we will speak with spencer ackerman of the guardian and the to northern iraq to talk to joe stork of human rights watch was been meeting with yazidis fleeing. then to ferguson, missouri. he graduated, on his way to college. we can't even celebrate. we have to plan a funeral. >> protesters took to the streets for a third day in a row near st. louis monday demanding justice in saturday's police shooting that killed michael brown, an unarmed african-american teenager just days away from starting college. all of that and more coming up will sto. this is democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman. the u.s. bombing campaign in northern iraq has entered its fifth day. obama authorized the strike last week and what he called an effort to halt the advance of islamic state militants on the city of erbil as well as to prevent the massacre of iraq's yazidi minority. thousands of yazidis have been fleeing for mountain where they were trapped for week of the rebels advance. house and more remain. u.s. officials have confirmed the cia has been secretly sending arms

tom ackerman reports from maryland. >> for kids in inner city baltimore, summertime means more chancesrun free in the sun shine. many miss the meals they have become accustomed to receiving while school is in session. 44 million american children get breakfast and lunch there under the federal school food program. they qualify for the free or reduced priced meals if their family incomes fall below the government's poverty lines. but only one in every seven of those children who get school meals participate in the summer food program. in baltimore, the city housing department and the school district serve the food at more than 400 neighborhood location like this community center. >> we understand just from the numbers that we see walking through the door that families need support. we are here to support them wherever we can. >> in many other places around the u.s., too few local agencies are willing or able to run summer programs. >> shortfall, say child nutrition advocates, is another factor contributing to high obesity rates among children. >> kids actually are more likely to gain we

plants to combat climate change but they are divided over natural gas to replace the coal and tom ackermants. >> reporter: by 2017 the last of the coal-fired plants in massachusetts will be out of business. the latest to close a 63-year-old operation whose chimney stacks spewed coal dust over the sea port town of salem and if it goes as planned it will be torn down and taking place on the site will be driven by cleaner, natural gas. under the deal the new plant will be shut down in just 35 years. by then enough non-fossil fuel energy sources will be available to replace it. environment groups reached that agreement with the utility in keeping with massachusetts official target of more than one quarter of its electricity generated from renewable sources in the next five years. >> the settlement we reached in regard to the plant is a great example of how we can use natural gas in the near term to make sure we keep the lights on and create a very careful intentional transition to a clean energy future. >> reporter: to some local residents that deal is full of holes. >> we think that is a terr

tom ackerman reports. >> it took messenger more than six years to journey close enough to enter orbitround mercury, almost 58 million kilometers from earth. the scientists who designed and built it at the johns hopkins physics laboratory figured they could send back at most 2,000 images of a planet too close to the blinding sun for telescopes to observe. now, after receiving 10 times that number of pictures, they have a wealth of data about mercury where temperatures range from 450 down to minus 10050 degrees celsius. >> on this globe, they have mapped the top okayraography of planet with new information sentence back by messenger as recently as a few months ago. messenger has produced kongclusive evidence inside mercury's north pole craters lie deposits of water ice and encouraging finding to those who dream of making human settlement in deep space an event annual reality. >> this is saying to us that one of the processes that takes place in our solar system can trap water and have it there if we ever get there. >> the facts learned about the properties on, above and below mercury's

tom ackerman, al jazerra. >> new dawn in beijing, the ancient capital of the world's fastest growing, home to the 2008 olympics. it's the vibrant centre, the super power, where the old wrestles with the new. communism clashes with capitalism and a new global

to be analyzed but in the coming decade the space agency plans to launch two more orbiters, tom ackerman, al jazeera, laurel, maryland. >>> and coming up, google helps get a sex offender arrested, after flagging his e-mail. but some are questioning the larger issues of prierves. privacy. >> okay, breaking news, israel has agreed to a 72 hour ceasefire in gaza. that will start tuesday morning. charles stratford is on the phone with us from gaza. what do you know about this deal? >> this has just come through tony. we have heard that a israeli dloidiplomatic force says it's e to begin 8:00 a.m. local time here in gaza. according to the source prime minister netanyahu was going to after he had been notified that all the tunnels had been destroyed here in gaza. and he also hinted that an israeli delegation is heading to cairo to try and finalize that agreement. and we'll wait and see what happens. we are how many hours away now, we are about eight hours away before that begins. and before that proposed ceasefire is supposed to pharmacist egyptiastart.egyptiag trying to push forward with furt

