jacob ward explains.very second counts when it comes to earthquakes. >> here in california, one of the most seismically active parts of the united states, there's a difference between forecasts earthquakes, which they cannot do, and predicting it a few seconds or minutes ahead of time. the 1989 loema creator earthquake was a 6.9 on the richter scale and it devastated san francisco. on this corner a fire raged out of control and much of this neighbourhood, the marina, had to be rebuilt. it caused 60 deaths, 3700 injuries and 6 billion in property damage, making it one of the most expensive disasters in u.s. history. >> while we may think we are acquainted with the damage that an earthquake can do, we have barely begun to study them. >> we have been watching earthquakes for 50 years now. to thing in the last 50 years of recording we captured the important parts - probably not. there's probably a lot of surprises still out there for us. >> science can't currently forecast when an earthquake will begin. in ja

. >> jacob ward looks at an effort to demollage san francisco's old bay bridge. >> taking the roadway apart from pieces, peeling it back to have a working surface by which trucks can carry people out. i'm feeling terrified as i talk to you, because the whole thing is moving. it's a scary thing to be on app unsupported bridge like

. >> jacob ward looks at an effort to demollage san francisco's old bay bridge. >> taking the roadway apart from pieces, peeling it back to have a working surface by which trucks can carry people out. i'm feeling terrified as i talk to you, because the whole thing is moving. it's a scary thing to be on app unsupported bridge like >> a powerful cyclone is moving in on australia north-east coast line, and is forecast to make landfall in queensland in a few hours. it's the same system that delivered deadly floods to solomon islands. kevin corriveau is tracking the storm. >> this storm is so powerful. we are talking about winds 155 miles per hour, gusting to 185 miles per hour are, making it equivalent to a category 4 hurricane. 10 days ago it was a tropical depression across the solomon islands. this video across the region - we were talking over 10 inches of rain fell in two days, we are looking at about 23 people killed because of the storm, and 9,000 people are homeless. so they are recovering. the storm is out of the quay. the cape york peninsula is dealing with the storm. looking at

jacob ward, science and technology correspondent and pat abbott, professor emeritus of geelongy. we have been listening to television in chile about the tsunami warnings. do we expect a major superstorm sandy at this point? >> well, certainly i expect them, but i don't envisualise japan, that was 9.2. this is only a fraction. size. the tsunami, the first ones 6 feet high waves. tsunami may come in several sets of waves, and you never know where the biggest wave sequence is going to be. sometimes it's the first, sometimes the third, styles the fifth. the only reasonable thing to do is what they are doing, evacuate the towns, close the airports, have everyone head for the hills until you give it enough time for the sequence to play out. >> a difficult process, and we are looking at live pictures of people evacuated from nursing homes and hospitals. clearly it's gone well according to chilean authorities, there were earthquakes leading up to this, right. >> quite a number in recent days in the magnitude 4, and a 6.7. beginning to look like they were the foreshocks for the event. but

it's that possible seismic fracking connection that has experts worried. >> jacob ward, thank you. >> joining us is 'emmy award-winning female john fox and his film g gas land i" and "gas land i i" looks at fracking. is it a good move for exxonmobile. >> they are the number one fracker. they are committed to pursuing this massive and ex-tensive drilling campaign. right now 15 million minister live within a mile of a frack well. we have tracking and drilling going on in 34 states, more land released by the oil and gas industry than the land mass of florida. they plan to drill 2 million new wells. i don't know what are the parameters of the agreement. no one knows, it hasn't been disclosed. it's out of step with what people want. what they want is a total ban on fracking. and that's been an incredible movement that i have been watching take place over the last six years in new york and peninsula, and wyoming and texas, all over the country and the world in response to this invasive toxic pros. >> the movement came from shareholders, but also a group that banded together and asked did it

jacob ward, al jazeera, san francisco. >>> australia's prime minister says they're confident signals coming from deep in the indian ocean are signals from the malaysia 370's black boxes. if the signals are from the plane the boxes are in very, very deep water. let's give you some perspective. the plane is about 200 feet in length. if it is there it is located far below where giant quid liv -- sd live. far deeper than the tallest building in the world, the dubai tower, is. deeper than the wreck of the ty tan ick which took 70 years to find. deep sea submersible, about 15,000 feet or nearly three mierls underwater. in eastern ukraine pro-government demonstrators have ignored an ultimatum. kiev agreed to take part in talks with the u.s., russia and european union. thank you so much for your time. you predicted that putin would try to make a move on ukraine. you said it and he did. now with the annexation of crimea what do you think is going to lap to donetske? >> i don't think donetske is going to be the next crimea. donetske is not as russian populated as the russians try to make it se

