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jake ward reports. >> who is this? >> that's my friend ariel. were friends and worked together. >> reporter: this woman runs the drug overdose prevention and education program in oakland, california, the work is very hard and very personal. >> we sat outside for a long time, and she said i don't even know what i'm doing, you know, i'll get my [ censor bleep ] together. it was just a blip, you know, and she died that night. >> reporter: wheeler may not be able to get users into treatment, but she can make sure they have access to narcan. an overdose causes the body to forget to breathe. narcan, literally knocks opiates off of the brain, sobering the user up instantly. heroin and opioid abuse has risen every year since 2007. during 2013, about 16,000 people died of an overdose of prescription opioids, and about 8,000 died of heroin. in that one year, according to a survey wheelers group helped conduct, a narcan injection reversed overdoses 8,000 times. narcan is arguably the safest drug in the world. if a paramedic comes opinion someone who is unc

jake ward reports from san francisco. jake?reporter: john, to understand the relevance of overdose prevention day it's good to understand the fundamental mechanics of an overdose. when you overdose on heroin, or prescription open outs, basically the drug binds to your drain and overwhelms it, your brain literally just forgets to breathe. now science has solved this problem, but the question is can politics and the cultural stigma of drug addiction get out of the way? who is this? >> that's my friend ariel. she and i friends. >> reporter: how long ago did she pass? >> she died in 2005, and -- yeah. that's -- that's really hard. >> this woman runs the drug overdose prevention and education program in oakland, california. the work is very hard and very personal. >> we sat outside for a long time, and she -- she said i don't even know what i'm doing. i'll get my -- together. i don't know what -- you know, it's just a blip, you know. and she died that night. >> reporter: wheerl may not be able to get users into treatment, but she ma

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. >>> i'm jake ward in oakland, california, a new breed of company is trying to create a sort of uberor private air travel. i'm explain more in a moment. >> there's so much injustice. >> workers are being injured constantly. >> hi, everyone, this is al jazeera america. i'm john siegenthaler. deep cuts. donald trump's tax plan would slash rates for the rich and the poor. >> we're going to cut the individual rates from 7 brackets to 4. simplification. >> could it also sink the economy? >>> watershed moment. >> these are dark streaks that form in late spring, glow through the summer and disappear by fall. >> liquid h2o unearthed on the red planet. the new hope for fining life and sending people to mars. plus fight or flight, the start-up looking to bring uber's ride-sharing model to the sky, and the legal battle that could clip its wings. >>> republican presidential front runner donald trump has announced a plan to revamp the tax code. he unveiled his ideas today in new york. >> if you are single and earn less than $25,000 or married and jointly earn less than $50,000, you'll not pay any

jake ward explains. >> reporter: antonio, scientists have suspected for the better part of a decade that there is water of some form on mars. frozen polar ice caps, the question of whether there was liquid water has been sort of a controversy. there was the ge geologic formsf it. until now it hasn't been confirmed. truly pinned down, at some point during each year there is flowing water on mars. now the first question here is how is that possible? mars gets down to negative 100 degrees sell celsius, an increde inhospitable environment. the pressure was so low if you were to miraculously transport a glass of water to the surface of mars it would boil. how could it stay liquid? two things. it could either be salt crystals on the surface absorbing it from water in the atmosphere, although the atmosphere is very dry, that doesn't seem like a good source or a deep reservoir of water deep underground. salt is the key, maybe the reason it could flow even in inhospitable temperatures, or the incredible geologic violence of mars, has incredible mountains that are so much taller than we could ever

our science and technology reporter jake ward actually owns a vw diesel vehicle. he tells us about the frustrations now facing so many volkswagen owners. >> when the volkswagen story broke i tried to be an objective journalist, but it was very hard. this is why, this is my 2010 volkswagen sports wagon tdi. i bought this thing with about 19,000 miles on it from a guy in west virginia. it was great. it really has the best possible combination of mileage and hauling capacity. i can jam everything that my family needs for a weekend while getting into this thing while getting 30 to 40 miles per gallon. diesel gives you more energy by volume than gasoline does, that's why you get better mileage. it happens to be cheaper than gasoline right now, which i feel superior about. the trouble is in the past diesel has been a dirty fuel. it gives off nitrogen oxide. it's the number one contributor to smog, as we think of it. turns out this car is not the kind of clean diesel that we were promised. for the last 60,000 miles this engine has been giving off anywhere from 15 to 30 t

