as the pope visits the u.s., we take a closer look at the pope and the mafia. >> this is aljazeera america. i'm del walters in new york with a rook at tonight's top stories. california wildfires have fire crews scrambling or safety tonight. >> border checks, germany closes its doors to refugees as it continues to struggle with the flood of people coming into its country. >> political turmoil, on the streets of turkey, things turn deadly. >> brittle wall, why china's man made wonder is disappearing and

can it be saved. >> we have breaking news out of egypt. the president of mexico at this hour demanding answers after egyptian security forces shot and killed 12 mexican tourists and their to your guide on sunday as they drove through the city in the country's western desert. egypt's interior ministry say they were spotted by a group of soldiers and police there conducting an anti terror operation. this is the statement reds from the egypt government: in addition to the 12 killed, 10 others were wounded. mexico president said:

>> the state department just last month issuing an advisory to u.s. citizens as well, telling them to avoid traveling outside cairo, alex and korea for the major tourist areas. we'll have a live report out of cairo in a few minutes. >> the leader of al-qaeda calling on young muslims to attack the u.s. and other western nations. >> al zawahiri urges lone wolf attacks, using the bosses mar bombers as examples for other young men to follow. he said they should rise up in the nations involved in the fight against isil and urged unity to forces fighting with isil in syria. >> in the wine country north of

san francisco, this video was shot from a roadway as the fire approached. it shows exactly what firefighters there are facing on the ground. california's governor declared a state of emergency. thousands of respondents have been told to get out. at center of the destruction, the small town of middletown. we have this report. >> i'm standing in front of what was once a home essentially just a foundation left and in fact the house is still burning. keep in mind that the valley fire swept through middletown in 24 hours and in this particular section, we were told that lately in the evening from saturday into sunday morning, there were winds of 35 miles per hour, and the fire swept through 20 minutes across this small town very quickly and capriciously. if you look right behind me, there are a couple of buildings still standing. it's not clear whether the fire just decided to jump past these homes or whether firefighters managed to fight away the

flames. this has suddenly become the top priority in the state. >> all the houses, the neighbor's houses, it's awful. >> the latest fire began as a small brush blaze west of sacramento. it engulfed 50,000 acres. 1,000 firefighters have been deployed to fight it. respondents are fleeing for their lives. this is just the latest massive challenge for california's department of forestry and fire protection after years of devastating drought conditions. the butte fire has burned 45,000 acres. 2600 others have been deployed to the ruff fire further south.

it's burned for six weeks. >> since the drought is in its fifth year, cal fire has been on the front lines 10 months out of the year and now we're heading into the september burn season, we'll be at it until december unless we get some significant rain. >> strong winds complicated efforts to fight the flames from above. four members of a helicopter crew have been hospitalized with second degree burns. with resources at the breaking point, there is cautious hope lower temperatures on sunday will hold. >> we can't talk about california fires without referring to the drought. i mentioned that in my report. our team has been covering the drought for the last couple of years enough. as we were driving into middletown, this area particularly was extra dry, even for our team, where we have traveled across the state to look at drought conditions. the grass essentially all brown, browned from the weather, browned from the sun and no

rain. this is particularly tough for firefighters in this area because of the dry shrubbery. >> as we see in so many cases, the weather is a factor out west, as well. >> that's right. we've been locked into a weather pattern that a ridge of high pressure has really been keeping most of this area extremely hot. i want to show you the big picture. in this area, even though we had rain showers, this is an area of high pressure. the relief that's coming in the next couple days is actually up here, coming through parts of washington and oregon, but we are seeing some relief as we go towards monday, as well as tuesday. this is what we saw today, though, as though temperatures, look at the sacramento 98 degrees, where the fires were burning, high 80's in that particular area. as we go toward tomorrow, the temperatures into drop off as you can see sacramento down to 79 degrees there. we are not going to be seeing any rain coming into play. that's going to be towards the east. as we go towards tuesday, things

