. >> john henry smith is following the story. >> did you live on campus?yes, did. >> reporter: this 19 year old was in court watching as a 16 year old former schoolmate accused him of rape. they met up late last year and came intimate, but then the girl says he took things too far and forced himself upon her. jurors toured the scene tuesday. >> she is a 15-year-old girl without sexual experience. she tried to say no. >> reporter: prosecutors argue the alleged rape is part of what is known as the senior solute. senior boys competing to have sex with freshmen girls. the accusers name was the only one in all caps. >> specifically didn't you believe the -- defendant and some of his friends were competing to could lay the largest number of girls. lay was the term the defendant and his friends coined through the practice of the senior salute. >> reporter: the lawyer says the girl knew all about the senior salute and pointed out emails that show she was okay of what was going to happen. >> it was a source of pride for girls at the school to be asked to participat

. >> john henry smith is here with more on this story. john?> reporter: stephanie about 100 people were gathered inside of the tent in new hampshire for a late afternoon circus performance. no one will ever forget what happened right after the show began. >> it was terrifying and scary, and i don't think i'll go to the circus again. >> reporter: two people died monday when a circus tent was swept up by a sudden violent storm. >> according to the national weather service there was one inch hail, 60 mile an hour winds and severe lightning. >> next thing you know the wind picked up and from there on it took the tent with it. >> reporter: witnesses say the realtor ror came from the metal spikes that had been holding the tent down. >> people who were part of the circus just yelled run, and in the same motion i just see stakes and stuff coming up out of the ground. >> i see these very large metal poles starting to come out of the ground and fly up into the air towards us so i took my son, and i -- we were on the second tier on the bleachers, and i to

john henry smith has more. >> did you live on campus?yes, i did. >> reporter: he was watching as a 16-year-old former schoolmate accused him of rape. both teenagers agree they met up late one night last year in an empty room on campus, and became intimate, but then she says he forced himself upon her. jurors toured the scene tuesday with labrie looking on. prosecutors argue the alleged rape was part of what is known at st. paul's at the senior salute, senior boys competing to have sex with freshmen girls. labrie made a list of potential solutes the day after the assault, the accusers name was the only one in all caps. >> the defendant and some of his friends were competing to see who could lay the largest number of girls. lay, was the term that the defendant and his friends coined for the practice of the senior solute. >> reporter: labrie's lawyer says the girl knew all about the senior salute and pointed out emails between the two that he claims shows the accusing was okay with what happened. one email, read, quote: >> it was a source o

john henry smith has more on the trial. >> do you see him in the courtroom today. >> from the time the alleged victim took the stand at the new hampshire rape trial both sides worked to answer a key question. did the senior have intercourse with his iowa cueser at all? the police said that she twice questioned labree. >> it was very clear to me that further conversation with him was not going to be conducive with his mom being there. owen said that he finally saw that we should not be talking about that matter in a coffee shot where there were employees and other people at the front of the shop. i offered that he could come back with us, and he offered to do that. >> she admitted that he never admitted to her having sex with her accuser during either of their meetings. on monday, one classmate testified that he believed something happened. >> he told you that he hooked up with her? >> that's correct. >> did he elaborate any further? >> no, he did not. >> what does that mean to you? >> it could have meant, again, anything from they kissed to they had sex. >> other classmates admitted to

john henry smith has more. >> reporter: from the time the alleged victim took the standing at the startf the new hampshire prep school rape trial, both sides have worked to answer a key question, did the senior have intercourse with his accuser at all. julie curtain testified tuesday that she twice questioned labrie once in the police station after labrie's mom repeatedly interrupted a coffee shop interview. >> it was clear to me a further conversation was not going to be conducive with his mom being there. >> what happened next? >> owen said that he finally saw that we shouldn't be talking about that subject matter in a coffee shop where there was employees, there was other people at the front of the shop, and i again offered that he could come back to the pd with us, and he said he would do that. >> reporter: detective curtain admitted that labrie never admitted to having sex with his accuser. on monday one class mate testified that something happened. >> he told you that he hooked up with her? >> that's correct. >> and did he elaborate any further? >> no, he did not. >> what did that

