finals. laura bassett scored into her own net, sending the defending champions japan to meet the u.s. the game in vancouver on sunday will be a rematch of the 2011 final in germany - that japan won. remember all the latest news sports, of course, and more on the website. >> on maintain, baby steps and big leaps. u.s. and cuba. sometimes. if you are referring to an under cover agent yes i was. >> also ahead, home grown hate and the early warning from the expert who saw a pattern of trouble brewing.

>> it is a pattern of things happening at the same time, that led to the pattern of extreme is. extremists. >> we begin with the massacre at mother emmanuel. and home grown hate. those who track those evil doers, white supremacists, like the klan or aryan nation, some move or strike alone. to understand any of them takes careful observation. "america tonight's" lori jane gliha . >> what is this? >> this is a klan passport for

the invisible empire. klan members would use these passports. >> spent more than a decade developing an uncomfortable collection of artifacts. piece of history that symbolize hate. >> this was an area that was -- >> demolished in 2008 after a lawsuit. >> johnson once served as a lead analyst on domestic terrorist for the dmoamsdz. department of homeland security. >> what you are looking at here is not only the recruitment tools they use to bring members into the movement but the belief system, that's what is at the heart of motivation. >> reporter: it's the most recent attack, the racially motivated murder of 9

inside a charleston church, that makes him feel the u.s. isn't doing enough to stop it. >> we literally have thousands of analysts in washington, d.c. looking at the threat from foreign terrorist groups coming into the country and those who are within the country who are affiliating within these groups. on the domestic nonislammic troarm side, thatterrorism side, that number could be measured in the dozens. radical right, a tally by the nonprofit new america foundation found that since 9/11 fewer americans were killed at the hands of violent extremists influenced by al qaeda and its affiliates than violent right wing extremists. johnson wrote a confidential report under then homeland security director, janet

napolitano. johnson's report predicted a likely resurgence of white supremacists and 18th government groups. >> this was something the white supremacist groups had dreaded for years. dreaded for years. so it's kind of a perfect storm of all these different things happening at the same time which led to a boom in the far right extremists. >> in his report he warned the threat posed by lone wolves and small terrorist cells is more pronounced in recent years and right wing extremism is likely to grow in strength. he also said right wing extremists will likely recruit returning veterans in order to boost their violent capabilities. >> what did you think when you read that report? >> everything i thought would

happen did happen initially. secretary napolitano was pleased with it, my supervisors were pleased, everything was positive everything was going well until it was leaked. >> this department of homeland security report is nothing but a partisan hit job filled with lies and innuendo. >> there are no timothy mcveys out there. >> janet napolitano has gone nuts. >> all hell broke loose. political fire storm ensued. i started seeing my intelligence report which is for law enforcement only displayed on media outlets which was quite strange, taking my report out of context, lying about it spinning it out of context. it was a mess. >> hill failure to distinguish between conservative activists

and violent extremists. >> is there anything you regret about that report? >> the two things i regret are the definition and we should have been more sensitive to the veterans and what we talked about. >> congressman benny thoms thomas a democrat was chairman of the house human services committee at the time. the report's conclusion he said was valid. >> do you think what he assessed in that report was correct? >> i do. now that we have the proof in terms of who's been doing things, then we just have to put more resources to it. >> the 2009 dhs report was meant as a warning, as an alarm bell to state and local law enforcement because up to that time we were seven years removed from nerch. 9/11.

there was a lot of intense focus on al qaeda. we wanted the administration to know that the there was another influence here and we didn't want them blind sided for it. >> his report was deleted and secretary napolitano apologized for it. he wanted them to take a step back from violent right wing groups. did not respond to specific claims about violent right wing groups. low law enforcement to combat violent extremism since 2011. and last year, established a commission, and regardless of the ideology that

motivates it. thompson is struggle leng with the attack at the south carolina church. >> if the statistics are saying that right wing extremism and the results from it, is much higher than the extremism of individuals attached to the muslim community then we have to elevate it and let the threat stream drive resources. >> prompted thompson to write this letter could michael mccall asking for a hearing to see how the department of homeland security was dealing with the domestic terrorism. hate groups like white supremacists on hearings about dmerveg terrorism. >> this committee cannot live in denial, which some us would do

when they suggest to investigate threats from groups other than al qaeda. this committee was formed in response to the al qaeda attacks of september 2001. neonazis, extremists or other isolated madmen. >> representative king did not respond to us but on june he spoke on abc's this week. >> there is no comparison between these white supremacists and an internationally coordinated movement which if the attacks were not stopped would have meant thousands and thousands of deaths. >> the chairman michael mccall is planning a hearing on domestic terrorism. but declined a comment on it. thompson has his own vision. >> what do you want to accomplish from this hearing?

