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during questioning, the girl claimed there were several incidents between her and bernard. bernard is now charged with sexual abuse, violation of the sex offender registry, and drug charges. wortman is charged with child endangerment. a man from iowa falls has been found guilty of threatening to kill judges. the waterloo-cedar falls courier reports 35-year-old andre lafontaine the third was convicted of transmitting a threatening communication. the paper says lafontaine left a threatening voice message with the u-s department of justice. prosecutors say he threatened to cut the throats of judges in eldora... and spoke racial epithets and obscenities. two des moines fire fighters made history today by becoming the first african american chief officers in the department's history. captain steven brown and percy coleman along with kerry schneider were promoted to district fire chief. the promotions are part of a reorganization effort that was announced earlier this year. the change will put two district chiefs on each shift, as an effort to improve safety. brown and coleman sa

i can assure you people knew. >> lilly bernard agrees. she says in full view of the crew on the cosby show sound stage she confronted bill cosby of drugging her and they began coiling up their wires and recoiling out of fear. >> both nbc and carsey warner, the company that made the cosby show, declined to comment. last year they told "the boston globe" in part that, quote, these recent news reports are beyond our knowledge or comprehension. "playboy" enterprises sent us this statement from hugh hefner. bill cosby has been a good friend for many years and the mere thought of these allegations is truly saddening. i would never tolerate this ber kind of of behavior regardless of who was involved. we spent five hours interviewing these 27 women with their 27 stories of betrayal, secrets, and violation, but cosby's supporters point out there are always two sides to a story. sometimes they say stories simply aren't true. >> how many of you reported things to police at the time of the incident? nobody. >> coming up. >>> he has vehemently denied

i can assure you people knew. >> lilly bernard agrees.she says in full view of the crew on the cosby show sound stage she confronted bill cosby of drugging her and they began coiling up their wires and recoiling out of fear. >> both nbc and carsey warner, the company that made the cosby show, declined to comment. last year they told "the boston globe" in part that, quote, these recent news reports are beyond our knowledge or comprehension. "playboy" enterprises sent us this statement from hugh hefner. bill cosby has been a good friend for many years and the mere thought of these allegations is truly saddening. i would never tolerate this ber kind of of behavior regardless of who was involved. we spent five hours interviewing these 27 women with their 27 stories of betrayal, secrets, and violation, but cosby's supporters point out there are always two sides to a story. sometimes they say stories simply aren't true. >> how many of you reported things to police at the time of the incident? nobody. >> coming up. >>> he has vehemently denied t

consumer acceptance can be tremendous if the safety issues are addressed. >> bernard, what about you? from the dmv's perspective, what are the hurdles? >> one of the largest hurdles, how do we ensure the vehicles are safe for us? safety of the motoring public is of utmost important. >> the vehicles or the people driving them or -- >> that's a good point. it's both. we need to ensure as this technology rolls out that the motoring public remains safe. to do that, we need to ensure that those vehicles while they are driving themselves follow the rules of the road and are operating in a manner that will remain safe. the other issue is the technology changes so quickly that regulators need to keep up with the technology. that in itself presents a problem. >> stephen, from a legal perspective, what jumps out at you? >> the number one problem with adoption of driverless car technology is the difficulty it of overcoming liability. deciding who would be liable in the event of an accident is a top issue. from the legal perspective also, we have to be concerned about the effectiveness of the tec

which failed to win an over all winner and bernard smith reports from istanbul. >>> remote kurdish villages like this in southeast kept it in power for 13 years until june and when many of the voters switched to the pro-kurdish democratic party known by the turkish acronym the hdp. >> translator: they voted because of the approach to the kurdish issue was way different to the other parties. >> reporter: and many people here say they are going to vote for hdp again on sunday. the party includes non-kurdish, left wing and minority group voters but it was hundreds of thousands of socially conservative kurds who put the h hdp in parliament for the first time. >> translator: things change when kobani and bombs in ankora and who did it, i.s.i.l., and

bernard smith reports. >> reporter: for the second time in five months, turkish politicians looking for votes. campaigning this time around is subdued. this is second in opposition, the republican people's party. along with the kurdish party. they cancelled rallies because of security fears. the claimant has no right to stage the rallies. even if you no the sad news. can you imagine nursing a rally. earlier this month the worst attack history killed 102 people when two suicide bombers attacked a peace rally. political subdivisions are so deep political parties could not

cornell bernard was along san francisco's embark dare owe. >> the familiar war over san francisco's waterfront can mean only one thing, absolute angels were back, taking flight above the bay.

