good evening. this is al jazeera america. i'm del walters, live in new york. tonight - he's a war hero because he was captured. i like people that weren't captured, i hate to tell you. >> donald trump sparking a war of words in the republican party over senator mccain's war record. striking a blow - chattanooga coming together in the wake of a shooting taking five members of the u.s. military a series of car becomes in gaza city claiming senior palestinian officials, i.s.i.s. claiming responsibility. >> and ash carter sitting -- and a meeting with nigeria, about the u.s. playing a greater role and maybe, just make bringing back our girls. we begin tonight with the

war of words in politics not unusual unless you consider the fact that post of the fire is coming from republicans aimed at republican presidential candidate donald trump. at issue, his words that senator john mccain is not a war hero just because he was a prisoner of war. we have more on what is anything but friendly fire. >> i'm very disappointed in john mccain... >> reporter: unapologetic a diants trump -- defiant donald trump refusing to take back claims against mclain. >> reporter: do you own john mccain an apology? >> no, not at all. >> the reality tv scar -- star questioned senator mccain's

status as being a hero because he was captured. >> he would a war hero because he was captured. >> mccain a former pilot was wounded when his plane as shot down in 1957. >> i almost died. >> during his 5.5 years as a prisoner of war he endured torture, but refused early release to show solid arty with other prisoners of war. a record defended. >> donald trump owns every american and john mccain in particular an apoll gi. >> senator lindsay graham said trumps comments all but disqualified him to be president. the republican national committee said:

democratic presidential hopeful hillary clinton also took aim at the bombshell. >> there is nothing funny about the hate he is spewing at immigrants and families and now the insults he directed at a genuine war hero, senator john mccain. >> trump and mccain have been exchanging insults since last week when the senator accused trump of firing up the crazies in the party with anti-immigration remarks. >> mccain has not comment. given the bipartisan backlash silence may be mccain's most effective weapon in its war on words. as for trump he did not serve a single day in the military. records obtained through a freedom of information request, by the smoking gun website showing that he avoided the war

by going to college, receiving four deferments. once he graduated he avoided the war for medical reasons, trump telling reporters that he was not a fan of vietnam. michael shure is in los angeles. as they say in politics, this controversy has legs. a. . >> yes, it other as legs or it cut someone off at the legs or the nees. this -- knees. this is a little bit of credit for the republican running for president. there's a lot. they were patient. they feared something like this would happen, when it did, everyone seems to have pass said. that is what you see. the feeding frenzy was bound to happen. donald trump has a tendency to say this and bombast the shelf life. >> rupert murdoch says: are we

seeing the beginning of the end of the trump campaign. >> you might be. i don't think the end of the trump campaign is a surprise, whether it happens now or as others drop out. and their support doesn't go to donald trump, but to some other candidate republicans, seen as more viable surpassing then in the polls showing trump on top. this is the kind of event that says wait a second, we are a club, we republicans or democrats, it's the same thing on the other side. we are a club. you don't break the rules, you don't go after one of our own, in that way. especially the candidate amerit us. >> what about the service record of donald trump, or the lack there off. has he suffered a round by question john mccain's service record. >> as eluse dated for us his record in the service is

non-existent. he got a 1a coming out of college after four student deferments and we can call upon him. he got a 1-y a medical deferment. for bone spurs. he picked up something that might not have been the right way to go, and he does it because he carries personal vendettas. john mccain upset him after the phoenix event. it kned and donald trump -- it tends and donald trump took it too far, and you can't do that. >> people that like donald trump, like what he's saying are the republicans embarrassed that it is now being perceived to be a party of old white men that don't like hispanic or blacks. >> it seems like that donald trump is like that. the problem that trump runs into

is this has to come with the republican party. they don't embrace them as one of their own. it has to come from within. >> michael shure, thank you very much. fbi looking to a link between the gunmen in chattanooga, and i.s.i.l. investigators are looking at mohammod youssuf abdulazeez cell phone and computers, and are looking into the 2014 trip he took to jordan. in a statement, his family says a man who fired the shots was not the sun we knew or loved. household security chairman said the internet making it difficult for the government to catch a threat. >> my father was on a watch list, on an investigation. we'll be looking at details the new threat that is out there over the weekends that is hard to stop. we have 200,000 i.s.i.s. treats.