in the coming dade -- the coming decade, tom ackerman, al jazeera, laurel, maryland. >> great view of. that's it for us here on "america tonight." tomorrow on our program. >> i kept trying otell the black customer you don't have to come in the back door. you can come in the dining room. >> did that take a while? >> it took a while because the black customer wasn't comfortable coming in the dining room. >> story of change at one of florida's most historic restaurants after being open 24/7 for the better part of 60 years yum beau's has finally closed its door. that own are who cooked up that famous fried shrimp but helped bring an end to segregation in miami. remember log on to our website, al jazeera.com/americatonight. we'll have more of "america tonight," tomorrow. ght," tomorrow. >> israel's invasion of gaza continues tonight. >> we have been hearing a lot of tank shelling coming from where we are, here. >> every single one of these buildings shook violently. >> for continuing coverage of the israeli / palestinian conflict, stay with al jazeera america, your global news leader.

tom ackerman, salem, massachusetts. >> the move to snarl gas isn't entirely clean, it's not the cleanest alternative but a start. according to michael obiter, with the environmental policy group, the world resource institute. he joins us to explain how power will be generated in the future. michael why does natura -- has l gas become the go-to fuel of the future? >> what we're seeing increasingly around the country coal plant operators are being placed with a decision. as their old, dirty and inefficient plants reach the end of their useful life they can early make costly capital investments to make these plants more efficient or they can choose to retire and make way for cleaner newer and cheaper sources of electricity like natural gas and renewables. >> coal has been the cheapest form of generating electricity and the cost of natural gas is cheap today because we are producing, we have fraking going on, but the future is uncertain. natural gas could be higher, in fact many argue they have to be higher to sustain the amount of production we're doing. >> i think it's wise to diversify th

lawyer nick ackerman was part of that watergate special prosecution force. thank you for being here. >> thank you for having me. >> there were a lot of issues about why richard nixon taped hihimself. you have the answer. >> it rises out of the taxes of 1969. in 1969 the congress passed the tax reform act. couple of things happened, they changed a allow as to whether or not the president could donate his papers to the government and get a tax deduction. nixon lobbied abou against that change. they did it anyway. he ended up back dating, essentially creating tax fraud so he was left with no option at that point after 1969, co-not donate his papers. so one way to get around the law, the law did not apply to tangible goods like tapes. so one way -- >> so he did it for atax break? >> it was a tax break. this was a guy, i twhras a was a young assistant prosecutor. i remember the letter he wrote to his lawyers asking if he could deduct cost of his papers. he was basically paying the same rate as people making $15,000 at the time. >> in some way this was a tax dodge

. >> "tackle these" -- tom ackerman has more. >> secretary of state john kerry says that the u.s. is using every tool at its disposal to bet the release of four other -- get the release of four other americans in captivity, held by four other groups. the family said - gave a little more details to media about the circumstances of his release, saying that they approached the qatari ambassador to the u.n., and at that point avenues of communication were opened with the captors, who had at one point asked for millions of dollars in ransom. once a proof of life video was produced, establishing that curtis was, indeed alive, then the wheels turned and he was released, but the family says - insists that no ransom was paid, and they have no reason to believe otherwise. >> so what do we know about the group that freed curtis. the al nusra front aims to establish an islamic state in syria under sharia law. it's thought to represent al qaeda. it announced its victim posted online. it's a powerful group in the region, in the battle against syrian government forces. it's estimated that it has

