while some exhibits remain closed, visitors are able to see the great hall, our john terrett is live on the island, i understand we have some numbers now we know how much it cost to restore ellis island. what can you tell us? >> we do. and we know this because the national park service that runs ellis island and the statute of liberty has now told us. the damage after hurricane sandy as liberty and also ellis island is just upwards of $77 million and here at ellis island the cost is going to be $71 -- 21 million. one day we will, del, clearly one day there will be, when it lapse again if it happens again then they reckon that instead of being closed for a whole year they will be able to turn things around in between two and four weeks. but don't let me tell you how bad things were a year ago when superstorm sandy roared in. here is the superintendent of ellis island, david luchsinger. >> we lost all our telephone, data systems, electrical systems, everything was destroyed. our offices were destroyed. everything was destroyed. we have our offices back up and operational. we have inter

. >> john terrett joins us from capitol hill. let's talk about - take it away, buddy. it seems to be changing by the minute, but not necessarily going anywhere. >> there's absolutely right. we've been in this situation for a couple of of weeks. i was pointing to my watch is it's 1 o'clock eastern, and the senate is in session. the senator jeff's office is just across here, they are in. nothing from the house. nothing today. there wasn't anything last sunday or the sunday before either. the senate is in session. we assume there'll be a series of behind-closed-doors meetings during the course of the afternoon. the emphasis moves away from the house to the senate. republicans in the house conceded that the president is not talking to them and encouraging colleagues in the senate to stand strong. when it came to a vote yesterday afternoon - i'm trying to work out how to discuss raising the debt sealing - it went down with some democrats voting against the whip. there was a meeting in the oval office between the president and leading democrats to get everyone on the same pa

. >> john terrett is standing by live in washington with more on the story. the sun is out in the nation's capital. what about optimism in the air? >> not much of that. but the sun is out, it's a beautiful day, 90 degrees. apart from the sunshine, the dod, department of defense, is recalling 350,000 furloughed workers, civilians on the job monday or tuesday. they are ordering them back saying the military can't survive without them. i have interesting figures. 350,000 workers, then, 90% of the furloughed workers working for the department of defense. 86% will be outside dc, 14% in. it shows the reach of the pentagon across the country, around the nation and overseas. chuck hagel, defense secretary, saying his lawyers interpreted the law president obama put in about backpaying the military, can bring servants back. a large number m furlougheders workers on the job next week. >> i was stuck in an airport because there weren't yourself customs officials on duty. according to the talk shows that i listened to, it seems neither side will back down. >> the senate a

john terrett, live from the capitol. thank you. >> the barack obama administration is allowing states to seize their own money to pay for park operations. some are jumping at the chance. nearly a dozen national parks and monuments are opening thanks to state funding. one is the statue of liberty in new york city, available to tourists for the first time in almost two weeks. utah reopened six attractions, and a day later it opened canyon lands and the glen cannion national recreation area. arizona's grand canyon opened and colorado's rocky mountain national park, and tomorrow south dakota mt. rushmore is set to open. jim huli has more. >> reporter: in arizona the grand canyon is open. the state agreed to by $650,000 to keep it going for the next week. >> this arizona landmark draws millions of visitors. i refuse to let wrong-headed federal policy deprive worldwide tourists to see the magnificent landscape. >> it's money the obama administration says the state is not likely to get back. with thousands of jobs dependent on

