senator bernie sanders, who was about president barack obama's effort to close guantanamo bay detention camp. "we look like hypocrites and fools to the entire world. what we have done is locked up people in a way that is causing all kinds of repercussions around the world. people say 'oh, you're a democratic society...' we have locked people up in an island and i think that has hurt us all over the world. obviously if people are terrorists, they need to be confined and we need to make sure that they stay in jail until whatever happens. but i think the president is right. i think we should shut down guantanamo. i think in the long run, it will help us significantly." he was also asked about why he can't seem to catch fire with african- american voters. "we started with no support. our support has grown and it has grown in the african american community and what i believe to the degree in which we get our message out." when former secretary of state hillary clinton took the stage, she was also asked about gtmo. there's no plan to move prisoners to south carolina. "so where they end up should b

guantanamo bay. former attorney general catherine cortez masto says part of her job in that capacity was keeping people safe. she says - quote - "...that's why i cannot support president obama's plan to close the guantanamo bay detention camp that could lead to detainees - including the mastermind behind the 9/11 terrorist attacks -- being transferred to american soil." "the safety of the american people comes before a ride-sharing service is taking legal action against the city of las vegas. lyft is filing suit... claiming that the city is trying to levy a high tax on the service....that it has no legal authority to collect. the company says... quote.... when state leaders passed ab 176 last year, they prohibited singling out ridesharing with fees that restrict competition and limit consumer choice. as the city has refused to reconsider its illegal tax, we are forced to take action to preserve lyft's safe, affordable rides for people in we reached out to city officials... who say they will not comment on pending litigation. however - lyft's objection to the ordinance to collect the tax... will be heard at a meeting on march 16-th. more coming up in the second half of fox5 news at 5. how police say a with a property owner.

detention facility at guantanamo bay. the former nevada attorney general saying quote... "i cannot support president obama's plan to close the guantanamo bay detention camp that could lead-- to detainees including the mastermind behind..." "the 9/11 terrorist attacks -- being transferred to american soil. i believe that congress must continue to have a role in this process." things could cool down a bit by the weekend. chief meteorologist jeff thompson has a look at the forecast. jeff? high pressure will dominate the weather picture through friday. expect chilly mornings, warm afternoons, light wind, and occasional high clouds. a couple of systems could bring showers friday night-saturday morning and late sunday into monday, but amounts of rain and snow will be on the lighter side for most areas. temperatures will cool in their wake, after warming to 70 by the end of the work week for western nevada valleys. temperatures early next week will be closer to average. -jeff tonight: partly cloudy, with a low around 36. north wind around 5 mph becoming calm in the evening. thursday: mostly sunny, with a high near 66. calm wind becoming southeast around 5 mph.

. >>> a clash of cultures at the detention camp in guantanamo bay. female soldiers guarding some of the world's most dangerous men. the trial of the men accusedbehind the 9/11 attacks will go to court next month. the female guards are fighting back. >> reporter: one in five guards at the detention camps guantanamo bay is a woman. their job, the same as the men men -- to guard detainees. >> being aemale in this environment has its limitations and its challenges. >> reporter: we can't show faces of the guards or detainees. there are detainees who reject some go even further. >> there are some detainee that is do not like females. if they see a female's face in an item, they'll scratch it out. >> reporter: some of detainees re filed official complaints saying they didn't want female soldiers guarding them. a military court ruled that female guard cannot escort the alleged 9/11 mastermind and four others to and from their upcoming hearings. having a female who isn't a family memberrouch them violates their religious beliefs. >> as far as doing our jojo t

senator bernie sanders, who was obama's effort to close guantanamo bay detention camp. "we look like hypocrites and fools to the entire world. what we have done is locked up people in a way that is causing all kinds of around the world. people say 'oh, you're a democratic society...' we have locked people up in an island and i think that has hurt us all over the world. obviously if people are terrorists, they need to be confined and we need to make sure that they stay in jail until whatever happens. but i think the president is right. i think we should shut down guantanamo. i think in the long run, it will help us significantly." he was also asked about why he can't seem to catch fire with african- american voters. "we started with no support. our support has grown and it has grown in the african american community and what i believe to the degree in which we get our message out." hillary clinton took the stage, she was also asked about gtmo. she reminded the audience i know that's what the president wants to do. think is in colorado, there's one in illinois ... that ho

