. >>> joseph kony's hold on power is slowly disappearing.umber of fighters from the lord's riz estance army ahave abandoned their leader. the army has chased kony into is the september tral african repuckblic. our malcolm webb has this story. >> in a remote base, this helicopter touches down. on board are three fighters from the rebel lords resistance army who have just surrendered. lieutenant sam gave themselves up after a fire fight with ugandan soldiers but now they have been brought to the base, it's smiles and handshakes. he was abducted when he was 12 years old. he says he rose through the rarningz and committed many atrocities. >> the things i did make my heart bleed. i was abducted when i was young and i was taught to do bad things. om later, i realized what i did was very bad. now, it makes me cry and my heart bleeds because of that. >> the lra became notorious for mutilating and abducting people since the rebel yon began in the 1980s. the group surrendered with these women who had been forced to become officer's wives. there were u

in spite of support, joseph c e kony, wanted by the international court is still at large. >> this shows the capacity that they have been degraded, they can no longer put up a fight, and those with the opportunity to escape from being victims of joseph kony take advantage of this. >> life in the bush is tough. the group survives with these few items, armed with old kalashnikov. the radio was the only connection to the outside world. they heard the government messages, but it took years to build the confidence to run away. the ugandan soldiers have been based mere for five years and there's only a few hundred l.r.a. left. many are too scared to come out after years or decades of living in fear. they survive by looting, killing and stealing. the conflict lasted nearly 30 years. for the people living in the affect areas, they hope it can be brought to a close. >> the abductees will be taken home. a po and his comrades will be granted amnesty. this group cap hope their ordeal is finally over. >>> now, the number of people who have died from an outbreak of ebola in west africa has r risen to

now, a number of fighters from the lord's resistance army have aeabandoned kony.azeera malcolm web met a group as they calm out of the bush in central african republic. >> in a remote base in the jungle of the central african republic this helicopter touches down. on board are three fighters from the rebel lords resistance army who have surrendered. they gave themselves up after a fire fight with ugandan soldiers. now, they have been brought to the base, its smiles and handshakes. he was abducted when he was 12 years old. he said as he rose through the ranks, he committed many atrocities. >> the things i did my make my heart bleed. i was abducted when i was young. i was taught to do bad things. only later, i realize what i did was very bad. now, it makes me cry and my heart bleeds because of that. >> the lra became notorious for abducting and mutilating people in the 1980s. the group surrendered he had with these women who had been forced to become officers'wives. there were u.s. special officers here but the leader, joseph kony, wanted by the international crimin

the competition was tied on a windy and wet kony island. halfway through chestnut was losing, but came from behind to chow down 61 hot dogs. it was a big day for chestnut, who proposed to his girlfriend before the competition. by the way, she said yes. >> oh, yeah. so he wins, he gets a beautiful bride as well. >> and she gets to cook hot dogs for the rest of her life. >> i think he doesn't like them. >> you think? >>> let's check in with christina. good morning. >> good morning. he was eight hot dogs shy of last year's total. >> that's right! >> hey, now, come on, now! we've got a good-looking day shaping up for any sort of barbecuing you might do. as we head throughout the day, it's going to be nice out there. it's really, really comfortable all across the bay area right now. if you've got friends and family in town, this is what it's usually like this time of year. we're actually hitting average high as that cool ocean air moves in. we've got changes coming your way as we get into that holiday weekend. let me start here in tiburon, show

polish immigrant, nathan handworker, who was a game changer in america, setting up a hot dog stand in kony island, charging a nickel for his all-beef hot docks, and famous nathan's hot docks were born. fast-forward to 2013, the national hot dog and sausage council - yes, there's a group by that name - estimates 1 billion packets of hot dogs were sold. we can give the dog its day, happy national hot dog day. mustard day is august 2nd. that's the show, i'm jen rogers in for ali velshi. thanks for joining us. >> >>> hello there, you're watching al jazeera live from doha. the top stories - the united nations votes to launch a war crimes investigation into israel's invasion of gaza. hamas says there can be no ceasefire without onnd to the blockade. -- an end to the blockade. >>> and united in grief - the nth receives the -- netherlands receives the bodies of those that died

polish immigrant, nathan handworker, who was a game changer in america, setting up a hot dog stand in kony island, charging a nickel for his all-beef hot docks, and famous nathan's hot docks were born. fast-forward to 2013, the national hot dog and sausage council - yes, there's a group by that name - estimates 1 billion packets of hot dogs were sold. we can give the dog its day, happy national hot dog day. mustard day is august 2nd. that's the show, i'm jen rogers in for ali velshi. thanks for joining us. > >> announcer: this is al jazeera. >>> hello there, you're watching al jazeera live from our headquarters in doha. the top stories - a diplomatic push in egypt. john kerry arrives in cairo to broker a ceasefire between israel and hamas. >>> united nations estimates three-quarters of the death is civilians, and there'll be an investigation whether israel is committing war crimes. >> ban ki-moon in baghdad - an

polish immigrant, nathan handworker, who was a game changer in america, setting up a hot dog stand in kony island, charging a nickel for his all-beef hot docks, and famous nathan's hot docks were born. fast-forward to 2013, the national hot dog and sausage council - yes, there's a group by that name - estimates 1 billion packets of hot dogs were sold. we can give the dog its day, happy national hot dog day. mustard day is august 2nd. that's the show, i'm jen rogers in for ali velshi. thanks for joining us. >> hi everyone, this is al jazeera america. i'm john siegenthaler in new york. no truce yet. the leader of hamas spells out demands to off the the conflict -- to sympto stop the conflict. >>> planes out of israel grounded for another day. what it means for israel's economy. >> flight 17, a day in the netherlands for the victims. >>> nigeria, sad anniversary of the kidnapping of over 200 school girls.

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the horse men and women of the esophagus, the annual nathan's hotdog eating contest takes place on konyways updating the five things you need to know. go to cnn.com fnewdaycnn.com fo latest. >>> we want to turn to a story that is causing a lot of people some consternation, it's a really troubling court case that we've been following, startling details were revealed in court about justin ross harris, the father accused of leaving his little son, a toddler, alone in a car for many, many hours, where he died. detective testified harris was sending explicit text messages as his son was dying. harris also had two life insurance policies on the toddler. you're going to hear some of the testimony for yourself right now. let's take a listen. >> ross must have left him in the car and trying to console her. they're like no, a thousand reasons, he could have taken him to lunch or something, we don't know yet. she's like, no. >> did you uncover anything at what he was doing during that day while the child was out in the car? >> yes. >> okay, what did you uncover? >> he was having up to six differen