"america tonight's" joie chen visited one of those communities, apollo, pennsylvania. >> in the allocate lit 1950s a local steel minimum was taken over by a company contracted to build nuclear bombs. patty amino lived across the street. >> apollo once upon a time was a nice town but then this industry came in. we didn't know. >> people didn't know? >> people did not know, they didn't know, they were clueless. and communities like this. >> patty amino left home to join the navy. by the time she came back 20 years later some had begun to worry about the health risks of having a nuclear plant and its waste so close by. her father asked amino to check it out. >> you thought the government would do the right thing? >> i thought government would do the right thing. >> over the last 20 years amino has dug up 3 million documents that chronicle illness cancer death in the valley. babcock and wilcox paid out $92 million in settlement money to about 200 residents though neither it nor the government ever admitted any link between health issues and what is buried here. >> i frankly don't believe tha

. >>> thanks for joining us, i'm joie chen, if there's one thing you ought to be able to count on, it's a place called home. tonight we remind you that trust can be betrayed. hurricanes and the building market was hit hard. a law intended to protect investors became a vehicle for buyers to steal homes, forcing out condo openers who did nothing wrong. our investigation from "america tonight"s sheila macvicar. >> i thought that we lived in a country where your property couldn't be ceased for private gain. and this blows me away. that this is possible. in the united states. it blows me away. >> in 2006, this woman bought what she thought was an american dream. a 2-bedroom condo minimum. >> i never missed a payment. never intended to. >> her mortgage reasoning condo date. >> this is surreal. >> reporter: she was shocked when she received word that the complex was being terminated converted. forcing her to sell far less than she paid for it. to buyers in miami, the people who sold it to her. >> i paid them and they are pieing it for pennies on the dollar. i would love a deal like that. >> re

i'm joie chen. we begin with a view of love gone wrong. more than half of all americans admit they engage in sexting. regularly. that's okay but those images can have horrible consequence is when romance goes bad. adam may has the story. >> it started with a romantic request. >> he had asked i'd love to take some pictures of you you're is beautiful. >> but months later ann marie became the victim of revenge porn. her videos posted online for everyone to see. >> an ex boyfriend had threatened, he was going to post a cd, consisting of 80 images of me. creating an ebay. the title was professor nude photos. what if my colleagues see this? how many other people see this, the main fear was how do i stop this? >> reporter: at the time, revenge porn sites were exploding on the internet. one of the most notorious is anyone up? it was separateby hunter moore. he pled guilty of identity theft, posting nude pictures online. >> what do you think of this? >> the entire thing is shocking. >> adam steinbock is an investigator in los angeles he hunts down

>> the answers are in the community >>> thank you for joining us, i'm joie chen. native people, the apache indions - a new generation fearing the land would be pulled out from under them by a decision from asked. the fight to save an assessment ral homeland. >> reporter: for many years these people have been fighting for this land. >> this is an ancestral place, of veneration, ceremony for long time. >> reporter: the former archeologist is fighting a losing battle. >> what happens to this after the mine is that this will be in the middle of the subsidence area. we are standing over it. destroyed. >> reporter: okay flat, part of the national forest sits on top of one of the world's richest deposits. a cap called resolution copper has been trying to acquire of the land for nearly a decade. in december they succeeded. a place of great natural beauty, okay flat has been under federal protection for mining since 1965. resolution kopper, the subsidiary of rio tinto has made more than a dozen attempts to acquire the land through special legislation in congress. year afte

. >> good evening, i'm joie chen. it's taken six months for ferguson, missouri to transition from a little known community in st. louis to a hot bed of question. a short hand for battles over race rights and justice. we brought you toferguson at the start of the controversy, and followed through. our correspondent returned days ago to see what changed. >> i can't take it any more. >> reporter: for more than 20 years this man has made his living here at the market now he wonders if his store or the city of ferguson can survive. his store has been attacked three times since the death of michael brown. >> they steel everything computers, surveillance they broke it. everything was broke. police released this video, hoping to identify the loading suspects that ransacked the store. >> do you think anything will come from that. >> i won't recover anything out of it. >> six months after michael brown was so the in kills. these are a stark reminder of the lingering open wounds here. >> first of all, you do not tell me my funct

