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issues facing american teens. the incredible journey continues. "on the edge of eighteen". the state should not discriminate against gay a 5-day humanitarian cease fire has begun, and will the pause last? >> matching for change, newark, new jersey saying pollutes
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brutally, and the $15 hourly wage is catching on and what it means for workers and business. ♪ ♪ we begin tonight in kenya where in just a few hours, the president will cap his two day trip, speaking directly to the people, and putting the finishing push touches on economic things and when he raised eyebrows when he talked about gay rights and corrupts. >> he started, with the summit without any teleprompter or a speech, and he did it ad-lib and he even used slang.
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he praised kenya, for the way it was doing business, encouraging those, right across the country to do more, and announcing a series of measures to help them. he also said that africa was open to business. the economy was doing so much better and had these words. >> when i was here, ten years ago, it looked very different than it does today. >> the incredible progress that's been made, imagine what could happen. [applause] >> if more and more of our global business leaders and global capital paid a visit. and actually add conversation as opposed to just being blinded by some of the stereotypes. this thing could move even faster. >> later it was onto state
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house, and talks, with the kenyan president and they want more help in its war against terror and cash for the security forces and training and president barak obama said he would do that, and he said they should not isolate the muslim community. a minority, and a la legitimate minority because it would radicalize many people. reaching out to these communities can help rather than hinder the situation. now, he said he would do more to include minorities and this is how he responded. >> we agree together that we can build a future in which all faiths and cultures, and the rights of individuals and minorities protected and those in power held to account by
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strong and incompleuive institutions. two presidents came over in a unified fashion. and president barak obama has had a successful day here, very confident, riding high, and also, making it quite clear that he believes in africa, ends to do more, making it quite clear that he's the only sitting u.s. president, who has made four trips to africa. and there was one thing though, that was a difference, which won't be bridged and that was the issue of gay rights. break back he called for more gay rights here in kenya, and he said he couldn't impose such rights when people didn't want them. so definitely nothing happening there, and really the issue of corrupts remains to be seen, what will be done there and he carries on with his visit now. >> the president heads to ethiopia, on tuesday he will be
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the first to address the african union. >> saudi announced a 5-day seize fire. and, 80% of the population needs that assistance, lasting only a matter of hours and comes on the heels of the deadly airstrikes that began yesterday. 120 people in the town were killed, and now the report. >> explosions and they are arriving after fighting the airport is now under the control of pro-government fighters and it's after taking it, that the saudi led coalition announced a pause, it comes at the request of the president to allow in humanitarian aid. it will respond to any attacks. >> the goal is to help list it, and, reach those areas with much
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needed aid and also another opportunity, for them. >> the houthis say they are out of touch with the reality on the ground and saudi strikes are killing many civilians and strikes, in various problems on friday and what the rebels say they were hit including a shelter for displaced people, dozens were killed. >> it means very little aid has made it through, and the situation has become worse. and are being helped by fighters. in western parts, and they held up houthi advances. >> our goal is to liberate them, and, help those displaced to go back to the home and we want to build a model state for us and our children.
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>> the evidence of fighting is everywhere. journalists are trying to document the damage. >> and they are calling for a lasting cease fire who may need aid. >> we're talking about more than 20 million people who need assistance cross cutting across all sectors and water food, shelter, and all the rest. so we desperately need a resolution to this conflict. >> we are side prevails it will be left with a yemen that's tattered and exhausted. >> the pentagon saying the airstrikes have destroyed a critical asset of iraq. >> it was used to make explosives and 31 airstrikes carried out this the week. turkey meanwhile fighting on war on two fronts, against kurdish forces in iraq and p.k.
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k. follow turkeys first ever airstrikes on isis in syria. >> they accuse them of driving out civilians, and he is the seas fire agreed with turkey is over. the turkish government says the operations will continue as long as there is a threat against turkey. >> isil detonated two suicide bombs, and saying it targeted turkish militia and one the villages, was taken back last month. these attacks follow a suspected suicide bombing inside turkey that killed 32 people on monday. >> in the u.s., the small town of lafayette making preparations to say goodbye to the theatre shooting in indiana. while police trace the steps, we are learning more about who that man was.
