>> border bedlam. >> these people are not peaceful. not simply wanting to go through hng. they carry a danger and that danger is clear and present as of today. >> people violent clash with police, the international community reacts with outrage over the treatment of the refugees. responding to russia. >> the russians proposed that we have military to military

conversation and meeting >> the u.s. warns the kremlin not to escalate the war in syria. holding military talks on the crisis as a proposal. regrettablregrettable mista. >> call a thorough investigation. >> egyptian officials stop short of apologizing for the mexican incident. marine life lost, human activity is greatly responsible for wiping out many of the ocean's creatures and bringing the oceans themselves to the brink of collapse. >> good evening, i'm antonio mora, this is al jazeera

america. we begin with breaking news out of chile. tsunami waves are hitting the area about 45 miles off its coast. the 8.3 quake hit about 8:15 eastern time, a tsunami warning is in effect in chile as well as a steun watch fo tsunami watch . kevin corriveau is with us. >> we're getting reports where the tsunami waves are hitting, anywhere from five to ten feet for coastal chile as well. google earth, as well as all these after-shocks, this big one right here, that's the 8.3, also located about 46 kilometers off the coast area but we have also seen many after-shocks in this region as well. here's one as 6.1 aftershock,

here is one at 6.2. but i want to show you the map of where we expect to see these waves, how long it is expected to take. we mentioned if you take a look at this map we're talking about french po polynesia. freafn hours from no14 hours frt will take for these waves to cross the ocean. not only parts of the pacific, peru and mexico as well. we'll be watching very closely in the next several hours to see how these waves progress and who ask actually reporting the tsunami waves back to you. >> thank you kevin. serbia, the flash point of the global refugee crisis, throwing rocks and bottles at

police, officers responded with tear gas, pepper spray and water cacannons. frustration also boiled over in greece, in a camp in lesbos. hostility facing them in europe the refugees continue to make their way to the continent and they have found other routes when others have closed. mohammed jamjoom on the confrontation there. >> as tempers flared and tempers ignited. hard line they had promised to take, water cannon may have pressed these refugees back into srve buserbia but failed to damg their anger. the mood does remain tense. the men came up in the last few minutes urging the young men

protesting in the last hour to please move back to let cooler heads prevail so this situation calms down. the mood changed almost moment to moment. veering from defiance into jubilance. hundreds of refugees began streaming in, thank you they chanted and cheered in unison but they were met not with welcome. rather, force. parents were as stunned as their children, the young just as affected as the old. kids cried for both the teergz antear gasand the trauma they'd experienced. ilam never bleef believed she wd witness her four-year-old beaten by police. >> we came from syria and look what happened to us here.

>> from iraq, he was free and clear to cross over serbia, the first he had felt happy in days. >> we fell when running and they kept on hitting us, kicked us, i got hit in the eye, got hit here, my hands and legs are injured. >> reporter: while bus rides to croatia were offered, many were too scared to venture off. nothing was certain and several dare not move. under the cover of darkness it was harder to see the wounds but the pain was no less severe. mohammed jamjoom, al jazeera on the serbia hungary border. many are now bypass is hungary to get to austria and

germany. croatian officials say the refugees will be treated peacefully. >> those people use your country just as a transit country and i would say what i said to angela merkel and all the others that we are ready to take our own responsibility and our own burden and to share it with all the other eu countries and i think it's not selfish at all. >> vucich met with secretary of state john kerry, kerry thanked him for his tremendous effort to help refugees. reporting on the refugee crisis joins us from london, very good to have you with us steven. as we just reported things got uglier on the hungarian border.

refugees faced water cannons, tear gas and police with batons. but some refugees threw rocks at police. the chaos is getting worse every day? >> it's getting worse every day. it's an embarrassment in europe. the problem begins in syria which has been a tragedy of more than four years standing. in a way i'm surprised it hasn't hit europe faster than this. >> it seems as if the west had ignored it until it came knocking on their door. was this crisis predictable and is it evidence of a failure of western leaders? >> it is. it is more like out of sight out of mind. as we know there are more than 4 million refnlg registered syrian refugees, together it's about half the population of a civil war that's not finished that doesn't seem to be ending.