bernard smith in istanbul.hank you. ♪ >>> to israel now where the cabinet is imposing new security measures to deal with more than two weeks of violence. it's expand, the so-called stop and frisk powers of security forces and banning arab laborers for schools in four cities including the commercial capital tel aviv. israel is hoping the move will calm fears of the recently stabbing attacks. john kerry will meetisitioni prime minister been ming netanyahu in germany this week before going on to meet the palestinian leader mahmoud abas in jordan. >> since october 1st, '44 palestinians and seven israelis have been killed with five palestinian deaths on saturday alone. mike hanna reports. >> reporter: a rig sunday meeting amist extraordinary crisis. the prime minister once again denies the accusation that his government is attempting to change the arrangements regarding access to what he calls the temple mount, the mosque compound. >> only israel, israel alone is the guarantor of the holy site on the temple mound. t

i am joined now by bernard charles.nk i know what it is about the outlook that you are saying. good morning. think 2015 will be a good year. upgraded our forecast three times. i don't think we need to do more for the time being. the pipeline is good. every quarter we have been at least equal or better than estimates. so demand is good. we are already preparing 2016, of course. guy: for those who do not know computer design 3-d engineering company, with footprints around the wobut youe global economy. the big clients are companies that operate with a massive footprint. on a daily basis we hear the global economy is slowing down. do you see any evidence of that? bernard: first of all, the numbers show the opposite. for the time being. but if you look at the seven-year experience that we have in this market, we have encountered a counter cycle. in business is good, people are not looking to really do very creative things in the portfolio. tougher, alls are companies are looking to have more competitive solutions. what we d

bernard: ok.and that during the inauguration ball, i can't remember if it was in '53 or '57, she wore a pink gown. and from that point on, that gown -- that color was named "mamie pink." do you all know anything about that? does that color still exist, "mamie pink"? susan: well, thanks. we're going to see a lot of it during this program, as a matter of fact. [laughter] you asked the right question of our guests. our guest, edie mayo, has actually in her role at the smithsonian, was responsible for creating the very popular, still popular first ladies' gowns exhibit. so what about her gown? edith mayo: yes, it's "mamie pink." it was a pastel peau de soie. and she decided that she wanted to have a little extra flair, is the way she put it. so she had nettie rosenstein, who was the designer, put 2,000 rhinestones, pink rhinestones on the gown so that it would sparkle and glitter. and "mamie pink" was a color that was very, very popular in the '50s, part of not only a wardrobe color scheme, but also a

that's where we find cornell bernard live to patch up the problem. cornell? >> well, ama, it is quite a mess out here tonight. no one can say how or why it developed. now there is a new problem, water and a lot of it. crews are trying to pump the water out of the source and cap it. anyway you slice it, it is going to be a long night for the work crews. meantime, the neighbors can't believe there is a lake in the middle of town. the water was everywhere, bubbling up from the middle of the once busy intersection. creating a lake. >> it is a lot of water. it makes me, oh my god, so much water coming. it is very scary. >> where the water was coming from remains a mystery. it began when a sinkhole about 10 by 12 feet wide developed abou 2:00 p.m. on wednesday. no one could say how deep the hole was. the intersection was quickly closed to traffic. hours later the water began filling the sinkhole and over flowing down the street. the crews jackhammered to find the source of the leak and possibly a ruptured water pipe fleer by. they worried more could develop. >> it

i can assure you that people knew. >> lily bernard agrees.ays in full view of the crew on "the cosby show" sound stage, she confronted bill cosby, accusing her of drugging and raping her. >> he was yelling. he was rageful. they began to coil up their wires and repelling out of fear. both nbc and carsey werner declined to comment on lily and eden's stories, but last year the show's executive producers said, quote, these recent news reports are beyond our knowledge or compression. playboy enterprises sent this statement. from hugh hefner. bill cosby has been a good friend for many years and the mere thought of these allegations is true saddening. i would never tolerate this kind of behavior regardless of who was involved. we spent five hours interviewing these 27 women with their stories of betrayal. secrets and violation, but cosby supporters point out there are always two sides to a story, and sometimes they say stories simply aren't true. >> how many of you reported anything to police at the time of the incident? nobody. >>> coming up -- >>

