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this is al jazeera america live in new york city. i'm del walters. the u.s. embassy in indonesia warning more attacks are possible after six explosions and gunfire rocking jakarta. isil claiming responsible for the attacks. those blasts happening at a major shopping and business area close to embassies, united nations officeings there, and a starbucks. step vosson has more. >> reporter: the situation here is extremely tight. we have military tank on stand by. they are parked literally on the main thorough fair of the capitol. it's all very near a few -- not even 100 meters away from the intersection where the attacks took place earlier this morning, where six bombs have been found by police, five small ones, and

one medium-sized bomb, and where a full blown attack was taking place with several attackers attacking different parts of this intersection. one of them went into the starbucks cafe. so the situation now has been cleared. there was a complete lockdown earlier, but police have now secured the area and said it is all secure and ready for the cars and all pedestrians to come back into the central district of jakarta. but the situation was a lot more tense earlier as you can see in our report. the blast tore through jakarta's dt area, at least six separate explosions and then gunfire, a multi-prong attacked close to the office of the united nations, and a popular shopping mall. >> he was on his own. for about ten minutes he did that mass killing.

>> translator: indonesian television has released these pictures of a suspect who was carrying a gun. one bomb is known to have gone off near a starbucks cafe, and a police post was destroyed in one of the blasts. indonesia's president cut short a visit to oversee operations. >> translator: we cannot be afraid. we cannot be defeat ed by these terror attacks and i urge people to stay calm, because everything is under control. >> reporter: the attacks were concentrated around a busy thoroughfare in central jakarta. the traffic and people, which normally clog the streets are gone, replaced with heavy security. indonesian police saying that several of the attackers are among the dead. tush kish officials are blaming a kurdish separatists group for a bombing in the southeastern part of that country. at least six there are dead.

a separatists drove a truck into a building. that area has been a hot bed of fighting since that's fire collapsed six months ago. today ten men from yemen once held at guantanamo bay are on their way home. it's the largest group of men to be freed since president obama took office. he pledged to close it in 2009. the men had been held for more than a decade without charges. the white house is releasing the prisoners in waves as it prepares a plan for congress on closing gitmo. 93 prisoners still remain. one of those being held has also been sent to oman. he was just 17 years old when he was brought to the prison. he has never ever been charged and has been cleared for release since 2007. and this morning the obama administration is looking into whether those ten u.s. sailors released by iran were treated

inappropriately. they were released in less than a day after being detained. the obama administration says initial examination shows they were treated well, but officials are taking a closer look at videos released by iran. the republican presidential candidates are debating again tonight. polls are suggesting that the race is tight for democrats and republicans. and as david shuster reports the timing could be good news for one candidate long considered the underdog. >> woe! >> reporter: with just over two weeks until the iowa caucuses, bernie sanders appears to be surging at the right time. the latest poll of democrats shows it is t 49-45. in new hampshire the most recent poll suggests he is up by 14 points. and nationally where hillary

clinton had a 20-point edge a month ago, now it's 48-41. throughout his campaign, sanders has promoted economic pop -- populism. he wants to break up the biggest banks and impose new regulations on wall street. his plans are more aggressive than clintons who has big donors on wall street. >> the truth is you can't change a corrupt system by taking its money. i am bernie sanders i approve this message. join us for real change. >> reporter: this week, hillary clinton has stepped up her attacks on sanders. >> we have differences on guns, taxes, and healthcare, and people should have that

information. >> reporter: on tuesday in new hampshire even chelsea clinton hit sanders for his support of a single-payer health system. the sanders campaign said he wants to go beyond obamacare. and david axle rod said, quote: the republican presidential nomination contest also appears to be getting tighter. the latest polls from iowa indicate donald trump and ted cruz are running even, and trump is ratcheting up his claims that cruz is not qualified for the presidency, because he texas senator was born in canada. most legal experts call the issue nonsense, but cruz has been put on the defensive. >> i have never breathed a breath of air on this planet when i was not a u.s. citizen. it was the process of being born

that made me a u.s. citizen. >> reporter: for months cruz largely ignored donald trump, not anymore. >> donald comes from new york and he embodies new york values, and listen, the donald seems to be a little bit rattled. >> reporter: the iowa caucuses matter in both parties in part because it is the first time many americans will pay attention to the race. and right now, donald trump, and hillary clinton seem to be facing chance of opening with a head-line grabbing loss. lawmakers in michigan considering legislation to fix detroit's crash-strapped school system. thousands of students have been forced to stay home from a teacher strike. meanwhile residents in flinth, michigan are dealing with a new crisis. this time there has been an outbreak of a dangerous disease.