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>> well, detectives have wrapped up the initial investigation into the mass shooting in lafayette. officers returned to the scene taking another look at the evidence. >> we're going to reevaluate what we have done and not left any stone unturned and speaking to witnesses and those victims that were involved in the incident. >> for the first time, officers allowed us to walk up to the theatre, showing us the door where they say the shooter tried to escape after firing more than a dozen rounds. >> he came out of that door and he saw the prey sponds officers arriving right here. and then reentered the auditorium. >> state police and f.b.i. agents are still trying to track down people who knew or came into contact with hawser, they don't know why he came to lafayette. >> it's tough. it will be tough to figure out i don't think we'll ever be sure
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as to why, what happened here, in the grand theatre happened? >> do we know more from his family? >> his mother? >> you know, we know that he had some mental issues, and based off of what they're telling us. all that will come out in due time. >> meantime there's a growing memorial outside the boutique, that jillly ann johnson owned with her husband. they were killed in thursday's shooting. jillly enread stopped off and she said she left the theatre less than an hour before the shooting. >> showing support for fees families and lafayette is a great community and we'll stay strong. and there are a lot of people praying for us. >> the community is still taken back by it. i think we're in mourning, and healing. >> police say the movie theatre could reopen as soon as monday,
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the community trying to move ford. the state representative said is, a part of moving forward should include real conversations about gun control. friday, bobby jindal avoided the topic when questioned by reporters. >> there's violence in our community and people getting guns and shouldn't have guns. to have a debate about the cause and effect is now. it's not three months from now. >> today, the governor, issued a executive order ready to enforce an existing law to keep protestors away from the funerals from these funerals. they announced plans to protest. and it is worth negotiate that the accused shooter had tweeted out his support for the church in the past. >> dramatic admissions saying,
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that she should have been watched after her arrest. she revealed that she once tried to kill herself and was not place owed a suicide watch and in l illinois, they gathered for her funeral. >> as sandra planned's casket was carried into the church, a friend incited that the hundreds of people, would have come with her, even if her arrest in jail00 touched off a firestorm. >> this is a devastating loss. >> she was pulled over, this month, where she failed to signal a lane change. an argument ensued and she was arrested. they say the officer overreacted and 3 days later, she was found dead and it was ruled a suicide. the family is demanding an independent autopsy. >> when you you are an activist and a fighter, you don take your own
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life. >> what they have tried to present to this world defies logic. >> it was closed to cameras and her casket was open for a steady stream of mourners, including her sister, and she and her family were tired and frustrated and just needed a day to mourn so they left the story to the church? she was a positive, up lifting young lady. that's the sandy that we want the world to know. >> there was always clear message, some people wore tee-shirts that said sandy speaks a hashtag used by friends-hers. >> the funeral program calls her unapologetic and she's a martyr and one of her friends told us about a social campaign they started together. >> she stuck up in what she
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believed in. and it's not fair to them and her family. >> mourners say as far as they're concerned, there is no period after the investigation only a comma, with more after story yet to come. >> there was a funeral in wisconsin for a marine killed in the chattanooga shootings turning out, in the small town, in tribute to the marine sergeant and residents and veterans hanging outon side of his high school. he was among four marines that were killed. he was 25. >> a federal judge has ordered immigration facilities, in texas to be examined and the families to be released. they don't meet the legal requirements to house children. the ruling calls the conditions of the border patrol stations de floorable, and says they fail to provide proper conditions
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required for children even if they are held for a short time. at one time, 2600 people were there, 2,000 more than they were build to hold. >> trump was in iowa today holding a rally. about 1,000 people showed up and he wasted no time attacking scott walker, and accused him of bad fiscal policies and he leads the polls in iowa, and he addressed hillary clinton. >> if the prosecutors are honorable, and they may be, if they're fair, if they're just, sadly, bad stuff has to happen. because what she did is very criminal and very serious. i don't know how a person with that cloud over their head can be running for the office of president. >> hillary clinton is also in iowa. she talked about the controversy surrounding the use of her
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private server, and they discovered classified information on that server, and she didn't knowingly send or received any. >> i think there's so much confusing around this, that i understand why reporters, and the public are asking questions but the facts are pretty clear i did not send nor receive anything that was classified at the time. >> she wants them to be made public. and she has turned over 55,000 pages to the state department- coming up, a 15 dollar an hour minimum wage is becoming real and now a university, as the trend spreads how will businesses react? >> it will mean more pay or more layoffs? >> calls for change in the streets of newark, new jersey, saying police brutality must evenly, and war on the million
