as allen schauffler explains, authorities are looking for a young woman being called the black widow. >> police are looking for female suicide bombers and released information about one in particular, her name is rusana, from dagestan, linked to caucuses emirate, a terrorist seeking on independent homeland in southern russia. the group taunted russian authorities and threatened attacks on the sochi games. a poster with her into n is has been posted at the airport. it's been sent by russian federal security to enforcement agencies in and around sochi. the u.s. olympic committee is working with the state department and local russian law enforcement doing what they can to ensure the safety of americans travelling to the games. security documents say she is the widow of another member of the caucuses emirate killed in a shoot-out with russian forces. she's described as haing a scarred left cheek, a limp and a stiff left arm. she may have arrived in sochi as long as 10 days ago. 40,000 police have been deployed in the sochi area, with the opening ceremony 17 days out. the pentagon says if

allen schauffler is life with more on the vote. >> this was a close vote. what convinced workers to take the deal? >> well, it seems like it was a combination of cash and jobs well into the future. 51-49% yes vote, the second vote the machinists took on a boeing contract offered in the last month and a half. the first a resounding no. we didn't wonder into anyone who was a yes vort at the main union hall when the announcement was made here in this building. it brought anger and frustration. >> i believe it's not good for us. i believe it takes away all of our power to negotiate with boeing on an equal footing. >> it's a sad day for the membership. they are deeply divided and were very scared from the day of the last vote. they had immense pressure every day from outside sources. people felt they didn't have a choice. no one that asked about it was happy about the vote or how it came down. >> so machinists will see their pensions phase out. they'll turn into 401ks instead in a couple of years. they accepted a signing bonus. $10,000 now, $5,000 later for each

allen schauffler in seattle. >> there's an increase for timber produced in the north-west.are hiring back experienced loggers who left the business during the economic downturn. >> chances are you have heard of pay day loans, they come with a high fee and default rates. the problem is the people that need them the most have trouble paying them off on times. a growing number of companies are trying to change that, offering workers a new loan. >> last november melissa jones, a single mother of three boys moved her boys from kentucky to tennessee, to accept a job as account manager at medal focus. the move hit financially at the wrong time of the year. there was not a lot of time to save in preparation for christmas. >> after starting her position, melissa learnt her new employer offered a benefit called workplace loans. >> i offered $700, they took is out of my payroll. >> hundreds of large and small employers like melissa's offer workplace loans. the contract with the half dozen lenders who provide the program. they are offered to $100,000 workers. >> industry watchers say i

. >> that was allen schauffler reporting. >> in german they wany they wanl with designer drugs that are all legal. >> reporter: people who want to rave all night a little chemical boost is hard to resist. in fact, one new drug a month is released on the global market, too fast for police to catch up. even dealers admit it is getting out of hand. there are always new drugs emerging. people are creative and it's taken on diverse dimensions and it's getting increasingly unhealthy for mind and body. >> reporter: to get legally high is as easy as ordering online from chemists in china or india, for example. this is a dose of lsz, it has the same effects of lsd but legal in most countries. users say they're safer because they're purer, not cut with caffeine or rat poison. >> if someone takes a bag that have stuff into a bar it's a disaster. people will die. drugs have a stigma attached to them, and people who deal with them don't necessarily know the pharmaceutical profile so they can't advise you. >> reporter: the european union is trying to cut the time that it takes to ban a drug from ten

allen shaw schauffler is live fm union headquarters. >> we have been seeing people come in to vote forast couple of hours. you remember about six weeks ago a contract vote was 2 to 1 to reject that offer. what i'm hearing today from people is that there's a lot more uncertainty, a lot more anticipation. very few people willing to make bold predictions on how this one's going to come out. many people saying thy they think it's going to be very much closer and again very few saying it's going to be one way or the other. it's interesting. we talked to a multigenerational worker, a worker whose father had worked for boeing, among many, and he felt difficult to vote anything other than a hard union line even if it makes some very big changes. >> i feel like if boeing wants to leave, that they're probably better to just go. all of us are working people and we'll find another job, to be completely honest. i worked before i went to boeing and i'll work after i leave. >> and exactly how much work will stay in this area is a big question. 20 other states have made birds to help boeing -- bids to

