the report found jamaica has laws.olice were leave the lifestyle, go back to church. >> if i was not adamant, for me it was i have to reclaim something. this has been taken from me. i'm not one to sit down quiet will. what can i do short of taking place. >> reporter: anningel eeb group up in a conservative group. where it was understood marriage was between a man and woman. >> when i first came ut i was 13. i said to mum "i think i may be gay." that was the best way to put it. i think because i used the word think, it wasn't as bad as it could have been. she prayed for me. for me, one of the things we learnt is that god loves you. my reason is if god loves me how can he not love me if i'm a lesbian. >> it took years. anningel een felt campbelled westbounding com -- felt compelled to put herself in the lime light. >> all people need the same rules. >>> she co-founded quality of citizenship jamaica, with her friend who experience the threats because of her sexuality. >>people shout slurs at me. when i live with my partne

jamaica for a long time.y port antonio threatened to become an international jet set location. local legend has it that erol flynn was ship wrecked on his yacht here in 1947 and promptly fell in love with the place. before flynn, it has been an empire of ba nas. a huge industry that later became united fruit. bananas went out, tourists came in. the banana business eventually went elsewhere and when tourism shifted to the other side of the island with the construction of an airport at montego bay, that was pretty much it. the northeast coast was largely forgotten. ♪ it has the feel, still, of a forgotten paradise. there are those who believe that the area can come back, that it must come back. that the future is in hotels and resorts and restaurants for wealthy visitors as it once was. ♪ take this place, for instance, the trident hotel, luxurious, expensive, best of all, i'm the only guest. oh, did i mention it comes with a castle? what kind of person would own a building like that? who? why? then, this man ar

and jamaica. >> a lot of things over here, it is grown indoors and in jamaica, we had to drive massiveiles to get there. we didn't know -- >> they didn't give you an address. >> no, the first farm, we're trusting the driver to take us where we needed to be. there was a big maze we had to go up a hill and up into this area and we hiked a few minutes before we actually got to this place. he said here is this, technically you are not allowed to plant more than five of these plants now. >> and he didn't want to be seen either. "america tonight's" lori jane gliha continuing her report on the marijuana industry. next biting into trouble the new marijuana economy and a hidden danger. later, from drug runs to soupy sales, a novel approach to getting gang members off the streets. and hot on "america tonight's" website now, ferguson one year later, what's changed in the once embattled city. at aljazeera.com/americatonight. >> on al jazeera america, >> a team of scientists are taking their inspiration from nature. >> technology...it's a vital part of who we are >>they had some dynamic fire behavi

in fact, we're in jamaica. this is the third of 11 stops that will take place over the next five months, and the staff will take care of more than 100,000 patients. we've decided to go along for the ride. ♪ >> marlene maxwell hopes to be one of those patients. she's 56 years old from kingston, jamaica. passionate about her family and her faith. for eight years now, she's been dealing with an overactive thyroid. the thyroid is a gland near your windpipe that helps produce hormones to keep your body in check. >> it pains on this side. sometimes it will come up, like it will block off an airway. >> marlene says the health care in jamaica is good, if you can get it. >> well, i would say it's good health care, but it's just a time plan. you wait longer. >> in jamaica, nearly half the population lives in the southeast region of the country. that includes the capital city of kingston. a population boom has put a big strain on the health infrastructure here. not enough doctors. not enough resources or operating rooms.

the government in jamaica will allow what the u.s. government hasn't done. that is patient studies, which is phenomenon >>> advocates think legalization could give the struggling academy a boost. >> my concern is people that benefit from this medical marijuana industry. will it be people that have suffered from it. they have born the brunt of the persecution. whether these people benefit from it the are will it be the people at large >>> ahead we visit the netherlands, where marijuana use has been tolerated for decades. the lessons they learnt and warnings for the u.s. as gs for the u.s. as >> i've been asked to keep my voice down cause fire behavior... >> and what we do... don't try this at home! >> tech know, where technology meets humanity... only on al jazeera america an and an and >>> welcome back to the special edition of "america tonight", where we continue an indepth look at the world of weed. so many consumers cool here to get high legally, and as more states consider making recreational marijuana legal, i travel to the netherlands to see what we ca