jacob ward, al jazeera, tucson. >> jacob ward is with us in san francisco.jacob, that's a great piece. any medical procedures we've refined that other countries simply can't do as well. >> reporter: yes, there are many, many. a whole area of medicine that no one else in the world does. if you get into an emergency room in germany they bring you an orthopedic surgeon and an thesand ananesthesiologist. here they're able to able to bring out the blood and put in a saline to a chilled temperature to be able to do the necessary work to repair them. but if you were in almost any other modern society, japan, korea, germany, they literally would not know what to do with you if you were to arrive with gunshot wounds. it is only here in the united states that we're able to deal with the terror events like fort hood which also only tend to happen here in the u.s. >> interesting report. thank you for being with us. >> thanks, david. >> u.s. department of labor issued a jobs report showing more signs of life after a bitterly cold winter. but it is assured of the labor ma

i think there'll be more to cox. >> jacob ward in davis, california. good to see you.ms are popping up right now on roof tops and warehouses across the country. you may be aware of this. not only is it a growing business but is delivering fresh food to your grocery storm. we visit a roof-top farm in new york city. >> we have bok choy growing there. >> lettuce and tomatoes are not the only thing growing at gotham greens. the business is expanding. >> building a facility on a roof top has a change. >> the cofounder claims to have the only two commercial roof top greenhouses in the country and are in the process of building more. >> investors were intrigued by the idea, in part due to the friend of locally grown food, sustainably grown food. we raised over $15 million. >> this is about as local as it gets. a second gath am greens greenhouse built on top of a supermarket. the main advantage to growing produce is the shortened supply chain. >> gotham specialises in perishable vegetables and herbs shipped from far away. here they sell it downstairs and throughout the region,

jacob ward for us. thank you. still ahead on al jazeera america. two former popes headed to sainthood this supplied, but some say it is too soon to make john paul ii a saint. and endorsement for the 2016 president campaign rolls forward. that's today in politics. >> oregon has officially shut down its healthcare exchange after weeks of trying to fix its bulky glitchy system. today the state turned off its cover. oregon residents will now use the federal healthcare.gov to sign up for insurance. oregon is the first state to make such a switch. >>> some high-powered endorsements in the 2016 race for the white house, and they involve some of the most famous names. david shuster is here with that. >> reporter: tony, hillary clinton has not yet declared if she's going to seek the presidential nomination in 2016. but caroline kennedy, who supported barack obama in 2008, and hurt clinton badly in that campaign said she'll support clinton this time around. now u.s. ambassador to japan made comments about clinton in an interview. kennedy is the latest suppor

jacob ward has the story. >> reporter: last week we described how sophisticated traumtrauma surgery has become e united states driven largely by our overwhelming level of gun trauma. right now if you were to sky in an emergency room from a gunshot room you would stand less than 7% chance of being revived. >> i don't have a pulse any more. >> reporter: the doctors at the university of pittsburgh, the university of arizona and elsewhere have developed a means of cooling patients to 10 degrees celsius, that's 50 degrees fahrenheit by replacing blood with cold saline. neither alive nor dead their heart still as stone. patients can in theory come back to life after two hours in this state of suspended animation. in a new fda trial starting this month, ten gunshot victims dead from cardiac arrest will receive the treatment in a pittsburgh hospital. if all goes well, five more hospitals will test the technique later this year. dr. peter reef, th reeve, the ta surgeon who treated gabrielle giffords. >> they were dead. dead, dead, dead. >> bringing a patient down to 10 degrees celsius can in the

science and technology correspondent jacob ward in san francisco. remind us why self-driving cars are a good idea? >> with all due respect to you and everyone watching we are terrible drivers. we text, drink, get distracted, fight with a passenger. as a result there's endless numbers of death by autoaccident - it's the number two accidental cause of death in the united states at the moment. it's an epidemic. the estimates are that if you could network the cars, handing controls to a robot driver, you would reduce auto accidents bias much as 9 -- by as much as 90 prsz. the argument for safety and consistency is the same. >> robots don't have to shave, ate or drink? >> that's right. and they don't get tired or drunk. >> google tells it that they are making great progress. how close are they? >> we have come an incredible distance from the urban challenge, a government sponsored projects or contest that got going in 2006 and showed a bunch of prototypes developed by a range of universities and private investors. they were rudimentary, creeping along. i