>> president obama presents his long awaited plan to close the detention camps at guantanamo bay. >> hello again, i'm felicity barr, and you're watching al jazeera live from london. also coming up. the u.s. secretary of state talks about what could happen to syria if peace is not achieved. >>> desperation on the greek side of the border as macedonia blocks access for refugees. and we go to iran, ahead of parliamentary elections there, but who is best mobilized the voters? >> he calls it a closure of a chapter in u.s. history. guantanamo bay was set up to detain and interrogate people that the u.s. thought posed extreme danger. but many were held for years without charge. obama said that the facility undermines american values and closing it would save $80 million a year in operating costs. obama, who is in his final year as president said that he did not want to pass on the guantanamo problem to his successor. he said they were already holding dangerous terrorists in the united states and was coping just fine. patty culhane reports. >> with that-- >> it was one of his first promises

. ♪ >>> president obama presents his long-awaited plan to close the detention camp at guantanamo bay.o there, i'm julie mcdonald, this is al jazeera live from london nflt also coming up. the number of refugees crossing the mediterranean this year is already at a record level. >>> returning to their destroyed houses. we're with fijian islanders coming home three days after a devastating cyclone. >> reporter: and the

. >>> an exclusive look inside detention camps a a guantanamo bay, cuba. what should happen to some of the world's most dangerous men, malik mohammad will return to the courtroom putting the focus on him and others who are there. a r re look inside the camps and what's ahead for these men behindbars. >> reporter: bomb makers, terrorist trainers, body guards to osama bin laden, we can't show you their faces, but that's how the united states government describes the men being held at guantanamo bay, cuba. cameras show the detainees talking,, gesturing, even getting water from guards ding an afternoon meal. >> we can't forget that the detainees that are here at one point had fortheir objective to kill americans. and given the opportunity, they would continue to do so. >> certain detainees will urine, feces, vomit. and if they can get that opportunity to throw that on a guard, they will. >> reporter: there are about 2,000 members of the joint task force, men and women, assigned to watch the detainees a around the clock. the number assigned to gitmo has stayed

>>> obama presents his long-awaited plan to close the detention camp at guantanamo bay. ♪ >>> hello therei'm julie mcdonald. this is al jazeera, live from london. also coming up. desperation on the greek border with macedonia, as record numbers of refugees continue to cross the mediterranean. >>> returning to their destroyed houses, we're have fijian islanders coming home three days after a devastating cyclone. ♪ >>> and schools in zimbabwe are reviving traditional instruments like this. ♪ >>> u.s. president, barack obama, has set out his plan for the final closure of the guantanamo bay. the plan calls for the transfer of the remaining detainees to the u.s. >> and so in one of my first acts as president, i took action to begin closing it. and because we had bipartisan support, i wanted to make sure that we did it right. i indicated that we would need to take our time to do it in a systematic way, and that we had examined all of the options. and unfortunately, during that period, where we were putting the pieces in place to close it, what had previously been bipartisan support, suddenly be

>>> president obama presents his long-awaited plan to close the detention camp at guantanamo bay. ♪ > hello there, i'm julie mcdonald, this is al jazeera live from london nflt also coming up. the number of refugees crossing the mediterranean this year is already at a record level. >>> returning to their destroyed houses. we're with fijian islanders coming home three days after a devastating cyclone. >> reporter: and the real life superhero story that is in the running for an oscar. >>> very warm welcome to the program. u.s. president barack obama has finally set out his plan for shutting down guantanamo bay, seven years after he first pledged to close it. of the 91 detain east still at the site, he said 35 have been approved for transfer. in that means they can be released to another country willing to take them. for those who won't go to foreign countries, the president says he will work with congress to establish a location where they can be sent. >> this is about closing a chapter in our history, it reflects the lessons we have learned since 9/11. lessons that need to guide our nat

