john siegenthaler has more. >> the most wanted man in europe may be in belgian custody but the search has been a long one of. >> a professional one led to these very important results in the fight against terrorism and the fight for democracy. >> long before salah be abdeslam was scooped into custody by authorities, just days after the november paris attacks, these images show abdeslam at a gas station between paris and brussels. the trail went cold soon after. as french and belgian police conducted dozens of raids and questioned dozens suspected of collaborating with abdeslam. he was even thought to be in syria, be but authorities found abdeslam's fingerprints in an apartment in brussels, also found suicide bomb belts. on tuesday belgian police conducted a raid of what they thought was an empty apartment. instead, police came under attack. firing back they killed one jeeralgerian man. his firnts werhis fingerprints . leading them to abdeslam was captured in the very same neighborhood where he grew up. >> we must catch all those who allowed organized or facilitated these attacks and w

. >>> al jazeera's john siegenthaler looks back at the manhunt and the clues that led to today's capture. >> reporter: the most wanted an in europe may now be in belgian custody but the road to his capture has been a long and frustrated one. >> translator: intense work has been done, a meticulous job, a professional work that led to these very important results in the fight against terrorism. very important results in the battle for democracy. >> long after salah abdeslam was scooped up by authorities in brussels, the man was shown in a gas station between paris and brussels. the trail went cold soon after. as french and belgian police conducted dozens of raids and questioned dozens suspected of being in be concert with abdeslam. authorities said they found suicide bomb belts. on tuesday belgian police conducted a raid of what they thought was an empty apartment, instead police came under attack. firing back they killed one algerian man while two others, one possibly abdeslam escaped. later abdeslam's fingerprints were found, handing authorities their biggest break since the paris attack

john siegenthaler is up now. >> thank you tony. donald trump and hillary clinton, each won seven states and many delegates. it happens the democratic party is rallying behind hillary clinton many the same can't be said for the gop. sharply divided over donald trump. senior correspondent michael shure is in miami, michael. >> john, good evening, donald trump can what he had to do, in a way losing texas was a good thing for him because i.t. kept ted cruz in the race. ted cruz would have dropped out if he hadn't bee been able to wn his home state. trying to get the republican party endorsers that have backed him, the calendar doesn't favor him nor does the result that he saw last night from super tuesday. but the field made thin a little bit tomorrow, the reports having ben carson leaving the race but the night belonged to donald trump. news that ben carson will be leaving the race, will not attend the debate and sees no path forward. super tuesday propelled donald trump further tort towards closg the biggest deal of his life. >> i ha

john siegenthaler is up next with more of today's news right now. >> tony, thank you.resident obama and the first lady are now guests of hour at a state dinner in havana. it's one of the main events of the president's historic visit to cuba. mike viqueira joins us from havana with more on the president's busy day on the island. mike? >> reporter: good evening, to you, john. raul castro says there are profound differences between his country and the united states, and certainly those differences were on display today. amid all of the pomp, ceremony, and goodwill, castro lashed out at critics on his country's record on human rights. shaking hands for the first time on cuban soil. they talked for two hours behind closed doors, but when they emerged it was clear that the acrimony, 54 years couldn't be forgotten, even with the ceremony and goodwill. asked by an american voter why cuba has political piz -- prisoners, castro bristled. >> translator: what political prisoners? give me a name or names. give me a list, and if we have those political prisoners, they will be releas

i'm john siegenthaler. ali velshi "on target" is next. ♪ >>> on target tonight robots in the workplace, cyber war between nations and designer babies. our digital future and how it will change the way we live. get ready because the future is coming. how many times have you heard that? now you hear a lot about a so-called fourth industrial revolution. that's already upon us, by the way. this revolution was undo the global industrial economy, which has underpinned the

