the question tonight, is ahmed chalabi doing this administration what he did to the last? we do begin, though, with the breaking news, tropical storm arthur, the first of the season, predicted to become the first hurricane of the season too. and the path it is on could send it straight into sandy territory, right up the eastern seaboard. seconds ago, the national hurricane center released an update on the storm and where it's headed. let's get down to atlanta and chad myers crunching the numbers for us. chad, so how big is this, archer? and where is it going? >> earlier today, it was nothing. it was 35 miles per hour. now the hurricane center's latest forecast says by the fourth of july, around 2:00, a 90 miles per hour still category 1. but on the border of that. there is the storm. much more menacing this hour, john, than we've had over the rest of the day. although the radar is not that impressive, that's because the radar doesn't go that far. satellite looks down. radar looks out. by the time the radar gets there, a lot of the rainfall is actually on the other side, ca

ahmed abu khatallah's court appointed attorney concedes he should stay locked up until trial but she described her client not as an anti-american terrorist but as an enemy of gadhafi who to the the regime. report -- who to the the regime. >>> san francisco police have broken up an illegal fireworks operation days before the 4th of july. they say 18-year-old eric yang was running the operation out of a cafe on grant street in chinatown. he had a 15-year-old boy retrieve the fireworks from a storage place. police say they confiscated about 100 illegal fireworks that were being sold for $10 apiece. >> we're talking about a destructive device, whether it's called an m 1-000 or an m- 80, it's strong. you could lose a hand or an arm. it's very drugs. >> prosecutors are charging the 18-year-old with felony possession of explosives and child endangerment. >>> hayward police will start to use small body-mounted video cameras to record their encounters with the public before the end of the year. the city council approved buying the cameras that attach to an you an officer's uniform or glasses

ahmed has shrapnel in his back. there is no time for anesthetic as doctors pluck out the fragments of metal and make room for the next patient. nearby the baby's father is hysterical. the father of six tells me his family was waiting in the school playground to be evacuated by the red cross when suddenly the shells rained down. he says his children were blown away like pieces of paper. everywhere we looked, faces contorted in pain, terrible news broken. for many, it was too much. >> they want to tell me that they're responsible? is this a responsible thing, to kill the children, the old women, the children? what? their army, what? >> reporter: the mayhem of this day will never be forgotten by these people.

ahmed fareed joins us. >>> ahmed fareed here. giants and a's in action tonight. tim lincecum on the mound looking for his fourth straight win. we take you down to third and king. marco scutaro is back. expected to play his first game and start tomorrow. the giants got the bats going early. bottom first, pablo sandoval gone. two-run home run making it 2-0 giants right away. and that was all that tim lincecum needed. 28 scoreless innings at home for timmy. gerardo parra in the seventh. got him. the giants are tied with the dodge force first in the nl west. >>> a's-mariners. a home run off of felix hernandez. not bad. but the mariners come back. robinson cano in the sixth. james jones will come around and score. barely fair. many the ninth, nick punto with a tying run at third. this is called strike three. i don't think that was a strike. neither does punto. bob melvin got thrown out. mariners win, 3-2. but the a's still in first place. guys? >> ahmed, thank you very much. >>> we're going to keep an eye on this brushfire. 50-acre brushfire may have started from a ca

. >> reporter: the motorcade carrying benghazi suspect ahmed abu khattala swept into the d.c.al court with a highly visible security presence. wearing a green jump suit he seemed focused and atentish as the government laid out its case. the court was told ahmed abu khattala is a flight risk, accused of a violent crime and witness accounts coupled with forensic evidence as well as his post-capture statements proved his role in the terrorist attack in 2012. >> i would say the investigation is still obviously ongoing. but we're in a good place. >> reporter: court documents also portray ahmed abu khattala as an ideologue as the hatred of the u.p.s. fueled the assault. the 43-year-old libyan directed members of his militia to steal from the consulate. on tuesday fox news was first to report unclassified computers were taken and part of an fbi investigation. lawyers say the prosecution will present challenges. >> they've done a lot of terrorism cases now in the federal courts here and they can do this one as well. but that's the problem. how do you bring witnesses over from libya. h