jake ward is live in middletown, california tonight with the latest. scene behind you is horrible, jake. what is happening? >> reporter: well, richelle this scene behind me was an apartment complex and school here in middletown, and it's just a scene of utter devastation. the fire came in and just ripped through here and immediately overwhelmed local resources, and really we haven't cherry picked a bad scene to show you. it is bad everywhere. we drove about a 20-mile drive this morning between the operation center where all of the responders have gathered all the way down here and all along that drive homes and trees were burned. this was a violent fast-moving fire. it's really just extraordinary to see that firefighters are not just battling an age-old threat that it just happened to get unlucky this time. the fire itself seems to be changing. >> like with all of the other fires we have had this summer, dry fuels automatically had spot fires all over the place, and quickly overwhelmed the amount of resources we had. it totally changed our tactics inst

state of california could be killing one of its most famous treasures. 89 sequoia trees, many and jake ward went to see how they were doing? >> giant sequoias are ancient, researchers are now worried about their future. >> they were using their older needles, older alleviate leavese i hadn't seen before. >> this wung predates crition chanty and slawms. more than 240 feet tall, scientists are going to go up in it today, to take some water sample manies and god help me i'm going to follow them. anthony ambrose leads a team from berkeley. he climbs to the very top to test them for stress. warmer temperatures mean the trees need encouragement amount of water. >> a typical sequoia trees could use 500 to 800 gallons of water in a typical summer day. >> but the area of california is at a all time low for water. rising temperatures is unprecedented. >> now that we're in the fourth year of this severe drought they still happen to be holding out pretty well. if we had another year as severe as this one i'd say all bets are off. history of the united states is a tiny fraction of its past. the question

. >> i am jake ward in supervisor, medical science in the form of this little drug has done away with threat of death by heroin overdose. the question is will politics and popular opinion let it get out into the world. die every year from americans overdozes. police have reported success in saving lives with with the drug narcan. jacob ward reports. she and i were friends and worked got. >> eliza runs the drug overdose prevention program in ebb land, california. the work is very hard, and very personal. >> we with sat outside for a long time, and she said i don't even know what i am down. i will getny [bleep] tot. it is just a blip. and she didn't. >> wheeler may not be able to get users into treatment, but she can make sure they have access to a miracle drug. >> a overdose cause it is body to forget to breathe. narcan knocks open yates of the brain sobering the user up instantly. during 2013, the last year for which complete information is available about sit teen thousand people died of a overdose like oxycodone, and about 8,000 dies of heroin. in that one year, according to a surve

jake ward is in california, a town devastated by the fire. what is happening there now? >> evening. the fire here has taken a turn for the better, in one sense. a few minutes ago the cal fire authority basically announced that they are 30% containment. but the fire grew to a little over 67,000 acres, a big fire. there's a sort of a deadly stillness that has settle the over the town. we can hear choppers and fire-fighters out there, fighting the rest of the blaze. the real question is what is it about this fire that is new. and are the tactics that are employed, for decades, are they appropriate in an era when the fire is behaving in new ways. >> the valley fire, more than 60,000 acres to size, a fast burning fire. is the latest in a series of blazes defying past fires. homes got in the way. >> how is this different. >> we have seen fires move rapidly. >> it's not just that the dry conditions makes the gyre fighting harder, they are changing the fire itself. >> firefighters refer to the colour of the earth as good black. that means the fuel has been burnt away. they can relax in this

jake ward reports. >> reporter: this summer, hundreds of wildfires have raged across alaska. >> we needt somebody over there. >> what they are doing is working an edge where we have got some heat. >> reporter: stephanie is one of over 3,000 firefighters and support crews flown in from the lower 48 states this summer. they are battling just a few of the fires that have burned 5.1 million acres so far this year. the second-worst in alaska's history. we're in a village about an hour's flight from fair banks, and hundreds of firefighters are coming from all across the country. we're about to meet their commander and a couple who have been on the line. jim grant is based out of wisconsin. but he spent his summer trying to keep a half million acre fire from destroying this and other villages along the river. >> in my 30-plus year career this is the largest incident i have been involved with. >> reporter: it represents only 10% of the forests burned so far in alaska this year. >> we have at least 13 like this, plus numerous smaller fires. >> reporter: tom has been fighting fires in alaska for

jake ward has more. >> this has definitely been a terrible fire in a terrible season. more than 60,000 acres borned. more than 60,000 burnt, and a fraction of the fire has been contained. middle town behind me, at the center here, where apartments and a small school have gone up in flames typifies the damage throughout the region in the course of a 20-30km drive from one scene to another. we saw houses burnt all the way through. trees burnt all the way through. what is disturbing is the ways in which the fire is behaving differently to past fires, fifighters speak a certain language when it comes to fire, talking about good black. all the fuel has been consumed. they can relax in that place. rules do not apply any more. fires are coming back through the canape of trees, which used to not burn. the training of firefighters going out the window. here in california, we are in our fourth year of drought and all the rules have been broken. this is a new fire requiring new firefighting. so far this fire is winning the fight >>> brazil has announced 17 billion in spending cut