>> congress will introduce a bill allowing service member to carry bases. as for chattanooga, it is coming together following the deadly shootings. today events held to honour five service members. allen schauffler is in chattanooga, bring us up to date. >> yes, here in chattanooga, people are grieving. they are giving and they are honestly wondering if they can look ahead into the future and get this back to normal. >> reporter: a tribute. bikers gathering to honour four marines and one sailor killed in mohammod youssuf abdulazeez's shooting speed. >> there's people as far as nashville, a group out of knoxville. from where i'm at there's a bunch of god-loving

country-loving people. >> reporter: followed by a line of cars and trucks they take the sail route as the killer three days -- the same route as the killer three days earlier. milli, a deserted storm veterans said her service injuries, painful to ride, but that will not stop her. >> we need to be on the ball about taking care of our own countries. prayers across the city at the great ercommunity church of chattanooga decided a red, white and blue tinge to services. military personnel and responders signalled out five chairs a silent reminder of what was lost. we are proud americans, and we will treat our neighbours right. >> at this blood mobile six donors signed up before noon refilling supplies depleted in the medical response and the blood started almost immediately after the blood-letting ended.

>> as soon as we lifted our, you know, lockdown on thursday people were pouring into our facilities. >> reporter: donations are quadruple the normal amount the last few days. >> it will be a long healing process. i think we are at the beginning, we are proud and happy to help. >> people lost their families anything we cab do to help them cope is a good thing. >> there's help at moonpie general store. 10% of the sales of the chattanooga icon will go to victim's families. this is the second time the company has done so recently. their store in south carolina did the same after nine people were killed in the charleston church shootings in june. >> horrific. then a month later it happened in chattanooga, and, anyway it's horrible. >> there is normal life here too. the count sunday market is busy. chattanooga a changed town

perhaps, a proud and patriotic city whose sense of self and trust has been threatened. >> there's a sense of mourning and a sense of moving on too. we will get past this. we are chattanooga. another development late today. governor bill haslam of tennessee saying there'll be a review of security procedures at all military facilities in the state. he has taken a little bit of heat for waiting this long to do it. three full days after the shooting on thursday, that will begin. >> allen schauffler live in chattanooga, tennessee. for the first time in three weeks, banks in greece are set to open on monday. there'll be limited place for withdrawals. account holders will take out up to 455 a week. and they'll do it in one traction, if they wish. customers will be given access to safety government boxes.

german's chancellor pushing for talks to capital controls can be lifted. >> the obama administration continues to push the iranian nuclear deal. secretary kerrry was on the talk shows hoping there was enough open mines to consider the deal on its merits kerry going to capitol hill hoping to persuade lawmakers who are skeptical. ash carter is in the milled east, set to visit israel. carter has a tough sell. >> saudi deputy crown prince getting a tour of the u.s. aircraft carrier roosevelt, patrolling in golf waters off iran. his visit a few days before the nuclear deal with iran. another effort to reassure the saudis that a 7-decade long reliance with washington is steadfast. defense secretary ashton carter stopped in riyadh in an attempt to reinforce that message.

the saudis reached more than $90 billion in weapons deals with the u.s. sales that include war planes armoured vehicles, missiles and bombs. some of that hardware has been deployed by the saudis along with the gulf cooperation partners, and the u.s. is providing saudis with intelligence and logistics in the fight against houthi rebels whom the saudis regard as proxies. >> we are supporting their operations in yemen, in the way i described earlier. the objective there is to restore a political process there in which a legitimate government can be established. >> that cooperation has not quietened saudi anxiety over what it called iran's mischief across the region in particular train's financial and military life lines to syrias bashar al-assad.