bernard smith is in instan bowl. >> there are reports that this drone was three kilometers inside the air space. they shot it down. it's not a particularly large aircraft. it's about two meter or so wing span, and it doesn't have identification. there are reports out of washington, d.c. that the americans believe that the drone is russian. now earlier on this month russian jets have twice violated turkish air space if they fly combat missions. the russians have apologized for those two violations instead of a working group trying to make sure that it doesn't happen again. but it highlights the dangers faced by all parties flying over northern syria. this is the first time since world war ii that nato and russian aircraft have been flying combat missions in the same air space all parties keen to make sure that the others know what they're doing, so there isn't a risk of any escalation or confrontation between those different--between nato and russian aircraft. >> bernard smith reporting there. well, the islamic state in iraq and the levant have claimed responsibility for a gun attack a

. >> here is cornell bernard live at the sheriff's office in marin county. >> we just learned the three young murder suspects are being interest you -- being interviewed by detectives and the arrests are being called a exeunt -- a community wide effort. >> it was held on the old railroad grade trail where steve carter was gunned down on monday afternoon. his dog was wounded. they brought flowers and their memories. >> he is so humble and so loving and the last person you would think would get shot. >> the people who did that have a tremendous amount of pain and darkness in them. >> they are seen gassing up the stolen jetta 30 minutes after the murder. caught on surveillance camera at this gas station. >> these are the same three subjects identified in our investigation by a number of people who came forward almost immediately. >> one man told us off camera that the trio said they were from san diego heading to portland. the manager on duty at the time told frnd -- friend jake shoemaker that something wasn't right. >> he was talking to him at the vw and he said it creeped him out so he c

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new at 11:00, cornell bernard is live in san francisco tonight. cornell, obviously we desperately need the rain, but not the problems big storms can cause. >> we are starting to see a few rain drops on the embarcadero. some folks are not taking chances. they have their sandbags ready and some are hoping to harvest all of the rain they can. >> sandbags are lining ahead of the rain. brian gorman remembers when it left his music school, rock band land, underwater from flooding. the start of a new rainy season is a nervous time. >> we increased our insurance and we will be sandbagging again and taking what precautions we can. there is only so much you can do . >> it is as simple as drilling a hole in the down spout. >> they are keeping up with demand to harvest rainwater. the 50-gallon barrels are available for purchase, but free to san francisco residents who qualify for a drought saving program by the public utilities commission. >> you can wash your car with it. >> if you want to go big, these giant 600-gallon rain catchers can be yours for $1300 o

stephanie: on august 1, bernard found a suicidal man straddling the granite street bridge. two struggled, and he pulled him to safety. i was like, this could have gone a lot crazier. i could have gotten pulled over with him over the bridge and i' m just glad i could save his life. stephanie: bernard was just one of the many brave men and women honored, at the new hampshire congressional law enforcement awards friday. the state' s congressional delegation remembered those who made the ultimate sacrifice, like brentwood officer steven arkell. >> steve was an incredible police officer, but also an incredible man, family man, coach, and member of the community. stephanie: officers from 31 different department stood up for putting down the keene pumpkin festival riots one year ago on sunday. a more positive anniversary the longest-serving chief in the country chief edward garone was , celebrated for his 43 years at derry police department. >> i thought of all the men and women that i' ve worked with and how they made my job not only rewarding, but from a professional level, easy. stephanie: b

bernard smith, al jazeera, istanbul. >>> foreign minister has been meeting the syrian president bashar al-assad in the capital damascus. the two discussed recent regional and international ideas put forward to try to end the crisis. assad says a political solution is necessary but other leaders say there's no future role for assad in syria. >>> mosque in najran near the border with yemen. 16 people have been injured, including one suspect. >>> it's been more violence in israel and the occupied territories. in the most recent incident a 19-year-old from the west bank village was injured, earlier palestinian man was injured in hebron, israeli soldiers session he tried to stab a soldier. israel says man seriously injured a 19-year-old soldier. >>> lebanon's prime minister has been discussing the capital's rubbish crisis on monday. some areas of beirut have been completely covered with trash. it's been piling up and now a heavy rain has washed it into the streets. paul tradergian has more. >> it's hard to imagine this place was once the destination of choice for the world's jet set. now re