. >> jacob ward this calf. thank you. >>> next - sherpas risk their lives. who are they?other nature and mt everest - concern that climate change is making the mountain more dangerous. >> everest is 29,000 feet high. the peak is more than 10,000 higher than the base camp, and the top has nearly the same altitude as a commercial jet in flight. people that risk and scale the mountain pay the ultimate price. who are the sherpas, they are nepalese ethnic group living in the himalayan region. the word sherpa is tibetan meaning eastern people. some work as climbers, serving as guides, carry supplies, set up camps and are essential to anyone climbing mt everest, but their work is dangerous. there are an estimated 150,000 sherpas in the area. those that work the mountain earn about 5,000 during climbing season. nearly 200 sherpas died working on nepal's mountains. a sherpa joins us. the president of the united sherpa association in united states. he is in new york. welcome. >> thank you. >> let's talk about the money. that is critical. the government offered 45,000 rupee, what do

ask you jacob ward. >> four french journalists are freed after being held almost a year in syria.the four men seen here were taken hostage last year, found by turkish soldiers on the syria/turkey border, their hands bound and they were blindfolded. argues continues to demand the immediate release of four correspondents they are falsely accused of providing a platform to t for the outlawed muslim brotherhood. their kayes has been adjourned. the fourth al jazeera journalist in detention has been held without trial since last august. al jazeera rejects all of the charges. is positivepom has blocked the proposed ambassador from entering the u.s. iran named hamid the ambassador but the white house says he was part of the 1979 takeover in iran. he insists he was only a translator at the time. the u.s. and france are fighting over the involvement of the french national railway, nazi death camps. hundreds of survivors living in the united states will demanding the company's american division be barred from contracts unless it pays rep parations. tom ackerman explains. rose et goldstein sa

jacob ward, al jazeera, san francisco. in a programming note, the new series "borderland" continues and takes you beyond the immigration debate putting six americans, all with different views in the shoes of immigrants who go to great extremes for a chance at a new life in the u.s. claudet's brother has invited them to the family home for dinner. >> beunos como estas! >> ola. >> mucho gusto. [speaking spanish ] >> claudet's mother is still struggling with the loss of her only daughter. claud et's family is warm. had a lot of fun with the kids, talking with the ladies, with the men, a little bit about their life here, like what they do. so, i really felt really comfortable and felt right at home. being a vegan right now. not so pretty. i guess i will never complain about a supermarket line ever again. claudet's family is amazing. they are filled love. she would do anything. her mom talks about her love for her family and her brothers, you know, sammy, but they are hurting. it's nice, a side of compassion and understanding.

jacob ward, al jazeera, san francisco. >> australia is breathing a sigh of relief after the cyclone they thought would be the worst in lee years didn't live up to the hype. the cyclone down grading from a category 5 to a category 1. it left destruction but no reports of serious injuries or damage. >>> illegal crossings from the south west border has been rising. 69% more than the year before. there has been a string of shootings involve border patrol agents, and now paul beban is in a town that straddling the border of arizona and mexico. >> a dusty cross and faded plastic flowers mark the spot where a boy named jose antonio rodriguez died, gunned down in his hometown of nogales, mexico. this is the story of a boy, a border, and a wall of silence. sometimes shortly before 11:00 p.m. the 16-year-old died instantly when he was hit by a bullet in the back of the head. as he fell face down eight more shots hit him in the back. at least one border patrol agent fired from somewhere around here on top of this cliff in arizona, through the fence and down into the street, down into mexico. why? b

jacob ward on trying to save the planet. >> the amount of carbon dioxide in the planet has spiked 40%ye since the industrial revolution. the latest report lays the blame almost entirely at the feet of human beings. >> experts agree the prior to should reduce emissions. what happens if we can't? >> one market based approach is to pull carbon dioxide out of the air. there is a machine that can do just that. the device removes c 02 directly from the atmosphere and scaled up the company claims such devices could have an impact on the entire planet. the first thing to understand is theress no cheap and easy fast fix there. all of the carbon dioxide removal is pretty much at the same skel as our energy system. >> the sun is what's warming up our planet. some scientists suggested blocking that out and reflecting it back into space cloud brightening as its called is basically filling a cloud with particles that can reflect the sun's injury and keep it off of the earth? >> it's even answering a natural process that's already there. the natural process is to form clouds. >> incredibly fine wate

jacob ward reports on the new ideas that are trying to save the planet. >> reporter: the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere has spiked since 40% since the industrial evolution. it lays the blame almost entirely at the feet of human beings. experts agree that the priorities should be to reduce our emissions. but what happens if we can't. one marketplace approach it to pull carbon dioxide out of the air. a company in california has prototyped a machine to do just that, and it could have an impact on the entire planet. first things to understand about carbon dioxide removal, there is no cheap and easy fast trick. the carbon ions sid dioxide remt the at the same time schedule as our energy system. >> cloud brightening is the process of basically filling a cloud with particles that can reflect the sun's energy and keep it off the earth. >> what we really do is enhance the national process that is already there. the natural process is to form clouds. >> you find the water vapor. >> and then it evaporates quickly. what you don't see are the salt particles that are left behind. >> reporte