anti-apartheid leader ahmed kathrada thanks the people of sweden for their support of the african national congress. while the united states considered the anc to be a terrorist organization, sweden funneled millions of dollars to nelson mandela's banned organization. then we continue to look at this remarkable swedish political festival called almedalen week. we will speak to the cofounder of the first feminist party to win a seat in the european parliament and a former u.s. whoressman dennis kucinich, is here, talking about lessons the u.s. can learn from sweden. all of that and more, coming up. this is democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman. we are broadcasting from sweden's largest island of gotland. the occupied west bank is seeing its worst clashes in years following the abduction and murder of a palestinian teenager. the badly burned body of 17-year-old mohamed abu khudeir was found in a forest near jerusalem on wednesday. palestinians blamed israeli settlers for carrying out a revenge attack for the murders of three teenage settlers, whose bodie

ahmed will be anchoring our coverage all week on yahoo!e, sports net central, and here on nbc bay area. >>> let's get to the diamond. giants and d'backs. giants looking for a series win heading into the all-star break. bottom fifth, bases loaded. buster posey. how about a grand slam to deep left and it's 4-1 giants just like that. next inning, bases loaded again. this time a pitcher, are you kidding me? mad bum, madison bumgarner hits a grand slam to left, first time in history a starting batter, pitcher and catcher each homered in the same game. giants win 8-4. >> instead of playing for the opportunity to be up there and, you know, help us score some runs. so it's fortunate we happened to run into one. tried to get ready early. tried to just do something to help us. ended up being a home run. >> what a game. >>> a's and mariners. this little guy not looking forward to the break. he wants to play cowboys out there. top of the fifth. tied 1-1. john jace singles to left field. andy parrino will beat the throw home, a's up 2-1. top of the six

a federal judge ordered ahmed abu khattala to remain in custody until his trial.pleaded not guilty to a charge of conspireing material to terrorists. prosecutors offered new details on their case against him. they say he entered the compound the night of the attack and supervised the exploitation of material at the scene and then went to a camp where a large group began assembling to attack the compound's annex. kimberly you talked about this when the news broke. let me ask you about this. i'm not surprised that the judge said you have to stay in custody. for goodness sake he's in washington, d.c. and he's a terrorist. do you think it was wise to bring him to washington, d.c. in the first place? >> no.>> where maybe he could g. >> by the way, i think he should be over at gitmo. leave gitmo open. he should stay there until the end of the war which may be never. leave him there. he's an enemy combatant. why are we getting him his own johnnie cochran. we're trying to prove a point to, who the enemy, terrorist, we're so civilized. this to me as a lawyer as a prosecuto

reporting from minnesota, ahmed fareed. >>> good stuff. a 2.2 million contract was signed.was the sixth man on the warriors 2010/2011 roster. the following year he missed the entire season. that's going to do things for sports. you know tonight is a slow night. not a lot going on. we've called los altos high school. we're liki looking for highligh raj. if we can find those, we're going to show those tonight. >> there's about three highlights from the jv water polo team. >> we're looking for those. >> keep looking. keep looking. >>> counting down to opening night, we do have sports news. tomorrow the 49ers are host a ceremonial ribbon cutting at levis stadium. the earthquakes are going to have that honor at a soccer match on august 2. the 49er's first game is the 17th. >>> millions of fans listen to lady gaga, but will they listen to her advice. she filmed this save our water piece at the hearst castle. she donated $250,000 to help fix the famous rotunda pool. and then governor brown tweeted out, lady gaga deserves applause. [ laughter ] >> of course. thanks for joining us h

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the suspected ring leader of the benghazi attacks, ahmed abu khattala is in court. pete williams is joining us. what happened today in the case? >> reporter: the judge ordered his continuing detention and his lawyer didn't object. so he'll be held in jail until his trial date, which has yet to be set. the defense lawyer basically said that even though the government hasn't provided all of the evidence it should have, he's a foreign national with no ties to the community so he doesn't oppose continued detention but the defense lawyer, his public defender, michelle peterson, says that the government has produced an utter lack of evidence that he was involved in the attack. just that he knew some of the attackers. the government said briefly today that the evidence against him consists of statements from witnesses about the attack and voluntary statements made by the defendant. it's the first time that the government has said that he was cooperative while he was interrogated in the slow boat from the mediterranean to the u.s. the government says in the days before the