. >>> thanks for joining us, i'm joie chen. here in the nation's capital city we connect most often with power, and the powerful. we are reminded of our vulnerable citizens, the ones our leaders are supposed to protect, children. homeless children. it's been a year since that video was recorded. the last view of relisha rudd, a homeless child walking away with a man she thought was a friend. the mystery of her disappearance and the back story is a sharp indictment of this power city. lori jane gliha has been investigating the last steps before relisha rudd became a little girl lost. >> reporter: this old hospital building was one home for relisha and her mother. >> it's a mess, to be honest with you. unfortunately. >> reporter: how many people were packed in your room? >> there was six of us. >> reporter: in 2013 the family was among 300 others living at d.c. general, washington's largest family homeless shelter. at the time it housed nearly 600 children. it's a stone throw from a drug rehab center and a city gaol, not on ideal

. >> and good evening, i'm joie chen. for a president who came to power, seeking exits seeking exits from conflict, to use the carrot or the stick? after six months of fighting with i.s.i.l, mr. obama has asked congress to step up his war powers against the self proclaimed islamic state. at the same time, he's pressing hard for a truce in the conflict ravaging in ukrainians and his dilemma giving the ukrainians lethal aid. tonight, "america tonight"'s sheila macvicar. >> reporter: eastern ukraine is deep in winter and for those in the conflict zone, the war is unrelenting. this soup kitchen trying to feed the increasingly hungry targeted again by shelling early this week . this time, from the ukrainian side. sending workers and clients running for the shelter of the basement. across the region, there has been a sharp increase in violence. towns like krematorsk that have been peaceful for months suddenly shelled by pro-russian rebels, in a residential neighborhood killing at least seven civilians, wounding more and terrori

i'm joie chen, thanks for joining us. us. >> the new al jazeera america primetime. get the real news you've been looking for. at 7:00, a thorough wrapup of the day's events. then at 8:00, john seigenthaler digs deeper into the stories of the day. and at 9:00, get a global perspective on the news. weeknights, on al jazeera america . >> america's job market is on a big winning streak but a lot of people out there are still feeling like they're losing. i'm talking to the top man in america's labor market. and this is a good time to be your own man but it is not easy. >> you don't know if the dream is going to succeed or fail. i can't guarantee a paycheck for the next 12 months, two years. >> plus how one

>>> thanks for joining us, i'm joie chen. we begin with a view of love gone wrong. half of all americans admit they engage in sexting regularly. sending or receiving intimate photos, videos or texts. between consenting adults, it's okay. they can have horrible consequences when relationships go bad. "america tonight"s adam may brings us a look at the explosion of revenge porn. >> reporter: it started with a roamant ib request. >> he asked "i would love to take pictures of you." >> reporter: months later this english professor was the victim of revenge porn, intimate photos fosted on the web. >> after a nasty break-up a boyfriend threatened to post an image of 88 images of me creating an ebay auction. the title of the length was the name of my college, english professor, nude photos. every fear i could think of went through my head. what if my students or colleagues see that. who knows about this? this? >> at the time revenge important says were exploding on the internet. one of the most notorious is anyone up. it was operated by hunter moore. he plead to fraud and i

. >>> i'm joie chen. a state of confusion surrounds same-sex marriage in alabama. the 37th state to allow gay marriage, in a fight that pits the supreme court against a federal judge. there has been a back and forth over the last few address. the bottom line is alabama's chief justice is determined to hold the ground against same-sex marriages despite the full court's innocencesistence that it's not a state row to do so. pulitzer prize travels to alabama to see the show down on the court steps. >> anything that could happen. >> reporter: these women say they've been spiritually married, but like many they wanted more. to be legally we'd. they spent a cold night camping out on the courthouse. not knowing what the day would bring. >> gay marriage will happen. it will happen some time you can't kick and scream. i don't think anyone can answer why not. >> reporter: with hopeful supporters looking on montgomery probate officials opened the doors to the courthouse and stamped the preliminary paperwork for shonta and tory. in alabama, this was the exception. in county aft