i'm john siegenthaler. "ali velshi on target" is next. >> i'm ali velshi. "on target" tonight, america's cold war in the caribbean is fast coming to an end. the united states and cuba are taking steps to end more than half a century of disagreement. yet the embar go is in place. cuba is in the throes of change and the relationship with the ufts may never bunited states pe same. president obama has removed some restrictions on trade and bank and this month he traveled to the country. no sitting president has set foot in havana since calvin coolidge sailed there in 1928. but president obama spoke to them live from the great theater of havana. listen. >> i believe the citizens should be free speak their mind without fear to organize and to criticize their government and to protest peacefully. and that the rule of law should not include arbitrary detensions of peopldetentionsof people whoe rights. >> our reporter david ariosto used to live in havana, as a base to report on it for an american audience. he went back to have a look at the america's policy and how

i'm john siegenthaler, "ali velshi on target" is next. . >> i'm ali velshi. "on target" tonight. addiction in america. a frightening firsthand look at a growing drug epidemic. it's the new high you can buy at the corner store. america's heroin epidemic is not this country's only drug problem despite the impression you might get listening to presidential candidates. there is another newer drug plaguing america that goes by street names of k 2, spice, skooby snacks and green giant. they are synthetic ca canabinoi. there are important differences k-2 is a fraction of the cost of marijuana, it's often sold illegal in stores as ininsense.. while k-2 overdoses don't often kill users like heroin does, smoking the drug can definitely turn people into what law enforcement officials call people zombies, it makes some people very sick. since 2015 there have been more than 6,000 k 2 emergency room visits, in new york city. people using k 2 have been brought in for everything from seizures to psychosis. homeless people account for most of new york's k 2 users but it has been growing in popula

i'm john siegenthaler. ali velshi "on target" is next. >> i'm ali velshi. "on target" tonight. are marijuana in america. legalization is paving the way for big business but it also exposes plenty of problems that need to be solved. americans' attitude towards illicit drug use has softened over the years. 23 states have legalized marijuana for use, california, oregon, washington and colorado, legalized portions of spall amounts of marijuana for personal use. now officially, state laws decriminalizing pot are at odds with federal law which bans it but since drug prosecutions are mostly done at the state level decriminalization is here to stay. next door in canada, local jurisdictions have experimented with decriminalizing marijuana but canada's new prime minister, justin trudeau promises to make pot the law of the land. drug use is considered a public health issue not a crime. since 2001, porsche gal porschet only decriminalized it, less than a ten day supply that person appears before a three judge panel activitying of a lawyer, a doctor and a social worker. recommending treatme

i'm john siegenthaler. >> >> i'm ali velshi. you "on target" tonight. hitting the brakes. red light cameras set up to make intersections safer, also make a ton of revenue for american cities. it is a combination of quick yellow lights and fast money that make it hard to stop in more ways than one. i'm talking flit about two subjects that don't usually end up in the same conversation. one is the number of people killed or injured in traffic accidents in american cities and the other is the large budget shortfall faced by many of those cities. tonight i am drawing your attention oa controversial third topic that we first covered last november, that brings those two together in chicago and in other cities. red light cameras. you know what i'm talking about, cameras that take photos of drivers who run through red lights. cameras that result in tickets that can cost drivers between 50 and nearly $500. a driver's desire to avoid those tickets is a key reason that advocates say the cameras reduce crashes. the insurance institute for highway safety says independent research shows

i'm john siegenthaler. ali velshi "on target" is next. ♪ >>> on target tonight robots in the workplace, cyber war between nations and designer babies. our digital future and how it will change the way we live. get ready because the future is coming. how many times have you heard that? now you hear a lot about a so-called fourth industrial revolution. that's already upon us, by the way. this revolution was undo the global industrial economy, which has underpinned the advances made by human society for more than 200 years. replacing the old model will be a global digital economy fueled by advances in information technology, data crunching, automation and robotics as well as advances in genetic and biological sciences. that's a lot, but to really understand the gravity of what i'm talking about, it is useful to go back in history and see how transformative past industrial revolutions have been. in the late 1700s the british pioneered the use of water, superheated into steam by coal to power mechanicized produc