. >> tom ackerman has more from washington d.c. >> u.s. officials say that curtis is expected to arrive home soon, to be reunited with his family. at the same time secretary of state john kerry says the u.s. is using every tool at its disposal to get the release of four other americans held in captivity in syria by various groups. the family said - gave a little more detail to the media about the circumstances of his release when they said that they approached the qatari ambassador to the u.n., and at that point avenues of communication were open with the captors, who had at one point asked for millions in ransom. and once a proof of life video was produced establishing that curtis was alive, the wheels turned and he was released. the family insists that no ransom was paid, and they have no reason to believe otherwise. >> as mentioned the top u.s. military commander says america will take action if the islamic state in syria threatens the u.s. or europe. the islamic state has taken control of the strategic syrian air base, the last governm

tam ackerman reports. >> president obama's pledge was to keep defense forces out of iraq. this time he is the fourth to send them back, to protect the yazidi from the is group. asked whether he'd underestimated the is fighters he said... >> there's no doubt their advance, their movement over the last several months has been more rapid than the intelligence estimates and i think the expectations of policy makers both in and outside of iraq. >> the administration has been accused of ignoring several warnings about the islamic state group since it first appeared in syria. >> then we watched it go from city to city across iraq without it being hit from the air with drones, despite the request i know were made. the administration says the requests for access came in late may. since then barack obama held back from respondenting for aid from nouri al-maliki. barack obama blamed his government for inflaming the situation, and allowing the arm toy to -- -- army to become corrupt. >> i don't blame the president. i think we need a different government in baghdad to make it a realist

. >> tom ackerman with us in washington, thank you. >>> well, a number of authorities including u.s. and kurdish teams have been dropping food and water to refugees stranded by the violence. it's part of the campaign ordered to avert what barack obama calls a potential genocide. earlier supporters of the prime minister rallied in baghdad. iraq's president has until sunday to ask the leader nominated by the biggest political block to form a government. we now have jane with us, jane, going on the back of that iraq trying to form a government, and barack obama many times mentioning how important it was for iraq to have an inclusive government for u.s. to carry on with its actions in iraq give us an idea of how able they are to form that inclusive parliament that the u.s. is calling for? >> well, here's what is happening now. tomorrow is supposed to be the deadline, although not every agrees on that. it's in the constitution. there was supposed to be a parliament session in baghdad to come up with a prime minister, but none of those things are happening. the session today was delayed fr

tom ackerman, al jazeera, laurel, maryland. >> you can always stay with al jazeera for more on our top story on the conflict in gaza. also, get details from our website at aljazeera.com. >>> i am lisa fletcher and you are this. today thousands of minors are . >> hi. i am lease alone and ending up in shelters under federal custody. just how unanticipated was the surge and subsequent shellerring crisis. plus undocumented pima frayed to report crimes because of their immigration status. how that fear could be turning their communities in to targets. and later, rogue soldiers in the mexican army. confrontations between border protection and mexican soldier on his u.s. soil. sometimes resulting in attacks on american citizens. what's going on? ♪ ♪ >>> this has been a conversation in america for you last few weeks, but what is interesting is who knew about this ahead of time? >> three words explosive in the u.s. politics, board, he undocumented and immigration. we have all three in today's discussion. we shared all of this with our community and as you can imagine it diverse opinions. sal th

. >> dan ackerman thank you. ambitious effort toú, nt in u.s. waters.nding of marine sanctuaries is the first step in saving them. the florida keys are home to the only living barrier reef in the united states. but life here as changed dramatically. just ask sylvia earl the world renowned oesh ogceanographer. >> when you look at a coral reef, 6kyou are looking at a snapshot of the ocean processes that on a grand scale make this our favor. what's different about the present time is the speed of change and the fact that humans are the victors of that change. it's like the ocean is too big to fail. well, -no it is failing. it's up to us now. >> reporter: earl says in the past 30 years an estimated 40% of coral worldwide has been lost. that coral protects shorelines sea life and brings in big tourism dollars. and since you can't protect what you can't see, this unprecedented project is under of divers is documenting the ocean's reefs, the same way google maps out streets. full 360-degree views. every angle of undersea life will go up online. >> high time i

