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>> we begin with breaking news out of tennessee. more than 5,000 resist dents have fled their homes this morning after a freight train derailed and caught fire in maryville. it was carrying highly flammable toxic gas. several police officers had to go to the hospital because of fumes. >> we were asleep. the police knocked on the door and said they'd like us to evacuate as quickly as possible, because there was a fire. >> the officers were going door to door, you know, whatever personal items you have in your home that you love, get them out now, and you need to evacuate. >> people were first taken to a nearby mall. now a shelter has opened up at a local high school. it is unclear when folks will be able to return to their homes. we will continue to follow this breaking news throughout the morning.

>> if you're heading to the airport this independence day weekend, you already likely know how expensive air fares are. now we are learning the justice democratic is investigating possible collusion among airlines to limit seats and keep prices high. travelers trying to find deals probably are not too surprised about this. >> ran d.l., those high air fare prices hard not to notice. travelers may have noticed mergers have left only four major carriers, american, delta southwest and united now control 80% of the seats in the domestic market. the justice department demanded they produce communications with industry analysts and with each other going back five years. the d.o.j. is looking for evidence or discussion or statements about airline capacity and routes. the theory championed by senator richard blumenthal and others is

that airlines have been sharing information that has kept fares and fees high for the consumer while at the same time generating record profits for an industry that until recently had been struggling. >> they tried to take control of their situation through the mergers, charging all these fee that is everybody hates. yeah, by keeping capacity in check. in the end it's supply and demand economics. the question is whether they somehow colluded to do that, in other words, hey executives from competing air lines getting together in a room and saying let's do this or whether they all just kind of learned the same lessons and decided to go smarter from their own perspective and avoid bankruptcy again. >> the airlines for their part through their association responded to news by declaring in a statement that they compete vigorously every day. >> rescue crews are searching for survivors after a ferry catch sides in the philippines.

36 people are dead. the boat just l the city and was only hundreds of feet from shore. more than 170 people were onboard. around 50 of them are now in the hospital. 19 passengers still missing the philippines coast guard says bad weather caused the accident. >> egypt's banned muslim brotherhood is calling or an all-out revolt against the government. the group made the announcement after 13 of its leaders were killed by security forces. that came hours after egypt's military was targeted in a series of attacks in sinai that left 100 dead. groups linked to isil claimed responsibility. >> the u.s. submit a formal request to extradite offensive too officials from switzerland as part of a corruption probe that spanned 24 years. all seven men detained have objected to being sent to the u.s. the men are among 14 fifa executives indict on charges of bribery and racketeering

involving u.s. banks. >> european leaders will not hold any further talks with greece until voters have their say on a new bailout proposal on sunday. this morning crowds were lined up again outside shuttered banks. only retirees without bank cards were allowed to withdraw funds. >> they won't deal with the greek government now until after the referendum. there's no trust and negotiations have come to a standstill. it's an open secret that the majority of europe's leaders hope that this process will result in a yes vote and the overthrow of the government, the resignation of alexis tsipras. i don't know if they'll get their wish or not. public opinion in this country is split and the political mood is very volatile. an opinion poll came out on thursday morning that showed a

narrow lead to the yes vote, but alexis tsipras and his government will be campaigns hard over the next 48 hours trying to convince the greek people to vote no. meanwhile, on thursday morning long queues of pensioners again at greek banks. these are of course the older people who don't necessarily have bank cards and don't forget what an emotive issue pension and pensioners are in the context of the whole greek crisis. these aren't the images that the greek government would have wanted you to be seeing on your screens days before an important referendum. >> louisiana governor and republican presidential candidate bobby jindal is blocking state agencies from recognizing the supreme court ruling on same-sex marriage. he delayed the lifting of a ban for a second time yesterday. at first, he said he was waiting for a ruling from a federal

appeals court but when that ruling came, the governor said he will wait for another court's decision. some parishes in louisiana are refusing to issue marriage licenses to same sex couples. >> the episcopalian church offered its priests to officiate same sex as her moneys. they voted at their annual conference and changed the language in the church's rules governing marriage to make it gender neutral. the rule will now refer to couples instead of man and woman. clergy still have the right to refuse to perform the ceremony. >> in today's digit albeit, an app in san francisco is aiming to solve the problem of hunger. feeding forward matches excess food from companies restaurants and stadiums with nearby homeless shelters. a driver picks up the food and drops it off. the app only works in the bay area. the founder hopes to expand it world wild. >> we fed close to 1,000 people

all through technology, which is pretty fantastic. it's just the beginning. this is a global issue 36500 tons of food is wasted every day. you imagine the world's largest football stadium filled to its brim, that's how much food is wasted in america alone. >> a service fee is charged to businesses donating food. the companies can write off their donation. >> the f.b.i. is investigating a string which suspicious fires in the south. at churches, at least six african-american church burning in less than two weeks. for many, it brings back haunting memories of a dark chapter in american history. >> a massive oil refinery expands, forcing homeowners to move. some say race played a role in who cashed in and who struck out.

>> welcome to al jazeera america. it's 7:40, eastern time, looking at today's top stories another shark attack in north carolina. a 68-year-old man was bitten several times while he was in waist deep water off the outer banks. he is expected to be ok. this his the seventh attack this year, a record in north

carolina. >> big changes in the new york prison where two killers escaped last month it now has a new superintendent. security has been tied understand and there will be more contra band searches and bed inspections. the former superintendent and 11 other employees were placed on leave. >> baltimore police arrested a man that set fire to a cvs during protests over the death of freddie gray. the f.b.i. says the fire cost more than a million dollars in damage. >> the f.b.i. is looking into a half dozen fires at predominantly african-american church across the south. it appears the latest at a church in south carolina was not arson, but the fires are a grim reminder of previous attacks targeting houses of worship. jonathan martin reports. >> while federal investigators say lightning appears to have caused the fire at mount zion

church in south carolina, images of the historically black church going up in flames tuesday night brought back painful memories. the church had burned before, in 1995, set on fire by two members of the ku klux klan. >> last night, to see the church in flames again it just -- it gives you an ill feeling. >> since the killing of nine worshipers inside emanuel a.m.e. church last month, six predominantly black church in the south having up in flames. a fire in tennessee and north carolina are ruled arson. no evidence of a hate crime were found. >> those matters of under investigation. we don't have definitive answers into how all of them were started. >> many church leaders say the pattern is alarming. >> the black church that always been the number one target when it comes to the black community. the block church is the strongest institution we have.