are going to be better. notice the green across the area. those are temperatures into the low 70's, so some relief for the firefighters in terms of temperature, but we are not going to be seeing really any rain. >> kevin, thank you very much. >> the company has managed hillary clinton's private email server says the device was never wiped, according to a report in today's washington post. that means that 31,000 deheated emails could still be retrieved. clinton said they were her personal messages and were deleted before the server was turned over to the state department but if the server was not wiped, those could still be found. >> latino activists in texas plan a dump the trump rally tomorrow. the march expects 1500 people dressed in red, white and blue. >> we're going to talk about what's happening to the campaign of mr. trump and the rest of the

presidential candidates. stay tuned for our look at america votes 2016. it's coming up at 11:30. >> in europe, the refugee crisis continues to overwhelm governments, germany cutting back on trains is making it tougher to get into the country. the move comes days after germany opened its doors to the refugees, officials saying the government has reached a breaking point. germany said the measure is temporary. >> at least 38 refugees drowned in the waters between greece and turkey, many children. it is the largest single incident since that crisis began. dozens of survivors managed to swim ashore. >> in austria, thousands of people are stranded. they are stuck at the train stations. police say today alone, close to 9,000 people tried to enter the country, all of them are trying to find a place where they are want. al jazeera's jonah hum has more. >> the pace of arrivals at the refugee camp in lesbos has not

slowed. something else has changed. the pace at which they are able to leave. under pressure from the u.n.'s refugee agency and the e.u., police reinforcements now register up to 2,000 people a day. that's almost the same number as those landing on the island from turkey every day. the chaos and the disorder of recent days has turned to calm efficiency. >> two weeks ago, it was very difficult here. >> yeah, my friend who was calling me, you don't have to come here, because it's really pressure. it's really, really pressure. >> now it's much better. >> i am surprised what he told me and what i saw now, it's a really big difference. >> the transformation of this camp since i was last here is extraordinary, just two weeks ago, this was a squalid, woeful place, thousands of people sleeping and living rough for days on end with virtually no

assistance. now, there are decent sanitation facilities, there are proper tents, there are medical facilities and there's a feeding station, freely distributing food. i hate to think how this man would have coped before. he was shot through both legs in an isil attack at the university in raqqa in syria. he was studying biology. >> what does it mean to you to be here in europe, away from syria? >> i've made my way through struggle and hardship, taking great risk to seek medical treatment. in germany, there are specialists at treating such conditions. >> the greek government is pushing ferry companies to provide more boats. people pay for their tickets.

>> it was 45, now they are saying it is 70. maybe one hour later, it shall be 80, so what shall we do? >> you have a long journey ahead. >> maybe five or six more countries we've got to go to get to germany. >> in just a few days, more than 30,000 refugees and migrants have left lesbos. good news for this island and for them, bad news for the already crowded road ahead that will get even busier. al jazeera, lesbos island, greece. >> germany's decision to close borders was greeted joyfully by hungary. the refugee crisis has been a political hot potato. it's also polarizing the hungarian people. >> referring to this humanitarian crisis, hungary the prime minister has repeatedly said it's germany's problem. ask any of the volunteers who try to help the refugees through this chaos, what they think, and

they can't help getting political. >> for many hungarians, it's natural that we help them and we feel really, really angry that our government is giving them this treatment. >> this is a husband and wife team, helping take their nations and passing them on to those in need. >> he said that they don't want muslim here. i have did not understand that, because there are muslim living here with peace. >> we're not sure what's going to happen if they close the borders again, then there will be thousands of people sleeping here again. >> political protests are gaining momentum, not just opposition to the prime minister, this demonstration is supporting him. the speaker is attacking a liberal magazine for portraying him at adolf hitler on its front page. >> it's not the prime minister who is a nazi and fascist, but the editors who dare to say this about the prime minister. >> there's nothing wrong with