i was living in jamaica. i was nine and racing and beating the boys, and then,hmm i have a special skill. rosanna: how do you feel, there was talk with your toe and stuff. a broken toe? >> yes. you are getting ready? greg: yes. >> it is like having a severe arthritis in one joint. extremely painful and i had two surgeries. running. greg: have you ever looked down and saw the shoe laces untied? has that happened in a race? >> that happened before. greg: and? >> i still won. rosanna: how'd you run? >> it was my spikes, one shoe was untied. i didn't step on it, thank god and after that nike makes a velcro on it. that was because i was racing and my shoe laces were untied. nike has been with me and a great sponsor. greg: i have too tie the shoes. no kidding. are you going to race today? rosanna: if you are racing in high heels then i will. i don't want anything to happen to you. that would be so bad. it is a year away. >> yes, it is a year away. quickly. i feel young and healthy and fast. beautiful. >> thank you,

the governor of jamaica sent the warships after the captain, joseph bannister.a very good chance of sinking the ship. the ship was on the careen, on its side on the beach so the crew could clean its hull. that's when the warships arrived, but they never expected to find what they found in bannister and his crew. brian: the word "careening" is in the book a lot. explain what that is. robert: i had no idea what careening meant. the guys said, the only reason they even got close to the golden fleece was a cushy was on the careen. they had to explain that in the olden days, with wooden ships, barnicle's wedding he right through and also slow down the ship. they had to explain that in the olden days, with wooden ships, barnacles would grow on the hull. if you did not clean the hull, barnacles would slow down the ship. pirate ships had to be fast and clean. you had to turn them on their side and scrub the hull. but it left the ship very vulnerable. brian: the book has several stories. we will go to chatterton in a moment, but mattera and the mafia. robert: he grew up

is jamaica worse off for them having left? probably. suffered because the middle class moved en masse. are my cousins and mother better from losing jamaica? absolutely. my mother would tell you she's better in canada, far more prospects, got an education, career, things unimaginable growing up in jamaica. it's almost an impossible question to say it's better or worse. it really depends on what are you asking about? are you asking about the community or are you asking about the individuals. >> so, is this a case -- let's go back to new orleans today. did we destroy the village in order to save it? is that what katrina did? have we saved new orleans? >> we have changed new orleans. and i am still optimistic that in the long run, we will have changed it for the better. but i still think that ten years is hopelessly premature to pass any kind of judgment. i am also aware that the process of changing a city in the wake of a disaster, as opposed to simply going back to the way things were before, is unbelievably painful, right? and you cannot

hoping that jamaica will be the next destination for this new kind of green tourism. lori jane gliha good at look at how some americans trying to take advantage of this new business, lori jane, thank for joining us, jamaica's tourism industry really touts this laid back bob marley kind of lifestyle, they are real trying to get away from what we all concentrated on a few years ago, which was this incredibly violent gang dominated lifestyle. first of all, what was it like to be there? were you feeling unsafe at any points? >> you know, before i everybody left to go there i had a variety of people come up to me and warning me it could be dangerous there, be careful. but when we actually landed there, i never felt that i was unsafe at any point. we had a local driver who helped take us around, he knew where he was going, we didn't stray after the beaten path and i didn't feel any worry. but the most -- the time when i felt the most vulnerable, insecure was after we had visited the first marijuana farm that we had gone to we were going along and i see men with giant guns s

>> reporter: diana, this was a 3 hour 8 minute flight from jamaica. as it pulled into terminal 8, things got out of control. eyewitness news obtained a photo of the jet. as it pulled into the gate around 8:45 this morning, 61- year-old jean ballantyne in a window seat in row 21 tried to climb out of that row over two other passengers. they say a 52-year-old woman in the middle seat pushed ballentine off her and ballantyne punched the woman. at this point another person passenger. a man tried to break it up but ballentine slashed him in the right elbow with an eyebrow razor. the woman in the middle seat, at this point she started to spray pepper spray and the pilot was forced to open the door. then you had six people treated spray. jetblue would only say that a customer disagreement occurred shortly after flight 960 international airport from kingston, jamaica. law enforcement were called and met the air crafted. at this point, jean ballantyne is charged with assault and criminal possession of a weapon. she was arrested by port authority police. she wa

