championships, they've pledged to clean up world athletics. to do that they need money and time. you can read more about that story and the rest of the day's news. get the latest updates there from thailand on our website - aljazeera.com. >> thousands forced to evacuate at fires churn through the west. active duty soldiers get ready to deploy to the front lines at firefighters struggle to keep up with the flames. >> new york orders landlords to do more to prevent legionnaire's disease, but residents are skeptical that the risks will actually decrease. >> the deals that does nothing more than delay the inevitable isn't a deal i'm willing to make. >> a second democratic makes up

his mind over the iran nuclear deal. why senator robert menendez will vote against the agreement. >> this is aljazeera america. good morning, live from new york city, i'm randall pinkston. wildfires burning through the west and crews are struggling to keep up with the fight. a group of active duty soldiers are preparing to join firefighters. they will be sent to battle fires that have destroyed homes and businesses from colorado to california. one blaze east of seattle has scorched 70,000-acres. nearly 1,000 people are under mandatory evacuations there. another nearby fire burned more than 12,000 acres and entire

communities and tourist destinations near the flames have been forced to evacuate. >> here in washington, firefighters have made some progress. winds have calmed down just a bit, but it was too late for many homeowners. over here, very little is left, just ash and rubble. we see a door here, a garage door, looks like some animal cages here and all along the streets, the houses look similar. they've been absolutely devastated. now four to 500 homes here in the area are still in harm's way. people had still been evacuated, leading to a new problem for fire crews. they say now people are simply taking advantage of the situation and committing acts of burglary. >> unfortunately, we've got people that take advantage of evacuations when we have people out of their residence, so we have had increase in burglaries. sheriff's office that canceled days off for the sheriff's deputies and we're increasing

roving patrols in those areas. >> while fire crews have made progress here, they're keeping a close eye on the weather. winds had been calming down, but in the next 24-48 hours, they may pick back up. >> crews in the alaska today will search for the bodies of three men believe killed in a landslide. the men, including a fire marshal were swept away when a wall of logs and mud rolled through the town on tuesday. it was just one of several landslides that occurred after two inches of rainfall fell i will just 24 hours. >> new york state rolling out emergency measures to prevent another outbreak of legionnaire's disease. 12 died, 100 were in effect in an outbreak in new york city weeks ago. we have more. these state rules are similar to the ones imposed by the city, right? >> that's right. randall and they are unprecedented, coming after a

city wide mandate to inspect and disinfect all cooling towers within 14 days. the question is can this get done in time. >> this is some of the equipment used to clean cooling towers in new york. >> we are getting there physically. we are going to power wash the entire town. >> his company disinfects cooling towers. >> they've had a hire more crews to meet demand, adding this owners are calling non-stop since the recent mandate to clean all cooling towers in 14 days. >> what do they say when they call? >> help. they don't have a full understanding of what needs to be done. >> hagman said it takes a few hours to full drain to drain, sterilize and clean a tower from top to bottom, depending on the size. >> in two weeks, are all those

towers going to be clean? >> that's a tall order. >> part of the problem is no one knows exactly how many cooling towers there are in new york city. there's no formal rental industry. that's expected to change within the legislation. >> buildings are now required to register cooling towers on line. the city rules are being used as state regulations. questions still remain. as a recent town hall meeting, some asked how these rules will be enforced and monitored. >> you can't leave it to owners. we can't even get them to fix faucets. really, come on, we can't leave to it owners. >> city officials point to hefty fines for those who don't comply. >> authorities to go in there and take care of it, about him the owner and institute even more rigorous penalties on the owner of the property. >> it is a huge undertaking. it is going to require hundreds

and hundreds of city workers. >> as to how much this will cost the city, the mayor said much is being done with existing agencies, but no estimates of additional costs. >> motor building owners are responsible for the costs. one owner said it costs 2500 to $15,000 for the biggest towers. it's either that or face fines that can be thousands more. >> the f.d.a. has approved the first drug designed to boost women's sex drive. the drug works like an antidepressant, treating pores of the brain that affect sexual desire, but comes with strong warnings of a potential side effects, including drowsiness, low blood pressure and fainting. the agency had rejected the medication twice before. it will be available act 17 under the brand name adi. some say the f.d.a. should not have approved this pill. we'll have more on the

controversy in our next hour. >> hillary clinton is speaking out over her emails. the state department says it has flagged hundreds of messages for review over whether they contained classified information. on the campaign trail, clinton said all questions will be answered, and that she's cooperating with investigators. >> in retrospect what was supposed to be convenient has turned out to be anything but convenient. >> it has nothing to do with me and nothing to do with the fact that my account was personal. it's the process by which the government and sometimes in disagreement between various agencies of the government make decisions about what can and cannot be disclosed. >> clinton was asked if the campaign had wiped data off the server before turning it over to the f.b.i. she joked about not knowing how that works and insisted that the f.b.i. will be able to figure out whatever was on the server. >> new jersey senator menendez

has publicly opposed the iran nuclear deal. >> what we appear to have is a roll back of sanctions and iran only limits its capability but not dismantling or rolling it back, so what do we get? we get an alarm bell should they decide to vital their commitments and a system for inspections to verify their compliances. that in my view is a far cry from significant dismantling. >> senator menendez joins chuck schumer of new york and many republicans in opposing the agreement. congress is set to vote on it next month. president obama has pledged to veto any effort to block the iran nuclear deal. >> the growing debate over birth right citizenship, why some places are refusing to give birth certificates to children born in the u.s. >> using body cameras in one of mexico's most dangerous cities. why security may not be the only

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stories. thai police released a new sketch of the man they believe carried out a deadly bombing in bangkok. authorities say they will offer $28,000 in reward money for any information leading to his arrest. it's not clear if he is still in the country. police do not have a motive behind the bombing. >> the popular hindu shrine that was targeted will be open today. workers and tourists visited the shrine and posted messages of condolences for the victims. twenty were killed, 120 injured. >> chelsea manning has lost some prison privileges but avoided solitary confinement. the former intelligence analyst who used to be known as bradley manning was convicted of violating prison rules, including having a copy of vanity fair magazine featuring kaitlyn jenner. manning is serving a 35 year sentence in military prison.

