here is jake ward jake our science and technology editor jacob ward. >> the world in which you and i know is made up of a floating one. tectonic plates bump together all the time. it is these certain places that we see big earthquakes. the indian plate years ago came crashing into the eurasian plate. they are moving in the same direction. here is the thing that crash is still ongoing. that fender bender created the himalayas and why this earthquake took place. the epicenter in kathmandu used to be the highest tower darahara tower engineers made it of weather resistant concrete but that tower has actually fallen over in an earthquake before, and rebuilt in the exact same way and now it has fallen again killing by some reports dozens of people. unfortunately much of kathmandu isn't built any stronger than that tower was. in the west, concrete is held in place by bars of steel. that is called reinforce ed concrete. but often in nepal they stack brick without reinforcement. now here is the same building on an earthquake simulator made of reinforced concrete, it jumps around a lot but sur

a new technology is actually reducing crime rates but as jake ward reports critics are worried the tool could be used to harass people in minority neighborhoods neighborhoods. >> if we have any shootings with hits, i have to notify the captains the bureau. >> the newton division is on the front line. its territory includes south central l.a. along with their arsenal of shotguns handguns and tasers, officers are now armed with a new tool, predictive policing or pred pol. >> they all would be out killing people the it wasn't for you. >> the moment somebody hears the term predictive policing, they think of pred pol but there's difficulty predicting who is going to commit a crime and where and when it's going to occur. >> jeff brantingham is the co-creator of pred poll. >> not only why hot spots in the past moved and spread and why they appeared in new places but allowed us to say where is it going to be torment? >> the result is a complex software program based on recent and historic data of past crimes and their ripple effects it produces a map of red squares. the boxes represent roughly

jake ward investigates whether this is helping or hurting justice in america. >> the violent streets of south central l.a. plagued by gangs and known the world over for six days of riots following the rodney king verdict. and although much has improved here in recent years, an average ten violence crimes and 27 property crimes per week. >> if we have any shootings with hits i have to notify the captains, notify the bureau code 2 and a half. >> the newton division is on the front line, its territory includes south central. along with their arsenal of shotguns handguns and tasers officers are armed with a new tool, pred pol, a technology that predicts where crimes will occur. >> if you have pred pol, if you guys can spend some time in the pred pol areas right there. in the 60s and 70s up and down broadway. >> we've had a lot of the violent crime taking place. >> michael newton heads the predpol division. >> we try to deploy each basic car that's going out is given a predpol map. >> the predictive policing, they immediately think of minority report. but there's a really big difference b

jake ward is back tonight with our report. >> seattle washington, home of bill gates paul allen and this guy, seth morabito, a software developer forced to sell the house he bought in december of 2014 because i couldn't get online, he lives in kitsap county. an upscale county near seattle. the story is hardly unique. roughly 1 in 10 households in pasadena california and cambridge massachusetts home to harvard and mit don't even have computers. this is the digital divide. the internet is basically a great economic equalizer. it is a kind of superhighway that can carry almost anybody to a better life. knowing how to use it qualifies you to work in a professional setting like this but for those who can't get onto that superhighway they end up stuck in neutral. their chance to make money is simply less without broadband access at home. broadband is an income multiplier. a recent study by the consult be firm aksen accenture the government doesn't probably the basic connectivity that makes that possible. internet access moatsly and sometimes exclusively -- mostly and sometimes exclusively reli

. >>> science and technology correspondent jake ward joins us now. thank you so much for being with us. why is the european community has gone against google while the u.s. hasn't? >> the united states antitrust authorities have considered going after it, there have even been rumors that, but in the u.s. regulators haven't gone after them. in europe there is more fire in the belly of going after them, i don't know if perhaps a different political identity, and associate of scoring points by going after google that may explain some of that. >> we have seen a specific case in spain where they went after google different issue. >> that's right that right to be forgetting law. the issue that prompted google to pull out of publishing in spain. >> what are the actual legal differences? >> the legal philosophy of the two areas is similar in that antitrust regulation, basically trying to make sure there are not monopolies, there are many things that the antitrust law covers but can google in fact shut down competition? in the united states we tend to not onl

jake ward is in san francisco for that. jake. >> john it really was seems like a grand plan. governor brown asked for californians to make a voluntary 20% reduction by simply watering their lawns less, washing their cars less, the entire state's usage went up by 1% at that time. it turns out californians are basically insulated. everyday californians are insulated against what's going on by the country side, by the reservoir system here. the california water authority has a huge system for moving water from place to place so everyone has been held back from having to feel it themselves. now governor brown feels a voluntary measure did not work and now needs to impose a more mandatory, entirely mandatory restriction against water usage across the state. >> some people have complained about their drinking water. what's happening there? >> that's absolutely right. berkeley oakland and san francisco residents complain the water has a strange mineral taste to it. because the water authorities are moving water supplies around, beginning to draw from different parts of recess vo res