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it's saturday night and we take a deeper look at the minimum wage and president barak obama putting this way asking congress could you live a $15 an hour? >> for years protestors have been complaining and businesses have not responded and now they're asking, does it make a difference, and can business afford it? now, our coverage, at the look back at the battle. >> i move that we realm that the minimum wage be raised for $15 for fast food employees. all in favor. >> in new york. >> and across the country in los angeles, a higher wage, in this county, is like in the city will attract the best workers
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in, the least training, and the best cost savings for our businesses. cities are upping the minimum wage of $7.25. in california where the state minimum is $9. los angeles in you joins san francisco in raise it go to $15. also, this past week, the university of california school system, the third largest employer will match that number. $15 an hour has become that magic target, jump-started, in the superb that set a new national high more than a year ago. >> many rallies, have been led by fast food workers. in addition to minimum wage, they want to unionize. >> sometimes i can't make it into work because i don't have enough money for transportation. >> it's important that we get a
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raise, it's not enough money to live it's expensive to live here. >> the u.s., is heading into unfamiliar waters, and the opinions of economists are divided. >> best research suggests that they do increase earnings for workers in the job. they decrease turnovers for those employees and they may device it, because they become more expensive. >> critics have been looking at recent numbers out of seattle that might suggest that employees have hired fewer workers to save money and they say it's too early to tell. meanwhile, it looks as though the momentum is building for that $15 minimum wage across the country. >> the doctor is a economist and former president of the college
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for women and jared is a man from research and we thank you both. >> i'll begin with you according to the magazine, the the ranch bonus for wall street brokenner and the average wage for the minimum weaj and tell me why you think that's fair. >> well, i think the bigger question we're looking at the middle income. when we increase it, especially the level seen in new york for fast food workers to $15 that's going to cut off a lot of opportunities for young people and over half of those are under 25, and they work part-time and it's only 3% that earns the federal minimum wage or below. >> this would be a major part of
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the workforce. >> if i could push back on that, i'm looking at the facts from u.s. depth of labor i crossing it cause people to lose their jobs and 7 noble peace support raise it go to $10.10. is the labor department lying. they say it doesn't make a difference. and it doesn't say what you say it does. >> go ahead. >> well, first of all, the labor department is lying my colleague and i have very different points of view, he talks about the people earning the minimum wage, what he forgets to say two-thirds are women, and they are women of color and significant of those women have children. so, when you think how can you raise a child a woman with a child, earning $7.5, today's minimum wage is working for less
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than the poverty level. this is not unusual. so the question you posted earlier about contacting, the average wage is a fair question. and i dispute the fact that young people are going to be the primary losers, any worker, most workers are primary winners in every piece of research ends up with mixed results about whether or not jobs are going to be lost. >> well, if we look at the average household income, it's 53,000, which is in line with the u.s. average, there are a lot of middle class households, who have their teens working in these jobs. and, of course some people are going to get a raise. i don't think that's a tradeoff policy makers should be making and certain people are going to lose jobs. look at the congressional budget report that was released, of course, some people will get wages, and the young and most
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skilled will lose jobs. >> you know, the minimum wage hasn't been raised for six years and before that, we had it at one level. $5.15. to 2007. and then, 7.25. >> nobody, not even you would accept a position, where there were no increases. we have to look at what's fair and reasonable, and we have to look at the fact that the minimum wage is expansionnaire to our economy. >> if the numbers are so far apart why is this debate so entrenched? >> well, i think. >> i think. >> why are when not seeing -- >> go ahead. >> well, you know, republicans and i don't want to make this
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partisan, they are stuck on we don't want to raise the wage. >> they are sponsored by the chamber of commerce and other organizations with many people who are opposed and all the democrats, favor it and they do listen to the business community and less to the working community. >> and that's why, they have gun to spear head some of this work, who with those low wages, and other demands aren't quite able to do the organize that go they do. this is a political quagmire because some of the republicans who oppose it, represent people who earn it, and want to see it go up. >> lets talk about the politics of the issue and, on the republican side, jeb bush saying that people need to work longer and hillary clinton saying that's ridiculous.