>> two new mexico police officers have been ordered to tanned trial for the shooting death of a homeless man. a judge ruled albuquerque officers will be tried for the murder of 38-year-old james body. authorities say he was schizophrenic and was shot after an hours long standoff last year. >> the presidential campaign trail has been buzzing with birth right as i say send ship, the long standing rule that anyone born on u.s. soil automatically becomes a citizen. now some texas border counties are refusing to issue birth certificates to the american-born children of undocumented migrants. heidi zhou castro reports. >> according to the u.s. constitution, this baby, born in a texas hospital in november, 2013 is a u.s. citizen. yet the child, now one, has been unable to get a birth

certificate. her mother, juana asked us not to show their faces. she is undocumented and says that's the reason why her daughter has been denied her proof of birth. >> she should have the same rights as a child born to american parents, she says. >> at the heart of the issue, the state of texas is making it impossible for most undocumented parents to get a birth certificate by requiring i.d. documents they can't get. the state refuses to issue driver's licenses to the undocumented, and now it's no longer recognizing the government i.d. card issued by a foreign consulate. >> what are these kids going to do? they are new citizens and have no birth certificates. that's outrageous. >> this attorney represents children and parents in a lawsuit filed this summer against the state of texas.

the state says it hasn't accepted the i.d. since 2008, because it is an unsecure document, but in practice, the policy wasn't strictly enforced until last summer, when an unprecedented in that of undocumented immigrants crossed into texas and as the state launched a lawsuit against the president's executive actions on immigration. >> the u.s. constitution says -- >> the co director of the dream action coalition, also new york's first undocumented lawyer, which we could talk to but that, but let's talk about the issue affecting thousands of people. roughly, how many do you think are at play over this question of whether they will be able to get their birth certificates? >> this is a very complicated issue. it's ironic that many of the republican candidacy and rhetoric has been that people need to follow the law.

it's a hypocrisy when texas and many of its localities are ignoring the fourth amendment, that grants citizenship to anyone born in the u.s. all of a sudden, they're ignoring that and all of a sudden we're talking about not just the right to document immigrants, but the it's of u.s. citizens to get their birth certificate. we are seeing that it's going to affect countless people, and this is not a new issue. this is an issue that's been played out in georgia, alabama, arizona, but unfortunately because of the election, we are seeing the rhetoric and the much more rhetoric do action of the state. >> are we talking thousands here or are we talking just a few anecdotal examples that they are using to press the case? >> we are talking about actually not just texas doing this. we have seen that other states are going to be taking the lead of donald trump or take the lead of texas. in georgia, people in alabama, people not only were asked for

proof of citizenship in schools, but in many other aspects, so we are talking about this type of issue affecting not just texas, but spreading across the country. >> you just mentioned donald trump. this is the presidential campaign season, a hot button issue for candidates. let's listen to what donald trump said about the matter of immigration. >> you have to get rid of them, yes, what they're doing is having a baby and all of a sudden nobody knows. you have no choice. >> you believe they are trying to do this. >> we are going to keep the families together. we have to keep the families together, but they have to go. >> what if they have no place to go. >> we will work with them. chuck, either we have a country or we don't have a country. >> that is donald trump being interviewed and issue was so you have a child born in the u.s., a

u.s. citizen, you have their parents undocumented people, so you are going to send the parents back, what happens to the child? and trump is saying send them all back, the citizen child, as well as the parents. >> trump doesn't know the difference between t.v. reality show and policy-making and actual politics. unfortunately, you know, it's just issues like citizenship, issues of keeping families together. this issue of citizenship specifically, the memo was meant to elevate above the politics and strength prejudices of the day. unfortunately, donald trump is dragging the entire republican party to not just focus on undocumented immigrants, but citizen children who are going to be indirectly deported as a result of their parents leaving the u.s. for him, you are actually espousing the fact that people not be separated and need to go

together, but u.s. citizens need to be deported as well to follow the parents. >> you mentioned the fourteenth amendment, it applied to former slaves, who were made full citizens and everyone else born or naturalized in the united states, according to the fourteenth amendment. >> what do you say to this argument, some who support birth right movement say it has to do with national security, and they point to the fort hood shooter as being why you don't want undocumented people being able to hang around. >> citizenship does not mean that you are more loyal to the u.s. or lack of citizenship does not mean that you are not loyal to the u.s. we see examples in history, benedict arnold switched from the american revolution to the british. we have robert hanson who was spying for the soviets. now you have u.s. citizens who were going to syria to join isis. the fact is, it's an empty

argument and just an argument to exploit the fears, because in real estate, many come here to work, to provide a better life for their families, so i think it's just donald trump and many others who are seeing about national security exploiting a fear and what better not to actually enforce laws than actually get people, undocumented immigrants out of the shadow to know who they are. that's about national security. >> dream action coalition, what is your organization doing to counter these efforts to deny birth right? >> for yours, we've been receiving messages on social media. we've been getting emails from people who have had issues about their birth certificates, who have been stopped because of their lack of immigration status. we will continue to advocacy and legal organization to make sure we are protecting this constitutional fundamental principle that are based on the american tradition of freedom,

tradition, of constitutional protection. we have the extreme rhetoric and extreme politics right now that we're seeing from many candidates but will counter with what it means to be an american, is to actually embrace the liberties in the constitution that our fore fathers and fore mothers fought for. >> thank you. >> thank you for having me. >> stay tuned. we will have more on this debate tonight at 8:00 eastern. >> body cameras have become an important tool for police in this country. officers in one of mexico's most dangerous cities are putting them on, as well.