the migrants or they're region. it's the large numbers, that's all. >> not far away, protestors from the opposition have marched on parliament. >> critics say his main motivation is keeping a grip on power in parliament. before the refugee crisis, his popularity was waning, now his advisors say the firmer he gets on the issue, the more popular he becomes. >> a former socialist prime minister believes the prime minister is taking his country down a dangerous road. >> the hungarian people, the majority of them are full of worries about the refugees and the prime minister is fighting for the rights. >> he is four years away from an election but see as potential threat from the far right. analysts believe he is playing a smart card. >> he is not somebody just interested in popularity

tomorrow or after tomorrow. he thinks much more that there is a challenge for euro and the current european elite is not able to answer this challenge. >> supporters believe in his fire brand approach along with his vision of a christian europe, but he's playing for big political stakes and making enemy ins high places. as he is does so, the misery of so many here continues with no relief. >> al jazeera, budapest. >> violence on the streets of turkey today left nine people dead, including several police. violent protests broke out in two major decides on sunday. these were the scenes in istanbul. 200 people marched against tightened security restrictions. riot police fired rubber bullets, water cannons and tear gas. two police officers were killed by kurdish rebels after a bombing at a checkpoint. >> chile, anniversary

celebrations turned violent, protestors threw rocks at police and set fires in the streets. police responded with water cannons and tear gas. >> still no school for seattle students. the latest on the teacher strike there now going into its second woke. >> president obama announcing a new plan to help college students jump start the financial aid process. >> that prediction that a devastating earthquake that hit the pacific northwest, how serious is the threat and what's being done to get ready.

>> we want to return now to our stop story, the breaking news out of egypt. security forces shot and killed 12 mexican tourists and their tour guides, 10 others were wounded. mexico's president now calling for a full investigation of what happened. joining us by phone now from egypt with us amanda, a spanish journalist based in cairo. thank you for being with us. can you tell us the latest number that you are hearing rewarding casualties? >> well, sunday, egypt authorities said that 12 person,

mexicans and egyptians were killed and others are injured. from mexico, just about one hour ago, they said that the people are in hospital, one of the best in cairo. the ambassador is there and he met five of the injured, whose lives are not at risk. so far, they only confirmed they are tourists. >> we heard the mexican ambassador was on the scene assessing with efforts to help tourists who were shot. >> exactly. exactly. as i said, he's there in the hospital, trying to help the mexican citizens. we don't know a lot of things. the security forces -- >> our state department, the u.s. state department august finished a warning to u.s.

tourists saying to avoid travel to europe. any idea why there were so many mexican tourists there, as well, and why they were headed to that particular area? because the egyptians say that this area was said to be off limits. >> yes. they said that the tourists were in a restricted area for security reasons. this area near so sudan and libya and is a very problematic zone. in august, five egyptian troops died when a helicopter crash was taking place and at least 21 soldiers were killed in july last year when gunman attacked a checkpoint. >> amanda, thank you very much. >> in arizona, police are seeing what they call a rash of copy cats after the spate of highway

shootings that have residents there on edge. three teenage boys were arrested. they used shrink shots to launch rocking at passers by. officials say it looks like they copied the real shooter who has been using life ammo to hilt vehicles driving along interstate 10. 11 cars have been attacked in the past two weeks. no one was killed, but a little girl was injured. >> they were using granite and a sling shot to shoot at pedestrians and cars. if you break out a windshield with a rock and somebody grabs the steering wheel and gentlemen, it and steers it the wrong way and you have a catastrophic collision you end up with death again. >> the 18-year-old's confessed to police. they are held on charges of damage and conspiracy. they hit six pedestrians and seven cars. >> advocates are fighting back against kim davis in kentucky. a billboard was reacted saying the fact that you can't sell your daughter for three goats

and a cow means we've already redefined marriage, referring to marriage lawyers in the bible. davis, the county clerk returns to work tomorrow after she was jailed for contempt for denying to issue marriage licenses to gay couples. >> college-bound students will soon be able to apply for federal aid three months earlier than years past. president obama's new clan affecting the class of 2017. they can apply for pell grants and student loans beginnings in october of 2016. that means they won't have to wait until their family's file their taxes the next year to apply. president obama said they will make it if i recall on monday during an appearance at a high school. >> in seattle, a teacher's strike going into its second week tomorrow. the union has been in daily negotiations with the school districts. it is the first strike in 30 years there. officials offered $62 million in raises and special ed funding, but the keepers want three times that amount. more than 100 public yet to hold classes because 50,000 educators

