unimpressed. still for his victims and supporters, the fact that this man will now almost surely die in jail himself will carry a certain sort of satisfaction. you can find out much more on our website, the address is aljazeera.com. why are did he talk into that theater? why did he turn around and go back in there? >> searching for a motive in louisiana where a man killed two people before turning the gun on himself. president obama lands in kenya. and going deep into the dark side of the internet why it is so tough to shut down the dark

web. ♪ this is al jazeera america live from new york city. i'm tony harris. we are learning more about the gunmen and the victims in a shooting at a louisiana movie theater. police identified the shooter as this man. two people died and nine others were injured before he turned the gun on himself. one of the people hurt is now in critical condition. jonathan martin has more. >> reporter: well despite identifying the shooter earlier today, police say there is still very little that they know about him. that's one of the reasons that fbi agents and state police are across louisiana and back in alabama where this man was from trying to find out people who were in contact with him. and why he came into this theater and started shooting.

it was 20 minutes into the show when movie goers heard a loud pop. witnesses thought it was a firecracker, but it was gunfire a man sitting inside the theater stood up and started firing into the crowd. police have identified him at this man. people in the theater complex described a scene of chaos. >> there was a woman laying on the ground laying on her face with her leg shot blood everywhere and we were like -- you know you never expect to see something like that walking out of a movie. >> reporter: witnesses say the shooter said nothing as he fired. police say he tried to blend into the crowd as police entered the theater. >> we had wigs and other things in his room. we think the reason he switched the license plate on the car, it is apparent to us now that he intended to escape after he did this shooting. >> reporter: there were about

100 people inside ranging from tiningers to people in their 60s. the two victims are these women. bro was a student. johnson hand a gift shop. witnesses say one of these women jumped in front of a bullet to save her friend's life. the other despite being shot in the leg pulled a fire alarm to save other lives. >> it was an lawful lawful night for lafayette, louisiana, for the entire country. >> reporter: police said they found wigs, and other disguises in the car. they spoke with the shooters mother, and she said that she and other family members has concerns about his mental state for years. >> last night's movie theater shooting is the third in recent weeks.

last week a gunman opened fire in chattanooga, tennessee and killed four people and injured three more before being shot dead a fifth victim later died from his wounds. last month a young white male killed nine african americans at an historic black church in charleston south carolina. he now faces federal hate crime charges. although the profile of the shooters might very these things have one thing in common guns. >> reporter: these statistics come from the united nations and other groups they build a compelling case that america is awash in guns. america has just under 30 gun homicides per 1 million citizens each year. that's many times the figure in england or germany or canada. it's about the same as the west bank in this gaza but far below mexico. now it's interesting to note

that america has just under 5% of the world's population but it has 42% of the world's civilian-owned guns. the u.s. leads the world in civilian-gun ownership, so what has been the effect? well, a boston university study covering all 50 u.s. states from the years 1981 to 2010 concluded that when gun ownership rises by a mere one percentage point in a given area homicides go up by almost as much, .9%. and for the argument that america's gun violence problem will be solved by making sure he mentally can't get their hands on firearms studies suggest that relatively few violent crimes are committed by the mentally ill. a boston university study put the mentally ill's violent crime rate at 3.5%. there are more guns in the u.s. and that appears to lead to more

murders. >> thank you. a colorado jury today is hearing from witnesses as it considers whether to put james holmes to death. the jury yesterday agreed with prosecutors and kept the death penalty on the case. holmes was convicted last week of killing 12 people in a denver area theater back in 2012. president obama has arrived in kenya for a three-day economic summit. this is the president's first trip to the country where his father was born since he has been president. before he left mr. obama said he would focus on security human rights and development. andrew simmons is in nairobi. >> reporter: there's a real sense of euphoria here about barack obama's presence. it's the first presidential visit he has made to kenya, the fourth to africa more than any other sitting u.s. president and high expectations amongst kenyans that he'll bring more

news of security. the threat of al-shabab is so high year much concern about it but his first port of call will be the entrepreneurship summit on saturday morning, and that is key to this visit. he wants to talk about trade, about new hope in the economy, about more investment. it's really looking quite rosy in that respect, and that will be forwarded and moved on for talks with the kenyan government. there it is not quite so easy because as two former u.s. diplomats put it it will be a defensive government that he faces, because the president was in fact indicted by any -- the icc for crimes against humanity after the post election violence following the 2007 elections in which more than 1200 people died. those charges were dropped and the icc in the hague did suggest

that there had been witness intimidation, so that is a difficult one. good governance will definitely be on the agenda along with a number of other issues including education, healthcare and energy. a lot to pack in but the kenyans here more than anything else want to hear more about security, more protection from the person they regard as a son. >> that's andrew simmons. earlier we heard from a kenyan political activist. he says the president should pay the most attention to corruption. >> kenya is the most corrupt country in africa and we're losing a lot of our budget to corruption, and our government has not fought corruption. our president talks about the right things but doesn't do the right things. so we're hoping that the message that obama is going to bring is fight corruption. if you fight corruption you wouldn't have alsho bab.