. >> the 24-year-old, muhammad ahmed, heals from the suburbs of chicago.e tells police he's in florida with his wife celebrating their honeymoon. >> where does she think you're at? >> she was sleeping, and i told her i was going to leave for a little bit. i looked all night, and i -- i promise it will never happen again. >> he told her he was just going to go out for a little bit. they were going to be here all week. i told him, yes, he said, "i'll be coming to see you all week then." >> ahmed is shuttled crass the hall for processing when his cell phone begins to ring nonstop. >> my wife's calling. may i please answer it? >> no -- >> my god. she's going to be -- >> you're an adult, right? you're a grown man. are you? okay, stop crying. >> on the other end, his bride is all alone in a hotel room wondering where her new husband is. >> is there any way i can call her -- >> sh, be quiet. >> once ahmed is processed and formally charged, he's allowed to contact his wife. >> i'm with the police right now. i just wanted to let you know, please be safe, okay? [ sp

i don't answer to them, says ahm ahmed, i do what's best for us. [ speaking in foreign language ] he'sin gaza city. relatively safer, that is. although he'll stay behind. luckily, he caught a taxi to take them away. and not a moment too soon. these children have heard the crash of shelling and air strikes for days now. but it still terrifies them. this is the third time in the last five years ahmed's family has had to flee their home. like almost everybody in this area, we're leaving too. it's dangerous. there is shelling there. some people staying behind. basically to guard their houses. but as the man back there told me, 80% of the people in this area have already left. and at this time, the deadline to leave ends in 35 minutes. on the drive into gaza city, empty streets and rubble from the israeli air strikes. by taxi or mostly by foot, the people fleeing the north are heading to united nations schools, more than 1,000 in this school alone. food has yet to be provided. the only source of sustenance, a water tanker. she and her family of 15 fled their home at 2:00 in the morning. we

but according to a recent article written by guardian journalist sofie's ahmed the pentagon is working in conjunction with a major us universities to militarize social science and prepare for global civil breakdown or enough is join me to discuss the minerva initiative and i started by asking about one particular. study that set out to discover why protesters don't become terrorists. this is a really interesting study because this is where they really did blur the boundaries a lot so that really the study was supposed to be focused on looking out what are what are the things that kind of stop peace activists who support so-called radical causes to quote the project what was stops them from getting involved in kind of crossing that line and becoming involved in some part of terrorist activity or some kind of political violence so the idea was that what they would do is is analyze normal every day kind of social movements peaceful n.g.o.s to try and understand what is what is it that stops them from becoming involved in political violence but what was really interesting and disturbing ab

you're constantly writing these mind line articles for the guardian everyone check it out now fees ahmed thank you so so much for sharing your insight on the world. that's our show thanks for watching you guys be sure to follow me on twitter and i think martin coming on to my break to set all over again. about seven years old it's one of the largest ten cities on the east coast of america got about one hundred people here just because of economics the cost of housing in this area especially is very high and i believe as an american we have a right. to. possess public land until something is created that's my house you see back there live in it send them to well at least then spend the. rest but. if we hadn't done that we wouldn't have been home i want you to understand we don't just how the you know people the density we don't anybody that needs help so tell your friend to just give us more of the take care of the most obvious thing i'm never going to get a sense that he incidentally in one fell swoop got a place to live once on a month. i'll be out here with my dog. as a new physician i

ahmed abu khatallah arrived at the hearing, prosecutors charged him in connection with the 2012 attack that killed u.s. ambassador chris stevens. prosecutors said the defendant gave statements corroborating key facts and told the judge there are witnesses and evidence linking him to the attacks. ahmed abu khatallah's attorney agreed that he should remain in custody till the trial but she described him as a enemy of moammar gadhafi. >>> a man dress in a nun's habit and beaten by a group of people. >> i think it is something that is more and more a sport. >> a mild pattern today. temperatures chieftain 4th of july. -- shift into 4th of july. heat shields are compromised. we have multiple failures. what's that alarm? fuel cell two is down. i'm going to have to guide her in manually. this is very exciting. but i'm at my stop. come again? i'm watching this on the train. it's so hard to leave. good luck with everything. watch tv virtually anywhere with the u-verse tv app. with at&t, the u-verse revolves around you. female announcer: sleep train's 4th of july sale dit's going out...with a ban

