full potential, many experts say it won't just be a break through in technology, but also one for society. and that's it for this news bulletin, but so much more to come. do stay with us. the address there, aljazeera.com. republicans take new steps to try to stop the nuclear deal with iran, but the white house is still declaring victory and moving to implement the agreement. a shooter strikes again on one of arizona's busiest highways. i would be lying if i said that i knew i was there. >> and joe biden gets emotional,

explaining why he may not be ready to run for president. ♪ this is al jazeera america live from new york city. i'm stephanie sy. a debate is underway in the house of representatives right now over the iran nucle nuclear -- deal. senate democrats blocked a resolution rejecting the deal, but the g.o.p. says it will bring it up again. and some in the house vow they will do everything they can to stop the agreement, even threatening a lawsuit. libby casey is live on capitol hill. what bills are the house debating right now? >> reporter: in about an hour they will take two votes. one is to approve of the iran nuclear deal. now that will fail, because all of the republicans and some democrats will vote against it. but republicans want to put the

democrats backing the white house on defense. basically use this as a moment to say that these m dls stood up and supported this deal, that a lot of americans have questions about, stephanie. they have also chosen this day september 11th, with particular intention, because it is of course the 14th anniversary of the september 11th attacks. they will take another vote as well, this one to criticize the white house and try to prevent the president from lifting any sanctions. despite the attempts today it won't go anywhere, because those won't pass in the senate. the house and senate have taken very different tactics this week. >> do republicans have any chance of winning the fight at this point? >> reporter: odds are not looking goods for them at this point because those 42 democrats pushed back last night and blocked the republicans in the senate from moving forward and taking a vote to disapprove of

the iranian nuclear deal, there is little chance any of those democrats could change their minds in the next few days. mitch mcconnell is calling for a second vote, but it doesn't look like any democrats would alter their decision. republicans are talking about other methods. we heard speaker john boehner yesterday say he wouldn't rule out a lawsuit or think about trying to wrap this into the budget fight that would unfold in the next couple of weeks. >> so if all goes according to president obama's plan. when will that take effect and what will that look like? >> reporter: congress only has until thursday of next week to vote to disapprove, otherwise the white house will absolutely move forward. and we'll see october 19th as the day to watch. that's 90 days since the

ub -- u.n. security council voted to approve this agreement. >> libby thank you. military officials are investigating a deadly accident today. one marine was killed and another 18 injured when a vehicle they were in rolled over. a spokeswoman says the accident took place during a routine training mission. they are not yet releasing the name of the marine who was killed. there has been another shooting on an arizona highway, the 11th incident in the last 12 days. in the latest incident a delivery truck was hit. one or more shooters appear to be firing at vehicles in the area. they don't have any major leads and that has residences on edge. >> i use the side streets. >> it is scary. it makes me more cautious to be

on that stretch. >> reporter: so far the only injury has been a young girl hit by flying glass. in the race for the white house, vice president joe biden is expressing doubts over his ability to run for the presidency. on the late show last night he got emotional in talking about the decision. >> i don't think any man or woman should run for president unless, number 1, they know exactly why they want to be president, and two, they can look at folks out there and say, i promise you, you have my whole heart, my whole soul, my energy and passion to do this. and i would be lying if i said that i knew i was there. >> biden said he doesn't think he has the stamina for a third presidential run. he mentioned how he has been working to heal since death of

his son bo. >> my dad used to say you know your success as parent when you turn and look at your child and realize they turned out better than you. i was a hell of a success. my son was better than me. >> bo biden was 46 when he passed away from brain cancer. baltimore's major -- mayor announced she will not run for reelection. she said she wants to spend the remaining 15 months of her term running the city. the fbi says it has stopped a planned attack on a 9/11 memorial event in kansas city. police arrested ryan goldberg near his home. goldberg had been working with an informant. he faces up to 20 years in prison if convicted. it was 14 years ago today that the september 11th attacks

changed the country. ♪ >> president obama and the first lady lead a national moment of silence this morning at the exact time when the first plane struck the world trade center. in new york familiar list of the victims are continuing to read the names of those killed. there is also a remembrance in pennsylvania as well as where passengers took down the plane before it reached its target. >> when terrorists attacked the pentagon, they tore a whole in this building. they tore at places in your hearts that may never heal completely. but as you know, better than anyone, they did not, and could not take from us, what defines us, as americans, we are defined by our resilience, by our readiness to stand up for our

values, but our willingness to honor the past even as we always begin begin anew. ♪ >> carter told the friends families of pentagon victims that a piece of the rubble sits on his desk as a reminder. the historic church in manhattan was damaged during the attack. we spoke to the pastor of the church who told us about his call to duty when he saw the towers come tumbling down. >> i was pastor of st. peters church in lower manhattan about a block from ground zero. i had just finished hearing confessions, and i was going back to the residence next door, and the secretary told me a plane had hit the world trade

