who lost their lives and just in the city of houston alone $45 million in damages so that taught people what to brace for, and what could be the

worst-case scenario. so all over the state they are making preparations, in dallas, in anticipation of trouble and emergency evacuations. >> in dallas, the flash-flood watches and warnings as heidi mentioned. and kevin is tracking them. >> this is one of the times when you don't want to underestimate the power of a tropical storm because the area is so saturated. i want you to take a look. this is scott telling astronaut from the international space station it's inverted but this is his view of the minimal. here's what we're looking at, but here's the storm. i want to go in closer to give you a better look at where the areas are being affected. here we are just to the south of victoria, that's where the center of circulation is, but if you go to the northeast all the way to houston that's

where most of the rains and the wind are happening right now. the storm made landfall, and we saw problems earlier just where it made landfall. at 8:57, i-45 was flooded in galveston, and 8:45, that's where we saw it at matagorda island. but 12:45 p.m., stops in houston, and austin got into the action, and they said that they were closing their offices later in the afternoon. and then 3:45, we saw roadways in gavstonning flooded as well. just in the last hour, south of houston, we saw them expanding the flash flood warnings and we expected this. but we're looking at that from texas, oklahoma and parts of arkansas as well as louisiana

are looking at flood warnings in effect there. and we're looking at the tropical storm warning tropical storm warnings that will be dropped in the next few hours. this is not the end of the devastation. >> the other story that we're following, the al qaeda leader, confirming that he was killed last week. >> the meeting of al qaeda in the arabian peninsula elites was held last year in the daylight hours. and despite the drone attacks they seem to be saying, we're not afraid. clearly mocking the u.s. and yemeni governments who for years have vowed to vanquish

aqap. a high power has been eliminated but is the threat still alive. >> al qaeda center, the original child has by and large been neutralized in the last several years but al qaeda in the peninsula is probably still the most significant threat to the west in terms of both capability and intent to conduct terrorist attacks. auap under his stewardship has long been considered the most dangerous wing of the al qaeda network. formed 2009, they carried out their first cross border attack in august of that year. that's when a suicide bomber blew himself up in saudi arabia in front and they tried to down a u.s. passenger jet over detroit. and then in 2010, they

attempted to send bombs onto u.s. cargo planes. these were all from hideouts deep in yemen. u.s. recognizing how dangerous the group had grown claimed auap as the biggest threat to its citizenry, and stepped up attacks in yemen. but they have adapted more dangerously, how they exploited power vacuums in yemen taking over large parts starting officials and bombing yemeni installations since. in 2013, an attack on a hospital in a defense ministry compound killed dozens and wounded hundreds. carnage that had his fingerprints all over it. when aqap claimed to be behind the attack, it reinforced to the u.s. how it may have

emboltened the group further. and now violence once more, and aqap has attempted to carve out more space. just hours after they confirmed haishi's death they claim that they have taken a hit but are not diminished. >> on capitol hill, tactics of torture. an amendment to the organization. 70-21, the law limits to the field manual, and so-called enhanced interrogation techniques such as water boarding and sleep deprivation will be prohibited. >> i believe that they compromised our values and stained our national honor and did little good. i don't believe that we should use those practices in the past and never had the future. this amendment provides

assurances that never again will the united states follow that dark pat of sacrificing our values for our short-term security needs. >> senator mccain as a prisoner of war said that he's convinced that the methods don't help tense. the nuclear arsenal as they condemned heavy weapons near the border. >> reporter: in recent months moscow and washington have been accusing each other of violences of various cold war era missile treaties, and the united states mr. particular says that russia has violated a 1987 treaty on intermediate range missiles by testing the cruise missile. moscow says that washington is stepping over boundaries by planning on stationing tanks