when it comes to the advancement for blacks in the country the leadership comes from the black church. >> four little girls were killed in alabama and horrified the nation in the 1960ed. congress enacted the church arson prevention act increasing federal penalties for anyone convicted of damaging religious property. >> we are now reminded that our job is not done. >> just hours after the nation's first black president was elected in 2008, three white men burned a predominantly black church in springfield massachusetts. >> the concern is there the heightened awareness is there. authorities don't see sign of organized links between the most recent church fires but overseeing more than 30a.m.e. churches in south carolina is urging his congregations to be proactive. >> whether it be video cameras whether it be hiring extra

security by the trustees of the church. we believe the church is still a safe place to worship and to educate our people and work in our various ministries. >> jonathan martin, al jazeera new orleans. >> mary francis barry joins us from washington this morning she is the former chair of the administration of civil rights and a historian. thank you for joining us. that let me just cite one statistic we pulled up from our research that church fires break out about 34 times a week, and that overall church fires have declined in recent years. given that, what do you make of this current rash of church fires, are we more aware because of the charleston massacre or is this normal in the course of accidents, arson lightning strikes. >> what we are is white folk in

these small towns especially are fearful. we know that we live in a period of heightened racial be tensions. whenever there's a period of heightened racial tensions in communities or around the country, you get some fires. a lot of times fires just happen. it has nothing to do with the race but you do get some that are connected. when in the 1990s, we had a number of church fires and i went to every town in the south mississippi, alabama louisiana where there were fires and talked to local people, and they were afraid. in some cases, they were arson and caused by people who had hate. other times, they were somebody who was mad at somebody in the church, but everything happens within the context of history. we know that in the late 19th 19th century after the civil war when share croppers were trying to get their wages paid and couldn't get them paid, workers in the field would meet

in the church and plan whether they were going to go on strike and churches were burned. we know that churches were burned during the civil rights movement when black folk were meeting in church to say figure out what to do and to get moral support for each other. we see in these towns people see these fires in context of history, which is very painful so as the experts go about sorting out whether this one was caused by that or that one was caused "the other all of which is what should be done, we have to understand that it's a period of heightened racial tensions. we know that. we've seen what's happened with all the shootings and everything else that has happened. so people have a right to be on guard and to be fearful and take these very seriously. >> during your time on the commission there were some who did not think the work of the commission was necessary, that to some extent, because of the passage of many civil rights laws that the problem was

solved. today, what would you say should be the mission of an invigorated civil rights commission as we look at what's been happening not only in charleston, but in other cities across the country? >> i have been very disappointed in the time since i left that the civil rights commission, as far as i can see hasn't done anything on the major issues of our day to help the country to heal. i would hope that congress would create a human rights commission expand its mission to deal with all the human rights issues that occur and create an active commission. i don't think there's really any desire to do that, because if it was activist as it was during my time you get a lot of criticism, but you also do some work that tries to help people. i would like to see a civil rights commission. >> why do you think there's no desire on the part of officials? >> because it hasn't happened.

the best evidence is that it hasn't happened. but that's not something that we have to dwell on. i think it even doesn't matter whether there's a civil rights commission doing anything or not. there are local state human rights commissions. there are local people who investigate these things. i think the most important thing that i call for is that for the country to understand that when black people react to things that happen, it's because we have a history of knowing and in these towns and communities people remember other times churches were burned, other times houses were burned, other times things happen, so this pain is there. this awareness is there and because we know that sometimes there are fearful things that happen now you have to be on your guard. >> mary francis barry, thank you for joining us on aljazeera america. >> all right, thank you. >> questions of race and fairness in two communities near huge oil refinery in detroit.

when it expanded two years ago mostly white homeowners were offered buyouts. as bisi onile-ere reports that has residents in a mostly african-american community wondering about discrimination. >> i think it looks like insanity to us. that's what it looks like. i don't understand how you can take something and make it that mammoth. >> just yards from emma's doorstep in southwest detroit is the marathon oil refinery. sprawling with steel beams tanks and towering stacks, it's a huge operation. >> we don't live near the refinery. we live in the refinery. >> marathon oil sits between two residential communities boynton, when she lives predominantly black and oakwood heights which is mostly white. >> we're about he can we distant. they're on the side door, we're on the front door. >> while embarking an a

$2 million expansion marathon offered to buy some residents homes for $50,000. more than 260 oak wood heights residents accepted marathon's offer. in boynton only 10 homeowners out of hundreds were offered buyouts. lock ridge wasn't one of them. >> they told us point blank, we will not be buying your houses. we have no interest in buying your houses now or ever. >> jack win smith who has lived in the community nearly 50 years was also left out of the. >> it is a racial discrimination, and i will stand on that. >> some residents worry the air quality has led to asthma, respiratory issues and high incidents of cancer. >> i've had a kidney transplant. that's why my arm is big like this just for dialysis. >> the facility is allowed to emit pollutants into the air. increases that the michigan department of environmental

quality says are all within the levels allowed under the federal clean air act. detroit city councilwoman lopez represents the southwest detroit district. >> i talked to miss lock ridge multiple times. there are on going conversations with marathon. we would be willing to have a meeting where marathon and the residents sit down together to talk about the possibilities. >> marathon declined an on camera interview but defended the oak ridge heights buyout saying it was a residential island surrounded by industry and the river with little or no buffer between them. oak would heights was by passed for federal funding through the neighborhood stalization program. under this program boynton qualified for millions in federal assistance, money aimed at helping communities in need. >> so that stabilization doesn't mean anything to us. it doesn't mean a single thing

to me. >> marathon for now has no plans to offer more buyouts. lock ridge is pursuing a lawsuit, hopeful it will lead to a new beginning far from here. >> how long are you willing to fight? >> until i die basically. because i already have a death sentence. >> bisi onile-ere, al jazeera detroit. >> adolescence can be difficult for any teen but especially tough for those dealing with gender identity issues. we go inside a camp that aim to say help transgender teens fit in. plus there's criminal court civil court housing court even traffic court but hawaii just became the second state in the nation with an environmental court.