tower, and i was just, wow, this can't be happening, but it was happening. so i went out there, trying to see how i might be of assistance, and it was just total chaos, and people looking up, and they were saying that people were jumping. and i didn't want to have to see that, because i didn't want to have that memory in my mind in the years to come. and all of a sudden the second plane hit and [ inaudible ] went flying over my head from a piece of the plane. that's the closest i came to actually being instruct by the debris. and then i could see the tower beginning to fall, so i yelled down here and i went down by the police officers and we went into the subway station down below, we were all huddled against the wall. and all of the dust came in from the wind and the tower falling.

and we were just paralyzed almost. and eventually the dust settled. and one of the police officers had a flashlight, so we all linked arms and walks along the subway platform, lead by the police officer with the flashlight and emerged about three blocks north. so i went to the local hospital nearby, but they didn't bring any wounded people there, so then in the days after, we came back down, and the church was used as kind of an open door for the whole next month and a half. the pope sometimes speaks of the church as being a field hospital where people who are wounded emotionally and spiritually, but in that case it was actually field hospital. because they -- the day of the actual event, it was used as a morgue and a place to bring the injured. many people are familiar that father judge was brought there.

it was a priest and chaplain in the fire department. people always question how does god allow something like this? and it puts people's faith to a test, and people have to question, what do i really believe in? why do i invest myself in this religi religion, but now to come back and see that the terrorist did not win, i mean that love is stronger than hate, that came through in the weeks after, and i think that this event now, i guess almost 14 years later would be an affirmation of all of that. coming up, a warning for wall street, the justice department now set to go after white collar criminals and not just the companies they work for. ♪

welcome back to al jazeera america. it is 10:44 eastern. an albuquerque police officer and retired detective will be arraigned today for shooting a homeless man. the man was carrying a knife, the video of the incident went public sparking protests and eventual reforms in the police force. cuba says it will pardon 4500 prisoners.

it's not clear if any dissidents will be released. and the man who attacked the u.s. ambassador to korea will be sentenced to prison. confusion this morning at austria's border after police stopped hundreds of refugees from entering the country. austrian officials have closed a major highway near the border. thousands have been using that highway to seek asylum in countries such as germany. more than 220,000 people many syrians have sought refuge there. meanwhile macedonia's president like hungary says he is considering building a fence. >> reporter: from the islands they took the ferry to the mainland. traveled through the night, and reached the border by morning.

it is pouring with rain. children are soaked to the bone, yet the refugees are still determined to continue their journey, but it's one full of obstacles. macedonian border police have blocked their path, and frustrations grew once more. the rain continued to poor. impairment the refugees pressed forward, the police pushed back, until it became too much to cope where. this is not the first time for the mass loanian border guards to use force. others could just not wait anymore. and yet again risked their lives. some said they were running out of money. others out of time. the macedonian police eventually let everybody in, and in the rush probably by fear that the border will close once again, they left their personal belongings, like shoes for

children and even their tents that they will probably need, because they still have four countries to go through. for a while the border stayed calm. most of the refugees stuck on the greek islands have been evacuated. about 20,000 people are expected to stream through here in the coming hours and days. some people living in the area have also come to help. sophia says the plight of these men, women, and children has hit close to home. >> translator: our ancestors are refugees. i'm seeing what my grandfather and mother experienced. >> reporter: and after weeking of traveling, clean clothes are more than welcome for little ali. his parents entered greece through the island of rhodes. she feared her baby would not make the crossing.

>> translator: we are not extremests. some people don't want us, but it's still better than syria. >> reporter: it's that belief and hope that gives them the strength to continue a voyage full of uncertainties. hoda abdel hamid, al jazeera, on the greek macedonian border. japan is searching for the missing today now that flood waters are starting to recede near tokyo. at least three people died after levies broke. at least 22 are missing. wayne haye is in a hard-hit town northwest of tokyo. >> reporter: it was a day really when the weather cleared, which was the first piece of good news, and we also noticed that the water receded quite quickly. so that certainly enabled a lot of people who had spent the night in evacuation centers and friends and families homes to

come back here and check on their homes and possessions. but still a lot of work to be done here. the city is largely in darkness, certainly this area where the river burst its banks and took everything with it. the banks are some 4 meters high. there was reportedly some construction work that was planned very soon, actually to fortify those banks. obviously too late to prevent this disaster. it did burst its banks some 70-odd years ago, so it has seen this sort of disaster before, but this level of rainfall the officials was saying was certainly something they hadn't seen before in such a short space of time. still some concern too further north where rain fell throughout friday unlike here. still raining in that part of the country. it was forecast to clear early this evening, but there is still