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>> thousands people taken to streets draws the attention of politicians every time, starting with the most powerful. >> everyone in this congress who still refuses to raise the minimum wage, i say this, if you truly believe you can work full-time, and support a family on less than $15,000 a year. try it. if not vote to give millions of the hardest working people a raise. >> now, the debate to raise the federal minimum wage has been focal for the election. it will focus on income inquality and these debates are happening in a number of states, and cities, all across our country. the truth of the matter is, when workers earn more, businesses
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have more customers and our economy grows. >> this past week, senator bernie sanders introduced a bill to raise it to $15. what we are saying, loudly and clearly, is $7.25 an hour, the current federal minimum wage is, a bad wage, it has to be raise knowed a living weaj. >> both parties agree the families are suffering they disagree how to bring them relief. >> scott walker, running on the we rub can ticket is infamous for cutting back bargaining rates. >> the left claims they're for american workers and they got lame ideas and things like minimum wage, we need to talk about how we get people the skills and qualifications that
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we need. >> when asked about a plan to improve the economy, jeb bush offered this. >> we have to be a lot more productive, and rise from its all time lows. and, it means that people need to work longer hours and through their productive, gain more income. that's the only way we get out of this rut. >> hillary clinton turned what might be a gaffe for bush. >> you may have heard governor bush say that americans just need to work longer hours. well, he must not have met very many american workers. [applause] but on the campaign trail she's been less clear on how much wages should go up. at times she has supported the $15, but said it only works in certain cities and states. >> to get all incomes rising again we me to strike a better
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balance. if you work hard you should be paid fairly. so we do have to raise the minimum wage. >> as the campaign heats up, voters are certain that candidates be specific, about the minimum wage debate. most importantly, how to uplift american families. >> i'll start with you, and my father who is now 87, often talks about a time when businesses made a lot of money and they wanted to make sure that their employees were treated fairly. what's wrong with that model now adays? >> i think they are being treated fairly. >> as i said, a lot of minimum wage workers they're using this as a entry. >> could you work and could you live on the minimum wage? >> right now but my first job was minimum wage. >> when you were how old? >> when i was 16.