signs and technology correspondent jacob ward reports from san francisco. >> reporter: it's a miraclerug. in 95% of case it is almost instan taken iinstantaneously e effects of an overdose. it simply keeps the drug from binding to the brain and restores breathing in the process. it inspired remarkable consensus. 17 states have moved to expand access. attorney general eric holder in a speech on wednesday urged that policeman, firefighters and other first responders should carry it at all times citing 10,000 overdoses reversed. the governor of maine had threatened to veto the bill to give the drug to first responders. but now it poises to become the latest state to make the drug available to police and emts, but it may not go far enough. by the time police arrive to the scene of an overdose it may be too late. they may give the drug directly to drug users and their family and friends. it can be the difference between life and death. patrick learned that first. >> and while i was in minneapolis, i acquired heroin stronger than i was used to in san francisco. i basically od'd. i didn't ha

jacob ward just outside of nasa in california to explain. >> reporter: really, this is a big day notust for launch technology, and it is that. elon musk is hoping that the equipment could return back to earth. he's hoping to reuse it again which will make it cheap for fly to the international space station in the future. but it's a big deal for satellite technology. aside from the payload you just mentioned this rocket is carrying tiny satellites. in this is tess. sometime i, some day itwill go r satellites like our own. this is going to go up on today's mission. they're hitchhiking a ride and they'll get tossed out the window before the rocket reaches its destination. >> tell bus the cost of these. >> this unit here, i believe it's on the order of $10,000 including the phone and radios. >> that's cheaper than the camera we're shooting you on. >> that could be, that could very well be. >> what are these. >> these are phone sets on satellites built around the phone that you can buy in an electronic store right now. you can see the phone there. >> there is a phone there inside. there w

jacob ward explains how dangerous it was. >> reporter: stowing away in the wheel well of a jet almosts ends in death. there are two reasons. the first is lack of oxygen. above 10,000 feet the faa says any pilot left alone in the cockpit has to wear an air mask. above 18,000 feet, the lack of oxygen is extreme. and the second factor is cold. at 35,000 feet, you have an ambient outside temperature of 65 degrees fahrenheit. that will put you into hype therm ma very, very quickly. so how it is possible that this teenager could have survived? this >> well, he is not the first. have been instances that people have survived this experience. a study was done on the subject, and they surmised that am bee ant heat might come off of the wheels and that keeps you alive for a little while. plus once this runs out, you are already unconscious, because you are high enough up that you have been knocked out. you will be slowly brought into hyperthermia. medical science uses that to treat people with cardiac arrest and intentionally reduce your temperature down to 70 degrees to do trauma surgery. so it

jacob ward joins us thon earth day with a look at new technology designed to turn our trash into cash. and turning the concrete jungles across americans into gardens to feed the community around them. we're back in a moment. trades near the speed of light... >> if you're not trading at those speeds, you're toast! >> billions of dollars at stake, is our economy insecurity now at the mercy of these machines? >> humans aren't able to receive information in that timeframe. >> we're looking at the risks, rewards, and dangers of high frequency trading >> there are no rules or regulations >> all this week on the new expanded real money with ali velshi helping you balance your finances and your life. now an hour, starting at 7 eastern / 4 pacific only on al jazeera america >> delivering fresh food to your grocery store. we visited one rooftop farm in new york city. >> the process of building more rooftop farms. >> i think investors were intrigued to the idea in part to the growing trend of locally sourced food. we were able to attract a significant amount of investment. we raised $15 million.

science and technology correspondent jacob ward joins us with more. tell us more, what is it called here? heart bleed? >> that's right, heart bleed, tony. this is something that has network specialists, network security specialists across the country freaking out. and if they freak out, we should be freaking out. i'll show you what i've got on my screen here. basically if i type in a typical address, like twitter, and hit return, it then takes me to https. the "s" right here is the crucial thing. behind the "s" is encryption that is transmitted back and forth. let's say you send an e-mail out or log into your bank account. if you type in your url and it comes back with https, that means that you're protected. it's all supposed to be thi behd this type of encryption. there is a flaw, a programming error, a mistake that somebody made that allows them to essentially get this there and get those user names and passwords, ask for more information than they're really allowed to have, and they can basically stumble on to your user names, passwords. if they h