and heavy weaponry and intermediate ranged missiles in eastern you were. and they said that nato is pushing russia into an arms race. we'll see what putin has in response to that. >> but there are suspicions or suggestions that maybe these intercontinental ballistic missiles that he has announced today are not new missiles but replacements of older systems. like the one behind me. the older sausage shaped thing is one of russia's older ones, but russia is in the middle of a vast, expensive upgrade procedure at the moment. by 2020, it wants to replace 70% of all of its hardware, and it's going to cost a lot of money. it's worth remembering what happened to the ussr. in essence, it was bankrupted

and ruined by an arms race which it wouldn't win against a much richer rest. >> there are a dozen republicans running for president, but today's announcement was much different than others. real estate magnet, donald trump threw his hat into the ring. >> after an arrival that saw him gliding down the escalator in his manhattan office tower billionaire, donald trump formally entered the 2016 race. >> i am officially running for president of the united states, and we are going to make our country great again. >> throughout his speech, trump's bravado was on full display. >> i will be the greatest jobs president that god ever created. i tell you that. >> he proclaimed his net worth.

>> $8,737,540,000. >> then he explained. >> i'm doing that to say that that's the kind of thinking our country needs. we need that thinking. >> and according to trump the nation's politicians think the opposite. >> we have losers, we have losers. we have people that don't have it. >> trump did not shy away from key issues, though he tipped off solutions in his own unique style. >> immigration. >> i will build a great. great wall on our southern border, and i will have mexico pay for that wall. >> the war against islamic state. >> nobody will be tougher on isis than donald trump. nobody. >> trade deals. >> i know the best negotiators in the world. and i put them one for each country. believe me, folks we'll do very very well. >> on social security, he's

relatively progressive. >> all of these other people want to cut the hell out of it. i don't want to cut it at all. i'm going to bring money in, and we're going to save t. >> president obama. >> he wasn't a cheerleader. he's actually a negative force. >> and he attacked secretary of state john kerry who is trying to reach a nuclear deal with iran. >> we won't be using a man like secretary kerry, who has no concept of negotiation, who makes it a horrible, laughable deal. >> real estate developer donald trump grew up and went to the university of pennsylvania, he has luxury hotels and sky scrapers, and a hit reality television show on abc called the apprentice. trump has considered running for the presidency before. and suspicions may linger that he's entering just to attract media attention. in his campaign announcement,

he bragged extensively about his golf courses. >> i have the best golf courses in the world. >> but the 69-year-old business tycoon may not get trapped in the campaign margins. he enters the race with unmatched name recognition and thanks to his celebrity status, trump is high enough to qualify for nationally televised debates. rifles like jeb bush could find him disruptive. >> bush is totally in favor of common core, and i don't see how he could get the nomination. he's weak on immigration and he's in favor of common core. how the hell can you vote for this guy. >> he may run into problems with those who care about facts. here is the fact check, much of what trump said is nonsense. >> and the democratic national committee piled on with sarcasm. quote he added much-needed

seriousness that has been lacking from the gop field and we look forward to hearing more about his ideas to the nation." but he is used to the ridicule and he will not be sidetracked. after all he's donald trump. >> we need somebody who can take the brand of the united states and make it great again. >> david schuster, aljazeera. >> we'll have much more coming up later in the program. forget using pine tars, pit bulls and steroids, the fbi is investigating one major league baseball team for hacking into a computer network. and so long transfats. ordering companies to get rid of the ingredient altogether.

>> and the former spokane naacp chapter president speaking out about the controversy that prompted her to resign from her post. when asked if she was

african-american rachel rachel dolezal said that she identifies as black. >> i do take exception to that. because it's more complex than me identifying as black or answering a question, are you black or white. >> so the controversy touched off a national debate. and dolezal has been released from the company that she worked for. in the american diet, transfat have been reduced but it's still in popcorn and many things, and it's linked to heart disease. >> reporter: for nearly six decades on this midwest college campus in champagne illinois, one man has been sounding the alarm against transfat.