. >>> much of the boardwalk of seaside heights was destroyed from the storm, john terrett is there. what has governor christie said about the superstorm hitting his state? >> they like the fact that he stands up on a national level for state of new jersey, he has been doing the morning television programs today, and said incredible progress has been made but he still has to bang the heads of federal leaders together, to make sure sandy relief continues to flow. they've been rather stuck in many places. he also pointed out that 92 days it took the congress the get any kind of federal relief into this area for the people hardest hit by the storm and he talked about the katrina hangover, there was quite a bit of fraud after katrina and the feds cracked down on that. >> john take us back, what was the impact of the storm along that iconic jersey shore line? >> you know del, there are so many impacts, that you can talk about. there was 117 people killed in the united states when superstorm sandy came ashore. 70 of them in jersey but 30 of them on the night, so that's the human toll. monm

john terrett joining us from washington. we're waiting to hear a yes john. what more can you tell us about president obama's meeting with the democratic congress -- caucus? >> no no and no. the meeting was in the oval office and present at the meeting were apart from the president of the united states himself, harry reid, dick durbin charles schumeer they put a lid on the day which means the president won't be speaking about it either. we have heard a resume that the meeting went rather well, a state of the union really, so the president could be on the same page as everybody in the democratic party in the senate and the reason for that is they had had a meeting earlier in the day with vr republican members in the senate. present were harry reid, chuck schumer and lamar alexander. after that harry reid said that meeting had gone well but he personalized his relationship with the majority leader, said he and mitch mcconnell had known each other for years and kind of hinted they would work it out. take a listen. >> senator mcconnell and i have been in this bod

john terrett takes a look. >> reporter: healthcare.gov has had a tough start to life.ut health care.gov is a vast undertaking, computer experts say a number of crucial mistakes are to blame, including not attracting the best code write frers the start. >> it's not just the quality of the software engineers, but the entire management and process at fault here. because the top software engineers are not being attracted because the process is so broken, and it's very difficult to get good work done under these circumstances. >> david auerbach is a software expert who has worked for tech giants like microsoft and goggle. so what did or didn't they do that made this website so unstable? >> it's very easy for one problem to obscure another problem. so anyone who is sure they have identified the problem, they may not know what lurks underneath. >> reporter: with three dozen states relying on the website to offer healthcare solutions, how do they get this fixed? >> they need to verify each segment individually and then a verify that they work together. >> reporter: a poll foun

john terrett is standing buy with the story. john, i assume people want to see the money so they can fix their homes. >> show me the money, dell, that's what they are telling me. right now the people of jersey want to see the color of the cash. according to the reuters news agency del, of the $50 billion that's being earmarked to help hard-hit areas like the jersey shore where i am. of that $50 billion less than a quarter has been allocated so far, and governor christy who is the outspoken, and i think respected governor of new york, they do respect him because he speaks up for the state on the national level. he has been doing the rounds and appearing all over the state today. and he said although incredible. [ technical difficulties ] >> this is the end of the season, so you would expect that, but many of them didn't open in time for memorial day, then it tuned out july 4th and labor day, but the weather was bad, and so they put a brave face on it, people came back and supported them as much as they could, but they did not make

the senate convenes at 1:00. >> john terrett once again on capitol hill. as the debate continues on raising the debt limit there are a few key things to watch for. on october 17th, the cash will run out sometime between october 22nd and the end of the month. social security and ved ranls pay could be -- veterans pay could be put on hold. on november 1st $60 billion is due for benefit programs. with no increase, those payments could be delayed another two weeks. and on november 15th another $22 billion of interest is due. a default could very well happen. for some perspective on the impact this shutdown is having on the political landscape earlier i talked with thomas frank, he's a clo columnist with harpers magazine. i asked him who the perspective is like as the stalemate continues. >> things are plummeting in the polls, the republican party looks worse than it has ever looked. you know at the same time obamacare remains fairly unpopular, certain of the details about it. on the other hand certain parts of it are immensely popular. they have a theory that

