from now. >> reporter: perhaps, but in the short-term, the determining factor will likely be the taste of consumers. lucia newman, al jazeera, santiago. you can find much more on our website, aljazeera.com. new clues as to the motive of a man who opened fire at his job in kansas, killing three people. bernie sanders returns to south carolina a day before the primary, in a last-minute attempt to gain ground on hillary clinton. marco rubio and ted cruz team up to take on donald trump. and all eyes on iran has voters head to the polls to choose a new parliament. ♪

this is al jazeera america live from new york city. i'm richelle carey. we are learning more about what may have been behind a shooting that left three people and the gunman dead in kansas. a worker opened fire at a lawn mower plant, and now the sheriff says police had gone to see cedrick ford about 90 minutes before he opened fire. >> mr. ford who was residing in newton, kansas had been served a protection order at 3:30 that afternoon. 3:30 he gets served. 5:00 we have the first shooting. >> john henry smith has more. >> reporter: police say it was late afternoon when 38-year-old cedrick ford began randomly shooting other drivers from his

car, leaving two people wounded. he began randomly shooting other drives from his car, leaving two people wounded. then they say the painter at excel industries headed to his job. 150 employees were on duty at the lawn mower plant. >> the gun was strapped to him. he was ready to go. >> there was a report of shooting in a parking lot of excel, and then the report came out about an active shooter inside excel. >> reporter: we heard a pop pop, and we thought it was metal falling on the ground. and then doors opened and people started screaming coming out. >> reporter: three coworkers died and more than a dozen were injured before police were able to stop him. >> there was a particular law enforcement that responded right away. and even though he took fire he went inside and saved multiple lives. >> reporter: that officer reportedly shot and killed ford.

later police surrounded ford's home but found no one else inside. >> i just can't believe that the guy that shot people up lived right across the street from us. >> reporter: ford was a father of two with a record of criminal offenses in florida and kansas ranging from drug possession to domestic violence. earlier this month, ford posted video of himself online shooting a weapon into a field, and he posed with firearms in pictures posted to his facebook account back in january. and yet people who knew him say they didn't see this coming. >> nicest gentlemen, even prior to work today, he talked to me as we were walking in this afternoon. >> he was a nice guy. i mean we hung out, everything was hunky dory. there is one more day left before voters go to the polls in

south carolina for the democratic primary. bernie sanders is returning to the palmetto state after focusing for the last few days on super-tuesday states. ines ferre joins us now. ines, hillary clinton seems to have south carolina on lock, but why so much focus there. >> reporter: well clinton's campaign is hoping for a breakout win going into super-tuesday, and hillary clinton has been focusing on the black vote, about 50% of the electorate here in south carolina. this morning she was at a soul food restaurant speaking with supporters there, and she has been talking about issues such as jobs, healthcare, and gun control. she spoke about the charleston shooting last year, and how the attacker was able to obtain a gun. >> i'm going to work with you and all of the people who support common sense gun reform

to get comprehensive background checks, close the gun show loophole, and close what is called the charleston loophole. [ applause ] >> reporter: and clinton's campaign feels if she can get a big part of the block vote here in south carolina, this could be good for her, demographics going into states like alabama and georgia. >> let's talk about bernie sanders. what is he saying on the campaign trail that might connect with voters in south carolina? >> >> reporter: bernie sanders is expected to focus on the block that has been very supportive of him, and that's the youth vote. he is holding two rallies here today. one will be at a local college. this morning he was in minnesota, and he has been criss crossing states like michigan, illinois. yesterday he spoke about campaign finances, comparing himself with hillary clinton and the big donors who would give to her campaign, as compared to the

individuals who donate to his. take a listen. >> reporter: millions of dollars, we're going to ask middle class and working families for the help. and you know what has happened in the last nine months? he have received over 4 million individual contributions. [ cheers and applause ] >> reporter: and despite clinton's lead here in south carolina, bernie sanders campaign isn't conceding to anything, but they certainly have been tampering down expectations for the state, richelle. >> let's talk about turnout expectati expectations. what are we hearing about that? >> reporter: they are expecting a big turn out for the democratic primaries. this morning already, 45,000 absentee ballots that have been turned in. and that's higher than in 2008 richelle. >> all right. ines ferre thank you. immigration has been a key

issue in this campaign, and one of donald trump's proposals to build a wall along the mexico border is prompting strong reaction from mexico's former president. >> i would like to know who those hispanics are, because they again, they are followers of a false prophet, and he is going to take them to the desert, and if they think they will benefit with an administration lead by donald trump, they are wrong. they must open their eyes. please you hispanics, latins, in u.s., open your eyes. >> we make up our own decisions. we don't surrender making our decision-making skills to mexico, rome, the vatican. i mean, we make up our own minds. polls from the nevada caucuses earlier this week show trump won the hispanic vote

