i'm joie chen. crime and punishment, they go together, that's understood. but when the punishment involves brutality, neglect, even torture, something has gone terribly wrong with our criminal justice system. not only unconscionable, it's unconstitutional. we beginning with the largest jail in the country, run by the los angeles police department. the jailers themselves had been indicted for criminal behavior. merrick michael okwu reports. >> at that point i'm lying face down with my face on the ground, my hands behind my back and i have about four or five officers come around me. and then i hear this crack. >> anything else? >> that's what happens says leo fifigueroa. when he went to vista his visits brother. he was arrested and being held at the jail. juan, a veteran of desert storm. he had had a few minor scrapes with the law but they didn't amount to much. what he heard left him stunned. >> your brother calls you from jail tells you his teeth are busted? and what else? >> that his ribs are broke

i'm joie chen. crime and punishment, they go together, that's understood. but when the punishment involves brutality, neglect, even torture, something has gone terribly wrong with our criminal justice system. cruel an unusual punishment, not only unconscionable, it's unconstitutional. "america tonight" looks at three stories about away can go wrong behind bars. we begin with the largest jail in the country, run by the los angeles police department. shockingly: the jailers themselves had been accused of criminal behavior about. not only the friends and relatives who come and visits. "america tonight"'s michael okwu reports. >> at that point i'm lying face down with my face on the ground, my hands behind my back and i have about four or five officers come around me. and then i hear this crack. >> that's what happens says leo figueroa. when he went to visit his brother. at one of the most notorious jail in america, the men's central jail in los angeles. he got a phone call from his younger brother juan

i'm joie chen. it is an international murder case, very strong echoes of the most controversial trials in this country ever. an olympic athlete, accused of killing his long time love in a rage. in the trial of south africa olympian oscar pistorius. saw dramatickic courtroom scenes and shocking graphic testimony. pistorius is accused of killing reeva steenkamp as she cowered in a bathroom. as "america tonight"'s lori jane gliha reports, brought forward serious questions about women's rights in that country. >> make way, make way. >> reporter: giant mobs pushing and shouting paid it difficult for olympic star oscar pistorius to make his way in and out of the court for his first week of trial. clad in a business suit and tie, the double olympian is best known for what he can do on his carbon fiber blades. becoming the first amputee runner at a paralympic game just weeks before. but his athletics abilities mean little. in a south african court, when he killed his girlfriend reeva steenkamp, through a lo

"america tonight" with joie chen is up next. perth,. >> on "america tonight," an end to the mystery but not the pain. what happened to malaysia air 370, now the world knows. also, a dark part of virginia's history not all that long ago. >> the end was to develop a super-human race. >> exclusive look at how the commonwealth's forced sterilization policy became a model for the nazis. >> how many forced sterilizations do you think you witnessed during your time there? >> oh my goodness, i coan couldt begin to tell you. >> and obamacare. >> evenlyeventually, that will e something i'll sign up for. >> it's not something i want to think about. >> good evening, thanks for joining us. i'm joie chen. the official hope has ended. although the skepticism doesn't, with the notice that the malaysia air 370 ended in the indian ocean. the aircraft with 239 on board did crash into the ocean after taking off from kuala lumpur over two weeks ago. they can't say why. that's why a search continues in a remote part of indian ocean, 2500 miles beyond

joie chen here to tell us what's coming up on "america tonight." joie. >> good evening john.we will continue the exclusive investigation into florida's invisible children. exont sheilcan correspondent sha macvicar has the story, even for parents whose children are actively fighting to give them and get them the support they need. >> other places, other states, i mean they're able to manage these situations so much better than florida. and i'm like why can't florida get it together? >> have you come to any conclusions about what the answer to that question is? >> they don't want to. it's not a priority. i they they would rather see my daughter die and quit being a problem to them. >> our "america tonight" exclusive investigation into the plight of florida's invisible children, a grim but very important report at the top of the hour on "america tonight." we hope to see you then john. >> all right joie, thank you. >>> when it comes to march madness, nothing like this cinderella story. nothing like this story. >> we'll find out soon enough. cinderella is one of the most popular f