tom ackerman reports on the gap. >> reporter: michael brown's death from police bullets and the anger from his killing has been a recurring anger under the first american president and under attorney general eric holder, the highest ranking law officer in the land. early in his tenure, holder drew criticism for saying: in thinks racial we have been and continue to be, in too many ways essentially a nation of cowards. something he recently repeated. >> we are still a nation that is too afraid to confront racial issues. >> now samples of a representative cross section of men's indicates that holder reflects black opinion about the clashes, and whites see things differently. >> eight in 10 blacks surveyed by the pugh research center said the event raised important issues of race, compared to half the rights that agreed. >> beyond race, partisan factions is a big part. 6 in 10 say the issue of race has gotten too much attention. most democrats say no, this is an issue that raises important racial questions about what is going on. >> two-thirds of blacks said the police in bill ferguson ha

tom ackerman, al jazeera, decatur georgia. >> the weave house has benefited from emery university. >>morning, republican house lauck makers voted to move ahead with a lawsuit against pompom. are they suing him because of principles about the use of executi executive, or is this all about politics ahead of the important mid-term election? that will just about do it for us and this edition of al jazeera. we leave you with a live look now at gaza and the reminder, of course, that this has been another deadly day of the conflict between hamas and israel. it comes at a time when there are some new diplomatic efforts involved with some palestinian negotiators in egypt trying to hammer out some potential cease-fire even though a cease-fire is something that president obama is saying will be very difficult to put back together. the news continues from our headquarters in doha. i am david shuster. thanks for watching. >> hello there and welcome to the news hour. we're live from our headquarters in doha. coming up over the next 60 minutes israel continues its strikes on gaza after attempts to s

tom ackerman reports on the gap. >> reporter: michael brown's killing by police bullet is a recurring scenario each under the first african-american president and the first black attorney-general hold are, the highest ranking man in the land. he drew criticism saying. >> we have been and i believe we continue to be a nation of coward. >> a view he repeated. ipted i think we are a nation that is too afraid to confront racial issues. >> reporter: now, samples of a representative cross-section of men's indicate na holder rein effects black opinion about the clashes in missouri, while whites see things differently. 8 in 10 blacks surveyed say the pugh research center says the event raids issues of raise, compared to less than half the whites. beyond race, partisan affiliation is a big factor. not many can say the issue of race got too much attention. most democrats say no, this is an issue that really does race important racial questions about what is going on. >> two-thirds of blacks said the police in ferguson had gone too far in responding to the disturbances. one-third of whites said

tom ackerman. jazeera. >> going for thousands of dollars it's created a cottage industry especially for people like chase reed. he's an old pro in the world of sneakers. he opened up his own store, in harlem, new york, called sneaker-pawn. we talked to him and his father. >> off of a passion for clothes, start wearing sneakers and it became a love and a passion that i have and it developed into well let's open a store for sneakers. basically it's me and my father. sometimes would i have to get money to go by clothes or go out with my friends. basically, well, i need sneakers you just bought, you need mone money,. >> like how the business operates like a traditional pawn shop? >> exactly. me and chase, after buying $400 sneakers, he would say, dad can i borrow an extra $50? i thought he was crazy, but you know what, are give me one pair of those sneakers you bought, and bring me the $50 by the end of the week. if you need money, imagine how many others need the money. chase was bringing myme picture

. >>> earlier i asked nick ackerman part of the watergate prosecution force, why president nixon taped himself. the answer might surprise you. >> in 1969, the congress passed the tax reform act, they changed the law on whether or not a president could actually donate his papers to the government and get a tax deduction. nixon lobbied against that change. congress passed it anyway. he wound up back dating the deed on his gift to the u.s., prior to the time that the law went into effect, essentially committing tax fraud. and so he was really left with no option at that point after 1969, he could not donate his papers. so one way to get around the law. the law did not apply the tangible goods like tapes so one way -- >> he did it for a tax break? >> it was a tax break. this was a guy -- i was there as a young assistant prosecutor. i remember seeing a memo that he wrote to his tax lawyers asking if he could deduct the cost of his businesses. >> how much money could he have made on that? >> quite a pit about. >> really -- wide a bit. >> really? >> he was paying the same tax rate as persons

