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heidi zhou castro, al jazeera, san marcus, texas. >>> a slow vainian band has wrapped up its tour, wherethe first-ever western band to perform in north korea. they formed in the 1980s, and is one of the country's best-known bands. thank you for joining us. i'm randall pinkston. stay tuned for more news. ♪ reports greeks will vote again as the prime minister calls for new elections. ♪ hello there, this is al jazeera live from london, also coming up, safe landing, a ferry carrying several thousand syrian refugees docks on the greek mainland. cross border tension north and south korea exchange fire after a dispute of loudspeakers. three firefighters killed as the fire continues to burn

heidi zhou-castro, al jazeera, san antonio, texas. >> the u.s.and drug administration has just approved the painkiller oxycodone for use in children. oxycontin was the first in a number of drugs for long term pain relief, opioids blamed for a soaring painkiller epidemic in this country. division director of pediatric hematology and oncology. doctor thank you for joining us. there are more than a mill who are addicted to oxycontin. what is the danger that children will join that list? >> the fda approved this list for patients with sear yoa chroniserio-chronicpain. i see olot of patients who suffer from life threatening cancer and can actually call them serial pain. they could be some conditions like after major trauma or major surgery requiring long term pain management. so fda recently approved this drug for certain degree of patients. for some of these patients i think it would be really beneficial for fda approved for even in pediatric use. >> there is nothing stopping any doctor in the united states about when to prescribe oxycontin for kids

. >> heidi zhou castro, al jazeera, dallas. >> one of the co authors of the report sean harper joins us from philadelphia this morning, the executive director of the center for the study of repairs and equity in education at university of pennsylvania. good morning, thank you be for being with us. >> help us interpret your report. why did you look at these 13 states and what do they have in common expelling black students. >> 1.2 million black students were suspended from public schools in a single academic school year in these states. 55% of those suspensions happened in schools located across these 13 southern states. now as a georgia native and as someone who went to public school and was suspended for reasons i can't even remember because they were so trivial, this is especially and personally alarming to me. >> was it surprising to you? a lot of the debates we've had about racial tensions, about the confederate flag have been happening in those deep south jim crow states. >> sure. so on the one hand, you know, our numbers were not surprising, because they built on, you know, yea

heidi zhou castro, al jazeera clear view, oklahoma. >> you can watch heidi's full report tonight at 8:00 eastern. >> new york city officials scramble to reassure the official as legionnaire's disease spreads claiming paris. >> two kids shackled after misbehaving at school. >> an investigation is underconvey in lancaster new hampshire after a circus tent collapsed, killing two and injuring two dozen. the tent came down during a severe storm with hail and sitting mile per hour winds. the collapse comes one day after another tent collapsed near chicago, one person died in that incident. >> republican presidential candidates met in new hampshire providing a sneak peek of thursday's first debate. 14 candidates were there with donald trump absent. instead of criticizing each other, they focused their attention on the democratic party. >> crews are scrambling to stop a fire in northern california. it jumped its containment line, heating to more evacuation. the fire has burned two dozen homes and consumed 93 square miles of land. a warier of the firefighters battling the flames are volunteers

heidi zhou castro, al jazeera clearview, oklahoma. >> the growing rank of rentallers, why achieves the american dream is coming out of reach for more and more people. >> the health risk to babies when diapers become unaffordable. >> welcome to al jazeera america. taking a look at today's top stories, the 10 republican candidates who will take the stage in the first presidential debate have been selected, including donald trump along with ted cruz, scott walker, jeb bush and marco rubio. 2012 candidates rick perry and rick santorum along with five others didn't make the cut. >> president obama today will try to convince americans to support the iran nuclear deal. he's set to give a speech at american university in washington. part of the white house's push to get congress to back the agreement. >> firefighters in northern california are scrambling to contain the rapidly growing rocky fire. the week owed fire destroyed an area double the size of san francisco. it is now 20% contained. 3500 firefighters are on the scene. >> with california now in its fifth year of a drought firefighters a

heidi zhou castro, al jazeera, waco, texas. >> you can see the full report tonight at 8:00 eastern. >> president obama heads to new orleans today, marking 10 years after hurricane katrina. why harry shearer says the president is not telling the truth about what caused the destruction in new orleans. >> al jazeera america primetime. get the real news you've been looking for. at 7:00, a thorough wrap-up of the day's events. then at 8:00, john seigenthaler digs deeper into the stories of the day. and at 9:00, get a global perspective. weeknights, on al jazeera america. >> satirist and actor harry shearer is famous for being the voice on the simpsons. today he has an ad running, challenging president obama to take responsibility for what he calls the failure of the army corps of engineers, which he claims led to the katrina disaster. shearer spoke about it with john siegenthaler. >> the first time he was here at president was october of 2009 and he referred to this as a natural disaster, which is to elude any sense of the culpability of an agency of the federal government in the near dest

al jazeera's heidi zhou castro has the story. >> >> an american flag flies outside the texas hospital where this baby was born almost two years ago to an undocumented mother. the mother, juana, asked us not to use the family's last name or show their faces. she was a warrior from birth, juana said of her now 1-year-old. she spent 20 days in intensive care, fought for her life then and i'm fighting for her now, fighting for a birth certificate to show proof the would child is a u.s. citizen. after brought to the o, juana had two older children who had no problem getting birth certificates. at the time, hospital records and juana's i.d. card from the consulate were good enough. when she returned to the vital statistics office this year to get a birth certificate for her youngest daughter, the same documents didn't work. the state of texas is now making it impossible for most undocumented parents to get a birth certificate by requiring documents they can't get. documents like a driver's license, which the state refuses to issue to undocumented immigrants, or a foreign passport with a val

heidi zhou castro in texas. >> new controversy over e cigarettes, are they a gateway to the real thing or a key to helping smokers quit? >> al jazeera america primetime. get the real news you've been looking for. at 7:00, a thorough wrap-up of the day's events. then at 8:00, john seigenthaler digs deeper into the stories of the day. and at 9:00, get a global perspective. weeknights, on al jazeera america. >> he cigarettes, their growing popularity, now a new study out of england said they may be the key to helping smokers quit, but here some researchers say the use of cigarettes especially among teens could be the gateway to using the real thing. we have more. >> what we're encouraging cigarette smokers to do is if they've tried other things and haven't succeeded, try e-cigarettes. >> a british government agency recommends e cigarettes, as an aid to help people quit smoking for the short and medium term. the study found all of the duties in the u.k. thought to be current users were i believe to stick to e-cigarettes or quit smoking completely. >> the estimates done by a variety of experts suggest that e-cigarettes are about 95% less