new at 11:00, cornell bernard is live in san francisco tonight. cornell, obviously we desperately need the rain, but not the problems big storms can cause. >> we are starting to see a few rain drops on the embarcadero. some folks are not taking chances. they have their sandbags ready and some are hoping to harvest all of the rain they can. >> sandbags are lining ahead of the rain. brian gorman remembers when it left his music school, rock band land, underwater from flooding. the start of a new rainy season is a nervous time. >> we increased our insurance and we will be sandbagging again and taking what precautions we can. there is only so much you can do . >> it is as simple as drilling a hole in the down spout. >> they are keeping up with demand to harvest rainwater. the 50-gallon barrels are available for purchase, but free to san francisco residents who qualify for a drought saving program by the public utilities commission. >> you can wash your car with it. >> if you want to go big, these giant 600-gallon rain catchers can be yours for $1300 o

that's where we find cornell bernard live to patch up the problem. cornell? >> well, ama, it is quite a mess out here tonight. no one can say how or why it developed. now there is a new problem, water and a lot of it. crews are trying to pump the water out of the source and cap it. anyway you slice it, it is going to be a long night for the work crews. meantime, the neighbors can't believe there is a lake in the middle of town. the water was everywhere, bubbling up from the middle of the once busy intersection. creating a lake. >> it is a lot of water. it makes me, oh my god, so much water coming. it is very scary. >> where the water was coming from remains a mystery. it began when a sinkhole about 10 by 12 feet wide developed about 2:00 p.m. on wednesday. no one could say how deep the hole was. the intersection was quickly closed to traffic. hours later the water began filling the sinkhole and over flowing down the street. the crews jackhammered to find the source of the leak and possibly a ruptured water pipe fleer by. they worried more could develop. >> it

our correspondent in istanbul bernard. smith. investigation gets under way as to exactly what happened in ankara. >> reporter: yes, it is, martine. the government has always told the prime minister that this suspicion was carried out by two suicide bombers. but no claims of responsibility yet, the government suggesting it could be i.s.i.l, or it could be the pkk. now, the kurdistan workers party, the pkk. now they actually have been trailing a ceasefire in the last two or three days and that was supposed to be announced officially today, in fact they announced it on the saturday straight after that bombing and the pkk normally pretty quick to claim responsibility for any attacks it might have launched. it is certainly never done anything on this scale but no indication yet as to who is responsible for this bombing. certainly no claims of responsibility from i.s.i.l. or even the possibility of a far left wing group here in turkey. they have launched attacks in the last few months but really on a much, much smaller scale than this

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we'll go live to bernard smith.o we have confirmation that the air strikes are conducted by the turkish military against p.k.k. targets in the south-east of turkey. >> yes, the turkish military said that it carried out air strikes in the south-east of turkey and northern iraq. it said that it killed 49 p.k.k. fighters in those air strikes. this issing it today because the p.k.k. declared a unilateral ceasefire on saturday. this has trailed a couple of days ago towards the end of last week, they were going to announce it today. they announced it on saturday, in the wake of bombings in ankara. the p.k.k. said it would not target security forces in the run up for the election. this attack by the turkish air forces, the turkish military - they say they have hit a couple of weapons storage facility. the military doesn't say it was targeted by the p.k.k., but they were statics targets that the turkish military decided to strike. >> do we know yet whether the p.k.k. will maintain the unilateral offer of a ceasefire, or whe

