represents to interpol. mr.ocused on improving partnerships between the other 189 interpol member countries and the u.s. a federal, state and local tribal law enforcement counterparts. careful statements about what is will appear in the record and the turn of recognizes mr. bersin for his statement. >> thank you, madam chair, ranking member of the, i appreciate this opportunity on this subject. the international criminal police organization or interpol is the world's largest transnational police association with 190 member countries today. each member country as a national central bureau to conduct interval activities and could make its services within its national territory. on the service is interpol provides to the law enforcement entities of every member country is access to its sltd, stolen and lost travel document database. this database contains over 49 records provided by nearly 170 of the organization's members. on march 9, interpol confirmed that two of the passports used by passengers that boarded mal

for presumptive to interpol. he has been focused on improving partnerships between the other 189 interpol member country's and their local counterparts. of the witnesses will appear in the record and the chair mr. -- for his statement. >> thank you. i appreciate this opportunity on this subject. the international criminal police organization is the world's largest transnational police association with 190 member countries today. each member country has a national central bureau to conduct interpol activities and coordinate services within its national territory. among the services interpol provides to the law enforcement entities of every member country with access to its s ltd, stolen and lost travel document database. this database contains 40 170ion records divided by of the organization's members. interpol confirmed two of the passports used to board malaysian airlines flight 370 had been recorded in ace -- in the lost document database. as noted, ron noble noted the surprise of many that very few countries s

shawn bray was the director of interpol washington. united states national central bureau.mally introduce them in just a moment. but let me recognize myself for an opening statement here this morning. and first of all of course let me start by saying all of us must and prayers are with the families of those killed and wounded at fort hood, a terrible, terrible incident that them in in my ranking member's state of texas. and certainly as we begin the very to school -- difficult task of what went wrong with be mindful to support the men and women who wear the uniform not only been overseas but certainly when they get, when they return home as well. this morning we're going to be talking about travel document security which is the cornerstone of the united states' effort to secure our homeland, it's integral to pushing our borders out, the building of terrorists and others who seek to do is harm hinges in large part on the building into trouble. if you make are for terrorists to cross our borders without being detected, future acts of terrorism hopefully can be prevented. and

has been supportive of the interpol membership in the community specifically in central america. we helped install sites at specialized police units but also border control points as well. we are continue to work prior to the airline disaster we've been working with counterparts in mexico and other countries in the caribbean as well to determine how we can better and most effectively assist them in fully realizing how the utilities and tools may be better serviced in their countries. and we will obviously work with interpol to determine how we can best come up with a global strategy for engaging countries sharing best practices and lessons learned from this process. it's been a process for the united states, one that's taken time to develop and we need other countries to ramp up as quickly as possible. >> recognize the gentleman from california. first the ranking member has a comment. >> i want to put on the record thank you for your leadership on this issue and a lighter that you joined on into this isn't taking your time but i hope you will submit -- i would like to submit the

doctor bersin, do the countries routinely share information on lost and stolen passports in interpol backs >> yesterday due into there was regular checking that we do to see that that requirement is met that would be a preview of how many entries have been made by the countries and if th that problem arises we will remedy that. >> are there any countries that are noncompliant? >> at this time no and asked several of us noteasseveral of e testimony of the 40 million records 96% of them come from the visa waiver countries or aspiring in which the requirement to populate the database is set. >> if the country becomes noncompliant what actions would you take? >> first would be the communication between the program office working with the components on hsi to point out the deficit and overtime we haven't met the situation yet but there would be the authority of the secretary's office with secretary johnson to take steps to see that that effort was enforced in the law. >> we haven't had this instance happened yet. what would be a realistic amount of time, three months or six months quick >

that's according to the head of enter interpol.his comes after interpol reported two passengers on the missing malaysia airlines flight 370 used stolen passports. crews are still looking for the wreckage. the up named major airline will reportedly start using the interpol system in the next month. interpol indicates fewer than ten countries do that systemic screening. >>> we would turn to trace gallagher for more but he is'. so if you want more, they a place to get it 24/7. >>> the defense is calling its first witness in that home- invasion murder trial as they try to convince a jury a home owner was within his rights when he shot and killed two teenagers who broke into his house elm we'll talk to a reporter who was in the courtroom. >>> a vote that could forever change the business of college sport. a team set to decide whether to unionize. it's more comic indicated than simply casting -- more complicated than casting a ballot. the day we rescued riley, was a truly amazing day. without angie's list, i don't know if we could have f

