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joined by jacob ward and michelle quinn of the mercury news as well. going back to all of those people packing the s.a.p. center, if you walk through the s.a.p. center, is it like people saying, who is that old guy? >> it's definitely the latter. the funny thing is, i was named fresh. that was my handle in games. they named a champion after me in the game that they were playing in. >> really? >> at the s.a.p. center. most people don't know, but -- the majority of people don't know, which is pretty funny. but it's pretty cool. >> you're in the guinness book of world records, right, as the first great champion of back in the doom and quake days. you're in the guinness book of world records for video games. >> that's right. when i was playing, there was no such thing as professional video gaming. it kind of fell into my lap, literally. >> how was that possible? how could you make a living doing that? >> "the wall street journal" is what made it possible. they wrote a story of online gaming which was new at the time and decided to use me because i was the

that's a daring some dangerous sport, but as jacob ward explains, knowing where to be and when can all be in the science. >> the mavericks big wave event is the world's best and bravest surfers flying in all over the world in the height of a three-story building. but those waves only happen a few times a year. how do they know when the competition is on? >> all this energy. >> this guy. big wave surfer and big wave forecaster. when he says the word, more than two dozen professional surfers around the world say their prayers and get on a plane. >> the reality is we want guys to be able to catch waves, be able to ride it well, compete and not die in the process. >> if you were walking at the base of this cliff, you might not think that this beach is anything other than a picturesque california scene. but the truth is the el niÑo will create circumstances where incredible amounts of water is pushed over that rocky outcropping and produce the largest waves on earth. >> like a bulldozer, it will scoop the earth up and push it towards our coast. >> he looks for big storms out at sea. that's

jacob ward has more on the debate over keeping americans and data safe. >> it may seem like this is a one off. a case in which the fbi wants to see into the phone of a mass murderer and the corporation wants to extend its privacy. beneath the emotions and court filings, there's a secret war going on, building to an outcome. let's start with the battle. fbi officials made reference to what it calls the going dark problem. the issue is that a search warrant. new encryption schemes built into apps and into the phones are impenetrable by hackers and cyber criminals, and also by law enforcement. they cannot get into every day phones and communications. that must be communication with them, and with the list of people. of course, law enforcement wants a way in. apple and others say that they have to make the information bulletproof, impenetrable, in order to spend time where tens of thousands and victims of cyber crimes. there are other cases. it's an emotionally charged mass murder that it chose to shine a light on. apple cooperated in the past, and asked that the request for software to g

jacob ward explains what was done to stop the porter ranch lead and why we could see more of it in the future. >> the equipment we see going in and out of here is just a temporary solution, it will be a while before they have a permanent solution, we have seen no residents here to one of the greatest developmental disasters in the history of the state. >> thee is photos show the toxic escape of methane. first i can't hear or see the stuff, second, it's an extremely pot ent still absorbs 84 more time heat from the son thank the carbon diked looch bat. an enormous problem. over 96,000 metric tons of methane since october 23rd. that's like building 900 million, boosted your mileage for e-by a whole less, drillings sick will into the first fill the place where they made mud and water. and sealing the entire thing with cement. as of this week, the two doctors, see a common thread in important ranch. >> the whole issue is being more proactivity than less egg reactive. you cangtd be about now, just southern california problem, research says methane leeks nine why it's pifn or promised. nation

jacob ward, a al jazeera, san francisco. >> edgar mitchell the sixth man on the moon has died. the 85-year-old passed away at a hospice in west palm beach florida. mitchell and allen shepherd went walking on the moon, he helped design the lunar landing module, and after his journey into space mitchell devoted his life to mysteries of the human mind and the universe including aliens and ufos. up next, the stunning nina simone. i talk to the singer and civil rights pioneer. >> nina simone was a true original, a singer activist, the documentary, what happened ms. simone, is an oscar contender. i talked to her daughter. and her need to tell her mother's story now. >> it was a labor of love that my husband and i worked on for about ten years. >> i want to shake up people so bad, that when they leave a night club where i perform, i just want them to be in pieces. >> i made a pledge to my mother when she passed away, that to make sure that she would be remembered properly, in the way that she deserved and the way she would be remembered. ♪ i put a spell on you >> you've said she was o

