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play. you are watching al jazeera america, thanks so much for joining us this morning. live from new york city i'm morgan radford. federal authorities are searching the computer of the gunmen who opened fire in chattanooga, killing four marines. officials say as of now they have not found an extensive online presence for the man gunman. they do believe, however, that he acted alone. we have mike viqueira live for us in washington with more on the federal investigation, but first we go to jonathan betz who is live in chattanooga. jonathan what are investigators saying this morning? >> reporter: the big focus this morning is what could have sparked this attack. investigators still unclear what

motivated this gunman to open fire. but they do add there is nothing at this point that indicates he was tied to any international terror organizations. the major described the community as heart broken. many have said the suspect targeted members of the u.s. military. >> we have no idea at this point what his motivation was behind this shooting. federal officials are dealing with three crime scenes and many unanswered questions, mainly what could have motivated a young man to open fire on members of the military. killing four marines. >> we had someone viciously attack at two different locations people who proudly serve our country. >> reporter: over a 30-minute period, the gunman opened fire on two military offices on thursday, less than ten files apart. >> we know the shooter was killed at the scene as well.

also one chattanooga police officer was shot in the ankle. >> reporter: the police officer and several others including a marine and sailor were treated for injuries. . the gunman died at the scene. >> what we do know is somebody brutally and brazenly attacked members of our armed services. and the police officer responded immediately, and they were able to make sure that no further loss of life happened. >> reporter: the suspect pulled his silver mustang convertible to a navy marine station, and pumped more than two rounds through the glass store front. >> someone drove by and shot through the recruiting offices. furniture was shot up tv walls, with bullet holes there them. >> reporter: then he drove to a parking lot of a naval support center and again opened fire.

[ gunfire ] >> reporter: it was there that the four marines were killed. of the shootings police and s.w.a.t. teamed swarmed what was believed to be his house. the fbi says it is investigating the attack as a possible case of domestic terrorism. >> we're going to do an intention look at him, look at his friends, family associates and determine the cause or the reason why he conducted this attack. >> reporter: that is certainly a focus or investigators at this hour whether this suspect was motivated by outside group such as isil who releetedly called on its members to target law enforcement, especially in the united states. but authorities say the suspect was not on the radar of any law enforcement here in the u.s. >> we saw the images of those

mourners that you showed us laying flowers, but how is the community acting now? i understand there was a vigil last night. >> reporter: yeah and another one planned for this afternoon. a deep grief has settled over this town. behind me is the site where the four marines were killed. there is a small memorial. we have seen a couple come and drop to their knees and pray. the local mosque has canceled eid celebrations today out of respect of the families. many are coming together trying to heal after this attack. >> jonathan thank you. let's bring in mike viqueira now in washington. mike what role is federal law enforcement playing in this investigation? >> reporter: well, they are the lead, and the attorney general says this is a, quote unquote

national security matter national security investigation, that implies investigating any links to terrorism, whether home grown or otherwise. the wide range of law enforce and investigator power of the u.s. government from the department of homeland security to the fbi and on down the line of course, working with local law enforcement there. president obama briefed on the situation as it unfolded yesterday. he was traveling in obamacare okay. arrived back in washington went straight to the oval office was briefed by his fbi director his white house advisor on kun ter terrorism. the president called it a heart breaking circumstance talked about the need to protect some of these installations. one of the issues that has immediately arisen are these recruiting stations the sight of the first attack yesterday at the strip mall in chattanooga.

they are unprotected by design. they are designed to be welcoming to young men and women who may want to talk to a military recruiter about joining the armed forces. no side arms are carried there. a lot of people now looking at beefing up security at some of those facilities. but the investigation is ongoing. >> on that note you mentioned the importance of these military facilities and their security. do we know anything about the marines who were killed in that attack? >> reporter: well, the administration has been very tight lipped about that kind of detail from the pentagon and across the potomac to the white house notifying next of kin. we still have no identification. senator bob corker is a republican senator from tennessee and happens to have been the former mayor of cat cat -- chattanooga, he said one

of the wounded victims was in serious condition. but other than that not a lot of detail forthcoming. >> mike thanks so much. we spoke a psychologist and he said it isn't that unusual for a shooter to display seemingly normal behavior before an attack. >> a lot of peoples friends and neighbors say he seemed so normal. and it represents that multiple conflicts and pulls and identity issues sometiming come up in that space, and where there is this question of how can i fit in and be part of this community. and it also seems like one of the things he really expressed even in that snippet in his high school yearbook.

