. ♪ florence with al jazeera, dakarta. >>> remember you can keep up to date with the day's stories onhe website, al jazeera.com. i'm ali velshi. on target tonight. homeless on the home front. let's get those who fought so bravely for america off the street and into stable housing for good. 49,933. that is the government's most recent estimate of how many american veterans are homeless on any given night in this country. nearly 50,000 men and women who served their country are living without a roof over their heads. it's a situation that many americans find shameful. some experts say the real number of homeless veterans is about twice that figure, 100,000. whatever the number, the experts agree it's about 11% of all homeless adults, but here is the good news. the fish estimate of homeless veterans is down by a third from 2010. tonight i am going to look at how america is trying to eliminate homelessness among veterans entirely and the obstacles it faces. the obama administration have helped. the efforts have jumped from about 2.4 billion dollars in 2008 to 7 billion dollars in the fisc

. ♪ florence with al jazeera, dakarta. >>> remember you can keep up to date with the day's stories on, al jazeera.com. i'm ali velshi. on target tonight. homeless on the home front. let's get those who fought so bravely for america off the street and into stable housing for good. 49,933. that is the government's most recent estimate of how many american veterans are homeless on any given night in this country.

. >> we saw one attack in dakarta and not very professional and unfortunately not as many people killedlear the terrorist hoped but massive publicity and i think we need to understand that it's that publicity that turns the failure into a success. >> it's that success that security experts want to stop both in support and potential attacks. malaysia's transport minister has been quoted and said there are as many as 50,000 i.s.i.l. sympathizers in malaysia and the worry there would be if 1% became radicalized and they hoped they could work closer together with international partners to prevent further attacks across asia pacific, al jazeera, kuala-lumpur. >>> working along the clock on u.s. east coast to clear snow after a major blizzard and more than 18 million people have been a affected by the storm and gabrielle alexander is from new york. >> the sun came out again and so did people looking for help to dig their cars out of mountains of snow. >> anybody stuck, anybody want to get out? some people have patients and some people don't have patients but when you go through a neighborhood

the indonesia government has review of prisons after it emerged in one of the gunmen last night in dakartabeen released from jail and experts believe prisoners are becoming radicalized inside prisons. >> reporter: waiting for the body and ten days ago the 32-year-old became the face of the worst attack in indonesia since 2009 and he was photographed shooting in a crowd of one of the busiest intersection and four members were killed in the day's attack. and earlier he had been released from prison where he was serving a term for attending an armed training camp in ichi. >> translator: when it came out of prison we offered him to live here, although our house is very small. we tried hard to give him a new place. we even built a temporary small house for him but he refused so even if we would have been angry at him, if we would have tied him to a pole he would probably have done the same thing. >> reporter: so he visited his family just ten days before the attack and during the years in prison he refused to take part in the government's so called deradicalization program and managed to secure