>> i'm trying to elevate the knowledge of terrorism in addressing that threat and have we put into action a plan that ensures that this threat doesn't grow any larger than it is. >> darryl johnson meanwhile says he is doing his part to continue research and offering training and consulting services to local law enforcement. >> i would say that it's a persistent growing problem that's left unresolved and it's going to be getting worse if we don't do something about it now. >> "america tonight's" lori jane gliha is here. looking at that collection it is almost like a museum of hate of all kinds. >> yes i've got to be honest i was a little bit uncomfortable standing had around all these things but it's extremely educational. he's amassed stuff from so much time, he had stuff frvment from the k comfortk, from the sovereign

militia movement, and all sorts of things on the right wing on the left wing, various types of things that could contribute eventually violently if they're violent to go on to domestic terrorism. what he says is it's very important for these things to be used in law enforcement training and it's interesting looking at these things because they look so benign, like a manual or a booklet but when you open them up and read about the violent and criminal thing, it's important for law enforcement to know bit and come up with a strategy. >> not just like the flags and bangers but if you really be read -- banners but if you read what is in these publications. under the latest circumstances where you're starting to see the rise of something out there again, i mean is this cause for lawmakers, for law enforcement as well, to reconsider what

those threats really are? >> well this is certainly not a conversation that's going away given all the events that have been happening. these are things that people are talking about and it's not just people like benny thompson and darryl johnson which are bringing that up. being did bring it up in a report talking about the rise of the lone wolf and being aware of this and that we need to take it seriously. it will be interesting to see what happens. >> "america tonight's" lori jane gliha, thanks. next, between nations, what's become of thousands stranded in the dominican republic between their past and an uncertain future? later the birth of a new relationship, the spy, the baby and the back story you haven't heard behind the renewed ties between the u.s. and cuba. and hot on "america tonight's" website now. philadelphia's freeway from

rockefeller records to black lives matter. the rapper dropping the truth on the city of brotherly love. at aljazeera.com/americatonight.

>> our fast forward look now at the matrix of immigration. we reported just a few days ago of the dominican republic's plan to deport haitians, to the other side of the border. the dr says it hasn't kicked out any yet but haiti says thousands have arrived. david mercer on the fight to stay where they're not welcome. >> william says he's a proud dominican. the 22-year-old father is proud of what his family has built and prouder still to call the dominican republic home.

now they could lose everything. he has been stripped of his dominican citizenship because his parents are undocumented immigrants. when he tried orenew his birth certificate it was taken from him. his family is facing deportation from santa rita to haiti. >> i don't know where i'm going so go. my father has been here 50 years. i don't have any friends in haiti. only heard about haiti from others. >> his father oscar work in the sugar cane fields and now depends on his children. his children have no papers. they are afraid they'll be expelled to a place where they don't even know the language. >> i don't go anywhere because i'm afraid. i'm scared. people here don't go out on the street here at day or night and

i think the same way. >> activists at st. charles have been going from community to community helping families enroll in the government programs that would allow them to stay. they have two options. produce documents to register as foreign workers or, for those born here, paperwork to prove that one of their parents is dominican. but many born at home have no papers and have run into obstacles while navigating a process which is often just too expensive. >> fast forward now to the legal limbo underway. a new human rights watch report says hundreds of the stranded still don't have the ability to register the birth of their children, enroll in school and can't travel country without the fear of being exiled. next, new life and a renewed relationship. the incredible spy story you haven't heard that led the way to new ties between the u.s. and cuba.

and cast away: thursday on "america tonight," correspond sheila macvicar on the people who gave up their home for america's nuclear ambitions. now, a new threat looms. thursday on "america tonight."