jacob ward reports. >> reporter: three years ago in this parking lot outside of tucson, arizona, gabrieliffords was shot in the head at point-blank range. here in the united states gun violence has created an elite breed of trauma surgeon. this doctor was in charge when giffords arrived. he says a trauma surgeon in any american city can handle the horrors. >> in texas the trauma centers that they have there, they are used to that. >> the doctor knows that everything depends on where his patients have been shot. >> i would say anything in the nervous system cannot good because it can be permanent. i see guys here that we did a great save on, we stopped their bleeding, we controlled all of the contamination, but they are paralyzed and in a wheelchair for the rest of their lives. >> reporter: he points out that in countries without gun violence, trauma surgery barely exists as a profession. >> they don't even need that in other countries, it's just crazy. they don't have the guns. what is different than germany than us? the cars? a little bit? their houses? their tv? it's the fact that we h

jacob ward reports. >>> the national climatic data center says not only is the entire state under a conditionght but at least 25% of the state from where i am, south is in a case of exceptional drought. here the bridge that runs through the center of town is pretty much entirely exposed. and on the other side there is a dam here that should be a rushirus rushing torrent of water and is instead exposed to the air. until about a half hour ago it was absolutely hammering rain today, but it would require doing that for another 30 days, an almost biblical amount of rain to restore the reserves. right now the municipalities says it won't be able to give out anything, maybe just 5% of what it normally does. and scientists are beginning to worry there is an ongoing almost permanent scarring that could take place between the wildfires that will be much more intense to the collapse of the underground circulatory system that -- that sort of is going to collapse overtime if it doesn't fill up with water. there is however come chance of a miracle. scientists are predicting the possibility of another el ni

jacob ward explains how and wide. >> right now, if you were to die in an emergency wound from a gunshot wound you'd stand less than a 7% chance of being revived. doctors at the university of pittsburg, university of arizona and elsewhere developed a means to cool patients to 10 degrees celsius, by replacing their blood with cold sale een. neither alive or dead, the heart is still as stone. patients can come back to life after two hours in this state of suspended animation. >> in a new f.d.a. trial, 10 gunshot victims dead from cardiac arrest will receive the treatment in a pittsburg hospital. if all goes well, five more will test the technique this year. >> dr peter reid has tested the procedure on pigs. >> so they are dead, and you have brought them back? >> dead, for hours, right. no blood in the body. 10 degrees, full of potassium. dead, dead, dead. >> bringing a patient down to 10 degrees celsius can buy a surgeon a couple of hours to bring them back. here at this facility they are brought to negative 196 degrees celsius in the hopes that medical science will be one day able to refi

. >> jacob ward in san francisco. always a pleasure. thanks for coming on. >> let's talk more about facebook's next ten years and how mobile could shape the company's future. who better to discuss that than david fitzpatrick who literally wrote the book on it called "the facebook effect." david is the ceo and joins us by phone. what is your reaction to the information that we just got from jake and what he talked about today. >> he pointed to a few things that happened. i'm not sure that i would use the phrase do gooder company, but i am someone who has been deeply immersed in this culture since 2005. and the motive that zuckerberg has brought forward is admirable and really do have user centric qualities to them. this idea of being the cross platform platform which is an excellent quote, that's the key phrase. i compliment you on your choice of quotes from zuckerberg. because it's the largest platform period, the largest app on android, iphone, the biggest app except for russia and china and a few others in the world, they have the inc

we turn to jacob ward, science and technology correspondent. >> we probably will not know how big theia was that exploded over russia. it's probably smaller than the one that exploded over chile, which was a foot and a half. >> it exploded with force. so much so it sun burnt some people and injured 1500 because of the sonic boom that spread across the siberian landscape. >> this is probable because of the leer yard's meetio shower, an annual event where the earth passes through the orbit. thousands of millions of years ago. we have been going through the cloud of tuft for 2,500 years. on -- cloud of dust for 2,500 years. >> fans at a rock contest managed to accidentally record a similar looking meteor. there's concern that we don't know how many asteroids struck our atmosphere at speeds of 80,000 miles per hour and greater. and one may come down the size of a city, you know, a mountain, a building could destroy an entire town. so there's some concern that we should look out for those. we can only detect asteroids about as big as a mountain. something smaller will creep up on us. there

