thank you gianna. >> legal team gets ready for a new round, is a-rod running out of options? >> and oscar nomination, why it takes big bucks to get in the >> the number of critics of alex rodriguez seemingly grows every day. called a-rod's regimen, the most potent developed for an athlete than we've ever seen. this week, the 13-time all-star, claiming that the union didn't do fuf to help him and that baseball had it in for him. let's bring in dave zyron, host of edge of sports radio. joins us from silver spring maryland. dave good to see you. a-rod never tested positive, of course neither did lance armstrong. did he get what he deserved? >> well, that all depends on your perspective. if i'm a yankees fan i absolutely think he got what he deserved because it means i get $25 million off the team's payroll and perhaps getting out from under the $87 million that they still owe him and weighing on the franchise like the boneless elephant in the bronx. to be able to suspend players for as long as the commissioner sees fit i'm also for it. if i think it needs scorched earth to expun

as al jazeera's gianna tobioni explains, frightening illnesses including are hemorrhaging and cancer. >> what i went through is 100% changed my life forever. >> 70,000 u.s. military personnel were located where the fukushima power plant leaked radiation. michael sea borne, was assigned to check. >> the air was 300 times higher than a normal day of the sun. >> seaborne and his team says they were exposed to these levels, and now three years later, he is feeling the effects. >> i have about 60%, 50 to 60% of the power i used to have out of the right side of my body. >> steve simmons say his life will never be the same. simmons among others said they drank contaminated desalinated sea water. cooked with it, bathed with it, the effects are now debilitating. >> out of nowhere i dropped 20 to 25 pounds completely unexpectedly. i dealt with night sweats and the illness keeps going. >> he continues to lose power between his legs and arms. signals between his legs and arms are being being interrupted. >> all she could think about was ada's going to die. >> navy personnel who say they were expo

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gianna tobani is tracking top stories. >> china destroyed $12 million of a valuable material. the u.s. did too. we tell you why, and what is it. what do you think? join the conversation. >> an exclusive "america tonight" investigative series >> we traveled here to japan to find out what's really happening at fukushima daiich >> three years after the nucular disaster, the hidden truth about the ongoing cleanup efforts and how the fallout could effect the safety of americans >> are dangerous amounts of radioactive water, leaking into the pacific eververyday? >> join america tonight's michael okwu for an exclusive four part series, as we return to fukushima only on al jazeera america >> wednesday marks the 50th anniversary of president lyndon johnson, declaring war on poverty in america, and the argument over whether we won or lost the war rages on. >> 50 years ago president lyndon johnson declared a big government war on poverty. sips then. the american tax payer spent trillions to lift people out of poverty. today, tens of millions of americans live beneath the poverty line. >>

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gianna tobani is tracking top stories. >> china destroyed $12 million of a valuable material. the u.s. did too. we tell you why, and what is it. what do you think? join the conversation. >> wednesday marks the 50th anniversary of president lyndon johnson, declaring war on poverty in america, and the argument over whether we won or lost the war rages on. >> 50 years ago president lyndon johnson declared a big government war on poverty. sips then. the american tax payer spent trillions to lift people out of poverty. today, tens of millions of americans live beneath the poverty line. >> liberals say the programs have been a success, keeping tens of millions of americans out of poverty. >> derek kitchen from cato institute joins me, and melissa boteach, from the half in ten, which seeks to cut poverty in 10 years, and is a director at the center for american progress. thank you for being with us. melissa, senator marco rubio's argument is straight forward. trillions later there's still poverty, therefore the war on poverty fail. >> if you use the poverty measure taking the program

def conversation gianna tobani teftobacco tef >> welcome back, it's been 50 years since the first surgeon-general report was released. the centres for disease control says cancer of the lung is the deadliest form, up to 90% of cases are connected to smoking and second-hand smoke. 50 years later lung cancer rate dropped 2.6% for men and 1% per year for women. 35-44-year-olds are the ones that listened to the surgeon general's advice, with the biggest drop of fighting induced lung cancer cases. we spoke to the acting u.s. surgeon general and he said smoking still killed millions. >> over the last 50 years we've lost 20 million lives through this preventible disease. smoking related diseases. ultimately we recently had reports saying that over that same time span, because of tobacco control measures, we saved 8 million lives. >> there has been gains in helping people prevent smoking-related illnesses we look at the progress over the decades to help people live healthier lives. >> historians and health authorities look back and call it the single most significant public health movement of the 20th ce

and gianna tobani is tracking the top stories on the web. >> good news the american cancer society released a report saying cancer death rates are dropping, due to one factor. i'll tell you what that is coming up >> what do you think? join the consider on twitter and facebook and google+ pages. >> as the new york city area prepares to host the festivities of super bowl 48, law enforcement is gearing up to police the dark underside that follows. sex trafficking. up to 300,000 americans are believed to be exploited in the sex trade, generating over $9 billion a year. many law enforcement officials believe the super bowl is the largest sex trafficking draw in the country. we are joined by tracy thompson, new jersey's head of human trafficking task force. and from los angeles, john keith wasson, an award winning film maker and director of the documentary "tricked." a film featuring the story of danielle douglas, who joins us in new york, a survivor of sex trafficking and works as an activist and blogs for the "the huffington post." >> danielle douglas, you are not typical of people ensnared in

and gianna tobani is tracking the top stories on the web. >> good news the american cancer society released a report saying cancer death rates are dropping, due to one factor. i'll tell you what that is coming up >> what do you think? join the consider on twitter and facebook and google+ pages. >> an exclusive "america tonight" investigative series >> we traveled here to japan to find out what's really happening at fukushima daiich >> three years after the nucular disaster, the hidden truth about the ongoing cleanup efforts and how the fallout could effect the safety of americans >> are dangerous amounts of radioactive water, leaking into the pacific eververyday? >> join america tonight's michael okwu for an exclusive four part series, as we return to fukushima only on al jazeera america and in those cases where formal education isn't feasible because of the security situation >> as the new york city area prepares to host the festivities of super bowl 48, law enforcement is gearing up to police the dark underside that follows. sex trafficking. up to 300,000 americans are believed to be expl

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