john terrett, al jazeera, new york. >> saudi authorities are are promising action to anyone involvedhe drivers pipelines protest. >> good time to ask for rights not just for women. the way we're going about this is a calm peaceful way. we're not having any types of gatherings or protests in that sort of way. >> there's no law barring saudi women from driving but the don't refuses to issue them licenses and powerful cleri clerics enfoe that band. >>> violence that have plagued the country for decades have kept oil companies out. jamal ah sai reports. >> this is what it looked like in mogadishu. now a significant but still fragile calm has been restored. and that's allowed three petrol stations to reopen. >> the improved security situation encouraged us to reopen the station. it made a lot of drivers happy because they can now buy good quality petrol and at a reasonable price. >> functioning petrol pumps now mean that drivers don't run the risk of damaging their vehicles with corrupted petrol which has often been the only fuel on sale. >> this fuel is better and cleaner, before it woul

expecting a briefing from president obama at any moment now, but before that happens, let's go to our john terrettat the united nations. john are their any surprises that you saw just now? >> no, i'm afraid not. i think that was a very, very strong speech from prime minister benjamin netenyahu. it was splattered with sound bites, which i think he is hoping will be picked up by the media around the world. there was nothing really that was new. this is what he has been saying for a long time. he said that israel will never allow iran to get a nuclear bomb and is prepared to go it alone if it comes to that, a reference to the new warning of the relationship between washington and tehran. let me give you some of the sound bites. he said what the previous president was a wolf in wolf clothing, hassan rouhani is a wolf in sheep's clothing. he said the only waves that iran has made in the past 30 years is waves of terrorism, and he said i wish i could believe president rouhani, but i don't. he said iran's savage record flatly contradicts the smoothing words, and iran is not building a peaceful nuclear pr

john terrett has more from the un now. hn, can we trust the prime minister will also talk today about iran? >> reporter: i think that is likely to be his number one topic. he hasn't stopped talking about its since he left the airport on sunday. he met with president obama, and he went there with the anticipation of stopping what he thinks is diplomatic nonsense between washington and teheran. he got no concession from that yesterday, from president obama, but the two men did agree that iran must not be allowed to have a nuclear weapon and all options are very much still on the table, including the military option. so now we come to today and he's going to make the last speech of this general assessably. the israelis have chosen to do that, so what that means about how they are going to couch the speech, we just don't know. but it is likely to be similar to what we heard at the white house yesterday. that the president of iran is a wolf in sheep's clothing. >> john can you give us a big picture for a minute. in terms of stab

john terrett on capitol hill. thank you. >>> want to talk about this massive storm that is pummeling india's eastern coast. phailin worse part of this storm is hitting that area right now. local media have reported several deaths but we won't know that for sure. four times the size of hurricane katrina. fez shemeil is outside the eye of the storm. he has the latest. >> there's been black generosity, we have a generator but we are hearing all along the coast there is no power in most places. now here in ander pradesh on the coast the rain just came down a little bit and it's much lighter than before it will in odisha, the rain is more intense, several centimeters have already fell. we are getting report from the indian meteorological department say winds of supercyclone speed have hit the coastline. there will be zero casualties this time around the indian emergency knowledge authority has declared. right by the coast it could only hold 200 people when the entire 4,000 community was said to be evacuated. we'll find

history will tell. >> john terrett. appreciate it. >>> a manhunt is underway for two men who walked out of a floor prison with forged release documents. they were both serving life sentences. the sheriff office just spoke. what was the latest here? >> reporter: they believe these convicts are still in the orange county area in florida. they used fake signatures orderer their early release. it was judge belvin perry. he was a judge in the casey anthony trial. everyone i had spoken with, this paper had to have come from the outside. here's why. generally a paper like this would go from a judge's claim per to the clerk's office to the department of corrections to the prison. and from its verified with the clerk's office. some how that documentation by passed the judge's chamber and was flipped into the clerk's office. now this is what larry levine, an ex-co ex- convict who now wos with the government. >> they forged the stamp. i coo create these document on my computer in five minutes. that's easy. the key here is that the