i'm joie chen. >>> it is horrifying to know that in a typical year over 100 children in this country are kidnapped. what's even more shocking to us is that this city, the seat of the nation's power, has proven itself powerless to protect the most vulnerable of its children, the homeless. the disappearance of eight-year-old relisha rudd last winter shows how broken america's safety net is. even now a full year later no her. "america tonight"'s lori jane gliha has been following relisha's story since the child vanished and investigation into her final steps. >> it's painful, it's hurtful, it's too quiet in my house, i don't have anybody to talk to like i normally do. my daughter will be that person. and she's not here right now. >> right now, no one seems to know where relisha rudd is. and for last year, if detectives had any clues about the nine-year-old's whereabouts -- >> help us find relisha. >> they haven't shared them with the little girl's mother shamica young. >> all i can do is keep praying, keep praying, get some answers that's it that's all. >> reporter: young has been prayi

. >> good evening i'm joie chen. what is enough to provoke a nation to demand revenge? for one of our closes allies in the case against i.s.i.l the answer was clear. jordan moved swiftly it is all in after grizzly evidence emerged at the murder of a jordanian pilot at the hands of i.s.i.l. fighters. it is a remarkable turn around for the jordanians who some days ago showed ambivalence to the fight. "america tonight's" smsk on how it could transform the bald against sheila macvicar, on how it could ra could could transform about battle against i.s.i.l. >> jordan has been deeply shaken by the gruesome killing of the pilot and in a sign of national solidarity thousands join together to pray and to vow retribution. in 24 hours there has been a profound shift in public opinion. opinion that increasingly was against jordan's participation in the u.s.-led coalition against i.s.i.l. >> there was an overriding sentiments in the kingdom that coalition participation should not be on jordan's plate that it was widely unpopular. and -- >> we heard from his family, this is not our wa

. >> 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 >> heavy fighting continued in eastern ukraine but a handshake you'd miss if you weren't really looking for it is a hope that a ceasefire would be made in the deadly conflict. very quick. russian president vladimir putin and ukrainian president petro poroshenko. down playing the chacheses of anychances of anysort of break through. any hope to last ditch effort to halt the conflict that have killed 5,000 even more? >> you're right there's not a huge lot ever optimism. if you are going to draw optimism from anything, draw it from the fact they are all here, all sitting together, and all talking to each other. it's been a long not so far of negotiations has been taken up many hours. at one point, sergey lavrov the russian foreign minister, took a break, spoke to journalists they asked him how it

i'm joie chen, thanks for joining us. >> start with one issue. add guests from all sides of the debate and a host willing to ask the tough questions and you'll get the inside story. >> ray suarez hosts "inside story". weeknights at 11:30 eastern. only on al jazeera america. >> coming up on al jazeera america's "borderland". >> yeah! >> my boys! >> good to see you! >> i don't know if i would say that i've every seen anything like this. >> are you and your daughter gonna take this train? this, takes guts. >> and it's not safe, this moves back and fourth. >> you

. >> thanks for joining us, i'm joie chen. it has been called a superbug. a nightmare bacteria a real threat that's cropped up in hospital he around the country. so far the outbreak has been small and contained but it is raising a serious warning especially because the evidence suggests something could have been done to event proo prevent it. the story from [ ♪music♪ ] ichael okwu. >> david richie is remembering the horrifying moments after he was hit by a train in cal cut calcutta. he slipped and fell under a moving train. his bones cruched. rushed. medical students held him down. >> untied it, surgical knives. i know what is about to happen. when he awoke, much of his leg was gone. he was flown back to seattle for treatment. he was about to get bad news. >> they did routine tests. then my blood test came back and they said hey we need to isolate you and put you in a room by yourself. you have an infection we have never seen before. in fact there has been only a couple of cases reported in the u.s. ever. we don't know what to do. >> david was carrying a ge