jake ward has more from middletown, california. >> this has been a terrible fire in a terrible season, more than 50,000 acres burned. and still just a fraction of this fire has been contained. middletown behind me, the center here, where apartment buildings and a school, a small school have gone up in flames, is really typifies the damage we are seeing throughout the region in a course of 20 or 30-kilometer drive from one scene to another. we saw houses burned all the way through, trees burned all the way through. what's disturbing is the ways in which this fire is behaving differently than past fires. firefighters speak a certain language. they talk about good black, the notion that there is a burned area, the fuel has been consumed and they can relax in that place. those rules don't apply. fires are coming back through the can any o can know pi of ca. all the rules have been broken. this is a new kind of firefighting. so far this fire is winning the fight. >>> brazil announced almost $17 billion in spending cuts and tax rises to balance its books. healthcare, low cost housing, spend

. >> i'm jake ward in california. scientists are so concerned about sequoias they're climbing up into them to take measurements, and i, god willing, am about to try to do the same thing. >>> a texas teen that got in trouble at school because of a homemade clock ended up being a vip at the google science fair. he did not enter the competition but met with others who did. clearly, he's a rock star there. the 14-year-old was arrested last week after teachers say they suspected his clock was a bomb. speaking to ali velshi, he said he's trying to move past it and focus on the future. >> i'm not okay going back to my school because it didn't feel good about what happened there. i don't want to go back to that. they can apologize, but it won't change anything because what's done was down. >> he officially withdrew from his school on monday. his family is still deciding on a new school. >>> senate democrats have unveiled tough new rules aimed to slow climate change. the measure is to cut greenhouse gas emissions by 34% by 202

jake ward has more. jake?> reporter: the giant sequoias are being hit by sort of a double whammy, not just the effects of four years of drought here in california, but also unprecedented climate change, and that has caused scientists to gather a team to respond to a crisis. >> they were losing their older needles, their older leaves in amounts that were -- i had never scene before. >> reporter: giant sequoias like this are very, very special. they are the largest organisms on earth, and they are ancient, but after four years of drought, and the warming effects of climate change, researchers are now worried about their future. at roughly 2,500 years old. this one predates christianity and islam. it's over 75 meters tall, more than 240 feet tall. scientists are going to go up in it to try to take water samples, and god help me, i'm going to follow them. oh, man. anthony climbs to the top of these trees to test them for signs of stress. he has been doing this kind of things for about 20 years. this is my first ti

jake ward joins us from san francisco to explain. ed my energy level to match yours, jake, because i hear you are pretty excited about this? >> reporter: i am. it ian incredible. the possibilities here are endless. up until now there had been this dancing around that scientists at nasa had been doing about the possibility of liquid matter on mars. but today they are confident it exists. >> today we're revolution nicing our understanding of this planet. our rovers are finding that there's a lot more humidity in the air than we ever imagined as we ingest the soils they are moist, hydrated full of water. mars not the dry arid planet that we thought of in the past. today we're going to announce that under certain circumstances, liquid water has been found on mars. >> reporter: richelle according to the new paper that came out based on analysis of the mars orb orbiter, announced that there is a salty briny water of some sort that seems to run down the riverlets that you see there, so at some point during the calendar year, which is very lo

jake ward is in san francisco following a team of experts at the sequoia national park. the state of those gorgeous giant sequoias? >> they are the largest organisms on earth by volume, they are incredibly ancient, they are often over 2,000 years old. scientists recently in sequoia national park where these things are indigenous, scientists discovered they are behaving in very strange ways. thanks they have never seen before in history. >> they were losing their older needles, their older leaves in amounts that were -- i had never seen before. like some trees losing half of their foliage. we put together a crew to document that, and we felt pretty confident this had to do with the drought. so we tried to peace together the leaf to landscape project. where we wanted to understand the effect on the sequoias. >> the researchers formed a crisis team, richelle and are doing everything from climbing up into these giant sequoias, and to use drones and air-born observatory systems to look at sort of the whole forest in general, and they are finding that giant sequoias are doing

jake ward is there.l us what you are seeing. >> reporter: well, del, it is a scene of terrible devastation. it has really been a heart-breaking day. we have been traveling from the operations center about 15 miles north of us to middletown, california, this is the site of a former school in the center of the town. absolutely destroyed. the most frightening thing is to see the fire drop in on spot fires. embers floating through the air will drop down and create a spot where fire suddenly leaps up and takes over. we saw home after home destroyed, trees destroyed, underbrush gone, it is a scene of terrible, terrible devastation. and really, it feels like a very different kind of fire. >> jake, california no stranger to wildfires, so what is different about these. >> reporter: you know, this season, del, has been a very different season firefighters say. i spoke to one firefighter who spent 28 years fighting and says that it's a totally different kind of beast. essentially the drought -- the four years of dr