meet fred. ph.d and adjunction professor, and he will mark his 101st birthday in october. >> you can wrap yours fingers around it. and you can see the plaques there. >> in his lab he still stores some of the arteries that he has studied over the years. his work on heart disease began in the 1950s after he asked a local hospital to send him satchels from patients who had died of heart attacks. >> these are samples of people who have died of heart disease. >> what did you find? >> i found transfat in them. up to 40%. >> artificial transfat is created by adding hydrogen to vegetable oil to make it more stable. that improves a food's texture and shelf life. it's found in some products like microwave popcorn and

frosting. the research continues while franz fat grew. >> miracle marge rip the lightest and tastiest you can buy. >> margarines, loaded with transfat, he fed it to pigs and their arteries closed up. >> this is what causes heart disease. >> that's when his food fight began in earnest. >> i wanted the industry to lower the transfat to zero, and they wouldn't do it, because they like the consistency of this transfat. it made a nice smooth thing. >> it was a big fight? >> imagine how big of a fight it is. >> that was in 1968. food companies did agree then to reduce transfat levels somewhat. but americans were still eating plenty of it. even as more alarming studies were published.

in 2006, the food and drug administration began requiring food labels to list transfat. and food companies began dramatically cutting back. but that wasn't good enough for fred. in 2009, he petitioned the fda to ban transfat. the agency responded "your petition is currently under active evaluation, but then silence for four years. finally, at the urging of a lawyer, he sued the fda. the fda told aljazeera that his petition required extensive review and analysis. >> how are you going to feel when the fda bans transfat? >> well, i'll feel like science came out on top >> so after all of these years has dr. fred cumero. the fight is not completely

over. they will petition the fda for use of artificial transfat in small amounts that can't be formulated. sprinkles, for instance. they will evaluate the petition based on science. a food safety group for science in the public interest said that the fda should look at my petition sceptically. and as for fred, he said that the fda should deny any petition that they should not allow any level of transfat in america's food. >> lisa stark reporting for us. major league baseball caught up in a hacking investigation confirming that the houston astros, they are looking into whether employees of the st. louis cardinals are behind the breach and if they got their hands on information including scouting reports on trades. >> there's an investigation

and we have been fully cooperative. obviously, any always like this no matter how serious it turns out to be, is of grave concern for us, but it's too early to speculate on what the facts are going to be. and what action, if any is necessary. >> it's not clear yet which cardinals employees may have been involved in the hacking or whether team executives knew what was going on. how the hackers were able to access sensitive dita on millions of current and former employees. and john terry joins us. they had a lot to say about this, didn't they? >> plenty to say is a bit of an under statement. the house oversight committee was on the war path, seeking answers to multiple, multiple questions about the office that they hacked. i have to say generally speaking, they did not get, at least not in public, when the

cameras were rolling. >> last year, we, the american people spent almost $80 billion on information technology, and it stinks. >> an open hearing and a private classified one back-to-back. >> this is one of those hearings where i think i'm going to know less coming out of this hearing than when i walked in. >> still the oversight committee tore into the office of management in the hearing. >> you're doing a great job stonewalling us, but hackers not so much. >> time after time, the office chief, katherine archuleta was accused of avoiding the issue. >> we can provide information in a classified setting. >> or falling back on notice. >> we didn't ask you to read statements, but i want to know use you didn't encrypt the information. >> why on earth wasn't the data encrypted?

>> were the social security numbers, were they encrypted. yes or no? >> no, they were not encrypted. >> there you go. >> other questions to the committee, how did this happen and how many millions of americans were affected? >>affected? what archuleta did say how the agency is working to fix the problem. >> we have not determined it's scope or impact, but we have implemented additional security measures to protect sensitive information. >> two points seem to stand out above all others. one that the management has been warned repeatedly since 2007 that their systems were available, and two staff weren't really up to the job. >> the program that's responsible for it security frequently had no it background. >> the committee stands adjourned, thank you. >> after the sessions were over, the chairman of the oversight committee pulls no