at the morgue, they say goodbye to 20 you -- to 22-year-old ahmed. every funeral is a moment of public mourning and private grief. amas is still firing rockets into israel. and israel is targeting buildings of ja,as -- of hamas leaders. vows they will not destroy them. the israel offensive, this looked like an entirely new conflict. thousands of soldiers are massing -- are amassing on the border. the government says they want to close tunnels that militants are using to infiltrate israeli resources. instructions to the army with the approval of the security cabinet is to prepare for the possibility of a whining of the ground. late last night that israeli drone troops went into gaza. the first soldier was killed in the conflict . it has taken a terrible toll on gaza. >> he said or to the invasion saying that hamas needs to change. >> we feel we can deal with can eliminate this idea from the heads that they release [indiscernible] it's not going to happen. >> we had to seek cover in the basement. yet again, israel is directing its might against hams. a

in another ward we find three-year-old ahmed. the israeli military destroyed his family's home so he moved for safety to a school. ahmed was injured when the israeli military targeted the school soon after. >> translator: there is going to be no eid this year because my house no longer exists. it was destroyed. we will try to make a shelter nearby but how can we celebrate eid like this? >> there is the sudden sound of an in-coming missile. there were two attacks on the area nearby when we were in the hospital. a lantern from eid is a tiny reminder that this should be the time of joy. before we left we met six-year-old rahma. and three-year-old marawan. his mother said their home was also flattened in an israeli attack. i want to stay here and look after my baby, there will be no eid this year. charles stratton, al jazeera, gaza. >>> the downing of mh17 may be a war crime. the fighting has increased between pro-russian separatists and ukrainian forces. so much so, investigators have been forced to pull back from the crash site. >>

in another ward we find thre three-year-old ahmed. he moved for safety to a school. ahmed was injured when the israeli military targeted the school soon after. >> translator: there is going to be no eid this year because my house no longer exiflts. exists. it was destroyed. we will try make a shelter nearby but how can you celebrate eid like this. >> there is an incoming sound of a missile. bombs nearby in the half hour we were in the hospital. a traditional ramadan lantern made of paper hangs in the pediatric corridors. a reminder this should be a time of joy. before we left we met six-year-old raman injured when her family's home was destroyed. also her mother said their home was threatened in an israeli air strike. i want to stay here and look after my baby, she tells me. there will be no eid for us this year, she tells me. charles stratford, al jazeera, gaza. >> humanitarian ceasefire is the basis upon which a longer truce can be achieved, says john kerry. >> we believe the momentum generated by a humanitarian ceasefire is the best way to begin to negotiate and f

department describing ahmed abu khattala as commander of the terrorist group responsible for the murder of americans at our consulate in libya. our chief intelligence correspondent is live in washington with more on what happened inside the courtroom today. >> reporter: this was a procedural hearing. no one expected ahmed abu khattala to walk free on bail today but the hearing gave us good insight into the evidence the government has against him. i sat 25 feet from khattala in the courtroom and throughout the half hour appearance he seemed very focused and attentiattenti. they have eyewitness statements and physical evidence and some of his post-capture statements to interrogators that will prove his role in the 2012 attack. his public defender countered the department made broad generalizations about his role without providing evidence and specifically stated that no evidence was provided to the defense until this morning and that it was extremely limited. if there was a moment of levity in the courtroom today, the public defender mocked the government with his allegation he was a dang

