teach for america. and people end up doing teach for america for like many of the right reasons. however, teach for america is a big -- as a system, a broad organization, is a huge part of the corporatization and privatization of america's public schools. >> one of their main complaints, veteran teachers are sacrificed so schools can bring in tfa core members who work for less. >> as public schools are closing, many teachers are being laid off. there are position reserved for core members. like in chicago, massive school closings, teachers and there was spaces reserved for teach for america. >> many te 300 teachers were hired. tfa agreed to sit down with the periods of usas but neither left very satisfied much had been acomplished? >> i didn't find a satisfactory answer to many of my questions. >> we need to talk to tfa about the criticisms. the few minutes at this meeting were the closest we got. tfa eventually declined our request for an interview. >> if they were truly interested in improving education in the country, they would work with universities and teacher organizations

there were social connections with america. i feel i must mention here that george washington's only visit abroad was to the islands of barbados. he went there at a time when he hadn't visited many parts of the 13 colonies. he went there with his older half-brother, lawrence washington, who was ill. lawrence washington later died and left george washington [indiscernible] mount vernon was named after a british admiral in the caribbean. admiral vernon introduced a tradition of serving rum in the british navy and therefore even mount vernon had a caribbean connection. benjamin franklin said his nephew, who is something of a black sheep called benjamin makem, he sent him down to the island of antigua. franklin's own apprentice when he was in philadelphia was active in barbados. they had an active renting presses. perhaps the most famous connection is alexander hamilton, who was born on the island. these are just representatives. there was a tremendous traffic in people and mutual knowledge, and it was quite likely that many would

and for that wreaths across america gets a huge helping hand for america's trucking industry with truckersonating their time equipment and money to deliver the wreaths to all 50 states. the effort is spearheaded by the truck load carriers association. >> at about 1 in 13 people employed by the trucking industry and that surprises some people. so your typical truck driver is probably one of your neighbors and you may not know what he does but a lot of people don't realize the emotion isn't just for us that are connected here, but i was in the convoy several years back and our lead driver, the first truck coming through into arlington got on the cb and said may have some safety issues here. i'm having trouble seeing. he was crying so hard. as a truck driver when he pulled into arlington national cemetery and the military was lined up saluting him and the other truck drivers, it was something that he'll never forget. and he continues to talk about that. and it touches every one of us that were on that channel listening. it's a tough career. and having that opportunity to be perceived in such

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on al jazeera america. ♪ ♪ make the best entertainment part of your holidays. catch all the hottest handpicked titles on the winter watchlist, only with xfinity from comcast. >> josue's immediate family lives more than three thousand miles away -- near new york city. >> last year his mother luz paid several thousand dollars to send for her oldest son daniel roberto. unlike josue daniel roberto reached us soil before being detained by border patrol. and from there where did they send you? us law protected him from immediate deportation. instead, daniel roberto was released to his mother. now he's fighting for asylum. are you afraid for josue? >> immigration lawyers say us judges rarely grant asylum to children who escaped gang violence. daniel roberto's mother, luz, left her boys a decade ago. >> a lot of people find it difficult to understand how a mother can leave her kids behind. what would you say to them? >> in el salvador, josue is back in the neighborhood where his brother fled gang recruitment and wh

america -- were very reluctant to fight on behalf of the british in south america because they had to engage in the nasty business of liquidating the native americans and ousting them from their land and they felt their time was better spent doing that than fighting for more colonial conquests for london. obviously, this was enflaming the ire of london that these colonists were notes inly reliable politically -- were not necessarily reliable politically. i should also mention another point with regard to this rivalry between spain and britain which helps to lead to the foundation of the united states of america. and that is that as you probably know the country known as ireland was a british possession. it could fairly be called one of the earliest colonial conquests. but of the -- many of the irish were not politically reliable because they had a bone the to pick with london as well. and some of the leaders in fact, of the spanish military were irish because they had defected to the other side because they would rather fight the english than to fight the spanish. you may have heard a

if america is a rising power of the international system it can ignore revolution in america and ignore that they not threaten its interest? so given broad stroke that is bad history but cautious and very much is something is of a clear threat he read not be as opposed as we think gore is cautious to think what our other interests are. so that is my vague answer to your good question. >> given that he had been at the founding is sought by slavery had to be compromised, did he come up with a how will this end? duty predict how it wouldn't ? gimmicky was watching slavery about how this would and. is interesting two's speculate is to his mother abigail when the schools in massachusetts during the american revolution in with the continental congress to say we don't want them here. don't argue with abigail the matter what you do she is a blunt hemmer and reminds them remember root the american revolution is about in shames them into integrating the school. whether or not that translates directly to john quincy adams but privately he makes observations about slavery. publicly he is more equiv