allen schauffler, what are you hearing about the vote? >> well, a lot of anticipation. bit of worry, too. a lot of people we talked to aren't really sure how this one is going to go. they're counting ballots in six different locations around western washington. this is one of them. they've wrapped up here but it's still taking place in other sites. these folks are expecting an announcement very, as you mentioned, how the vote is going to come out. the first vote was a resounding rejection of the boeing company's offer about 2 to 1. this one may be a little hard tore predict but they are not predicting a blowout either way. >> i think this is going to be a close one. they've put a lot of pressure to make a really tough decision. >> well i know a lot of no votes last time that are changing to yes just for you know fear of losing their jobs or fear of boeing leaving. >> yeah, this is video from a pre-vote, no rally that was held yesterday, a lot of really strong emotions there. take a vote and we're gone, taking the assembly of wide bodied jet out of the state. machinist u

allen schauffler is in north barna ball washington with that story. >> there's a lot of uncertainty. two cities to talk about, one, kenmore, where they look to washington d.c. and the obama administration for assurances that the pot-selling is legal and okay. here, north barnaville, population 961, where the mayor and the city council have a different plan. >> licences for growing and processing marijuana will be issued next month with retail stores likely opening in june. different cities are taking different approaches. >> we are trying to be careful. >> we thought someone has to be first. >> kenmore is a city of 21,000. the mayor says he wants to honour voter wishes but the city has to protect economic interests, particularly federal grants for highway improvements. >> when we receive funds from the federal government we have to sign an affidavit saying we are in compliance with state and federal law. the justice department indicated that it will not interfere. that's policy and not law. in kenmore and dozens of cities, a moratorium is in place. >> we want clarification and make s

allen schauffler explains. >> the official logo says nynj. new york, new jersey. ask people where the game is played they'll tell you date day. >> new york. >> new york. >> the big apple. >> new york. >> unfortunately it's being played in new jersey. unfortunately. >> well, that's the problem. isn't it? there is the city over there. gotham, the big apple and the city that never sleeps, it's a hell of a town. the game will be played here, a state line and a couple of rivers away in east rutherford new jersey. so new jersey-ites within sight of but far from the center of the super bowl universe across the hudson can be forgiven if they are a little miffed. >> everything will be directed at new york, but the game is in new jersey. >> if you look at the ticket its shows manhattan, and jersey city a little circle. it's not fair. >> super bowl advertising is new york centric. look at how the n.f.l. is advertising the game. there's 12 blocks of broadway through times square that is super bowl boulevard. >> not to be sidelined on the issue jersey city's colombus drive wil

allen schauffler plains why. >> the official logo says nynj, new york, new jersey. ask people across the country where the game is played this year, they'll tell you. >> new york. >> it's held in new york. >> new york. >> the big apple. >> new york >> unfortunately the super bowl is played in nessy, unfortunately. >> -- in new jersey, unfortunately. >> there's the city, gotham, the big apple, the city that never sleeps it's a hell of a town. the game will be played over here. a state line and a couple of rivers away in east rutherford new jersey. so new jerseyitems within site of but so far from the center of the super bowl unihaves across the hudson can be forgiven if they are a little miffed. >>. >> everywhere is directed at new york , but the game is in new jersey. if you look at the ticket it shows manhattan. and jersey is a little square. >> all over manhattan there's super bowl reminders, including 12 blocks of broadway that have become super bowl boulevard. not to be sidelined jersey city's colombus drive will be known as super bowl drive for a week. both tea