walked off the job last week just as classes were set to begin. >> a 9.0 earthquake, the big one, seismologists say it is only a matter of time before one hits the pacific northwest. what's being done to get ready, to prepare? alan shoveler investigates. >> the 2011 earthquake and resulting tsunami swamped coastal communities, killed more than 15,000 and caused $300 billion in damage. in the world's most earthquake ready and tsunami aware country, that was in japan. >> marine goals chris gold finger studies what makes big quakes big, a major area of interest, the subduction zone. two pieces of the earth's crust collides with one sliding under

the other. >> the upper edge gets stuck, so forces the north america plate to buckle and then every 300 to 500 years, it will let go like that and that's the earthquake and that's what generates the tsunami. >> a peninsula with sandbars built on them dot the shoreline. west port, washington is one of the most popular and vulnerable towns. everybody here knows what's offshore and what could happen. >> fishing, fun at the beach, now it's a great place to be in the summertime here, and we'd hate to think that someday it might not be here. >> what's going to happen now will install the beams that go from to your to to your. >> a few miles away, a new elementary school is under construction, but this is more than just a school. it's designed as a vertical evacuation site, the first of its kind on the continent, where

one to 2,000 people could take temporary shelter and let tsunami surgeries pass under them. >> this is across the school. >> other similar structures are under consideration up and down the coast where residents and visitors could have as little as 15 minutes between quake and tsunami. >> you've got to get to high ground. if you're on street level, you're not going to make it. >> pointing to the challenges of evacuation, coastal highways are almost all two lane roads. in many cases, they are the only way in or out of northwest beach towns. a magnitude nine quake would almost certainly damage them beyond use. warning sirens to your among neighborhoods, people directed to the closest high ground and designated assembly areas. >> it's exploding. we're working. i wouldn't say around the clock, but we're really pushing it. >> at american preparedness,

swamped with orders and assembling emergency kits as fast as they can, this is old news, including federal projections that 13,000 people could die on the coast and in the area's major cities far from the pacific. >> what are you going to do without an emergency preparedness kit. you can't knock on somebody's car window and say can i have your food and water and everything else you've got. >> evidence that something like this will happen here in the future is written in the past. >> these are 1999. >> these are old friends. >> yeah, i know these better than my neighbors. >> core samples show major quakes happening over and over. >> this is what we think is probably the biggest either quake we have had in the last 10,000 years. we call it t11. >> the most recent hit in the year 1700. how often, where and how powerful are key questions. >> are we overdue?

for the north part of vancouver and seattle, you would have to say no, because we're roughly 315 years into an average 500 year cycle, so you wouldn't say that that's necessarily overdue. >> for the southern part of the fault? >> we're 350 years into a 240 year cycle. >> he sees a chance for a rip on the southern end within 50 years, a one in 10 chance on the northern end, and usuallies disaster awareness and planning. so does the per representative where west post is. >> man plan, god laughs, and we can only plan so much. we can only train so much and the only thing that we can do is try to be there as quickly as we can to assess the survivors. >> onshore, and under water, pressure continues to build in the subduction zone.

>> a volcano on japan erupted early monday morning sending ash into the sky. six flights have been canceled to avoid the ash. so far, there have been no reports of injuries. >> donald trump is taking on his fellow republican candidate date, ben carson. >> my life is multi-facetted. it's ridiculous to think the only thing i can do is neurosurgery. >> the war of words between the republican front runner and his closest rival.

