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♪ this is al jazeera america live from new york city. i'm stephanie sy. new video is leading to more questions this morning in the death of a young woman in a texas jail cell. authorities have released surveillance tapes showing the moment an da bland was found dead inside her cell. the sheriff's department says she committed suicide, but the district attorney says he intends to treat this case like a murder investigation. >> reporter: in this video, you can see a gurney being wheeled down a hall towards sandra bland's holding cell but it comes out a short time later with only medical equipment on it. instead of a rescue. it is now a death investigation. the district attorney says it is too early to say who is responsibility. >> this investigation is still being treated just as it would be a murder investigation. there are many questions being

raised here in waller county in the state of texas, the country, and around the world about this case. it needs a thorough and exhaustive review. >> reporter: bland had just moved from chicago to texas to start work at parry view university. she was arrested on friday july 10th after officers say she became argumentative and aggressive during a traffic stop. they say bland then assaulted a state trooper and was taken into custody. after spending the weekend here at the waller county jail she was found dead in her cell. >> and people get pulled over for not signalling for traffic and end up dead something is wrong. >> yeah! [ applause ] >> reporter: less than a quarter mile up the road is the campus where sandra bland was coming from when she was pulled over. today a memorial marks the

location where the altercation occurred. activists have arrived to weigh in. >> behind us was not a suicide, but this was a murder a homicide, and in texas will not be the last episode of how to get away with murder. >> reporter: even though bland has talked of being depressed, family members and friends in illinois and texas say she would not have taken her own life. jasmine says she and bland had been friends since the third grade. >> if anybody knows sandra they know she had a zeal for life. they know she used her voice to encourage people. she gave you the truth, but she loved god. >> reporter: do you believe she was murdered? >> i believe she was murdered. i believe even if she did commit

suicide there is a possibility she was coerced or forced. she didn't commit suicide of her own volition. sandra bland's family says the newly released video still leave new questions. and the officer's dash cam video is expected to be released today. >> i have seen the dash cam video. it really calls into question why it is for a routine traffic stop she was asked to even get out of her car. >> texas officials say they will test bland's cell for fingerprints and dna. the fbi is also conducting an investigation. ash carter is in israel today meeting with prime minister benl ben. carter is trying to convince netenyahu that a nuclear deal with iran will not threaten israel's security. netenyahu has been one of the

harshest critics of the deal. carter is also stoet meet with leaders in jordan and saudi arabia. i spoke with former deputy assistant secretary of state for iran and he was held hostage when revolutionaries overran the u.s. embassy. >> what after all is diplomacy? what was our diplomacy with the soviet union? it is negotiating imperfect agreements, no negotiated agreement gives you all you want, with people that you neither trust, nor you like. it's flawed agreements with -- sometimes with dubious people. so yes, you can criticize the agreement, fair enough but it seems to me a lot of the criticism is based on not wanting a negotiated agreement, but wanting a surrender from the

other side. >> i want to go back to those days some 34 years ago when you were held hostage for 444 days. there is this incredible video of you meeting with the then president. he of course is now the supreme leader. this is video we're showing of this extraordinary meeting. given your experience with iran what do americans maybe misunderstand about the country? >> well i can't see the video, but i was certainly much younger then. [ laughter ] >> but, again, it isn't that we -- we are friends with the islamic republic. it isn't that we are -- that we -- we like its sense of -- its form of government or that we agree with its imprisoning journalists, mistreating its own people

including, you know, journalists from -- american journalists, but the question is how -- how -- how do we deal with it? do we -- do we continue to bash it? do we continue to yell at each other, as we have for 34, 35 years with no visible results? or do we take another way as typified by the approach of first president obama, and then secretary kerry, during -- and particularly during the last two years of these nuclear negotiations? >> he says despite the agreement, there is still reason for distrust on both sides. president obama is set to speak to the vfw national convention in pittsburgh next hour. the white house says he plans to highlight new rules to prevent predator lending to service members. the administration says it is closing loopholes. congress is working on a new

bill that could mean an end for so-called sanctuary cities. it would block federal funds to any city that does not turn over immigrants to federal authorities. it follows the shooting death of a woman by a illegal migrant. >> the man who killed kate is a classic case of multiple felonies and prior deportations and a simple phone call would have been enough but that did not happen. >> the man accused of killing the woman had a history of felly convictions. he had been deported five times. he said he went to san francisco because of its sanctuary policy. ohio governor john kasich is expected to announce he is running for president. he has the highest approval

rating of any governor in the country. as for the current republican front runner donald trump he is being asked to drop out of the race. he said senator john mccain was not a war hero now the des moines register is saying that trump should give up his run. they call his comments disgraceful, and also writes: well it's going to be another hot day in much of the country as the summer heat wave bakes drenthzs from the south to the mid-atlantic. how bad is it going to get today? >> temperatures themselves, it's july. it's the hottest part of the year not really that noteworthy, it's when you add in the humidity.