>> this comes back to iranian-saudi stralt eejic rivalry, and the idea that the u.s. is not pushing back hard enough on iranian influence in the gulf and levant and elsewhere as for israel developing weapons jointly with the pentagon carter will follow up his bosses message to binyamin netanyahu last week. i'm prepared to go further than any administration has gone before in terms of providing them additional security assurances from the united states. >> assurances whose specifics are unspoken. not as yet enough to keep binyamin netanyahu from giving up his appeal to the u.s. congress to reject the deal. >> a reminder to be sure to tune in to ali velshi's report "iran - behind the deal. an intense weekend in the fight against i.s.i.l. there were 16 military air strikes in syria and iraq.

fighter jets hitting six targets in syria. 10 in iraq. among them. tactical units, tanks, storage facilities and tunnels. no word on how many may have been killed. i.s.i.l. saying it was behinds four explosions in gaza city the attacks targetting six vehicles. hamas recently cracked down on supporters of i.s.i.l. in gaza, and stephanie dekker is there. >> reporter: this car belonged to a hamas fighter. the bomb was placed under the fuel tank. >> there was a huge explosion that shook the neighbourhood. first we thought it was israel attacking us. then be realized it was from inside gaza. it's scary when you think it's one of your brothers. >> reporter: hamas is quick to say all is under control. no specific group has been named. it's not the first time that it has been hurt from within. groups that swore allegiance.

they threatened to topple hamas, hachl as saying i.s.i.l. is trying to destabilize gaza. >> instability will be seen as a weakness of hamas, and these groups sometimes provoke israel by launching missiles against israel, and provocation with israel and hamas, some instability, israelis hold hamas as a responsible party for missiles and mortals coming out of gaza. >> the immediate impact that it is having on the people - a 51 day war. much of gaza has not been rebuilt, there's high unemployment, and israel maintains its blockade the strip. add to that, attacks from within. >> i'm afraid we'll be next. new it's a car, maybe a mosque or a hospital. you never know.

the selafic group wants hamas to implement islamic law, putting pressure on hamas to show they are in control. hamas faces a challenge when it comes to maintaining security, something leaders said they could do, it's not the first attack against groups in gaza. it is the biggest. there were no fatalities. it is concerning. desist seen as a strong message. -- it is seen as a strong message the u.k. could get involved in more fighting with i.s.i.l. british prime minister david cameron saying the country needs to increase its role, saying that i.s.i.l.'s presence was a threats to national security days after the defence minister admitted to washing with the united states launch, air strikes in syria and iraq. aden attacked days after the

government declared that it was free of rebels. 45 were killed dozens injured. houthis advancing on sunday firing rockets in aden's residential area. north, in the city of tiaz 28 rebels set to be killed. more than 3,500 died since the conflict escalated four months ago. the u.s. and cuba on the threshold of history, tomorrow the flag will fly over an embassy in washington d.c. that is the first time it happened in more than 50 years, and will be live on the streets of havana - after the break he is accused of ordering the slaughter of up to 40,000 in the 1980s. now the wheels of justice are being turned in a lands mark trial in africa.

>> the united states was isolated. we were the only county in the hemisphere that didn't have normal trade relations with cuba. it was an embarrassment. and every year the u.n.

secretary general assembly the united states was sharply criticized for its embargo mr smith, a former diplomat to cuba on the eve of an historic day for both nations. set to fly over the cuban embassy and washington d.c. that will be the first time that has happened in more than half a century. melissa chan is live in havana. what do the cuban people think of all of this? >> well, it's interesting because if you think about the announcement at the ends of last year, in december 2014, with raul castro and president obama, saying that they would like to normalize relations, people here - there was a sense of exhilaration, they were saying that tears were streaming down some people's eyes. more than six months later i think it's more cautious optimism not to say people don't for normalization, there's an interesting and rare poll

that came out, saying that 97% of cubans support normalization, there's a lot of sport, but cautious optimism, and a sense that if there is going to be change they will not feel it overnight or the next few months but in increment of years. >> what will happen to the u.s. interest session in havana? >> well the pomp and sish - that will be -- circumstance, and that will happen in washington d.c. it will be a lot quieter here at midnight. there'll be an embassy in havana for the first time in 50 years, eegally and tech nick lay. the -- legally and technically. the ceremony won't happen until summer with the rival of america. they'll get the flag flying. but not on monday. >> as far as the people were concerned. what affect are we likely to see

as a result of ties between the two countries. >> i think the obvious impact that everyone has been reporting is tourism. we are going to see more americans, it's a big super power in the backyard. there'll be an economic impact. the cautious optimism. i think there's a sense in cuba that people are understanding that if there is going to be economic change, they are not going to see it for years to come, and the basic things, i am sure you read that a lot of people like to come to cuba before starbucks and mcdonald's arrived. that is an investment that the cuban government will have to figure out. there's an embargo on the u.s. side. a lot of changes will happen there'll be embassies, u.s. and cuba, are nowhere near being friends. melissa chan live for us in havana cuba.