dan ackerman senior reporter for c-net. feels like we're getting rid of the wallet.already successful. you can use it to book tables and restaurants and they said now we want you to be able to pay the bill with the app. a pilot program that started in san francisco. it will move to some restaurants in new york and other cities. you can basically go to the restaurant, you made your reservation through open table. you sit there, you eat, when you get done you look at the bill on your phone, go add a tip, pay, okay e-mail your receipt. >> you don't have to wait for the waiter to go take the bill go charge it -- it's more secure, too. >> restaurants are one of those places where you hand your credit card to someone, they walk around the corner with it they come back. people are always concerned about putting their credit card info into a website or app, but you do that so many times. it is generally fairly secure. i think handing someone your card and letting them disappear for five minutes may be a little more troublesome. >> is this the future of cashless eating out? >

tom ackerman has more. >> the pledge was to bring u.s. forces out of iraq and keep them occupant.ow he's the fourth -- keep them out. now he's the fourth president to order action there, to save the yazidi from genocide, and protect u.s. personnel in kurdish iraq from the is group. asked whether he underestimated the is fighters, president obama said... >> there's no doubt their advance, movement, over the last several months has been more rapid than the intelligence estimates, and i think the expectations of policy makers in and outside of iraq. >> his administration has been accused of ignoring warnings about the islamic stade group since it appeared in syria. >> then we watched it going from city to city across iraq, without it being hit across the air with drones. >> the administration says the initial iraqi requests came in late may, before the islamic state captured mosul. since then president obama held back from responding to plead for more aid. president obama blamed his government for inflaming sunni opposition and allowing the army to become a corrupt and unreliable com

explicaron bajo la mayor confidenalidad internamente lo que estÁbamos a punto de hacer >> spencer ackermanico the guardianaje que se disponÍan a plicar, la compilaciÓn masiva de datos de llamadas telefÓnicas de estadounidenses por parte de la direcciÓn de seguridad nacional. >> querÍamos ser totalmente juntos con el gobierno, que pudieran expresar sus inquietudes respecto a esta historia, conocer su reacciÓn. fue bastante obvio que en este caso su interÉs era que la historia no se publicara. >> la actuaciÓn de la dirección de seguridad nacional para recabar informaciÓn en masa se derivÓ en el Énfasis en la seguridad del paÍs del 11 de septiembre.terroristas los ataques, en esencia, pusier el lado vigilante de los estados unis e erdes. dacice enore al gomobrnr a e seiebato elvitar alqur posibl ataquerosta al furo, dió a todo gobieo. en su totalidad se sintieronados con utoridad para espiar o vigilar qun les diera la gan > la cia y otras autorides eron responsabilizados por no haber podido contrarrestar elmbre de 2001, asÍ como tambiÉn r noompartir entre sÍ apel a nuevassejorar red y mÁs pot

. >> spencer ackerman recibiÓ la tarea de contactar al gobierno de obama para que comentara acerca del masiva de datos de llamadas telefÓnicas de estadounidenses por parte de la direcciÓn de seguridad nacional. >> querÍamos ser totalmente juntos con el gobierno, que pudieran expresar sus inquietudes respecto a esta historia, conocer su reacciÓn. fue bastante obvio que en este caso su interÉs era que la historia no se publicara. >> la actuaciÓn de la dirección de seguridad nacional para recabar informaciÓn en masa se derivÓ en el Énfasis en la seguridad del paÍs despuÉs de los actos terroristas del 11 de septiembre. los ataques, en esencia, pusieron el lado vigilante de los estados unidos en esteroides. >> el 11 de septiembre le dio un acicate enorme al gobierno para comenzar a recabar todo lo que se pudiera, teniendo como meta el evitar cualquier posible ataque terrorista al futuro, y esa justificaciÓn se extendiÓ a todo el gobierno. >> creo que la cia y la comunidad de inteligencia de estados unidos en su totalidad se sintieron con la autoridad para espiar o vigilar a quien les diera