we turn now to john terrett, and john the numbers in positive territory all morning, does wall streetnow something that main street doesn't? >> reporter: that's the $64,000 question. asian stocks were up, the london market was ahead, but then it slipped back, but this market from the get-go -- i mean it was immediately ahead by 80 points, and it only went down to about 60 points, and now it is up around 90 as you see. it's a fantastic day. so what is the reason for that? i'm joined by allen valdez, he is one of the floor workers here at the new york stock exchange. why is the market so far ahead when you might otherwise have expected it to be panicking. >> we all knew a deal had to be done. it's too critical not to have it. it seems early this morning there was positive news out of the white house, the senate passed the bill, it went back to the congress, and john boehner said he was definitely going to get the democrat vote on this time and get this passed. that was enough to move the market up, if we can even postpone default unfortunately just until christmas or january, we don't k

the island was without power for months but as john terrett reports, the island is already back open for business. >> not this past year: superstorm sandy put a stop to that. a 14 foot storm surge inundated the island. there was no power here for months. on monday things began looking up once more. as the tourists returned so did the smiles on the faces of the island's superintendent and his staff who have been through a lot since sandy. >> we literally lost our entire infrastructure. all our hvac systems our telephones our data systems our pledge systems. everything was destroyed. all in the basement our offices were destroyed, everything was destroyed. we have our offices back up and operational, we have interim power and everything. we've got the schematics done, we've started doing the permanent fixes and the rest of the fixes will probably take about seven months and we should be operational, fully operational and back up and better than ever in this spring. >> the national park service which runs ellis island and liberty island says the cost for prearg both will be $77 million,

john terrett is live at the new york stock exchange and how is wall street responding to news of thiseal? >> well, the dow at the moment is down by about 50 points, as you can see, it has been down for pretty much most of the day after being ahead -- ahead of the deals being signed yesterday by about 205 points. i'm not sure i agree that wall street has been focused. i think that's the point wall street hasn't been focused on what is going on in dc. it has been amazing to see this. we were all expecting a crash as the debt ceiling got closer and closer and it never came, and that was because wall street said we are seeing through your shenanigans, washington, d.c. and they were able to take out the politics from the wider debate and focus on what the real issue always was, and it was always clearly reopening the government, but most urgently getting that debt ceiling raised. and wall street never doubted that the debt ceiling wouldn't be raised. so for me that's the remarkable thing, that wall street completely ignored washington, d.c., just set it to one side, and to it? of the opini

. >> john terrett. i looked up that number. s $22 billion that's how much it has cost taxpayers. we'll continue our coverage of the default tonight. ali velshi live from washington, d.c. he's going to talk about the crisis, how close we came, and how it would have affected your wallet had no deal been struck. we're still waiting than vote to happen. >>> speaking of votes. the special election will be held at issue just who is going to fill the seat of the late frank lottenberg. it is a microcosm of political tug-of-war in washington. >> it's a race the u.s. political world is watching closely. >> he's further trying to distract people from his extreme. >> 44-year-old cor corey bookers battling against the new jersey mayor and state director of the tea party group. >> it's a referendum of big government. >> lonegan has campaigned as a relentless booker critic. >> lonegon has endorsed tea party efforts to shut down the federal government and not raise the debt ceiling until the affordable care act gets de funded. his opponent has jumped on this at every opportunity. >> do we want t

john terrett has some answers. >> reporter: running too slow, giving out incorrect information, crashing. healthcare.gov has had a tough start to life. but it's a vast undertaking that must be capable of processing and interpreting information from millions of americans. a number of mistakes have been made including not attracting the best code writers. >> it's the quality of the entire management and process that is at fault here. because the top software engineers are not being attracted because the process is so broken, and it is very difficult to get work done under these circumstances. >> reporter: david is a tech giant who has worked for companies like microsoft and google. so in words of one sill boll what did they do or didn't do that made this website so unstable. >> anyone who is sure they have identified the single problem, may, even if they are in the government and work for one of these contractors, they may not know what lurks underneath. >> reporter: with three dozen states relying on the exchange to offer insurance, there is no time to lose. >> they need to look at every