our science and technology expert jacob ward explains. >> the great danger to them is of course altitude. at 22,000 feet the body begins to break down for lack of oxygen. a lot of these climbers strand he above this ds descranded above this -- stranded above this altitude are going to need a hiebe hyperbaric chamber. it's used for not only divers who have experienced the bends, but altitude sickness, the incredible hallucination troubles that one can have. the immigrate challenge over time is the prolonged exposure to altitude. the place where this avalanche took place is just between camp 2 and camp 1. in the acclimatization that most people come through. you spend time in camp 1, them come back down, then to camp 2, then come back down to slowly get used to the altitude. the avalanche has cut off the route to base camp. the climbers will begin to feel the effects of altitude. the other thing to consider here is it's not just human beings that have a difficulty with the lack of oxygen, it's mechanisms and machines that have trouble. only one helicopter in the world, the euro b-3, is cap

and jacob ward takes us to the top of the old bay bridge in san francisco.aking the roadway apart in pieces slowly peeling it back so they have a, whoing surface by which trucks can carry material out. i have to tell you as i am talking here i am feeling terrified because the whole thing is moving and it is kind of very scary thing to be on obviously unsupported bridge like this. bridge is just as hard, if not harder than building the new one. this is the moment that engineers are worried about. not this moment, me being up here, although that is terrifying, but the next three to five years because during that time, an quake could strike, and this bridge could tip over and damage the 6 1/2 billion dollars bridge they just finished building. >> scientists have been detecting small sheets up and down the coast recently, and although no one can predict when an earthquake will strike, it is certain that the old bridge would be terribly dangerous, especially to the new bridge. the old bridge use as classic design. it is a long span suspended between two tours. to

. >> jacob ward recording from san francisco. jake thanks very much. >> comcast $45 billion purchase of time-warner cable. al franken said the marriage of the two would mean fewer options higher prices and reduced services. company executives say that is not true at all. >> this is not a challenging situation from an 18th trust perspective. we don't compete for customers anywhere so the transaction will not lead to any reduction in competition or consumer choice in any market. >> if approved by the justice department and the fc the merged company would serve nearly a third of the country's cable tv households and 40% of households with broad band internet service. 40 years later, the risks of living in baghdad, after saddam hussein. unprecedented flooding, thousands homeless in the solomon islands. we're on the ground. >>> and in hiding. this nine month old pakistani boy, charged with a crime, now being sheltered from the police. that the iraqi security forces cannot get a handle on. they have no way of even trying to rest contro

jacob ward is here to explain why you should be concerned. what is heartbleed. >> when you connect from your computer to a website. you do is scurly at the moment by osl, on open secure system by which you munt back and forth -- communicate back and forth. two computers maintain the connection through a heart beat. a third computer can step into the breach and impersonate one of the two and ask for information it is not allowed to have, which is why it's called heartbleed. you are bleeding information from the servers that is not supposed to happen. >> once they break in, how long does it take to get the information out? >> essentially hackers can be asking for it at any time. what is dangerous is how long it's been going on. the bug has been in executive eps since 2012, yet we have publicly known about it in the past few days. we've issued a fix and are waiting for companies to update the site. you choosing a password is not going to solve the problem, unless the sites updated on their end. we are helpless, waiting for companies to update th

. >> appreciate it, jacob ward at mountain view, california, for us. coming up, tens of thousands of children, some of them not even in their teens making the dangerous trip into the united states alone. also poverty in the suburbs. find out why many people in affluent communities are falling on hard times. >> u.s. border patrol said the number of minors illegally crossing the mexican border is on the rise. 60,000 uncompanied children will cross into the united states this year. many are traveling from central america where countries have been torn apart by violence. paul beban has the story of three teenagers trying to cross into a better future. >> reporter: a vast remote and dangerous desert surrounds the city of nogales. a tall steel fence slices through it. over the last month this teenager and two cousins have traveled 2400 miles on foot, by bus, and by train to make it here to the mexico side of this border town. >> my name is hernandez. i am 15 years old, and i am from honduras. >> reporter: we first met axle at a mass honoring migrants who hav

. >> thank you to jacob ward in california. >> now to a story that got our tension, it's about wyoming'sule deer and how they trek 300 miles. the longest mammal migration. they walk across deserts, mountains and highways. julia is an advocate for the outdoor council and gives our first person report. >> wyoming is harsh and beautiful. the climate ness tats that animals like the mules have to move through a variety of lapped escapes to -- landscapes to survive. in the spring they go south to north, following the green-up of grasses and plants they need to eat. as the snow melts, they move in the direction, ending up in the mountains, where they can exploit and use the lush grasses that come out. animals move south and they end up in the desert, where they can find enough forage and open space. >> for this, winter in the red desert. we understood that they stayed in one location throughout the year. it was a surprise to find they migrated 150 miles, it's incredibly long. all the parcels of the corridor from federal to state to private land. we wanted to make sure we have fencing modificati