>> it's not just police departments in this country responding to charges which bias and excessive force. police in tijuana, mexico are now wearing body cameras aimed to end misconduct there. there are questions over how the

cameras will be used. >> this stretch of highway just over the border from california is one of the most dangerous in tijuana, mexico. we're riding along with the country's largest police force. >> tell me about the motorcycle that you just pulled over. >> we stopped him because the driver has a passenger not wearing his helmet. >> montez and 1300 other officers are the first in the country to wear body cameras. police have their eyes all over the city. there are 600 cameras watching intersections, street corners and store fronts, but the body cameras are far more personal, allowing police to keep a closer eye on what's happening on the street. >> alejandro is the chief of police. he pushed for the body cam pilot program, which launched in february. >> one of the main aspects is to reduce the incidents with the community. >> what kind of incidents are we

talking about? >> let's say fights, let's say telling lies to the officers, even people go to the municipal prosecutor and say i got robbed, they hit me. >> this is video recorded by a body camera in february. it shows a woman caught driving without her license. >> i saved you money. prove it. it's their word against the officer. now there's proof. >> this is tijuana. the police department is known more for corruption than crime fighting. >> is there corruption within the tijuana police department. >> i think there's corruption all over, not just in the police department. it's all over the world. >> let's talk about your police department, because that's what you're in charge of, that's what

you know about. is there corruption here? >> let's remember one thing, back in the days, this was the highest agency within the corruption. right now, we're putting in place programs like the polygraph, the physical, the psychological attempts. >> this is to deal with corruption within the police force, officers and the like. >> that is correct. >> still, he doesn't say the body cameras are to cut corruption within the force and the guidelines are a bit loose in the program. victor is also concerned. >> we don't know how they are going to use the cameras, if they can change what they have filmed or record. we need to know those things in order to know that they are using cameras in the proper way. >> rules, even the police chief admits are needed. >> if this pilot program works, i would definitely push for our

city council members to buy different cameras, cameras that which the officer doesn't have access to the information. >> in a city where corruption is king, it's too early to tell if the body cameras will help clean up the streets and the police force. tijuana, mexico. >> women will soon be able to become navy seals. in an interview with defense news, a top navy admiral said anyone who meets the training requirements will be accepted. he did not specify when the navy will begin allowing women to compete for spots. this friday, two women graduate from the rigorous army ranger school. >> that's it for us. thanks for joining us. stephanie sy back in two minutes with more aljazeera america morning news. keep up on aljazeera.com. >> we're here to fully get into the nuances of everything that's going on, not just in this country, but around the world.

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>> new days today in the bangkok bombing that killed 20 people. investigators release a new sketch of the suspect and say he may not have acted alone. >> active duty soldiers began their training to battle wildfires in the west. >> a sex scandal on a campus, the high school senior on trial accused of sexual assault during a school ritual.

>> good morning, this is aljazeera america, live from north korea city, i'm stephanie sy. police in thailand say the man who carried out a deadly attack may have had help. authorities released this sketch of the man. they are offering $28,000 to anyone with information leading to his arrest. he is believed to be the same man seen in this surveillance video yesterday. it shows a man leaving a backpack at a busy shrine minutes before the explosion that killed 20 people. wayne haye is live in bangkok. do police say who his accomplices may be? >> the thai police chief said that it simply wouldn't have been possible, in his opinion for a single person, a single man seen that in security camera footage to have carried out an attack of such a large scale by

himself, and therefore as you say, they believe that he was part of a network, had support and the comment from the police chief was he believed those other people who have helped out, helped carry out this attack are thai. we are not sure exactly what has led him to say that, to draw that conclusion. they are also now saying that as well as the security camera foot acknowledge that you have seen, that many times, the man with the yellow shirt leaving the shrine moments before the blast, they are now looking at two our suspects in that footage who they want to hear from. >> any word on where the main suspect is from? there are reports that point to another connection. >> we know now that there is an arrest warrant out for that man seen in that cctv footage. they don't have a name, so the arrest warrant is simply based on that footage and artist

sketch that you were referring to earlier. there has been much speculation about connection with the community. this is a shrine popular with chinese tourists and several chinese were killed, many wounded in that attack on monday night. last month, the thai government deported more than 100 chinese men back to beijing. obviously, a move that would have angered that community. the military government has said that is one avenue that they are investigating, one of many, so they are not drawing any conclusions, but there is an arrest warrant out for that man seen in that footage. they are saying it appears that he is a foreigner. >> talk about the security situation around the shrine right now and around bangkok in general and what else is going on there. >> it's just gone 7:00 in the

evening, wednesday evening, ait's been two days almost to the minute that that explosion took place, so a very somber move at the shrine. it has been very busy today. it opened first thing wednesday morning. a lot of media came in here, both thai and international media and people slowly but surely coming in and as i say, it is very busy, people coming to pay their respects. there certainly has been an increase in security here. we are told there has been more security forces deployed around the city, but visibly you cannot really tell. it's not like there are soldiers patrolling the streets. certainly a com about her move in the city, some people fearful that there could be more attacks. >> wayne, thank you. >> let's take a closer look at the group, an ethnic minority mostly living in china, many fled unrest in china and threat to other countries, including