. >> technology correspondent jake ward is with us. >> google is such a massive octopus. >> tentacles everywhere. >> and as a result, it's no longer a sort of impartial way to find things that you're looking for but it's getting into the business of being one of the companies that show up in the results. you think about shopping, it's one of the destinations of flight searches. if you look at flight searches, you would look at one of those and now there's an inherent conflict of interest. >> why is it happening in europe? i haven't read anything to show that it's happening in the united states. >> there has been things, regulators have thought about going after google and it seems to be the philosophical differences in the way that the u.s. thinks about it, and the eu. in the u.s., if it actively hurts customers, but in europe, they're much more devoted to the abstract notion of fairness. if you have the ability to quell competition then they go after you sort of on principle. and also, this is sort of a personal thing but i feel that europe has moaz al-kassasbah collective memory of

jake ward is on this. >> john, u.s. is the number one jailer we put more people in prison than anyone, including china and brazil, i got to meet a select group that have been allowed to do something very special. this is home to some of the most violent criminals in the united states. san quentin a maximum security state prison outside of san francisco holds serial killers drug traffickers and 731 people sentenced to death. to get inside, i signed a form, saying if i'm taken hostage they will not rescue me. i gave up my cell phone. then inside this notorious place i got to see something amazing. it's graduation day for a small group of prisoners trying to join the technological revolution that they've missed. men like harry hemphill serving 16 years for assault. >> and i'll be turned into a grant, a world full of mobile apps and ipadipads and i don't know for me. >> first of its kind programs for me called the last mile. that teaches programming to inmates. there's one problem. >> there's a reference work, java script u

as jake ward jacob ward reports. >> i'm in calaveras county, california. these bee keepers have brought them to get them away from agriculture. these guys rent out these bees to big agricultural growers because bees are essential for everything we eat. these little guys pollenate all the lie quality foods we rely on. the problem is, pesticides causing havoc in bee communities. if you look at this particular frame, this is an example. this came from an almond grow. these guys rent out bees for almond growers and all kinds of growers. when it came back, this is a protective barrier that these bees use to quarantine off whatever they think is a threat to their group. they're seeing this very strange sort of self defense behavior all over the place. because these bee keepers say of a new generation of pesticides put into the very water of the plants. not just sprayed into them but get sucked into the root structure, lasting for generations, multiple crops over the source course of a decade. what these bee keepers want is for the white house to begin to regulat

jake ward reports. >> if you look there are still bits of nectar in there they didn't starve to death researchers were all there something else killed them. >> jeff anderson is a third generation beekeeper, he is trying to recover from the death of 70% of his stock part of a worldwide trend of disastrous losses. like hundreds of beekeepers jeff represents his hives to farmers so his bees can pollen nate billion dollar crops. now he is facing trouble his predecessors couldn't have imagined. he is bringing the bees he has left to detoxify. >> this frame here is full of honey. and that should in theory be the sign of a well fed good healthy population, but these dies off anyway, and now they are entoming all of this with a special layer, they are basically quarantining this, and that's a sign of bad health. it is that weird signal that has people concerned for the future. >> a highly toxic pest size that is used to treat the seeds and is taken up by the plant from the soil. i think about a play, spraying a whole crop, but you are talk about putting it in through the soil? >> yes. these a

. >> jake ward joins us now. this is remarkable. the beekeepers need the farmers.y are using pesticides. the symbionic relationship is complicated complicated. the beekeepers loan the services out of the everyone need bees. the problem is there's a handful of big cash crops that don't require bees, soy beans, corn, wheat - they are whenned pollinated, and those crops - they are filled with pesticides. bees in those places are infected, not infected but poisoned is what the beekeepers are claiming. when they are brought back and tried to put to use. they are dying off. that's the problem. >> what is a world in america wowed bees look like? >> the difficulty is in the one case we'd have soya beans, corn wheat. if you like avocados, and avocados that cost also than $10, we'd have to import all the fruit. and we can see what it looks like. a certain province in sichuan china has no more bees. they had the same problem. they pesticided the heck out of the place, given up the pollination. the chinese farmers had to hand pollinate the crop, if we do that, replace the work