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on al jazeera america. >> san salvador, el salvador's capital, is where many migrant children -- including josue -- have departed for the us. it's also where those who don't make it are returned. >> this bus arrived with a group of children who were detained en route to the us. >> for many of these families it's been days and days of not knowing where their children were and what conditions they were in. now they've arrive and there's a lot of emotion. it's a mix of happiness and sadness. the sadness is that they didn't make it, and the happiness is that they're here alive and here. >> ruth gomez rivera's 15-year-old son was on the bus. he left the country a week ago, but was caught by mexican authorities. >> ruth's son is interviewed by immigration officials, fingerprinted, and released to the care of his mother. >> the family is reunited for now -- but they can't go back home. they're scared it might be a death sentence for their son. it's been reported that a about a third of the children deported back t

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on america tonight, shocking evidence that america veterans who risked all for our defense were sickened by poisons as they serve their country. >> a lot of people are saying orange. >> reporter: shiela mc-victor has an exclusive in depth look at the illnesses facing veterans of iraq and afghanistan and the fiery pits that may have poisoned them. also tonight a big health warning from the fda about one of the most common medical procedures facing millions of american women, america tonight sarah hokye brought us a procedure that some fear may spread cancer and a follow-up and what doctors should do about it. and branches of government. >> capitol christmas tree is pretty new. >> reporter: we have a story behind the tree now gracing the nation's capitol. >> three, two, one. >> reporter: lighting up a season of peace on earth in a place where peace can be hard to come by. ♪ and good evening and thanks for joining us i'm joie chan and half of the veterans in iraq and afghanistan sufficient tear a disability connected to their service. they range from traumatic physical wounds of war to life

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what america was made of. so earth seemed to work quite well. water. early nce again, the american settlers on the east the largely got in to interior of the country by going up the rivers, the james and the rapohanoc and the hudson. inland, they all of them found rapids and waterfalls and they therefore there in the towns that the settlements and places like fredericksburg and washington, d.c. albany and once they'd established their settlements circumvent them to take trade goods or bring trade goods down from the mountains, canals so the early they perfected the business of to ding canals and started build commercial canals not simply around rapids so the sex canal in new hampshire which effectively created boston as a city of a port for all of new england, the most important canals, the erie albany om buffalo to making new york the center of commerce that it is today. hen the canals that link chicago though the mississippi river river, the illinois and michigan canal. important in allowing the great lakes

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of the islamic community in america is because america has given us freedom of religion.refore it is the ideal, islamic understanding as enshrined in those new constitutions that they should give also full freedom to their minorities. so that is, we will have more details later. best wishes and make sure that you have my brochures for more understanding. [ applause ] >> thank you very much. >> i don't know about you but i've learned a lot already. impressive panel. i'm tempted to start with a joke, the only terrorism joke i goes on to an airplane. he is stopped because in his suitcase he is carrying a bomb. they say to him, what are you doing? he said the chances of somebody on a plane carrying a bomb are 1 in a million. but the chances of two people on a plane are 1 in 100 million. so that's why he walked on with the bomb. anyway -- i think with this topic, one of the first things required is a sense of honesty. we have to be honest. we have to be willing to face ourselves. we have to be willing to look in the mirror and look into our own faith traditions and each other.

what has won is this idea of america's religious pluralism.ugh he operated in a subordinate role to greater social trends, president obama has played a role in this almost casual acceptance of america's religious pluralism. in his inaugural address of 2009 , obama becomes the first president to acknowledge a wide swath of faiths, including the nons, people with no faith, as importing constituents in the american project. we are a nation of christians and muslims, jews and hindus and non-believers, he said. we are shaped by every language and culture, drawn from every end of this earth and because we have tasted the bitter swill of civil war and segregation and emerged from that dark chapter stronger and more united, we cannot help but believe that the pass,treds shall someday that as the world grows smaller, our common humanity shall reveal itself. in addition to this stirring rhetoric, once you start quoting him it's very hard to know how to stop -- in addition to the rhetoric, obama almost ofediately, within a week becoming president, re-cra

what america was made of.earth seemed to work quite well. water. well, once again, early american settlers largely got into the interior of the country i going up the river. after 40-50 miles inland, all of them found the rapid and waterfalls. they settled there. the settlement of richmond, fredericksburg, washington, d.c. once they establish men they built the early canals. they protect the business of building canals, started building more obviously commercial canals, not simply around rapids. middlesex canals which created commercen as a city of , a port for all of new england. important, the area can now wish and made new york the center of commerce that it is today, and the canals that links chicago to the mississippi river, the illinois and michigan canal, and the chicago sanitary canal, which is hugely important and allowing great lakes commerce to go to new audiences. and the cannibalization and control of taming this untamable mississippi river. story fitof the fitte neatly into the chapter of water.