thank you very much his regime is accused of killing 40,000 people between 1982 and 990. -- 1990. now the trial of a former president in chad is set to begin. what makes the trial different is he is going to be tried on the african continent. we have more. >> reporter: this man has been waiting 25 years for this day. he is about to face a man he believes is responsible for his torture. he has rehearsed the moment time and time again. he knows what he will say, and how he will act. one look at former chadian president, and the memories come flooding back. the electric shocks, the spoking. and all the faces of people he was forced to bury during

confinement. >> he's plunged an entire nation for eight-long years into desperation and violent darkness. >> reporter: chad's truth commission says 40,000 were killed, 200,000 tortured when he was in power in the 1980s. most were arabs and political opponents. >> the united states and france supported him as he turned the country. many of his feared torturers got training in the united states. >> he was overthrown in 1990, and fled the country. for 16 years, victims of torture and campaigners tried to bring him to court. he lived quietly in senegal. his wife never suspected that he would face justice.

>> we had an implicit agreement. we came here to get asylum protection from the state of senegal. those that supported us turned against us. we felt betrayed. >> he's now being charged for crimes against humanity in the extraordinary african chambers, a court created by the african union in senegal. hundreds of witnesses are set to testify. an african judged by africans away from the hague international criminal court. at stake is the possibility to set a precedence making universal justice accessible to all on this continent what this trial shows more than anything else is that it's possible for victims and supporters with tenacity with perseverance, with imagination, to actually get a dictator to court. >> the trial will not erase the

horrors. but something has changed. and perhaps in the process, this man may find some peace. president obama sitting with a new president of nigeria tomorrow. the fight against boko haram topping the agenda. it could leave the white house with a difficult decision to make. "the week ahead" is next. plus, a terrible tragedy claiming the lives of the bridal party. the bride to be fighting for her life.

welcome back to al jazeera america. i'm del walters in new york. here is a look at your top stories, the fbi looking for links between chattanooga shooter mohammod youssuf abdulazeez and i.s.i.l. investigators are looking at his cell phone and computers and a 2014 trip to jordan. monday a tennessee congressman will introduce a bill allowing servicemen to carry weapons at

military bases and recruiting centers. secretary of state john kerry heading to capitol hill, trying to persuade skeptical lawmakers on the nuclear deal. they have 60 days to review the terms to decide whether or not to accepted it. ash carter heading to the middle east trying to convince saudi arabia and israel to trust the agreement after being shut down for three weeks, banks set to open on monday in greece. customers will be able to take out there 455 in a week, and all in a single for example. -- traction. and will be given access to safety government boxes. now it's time for "the week ahead". nigeria's newly elected president muhammadu buhari is set to meet with president obama at the white house tomorrow. he arrived today. the fight against boko haram is expected to top the agenda. muhammadu buhari will ask the u.s. for more help. the failure of his predecessor

goodluck jonathan damaged ties between the two countries and they are trying to mend relations during the meetings. since the election three months ago, muhammadu buhari promised to defeat boko haram. it's been well over a year since they kidnapped 276 schoolgirls, april 2014 to be exact. the fighting has been ongoing for six years. tonight we'll look at a social media fire storm erupting more than 450 address ago. the hashtag bring back our girls went global. now it says the girls are still gone. we look at what happens when online activism comes face to face with reality. >> the plight of the nigerian girls seen in the video taken by captors won attention last year with a hashtag - bring back our girls. celebrities and politicians endorsed the social media campaign and gave people a way

to unite in an emotional cause. from europe... ..to the u.s. and behind. -- beyond. >> this is all over the world as women are rising asking for more in leadership. >> reporter: it escalated calls in nigeria, for then president goodluck jonathan to do more. it was nearly three weeks after the kidnappings that he spoke about the crime. >> committed, to ensuring that the girls are found, and make sure that they join their families. >> some of the girls have escaped. most are missing. raising questions not only about the nigerian government's abilities, but the power of digital activism. >> you "oh, as long as it goes viral and the world stops