>> 700,000 people in the u.s. are transgender many are young and have trouble fitting in. tanya mosley found one camp that offers transgender and other teens and instant community. >> summer camp is also a right rite of passage for some young people. that's the genesis between this camp, one of only a handful of camp for gay lesbian transgender teens or don't identify by the male or female pronoun. they have been around since 2011. they've seen an increase in applicants because camp leaders believe young people are able to talk about gender and sexuality. >> when we started the camp, this is a camp for lgbt qqia.

there is all those other identities that aren't necessarily in here, queer is an umbrella term that can be used in a lot of ways to encompass a range of sexualities and genders. >> this is the second year at the camp. we met her two years ago. back then, she shared with us some of our experiences as a transgender teen. later, she'll let us now her plans for the future. tanya mosley, al jazeera seattle. >> july means new laws are in effect impacting the air we breathe to dealing with flooding. let's bring in nicole mitchell for today's environmental impact. tell us about these new laws. >> july 1 is when a lot of state budgets go into effect. there are thousands of new laws, some environmental both good and bad. this one is not like the first on the list by

environmentalists. georgia used to have for vehicles that had zero emission, basically the electric cars, well a $5,000 credit has been removed and instead now you have to pay a registration fee. now, when the credit was in effect, it was just two days ago, the state was second only to california in electric cars, supporters say they anticipate the sales to now plummet. >> georgia on the plus side, though solar panels. you know for a house to do a whole house of solar panels averages $50,000. the laws used to be in the state you had to finance that up front. the law changed so that basically now you can get third party financing or the company can own the solar panels and let you use the energy for free, different options making it more available for people to have solar panels. heading off to another state with a lot of sunshine, as well, hawaii is now going to be the

second state in the entire nation to have a separate environmental court. they'll do both civil and criminal cases and these are more popular around the world right now in general. finally, this one is near and dear to my heart. in nevada, new driving flood law, so you can't by pass those roadblocks when they go up for floods. after 2013, many drivers ignored barriers around needed to be rescued. if you do this now, they are going to say you are going to have to pay fortress skew, the cost of getting your vehicle out, anything else. i think this is really good in some of those different natural disasters to make people accountable so they actually listen when people are saying you can't go there you need to evacuate, things of that nature. >> thank you very much, nicole mitchell. >> thanks for joining us. stephanie sy is back in two minutes with the latest on the tennessee train derailment and the rest of the day's top

stories.

>> breaking news thousands evacuated this morning in tennessee after a train carrying toxic materials derailed and catches fire. >> investigating airlines. the justice department looks into whether the industry conspired to quiche ticket price says high. >> the u.s. is asking switzerland to turn over officials arrested in a

corruption probe. >> good morning. this is aljazeera america live from new york city. i'm stephanie sy. more than 5,000 tennessee residents had to flee their homes early this morning after a great train derailed and caught fire. it happened in the small city of maryville. the locomotive was carrying flammable and toxic gas. several police officers were sent to the hospital because of fumes. homes and businesses were evacuated in a two-mile radius. >> an officer flew by me and slammed on his brakes and let me know there is a train on fire, we are evacuating the area. i called my wife and got my kid and my sister out of the apartments right down the road. >> they were very calm, you know, did it very well, but, you know getting all the dogs out making sure the kids are up, out of bed alert, you know, taking the cars.

we brought two just in case. you just never know. >> people were taken to a nearby mall and now a shelter is open at the local high school. it's unclear when people will be able to return home. we'll continue to follow this breaking news. >> as millions of americans pack for the fourth of july, we learn the justice department is investigating the airline industry looking into possible collusion to keep air fares artificially high. we have more. what does the investigation involve? >> the investigation involves whether or not airlines have artificially rigged the air travel game in their favor this coming as 3 million americans take to the skies this holiday weekend. no doubt many will wonder why fares and fees are so high, especially when fuel costs are low. >> the justice department is demanding five years of communications from united, delta, american and southwest. together those four carriers

control 80% of the u.s. air travel market. >> most of the u.s. airlines were bankrupt at one point last decade so, you know, they tried to take control of their situation through the mergers charging all those fees that everybody hates and by keeping capacity in check because in the end it's supply and demand economics. the question though, is whether they somehow colluded to do that. >> that's just the question the department of justice says it's investigating at the behest of senator richard blumenthal. >> holding down supply, economics 101, that is a violation of law if it is misuse of market power. >> they want to know about communications with wall street, with analysts, among themselves, as it relates to internal discussions about airline capacity routes, and the addition of extra seats. >> after years of financial

turmoil, u.s. airlines returned to profitability two years ago earning $20 billion. the big carriers have remained in the black despite challenges from low fair competitors. >> air fares are higher now than just several years ago the first time in history the airlines have managed oh to do that. >> fares have stayed high despite lower fuel costs. one industry analyst thinks it will be difficult to prove airlines have colluded. >> the definition of collusion is that the airlines executives are calling each other up and saying what they're doing the next day with their businesses. there is no smoking gun there. >> it's undeniably true competition decreased. the mergers left only those four major carriers, still the association that represents the airline business says domestic air carriers compete vigorously every day. >> the justice department is also asking switzerland to