i'm john siegenthaler, i'll see you at 11, 8 pacific, "america tonight" with joie chen is coming up next. >> on "america tonight," an exclusive investigation. invisible children. some of florida's most vulnerable, warehoused and neglected. inside the legal tug of war between their parents and the people charged with caring for them. >> finding my son stuck between the door, how is that facility helping him? just stuck between a door. >> also tonight. the agony of the wait for answers. as vectors sharpen their focus on the crew of malaysia air 370. what can investigators learn from the captain's hifs and his hobbies and what are they looking for now? and, who's in charge here? as russia takes a firmer grip on crimea? >> they came and said it's over he told me that putin has declared this russian territory and that we should go away. >> our correspondent jennifer glasse is caught between the old guard and new. >> and good evening, thanks for joining us, i'm joie chen. walk into a nursing home in florida and there is a chance that you may see some very young, vulnerable residents there. mor

"america tonight" with joie chen is up next. you can get the latest news online at our website, aljazeera.com. >> translator: you are escalating the situation, europe and the usa. >> so is the push-back. >> this is ill decision. >> ukraine in crisis. >>> also tonight, bold breakthroughs or microscopic steps forward, new developments in the fight against hiv. >>> and america isn't the only nation built on slave labor. >> when america was born, the british slave trade was already more than 100 years old. >> the sad history in britain's great past. ♪ >>> good evening, thanks for joining us. i'm joie chen. there are late develops in the crisis in ukraine. president obama spoke to vladimir putin for about an hour this evening. the white house reports the president laid out a road map for a resolution, but only if russian troops returned to their bases, and russia engage in direct talks with the interim ukrainian government. the call comes after mr. obama drew a bright line on the most urgent question of the day. >> united states is u

i'm joie chen. so far, the most startling and disturbing about malaysia flight 370, ask so little that has been found. after three days, the search has been significantly expanded with still no sign of any significant part of the boeing 777 located. it was on its way from kuala lumpur to beijing, china. where it vanished somewhere over the gulf of taiwan and the south china sea. >> if you want to know how it feels to lose a son at the age of 50, it's devastating, but i know phillip was with god. >> part of the family members of the 259 people that vanished three days ago. as search and rescue crew continue to scour the water off vietnam, the company is telling relatives to prepare for the worst. >> i'm in beijing, waiting for arrangements. me pray to god to bring them back to me. >> the wife of a new zealand man who was on the flight, hasn't told her children yet. >> i've got two young kids, a three-year-old, when is daddy going to be coming? we plotted where he was going to be. when will he skype?

i'm joie chen. what may - and we emphasise may - be a breakthrough in the search for malaysia airlines flight mh370. it's friday morning, two weeks since the flight disappeared. search teams are over a remote part of the indian ocean, where australian satellites spotted two objects that could be from the aircraft. it's not known how far it may have drifted, but they then may be able to trace where the black boxes might be. scientists from woods hall massachusetts are standing by. they, too, have been following every development since word of the plane's disappearance came in. >> my first thought about that is that that was very sad, because maybe that confirms that the plane crashed into the ocean, and it will eliminate hope for the families. >> when it comes to underwater mysteries, solving complicated cases is one of mike's specialities. >> from the standpoint of helpful. >> he's the principal engineer at woodshall institution, tucked along the massachusetts coast. scientists and engineers are res

"america tonight" with joie chen is up next. always get the latest on our website, aljazeera.com. do keep it here. on "america tonight": a disturbiny more than 25 years later. an al jazeera documentary investigates, lockerbie, what really happened. unanswered questions. also tonight, three years later. a

being "america tonight" with joie chen is up them. you can also get the headlines at aljazeera.com. >> the blast that rocked manhattan. >> my daughter in the corner, i want to know if my daughter's fine. i want to know if she is dead or not. >> disaster in new york city and the questions already about why this happened. also tonight, the cold pain of heroin addiction. >> it's too much. i know how i raised him. i know how i recognized him. we live such a wholesome life. i don't know how this addiction took over. >> a police you might least suspect, why it's out of control and so many find themselves addicted in vermont. >> who wouldn't want to float face-to-face with florida's gentle manatees. what is all that love worth to people who want to protect them? >> good evening, thanks for joining us, i'm joie chen. we begin in new york's harlem neighborhood with an explosion felt more than a mile away, a blat believed to have been caused by gas leak, leveled to two five story buildings and killed two people and nine missing. with so many pe