navy base in guantanamo bay, cuba on a three acre detention facility known as camp x-ray. >> this is used for temporary interrogations. >> reporter: the military used camp x-ray for only four months while it hastily constructed but for many, it still symbolizing detainee living conditions today. but as you can see, a lot has changed over the past four years. >> this is the entrance way to camp x-ray. it looks very different. you can see the barbed wire, the overgrowth. this is what some describe as the dog run. at one time, 300 detainees were kept here. >> reporter: most of the detainees were captured in afghanistan or pakistan. u.s. forces caught only 5%. the majority of men flown in were picked up by antitaliban. some of the captured may have been innocent. many in the wrong place at the wrong time. >> you walk through here, you can see the individual cells. >> reporter: the eight by eight foot chain link cages prompted critics in the u.s. and around the world to question living >> it is an affront to the principles of democracy. >> reporter: detainees later claimed interrogators t

. >> president obama presents his long awaited plan to close the detention camps at guantanamo bay. >> hello again, i'm felicity barr, and you're watching al jazeera live from london. also coming up. the u.s. secretary of state talks about what could happen to syria if peace is not achieved. >>> desperation on the greek side of the border as macedonia blocks access for refugees. and we go to iran, ahead of parliamentary elections there,

. ♪ >>> obama presents his long-awaited plan to close the detention camp at guantanamo bay. ♪ >>> helloe mcdonald. this is al jazeera, live from london. also coming up. desperation on the greek border with macedonia, as record numbers of refugees continue to cross the mediterranean. >>> returning to their destroyed houses, we're have fijian islanders coming home three days after a devastating cyclone. ♪

guantanamo bay for good. president obama spoke less than an hour ago. he says the detention camp is a waste of resources and hurts our standing in the world. republicans in congress are already responding, gearing up for what could be a big political fight. it's also a busy morning on capitol hill. secretary of state john kerry is facing spectacle centk skeptica after russia and tsyria reacheda cease-fire. he's trying to also get approval forever the state department's 2017 budget. >>> right now the senate judiciary committee is holding a hearing on the unaccompanied children's crisis. most of the children are from south america and cross illegally into the u.s. hoping to be reunited with family members here. witnesses at the hearing include members of i.c.e. and the department of health and human services. >>> bernie sanders is in virginia right now. the commonwealth is more than a dozen states taking part in super tuesday primaries a week from today. before that happens, south carolina will hold its democratic primary this weekend. now to hillary clinton whose campaign just ann

camping down. >>> ben: president barack obama wants to close guantanamo bay and it's creating a firestorm among congress. >> alicia: today, the president says the detention center undermines america's national security and needs to be closed. the plan does call for transferring the remaining detainees to the united states. and it seeks nearly 500 million in construction costs. it does not say where the detainees would go. the proposal faces opposition in the gop-led congress. governor nikki haley responding to the plan with strong opposition. the governor says this is no time to send terrorists from guantanamo bay back to the battlefield. >> what we saw is that he doubled down again on something that we won't accept. again, the last thing you do in a country that has already seen terrorism all around it is bring these detainees to south carolina or any other state, so we will continue to fight it. we don't want it in south carolina, we don't want it in kansas or any other state in the country. >> ben: two republican congressmen from south carolina strongly disagree with the president. congressman joe wilson says, quote, the president's dangerous proposal

guantanamo bay prison camp. under the plan mister obama announced tuesday, the bulk of remaining detainees would be transferred to other countries. undetermined detention facility in the u-s. senator john mccain... the armed services committee chairman, is a rare republican who supports closing guantanamo. but he's still hammering mister obama's proposal. --sot-- "i've been waiting 7 and a half years for a plan in order for us to facilitate the closure of guantanamo bay. i'm still waiting because this is not a plan, this is an 8-page document, 7 pages of which is a rehash and the last page is platitudes. == == this is not a plan. this is a series of facts, a wish list that is non-specific and it clearly does not meet the requirements that we laid out in law requiring for them to submit a specific plan." mccain says the committee will closely this is not a plan. this is a series of facts, a wish list that is non-specific and it clearly does not meet the requirements that we laid out in law requiring for them to submit a specific plan." scrutinize the plan and hold hearings on the details. president obama is giving hints on what he's looking for in a sup