talking about it." problem is it doesn't do that. >> one reason is competing clauses clammer for attention. >> we are constantly bombbahted. the average attention span is 2.7 seconds when online before something else grabs our attention. >> social media campaign is calling for specific action tend to produce tangible change. >> when there are tsunamis and earthquakes earthquakes, they say texts hep and a number is added to your bill. and people do that. there wasn't a call to action. if i sit in my apartment and see bring back my girls and tweet it, i'm doing anything other than tweeting it. >> reporter: the mass the girls in this school is not the first event to win online attention, only to see it

fade away. >> he makes them mutilate people's faces. >> the documentary kony 2012 intensified calls for you behind an warlord kony who kidnapped thousands of children, to be brought to justice. it has more than 1 million views on youtube. troops have been sent to search for kony but he is free. the braing back our girls movement helped to put the spotlight on a deteriorating nigeria, those that voted muhammadu buhari to be the new president. as the world moves on they will not. >> we shall continue advocacy as we watch the urgent current administration take charge.

>> a bring back our girls organiser and executive director of path finders, and kate the former president of girls in tech. joins us live from serra cues. i'll bring it with you. it's been 15 months since the girls - the girls were gone bring back our girls, they are still gone. >> yes that's devastating that 461 days later, you and i are meeting understand these circumstances. it's unfortunate. >> the meeting taking place in washington d.c. between the two presidents, are you confident anything will change will we talk about this a year from now? >> i'm confident. i think we have all heard it said that evil exists in our world when good people do nothing. my version is evil exists because good people do nothing. we have two incredible

presidents in a position to do something about the devastating situation. i'm hopeful that collectively we can come up with a solution. >> when the hashtag bring back our girls was everywhere. first lady michelle obama, and hillary clinton, secretary of state. the fact this the girls are missing, is that an vags that the online society is fickle or the problem is too big? >> i think there are a couple of issues here. the first one, as you stated in your latter point in is, fix, the situation on the ground in nigeria, it's very complicated. it's very violent. it's very political. it's very social. there are a lot of factors that i don't think anyone could argue that tweeting a tweet would solve. back to your first suggestion

about the fickleness of users. it kind of depends on how you look at the use of twitter. in terms of raising awareness, it has done a very large and positive move forward for the situation, media is covering it significantly more put that difference between awareness and action is were there seems to have been a large gap. i think there are some smaller efforts that have been continued. some would argue they have slowly found themselves into a more lonely situation. action is where i think there's a gan. >> as i was researching the seg. i couldn't help premier kony 2012 millions going online upset about the african warlord kony using children.

that is 2012. it is now 2015. >> yes. and, you know that comes back to a marker you have to have kinded of a marketing plan behind these things. and the raising awareness portion, if there isn't effective mobilization if there had is not an effective call to act, and some way to create the shaken about the problem coming to light, that's where you'll get a lot of failures. >> are you confident that at least as far as the optics are concerned, they are improving in nigeria, the president meeting with the parents of the missing girls, yet you are optimistic, back to the fact that a year ago there was optimism as well and later there is pessimism, because there has been meetings, there was social media campaign the president was going to do something, and yet the girls are still missing? >> i think it's a little bit of

a different situation. i think what we had with our outgoing president was ultimately at least a lack of political will a lack of prioritisation, and essentially a failure to put in the resources that were necessary, and i think in one interview he admitted that he underestimated boko haram. and so what we have here with the new president is someone who appears to really be prioritizing the return of these girls. like he said he's met with the families, he's met with the president of countries who have supported the fight. he is meeting with the u.s. president tomorrow, moved the military from abuja... >> shouldn't he meet with members of congress. binyamin netanyahu, when pet about the iranian deal, address congress. is the u.s. congress getting a

pass. i have yet to see a u.s. senator in relation to bring back our girls. >> congresswoman jacqueline lee has been vocal and congresswoman maloney. they are attempting to get meetings with our president. i think that there's actually - they are people on both sides, and that is ultimately what we need. >> when i taught on the college level i used to joke with them i reached out to them on my space. none responded. they were awkward and i realized they were joking and i realized myspace was old school. 10 years from now, will the social campaigns be relevant? >> i think certainly communication online communication and social spaces is going to remain for at least the foreseeable long term. let's put it that way.