>> we want to bring you up to date on our top story. the president of mexico is demanding answers after egyptian security forces opened fire on mexican tourists and tour guides as they drove through a city in the countries western desert. egypt's interior minister said a group of soldiers and police mistook them for terrorists and began shooting. the minister said the tourists were inside a restrict area at the time. >> it's sunday night, time for a look at the week ahead. new poll has republican donald trump and democratic hillary clinton in a dead heat if that election were held tomorrow. clinton with 46% of the vote, trump with 43%. meanwhile wednesday, the republicans are set to hold their second debate this time at the ronald reagan presidential library in california. it's the first time that carly

fiorina will be at the big table. you may recall, she threw verbal jabs at trump last week for his criticism of her looks. >> always today, trump lashed out at other opponents, this time ben carson, saying he doesn't have the energy it takes to be president. he dismissed carson's surge in the polls as not surging as fast as he has. >> i don't think ben has the energy. ben is a nice man, but when you're negotiating against china, we need people that are really smart that have tremendous deal making skills, and that have great, great energy. >> carson responding to the attack saying he has plenty of energy and that being a neurosurgeon requires knowledge and critical decision making skills. >> my live is multi-tass setted, growing up having multiple jobs, experiencing every level, sober yo economic level in our country, spending multiple years in corporate america, 18 years on the board of kellogg, 16

years on the board of costco. you know, it's ridiculous to think that the only things that i can do is neurosurgery. >> a republican strategist and christine is the daughter of house minority leader nancy pelosi. this is the first time we are seeing friction between the top two republican capped dates. is this a harbinger of wednesday's debate and are we going to see the gloves come off? >> i think you will and donald trump has a giant bullseye on his back. he's been taking shots at everybody and i think this is the first time, you know, you saw a little bit of it in the first debate, but this is the time i think candidates are going to come out and really take husk to task for a lot of things he has been saying about everybody. >> ms. policy, your political family goes all the way back into your grandfather being in

baltimore, your mother now the house minority leader. describe what it takes to be a politician. we hear donald trump saying he doesn't have the chops to do this or that. can a donald trump succeed on capitol hill based on what you know about how congress and washington work? >> having traveled on the road for 10 years now doing campaign boot camps in 40 states with hundreds of candidates, dozens of whom have been elected to congress and other offices, we tell people all the time, the first things you need to do is answer a call to service. second you need a layout a vision and a positive reason for people before you and third you have to be able to attract people to your goal and fourth, you have to be able tolls at least once, the other side is right. you can imagine what it was like for me to tell democrats 10 years ago, find one nice thing to say about george bush, but that's true. for donald trump, you have to say one nice thing to the people

across the table from you. >> donald trump says that that's what's wrong with washington and in donald trump's defense, he is surging in the polls. is he right and you're wrong? >> no in the art of the deal, trump's own book, he talks about finding points of common ground with people in order to make a deal. i don't think you can say look at the iran deal. those are sensitive negotiations. people found common ground and found that sometimes it was ok for the politicians to talk, sometimes better for scientists to talk, sometimes better than the diplomats. the bottom line everybody needs to be able to come and sit at the tail. the president of the united states through his or her representative has to do more than just yell at people on the

other side if you're going to expect to get something done. >> speaking of yelling at people on the other side. i want to show you right now the trump carson poll that has donald trump with 30% of the people that have been polled if the election were held tomorrow, ben carson with 19% who has proudly been here with the republican party with alan keys, thurman contain and yet when they become the front runner, they seem to fizzle. is this the political version of what we once saw in the nfl, which is that african-americans are good enough to be the running back, but not necessarily the quarterback and do you ever see dr. carson becoming the front runner on the republican side? >> he's certainly making a very strong case. he's nipping at donald trumps heels right now. christine makes an excellent point, you can't just yell your way to the white house and insult your way to the white house. >> it seems to be working. >> to a degree, because people are frustrated with the way things are going. if you look at the three outsiders in the race, someone