the poverty levels, and insecurity is directly connected to corruption. mr. obama has already visited the continent more times than any other sitting u.s. president. defense secretary ash carter today is consulting with kurdish leaders on the fight against isil. carter arrived in erbil in northern iraq. secretary of state john kerry continues to defend the iran nuclear deal during an appearance at the council on foreign relations in new york he insisted the agreement is the best bet for the united states and allies in the region. >> i fear that what could happen if congress were to overturn it our friends in israel could actually wind up being more isolated and more blamed and we would lose europe and china and russia with respect to whatever military action we might have to take. >> just yesterday kerry was

gilled about the deal. congress has less than 60 days to decide whether to approve the deal. the top democrat on the house committee investigating the attacks in benghazi is denying reports that the justice department has been asked to open an investigation into hillary clinton email's. the "new york times" says two generals believe that it war rents a federal probe. clinton says the use was proper. republican presidential candidate and former texas governor, rick perry won a major legal victory today. a state's appeals court dropped one of the two charges against him. he was accused of abusing his power when he tried to force out a district attorney. the court said perry should still face trial on the other charge. california looks for ways to

stop mosquitos after the first death this year from the west nile virus. plus a look at the dark web, a place where everything with illegal guns to credit card numbers are sold.

days after hackers went public with how they were able to take control of some chrysler vehicles the company today announced a major recall. wired magazine published video showing how hackers were able to break through security and remotely run the cars. now chrysler is recalling 1.4 million vehicles for a software update. there is a part of the internet hackers thrive. it is called the deep web. it's a place where you can get anything from guns to drugs. but as mary snow tells us that's not why the dark web was created. >> reporter: on the dark websites advertising everything from heroin to hitmen from sex to automatic rifles are hidden

behind layers of an memty. created by the u.s. navy the mission was of dark web was to protect military secrets and have open source intelligence gathering. it used a program called tour using a network of vertical tunnels. tour allows individuals to share public networks without compromising privacy. it was soon adopted by journalists and activists in foreign countries. >> i think this has been the problem of a lot of our policies is we have never imagined and done what we call crime proofing where we thought about ho what we develop can be misused and abused by non-state actors. it's like pandora's box, it can't be shut back in. >> reporter: this doctor leads a team of researchers monitoring

cyber crime and the dark web. >> tour takes your ip address and sends it around through a software and spits out a different ip address on the other side. it makes it very difficult for people to find out where you are exactly from or who you are. these websites the links change often, that's because they either get shut down or busted. >> case in point the now infamous silk road. it boasted that it was the largest marketplace on the dark web at the time the feds seized it and arrested its founder. days later silk road 2.0 went up, and the buying and selling continued. this time last year it was believed that there were only 18,000 products on the dark web. today there are nearly 69,000 products. two thirds of the inventories are drugs.

the rest include weapons stolen credit card accounts human organs malware and as we found out, hitmen for hire. >> i have heard law enforcement refer to this as whack-a-mole. is that really how you describe it in terms of trying to shut one site down and another comes up. >> yes. and many of the people working in government are not as flexible as the criminals. we're dealing with a very nimble opponent. >> and we're losing. >> yes. >> reporter: mary snow al jazeera. california has recorded its first death this year from the west nigh virus. now the state is trying to do whatever it can to stop the mosquitos. >> reporter: west nile virus is a top priority for the california department of public health. now the first death from it this

year. >> it's always unfortunate when somebody dies. last year we had 31 fatal cases, and it's a reminder that the work we do is very important. the work in regards to disease surveillance and control. >> reporter: at this vector control district technicians are sorting and evaluating mosquitos, trying to determine where the disease is in the countries, and also setting traps. >> vest nile is the most prevalent disease transmitted through mosquitos throughout the united states. it's a disease that is here to stay. it just varieties from year to year in terms of the intensity. >> reporter: we'll talk to the department of public health and tell you what they are doing to try to make sure this season is not as bad as last where there were 31 deaths and how this historic drought is affecting west nile virus here in

california. you with catch lisa's full respondent at 8:00 pm eastern time. inside the gig, economy up next, the political fight over free lance workers. and muslim american comedians trying to fight hate with laughter. >> just because you're pregnant

students in the united states are losing ground to other international peers in math. now some educators are looking to asia for guidance as kimberly halkett reports, they are adopting a new method called singapore math. >> reporter: each day this teacher works with her students to make math fun. what her students don't realize is that the math games they are playing are teaching them critical thinking. >> they have become more fluent counters they are better at alga brayic thinking. they have just become all around better thinkers in math. >> it wasn't always this way. seven years ago students here at this washington school were

struggling. school administrators realized they needed a new approach. so they looked to the lesson's of the world's most successful nation when it comes to matt mattics, singapore. >> it brings together the teaching through problem solving, and deep thinking and really conceptual learning. >> reporter: they are areas where u.s. students consistently underperform. the united kingdom ranked 20th place, the united states 28th. that's why this school administrator hopes the singapore math method building complex skills over time will result in the high-level math skills american students need to compete. but her school's transition hasn't been easy. >> it has taken us a lot of

frustrations, but at the same time we have seen the success within the communities. >> reporter: many u.s. teachers don't have the training or in-depth understanding necessary to teach singapore math. there is a high turn over of teachers. >> my hope is they would make the connection with the real world that you can tackle a problem in many different ways. >> reporter: something educators in the u.s. must also do as they struggle to raise the test results of their students. another mega merger is coming to the health care industry. anthem is sighing cigna in a deal valued at more than $54 million. anthem has been in negotiations to buy cigna for months now.

