images from pluto's largest moon. the photos taken by the new horizon spacecraft reveal much more detail you can find out much more on our website, aljazeera.com. syria's deputy prime minister addresses the united nations. he says the country welcomes russia's intervention. meanwhile russia continues its bombing campaign and says it has hit isil targets inside syria. investigators search for answers in the oregon shooting as we learn more details about what happened from survivors. joaquin hits the bahamas. why the u.s. east coast isn't out of the woods, even if the

storm does go offshore. ♪ good afternoon, this is al jazeera america. i'm jonathan betz. syria's deputy prime minister has told the world air strikes are not enough to defeat isil if there is no cooperation with his country's army. he spoke at the united nations today and called russia's air strikes in syria effective because they support the country's efforts to fight what he calls terrorism. >> translator: you know better than anyone else that terrorism is an ideology that recognizes no boundaries. you know that when this monster comes out, it cannot be limited to certain countries. the terrorism of isis, aln alnuz -- al-nusra and other

organizations is killing. >> what else did he have to say? >> that syria is a land baptized in the blood of its people. this is the world view of the assad regime, not the world view of the syrian people. he doesn't talk about the secret police or take any responsibility for the assad regime. he does talk about the fate of syria is in syria's hands and the hands of syrians, meaning the alawite regime. he also said they welcomed russia to come in and launch these air strikes. so that's an important point. >> welcoming russia and scolding the rest of the world for what he calls inaction. it's also interesting to talk about what he did not have to say in his address. >> right. he talked about israel and he talked about they needed to be public about their nuclear

program. but he didn't say that israel, like the russians doesn't necessarily want to see an overthrow of the regime. which works in assad's favor and russia's favor. he cast the typical assad regimist view of israel bad. but they -- israel is also playing a more benign role in not advocating for assad to go. >> meanwhile, russia continues to strike targets inside syria. some disagreement over what precisely russia has been hitting. what is the latest we know about that? >> we know he hit north of the alawite strong oh hold, and which opens up a road which then

leads from the province to latakia. that's a huge -- has been a huge battlefield for a year, has seen this army of conquest, much more victorious than assad's forces. so are the bombings of homs which would open up the road. isil sits much further out into the desert. we'll see if russia gets there. >> okay. thanks so much. in other news in a small community in oregon is searching for answer today to a campus shooting at a college there. a loan gunman opened fire at the umpqua college on thursday. the gunman was then killed in an exchange of gunfire with police. >> reporter: this is a town of

just a little more than 21,000 people. so it's a case where if you didn't know someone on campus, you probably new someone who new someone. this is touching a lot of people in this down, and they are waking up to a horrible day after. morning classes were interrupted by gunfire. the first 911 call came in shortly after 10:30. >> somebody is outside one of the doors shooting through the door. >> reporter: reports of a shooter at umpqua community college. >> i knew exactly what had happened. my parents always told me stay alert, be alert, be aware of your surroundings, and once that noise happened, i looked around, and that's probably what saved my life. >> reporter: students were running everywhere. holy god one witness posted on twitter. police say officers made it to the scene within the next four minutes, but the worst had

already taken place in sneijder hall. the gunman had opened fire inside the building, and was then killed in a shootout with police. >> i have been hearing from a lot of people that the gunman was asking what is your religion before he was killing people. >> let me be very clear, i will not name the shooter. i will not give him the credit he probably sought prior to this horrific and cowardly act. ♪ at a candlelight vigil in roseburg last night, this shattered community tame together, many saying they are at a loss over what to tell their children. >> it's heart breaking. it shouldn't have happened, and to explain to a child who thinks the world is good and beautiful, that sometimes horrible things happen can -- it's shaking. it can shake your whole world. but it's important for them to

know it. to know that they can still play a part of supporting each other, and this is make us stronger. quite an emotional scene last night. very tangible sense of sharing, of loss, and of community, of coming together. one woman told me, simply this is who we are. this is what we do allen schauffler. president obama spoke and he was angry that the country not done more to prevent these kinds of things from happening. >> this is a political choice that we make. to allow this to happen every few months in america. we collectively are answerable to those families who lose their loved ones because of our inaction. when americans are killed in