thailand. hundreds were deported back to china. >> back in the u.s., wildfires in the west have crews struggling to keep up with the fight. today, 200 active duty soldiers will train before helping firefighters. dozens of homes and businesses have been destroyed in an area east of seattle. entire towns and tourist areas have been evacuated. we have more. >> the massive mobilization includes an aerial assault from firefighters. smoke jumpers leap into rugged burning terrain in idaho, while planes in oregon tackle dangerous flames. in california, the fires are punishing 300 homes now threatened in santa marguerita. resources are stretched thin nationwide at 30,000 firefighters battle blazes, but

relief is on the way. soldiers have been called in to help. >> for some, it's simply too late. what once were homes overlook the central washington are nothing more than ash and rubble. carrol jenkins joined neighbors who made the difficult decision to leave. >> i didn't take any family pictures or anything like that. i did not think anything was going to happen. >> it's not just homes gone. this is the heart of washington state's $2 billion apple industry. one fruit picking company said losses could exceed $60 million. they hope to salvage what's still hanging. >> we believe we'll have a plan where our growing fruit on the trees will not be impact. >> while fire crews have made progress against the fire here, they're keeping a close eye on the weather. winds had been calming down, but in the next 24-48 hours, they may pick back up.

>> environmental officials continue their investigation today into a toxic spill in colorado. millions of gallons of waste flowed out of an abandoned mine and into two rivers. those rivers have reopened again. some residents say not enough is being done to prevent another spill. >> the celebration here is obviously one of very high feelings, people are starting to get back on the river. there's a growing realization in this community that they may not have the on going information to really understand what is safe and not downstream from the mines that have spilled into this river. >> for durango, colorado, the economy dependency on tourism. tourism dependency on the animas river. >> the river was running great, the economy strong, business was booming and then bang.

>> mining created this town, the trains used to carry coal and eat unless from here. it's the mines that now threaten durango. at least 230 mines in this state leak enough heavy metals into the rivers to equal a gold king disaster every two days. there's no realtime monitoring to warn anyone. if something bad happened in this water at 2:00 in the morning, another mine blew out, would a red light go off on someone's desk? >> no, nobody would know. there's no way to know smell somebody sees it. if it doesn't have a visible component to it, it wouldn't be recognized. the fact that the e.p.a. was standing right there, saw it happened, meant they could alert the communities down river. without that, we wouldn't have known. >> up and down the length of this river, mines are full of stuff that is dangerous but

invisible. for instance, let me show you. this site here was a smelter for radioactive material that came out of mines in this area. it was here until the 1960's. it took an e.p.a. superfund cleanup in the 1990's to get all the radioactive material out of here. here's the thing to understand is that that kind of stuff, which still exists in mines across this state doesn't give away some kind of telltale odor or visible sludge when it gets into the water. it's invisible and at this moment, i'm about a stone's throw away from downtown durango. >> locals are trying to establish a monitor system, but they are stretched too thin. >> you are not talking about fish dying right away or people poisoned by exposure to water. what we are talking about is chronic effects over a generation or more. >> correct. in order to even approach trying to get an answer for that, we

need sediment samples, slung samples, we need to analyze them to know what we're dealing with. >> the community here is lucky that when the spill occurred, it happened when waters from the local underground aquifers were feeding into the river and not the other way around. >> if you had water going from the river into the aquifers, it would carry along the heavy metals that are of concern. those would get incorporated into plants, animals that eat those plants, so that would be the concern. >> next time, the community luck may run dry. >> probably we're going to be less lucky in terms of ground water, more likely to have ground water be contaminated by river water. >> as bad as this spill was, it was easy to see and easy to measure. as this area struggles with its uneasy relationship to mining, the people here realize that they have little or no way of knowing what invisible dangers are flowing into their river. >> an important thing to understand here is that there are 230 mines here that colorado

officials know are all right leaking toxic substances into the rivers, but there are 23,000 abandoned mines across the state. people don't have the information they need. they don't have realtime monitoring system that would allow them to truly understand what dangers they face when they put their boats in the water. >> jake ward reporting from colorado. >> democratic presidential candidate hillary clinton has had hundreds of her emails reviewed to see if they contain classified information. she said all questions will be answered. >> in retrospect, what was supposed to be convenient has turned out to be anything but convenient. it has nothing to do with me and it has nothing to do with the fact that my account was personal. it's the process by which the government and sometimes in disagreement between various agencies of the government make decisions about what can and cannot be disclosed.

>> clinton was asked if the campaign wiped data off the server before turning it over to the f.b.i. she joked about not knowing how that works and said the f.b.i. will figure out what was on the server. >> on the republican side of the presidential campaign, the candidates have been buzzing this week with a debate over illegal immigration. donald trumps proposals sparked a divide within his own party. >> i'm here to tell you why i'm running for president. >> on tuesday at the iowa state fair, marco rubio talked about immigration reform, saying deporting 11 million undocumented i am grants is i am practical and denying citizenship to their children born in the united states is a non-starter. >> it sounds like a plan without a chance of passing. it's a very complex issue. >> suggesting that certain immigration plans have in the been serious is a shot at gop

front runner donald trump. >> make america great again! >> he has been framing key issues for much of the gop field and over the weekend when he rolled out a policy paper for immigration, he pledged to end automatic citizenship for children born in the united states. >> you want to get rid of birth right citizenship. >> you have to, yes. >> soon after, louisiana governor bobby jindal followed suit. >> quote, we need to end birth right citizenship for illegal immigrants." mknbc asked wisconsin governor scott walker if he agreed. >> i think that's something, yeah, absolutely going forward. >> we should end he birth right citizenship. >> to me it's enforcing the laws of this country. >> birth right is the law. the fourteenth amendment to the constitution says all persons born or naturalized in the united states and subject to the jurisdiction thereof are