john siegenthaler is up next.enthaler is up next. >>> we begin until paris where police say they've rested to a man said to be in the advanced stages of a plot to attack france. authorities say there are no links between that plot and the attack in brussels this week or the attack in november on paris. officials said they over looked one of the warnings of the attackers. paul brennan is in brussels. >> reporter: how many attackers were involved in the brussels bottomings? cctv showed three at the airport. three are known to be dead but one on the run. media says there may have been two people involved in the braft at the station. a suicide be that as it mayer and another man who may be-- a suicide bomber and another one who may stillat large. questions are being asked at the interelgs

john siegenthaler is up next. >> tony, thank you, we're just hours away from super tuesday, the singlegest voting day of the primary season. discussion has been surrounding disavowing donald trump. >> reporter: john good evening to you in miami. florida not a super-tuesday state bu

john siegenthaler is up now. >> thank you tony. donald trump and hillary clinton, each won seven states and many delegates. it happens the democratic party is rallying behind hillary clinton many the same can't be said for the gop. sharply divided over donald trump. senior correspondent michael shure is in miami, michael. >> john, good evening, donald trump can what he had to do, in a way losing texas was a good thing for him because i.t. kept ted cruz in the race. ted cruz would have dropped out if he hadn't bee been able to wn his home state. trying to

john siegenthaler is up next. >> thank you.016 race for the white house moves to the rust belt tomorrow. the michigan primary is the matchup out of four contests being held on tuesday. republicans will caucus in hawaii and hold a primary idaho. bisi onile-ere looks at what is at stake in michigan. >> millions of good jobs lost, communities devastated. >> reporter: in michigan the political ads are hard to miss. >> he'll do for michigan what he has done for ohio. >> reporter: ahead of the primary presidential election. the candidates are hitting the campaign trial hard. >> ladies and gentlemen, the

john siegenthaler asks judy how she got her start. >> trotted out on stage at four years old in beauty, be montana and never looked back. >> what is life like for judy collins now? >> about 120 performances a year. i never stop working. >> were you always about the politics? >> always about. >> always? >> still am, meta-mad. >> mad about the war in the '60s. today you're pad about? >> posttraumatic stress, in our soldiers coming back to bad health care, lack of understanding, the fact we can't get our congress to work do the things for the middle class to raise the minimum wage for the middle class, it's easy to get mad about a lot of things but yes, i was always politically inclined. my dad was very active. activists spoke out, nornlgd us to speak ouencouragedus to spea. and encouraged us to do our best at all times. >> what about artists? >> i think a lot of people are doing a lot of things, i was very close with pete seeger. this was a couple of years before he died, i asked him how do you feel about people these days? he said i've never been more optimistic. i said why is that? bec

john siegenthaler is up next with more of today's news right now. >> tony, thank you.sident obama and the first lady are now guests of hour at a state dinner in havana. it's one of the main events of the president's historic visit to cuba. mike viqueira joins us from havana with more on the president's busy day on the island. mike? >> reporter: good evening,

john siegenthaler sat down on her on the of a of her recent retirement and asked how she knew she wanted to be a journalist. >> i knew i wanted to be a journalist fairly early but it never occurred to me i was going to work in television. when i was growing up there were no women in television news. i wanted to -- mine was more modeled after his girl friday, i wanted to be a newspaper journalist. i wanted to run in and say "stop the presses." i started with the ap, then fired from the ap for letting a personal letter to get out over the associated press news wire. >> and the lack of women? >> that got me hired for a tv station in houston. he said boy you wr write funny. i said, boy i didn't mean to. he said we pay twice what ap does. i said television no thank you, i've seen it. he says we pay twice what the ap pays, i said i could learn television. >>> when i started this revolution i knew it wouldn't be a picnic. yassir ai arafat. >> we had to rely on imagination and the show came on because the show came on the air when all our bosses were asleep, it was the one instance where the inm