john terrett stay close. >>> as a way to recoupe the enormous loss of revenue some states reopening the state parks on the state's dime which is really on the taxpayer dime. based on an agreement with the house states are laying out cash to pay for the daily cost of running the parks. we have more with the mayor, mayoofestes park in colorado. it's a pretty day. the kind of day that someone would want to go to a national park. >> boy, it is a beautiful day, we're northwest of denver and right here on the edge of the rocky mountains. right on the edge of rocky mountain national park, but that has been closed down to everyone. this town has really been hit with an one-two punch. we have devastating flooding and that shut off some of the main roads coming in to the parks. it's so important to get the park open today and get trail ridge road open so tourists can come into this park and spend some money. we have the mayor of he is keys park. we just wanted to ask you a quick question of how important this has to be for the people especially the business here in your town today. >> this is inc

. >> john terrett, at least the skies are clearing. >>> stocks are falling today as we move closer to that thursday deadline. the dow down 74 points. you can see there is selling off after last week's big gains which showed that optimism might be in the works. >>> and debate continues over raising the debt ceiling. on october 17th the government will no longer be able to borrow and it will have an estimated $30 billion left over in its coffers. that money will run out between october 22nd to the end of this month. the government must pay debt interest or risk default. on november 1st $60 billion is due for benefit payments. and on october 15th another $29 billion interest payment is due if the economy shows that it is slowing and tax payments fall short default could occur. >>> the government shutdown also creating problems across the nation'nation's capitol. war veterans are sending messages to lawmakers on both sides of the aisle. thousands show up at this rally in washington, d.c. on sunday. they're protesting the memorials that were closed. senator ted cruz were leading the fight

. >> john terrett is in washington with more on the story. what can you tell us about the attempts to get some of the workers back in their offices? >> it's interesting that you say some of the workers, it's a large number, 350,000 men and women working for the dod will pack lunches, polish the shoes and put the sachel in the hallway because the pentagon is ordering them back. 350,000 a roughly half of all furloughed workers out. 86% will be outside dc. that's an indication of how far the pentagon reaches, across the country on bases and around the world. chuck hagel is saying in a statement that his lawyers found wording that applies to the workers, chuck hagel says that it means they can eliminate furloughs for employees whose responsibilities constitute and contribute to the morale, well being, came abilityise and readiness of military around the world. good news for the 350,000 workers. they'll be paid under the act. >> this is all about obamacare, yet obamacare is funded. the workers will gets backpay even if they are not working, and ye

john terrett is standing by live from the new york stock exchange, and do they know something we don't know on wall street? >> reporter: they do, dell. i have to put my glasses on, because since i was last here they moved the boards further back. it's up, the reason they think they know is they can separate out the politics here. the economies, the traders, and investors, they can put all of the politics to one side, and they know this debt ceiling issue is far too serious to be left alone. they think there will be a deal. and it has become clear in the next couple of days that we actually have a bit more time than we thought. the deadline is at mid-night, but the u.s. won't start to run out of money for a couple of weeks. so even if they don't get a deal today there is still time on the nation's side. >> so when congress picks up the phone was wall street in this case know something that main street doesn't know? >> reporter: ordinary americans are going to hurt if the government runs out of the ability to borrow, because this government in particular spends much more than it brings i

speaker boehner has now stopped talking to the white house, john terrett joins us live from capitol hill. trying to keep store as things continue to change. but the bottom line is-- >> reporter: it's difficult. >> yes, it is. we don't seem to be making any progress, john. >> reporter: no, we've been saying that for the last couple of weeks. nothing has changed. what happened there was a vote just a vote to begin discussion on raising the debt ceiling and in the end of the senate blocked it, and earlier in the day dick durbin predicted not a single republican would jump in with the democrats to get this debate going, and that seems to have been what happened. harry reid the majority leader also spoke earlier today. he said essentially discussion involving the republicans particularly in the house and the white house is over. it's finished. now it's all eyes on the senate when it comes to raising the debt ceiling. here's what he had to say. >> i was happy to see the republicans engaged in talks with the president. that's over with. it's done. they're not talking any more. we learned that t