. >> allen schauffler, al jazeera, portland, oregon. >> and tonight's photo finish, a unique sight in view in munich, germany. a polar bear gave birth to not one but two cubs, here they are. they are three weeks old in this picture. jiovanna is said to be a great first time mom add seven years old. >>> coming up tonight at 11:00 eastern. the second moss costly disaster in u.s. history, what we have learned since then. >>> plus the sundance film festival hits the big three-0. we'll talk about that. welcome to al jazeera america i'm john siegenthaler here are tonight's top stories. new spying orders from the president in a major speech president obama redefined how the national security agency collects information. the change has come after a barrage of crit sixg following months of crit sixg about nsa surveillance programs. >> it was clear to me, that changes in our technological capabilities were raising new questions about the privacy safeguards currently in place. >> president obama signed off on the $1.1 trillion federal bill today, it funds many of the parts of government from the

put itself on the international map, paying the highest price for an auction - $142 million as allen schauffler reports the owner of the work is a mystery. >> francis bacon's bleak unsettling study of his friend is a trip-lect. pieces designed to be viewed as one. >> a three-part painting that unfolds a figure in space. it becomes a series of baffles, if you will, that show different sides. >> a portrait of two people, subject and artist, who roamed london in the decades after world war ii. >> they argue about art. they gamble together. they club, commizerate about the failed love live, and yet they come back to the essential connections. >> a simply backdrop. a geometric cage. they hope people will see their own relationships and loved ones in the work. this is a rare opportunity for viewing since bacon painted it in 1969 it has had few public showings, and has broken up. >> it had drifted and been out of view, single panel, but not the whole thing until 1999. then it disappeared again, until appearing at auction. >> a month later it was here at the portland art museum, on display on part of a

. >> all right, allen schauffler, thank you. >>> experts say quantum computers are decades away but according to documents released by edward snowden the nsa is working hard to get their hands on them. we'll explain what they are, and why they could be so important. [[voiceover]] no doubt about it, innovation changes o >> you know, you may be familiar with promotion that will price freezes, will that is going to happen in argentina. buts the government that is behind. "t." it's part of a plan to combat wildly fluctuating inflation in buenos aires. >> reporter: 194 items are on the list unveiled by the cabinet chief. they range from cooking oil to rice, household cleaners to several brands of biscuit. >> this agreement aims to guarantee supplies of all the basic items on the list which means they will be available on a supermarket she have. >> reporter: like many families in argentina they have learned to live with constantly rising prices. they cope but it's never easy. >> first i try to use the credit card and try to make as many payments as i can, try to pay things because a year from now t

allen schauffler reports. >> family photos of much happier times.miling levinson clan when dad was in the picture. christine has not seen her husband. she has evidence that can help to locating him. >> these documents are documents showing that bob was arrested, and that several months later he had medical issues in the prison that they held him in. the family can't prove the documents authenticity but they appear to be real with the proper language. al jazeera's experts on the iranian law agree. the ex-fbi employee was working under contract for the c.i.a. at the time of his disappearance, something the u.s. government never admitted and the family and news organizations new but kept secret. >> there's a positive development for us. we are hopeful that the hassan rouhani administration will follow up on this. the family wants to pressure the u.s. government to step up efforts to save one of their own. >> they sent him, left him. that was a moral wrong. they need to fix that. >> i need the help of the united states government. >> the last images the

allen schauffler takes us to the top for the difficult work behind the high altitude show. >> this fireworksakes a special workplace approach. buckle up. keep i don't remember eyes on the job. >> you don't look down. if you do, you hit veterinary go. focus on what you can do. >> we know how to handle explosives, now we have to handle them six feet off the ground. >> a 12 person crew works for three days for one of the world's largest fireworks display launched from the building. >> it's a special challenge, facing pyrotech nick charges where they accentuate the architecture of the tower guilt for the 1962 world spare. >> with a structure like this we have the opportunity with a circular roof and the opportunity with the legs. we'll move things up and down the legs as we go through the show. >> the fireworks are packed into prebuilt boxes and lefted on to the roof or legs for positioning. each effect with a specific role. >> they are comets, ones that instead of going up and breaking apart like a shell, they go up and burn out and that's how they go. sometimes they go up and break into pieces