. >> here is cornell bernard live at the sheriff's office in marin county. >> we just learned the threesuspects are being interest you -- being interviewed by detectives and the arrests are being called a exeunt -- a community wide effort. >> it was held on the old railroad grade trail where steve carter was gunned down on monday afternoon. his dog was wounded. they brought flowers and their memories. >> he is so humble and so loving and the last person you would think would get shot. >> the people who did that have a tremendous amount of pain and darkness in them. >> they are seen gassing up the stolen jetta 30 minutes after the murder. caught on surveillance camera at this gas station. >> these are the same three subjects identified in our investigation by a number of people who came forward almost immediately. >> one man told us off camera that the trio said they were from san diego heading to portland. the manager on duty at the time told frnd -- friend jake shoemaker that something wasn't right. >> he was talking to him at the vw and he said it creeped him out so he called the cops

bernard smith joining us live from istanbul to tell us what the mood's been like there today, bernard, a day after those deadly blasts in ankara. >> doreen, really a country in shock, not just here in istanbul, but cruise turkey. this is the largest terrorist attack this country has suffered in the history of modern turkey, 95 people killed and sitting five people in intense i have care. no indication yet, no claims of responsibility, but the reuters news agency is quoting security sources saying that preliminary investigations, which include forensic investigations suggest that the two suicide bombers, they believe there were two, were both members of isil, so they are focused now on that. there have been raids and praises in three turkish cities today, down towards the border with syria there, and 36 suspected members of isil have been detained in those operations, so that appears to be the focus of the investigation at the moment, doreen. >> on those airstrikes, that took place in the southeast, and in northern iraq on behalf of the turkish military, on p.k.k. targets, what is the

bernard smith in istanbul >>> world leaders condemned the bombings in turkey. u.s. president obama offered condolences and they stand in solidarity. russian president vladimir putin called the attacks an act of terrorism. >> i want to expression deep condolences to the turkish people and president. what happened is an act of terrorism, an attempt to destabilize the country. all the more so committed in the course of election campaign. it's an obvious matter >>> a political science professor at koch university in istanbul blames the government for what he calls increased lawlessness across turkey. >> what needs to be expressed here is who has political responsibility, and it is clear that the government has primary political responsibility. for, first, failing to protect the right to live, of all citizenses as it should, in discriminately. second, for failing to - for contributing to an atmosphere of polarization and provision, and lawlessness. in fact, the justice and development party, the government and president recep tayyip erdogan regularly conduct rallies that

>> prostitution and selling drugs. >> one of the things bernard did on occasion inside l.a. county jail was put on beauty pageants. he was like a peacock. he wanted to show off his feathers. >> do you like the miss america pageant? we do them in here, but we do them for the boys. and we have the girls, the boys, the schoolboys, the vogue and all kind of stuff like that, so it's a variety of things that you can run for. it's not just beauty. we cover with sheets and towels, stuff like that, make little dresses, you know. we destroy state property to make the outfits, in other words. >> do you wear makeup? >> yes, actually. look at my face. >> we explored another special housing unit at l.a. county as well, the mental health ward, where we encountered one of the most unforgettable scenes ever shown on "lockup." >> there was one gentleman in particular who i could barely see him because there was so much graffiti on his cell door and all over his walls. it looked like hieroglyphics. >> a lot of the writing on the door is human feces, and he also has combined a little mustard on

bernard held its own, by golly. >> well, you seem pretty happy. >> i got my four precious things out, my children. >> you ever seen anything like this before? >> never have seen anything like this before, no, sir, i hope i never see it again. >> it's that bad. >> hard. >> my mid-afternoon, the presidential plane is on its way from washington. swinging out over the gulf then up the delta, flying low, following betsy's trail of destruction. grand isle where the hurricane first made landfall, nothing left. up the mississippi, houses swept five miles from their front doorsteps. levees strewn with battered ships and barges. more than 450 beached or sunk. and missing near baton rouge, somewhere on the river bottom in mississippi mud, barge mtc 602, laden with 600 tons of deadly liquid chlorine. enough to produce more poison gas than both sides used in all of world war i. and much more than enough to wipe out baton rouge. at 5:00, air force one lands in new orleans bringing the president, his aides, and leaders of the louisiana congressional delegation to survey the damage, see what needs to