he's trying to get all the countries who are member countries of interpol, 190 countries, to make thesetime getting anybody to want to do it. the excuses in the past about it takes too long is not true. it takes 0.2 seconds on interpol's private network. >> scan a passport within 0.20 seconds to know where it's real or stolen. >> something that could be a problem with some of the countries is some just don't have the resources or the setup to communicate between agencies in order to get that information there. so that foundation is not in place and so that's another issue in itself. >> this underwater search, miles, that started today, is this just going to be a matter of random luck, they might come across those black boxes that the bat ris are still sending out those beeps if you will, the pings? >> i think that's a good way of putting it, wolf. here they are at the end of the expected shelf life of these pinger devices, the batteries. they might last a little longer and certainly they don't drop off like a cliff. they'll trail off. the range will diminish on the pings, obviously, mak

there has to be, i believe, more international agreement, accord on, for instance, checking with interpolo see who's getting on the plane and who's not. and how immediately communications should go out once there is a disaster where information is shared and it can be done in a way that will not reveal secret intelligence or methods and strategies of intelligence. but to, again, have the fbi look at the simulator. to have the australians come in and provide more information to the australians, the chinese, and it's only logical that the chances for recovery would have been done a lot sooner. >> before i let you go, i have to switch gears to north korea, continues to be a threat to the united states. defense secretary chuck hagel has said he's sending two more missile destroyers to japan. he wants better cooperation. does he have a shot? >> yes. i think secretary hagel is right. i think part of this is in response to what happened in crimea. japan is concerned that the lack of will -- the mixed signals the u.s. showed in crimea and the ukraine could also occur in the dispute between japan

advertisements, records, magazines, newspapers-- a kind of tremendous clutter of banal experience that interpolatesven great art into that clutter, as here in rauschenberg's small rebus. rauschenberg went on to build a wall of information by silk-screening photographic images onto canvas, as in this work called port arthur, texas. the result is that everything here is homogenized in the uniform surface of photographic information. we may think of photography as a realistic medium, but rauschenberg shows it as a single, flattened, informational field as flat as the screens of our television sets or the front pages of our newspapers. one of the things that happens in jasper johns' work is that he makes the image that's projected inside the canvas synonymous with the surface of the canvas. there is no more interior space in the image. the target, the american flag are manifestly, absolutely on the surface of the canvas. johns is being ironic about earlier pictorial subjects, like portraits or still lifes or landscapes. this painting, based on buckminster fuller's map of the world, is an ironic landsca

interpol to track behind much of the looting. for now corruption threat tunisia's cultural heritage. >> on this day in 1965 wi wikes-booth shot abraham lincoln. we go inside the tomb of our 16th president. >> at the abraham lincoln tomb in springfield, illinois, the 16th president's life is chillingly remembered in part by his death. >> on the night of the assassination, president lincoln had a pair of gloves that he brought with him. and today that's a horrible reminder of the violence that evening. >> reporter: the lincoln memorial attracts for than 300,000 visitors each year. historians say his remains have been turned into relics. >> even now you you will see swaths of hair, people dealing with bloodstaine bloodstained fg that it's lincoln. we are fascinated with lincoln. we have to own him. >> reporter: a group of counterfeiters tried to steal the president's body and hold it for ransom. >> they tried to steal lincoln's remains? >> yes, mr. lincoln did not rest peacefully. they gained access inside the burial chamber. they w

. >> reporter: and the government says it's working with interpoll to track the international trafficehind looting but negligence and corruption threaten the historical heritage. and i'm with al jazeera. >> and bubba watson celebrating the second win in the masters in three years and the american won by three shots at the tournament and 20-year-old spieth becoming the youngest ever masters winner and tied for second. and one thing is happening to california's collarful star fish, in the past they could be seen in large number on the coastline but now they are nearly all gone and we report. >> in this rocky corner of the california coast researchers are gathering evidence in a marine mystery and searching rock by rock and crevase for the star fish and many used to thrive here and important part of a complex ecological system but today however researchers can find hardly any of them. >> so far we only saw two stars here and in the past we saw 145, a year ago at the same exact location and going from 145 down to 2 is pretty drastic. >> reporter: star fish lived in the oceans for 450 mill

