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the state's dependence on oil drilling. ♪ good morning, this is al jazeera america. live from new york city. i'm stephanie sy. a kentucky clerk who refuses to issue marriage licenses because of her religious beliefs will be in court in about 30 minutes. kim davis and her staff will appear before a federal judge to face contempt charges. she refuses to issue marriage licenses to anyone to avoid having to give them to gay couples, and this morning her office is closed. john terrett is live outside of the courthouse where kim davis will appear soon. what is happening right now? >> reporter: good morning, stephanie. as you said this is the federal district courthouse in ashland, kentucky, alongside the banks of the mighty ohio river, and it is

here today that kim davis will come to answer charges that she is in contempt of court for refusing to hand out marriage licenses. there are people here supporting her, and people who are vehemently against her. i'm going to stand aside to allow aaron, our photographer, to show you what is happening here. there are people who are disgusted by the stance that kim davis has taken, and there are many, many supporters as well. they are clashing vocally. down the road a group of people who are singing hymns and praising god. now the case gets underway in about 30 minutes from now, stephanie. >> john, as you said this is a contempt hearing. what are the potential legal consequences for kim davis? >> reporter: potentially, she could do prison time.

although that is generally thought unlikely. what is more likely is a large fine kim davis will have to pay, or also her colleagues have been hauled into court as well. so it's possible that the judge will work out some kind of compromise deal, whereby marriage licenses are issued, but not just by kim davis. that's a possibility as well. we're going to have to wait and see what the outcome is. we do know there will be a news conference as soon as the court case is over. >> what is going on in her office right now as all of this is happening in court? >> it's closed. and we have pictured of this. there is a typewritten note stuck to the door of the clerk's office, and it says this office will be closed today and will reopen tomorrow. and it has been signed by kim davis. and i think it's worth making note of the fact that kim davis's mother for 37 years,

occupied the same job that she now occupies. she ran as a democrat to hold this position. and she has a lot of supporters and followers in this area. he was elected to the position, and although there's a very vocal group here, protesting against the stance she has taken, and calling for the judge to somehow make sure she issues those marriage licenses, there are plenty of keem in kentucky and further afield who support the stance she has taken. >> as you said she is an elected official. it's sort of the family business. davis has now become a national figure. how much support does she have within her own community? >> reporter: a lot. she was elected to this position. she was a democrat. she became a democrat in order to run for the position that was held for her mother for

something like 37 years. the issue is she may well find herself in contempt of court, not least of all contempt of the supreme court of the united states. it's difficult to see how this will end well for kim davis but her view is there is national law and there is god's law, and everybody will get their own judgment day one day. and that is the line that she is sticking to. remains to be seen whether the judge or anybody else can convince her to change. stephanie. >> john terrett for us live in ashland, kentucky, again, that hearing getting underway in this hour. earlier i spoke to a spokesperson from the center for american action fund, he says he does not think things will go well for kim davis. >> i expect it to play out badly for miss davis. she has been to three different

courts asking them to continue to get away with this. at three different courts including the supreme court have told her no. the morning after the supreme court denied her request that she be allowed to continue not issuing licenses, she in a very high profile way refused to issue licenses to a same-sex couple. so i don't think the question is if she is going to be held in contempt. i think the question is how stiff the fines are going to be against her once she is held in contempt. and she's a government employee. when she is denying couples marriage licenses, she's not just saying i kim davis disapprove of you, she is saying the government disapproves of you, and she can believe what she wants to believe, but she doesn't get to hold a government job and continue to perform it without any consequences whatsoever if she's not going to do what that job requires.

>> the couples suing have repeatedly said they don't want to see davis sent to jail. but he says that may be the only way under kentucky law for another official to step in and begin issuing marriage licenses. donald trump is meeting with the head of the republican committee today. the rnc is asking all of the candidates to sign a pledge of loyalty to the gop. trump was the only candidate to rule out the possibility of a third-party campaign during a debate. trump's campaign will not say if he plans to sign the pledge. the latest poll suggests that it has turned into a dead head. it is the first poll since july to show trump without a clear lead. one of hillary clinton's former aids is expected to invoke his right to remain sigh leapt before a house committee. he allegedly helped the former

secretary of state set up a private email server. one marine was killed and at least nine others hurt when their helicopter made a hard landing in north carolina. the group was carrying out a training exercise last night. 16 marines were on the helicopter at the time. the accident is under investigation. authorities in northern illinois are asking for the public's help as they expand the search for whoever shot and killed a police officer. hundreds of people gathered late wednesday in fox lake park to remember the veteran officer, including his widow. >> joe was my best friend, my hero, the love of my life for the last 26 1/2 years. every night he came home to me. he also believes behind four