punches. >> it's going to be time for the office director as well as the ceo steps down. it's time for them to go. whether the president fires them or they step down, we have to have a change. this is totally unconcept unacceptable. >> the computers are so old that they can't be patched. and as for the big question, how many of us have been hacked? is it 4 million or 14 million, we don't know. katherine archuleta stuck to the 4 million. but after the private session came out, he was asked and he said that the number is climbing. >> john in washington. thank you. donald trump said that he's rich, and that's one of the reasons you should make his president. and plus, why the medical device industry is paying big

bucks to avoid tacks

taxes.. >> from golf courses to socks and underwear he boasted i'm really rich. and he has a net worth of $8.7 billion. and we don't know how accurate that is. but his campaign has 20 days to release the records. and he has filed for bankruptcy four times. 1991, 2002 and as recently as 2009, but that'ser bankruptcies, he has never filed for personal bankruptcy. he'll make that distinction as being able to -- he has emerged

relatively unscathed financially from bad business deals, and that's where he is as a businessman. >> you spoke to him in the past and tell us about that experience. >> i had several conversation was him off-camera and on camera. and a few years ago he became best-known politically for his skepticism that president obama has born in the united states. well after the original copy of president obama's birth certificate interest hawaii was released, it got him a lot of negative publicity in the past. i covered him for years and i was doing an interview when i was back at snepp and he called in because we were talking about him. and he decided that he wanted to have this conversation yet again. let's listen to this. >> it's just a ludicrous

discussion you believe that barack obama has born in the united states, and after this, no one at cnn will ask you this again. >> i wish i could say that with certainty. it's possible that he was but there's a big question as to whether he was. there are too many things. when i started this two months ago and i heard about it for years, when i started it two months ago i thought he was. every day that goes by, i think less and less that he was born in the united states. >> and that sort of settles that discussion, tony. >> what else is on the program tonight? >> we're talking to congresswoman from michigan, and she was opposed to the president's move. anything that the president can do to get democrats on his side. >> and you can watch ali velshi on tart, 7:30 eastern here on aljazeera america. >> okay, good to have brian on the program. and he's a republican

strategist. he said today that he would build a great wall on the southern border and have mexico pay for it. he called immigrants from mexico rapists but some, i assume are good people, some. we have produced shows on this network, talking about how candidates can literally win by civil running. people can get in the race and lose but win by simply running. do you take donald trump on his word when he says that he wants to be preparation presence? >> i do. >> because it builds the brand. >> there are a lot of ways to build the brand with $100 billion. you can have a home run for the real estate investment. and he decided this is what he wants to do. >> and how much of his own money he is putting in the campaign. >> he has to be willing to put it n it doesn't matter how much

he has. if the investors say that we need $5 million for iowa, he has to. if he says i'm not going to pay the staff that's what happens. >> in the process has unfolding and about to unfold with donald trump, you will know if he's serious. >> he's serious in the sense that he's hiring to advisers, and he's doing something that he has never done before. and he's going to file a document that says how much he's worth. he has sued before, when they reported too low of an estimate of what he's worth. and this document has to be factual. you cannot exaggerate. it's a crime to exaggerate and law on a document that you're worth more than you are. >> isn't he going to dominate? i'm thinking about it, every point along the way when is

the document going to be released? he's going to dominate the press and take valuable press attention away from everyone in the race so far. >> he will, but it's incumbent on you reporters out in the field to put him on the front lines and ask the questions in the primary. >> but it's so tough. and there's a piece in the washington post. and david schuster eluded to it where it's impossible to back check donald trump. you have run a successful campaign before, and what are his assets? >> i think that any time he shows up in new hampshire and south carolina, the reporters will be there bar none they will be there. >> so he's a guy that's going to get a ton of media attention. >> of course. the question is what will he stay and will he stay on message? if they all say we're all about the economy and jobs, and then he goes off and attacks a