there. despite a survey that shows nationally the majority of hispanics view him negatively. republicans candidates will compete in a dozen primaries and caucuses. as michael shure tells us ted cruz and marco rubio aimed all of their fire on the front runner in a debate last night. >> i don't know anything about bankrupting four companies. >> reporter: the republican debate in houston was a verbal boxing match. >> if he builds the wall the way he builds trump tower, he'll be using illegal workers to do it. >> reporter: senator marco rubio and senator ted cruz traded turns hitting front runner donald trump. >> it's interesting now that donald promises that he will appoint justices who will defend religious liberty, but this is a

man who for 40 years has given money to democrats. >> reporter: trump insisted he is the only one who could reach across the aisle. >> i watch ted, and i respect ted but he goes nowhere, standing on the senate floor for a day or two days and talk and talk and talk. we have to have somebody who makes deals. >> reporter: and while they were fighting, governor john kasich in a campaign season where substance hasn't seemed to matter touted his accomplishments as ohio's government. >> i inherited an $8 billion hole in ohio. i have common sense regulations. i have tax cuts, the biggest of any governor in the country, and we have a fiscal plan. >> and ben carson was almost forgotten. >> can somebody attack me, please. >> reporter: at times it was hard to determine who was

landing the punches, and even harder for the moderators to keep control. >> gentlemen, please, i want to move on. >> reporter: but the candidates were determined to be heard, because next tuesday, super-tuesday could decide the nomination. michael shure, al jazeera, houston, texas. new developments today in the flint water crisis, the governor just signed a $30 million plan to reembers flint residents for part of their water bill. it will apply credits for water use for cooking, drinking, and bathing. >> this is to again give relief to the citizens of flint for water that they shouldn't have to pay for. it will also help the financial stability of flint and the water system. this is all happening at newspapers say email records show officials in his office urged flint to return to the

detroit water system in 2014. new details on any size of a gas leak in a los angeles suburb, researchers call it one of the largest ever recorded. it discharged more than 97,000 tons of methane. at its peak 60 tons of natural gas was spewing from the pipeline each hour. the leak was capped earlier this month. now to syria where a truce is set to take effect in a few hours. russia says it expects members of the u.n. security council to support the plan. >> translator: of course nobody can give any 100% guarantees, but there are serious grounds to secure this positive move and make it stable. >> reporter: he says there is no plan b if the truce fails. >> reporter: the latest is some important developments in the coming hours ahead of that truce

or cessation of hostilities, which is supposed to start at midnight damascus, that's the beginning of saturday. that is here in the u.s. eastern time, 5:50 p.m. -- 5:00 p.m. before that they will be passing a resolution, we believe to endorse the idea of this cessation of hostilities, and then, really, we wait for 5:00 pm eastern the beginning of the cessation and everyone will be watching very, very closely whether there is a lull in the violence in syria, because no one is expecting all of the guns to stop, but they are hoping that perhaps there could be a significant lull. certainly the u.s. and russia are hopeful that if there's a bit of a lull, if they can perhaps get some more humanitarian aide into some of the besieged areas, then perhaps you have the atmosphere where

you could, within a week restart those stalled geneva peace talks. the other thing that could happen is we'll here from the u.n. special envoy, and he will come up with a new date for those talks. it has moved a few times, but the date he is likely to announce i'm hold is the 7th of march. back in geneva trying to get everyone around the table again. iran votes in its first election since the historic nuclear deal. the economy and reforms are on the minds of voters. and soccer's future at stake. fifa chooses its new president,

iran is voting for a new parliament today. it was extended for several hours thanks to greater than expected turnout. the election is for parliament and the assembly of experts. that group will choose a successor to the supreme leader. some are pushing to put more moderates on that body, and they also want more moderates in parliament. but the voting today does not guarantee change. a panel of clerics barred ann a third of candidates many reformers from even being on the

ballot. now moderates have the opportunity to push reforms after the nuclear deal. let's talk to a senior fellow for the foreign policies of brookings institution. we appreciate your time. this big turn out, does it surprise you? >> yeah, a little, because the standard view of the iranian parliament is it's not a hugely important body. although maybe that's not true when it comes to foreign policy. and they may feel there are enough domestic issues that they want to weigh in on, or perhaps just the symbolism of continuing to push for whatever political agenda they favor, i assume it will be a continued push for reform and openness, because for a long time we have known the iranian people are more open to

dealing with the western world than their leadership has been. and now the leadership is slowly catching up, or at least allowing certain rays of light in. and this is perhaps something that voters just want to encourage and applaud, so we'll have to wait for the results, but those are some possible interpretations. but i'm still a little bit surprised and encouraged. >> there was a third of potential candidates being blocked from running for office. how much chance do reformers really have? this >> that's a great point. and i'm not going to claim i'm an expert enough on iran elections to know what message voters can send, but maybe they won't cast ballots in cases where they are not given a good