. >> john terrett live on capitol hill. do keep us posted on what happens today. thank you so much >> reporter: will do. thank you. >> veterans in washington sent a messa message. thousands showed up to rally at war memorials. organizers of the million vet mercier vet vans have been dishonored due to the shutdown and they are asking for congress to introduce legislation that would prevent any member of the government from closing memorials except for maintenance purposes. about a dozen iconic national parks will soon reopen. but with money from individual states, not the federal government. the statue of liberty re-opened after being closed for neil two weeks during the government shutdown. new york state will pick up the more than 60,000 dollar a day tab to keep lady liberty running. similar moves in other states have resulted in other national parks like mount rushmore being opened. jim cooley updates us on the push to reopen the parks >> reporter: the grand canyon was open against, the state agreed to pay $650,000 to keep it going for the next week. >> this ari

john terrett reports, the latest and the greatest in comics and video games. >> it's not every day you find baba fet from the star wars trilogy playing the accordion. we knew something was up and then we realized. >> come to comicon. >> before we realized, 96y a little chilly as red sonia. >> i've if gone about to taxidermy some feet. it's pretty gross. >> nothing as far as the eye can see. >> 130,000 are expected here, fans of comic books, graphic novels, films, and the stars of some of those shows. many people have dressup in costume. >> eli and batman. >> i'm heady and many i'm elvira. >> i'm terry, i'm doing subzero? from mortal combat. my wife alexis is from mortal combat too. my wife isn't in the costume. interthese writers are all with dark horse comic. >> it becomes such a part of your life, you want to share it with people when you have the opportunity to share with 50,000 people why wouldn't you? it's the world's biggest contest. >> stan is a zombie and been doing this since he was a kid. >> love zombie police officers and stuff like the walking dead put it in concept. >> if

john terrett, al jazeera, newark, new jersey. >>> for the first time doctors have documented the case of a child with hive remission. just after birth she was given high doses of peyton retr antir. joining us from washington, d.c. to tell us exactly what this medical break through could mean for the 34 million living with hiv, one of the government's top aids scientists, dr. edward faucci. thank you for being with us. >> good to be with you. >> this child had an aggressive treatment. are newborns more likely to beat hiv than adults? >> i think there's two aspects to consider. first of all it was unusual she was treated virtually immediately after birth, less than 30 hours. usually, when there's a 20 or 30% chance of being in effected if the mother has not been treated which is the case with the mississippi mother, you don't treat baby until you document the mother was infected. they assumed the baby was going to be infected, the mother received no therapy during pregnancy and they aggressively treated her. so that's the temperatures thing that weighed in favor of this result. the imme

. >>> john terrett has been at the stock exchange.alk us through this day i. >> they have never doubted there would be a deal. the dow joins at 205 points, 15,373.83, and the s&p market also hit 713% and nasdaq by 1.2%. it opened by roaring away by 80 points. climbed as high as 200 and fell to 145 and closed over 200. this was wall street saying look washington, d.c. we've had it with you. we don't care any more. we've been through this. we know what your shenanigans are all about. and basically this rally that you've seen is a message to washington to say this is what you should have done two weeks ago. >> sure, let's pick up on the idea of shenanigans. how has the u.s. economy been affected by the shenanigans? >> reporter: a lot, this has cost the economy $22 billion. think of all those who have been furloughed, they haven't been spending. when they get their back pay they'll spend in a different way. that's an opportunity lost. you've also got short-term interest rates very skyrocketed to their 2008 level recently, and of course th

