capetown was often a landing point for ships before they made their way across the long atlantic voyage and this ship came too close to shore, got caught in swells in the storm and struck rocks about 100 yards, 350 feet he could from the crew. they attempted a rescue from ship so -- to shore. he rescued himself and along with the crew he rescued about half the 400 enslaved months am eekans aboard. the other half who had been captured from the interior of africa and brought -- brought on board the ship in early december perished in those waves that night. >> recently the image of a young syrian boy who died, drowned, became the image of a migrant crisis taking place right now in europe. ts -- has humanized that crisis happening. is that what you want to do with the slave trade? >> many in ways history museums tell the grand story and forget to humanize them. it struck us when you think of the millions of people taken via the middle passage to the new world, many of whom perished, you realize when you start talking numbers in the millions it's hard for the public to understand or care or

famida miller, al jazeera, capetown. >> trying to kill the carcass of a huge dead hump back whale, 45 foot whrail that is thought to have washed ashore on tuesday. look at the size of this thing. residents flock to take a picture of the animal. three bulldozers at least one or two of them were broad in to remove the carcass. officials are afraid blood and debris could actually attract sharks to that popular swimming area. >>> dangerous clash ton slopes. that oust tree tran austrian sks overtaken by a drone that was flown too close to the course. >>> a portuguese artist, makes a statement. sarah clark reports from hong kong. >> his studio may be inside but he prefers exterior walls. >> giving space to artists to create in it not just for cultural life but also for the factor that it basically makes life more interesting in the cities. >> he's an internationally recognized graffiti artist. these days, instead of spray cans he used chisels and drills to create oversized images in public places. >> intimate layers you expose history, you sort of make the invisible, visible. >> a city land

the latest inches depth yesterday afternoon at the capetown rail station, at least five cars caught fireno one inside the cars at the time, there were no injuries. >>> a freight train caring more than 52,000 gallons of sulfuric acid derails in australia over the weekend. police say there are some minor leakage. highly corrosive acid as well as december ill fuel. officials declared an emergency. no word on what cause that derailment. but there has been flooding in the area. >> and a massive wild fire in southern california is now about 75% contained. the flames ignited on christmas, strong winds blew down power line north of los angeles. nearly 100 people who were evacuated are now starting to return to their homes. authorities say the new concern is a landslide if rain decides to pound the strong hills. >>> strong winds bring down huge tree at playground, young father had only second to react. he is in the hospital recovering this morning after throwing himself in front every his daughter to protect her from a tumbling tree. random -- brandon lewis has that story. >> crews spent more tha

>>> new year's celebrations are happening all around the world. 2016 just officially arrived in capetown, south africa minutes ago at 5 clork our time. we're going to keep bringing you the scenes from all over the world. and we're hours away from our celebration here in times square. you can ring in the new year right here on news4, new year's eve with carson daly begins at 11:30 p.m. >>> we have breaking news out of new rochelle tonight. an accident that may have stemmed from a dispute over a parking spot. police have one person in take a l k from the chopper at the parking lot there. it's not clear if anybody was hurt in this. our crew is headed to the scene. >>> first a shooting and now a fire. police back at a queens gentleman's club for a second day. the same club where a knicks player was before being ambushed. today the investigation there is arson. what is the deal at this club. michael george went to find out. >> reporter: our cameras caught detectives discovering a gas can still leaking fuel. this is what two arson fists ists used to try to troy the club. that happened after a

prince harry took part in some warmup exercises today with children and staff at a youth center in capetowned about his childhood saying he always wanted to be, quote, the bad boy and then he started trash talking and said he's cooler than his older brother prince william and then showed off surveillancy footwork at a soccer program. >> and harry also had an adoring young fan. the little girl just broke down when harry stopped holding her hand. >> i would have done the same thing. he's so cute. that's going to do it for us. "world news tonight with david muir" is next. >> from all of >>> breaking news tonight. a short time ago, the accused killer, hauled before the camera. after the deadly rampage in colorado. wearing a suicide prevention suit. facing charges for murdering three people at planned parenthood. what the judge told him late today. >>> the major storm hitting tonight. dangerous driving. several states, up to a foot of snow, freezing rain, winds, and it's on the move tonight. and the rescue. the woman and her dog. >>> donald trump talking about a reporter, saying he had no idea t

famida miller, al jazeera, capetown. >> some artisans in mexico city have been make infor generations are change as aal jazeera's natasha guinane reports. >> if you are a pin-ata artisan, glueing and wrapping for 40 years. >> i like the colors of the pifnatas, yopinatas. >> he admits the pinata trade isn't quite as lucrative as it used to be. because now there's more competition. christmas is the busiest time of year. he and his family members will make four to $5,000 in a month and charge about $2 for these stars. they represent the christmas star. in the bible the star revealed the birth of jesus to the three wise men and led them to bethlehem. this stretch of road in mexico city is called the kilometer of the pinatas, machines are now changing what was once a strictly hand made craft. machines are cutting the paper and making the bodies of pinasas. pipinatas. >> elana vasquez with the council of culture and art, say they are not firmlying rooted in catholicism. >> the traditional pinatas are difficult to find when they are made by machines. the artisans are adapting and know how to

from capetown. >> three are he intelligent, playful and don't mind posing with tourists. now the sanctuary is walking a fine line for survival. after losing about $100,000. since reopening visitor numbers have fallen by more than half. preebola sierra leone was starting to develop a stronger tourist industry with the sanctuary one of the attractions. >> when visitors come tourists come they spend their money to fly to come into the country. so government in one way or the other through taxes that generate revenue there. >> reporter: the ebola crisis and falling tourism is estimated to cost the government around $11 million. visitors are starting to return. >> they are genetically close to us obviously and they are very endangered and it's important that their sanctuaries are in places like this where people can come and learn about them. >> reporter: that's part of the goal of the sanctuary. educating people about chimp. it's estimate they'd there were about 20,000 chimps inning sierra leone. in sierra leone. locals have been warned not to eat bush meat since the ebola cr

we found one through scholars that levitt mozambique in 1794, and sank off the coast of capetown.lt of research and diving, we actually found it. and what we did is we realized -- i didn't want to bring up an entire ship, because it's in pieces. i just wanted to have a few almost religious-like relics, so people would think not just of the slave trade, but it was something i wanted to humanize, here are 400 people touched by this. my goal was to humanize history and make it accessible to people. >> you had a similar experience, you were having a hard time finding, you know, authors and a lot of artifacts from different periods of time. and harriet taubman was a very difficult one. how did you find her treasure? >> well, the biggest challenge of this museum was not raising money, not hiring a staff, not even getting a space on the mall. >> tell candidates that. you had an easy time of it? >> now i can say it was an easy time. i was more worried about the fact that we didn't have artifacts. because unlike any other national museum in the world, this one didn't have a collection. it