john henry smith has our story. >> reporter: as national guard troops he called in were beginning their first day passing out bottled water and filters in flint, the man many blame for the crisis -- >> he is responsible. >> reporter: made a stunning announcement. >> over the course of 2014 and 2015, we saw a spike in legionnaires' disease. >> reporter: at least 87 cases over the past two years. officials in michigan confirm ten of those people die. it's a respiratory system most often spread through the midst of a contaminated water source. >> we have already put out a set of recommendations about filtered water, bottled water, and we're not making any recommendations for change of behavior by the residents of

flint because of this. >> reporter: a federal investigation is already underway. >> i don't discourage the u.s. attorney from investigating. i think it should be investigated. let's get the answers. >> reporter: starting in 2014, they switched the water from lake huron to the much closer flint river. it was an effort to save $19 million dollars. eventually it was discovered that the water supply was contaminated with lead, but it wasn't until a year later that authorities declared the water supply unsafe. this week, flint parents began taking their kids to the first of 15 scheduled testing events to see how much damage has been done to the city's youngest residents. >> what if something happened to your child, you don't know what is going on. >> reporter: fema has announced it has approved the governor's

request for federal assistance. a chicago judge could rule today whether to make public another video of the police shooting of an unarmed teen. it shows this time the fatal shooting of a 17 year old back in 2013. the video is evidence in a wrongful death lawsuit filed against the city and the two police officers involved. at least three people may be looking for sound investment advise this morning. they had the winning numbers for the powerball jackpot. one of the tickets sold at this store. the store gets a million dollars bonus for selling a winning ticket. the others were sold in florida and tennessee. and the winning numbers were:

several tickets watched all five winning numbers they get to claim the second prize of $1 million. good news in the fight against ebola, the major milestone for west africa. plus making their way to the u.s., how one city is getting ready for thousands of cuban migrants.

the u.n. is launching an investigation into allegations

that its peace keepers sexually abused children. they reportedly paid as low as $0.50 to have sex with girls. west africa officially ebola free according to the world health organization. it has now been 42 days since the last confirmed ebola patient in liberia tested negative. the outbreak in liberia, sierra leone, and guinea killed more than 11,000 people. an infectious disease physician told me that after the latest outbreak there is a silver lining. >> a bit more about how the ebola virus can linger in the human body. so this is precisely why the world health organization is warning we could still see flairups. we have seen patients like the nurse who came back, who had a relapse, months later about the

disease, and ian who still has the virus in his eye. we know that about 20% of men will still have virus in their seaman. >> when does africa get to let its guard down? >> i don't think ever. weak economy. people having to be in very close act with the animals that carry the disease in the first place. weak health systems, these things are still there, and you have the ongoing risk of flairups. really, it depends on what kind of access you have to medical care. if you look at the americans who developed ebola, they survived because we had very high level medicine where we could be very aggressive. what is possible on the ground in these countries is not that level of care. you are still looking at 30 to

50% mortality rates. the doctor who traveled to west africa says ebola flairups are likely. in just a few days into his term the new governor of louisiana making good on a campaign promise. he is expanding medicaid in his state. as jonathan martin reports. ♪ >> reporter: along-time trumpeter in new orleans, kenneth is like most musicians in the city. he has no health insurance. he is among 300,000 people in louisiana falling into a coverage gap. they can't afford a private policy. >> even though i would be needing help, but i just say, don't worry about it. i'll be all right. i'll be all right. just pray to god, you know, to keep me going, pulling forward,

you know? >> reporter: but he has reason to be hopeful his situation may change. >> i don't look at this as some revolutionary thing. it is simply the right thing to do. >> reporter: within hours of being sworn in, the new governor signed an executive order that begins the process of expanding medicaid in louisiana. the previous governor had refused to accept money for expansion. it is about 16,000 for a single person and just over 30,000 for a family of four. >> and there are 30 states that have done this. 14 are presided over by republican governors. this is not right versus left, this is right versus wrong, and said we got on the right side. >> reporter: the state will need to hire more than 200 more health department workers to handle the enrollment.

