libby casey live in the nation's capitol. in boston protesters gathered in front of the state house. a police presence was notable. the refrain: black lives matter and no justice, no peace, could be heard from the crowd. >> much of washington was focused on the march. the senate was wrangling over details of a federal spending bill. they did approve funding the government through wednesday while they try to work through an agreement with the house on a spending measure. a bi-partisan deal clasped on thursday raising the attacked mine

let's go to libby casey at capitol hill. libby, the president declaring cyber war on north korea. what is the reaction? >> well, david, i mean, this was to some degree expected. because the fbi had come out earlier today directly linking the cyberattack at sony to north korea. he said the software use was similar to malware had used before. so the administration had made the links. but certainly significant for the president to come out and say it, and to talk about the repe repercussions on the morale, the creator, content, being stifled by this potentially in the future. the congress had grave concerns, the question is how do they act? and the president said that he's willing to work with congress to come up with some cyber security legislation. that has been in the works for many months, but democrats and republicans have different opinions about how much information companies should share and how cyber security can best be achieved. if you talk to experts they say a lot of what congress is talking about is small ball. now, the ramifications of this particular hack and how it h

libby casey is in washington, d.c. libby the battle line has been drawn for sometime. perhaps, i guess the one thing they both have in common is that they agree that the house has done nothing. >> well, that is true to some degree. now house republicans would like to do this piecemeal approach work on securing the border, and then see what comes next. but democrats say that just is not realistic, because it loses the incentive to pass overall reform. the senate has passed immigration reform, the white house has supported it, the house has not gone forward. what we're seeing right now with department of homeland security secretary jay johnson is a very measured dialogue, frankly, even though we see some very different opinions from republicans and the secretary, so far a civil dialogue, and what we're hearing is democrats defend what the white house has done, and try to get to the legality of this issue. we see them -- such as sheila jackson lee say, look, the president has said he is not an emperor, he couldn't go it alone on immigration reform by just granting people

libby casey is on capitol hill with that. libby?reporter: john, congressional leaders hammered out a deal on a $1.1 trillion spending package but it fell apart when democrats balked at some of the details. le liberals conservatives are united in their dislike of the bill, leaving it in limbo. >> we work through this process in a bi-partisan, bi-cameral way. i expect it to pass. but listen, if we don't get finished today, we are going to be here until christmas. >> hammered out by leaders of both parties in the house and senate it even won backing from the white house. it includes funds to fight ebola and the group known as isil and includes a small raise for members of the military. >> the president supports the passage of this compromised proposal and would sign it if it arrives on his desk. >> but the willfully devil is i details and the 1600 page bill had many reasons to fight it. >> here we are in the house, being blackmailed, being blackmailed to vote for an appropriations bill. >> house democrats staging a revolt upset over pr

libby casey live in d.c. thank you so much. >> meanwhile the police shooting of tamir rice has been ruled a homicide. the 12-year-old boy was killed by a gunshot wound to the stomach. he was playing with a toy gun in cleveland and the officer thought the gun was real. a grand jury will decide whether that officer will face charges. >>> in carolina the fbi is investigating the death of a black teenager found hanging from a swing set. lennon lacy committed suicide ruled the coroner. the teen's family do not believe it, saying there are too many unanswered questions. officials with the n axe axe cp -- n axe acp fear it could have been a lynching >>> overseas - a race against time for rescue workers in indonesia, where a desperate search to find survivors caught in a mudslide continues. more than 100 are dead, and many are missing. some workers are using their bare hand to dig through the mud. >> it happened within five minutes. a huge chunk of a mountain came down, bursing into a hamlet, burying all but two hous

for more, let's go to libby casey in washington. what do we expect to come of today's hearing? have a couple of hearings on capitol hill, judiciary, but also the house committee on homeland security takes first aim this morning right at 9:00 a.m. this will be the first favors between congressional republicans and the obama administration since the president announced his executive actions on immigration two weeks ago. jay johnson, got director have home land security for the administration will go on to capitol hull and he he he he we expect him not only to defend the actions, but talk about he was the primary architect of them and recommended them to president obama. he'll faceoff against a hostile group of republicans led by mike mccall, republican of texas, chairman of the house homeland security committee. mccall has called the president's actions unconstitutional, and a threat to our democracy. he has warned that a wave of illegal i am grants will be inspired to cross the border. now, jay johnson's pushback on that is that the d.h.s. has limited resources and that instead

