by joie chen, 9:00 eastern, joie chen on the ground there for the last couple of days gathering more information for us. she's going to have more reports there as they continues to go around that country side and talk to people that have been affected by that awful typhoon. and that is it for us here on america tonight. remember if you would like to comment on anything that you have seen tonight, you can log on to our website at aljazeera.com/america tonight. you can meet our team, get sneak previews of the stories we're working on and also, tell us what you would like to see in a nightly current affairs program. also you can join our conversation on our twitter page, and facebook. for all of us here at america tonight, including joie chen, reporting from the fil philippis and the expwrier staff, thank you so much for watching, we'll see you again tomorrow. in california prison. >> i couldn't believe it. it did not compute, they're taking your life. i was 46 years old. >> her crime: possession of less than a gram of heroine. >> how do you call yourself a judge with the interest of ju

joie chen joins us once again from one of the hardest hit areas. tacloban. what truck me about the last interviews that you conducted. a lot of people want to get out. but they can. >> we have seen al jazeera correspondents span out throughout the central philippines and heard different kinds of stories, stories of communities levelled, so many stories of towns becoming virtual ghost towns, abandoned by the residents left. in many cases, because communications were the first thing to go and the last to comeback, in so many cases worried son, daughters and family members rushing home to try to find anything left of their family homes. >> this is a category 5 superstorm. the red cross says 15 million need help. >> as always no storm can bring a united filipino people to its knees. >> this is what rescue crews will see when they reach isolated areas. devastated towns and vielages. >> a tornado passed us. it lasted four hours. >> the extent of the devastation is making rescue and relief difficult. airports in the central philippines have been damaged. many roads

nice to see you. >> john chen call us.us, john, please. >> no, better yet, text us. >> even better. heading toward the close, 20 minutes left in the trading session with the dow up 13 points. but a lot coming this week. the twitter ipo jobs numbers on friday, more earnings. >> and wall street is all atwitter over the big ipo on thursday. we'll take a look at some other first-time offerings this year to see how twitter measures up. you may be surprised. >>> after the bell, friday's shooting at l.a.x. has experts seven searching for preventive solutions and questioning how america deals with the mentally ill. maria will go deep on that very difficult issue in the second hour of "closing bell." honestly, as much as i love this job, i plan to do a lot more. i needed a new laptop for my pre-med classes something that runs office and has a keyboard. but i wanted a tablet for me, for stuff like twitter and xbox so my downtime can be more like uptime. that's why i got a windows 2 in 1 which does both -- works as a laptop and a tab

. >> joey chen reporting from the philippines. our coverage of the storm continues sunday night in a special report "typhoon haiyan - the philippines in crisis" joey chen will stay in cebu, broadcasting 9:00 pm eastern. still ahead - a broken system. after years of dedicated service, sev eerily wounded veterans of stripped of honour and support. veteransism. >> we have been at war for so long. so many are funnelled into that avenue that it's clogged. commanders are stuck in a position where if they try to get them out medically, they are stuck with them maybe for a long >> al jazeera america brings you live coverage: typhoon haiyan. >> relief efforts are well underway here in cebu. >> we have a problem with no homes to go back to. >> clean water, food, medicine, all vitally required. >> the australian medical team arrived. >> this is a government warehouse that is preparing relief for the families most effected. >> al jazeera america is there with continuing live coverage. >> the water rose to half-way up to the second story. >> t

chen's mother and brother flew to new york on wednesday. authorities in china initially did not accept their passport applications, but officials reversed the decision and issued their travel documents in june. chen's relatives have reportedly suffered repeatedly harassment since his departure. u.s. officials have conveyed their concerns to the chinese government. >>> japan's self-defense forces have installed land-to-sea missiles on okinawa's island for the first time. they're being deployed temporarily for a large-scale military drill. some 20 vehicles fitted with launches arrived at the island's port from hokkaido about 2500 kilometers away. the missiles were then transmitted to a launch site. more than 30,000 personnel will join the drill through november 18th. they will practice targeting a maritime self-defense destroyer off the coast. the drill covers all waters between miyako and okinawa's main island. officials say the exercise does not consider the ships of any specific country as potential targets. yet chinese naval vessels often

a filing details the pay package for the new blackberry chairman, john chen. he's getting $1 million in base salary, could earn a $2 million performance bonus and is getting 13 million restricted shares. currently worth around $85 million based on blackberry's current share price. blackberry stock, speaking of which in frankfurt, down about 1%. also in the telecom sector, geoff cutmore is speak to go telecom italia's marco patulona