. >> i don't answer to them, said, ahmed, i do what's best for us. he's sending his family to safer ground than gaza city, relatively safer, that is. although he'll stay behind. luckily he caught a taxi to take them away and not a moment too soon. these children have heard the crash of shelling and air strikes for days now. but it still tear fies them. this is the third time in the last five years ahmed's family has had to flee their home. like almost everybody in the area, we're leaving too. it's dangerous. there's shelling. some people are staying behind basically to guard their houses, but as the man back there told me, 80% of the people in this area have already left, and at this time, the deadline to leave ends in 35 minutes. on the drive in to gaza city, empty streets and rubble from the israeli air strikes. by taxi or mostly by foot, the people fleeing the north are heading to the united nations schools, more than a thousand in this school alone. food has yet to be provided. the only source of sustenance, a water tanker. this woman and her fam

anti-apartheid leader ahmed kathrada thanks the people of sweden for their support of the african nationalgress. while the united states considered the anc to be a terrorist organization, sweden funneled millions of dollars to nelson mandela's banned organization. thene

ahmed will be anchoring our coverage week all week on yahoo! sports. and here on nbc bay area news. >>> more baseball for you. giants and d backs. giants looking for a series win heading into the all-star break. bottom of the fifth. bases load. oh boy, buster posey hits a grand slam to deep left. 4-1, giants. just like that. next inning. bases loaded again. the pitcher. madison bumgarner hits a grand slam to left. first time in history, a starting battery each hit a grand slam in the same game. giants win, 8-4. >> i'm thankful for the opportunity to be up there and, you know, help us score some runs. it's fortunate for me and us, i happened to run in to one and throwing really hard. just tried to get ready early and tried to just do something to help us and fortunately it ended up being a home run. >> as at myrrher er mariners. a little guy in the cowboy hat looking forward to a break and some action. top of the fifth. tied at 1-1. singles to left field. a any perino is going to go head first. he's safe at the plate. as up, 2-1. top of the sixth. brand

"i don't answer to them" says ahmed. "i do what's best for us." he's sending his family to safer ground in gaza city, relatively safer, that is, although he'll stay behind. luckily he caught a taxi to take them away and not a moment too soon. these children have heard the crash of shelling and air strikes for days now. but it still tafs them. this is the third time in the last five years ahmed's family has had to flee their home. >> like almost everybody in this area we're leaving, too. it's dangerous. there's some people staying behind to basically guard their houses. but as the man back there told me, 80% of the people in this area have already left and at this time the deadline to leave ends in 35 minutes. on the drive into gaza city, empty streets and rubble from the israeli air strikes. by taxi or mostly by foot, the people fleeing the north are heading to united nations schools, more than a thousand in this school alone. food has yet to be provided. the only source of sustenance, a water tanker. this family of 15 fled their home at 2:00 in t

i don't answer to them, says ahmed, i do what's best for us. he's sending his family to safer ground in gaza city. relatively safer, that is. although he'll stay behind. luckily, he caught a taxi to take them away and not a moment too soon. [ shelling ] these children have heard the crash of shelling and air strikes for day, now. but it still terrifies them. this is the third time in the last five years ahmed's family has had to flee their home. like almost everybody in this area, we're leaving too. it's dangerous. there's shelling. there's some people staying behind. basically to guard their houses. but as the man back there told me, 80% of the people in this area have already left. and at this time, the deadline to leave ends in 35 minutes. on the drive into gaza city, empty streets and rubble from the israeli air strikes. by taxi or mostly by foot, the people fleeing the north are heading to united nations schools. more than 1,000 in this school alone. food has yet to be provided. the only source of sustenance, a water tank. this person and

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the detention hearing of b benghazi suspect ahmed abu khattala ended. we go live to pete williams.t can you tell us what happened there? >> no surprise. the judge ordered his continued detention until the trial. there's no trial date set yet. but we did learn a couple of things. one thing that the government says is that the evidence against him consistents not only of witnesses -- statements by witnesses to the attack, but this is the first time we've heard the government say that some of the evidence against him includes voluntary statements made by khattala himself. we've been told by senior government officials that he was cooperative during the roughly two weeks during which he was interrogated after he was captured in libya, and all the time he was coming to the u.s. aboard u.s. navy amphibious ship from the mediterranean to just outside washington. his lawyers conceded he should be held. partly because he's a foreign national. he has no ties to the u.s. they said basically the government has not presented any evidence that he himself took part in the attack. they say that th