libby casey has that story. >> reporter: in an age where precisely rprecisely -- precisely track your phones,. >> how can they possibly lose an entire airplane? >> but making major upgrades to tracking technology is complicated. >> introducing new technology on an aircraft that carries threnld people300people or into a navigation system, requiring forethought and caution. >> experts to brainstorm better ways to track planes. i.t. was the first such conference in 15 years a time during which technology made major advancements. among proposals upgraded satellite tracking of planes in the area, instead of ising land based radio towers. extending the cockpit recording to 20 hours instead of one or two hours. and extending the life of the pinger, and stream all of the black box data during the flight so its valuable information doesn't go down with the plane. >> there's no reason with the technology we have today that we can't have streaming data from these aircraft. and it shows to me among other things a complete lack of what it takes to do an underwater search. the difference knowing wh

libby casey joins us from the white house. libby give us the new guidelines. >> reporter: tony, these rules have always been the priority of attorney general eric holder but some say they leave gaping loopholes. the new guidelines come in the wake of anger sparked at the death of three young african american boys from ferguson, missouri, new york city and cleveland. >> it undermines the public trust ultimately but makes us not good at what we do. >> the rules expanded to include national origin, religion, actual orientation, gender or yearngender identity. but can include characteristics including race or gender when those match a suspect. only cover federal law enforcement and don't apply to local police unless they're part of a federal task force. the tsa can still use profiling at airports. parts of u.s. customs and border protection can profile on border and other ports of entry and the program that collects information called mapping can continue. the new rules don't go far enough. >> it's a bit of policy sleight of hand.

let's go to libby casey live in washington. good morning. the family appears to be in a race against time to save his life. >> that's right, because al-qaeda in the arabian peninsula released a video this week saying they would essentially kill luke somers in three days time unless the u.s. government met its demands, which aren't specified in the video. his family's has been silent about his abduction, but his mother and brother have released their own video. >> please show mercy and give us an opportunity to see our luke again. he is all that we have. luke, if you are able to hear or see us, please know that we're doing everything possible to help you. our hearts are with you. we miss you, and we love you and all we want to do is see you again and have our -- have you safely in our armsal together again. >> he is a photo journalist and his family said he has no involvement for actions taken by the u.s. government. >> the white house has also acknowledged a secret mission to try and rescue somers. it did not go as planned. tell us what happ

libby casey has the story. >> reporter: the march brought together the families of unarmed americans killed by police. it gave the families a chance to talk about what they see as justice. civil rights leaders say they have become symbols of an unfair system. thousands gathered to support them and change. [ chanting ] . >> from tamir rice in cleveland. >> my second was 12 years old, just a baby, a baby. my baby. >> reporter: to eric garner in new york city. unarmed african-americans killed by police, their deaths becoming national symbols. eric garner's cousin travelled by bus to new york to join thousands that didn't know his relative, but know his name. >> his loss has become a gain for the world. to help change the laws. marchers say justice shouldn't be selective. they want the white house to hear this. they want congress to listen and see change happen. >> that's why whites and blacks are here together, show the world today this is not a black march or white march. this is an american march for the rights of american people. >> the rally organised by groups, like the n.a.a.c.p.,

>> libby casey, thank you so much.ere in new york, the demonstration is being called the millions march. it's a reference to the million man march heard 20 years in washington. thousands marched toward manhattan, toward police headquarters. let's go to kourtney keely. give us an idea of how big the turnout was or is rather. >> reporter: it is going on right now, richelle. we are seeing at least tens of thousands of people. about a mile and a half long actually, downtown on fourth street all the way up to 30th street. looking about a mile and a half long tens of thousands of people in this peaceful, legal protest. there is a consortium group, million march nyc that have made this call to, to bring children, elderly. i spoke to a work who was 84 years old and she was a model and felt compelled to stop at every corner and tell the policemen their lives mattered, too, and they were precious. there is incredible healing out here today. it's intense. you are hearing hands up. don't shoot refrain and you are seeing families,

libby casey is in washington, d.c. libby the battle line has been drawn for sometime.haps, i guess the one thing they both have in common is that they agree that the house has done nothing. >> well, that is true to some degree. now house republicans would like to do this piecemeal approach work on securing the