citizens of the united states and of the state written they reside. courts ruled that except for the children of foreign diplomats stationed in the united states, anybody born on american soil is a u.s. citizen. revising that would require changing the constitution. it would mean getting two thirds approval in the house and senate, followed by ratty occasion from 38 states. as the washington post wrote, a plan to undo something in the constitution is on the far extreme of near impossible. not all republican candidates agree with trumps. ohio governor john kasich believes birth right citizenship should be left alone. >> let these people who are born here be citizens and that's the end of it. i don't want to dwell on it anytime. >> something that may seem impossible doesn't mean it is widely dismissed. trump's immigration plan includes building a wall on the

southwest border and having mexico pay for it. while mexican leaders say they will never agree, wisconsin governor walker just said the idea is also worth pursuing. >> it's more proof the gop agenda at least for now is largely being driven by donald trump. david shuster, al jazeera. >> politico has come up with a multi-billion dollars price tag for donald trump's immigration plan. they asked six think tanks to crunch the in connection. the grand total is $166 billion. the biggest cost would go toward trump's mass deportation plan at a cost of $141 billion. allege off the u.s.-mexico border would take $5 billion and trump's plan includes compelling mexico to pay for the wall. >> convict national security leaker chelsea manning has lost privileges in prison. the former intelligence analyst formerly known at bradley manning was convicted of violating prison rules, including having a copy of

vanity fair magazine. she will spend three weeks without recreation at activities. manning is serving a 35 year sentence. >> planned parent hood is on the offensive against critics trying to cut funding. it has been under pressure after a series of undercover videos drew new attention to its practices. >> i work at planned parent hood because i believe in educating women. >> plant parenthood is fighting back after the biggest assault in its 100 year history. hidden camera footage claims to show it profiting from the sale of fetal tissues. the video was produced by an anti abortion right groups and called for pulling federal funding to shut it down. the group is firing back with a pricey media campaign.

it unveiled an ad that will run in the states of four republican senators, one spot in pennsylvania aired today. >> first pat toomey voted to defund planned parent hood, risking health concerns for millions of women. >> now republicans want to shut down the government to block funding for plant parenthood. what would a shut down mean for pennsylvania? >> similar spots will target other republican senators. a social media campaign has been launched claiming its opponents real agenda is to ban abortion and limit women's access to health care.

a dozen states launched investigations after the hidden camera videos first surfaced. four states already cleared the group of wrongdoing. groups opposed to abortion rights say the focus on planned parent hood is not fading and with more undercover videos promised, the fight does not appear to be going away. al jazeera. >> on the agenda today, lawyers for the nfl and tom brady are set to argue before a federal judge who has encouraged a settlement over braes four game suspension over the patriots deliberate deflation have footballs. >> a man who hid from the charlie hebdo gunman is suing the media publication that published his whereabouts. >> an unhand spacecraft heads to the international space station today. the rocket will deliver supplies

including a water recycling system. >> an alleged sexual assault as a prestigious prep school. a senior is accused of raping a freshman as part of a competition. >> we'll hear from people who know a mississippi couple arrested for allegedly trying to join a group.

>> a sex scandal is rocking one of the country's most prestigious prep schools. a former student is on trial for raping a younger female student when both attended the school. testimony gets underway for a second day this morning. we have followed the story. >> this trial is unfolding just mere miles from the $50,000 a year prep school that counts secretary of state john kerry, dunes bury crater gary true do and members of the kennedy family as alumni. the accuser told her side of the story. >> did you live on campus at st. paul's? >> yes, i did. >> the 19-year-old was in court watching as the 16-year-old former school mate accused him of rape. this is a disguised version of her voice. >> do you recognize him in the courtroom today? >> yes. >> the girl says he took things

too far and forced himself upon her. jurors toured the scene with him looking on. >> she's a 15-year-old girl, without sexual experience. she tried to say no. >> prosecutors argue the alleged rape was part of what's known as st. paul's as the senior salute, senior boys competing to have sex with freshman girls. he made a list of potential senior salutes. the accuser's name was the only one in all caps. >> specifically, it is believed that the defendant and friends were competing to see who could lay the largest number of girls. lay was a term that the defendant and his friends coined for the process of the senior salute. >> the lawyers said the girl knew all about the senior salute and pointed out emails between the two that he claims show that the accuser was ok with what

happened, in particular, one email after the encounter read "you're not so bad yourself." i also lost my earring up there." >> it's a source of pride in the school for girls to be asked to participate. >> he insides he and the girl never had intercourse that night. his attorney portrayed him as a campus leader who had tried to discourage senior salutes. >> yes, he'd be quite a catch for a freshman mistake get a senior absolute, but he is not someone who did this crime. >> st. paul school was founded in 1856, but only started admitting girls there in 1971. the accuser will return to the witness stand today to resume

her testimony. >> we've learned this morning that isil fighters have killed a respected antiquity's scholar in syria. he was beheaded in palmyra, his body strapped to one of the city's roman columns. he had been in charge of the site for more than four decades. isil took over the ancient city in may. >> a young couple from mississippi is accused of plotting to travel to syria to join isil. friends say the allegations don't match the couple they knew. >> we're kind of surprised that former students were trying to join isis. >> the arrest stunned their small mississippi town. >> kids were smart, super intelligent, always very poll light, insightful, thoughtful, not radical in any way. >> former students at mississippi state, a young calm planning to get married.