>> so, i guess -- so don't spread that, don't tell people. >> reporter: john henry smith, al jazeera. the new new orleans, ten years after the city's worst natural disaster, some young people are seeing a bright opportunity. ♪ >>> all this week we're looking back at the impact on new orleans after hurricane katrina. >> reporter: for generations this family has called new orleans home. now she can't notice how different the city and its people look. >> i hope a lot of black people still come back. >> reporter: it has been a concern since katrina emptied new orleans. >> this city will be chocolate at the end of the day. [ applause ] >> reporter: how to make sure some people aren't left behind in the boom of rebuilding. >> i think the issue near and deer to my heart is to make sure that those individuals who were naturally born new orleansians, they don't feel as if this new new orleans is moving forward and there's a place for them in this city. >> reporter: while 67% of the city used to be african american, it has now dropped to 58%. and the percentage of whites has grown slightly. >>

john henry smith has the details. >> reporter: hillary clinton's announcement that she will hand over personal email server to the justice department is a stark departure of the position she has maintained for five months. >> reporter: the server contains personal communications from my husband and me, and i believe i have met all of my responsibilities, and the server will remain private. >> reporter: the clinton campaign says she now is also giving investigators 3 thumb drives containing roughly 30,000 emails relating to her work. the fbi is investigating whether her use of a personal email account and private server resulted in the mishandling of any classified information. just hours before the announcement, a state department report said that two of the emails on clinton's server have been classified as, quote, top secret, though it also acknowledged that the material was not marked that way at the time the emails were sent. clinton has long denied any type of classified emails ever existed on her personal server. >> i'm certainly well aware of the classification requirements, an

thank you john henry smith.he final stage of sentencing is getting way for colorado theater shooter john henry holmes. on monday, the jury rejected. >> a woman that died in a texas jail last month has filed a lawsuit. the family just announced that it is taking legal action against the people involved in the case because bland's family has not received answers to many questions they have asked. surrounding the 28-year-old's death in police custody. they also say they want the justice department to intervene in the investigation. the investigation as it goes forward is one that we are unclear about. there are ever inconsistents. there are questions that we don't know have been asked right now concerning this. to that end, we believe that the deal that is involved in this situation. >> the texas rangers and fbi are looking into bland's death. baltimore police have a partnership with federal agency to help curb crime. the spikes in recent months, a lot of people were killed in july, to the highest ever since 1972.

demonstrators have been out for days and john henry smith has more. >> reporter: st.ouis police released this dramatic video of an angry crowd over 100 strong confronting them in the streets. protests and looting erupted after police shot and killed a man and police say he pointed a gun at them as he ran after they tried to serve a warrant at a home in the city's north side. they say there were drugs and stolen guns at that home. a crowd estimated at around 150 soon gathered at the scene. many of them reportedly had already been in the area protesting the one-year anniversary of the police shooting death of a 25-year-old mentally disturbed man wielding a knife. soon the crowd was hurling glass bottles, rocks and bricks. >> a car was set on fire and receiving numerous calls right now for businesses that are being burglarized and officers responding to the neighborhood. >> reporter: protesters marking the one-year anniversary of the police shooting of michael brown in ferguson. just last week police in ferguson shot and wounded 18-year-old tyrone harris after five strai