>> talk about baby steps! in his latest diplomatic leap towards cuba, the u.s. president announces his plans to reopen the u.s. embassy in havana.

tonight the remarkable back story that gave birth to this new relationship, al jazeera's lucia newman with the incredible steal. >> the facts are confusing sometimes. if you are referring to an undercover agent yes i was. >> the man you see arriving in havana seems annal unlikely central character in an incident. two life terms plus 15 years and the last thing he expected was to suddenly arrive home to a hero's welcome. >> i learned about it in december 16th, the day before. >> he had spent the last 16 years in u.s. maximum security prisons.

a cuban spy implicatein the murders of four american pilots. hernandez' wife azriana had been denied rights to visit him in prison. is so cubans were naturally surprised when they saw she was nine months pregnant. >> i had frozen my eggs.

and then jeraldo's semen was frozen. and used to inseminate the eggs. the u.s. government had allowed mrs. earned had to undergo insell nation treatments. insemination treatments. >> first i've instructed secretary kerry to immediately begin discussions with cuba that have been suffered since 1961. >> this came in 1996 when two small civilian aircraft, were shot down over cuban air space. awe four cuban american pilots were killed. two years later the fbi cracked a cuban espionage spy ring called the wasp network. back in havana, president fidel

castro declared his spies patriots. >> we have every right to do this. as long as the united states tolerates that from over there. acts ever sabotage and armed incursions. >> the espionage trial of the so-called cuban 5 further exacerbated the already bitter relations between cuba and the united states. although no evidence was found that the group had obtained classified information hernandez, described as the ring leader, was found guilty of not only conspiring to spy but of murdering the pilots. he was sentenced to spend rest of his life in prison. is hernandez americans e-maintains his group the what it could to dissuade the pilots from entering the cuban air space. >> well, you know that there are many people in miami that are outraged by the fact that you are free.

do you feel you are at all responsible for the deaths of the pilots of fighter planes on the information you sent? >> absolutely no. those people that are outraged if they had done half what i did to prevent those flights to happen, those four people would be alive today. >> but you didn't know that they were going to be shot down? >> absolutely not. i knew what everybody knew that cuba has said they would not tolerate any more violations of their air space. and everybody knew that. >> for years, the castro government campaigned tirelessly to demand the cuban five's freedom. to no avail. but in 2009 the cubans arrested a 60-year-old american government contractor, allen gross. he was charged with crimes against the state and given a 15 year sentence. >> was allen charged and held as

a bargaining chip? i can't say. but i can say what was apparent to me in the beginning when i first talked to the cuban government, that was that there was no possibility that allen gross would be released by cuba unless the united states satisfactorily addressed the situation of the then-so-called cuban 5. >> reporter: that seemed out of the question. until two years ago. when the obama administration under increasing pressure from latin american leaders began to secretly seek better relations with cuba. pope francis helped facilitate the negotiations in which cuba demanded the release of the spies as a condition for moving forward. the fate of the cuban intelligence officers and the american contractor had suddenly become key to ending decades of hostilities between both nations.

>> but for the release of gerardo and his colleagues and the release of my client allen gross, there would have been no change in the relationship. there would have been no deal of any kind. there would have been no announcement on december 17th. >> reporter: but it took time to arrange a prisoner swap as part of a deal to renew diplomatic ties. both sides had to make gestures of goodwill and conceding to cuba's long standing request to allow mr. and mrs. hernandez to have a child was one of them. >> did you know that the fact that you were able to have a child remotely long distance was part of a very, very complex web, diplomatic web, to bring the united states and cuba to the point where they could decide to renew diplomatic relations? >> that was something that we didn't imagine, either. i mean we could have expected something like that to happen.

but for us, it was such a big news personally that we not even realized the consequence, not even in a half-way. >> hernandez says he tries not to think of his days in prison. he insists that he didn't get a fair trial because it was held in miami, where anti-castro sentiment was deep. >> was it worth it? >> i can say in this case yes. in this case, i can say very humbly, that fest we saved lives. i can't regret things like that even if i spent 16 years of my life in prison. that is something that i -- it is hard for myself and for my family. but i have to be honest. i would do it again if i have to. >> reporter: nevertheless hernandez's release has enraged many in florida's

exile community. he in cuba though he and two others released with him have been treated as heroes. he was 30 when he went to spy for his government. now he has just turned 50. >> i see myself trying to recover the time with my family, my little girl, and my wife, and the rest of my family. and i see myself serving my country. which is my only goal. my only dream. to continue to serve my country. anywhere that is needed. >> reporter: a country that is ending the half-century-old cold war with its northern neighbor. a landmark decision in which gerardo and adrianna hernandez

and their new baby have inadvertently played a role. lucia newman, al jazeera. >> what do you think? tell us on aljazeera.com/americatonight. we'll have more of "america tonight," tomorrow. >> the egyptian government vows to crack down on groups in the sinai peninsula. hello there welcome to al jazeera also ahead on this program: pensioners in greece queue outside for a second day as greeks decide on sunday whether to stay part of the euro zone. >> the country is on the brink