"america tonight" with joie chen is next. you can get the latest from our website aljazeera.com. >> on "america tonight", the weight, as rescuers power through the mud that buried a community alive leaving behind only pieces of life. >> with each passing hour more on the devastation that levelled oso washington, and how much was lost. >> also, what happened to alicia rudd, a desperate search for a child put in the hands of this man. how we protect our most vulnerable. pickers... starter. >> a long history of offensive names in sport. a new play washington's franchise might want to consider. >> good evening, thanks for joining us, i'm joie chen. in the foothills of washington's cascades, five days after the mud slide the news is not getting better. searchers, rescuers, and volunteers are going through a thick blue. there is little doubt that the death toll will go higher. michael oku is there. >> on the fifth day, with no end in site, rescue crews are fighting exhaustion and the mud. sucked. >> that in display in this video, s

. >>> joie chen standing by to tell us what's going to happen on "america tonight." >> following up onhomeless in america, a missing child here in washington, d.c. and how her disappearance raises new concern about how homeless children are protected. >>> now these are the last pictures of eight-year-old ralisha rud, she was last seen with someone her family trusted. there is serious question about how the city protects homeless children. it is a struggle sometimes from the first day of life. >> when i first saw her, was this where we're going to be at? i didn't know what i was in store for. when the guy showed me how i'm supposed to close it up, there's no lock, there's no key. >> we'll hear more about the risk to homeless kids and teens in america. that's coming up at the top of the hour on "america tonight." >> joie, thank you. >>> now to a surprising new program in amsterdam, that's intended to help alcoholics, putting them to work and paying them with beer. you lori jane gliha reports. >> this is coon rouse. a former postman, he walked these same streets delivering mail. a former

i'm joie chen. shots were fired, though the face-off in crimea has not reached full-scale battle, at least not yet. but the war of words with president vladimir putin and secretary of state, john kerry, held a firm line over the crisis in ukraine, and both sides with competing views of realities on the ground. following a he said-he said debate, here's sheila macvicar. >> from the broadest strokes down to the details from moscow to washington, what happened in the ukraine and what happens now are two widely different views of reality. take the street protests and bloody battles that led to the flight of president victor yanokovych, and to the new interim government. here's russian president, vladimir putin this morning, speaking at a news conference. [ speaking russian ] >> interpreter: there can only be one assessment. this has an anti-constitutional coup and an armed seizure of power. >> reporter: and secretary of state, jesus christ, where he toured kiev today. and the memorial to the fallen. >>

i'm joie chen. welcome to special edition of "americ ofment "america tonight" poising a major test between the world's western powers and russia. and is rapidly becoming the most urgent international challenge faced by president obama. first, a snapshot of the latest developments. an estimated 6,000 russian troops are now in crimea. though the ukrainian ambassador to the u.s. chaims that number is -- claims that number is much higher, perhaps 16,000. jeact john kerry is i -- secretary of state john kerry is in kiev. when it was reported that russia had issued an ultimatum, although russia denied making a threats. today president obama said russia's violation of international law will be in his words a costly proposition. >>> the tensions over crimea drew gractly over the weekend as a steady stream of forces, pressure is growing across ukraine with al jazeera's journalists covering key developments. >> ukrainians are preparing themselves for war. in kiev where there has already been so much bloodshed

those are the headlines, and "america tonight" with joie chen is up next.'ll see you here tomorrow, and you can get the latest news on aljazeera.com. >> on "america tonight," face-off. ratcheting up the pressure as ukrainians and forces with russian ties stand firm, as the diplomatic temperature risings too. also tonight, not so neighborly, the bay area's boom. why it's driving real estate prices to heights that you won't believe as residents ride out of the neighborhood. >> we're here today to say that the city, the tech industry,

i'm joie chen. against hope the desperate search continues north of seattle with more than 100 people still missing four days after a mammoth mudslide crushed the small community of oso. the slides saturday morning killed at least 14 and that number is expected to climb. there is also new information tonight ha the disaster had been predicted more an decade ago. on the recovery effort and the new details, here is america tonight's adam may. >> a warning of doom issued years before the massive mudslide in washington has emergency thing. >> these dramatic images of the land swallowed dozens of homes in oso washington. one square instantly gone. >> the houses are gone. there's no house here anymore. >> are there any injuries? >> yes, there are people yelling for help. >> these are the pictures of just some of the missing. at least 1176 names originally reported to authorities. the faces include young children, married couples and retirees. officials are still trying to determine if some reported names