it is the latest merger in the industry. aetna announced it was buying human that two months ago. new concerns for users of android. the internet giant launched a new time line that lets you see where you have been ever since you started up your phone. the company says it is only viewable by the user but it could help google make money. >> google makes most of its money by selling ads, and the better picture of you it will build up the better it can target thosed a -- those ads at you. >> while google says you can easily change your phone's settings to disable tracks features. the newed shared economy is given rise to powerful start ups like uber and air b&b.

michael shure takes a look. >> i'm michael shure and i'm driving around in an uber car in san francisco, california. just like jeb bush did when he was here recently. and this is all part of the new economy. some of calling it the gig economy or shared economy, but it's real because presidential candidates are even talking about it now. we're going to take a look at whether or not this new economy is helping the workers by creating job opportunities, or helping companies because it gets them the workers without having to pay benefits and give job security. we talked to david hail the ceo of gig walkers, a company that puts workers together with those opportunities. do you think this is glossing over a bigger problem in >> globalization and technology are trends that we cannot reverse. it is going to effect us. and by the way, all of us are

driving these trends you know? this is the person that wants to be able to order on amazon and have it show the next day. so that consumer pressure is driving the increased need for flexibility by the entire labor force, and i think our view of that is that people need good jobs and technology thoughtfully implemented can give people better choices and better access to work. >> again that's michael shure reporting. uber has some 160,000 freelance workers. a group of muslim comedians is using humor to fight hate. they held what they called the first muslim american comedy festival this weekend in new york. >> let's address the isis in the room. [ laughter ] >> reporter: he believes comedy can combat fears about muslims. >> looking at isis. looking at me. looking at isis looking at me.

i just want to say i didn't do it. [ laughter ] >> reporter: he is one of 18 muslim comedians from around the world starring in the first muslim funnyfest. >> my mom was like is he circumcised. >> when you get to new york just look for the kosher you will be fine. that's the last thing i want to do is walk around new york city going where are the jews? >> there's isis, al-qaeda and then there's under arrest. >> reporter: for many $0.01 poll suggests that americans view muslims more negatively than any other major religious group. >> those people who commit acts of violence are fringe. they do not represent the majority of muslims world wide.

and we're trying to show again, that your average every day muslim is just like you. >> you don't go to pray in stilettos! you go to dance on a pole >> operator: do you get tired of having to defend muslims in america? >> i'm happy to answer questions. >> reporter: he says he has been answering questions since he was a child growing up in chicago. >> i have been explaining my name my whole life. it's an arab name. >> reporter: he studied law at the university of minnesota and in early 2001 worked up the courage to try stand-up comedy. >> there was one, maybe two times when i got heckled, and i don't know how much of it was because i was a muslim and how much i just sucked and they wanted to say something, so it was obviously to be like taliban

or whatever. >> reporter: he went on to tour the world with fellow comedians. you guys all do comedy as a full-time job? yeah? >> yes. >> reporter: so how is business? >> islamaphobia is good for stand-up comedy. [ laughter ] >> we have gone to places where people might think we wouldn't be welcome, but we were welcomed. i think that's one of the things about comedy in particular. >> i didn't realize that indian men are the most stressed out people on earth. especially if the guy has a daughter. [ inaudible ] >> reporter: he says muslim comedians are making some

progress. >> there have been a couple of times where people have come up after a show and literally been in tears, and said i came into this show with so much anger and negativity in my heart towards muslims, and you have completely destroyed that. >> reporter: he has a message for muslims too which he ill stated about a white man. >> he told me he was exhausted from all of his travel and he was on the road for long periods of time just like me and that's when it hit me i was like dude we are the same bird from [ inaudible ] you are white chocolate, i'm a snicker's bar. [ laughter ] nasa will soon share more details about its lister toic mission to pluto, and reveal more images of the planet taken

from a fly-by. that's all of our time. the news continues next live from london. ♪ >> announcer: this is al jazeera. ♪ hello there i'm julie mcdonald. this is the news hour live from london. coming up turkey's military steps up the fight against isil and vows to defeat kurdish rebels as part of the same offensive. after months of violence burundi's president wins a controversial third term. barack obama arrives in the kenya capitol. it's the first-ever trip to the country by a sitting u.s. president.