. >> i don't answer to them, says ahmed. i do what's best for us. >> reporter: he's sending his family to safer ground in gaza city, relatively safer, that is, although he'll stay behind. luckily, he caught a taxi to take them away. and not a moment too soon. these children have heard the crash of shelling and air strikes for days now. but it still terrifies them. this is the third time in the last five years ahmed's family has had to flee their home. like almost everybody in this area, we're leaving too. it is dangerous. there is shelling. there is some people staying behind, basically to guard their houses. but as the man back there told me, 80% of the people in this area have already left and at this time, the deadline to leave ends in 35 minutes. on the drive into gaza city, empty streets and rubble from the israeli air strikes. by taxi, or mostly by foot, the people fleeing the north are heading to united nations schools, more than a thousand in this school alone. food has yet to be provided, only source of sustenance a

ahmed fled before the fighting began. his house is now in ruins. do you see, he asks.hey're hitting civilians. they didn't hit one of the fighters or any of their so-called military targets. look at what they did. they destroyed the houses, the street, and killed civilians. a fireman tells me, i've never seen destruction like this. they tried but failed to relieve either the living or the dead. the shooting, it's not clear from whom, was too intense. >> small arms fire is increasing in intensity and directed at us. i think the problem is there are too many people here. too many civilians. if it was just us, it might be different. so we're coming back. there are two people trapped in rubble wounded. i want to try to go in on foot to get those two before we go back. >> did you find anybody? >> no. >> there's the front line there and there's a -- >> reporter: seems that given the risk with explosions up the street and perhaps sniper fire, the risk for the red cross and the palestinian red crescent are simply too much. they're now pulling out. ben wedeman, cnn, gaza. >>> e

including ahmed's parents and four siblings. a palestinian child now orphaned by yet another war. for some, the violence has become unbearable. today the u.s. evacuated its citizens with the help of the u.n., making the journey with this man and his family from houston, texas. they were here visiting relatives. now too afraid to stay. do you feel bad about leaving gaza right now? >> very. i'm leaving, yet my buddy is leaving, my heart is staying back home. my heart is staying in gaza. >> reporter: an escape to safety for one american family that very few palestinians in gaza will have. lester, the u.n. said it is trying to prepare as many schools as possible. some of those schools have already been damaged in the fighting. and meanwhile, palestinian health officials are expressing grave concern about the health infrastructure here. they say they simply can't cope with the casualties in the event there is a ground invasion. lester? >> ayman, thank you. let's get the latest from inside israel. middle east correspondent martin fletcher joins us now from tel aviv. martin? >> reporter:

that's her son, five-year-old ahmed. he has seen no one and no child should ever see. >> even if the bombs don't hit our houses they'll kill us from fear. at night my children cling to me so tightly they won't let me go to the bathroom. >> her son is violently ill, but they have nothing to offer him. they ask their neighbors for blankets and bread. >> why is this happening to us? where do i get food to feed my child? >> reporter: the family suffered from three wars in six years. her mother shows me how in 2008 an israeli bomb destroyed their house. >> that's what god has written. israel will bomb us and we will die martyrs. >> reporter: this woman was so scared that she fled in the back of an ambulance. she is 50 and her youngest daughter is 3. >> we can't return to our homes. we can't pray. we don't have water. we don't have privacy going bathroom. this in the holy month of ramadan. what do i do. >> reporter: israel attack their neighborhoods because it is used to fire wrong from hamas. nick schifrin, gaza city. >> mean

ahmed shalabi. critics say that he played a role in going to war in 2003.t would be your view of him as the new prime minister? >> i'm somebody who wanted to install them as -- first of all, i would be labeled as someone who would want us to install a prime minister. i never thought it was our place to install prime minister. unfortunately, we have done a lot to damage our relationship with him. we went after him in 2004. i think some of it may have been fair and some unfair. no one in that system is an angel. chalabi is not an angel. you have to be careful who you work with but you need to work with everybody. the problem is now that we put them in a situation where he has become much too close to iran. i would worry about that. >> you would not be pleased with him as prime minister? >> look, i think what we need is a government there that will be a unifying force that will bring sunnis back into the fold, that will do for the so-called sons of iraq what we promised. any government that does that, whether it is chalabi -- >> you are sounding like you do no