. >> but first we want to check in with libby casey who is live in washington. >> libby you know the drill when they start talking we stop. this is the first time we hear from jay johnson, what do we expect to hear from him? >> that's right, del, and this is the first time the obama administration is going head-to-head against republicans who you can expect to ask some fierce and tough questions to jeh johnson. but he is actually one of the creators of the president's plan. he went to the president with some of these suggestions, and you can expect to hear him talk about this morning how he vetted them, how he has been working with his own departments within homeland security, that deal with customs, immigration, border security, all of those issues to come up with these items, the action items that the president has followed through on. he will defend it. talk about the prior advertise of homeland security, and how they want to be able to go after the so-called worst offenders. people who they want to make sure are deported rather than going after people like the so-called dreamers,

we go to libby casey for the answer to that question. a lot of people wanting to know are tracking systems not as advanced as we expect them to be? >> it's especially challenging over open water but more sophisticated tracking and communication technology does exist, however putting it into place across the entire airline industry is an expensive and bureaucratic prospect, even at a time when people expect technology to be cutting edge. >> in an age when g.p.s. can precisely track your car location and you can view your house through on line mapping the acting head of the ntsb admits aviation tracking seems old fashioned. >> against this backdrop of information flow when a flight cannot be located the public asks how can they loose an spire airplane. >> tracking technology is complicated. >> introducing technology on an aircraft or into a navigation system requires forethought and caution. >> in october the ntsb gathered together aviation experts to brainstorm better ways to track planes. it was the first such conference in 15 years a ti

libby casey is live in washington. what do we know about the deal with kazakhstan and will these men be able to go back to their home countries. >> the obama administration said essentially, these men are free, but no details have been given about security arrangements or what exactly will happen next. these men from tunisia and yemen were recommended for release by the president's security team five years ago and a panel said they should be allowed to be removed from guantanamo bay but not sent to their home countries. no explanation given for that, although tunisia has been a place of concern because of persecution and yemen because of extremist he will minutes, as well as just what that is when people return to that home country. there have been concerns voiced by some in the community that men could return to pakistan or even go to afghanistan and there are no details as to what exactly would prevent them from doing so. >> nearly 30 prisoners released this year. any idea what 2015 looks like for the rest of the pri

. >> let's go live to libby casey in washington. all of us waking up to a new reality this morning, now that the president is moving to restore relations to cuba, i guess the question has to be asked, is a visit to havana next? >> the white house and the president himself are not ruling it out. there's nothing on the schedule at this point, but president obama told abc in an interview, let's see how things evolve. the president will cross paths with castro at the summit of the americas in panama. it will be the first time cuba is attending. the two leaders spoke for 55 minutes by phone and it is the first time they have had a conversation since the revolution. that comes on the heels of an historic handshake at nelson mandela's funeral last year. >> there are those on capitol hill criticizing the president's move and the prisoner swap. what are they saying? >> the prisoner swap, we just heard that it's three prisoners heading back to cuba. they were spies, part of the so-called cuban five, hailed as heroes back in their home country

and our coverage continues with libby casey on capitol hill. >> reporter: john, senate democrats from the intelligence committee, led by chairman, dianne feinstein, wanted to release this explosive report before they give up control to republicans in just a few short weeks. democratic staffers on the senate intelligence committee, the report seas that the cia's enhanced interrogation techniques were not effective, but they misled the policymakers about the program's effectiveness. the management was inadequate and deeply flawed. and they were far more brutal than the cia admitted. those techniques used in the bush administration and called torture by president obama and other critics. the cia defended it's history, saying our review indicates that the interrogations on whom the interrogation techniques were used did produce intelligence to 24 wart plans, and capture terrorists and save lives. president obama closed down the program when he came into office, and said that these techniques did significant damage to america and the world and made it harder to pursue our interests with al

libby casey has the latest from capitol hill. >> we worked through this process in a bipartisan way, i do expect it to pass, but if we don't get finished today, we'll be here until christmas. >> reporter: it even won backing from the white house, it includes funds to fight ebola and the group known as isil and a small raise for the members of the military. >> the president supports this proposal and would sign it. >> reporter: but the devil is in the details and as members dug into the specifics, they found plenty of reasons to fight it. >> so here we are in the house being blackmailed, being blackmailed to vote for an an appropriations bill. >> reporter: house democrats upset over provisions to raise campaign contribution limits by big donors, reducing pension plans for retirees, and roll back provisions of the dodd-frank financial reform giving bank ks more freedom to hedge their risks. >> this is about reckless behavior, and a give away to the largest financial institutions in this country, and it's up to us to say no. >> reporter: some conservatives say this green lights too many