. >> the watts riots 1965, john henry smith take as look back at the fires of protests that engulfed america's cities. >> the man said to me today this would not have happened if the negroes had been treating differently, and if you treat somebody like a mad dog, he will behave like a mad dog, do you believe that. >> i have to go along with that. >> when a white highway patrol patrol officer pulled over a 21-year-old black motorist he suspected of drunk driving, as the officer got physical, on lockers roushed in believing they were seeing another example of excessive force by a police department many views a an occupying force before long buildings were with being burned blood spilled. >> the watts riots would last six days and cover more than 46 square miles. 34 people dies more than 1,000 would be hurt, more than $40 million of property damages about 300 million in today's dollars many in the community called what happen a violent reaction to years of second class treatment you can't go along with a person if they don't go along with you there the aftermath, governor pat brown, app

came out in support of the bill, new york's other senator, she told the hill.com, that quote: john henry smith jazeera. >>> getting into the yates just got a little bit tougher. homeland security announced tighter security measures from visitors from 38 countries. these new changes require the use of passports that contain little chips with biometric information. the number of u.s. air marshals will also be expanded. officials say this is all in response to growing threats from fighters who have gone to syria and over to iraq to join isil and other groups. the obama administration says it expects that russia is behind a cyber attack against a government computer network. they targeted the email system late last month. the defense department responded by taking the network off line for more than ten days. they said the sophistication suggests a government sponsor. >>> new figures out today show the u.s. economy added 215,000 jobs to payrolls in july. and patricia sabga has the details. >> it's steady as she goes. the economy added 215,000 jobs last month. that was enough to put it over that cru

kirsten gillibrand told the hill.com that quote: john henry smith, al jazeera. >>> getting into the unitedions is about to become tougher for some people. homeland security announced tighter security measures for visitors from 38 countries who it's citizens do not need visas to enter the states. it requires the use of pass ports that continue chips and bioinformation. officials say the new measures are in response to growing threats from fighters who have gone to syria and iraq to join isil and other groups. >>> the white house says it expects russia is behind a cyber attack. military officials say the sophistication of the attack suggests a government sponsor, and that it fits the pattern of past russian hacks. >>> new numbers this morning for the u.s. economy show that it's holding steady. unemployment still hanging at 5.3%. after employers added 215,000 jobs in july. now the biggest bump was in manufacturing, which saw 15,000 new jobs last month. that was enough to counter major job cuts in the mining sector energy firms shed 4,000 jobs thanks to sinking oil prices. >>> the governor of

. >>> john henry smith reporting there. >>> and al jazeera exclusive. >> my son's life and death hasger purpose on it. he was too good for this wicked world. >> conversation with michael brown's mother, one year after her son was killed in ferguson. stay with us. ♪ >>> a suicide bombing at a mosque killed more than a dozen people in saudi arabia. the mosque in the southwest was attacked this morning. at least 13 people were killed. the interior minister says ten were security officers. isil is claiming responsibility. >>> back here in the u.s. firefighters have made some progress against the two dozen wildfires in california. the respite came from lower temperatures and higher humidity in the region. so far only about 20% of the wildfires are under control, at least 140,000 acres of land have burned across the state. >>> congress is accusing the state department of playing politics on its report about human trafficking. the senate foreign relations committee wrapped up a review of the report just moments ago. they were investigating a news agency report that the report was watered do

. >>> john henry smith, thank you. >>> protecting their tribal rights, native americans say a 150-year-oldaty lets them harvest off of nearby land, but they could be prosecuted for doing it. >>> a native american tribe is putting an 1855 treaty to the test in minnesota. members gathered wild rice outside of their reservation a right say they the treaty guarantees them. and they say if they are allowed to harvest that rice they should also have other uses for the land. diane eastabrook reports. >> reporter: the plan was to defy state rules about gathering wild rice, but it was subtle before the tribe members unloaded canoes. >> special permit from the department of natural resources. >> i'm glad to see that. i'm sure everybody else is glad to see that too. >> reporter: this tribe member wasn't. he tore up the special one-day permit. >> we never requested this application or applied for it. >> reporter: they wanted to be ticketed so they could challenge the state in federal court. they say minnesota is ignoring a treaty allowing them to hunt, fish, and gather rice on hundreds of miles of lan