for more we turn to john terrett who has been following events on capitol hill. >> slow progress regarding raising of the debt ceiling. only the senate was in session. we had a parade of democrats, mostly the republicans, harry reed the majority leader opened the session and closed it too. in the course of the day he had a telephone conversation with his republican opposite member mitch mcconnell. that call left him optimistic particularly raising the debt ceiling. >> i had a discussion with senator mcconnell this afternoon. i am optimistic for the conclusion of the issues before this country today. >> also the house minority leader nancy pelosi telephoning president obama to plead with him that whatever deal is done, that it last for at least 12 months. pelosi looking for a clean continuing resolution and a clean raising of the debt ceiling. everyone seems to be getting hammered in the polls, particularly the republicans an nbc wall street journal poll published last week got a lot of conversation in the media. it appears a 22% margin between president obama and the republicans among peop

al jazeera john terrett has the story. >> reporter: a seminar lead by the onita nation.tive americans find redskins a racist slur. >> if it's offending people, then it eaches time to change it. >> what started as a small protest has grown into a change the mascot complain. campaigner now have white house comments. president obama's comments seen as a game changer. >> if i were the owner of the team, i would think about changing it. >> when the first heard the president's remarks, the onita leader wases andi -- astounded. the term ed skins goes back 20 years. the team has had an awkward past when it comes to race relations, they were the last in the league to have a black player. but the management is hitting back saying . . . in may, owner daniel snyder put it more bluntly . . . clinical psychologists say constant expose sure to racial slurs have been an impact. >> in the moment people will have higher levels of mental health problems. >> reporter: if this world belongs to youngsters then the term redskins may be short lived. teenagers from cooperstown attended the semin

john terrett has joined us with this report. john what has the u.n. said about this? >> this report goes to the very heart of the u.s. foreign policy and the president's sworn oath to protect americans wherever they are in the world particularly in the home land and the effect that foreign policy often has on people as they live their life overseas. the u.n.ment ben ennis, has produced a report which is in its interim stage going to be presented to the united nations on the 25th of october and al jazeera has seen this report and in it he makes it very clear that the result of civilian death is really much higher than united states has ever led open. united states hasn't really talked about figures but nonetheless it's considerably higher according to the united nations than anybody previously thought. we have a graphic that will explain what we mean or what ben emerson means. he says that 450 civilians have died as a result of pilot -- pilotless aircraft. 400 people within the pakistan border an emerson said in his conclusion that200 people have died on top of the 400

john terrett, al jazeera, newark, new jersey. >> today is the day to turn over those prescription drugs you don't need anymore. the event is nation take back day, aimed at curbing prescription drug abuse. this is the last year the federal government will fund that program. >>> a wisconsin company at the center of possible listeria outbreaks, a third recall for garden fresh foods in two months. u.s. department of agriculture announced the recall of another 50 tons of meat, another 6700 pounds were deemed not fit for consumption, and 19,000 pounds of meat happened on september 25th. >>> a new program is underway in india to help increase food production, to planting and managing rice fields. al jazeera screght investigatese nutrition army. >> the south indian state of karala, armed with practical skills and technical know how. this is the new front line in karala's push to become more self-sufficient. >> we needed expansion, very good expansion in the home resource base through training, training should be just like army training, highly disciplined highly committed and with highly produc

. >> john terrett is here - there was a lot more to the story than just food stamps. >> i think there is very little doubt low income americans are going to feel an immediate effect went the temporary foodstamp boost comes to an end tomorrow, friday. there could be a wider economic effect. the change leaves 48 million americans with 16 billion less in their pockets over the next three years. that, according to the center on budget and policy priorities. now, it's discounters and dollar stores and gas stations, where low income americans tend to shop that are bracing themselves to take a hit at the time when the u.s. economy is struggling to get over the 2008 financial collapse. from friday benefits for a family of four receiving the maximum food stamp allotment drops by 5.4%, the equivalent of $36 per month, and that works out to be $420 per year, according to the u.s. department of agriculture that has done the match. of course it matters to poor families around the country, but it matters to all of us. according to moody's anna littics every $1 spent in the form of a food stamp in a