. >> libby casey for us. appreciate it. thank you. there have been questions about international courts stepping in if the u.s. does not prosecute cases of torture. but that is unlikely even though the u.s. healt helped to draft and side the convention against torture. all but 31 nations signed on since it was adopted in 1984. ten nations have signed on but have not ratified the agreement. the u.s. said that the treaty only applies to actions inside it's borders. but article 5 says actions carried out in guantanamo are part of the statute. roxana saberi spoke today to one of the men widely believed to be one of the so-called architects of the program. >> reporter: i reached james mitchell by phone in florida. he told me he could not confirm or deny if he was one of the two psychologists referred to in the report. but he criticized the report and praised the c.i.a. interrogators saying they did the best they could to protect americans. the report refers several times to two psychologists who helped the c.i.a. in the use of brutal inter

libby casey has more. >> reporter: in an age when gps can track your car's location, the acting headf the national transportation safety board admits aviation tracking seems outdated. >> when a flight cannot be located, an incredulous public asks how can they lose an entire airplane. introducing new technology on an aircraft that has to track thousands of aircraft requires forethought and caution. >> reporter: in october the ntsb gathered together aviation experts to brain storm better ways to track planes. it was a first such conference in 15 years. among the proposals, upgraded satellite tracking of planes in the air. imprinting of plane's location on any messages sent from the cockpit. extending the cockpit voice recording to 20 hours, increasing the battery life of the black box pinger and treatment all of the black box data during the flight so it's valuable information doesn't go down with the plane. >> there's no reason we can't have streaming data from these aircraft, and it shows a complete lack of what it takes to do an underwater search. the difference between knowing whet

libby casey is on capitol hill. >> it was a roller-coaster of a day, with the clock ticking down. democrats and republicans huddled behinds closed doors, with hours left before a government shutdown. in the end they were able to pass this megaspending bill. many were concerned about it. ultimately it felt like it was their best shot at compromise. >> on this vote, the ayes are 2619, the nays 2006. the motion is adopted. >> reporter: hammered out by leaders in both parties, in the house and senate. it won backing from the white house, and included funds to fight ebola, and the group known as i.s.i.l., and included a raise for members of the military. >> the president supports the proposal. >> the devil is in the details, as members dug into the specifics of the bill. they found plenty of reasons to fight it. >> here we are in the house, being blackmailed, being blackmailed to vote for inprop rightses bill. house democrats staging a revolt. >> this is about reckless behaviour. it is about a give away to the largest financial institutions in this country, and it's up to us to say "no

libby casey has that story. >> reporter: in an age when gps can precisely track your car's location and you can view your house through online mapping the acting head of the national transportation safety board admits aviation tracking seems old fashioned. >> against this backdrop of ubiquitous flow of information how can they possibly lose an entire airplane? glsh butglshairplane. >> reporter: but it's complicated. in october the ntsb gathered together aviation experts to better track planes. a time during which technology made major advancements. among proposals upgraded satellite tracking of planes in the air instead of relying on land based radio towers. imprinting messages sent from the cock cockpit expanding the voice recording to 24 hours instead of one to two hours. the best way to find out what's happening on a plane stream all of the black box data during the flight so its valuable information doesn't go down with the plane. >> there's no reason with the technologicaltechnology we have today we can't have streaming data from the airplane. it shows to me the complete lack of da

libby casey reports. >> water boarding, sleep deprivation, tactics used by the cia on tee takenees in the post 9/11 era. experts say that's not president's call. >> it's not the president of the united states to conduct a criminal inquiry as to the action hes of somebody who works at the cia that's an independent prosecutor, who can look at this without any sort of political interference and conduct an investigation and reach a conclusion based on their own view of the facts. >> reporter: but there were calls on the senate floor from democrats for action. >> it's bad enough not to prosecute these foibles but to word orreward them is inexreensible. incomprehensible. >> allegations of prisoner abuse and chose not oprosecute. in 2012 it en-- not to prosecute. deaths much two detainees. and president obama outlawed the so-called enhanced enhance interrogation techniques early in his presidency. >> there was never a perfect time to release a report like this but it was important for us i think to recognize that part of what sets us apart is when we do find something wrong we acknowledge it