. >> science and technology correspondent jacob ward is in san francisco.y in the world are self-driving cars a good idea? i'm keptal - others are -- skeptical - others are too. >> it's understandable. it feels american, human to be in charge of where we drive. we are terrible drivers, you and i. we have a terrible instinct. we are distracted, we text, drink, and the - you know, auto accidents are the second leading cause of accidental death in the united states. it's an incredible real health danger and the logic here is if you had a road full of robot cars, estimates put the number at 90% fewer accidents, that's how many we would have if robots were behind the wheel. >> all right. i'm coming around. >> what are the kinks that need to be worked out. >> google's blog posted sites new abilities, avoiding bicycles, awarding instruction crews. the software can handle all kinds of situations that it couldn't deal with a couple of years ago. city streets are full of situations. a bike coming off the curb or a delivery van in a bike lane. it has to be prepared fo

jacob ward is in davis. r- in the distance behind me you see the hills that form the beginning of napper valley. this is central valley. the food grown here is about to begin providing electricity to 500 homes thanks to these biodigestors which opened today. i could have shape you mean amazing things. i shows to bring you up close and personnel with a clean fuel. there's a little water melon, lasagna, bananas - it's token garbage. what sets the system apart is that this doesn't have to be mixed with water. it can go right into the digester in solid form like this, get spun for a little while in this system, and get slowly pulled into the chambers here, which clelent methane gas coming off of this. the garbage loaded into here, 50 tonnes a day, will put out 12,000 kilowatt hours of power. it's enough to power homes. it's perfect as a closed system. that's what sets this apart, is that in 10 days it produces enough power for 5,000 homes, when typically a landfill requires months. >> this digester technology is

jacob ward, al jazeera, san francisco. >> a far-away discovery.earth like planet with the right environment to support life. the details next. pa wnload it now . >>> to help clean things up, nigeria's largest city is offering an incentive to recycle. >>> for a year and a half now, there has been recyclable waste collected by the special group from recyclers that provides incentives in exchange for recycling garbage. the single mother of 5 has earned a blender, supplies, but that hasn't been the only one? >> i want it clean. no garbage on the street. no more stench like before. >> going door to door. clients have an award system created by the former software engineer. >> we have big dreams. all people you see living in slums. take back their community and get some value from it. with 20 million people packed in nigeria's largest city producing 10,000 tons of waste every day. while there are strict littering rules, it ends up on packed streets. >> they have process more than 200,000 tons of garbage after the waste is sorted here, it is resold to re

our science and technology correspondent jacob ward has this story. >> jon, i hold you in very high regard but i have to tell you, you are a terrible driver. i am also a terrible driver. all humans are bad at driving. right now, auto accidents are the second leading cause of accidental death in the united states. it is a playing on humanity, our distractability behind a wheel. we drink. we text, get dstric desstriated bots don't. they believe accidents would shrink by as much as 90% if robots were to take the wheel. google says there is a lot to be optimistic when it comes to how far we have gotten in self-driving cars. we have come a long way from 2007 which is when the darpa urban challenge, the crowning achievement of the prototypes of the google self-driving cars we are seeing now. back then, that challenge involved a simulated city landscape and had a bunch of teams come together and duke it out for who could most efficiently cross this landsc e landscape. they were competent. they weren't very good. they would stop forever or inch their way forward in a way that would get you honked

jacob ward reports on some of the solutions being offered. >> the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphereed by 40% since the industrial revolution. and the latest report by the inter governmental panel lays the blame almost entirely at the feet of human beings. >> the experts agree it should be reduce our emissions. what happens if we can't? one market based approach is to pull it back out of the aranda company in california has already prototyped a machine that can do just that. the device removes c 02 directly from the atmosphere and scaled up, the company claims such devices could have an impact on the entire planet. >> first thing to understand about carbon dioxide removal is there is no cheap and easy fast fix there. all of the carbon dioxide removal involves infrastructure that's pretty much at the same scale as our energy system. >> ultimately, the sun is what's warming up our planet, and some scientists have suggested blocking that sunlight out and reflecting it back into space. >> cloud brightening as it is called is the process of basically filling a cloud with particles that ca

are science and technology correspondent jacob ward joins us from san photographfrancisco how does thisk? >> reporter: last week, we talked in the wake of the fort hood shootings about ho gun violence in the united states is .1 of the man drivers for making trauma surgery so sophisticated in the united states. well, that same gun violence now created they had new procedure which is really redefining what it means to be dead. right now, if you were to die in an emergency room from a gunshot wound, you would stand less than a .7% chance of being revived. so doctors at the university of pi pittsburgh, arizona and elsewhere have developed a means of cooling patients to 10 degrees celsius, 50 degrees fahrenheit. they are neither alive nor dead. their hearts still as stones, patients can in theory come back to life after two hours in this state of suspended animation. in a new fda trial starting this month, 10 gunshot victims dead from cardiac arrest will receive the treatment in a pittsburgh hospital. if all goes well, five more hospitals will test the technique later this year. dr. reed, th