jake ward, al jazeera. >>> france has announced a detailed investigation into volkswagen after it admittedg diesel emission tests. 11 million cars were fitted with devices designed to cheat. it has cost the auto giant billions. from berlin rob reynolds reports. >> reporter: volkswagen's pollution cheating scandal spread as europe's leading car maker planned an emergency meeting of top executives. volkswagen is facing billions of dollars in fines and a huge recall of its vehicles after the u.s. government found it planted software in its diesel cars meant to falsefy results in emissions tests. the company issued a statement saying 11 million vehicles are affected. it has set aside 6.5 billion euros for recalls and servicings. and it says volkswagen does not tolerate violation of laws, and will make regaining consumer trust its top priority. >> we have totally screwed up. we must fix those cars. thank you. we must fix those cars because we prevent this from ever happening again, and we have to make things right for the government, the public, our customers, our employees and our dealers. >>

. >>> i am jake ward in oakland, california. new breed of company is trying to create a sort of uber for private air travel. they are about to fight the f.a.a. to offer that service. i will explain more in a moment. >> fear and distrust in baltimore... >> they've just been pepper spraying people at very close range... >> years of tension between the community and police erupt... >> she was on her way home to her kid, and she never made it... >> a former cop speaks out... >> if you had taken steps when a man was assaulted, maybe freddie gray didn't have to die. >> is there still a blue wall of silence in american cities? >> did somebody get shot? fault lines baltimore rising only on al jazeera america counting down the hours to a scheduled execution. he cysts he is in any event. a parole board is hearing a last-minute appeal. supporter hope her sentence will be commuted to life in prison. >> supporters have been calling the 47-year-old al changed woman and pray her life be spared. >> she interestingly enough was not on site for t

. >> jake jake ward i have not california.sts are so concerned about sequoias that they're taking measurements. i am about to try to climb and do the same thing. the only way to get better is to challenge yourself, and that's what we're doing at xfinity. we are challenging ourselves to improve every aspect of your experience. and this includes our commitment to being on time. every time. that's why if we're ever late for an appointment, we'll credit your account $20. it's our promise to you. we're doing everything we can to give you the best experience possible. because we should fit into your life. not the other way around. >> pope francis celebrating mass this hour. it is one of the last events on the papal trip to cuba. it has been a whirlwind tour for the pope, the first from latin america and return to his roots. we look at the pope's humble beginning. >> pope francis was born jorge mario in argentina in 1936. raised in buenos aires, he was the eldest of five children. former nation say he never lost touch with his roots.

jacob ward, al jazeera, middletown, california. >> well, mr. shoe, as jake was saying in that report, you're saying this is a different breed of fire. does that mean that you need more manpower than perhaps you would have needed in the past? >> well, certainly more manpower is going to be an added success. but the problem is that we have to have them in a place where they're readily able to respond. and we can't predict where the next ignition source is going to be, so therefore we have to usually call in resources from far distances, and it takes time to get those resource there is. unfortunately, that allows the fire to overwhelm the initial attack resources, as was stated earlier in this particular fire, then it's a catch up game. by the time mother nature let's that fire start rolling the way it did here, we really don't have the ability to catch it until the winds die down, and conditions become more favorable for us to get the upper hand. >> so much of what you have known does not apply here. it almost sounds like you have to learn as you go along? >>

jake's birthday? >> reporter: nearly 400,000 people come here to pay their respects. he was laid to rhys here, facing west wardhe could forever look out towards the pacific. >> a real piece of the berlin wall, came down in 1991. ronald reagan was here in '94 when we received the piece. >> reporter: inside, an exact recommend cal of his oval office, complete with a jar of jelly bellies that he always kept at hand. it was the way he gave up smoking. >> he had jelly bellies everywhere. >> reporter: the plane, the oval, trappings of the very office the candidates will be battling to reach wednesday night. i'm jake tapper for cnn, in simi valley, california. >> the first of wednesday's republican debates starts at 11:00 in london, midnight in berlin. if that's too late, we will replay the entire thing the following night at 8:00 in londo london,9:00 central european time. >>> on the democratic side of things, hillary clinton attended church and received unsolicited advice from one leader, to be kinder to the press. >> -- methodist church. and my fellow methodists have been a support, of honest reflection, of candid