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>> so if you were the head of a house hold, could you live on the minimum wage. >> i think it would be, i can't imagine how hard it would be to live on a minimum wage, and raise a family. >> people who are raising a family are an exception not the norm when it comes to minimum wage earners. when we talk about the policy willtition they, when they get minimum-wage increases passed, they get exceptions for themselves for bargained agreements so they don't have to pay the new $15 an hour wage. this has happened in san francisco, and airport and see if it happens in new york. and see they'll push for it, and then exempt themselves. >> jeb bush says we just need to work longer. >> i think jeb bush is a comedian. when you talk about working
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longer, we have a labor force performance, we need more jobs and opportunities, and you will not increase productive, having them work longer hours. what you will do, expand opportunities by giving people fair wages and fair opportunities and you know, i listened to mr. bush , and as i listened to jared as well, i think about all the other things that minimum wage workers don't get. >> they don't have healthcare and many sick days. and nearly half of our workers don't have paid sick leave. vacation time. and all the things that we, in the middle class take for granted, are things that people at the bottom don't get. to me, increase the minimum wage is the first thing not the last step. >> are we seeing a modern day what they call horse and sparrow economic model which was introduced at the last turn of
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the century? >> if you feed a horse, some of the benefit would be left behind for the sparrows. >> is this just trickle-down economics? how long does the public have it wait for the trickle down? >> well, i guess what we're seeing, right now with pushes to increase the minimum wage and she hit on it. she said $15 minimum wage isn't for everyone. if we look at new york, there are many cities, that it is under $16 how can we expect when they're singling out one century that this will remain competitive and, provide the opportunity that they have to young workers who can move up and get the economy running. that's the way to get the economy going. getting them back in the labor force. >> final question. >> you brought it up. walmart, why ever they now
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touting the fact that they're going to raise the minimum wage to $15? >> well, why do they pay their workers more than the minimum wage? >> that's what they have to do. employees aren't paid more than the minimum wage. that's what they have to do to keep workers and we see this for walmart, smart to pay people more. less turnover, and happier employees, and it doesn't apply to everyone. >> an unelected board decided to pick on one industry, that's not the kind of real wage growth, but with walmart and c.o.e.'s started, there is hope. >> i'll give you 30-seconds that's all we have left. walmart, are they doing it out of the kindness of their heart or another reason?
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>> market reason. >> they have a target for a very long time of the unions and an organization called retail justice coalition. and food and commercial workers and they have talked about justice and they have been under enormous pleasure and i say good for that. as they move, others will move and as those who don't move, will attract public ire, and we may well, be able to punish those who refuse to pay their work fairly. >> thank you. thank you. >> coming up, hundreds of people coming together on the streets new washing, new jersey, putting an end to police brutality. will planned parent hood coming
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under fire, and we'll talk about the expert about the backlash and what it could mean about the future for planned parent hood
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>> friends and family >> protestors taken to it streets of newark, and, new jersey and new washing is struggling, with tensions, and those that they areposed to protect. >> it's 150 years since slave very was abolished. >> this group of churchgoers and activist, feels oppressed. one of the main reasons police
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brutality and they marched for the rally, in the city for years. >> what we're hoping to achieve is to continue the national spotlight on police brutallity. >> they have three moms who have lost sons. one is michele whose son had gone to visit his wife and child. >> three officers shot at him killing him on the spot. >> we reached out to the newark police but no one was available. >> 48 years ago, this week, newark erupted into days of deadly rioting, after the arrest after black taxi driver. >> fire. >> the irony of that old news reel is lost on no one here. they realize the script leading up to these events could have been written 48 minutes ago
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never mind 48 years ago- we have to sustain the fight back what you saw 48 years ago was fight back, and this is fight back. >> many signs evoked memories of brown, and garner, and, sandra bland, but closer to home, the police arrested, and used force are about to be closely scrutinized. 21 candidates up for the job of newark police monitor. >> there's an election process going on, and, we don't know. >> we are not going to be paralyzed with fear. >> the rally organizers says one thing gives him great hope. it's cellphone cameras. >> the demands and the things that the black community has been saying is true, that the police do act like an occupation force. they do violate the
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constitutional rights and they do murder people. there's still racism within many police forces and that's why rallies like this will continue even if the turnout is far short of a million. >> planned parenthood is under attack by a group called center for medical progress. they claimed, it has video showing planned parenthood selling tissue for profit, and planned parenthood denies. >> startup and full profits and, donate -- >> posing as employees of a company, actaist vest, with the anti-abortion group, have been releasing secret recordings of planned par rent hood employees. they are a non-profit group and
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claims the videos show planned parent hood is profiting from the sale of fetal tissue. >> so, just because,. >> doe naight fetal tissue is legal, in the u.s., selling tissue is not and planned parent hood denies that they are doing anything illegal. >> i want to be clear the allegation that planned parent hood profited, is not true. the president says the videos misrepresent what her organization is trying to do. >> an organization that opposes safe and legal abortion used recorded videos to make outrageous claims. >> although planned parenthood does claim some of the language is alarming.