. >> lily bernard appeared on "the cosby show."ily says cosby earned her trust. >> he said drink it, bernard, drink it. very quickly the room started spinning. >> lily says she became incapacitated and cosby raped her. >> the next memory i'm on the floor, on the carpet. i remember the sensation of the carpet against the flesh of my back. like velcro. like this. i couldn't move because of the drugs. i remember him on top of me. then there's cold water splashes me on my chest. he was bathing me. i woke up to the cold water splashing me on my chest. i was still groggy like a wet noodle. he was pulling up my stockings very quickly and took me to a car. >> their accounts are so intimate, so disturbing, and many here still say they weren't sure what happened to them. but this summer, long excerpts from the constand deposition came out. in it cosby was asked, when you got the quay lewds, was it in your mind that you were going to use these drugs for young women that you wanted to have sex with? yes. he was asked, did you ever give any of

bernard whitman and ceo of whitman inside strategies are here to debate this. great to have you on the real story. tony, let me start with you. do you consider this a good thing or chaotic for the republican party? >> well, it's definitely a shock. no one who was watching this race would have imagined at the 11th hour, kevin mccarthy, who by all accounts had the vote would voluntarily surrender power. i think he deserves credit for that. there is an opportunity, no doubt, there was this feeling after john boehner made his announcement which wasn't all that surprising. he said he would probably do it at some point soon enough. there could be been a real seat change within the congress and the party leadership. kevin mccarthy didn't represent that seat change. he's likable but now the party has a real opportunity to allow all the sides, that rich diversity we have in our caucus be represented and reflective in who we can elect. >> if you can find that one person, right bernard? >> you have all out war in the republican party. it's being perpetrated by a small gro

it heated the rivalry between george patton and bernard montgomery, the british commander. something i wanted to point out that is of special significance, i think, in this gallery that we want visitors to understand is that war is a very messy, dirty, .nd often unfair business in those landings at sicily, we are going to see the worst friendly fire incident that american forces suffered in .orld war ii better than 300 american paratroopers are going to be shot down by allied forces as they approach southern italy early in the invasion. this is something that came about because of inexperience and green troops and beer -- and fear. it's part of war and not an easy, glorious march to victory, like a lot of people think it was today. though we call it the good war, very bad things happened in that good war. here we have an airman cloth map .f italy and tunisia when paratroopers were dropped into unknown territory, they dyed intoe these maps scarves they would wear, and this is how they would try to maneuver territories around them . in this space, you can see taking palermo,

and it was an intense tussle with bernard foley's boot edging australia ahead 9-6. they dominated the position, but couldn't crack the wallabies defense. despite being down to 13 players for a long period due to a couple of yellow cards, australia held on. foley kicked the wallabies to a 15-6 win, but the winning margin didn't reflect how close the match was. >> it was tight. i think it was a different type of game for us, compared to the games played so far. we had to show a different skin. and obviously very pleased with the result. plenty of imperfections in the game, and that is something we'll have to improve before getting to the quarterfinal. >> the quarter final against scotland taking place at twickenham next sunday. >> f1, and carla sand, toro rosso will compete. despite a crash on saturday. he hit the barrier after losing control. he was airlifted to hospital but said he was fine. mercedes driver nico rosberg starts in poll with team-mate and champion lewis hamilton in second >>> a 50th motogp race for the spaniard. coming from sixth on the win. the honda

bernard parish and the lower ninth ward. together, both parishes also suffered the largest losses of life during katrina. now is it possible to say that had mr go not been there the impacts of katrina would have been less? >> oh yeah very clearly...presumably they would have built the levee and that levee probably would have been better because you would have had miles of wetlands in front of it...there would have been less damage, there would have been fewer people who were killed in the storm. >> three years after katrina, and multiple lawsuits later--congress finally agreed. mr go was de-authorized. the army copr of engineers offically closed the channel for good. at least three impact studies, including one from the corp itself--urged the federal government to begin restoring the wetlands. where does nature and natural defenses fit into the design here? >> certainly the coastal environments can provide a buffer against storm surge and it's very critical for the long term sustainability for this constructed system. >> abo

al jazeera's bernard smith reports from istanbul. >> reporter: as turkish security forces raided severalies, sustained gunfire echoed around the neighborhood. .2 police officers were killed by booby trap bombs as they broke down a door at one apartment. 7 suspected members of isil were killed in the shootout that followed according to the police. >> this is a very important operation, planned and conducted successfully. two important isil groups have been neutralized. >> these raids were amongst a series that have taken place across turkey in the wake of the october 10th suicide bombing in ankara that killed 102 people. the government says isil was responsible. this is the first time on turkish soil that there has been a defendant shootout involving isil. it highlights the increasing threat the group poses to this country adding to the security headache a national elections here on sunday. then n mid november, world leaders head to the southern coast for the g20 leaders summit. bernard smith, al jazeera, istanbul. >>> there has been more violence in israel in the occupied territories. th