most of these people are in turkey, lebanon and jordan. part of the problem is the rest of the world has not funded the u.n. agencies that take care of these people to the same degree this year. and when germany throws open its borders, if you are a syrian in a crummy camp somewhere you're out of syria. but if you have a chance to go to germany you're going to take it. >> seeing these restrictions at borders within the eu free travel zone and the strong disagreements about quotas among eu nations is this an existential crises for the european union? >> the european union got much bigger particularly with the collapse of the soviet union. but it didn't collapse the institutions. it doesn't have the institutions that's capable of dealing with europe that is 28 member states,

very different economies and actually, very different political views. and so this is part of the problem. i mean, it's -- you could be nice about it and say you know, ooureurope only really works whn there's a crisis. i've tried to write this, this migration chaos is a boon to the right and the far right and it will undermine further trust in the european union as an institution. >> in fact anti-imrant voiceimms arvoicesare getting louder. even the pope expressed concern over there has there been any evidence of that? >> if i.s.i.l. wants to infiltrate europe there are a lot of safer ways to do it than taking some rickety boat from

libya quite honestly. so i think it is exaggerated. i mean sure it's a possibilities. but it also implies that i.s.i.l. has goals in the west which i'm not sure it actually has. i think i.s.i.l. right now is pretty busy trying to build its own caliphate and to attract people from the west to come to it, rather than send agents out to the west to make trouble here. i mean it's not al qaeda. now, we'll see what happens, i mean, i'm sure some people are coming who probably have you know bad things in mind. but i'm not sure, you know, this is a great terrorist threat, we should all worry about. >> stephen erlinger of the new york times. thank you for joining us. on sunday at 9 join us for a special report, desperate journeys a global crisis,.

united states is prepared to take in more syrian refugees over the next couple of years. critics say the u.s. promised to take in more ratification but backed off. mike viqueria is here. mike. >> good evening antonio. many people believe if the president had acted sooner, instead of waiting until now, when there's still a great deal of inaction, crisis and the carnage could have been averted. >> give me your tired your poor your huddled masses. >> reporter: outside the white house wednesday, some of the syrian refugees that have made it to the u.s. as refugees flee the carnage of war, many are asking, who bears the blame for syria and how much fault lies with the united

states and president obama? the conflict's roots lie in the arab spring, and demonstrators calling for democracy. repression led to reaction. ally iran, what began as a protest movement began a civil war. drew the line at military intervention. >> when they saw in effect that u.s. being the main player in the west had no reaction they considered that a carte blanche to going and proceed with that strategy. which led to hundreds of thousands dead, millions displaced. >> in 2013, assad was accused of attacking his own people with chemical weapons. deciding to launch air strikes against assad, president obama abruptly backed away.

>> i'll seek support in congress. >> congress balked. talk of air strikes quickly went away. regional allies wanted mr. obama to get tough with assad. in may the president invited arab leaders to camp david, offering assurances of the iran nuclear deal. mr. obama bristled about his original decision to launch strikes. >> many of the nations in the region were upset that more than two years ago when bashar al-assad launched cheps there was no retaliation on the part of the u.s. now there's a possibility that assad has once again used chemical weapons. what did you tell these leaders here who were disappointed last sometime? >> first of all michael i don't know why you're here but the reason i'm here is not because of what happened in syria a

couple of years ago. we positioned ourselves to be willing to take military action. the reason we did not was because assad gave up his chemical weapons. >> reporter: the syria war is now in its fifth year. could or should mr. obama have been able to stop the bloodshed earlier? the point is moot feel many people, few have an appetite of getting involved in another conflict. >> there is no sense in my estimation that anybody is willing to do what is necessary to put together a coherent, cohesive, accountable and balanced government in either syria or iraq. >> reporter: with russia now openly aiding syria's military effort, many don't see an end to the conflict soon. >> responsibilities for having

syria melting down in a chernobyl type way, who has created i.s.i.s, brought i.s.i.s. back into iraq. >> for the millions of of displd syrians. more call to allay suffering. in the four years of civil war in syrian the united states has taken in exactly 1500 of them, 1300 in the last year alone. of course white house last we announced that they were going to up that total to 10,000 and now just today, secretary of state john kerry says they are looking at it once again. that number could be boosted and for his part, president obama said publicly today, we will take our share. antonio. >> thank you, miami mike. secretary of state john

kerry spoke to russia's foreign minister for the third time in a week. >> the russians proposed in the conversation i had today and the last conversation, specifically, that we have military to military conversation and meeting in order to discuss the issue of precisely what will be done to deconflict with respect to any potential risks that might be run and to have a complete and clear understanding as to the road ahead and what the intentions are. >> kerry also said he repeated that russia's continued military support for assad risks escalating the conflict. japanese soldiers could soon be allowed to fight alongside americans. coming up the bitter debate in japan over allowing the military to serve in combat roles overseas. and talks aimed at china just

days before the chinese president visits weash. weash. washington. washington.

