i will hear these this is just. tell me a little bit about what you know about he had a lot of anger problems. he was very heavily mixed on drugs i personally. know him to be very violent i have seen him is glee beat up his brother he's lied to me about several different occasions he's been a bitch or why i think he believes his own months i was actually standing next to sarah and. when i said we're going to put your dad to way for amber it was it was like it was planned these witnesses were never called in the original trial and wallowed believes they could have changed the verdict.

are you comfortable talking about what happened that that you know you really don't remember much of it at all what part do you remember i remember the gun going off and him leaving the house and then that's pretty much it i was in my little rebellious stage when i lived in florida and then switching to watch everything on a change and i kind of cleaned up my act and everything what was he like you know that's. my question and he was really cocky and really strong headed stubborn and this was such a long time ago and i've haven't really thought about him in a while in that way so i really don't remember the rest. sarah seems to have recovered from all of this week getting her to wisconsin was a good move because it got her away from all her drug connections it seemed like you know all the negative feelings towards god yes you know i don't hold any any

negative feelings towards their i was a teenager cards and i wasn't perfect but it's got to be devastating your stuff and you know. indeed indeed katie here but but again that's that's not fair and. you know that's that's just this crazy system run amok. months after had to pendleton's tragic murder in two thousand and thirteen another mass shooting terrorized chicago's south side and intensifies the push to pass the mandatory minimum gun bill or that a dozen people were shot when the gunfire erupted shortly after ten pm near cornell square park among the victims a three year old boy shot in the head by a stray bullet exam a baby and she. were at cornell square park where the

shooting took place we're meeting a survivor the youngest i've ever encountered say hey listen to. how old are you. elaborately you were in. the day of the i'd say his first day back in the park says the shooting. he's very active he loves to rabbi he loves cars anything the wheels that he really doesn't like the park anymore you mind talking about that night around ten o'clock. i was sitting on a bench on a desk where. i heard gunshots and it was like at least thirty gunshots a pulse for many friday twas deonte i never noticed that he was shot because he was still running around and when i caught up with him i turned around he had a big bullet hole on the rise and. i was screaming they

shot my baby a someone baby he was bleeding group it was a me everyone. figured out was shot and they were just like all of his best work but really what do you know about the shooters. oh they don't know what i really knows what the detectives tell me and they know enough to think. that i don't know. or suspect you're not being held without bail in the mass shooting that injured thirteen people. earlier in that they suffered a great ones from a shooting prosecutors say that he conspired to get a rival gang back the alleged ringleader ryan champ like suspect michael ward in the case at a previous arrest for unlawful gun charge it was sentenced to boot camp instead of prison who would have been behind bars had the mandatory minimum gun bill been in

effect. we need state and federal laws that are going to support and prevent people from being shot and murdered. guns drive find. illegal guns drive murder. and if we don't provide real punishment for the criminals who carry the messages of that wish and. the ember seventh two thousand and thirteen at the illinois capitol members of the house are inside preparing to vote on the mandatory minimum gun bill burkett vices there are snooty notes on the bill a surprise request for a cost report on the bill filed by representative duncan forced the house to adjourn without voting the reaction among the sponsors can best be described as you've got to be kidding. an unwillingness to you have a debate about public policy and public safety and they resorted to tricks because the votes were there there was not a parliamentary trick it was

a parliamentary procedure that we have in the illinois house rule book the bill is currently postponed. want to stop and deal with crime. you have to put in programs for job training that create jobs and aerials give incentives for businesses to come and some of these tough communities people feel a sense of hopelessness but i find the net. best underground economy to support themselves and their family and they don't have a blatant disregard for themselves in any and everyone else they're going to go through this sort of super crazy fantasy going to god is going to be the conflict resolution mandatory minimums don't even come into their psyche they can care less about what the state of the statutes are and i was like you can't do the whole list maybe a couple of them currently representative michael is a leskie is working with opposing groups to reform the gun bill and preparing for a vote in the next session of the illinois congress.

the pendleton's who lost their fifteen year old daughter had dia to gun violence and created a foundation in her honor and we need to have more after school activities or just like rank centers things that keep the mean and women off the street we are trying to build the best legacy that we possibly can five ardor. she meant a lot and she has impacted a whole lot of people when. i was born or raised in the projects i seen a lot of you know gun violence and that's not the land that i chose doves as well as they have lives given to. the aren't they still has a couple fresh balls in his face and he has has the notes sitting twenty years. i want. to have a better future. after

months of waiting while our defense team finally receives news regarding his appeal . the judge has denied while in two requests for a retrial the judge's opinion states that while the testimony of the new witnesses was relevant it was not strong enough to overturn a guilty verdict. it saddens me that this judge. was the one remaining person who could have given lee the break that he so needs. and he didn't take that opportunity i didn't want to be the one to tell sandy and she. took it a lot better than i expected sam is trooper. since we couldn't talk on the telephone and we couldn't visit. the only form of communication we had left was letters every letter he writes s y i am which means see you in my dreams and that he's going to see you for real today for real. sandy couldn't afford