>> it's a lot of people, to identifying and enrolling all of those in six months might be ambitious. >> reporter: he runs the healthcare administration program. he says the biggest challenge will be finding a way to pay for the expansion. currently medicaid accounts for about a third of the state's $25 billion budget. and while the federal government will cover the initial costs of the expansion, starting in 2017, louisiana will have to pay 10%. >> i just don't see how else you can do this, whether that means reducing taxes, or generating new taxes. >> reporter: the governor plans to meet with the department of health and human services to ensure a smooth transition, and hopes to sit down with president obama during his visit to louisiana on thursday. medicaid expansion is expected to be a key focus of the president's speech. kenneth says he is grateful the governor is making healthcare a priority, and eager to finally

have insurance. >> i'm a married man, i have a wife and two kids. >> reporter: jonathan martin, al jazeera, new orleans. there is a bid to impeach the governor of maine. but ousting him could be a challenge. he has offended a lot of people with remarks. the chief allegation, though, is abuse of power. nearly 200 cuban migrants now making their way to the u.s. as al jazeera's roxana saberi reports, south florida is getting ready for them. >> reporter: we have six beds over there. >> reporter: you are going to put bunk beds in there. >> yes. >> reporter: she says she is running out of time to turn this

old house into a shelter. >> that guy is in costa rica right now. >> reporter: she is in touch with some of them every day. he is cooing to miami? >> yes. >> reporter: she says groups like her agency are not prepared to support so many, so fast. >> i don't receive any help from the city, from the state, from nobody. the only help we receive is from the community. >> reporter: is this a crisis? >> yes. >> reporter: south florida is already home to the largest number of cubans outside of cuba. thousands have fled here in the past year alone. many fearing that as relations improve between washington and havana, their window to get special immigration status in the u.s. will close.

the miami mayor says local groups will struggle to house more migrants. >> the agencies are telling us, mayor, we cannot take anymore people. we are running out of funds and places to house them. >> reporter: this area has accepted thousands just in the past year, so what is a few thousand more? >> it's not human for us as a city to have people living in the streets for several weeks just waiting for their papers. >> reporter: but miami-dade county officials says the region is prepared. >> we have a lot of cities and we have a lot of ability to, i think, absorb a population, or in the case of -- of the migrant population, we're talking about -- talking about, quite well here. >> reporter: when you hear somebody saying that this is a crisis, or that they are worried

about this influx? are they exaggerating? >> i don't know that it's exaggerating for -- for the mayor and the circumstances in the city of miami. we have this expectation that the federal government is going to make sure that the money and services are here to support these folks. >> reporter: how confident with are you that the federal government will step in. >> not at all. >> reporter: valdes agrees. so she is relying on people like these cuban imma grants from miami to step in. >> translator: i want to give back what i received when i got here. >> reporter: they leave her with the words keep fighting. roxana saberi, miami. from hurricanes to tornados and bought, a super commuter that can predict natural

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pounds of flaked calcium to get the car out. a powerful tool could give forecasters a better look at possible disasters. >> reporter: the new super computer is said to provide a faster better way to know what is happening in the world's atmosphere. it can do twice the number of calculations as the current machine. it's 5.34 quad drill i don't know calculations. >> you will get clearer pictures of what is going on in the atmosphere, oceans, hydrology, all of these areas that we study. so it's like getting more mega pixels on your camera. >> reporter: so far they have provided everything from formations of clouds, to solar

storms. the computer can even detect heat on the ocean floor, which leads to the creation of waves which then effect the atmosphere. >> we are having a very strong el nino, people would like to understand whether this is the new normal or just an outlier event, for example. we know there are a number of violent events that happen in the weather. people are clearly effected by that. and being able to predict those and understand how they work, and make correct predictions of what is going to happen, is critical to saving property and more importantly saving human lives. >> reporter: last year the federal government responded to at least 77 disaster declarations. scientists say super computers have already helped make better forecasts further in advance. forecasts that can help save lives. movie fans arrange the world with remembering british actor

alan rickman. he died of cancer at the age of 69. he was a member of the royal shakespeare company but gained international fame as his role in the villain in die hard. and oscar nominations are out, the revenant getting the lead. eight films all told are up for best picture this year. the winners will be announced on february 28th. thanks for joining us. i'm del walters in new york. the news continues next live from london. and you can always find us 24 hours a day, by going to our website, aljazeera.com, where the news never stops. ♪

isil claims responsibility for coordinated attacks in central jakarta. seven are dead, five of them, the attackers. ♪ hello, i'm barbara sarah, you are watching al jazeera live from london. also coming up on the program, attack on turkish security forces, at least six people are killed near a police station. as a second convoy takes aid to madaya, we hear from people who have escaped the besieged syrian town. a damming report says corruption was embedded in world