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>> in the video one of our staff members speaks in a way that does not reflect the true fashion. this is unact anticipatable, and i apologize for staff member's tone and statement. >> capitol hill is reacting to the video senator rand paul raise a resolution to cut off abortions. and harry reid said these videos raise questions but nothing i have seen indicates, that they violated federal law. >> don't expect them to stop anytime soon. while the center for medical progress did not return our calls, the founder of the group confirmed there's enough footage to release footage for each week. they say they do not accept mon. but it is nominal and it goes to cover shipping, and centers and
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now the california attorney general says she is going to investigate the anti-abortion group, to see if she violated any calls. >> now she joins us tonight from washington, dc. is there any evidence that you have seen so far that would indicate that planned parent hood made a profit. >> absolutely not. they are a non-profit organization and it does not make profit out of anything. it doesn't make profit from family planning and from pap smears, and from any service, abortion. it is a non-profit organization. and i have watched both tapes and in every enstands, what the staff members have said, which is that they receive the tissue
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is donated and that they receive as the law permits a reasonable amount, in fact, a very small amount for the management of the gathering and transport of that tissue. >> is this 9 subject that has been under the radar for most part? >> because prior to this, do you think the public knew that this was taking place at all? q.i don't think the public knew. i think that the public is very much unaware of research related tissue and organs, whether it relates to fetal tissue or tissue oregongance that come from people. >> do you think, the way they always talk in washington, that this one is going to pass the smell test? >> i think there has been for about the past decade a concerted attack on planned and a desire, on the
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part of any number of opponents of family planning, and abortion to destroy the organization. i think it's a serious attack and there have been some instances, where planned parenthood has lost money and i think, that people's views on this are totally governed boy their beliefs about planned parent hood. is this a gray area? >> can people say that they are, i guess in favor or supporting of abortion rights and be opposed to tissues being gathered from fetal harvesting. >> i think they could but i think it's unlikely, that someone who chose the right to support abortion would not be supportive of scientific research on aborted still born fetuses because we tend to be people who favor science and progress. and theoff fetal turn u in
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research is very very important for fining out how to cure awfuls, and researching childhood, then fan diseases and i don't think you would find in general people who are in favor of abortion to be opposed to fetal research. and you could be disturbed as the president was by the way in which her staff members talked about the process of the collection of tissue. beg in favor of abortion does not mean one loses ones on sensibility. >> if i'm against abortion, is there a use that you can point to that benefits society as a whole? for the use of the fetal tissue? >> well, i happen to know there are a number of research experiments going on that relate
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to some even some diseases and some diseases that occur in newborns and that research is working to find a way to enable those fetuses to come to fruition and be healthy children and i think that would be something that those who would would like to see all children born. there's also research, using it around eye diseases and blindness and any number of experiminutes and research going on at very press tingling just institutions. >> well, have to leave it there. >> francis, thank you. >> also, on on this week's third rail and, talking about that planned parent hood and here's a preview of tomorrow night's show. >> when you say i have to go and
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buy my lamb board geneny she this is so offensive and it doesn't represent the compassion that planned parent hood talks about. they have a public relations problem. >> so it's a pr problem. >> rather than a policy problem. >> it's a moral problem. >> yes, it's a moral problem. it's a lawful medical procedure. and she was right to apologize for the tone. >> but if you -- >> there's twodist issues for people who have been trying to defund it, because they don't it this is the latest bit of evidence for them to advance their case. but, the separate issue is, constitution alley right now it is a lawful medical procedure to have a working and fetal tissue research is legal. >> i understand that. q.i'm trying too figure out who i'm more disgust had by, the
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people who are on the doctor, involved in these kind of discussions, with this rhetoric or even more cynical ret tor rec who are haig the movies and out people. >> you can watch it, tomorrow at 6 eastern. >> some of islam's fights are in danger. these are war-zones. the battle, to save. the part of the vegas strip that caught fire, blaze erupting on the roof of a hotel.