to travel to florida to see her husband we've arranged for sandy to meet waller for the first time in over five years my husband wanted to see me along here so i grew it. so i drew him a couple pictures he left florida so he loves palm trees then he also loves dragons that's good and since i can't see him or talk to him then hopefully my mom will be able to give these to him. i feel guilty about pretty much the entire situation. because sarah is considered one of the victims of the crime she isn't allowed to visit her father in prison. i'm really sad that i'm not able to actually be there in person and give him a big hug. i think you're so nice to see. you. here. then fashion. oh to dan and rose

that's serious nick tell sarah i was really hoping i get to see her tell her i love her dearly. i like your hair by the way it was about i just about gad well you know . very true and. it's wonderful to see and you know i was afraid i might never see you again i mean because you see if something doesn't happen i'll probably die here and i mean it will be i'll be seventy three by the time i leave in the rain i'm connie and i'm not going to make it. you know. thank you for let me see my best friend again so nice to see her again.

do you think there's any place for mandatory i don't think there should be a mandatory minimum for anything i don't think that i think that every crime should be individual ie judged a lot of laws make no sense you have the right to defend yourself but in a lot of circumstances you defend yourself and that gets twisted and you get in trouble. i think i really think that we need to take a look at our justice system and straighten it out. while or this team are now focusing on clemency the success of the clemency effort rests on a proposed bill by florida representative neil come to.

one of the reasons for this bill i imagine is your belief in the secular man. that is a polite society and what i want to you know prevent from happening in the future is somebody who is not physically harmed anyone being sent to prison for twenty years the bill would make warning shots legal in the state of florida and was inspired by waller and others like him who said they were protecting themselves or their families by firing a warning shot. it's ironic that one law could set while they're free while another has the potential to trap him for twenty years. here's the bottom line i think when this is all over and i'm fifty eight you know i'm not not planning on checking out immediately but it's coming you know i'm getting older. my neck comes and going to look at the book and he says well did you do good john and did the best i could and gave it everything i had i tried to do the right thing for the right reason no

matter the consequences and that i can live with. when i saw the condition that my husband was then and the fact that he had resigned himself to. spending twenty years in prison for shooting all in all i went from being sad and depressed. to being angry. i think the system has failed me this is some fails lady. and the system is going to fail a lot of other people. if we don't do something. i'm not. going to. how reliable is an eyewitness when you have an eyewitness to

say i was there i saw him do it that is the best evidence about thirty percent of the time witness is a real cases who pick someone and say yes that's the person to turn it upon are wrong these are being falsely accused in costa rate it was something he did not exploring the dockside of american justice the system with job on al-jazeera. hello there we're seeing some severe weather over parts of north america at the moment most of it's out of this weather system here is gradually edging its way

eastwards and as it does say it might bring us some flooding rains and some very large damaging hail as well so there's that system there making its way towards the northeast and then ahead of it we're still seeing plenty of showers across parts of florida although it does look like these should eventually begin to clear as we head through the day on wednesday meanwhile towards the west generally fine unsettled for many of us here seattle as a maximum getting to around twenty degrees a bit further towards the south and there's lots of showers here particularly over parts of cuba those of those showers that we saw earlier over florida this whole area staying wet then as we head through the day on choose day but by wednesday the showers over florida have cleared as have many of those that were over cuba towards the west more wet weather here though that stretches all the way down towards panama panama again looking pretty wet for south america is pretty cold for some of us in fact as ari's got to around one degree as a minimum that was pretty chilly as a maximum i think we'll get to thirteen degrees on you choose day so gradually the

temperatures beginning to recover for us in santiago it's not that warm either as we head through into wednesday will jump up this time getting to seventy. candid testimonies from lebanese women who are staying single longer. what's causing this contrast shift in a society already be set by religious and social tensions. and are there implications for the arab world as a whole. single by choice on al-jazeera. every weekly news cycle brings a series of breaking stories join the listening post as we turn the cameras on the media and focus on how they report on the stories that matter the most on

al-jazeera. this is al-jazeera. hello i'm still robin you're watching the al-jazeera news our life my headquarters here in doha coming up in the next sixty minutes our current shortfall remains now in excess of two hundred fifty million u.s. dollars the u.n. body providing assistance for more than five million palestinian refugees faces a funding crisis also. as fighting rages on in the money port city of new data diplomatic efforts to stop a humanitarian disaster a stepped up and. general strike against austerity brings argentina to a standstill. and nigeria mauls the death of nearly

a hundred people killed in the battle for land. welcome to the news the u.n. agency for palestinian refugees is warning it's facing an unprecedented funding gap that is weeks away from cutting a merge and see assistance is asking for more than two hundred fifty million dollars at a donor's conference in new york saying it struggled since the u.s. cut contributions earlier in the year the trumpet ministration slashed funding by more than half in january over political differences with the palestinian leadership more than five million refugees in the middle east rely on the agency for education food and health services and says those crucial resources could be cut as soon as august our diplomatic editor james bays has more from the united

nations. the u.n. has been trying for months to fill the massive shortfall after the u.s. pulled out most of its funding from the u.n. secretary general of the start of this pledging conference appealed to nations to come up with more funding and the head of armor commissioner general credible said time was running out our current shortfall remains now in excess of two hundred fifty million us dollars and we still have a very big task ahead at this point we do not i repeat we do not have the income to ensure that the schools will open on time in august.