i'm richelle carey, "america tonight" with joie chen is up next. >> on "america tonight": the blade runner's toughest challenge. stunning testimony in the trial of olympian oscar pistorius. a case that raises new questions about the shocking level of domestic violence in south africa. also, tonight, new worries in crimea. the crisis in ukraine threatens to explode in a new round of clashes. and he can pass cheese burger. the cats, cars and more than a few failed log entries on a fast ride to success. >> disney started with a mouse. i started with a cat. >> would you be as big as disney? >> i would love to. >> and good evening, thanks for joining us. i'm joining. it is an international murder case, very strong echoes of the strongest controversial trials in this country ever. accused of killing his long time love in a rage. in the trial of south africa olympian oscar pistorius. accused of killing reva steincamp as she cowered in a bathroom. brought forward serious questions about women's rights in that country. >> make way, make way. >> reporter: giant mobs pushing and shouting paid it diffic

break though investigative documentary series death in plain sight only on al jazeera america >> i'm joie chen, i'm the host of america tonight, we're revolutionary because we're going back to doing best of storytelling. we have an ouportunity to really reach out and really talk to voices that we haven't heard before... i think al jazeera america is a watershed moment for american journalism >> these protestors have decided that today they will be arrested >> these people have chased a president from power, they've torn down a state... >> what's clear is that people don't just need protection, they need assistance. >> welcome back to "techknow." phil is about to tell us a little more about this incredible exosuit. >> the technology is amazing. the stories behind the test pilots, that's what hits you. check it out. we talked about the science and technology, let's talk about the human elements and the miracles and what they experience with it. since it was first introduced e exo helped people who never thought they'd walk again take more than 3 million steps. >> that's the best part. >> not jus

i'm richelle carey, "america tonight" with joie chen is up next. get the latest news on our website, aljazeera.com. >> people here don't make enough to get by, but will get rid of their food cards, whatever to get one more. >> why can't i be a normal human being. >> nobody should be burying their child. >> the small state in the middle of a big crisis. heroin, for so long associated with big cities and back allies has infected small-town america. vermont, with its picture postcard towns is the poster child for an epidemic that is ruining communities, lives, across the country. i'm adam may, and this is an "america tonight" special report, "addicted in vermont." >> we've been through it all, institutions. i really didn't think i would be sitting here today. >> people here don't make enough money to get by, but they'll get rid of their food cards, whatever means date day. >> take money from the children k anything. >> they'll steal from friends and family to get one more. >> heroin is spreading through rural america, striking small up tos like rutlan

lines with the taliban then an america tonight: special edition, only on al jazeera america >> i'm joie cheni'm the host of america tonight, we're revolutionary because we're going back to doing best of storytelling. we have an ouportunity to really reach out and really talk to voices that we haven't heard before... i think al jazeera america is a watershed moment for american journalism the most important money stories of the day might effect your savings, your job or your retirement. whether it's bail-outs or bond rates this stuff gets complicated. but don't worry. i'm here to take the fear out of finance. every night on my show i break down confusing financial speak and make it real. it's not just sweden - much of europe's far north is being turned over to mining companies - right across scandinavia from norway to finland - this is euro mining, a trade fair in tampere finland's second city >> today in finland we have 41 mines and this mining sector has been growing steadily for the last 5 or 6 years and we in the finnish government have great expectation that mining is one of the growth a

i'm richelle carey, "america tonight" is up next with joie chen. and the latest news online at aljazeera.com. >> on america tonight, the desperate search for a missing 8-year-old. an increasingly grim investigation just a few miles from the nation's capital. and new questions about what was done to protect little relisha. >> we cannot ignore the possibility that he may have killed her. >> and faith broken. the imperial exes of a bishop priest. a boycott and the angry questions from the faithful. >> if you have the nerve to reply it would be most welcome. >>> also tonight the slide and search. the death toll rises in washington state and we learn more about the fury of the flow coming down the mountain. >> and good evening, thank you for joining us i'm joie chen. an intense search for a missing little girl here in washington remains our focus. more than a month after the last firm clue about 8-year-old relisha rudd's disappearance, search dogs have fanned out north of the u.s. capital. amid disturbing signs and now many fear the worst. even the poli