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on al jazeera america. >> next in our special look at "america tonight's" sound, no city in this countryn music than detroit. in the '50s and '60s motown brought us superstar stevie wonder, the spreems, supremes and the spinners, a new generation, the original in the mix gives us the twist in the story of the spinners. >> you mind if i say something? okay, how y'all doing? >> my name is henry fambrow. i'm a member of the spinners vocal group. i'm 75 years old. 75 years old and still kicking. not kicking that high but i'm kicking. dowop is dowop. that's why they call it dowop. >> that was the dowop. that year 1954 we was in our early teens and we was in high school. and i'm talking about the very beginning of the group existence. we was only a basketball court outside, and every day in the summertime, all the guys would gather around, and everybody would always say something like, why don't y'all start a group you sound good, why don't y'all start a group. that's felipe purvis, bobby smith and billy henderson and myself on the right side, at that time, the name was domingos, and bobby cam

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al jazeera america morning news every morning 7 eastern only on al jazeera america >>> well, after theng crash, wall street investors bought up hundreds of thousands of foreclosed homes across the country, flipped them into rental units. it was a buying frenzy, but now the frenzy is cooling, and the big question is when will the institutional investors sell? let's take a look at one market just outside of atlanta. two summers ago, the auction block here was hot hot hot. david shuster reports. >> yes! yes! >> $112,000. >> reporter: the first tuesday of every month this is the scene on the steps of the courthouse in georgia. >> 86,000. >> reporter: hundreds of distressed properties sold in the blink of an eye. >> sold, $86,000. >> well, it's very exciting, somewhat like herding cats. >> reporter: it's bryce's first time at the auction. he and his wife were hoping to buy a home on the cheap, but he wasn't expecting the chaos. >> i see there's several different locations. >> reporter: or the big investors who are driving up competition and the sale price of the foreclosed homes. >> i have

al jazeera america morning news every morning 7 eastern only on al jazeera america >> baltimore wasn't always a city in decline. it was once a shipping powerhouse, one of the largest seaports of the mid-atlantic states, and a major center of industrial manufacturing. >> in the late '60s, baltimore had industries like bethlehem steel, a huge ship-building industry, a very active port. >> neill franklin is a retired police major who spent 34 years in law enforcement. he's seen the decay first hand. >> late '60s, early '70s mainly, jobs started leaving baltimore. industries started leaving, going overseas, wherever it ended up. it just wasn't here in baltimore anymore. but it was also around that time that richard nixon decided that he was going to start a war against public enemy number one: drugs. >> but it was president ronald reagan who turned that rhetorical war into a literal one. >> you have to show that you have a drug criminal problem. so how do you do that? through arrests. >> at a time when drug crime was actually on the decline, not on the rise. >> we went crazy arresting peop

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they come to america to be part of america. did not want to continue to exist in a a european sense where they are a separate people, kept apart. literally kept apart. what kind of a world is henry ford thinking of here? >> he says that jewish rights clash with american rights. jews are not conforming to american culture. they will not melt. they can't exist in america. they have to tear it apart. >> either it is a battle of jews versus non-jews, or as michelle says, he believes they want to change america. and that means he's got an answer for why america has shifted. all of these innovations and indeed -- take a look in the middle here. what is another innovation he doesn't like? >> movies. >> movies. they are obscene. they are portraying wicked values. by the way, movies have been portraying wicked values since the beginning of movies in the country. but who is to blame for that? the jews. that is not to say that jews have no -- there were jews in the film industry, but he suddenly is able to blame jews for yet another eleme

