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bus. ♪ this is al jazeera america live from new york city, i'm tony harris and details in the investigation in the mass shooting in san bernardino, california several reports say syed farook's wife hussam ayloush posted allegiance to i.s.i.l. on facebook the day of the attack and no instruction that the group told her to do so and they talked about his childhood and divorce papers cited his father as abusive and alcoholic and 14 were killed and 21 others injured in the mass shooting and the couple assembled an arsenal in the home they shared with their six-month-old baby and al jazeera is live in san bernardino and allen tell us more about the latest reports claiming that hussam ayloush pledged her allegiance to

i.s.i.l., what are officials saying? >> not much at this point, tony and had a press conference initially scheduled for noon eastern and has not happened and it is pushed back and floating and not sure when we will hear from f.b.i. or local officials but that certainly is going to be an issue they cover, reports that female suspect had pledged allegiance to i.s.i.s. just through social media on a facebook page. no real indication right now that law enforcement officials are saying that she was working for them or that they were directed by people overseas but something they will be looking into and will be a main threat of their investigation we can imagine and also obviously the main threat of questioning when we do get a chance to talk to the f.b.i. >> allen i detailed some of the new information in the investigation, what more can you add? >> well, just developing right now, tony, there are several

reports that the landlord at the facility or the house in red lands which is a couple miles east of here is now allowing the media into that house. remember, this is the house where more than 3,000 rounds, 4,000 rounds of ammunition were discovered, a dozen pipe bombs and what looked to be a bomb making factory of sorts certainly indicating these two had the opportunity, tools and know how to produce a lot more explosive devices. if the landlord is letting people in to that house it's pretty safe to assume that has been cleared as a crime scene and that that portion of the investigation is over. we are also hearing that law enforcement is going to be focusing on what they describe as digital media that has been recovered and we believe destroyed cell phones or cell phones that somebody attempted to destroy and also a hard drive that was also in damaged condition and they have been flown back east and looked into to see if there is any information that can be

retrieved from them and also hussam ayloush's sister and the mail suspect's brother have both spoken out publically in the last 24 hours, both of them saying that, a, they can never forgive their relatives for what they did and b they just never saw it coming, they were stunned to see this had happened. i think one big question that will be asked too and made more important because of this reported i.s.i.s. connection is if these two were as law enforcement officials say likely self activated or radical, did these two amass all that ammunition, get the guns that were used, the long rifles and the handguns, secure bomb-making materials, learn how to make bombs and produce bombs, did they do that all on their own? or was, in fact, some help from the outside, that is certainly something law enforcement will be looking into closely.

>> allen officers i understand have been speaking about what they endured when they arrived at the scene. >> yeah, some elbow are interesting descriptions coming out and heard descriptions of course of the chaotic scene at the inland regional center from wednesday morning but one of the first people on the scene a commander with the san bernardino county sheriff's office talking last night about exactly what he saw on felt when he went into that scene and what he described really tells you a little bit about how difficult it is when law enforcers go into a scene like that, it's unsecured, they have not identified shooters, the people in there are terrorized and terrified and don't know whether the people they hear knocking on the doors in the offices are law enforcement or attackers pretending to be law enforcement, just a very chaotic scene and this is what the commander said about that scene on wednesday. >> the initial 50 people did not

want to come to us. they were fearful and they were in the back hallway area and that actually heightened my concern that and my fear that potentially the suspects were in that hallway holding them hostage and waiting for us to enter into the hallway. we had to tell them several times come to us, come to us and ultimately they did and once that first person took the motions forward it opened the flood gates. >> and again law enforcement arriving and that commander with the sheriff's office arriving on that scene just four or five minutes after the very first calls there was an active shooter and also described his training for situations like that and said they just try to throw everything at you and overwhelm your senses when people are being trained to respond to this kind of scene and said it is exactly that and much more and just trying to separate out his emotions and what was happening and focus on

his job was a huge challenge and something that he had to deal with on that day and that many more people had to deal with as well. >> and the news conference you mentioned that was scheduled for noon eastern time has been pushed back to 2:00 eastern time but again that could float again as well. we will keep you posted, corner released the name of victims and includes a father of six and a woman who fled iran to escape prosecution and a woman who just joined the health department in san bernardino and the youngest was 26, the oldest was 60. earlier today al jazeera's melissa chan spoke to the boyfriend of one of the victims. >> daniel was an amazing person and i know i have been telling everybody that. it sounds like a cliche about oh, but this was really true about daniel. daniel touched so many people's lives. i've had people contacting me, saying that they met daniel once

ten years ago but he had so much of an impact with his personality that they remembered him and so now they are reaching out to me to offer condolence and that is an amazing person especially nowadays that somebody ten years later can remember somebody they met once for an hour and had that much of an impact on somebody's life. he was just an all around great guy. everybody loved him. he was everybody's friend, he didn't care who you were, where you came from, didn't care how long, he had like everybody was treated equally like the best friend in the world and he was an amazing funny guy. >> how are you feeling right now? >> right now i'm still coming to terms with it so and i'm still in that numb phase. i know that is going to end soon. this morning i was a little bit choked up, i was waiting for