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>> investigating a dark side of the law >> they don't have the money to puchace their freedom...
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>> for some...crime does pay... >> the bail bond industry has been good to me.... i'll make a chunk of change off the crime... >> fault lines al jazeera america's hard hitting... >> today they will be arrested... >> ground breaking... they're firing canisters of gas at us... emmy award winning investigative series... chaising bail only on al jazeera america it seems that they are in danger of disappearing, and it's happening in saudi arabia, attempts to aye it are falling short. >> these are images that come to mind when referring to the holliest sites but these places and others have been under threat by some of the same people claim to go protect them.
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>> at the heart of much controversy is this place a semoterry with many members of the companions are buried. they demolished the sidelines in 195 saying tombstones are not islamic. the conservative form of sunni islam, frown's visits to shrines, or tomb, on the grounds that it might lead to the grave vest sin worshiping anyone other than god. >> denounce those sleens be on holy personality, and the rest, want to go ahead and go to these sites and pay respect because -- >> she is the director, at the organization, based in chicago. her group has been trying to bring attention it issue since the 1990's. it started organizing protests each year on the 8th day of the
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10thth month of the cal leper to mark the destruction. >> they began buzzing people, and the group says they send a memorandum to saudi officials they called for the government to halt the des is tracing of graves, and shrines and rebuild these sacred sites. but, the calls have fallen on deaf ears. >> we submit it, every year, and, everier use we do not get a response from them, not even a acknowledgement that they received it. >> an unnamed government source says that the projects should not be seen as destruction but rather expansion to the already existing holy sites which are necessary to cover the number of
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pilgrim imagines, and they have compared the changing skyline to that of vegas. hotel, shopping malls, and ballrooms and it rest's what used to be an 18th industry citadel. and similar protests were planned in new york and houston and los angeles, around the world they are planned london, melbourne. >> coming up, hundreds of firefighters fighting a blaze out west
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>> this hotel fire shutdown the vegas strip about an hour today. it happened on the 14th floor pool deck, and two people had to treated for smoke inhalation and wildfires sweeping across 6 states california, monmontana taken na, and extra
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firefighters coming in as far away as florida florida dealing with flooding. >> in florida, the next couple of days it is going to be wet for the last 4-5 takes, and that's because wore seeing tropical air and a frontal boundary. fairly clear conditions, and dry conditions but if the for florida, take a look how that rain has definitely been pushing down here, and i want to show you some video that has come out, this is the county, where some part of the day, they have seen about an inch of rain per hour, and the flooding has been extensive, not only on the west coast but central parts of florida, orlando and kissimmee and, forecast looks like this, as we go towards the rest of the weekend, tomorrow a very wet day
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tomorrow, towards miami and monday, the body is going to start to push down towards south, and things will get better but down toward the south it it will be raining and for orlando, the next five days are going to be wet temperatures below average and it is going to be -- >> and finally tonight from new york nasa, releasing more photos of pluto and these were sent back and scientists say, it is the best image that they have ever seen. showing the differences of the terrain and they were most excited about this image and the first phase of the data at that time transmission is now complete and they are expected in september. >> we want to thank each and every one of you for joining us. stay tuned there's always more news straight ahead. good night and remember, check us out 4 hours ahead
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the saudi-led coalition agrees to a humanitarian pause in the fighting in yemen. ♪ hello. and welcome to al jazerra live from our doha head quarters. coming up. turkey continues its aerial bombardment of the p.k.k. in iraq and isil targets in syria. >> so i feel like my given african name to be truly blessed. >> a con sill terry tone from u.s. president obama after a

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