anti-apartheid leader ahmed kathrada thanks the people of sweden for their support of the african nationals. while the united states considered the anc to be a terrorist organization, sweden funneled millions of dollars to nelson mandela's banned organization. then we cont

the kurds will rely on ahmed edris to do -- recep tayyip erdogan to do that if he assumes the presidency. >>> iraq's parliament will meet on tuesday to try to form a new government, coming amid a background of violence. prime minister nouri al-maliki is under intense pressure, accused of promoting sectarian policy. his political opponents blame him for the advance of rebels who captured the city of tick rit. >> the bodies of 30 migrants sfround on an overcrowded boat on the mediterranean sea. it's believed they suffocated for drowned. more than 500 people were grammed into the finishing boat. they have been tape to a port on the -- taken to a port on the island of sicily. >> japan and mia are holding talk on -- north korea are hold, talks to talk about ab duct japanese. five returned home, eight others are dead. north korea agreed to open an corrects into the disappearance. >>> thousands of protesters outside the japanese prime minister over ship zo abe's plan - allowing them to fight overseas if an ally comes under attack since the world war ii, it has only been able to use arms in disw

ahmed abu khattala pled not guilty to conspiracy to aid terrorists.iling says that khattala was motivated to participate in the violence by his extremist ideology. officials say he was the ringleader of the 2012 attack that killed ambassador and bay area native christopher stevens. he was captured by special forces last month in libya. >> a rocket with a nasa satellite designed to carry carbon dioxide in the atmosphere roared off the launch pad this morning after 3:00 a.m. and represents the end of a five year struggle after a similar satellite was destroyed in 2009 after a failed launch. the sat light today sniffs foe carbon dioxide at the height of 488 miles. they will study the process behind the way the environment on southerns carbon dioxide. >>> random act of kindness made an unsuspecting woman in south dakotan online sensation. she was in a check outline in wal-mart when a customer in front of her did not have enough money to pay for diapers. flynn bought the woman $120 worth of diapers. another shopper captured the gesture on the cell phone an

but ahmed sadir will fight a common enemy. we're not scared, he told us. we fought many wars, wars with ir iran, even the united states. many of those in the mosque won't be able to remember a time when there wasn't war. now it's just a question of how bad it gets. it may be hard to believe, but some of the people we spoke to said they still have faith in the iraqi army to stop isis. many more are putting their faith in god. but one common belief they all shared is if isis were to reach baghdad, it could mark the start of an all out civil war. charlie d'agata, cbs news, baghdad. the ukrainian military kept the pressure on rebel troops in eastern ukraine yesterday. the separatists have regrouped in the city of donesque and vow to fight to the end. >>> now what to do about the influx of illegal immigrants into this country, especially children. it's a dilemma that poses a variety of legal and moral issues and as mark allen reports, it's stirring heated debate. >> reporter: hundreds of undocumented immigrants, many of them women and children, arrived by plane

. >>> remember ahmed chalabi, the exile whose family fled iraq in the '60s where he founded a failedank and led the iraq national congress? which was created in 1992 for the express purpose of overthrowing iraqi dictator saddam hussein. between 1992 and 2004, the inc received more than $100 million from the u.s. government. they used some of that money to hire a d.c. lobbying firm to help sell the americans on invading iraq. in 2003, they finally succeeded, thanks in part to their relationships gained through a think tank called the project for the new american century. remember them? and that included the neo-conservatives who later wound up in the bush administration. chalabi also formed a relationship with vice president dick cheney. he was a key source of information for reporters, like judith miller, then of "the new york times". when an iraqi informant living in germany told the cia that saddam hussein had weapons of mass destruction in trucks that could be moved around the country, the cia backed up that information with information from chalabi's informantds, including one wh

