project increases turn out in philadelphia, his next goal will be to start reciting around the country. >> that is the show for today. i'm ali velshi, thank you for joining us. deadly wildfires. three firefighters are killed battling blazes in washington state, as crews try to hold the lines while waiting for help from army troops. unwelcome scrutiny. in retrospect this is it. i regret that this is a cause. the client campaign concerned about the focus on the candidate's emails, as they look

for a criminal wrongdoing kicking the habit. a claim about e-cigarettes claim. >> there may be long-term rivals critics say serious risks are being overlooked. and game changer. the fund-racing stunt that went viral is paying off. as scientists credit it about a funding break for research into a.l.s. good evening. i'm antonio mora. this is al jazeera america. we begin with the wildfires raging across washington state. tonight, three firefighters have been killed battling the flames. death comes as thousands of residence are evacuated. >> we are joined from washington. how much do we know about the

firefighters that were killed? >> we don't know much at this point. we can tell you it's been a tough evening around here. we have been talking to firefighters. they are learning the news. we can confirm that three were killed today and three to four injured fighting fires. that is about an hour from here. we don't know if winds played a role, if at all in the deaths and injuries. firefighting crews have been worried about winds kicking up. they have been gusting up. there has been a warning from wednesday to friday. we are in that red flag warning zone, and we have seen the winds kick up. so certainly that was a concern all along. we don't know whether that played a role. again, they have been watching the forecast and we are not out of the woods. >> a lot of people have been evacuated. what about the land and conditions where you are?

>> i mentioned evaluations, i should add that they have evacuated about 4,000 people. they are the areas where the firefighters were battling the firefighters today. we have a different fight that is affecting a town in central washington, a lot of tourists come here in the summer, it's a coast down. just a few thousands residence that are remaining here. evacuations are in effect. several thousands have been evacuated. and that is down to 1,000 residents. and they are taking advantage of those king in, having meals, taking towers. four to 500 homes are in harm's way. this is a wildfire that they are paying attention to as well. they certainly have their hands full. there are wildfires across the region, i can tell you that these firefighters have been battling a lot of fires.

1500 square miles in eastern and central part of the state in the last couple of weeks. you can imagine they have their hands full. and winds make it worse. >> sad to here about the firefighters. thanks democratic presidential candidate hillary clinton is the subject of a potential criminal investigation, and we learn today that her lawyer told the senate committee that her emails are stored on a computer server turned over to the fbi had been wiped clean. hillary clinton used the home server to use personal and professional emails. david shuster has more. >> did you wipe the server? >> like with a cloth or something. >> hillary clinton is using jokes to brush aside her email controversy, law enforcements tell al jazeera the fbi team examining the email server is a potential criminal investigation. clinton insists she did not break any laws.

>> i did not send classified material. and i did not receive any material that was marked or designated. it's the way you know how something it. >> a criminal code, titled section 1894 makes it a misdemeanour to keep documents or materials containing classified information at an unauthorised location. violation of the statute does not accident on the document or materials being stamped or marked as classified. an intelligence community reported to congress that two of the clinton emails, the office reviewed, contained materials that are top secret. the highest classification. fbi sources note that the agency director james kony has aggressively investigated public officials on the issues in the past. three years ago, they found evidence that david petraeus,

former army general and doctor. c.i.a. director turned over classified information to an author that he was having an affair with. he was fined. clinton believes the petraeus intervention was unfair, his approach was intentional. clinton says her email system was linked to the mishandling of government information it was inadvertent. >> in retrospect i regret it's a cause celeb ra. >> the former secretary of state and confidante sheryl mills decided by themselves which emails were relevant to administration and congregsal request. they turned over the emails to the state department, not in digital form, with the meta data. but in print pages, and deleted emails they considered personal

and erased the home server. >> in order to be as cooperative as possible, we have turned over the server. they can do what they want to figure out what is there or not there. that's for the people there to investigate to figure out. >> reporter: law enforcement say the fbi will be able to recreate some of the deleted information on the server. anything to tracing the handle. investigators will try to determine if mrs. clinton tried to eliminate emails that might have been of interest to congressional investigators. such could qualify as obstruction of justice. a felon stated in 2002, and that mrs. clinton and senator voted for. in the meantime law enforcement sources say dozens of investigators are working on the email examination, even as the clinton campaign tried to