. >>> good evening, i'm joie chen, an invasion is unway in our country, you may not see it. it threatens security, could take down power plants and chemical facilities. we saw how something frivolous as emails between sony expects can become the point of crisis. now an explanation of how we are all put at rick. >> you ask me, is someone preparing a battlefield against xl united states and allies - you bet. >> reporter: this is a husband and wife team tracking a cyber threat. malware invading structure. >> the only reason to break in is to figure out how it works to figure out how to use that to bring down the grid. it's not only esbianage, it's the mapping and reconnaissance of the industrial control systems in western energy producing companies. >> the malware is dubbed black energy. kyle is a virus hunter who has been tracking the threat. when unleashed inside his lab, he found that black energy could be remotely programmed to sabotage. >> the concerning aspect is that it is modular in nature. you can take code and introduce it into black energy and weaponize is to be dest

i'm joie chen, thanks for joining us. >> sunday night. >> 140 world leaders will take the podium. >> get the full story. >> there is real disunity in the security council. >> about issues that impact your world. >> infectious diseases are a major threat to health. >> "the week ahead". sunday 8:30 eastern. only on al jazeera america. this u.n. threatensthe u.n. threatens actionagainst the houthi rebels in yemen. you're watching al jazeera live from our headquarters in doha. i'm fauzia ibrahim. pushing for peace in ukraine. >>> preparing to take on i.s.i.l. but sectarian divisions delay plans for an offensive for the iraqi still of mosul. and we'll tell you how this satellite could give scientists advance warning of

. >> thank you for joining us, i'm joie chen. the down side of north america's oil boom. two of west virginia's townd were evacuated, after an explosion of tankers carrying tons of crude oil from the dakota. it is an important resource but sheila macvicar found out in her investigation, it also shows growing evidence of a new danger on the rails. >> reporter: massive explosions rocked the scene of monday's train derailment in fayette county, west virginia. >> i've never seen anything like this. >> reporter: where trains caught five after jumping the track during a snow storm. >> oh my god. >> the force of the explosion so close to the communities of montgomery and mountain carbon with their thousands of inhabitants are raising questions about the safety of the tens of thousands of trains that are transporting an increased volume of crude oil across the country. the west virginia train was carrying bakken crude from north dakota, the same kind of crude that blew up in another derailment that had a much more tragic outcome. >> oh mon dieu! >> one of my captains summed it up

i'm joie chen, thanks for joining us. >> an al jazeera america special report >> unfortunately, you can't "should have", all we can do is move forward >> a nation forced to take a closer look at race. >> ...check which ethnicity... i checked multiple boxes... this is who i am... >> what does it really mean to be the minority? >> black history comes up, everyones looking to hear what you have to say, because you're the spokesperson... >> how can we learn from the past? and create a better future? an al jazeera america special report race in america all next week part of our special black history month coverage on al jazeera america >> coming up on al jazeera america's "borderland". >> yeah! >> my boys! >> good to see you! >> i don't know if i would say that i've every seen anything like this. >> are you and your daughter gonna take this train? th

i'm joie chen.first days after the end of the bloodshed, there was a strong sense, not just in the strip, that the international community needed to help after 50 days of conflict with israel. despite promises around the world. what sign is there of hope among the ruins. we returned to see the desperation of today. >> today in gaza the ruins of homes are the children playgrounds. factory floors filled with machinery. the only power plant storage tanks are a crumpled heap. and the damages, destruction, devastation has obliterated neighbourhoods. gaza's never been well off. today it is worse off than ever. that could lead to another war. >> nice to see you. how have you felt for the last six months. >> the story begins in the esca finishing y family, their home in a shattered neighbourhood. during the war no area was more fiercely targeted. no area looked more like a war zone. and more homes were destroyed here than anywhere else. on july 26th, we filmed the family as they sifted through the rubble. t

i'm joie chen, thanks for joining us. >> america's job market is on a big winning streak but a lot of people out there are still feeling like they're losing. i'm talking to the top man in america's labor market. and this is a good time to be your own man but it is not easy. >> you don't know if the dream is going to succeed or fail. i can't guarantee a paycheck for the next 12 months, two years. >> plus how one well-known procure

i'm joie chen, thanks for joining us. >> sunday night. >> 140 world leaders will take the podium. >> get the full story. >> there is real disunity in the security council. >> about issues that impact your world. >> infectious diseases are a major threat to health. >> "the week ahead". sunday 8:30 eastern. only on al jazeera america. this is techknow, a show about innovasions that can change lives. ...the science of fighting a wildfire... we are going to explore hardware and humanity and doing it in anique way. >> this is a show about science by scientists. let's check out our team, hardcore nerds. >> i am phil torres. i am an eventmologist. tonight, a special edition of techknow: the revolution on the road.