fore country or a candidate that's going to be the news. >> he could be a loose cannon, right? >> any candidate can be a loose cannon. we all cringe when people go off script. >> you do it when people sit in this chair. i kind of like it when folks give me what i don't think they're going to give me. >> donald finished his speech and declared that he was running for president, and music started and people said that is supposed to be the end of the speech, and he went on for another 20 minutes. >> do you take him seriously? >> i think i will if he stays on message. if he starts going off on all of these tang cigarettes tangents. and you can have them locked up in a background and not put them on tv, and they can win. >> he has to talk about isil and conflict zones around the world and healthcare, and real issues. >> he has to be able to have

solutions and not just complaints. that's going to be the test. >> brian great to see you again. a long timedadviser, talking about benghazi, libya sydney bloom testified before the house today and discussed the emails that he sent to clinton while she was secretary of state. and he gave harad vice and intelligence on the situation in libya. the committee wants to know more about his involvement in libyan policy. now, the white house and congress now have more time to work on a deal with president obama's trade agenda. the house voted today to give lawmakers until july 30th to give the president the ability to negotiate more trade deals. the leaders from the party say that there's no path forward on this one. one of the more controversial

parts on obamacare, it's the medical device tags, that republicans say is killing jobs. this week, the gop led the house in repealing the tax. >> x-ray machines, mri scanners and hip replacement all scanners provided to health insurance through the affordable care act. >> we're talking about the bigger technologies. >> the idea behind the tax was simple. healthcare law creates more customers for medical companies, so the industry can pay some of those profits back into the system. >> there will be more people insured and more need care, and all of the healthcare sectors will grow as a result. >> it means $29 billion in federal revenue over a decade, but the medical device industry said had a that tax hurts their business. >> that takes away from our

development. >> one industry claims the loss of 39,000 jobs yet independent studies disagree. the congressional research service found that the tax has fairly minor affects and said at the most, 1200 jobs could be lost. despite that, repealing the medical device tax has brought criticism from republicans including some of the biggest supporters of the healthcare law, chuck schumer. more than 75,000 of them dot the country especially in liberal stronghold. >> we're talking about massachusetts, new york and california. those are the states that have a big presence of medical device manufacturers, and they're lobbying their members directly. >> according to the center for responsive politics, the state spent $22 million, in the lobby frenzy leading up to the healthcare law. >> we're talking about very big

business and $1 billion at stake. >> lee detroitman wrote the book. >> so it can end up as a de facto message. >> you see them spending an incredible amount of money hammering on that issue and building support for it. and there's not much on the other side. >> it's not just lobbying here on k street in washington. but also donated $6.7 million last election. we wanted to know what impact that money has so we went to the house of representatives to talk to the biggest recipients. minnesota poulson, and ron kind. they wrote the bill to repeal the tax. >> congressman poulson the

medical industry has spent tens of millions of dollars lobbying to repeal this, and how does that influence your work on this. >> bottom line, pure and such, this is about jobs. and i represent a district in the community with 400 device companies, 200 of them in my district alone that employ thousands of people, and so i'm going to fight every day. >> is there anything about optics that you get on this issue. >> i'm not. policy wise, it's the right thing to do, and you can play that game any way you want. i wish i was independently wealthy. i don't know if we have some here to self finance the game, but you have to raise funds to be competitive in these campaigns as well. >> we talked to republicans who said that the money they received through campaign contributions has nothing to do with influencing them in their decision. >> they see things because nobody wants to feel that they're being manipulated in

any sense. a lot of lobbying is actually seeking out natural allies in congress, not twisting people's arms but finding people who will be sympathetic and rewarding those people. >> drutman said that the medical industry has fine tuned it with millions of dollars at stake. >> the muslim brotherhood has called for a mass protest on friday in egypt. this comes after upholding the death sentence for mohamed more mohamed morsi. he has been accused of plotting attacks on police, and in a second case, they sentenced morsi to life in prison for spying on iran. >> [ unintelligible ]. >> the u.s. and european union