john siegenthaler asked him about his b career. >> we had a few hits. an we used to essentially travel around in like a van. and play almost every night. i mean i was in this van probably 250 days a year. there was a saloon that was two blocks from my house that was on 15th street and irving place called tramples. antramps. it was run by these issue e-irish guys who had good taste in music. i thought i could take this music that i'm grooving on and i'll just do four mondays. i started doing that. by the fourth monday it was kind of like a happening scene. i started doing four weekends. i thought i'm not g.e. getting back this that van. so i kept doing buster for a while. >> during those days when you were hot in many ways, hot hot hot. ♪ ♪ >> what did you like about what you were doing? what was the biggest thrill? >> well i had been playing rock 'n' roll for a long time. and a lot of it was kind of like, you know i'm not saying this lamentably, but a lot of this is like preaching to the choir in a lot of ways. and when i started to do buster, i started

i'm john siegenthaler. "ali velshi on target" is next. >> i'm ali velshi. "on target" tonight, america's cold war in the caribbean is fast coming to an end. the united states and cuba are taking steps to end more than half a century of disagreement. yet the embar go is in place. cuba is in t

i'm john siegenthaler. >> >> i'm ali velshi. you "on target" tonight. hitting the brakes.p to make intersections safer, also make a ton of revenue for american cities. it is a combination of quick yellow lights and fast money that make it hard to stop in more ways than one. i'm talking flit about two subjects that don't usually end up in the same conversation. one is the number of people killed or injured in traffic accidents in american cities and the other is

. >> john siegenthaler is up next. >> tony, thank you.political world flit the digesting the results of last night apt presidential primaries. a stunning upset by bernie sanders to upset hillary clinton. and just when you thought donald trump was vulnerable, he won 3 out of 4 gop contests. david schuster reports. >> donald trump is celebrating his lates victories over the gop establishment by comparing his presidential potential to one of america's most beloved leaders. >> i can be more presidential than anybody. i've said this, several times, more presidential than anyone but the great abe lincoln. >> for party establishment figures trying to change the trajectory of this race, to suggest that mitt romney's objections did nothing. all but selling more magazines which he g

john siegenthaler is up next with more of today's news right now. >>> tony thank you, the presidentials tonight are getting ready for tomorrow's primaries. primaries that could make or break several of those candidates. voters will go to the polls in florida, ohio, illinois, north carolina, and missouri. enough delegates are at stake that could clench things for at least two nominates. >> tomorrow we'll shock the country, and win the 99 delegates here in florida. [ cheers ] >> reporter: marco rubio campaigning in florida monday as if his political life is at stake, and it is. he trails donald trump two to one in his home state. also at take tuesday, primaries in missouri, north carolina, and two midwestern states, ohio and illinois. in ohio, the second winner-take all contest, texas senator ted cruz invoked

john siegenthaler is up next. >> tony, thank you, we're just hours away from super tuesday, the single biggest voting day of the primary season. discussion has been surrounding disavowing donald trump. >> reporter: john good evening to you in miami. florida not a super-tuesday state but hillary clinton and marco rubio will be finishing their super-tuesdays here tomorrow. all of the candidates have been criss crossing the south pretty much. donald trump spending some time in georgia. what you are seeing here now is the mad dash to win on super-tuesday to get those delegates, and as you said a big prize here on tuesday for all five candidates on the republican side, and of course hillary clinton and bernie sanders on the democratic side. >> donald trump is nothing but a first-rate con artist. >> reporter: the race is becoming an all-out brawl. >> there have been multiple media reports about donald's business dealings with the mob, with the mafia. >> reporter: hundreds of delegates are up for grabs on super-tuesday, and the fight is now vicious. >> lightweight rubio, little mouth on him,

i'm john siegenthaler.itzer "on target" next. ♪ >> i'm ali velshi. >> i'm david schuster in for ali velshi. "on target" tonight. who is to blame for the troubling incidents at trump rallies and how can you keep both sides from going too far? one day before another round of presidential primaries, all eyes are focused on republican front runner donald trump. actually all eyes are focused o

i'm john siegenthaler, "ali velshi on target" is next. . >> i'm ali velshi. "on target" tonight.addiction in america. a frightening firsthand look at a growing drug epidemic. it's the new high you can buy at the corner store. america's heroin epidemic is not this country's only drug problem despite the impression you might get listening to presidential candidates. there is another newer drug plaguing america that goes by