. >>> as jake ward jacob ward explains, google'sgoogle's antitrust violation he could be far reaching. >> as long as user have choice they are safe from monopolies. now, google doesn't just lead you to the stuff you want to buy, it actually sells a lot of stuff and that blows apart the whole regulatory model we are used to. let's look at google's airline flight search tool. here is a few of the competitors in that space on travel, kayak expedia, hipmonk and online flight. at one point google would come back with a list of airline companies. but now when you type in travel, hip monk isn't on that first page and might as well not exist in that case. but off to one side there is a convenient list of air fares and prices and that's google flights. it also owned ita software which sells pricing information to these rivals, google could in theory hold to hold back the best deals, there is no evidence that it's doing that but that's extraordinary power. google owns search, it dictates results it owns one of the big flight companies and across the field, if you look at ad placement, shopping,

al jazeera's science and technology correspondent, jake ward, joins me now to talk about it. it looks like it obliges the united states to aim toward some pretty ambitious goals. >> that's right. this is an interesting build up to the december deadline in paris that the whole world is expected to meet. the united states has said it's going to try to cut its emissions by 28% below 2005 levels by 2025. and that's pretty ambitious. the united states is the second greatest emitter of carbon dioxide after china and third place is a long way behind us. so this is a tremendous amounts of cuts that is really going to require doubling our emissions reduction after the year 2020. effort. >> so is using what we were emitting ten years ago as a baseline and saying to the world the united states as a whole will only emit about three quarters of that amount that we were ten years ago? >> that's right. i mean, each country is trying to sort of figure out a moment in its history to hold itself against, a benchmark that makes sense. so in this case, 2005 is just sort of the right benchmark fo

. >>> jake ward in san francisco. >>> nearly 50 victims of the 2009 shoots at fort hood have receivede heart and defense of freedom medals. an emotional ceremony was held this morning. dozens of survivors and family members received the medals. the army psychiatrist has been sentenced to death in the attack that killed 13 people. >>> thanks for joining us. the news continue next live from london. and for the latest headlines go to our website at aljazeera.com. ♪ >>> medical supplies land in yemen, the first since saudi lead air strikes began, 16 days ago. ♪ >>> and you are with us here on al jazeera, i'm david foster. also coming up in the next 30 minutes, pakistan frees on bail the suspected master mind of the mumbai attacks infuriating india. the presidents of the u.s. and cuba expected to meet for the first time since relations

there is a high explosive. >> jake ward reporting jake thank you. coming up next, npr's scott simon, i talk to him about his new book, about love and loss. loss. >> the financial world paused today because of a computer outage. bloomberg's terminals stopped working. they are the computers many use to get financial dats. data. bloomberg said it was a combination of hardware and software failure. most of them were back up and running when markets opened this morning. >>> palestineian prisoners jailed by the israeli army. barbara serra has more. barbara. >> in the next hour we'll take a look at the physical and psychological impact in indefinitely incarceration has on the prisoners and the effect on descra illinois israelis and palestinians. john. >> scott simon as his mother was dying he kept a sort of twitter diary of her last months of life. he's written another book about her called unforgettable. i asked him what he remembers most about his mother. >> my mother was always very funny, very high spirited, i hate to say irrepressible but she lived th

jake ward reports. >> seattle washington, home of bill gates paul allen and this guy, seth morabito. a hardware guy forced to sell a house he bought in 2014 because he can't get i.t. online, because he needs it for his job. he lives if kitsap county. the consumerist not for profit newspaper. >>> one out of ten households in past dean anna california don't even have computers. this is the digital divide. the internet is basically a great economic equalizer. it is a great superhighway that can take almost anybody to a better life. but for those who cannot get onto that superhighway, they wind up stuck in neutral. today 9 in 10 households with a bachelor degree or higher end one some type of internet access. even when you do have access no matter where you live in the u.s. your internet is probably slower than any other developed country on the planet. the united states ranks just 30th in national broadband speeds. lagging behind countries like iceland romania even russia. in finland broadband access is a legal right. >> this isn't about how fast a cat video loads on your phone. it's no

al jazeera's jake ward joins us now for. >> this would an tremendous thing if they had brought it down the way they intended, which is to bring the rocket down such that they could refuel it with fuel and start over again. it would be a game changeer for private space. unfortunately, elon mu usk said that it came down too hard laterally and tipped over and that does away with any chance of reusing it at any sort of affordable cost. >> is this the way forward for space generally? the commercial missions that sort out the logistics and resupplying and so on? >> absolutely, yes. the way they're thinking about it and repositioning themselves as a mail service nasa would be outsourcing delivery runs to space x that's the nature of their contract over the course of a dozen missions in the course of this year. they're trying to bring that busker back. and it would bring up the cost $60,000 per launch doesn't it single million dollar digits. $7million and $7 million. this would make it a closer economic cousin to a flight of boeing 747 than the original apollo program and the affordability of