have condemned the death sentence. amnesty international said had a it's a complete disregard for human rights. the center for one of mexico's most powerful cartels and some of the residents were being exploited by criminals. john holeman has the story. >> this is home to money launderers who moved millions of dollars for organized crime. a poor neighborhood on the outskirts of north mexico. this woman known only as maria, lives with her family in a wooden shack with no running water. she was one of the hundreds who said yes when offering $30 to a bank account in her name with their money. she describes an operation run by criminals and bank cops, using the city's poor. >> i went to the counter and

signed for the money but never touched it or knew how much it was. the man with me put it in a black bag, and then the police patrol back arrived and took it. then they took me back to my house and gave me 500 pesos. >> organized crime has been offering the same deal all over the outskirts. the lawyer has been advising some of the women lured in. >> to keep these women, we have made them all the same, the marias. and there are hundreds of marias that all have this problem. >> now the attorney's office is investigating the marias. they seized their bank accounts, and these women can't get a paycheck. and meanwhile drug money continues to flow-through. businesses like this water park and the building housing this casino are among those fingered by the u.s. treasury, built by

illicit funds. but they're still open. >> the mexican government always goes after the small fish. these are basically people who are making a few dollars for every one of those transactions. but they're not touching the main businesses that are operating behind those people. >> metsker's attorney general office refused to comment. but drug money remains a chronic and growing problem for the whole country. increasing by 60% over the last eight years, according to the report from the senate. but it's not just mexico's problem. $29 million in illicit funds move between the united states and mexico every year the attorney general said. meanwhile, the criminals continue to go to these neighborhoods. they increased their offer.

$130 for society's most vulnerable members to risk everything, moving vast sums of illegal money. >> in indonesia aljazeera has been investigating reports that money is being paid by australian officials to stop human traffickers to stop bringing migrants to australian shores. >> reporter: the money shots the indonesian island, aljazeera was given the first exclusive access to the major diplomatic dispute. this cash, the police say was given at sea by officials in australia to smugglers to make sure that they use their tart in indonesia and this is the captain of the boat. >> i told the australian man we needed the money to return to our wives and chirp.

and i said okay, we'll help you. as captain i got $6,000. and the crew got $5,000 each. >> the captain now being held by the indonesian police claims that his boat was escorted by two australian vessels over a two--week period. eventually the passengers and crew were transferred to two different fishing boats that the australians provided. >> according to our law, this is bribery and this is illegal. we will let the international community decide what the punishment should be. >> in australia on tuesday the prime minister was still dodging questions. >> the only thing that really counts, have we stopped the boats in and the answer is yes. >> the officials always acted legally, despite legal experts that paying smugglers to take people anywhere would be

against international and australian law. the opposition party these people were paid by australia while they were in government. not at sea but he stonewalled when it came to paying smugglers on land. >> you know that it doesn't matter what political party they are from, when it comes to security matters, we don't comment. >> australia paying smugglers could have been happening for years. australian opinions are picked. >> they have nothing to hide on it and they should be able to answer the question. >> to stop the boat coming [ unintelligible ]. >> . >> they're crooks. >> crooks? >> po pay the smugglers. >> most australians say that they're pleased that they are stopping coming to the country but most are uncomfortable with the secrecy by which it's being

achieved. there are other questions of how long this has been going on. andrew thomas, aljazeera in western sydney. >> when we come back, an update on tropical storm bill. just how much rain is the gulf coast going to receive in and eating chocolate may not help you lose weight. but it doesn't mean that you should skip it. details coming up.