good evening, thanks for joining us, i'm joie chen. just about this time one week ago came the first now of news out of southeast asia, terrifying word of a plane disappearing with twod 30 people on board. who could have expected, a week later, no one knows exactly where it is. the mystery began early hours of the morning local time. air traffic controllers lose contact with malaysia 370, it seems to disappear. a day later, the first confusing often contradictory clues, report the jet made a u-turn veering hundreds of miles off course. another terrifying report, are passengers with stolen passports. and malasian airlines say the final are report from cockpit, all right, good night. and forcing investigators to expand the search area from the gulf of thailand and the malacca straits all the way into the indian ocean. to make the challenge deeper, the average debt of the indian ocean nearly 13,000 feet. the original search area averages deaths of a couple hundred feet. "america tonight"'s lisa stark who has covered a number of air disast

america tonight with joie chen is next.ou can always check out our web site al jazeera.com. >> >> on america tonight, the desperate search for a missing 8-year-old. an increasingly grim investigation just a few miles from the nation's capital. and new questions about what was done to protect little relisha. >> we cannot ignore the possibility that he may have killed her. >> and faith broken. the imperial exes of a bishop priest. a boycott and the angry questions from the faithful. >> if you

is it time to rethink the greek system >> i'm joie chen, i'm the host of america tonight, we're revolutionary because we're going back to doing best of storytelling. we have an ouportunity to really reach out and really talk to voices that we haven't heard before... i think al jazeera america is a watershed moment for american journalism >> welcome back. we're talking about frat he went taking drastic action to try to stop hazing. sigma phi epsilon replaced it with the balanced man program several decades ago to foster leadership and personal growth. so nate, this is credited to contributing to higher gpas, and lower legal costs for the fraternity. and is it enough. >> the balanced man program is a great program, and a great example of a national office determining what they value and how that should be lived out in the new member experience and just the general membership experience in general. i think their goal there is to eliminate power dynamics in groups, and i applaud it. but it's still transitioning. chapters are still figuring out how to make it work themselves and there's still time

on al jazeera america >> i'm joie chen, i'm the host of america tonight, we're revolutionary because we're going back to doing best of storytelling. we have an ouportunity to really reach out and really talk to voices that we haven't heard before... i think al jazeera america is a watershed moment for american journalism >> welcome back to "talk to al jazeera." i'm john siegenthaler and my guest today is art spiegelman the author of "maus." you have had an incredible career but part of that career is work being for the new yorker. had you ever done a magazine cover before? >> i think i did. new yorker covers are not usually connected to stories statements. in the heyday of the new yorker, in the postwar new yorker especially, the idea was to give respite, a moment of calm on the honking blaring tawdry passing parade. so they would be images of cebt scenes or of the city -- connecticut scenes or the city drawing. that was the-cartoon drawing. i seemed to her like a likely terrorist so -- but you know, it was -- i was a likely person to bring into that mix. i didn't know what it meant

. >> good evening, i'm joie chen. crime and punishment, they go together, that's understood. but when the punishment involves brutality, neglect, even torture, something has gone terribly wrong with our criminal justice system. cruel an unusual punishment, not only unconscionable, it's unconstitutional. "america tonight" looks at three stories about away can go wrong behind bars. we begin with the largest jail in the country, run by the los angeles police department. shockingly: the jailers themselves had been accused of criminal behavior about. not only the friends and relatives who come and visits. "america tonight"'s michael okwu reports. >> at that point i'm lying face down with my face on the ground, my hands behind my back and i have about four or five officers come around me. and then i hear this crack. >> that's what happens says leo figueroa. when he went to visit his brother. at one of the most notorious jail in america, the men's central jail in los angeles. he got a phone call from his younger brother juan, arrested and being held at the jail. juan, a veteran of d