jake ward reports. ♪ >>> if you look down in there, you'll see there are still bits of nectar and pollenere. >> something else killed them. >> reporter: jeff andersson is trying to recover from the death of 70% of his stock. part of a worldwide trend. like hundreds of bee keepers around the world. jeff rents his hives to farmers to his bees can pollinate billion dollars crops. >> back in the 70s, it was piece of cake to be a beekeeper. >> reporter: now he is facing trouble. with help from fellow beekeepers he is bringing the keys he has left up into the hills to detoxify. this frame is full of honey. and that should be the sign of a well-fed healthy population but these bees died off anyway. and these bees are basically quarantining this. and it's that kind of weird signal that has the keepers so concerned. several blame a new category of pesticide known as neonicotinoid that treats the seeds that farmers buy and that is taken up by the plant from the soil. >> reporter: i think about a plane spraying a whole crop but you are talking about putting it in through the soil. >> yes, and taken

. >> jake ward reporting. breath larson is a tech analyst and editor of tech bytes.com. what impact could this have on the company? >> it could be potentially bad to their bottom line. they could get slapped with a potentially heavy fine. we've seen european companies slap pretty healthy billion euro fine against them for their dominance, they did the same thins with microsoft. what was interesting with the microsoft case from start to finish so much had changed. the big thing with microsoft is internet explorer is the default on windows five years later it's gone. not so much. not gone. they did discontinue it just recently it lost its dominance in the marketplace. two things could happen. google could come back in ten weeks and say we don't think we've done anything wrong it's not our fault we're so popular and then drag it on for a certain time to let the competitors bubble up. >> but there's significant difference between the united states and you're. explain that. >> google 90% dominance in europe. >> not so much here? >> they're above 50% when it comes to search bu

jake peavy pitch in the yard. the first career grand slam. the 2007 cy young ward winner peavy take the loss. san francisco has lost three in a row. stanford and cal ending their three-game series. two run shot in the top of the fifth, third homer. on his way around the bases staring down the bears pitcher. catcher doesn't take kindly to that. want some of this? stanford a winner 12-6. they tike two out of three in the series. this sports roll brought to you by bank of the west. >>> cal stanford no love lost there. >> never. thanks. next at 6:00, we'll show you how furious 7 followed up the ninth biggest opening ever in box >>> join it tonight on kofy tv20. the last drive for a bay area golf course. >>> at 11:00 here on channel 7, ryanon between a man who nearly died and the man who saved his life. the simple app that brought them together. >>> the latest "fast & furious" movie was back in the driver's seat at the box office this weekend. furious 7 had the ninth highest box office knowing history last weekend, topping $147 million. this weekend the movie earned more than $60 million. it's alr

jake peavy pitch in the yard. the first career grand slam. the 2007 cy young ward winner peavy take the loss. san francisco has lost three in a row. stanford and cal ending their three-game series. two run shot in the top of the fifth, third homer. on his way around the bases staring down the bears pitcher. catcher doesn't take kindly to that. want some of this? stanford a winner 12-6. they tike two out of three in the series. this sports roll brought to you by bank of the west. >>> cal stanford no love lost there. >> never. thanks. next at 6:00, we'll show you how furious 7 followed up the ninth biggest opening ever in box >>> join it tonight on kofy tv20. the last drive for a bay area golf course. >>> at 11:00 here on channel 7, ryanon between a man who nearly died and the man who saved his life. the simple app that brought them together. >>> the latest "fast & furious" movie was back in the driver's seat at the box office this weekend. furious 7 had the ninth highest box office knowing history last weekend, topping $147 million. this weekend the movie earned more than $60 million. it's alr

jacob ward is live in san francisco for us, and jake, what exactly is secretary carter hoping to get from silicon valley? >> good evening tony, and i think that secretary carter is here just to figure out what everybody wants to know. he's trying to figure out the future with all kinds of technologies and opportunity and mayhem that can come out of them. here's how he described the new landscape that the department of defense faces right now. >> the same internet that enables wikipedia enables terrorists who learned how to build a bomb. and anything that we can use against our own forces, and they're now availability to the highest billedder. whether it's the cloud infrared cameras or gps signals that provide navigation, or aircraft carriers and smart bombs. >> what's so interesting about this tony, typically, you would think of a foreman rolling their eyes at the department of defense trying to recruit them. but this is an agency that has $72 billion in research funds alone, so the opportunity to work with somebody like that, and have conceal to amazing technology all of that could