extradite seven fifa officials arrested in may. it's part of a widespread corruption probe tied to soccer's govern body and involving u.s. banks. we have more. good morning. >> those seven fifa officials are in jail right now. they were arrested in may as part of a corruption probe involving more than $100 million in bribes. the fifa officials include jeffery webb, vice president and head of danica calf. it accounted take months. the officials will be given a hearing. they have two weeks to respond to the request. the swiss justice department will rule whether to extradite them. those rulings could be appealed. this could go all the way to the

swiss supreme court. >> louisiana governor bobby jindal is refusing to let state agencies recognize same sex marriages. he lifted the ban for a second time, at first, he was waiting for a court ruling. parishes are refusing to issue america licenses to same sex couples despite a supreme court ruling. >> the episcopalian church authorized its priests to officiate same-sex marriage as her moneys. they changed the language in the church's rules governing marriage to make it gender neutral. it will refer to couples instead of man and woman. clergy still has the right to refuse to conduct as her moneys. >> rescue crews in the philippines searching for survivors after a ferry sank

100 feet from shore. fifty people are in the hospital. 19 passengers are still missing. the coast guard said bad weather caused texas. >> european finance leaders are putting off new talks with greece until a vote sunday on a bailout bill. crowds were outside shuttered banks. only retirees were allowed to make withdrawals. the government families its he being led by europe down a path to failure. >> we wanted to strike a deal. we have made very important consensus, main painful for us. they said the proposals are a good basis for discussions. then they presented us with an ultimatum and refused to increase the liquidity of our

banks, therefore pushed us to close the banks with holiday banks and create by this way a climate of terror in greece. >> barnaby phillips has more from athens. >> europe has mailed it clear they have won't deem with the greek government now until after the referendum. negotiations have come to a standstill. it's an open secret that the majority of europe's leaders hope this process will result in a yes vote and the overthrow of the syriza government. public opinion in this country is split and the political mood volatile. an opinion poll came out on thursday morning that showed a narrow lead to the yes vote. alexis tsipras and his government will be campaigns hard over the next 48 hours trying to convince the greek people to vote no.

meanwhile, on thursday morning long queues of pensioners again at greek banks. these are of course the older people who don't necessarily have bank cards and don't forget what an emotive issue pensions and pensioners as a group are in the context of the whole greek crisis. these aren't the kinds of images that the greek government would have wanted you to have seen on your t.v. screens in the days before such an important referendum. >> the latest from athens. police are responding right now to reports of an active shooter in the d.c. navy yard. you're looking at live pictures from the navy yard, the same yard there was a shooting last year. the navy confirmed buildings are on lockdown there. looks like the picture has frozen. we will continue to follow that developing story details not clear now. >> egypt's band muslim brotherhood is calling for an

all out revolt against the government hours after 13 of its leaders were killed by security forces. the in the past days, there have been multiple attacks on the sinai peninsula. 17 egyptian soldiers were killed wednesday. egypt says it has full control of the area. as gerald tan reports, the countries president has just imposed new security measures. >> june 30 initially a national holiday in egypt to commemorate protests that triggered the removal of former president mohamed morsi by the military two years ago. instead, it was a day of mourning but the public prosecutor was assassinated on monday. at his funeral the current president sisi promised reforms that would enforce death sentences more swiftly. >> the hands of justice are chained by laws. we will not wait. we will change laws in order to allow us to implement law and

justice as soon as possible. within days, criminal laws that can help face new developments such as terrorism should be presented. >> those developments could be a direct reference to monday's assassination. the car bomb bother the hallmarks of a group based in the sinai peninsula which has been waging attacks on security forces. police are also investigating that the group was behind another explosion on tuesday in the cairo suburb. six were killed. opposition leaders are worried that president sisi will use the new laws to further crack down on the outlawed muslim brotherhood group. >> this will lead to nothing but a catastrophe. it will undermine and shake the foundation of justice in egypt. it will undermine the judiciary system in egypt. >> hundreds of muslim brotherhood members have been sentenced to death including

ousted president mohamed morsi. he still has many supporters, like these demonstrators calling for its reinstatement and the return of democracy. they say the government is out to crush dissent replacing mass protests with mass arrests. >> officials arrested eight people today in connection to an attack in tunisia. the government said they were directly connected to the gunman who killed tourists at a beach resort. one minister said he has proof the group trained in libya. security forces are still searching for two more suspects. >> talks in iran haven't reached a breakthrough moment yet. the head of the nuclear watch agency is in tehran to meet with officials. world leaders are continuing talks to hammer out a final deal

until at least next week. james bays is live with where the talks are taking place. good morning the iranian foreign minister is there. what is the latest you are hearing? >> well, the talks go on, and there are all sorts of different people speaking in the hotel behind me. we saw him come out on the balcony here. didn't get much comment from him. i managed to shout a question to him, are you confident you can get a deal to which we made out a replay, i have to be hopeful. we have brief comments, pretty similar things from the foreign ministers arriving here. the french foreign minister arriving in the last 20 minutes or so. also the british fortune secretary who said progress is being made but there is no break

through moment and the european high representative for foreign policy, who says we're moving forward, but not there yet. also a comment from the german foreign minister who has been in vienna the last couple days. even if the end of the way can be seen, the last meters are the toughest. very similar comments from all of them, progress being made, but not there yet. >> what can you tell us about the visit by the iaea chief to tehran? >> i think of that is important because it's one of the remaining stumbling blocks of what's going on here in the negotiations in vienna. the iaea deals with nuclear energy, it's been looking at the iran file for a very long time. the iaea would again effectively be the police force if there was any deal here. they'd have to make sure iran was complying. the big question is where would they be able to go in iran, what

inspections would they carry out, what sort of notice would they give and would they go to military sites. on the other side, the iaea has for sometime been asking questions of iran for years about its past nuclear activities, questions that it says it's never had the proper answers to and there are some saying that if iran won't come clean about what it did in the past, how can up trust it in the future if there is a deal here in vienna in the coming days. >> james bays for us, thank you. >> on the agenda today president obama will be in wisconsin to talk his proposal to expand overtime pay doubling the salary range for workers required to receive overtime. >> federal auto regulators will hold a hearing in washington to discuss fiat chrysler fail to fix safety defects. >> a named plaintiff in a

supreme court decision legalizing same-sex marriage will be taking part in a celebration. >> new details and criticism in a police killing of a migrant farmworker in washington state. a look at the latest evidence. >> we are following breaking news out of the d.c. navy yard on lockdown after reports of an active shooter. these are live pictures. we'll have details coming up.