federal prosecutors say they were ready to swear allegiance and join isil. they were arrested this month at a mississippi airport. according to a criminal complaint, they were about to bored a flight bound for istanbul. >> prosecutors say undercover f.b.i. agents posing at isil supporters communicated with the two as they looked for travel tips on get to go syria and waging holy war. their messages sometimes sounded more than a little naive about what they might be getting into, but emphasized their commitment to the cause. >> would i be with people that speak english, as well, he asked, later adding i am willing to fight. i want to be taught what it really means to have that heart in battle. young said i am skilled in math and chemistry and word at an analytical lab. we learn very fast and would love to help with giving medical

aid. 22, the son of an imam, the family friend and lawyer said relatives are in disbelief. >> this is like being hit between the eyes with a two by four and the pain hasn't set in. that's where they are now. >> junk is a former cheerleader who graduated near the top of her class. her father is a police officer and military vet who served in afghanistan. after arrested, prosecutors say the couple confessed they were on their way to syria. if convicted, they could each face up to 20 years in prison. paul beban, al jazeera, new york. >> the game park owner accused of letting an american dentist hunt and kill cecil the lion has been charged. he is free on bail, due in court next month. minnesota dentist palmer has not been charged, but zimbabwe wants

him extra died from the u.s. to face charges there. >> a kentucky clerk refusing to issue same-sex marriage licenses said it's against her region. we speak with her lawyer next. >> i think it's a miracle that not onlyette is the city of new orleans stand, but thriving. i think people have unreasonable expectations. they think they are going to walk into the land of oz. >> the conversation with the mayor of new orleans on the city's come back 10 years after hurricane katrina.

>> bradley manning was found violating prison rules, she will spend three weeks without recreational activities. >> two same sex couples in kentucky won a battle against a county clerk who did not want to issue them marriage licenses. the judge delayed his own ruling, which means they still can't get those licenses. they sued after the county clerk turned them away. she said issuing licenses to same sex couples is against her religious beliefs. we spoke with a couple who said they were denied multiple times. >> we thought we'd go down to the county courthouse and get a marriage license whenever we

wanted, and now that was quickly stopped. we want to get married and it is important. it's important for all the citizens of this county. >> kentucky's governor has asked all judges and clerks from the state to issue marriage license to say all couples or resign. roger gannon is the attorney for the county clerk kim davis and joins us from orlando. good morning. thank you for your time. other clerks in kentucky have granted messages. >> she can not issue a marriage license under her name that would call any other relationship marriage. >> the district judge, wrote her

religious convictions cannot excuse her from performing the duties she took and oath to perform. what is your legal argument against that? >> the oath that kim davis took was to uphold the laws of the united states and the laws of kentucky. those laws include protections for the individual rights of conscience that all americans and all those in kentucky enjoy. she has an obligation to uphold those individual rights of conscience for all individuals connected with her office, including herself. the fact is that elected officials don't abandon all their constitutional rights by taking office. that's never been the law in the united states, never been the law in kentucky. >> the fact is that since the june court ruling by the supreme court, it is also the law of the land that same-sex marriage is legal across the country, according to the fourteenth amendment. are what we are seeing is a cobs stukesal clash here? >> well, there is a clash, but it's unnecessary, because the united states supreme court

simply held that states must recognize same-sex marriage on the same term at different sex marriage. the supreme court did not say that a particular elected official or a particular county must issue a marriage license. here, the state of kentucky can easily accommodate those clerks who have sincere religious beliefs against same-sex marriage while still offering marriage licenses to every couple in kentucky who wants one. the plaintiffs in this case against kim davis can get a marriage license just about anywhere in the state of kentucky. they are not being denied the right. >> the couple has lived in rowan county their whole lives and have their child there and would like to get their license from the rowan county clerk's office. what could happen if you loses the next court challenge? is kim davis willing to do jail time? >> well, kim davis so far has not wavered in her commitment to her convictions. for her, this would be a violation of her conscience and so far, she said been unwilling to do that.

if a court rules against her, that's going to be her decision. we'll defend her right to not issue those licenses and live according to her beliefs, as long as she wants to make that decision. >> kim davis purposely stopped issuing all marriage licenses because she did not want to differentiate between couples in rowan county. that was done afterthought and consideration, but the fact is, she has a conscience. she has a right to live and act according to her beliefs. the pain that's being claimed by that the plaintiffs in this case is really unnecessary, because in a country like the united states and a state like kentucky where everyone should be able to live according to their own conscience, there's plenty of marriage licenses available to these plaintiffs, so any pain that they're feeling,

unfortunately something i think they're bringing on themselves. >> why doesn't she delegate the actual issuance of marriage licenses for couples that she doesn't approve of to someone else in her office. >> kentucky lay currently says that a marriage license can only be issued under the authority of the county clerk. she doesn't have that option currently to put that on to someone else. any license that comes out of rowan county is under her name and her authority and she can't change that law. certainly the kentucky legislature could, the kentucky governor could simply exempt the clerks who want to take a stand like kim davis while still offering licenses to everyone who wants one. >> thank you so much for your time. we would welcome hearing from your client, kim davis, anytime she would like to share her views on this. thank you. >> thank you for having of me. >> the presidential campaign trail is buzz, a debate over birth right citizenship, the long standing rule that anyone

born on u.s. soil automatically becomes a citizen. now some texas border counties are refusing to issue birth certificates to the american born children of undocumented migrants. heidi zhou castro reports. >> >> according to the u.s. constitution, this baby born in a texas hospital in nor, 2013 is a sufficient citizen, yet the child, now one, has been unable to get a birth certificate. her mother, juana asked us not to show their faces. she is undocumented and says that's the reason why her daughter has been denied her proof of birth. >> she should have the same rights as a child born to american parents, juana says. >> at the heart of the issue, the state of texas is making it impossible for most undocumented parents to get a birth certificate by requiring i.d. documents they can't get.