. >> joey chen reporting from the philippines. our coverage of the storm continues sunday night in a special report "typhoon haiyan - the philippines in crisis" joey chen will stay in cebu, broadcasting 9:00 pm eastern. still ahead - a broken system. after years of dedicated service, sev eerily wounded veterans of stripped of honour and support. military policy driving away veteransism. >> we have been at war for so long. so many are funnelled into that avenue that it's clogged. commanders are stuck in a position where if they try to get them out medically, they are stuck with them maybe for a long time. . >>> this week we celebrated and honoured our veterans and all the sacrifices they made. in an "american tonight" report we look at unpleasant side of policy decisions ones that left some veterans abandoned even after years of extraordinary service. >> this is iraq. you can see the big teeth, a big smile here. this is before the accident in iraq. >> gerald jenson joined the army at 34. older than the average recruit. he was calle

joie chen is on assignment i'm adam may. meth amphetamine is continuing to ravage all across middle america. every time law enforcement contraction down on meth production, it pops up in different form. christophe putzel reports. >> veronica has been addicted to meth amphetamine for more than a third of her life. commonly referred to as speed, dope or ice, the drug is highly addictive and has been decimating rural communities like the one veronica has been living in for decades. >> they refer the to it as a walk away drug. you walk away from everything you ever valued for your next high. >> he says meth amphetamine after a dipping in consumption a few years ago due to drug enforcement, is at a new high. >> i don't know how something has had such a effect on someone's quality of life as the use of meth amphetamine. >> i was 26 when i started using. and i'm 43 years old now. that's how it goes around here, though. five miles from here and five miles around you there's probably 100 or more. people selling dope. >> how badly has

the company releasing interim ceo john chen's pay details.will receive a base salary of $1 million with bonus up to twice that amount and stock awards potentially worth some $85 million. there's one catch. the majority of those share awards will only kick in after chen completes five years with blackberry. the event chen is fired without cause, will he be paid up to $6 million. is this the pay-by-performance metric, the right model for ceo pay? joining me is john martini, who thinks this is a fair transaction while robert weisman from subcitizen disagrees. is this pay-for-performance model the right way to go? let's talk about that. robert. >> it's a good step forward and it's nice this is -- the value doesn't divest until you along time. there's just too much money on the table. we're seeing a constant pattern of ever-increasing ceo pay with no limit. you are generally seeing people get paid for bad performance, including the now departing ceo of blackberry. >> john? >> well, maria, i have to say, it's impossible for me or robert or anyone e

the new interim ceo john chen has a mission to move towards businesses and software. the shakeup, do a lot towards that. a company focused doesn't necessarily need a marketing officer. getting rid of christian and frank were two good moves to line blackberry up with its new priorities. >> roger, sounds like then what you're saying they're getting out of the consumer business. that's over? >> basically creeds. >> they're basically getting out of it without wanting to get out of it. i'm talking about roger making a conscious decision because what i heard from that statement that was given to cnbc by the incoming ceo was blah-blah-blah-blah restructure, blah-blah-blah enterprise. >> yeah. that's the thing he wants to focus on business, enterprise. a software guy. not hardware. he doesn't have a track record in hardware. seems like they're focusing on the blackberry enterprise server and the software related to that. to that extent they're basically giving up on the consumer business. look to the last couple phones that launched, the blackberry that just came out, quietly

joie chen, al jazeera. >> a decision on detroit's bacy status will be announced in the coming days. the results will determine whether detroit will be the largest municipality to file for bacy. city leaders say they didn't do enough to protect their pensions before filing for chapter 9 they're $18 billion in debt. many city workers can lose their pension and retirement benefit if the judge rules in favor of bacy. president obama took time to remember the men and women of the armed forces. they're focused on making sure that every soldier has a job when they return to civilian life. >> our troops gain unmatched skill while keeping us from ha harm's way. new tax credits for companies that hire veterans and wounded warriors. tax credits which congress should make permanent. >> the president said he wants to make is easier for troops to attend college under the pos post 2011 g.i. bill. >> meteorologist: hi, i'll meteorologist eboni deon. watching an area of low pressure making its way across the upper great lakers now we're seeing that breaking out, but that low is forecasted to track t