. >> reporter: interpol says it takes just 40 seconds to make sure a passport isn't stolen. >> this was clancy reporting. and the task force trying to improve tracking of international aircraft. >>> it's hard to imagine the suffering the families are going through. husbands, mothers, fathers, wives, children, gone in an instant. some accept it. others are holding out for a miracle. >> she has been flying with malaysian airlines for 18 years. a lovely wife and a caring mom for my two qukids. yeah. [ speaking foreign language ] >> she's the glue that holds things together, my sister. it's a roller coaster ride. it's difficult for the families. we're hoping there will be survivo survivors. if it ended in the indian ocean, we hope there are survivors. we hope that there is a light at the end of this tunnel. >> i definitely miss her. she's a very committed, professional pilot. if something had happened to this flight, i would think, in fact, i would believe that he would have made sure of the safety of the flight than himself. so, i'm praying not just for the pilot's family but the rest of t

their passports are also screened through interpol's stolen and lost travel document database, but, until now, only for incoming passengers, not fose leaving. now, the documents of all departing passengers will be checked to make sure they're not fraudulent. the change came to light friday during a congressional hearing. john wagner from customs and border protection told texas jacresswoman sheila jackson-lee his agency started screening creeports of departing flyers after flight 370 disappeared. >> will you continue? >> absolutely. assuring people are properly credentialed and we know who they are is a key piece of that. >> reporter: andrew farrelly is a former director of tracking programs at customs and border protection. will adding this database make passengers safer? >> i think that, coupled with this information and the new abilities to act on that information, definitely makes air travel a lot safer. de reporter: farrelly says c.b.p. debated making the change for years but did not have nge gh staff or resources to track down all the passports that might be flagged. tr there were o

. >> tunisian government says it's working about interpol to crack the international trafficking network behind much of the looting. for now, negligence and corruption threaten tunisia's historical heritage. >> that does it for us on this sunday afternoon. thank you for joining us. i'm jonathan betts. i'll be back in an hour with the news. "america tonight" is on next. of course you can find us online. it's easy, go to aljazeera.com. have a good sunday and weekend. see you in an hour. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ >>> good everything, thanks for joining us for the weekend edition of "america tonight." i am joie chen, we begin this hour with the latest quest for oil in one of the america's most cherished wild lands that has long been rumored a sea of black gold lies underneath southwest florida in

transport said airlines need to track planes continuously not intermittently also required to use interpol criminal database to screen passengers. that, of course, is something malaysia did not do. gretchen. >> so here is the big question of the day. how is the search going? >> lousy, nothing. eleven items pulled from the ocean, none connected to the plane. until that happened they will not launch the ping locater, which is about four days away from the search area. that, of course, is important because the battery on the black box is designed to last 30, 35 days, which means it could stop broadcasting saturday. if that happens, the chances of finding this plane any time soon go from something to almost nothing. back to you. >> all right. william la jeunesse, thanks for the update. >>> you're familiar with this story hobby lobby family challenging obamacare meets with the pope days after the president meets with the pope on the same topic. what's behind the special meeting. >>> plus new questions about the benghazi terror attacks and role then director michael morrell played in crafting co

the tunisian government is working with interpol to crack the network behind much of the looting. for now, negligence and corruption threaten tunisia's historical culture. >> time for the sport. >> liverpool have taken a step towards winning their first english league title in more than 20 years, belting rivals manchester city 3-2 at anfield. liverpool ahead early. martin scertle doubling the advantage. mann city came roaring back after the break, levelling with goals from david silva, and glen johnson - an own cold. phillipa was the hero. the 78th minute strike saling the 3-2 win. >> it was a wonderful game of football. it had everything. an incredible amount of credit to the players. the game started on the way in. it was unique, what we received. that give us the marijuana before we stepped on to the field. i said before the game it's not the end. the most important thing to date is now we department dependent on what we can do in the future. we have to play four against more. if they win, 13 or 14 games in a row, maybe they have to win the title. >> really still to play for. c