. >> that was libby casey reporting.ow back to the story relative to north korea's hacking of sony entertainment. we bring in jake ward live from san francisco. jake, yesterday you mentioned that this does not seem to fit into north korea's hacking history. yet today's information provide any clarity in that regard? >> you know, michael, it's very interesting to watch this game of cat and mouse that's going on here. this is a real cloak and dagger stuff. the fbi has volunteered in its announcements to the media a certain amount of new information saying that there were some i.p. dress that they feel confident could be attributed to north korean hardware. patterns of malware and data erasing software attributed to north korea before. this is all extremely speculative. we're talking about a country whose cyber warfare capability it's we know very little about. up until a year ago i think we would say this is way outside of north korea's capabilities. certainly it's sort of command of internet and social media trends. all t

. >> libby casey for us at the white house. now part of the new c.i.a. report describes two psychologists the agency hired to create enhanced interrogation techniques. roxana saberi spoke to one of the men believed to be one of the so-called architects of the program. >> reporter: i reached james mitchell by phone in florida. he told me he could not confirm oh or deny if he was one of the two psychologists referred to the reporin the report. >> reporter: the senate report refers to two psychologists who helped c.i.a.'s use of brutal interrogation. they said they used enhanced interrogation on subjects. it identifies two contractors using the pseudonyms. their real names are reported as james mitchell and bruce jjessen. they said they were not there in realtime and the men and women in the c.i.a. without confirming or denying that i was a part of that interrogation program gave their lives to support the u.s. in our conversation he refused to confirm that he was one of the architects of the program. saying people think i am. i'm not acknowledging it one w

. >> let's go to libby casey now live in washington, d.c. the reaction to the grand jury decision extending to lawmakers there, as well. >> that's right, del. we saw new york lawmakers gather on capitol hill to put into words the frustration that many lawmakers were feeling not just from new york over the fact that there is video of eric garner's death and yet still no indictment. >> from new york to seattle to washington. >> what do we want? justice! >> what do we want it? >> now! >> frustration over not indicting police officer pantaleo. >> not to iict in the death of eric garner is a miscarriage of justice, it's an outrage, a disgrace. >> this is not a black problem, this is a problem we have in our great country. >> the grand jury won't have the final say. >> now that the local investigation has concluded, i'm here to announc that the justice department will proceed. >> he pledged a full and fair investigation. similar to the decision in ferguson, missouri not to indict white police officer darren wilson, who shot and killed black teenag

libby casey joins us live. what else can we expect to hear from the president this afternoon? >> he'll address reporters today before departing for hawaii for a family vacation. it will be wide ranging and reporters will largely dictate the direction of things. expect questions to come up about international headlines right now. everything from isil to the recent attack on sony and just what the u.s. government role should be in combating and pushing back against that. russia's financial crisis, and oil prices could come up. on the domestic front, the budget canning passed and the white house supported over the concerns of some liberal members of the democratic party. now, a lot of people have been speculating that president obama is essentially a lame duck at this point. well, he has been moving on executive actions, immigration, and now declaring normalization of relationships with cuba, that will likely also come up as everyone speculates on just what the white house will do with its own power to reestablish ties with cuba. >> what type of changes are being recommended for

libby casey is in washington d.c. this morning.his has been a violent one and violent since the conflict began. how is the president measuring success? >> he's pointing to really the breakup of the core group of al-qaeda leadership as a measure of success. he also in a statement yesterday pointed to the killing of osama bin laden and president obama says the afghan people now live in a more secure environment. they've been able to have elections and they're taking charge of their own security. despite measures of success certainly afghanistan is still fraught with violence. this past year, 5,000 afghan security forces killed, in 2014 alone. even though there were elections, the government is fraught with problems, the president in a power struggle and he dismissed many of his ministers last month. there is a question of what will happen in the coming years as the u.s. look to iraq and the problem there with stability the development of the so-called islamic state or isil. >> at the height of the war we talked about 100,000 american