joie chen the host of al jazeera's america tonight. joie thanks for joining us. the philippine government has been defending the pace of the relief effort, saying in a situation like this nothing is fast enough. from what you've seen is the relief effort adequate? has it been picking up? >> it is clearly a very difficult situation antonio. think about it. there are more than 7,000 islands in the philippines and a lot of these places are quite small quite remote and very hard to communicate with. juice short time ago, i met a woman and her daughter who had just come from an eastern province and she said for days our biggest hope was just to communicate with the outside world. we were okay, we wanted our family to know that we were okay, but we couldn't even tell that much, we couldn't get that message out to people because it out. it is equally difficult for information to come out even to the aid agencies through the nongovernmental operations or the governmental operations, for that matter. who are trying to help these folks. we are seeing a steady flow of aircr

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let me start by opposing a question to karen chen from the public defenders office. karen, can you -- how about if you start by giving us an overview of how the city handles this conflict between treatment and civil liberties. >> an involuntary hold starts in san francisco when a peace officer or a clinician makes the determination that the person is due to a mental disorder, is a danger to others or danger to self or gravely disabled. gravely disabled means that person does not have the ability to provide for basic needs such as food, clothing and shelter. and the legal representation starts in most cases the first 3 days of the involuntary hold during the initial psychiatric evaluation and then the legal representation also continues with if the person is asked to be stayed or referred for further treatment up to 14 days. during this phase, the attorneys will represent the clients about whether or not they will have to stay on this hold, whether they have to take medications. if a person after at the end of the 14 day hold is found that may need further treatment,

john chen, he's more of a software guy. that seems to be where the investors want to take the company. >> the reason i bring that up, doesn't that tell us a little bit about which direction the board may want to go in here? >> absolutely. >> we will probably end -- won't see any physical blackberries but the company may exist as operating like the new bbm is their messenger launching on ios and android. >> that's it. i mean the company, the investors want to push this into a software-based company. it's still unclear to me, you know, where the demand is for that software. there is obviously companies that work with blackberry right now, but looking at all the drama, the issues right now it's hard to see a lot of big businesses jumping on to the blackberry bandwagon now. >> quickly, roger, i mean they're launching the z 30 on verizon this month. i hate to say it is it worth it? in light of what's happening with the company? if you're a company would you really use blackberry as your platform at this stage? >> a lot of compan

i'm adam may, joie chen is on assignment. we have a lot to cover. a 16 year sentence, in a final effort to avoid his death sentence franklin's attorneys argue the drug use would violate the country's ban on cruel and unusual punishment. due to the dwindling stockpile of lethal injection drugs? that's the issue we've been highlighting on america tonight. on tuesday the judge granted a stay of execution. she found that franklin's lawyers use of pentobarbitol gave unusual pain to death. missouri injected franklin with the lethal dose of the controversial drug. which was a first for missouri. franklin had been on death row for 16 years. one of franklin's victims was 13-year-old dante brown shot dead in cincinnati back in 1980. tonight we are joined by la von evans, the junger brother of dante evans brown. still so sorry about what happened to your brother. i would like your reaction to the execution first. >> you know we're excited. you know it's been a long time wait. so it's a burden off our -- it's a burden lifted off us, we're really excited about t

chen. next speaker? >>> hi, jackie sacs from the cac.i have said this before and i will say it again. i was on the task force regarding this funding process. now, the thing is, before you think about looking into these funds, look in prop k. what has not done in prop k and what has to be done and in a few years you have to go before the voters again to reauthorize the prop k to get it completed. now, there is a bus rapid transit on this blvd, but there is no money there for light rail which is grandfathered from prop b into prop k years ago. to your homework and look at what is in prop b and prop k and look at what has to be done and what has been done and you have to go before the voters again to authorize the money in prop k to complete the project in the sales tax now before we look 30 years in the future. thank you. >> steve wu from chinatown cdc. i want to thank the ta staff for a great presentation and laying out a great framework for how to achieve equity in discussions about new transportation revenue. i think it's very important