. >> reporter: interpol says it takes just seconds to reveal if a passport is among the $40 million known lost or stolen in its database. they want a single harmonized system so airlines can quickly submit data to governments for screening. john, it may be that the security standpoint -- that is screening all of the passengers, using every database available around the world is going to be easier than tracking the individual planes. there's 60,000 flights today. these systems i'm told could cost $100,000 or more per plane. in the end -- and we've seen all of this before -- it's going to be the air travellers themselves who have to push for this, who demand it and then the industry will respond. but then those air travellers have to be prepared to pay for it. john? >> it does come down to money at the end of the day doesn't it, much of the time. jim, as far as the investigation goes, we're hearing no clues from the pilot's flight simulator. >> no. the latest that we heard at cnn on the flight simulator was that it had yielded no evidence of any wrongdoing, any foul play. they said that the

you have worked with the malaysians, worked with interpoll, you have worked at the fbi. what's the down side from their perspective or releasing the conversation between the cockpit and air traffic controllers? >> i think part of it is it's not strictly a police matter. it's in the hands of the aviation authorities and the defense ministry, and that makes it much different in this situation. but you're right. clearing up the mystery of which person is speaking is fairly easy. it's a small airline. the air traffic controllers, airline management and other pilots would certainly recognize the voices of these pilots and be able to distinguish one from another or hear if there was particular stress or something unusual. if it was the co pilot, there might be a little extra stress, because he's doing his first ride as, you know, basically coming out of the training program. he's trying to probably impress the captain, who is, you know, renowned in the airline. so, you know, if he's stressful, it would be understandable. >> he at the end of the transcript, the last words, mark

. >> reporter: and the government says it's working with interpoll to crack the trafficking network behindegligence and corruption threaten the historical heritage and i'm with al jazeera. >>> sports time. >> david, thank you so much. and bubba watson has the masters for the second time in three years and won by three shots at augusta as we report. >> reporter: wearing the famous green jacket once again. [cheers] it's overwhelming to get the first one was is a dream come true. to get the second one is just icing on the cake. >> reporter: it was the result that didn't always appear a certainty in the final round, overnight jordan spieth made an early move. the 20-year-old was aiming to become the youngest ever champion with four birdies on the front nine he was leading by two. watson rose to the challenge and the birdie on the 9th hole keeping him right in the hunt. [cheers and applause] spieth stumbled dropping shots on the run home and finished in a tie for second. >> it was an incredible experience and one i always wanted to have. i always dreamed about as a little kid playing in the fin

only three countries, the united states, united kingdom, and united arab emirates routinely check interpol's database. china, india, and indonesia don't take part in that program. >>> former president george w. bush is adding another title to his resume. artist. >> did you paint that? [ applause ] >> look at that! [ applause ] >> i can't make fun of him now! [ laughter ] >> not bad. yesterday, president bush unveiled his first-ever art exhibit at the george bush presidential library in dallas. it features port traits of people, such as the dalai lama and russian president vladimir putin. former president bill clinton turned down his chance to sit for a portrait after personal paintings of president bush in the bathroom were leaked online. >> those bathroom sketches are wonderful, but at my age, i think i should keep my suit. [ laughter ] >> president bush says some of the latest paintings are inspired by photographs and memories. some of the subjects such as former british prime minister tony blair hasn't even seen them. president bush says another person refusing to sit for a portrait is hi

her for a smart thing housing for people but we don't care if you can come for interpol to fight for their heart. a good man metro crackly an athlete climbing a comet told its full. minutes the ukrainian could make it the same week that metric could be attempting to follow orders to. kind of protect being married under their thumb with a clean being all that can be for certainly while we're looking i'm incredibly go over picture ancient in the scrimmage selfies culture country and i don't see the polish didn't live on the sign thank you very much for that now the differences between moscow and washington over the ukrainian crisis have revived some remnants of the past in today's edition of crosstalk people avail debates whether the u.s. is about to restore its cold war strategy against russia is a preview of what's coming up next hour. after the famous but failed washington moscow we said it appears now the obama administration is preparing to embrace a very different though historically familiar policy towards russia it's called containment it worked during the cold war against the

i just hope they're doing what they say they're doing, and that is they've gone to interpol and lookedked for pilots' license, somebody has said that there's one flight engineer dead-heading on this. all of the people, including the people who had access to the aircraft, need to be checked out. >> and, david, how much of a difference does it make that you have different bits of information coming from malaysian authorities on the path of the plane, on whether all those who knew the pilot say he's a good guy, there's no reason to be suspicious. i mean, there are so many different messages coming from so many different directions. this has to be confusing, if not for family members, then really for the flying public. >> it really is for both. but there's something more indicative here going on, and that tells me that there's some miscommunication going on within the investigation itself. so if they can't communicate publicly in a consistent manner, it makes me question whether or not they can communicate amongst themselves as well. another thing i'm concerned about is the fact they have