. >> john henry smith, thank you.his week marks one year since michael brown was shot and killed in ferguson missouri. the death of the teen sparked a national outcry and raised questions about racial bias. tony harris sat down with an exclusive interview with his mother. she says she not ready to forgive. >> she said mike has been shot. and when i got there, i saw a hump in the street with a sheet on it. and for the next probably 72 hours, i felt like -- like -- [ inaudible ]. but i can't. i don't know i can't remember. >> what do you think when i mention the name darren wilson? what comes to mind? >> the devil. that's what comes to mind. evil. you know it's -- he is somebody's son, so getting a peak into his life with his mother is something i would like to know. he hurt my child. he -- he hurt him bad. >> he may be someone's son, but he doesn't think much of your son -- >> uh-huh. >> even to this day. >> even to this day. so how was he raised? >> there was a new interview. >> uh-huh. >> that i don't even think you

john henry smith has more. >> reporter: st. louis police released this dramatic video of an angry crowd, over 100 strong, confronting themming in the streets. protests and looting erupted in st. louis after police shot and killed an 18-year-old. police say he pointed a gun at them as he ran, after they tried to serve a war rent at a home in the city's north side. they say there were drugs and stolen guns at that home. a crowd estimated at around 150 soon gathered at the scene. many reportedly had already been in the area protesting the police shooting death of a 25-year-old mentally disturbed man wielding a knife. >> a car was set on fire, and we're receiving numerous calls for businesses being burglarized. >> reporter: tensioned have been high in the st. louis area as protesters have been marking the one year anniversary of the shooting of michael brown in ferguson. last week police shot and wounded an 18 year old after five straight days of protests. video afterwards seem to have shown he was armed. >> an area that has been p

john henry smith is here with both sides. >> reporter: good morning, stephanie.he nra says the law and companion measure are unfair, and won't do what they are designed to do. supporters say the tax is needed to raise funds for research on how to cut down on gun violence. the national rifle association and other guns rights groups sued seattle in state court over the decision to tax firearms and ammunition sales. the tax amounts to $25 for each arm sold in the city. it is designed to fund programs to cut gun violence and research its causes, but they argue that bypassing this measure, seattle has violated a state law barring municipalities from unilaterally enacting firearms regulations. and argue similar laws haven't helped. >> in chicago they did raise a good deal of money, but right now you are looking at it as the homicide capitol. >> reporter: for advocates, the money raised is more than an ancillary issue. taxpayers paid upwards of $12 million last year to treat gunshot victims. anti-gun law groups also filed suit against another come pan shun measure that

in a statement, boehner said, quote: john henry smith, al jazeera. >>> for the first time a poll indicateslinton, hillary clinton may be in trouble in a key early primary state. a poll from franklin pierce university shows bernie sanders leading clinton by seven points among likely democratic primary voters in new hampshire. this is the first time that sanders has registered a lead over clinton in any state or national poll. jeb bush used the first major foreign policy speech of his campaign to call for greater involvement in the fight against isil. >> we do not need and our friends don't ask for a major commitment of forces. but we do need to convey that we're serious. that we're determined to help local forces take back their country. we know it's not enough to dispense advice and training, and then send them on their way. >> reporter: bush says the u.s. may need to send more ground troops in iraq. he blamed president obama for isil's rise. >>> the head of a group that has publicly opposed the iran nuclear deal has quit because he now backs the agreement. he was a former nuclear advisor

john henry smith reports. >> reporter: race riots broke out in a slew of american cities during the 1960sbut it's the watts riots that have endured. >> a man said to me today that all of this would not have happened if the negroes had been treated differently and he said if you treat somebody like a mad dog, he is going to behave like a mad dog. >> i have to go along with that. >> reporter: it started when a white patrol officer pulled over a 21 year old black motorist he suspected of drunk driving. as they got physical, onlookers rushed in, believing they are seeing another example of excesstive force by a police department. before long, buildings were being burned, businesses lieutenanted, blood spilled. the watts riots would last six days and cover more than 36 square miles of l.a. more than a,000 people were hurt. more than $40 million of property damaged about 300 million in today's dollars. many in the black community called it a violent reaction to blacks at the hands of whites. >> the white man has not been going along with us, so by doing this, we feel we can make them go along w