like ben carson or carly fiorina, they show that they can deliver results, too. carl fire is a word renowned business woman and ben carson a world renowned surgeon. they show they are the whole package and i think you'll see both move up as donald trump starts to fall. >> the polls show damaged trump and hillary clinton neck and neck, all of this coming a week after trump questioned the beauty of carly fiorina. will women vote for donald trump as a posed to hillary clinton if elected will become the nation's first female president? >> there's always been a gender gap between the parties, particularly women of color are going to be voting for the democratic canned did it for president. i don't see women of color voting for donald trump in any large in connection at all. when we talk about the gender gap, let's be clear we are talking about younger white women and women of color of all

ages. when you talk about insulting a woman's appearance before you even get to her record, i think that women are going to find that to be a turn off and i think hillary clinton is going to defeat donald trump. >> donald trump says in one word winning, why is he winning when he seems to be doing everything that political pundits say that he shouldn't do? >> well, i think he's winning because he's winning a third of the vote. let's be clear. he's winning a third of the vote, a political party that has 35% representation of the united states of america. that's not exactly winning a majority of the vote number one. number two, he is doing certain things that we would recommend. he is going out and attracting a staff, going out and participating in events and signing people up, and if you hear the interviews that he does, he is starting to listen to the concerns that people are bringing forward, so i wouldn't say that he's a complete

non-politician. he was giving plenty of donations to republicans and democrats over the years. it's one thing to say he's not a politician, but the reality is, he's been very political for many years and he knows how to do that. >> i want to talk about joe biden, the vice president, everyone talking about his appearance on late night with steven colbert. it was raw, emotional, it was to the point. >> i don't think any man or woman should run for president unless number one, they know exactly why they would 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 my passion to do this, and i'd be lying if i said that i knew i was there. >> they say that your best days are the days right before that you announce that you are running. what are the negatives about a

biden campaign and when we see that he has such an emotional connection to the american public, will those negatives work? what do you do if you're a ruth and you want to go after a joe biden for president? >> he certainly did not sound like a candidate in those interviews, but he does run the risk of being viewed as a spoiler, as upsetting the democratic's chance of having the first woman president, but i think as hillary clinton collins, they are going to continue to see him in the race. >> joe biden, the vice president, will he or will he not run and if he runs, will he beat hillary clinton? >> joe biden is a wonderful person, i think. the person to ask if he's going to run is dr. jill biden, but he is a wonderful person. their late son was an american hero whom we all miss and we would all certainly understand if -- >> who would your mom endorse between the vice president and hillary clinton?

>> you'd have to ask her. my bet is that she'll vote for the democratic nominee and will be excited to work with the 45th president of the united states, who will be a democratic. >> as donald trump would say, you are so political in california. joining us tonight, i thank you both for being with us. >> saving the great wall of china. more than a thousand years of wear and tear taking its toll on the man made wonder. the problem, can it be saved? >> up next on aljazeera america, 100 women getting ready to walk 100 miles. they want to raise awareness for immigration issues ahead of the pope's visit. we'll talk to one of the women who is getting ready to make that long journey.

>> one of the man made wonders of the word is slowly disincident gritting, 30% of the great wall of china no longer exists because of exposure to the elements or tourists chipping away for a souvenir. we have a report on what is being done. >> it's a vegetable guard that for decades. the crops have been protected from the elements. not all the stone used here comes from the quarry. some came from the great call of china. the ancestors took the great wall cut stone to build their

homes, in some cases more than 100 years ago. >> we are happy to give back any part of the wall if asked. you have to remember, they were so poor back then, modern cheap bricks were not available like they are now. >> she is like hundreds of others in the area whose homes are made from the old and the new. ape she didn't china sits comfortably alongside its modern descendent. the wall runs over 21,000 kilometers. while nature has eroded parts, others have been worn away by 70,000 visitors each day. many visitors say protecting the wall is important. >> the great wall isn't just china. it belongs to the whole human race and has to be protected. >> it's a symbol of china and we have to look after it. >> some of the tourists visiting today are themselves a photo