seattle, 73 at not too bad, but interior 80s, 90s, low humidity, winds once again, so we have that fire concern again in this part of the country. when we get to the south a lot of temperatures in the 90s, that's not that unusual, but we also have the humidity. the way your body cools itself in the summer is sweat or perspire ration, but that helps our body reck late itself. when it gets so humidity we have heat indices of 103 and that means you don't self cool yourself, that is the problem. that's why we have all of these different heat advisories for today. the good news is a lot of this region. you can see this boundary pretty easy to pick out the front there will be coming through a lot of the east and portions of the south for

tomorrow so we start to see the temperatures drop five almost 10 degrees. not a huge break in the heat but we will take it. >> slightly better days ahead, nicole mitchell thank you. living in poverty, a new report paints a startling impact on the nation's children. and california goes after illegal pot growers who are draining water from tribal lands.

a new report paints a disturbing picture of the number of children living in poverty. 1 in 5 were living in poverty in 2013. christopher joins us now via skype. he is a professor at clumolumbia

university. thanks for being with us. is there anything about the statistics in this report which shows a significant rise in poverty that you find particularly surprising? >> not surprising but alarming. so those of us who do work in urban education have always prepared for the idea that poverty rates would increase. it is increasing at an exponential rate especially since we have issues with the national well-being of the country. so the fact that the country is doing well and then we are start a realizing that those who are already most vulnerable, are also the ones living in most poverty. >> i know this question doesn't have single answer but what do you attribute this rise in child poverty to? >> a couple of issues. the main one is this notion that in the united states education is seen as this big

socioeconomic equalizer, but we have focused on people being able to go through schools and do well through their life span. poverty maintains itself when you have an education system that maintains gaps because we don't focus on teaching and learning in classrooms, and focusing on helping them to be able to have a long-time career in education. so that i think is a major issue. >> what needs to happen to improve prospects for poor children? >> a couple of things. the first is we have to focus on ways in which we help them to be more engaged in schools and schooling. the second is more wrap around services, so this idea of you just coming to school getting an education and going home doesn't work. schools have to be a place that are sort of a part of the community where young people can have food and meals in school

and if you have a more community-based school then the likelihood of their lives being improved is important. and expand how we look at what the purpose of school is. not only do we have programs to help kid goes to college and help them to be able to have careers once they leave high school. multiple opportunities to have a viable income are absolutely necessary. >> christopher as you know there was a lot of hope that president obama would reverse some of the resh shall and socioeconomic disparities that seem to go hand in hand when we talk about poverty in this country. what grade would you give president obama on addressing these issues? >> i would give him an a when it comes to talking about how we can get the nation better but probably about a c when it comes to the meeting the specific needs of those most vulnerable. and the reason i say that is that he hasn't really carved out

a very specific agenda for ensuring that these populations needs are met within schools. there has been some work around african american males, but it's a brood-based initiative and doesn't really address what going on within schools. and i give this grade with an understanding that his hands are tied. you have a black president who has not had the opportunity to talk about any specific needs of black america, and every time he does so he is being critiqued by every faction. so while there has been a more recent focus on the needs of african american males, there hasn't been a strategic intensive focus on what goes on in schools, and i think that that is absolutely necessary. christopher thank you for your incites, good to have you. forensic investigators in washington state have been trying to determine who is responsible for the shooting death of an unarmed man last

winter. it involved three officers, three guns and 17 bullets. alan schauffler visited the crime lab. >> reporter: this is a 45 caliber bullet for a glock. and this is a glock 21. and this is rick with the washington state crime lab who is going to fire it for us into a water tank so we can retrieve the bullet in just a moment. go ahead. now blocks have been known for many years to be a little bit difficult to identify the bullets of to link specific cartridges with specific guns. it has to do with the way the bullet is deformed as it goes out of the barrel. we're going to get the bullet. 45 caliber glock 21. so that's a hollow-point bullet

and that's the way it has been reformed as it hits the water. but the barrel of this bullet can be very difficult to identify. it can be very smooth so the identifying marks left by the gun are much more difficult to pick up even microscopically than in most guns. we'll talk more tonight about exactly how they could play into situations involving attempts to identify specific glocks and link them to specific bullets. >> you can watch his full report tonight at 8:00 eastern. the national guard and local police in california are cracking down on illegal marijuana growers. the crops drain gallons of water from the land. >> reporter: the huge clearing in this remote area is a dead give away to these experienced police officers, cracking down