libby casey with more. >> jen, the draft released friday morning is bear bones. the first step in an ambitious plan by the education department to help students compare colleges. eventually schools will be rated good, bad, or in the middle with most falling in that midrange. now the draft is a score card. you can input a school, where you live, or what you would like to study, and compare things like cost. eventually it will show things like a school's affordability, graduation rates, loan repayment rates. that last one could be a key indicators of whether you're getting a good enough job after college to pay off those student loans. now president obama announced this plan of rating schools last year. in hopes of pushing back at the soars cost of higher education as well as growing student debt. this is just a first round, and officials of the department of education say a lot of metric has to get crunched to create this score card, but they hope to have it fleshed out more by the next school year. >> all right, libby, the u.s. government said that insurance comp

libby casey has the details. >> the draft release this friday morning is bear bones.the first step in an ambitious plan to help students compare schools. eventually they'll be rated on good, bad, or somewhere in the middle. the draft so far is an ron line comparison chart. you can put in the school you're interested in, where you live or what you would like to study, and get a sense of how much a school will cost or what you'll graduate with. and here's what the rating system will eventually measure. affordability. graduation rates. job prospect after graduating and loan repayment rates. officials say that last one a good measure of whether students are making enough money at their first jobs to pay off loans in an efficient manner. president obama announced an idea of creating a rating system last year in response to the high cost of education as well as soaring student debt. while this is just a first draft officials hope to have a more concrete version by the next school year. >> libby casing reporting from washington. when it comes to baseball some of the world's

police in new york city, ferguson, missouri, and cleveland whose actions are upped scrutiny >>> libby casey, thank you. protests are held for a sixth straight night in response to grand jury decisions in ferguson and new york. in berkeley, california, tonight, hundreds of u.c. students are marching again. police have been trying to prevent demonstrators from getting tonne a freeway -- getting on to a freeway. protests over the weekend turned violent. demonstrators clashed with police and broke windows. a the mayor said a fraction of police are causing problems calling for nation-wide policies. >>> in brooklyn new york, hundreds outside the berkeley center, where prince william and his wife kate were attending their first n.b.a. game. several streets were shut down. [ chanting ] >>> in new york, protesters making their way through times square, chanting and blocking traffic. they held up foot traffic staging a die-in during rush hour at grand central station. and the mother of a 12-year-old cleveland boy shot and killed by police says the officer involved in that shooting should be charged.

libby casey has more from washington. >> tony, these are basically free men according to the obama administration, but no details have been released about a security arrangement with the country of kazakhstan. president obama's own national security team recommended these men be released five years ago and it's taken this long to see follow through. now the recommendation for the release didn't say they should go home from their home countries. no reason given but in the past there have been concerns about tunisia because of persecution and yemen because of extremist elements there and militants. so there may have been fears about the countries rather than these men themselves. no details given about what would prevent them from going to a country like pakistan where they were originally picked up. it's important to note that a man who served as president obama's point person on guantanamo for the past year and a half said that 90% of detainees who have been released have never been suspected of doing anything wrong in the first place. it's taken long for release some of these detainees than expe

libby casey has more on that from washington. >> in an age where g.p.s. can track your car location and you can view your house through online mapping the active head of the national transportation safety board admits it seems old-fashioned. >> when a flight cannot be located incredulous public asks how can they possibly lose an entire airplane. >> making major upgrades to tracking technology is complicated. >> introducing new technology into a navigations system that has to track thousands of aircraft requires forethought and caution. >> reporter: the n.t.s.b. gathered experts to brainstorm better ways to attract plains. it was a time during which technology made major advancements. among the proposals upgraded tracking of planes in the air. imprinting of plane's locations on messages sent from the cockpit. extending the recording to 20 hours, up from one or two hours. increasing the battery life of the black box pinger and some aviation experts say the best way to find out what is happening on a plane - stream the black box data during the flight so val

libby casey reports. >> waterboarding, sleep deprivation, starvation, tactics used by the c.i.a. on detainees in the post 9/11. human rights say it's torture and illegal. today the white house said that's not the president's call. >> that's not a question for the president of the united states. it's not the president of the united states who conducts a criminal inquiry, and to the actions of somebody who works at the c.i.a., that's the responsibility of a career federal prosecutor who can take an independent look at this, without political interference, and conduct an investigation and reach a conclusion based on their own view of the facts. >> reporter: but there were calls on the senate into from democrats for action. >> it's bad enough not to prosecute these officials. but to reward or promote them, and risk the integrity of the u.s. government to protect them is incomprehensible. the president needs to purge his administration of high-level officials who are instrumental in the development and running of this programme. >> reporter: the justice department has looked into the