john henry smith has more. >> he had at least one arrest as well as multiple commitments to mental health facilities in his past, now two weeks after the theater shootings in louisiana he had movie goers in tennessee ducking for cover. >> that's the sound of the latest theater shooting suspect being shot dead by police. >> it was a lot a lot of shots. it was coming from the side of the needer. >> police began receiving emergency called just after 1:00 p.m. from the car mikes hickory eight in the suburb, witnesses say 29-year-old david monotan know walked into a screening of mad max fury road, wearing a surgical mask, and carrying two backpacks as well as weapons. >> he was armed with a hatchet, and armed with a weapon that strongly resembled a semiautomatic pistol, as we know now it is an air soft gun. >> he was also allegedly armed with pepper spray. >> the gunman apparently unleashed this pepper spray throughout the theater. as additional officers the swat team, entered that theater, it was very thick with chemical spray. >> police say officers arrived in minutes and ended the threat. a

. >> john henry smith is following this story. >> david, this is the second fatal tent collapse in america this week. of course, a day after a man died in a collapse at a chicago area concert tragedy struck again this time, in new hampshire. it was terrifying and scary and i don't think i will go to the circus again. >> two people died monday when a circus tent at new hampshire lancaster fairgrounds was swept up, by a sudden violent storm. >> according to the national weather service, it was one inch hail, 60-mile per hour winds and severe lightening. the wind picked up, and from this on took the tent with it. >> the real terror came from the suddenly air upon spikes that had been holding it down. >> people that were part of the circus just yelled run and in the same motion, i just see stakes coming out of the ground, next thing you know the tent is coming over. >> i see these very large metal poles that go through the top of the tent, i can see them out of the ground and fly into the air towards us. so i took my son and we were on the second seat second tier and i took him, and i threw hi

john henry smith is covering the story for us this morning. john, why is clinton doing this now. >> it dependency who you ask. really, if you talk to the hillary clinton camp, they'll they will you thatble, misclinton is just cooperating with the justice department and if you ask the mostly republican opposition, they'll say a variation of the chickens are coming home to roost. the f.b.i. are investigating hillary clinton as to whether or not her use of personal emails and use of a personal server, whether or not those usages have resulted in any mishandling of classified information, and just hours before hillary clinton made that announcement yesterday, a state department report said that two of the emails on clinton's server had been classified at top secret, though it should be noted that it was also acknowledged that the material was not marked that way at the time those emails were sent, so certainly to summarize, certainly this f.b.i. move earlier in the day might have played some role in her making this announcement later in the day yes

john henry smith with the details. john, there have to be very nervous investors this morning. >> i'm one of them. that's why they say don't read your 401k. statement. just let it go. you may hear there's a pending interest rate hike by the fed. the dow is now at its lowest point all year. the s and p. and nasdaq fell 2%. stock marketsen germee, france and china were down sharply, as well. in this world we live in, it's all connected. so we also know there are big economic problems in china. what's the factor there? >> in recent years, we've come to see china as this unstoppable juggernaut of an economy that keeps going and going, but growth has slowed. that causes concerns that growth throwdown in china and europe could be a drag on the u.s. economy, as well. >> normally, the oil prices are good news, but is it good news? >> it's very connected. investors believe that the slowing economies will require less oil. that's driving prices lower here, too. oil briefly traded under $41 a barrel. that's the first time that ha