in digital terms. so that i do not think is changing. there has been a lot of trends that have been happening, based on consumer user behaviour. such things as now there's retraction from open public communication to a lot of people wanting that private one to one or not saved communication back. so i think we are going to see those types of waves, which is what types of communications we want. how people are connecting. how they are communicating online. i don't think online or digital communication will go away soon. >> as far as the huge social media campaigns are concerned, do you believe there may be a need for social media reminder to start the process and make sure that it is finished. what do you mean by the last

part reminder? >> that we use social media to remind people that yes, the girls are still miss and remind politicians that the girls are still missing. >> that is a missing piece. there's mobilizition happening and it kind of disappeared. so renewing a campaign could be an option. again, the benefits of online communication is that you can connect with people around the world in huge numbers, quickly and somewhat effectively from a communication awareness stand point. the mobilization part needs to berefined. i see repeat campaigns happening, don't forget this. just because of the scale of communications that you have at your fingertips. >> the sad fact is there are reports that some of the girls

are being used as bombers by boko haram, and others have been married off or turned into sex slaves. on the eve of the meeting in washington, is it too late? >> absolutely not. i mean, i speak as a mother first, and there's no way that we can give up hope on these girls. obviously we know they may not come back in the state that they left, but ultimately i think it's our responsibility collectively to continue to keep - to remain hopeful for girls to give up hope. >> how do you convince society when they come back? >> how do we convince the girls? there's great thing about technology, almost everything is recorded. they can look and see the fact that people have marched, that we protested, we demanded their return and hopefully that will help hem. -- them.

>> thank you both for being was. >> thank you. >> thank you so much the ukranian military and pro-russian separatists blaming each other for a ceasefire after a week of deadly fighting, four died in donetsk. soldiers were killed. charles stratford has our story from eastern ukraine ukranian army wouldn't let us film the tanks as they fired from positions above the bridge. we know it's a violation of the agreement. but the separatists do the same. the firing of shells towards targets near don everybody. held by the separatists. we filmed one of five tanks as they deproef off in different directions. >> the ukranian army say the tanks fired. we heard no shelling before the

shells started firing. however you look at it, military hardware should not be here according to the minsk agreement. according to minsk agreements signed in february. they should have withdrawn artillery, creating a 50km wide security zone. separatists were quick to respond. incoming chels could be heart landing close by. >> a few kilometres away we found this apart. block. some were destroyed. an elderly woman and her disabled grandson lived at the flat. they were killed by a separatist attack the night before. a ukranian soldiers shows a photo on his phone of the boy it said dead body. blood stains mark the spot he was found. >> as soldiers we wanted to protect the civilians.

yesterday we could only watch. we didn't respond, we simply did not have an order to. >> serga those me his apart: he and his family were out when the attack happened. >> you can't report the truth said this woman. these men tolds us that civilians are angry because the military used the building as a base next door. the military didn't respond to the attack because it wasn't aimed at a military target. as we left we spotted this tank hidden in the undergrowth meters away from people's homes. >> a few days earlier we had been in separatist territory and had fighters also inside the buffer zone. both sides are breaking the agreement, civilians continued to die. a new york man pleading guilty not guilty to killing four members of a bridal party

in a terrible accident. 55-year-old steven romayo was under the influence when he t-boned this limo seen. inside were four bridesmaids celebrating. the bride is listed in serious condition police in california arrested a man suspected of killing five people, five women and three children six to six month old found dead in this home. this 30-year-old was arrested. he had a relationship with a victim in the past and another might have been. so far, no word on a motive. >> a small sigh of relief in the drought stricken west has gained the upper hand in a blaze that charred dozens of cars and trucks. and an apology 70 years in the

making why mitsubishi apologised to a 94-year-old american at the break.