mine disasters we work to make mines safer. when americans are killed in floods and hurricanes, we make communities safer. when roads are unsafe, we fix them. to reduce auto fatalities. we have seat belt laws, because we know it saves lives. >> the president said we as a nation have become numb to mass shootings and called on americans to encourage congress to pass new gun-control laws. developing news out of the bahamas where the u.s. coast guard is searching for a missing ship. though container ship is believed to be near crooked island. it was traveling to san juan when it sent out a distress signal. 33 crew members are believed to have been on board. the storm is a category 4

hurricane with 130 mile an hour winds. and it has unleashed heavy rain across the bahamas. emergencies have been declared in five states ahead of the storm, but the latest trek could have it going out to sea. >> yes, hurricane joaquin still this potent storm and still slowly moving through the bahamas. definitely causing major problems for this island nation. so we have a number of hurricane warnings up for this region, but as i said, some good news for the united states. this has sat here long enough that there is this developing low, and that looks more and more like it will bring it off to sea. only a couple of computer model outliers bring it to the united states, most are picking up that trough bringing it away

from the u.s. coastline. so we'll monitor that, and we could still have impacts like high waves and some of the moisture making it to u.s. land. in that would be interesting, because we have already been dealing with this system along the coastline. a frontal boundary, the low-pressure system is into the southeast, so the next couple of days will be very wet here. i'm more concerned about the flooding from this, than right now the potential with joaquin, but places like north and south carolina, just today we could get easily five, six inches of rain widespread, but some places could get over a foot of rain, and the ground is already saturated so that will continue to cause problems. in the meantime it has kept things in the northern tier of the country pretty cool, a lot of 50s and 60s. thanks nicole. many governors say they are

better prepared for this storm because of the lessons learned during hurricane sandy. the vatican clarifies what happened in that meeting between pope francis and kentucky clerk kim davis. ♪

>> one of the longest serving secretaries in president obama cabinet is leaving the white

house. arne duncan announced he will step down in december. he says he will return to chicago where he used to run the public school system there, though he doesn't know what he will do next. patricia sabga has been following the story. >> one of the big problems if you will for arne duncan and the department of education has been the handling of corinthian colleges. this was the nation's largest for-profit college chain, and it was hit with a slew of state and federal lawsuits, alleging things like predator lending and lying about job-placement rates. and the department of education when they finally started to look into it. corinthian through its hands up and said if it didn't continue to make federal funds available, it would go into bankruptcy.

so it kept it afloat while it brokered the sale of 56 colleges. this lead to a student strike, a group that got together and demanded loan forgiveness. the department of ed launched a program where any student who feels they were defrauded could apply for loan forgiveness, but it has been riddled with problems, and more criticism there, and also a lot of political heat as well, congressmen and women who were saying this is going to leave taxpayers on the hook. >> also we want to get to economic news, and that's the new jobs report that came out. >> right. and it was bitterly disappointing. weakness across the board. and really, what this signals that economies overseas like china, the weakness over there is washing up on u.s. shores. the economy added a paltry

142,000 jobs last month. the jobs figures for august and july were also revised downward, pulling the average number of jobs created below the 200,000 mark clearly we are seeing the engine start to slow down. the unemployment rate held steady, while more people left the work force, a big pocket of weakness is manufacturing, which lost 9,000 jobs chalk that up in part to a strong u.s. dollar. mining also continued to lose jobs as oil plays areless profitable. american paychecks also failed to gain traction. hourly wages were basically stagnant last month. when you take a step back and look at all of these pockets of weakness, poor jobs creation, slowing exports, plunging

commodity prices, they all lead back to china. china's economy has slowed down far more than most economists expected. as china is slowing, so is the world, and we're seeing that the u.s. is not immune. >> and the next question is what is the fed going to do? >> the fed has been vindicated by this report, and especially those downward provisions. because now we have three consecutive months of slowing jobs creation. what does this do? the fed meets again in october and in december. at last month's meeting the majority of officials thought we would see a rate hike this year, but we could see that postponed

until next year. >> thanks, patty. we're learning more about the pope's controversial meeting with kim davis. the vatican is now down playing that meeting. the church says she was part of a group of several dozen people invited to meet the pope last week. er this lawyer initially claimed the meeting was private. but the vatican says that is simply not the case. in a statement the vatican said quote: this week for "talk to al jazeera," our stephanie sy spoke with the first elected female head of safe in africa. she has been in power in liberia for over a decade. >> reporter: was the oh -- 'bee