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technique to get into millions >>> we are joined by al jazeera's science and technology correspondent, jacob wardere are other cases that have similar balances of government and advocates that they are fighting over. why this case, why is this the one where they clashed. >> it seems a strange choice. why would apple stand its ground for an ugly incident. it seems to make sense. the thing to understand is the fight has been going on for a long time. apple is fighting a case in new york that is the same. the government asked to get into a defendant's phone, and what is really worth noting about effort to the face, is after the defendant pled guilty to drug conspiracy charges, and the government won, they pressed to get into the phone, trying to do the same thing. when you think about the case, it's more than a technological fighter. there's a political advocacy for this. it's charged. it's an opportunity to set a precedent. that's the battle. apple and the government are fighting for a precedent. >> any regrets among apple or supporters for taking on the fight given the backlash in this says. >> it

but as jacob ward reports, apple says what the federal bureau of investigation really wants is a back door operating system. so it can easily access other iphone users information. >> in a motion filed a day ahead of the deadline. apple is asking a magistrate to reverse her order, acquiring apple to hack into a locked iphone. apple said it asked the government to build something new, a government os. and a forensic facility used to unlock phones in other cases. apple executives told the reporters that the demand violates the company's right, compelling a third party to work for the government. fbi director james comey said that this is just about a single phone. nonetheless he told a house panel on thursday that this cannot help becoming a larger issue. >> we have two roles, one is in the cases, we must do a competent investigation following the murder of 14 people. we will. we'll use whatever tools are available. in the large erconversation our role is to make sure folks understand the costs associated with moving to a world of universal strong encryption. the microsoft legal officer

jacob ward reports from san francisco. >> reporter: who is this? >> that is my frequent arielle.he was my friend and we worked together. she died in 2005, and - yes, that's her. >> eliza runs the drug overdose prevention and education programme in oakland california. the work is hard and personal. >> we sat outside for a long time. she said "i don't know what i'm doing, i'll get my shit together. it's a blip." she did. >> reporter: wheeler may not get users into treatment. but she can make sure she has access to a narcan. >> an overdose causes the body to forget to breathe. narcan literally knocks narcan off the brain, sobering the user up. heroin and opiate abuse rose every year since 2007. during 2013. about 16,000 people died of an overdose, like oxicodon or hired codon, and 8,000 died of heroin. in that one year, according to a serva that wheeler conducted, he reversed 8,000 times, meek that in theory, the 8,000 people would be dead as well. anecdotal evidence, talking about receiving narcan can treatment. >> in clinics where narloxon is predescribed, we see dramatic reductio

al jazeera's jacob ward reports from san francisco. >> antonio what seems to be a fairly simple?he fbi asking apple to help it break into a single phone has turned into a national debate over privacy. at best the phone waits as long as an hour, before allowing you to guess again. at worst, the phone erases itself. take as many shots at the pass code on saeed farook's phone as is necessary to unlock it. that phone is more than 24 million iphone 5cs many apple has sold around the world. as well as millions of others that could be affected. fbi says this is not a threat to privacy to nerc anyone else. >> they are simply asking for something that would have an impact on this one device. >> apple's encryption scheme already makes that impossible for newer devices. but apple says it is drawing the line here and it will not comply. this seems like a relatively well bounded question, but this truth is this has implications for the rest of technology, increasingly the products and processes that you and i use to communicate with one another, are encrypted, build a back door into their own

as jacob ward shows us, it could open ways of learning about space and time. >> the best way to under the notion of gravitational waves is to under the medium. like space time. think about space time like a bowl of jelo, everything in the universe is in the jelo, as we move, we send out waves in all directions through the gealo. any movement gives off those vibrations. the need has been that it would take an enormous event in space to have a shot at detecting them. it was the collision of two black holes. something violent like that gives off these waves, this is the first time we measured them. albert ian sign theorized they this existed. it wasn't until now we had a device sensitive enough to listen to them. here is the problem. everything is worked by gravitational waves. when you measure the movement. >> you can't hold up a ruler to do it. the waves passed through. the ruler worked as well. instead, scientists used a laser between two points. the lygo gravitational wave territory. laser light moves at the same speed. scientists determined that it was connecting between the two poi

our science and technology editor jacob ward tells us why. >> the mavericks, flying over from all overorld, to ride waves the height of a three story building. but those waves only happen a few times a year. so how do they know when the competition is on? >> all this energy -- >> this guy. mark big wave surfer and official big wave forecaster. >> this chart shows significant wave height. >> when he says the word, more than two dozen professional surfers from around the world, say their prayers and get on a plane. >> be able to catch waves, ride it well, compete and not die in the process. >> if you were walking at the base of this cliff, you would think this is not more than a picturesque california scene. but this el nino is going to create the circumstances, incredible amounts of water get pushed over the outcropping and produce the largest waves on earth. he looks for bik storms at sea. that's what the creates the swells necessary, to create these punishing waves. >> same effect, our pebble is a storm that covers 2,000 nautical miles, has near hurricane-force winds and all aimed dir