the state refuses to issue driver's licenses to the undocumented, and now it's no longer recognizing the government i.d. card issued by a foreign consulate. >> what are these kids going to do? they are new citizens and have no birth certificates. that's outrageous. >> this attorney represents children and parents in a lawsuit filed this summer against the state of texas. the state says it hasn't accepted the i.d. since 2008, because it is an unsecure document, but in practice, the policy wasn't strictly enforced until last summer, when an unprecedented in that of undocumented immigrants crossed into texas and as the state launched a lawsuit against the president's executive actions on immigration. >> i haven't consented to an

interview. >> we'll have more coming up tonight. >> texas lawmakers will look into jail suicides following the death of sandra bland. the african-american woman was found dead last month after jailed for a minor traffic violation. officials ruled it a suicide. video of the arrest and her subsequent death sparked white spread protest. texas lawmakers have not said if the bland family will testify in the hearings, slighted to start in september. >> republican presidential candidate mike huckabee is in israel where he spoke out against the iran nuclear deal, saying iran cannot be trusted. >> this is not a regime whose intentions are to become a partner to peace. this is a regime whose intentions after 36 years to be a force of terror in the middle east and throughout the world. they've kidnapped americans, killed americans, they currently

hold americans hostage in their prisons. i read the entire 159 page deal, and i would like to have been able to say that after reading it, i was more comforted, but after reading it, i was more alarmed. >> he says the deal will not go far enough to curb tehran's nuclear ambitions. >> new reports that police may have been spying on civil rights activists in new york. documents now the nypd along with other regional police departments sent undercover officers to black lives matter protests. the officers allegedly monitored those taking part, tracked their movements and kept files on the activists. >> new york state is rolling out emergency measures to prevent another outbreak of legionnaire's disease. 12 have died and more than 100 infected in an outbreak in new york city weeks ago. we have been following this story. good morning. these state rules are similar to what we've seen in new york

city. >> that's right, the regular graces unprecedented and come after a city wide mandate to inspect and disinfect all cooling towers within 14 days. the question is can this get done in time. >> this is some of the equipment used to clean cooling towers in new york. >> we are getting there physically. we are going to power wash the entire town. >> his company disinfects cooling towers. juror building owners are calling non-stop since the mandate to clean all cooling towers in 14 days. >> what are they saying to you? >> help. they don't have a full understanding of what needs to be done. >> he says it can take a few hours to a full day to drain,

severallize and clean a tower from top to bottom, depending on the size. >> in two weeks, are all those towers going to be clean? >> that's a tall order. >> part of the problem is no one knows exactly how many cooling towers there are in new york city. there's no formal registry. that's expected to change within the legislation. >> buildings are required to register cooling towers on line. the city's new rules are used as a model for new york state regulations for towers beyond the city, an unprecedented move. questions remain. at a recent town hall meeting, some asked how these rules will be enforced and monitored. >> we can't leave it to owners. we can't even get them to fix faucets, really, come on, we can't leave it to owners. >> city officials point to hefty fines for those who don't comply. >> they are authority to go in and take care of it, build the

owner and institute more rigorous penalties. >> it is a huge undertaking. it is going to require hundreds and hundreds of city workers. >> how much this will cost the city, the mayor said much is being done with existing agencies and resources, but no estimates of additional costs. >> the company is hearing from concerned left side in neighboring states. no word if the regulations will expand to other cities or states. >> thank you. >> investigators are trying to figure out what caused a gas leak in washington state has destroyed part of a motel. the leak was reported about a half hour before the believe exploded. everyone got out safely except a gas company employee. he's in the hospital with second degree and third degree burns. >> a materials appeals court ruled five police officers convicted in the shooting of unarmed pedestrians in new orleans should get a new trial. the shootings took place on the bridge after hurricane katrina.

it was one of many scandals involving police misconduct. the rule upholds a judge's decision to throw out the original convictions. >> next week marks 10 years since hurricane katrina tore through louisiana. long after the waters subsided, new orleans is stick struggling to recover. >> 10 years after katrina, how do you qualify the progress a decade later? >> it's a miracle that not only is the city standing, but thriving. i think people have unreasonable expect is as. they think they are going to walk into the land which oz where everything is perfect and new orleans was going to solve 40 to 50 years of problems happening across the country. i qualify it as basically saying we have completely turned ourselves around. we're heading in the right direction. we've done the hard work of reef

creating the deep institutional challenges that we held in health care and education, now we've got to work making sure nobody gets left behind. you'll see pockets in the city that don't look great. >> speaking of those pockets, one of those communities would be the lower ninth ward, the area hard-hit by the storm, mostly african-american community and many there we've spoken to say we feel like we haven't gotten the resource, like we've been forgotten. do you feel like the city has placed enough emphasis, focus on communities like the lower nine? >> it's not at surprise that people that were hurting more before the storm were hurting more after the storm. that this is a universal principle throughout the united states of america. it's not accurate to say that toes extent new orleans got the main that we didn't contribute it in a thoughtful way. we've invested $500 million in the lower ninth ward. it was a very difficult place

before the storm hit. it has a lot of challenges, but in my mind, it's a very important part of the city. >> violent crime is perhaps the biggest issue facing new orleans. that is what many will tell you. >> absolutely, absolutely. >> in recent years, we've seen a drop in some violent crime. the murder rate dropped recently, but then this summer, it started to spike up again, a 30% spike according to some numbers. you've been on the front lines, creating initiatives and strategies in your time in office. has anything worked? >> i think a lot of things have worked. first let's be clear about this. violence in america is epidemic in certain neighborhoods in all cities. you see that with the news in baltimore, chicago, new york. you cannot police your way out of this problem. you've really got to get on the front end of this. our entire approach has been very early interventions, very

young, you know, getting into the schools, working with conflict resolution, making sure that you deal with the issues of jobs, making sure you deal with job training, work on enrichment programs and then for the young men that are actually in the system, if they are in jail, making sure when they come out, they are trained well so the recidivism rate doesn't go high. you've got to give them a a choice, if you keep making bad choices, there are going to be bad consequences, but if you make a good choice, we'll put you on the front line. >> would you say new orleans is safer today than five, 10 years ago? >> some days, yeah, and some days it's not. it goes up and down. i think we've made marked progress reducing the numbers of shootings and crime. for three years in a row, we've reduced the murder rate. last year we got it to the lowest in 40 years. all of a sudden in new orleans, baltimore, chicago, all over it spiked up.