children. police say they believe whoever shot the officer was familiar with the area and may have planned an escape route. the pentagon is tracking five navy ships in the bering sea. u.s. officials say the ships are not behaving in a threatening way, and they are in international waters, but the ships are close enough for u.s. officials to track their movements. they arrived on the final day of president obama's trip to the arctic. the last stop of president's visit was to a village. libby casey reports. >> reporter: a way of life for thousands of years. >> we survive off of our land, and we have back values that we use as a foundation for who we

are. >> reporter: continuing their heritage even as their village modernizes. this 69 year old shaves alder bark to smoke and preserve his fish. his whole life is built around what nature provides. and he is afraid an oil spill would ruin that. >> it would be a major shift in our traditional activities. >> reporter: schaffer's village opposed offshore drilling, but now there is a shift to making it safe. >> i don't think there's any precedent that is around right now that would show the difficulty of a spill. >> reporter: locals remember the spill in 1989. take that disaster, and put it in the arctic's icy waters. >> if a large spill were to occur before freeze up, once the

ocean starts freezing up, it's pretty much game over until the next summer. >> reporter: that should mean a spill gushing for months under layers of thick ice with no easy way to stop it, but in a place with the unemployment rate is nearly three times the national average, opportunities are scarce, and it could mean work and visitors. >> shell and conoco and other companies pumps money into the community through various jobs or through the science department. >> i'm sure it would help a lot of families, but the thing you got to think about is just my kids. >> reporter: shell's exploratory drilling is stalled because of equipment problems. the company onto has a month left before the season ends and another year begins. another year for the people here to hunt and fish and weigh the future.

iran's supreme leader is calling on his countries lawmakers to vote on the nuclear deal. iran's parliament and the supreme national security council must vote on the bill before it moves to the ayatollah. he threatened there will be no deal if world powers insist on suspending sanctions rather than lifting them. there was a moment of hope this morning for some refugees desperately trying to get on trains in budapest, but it was short lived. a number were able to board a train, but an hour into the ride, riot police stopped the train and ordered them to get off. many refused to do so, one family, a man, his wife, and child laid on the track. this is live pictures right now we're getting. the cops there wind up on the

track. andrew simmons is live in budapest. >> reporter: some injuries minor, and also some arrests. the train over here stopped. it obviously wasn't a scheduled stop. this is only 40 kilometers outside of the capitol and there was confusion. people were panicking on board. convinced that this was some sort of trap -- sort of trap they had been talking about earlier, they were worried that this would happen. but they have been convinced by a lot of people that this was a way to the border, they may not necessarily travel right across the border, because it's not an international train, but they thought they were on their way. then came the stop, and they were removed by the police. and people started lying on the railway tracks refusing to go any further, and one family, a man, his wife, and their toddler

were lying across the track refusing to leave. it took a huge group of riot police to remove them. and then people started forcing their way back on the train. a standoff took place. the people refusing to move from the train, and intent on staying. we were on that platform, and a short time ago, only a matter of ten minutes, we were forcibly removed by the police. we tried to stay -- all of the media, and there is a lot of media here, i tried to board the train and was refused by the police. we were then backed -- pushed back, stage by stage, attempting all the time to get back towards the train, attempting to interview the people, attempting to get some further coverage,

attempting to witness what was going on. we were refused. we were told the reason was the chief of police had made this a police area. we put ourselves on this . how long we can stay here is anybody's guess, but the train is staying there, and there's a group of riot police and senior police commanders in front of the train right now. no one knows exactly what is going to happen next. >> andrew simmons reporting from the outskirts of budapest hungary. that train departed moments after the prime minister urged migrantss and refugees not to come to the country at all. >> please don't come. why you have to go from turkey to europe? turkey is a safe country. stay there. it's risky to come. we can't guarantee that you will be accepted here. morally and from human point of view, we who defend the border, we represent a human moral point

also, because we would not like to falsefy the dreams of the people. >> and now turkey's president has weighed in, saying european nations are being indifferent to the deaths of refugees. he says all western nations share the blame. we now know more than the syrian boy found drowned on a turkish beach. he is three years old. he and his five year older brother were among a group of syrians who drowned. the boys' mother and sister survived. they put in an application to go to canada, but the canadian government denied it. a new warning about e-cigarettes. there are concerns being raised about cancer.

