. >> diane eastabrook thank you very much. and now to dave warren, is mother nature going to give them a break? >> yes, a little break. the rain has cleared out, but a lot of water has already come down, and that's working its way in to these larger rivers. all these areas are under a flood warning. focusing on clarksville, that river is cresting, meaning it is as high as it's going to get. but this is major flooding happens. here is the observed river stage. this is the forecast. cresting just below record stage, but it will take a while before it gets down below flood stage. it will slowly drop, but remain above that flood stage. the heaviest rain has pushed to the south. that is good news there. not good news across the northeast. these are wind report damages from last night to early this morning. over 400 reports of wind damage. but the good news is those storms are out of here. >> dave warren thank you very much. those terms by the way left as many as five people dead up and down the eastern seaboard. i'm del walters in

john. >> diane eastabrook recording. washington, d.c.ls have asked the court to delay allowing residents to carry guns outside their home. they're asking for a grace period to decide on filing an appeal or writing new laws. but on saturday a judge decided people may carry guns saying the backpack in place was simply unconstitutional. this ruling resolves a lawsuit that was filed back in 2009 by several people who said they wanted to carry guns for protection. joining us now is richard aborn, the president of handguns incorporated, citizens crime commission of new york. richard welcome back. what does this mean for d.c? >> it play not mean a lot. the they are very different stories. the washington judge ruled the district lacks the ability to did not rule who can carry guns and who can do so. but what's important to note is that that's about law abiding citizens carrying guns whereas in chicago the issue is illegal guns going into the streets. >> so you don't believe that allowing people to carry guns is going to have -- make any differen

diane eastabrook has more. >> edwin williams says there have been so many shootings nearby he wouldn'tlet his daughter ayani with him. >> it will be only a couple of hours and. >> 11-year-old shamiya adams was one who was simply prerpting in a weekend trip. >> on ways to stop the violence. >> it's about where the guns are coming from. where the law enforcement is. where our neighborhood and our communities are, where our parents are. where are our investments. >> some community activists were encouraged. >> the first thing that gave me hope was that they are all working together, that's unheard of, and they're all listening with the communities. >> police here in inglewood say, in recent years the violence has gotten out of control and they're not sure if more cops and stricter gun laws are really the answer. emanuel says are are the situation needs more jobs and education. it's also looking for ways to bring businesses to neighborhoods where there are hardly any. edwin williams says jobs might be a way to get some criminals off the streets. >> we're going to have to do other things, t

diane eastabrook reports. >> reporter: violence has really become a way of life in some of these neighborhoodsparticularly those on the south side of chicago. and many people who live in those neighborhoods say this shooting has to stop. >> no more shooting, no more shooting, no more guns, no more guns. >> reporter: for a second weekend in a row gun violence rattles the streets of chicago. friday evening just before community activists demand he peace, in a neighborhood scarred by gun fire. >> no more violence. peace peace peace. >> i come out every friday night. we want the violence to stop, we want peace here, we care, we are hopeful, we do positive things for the young people here. >> the violence we are facing right now in america and particularly in chicago, this is our katrina. this is our katrina. how we handle it as a community as a city as a state, how we handle this is going to be our legacy. >> powerful storms dropped more than 3 inches of rain on the city. trearl trailer halting th tempoe violence. , nine people were killed and over 50 wounded in shootings over the july 4th weekend

diane eastabrook, al jazeera, chicago. >>> coming up on al jazeera america. we'll get you the latest on some destructive storms across several u.s. states. including a crazy storm at a california beach that produced a deadly lightning strike. >>> and a fire threat that's threatening hundreds of homes and a national park. >> welcome back to al jazeera america. i'm david schuster and here are today's headlines. in gaza city there was a deadly attack today on a hospital and a refugee camp. you can see i.t. was deadly. palestinian officials say israeli air strikes targeted civilians but israeli officials deny that responsibility, saying it was the misfire of palestinian rockets from hamas fighters. >>> holiday typically filled with celebration, ede marks the holy fasting month of ramadan's conclusion. >>> oil company eukos, the russian government seized the company in 2003. >> severe weather has swept through every corner of the oots united states in recent days, from hail in the midwest to a bizarre light nipping storm in california. >> i thought it was a bomb.

diane eastabrook has that story. >> linda and chip called 17 month old kali a dream baby. after two unsuccessful event of invitro fertilisation, they turned to another thoxed. >> we knew we wanted children. >> what made it exciting was not only would we give an embryo life, but linda would have the experience of being pregnant. >> kali came from one of 14 frons embryos from mike and melissa. >> who touches mummy first. >> after conceiving twins and a son through ivf, the eagletons decided their family was complete. they didn't want to the destroy unused embryos. the eagle tonnes turned to a non profit adoption, assisting in embryo adoptions, rutting in 400 -- resulting in 400 baby. 47% result in births. at $15,000, it's half as much as traditional adoption and tacks less time. -- takes less time. the the matching time is a couple of months. in domestic adoption it can be two years. >> agreements signed are written as property contracts because most states don't recognise embryos as people. that's part of the reason the american society of reprulentive measures doesn't supp

diane eastabrook has more. >> reporter: generators working nonstop pump the river out of this business. flooding is a problem. >> it's a huge clean-up taking a huge expense to get it out of way. it takes its toll. >> clarksville has been preparing for the flood all week with volunteers and inmates from a prison stamping sandbags. still, the river pushed its way upstreet, forcing businesses to close and causing anxiety which for residents at the apartment building. >> every night you don't speak. i'm sitting there, wide awake. to hear that water may be coming in or not. >> during last year's flood, the town was able to put up a large concrete barrier running along the river front. but it didn't have the money to do that. it had to rely on donated sandbags. with the city not paying for another temporary concrete wall. some businesses opted for installing their own barriers. tom spent close to $1500 putting up wire baskses around his -- baskets around his home, saying it was worth it. >> after going through it, you learn from your smacks. soon you get -- mistakes. soon you get proficialt

al jazeera's diane eastabrook takes a look at a programme promising an escape from troubled childhood. >> reporter: in chicago's inglewood neighbourhood gun violence claimed 21 lives, wouning more than 100 others this -- wounding more than 100 others. >> when you hang on the corner do you not make yourself a target. >> this chicago cop it trying to keep these 30 kids from becoming those statistics. >> he was just talking. >> why one. >> she runs a programme, warping them through role play, about what can happen if they hang out with gangs. >> what are you doing this to me for. >> it's my gun. >> or drug dealers. hold it. i'm over here. i don't see the plus. now i'm talking to my friends. this is what they do. look, look, look. >> reporter: the troim is part of c a.p.s., alternative policing strategies, the idea to keep teens with nothing to do in summer off the streets and out of trouble. some are getting paid through a grant to attend. this boy is on probation for theft, and trying to avoid another brush with the law. >> you don't have to do anything in particular to find trouble. it