chen. next speaker? >>> hi, jackie sacs from the cac.i have said this before and i will say it again. i was on the task force regarding this funding process. now, the thing is, before you think about looking into these funds, look in prop k. what has not done in prop k and what has to be done and in a few years you have to go before the voters again to reauthorize the prop k to get it completed. now, there is a b

joie chen is on assignment in the philippines, i'm adam may. begin with the aftermath of another natural disaster. it has been two days since a string of tornados tore through the midwest. close to 80 reported tornados ripped apart entire neighbors and towns across six states, killing at least eight people and causing more than 1 billion dollars in damages. for survivors they are in a race against time to salvage what they can. lori jane gliha travelled to the hardest hit town, washington, illinois. >> reporter: for 43 years julie and jerry fuchs watched their children and grandchildren make memories here in their front yard? washington, illinois. it's the same spot with jerry stood sunday morning as a funnel cloud rolled towards his house. >> our father who art in heaven -- >> reporter: as the deadly tornado barged into the community, jerry snapped a photo too. >> you can see the black funnel cloud going up there. i don't know if that was the starting of it -- >> reporter: so you were outside and snapped this picture -- >> i was on the front p

chen will get $3 million in salary and bonuses, and stock valued at $85 million. fairfax financial recently pulled its tentative bid for the struggling smartphone maker. it's now offering a $1 billion debt sale that includes several major investment firms. a report says bernie madoff was set to receive a major loan from jp morgan right before his arrest. a trader on trial-- who worked for madoff asked to borrow $200 million from the bank, that was twice madoff's credit limit. allegedly it was an attempt to hide madoff's ponzi scheme from his clients. jp morgan says it was unaware of madoff's fraud operation, and the loan "wasn't suspicious." dominick's is warning of mass layoffs as its chicago-area stores prepare to close. more than 56 hundred workers were notified that their jobs will be eliminated by the end of the year. all 72-stores will close by dec. 28. some workers may be hired by other grocery chains. jewel-osco has purchased four of dominick's locations, and plans to retain 450 workers. and upscale grocery chain mariano's has expressed interest, also. ret

. >> joey chen reporting from the philippines. our coverage of the storm continues sunday night in a special report "typhoon haiyan - the philippines in crisis" joey chen will stay in cebu, broadcasting 9:00 pm eastern. still ahead - a broken system. after years of dedicated service, sev eerily wounded veterans of stripped of honour and support. veteransism. >> we have been at war for so long. so many are funnelled into that avenue that it's clogged. commanders are stuck in a position where if they try to get them out medically, they are stuck with them maybe for a long consider this: the news of the day plus so much more. >> we begin with the government shutdown. >> answers to the questions no one else will ask. >> it seems like they can't agree to anything in washington no matter what. >> antonio mora, award winning and hard hitting. >> we've heard you talk about the history of suicide in your family. >> there's no status quo, just the bottom line. >> but, what about buying shares in a professional athlete? >> every morning from

joining me now is al very chen -- oliver chen, and facing off against him, john lawrence, stevens managingand research analyst. he's looking at the low end. good to see you both. john, first of all, we have some pretty explosive news on the low end, and that is that the walmart be ceo, michael dueck, is out and the man coming in, of course, is one of the top executives now. and he's somebody who, in essence, has been will for more than 20 years. is he the man to lead this company and why this change five minutes before thanksgiving and black friday? a lot of people are perplexed. >> well, i think, certainly, that this is a planned succession. doug has worked his way up, and he's certainly, in our opinion, been groomed for this position more a long time. spent the last several years in international which is a very complex business, very vast business, and certainly, you need someone with that experience to take that top job. so maybe the timing a little bit, but i think everybody expected doug would be the guy for this spot. liz: but, well, so in the short term there's a slight pop here, b

i'll be joining joie chen at 9:00 eastern time to co-host a live townhall on this troubling topic. we will hear from activists, survivors, psychologists, attorneys, professors and from you as we look for solutions. we'll discuss binge drinking and the hook-up culture on campus. the issue of blaming of victim and the push to change the policies towards victims and asays -- asays lents. >> joining me now is joie chen, and two brave young women who were both raped. they have filed a title 9 sexual discrimination complaint against the school, and that has helped spear head a movement across the country. thank you all for being with us. joie, i want to start with you why was it important to address this topic now? >> i think on "america tonight" we really started looking at underreported stories, but we saw particularly from people like andrea and anne who stepped forward through the social media and were talking about this growing problem. people bringing those stories to the forum made us think there is more to this, and we started to see some of the legal cases coming to the floor as