>> follow correspondent roxana saberi on a personal journey. >> this is the first time in 20 years i've been back to my mother's homeland. >> a special in-depth look at japan. the legacy of the atomic bomb. controversial american military bases. and the country's evolving identity. welcome back. it is 10:49 eastern. a federal judge has thrown out tom brady's four-game suspension. brady says he was not involved in deflating footballs so they were easier to catch. turkish officials say they have released to journalists

from prison. they arrested three wiess employees earlier this week and charged them with aiding terrorism. and a new report is not allaying concerns about crude oil trains exploding. an associated press survey found that most big cities are not prepared for an explosive train accident. cities are still scrambling to form late emergency plans. two brothers in north carolina have won a major court battle after serving 30 years for a crime they didn't commit. they have been awarded $750,000 each by the state. the pair were wrongly convicted in the killing and raping of an 11-year-old girl back in 1983. they were freed last year after new dna pointed to another man.

a group is suing manufacturers of e-cigarettes for keeping information secret. >> reporter: it is being billed as the first large-scale lab testing of e-cigarettes that simulates how they are used in the real world. they looked at products from 24 e-cigarette manufacturers and found that 21 has at least one product containing hazardous amounts of materials. it says it tested 97 in all, 50 contained the hazardous chemicals. >> some we are ten times as high, one was 470 times the legal limit for selling these products without warning them that they might cause cancer. nicotine is a really strong,

reproductive toxin, that means it causes birth defects. >> reporter: an industry-funded study argued that e-cigs are far safer than smoking tobacco. >> is it safer to get hit by a car than a bus? yes, but i don't want to get hit by a car. and if you are choosing to live a healthy life and be exposed to chemicals that cause cancer or birth defects, the choice to me is obvious. >> reporter: they are now suing for failing to warn people about the risks. >> we're saying that dates who are well-informed have the right to smoke cigarettes or vape or anything they want in this category of products. what we're saying is the companies cannot withhold the information about the impacts. a new study shows how needle exchanges can make a big impact

in controlling hiv. they also found the program cut the average monthly rate of new infections by about 70%. the program offers clean syringes and addiction treatment to users as well as free hiv tests and free condoms. why parents are challenges a new york school district over where their son with attend class.

new data shows sat scores at their lowest level in ten years. the average sat score for the class of 2014 was 1490, that is down 7 points from the year before. there was at least a 2-point decline on all sections of the test. educators say it is tough to single out exactly what caused the decline, but say poverty, language barriers and low education among parents are challenges. a new york family is taking on their local school district. their son has down's syndrome, but they say officials will not let the boy enroll in middle school. >> reporter: aiden was supposed to start 7th grade today. >> i was hoping to just walk him into middle school with the rest of his friends and family. >> reporter: instead they went

to protest with relatives and friends in front of the school. >> i'm here to protest for aid den. >> reporter: the 12 year old has down's syndrome. he graduated from elementary school last spring, but the school district says it hasn't have middle schools or high schools for kids like him. aiden's parents want their son to stay in the community they call home. >> if he went so a different school district, no one would know him there. and here everybody loves him and accepts him. >> reporter: federal law requires all school districts to give public education.

>> it doesn't say where that has to be provided. so the law doesn't get into the particulars of which school district or campus a child has to attend. >> reporter: but this attorney says the district is legally required to let aiden in. >> they cannot discriminate on the basis of a disability, and that's what is happening here. >> reporter: we went inside to get a comment and were given a statement by the superintendent. it says the school district can't legally comment on specific students or pending litigation, and then we were asked to leave. aiden's parents are seeking a court order to get him into west hampton beach middle school. one of the board of education members said you are trying to publicly bully the school district into developing an education program for your son.

what do you say to that? >> i thought it was an interesting use of words bully. it's me and my family and our community trying to change the culture of the school district. who is the bully here? >> i think we're just going to continue the pressure. i think that it -- the -- someone will have to listen somewhere down the line. >> reporter: roxana saberi, al jazeera, west hampton, new york. for $11.99 a month you can now watch movies and shows on hulu for free. the change is part of the company's effort to be more competitive. hulu has around 9 million paying subscribers, netflixes has 49 million. thanks for watching, i'm stephanie sy. the news continues next live

from doha. have a great day. ♪ >> announcer: this is al jazeera. ♪ hello there, welcome to the news hour. i'm laura kyle in doha. hectic scenes in hungary as refugees lie on railway tracks in a bid to stop being taken to nearby camps. syrians of all backgrounds have been the subject of crimes against humanity. the u.n. sets out in forensic detail what people