>> government committees. >> they're spending money,

they're not saving it. >> costing millions and getting nothing. >> it's a bogus sham. >> america tonight investigates. money for nothing. >> they've gotten away with it for years. a fast-moving brush fire destroyed a number of homes, charred dozens of cars in california, and said to be 60% contained. flames breaking out friday afternoon on interstate 15, a major freeway leading from southern california to los angeles. dozens of vehicles abandoned, hundreds turned on to their sides, no injuries report. the internet state was closed. the cause of the fire was understand investigation. >> firefighters are trying to contain a 200 acre fire. evacuations are in place. the number of camp grounds, a

group of 90 schoolgirls were among those evacuated. in arizona, residents are cleaning up after flooding. cars swept away after flooding and storms tore through. 15 people had to be rescued. 5,000 people lost their power. several roads were closed after the storms began. more than 4.5 inches of rain reported in just an hour. kevin corriveau - it has been one heck of a week weather wise. >> we'll get more rain and the reason for in we have an old - and i say old - it was a hurricane out here off the coast of california, and mexico. this is why you can never understatement what a tropical system could do. a weak system could bring in a lot of rain. we saw this last night and

yesterday across arizona and california, this means flooding will occur across the region it is good news for the drought stricken area, with flash flooding it can be dangerous. this is what we are looking at. we are seeing an area of flash flooding across parts of valley. it is increasing on the severity of the flash flooding that will go on through the rest of the even. as long as rain pushes in from the south and parts of arizona. they are all seeing the threat again. temperatures are warm across much of the south and the eastern part of the united states. it has been a warm day, especially to the east. we saw the hottest day for many in the cities towards the south, look at the temperatures now, they are going to start to fall off as we go towards the next couple of hours. dallas, now, is about 98

degrees. san francisco 95 degrees. these temperatures will stay looking like that for the next four or five days. out here to the east, for washington, we have seen the hottest day of the year and form is going to be a hot day as well. look up here to the north, excessive heat warnings are in effect. this will continue through monday. tomorrow will be a dangerous day, as well as to the south. it will not be as hot as that area. we expect to see this reason 95 degrees, and a new factor in the heat index will feel more like 101 and 102 as you get to the midday. let's look at what is happening to the north-east. severe storms pushing through, as well as in trumaine. we'll watch that because we have a storm making its way to portland main bringing and

potentially hail for that area. as we start the week tomorrow there's a frontal boundary bringing in storms to parts of texas. that could be a big problem. >> thank you very much. >> it looked like a scene from jaws, this was not a hollywood film. you'll hear from a man that fought off a shark using his bare hands. >> and a look at what it's like to be caught in a rip current. and how a selfie stick may have saved this woman's life.

>> we're back at al jazeera america, where authorities just after 70 years mitsubishi is apologising for using u.s. prisoners of war as slaves during world war ii. today in los angeles, top mitsubishi executive offering his personal apology to james murphy, a former prisoner of war. murray, now 94 was a last survivor, forced to work in a copper mine in northern japan,

along with other p.o.w.s, here is his reaction to the apology in his own words. >> we have just witnessed something of an historical nature because for 70 years since the war ended, the prisoners of war who work for the japanese companies, have asked for something very simple - they ask for an apology for having to perform forced labour in copper mines and goldmines and other areas. we hope to extend mitsubishi's gracious coming forward to all the other mines and factors who employed american p.o.w.s

against their will. i listened carefully to mr mr kimora's statement of apology. and found it very very sincere. humble and revealing. this happened to be the first time that we have heard those words, and they really touch you at the heart of the thing. and we hope that we can go ahead and have a better understanding, a better friendship and closer ties with our ally japan. >> another veteran of that same war, former president h.w. bush has been released from a hospital in main. suffering a fall in his summer home. he's 91 years old. he suffered a fractured

vertebrae in his wet. he'll have full recovering in 3-4 months. a surfer lucky to be alive after a shark attack during the middle of a competition off the coast of south africa, tv cameras capturing what happened. he escaped, but had to do so after punching the sharks knows. >> i had an instinct that someone was behinds me. all of a sudden i felt i was getting pulled under water, and the thing came up and i was on my board. it was like right there. i saw the whole thing thrashing around. i was getting dragged under by my leg rope. >> even though competitors and friends, it's kicking in. it's so gnarly man, i'm tripping out fanning's leg rope bitten in half by the shark. neither he nor another surfer that accounted it were hurt. thanks for joining us, i'm del

walters in new york. coming up next. ali velshi's "iran - behind the deal as for me i'll be back later with another newshour. i'm ali velshi tonight an indepth special report from inside iran. i'll take you to the streets of tehran where news of an agreement is on everyone's mind. tonight i take you behind the deal. [ ♪♪ ] >> today after two years of negotiations the united states has achieved something that decades of animosity has not. a comprehensive