science and technology correspondent jacob ward reports on the drought. >> not only is the entire statender a condition of drought but 25% from where i am is in a case of exceptional drought, which is the worst kind. here in heels bird, known for wine rirks the brim through the center of -- wineries, the bridge through the center of town is exposed and mostly underwater. there's a dam that should be a rushing torent of water. instead it is exposed to the air. there has been a little good news in recent days. until half hour ago, it was absolutely hammering rain. it would require doing that for 30 days, a biblical amount of rain to restore the reference. the state agency giving out water says it will not be able to give out anything, maybe as little of 5% of what it does, scientists worry that there's an ongoing almost permanent scarring between the wildfires that will be intense, to the collapse of the underground circulatory system that will collapse, if it doesn't fill up with water. >> there's a chance of a miracle. scientists predict another el nino year, a chain of lim abbing tick

. >> jacob ward there. surveillance cameras caught the stowaway stepping on to the tarmac in hawaii. >> vice president joe biden met with yatsenyuk today. >> president obama will visit oso washington to see the mud slide recovery. mr. obama also kicking off a tour of asia today, expecting to push diplomacy and economic development. why the unrest in ukraine and other global hot spots could impact that trip. >> i'm meteorologist nicole mitchell. the system impacting the west will bring severe weather to the plains. i'll have the forecast. >> aljazeera will be right back. >> new information revealed he about the south korean ferry's final moments, death toll topping 100, more feared dead. >> you will not walk this road alone. we will walk it with you. >> vice president joe biden making a commitment to ukraine that the u.s. will stand by its side in addition to support offering $50 million in aid for the countries upcoming election. >> the supreme court set to take up a battle that could alter television as we

jacob ward, al jazeera, san francisco. >>> law enforcement officials say heroin overdoses kill more peoplecrashes. the city of detroit once devastat devastated, is rebuilding one step at a time. a landmark institution that's becoming a symbol of hope >> reporter: long before motown, this was the sound of the city. ♪ >> the detroit symphony orchestra founded in 1887, it's a symbol of success. a surplus of nearly $20 million. ticket sales bringing in more than 6 million in revenue. 10,000,000 donors. just this week, a concert featuring steven spielberg and john williams sold out in 15 minutes. it's music to everyone's ears considering this institution was nearly silenced forever? >> we went through you some rough times three years ago >> reporter: rough is putting it mildly. during the financial collapse, the detroit symphony orchestra was on the brink. state funded dropped from 4 million a year to $20,000. ticket sales plunged. audience was down 40 to 50% plus a deficit of $6.5 million. buff with the new musician's contract reinresponse forced, the sim phone rebounded. finally, it's in the

al jazeera's jacob ward reports on the new ideas trying to save the planet. >> the amount of car bo bonxide has spiked by 40% since the industrial revolution. and the latest error by the inter governmental panel on climate change lays the blame almost entirely at the feet of human beings. experts agree that the priorities prior to should be reduce our emissions. what happens if we can't? one is to pull carbon dioxide back into the air. the device removes c 02 directly. t the company claimed this could have an impact on the entire planet. >> first thing to understand about carbon by objection a i'd removal is there is no cheap and easy fix there. >> they involved infrastructure that's pretty much at the same scale as our energy system. >> ultimately, the son is what's warm -- sun is what's warming up our planet. some have suggested blocking the sunlight out and reflecting it back into space. cloud brightening as its called is the process of basically filling a cloud with particles. what we do is enhance a natural processes that's already there. to form clouds. >> inwhich he hadbly fine w

. >> literally moving the earth, al jazeera tech reporter jacob ward reporting. inspectors in ohio shut down another fracking operation following a series of small earthquakes last month and they were centered near 7 oil and natural gas wells owned by hill energy a houston-based company. 40 years ago two paintings were left at a train station in italy and auctioned and bought for 100 for the pair but we report the owner discovered the paintings are stolen art worth millions. >> after four decades hanging on a kitchen wall. [applause] they are on show and getting attention and snatched from a london home in 1917 and abandoned on a train from paris. >> translator: after they were found having no idea of their value they were put up to auction and bought by a working man who was an art lover and hung the paintings in the kitchen. >> reporter: that is where they stayed until the man's son wanted to near more about them and ended up contacting police and his dad had been sitting on a gold mine because this is by a french artist. >> translator: the value of the paintin