dismiss it undocumented immigrants are a hot-button topic on the presidential campaign trail. especially among the candidates. now, many counties are refusing to issue birth certificates for children of undocumented migrants born in the united states. we have this report. >> reporter: american flag flies beside a texas hospital, where this baby was born two years ago to an undocumented mother. the mother insists not to use the family's last name or show their faces. being brought to the u.s. as a child. she had older children with no problems getting birth certificat certificates. at the time a card from the consulate was good enough. when she reach the vital

certificates office to get a birth certificate. the same documents didn't work. they told her it was no longer valid. the state of texas is now making it impossible for most undocumented parents to get a birth certificate by recording documents they can't get. documents like a driver's licence, which the state refuses to issue undocumented immigrants, or a foreign passport with a valid u.s. visa. it was not always like this. the policy wasn't strictly enforced until last year, when n unprecedented number of immigrants crossed into texas. as the state launched a lawsuit. attorney represents 32 texas children and 28 immigrants parents in a lawsuit filed in the state of texas. >> just like everyone else with children born in the u.s., they have a right to have a birth certificate for a child, so they

can get medical certificates, so they can enrol them, baptise them. >> i asked what is wrong if the state's current policy walks in this way, and stops border crossers from giving birth. >> she says she understands the controversy, but her daughter shouldn't pay. >> the vital statistics office didn't respond to the request for comment. we went in the search of answers. >> are you aware that most people who are trying to use those are undocumented immigrants who had children born here, and are u.s. citizens, and are denied a service in. >> no, i'm not aware of that. >> basically when an applicant comes, we request the information. it is required by the state. >> texas asked a federal judge to dismiss a lawsuit arguing a lawsuit cannot be judged.

>> meanwhile as the first day of school approaches, her daughter may be denied enrolment police in thailand say the man believed to be responsible in bangkok did not act alone. clothing and video capture images of two other men. a sketch has been released of a man. they offered a reward for information leading to his arrest: we are getting word of three explosions in the capital. bombs went off near the national security building. the explosions were so big they've been heard across the city. six policeman have been injured. there are no reported deaths and

no one claims responsibility. a report highlights a devastating toll the war in yemen has on children. the conflict left 10 million children in urge of humanitarian aid. 4 million died since the end of march. >> since the strikes began. the united nations verified 377 children were recruited. they report from the united nations. the u.n. envoy getting help into yemen is becoming difficult. >> steven o'brien back from yemen, where he visited several cities to get a better sense on the ground, how bad the humanitarian situation is. for the council, he briefed them, getting a dark picture of a deteriorating situation. he gave examples, saying he visited a hospital. lights were flickering because there's not enough fuel.

people had to sleep on the floors of hospital. using cardboard as mattresses, and several have shortages of critical supplies. getting aid into the country is difficult. >> he point to air strikes at the port, as an example of the problems, and hurdles that the u.n. is overcoming, getting aid into the country, there's shortages of everything now in yemen, and the innocent civilians are suffering the most. >> on the return from yemen, where the scale of human suffering is incomprehensible. i was shocked by what i saw. the civilian are bearing the brunt of the conflict. they need 1.5 million internally displaced. 1.5 million have been recruited or used as fighters.

>> there's a money problem as well, he said the u.n. received about 282 million of the nearly 1.6 billion they say they need to fund the relief effort in yemen, it's about 18%. he remind the security council that there's no military solution to the conflict in nehmen. and said that this -- in yemen, and said it was a conflict that could be solved through a dialogue of words, not weapons i.s.i.l. has reportedly beheaded a renowned scholar who protected one historical sight in palmyra. asaad refused to tell i.s.i.l. the location of some of the site's ancient heart attacks.