>> controversial new security measures could go to a parliamentary vote this week in japan. the bills would allow japanese soldiers to fight in overseas conflicts for the first time since world war ii. but thousands of people have taken to the street to oppose them. in our in context segment, john terret looks at the issue. >> as the legislation worked itself through parliament, the

protest became more aggressive. for many protesters, return to the militarism. >> i sense danger that everything we built up as a modern democratic nation is being crushed to zero. >> reporter: the security measure would change how japan's defense forces should be deployed and used. until now the strict interpretation of the constitution means japan will only use force as a last resort if it's directly attacked. but prime minister shinzo abe wants more clear definition. >> there's concern that america should be an ally as it is. >> first time since world war ii, polls also indicate abe's popularity plummeting because of the security bill. there is also widespread opposition to the way he's using his majority both house he of parliament to push through

changes. >> women lawmakers and colleagues are angry at the way this bill is being passed and its contents and we need to have our voices heard so we are wearing this sash. >> it seems despite the damaging fallout, abe and his allies believe it is a cost japan can and should bear. john terret, al jazeera. formerly worked for the upper house of the japanese diet. good to see you. opposition parties have tried delay vote. protesters represent the majority of the japanese people who oppose the security bills and want to continue japan's post-world war ii pacifism. but at this point this is pretty much a done deal. >> that is certainly what it looks like. for prime minister abe i don't think he had any other choice either to push forward today or

tomorrow, risk before the diet session ends on the 27th and if it spills over to another diet session next year you have another election coming up for other house. frankly the government needs plenty of time to repair some of the damage done, so they need to get this done as soon as possible for their own sake. >> some think this violates the constitution. in the u.s. the supreme court would have the final word on constitutionality. could the courts weigh in? have. >> in theory yes but in practice japan's supreme court has actually tried stay out of politically controversial issues and certainly issues related to the self defense force. once this law is passed you're not going to see the supreme court involved. but what you are going to see, japanese security policy ever since the postwar constitution was drafted, it's exichte existn

this interpretive space. interpreting what exactly it means having a self-defense force, you're still in that space. the ceiling is going to be a little higher once this slaw passed but this by no means guarantees that the japanese forces will be able to go anywhere and do anything that a quote unquote normal military would be able to do. >> why do the japanese oppose it in such great number? abe has argued that what he wants is to act in collective defense, come to american force he under fire, that doesn't seem like a big trech. >> a lot ostretch. >> a lot of this comes at the issue of abe himself. abe for a long time has talked

about revising the constitution, he's paid it clear that's what he wants. i think there's just distrust of abe. if you had a more coherent consistent message from the government, it would be different. a majority opposes the legislation but 80% says the government hasn't explained the legislation enough. it's mostly how it's been sold. >> standard & poor's got the ratings for the ongoing japanese lack of authority. is there any effect on abe's hold on power? >> the point at which his hold on the government has passioned, he was elected for another three year term without having to face a rival candidate. his position within the ldp is pretty strong and at the moment

that's what's counts. >> japan needs to do more, because it's a big power and it's facing a big threat from china which has become more expansionist? >> i mean i think he certainly has a case to make. but i think case could have been made better and perhaps the best argument he's made is that there's a need i think to clarify the role that japan will play in cooperation with the united states, a way to sustain the region. if things are more predictable or more clear, if japan is in some crisis, say the korean peninsula or the taiwan straits or disputed ielts in th islandst china sea, that would work well for stability and abe has said that and it's probably the strongest argument he's had. the problem is he's gotten bogged down in discussion he over scenarios and which situations might be involved or not and there's been contradictory explanations from the prime minister and the

defense mints and all that has made the public very concerned about the legislation. >> tobias, thank you. china's president just a week before xi jinping visits washington, president obama warns that the united states is ready to take action against china. >> they still see themselves as the poor country that shouldn't have any obligations internationally. and in some cases they still feel that whether we call them on issues like their behavior in the south china sea, or intellectual property theft we are trying to contain them. >> the two will meet at the white house, next friday.

pentagon strategy to defeat i.s.i.l. in syria. border conflict grows. grows.