i don't think any criminal scientist actually can tell you why that happened. what i can tell you is that's evidence we haven't solved the whole problem. >> it is called the little pink pill, the f.d.a. approves the first drug to boost a woman's section drive. it comes with side effect some say are unacceptable. >> injured veterans say they were ripped off by for profit colleges. why they say they are not getting any help from the government.

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>> welcome to al jazeera america. taking a look at today's top stories. germany's parliament approved a third bailout for greece. the dutch parliament is scheduled to vote on it today. the vote removes a key hurdle to greece getting a $95 billion loan package. greece needs the money to make a

debt repayment thursday. >> the search begins later today in alaska for three men believed to be buried under a landslide. they were swept after after more than two inches of rain fell. >> former subway pitchman jared fogle is due in court where he will plead guilty to child pornography charges six weeks after authorities seized electronics from his home. >> a number of former students at for-profit colleges say they were scanned into taking out loans to receive worthless education, among them military veterans. patricia sobga traveled to indiana to meet an army veteran who wants the department of education to get his benefits back. >> he left the army in 2002, after he injured his right arm and diagnosed with bone disease. >> the v.a. offers benefits to

medically discharged veterans. it's designed to find you a suitable job in lieu of your disability or something that wouldn't aggravate it in the future. >> the 33-year-old father of two had 10 years to take advantage of the program. >> i was seeking a degree in business management. i wanted an office position, something where i didn't have to use my right arm very much. >> his choice of schools tanked those plans. he enrolled in an everest college, part of the now defunct and discredited for-profit college chain corinthian, whose campuses were sold off or shut down after being hit with a slew of lawsuits alleging predatory lending and inflating job placement rates. >> they would send me to jobs like lawn care. it would be a higher form of ma'am labor than i was already doing. >> what's worse, he said corinthian told him to take out federal student loans to pay his tuition up front and then

reimburse him to pay them down, a formula that's left him with $38,000 in corinthian student loan debt. today, he still works as a manual laborer, earning good money, but at a cost. >> i live in excruciating pain. i have to take medication just to function on a daily base. he can't get more money from the v.a. >> there's nothing. there is no money left. it's gone. >> in june, following a high profile campaign by student debt activists, the department of education launched a program that let's students who believe they were defrauded by a for-profit college apply to have their federal student loans forgiven, but fails to address this man's needs. >> the department of evidence occasions website, they have instructions on how to apply to have your loans forgiven. there's nothing for veterans. nothing. >> jeff's experiences exposes some gaps if the department of

education's plan. exactly who is responsible for reinstating veteran's benefits that were exhausted obtaining degrees from corinthian, which turned out to be worthless? >> a spokeswoman for the department told al jazeera the v.a. oversees those benefits. >> that's actually laughable. that's very laughable. it's basically one federal agency trying to pass the buck to another. >> the v.a. told al jazeera they don't have the authority to reinstate his entitlements. we asked the department of education for an interview, be but it declined. the third time since march it has refused to speak on camera with al jazeera about its handling of corinthian. in the meantime, jeff filled out the application, but he's not looking for loan forgiveness. >> i don't care if my loans are forgiven. i want my veteran benefits. i took out the loans, that was me, i'll pay them. i want my veteran's benefits. >> patricia sobga, al jazeera,

mooresville, indiana. >> on the healthbeat, the f.d.a. approved the first drug designed to boost women's sex drive. some hail the decision as a long sought victory for women's health but there is also criticism. randall pinkston joins us with details. why are some calling this pill irresponsible? >> this little pill has a long history of controversy. you'll be able to find it starting october 16. it is not the same as viagra which stimulates blood flow and used as needed. sprout pharmaceuticals said it acts on brain chemistry. the medication is meant to be taking daily to treat premenopausal women who suffer hypoactive sexual desire disorder, basically a sudden unexplained loss of any desire to have sex. prior to the latest f.d.a. decision, the company and

supporters criticized the f.d.a. or being sexist because it rejected the drug twice, but there are some critics, including doctors who question the f.d.a.'s approval. they have concerns about the drug's safety. studies show that it can cause a sudden drop in blood pressure, that it can lead women to faint and leave them groggy the next day. the big question here is also about long term safety, such as taking such a drug for months and years. you have to take it eight weeks before effective. >> it is not on be a as-needed basis which is why the comparison is being made. how expensive is it? >> similar to the cost of viagra for a month, that runs about $400, but the pharmaceutical company has not set the price point yet. >> will insurance cover it? they do cover male sexual dysfunctional drugs. >> if you do the math, you are

talking $5,000 a year and there may be a big co pay on. >> >> a top navy admiral said anyone who meets the demanding training requirements will be accepted. he did not specify when the navy will allow women to compete for a spot. this friday, two women will become the first to graduate from army ranger training. >> the beatles first recording contract earned them just $80 in 1961. it's up for auction and may be worth many, many times that. heritage auctions is selling the six paged document signed during the bands two year stay in germany. while there, they recorded a rock version of my bonnie lies over the ocean, catching the attention of their eventual manager. that document could sell for $150,000. that's it for us here in new york, thanks for watching. have a great morning.

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