>> law enforcement officials say there is no indication that the gunman was inspired by isil they also don't believe anyone else was involved. the penalty stage is next in the araurora theater shooter, james holmes. >> reporter: well, nearly three years after the crime, after a trial that lasted almost three months with thousands of pieces of evidence testimony from hundreds of witnesses, this was the verdict that so many year have been waiting for, guilty on all counts. james holmes convicted in the deaths of 12 people in that aurora theater and the wounding of 70 more. an emotional outpouring here after the verdict was read as family and friends and relatives came out of the courtroom. let's take a listen. >> i don't want to say

vindicated but i was certain that's what it was going to be. i felt that only an insane juror could find otherwise. seriously. you could not come back with any verdict but guilty. >> and for a person who is anti-death -- penalty, i totally agree, think feel the sentence he may get, which is death penalty is the only penalty that fits the crime that he committed that night. >> reporter: on wednesday the sentencing phase will begin. there are two options, death or life in prison without parole. the jury will hear from the prosecution about aggregateing factors that will determine whether they proceed to death penalty deliberation. and they may also here from defense witnesses, trying to paint james holmes as too

mentally ill to put to death. an investigation is underway in texas after a young black woman died in a jail cell. now there are big questions about what exactly happened to sandra bland. >> reporter: local police say bland killed herself while in police custody, and the medical examiner agrees. but her family says the official account doesn't jive with the woman they knew. 28 year old sandra bland moved from chicago to texas to start work at prairie view university. friday after leaving campus a state trooper stopped jackson from making an improper lane change. police say she kicked an officer leading to her arrest. at one point police addressed the eyewitness filming the arrest. >> you need to leave! >> bland spent the weekend at the county jail and was found

unresponsive around 9:00 am monday. the medical examiner says she killed her. the sheriff's department think she did it with trash bags loved ones questioned that account, wondering why she would commit suicide. >> out going truly filled with life and joy and so when you think through the circumstances that have been shared with us to this point, it is unimaginable. >> reporter: but in texas say they see no evidence of foul play. >> we have reviewed the video, and at no point in the video, does it appear that anyone goes into that cell and harms her. >> reporter: the district attorney points to this video that blangd said she made in march as evidence that she might have been suicidal.

>> i am suffering from something that you all may be dealing with right now. a little bit of depression and ptsd. >> a lot of people are wondering why would she do this? so that is of course extremely relevant that she may have been suffering from some sort of mental illness. >> reporter: bland's family in chicago says they want to meet with investigators in texas. >> we are not going to demonize that community. what we are wanting to do though, is understand what happened. >> reporter: it should be noted waller county sheriff glen smith was fired from his job as police chief amidst allegations of racism. on thursday he dismissed the idea that he is biased in 234iway. though fbi has now joined the investigation. that's john henry smith reporting. germany has its say over

another bailout for greece. plus marking one year since the crash of flight mh17. still more questions than answers about what actually brought the jet down. stay tuned. ♪

good morning, and thanks so much for joining us here on al jazeera. it's 10:45 am eastern, and here is a look at today's top stories. congress is moving forward with revisions to no child left behind. the senate overwhelmingly approved a bill on thursday changing the law. it would reduce the role of the federal government in the nation's public schools. and the house passed its own version last week. former new york manage cannes michael grimm will be sentenced today for federal tax evasion. the new york republican was reelected back in november while fighting charges but then resigned after pleading guilty.

now his lawyers are asking for probation, but prosecutors want him behind bars for at least two years. rallies and memorials are also planned here in new york on the first anniversary of the death of eric garner. garner's family reached a nearly $6 million settlement this week with the city over his death. president obama is continuing his push to get support for his iranian nuclear deal. he is set to meet today with saudi arabia's foreign minister at the white house and saudi arabia has been pretty skeptical of this plan. the united nations security council, has set a vote for monday to consider endorsing that plan. germany's parliament has approved a new round of bailout money for greece that would grant it upwards of $85 billion euros to the troubled country. dominic kane has more. >> reporter: a resounding majority in favor of the

proposal 439 members voted in favor, 119 against, and 40 abstained. but if you look into the figures the grand coalition here has 504 members. so on the face of it 65 members of the government failed to vote yes. that chimes with the prognostications beforehand suggesting that around 48 members of angela merkel's own party were going to vote no. so it sends a signal that perhaps not everything in the garden is rosy. clearly angela merkel said that she understood that there were really serious concerns about the thought of yet more money for greece but she said it was the only path that could be gone down and that the euro was more than a currency, it was something that united europe. but we also heard from the

left-wing party. his leader said that the finance minister and the economy minister, and angela merkel within hoisting something on to the greeks and it was the abolition of democracy in greece. it is worth recalling that opinion polls consistently have suggested that very many germans are deeply distrustful of the current greek government in athens and that many feel that anymore money sent to athens will never come back. in that is the backdrop to the vote that has taken place today. a huge fire is raging right now near greece's parliament building in athens where officials say a brush fire is being fanned by heavy winds. several villages have been