in talks with president erdiwan and europe needs help and from the coastal town in southern turkey bernardth sent this report. >> reporter: major transit hub on the journey to europe for syrian refugees, a chance to rest before one of the hardest parts of the journey. smugglers hang around cafes waiting for customers and we over heard this man offering 25-800 seats on a 7-meter dinghy to a greek island. they don't have the right to work in turkey so many do not see a future here. >> translator: there are no job opportunities in turkey. if there are any you have to work more than 12 hours a day for 300-400 per month. when people here see a syrian they think they can make him work more but earn less. >> reporter: they plan to swim to greece and plotted a route between turkey and the greek island and say twice they made it more than halfway across but the coast guard caught them, next time they will swim at night. >> translator: i don't want to make money. i am a goal keeper. i just wants to achieve my dreams and live like humans want to live and our lives have been totally destroyed and i lo

bernard and irene schwartz. judy and josh weston. the cheryl and philip milstein family. sue and edgar wachenheim, iii. corporate funding is provided by mutual of america-- designing customized individual and group retirement products. that's why we are your retirement company. additional support has been provided by: and by the corporation for public broadcasting, and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. from the tisch wnet studios at lincoln center in new york, hari sreenivasan. >> sreenivasan: good evening and thanks for joining us. thousands of people gathered in the turkish capital of ankara today to condemn the worst terrorist attack in that nation's recent history. families and friends of some victims gathered today to mourn. at least 95 people died when two bombs exploded at a rally by ethnic kurds protesting the escalating violence between turkish security forces and kurdish separatists. today families also waited for news about the 160 people still being treated in hospitals. no one has claimed responsibility for the attack near

bernard and irene schwartz. judy and josh weston. the cheryl and philip milstein family. sue and edgar wachenheim, iii. corporate funding is provided by mutual of america-- designing customized individual and group retirement products. that's why we are your retirement company. additional support has been provided by: and by the corporation for public broadcasting, and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. >> sreenivasan: good evening. thanks for joining us. as american military forces renew efforts to roll back the latest taliban offensive in afghanistan, a u.s. airstrike appears to have accidentally caused significant civilian casualties. the nighttime aerial attack mistakenly bombed a hospital in the northern afghan city of kunduz, which was taken over by the taliban this week. images from overnight showed fires blazing inside the hospital. the humanitarian group doctors without borders, which runs the hospital, says at least 19 people were killed, including three children and 12 of its medical staff, while several dozen other patients

bernard and irene schwartz. judy and josh weston. the cheryl and philip milstein family. sue and edgar wachenheim, iii. corporate funding is provided by mutual of america-- designing customized individual and group retirement products. that's why we are your retirement company. additional support has been provided by: and by the corporation for public broadcasting, and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. from the tisch wnet studios at lincoln center in new york, hari sreenivasan. >> sreenivasan: good evening and thanks for joining us. israel is announcing new steps to curb a rash of deadly attacks on its citizens. an arab man shot and stabbed people in a bus station in the southern israeli city of beersheba. police say an israeli soldier died, and ten people were wounded. earlier in the day, the israeli cabinet proposed police be allowed to stop and frisk anyone on the street suspected of carrying a weapon. tel aviv and three other cities said they will prohibit arab workers in their schools starting tomorrow. and israel is enforcing roa

bernard and irene schwartz. judy and josh weston. the cheryl and philip milstein family. sue and edgar wachenheim, iii. corporate funding is provided by mutual of america-- designing customized individual and group retirement products. that's why we are your retirement company. additional support has been provided by: and by the corporation for public broadcasting, and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. from the tisch wnet studios at lincoln center in new york, >> brangham: good evening, i'm william brangham. hari sreenivasan is on assignment. a major rainstorm has dumped a foot of water on parts of texas and is now moving east. houston received nine inches of rain in the past day, causing flooding and numerous roads closures. the houston fire department rescued 28 motorists stranded by high waters. the storm system has poured on southeast texas since friday, along with the remnants of hurricane patricia. authorities say one san antonio man remains missing after being swept away by flood waters while walking his dog. as the storms move