anything -- tell kevin orr anything, what would you say? >> i know he's doing a job he has to do to get the city back up to viable and i applaud him for that. if i can speak to kevin orr , i would let him know to give us more meat on the bone so we can if feel vindicated for what we went through. >> there are more than 500 other cases covering everything from police abuse and wrongful incarceration to employment discrimination and unfair dismissal. like jessie pain, many never told their stories and emergency manager kevin ore is yet to talk about any of them. >>> when we return, sparking controversy, e-cigarettes and effort to keep them away from kids. why the vapours have antitobacco forces lit up. >>> tropingic cigarettes -- electronic cigarettes or vapours are really very popular. users say it can help smokers quit. there's no consensus about the health effects. and until now zero regulations. years after the e-cigarettes exploded to the market the f.d.a. moved to label them and stop them being sold to minors. people are disappointed. >

anything -- tell kevin orr anything, what would you say? >> i know he's doing a job he has to do to get the city back up to viable and i applaud him for that. if i can speak to kevin orr , i would let him know to give us more meat on the bone so we can if feel vindicated for what we went through. >> there are more than 500 other cases covering everything from police abuse and wrongful incarceration to employment discrimination and unfair dismissal. like jessie pain, many never told their stories and emergency manager kevin ore is yet to talk about any of them. >>> when we return, sparking controversy, e-cigarettes and effort to keep them away from kids. >> al jazeera america presents borderland's dramatic conclusion >> no one's prepared for this journey. >> our teams experience the heart breaking desperation >> we're all following stories of people that have died in the desert. >> and the importance... >> experiencing it, has changed me completely... >> of the lives that were lost in the desert >> this is the most dangerous part of your tri

the person reason -- running this is kevin orr. his term will be up. you will hand the reins back over to a mayor, city council. they are making the financial decisions all over again. they want to make sure that they are on board, they know what is going on and have that plan for coming back out again and endorsing that plan so they can move and make sure that detroit can be a live iting city -- thriving city and a growing city because that's the goal here. >> woodruff: christy mcdonald with detroit public television, thank you very he much. >> ifill: we move now to the pacific northwest and part one of a paul solman series on the debate over raising the minimum wage. tonight, he has the latest on a story he first brought to our attention last fall. >> reporter: a lot was at stake last november in seatle, washington, home of the seattle- tacoma international airport. as local citizens decided the fate of a proposition to jack up the minimum wage there to $15 an hour. for thousands of workers, the promise of a huge pay hike, 63% if they were making the

and a bankruptcy judge needs to review an emergency manager kevin orr says a settlement could mean aon to the bankruptcy filing. >>> on wall street another day in positive territory for the dow. closing up today just shy of 90 points trading its stuff thanks to higher sales posted by coca cola and johnson and joh johnso. for today only you can get your hand on google glass. do you like google glass? are you familiar with that? google's one-day sale lets you buy the device for $1,500, thank you, google. glass allows you to brows the web, take a picture, record video, get directions and sends messages. more of google glass hits the market later this year. and today is the deadline to file your taxes and for many that can be a complicated process, partly to blame companies like turbo tax we find out. who have lobbied to keep the tax system as it is. complicated. a nonprofit investigative group pro public uh-huhs been looking in to the lock inning efforts and liz day is the research director there, liz, good to see you. let me gee through the numbers, thanks for being here. >> thank you.

that deal may increase pressure on unions to deal with the city's emergency manager kevin orr who wantsension funds to take up to a 34% cut. a blogger for radio station wdet in detroit and nathan, a business reporter with "the detroit free press." i'm going to start with you, nathan. can you explain these deals to us a little bit because it was you who actually called them a hail mary pass that was not only intercepted but returned for a touchdown. >> yeah. the city of detroit in 2005 and 2006 purchased these swaps to secure a steady interest rate on this $1.4 billion debt deal. it was supposed to eliminate the pension liabilitieses at the time, but it completely soured when interest rates tanked, and essentially the city pays 5% of its budget to bank of america and ubs. now, what they have done is they have reached a new deal to pay off the $288 million debt for about $85 million. that saves more than $200 million. >> so the banks essentially, sandra, that means that they are actually going to take less money, and why would the banks accept this? they pretty much have detroit over a ba

[applause] >> coming up shortly, remarks by kevin orr, the emergency manager for detroit. he will speak to the american bankruptcy institute. he is overseeing the city's finances. he announced a pension agreement with some employees. we will have live coverage at 1:00 eastern. he will speak at 1:15. tonight, at 8:00 eastern -- oraling off on c-span, arguments in a case involving o, infringed on the rights of netflix fire transmitting programs without copyright fees. in works by gabriel sherman and a variety of journalist. on american history tv, a discussion on the 1954 freedom summer, when they registered black voters in mississippi. that is all tonight on the c-span networks and it begins at 8:00 eastern. c-spanover 35 years, brings public affairs of and from washington directly to you, putting you in the room at congressional hearings, white house events, briefings, and conferences. and offering complete gavel to gavel coverage of the u.s. house. all as a public service of private industry. we are c-span, created by the cable tv industry 35 years ago and brought to as a

kevin orr the city manager there is on a fundraising campaign. over 800 million so far and he needs to raise about 500 million more. and of all things, one of the things detroit is trying to avoid is selling off their multi-million-dollar city owned art. their van goes which by the way are a lot more valuable than the hardest hit fund that the obama administration is going to use. bankruptcy is kind of a dirty word with you it shouldn't be. a city coming towards its creditors the unions and pension systems look this is what we have got in the hone honey pot can we work something out. unions and pension holders don't want to work something out even though they got detroit in the situation in the first place. >> unbelievable. lucy caldwell from the gold water institute. great to see you this morning. thanks so much. >> thank you. >> coming up here on the show, christians under fire in the middle east from churches set ablaze to constant attacks. christians are plummeting. is it time the united states made a statement about it? then the price is wro