opportunity for the local chinese. the deterioration of the wall and in part its disappearance worries those fighting to protect it. >> it's closely connecting to the origin of our culture. the disappearing of the wall is in line with our lack of respect in protecting our tradition and culture. >> the authorities have not ignored the situation at the wall. the government's restoration and protection planned again in 1957, and it continues to this day, because the great evident enemy of the wall isn't just man, it's the elements. they're doing their damage, as well, because parts of the wall are just made in stone and brick, and wood, and they're prone to general wear and tear and the weather. >> while it's understandable by villages would have used the source as cheap believe material, the wall's largest battle is still fought every

day, not against man, but a fight for survival againstle elements. >> the cuban government arrested 50 protestors in the streets of havana today. they call themselves the ladies in white. the government calls them anti communist provocateurs. forty women and men marched across cuba's capital city. the group was forced on to buses. the group plan to attend that mass when pope francis comes to the island nation later this week. >> cuba announced a massive prisoner release ahead of the pope's visit. the government said more than 3,500 prisoners will be released, but the government says those guilty of violent crimes and crimes against the state will be excluded. we have more on the pardons. >> another pope is coming to cuba, which means the country's crowded prisons are losing some inmates. >> the counsel of states of the

republic of cuba agreed on the occasion of the pope's visit to pardon 3,522 prisoners, taking into account the nature of the crimes which they've committed, their behavior in prison and time served, as well as health considerations. it's similar to what happened when pope gone powell ii and benedict visited. >> the announcement. >> many people may think that it's a publicity stunt, because the pope is coming, but seems to me that it's a reflection of the reality we live in. >> the pope is coming. those pardons have arrived to a second opportunity. it could be that miracles are beginning to take place. >> not for everyone. this quote gesture of good will ahead of the pope's visit excludes prisoners who have committed murder, rape, and illegally killed cattle or committed crimes against state security, in other words, dissidents. although the government denies that it has political prisoners, the non-government human rights

and reconciliation commission estimates there are at least 60 in prison political dissidents. 53 others were reds in december to mark the detente between the united states and cuba. during pope john powell ii's historic trip to cuba, fidel castro released more than 100 incarcerated opponents. not this time round, it seems. the ladies in white is asking for a meeting with pope francis to discuss human rights, a meeting that the vatican has apparently ruled out. al jazeera. >> this week a group of women will march to washington, d.c. to help bring awareness to immigration issues in the u.s. 100 women plan to walk 100 miles to capture the attention of pope francis during his visit to washington next week. most of the women are migrants from mexico. they are set to walk from a

detention center in pennsylvania to washington, d.c. the march will end with a prayer vigil outside the white house. they hope the pope will address the issue of immigration during his visit to the u.s. i spoke with one of them earlier tonight. >> the pilgrim only is about women coming together to lift each other says spirits, to support each other, to share a story, and to build solidarity. most importantly, we are hoping that the pope will see how serious we are about immigration reform, that we are willing to walk 100 miles to inspire him so he can talk about immigration reform that he as he worked so hard to lift the humble and the excluded that he will talk about inequality and he will have the power to talk to congress and say that these women, this is serious, this is very serious

and we absolutely expect him to do that on our behalf. >> she and 99 others will be walking before they greet the pope in washington, d.c. they will be there on september 22. >> nba fans are mourning the death of moses malone. he was found unresponsive earlier this morning at a hotel in virginia. he was pronounced dead. he played for the houston rockets and the philadelphia 76ers during his career. drafted out of high school, he led them to the championship in 1983 and was a member of the pro basketball hall of fame. he was named one of the nba's 50 greatest players. mows malone dead tonight at the age of 60.

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>> in minneapolis, the art institute paying tribute to vincent van gogh. an artist there is using his background in farming to creative advantage. >> on first glance, kansas native stan appears to be tending his garden. he doesn't have much of a green thumb, he admits, but landscaping and horticulture are essential to his art. the best way to do so his work is from the air. >> the shadow cast by the void gives me a nice dark line.