losing massachusetts not that big of a deal, but jamaica is a big deal. actually a moneymaking colony. there's also battles in india and central america. the revolution was a global war sparked by the rebellion. [inaudible] >> i do have two women i wrote about here one once and for both brewster was a scottish woman and one of the things i find about her and both the female characters i followed were both european. they make very few choices about war, independents, where they live. their choices are shaped by the men in their lives and whatever the daily livestock, the big choices are not there. margaret o'brien who is an irish immigrant who married oliver pollock a protestant irish emigrant in louisiana. talking about sources and how i came across carrots yours has she particularly came to my view because after oliver pollock both went huge amounts of money to the american cause at one point he had to go to philadelphia to get his money paid back because they had no way of raising money and paid him back. he took off in a ship for philadelphia and left

in fact, the jamaica savings bank in jamaica, the old 20th century one, i think was turned back twice by the city council before it was designated -- it could be heard again and designated. send in a letter to the landmarks commission. let's see what happens. what bank occupies it now? >> bank of america. the building is pristine. it's beautiful. they redid the whole thing. it's nice. ms. willis: other questions? mr. dolkart: any other questions? ms. willins: i'll ask about an endorsement for another skyscraper that needs to be protected. you mentioned it at the end of your essay in the book. the books are over there, so you should be getting a book. the shelton hotel. mr. dolkart: the shelton hotel is the most conspicuous prewar skyscraper that is not designated, and i don't understand why. there's no building that was considered more important in the history of zoning them the shelton hotel, which was generally considered the first building to use the zoning law in an expressive manner, and it's now a marriott marquis or something. it is on lexington avenue, just south of the waldor

and then someone else will have an origin chocolate with jamaica so what-- what they're trying to do-- there's a company that launched something called wi-- called chocolate flights, it was like wine flights, so they were saying, okay, you have this chocolate before your meal, like an aperitif, then you have this one sort of halfway through, and then you have this one. and they-- they called it, like, this experience, they're trying to make it so that you become a real connoisseur. and even though we're eating less chocolate in europe, they're making much more money because the price has gone up, because the high-end market, people are prepared to spend-- i mean, i-- i've been around chocolate boutiques, but don't call them shops, you don't mention the word shop, it's like a gallery, you know. and you go in there and you can see, like, this massive sort of bronze lion or something ridiculous, you know. and you start to think, where's the chocolate and then you see a spotlight, oh, yeah, okay, and you see it again. >> and you sort of go to the back of the shop somewhere (laugh) and you

to newark. 71 jamaica queens. a northwest wind here will make it feel look at these humidities low as well. so, it will be great. great weather for the ferry ride from jersey city or staten island or from port jeff this morning back and forth across long island sound, back and forth to bridgeport. sunshine, a beauty of low humidity. 83 degrees. it will be great. dolphins. heather o'rourke is looking at the commute. >> that's true, i did. >>> let's go to the maps. traveling on the staten island expressway eastbound from south avenue into victory boulevard, two lanes closed down with construction. b.q.e. south near the l.i.e. you have that accident being cleared away. then the l.i.e. on the westbound side right construction. down. b.q.e. northbound the ramp to the brooklyn bridge is closed down. then the brooklyn bridge is closed into manhattan. r trains fast track work. street cleaning rules are in effect. >>> authorities are looking for answers after a disturbing discovery. a child's gravestone found outside a new

jamaica. >> argentina now farmers there are fighting an export tamp.say they can't afford to keep growing crops, they want the government to help them out. southern argentina the anger is now being seen on the streets. >> back on the roads these farmers in the northern province say their demands have gone unheeded for years. they say they're in an economic crisis. >> translator: we're here because our production in the northern part of argentina has a terminal disease. it is not viable. next year there won't be any crops in this part of the country. >> jose has been a farmer here for decades. he took us to his ranch. he says the situation is so complicated that many in the area are thinking of selling their land. >> translator: this is terrible. not to have this land with crops. the humidity is the right one. but we have to spend a lot of money and it's not that easy. >> he says the big problem is the exchange rate with the u.s. dollar. in argentina there's an official rate and a local rate. >> translator: in the case of the so soybean we have to pay a