i'm joie chen. thanks for being with us. >> every day across america, military-style raids are taking place. local police dressed like soldiers break down doors in the hunt for drugs. >> this is not what we think of as police in a democratic society. this is way out of proportion. >> in the past, police "swat teams" were only used in extreme circumstances. now, they're increasingly sent on routine tasks. >> they changed my whole perspective. i'm telling you, when i seen that, it was just like they dropped a bomb. they don't care what they've done, they really don't. >> tonight, fault lines examines how a massive rise the use of "swat" is redefining america's police ... and we ask who is really paying the price? in the us today, there are now tens of thousands of military-style police raids every year...but only the worst cases make the news. we've come to investigate one that took place in a rural town just north of los angeles. >> scared me so bad, they were so military and just huge guns and full

real perspective, consider this on al jazeera america >> i'm joie chen, i'm the host of america tonight revolutionary because we're going back to doing best of storytelling. we have an ouportunity to really reach out and really talk to voices that we haven't heard before... i think al jazeera america is a watershed moment for american journalism take a new look at news. photos ♪ ♪ >> and welcome back to "techknow." i'm phil torres and i'm here with marita davidson and dr. shini somara. shini, you went inside a tornado. >> i got in the vortek, to experience force 3 winds. and trust me, to people that force of nature on my skin, it was just unreal. let's take a look. >> thank you very much. >> oh my goodness! coming down right now, major tornado. >> coming down another tornado. >> a deadly tornado rushes towards the u.s. community of oklahoma city. a two mile wide wind tunnel ripped through the capitol on monday. >> oh my god! >> that was the tragedy in the ground but new innovations are developed in the lab to protect against future disasters. >> we create tornado like vortexes. mimickin

. >> i'm joie chen, i'm the host of america tonight, we're revolutionary because we're going back to doing best of storytelling. we have an ouportunity to really reach out and really talk to voices that we haven't heard before... i think al jazeera america is a watershed moment for american journalism consider this. the news of the day plus so much more. answers to the questions no one else will ask. >> it seems like they can't agree to anything in washington no matter what. >> this is "talk to al jazeera", and i'm tony harris with the artist j.r. i'm sort of interested in who you are. and i know that there's a beating heart behind the glasses, the hats. who are you, and why are you reluctant to let people into the inner circle that is j.r.? >> you know, i'm still the same kid that was doing graffiti at the time, writing his name. he was behind it. i didn't want to get a fine with it. early with the years. the fine was not the problem. except for some context that i'm travelling to. but more the fact that it's been others. i did that in my early process. it's about others. it's about

. >> i'm joie chen, i'm the host of america tonight, we're revolutionary because we're going back to doing best of storytelling. we have an ouportunity to really reach out and really talk to voices that we haven't heard before... i think al jazeera america is a watershed moment for american journalism >> in oakland california, gunmen have taken over a passenger train. an elite swat team moves in to neutralize the threat - highly-trained units like this are crucial in such situations. this time it's just a drill - part of a law enforcement training event called "urban shield". it's the kind of scenario for which swat teams were first formed in the los angeles police department in the 1960s. >> and so swat had its genesis with that philosophy and the philosophy of protecting life. >> stephen downing was there at the time, and says these units were only meant for the worst-case scenarios >> these are military type responses, military style tactics and military types of weaponry that are very dangerous in a civilian population. >> nowadays while swat teams are still trained - and equippe

i'm joie chen.t's hard to believe, but not all that long ago many states had policies in place aimed at creating a super race, eliminating a chance that physically or mentally disabled people could have children the the policies were on the books so recently that survivors are alive telling their stories. lori jane glihah meets victims and meets a nurse who admits the role she played was wrong. >> i thought at the time i was doing the right thing. it's what the legislators wanted at the time and my bosses wanted. even the president of the united states, you trusted those people. >> 87-year-old celia vandegr. >> ft remembers her time at a hospital for those labelled feeble maintained r minded and epileptic. it housed teens from broken homes, alcoholics and others that the state considered socially inadequate. >> how many sterilizations do you think you issued during your career there? >> oh, my goodness, i couldn't begin to tell you. >> during her 40 years. she witnessed thousands of forced sterilisa