>> let's get a quick up date on tropical storm bill. storm system is hitting the texas coast with high winds and waters, and looking at the images so far the region could see rain for the next couple of days. >> we're going to be seeing a lot of problems not just for texas, but oklahoma and missouri and illinois through friday. look at the storm now look at all of the rain coming on shore. what's happening with the circulation, it's pulling in the moisture and touching it

here in southern texas and that's going to be the trend. as you see we're looking at quite a bit of flood watches and flood warnings, and as you see in the red that's flash flood warnings in effect. from dallas tomorrow to oklahoma and the next couple of days. the other thing that we're talking about, tornado warnings in effect. when you get those bands coming on shore of thunderstorms, they could potentially drop some tornadoes across the area, so we'll be watching the area as well over the next six hours. this is the track of the storm. and it has not changed too much over the last day. it's going to work its way to oklahoma and then an area of low pressure. and it's going to have quite a bit of rain inside of it. we expect to see 8-12 inches, but when you see the area of purple, that could be 14 inches or higher.

this is an area that's already very very susceptible. tomorrow, north texas and oklahoma that's going to have the major problem and then thursday the threat continues to parts of missouri. looking at the weather patter, you see a lot of rain, and pushing up to the ohio river valley, i think this will be a problem to the end of the week. >> is it weakening in ohio and missouri? >> yes but it has so much rain and moisture inside of it, and that's the problem. >> and texas is on the alert for the next few days. >> absolutely. it's not over. >> thank you. in california, officials are still trying to figure out what caused a deadly balcony collapse in berkeley overnight. six students, all in their early 20s were killed. five of the six were visiting from ireland. they were in california on summer work study visa. >> and it's a wonderful opportunity and a wonderful time in many of these young

people's lives. for many of my countrymen, it's a formative experience, and to have this happen at the start of this season is something that has left us all frozen in shock and disbelief. >> seven students remain hospitallizes, several in critical condition and officials have declared several of the other balconies in the complex off-limits until they know what went wrong here. an army veteran who made it over the fence into the white house will spend eight years months in prison. he has been in prison for nine, and gonzales has a history of mental health issues. john seigenthaler is here. >> killing al qaeda's number two man. a bombing raid inside of yemen but does killing al qaeda's top man stop the group in and plus,

the business of the presidential campaign. donald trump is running and one of the candidates announced. when experts say that they can't win. and also tonight a florida dentist allegedly running a house of horrors abusing children by performing unnecessary procedures. >> we go in for one fill-in and we end up like this. >> furious. >> very furious. >> dozens of other parents have come forward with similar stories. investigators say that medicaid fraud is behind it. >> reporter:. >> and shaping pop music in the 70s and 80s and 90s to today. from donna summer to kenny loggins to blondie. you'll meet the record producer who turned them into household names. >> see you then. not long ago we spoke to a

journalist who convinced people that chocolate can help you loose weight. but it can lower the risk of several health problems. charlie reports now from london. >> so decadent. so delicious and not so bad for us as we thought. it seems that eating chocolate every day is linked to a lower risk of heart disease and stroke. looking at the eating habits of 20,000 people, those who ate more chocolate also weighed less exercised more, were less obese and less likely to have type two diabetes. all factors that put them at risk of cardiovascular disease. it's not saying that chocolate makes you healthier but there's no need to give it up to protect your heart. >> it's safe in terms of

cardiovascular events, and we found a little bit of a reduction in cardiovascular events. and therefore we can't say this is because of chocolate consumption. >> the study focused on british people a nation of chocoholics, the fourth largest consumer in the world. and they understand the power of what they're selling. >> there are a number of studies that suggest that there's a big payoff when you have chocolate. and with the higher percentages of chocolates, you tend to get a bigger pay off. this is some of the highest quality chocolate you can buy but in a recent study, they study not just eating the dark be chocolate like this, but the mass-produced bars like this. and they still had less risk of cardiovascular disease and a 25% less risk of stroke. >> chocolate with a healthy balanced diet is fine, but it still needs to be in

moderation. if you're trying to watch your weight, a lot of chocolate is not going to be good for you. >> before you reach for another bar, bear in mind, more research needs to be done. >> so enjoy. john is up next.

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