>> welcome to al jazeera america. we are following breaking news. you are looking at the washington navy yard. i think we have lost our live feed, but we have been seeing pictures in the last half hour or so of police responding to reports of an active shooter. no incident confirmed yet. the navy has confirmed that buildings there are on lockdown. details still unclear at the moment. this is the same place where in september of 2013, a gunman killed 12 people. >> an appeals court in afghanistan has thrown out the death sentences against four men for their part in the mob killing of a woman in march. they will spend 20 years in

prison. the woman was beaten and burned after she was falsely accused of burning a copy of the koran. >> baltimore police arrested a man accused of setting fire to a west baltimore c.v.s. during protests over the death of freddie gray. raymond carter faces material arson charges. the f.b.i. said the fire cost a million dollars worth of damage. >> big changes in the prison where two convicted killers escaped last month in new york. it now has a new superintendent. security is tightened and there will be more contraband searches and bed inspections. the former employees have been placed on leave. >> new evidence released in the police killing of a migrant farmworker in washington state. investigators have been looking into the death of antonio dam bran know since february. we have a look at the video of the fatal confrontation. >> new video from witnesses at the scene and from police dash

cameras, new perspectives on the night antonio zambrano died. the prosecutor will use the record to determine if criminal charges will follow. a detailed time line shows the first report of zambrano disrupting tasks throwing rocks. just a minute later the first officer arrives. more fallout. dash cam votes shows a taser has been deployed with little effect. zambrano continues throwing rocks at police, one witness laughing while this cell phone video is shot. a second taser attempt fails and at 5:12, shots are fired. as zambrano throws a rock, turns and runs. changing directions, he turns begins to raise his arms from his sides and is brought down by another volley of shots. it's five minutes after the

first report of trouble. zambrano on the sidewalk, is handcuffed nearly two minutes after he falls. no c.p.r. is administered for nearly five minutes. the toxicology reports shows zambrano was likely high on meth and possibly amphetamines. interviews with all three officers are included in the release. the first one taking place 79 days after the shooting. his mother and father were briefed on the investigation. they say they are not in a hurry. they can wait for justice for their son. >> their attorneys are much less patient with the way the investigation was conduct and in particular with how long it took to question the officers. >> you don't wait seven weeks to interview the principle parties involved. i don't care what town that's in whether moscow, new york city, south carolina, cleveland detroit, or miami florida.

>> the lawyer representing zambrano's widow and two children who has filed a $25 million suit against the city claims the case has been mishammed at every level. >> i'm frustrated with the delay. not only am i frustrated with the prosecutor, i'm frustrated with the attorney general i'm frustrated with the u.s. attorney and i'm frustrated with the governor. why haven't they stepped in and made this process go far more quickly than it has to date? >> the prosecutor isn't commenting on the release of information, and offered no specific time line for a decision on criminal charges. what is certain is that the people know much more today about what happened that night. >> thousands of people in missouri don't have power after a tornado swept through the state. it hit last night outside kansas city and left a trail of destruction in its path, including overturned trucks, shattered windows and ripped off roofs.

the area was also pounded by torrential rain, leaving streets completely flooded. >> the start of july means new laws she in effect and impact everything from the air we breathe to how we deal with flooding. let's bring in nicole mitchell for today's environmental impact report. what do some of these laws do. >> going out for takeout in new york yesterday you might have noticed no styrofoam containers. they are different depending on what state your in. some of good and some of setbacks. in georgia, they have one of each depending on what side of the environmental issue you're on. for electric cars, there are no more tax incentives to buy these. environmentalists see that as a bad thing. now there's a registration fee so people are paying more, but while the incentives were in effect the state was second only to california for zero emission vehicles, so that had been a good thing. georgia though on the plus side for the environment solar panels. did you know solar panels for a

typical whole household cost about $50,000. that is a lot of money. the state allow used to be that you pretty much had to buy them up front couldn't have financing on them. now you can have third party financing or do an arrangement where they continue to own the solar panels, you get free electricity and they're able to keep and sell the rest. heading to hawaii, now the second state in the country after vermont having its own separate environmental court. this is both for civil and criminal cases and these are becoming more popular around the world, courts that have specialties in the environment and know these issues very well. >> you mentioned flooding. nevada in 2013 had a situation where dozens of drivers ignored barriers, drove into floodwaters and needed to be rescued. you can't do that anymore. you should have never turn it, but you can't go around those

roadblocks. if you do, you now will need to pay for your own rescue. i think that is a wonderful thing. i think they should do it with more different natural disasters, so people with him not do things that get themselves in trouble and put rescue people at risk. >> absolutely. nicole mitchell, thank you. >> in today's digit albeit, an app in san francisco is aim to go stop hunger. feeding forward matches excess food from companies that and stadiums with nearby homeless shelters. the app only works in the bay area, but the founder hopes to expand it worldwide. >> close to 600,000 people have been fed all through technology, which is fantastic. it's just the beginning. it's great, but this is a global issue, 365 million tons of food

is wasted every single day. imagine the world's largest football stadium filled to its before him that's how much food is wasted just in america alone. >> it charges a service fee to businesses donating food. the companies can then write off their donation. >> on the healthbeat this morning, medicare proposes a coverage change to save seniors money. current policy makes a two night in patient hospital stay cheaper than a shorter stay or out patient care. the pricing hurts patients admitted for observation. the proposed change would allow for case by case exceptions to that pricing policy. if approved, it would take effect in november. >> another company is dumping presidential candidate donald trump over his controversial comments about mexicans. macy's is ending its contract with him. during his presidential announcement speech, trump described mexican immigrants as criminals. macy's said the comments were inconsistent with its values. new york city will review its relationship with trump.

the mayor called those comments disgusting. >> we are following breaking news right now. the washington navy yard is on lockdown after reports of an active shooter. the latest coming up. >> the current governor of puerto rico says the country cannot pay back more than $70 billion in debt. the former governor doesn't agree. we talk to him next about that and whether the u.s. should help bail the island out. >> monthly unemployment numbers out in a few minutes. will it be good news for the economy?