this sauce is fantastic and to the red stripe people in and jamaica at. rosanna: we need to go to jamaica. greg: thank you so much. rosanna: delicious and it smells great. jeff gordon ramsey and elliott, you are making me crazy. looking like that. thank you and you, whar welcome back in brooklyn. >> shelley/dotcom. rosanna: you were related. greg: this is great. paco tuesday on wednesday. greg: what rosanna: we will put the myfoxny.com. greg: you are going to drink a. rosanna: we are going to take a quick break, 5:49 somewhere. down the hatch. softer, smoother skin after just one shower? dove body wash with a breakthrough formula. just one shower gives you softer, smoother skin. my skin is really silky smooth. dove body wash. softer, smoother skin after just one shower. greg: no surprise. rosanna: thank you for saying nice things about us on our myfoxny.com facebook page. greg: we are playing softball, roseanne is the captain of the team/manager. rosanna: treat me well if you wanted it hitting position. last year we did well. how did you do at batting? le

he lived in jamaica for decades. i typed his name into a computer hoping he was still alive.e name popped up. it was 12 minutes from my home. in chicago. within 45 minutes, i was eating lunch with him across the table at jack's restaurant. brian: he's still alive? robert: he is. he is one of the kindest smartest gentleman i had never met. he was crucial to the putting together of the story. brian: what are the chances he was living in chicago? robert: i tried to copulate that it goes into many powers. if i had not met him or he had not done the work, i don't think this would have happened. brian: give us an idea of what he told you. robert: he had done research not just on port royal but on joseph banister himself. he had done this incredible thing of writing a jury and stealing his own ship. but the best thing he did was uncovered the journal of an eyewitness who was aboard one of the royal navy ships that fought to banister. he uncovered an eyewitness account. without that, none of this could have been put together. without him finding the eyewitness a literate man, a mathe

live at jamaica station, dave carlin, cbs 2 news. >> dave, thank you. >>> now to a commuter alert. power problems are making a mess for some subway riders tonight. a coned issue impacting signal powers causing service changes on the 4 and 5 lines. so some southbound 4 and 5 trains are ending at brooklyn bridge, city hall and bowling green. some 5 trains are running on the 2 line from nevin street to 1489th street grand concourse in both directions. and northbound 4 trains are terminating at atlantic avenue barclays center. >>> some new information about the chemical attack that left a woman in queens with severe burns on her face. sources tell cbs 2 that the victim is 59-year-old alexandra dyer. she runs a group in long island city that works with people facing social, mental or physical challenges. according to police, the man confronted her yesterday evenly -- evening, yelled at her and threw liquid in her face. she had third-degree burns. >> very bad. can't open the eyes. she can't, um, open the mouth that much. the tongue, it's purple. >> dyer may have surgery in a few weeks. t

. >> reporter: e line repairs no trains from jamaica to 179th street, riders using f trains instead and transfer at union turnpike and f line repairs will impact some jamaica bound trains running local from 21st queens bridge to 71st avenue. >> probably take the f train to queens plaza and then from there take the a. >> reporter: these tourists transferred successfully from queens to get to macy's in herold square. it wasn't the detour it's the heat getting to them. >> new delhi. >> do you find it hotter here india? >> yeah, way more. >> reporter: hotter than the capital of india, which has a humid climate, yeah, that pretty much describes what it's like down there and when people get to the top of the steps, they welcome this 95-degree heat up here. the track work is going to continue, liz, through the friday before labor day so if you're traveling during rush- hour on the subway on these lines, plan accordingly. we are live in herold square, nina pineda, channel 7 eyewitness news. >> pack an extra shirt with you. all right, nina, thank you. >>> now to those who got to enjoy the weathe