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and america 238 years it has done all things.and it has not done a great saying this ended three different combat zones. it and like any other place i was born in the inner city of atlanta and georgia. look at what i could do or achieve. because of america you can do all things and the equality of opportunity that no matter where you come from or where you were born that is not determined your end the station gore achievement in life. that is what it says of the bible. that i can do all things through christ jesus to strengthen some a. so you have that confidence to go out to be a great nation. so if you think about a great nation it is all about the individual. christianity is our personal salvation the strength of america is in the individual spirit going back to the inalienable rights "life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness" but if you were not careful if you cannot be achieved before christ gore country will not think about the pursuit of happiness but the government can guarantee your happiness with his government to? y

the "idea" of america would never torture. >> stephen: and the actual america?> have you read that report? we pumped hummus up people's butts. i'm no imam, but i'm pretty sure that's not halal. and that's why i chose to live in the "idea" of america. >> stephen: ah-ha! but the idea of america is just an imaginary place. which means you, sir, are just an imaginary stephen colbert. >> and you, sir... (fading away) >> -- have been a formidable opponent! >> stephen: we'll be right back. (cheers and applause) ♪ ♪ have a cuervo. have a sensitive side. just don't have any regrets. cuervo. have a story. ♪ did you know you can use an ipalmost any apple device?om really? yeah. give me a call on that macbook. alright, call you now. [ringing] [french accent] hello, pierre's bistro. uhh, i'd like to make a reservation. [french accent] there's nothing available! goodbye. c'mon dude. don't hang up on me. try again. call me from the ipad. [ringing] [french accent] huhh huhh huhh. you call me back on ipad you think i give you a reservation! you will never get a reservation! tabl

news america. >> funding of this presentation is made possible by the freeman foundation, newman's own foundation, giving all profits from newman's own to charity and pursuing the common good, kovler foundation, and mufg. thanks foundation and you can connect communities and commerce for centuries. that is the strength behind good banking relationships, too. which is why at and it -- at an usg, we believe financial partnerships should endure the test of time, because with time comes change, and what matters in the end is that you are strong enough to support it. we build relationships that build the world. >> and now, "bbc world news america." >> this is bbc world news america. reporting from washington, i'm katty kay. allen gross is that on -- i'm kathy kaye. alan gross is back on american soil after five years. to normalizegin relations between our two countries. >> we go inside the pakistani school where more than 130 children were killed in a taliban attack. the scenes are bloody and hunting. a

yes, america, many black people struggle. crime but that does not define us, there are many white people struggling and white crime. but that does not define whites. i would like to tell you what black is. black is beautiful just as white is beautiful just as every other color you see is beautiful. black is human just as every other color is human. black is a shelf underneath which we all share the same red blood, the same vital organs and same skeletal structure. america, we cannot live like this any longer. as you can see, it is not only black people who see this injustice, every single color is represented here, america. this right here is what we are need to see, people seeing others fight the injustice that join in the cause to work toward a better and equal tomorrow. please, please i am begging you, try to change for the better, america. sincerely, a black life. >> a special thanks to alex ford and the students at princeton university. and that does it for this edition of our world with black enterprise. be sure to like

would america have been america without her negro people? i think you can answer that question without demonizing or casting aspersion on any other culture or race of people, but one has to acknowledge that america simply would not be were it not for the contributions of african-americans, and so i believe that every race of people ought to be judged by the best they have been able to produce, and i believe that dr. king is among the best that our people have ever produced, and this movement is just not's king. king was a man, not a movement. the movement entailed and involved a whole lot of other people, some we know and some we don't, and many who paid the up mat price with their lives to help make america a country that will one day by as good as its promise. we ain't there yet. we're working to becoming a nation that will one day be as good as its promise, and that journey would not be as far along as it is were it not for the grand contribution of macbelieve all the way down to sanitation workers near in memphis. this is a great city an

in america. crain, the company's ceo has headed up utility companies around the world. when i sat down with him earlier this week, he told me he believes climate change is real, and he has a plan to fix his part of it. >> european ceos has been moving on, and i would say in our country you still have to have the debate on whether or not, climate change is happening. but i think now that is fading. all you have to do is go outside to know that the climate is changing. and what can we do about it? what time frame? who should do what? but if we get in to figuring out we do have a problem, let's talk about the solution. and it seems like we're getting there. and small statements like exxon mobil's statement earlier this year climate change is happening, it's caused by man, and the time to deal with it is now. out of the mouth of exxon mobil that was a big step forward. >> you made a pretty remarkable statement. i'm just pulling it up now -- >> you are scaring me now. >> don't worry, you know of this