jacob ward, al jazeera, sacramento. >> next up we reach a flood of new ideas. how to bring life and energy to some of america's hardest hit food deserts. >> you don't have to be famous in order to help out your community. let's face it, it can't hurt. sometimes when you take the stars out of the hood they forget the hard times that led them to success. in a new york neighborhood though a pair of hip hop heavy weights are back to juice the generation and leave their community with a taste of much needed success. "america tonight" 's sarah hoye. quenching a food desert. >> this is a juice bar in yonkers new york. and this is rapper styles p. what may appear an unlikely pairing is actually a deliberate matchup. yonkers native styles p and jadekis is part of the locks locks.they're known for their collaboration with then shaun puffy combs and all about the benjamins. the two veteran m cs joined forces to open juices for life. very own chain of juice bars in lower income neighborhoods. the ends goal was simple: offer a healthy option in neighborhoods considered food

daring and often dangerous sport and being in the right place at the right time is a science as jacob ward reports now from half moon bay in california. >> reporter: the big wave event is an annual gathering of surfers flying in from all over the world for waves that only happen a few times a year. how do they know when the competition is on? >> all this energy. >> reporter: this guy. a big wave surfer and big wave forecaster. >> this chart shows significant wave height >> reporter: when he says the word, more than two dozen professional surfers say their prayers and get onto the plane >> we want them to catch waves, be able to compete and not die in the process. >> reporter: if you were walking at the base of this cliff, you might not think this beach is nothing more than a nice scene. the truth is understand the right circumstances, and this el nino is going to create those circumstances, incredible amounts of water good get pushed over those rocks and produce the largest waves on earth >> it scoops the ocean up and pushes it towards the coast >> reporter: he looks for big storms at sea.

as jacob ward explains, the system is designed to bring down a missile with another message. >> that'd stands for terminal high altitude defense. it has three starts. a series of radar units. a launcher that fires an interceptor, which is a big stick. the whole idea revolves around the word terminal. a missile traves in ab oshing. the top of its flight - it enters the phase, where it is falling without propologies, that is when the system seeks to intercept the missile. striking and destroying it before the war head. this system used to be used, it is complicated. it's like hitting a rock with another. the technology is reliable. israeli iron dome system helped small improvise said systems. it tracks and destroys them. that are to that'd. that is -- thad uses. it is automated. you have 90 seconds. it's supposedly tremendously effective. over 1,000 interceptions that came online, and 90% success rate. thad has been surks cess: a -- success: a thad system on the korean peninsula is one that is politically complicated. it has a range of 600 miles or 960km, and the radar may cover 1800 mil

jacob ward has more >>> in a motion filed a day ahead of the deadline, apple executives are asking aal magistrate to reverse her order rivering apple to help the fbi hack into a locked iphone of a san bernardino shooter. apple argues that the government is asking it to build something new, a government os. as well as a forensics facility that can be used to unlock phones in hundreds of other cases. apple executives told reporters that the demand violates rights, compelling an innocent party to work for the government. fbi director james comey said it's about a single phone. he told a house panel thursday, this cannot help becoming a larger issue. >> we have two roles, one is in the cases. we must do a competent investigation following the murder of 14 people. we will, and use whatever lawful tools are available. in the larger conversation the role is to make sure that folks understand what are the costs associated moving to a world of strong encryption. microsoft's leader told a house committee that the government has gone too far. >> we do not believe courts should seek to resolve i

al jazeera's jacob ward has that part of the story. >> it may seem that this is an one-off.ple case in which the fbi wants to just see into the phone of a mass murderer and the corporation is trying to defend its stand of privacy by refusing to help. but beneath all the talk there is a secret war going on and it's building to a very clear outcome. let's start with the battle. fbi officials including james comey has made repeated references over the past year to what it calls the growing dark problem. the even with search warrant encryptions built into the phones used by hundreds of millions of people are impenetrable by hackers, and also by law enforcement. they simply cannot get into every day phones and communications. and that must be tremendously frustrating when our phones contain information about where we've been, communication with other people and the list of every friend we have. of course, law enforcement wants a way in. on the other hand, apple and others say that it has to make that information bulletproof, impenetrable where tens of thousands of people are vict