choice, or maybe if they had the opportunity to vote for more than one person, maybe they'll only choose one. in other words we'll have to see. i'm just making those examples up out of the blue, but i think there may be ways the iran yoon people can find a mechanism where they can send a message of reform and openness. >> let's talk about the u.s. perspective on this vote today. is there a certain outcome that they would like? >> i think the united states expectations are modest in the sense that people who know the iranian system like my colleague, and who advise u.s. officials or american officials who study this full-time, they know in terms of foreign policy, the impact is not going to be that great. the pecking order is pretty clearly, the ayatollah, and then the president, and along with the president, the cuds force,

perhaps, and the revolutionary guard, and then maybe parliament has a small say at the end of the day after all of that, but given that the parliament is not a major player in foreign or military or security policy, i don't expect that the united states is really hanging on every last ballot box in eager anticipation of a decisive result. so we're obviously watching it, and it's important, and part of the interest in getting the point plan of action implemented by now, was to allow for the beginning of lifting of sanctions prior to these elections. we were hoping that president rouhani and his allies internally would get a boost of help from the perceived benefits of the deal kicking in. so that was driving us to want to expedite the process, but we really didn't need to hurry, but

nonetheless we were trying to help in whatever way we could, so i think the united states is -- is interested. it's just not going to be an historic event, but it will be an important one. >> michael good to talk to you. thank you. >> thank you. there is a new president of international soccer, gianni infantino has been elected president of fifa. he received 115 votes, defeating the favorite sheikh salman who only had 88 votes. infantino replaces disgraced former leader sepp blatter who stepped down last year. apple has now hired the developer behind signal, a secure chat app used by edward snowden, as apple continues with its clash with the fbi over

unlocking the phone used by one of the san bernardino shooters. >> reporter: apple executives are asking a federal magistrate to reverse her order requiring apple to help the fbi hack into a locked iphone of one of the san bernardino shooters. it is asking it to build a government os, as well as a forensic facility that could be used to unlock phones in hundreds of other cases. it says it violates its rights. fbi director has consistently said this is just about a single phone. nonetheless he told a house panel thursday that this cannot help becoming a laker issue. >> i think we have two roles one is in the cases. we must do a competent

investigation in the san bernardino shootings, but i think our role is to help folks understand what the costs are to moving toward a world of tight encryption. >> we do not believe that courts should seek to resolve issues of 21st century technology based on a law that was written in the era of the adding machine. we need 21st century laws, and we need them to be written by congress. >> reporter: everyone seems to agree this is new territory. executives of apple said we are not aware of any precedent for this at all. no company has ever been conscripted to build something that doesn't exist.

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news just in that the governor of new jersey, and former republican presidential candidate, has just endorsed donald trump. >> i am proud to be here to endorse donald trump for president of the united states. i'm doing this for a number of

reasons. first is that donald and i have been friends for over a decade. he has been a good and loyal friend to our family, as we have been to he and his family. and over the years we have had a lot of wonderful times together, done a lot of good together for the people of the state of new jersey and many charities we have worked for. >> and there will be much more on that on al jazeera at 7:00. superfans are honoring their favorite movies by remaking them. phil lavelle has more. >> reporter: fans love to make films, we're talking superfans here. take one favorite movie, add your own twist. but cheap and cheerful, not anymore. the cap pain on the bridge here

is the director of a star trek fan film. the short movie was so popular, he started making a full length sequel with cash from fans. complete crew, cast, and full sound stage. >> it has given the fans the opportunity to fill in holes of the universe of their favorite franchise that they have never been able to do before. i think people are amazed at the quality of most fan films these days. i have seen fan films that are five minutes long that look as good as any tv or movie out there. from star track to star wars, they are all out there. in a nod to the importance of this genre, lucas films holds an award ceremony. you have to get the funding.

you get the cash, and the sky is the limit. and then there's the equipment. broadcast quality gear is readily available these days. everyone is a potential filmmaker. get some friends along, you have even got yourself a crew. and then there is distribution. you have got the net, immediate transmission, and immediate feedback. >> just because people have the tools doesn't mean that they are necessarily going to use them correctly. >> reporter: this man has directed many fan films, he made his own version of the punisher, and his adult take on power rangers has had more than 17 million views so far. >> what i try to do when i make fan films ever so often is try to infuse some sort of big idea within the mythology. >> reporter: for most fans it's just a bit of fun, a hobby.

>> that was fill lavelle reporting. i'm richelle carey. the news continues live from london. ♪ >> announcer: this is al jazeera. ♪ hello there, i'm julie mcdonald, this is the news hour live from london. coming up. [ cheers and applause ] >> uefa chief gianni infantino is voted in as fifa president. >> and i'm live in doha. fifa may have a new president, but the new man won't are as much power as before. we'll look at the reforms that fifa say will make them