la outbreak the darkest time so far? >> without a doubt. every other difficulty i have faced, i new, and i had the means to find a day to deal with it. ebola was an unknown enemy. i didn't know what to do. nobody knew what to do. nobody could tell us, you know, what we were faced with. how will we react to it. people were dying. people were running. people were crying. i cried too. i didn't know what to do. we turned to prayers. we did everything in those very early days. but then, you know, we -- there came the pronouncement that 20,000 of our citizens would die by january in the three effects countries, and i think that

just -- that just -- that just brought out everything in me. so i got on the air and said this will not happen. we are not going to die. >> it's a powerful interview, you can watch the entire interview saturday night at 6:00 pm eastern right here on al jazeera america. nearly a dozen black women who were ejected from a california wine tour have filed an $11 million racial discrimination suit. at the time officials from the napa wine train said the group was being loud, but the woman who are part of a book club said that other drunk and loud white passengers were allowed to stay. the ceo of the wine train has apologized. now to an "america tonight" investigation into drugs in nursing homes. many patients receive powerful antipsychotic medications to see date them. but those drugs can be deadlier

than first thought. >> we had child proofed our doors just to make sure that she wouldn't get out. >> reporter: when marias -- marie's mother developed dementia, she began to wonder. so she found a nursing home in california. idle acre, a secure facility specializing in dementia care, with medicare's highest rating, five stars. she says her mother did not get the best there, far from it. one thing sanchez did get the antipsychotic. >> it felt like you were talking to somebody in a vegetative state. completely sedated. >> reporter: it's approved for adults wi adults with skrit friendia. marry was not schizophrenic, but

the drug has been used off label for symptoms of agitation or aggression. the fda has warned that it can cause sudden death and other serious complications. even with that warning, a government accountability office study found a third, 33%, of nursing home residents with dementia received antipsychot antipsychotics. medicare in 2012 launched a program to help nursing homes address symptoms like agitation without antipsychotics. and this year, medicare included antipsychotic use in its five star ratings for nursing homes. but half a year later, we found plenty of nursing homes where it's business as usual. "america tonight" has identified more than a dozen nursing homes across this country, each with a perfect five-star rating from medicare that continues to

prescribe these drugs at high levels. in each of these facilities at least two out of five long-term res deps are still being prescribed these potentially legal drugs. idol acre is one of them. the nursing home still has a five-star rating. mary sanchez moved to a new nursing home. and even though she could no longer speak, her daughter says she caught glimpses of her mother's personality. >> reporter: her eyes would lighten up, she communicated everything with her eyes, and i really felt that i had that opportunity before she passed to have that quiet relationship with her. >> reporter: a quiet relationship she says only possible because her mother was free from antipsychotics. sheila macvicar, al jazeera, california. and you can watch "america tonight" at 10:00 pm eastern

right here on al jazeera america. and stay with us, more news after a very short break.

the obama administration is cracking down on pollution linked to asthma and other respiratory problem. the epa has set new standards coming from ozone from tail pipes. health and environmental activists say the new rules do

not go far enough, and business groups say they will hurt the economy. the u.s. head of volkswagen will testify before congress next week. he will likely face a grilling over the company's violations of medical emission standards. they have admitted using software to cheat on emission standards in the united states. the scandal has prompted france to launch an investigation of its own into the german car maker. millions of t-mobile users may be at risk this morning after the phone company suffered a major data breach. a hacker spoke into experiencian last month. connecticut's attorney general is now look going the breach. well that does it for us at this half hour. thank you so much for watching. i'm jonathan betz. but stay right here, because coming up in a few minutes we're

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♪ good afternoon to you. you are watching al jazeera america live from new york city. i'm jonathan betz. we are taking a live look at roseburg, oregon where we're expecting the sheriff to speak in a few minutes about yesterday's shooting at umpqua college. at least ten people died, seven others were hurt. the gunmen was killed in exchange of gunfire with police. we have the latest from allen schauffler in roseburg, oregon. >> reporter: roseburg is not a big place, this is a town of just a little more than 21,0