. >> all right jacob ward, apple has hired a big name, now being represented by former solicitor general ted olson, and he appeared on this week to discuss apple's position. >> we want and apple has helped this fbi in this investigation in every way the law required. what it has to draw the line at recreating code, changing its iphone, putting its engineers and creative talents to destroy the iphone as it exists, apple has a responsibility to maintain the trust and faith of millions of people to produce a product that protects their privacy, their intimate personal life. this is a pandora's box. >> would apple still be opposing this request? >> apple complies with the lawl olawand cooperates in every way possible. but george if you were asked and your network were asked to create a program to use your talents to ensnare a kidnapper a criminal a money launderer or a terrorist you would have the responsibility to russia tha re. >> you served as an intelligence officer in the israel defense forces, your perspective will be great and patrick, good to have you with us as well. mattie, this wh

jacob ward is in san francisco, and it seems that the stakes are high for all involved and for the country. >> reporter: that's right, richelle. absolutely. this is not just a case of being a war of words, but truly, a war in the courtroom. apple finally filing a motion that makes the argument because no one has ever been asked to do this before, their constitutional rights as a company have been violated. in a motion filed a day ahead of the deadline, apple magistrates are asking to reverse the order of the order to hack into the i-phone of one of the san bernardino shooters. they are being asked to build something new, a government ao as much, as well as a forensic facility that could be used to unlock phones in hundreds of other cases. apple executives told reporters that the order violates the company's rights, compelling a third party to work for the government. he said this is just about a single phone, but nevertheless, he told a house panel that it could be a larger issue. >> we have two roles in this cake. we must do a competent investigation following the murder of 14 people in s

jacob ward, al jazeera, los angeles. >> coming up next, john hocke hockeenberry.rierves a rierves e mexico city airport. >> john hockenberry is the host of national public radio's the take away. nbc news correspondent, abc news and npr. i talked about his program on public radio. >> public radio has become a little bit self-satisfied in its success and its association with its audience and i think there's a sense of conformity the way people sound, and i defy that. i don't sound like the other public radio hosts. i'm recognizable as a public radio host but i'm not as measured and, you know, people see that there's somebody there. it's not like there's somebody behind the curtain. curtain's off. i am the guy behind the curtain. that's something that the public radio audience is specifically hungry for and we are getting a benefit for it. >> there's plenty of criticism of public radio. as you know. >> yeah. >> that it's too liberal. what do you say about that? >> well, i disclose my political orientation, you know, i mean i'm basically a democrat, you'll aol i'm you

jacob ward is in san francisco tonight, jake. >> john, this may seem like a simple case, a known mass murderers phone, and the fbi has asked apple to break into that phone. but this one restrictive case has turned into an all out war of privacy. >> right now, if you try the guess the pass code too many times, the phone allows beings over an hour before you can try again or at worst, the phone erases itself. pass code on saeed farook's phone, as necessary to find it. millions more earlier models that could be affected. but the white house says this is not a threat to privacy for anyone else. >> they are not asking apple to redesign its product. or to create a new back door to one of their products. they're simply asking for something that would have an impact on this one device. >> apple's encryption scheme on newer phones already makes the fbi's request impossible for newer devices but apple says it is drawing the line and will not comply. this may be a well boin bounded. it is a relatively outdated phone but it has reflection for technology, encrypted in ways that even the manufactur

jacob ward is in san francisco for us. >> tony, it's hard to emergency any multinational company getting the public support that it has for standing in the way of the fbi trying to investigate the belongings of a mass murderer, but here we are. here's the world that we live n and that, combined with the rallies going on across the country, combined with the public jousting going on between fbi director, james comey and am's president, has made this. >> the battle over a single i-phone has become a war. on sunday, fbi director, james comey posted an open letter. but on tuesday, people were gathering at apple stores all over the country with their solidarity with the country's richest technology company. the chair of the senate intelligence committee, richard burr, who had been trying to get the encryption has reportedly backed away from it. apple has until friday to file its opposition for assistance, but in the meantime, the fbi and apple are saying what they would like to see next. director comey said the question should be resolved by the american people, deciding how we want to govern

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al jazeera's jacob ward has more from san francisco. >>> adam who did not want to show his face or shareis real name with us says that two years ago, he wasering a 6-figure salary. he never imagined he wiould be homeless. >> i have had two homes, suburbans and audis. life on the street is unimaginebly difficult. new research from the university of california at san francisco says homelessness brings on jerry gereatric conditions decades early. the night before, someone poured gasoline on the tent next to adam's and set it on fire, he said, injuring two people inside. >> they said they were sleep can in the tent and all the sudden, you know, they woke up and it felt like fire. it was dripping. >> it must be very dangerous sleeping on the street. >> oh, yeah. it's not like sleeping in the suburbs for sure. >> now, the city has decided that adam along with nearly 100 people camped out over an overpass here have to move along. >> the reason why they are doing what they are doing right now is about the people, a lot of people that's homeless is fed up. >> public works trucks have become comin