ronkonkoma through deer park and jamaica. alternate branch is ronkonkoma or montauk branch. 4, 5 and 6 subways, signal problems at 125th and east 180th street. on the b.q.e. north the accident at metropolitan avenue has been cleared but just north of that at manhattan avenue, police activity, the right lane is closed down. western spur of the turnpike near exit 15 an accident. we have an overturned vehicle in the palisades parkway south at exit 10. then an accident on 9-a south at chappaqua road. sawmill river parkway north at ashford, construction causing delays. alternate side of the street parking rules in effect today. shirleen, ken and bill, over to you. >> all right, heather, thank you for that. >> bill with the last check of the forecast. >> a steam bath now. we have steamy weather on the way. we have showers and thunderstorms this morning. 69 degrees. southwest wind at 3. the last of the showers are exiting western long island. there you see it around suffolk county and a couple for ocean county then it gets steamy. o

he is writing this from jamaica. he did quite a bit of his writing from the caribbean islands. and how he is talking about how it looks like finally the book is on its way to be publishing. a project that alex sent 12 years researching and working on. and it all stems from the traditional african tradition of the grios, which is to recount the story from generation to generation. past ancestors, tribal custom, things like that. alex haley used to go to tennessee during the summer. he would go and his maternal grandmother would tell the story of kunta kinte. it stuck with him and got him to decide to do his geology and research his roots and so many years later have the saga of an american family. and really spearheaded the interest in genealogy and family reunion in the african-american community and the united states. he really started a movement about knowing where you are from and knowing your room and having an understanding of where your people came from. the original story which was told by his maternal grandmother who told to story -- i guess it was passed -- has down. h

riders will use f trains as well and f line repairs will impact some jamaica bound trains running local from 21st queens bridge to 75th avenue. >> go further at the end of r train -- our train and be harder to get home because we have m. so we have a transfer and it's annoying. >> reporter: the track work is expected to continue from today through september 4th. the mta saying it selected these weeks specifically because of low ridership and the least impact. if you're traveling on these lines during rush-hour, allow for extra time. all the work is taking place during rush-hour and like toni was saying if you think you need to hydrate at the shore, you definitely need to drink more water down there because you're losing it with perspiration. take it from me. we were down there for a while. it is hot. live in herold square, nina pineda, channel 7 eyewitness news. >> no question, nina, thank you very much. >>> new jersey transit commuters are hoping the evening rush will be better than the morning commute. a train became disabled on the hudson river tunnel this morning. 200 people were on

it's high out there. 91% newark. 88 jamaica queens and st. albans. a little humid ride on the ferries today coming from jersey city. winds out of the south. 86 for the high this afternoon. it will be warm. it will be humid. thunderstorms to end the week. we look at the weekend forecast. heather, are you a mr. softy ice cream person. >> who isn't. >> i chase the truck down in my neighborhood. >> that must look good. >> let's go to the maps and talk about something that doesn't look good at all. that's path trains suspended. one trains no trains between penn station and barclay and includes suspension on the d trains. street cleaning rules are in effect. michelle, over to you. >> you thank you, heather. >>> former subway spokesman jared fogle is expected to plead guilty to federal child pornography charges. six weeks ago the fbi seized computers near his home. by that time they charged russell taylor, the head of the child pornography. fogle became a pitch man for subway 15 years ago after he loft 200 pounds on a diet of subway sandwiches. subway splen

check out the winds south and southwest gusting up to 22 around jamaica queens. look at those humidities. everybody at 90% humidity. taking the ferry over this morning, look at that southeast wind at 20 miles an hour gusting to 25. that will be a fun ride this morning back and forth. be very careful on and off. have your rain gear. even if you're going bridgeport, port jeff that will be a little bouncy. i want to show you our computer model. this rain is really out of here between 6 and 7:00. so we have sun breaking out west of the area by 7:00 and the sun's out in the city around 10, 11, eastward we're looking at what's going to be that rain ending in the afternoon. heather's looking at your community. >> i haven't had any reports of flooded roadways. you want to take it easy if you're out driving around this morning. lets talk about taking it easy and showing you this webcam. this is not an easy thing at all. we have this accident over here. this is a tow truck right here. i can see one of the vehicles that are involved there. we have a police vehicle here, rea