"america tonight" with joie chen is coming up next. >> on america tonight. special coverage on stories the world can watching, raising hopes and sowing confusion about the fate of malaysia flight 370. >> they said the plane was in another direction. in terms of timing, they knew the direction, but covered it up. they haven't given us explanation why they concealed it. >> anger, anxiety for the families. >> and crimea after a rubber stamp referendum. >> the soul is singing. we are home, we are with russia. >> putin's power play puts the west on deference. what's the next move and can anything stop it ? welcome to a special "america tonight." we note the special interest of our are audience, we focus on both stories this hour. the crisis in ukraine which a national leader warns he fears may be hours away from a shooting war. >>> first on the mist of malaysia air 370. the -- on the mystery of malaysia air 370. the u.s.s. kidd will go back to its normal duties, and malaysian officials reveal a a new time line which suggest a final communication from the cockpit,

i'm joie chen. we begin with the capture of one of america's most wanted men. joaquin guzman.nown ag public enemy number one. el chapo. he had been running the biggest multibillion international drug operations until his capture by mexican and u.s. forces. lawyers in mexico are fighting attempts to extra diet el chapo. thousand marched through the streets calling for his freedom. we report ex-continutensivexten he tells us why the arrest of el chapo was critical. >> if the sinalepo was a corporation, its headquarters will be in chicago. jack rhylry runs the dea filed office and says chicago's central location and highway system makes it the perfect place to move drugs from mexico to cities across the united states. >> from my point of view chicago, and the midwestern general is the most significant hub for the cartels in the country. >> chicago's gang culture makes it a recruiting ground. with tens of thousands active gangs on the streets, they are easy to come by. >> what do you sell? >> crack, dope, x. we sell it. >> what do you have ear? >> crack. >> the gappingster discipl

. >> i'm joie chen, i'm the host of america tonight, we're revolutionary because we're going back to doing best of storytelling. we have an ouportunity to really reach out and really talk to voices that we haven't heard before... i think al jazeera america is a watershed moment for american journalism >> in today's data difficult, we heard about a ridiculously pricey burger to find others were more expensive. beer and buns will have a $250 hamburger on the menu. it will be made of kobe beef, white truffles and caviar. caviar? who wants fish eggs on their bugger. it's not the motor expensive in new york city. serendipity charges more. it has beef in fused with white truffle butter, smoked sea salt, cave abled cheddar, shaved black troves and chinese caviar. that isn't the motor expensive in manhattan. there's a six hundred sixty-six-dollar burger. it has champagne steamed melted cheese and a special coffee bean barbecue sauce. it's served with a gold leaf wrapper. the most expensive burger in the world, how about $333,000? this one is really special, made from meat grown in petry dish

i'm joie chen. there are late develops in the crisis in ukraine.sident obama spoke to vladimir putin for about an hour this evening. the white house reports the president laid out a road map for a resolution, but only if russian troops returned to their bases, and russia engage in direct talks with the interim ukrainian government. the call comes after mr. obama drew a bright line on the most urgent question of the day. >> united states is united with our allies and partners in upholding international law. and advancing global security. >> the president rejecting what should surely be a rubber stamp vote in crimea's parliament. aimed at making crimea a part of russia. outside of the parliament building protesters push back too only to be quickly put down by men in caps. for the fledgling government of ukraine -- >> this is illegitimate decision, and this so-called referendum has no legal grounds at all. >> while john kerry after meeting with russia foreign minister excooed president obama's order. >> crimea is ukraine. any referendum on ukraine is

. >>-- i'm joie chen. heroin has been called a crisis. nowhere is the pain of addiction felt more acutely than the communities of vermont, seeing the number of opiate deaths double. and where the number of addicts seeking treatment rose 800% sips of the year 2002. "america tonight"'s adam may reports on those addicted in vermont. >> people here do not make enough money to get buy. they'll get rid of food carts. they'll go without food, they'll steel from friends and family to get one mosh. >> heroin is spreading through rural america, striking small towns like rutland, vermont. >> no matter what, 24/7, you are plotting in your head on how to get the next high. it's an every day struggle, an every second struggle. >> vermont ranks number two in the country for people seeking treatment for opiate addiction. tucked away between the restaurants is seren itty house. there are addicts homing here to get clean. here are two hard core addicts going through recovery. >> how hard is it? >> it destroys you. mentally it's all over the place. you are

you're watching "america tonight - the weekend edition", i'm joie chen.e begin in the san francisco bay area, exploring a place called home. the mission is home base for a