joey chen is on assignment, i'm adam may.onight we start with an investigation, today is the great american smoke out. the american cancer society's annual event urging smokers to quit. despite the well documented risks everything from cans tore hart disease, one in five americans still smokes. hundreds of thousands of americans have turned to a pill. called chantax. some successfully quit, but others have died. we obtained these documents, that reveal hundreds of chan tax users have committed suicide. in huntsville alabama, james pleads guilty to a burglary, a felony, and received a one year sentence in the state penitentiary. prosecutors say after being fired from his job, the truck driver broke into this warehouse at night, armed with a rifle, and then fled police. >> it's adam may how are you. in an interview from jail, he tells us he was delusional, suffering from the side effects of chan tax. a drug designed to help people quit smoking. i just snapped. got up on a forecast lift with a weapon, in just a daze. and to this

of us here at america tonight, thank you so much for watch having a good night, everyone, and joey chen will be back again tomorrow night. . >>> welcome to al jazeera america, i'm in new york. here is look at the top stories. >>> afghan president hamid karzai will not agree to a security deal with the united states before next year's elections. the pact calls for extending the presence of some u.s. troops. 15,000 foreign troops could remain in the country through 2014. >> in latvia 12 are dead after a supermarket collapse. the store is in the northern part of the country. the roof caved in around 6 local time. dozens are trapped. sniffer dogs are searching for survivors. no word on what caused the collapse. o

. >> joie chen report live a special edition of america tonight... 9pm et / 6pm pt on al jazeera america imprisonment in a brutal prison colony pla may have research resurfaced. after months in a prison she has said. >> i'm joined by nadia's husband. petro. i know it's been a rough few days for you. there is a report that nadia has reappeared and is in a penal heard. >> we have the same information that she has is in one of the penal colonies. and this is why we are here to basically make the search for her and discover if she is in the quite quite quite vicinity. and thre she has been in complee isolation. we consider that as punishment. both inside russia domestically and internationally. she has been missing for several weeks as you said while she was in transit from this camp to sigsiberia. >> did you have any idea where she was durin during that time. >> our source and informal leaks from the system and from the fellow prisoners told us she went through several cities and over a distance of up to 5000 kilometres to get to siberia. and given the fact she has only four months to serve

america tonight with joie chen is next. >> "america tonight" the membershihelpthat never came. our investigation looks at the american red cross and the failures that left comowchbilitiecommunitieshigh a. >> an "america tonight" exclusive. >> what did you think when you got that call saying that you weren't going to get the money. >> i thought it was wrong. the native american community and their outside threat of having their children taken away. >> and looking back. what the world could have seen. early signs of hi hitler's northwesmostevil vision. good evening and thanks for being with us i'm joie chen. >> at is this time o last year e people on the eastern seaboard were still reeling. the american red cross sprang to the aid of victims armed with donated dollars. >> the red cross promised to help them recover from the disaster. disaster. you a ias it turns out many of e left wanting. one year on. this is breezy point. one. new york communities most deaf devastated we hurricane sandy churned up the east cost waves crashed into homes and the power went out and then more than

they are cutting costs and chen has a stirling reputation 20 for being a smart guy and had led the turnn around of a troubled company before. >> i don't think this is about john chen it's a about a smart phone company that used to be $80 a share and it's down to 6.50 and it's a 1:15 march -- 1:5 market share. >> what is happening with twitter it's raising it's price for the ipo. >> it indcase -- indicates that they are getting a lot of interest in the ipo instead of pricing it between 20 and $25 a share they are pricing it between 25 and $30. how do they make money. they are like a media or broadcasting company. they are like al jazeera. they sell advertisementses and 80% of their revenue comes from selling advertisements. >> and. >> s -- isn't there data to think that twitter is a good product. you invest in twitter not because it's a good product. these big institutional investors who are playing in the stock market for fun who have tens of thousands of dollars set aside to buy stocks are in their 40s and 50s and 60s. >> do these young people in the age range that twitter is engaging