the mta says there will be no e service to or from jamaica 179th street. your best bet is to transfer union turnpike. for the next week to week on the 123 fast-track will feel more like slowpoke. this weekend next, all service out of 34th street is suspended from 10:00 p.m. until 5:00 a.m. for regular maintenance. >> major airlines will affect a lot of people. >> reporter: you should avoid the 123 all together but if you can't, the one will be stopping in penn station for the most part the two will be running on the 5 tracks and the 3 will be suspended in manhattan but a shuttle bus will be available. keep in mind the work that is going to be happening in queens will take three weeks and the 123 line will take three weeks of this is not just the one bad week for people, this is an extended project so you should plan accordingly. that is elitist, the latest , of you mike: robert: david is being held without bond as a fugitive of was nabbed. she took the picture and posted it to instagram before the july 4th weekend, raised security concerns. he is held with

she beat jamaica. it's only the second time in history that three women have broken the 222nd mark. >> china had track success. >> kenya remain top of the medal table. after friday, the united states is second with four gold just ahead of jamaica and great britain. >> an issue came up after bolt was knocked down on a cameraman on a segue in beijing. >> he said he was sorry. as much as he could, but i checked to make sure he was ok, because i think he got the worst of it, because he was off balance, he was falling backwards. i'm not sure if he hit his head, but it was scary. accidents happen and i have to few cuts, but it's nothing that i've never done to myself in training, so i'll be all right. the rumor i'm trying to start is that justin gatlin paid him off, but i'm all right, so it's all good. >> i want my money back. he didn't complete the job. >> olympians will be band from taking sleeping tablets. officials hope to avoid a similar incident to the one in london when six members of the australian t

he could win an 11th as part of jamaica's relay team. >> the american clinch would the 400 meters, postingastest time in the world this year. it's the united states third gold of the championships. >> poland picked up its second hammer gold medals breaking the record twice. no medals for kenya thursday but remain atop the standings with six gold, united states in second followed by jamaica and great britain. >> south africa will name its squad on friday and racial makeup will be heavily scrutinized. officials have been accused of not including enough black players. we have this report. >> south africa's biggest township soweto is officially football territory. slowly, rugby is making in-roads. this 12-year-old has played for two years. his interest is driven by the soweto rugby union. it wants to develop the sport in the township. >> i want to play and be famous. >> achieving his dream may not be easy. the local union said this is the only playable field. >> by the time you finish, who's going to play in those facilities? because there's no support for programs or for events to take place.

jamaica has been overtaken by the u.s. in the men's race but it was the opposite in the women's relay. mills to give the jamaicans the 4 x 400 meters. canada got a second gold a in the men's high jump. it was a good final day for ethiopia. the first person from the african country to win the women's marathon. it was a podium sweep for ethiopia in the women's 5,000 meters. winning with a championship record time of 14:26.83. it meant 1500 meters champion missed out on an unprecedented double. she had to settle for bronze. kenya and the championships top of the medal's table, retaining the men's 1500-meter title to give the country it's seventh gold. they finished ahead of jamaica and the united states. >> in english premiere league leaders confirmed the signing of belgium international kevin deblbuena. he signed for $75 million. last season he was named bundesliga player of the year scoring ten goals and making 21 assists. this will be his second stint in the premiere league having been sold by chelsea last year for $25 mil

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these humidities are high for the afternoon hours. 63% at laguardia. 70 jamaica queens and around jamaica bay and 67 around newark. taking the ferry back and forth to jersey city or staten island, look at that wind. 20 miles per hour wind gusting up to 22. and we got a water temperature of 76. look at the water temperature in the sound at 80 degrees here if you go back and forth in port jeff to bridgeport. for the afternoon the temperature will be around, i would say, 85 to 86 then it will drop to the upper 70s this evening. we are looking at a high humidity today and tomorrow. so, certainly not as hot but humid and more so. the front that we are talking about for friday is right here. that will slide in to the new york city area, new jersey, connecticut, long island as we go into overnight thursday into friday. 86 this afternoon. 74 tonight. warm and sticky. then tomorrow, we are looking at really more of the same. a pop up thunderstorm late in the day. friday morning there could be a thunderstorm and into the afternoon as a front goes west to east across the area. then that gets out of