>> welcome to al jazeera america. it is 8:29 eastern. we are following breaking news, police are responding to reports of an active shooter at the washington d.c. favor yard. you are looking at live pictures. the navy says buildings are on lockdown there and you can just see the amount of police and other authorities that have

gathered at the scene outside the washington navy yard. details are unclear at this moment, this is the same place where in september of 2013 a gunman killed 12 people. our national security correspondent jami macintyre joins us on the phone now. we don't have a ton of details. we do now the f.b.i. is responding to a possible active shooter. the washington, d.c. field offers, we are looking at pictures of a lot of police, fire trucks, over emergency vehicles. we know it is on lockdown. tell us what else authorities would be doing at this point. >> the call an hour ago initial report was some shots fired. now, whether somebody heard something that they thought was gunshots or whether there were actually shoots fired we don't know. authorities are saying they are responding to what they call an active shooter. that's the term that they use in

all the military facilities where they have drills now to as soon as there's any reports that there might be somebody with a firearm or there might be shots the people at the navy yard and other military facilities have well practiced drills about where they're supposed to go, how they lock themselves in, how to maintain contact with cell phones and other things. right now, we have no reports that anybody has been injured. we do know that the people at the navy yard are -- have taken those precautions to shelter in place, secure themselves in place. how to maintain communication how to make sure everybody knows what is going on, that is what is going on now a massive police response because of course of that 2013 shooting in which a lone gunman shot and

killed 12 workers at this navy yard and injured three others. this comes as the u.s. government issued a warning about potential attacks to coincide with the july 4 holiday weekend and also beginning of ramadan, because of the ability of isil to motivate lone wolves of the united states that are very hard to predict. there are very few details available about this incident. we do know because of concerns and the prefers incident in 2013 they are responding to this in a massive way to make sure everyone is safe. the people at the navy yard are a little spooked about what happened, having gone through the deadly rampage pack in 2013 that there's a very high degree

of tension right now until and unless they get an all clear. we are just monitoring to see what's happening at this point. >> the navy yard is in southeast washington d.c. is it like a regular military base in which you would go through a checkpoint to get on to base? >> in that case, the shooter actually had the appropriate i.d. to allow him on the base with the firearm. those procedures were revamped. this is not the kind of place where people would routinely be armed. one of the things people don't realize about most u.s. military facilities is that they have a lot of people with guns be it is thought. they don't. the only people with weapons are

the police who protect the pentagons. military personnel are routinely not armed. it's very much like a civilian workplace, but there's very high security. as you can imagine the security procedures have been increased in recent years. hopefully those procedures will protect people there. they have very well practiced drills that they do on a regular basis to respond to just this kind of situation. >> we are following breaking news out of our nation's capital. the washington navy yard, the site of a mass shooting in september of 2013 is on lockdown right now because which reports of an active shooter. the field office in washington is responding. as we just heard from our national security correspondent jami macintyre we don't have any details on a suspected shooter or who this might be,

but we do know that a threat was issued for the july 4 holiday which begins today for most people. retired army major mike lyons our national security contributor joins us by skype right now. good morning. we don't have a lot of details yet, but do know that this was the site of a major shooting, one of the biggest shootings on a military base, the second largest in history. we are seeing a massive response there. what do you think authorities are doing now. >> there's a military response, the lockdown, the civilians in their offices have probably shut those doors and are in custody positions. right now it's collecting information, gathering cameras doing everything they can to get as much information in order to quell any kind of incident that

could happen. >> what cap you tell us about the work done in the yard? >> it's more of a logistics center. it has civilians doing the massive paperwork that you think that the navy would have as it ships goods and things as part of its mission to defend the country over the seas. you take a very large civilian component as most jobs have shifted that direction. they were formerly active dust. that place was more on active duty like world war ii and those kinds of eras. now it's mostly paperwork back office with regard to the massive logistical requirements to support the u.s. navy. >> a piece of sound has just come in there from an official. >> the entire base is on lockdown. the building's individual are

locked down, everyone ordered to shelter in place but there's been no confirmed details on what the incident is or may be. we are currently investigating. >> going back to the incident in 2013 a gunman named aaron alexis fatally shot 12, injured three others. what was learned from that incident that would be applied to a threat like we're seeing possibly today? >> a couple things. first and foremost, entrance to the facility, making sure that they had a better way of managing what are a tremendous amount of civilians going in there and what is a major metro area. the second thing is the response. you'll see that that is the key to these kinds of attacks. we saw for example it not happen in tunisia last week. there was too much time between when the shooting started on that beach to when the tunisian authorities responded. that's the key from any

perspective is the response, making sure they can get somebody as close as they can to the situation, start collecting that information and then doing what they can to stop the attack from taking place. >> i want to bring back our national security correspondent jami macintyre on the phone. as we talk about what happened at the navy yard in 2013, that shooting started 8:20 a.m. which is the time we're looking at now. would this be the rush hour sort of to get into the navy yard? >> oh, yeah, so this is morning this is part of the morning rush hour in washington. you can see the police blocked off some of the major streets here right by the navy yard, which is they've blocked off tons of streets. this is going to cause a massive problem for people trying to get to work and get around washington d.c. this is very much an urban area. the navy yard is also near the ballpark, the nationals ballpark walking distance from