on illegal commercial marijuana grows. we're following 70 federal and state law enforcement officers including the california national guard as they swarm in on dozens of private grows to destroy tens of thousands of marijuana plants. but this is no ordinary pot bust. these are sacred tribal lands. >> we're helpless. we go up on a hill and fight with them. >> reporter: for generations tribal leader thomas wilson and his family have lived here. now illegal commercial marijuana growers are polluting the rivers. >> they are destroying our hills where we used to hundred and fish. >> reporter: the environmental damage is staggering. marijuana plants require vast amounts of water. during california growing season outdoor grows consume roughly 60 million gallons of water a day. that's a huge strain on any

environment, but especially here where a crippling drought is in its fourth year. this lieutenant with humboldt county, has worked closely with the tribe to issue 21 search warrants. now the tribe and federal officers are working together to battle a common enemy. the chief called the governor office for help when the number of illegal grows tripled this year overwhelming his ten-person police force. it's an easy target. we come up here and we don't get half of the grows that are up here. >> reporter: evidence of hazardous chemicals and waste is everywhere. this is pretty toxic to the environment? >> this is very toxic to the environment. this is very fragile we get between 60 and 80 inches of rain, so as this breaks down --

>> reporter: just seeps into the ground. >> which is only 40 inches. hits bedrock, and you see the slope. any of these slopes around here it's like 30, 80 degree slopes so it goes straight in to the tributaries. >> reporter: and eventually into the river wheren gangered salmon breed. thomas fishes here to feed his family. but these days he is seeing fewer and fewer. >> reporter: we own the land. we don't own the land. the land owns us. the latest innovation in 3-d printing. and the search for life on other planets, a new initiative to see if humans are the only ones in the galaxy. ♪

one australian medical school is starting to print replicas of human body parts from 3-d printers. >> reporter: caked in this powder is the latest innovation

in 3-d printing. replica body parts. designs are based on ct scans of people who are colored into a computer to send a file to a 3-d printer. it builds a block of powder in thousands of sweeps. with each sweep the printer injects colors. as the block is lowered a tenth of a millimeter with each sweep a detailed limb emerges. >> we had a face and neck rising out of the powder and it was very eerie but after amazing. >> reporter: the biocompatibility to use in people is probably still decades a way. but the parts can be useful for training doctors. traditionally students learn from books, crude molded models or occasionally from cadavers.

>> two hours a week maybe. it's great having the cadavers there to have that 3-d aspect or having that aspect to what you are learning in your textbooks, and with only two hours, i suppose you could argue it is a bit less than what we would ideally want. >> cadavers are rare and expensive and in some cultures they are taboo. >> there are some cultures which frown upon the dissection or interference with a dead body and i would think that this could then fill a unique initial. >> reporter: molded models can't get close to this. in this time the application is for fully dissectible pod pod -- body parts. this is actually a mix of body parts based on scans of

different people a modern model frankenstein. so though this isn't the start of being able to print something that could be given life for science teaching it is a big footstep forward. scientists are trying to figure out what went wrong with the first spacecraft to perform a soft landing on a come met. the european space agency last heard from the lander on july 9th after being off line for months. it landed on the comet back in november and captured the first-ever images of thecomet surface. one of the world's greats minds is teaming up with one of the world's richest men. they hope to find real extraterrestrials. >> reporter: with are we alone in the universe?

according to steven hawking, it's the ultimate unanswered question. >> it's time to commit to finding the answer to search for life beyond earth. we are life we are intelligent. we must know. >> suppose on one of its planets, there lives an intelligent species. >> reporter: which is why hawking is teaming up with the russian billionaire. >> the scope of our search will be unprecedented. a million nearby stars. the galactic center the entire milky way, and hundreds of nearby galaxies. >> reporter: by using the largest and most powerful radio tell phones they'll scan 10 billion different frequencies from the million star systems

closest to earth and the 100 nearest galaxies. >> they'll be designed to pick out any note with a frequency that is ringing consistently true of the background noise. >> reporter: that one note, scientists say could mean the existence of intelligent life in the cosmos but those sounds will have been created years ago. radio signals take up to four years to travel from earth to the nearest star. >> it's a huge gamble of course. but the payoff would be soco soco -- so call sal. >> we have only just begun to open our eyes. come with us. thanks for watching. i'm stephanie sy. the news continues next live

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