some other interviews i made the mistake of getting on facebook and was reading some of the comments and what not but i was able to pull it together so that way i could hear who daniel was because that is pretty much what all the interviews this morning have been about and i wanted to definitely share that with the world. >> again that was melissa chan in san bernardino speaking to ryan about his boyfriend daniel coffman a victim of the shooting and once again when the san bernardino police do hold that news conference, that presser is scheduled for 2:00 and 11:00 pacific we will bring that to you live, colorado springs is remembering the officer who was killed last week at a planned parenthood center, the funeral will be held this officer for the officer and he was one of three people shot and killed last friday when police say robert dear opened fire, dear is in jail facing first degree murder charges and chicago will release the video showing

another fatal shooting by police and activists have been pushing to see the video that shows the killing of 25-year-old ronald johnson last year and protests of a teenager by a different officer last year. in the johnson case police say the father of five pointed a gun at officers rs his family says onsand was running away when he was shot and monthly jobs out and a solid month of hiring for the u.s. economy, the last major piece of economic data to be released before the fed decides to raise interest rates for the first time in nine years and al jazeera's economic correspondent explains how the numbers will likely effect a decision. >> reporter: the november jobs report pretty much seals the deal on the federal reserve raising interest rates when they meet later this month, the first interest rate increase in nine years. first the headline numbers over 2900 jobs last month and better

than expected and unemployment was steady at 5%. meanwhile average hourly wages ticked to $25.25 and that is 2.3 increase year over year and wages have been a stubborn part of recovery and wages could be building but more over in her testimony before congress this week january met yellen did talk about concerns of waiting too long to raise them from near 0 where they have been hovering for years and cited the lag effect and could force an abrupt tightening to disrupt markets and push the economy in recession and leaving the interest rates by zero too long could have risk taking and under mine financial stability. labor department says most of the job gains were in construction and retail sectors, a bill that would do away with key parts of the affordable care

act is now heading to the house, the senate passed the measure late thursday and it stripped a law of employer mandates and certain tax requirements and stops funding of planned parenthood and president obama promised to veto it once it reaches his desk and shareholders are one step closer to creating the largest health insurer and anthem and cigna had a 48 billion of cigna and need them to say yes and asked the justice department to closely scrutinize the deal and oil is falling and will opec step up and the first nuclear plant goes on line and the latest of a deadly explore shun at an egyptian night lubb, what they have caused the attack.

>> half a million fields will lie fallow. >> if we had another year of this severe drought, i'd say all bets are off. the german parliament has overwhelmingly approved a plan to join the fight against i.s.i.l. and lawmakers voted to provide 1200 support personnel recognizance sent naval protection and germany will not engage in combat and they will help with the fight against i.s.i.l. after last month's paris attacks and france has a guide of how to react to the guide of attacks like the one in paris last month and the illustrated leaflet has step by step infrstructions on how to behave before and after and flee

and raise their arms and posters reflecting that will be put up in public places like commercial centers and stadiums. they are searching for who killed 16 people and threw molotov cocktails and patrons could not escape and one was an employee who had been fired but an eyewitness gave a different account. >> translator: three men came to the nightclub on a motorcycle but wouldn't let them in so they come back with three molotov cocktails and threw them and escaped and almost everyday died, only two or three lived. >> treated for burns and smoke inhalation and it's trading 40 a barrel after they agreed to boost oil production to 31 1/2 million barrels a day and we are in vienna now with more. >> reporter: opec ministers were badly divided going in the

meeting, on one hand you have the saudi position and they have argued that opec must maintain its global share, its market share of oil exports even if that means some short term pain and means an oil glut and oil prices falling as they have very steeply over the last year, down now to less than $45 a barrel. on the other hand you have countries particularly perhaps libya, algeria and indeed venezuela going into this meeting urging a cut in production because they need to see a sharp rise in oil prices, they lead a more hand to mouth existence if you like. i spoke to the venezuela oil minister and i asked him how bad it was for his country's economy, oil under $45 a barrel and this is what he said to me just before the meeting. >> some people believe this and

only venezuela but it's a big mistake. >> you are. >> all the countries are very worried about the facts, all the countries including the saudis or whoever i talk to so it's not only venezuela that is worried about it. >> reporter: however the experts here and the smart money are predicting that the saudis will get their way along with smaller gulf allies like qatar, uae anicka kuwait and saudi arabia is the largest producer and saying to venezuela you are talking about cuts but let's face it you are not in a position to cut, you want us to cut. no, we believe the saudis will say let's stick with the current policy. it will perhaps bring us more short term pain but over the coming months it may push out of the market more expensive oil producers, shale producers from