>> welcome back to al jazeera america. i'm antonio mora. coming up in this half hour of international news fears of a

coup in west africa. but first a look at the stories making headlines across the u.s. in our american minute. a 14-year-old muslim from texas will not being punished for bringing a home made digital clock to school. his teachers mistook it for a bomb. second round of debates tonight republican candidates for president. 11 contenders are on the stage now in the ronald reagan presidential library. after more than a year long criminal investigation into general motors faulty ignition switches federal prosecutors are expected to announce an agreement with the car giant tomorrow. 124 deaths were linked to the depect.

the deferredefect. gm is expected to face a financial penalty that will be less than the $1.2 billion car maker toyota paid in a similar case. australia's air force has joined the fight against i.s.i.l. u.s. officials at centcom confirmed, last week, the white house had extended a formal request to australia to expand its role in the fight against i.s.i.l. on capitol hill today, military leaders faced a tough sell. the top u.s. military commander overseeing anti-- i.s.i.l anti-n syria. >> i've been a member of this committee for 30 years and i've never heard testimony like this,

never. >> reporter: hot seat, general lloyd austin head of the u.s. central expand and chris teenl warmouth undersecretary of defense. press committee chairman john mccain. >> it's always in our best interest to help protect civilians but again i would not recommend a buffer zone at this point in time. >> so everything is really going well. >> no, sir, that's not -- >> general austin overall argument that progress is being made in iraq and syria, despite what he called slow movement at the tactical level, was met with dereiteration, especially when the general was forced to admit of the 54 trained fighters, only

a handful remains. >> can you tell us what the number of trained fighters remains? >> it's a small number and the ones that are in the fight is -- we're talking four or five. >> four or five fighters after $40 million that was supposed to train more than 5,000. but it's really good training says the pentagon and another 120 are in the pipeline. >> the forces that we are training while right now are small in number and clearly are not going to reach the numbers we had planned for are nevertheless getting terrific training and very good equipment and as such will be able to really force multipliers. >> incredulous senators found that argument laughable. >> as i see this, four or five trained fighters, let's not kid ourselves, this is a joke. >> this is a failure, a total failure. i wish it were not so but a

fact. way pastime to react to that failure. >> general austin urged patience. >> we said at the outset the campaign will take time and it will take time. >> but many are losing patience, confronting bashar al-assad more directly shooting down his planes, establishing a safe zone and putting u.s. special forces on the ground to help the anti-assad and anti-i.s.i.l. forces. jamie mcintire, al jazeera, the pentagon. mechanism imexico is workine egyptian government to figure out ho how its tourists were mistaken as terrorists. >> families of the victims leave a government building in

guadalajara, they have little in way of full explanation of what happened in egypt on sunday. others have made the long trip to cairo with mexico's foreign minister. >> i will be visiting the president of egypt later today. and we will see from there away is the next step in terms of taking our national fact home and taking you're national love for life back home. >> before leaving she had questioned the egyptian authorities version of events. they insist the attack in the desert was human error. a car chase gone wrong. that security officers and helicopters and on the ground mistakenly bombed and shot at the tourist convoy which was in a restricted zone. there were 22 people in that convoy. most were mexicans, some egyptian. the wounded are being treated at

this hospital. egypt says the facts of the case remain qualifying. confusing but it will conduct a thorough and impartial investigation. inoku imolu, a al jazeera. $89 million in humanitarian aid to help their cause, the total amount is brought to $170 million. meantime, saudi air strikes continue to pound the capital sanaa. houthi rebels still control the capital. fears of a coup in burkina faso tonight. calling on the release of the presidential ministers. fired shots at protesters, the interim leaders were organizing elections set for october 11.