evacuated, and currently dozens of firefighters are there trying to slow the fire down. some new and disturbing video is surfacing from the first anniversary of malaysian airlines mh17. this video shows soldiers picking through luggage. all 298 people on board died. charles stratford is there. >> reporter: i'm standing in the village. behind me you can see a memorial that was set up there yesterday for those 298 victims of mh17 the plane -- the main part of the debris of the plane fell near here. today there was a church service initially, a congregation there lighting candles and saying

prayers. there was then a march hold crucifixes up. and speeches read by some of the residents. it's when you speak to them personally, that you understand the kind of trauma they are still going through. we spoke to an elderly woman who actually broke down as she described looking up into the sky and seeing what she thought were paratroopers falling from the sky, and then she realized one of the people was actually sitting in a chair, and it was later discovered that it was one of the women passengers. her neighbor she said four bodies were found in her neighbor's garden one of which was a child. she said they are still finding little bits of the wreckage personal items belonging to some

of the victims. so a very traumatic experience. that was charles stratford in eastern ukraine. coming up on al jazeera america, over 15,000 nursing homes are run by for-profit companies. activists say they don't properly take care of the elderly. and a beach in california that has been closed for two month is finally set to reopen. stay tuned. ♪

more and more nursing homes are being run by for-profit companies. and -- advocates say that can be directly linked to poor care. >> reporter: robert was a free spirit an accountant by training. he favored pickup trucks enjoyed painting. his daughter says her father was one of kind. >> he will always be my hero in my eyes. >> reporter: after falling and breaking a kneecap, the 68-year-old wound up in a nursing home for three or four weeks of rehabilitation. two weeks after her father arrived, she received a phone call. >> they were transporting my father to the local emergency room. on the telephone, they sounded

like this was not urgent. >> reporter: but it was. he had a stage four bed sore a severe pressure ulcer that has penetrated through skin to muscle. and become infected. what she didn't know other familyies were also finding the carest on the initiallingly sub standard. in april this man filed a complaint against the nursing home and six others, all of them owned by preferred care partners. the attorney general's complaint alleges that staffing levels were kept dangerously low to maximize profits while residents suffered. >> there was an incredible amount of suffering due to inadequate care. >> reporter: no one from

preferred care would sit down with us. in a statement they said: charlene is a professor at the university of california san francisco. she has found that for-profit nursing homes have lower staffing and many more serious deficiencies than non-profits. >> the main way they make money is by understaffing. >> reporter: robert died of renal failure caused by infection. >> my father passed away as a direct result of the bed sore that was received from the neglect at casa real for the 14 days that he was there. that is why my father is dead. >> reporter: she says her mission now is to keep his family alive, by trying to help

other families avoid what hers had to endure. be sure to mark "america tonight" at 10:00 pm eastern. thousands of people in illinois are without power this morning after a tornado swept through the region. it was about 200 miles southwest of chicago where the storm left a trail of severe damage. a shelter at a high school is open for people who's homes were destroyed, but thankfully there were no serious injuries reported. a california beach will reopen today two months after it was closed from an oil spill. there are still questions about the role played by a private contractor hired by the company behind the spill. >> reporter: see this thick black muck? this is oil from a spill back in

1969. it was an ugly reminder that even decades later the beaches and coast are never really the same after a spill, which is one of the reasons why people in santa barbara are so concerned about the recent may 19th spill, much smaller in size but still problematic and worrisome. was the response quick enough? and should the operator and owner of the pipeline that burst, planes all american be the one taking a lead role in managing the cleanup. for janet wolf it's too much like the fox watching the hen horse. >> i would say it's not appropriate. >> reporter: why? >> because it's more of an objective assessment and i think anyone in my opinion, with common sense would say, well, if you have someone who has polluteded the beaches, might be trying to spin or have

an influence on what is being found on the ground. >> reporter: and there is this document which recommends scheduling interviews with handful of neutral to positive reporters to help tell the, quote, progress story. >> it was creepy and also a little bit insulting to be named on that list thinking they can spoon feed information to you, and you are just going to turn it around into a story that makes them look good. >> reporter: tonight we'll take you back to the beach where tar is still being seen on the sand. jennifer london al jazeera, california. thanks so much for watching. i'm morgan radford live in new york. the news continues next live from doha just after this short break. ♪

>> announcer: this is al jazeera. hello there from al jazeera's headquarters in doha this is the news hour. i'm laura kyle. coming up greece is on track to secure an 85 billion euro bailout. germany's parliament agrees to go ahead with talks. police open fire on anti-government protesters in egypt, killing six people. yemen's