john henry smith is here with more. police are searching for a second suspect. >> that's right. he was with the now dead 18-year-old when police confronted them both. police want to talk with him about what happened. as for the protestors, they were already in the streets when word of this latest shooting raced through the crowd. st. louis police released this dramatic video of an angry crowd, over 100 strong confronting them in the streets. protests and looting erupted in st. louis wednesday after police shot and killed an 18-year-old they say pointed a gun at him as he ran after they tried to serve a warrant in the city's north side. they say there were drugs and stolen guns at that home. a crowd estimated at 150 gathered at the scene. many of them reportedly had already been in the area protesting the one year anniversary of the police shooting death of a 25-year-old mentally disturbed man wielding a knife. soon the crowd was hurling glass bottles, rocks and bricks. >> a car was set on fire and we are receiving numerous calls now for businesses that are being burglarized and

john henry smith is here with details. good morning.ow does this impact the congressional vote coming up in september? >> congress has until september 17 to vote on a resolution of disapproval of the iran nuclear deal. that's something president obama vowed to veto. supporters feel that without schumer, that veto won't save the deal. >> supporters of the iran deal have reason to worry now that the most influential jewish lawmaker in the senate won't support the deal. in a statement senator charles schumer said: >> after schumer's announcement, new york congressman elliott engle, a ranking member of the house fortune affairs commit key said he will vote against the deal. he previous live expressed doubt about ires desire to be truly transparent. >> already we're seeing iran's leadership declare that military sites will be off limits to inspectors. if this is iran's version of transparency during the implementation of the agreement we're getting off to a bad start. >> speaking friday morning from vietnam, secretary of state john kerry sai

john henry smith here. what's the suspect's family saying? >> randall, the mother of suspect shannon miles says her son could not possibly be guilty of killing deputy darren goforth because he was shopping with her at the time according to her. authorities say the ten-year veteran of the force was gunned down around 8:30 p.m. friday night from behind at a gas station near houston. miles was taken into custody a half mile from the shooting scene. he has an extensive arrest record over the last decade, but there's no previous interactions between the suspect and the deputy. the harris county sheriff says he thinks deputy goforth was a victim of wearing a law enforcement uniform and the animosity in america fostered by highly publicized police shootings of unarmed black men. >> when the rhetoric ramps up to the point where calculated, cold-blooded, assassinations of police officers happened, this rhetoric has gotten out of control. we've heard black lives matter. all lives matter. cops lives matter, too. so why don't we drop the qualifier and sa

john henry smith has more from new york. >> reporter: don't expect the deflate gate scandal to resolveshort of tom brady standing up and shocking everyone, by saying yeah, i did it, this case will likely continue into the month of september. both the nfl and player's union have asked the judge to render a ruling by september 4th, which is a mere six days before they begin their title defense by taking the field against the pittsburgh steelers. all indications are still that tom brady will be watching that game, instead of playing in it. >>> another quarterback who literally suffered a blow to his preparations to the start of the season is the new york jets geno-smith, he was punched in the face by a teammate. the coach says the whole thing was just a silly spat. >> i can't say it was anything. i just said the whole thing was childish. a little tit-for-tat, he said she said, some high school stuff that they could have handled better > >>> serena williams began her warm-up in toronto, but had to battle back to reach the third round. williams went on to the win the next two sets, 6-3, 6-0

john henry smith, aljazeera. >> too in tonight for special coverage of the watts riots 50 years later. >>> it was less than a month ago when a white cincinnati police officer shot and killed a black unarmed motorist during a traffic stop. and today, there are new reports about a surge of traffic citations handed to blacks from campus officers long before the death of driver, samuel dubois. officer ray tense was indicted last month for murder in the shooting. 43% of all citations were issued to black moat ritz, and that number jumped to 63% in 2013. the university chief of police said that he's horrified by the findings toy. >> in just a few hours, republican candidate, jeb bush, will deliver a speech at the ronald reagan library in california. bush is expected to outline a strategy for fighting isil. according to releases from the campaign, he will have words for front runner, hilliary clinton, who is making news herself this evening. she has directed her campaign to give her private email server to the justice department. let's go to michael in simi valley. and we're going to talk ab