venezuelan president nick leasenicholas maduro says he wao crack down on cross border smuggling. colombia's president juan manuel santos says he's hopeful they can work out their disagreemen disagreements. courtney kealy has the story. >> near the border with colombia aggravating tensions between the two countries. colombia's president says he is looking for catalog with venezuela's president nicholas maduro. >> extending border restrictions is not way to go about finding solutions. >> he is ready to neat colombian president whenever, wherever and by any means. the widening of the state of

emergency comes days after accusing the president of the united states of lying against venezuela. >> they go around the world talking badly, pressuring presidents to do things against venezuela, and on the other side they put on an innocent face. >> maduro was talking after a court sentenced leopoldo lopez to almost 14 years in prison. secretary of state john kerry says he was deeply troubled over what he called illegitimate charges. lopez's wife lily has called for a protest on october 14th. >> translator: justice, truth and reason know leopoldo lopez is innocent. >> people struggle with shortages of everything from antibiotics to meat. in a recent editorial the new

york times is he maduro has drufn venezueldriven venezuela c crisis. courtney kealy, al jazeera. >> eric farnsworth, vice president of the council of the americas and served in the white house as an advisor on economic policies, seems like maduro wants to escalate the conflict. >> seems like the case indeed. like the movie casablanca, where the proprietor wakes up and is surprised and shocked to see gambling the his establishment. that has existed for 30 years. why is maduro unilaterally

closing border crossings, he's really causing the crisis. it is unilateral and frankly i think he's the one behind it. >> maduro has also escalated a conflict between guyana which has been dormant for decades. his dismal popularity to call off an excuse to delay the elections, do you think it's possible? >> it's possible. i don't know if he wants to call them off, certainly i haven't talked to him about it. his standing in the polls is going down rapidly, the economy is in real trouble, the price of oil which is essentially venezuela's one commodity is down to $40 a barrel, his popularity is low and a real strategy over the years in latin america when leaders have lacked popularity and are trying to get their citizens to rally around

the government and the flag is to really pick a fight with one of their neighbors and to find a bogeyman, someone they can direct the issues to, two neighbors, guyana and colombia, he is trying to pick fights with whoever will respond. >> how bad is the economy inside venezuela now? it's got one of the world's worst violent crime rates, inflation is the worst, over 100% now and the economy apparently is moving into a very, very severe recession. >> yeah, the imf has predicted or projected tha that venezuelas economy would actually shrink by 7% this year, that's dramatic. basic goods are not available, those that are available, citizens have to wait in long

lines to procure them, the currency inflation is at least 100%, some estimates have it higher than that. president maduro is not unaware of that, he's just been around the world asking oil producers to cut their production of oil, he hadn't been successful bus that's clearly part of the strategy. >> talking about world leaders, while the u.s. and world papers have condemned the sentencing of leopoldo lopez, so has chile, costa rica, utter silence, have they been bought out by venezuelan oil? >> well, i think they have an overriding ideologic affinity. not necessarily with venezuela but with the idea of latin american sovereignty. the idea that the top value is to not criticize a sister republic or to quote unquote

intervene into someone else's internal affairs. they have no voice to respond to travesties of justice like leopoldo lopez sentencing or violations of human rights that might take place et cetera. so when you put sovereignty as an absolute value above basic human rights that's how we get into these situations and that's what's happened. >> eric farnsworth thank you. a warning that the world's oceans are about to come to collapse. jeff corwin explains the dangers. and vatican spokespersons say pope francis has been brushing up on his language skills. skills.

>> pope francis told pilgrims in st. peter' peter's square todays looking forward to his trip to the u.s. the pope has been practice is hihis english and he will give four in english and the rest in spanish. helping to repay the planned by repaying the ecological debt, he says the world should limit consumption of nonrenewable energy and should support policies of limited development.

world's troubled oceans, the world wildfire fund says the report is not for the faint-hearted. and blames the pollution of the seas. richelle carey reports. >> oceans have lost 50% of the vertebrate populations, in other words half the fish mammals birds and reptiles that depend on the oceans are gone. some fish species have declined by almost 75%. for this report, the organization tracked thousands of marine animal populations around the globe since 1970. it says the decline is more serious than previously thought. not only are the vertebrates disappearing but their habitats are being destroyed and degraded. the report shows half the world's coral reefs and half of all sea grasses have been

destroyed. over 25% of all marine species live in coral reefs. yet they cover less than .1% of the ocean. >> now we can see in the distance there, the industrial development and the destruction of the world heritage listed -- >> the world wildlife fund says the world is mismanaging to a total collapse. the report says the biggest drivers of the decline are human actions including overpopulation. the global population is expected to grow by another 2 billion to reach 9.6 billion by 2050. with most people in coastal areas. a 300% increase in ship traffic over the past two decades. 14 to 35 billion in subsidies that encourage overfishing