. >> allen schauffler. thank you. hours from now, syria peace talks are set to begin in geneva. u.n. mediator will open the tacks with representatives from the government and the opposition. that's according to two western officials. after the opening addresses both sides head to separate rooms, and the mediator will meet with each side until they agree to face each other. diplomats are hoping talks may lead to ceasefires or prisoner exchanges or stepped up humanitarian efforts. >> for tens of thousands the the negotiations are likely the furtherest things from their minds. they are desperate for the basics like medical care. nick schifrin reports. >> in this turkish border town there are 60,000 refugees. abdullah zogby is not one of them. this is their only clinic. he's their only internal medicine doctor. every day he sees 60 patients. >> the clinic is not enough, the drugs are not enough. we need another clinic like this, we need a hospital. >> this is the dentist clinic. >> you see electricity is a problem >> the clinic has six rooms. doctors use the camera's light to provid

. >> sorry, i want to go to allen schauffler in seattle to tell us about the significance of this choice. >> big stage for cathy mcmorris rogers. she'll get a chance to say hello to the country, someone who the g.o.p. hierarchy believes has a political future on the national stage on the national spotlight. an important pick for the republican party, considering their effort to reach out and focus on women voters. she's starting a fifth term in office, the highest ranking republican woman, and served 10 years in the state legislature. she had three children whilst in offer. she and her husband and the three kids leave in the eastern portion of the state of washington. very rural, lots of agriculture and that reflects how she grew up. small town, working in the family farm and a fruit stand. she tweeted a picture with her with her speech in one hand and 2-month-old baby and says "it doesn't get better than this." what is going to be in the speech? we'll expect obamacare bashing, calls for a smaller government, spending, emphasis on family values. she's not a firebrand politician. it would

back to washington state where allen schauffler is standing by. the people in washington state follow this carefully. she talked a lot about her roots. all right. obviously we are having technical problems with the live shot. i wanted to go back to the presidential historian. you know the most - one of the most interesting things i heard tonight is when i asked you whether or not this is one for the history books, you said no. and i have been thinking about that since then. i'm not talking about cathy mcmorris rogers, but the president of the united states, as this sinks in, we heard today that it might not be a laundry list. it sure was the laundry list, it was the longest i have heard in a long time. >> when i looked at this thing in its entirety, what i saw was yes, there was the laundry list aspect. as i mentioned before, there was a lot of credit claiming, trying to bring up past legislative successors, whether it was race to the top or any of huhs other sort of -- his other sort of opportunities that he had put forward, and that credit claim

. >> that's allen schauffler reporting from seattle, joie. >> as ray mentioned just a couple of minutesago this speech comes at a time when the lead in the story is really at a challenge. the difficulty that white house is haling with capitol hill. we have more on the political climate which i think we could sum up in a word, it's bad. >> reporter: that's right, a lot of analysts and even some in congress are now suggesting this speech might be one of the more adversarial speeches we've seen from president obama in some time. there are a couple of reasons why behind that. the president is going to walk into the house chamber with bitter memories from his dealings with republicans in 2013. in his last state of the union a year ago the president advocating for gun safety, a jobs' bill, immigration reform, closing tax loopholes and budget stabilities and last year he got none of that. he got an en pass with a government shutdown that lasted 16 days. this time he'll give a series of challenges. another word for it, and this is where it gets interesting, according to some democrats it would

allen schauffler attended the swearing in ceremony, joining us from seattle. are people talking about what this says about the city of seattle that allows a socialist party member to be elected to the council? >> interesting political event here. boils down to a combination of things. one is seattle is an historic city, leaning to the left, and also we are dealing with a can't candidate who is dynamic and had a tremendous organization joining out from her work with the occupation seattle movement. a certain electorate unsettled after the recession and looking for a change. let's roll the video and show you what change they got today. this is city hall, the lobby packed with people as the sorry moany swearing in -- ceremonial swearing in was perform. a lot of cheers for ed-murray, the first openly gay mayor be sworn in. a socialist, an economic teacher and an immigrant from india. moving in day. getting things in place for the next phase of political activism. we have one computer up. >> she is a community college economics teacher who calls capitalism a dirty