the united states, deep water producers from places like brazil and that will lead to a restoration of the oil price in the latter half of 2016. >> in vienna for us, the first new american commercial nuclear plant in the 21st century is about to go online, some hail it as a move forward but some disagree and al jazeera tom ackerman talked to both sides. >> reporter: along the tennessee river it's the fishing. >> hit, miss, i mean depending how the weather is. >> reporter: that concerns these locals but not the watched bar one nuclear plant that has been providing carbon free electricity to the region for a generation. soon its twin watch bar two will go online the first u.s. nuclear reactor completed if the 21st century and after delays and post fukushima up grades that doubled the initial cost estimate to more than $4 billion but officials of the government owned utility that built it say

they have no regrets. >> nuclear is clean and second only to hydro and cost, it's a smart choice for changing times and it was a sound business decision. >> yet nuclear power is having a difficult passage in the country which first developed it for peaceful as well as military purposes. while watch bar two is one of five u.s. atomic plants under construction five others have closed in the past five years and utilities announced plans to shut down eight more saying more regulations, softening demand and competition from natural gas have made them unprofitable and also blame the antinuclear movement which despite safer new reactor designs points to cafes like churnoble and fukushima. >> is this the kind of gamble we want to take in order to boil water when there are so many other superior ways to meet our energy needs. >> reporter: polls indicate most americans do favor more

nuclear plants as does the obama administration and it is backed by some climate activists who see nuclear as an important element in the fight against fossil fuels. climate scientists james hanson says ruling out nuclear power would worsen the prospects of climate warning. >> there is plenty of gas in the ground and if we now go down a route of renewables plus gas we will lock-out the gas and barn guaranty our children and grandchildren get a climate situation that is out of their control. >> reporter: while the u.s. his states india and china power on with their own programs for harnessing the atom for energy independence, tom ackerman, spring city, tennessee. tribute coming for the lead singer of one of the biggest rock bands of the 90s. ♪

now scott weiland has died at age 48 and found dead last night on tour with his latest band and weiland was the former front man for stone temple pilots and sold 10 million copies of the first two albums and won a grammy in 1994 for the hit song plush. up next, on al jazeera america a photo of a toddler sparking outrage and an investigation and another major blow for world soccer and the justice department digs deeper into corruption at fifa.

in chicago detectives are investigating a video that appears to show a toddler smoking marijuana in the footage first posted on facebook the toddler who was seen wearing a diaper is sitting on a chair sitting on what appears to be a joint and the person behind the camera is heard saying smoke man and inhale. the child puts the joint to his mouth at least twice in the video and the video received more than 500 "like"s and 1200 comments. another fifa arrested in the corruption of world soccer and a judge was detained in florida aboard a ship and it's the latest arrest by the sweeping investigation by the justice department into fifa and we have more. >> reporter: disarray at the top of fifa as more officials are charged in a growing corruption scandal. for the second time in six

months soccer officials were placed under arrest at switzerland's bora-lac hotel including two vice presidents and several more have now been charged by the u.s. justice department. >> a federal grand jury in brooklyn returned at 92 count indictment with charges against 16 new defendants all of whom who are current or former soccer officials. >> reporter: among those charged five former members of fifa's executive committee responsible for awarding the world cup tournament and brings the total numbers of the committee now indicted to 11 and accused of taking some 200 million in bribes in exchange for awarding world cup tournament rights. >> betrayal of trust that is set forth here is truly outrageous, on the scale of corruption alleged here in is unconscious. >> reporter: eight others

accused in earlier indyke dietments and jeffrey web plead not guilty in july and making at the hotel to talk about reforms, something leaders say is still the top priority. >> the ultimate goal of all our concentrated efforts is we will be recognized by a professional sport organization. >> reporter: john henry smith with al jazeera. illegal poaching threatened endangered and protected shee species and we went to the port of entry for animal trade, los angeles. >> because animals can easily be bought online and shipped, i visited the international mail center in los angeles, california. here inspectors see a flood of endangered species coming through their doors. >> between a million and a mall and a half pieces of mail pass through this facility every

month, each one of them has to be inspected by customs and border control officers and some pieces are more interesting to the officers than others. this day one of the hardest working inspectors is on duty. within the first hour of our arrival, locket a canine inspector for fish and wild service finds something and locket is part of a pilot program and the first canine inspector and trained up to 20 scents and have proven her value. >> it would take me all day to do 100 and with her i can clear 10,000 packages a day. >> good work. >> a powerful nose. >> found a python skin wallet and across the world there are 25 different breeds of pythons hunted for their skins and several are endangered and no python products can be imported into the u.s. without special

permits, the wallet is confiscated and added to an unbelievable statute of exotic animals and parts seized at los angeles point of entry every single day. >> what is this room? >> this is what we call the property room, when we seize items that are in violation of wildlife laws are kept as evidence and until the case is adjudicated and we have some way of disposal of them. >> this room that seems more of a morgue shelves as a valuable learning tool and almost all types of wildlife are represented here and behind them is a tragic story. >> the more of this stuff we buy the more the animals are going to buy until they are endangered and do become extinct. >> reporter: in los angeles i'm phil for al jazeera. watch tomorrow at 5:30 eastern and 2:00 pacific and that is our time and i'm tony

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