>> for the last 40 years, he has created large scale images he cause earth worse in corn feeds and land. his organic canvas, my field is an existing color so i can subtract out of. you can knock that crop down to short, leave it tall or take it clear to the ground and then dig into the ground. >> it makes planning, tilling, planting and pruning for the image to take shape. it takes precise measurement and a fair bit of mathematics. >> how do you make sure when you deal with artwork on this scale that the proportions are correct. >> that's kind of the key on the big scale, so basically, what i have here is a grid, so the basic out line is found that way. then later, when i take an aerial photograph, oftentimes, i go well, that's not quite right and i move things a bit. when i get them to the point i feel comfortable with it, i

usually tree to etch it into the ground with a shove vessel or roto tiller. >> his creations have cropped you will along the globe. this is near the twin cities in minnesota, five miles from the airport. >> travelers will be able to see the work as they land. >> i think it's about 11 or 12 seconds. people will have a time to look at it and catch it, oh, there it is, get the camera, the phone, and as they're going by, shoot it. >> celebrating its centennial, the minneapolis institute of art turned to him for a signature piece. >> we knew he was the right guy for a job, he was an artist. he comes from the agriculture background. he was really excited about the project and he had the skill set to help me get a reality. >> it is a recreation of one of the museum's crown jewels. vincent van goes olive trees with yellow skies and sun. >> there's one van gogh brush

stroke. >> it's about the cycle of life and how man's interaction of nature can connect him with the divine. >> i am out of my geographic zone, so learning a lot. as far as image, it's very organic. there's not a single straight line in any van gogh painting that i've ever seen. the interpretation is flowing and moving and there's a freedom to that. >> a freedom to turn empty fields into expansive living sculptures. >> nice. some illinois lottery winners are going to be closely watching the budget negotiations of the state this week. right now, anyone who wins more than $25,000 isn't getting paid. the class action lawsuit was filed last week, the state suspending all large payouts after state lawmakers couldn't agree on a new budget. >> we're all going to have to wait in line until we get a budget. >> plaintiffs in the class action lawsuit demanding they be

paid right away, plus interest. at least two of them are megamillions jackpot winners who are supposed to split $262 million. kevin, kind of a sad story when you think about it, best day of your life, you win the lottery, then you're told the state ran out of money. >> you don't know how long it's going to be, either. let's look at what's happening here. del wasn't happy with the temperature outside, as well, we talked about cooler temperatures we have seen. we actually haven't seen it in a little while. right now in new york, it's 64 degrees. tomorrow it's going to be a cool day, as well. we are looking at below average temperatures for this part of the country, but the jetstream is going to change and it's going to change in a big way. what's going to happen is all that heat is going to shift over here towards the east. towards the west, though, we are going to see a big cool down anywhere between 5-15 degrees cooler in some locations. of course, that is going to help with the wildfire situation across much of the northwest.

san francisco's going to be seeing 70. towards the east, new york tomorrow at 75 degrees, but those temperatures do not stay cool long. we are going to see those temperatures go up, 82 degrees towards tuesday and 85 towards wednesday. let's take a look at your five day forecast. it's going to stay above average this time of year. we are talking about 76 degrees, but all the way through the end of the week, we are talking about temperatures all the way to 84. towards seattle, we are looking at temperatures, well tomorrow morning, 53 degrees. del, a little bit cooler tomorrow, but your heat is coming back. >> thank you very much. djokovic defeating federer winning the u.s. final, taking the title three sets to one after they had to wait three hours because of rain. it was the number one seed's second u.s. open title and 10th grand slam victory of his career, the only grand slam he didn't win this year was the trench open. he's 34 years old, federer trying to become the oldest u.s.

open champion in 45 years. >> thanks for joining us. i'm del walters in new york. third rail is next. have a good night. t. tonight - 14 years since 9/11, after two wars n.s.a. spying and aggressive surveillance on american muslims, is the u.s. powerless to stop the next attack, later in the panel an imaged of a drowned syrian toddler moved millions, should heart-breaking pictures dictate a nation adds policy on taking in refugees. plus to the border to join i.s.i.l., and turning back at the last minute. should he be gaoled for 30 years.