that's "america tonight."er if you want to comment on any of the stories, log on to our website, aljazeera.com/americatonight. good night. we'll have more of "america tonight," tomorrow. >> hundreds of days in detention. >> al jazeera rejects all the charges and demands immediate release. >> thousands calling for their freedom. >> it's a clear violation of their human rights. >> we have strongly urged the government to release those journalists. >> journalism is not a crime. >> no indictment in another racially charged case of an officer killing an unarmed black civilian leads to large protests in new york. >>> also world leaders meet to take on i.s.i.l. as iran is taking on a larger role. >>> and meet the press chuck todd meets us to talk about his critical book on president obama. i'm antonio

al jazeera america morning news every morning 7 eastern only on al jazeera america >>> the surprise announcementm president obama that the united states is normalizing relations with cuba is is rippling through latin america. leaders praised the move, hoping it will spur struggling economies. lucia joining us where she has been covering this story. but there may be very few people in this world who understand cuba as much as you have from your coverage of cuba. what are your thoughts? >> ali, one of the most interesting aspects of this is how the move taken by president obama really addresses not only the issues and relations with cuba, but the whole region, as you know latin america was once considered washington's obedient backyard, but that ship clearly has sailed. at the summer of americas 34 leaders told president obama that they had run out of patience with the u.s. embargo which they consider bullying. a photo opt that sums it up. cuba's president welcomed with open arms to the organization of every country in latin america and the caribbean, except the united states and canada. more than

i think america loves america. i mean, americans love america. but there was a time, after world war ii, when we were in love with america. we were in love with the promises that were -- you know, that are worded in that declaration of independence, and the bill of rights and so forth. we were in love with all those promises. we won world war ii, which was a giant coming from nowhere and nothing, to manage to win that war. and then we invented the marshal plan to help europe, we did that job. >> you personally were in a b-17 bomber. >> yes. >> front lines of combat really. that had to shape your world view. >> well, that's another long story. it did shape my world view, i guess. i flew 52 missions over germany. and i don't think they could have gotten me in the plane if i hadn't lived so many lives before that. i don't know if you have the time for this but -- >> tell me. what do you mean? >> but, you know, by the time i, at 20 or 21, by the time i enlisted i had lived a life with my -- as a kid with my mother and father. i had lived a life with

al jazeera america. have good in the season of peacn jerusalem, a holy site, considered sacred in islam and jerusalem. for centuries the al-aqsa mosque, is considered a holy place. from jerusalem, nick schifrin. >> haysens the messiah's arrival. >> that will come very soon please join god. >> in the center of the city, jewish activists, change the thousand year status of the city's holiest place. >> i'm happy to be part of the redemption of the jewish people. >> reporter: and a new breed of right wing israeli campaigners spurs them and the next generation on. >> we want to come back. we wants to go pray on the temple mount. >> they spearhead the growing temple mount movement, third jewish temple on top of one of islam's most sacred shrines. creating a new battle, and threatening to make a israeli palestinian conflict boil. >> young men and all of us boil with anger. >> the dome of the rock, according to them, where mohamed ascended to heaven, the dome was built by a muslin caliph. where muslims communica

there is no profit in america without nonprofits in america. you try to run the town -- seriously, you try to run the town, let alone attract new business. it young and dashing young men and women to stay if you have arts and culture, if you don't have health care, if you don't have education, if you don't have clean air and water. that is what we do. you can't make money without us. we need to on that fact that we are not the young brothers and sisters of the.com world. we are equal to business. no recovery plan will work without us in the mix. it is time for us -- [applause] -- [applause] there you go. if i may be so bold, and to close, this is the kind of transitional thinking i urge you to be open to as leaders. believe me. i do not want to discount the minute women of generation x who have been toiling in the field, waiting for their time. there are so many people with really bold ideas. we have to turn them loose. a lot of our conversation today will be around those ideas. how do we get our voices heard. and how do we learn to the spec no

plus, the great made in america christmas is back tonight. >> made in america! >>> good evening. and we begin tonight with several breaking stories. two major storms hitting on both coasts tonight. but first, the fallout from the storm unleashed in washington today. the cia torture report now revealed and this evening, for the first time, we hear in detail what was done in secret prisons after 9/11. from the chains to the coffin to the confusion over who was on our side. the cia firing back tonight, arguing it worked. this evening, you're about to hear it for yourself. the american people left to decide. let's get right to abc's martha raddatz, leading us off tonight. martha? >> reporter: david, some of these detainees are al qaeda operatives suspected in taking part in the worst terrorist attacks in this country's history. the details of what american interrogators did to detainees are vivid and gruesome. stripped naked and diapered, one detainee chained to a wall for 17 straight days in a standing position, another threatened with a drill, one left to die in a cell from hypothe