libby casey live in the nation's capitol.n boston protesters gathered in front of the state house. a police presence was notable. the refrain: black lives matter and no justice, no peace, could be heard from the crowd. >> much of washington was focused on the march. the senate was wrangling over details of a federal spending bill. they did approve funding the government through wednesday while they try to work through an agreement with the house on a spending measure. a bi-partisan deal clasped on thursday raising the attacked mine workers. >> the brutes was engulfed -- bus was engulfed with afghan soldiers trapped inside. >> when the explosion happened, i noticed two soldiers getting out of the bus. one of them was injured on his leg. the other one jumped out of the bus window until the fire brigade arrived. the rest of the soldiers burned inside. >> afghans are concerned about the deteriorating security situation as nato forces continue with withdraw. only small nato force will remain next year to support afghanistan's mili

. >> libby casey for us in washington, thank you. >> coming up in 15 minutes, we'll have a live report from on the ground in pakistan and a former special agent in charge at ncis will break down what we saw happen this morning. >> in sydney, tributes continue to pour in for the victims of the hostage standoff. >> police stormed a cafe, ending the siege. there are now several questions including why the attacker was not on a terrorist watch list. >> the morning after the siege ended and the streets around martin place are quiet. police have maintained a heavy presence here. commuters to work come to show their respects. many are asking how such a thing could ever happened in the heart of they are stay. >> i'm very, very confident in relation to this critical investigation that we have set up. we have extremely experienced investigators doing it. we are -- we will be in constant contact with the coroner. >> police stormed the cafe in the early hours of tuesday morning after hearing gunshots inside. two hostages were killed, along with the gunman. man haron monis had begun the siege durin

libby casey is in washington this morning. the plan is said to be a direct way to stop the president's executive action. >> republicans are trying to push back both at the substance of what president obama has done on immigration and the way he did it, through executive action. they admit there's not a lot they can do right now. >> republicans of fume be over president obama's unilateral action over immigration. >> we have limited options and abilities to deal with it directly. >> that won't stop gop lawmakers from trying to fight the president's moves, which would temporarily shield 5 million undocumented immigrants from deportation. the republican plan is to push back against the president while taking one option off the table. >> no more government shutdowns and threats to default on the national debt. >> with federal funding set to expire next week, republicans in the house are considering a spending bill that would keep most of the government running through next september, but there is one notable exception. the agency r

. >> let's go live to libby casey also in washington, d.c. this morning, the president holding meetings today on ferguson. what's on the agenda? >> there have been calls by civil rights leaders that the president should go to ferguson, but he's bringing the broader conversation to the white house. he'll meet with his cabinet this afternoon to talk about the federal programs that funnel military equipment to local police forces. he'll also immediate with yuck community activists, civil rights leaders, elected officials and representatives of law enforcement to talk about building trust and as the white house puts it, strengthening neighborhoods. >> another store out of washington, an american couple in qatar aquid in the affect of their daughter facing more hurtments as they try to leave the country. >> this u.s. couple is not being allowed to return to the united states, a situation they describe as a nightmare. >> a los angeles couple remains stuck in qatar this morning, less than one day after a court there cleared them of starving to death

libby casey, al jazeera, washington. >> ellen scribner is a police psychologist and former deputy directort the international institute of justice. thanks for being with us today. this process started when you were at the justice democratic under attorney general janet reno. why did it take so long? >> well, i think it started then and we moved forward, and we're making a lot of progress in trying to deal with the whole area of racial profiling. attorney general reno was very instrumental in getting that on the agenda, and she can veined several meetings, brought people together and through the cops office, office of community oriented policing services were doing grants and a lot was happening, however, as we all know, 9/11 changed a lot of the direction of where we were going, because people's very realistic fears of terrorism, and so the direction we were moving in kind of halted, because of we started to go in a different direction, and that was the concerns about terrorism and fears for the safety of the country, and we've never really gotten back to where we were, although there are