with dementia can better understand the illness, taking an eventual walk in their shoes and tom ackermanreport. >> for just eight minutes they are exploring what it's like to live in the world of the demented. >> emerge yourself and be conscious of feeling. >> reporter: they are told to follow simple instructions but the eyeglasses, headphones and shoe inserts they have to wear make the tasks almost as disoriented by a person disabled with the disease. difficult and startling as i myself discovered by taking the virtual dementia tour. fire engine where do i go? >> i was surprised at how uneasy and just anxious i felt because i know it's for pretend and i know it's not real but yet just being in there i still felt that anxiety. >> reporter: she is one of a million caregivers and volunteers in 17 countries who have taken the virtual tour and include family members of patients like danielle's late mother. >> i think i would have had a much better understanding of what it was like for her trying to perform ever everyday tasks and not being able to and how frustrating that would be. >> report

now neither singer or ackerman has received any indication of foul play. >> this is a terrible tragedy fine young man from a fine family, one of lakewood's finest, dying, in a tragic death. >> reporter: this afternoon governor christie and senator corry booker offered her condolence from the sofer family. we under tan that the sofer's plan to bury aaron in israel they will try to have that, burial ceremony, somehow web cast here for locals to watch. live from lakewood, new jersey i'm cleve bryan, cbs-3 "eyewitness news". >>> very saddened to that story, thanks. >>> more on our developing story comedian and tv host joan rivers rush to the new york city hospital have after she stopped breathing during a procedure on her throat. entertainment tonight's nancy odell has been following this very closely and she joins us with the very latest on this, nancy. >> reporter: hi jessica, yes, very sad news about joan. in fact we saw her paying tribute to robin williams and new this. routine surgery that went horribly wrong this morning and new we will wait and watch to hear news about somebody cons

and eliot ackerman fought as a u.s. marine in the furious battle to retake fallujah.y beast" and new republic and author of the book "green on blue." he's on the phone with me. eliot, welcome. >> thanks so much for having me. >> let's just begin with the news with the u.s. air strikes. and, of course, this could be the beginning of additional air strikes. the president said last night that he will quote, unquote not allow the united states to be dragged into another fight in iraq. but you have seen what isis has done, what they're capable of. where do you see this going? >> you know, i've heard some sentiments expressed on your show what the u.s. really needs is a broader strategy to not only address isis but also the spread of islam in the region. that seems about right to me. you know, air strikes are a tool, but they're not necessarily a strategy. >> so what is? >> well, you know, it's obviously a difficult question. i think it's probably something that's going to need to be regional. it's going to be having some serious talks with partners in the region. folks lik

as tom ackerman reports, beating back the rebels will not be easy. >> president obama's top foreign policy policemen was to keep the u.s. forces -- pledge was to keep the u.s. forces out of iraqment now he's the fourth to order rehabilitation. this time, he says, to save the yazidi, and protect u.s. personal from the is group. asked whether he'd understatement the islamic state fighters he said... >> there's no doubt that there movement has been more rapid over the last several months than the intelligent guests and the expectations of policy makers in and out of iraq. >> the administration is accused of ignoring warnings since it appeared in syria. to escalate the response, the u.s. would have to set out from rules, from direct military action. >> it means facing strikes when there's a threat and a certainty of no casualties. for our actions should meet a simply test. we should not create more enemies. the obama administration has not laid out a timetable for action. in congress and public pan president obama will face resist licence. >> jane is in erbil with more on efforts to help free

. >> i was going to say in defense of my colleagues, glenn greenwald and spencer ackerman, who was working him at the time at the "guardian," working with the editors, we as journalist looking at the same source material, might not agree with the headlines they chose. to me that meets the standards of being a professional journalist. did he start as a lawyer, an advocate before he went into what some people in britain call advocacy journalism? but yes, just because i came a different brand of journalism where i am taught to keep my opinion out of my reporting, doesn't invalidate his. it doesn't invalidate us or msnbc who have chosen to do as those original reporters in lincoln's time did to make it clear what their side was and make that part of their reporting. >> most of them weren't professionals in the civil war. my question for you is -- is there any blogger out there that would refuse to characterize as a journalist? this is for you. under your standard, is there anybody out there blogging about news that you would say that's not a journalist? >> i don't waste time reading the people