a severe weather warning in place for that area. two rivers have burst their banks there and flooded many areas. >> wane haye reporting there. the justice department is promising to get tougher on white collar criminals. they say they will target companies and individuals involved in corporate crimes. ali velshi explains the impact it may have on responsible for the financial crisis. >> you would think if the department of justice had all sorts of stuff with my they could charge people they might have done it before now. so the aim is to inject new life in to high-profile investigation. they often target the companies themselves, and traditionally that has been okay because the fines are so big that feels okay. but it only looks at executives after settling with the companies. and in many cases that means the prosecution of individuals goes

unpunished. this focus moves to individual employees at the beginning of an investigation. companies likely have to identify employees at the beginning of the investigation, then they'll be compelled to turn in evidence against them. they are not going to get credit for cooperating with the government unless they turn. and that might be able to save thimbles in fines in a final legal settlement, but that means singing like a bird and sending some people up. knew rules take effect immediately, not clear that it is going to have any effect own things that have already happened. >> i spoke with a former executive who was convicted and served more than a year in prison. he cooperated with the government and went undercover to exfauxes pose crimes. >> these crimes are committed through flesh and bones people, and for those who are thinking

about corporate time, let's think about it, someone is calculating the benefit of engaging in crime against the risk and consequences of being caught. and in today's environment of corporate agrievance, corporate probation, even criminal fines, i don't know that that's really being considered in the deterrence part of that calculation. it's almost too abstract. >> but why would a company throw a high-level executive under the bus? >> well, according to the new guidelines, part of cooperation is talking about the individuals that committed these crimes. so i think that's a new standard to which corporations will be held accountable, if they are thinking about cooperating. >> when you were convicted in 2011, was there an evil climate that somehow made you feel like you could do wrong with

impunity. >> that's a great question. and absolutely i did. i never thought about getting caught. i didn't calculate the risks and consequences about getting caught. so when people say you were well educated and well compensated, why did you do it? i thought i could do it with impunity. >> he says the new guidelines will likely raise the bar for conviction and lead to more settlements.

it's not a matter of if but when a massive earthquake and tsunami will hit the northwest. is it true? >> reporter: this construction site is going to be an elementary school being built brand new on the washington coast in the town of west port

the pacific is just about a half mile that one. this is much more than just a school, this $13.8 million project is also going to be a means of shelter for people in case there is a subduction zone earthquake off of the coast followed by massive tsunami. people will be able to climb up these pillars and ride out the tsunami. it's one plan for one school in one town. but just how ready is the whole west coast for the really big quake geologyists say is bound to happen. >> man plans, god laughs. we can only plan so much, and train so much, and the only thing that we can do is try to be there as quickly as we can to assist the survivors. >> reporter: the concept is vertical evacuation. it might take you a long time to get three or four miles inland,

but if you can just go 45 feet straight up, you might stand a real chance. this is the first of its kind in north america. alan schauffler, al jazeera. you can watch his full report tonight at 8:00 eastern. floyd mayweatherer is preparing today for the final fight of his career. he hopes to finish with a slate when he goes up against his opponent. >> reporter: it's a due you that has many fans scratching their heads. the first woman to coach in the nfl to accept a invitation from floyd mayweather. >> if this is his way of saying maybe i want to do better, the worst thing that i could have done was just outright refuse that, because he would be like,

man, i tried. here is somebody i thought maybe i would be able to relate to, and she shut me down, forget this. >> reporter: this group treated: her response: mayweatherer had pleaded guilty on two domestic violence margins and went to jail for two months after hitting his then girlfriend. it was earlier this summer that welter made history when the arizona cardinals hired her to work with linebackers. >> i didn't start playing football to be here. i didn't even dream that it was possible. and i think the beauty of this, is that, though, it's a dream i never could have had, now it's a dream that other girls can grow

up and have. >> reporter: some female reporters were excluded from his fight in may. and recently he got into an interview fraud by ronda rousey. given his reputation it may help mayweather's image rather than welters. >> if his goal is to rehabilitate his image before going into retire, there is no question this is a victory for him. >> welter says her main condition for accepting the invitation was a face-to-face meeting with mayweather. in that is supposed to happen today or tomorrow before the fight. we reached out to mayweather's team but did not receive a

reply. that's it for us. the news continues next live from doha. have a great morning. ♪ >> announcer: this is al jazeera. ♪ hello welcome to the news hour, i'm jane dutton live from our headquarters in doha. what we have now is a system that doesn't work. >> harsh criticism about the plight of the thousands of people fleeing to europe. russia says it will continue to send weapons to the syrian army as a way to help the fight against isil. a generational divide in singapore sets the tone for