>> many questions about e-cigarettes. that has not stopped them being recommended for some people. and costco and others profiting from slave labour - and other companies may be too. too.

e-cigarettes have grown in popularity across the world. a new study out of england says it may be the key to help smokers quit. in the u.s. researchers fear the us of e-cigarettes, especially amongst teens could be the gate way to the original thing. courtney kealy has more. >> we are encouraging smokers to do, if they have tried to stop and haven't succeeded. >> reporter: a study by a british government agencies recommends e-cigarettes at an aid to help people quit smoking. >> we followed it for a short period of time, we don't know the long-term rivals.

we haven't seen evidence of egreats causing cans -- e-cigarettes causing cancer. >> the study found adults were able to stick to e-cigarettes or quit smoking completely. >> the experts suggest that cigarettes are significantly left. 95% less harmful than smoking. battery operated e-cigarettes convert it into a vapour. >> we are not recommending products to nonsmokers. there's no appetite for using them. less than 1% of adults are young people that never smoked. a new study in the journal of the american association contradicts that. >> those that smoke e-cigarettes are more likely to start smoking

than teens that haven't. >> reporter: more than 100 participated in the study. and it has professionals alarmed. >> the uptick we are seeing in adolescent e-cigarette use could, down the road, lead to a new generation of tobacco smokers. >> threatening to derail two decades of process. according to the centers of disease control. secret use has dropped from 36% of high schoolers in 1997 to less than 16% in 2013. from 2013 to 2014, e-cigarette use among middle school and high school students tripled for some perspective on the studies, we are joined by dr andrew chang. he is a global health resident. good to have you with us. do you think a british health

official is jumping the gun. saying 95% are less harmful than regular cigarettes. a couple of things about the report are problematic. the first thing is that the 95% number, if you read the study itself, it based on primarily a tudy that was done, that was looking at a survey. a group of professionals that raided the danger of tobacco products. even that study, the authors of the study mentioned there's no hard evidence used in that study, the 95%. there's little doubt that they are somewhat safer. is the concern that there's a nicotine delivery system, and can create addictions. >> nicotine in them can cause addiction, and there's other things that have not been

studied. cancer and emphysema and other things, taking many years to manifest something you can't see in a 6 month trial. there's a lot of things like the flavourings. those things are important. >> smoking among high school students plunged over the last couple of days. >> what about them being a gate way to smoking, luring teenagers. >> absolutely that was a big concern. some of the cigarettes were done in the united states. it suggested that they were more middle school, high schoolers. they were likely to know, regular cigarettes, and the journalist of american medical association study that you spoke

about earlier in the programme points to e-cigarettes being a risk factor for children and middle schoolers using it are likely to use it than pick up regular cigarettes. >> but it has been useful in weaning some people off cigarettes. is there areas where it can work better. most did not look head to head. e-cigarettes. a study that looked at them showed no difference in quit rates between users that got patches and cigarettes. you published a study raiding concerns about what e-cigarettes could mean to the developing world. >> absolutely. >> the doctor, a co-author is concerned how cigarettes could provide gateway for users and new users in the development

world, where there's less likely to be good regulation and control of devices and controls, and we are worried about multinational tobacco organizations. >> dr andrew chan, it's great of you to join us, from stamford for your perspect positive costco is being sued for selling shrimp that could have been produced using slave labour. complaints that costco imports from thailand. according to the state department the thai fishing try used human trafficking. they are trying to bar costco from selling the products, and sue other companies from selling the shrimp. >> we all remember the ice bucket challenge. it's made a difference for a.l.s. research, and millions much age linked to the ashley

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went crazy, doctors say the money helped to spur a major injection. it's a fundraising campaign inundating social media. everyone's social media was awash with people throwing ice buckets of water over each other. the rich and maims watt there too. >> even faces from the familiar 2016 trail. president obama was nominated, but refused. >> i'm going to write you an ebbing ch. former first lady has other ideas. >> even i with the backdrop of new york. me in shorts. raising cash is not new, according to the website. it pulled in 115 million,

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it is a terrible disease. i think the people behind it are inspired by what has happened in the past 12 months i would have preferred not to see you in shorts. thank you anyway. >> for news any time, head to aljazeera.com. "inside story" is next. have a good night. almost half of the 116 prisoners remaining at guantanamo bay naval base have been cleared for transfer. many of them have been languishing for years because the u.s. cannes convince other countries to take them. one prisoner on a huger strike says he's near death. another detainee asked a federal court if your own president says war in afghanistan is over, why can't i get out of here. the obama administration wanted to close the place for years, but congres