there and an area of washington that has been revitalized in recent years with new housing and businesses in there so it's a pretty busy area that the police have locked down this morning. again, the initial report that started this response was that there actually had been shots fired at some building or place on the navy ground yards. that's unconfirmed that was the report that prompted the police response prompted the lockdown procedures to go into effect. the active shooter drill that the navy yard employees practice on a regular basis to be employed. as you said, they're instructed about where to go, how to secure their location, what's the best place to go, how to make sure that they have communications when they're there so the police and authorities know what's going on and that they're in the safest place possible. the thing they don't want them to do is all run outside where

if there was someone with a gun who meant them harm that they would be more easy targets. at this point, we have no information to confirm the incident and we have no information of anyone being injured at this point. obviously they're taking this very seriously because of what happened in 2013 and all the concerns about the potential for attacks in the united states that might coincide with the holiday period, and so we're seeing this really massive response of local police and law enforcement authorities. >> it is a massive response especially based on what we know right now that they are responding to reports of a possible shooter. we don't even know there is a shooter. as you report, there is only the fact that shots were heard an base. mike lyons can you tells more

about this threat warning that we've gotten ahead of the july 4 holiday? >> what you're seeing though is the f.b.i. using credible information that's coming really flooding the chatter and airwaves from a cyber perspective, clear threats that are coming on from submitter mentales and the like, and so that's why they've decided to really put the word out about this weekend making sure people are extra vigilant. we've got to live our lives in an open society. this is good counter terrorism from our perspective. again, for whatever reason this weekend, i've talked to some people at the airports in particular, they're concerned about the transportation hubs. i know the security's been increased. beyond the gate from there, they are doing things they haven't done in a long time. >> it's that balance between overcorrection and vigilance at this point.

just again are you surprised by the pictures, we have live pictures of a massive response that seems to stretch for several blocks back on this road that leads into the washington navy yard, just a massive response for shots fired. >> i'm looking at it now steph. this is a good example of how you have to respond to this, as well. you have to do it in depth. you have to ensure that you contain it as much as possible. they're going to put probably multiple security rings around the city now until they're confident that the situation has been resolved. they don't want to have an individual escape, they don't want to have anything that happens outside so you're going to see multiple security in depth kind of layers i think right now in what is going to be a very high traffic and high demand time. >> the navy p.i.o. is confirming only that people at the washington navy yard are being told to shelter in place.

talk a little bit more about sort of the reaction we're seeing here and the drills and protocols that went into place after the shooting in 2013. >> it's not just in the navy yard but at the u.s. military facilities all across the country, and other facilities in the washington area. we're looking here, i believe that the shot we have here is of m street, the navy yard is in the 600 block of m street in southeast washington for people who are familiar with the washington area. they've closed these streets all the way from south capital street down to 11th street. again, if you're familiar with this area, it's quite a large area. one of the things that they're going to have to deal with is it's one thing if they get there and can quickly determine that there was or wasn't a shooter and that they could proceed with it but if they can't find someone and they have to deem with the possibility that there may have been someone and they may be on the loose that can

take hours and hours to resolve because they are going to be very careful. they are going to have to go through every building, make sure someone is not hiding or just pretending to be an on looker. it's a very meticulous process. we're looking at a situation that's likely going to last quite some time. this is not the kind of thing where they'll just quickly get there and say oh, it looks like there's nothing to worry about and we'll go back to our lives. this is going to be something that's going to take a long time to resolve just because they have to make sure that there's no uncertainty. meanwhile, those people will be sheltering in place undergoing the drills that they can through when -- that they have practiced many many times these active shooter drills. they are mandatory drills that they know just what to do in this situation. >> talk about the procedures

that one would have to go through to get on to the navy yard. i've been on plenty of military basis myself, i know they check cars for bombs. they don't frisk you to see if you have a weapon. what is the procedure with rewards to sort of gun control on these military facilities? >> well, anybody who hassle militarized i.d. typically is able to come on to a base without having to go through a check, because the procedure for getting identification access is rigorous. they don't have typically metal detectors or search your bag. that's the case at most of these places. there's 100% i.d. check. sometimes they check your car sometimes they may ask to you pop the trunk to look inside. you can imagine at these military facilities across the country, if they stopped and searched every person who came on the base, it would take hours for people to get on the base.

as it is now with the very strict security procedures they have there are often traffic jams at these bases when we'll are trying to get in in the morning. >> mike lyons if we are looking at a shooting and again that is not confirmed at this point this is not a soft target. >> it is and it isn't. they've got capability to respond more than a public gathering, but they will meet resistance for sure. once this process is started it's going to take a long time. that's the key here. once they get to the point where they are based on what i'm seeing on the screen here, you're going to see this is going to go on for hours to make sure that there is no threat there. >> ok, mike lyons our national security contributor jami macintyre, our national security correspondent, i know you guys are going to stay on top of it.

we will check back in with you as news warrants. again, a regarded shooting at approximately 7:30 eastern this morning president washington navy yard. the situation is active right now with both the f.b.i. and the local officials on the scene. the navy yard is on lockdown. people are being told to shelter in place. we'll continue following developments on this breaking story as it comes in. we'll be right back.