let's talk about this with our friend john terrett. who will be effected? folks who want to file early and get refunds back earlier. >> reporter: right. when you see this story you think, i got another two weeks to file my taxes, which is good, but it's not. the deadline stays the same, april 15th. but the key issue is those early birds. who knew, i never thought much about this beforehand but apparently there are people who like to file very early, and they to do it because they get the rebates back and some people will use those rebates for a weekend away for a loved one or to pay the gas bill in this tough economic environment. but let's put the are graphic on the scene. tax dates remain april 15th. you must file come what may as you always do. but january 21st was the original date for the opening of tax season but they moved it to somewhere between januar january 28th and february 4th. no sooner than the 28th, and no later than february 4th. that means of this the beginning of tax season this year is going to be somewhere between one and two weeks late

john terrett. whawho is this irsdeadline goin. >> reporter: i thought this was a tax tip for tony. >> lovely. >> reporter: and in one sense people should know about it, but it's not what you think. you think oh, my god, now i have two weeks extra to file my tax returns, wrong. now who knew that there were people out there who filed their taxes super early, companies and individuals. apparently there are, and one of the members of our staff is one. the reason is to get that rebate back as soon as possible. the earlier you get the tax return in, the quicker it comes back if you're owed any from the irs. it affects those people and probably not the rest. we have a graph to help you understand this just a bit better. for instance, tax day still stays april 15th. the original day to begin tax season was january 31st. but they moved it, and they're moving it between the 28th of january and the fourth of february 2014. no sooner than the 28th. they'll tell us which day they're going to choose in december.

our john terrett has that story. >> it really goes to the heart of the u.s. foreign policy, the oath to protect americans wherever they are in the world particularly in the home land and the effect of that foreign policy for people overseas who are on the end of it. ben emerson is a special reporter, going before the general assembly on the 25th is going to say there are far more civilians killed than the united states government admits to. let's look at this graphic which helps explain it a little bit more. 450 civilians have been killed in pakistan, afghanistan and yemen since 2004. according to his report, the pakistani government claim that 400 have been killed, and ben emerson himself concludes that more than 200 may well have been killed over that figure of 400 given by the pakistanis. the speech given in may of this year in which the president defended the use of the drones and narrowed the campaign against al qaeda and its affiliates. >> president obama has named his choice to be the next head of homeland security. jay johnson is the pentagon's former

john terrett has more. >> we have a deal.gratulations to all. >> how do you get to carnegie hall? practice. that old adage may help musicians to get here on the stage, but it turns out they may be better off financially as stagehands. the concert hall's five-full time stagehands take home around $400,000 a year. far more than many of the people performing here. and they just won a fight with their bosses over which union will work in the building's new teaching center. >> reporter: it's part of a massive expansion: he stagehands want to run the rooms the way they run the auditorium. they do everything from shifting piano and loading off and on trucks. under their existing contract. if we do that, we take too much money from the education and give it to the unions. >> it means that the terms will be different from the existing contract. the union's president said it's a victory and a measure of respect between his members and management of carnegie hall. >> we have offer compromise and representation and we met them in a way w

john terrett following the process from capitol hill. there seems to be a lot of talking but very little action. what actually went on this weekend? any progress? >> reporter: there has been some progress, but it's pretty miniscule. it's kind of tough to find. we know, for example, harry reid and mitch mcconnell are talked talking. we know that that is going on. based upon what's happened in the past and recent senate history, that's got to be a good thing. we also know that the susan collins of maine plan is still out there. that's the one that would extend the debt ceiling until the 31st of january and also require some amendments to the obamacare plan, so-called affordable care act. we know that that's all going on. mitch mcconnell suggested some democrats, enough democrats, i think, he suggested to make that workable. five of them hit back within the last hour or so saying you don't have our support. so really the big story at the moment is that the senate met between 1:00 and 4:45. the session was full of senators coming to the mic