the judge ruled ahmed abu khatallah will stay in federal custody until his trial. prosecutors say he is a substantial threat to u.s. security. the attack in benghazi killed the u.s. ambassador to libya and three other americans. khatallah faces life in prison but prosecutors are expected to ask for the death penalty. >>> the leader of isis, the islamic state "islamic state of iraq and syria" is calling for muslims to build an islamic state and challenge the wrongs done to muslims worldwide. the u.s. is now deploying apache helicopters and drones to iraq. it's part of a mission to protect u.s. personnel at the baghdad embassy and the airport. >>> burger king celebrates gay pride how they are sending a message of acceptance. >> and the botanical gardens in the east bay are green. how gardeners are conserving water during the drought. ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, >>> you know, steph, i saw some beautiful raspberries in the market this morning. prices are great on them and the quality is good so i said, let's make something and you had a great suggestion. >> we paired it up with

ahmed was injured when the israelis attacked the school. >> there'll be no eed this year, because my house no longer exists. it was destroyed. we'll try to make a shelter nearby. how can we celebrate eid like this. >> there was the sound of an incoming missile. there were two air strikes on buildings close by. a traditional ramadan lander made of paper hangs in the pead attic department corridors. this should be a time of joy. we met six-year-old rehabilitation ma injured when her family was destroyed. >> i want to stay in the hospital and look after my baby, therebe no eid for us this year. >>> the eid festival was sombre in ramallah, in the occupied west bank. a memorial was held for the victims of gaza. several members of the palestinian government attended. the prime minister expressed sympathies and said the government is doing everything it can to help. >> i would like to send our deepest sympathy to our brothers or families in gaza who are suffering due to the israeli aggression. we are doing our utmost to stop this aggression as immediate as possible. the government has been

the attack left 3-year-old ahmed with shrapnel in his head. his father said the explosion came right in the middle of the people. they were missing arms and legs. nearly 10% of all gazans are now living in u.n.-run schools. they came here to find a safe place, now they feel like targets. the israelis are killing our children because they can't get to our fighters. it's their revenge, he says, but we will never give up. which leaves the people of gaza one of the most densely populated places on earth on the losing side of an unending fight. richard engel, nbc news, gaza city. >> so despite this talk of a possible brief humanitarian pause in the fighting, overnight u.s. time, john kerry has largely come up empty handed tonight in the middle east. and meanwhile there's growing concern about the escalating conflict in ukraine. andrea mitchell covers the state department. she's in our d.c. newsroom tonight. andrea, let's start with the middle east. hamas, robust enough to fire off enough rockets to abort a landing at ben gurion airport in tel aviv,

i represented to ahmed's lawyer was a saudi national who was in u.s. custody. from two thousand and two until two thousand and nine he was on hunger strike as a form of peaceful protest and sort of his on lawful and indefinite imprisonment away from his family was from his life and also in protest of the torture that he had survived and he said you know that he continues under a strike on to the united states to start referring to him as an enemy combatant. you know over the course of my two years representing him and meeting with them i want to. you know his health fluctuated sharply you know we had some meetings where he was on a gurney you know there were some meetings where he could not move in where he was invisible pain i saw him vomit repeatedly so it was it was a physically traumatizing experience for him but somehow you know really almost magically he remained lucid throughout. you know initial force feeding was done on a bed. in a relatively unfettered position so the authorities went from a protocol that accommodated the prisoners and made the force

the police chief survived but at least 18 others were killed, including ahmed's parents and four siblings. a palestinian child now orphaned by yet another war. for some, the violence has become unbearable. today, the u.s. evacuated its citizens with the help of the u.n. making the journey with this palestinian-american from houston, texas. they were here visiting relatives, but now too afraid to stay. do you feel bad about leaving gaza right now? >> very. i'm leaving, yet, my body is leaving. my heart is staying back home. my heart's staying in gaza. >> reporter: an escape to safety for one american family that very few palestinians in gaza will have. >> that was nbc's ayman mohyeldin reporting. >>> as the crisis on the border continues president obama is trying to foster support from governors across the country. health and human services secretary sylvia mathews burwell met with several governors on sunday. many expressed concern about the cost of hosting undocumented immigrants. many are pushing back against the president's $3.7 billion request to address the crisis. i'm joined by nbc'