mostly in developed countries. and global warming. the organization estimates that at current rates, coral reefs could disappear entirely by 2050 because of warmer more acidic water. richelle carey, al jazeera. >> jeff corwin is a wildlife biologist and hose of abc's ocean mysteries. he joins us by skype from massachusetts. jeff always good to see you. not for the faint-hearted maybe an understatement. what alarmed you mostly in this report? >> i think we've hit a brick wall when it comes to the life on this pla planet. many of these resources around us have a limitation and we're sort of teetering on the brink and it's a real wake up call. >> human coalitio exploitation e

oceans, the ocean life, the mangroves and the coral reefs oar big issue. >> absolutely. coral reefs are very much an incredible by thincredible beac. you see the water crystal clear that living community of life you call a coral reef a fringe or barrier reef an oasis in the desert. disappearing at such an alarming rate it is really terrifying not only for natural wild things but for our own survival and quality of life as well. >> and ocean sanctuaries have been somewhat successful of bringing back marine wildlife but the problem is there are very few of them.

a very little of the ocean is protected. >> those reefs are in an area of capricorn and cancer. incredibly imbalanced and sometimes even hostile, in areas that really are hard to enforce managements. places like southeast asia and places like indonesia, thailand, coast of africa, these areas have so much stress that literally trying to protect a reef like this is the lower end of their totem pole. >> they are disproportionately responsible for amount of fish in those areas. when it comes to human exploitation of the ocean,. >> we are potentially hitting the 9 billion mark when it comes

to human population. we know as our population grows we are literally eating our planet to extinction. and many parts of the world that are experiencing the boom in our economies seeing an increase in the middle class are areas where their environments are incredibly stressed. >> the fish that humans eat are the ones that seem to be losing their populations most quickly. what do you see as the near term consequences of what this report found for humans? >> we're already reaping the rewards from our core behavior when it comes to environmental stewardship. antonio, sharks have been on our planet for hundreds of millions of years. they've survived tall major extinctions in our planet and now they are being eclipsed by our species. when you go to an ecosystem where shocks have been pushed away or eaten or killed out or

ignorant or shark fin market which is primarily for southeast asia or chien china, we know thn sharks are missing, we kill 100 million sharks a year, you carry that to apex creatures, they till same story. they're ambassadors of their eke he system. and their ecosystems are in peril. >> jeff corwin of abc's ocean mysteries, always good to have your perspective on all this, thank you. >> thank you about. >> a powerful earthquake has shaken chile and resulted in tsunami warnings across the pacific. an update on the situation next. next.

>> we're in the "prairie state"

now to our global view segment with a look at how news outlets across the world are reacting to various events. britain's the telegraph writes under the headline criticizing hungary over its border fence is missing the point. solutions as a direct result for the eu's fai eu's failure to coh a coherent policy. toronto star under the headline the world is letting refugees go hungry the paper writes that the united nations has received only a third of the 7.4 billion needed to feed the 7 million syriasyrians displaced in theirn

country. and the japan times offers this cartoon, entitled species in japan that are at risk. it includes an eel, a minke whale and the peace constitution. a powerful earthquake struck off the coast of chile. magnitude 8.3, struck at 7:00 p.m. eastern in the pacific ocean 130 miles north of santiago, more than a dozen aftershocks have hit some significant in their own right. can you get a sense how strong the after shocks are. a tsunami warning for hawaii, the noaa has charted waves far

over normal range. kevin corriveau is coming in. >> about a dozen in this area, after shocks many most in the 5 to 6 magnitude rain. santiago updated as well, they have resumed flights in and out of the airport, they did stop in that area. as well as for hawaii, they have dropped from a tsunami watch to a tsunami advisory. they don't believe it will be as severe as they thought, steun ti warnings, in japan haven't dropped yet but we'll see what the results are. back to you. >> i'm antonio mora, thanks for watching, "america tonight" is

next. i'll see you more in an hour on the quake in chile. chile. >> on "america tonight": doing it edna's way. on the job for seven decades she's living proof. you're never too old to help. >> one of my swimming friends said, well, my friends from over in new hampshire said they were in an accident and some old woman helped them. so i know who they were talking about. >> "america tonight's" lisa fletcher goes one on one with a