>> we're following breaking news out of washington, d.c. police are responding to reports of an active shooter at the d.c. navy yard. here is what we know so far. the navy said buildings are on lockdown there. there are reports of shots fired. retired army major mike lyons is our national security contributor. he says law enforcement have the benefit from learning from the last shooting in 2013 at the navy yard. >> making sure that they had a better way of managing what are a tremendous amount of civilians going in there in what is a major metro area. the second thing is the response. you'll see that is the key to these kinds of attacks. we saw for example it not happen in tunisia last week. there was too much time between when the shooting started on

that beach to when the authorities responded. that's the key here from any perspective is the response, making sure that they could get somebody as close as they can to the situation, start collecting the information and do what they can to stop the attack from taking place. >> you are looking at live pictures. this is on m street where the entrance to the washington navy yard is. you are seeing a massive response, streets around the navy yard have been blocked off. we're going to continue to keep our eye on this and bring you any developments as we get them. turning oh other news, puerto rico owes more than $70 billion in debt. it has avoided default for now and made a series of payments to creditors. the island is not out of the woods yet with that residents were hit with a hefty sales tax increase. many fear pain ahead as puerto rico struggles to repay those loans. we have more from san juan. >> it's the new day of a new

fiscal year in puerto rico. sales tax jumped to 11.5% to help curb the financial crise of the island. the reality is more than $70 billion in debt looms. >> robert ray, aljazeera america. >> an emergency meeting between the mayors and governor wednesday, looking for solutions and common ground on perhaps the biggest challenge the commonwealth has ever failed. >> you guys are mayors. you have a finger on the pulse probably a little bit fighter than the governor has. >> definitely we have. >> do you believe that the governor is doing this in the correct way with negotiating with washington, d.c. or what would you do differently? >> there are huge ideological differences here. the main thing right now the most important thing is to get puerto rico out of this problem and we all have to do it together, whether we think alike or not. >> the mayor's told al jazeera that they are fighting for

statehood. they feel like second class citizens and that they need washington's help, but the white house that said don't expect a bailout. carlos rodriguez and his family have owned this clothing store on a colorful cobblestone street in old san juan since 1918. these days, they keep the lights off because the cost of electricity is so high. he fierce the new increase in sales tax will drive customers away. >> i'm a bit angry because this was like we knew it was coming since about 10-12 years ago. the way we were going, it was going to happen sometime, but no one took probably the right measures to stop this. >> at the largest mom in the caribbean, a surprising reaction to the sales tax increase. >> i think they are too high. it should be about 20.

tourism is a huge part of the economy. with cuba opening its doors will that effect this island? >> for many in puerto rico, cuba is seen as an opportunity and potential boost to the economy. >> cuba has to restructure their infrastructure. they have to reconstruct housing, sewer infrastructure, power infrastructure, in puerto rico, we have architects, engineers and contractors who can help them with that work. >> is this politics at its best, bureaucracy in puerto rico? >> it's going to take hard work and happen in a few years. it's not going to be days or months. it's going to take a while. >> the governor and mayor and other officials say they will

have an economic restructuring plan by the end of august. al jazeera, san juan, puerto rico. >> the former governor of puerto rico joins us from washington this morning. thank you so much for your time. puerto rico cannot do what detroit did and restructure its debt in a bankruptcy court. should congress change that? >> well, first of all in looking at puerto rico's debt, you have to understand that there are different types of credits. you have the general obligation bonds, but then there are different public corporations or entities that have their own bonds and their own debts some of which can be paid and there is a steady income stream to be paid. others are more challenging and out to be restructured. having said that, if chapter nine of the federal bankruptcy court were to apply to puerto rico in the same way as the 50 states those different public corporations could restructure their debt in a organized and

certain way. >> shouldn't -- don't they also have to prove if they were able to file chapter nine, wouldn't they have to prove that they are already reforming? >> certainly. >> are they doing that? >> part of the problem has been a change in fiscal policies in puerto rico. puerto rico is too big and taxes too high. that has to change. you have to bring down expenses and bring down taxes again otherwise there won't be economic growth and without growth, there's no way to get out of this one. you cannot tax yourself out of this problem. >> you are a republican, and so it makes sense that that is sort of your theory of how things went down opinion the current leader is a democratic. when you were in charge, there were layoffs and spending cuts, but they didn't seem to work, either. >> well, i beg to disagree. if you look at the last 10 years in our economy the only period

of time in which there was growth was 2011 and 2012, when we actually had already cut expenses by 20% in the first two years of my tenure and taxes started coming down. again, the data is there. was, it was tepid growth, so was the case at the national level but in the last 10 years the only time when we have experienced growth was when we cut expenses and cut taxes. >> yet that was extremely unpopular. did you pay a political price for that, because you then lost election in 2012 and had to resign? >> well, of course, but at least my way of looking at things is that you are not in public service to serve yourself. you are there to do the right thing and i'm convinced that was the right thing to do. other steps ought to be taken. with public corporations, puerto

rico has a program that hasn't been used lately, but that's another way to provide services in a more cost efficient way and be able to pay down some of that debt. >> what other strength and resources does puerto rico have that are not being perhaps exploited to their best advantage to grow the economy at this point? >> sure. to begin with, being part of the united states. we are a u.s. territory. we are natural born citizens, as well. we have a strong manufacturing base and we have had it for decades now with engineers and other skilled workers many of whom are fully bilingual. that is important, as well. we are so close to the u.s. mainland. when you gist puerto rico, you do not need a passport. that is like going to florida. that is an advantage, as well. there are natural advantage but if taxes are too high, women not

grow. >> there's a mass exodus of skilled workers, 50,000 a year between 2011-2013 leaving puerto rico. how big is that contributing to the worsening economic problems? >> that is very difficult to overcome. first of all those are the people you want to keep on island, they are productive. secondly your tax base has been eroded in the process, as well, but if your taxes are too high, people move to texas and florida, where there are no state taxes. >> former puerto rico governor, thank you for your time. >> back to breaking news out of washington where the navy yard is in lockdown, people told to shelter in place. the response is large. retired army mike lyons is our national security contributor. mike, sort of give us your opinion right now of what we are possibly looking at. >> well, it looks like the

defense now is well layered and the initial aspects of this response plan is in place. it's going full force. there's issues going on inside the navy yard, obviously to try to figure out where the threat's coming from. hopefully with not a lot of people there yet or with vacation, the situation will be resolved quickly. >> as we look at live pictures, we were not seeing -- there are ambulances on the scene but we aren't seeing ambulances leaving. is that something we should take as a good sign at this point? >> i think so, but we've got to get more information. there's really much more to come stephanie, before i think we can make at a conclusion. >> ok, mike lines. we'll continue to stay on top of it for now. that is it for us here in new york. i'm stephanie sy, thanks for watching.

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