loirng lori jane gliha interviews the mayor. >> do i want to quit? it is tough, i've committed a lot of my life already to this city. to step away instead of seeing it through doesn't make sense to me. >> reporter: what has been the hardest part of this for you? >> the hardest part has been seeing the community i've grown up in, the city that i've been on the city council for almost ten years now to see it embroiled in this kind of racial tension, this kind of uproar, i've never seen this kind of outcry, any kind of outcry really, we're the community that bucked the trend when it came to white flight. if you look at the neighboring communities around ferguson they're 90 to 95, some of them 97% african american. ferguson is 65%, you have a large number of white residents who stayed and happy with the defort an diversity and embraced the diversity. >> early on you said there was no racial divide. do you still believe that? >> i would say that i mean it's clearly raicials divides. clearly divides -- racial divides. clearly divides all across the country

lori jane, the question everyone has, is there any news from the grand jury? how are they preparing there? >> every time i contact the prosecutor's office, mid to late january is the time they say the grand jury's decision is coming forward. he did note that the prosecutor's office will get update ahead of it. the public will know a few hours in advance. the mayor i thought would be a little more stressed when i talked to him. he is calm because he has learned to take each day one day at a time. in fact this weekend after he had the community event he actually went hunting to take a little bit of time for himself. focusingth at this point, moving forward, waiting any day now for grand jury announcement. >> lori jane, i'm wondering have you had an opportunity to talk with the folks on the streets there what their mood is? >> yes, you know what there is a lot of anticipation here and it's on a variety of different levels. i mean nobody really knows what's going to happen. some of the businesses have already taken preemptive steps, putting boards on their windows

standing by for us outside the courthouse is "america tonight's" lori jane gliha who has watched all this develop over the last days and weeks going back to the first days after the sheeting of michael brown. irnlg llori jane, we are going o ththe chowrs as soon chowr cour. we are anticipating a statement that will take quite a few minutes. he will read whatever the decision is from the grand jury and we anticipate that that will be read out. in addition, there has been information from the st. louis county prosecutor's office that he does intend if there is no indictment, he does intend to release all of the testimony and other information that the grand jury has looked at in the course of their weeks of examining and investigating this. as "america tonight's" loirnlingslori janegliha has tod quite a few days looking at the evidence and talking to the witnesses as well. this is an unusual situation in st. louis county in that the grand jury is allowed without the prosecutor in the room to question the witnesses themselves, to pose their questions and seek additional information. almo

lori jane gliha, al jazeera, hanford, washington. >> we just heard from tom carpenter in lori jane's report. he is the man who founded hanford challenge and he joins means. can you tell us tom how much a break through this really is? will it really be able to help these workers? >> well, we hope so. this report was a watershed report insofar as it showed us and told us that workers at the hanford site are in danger every day that they're working out there. because of the nature of the chemicals that come out of these tanks into the breathing space of workers and the fact that they are connected to health damage that happens. and they found that the program at the hanford site isn't sufficient to protect these workers from these vapors much less detecting what they're disposed to or giving them the appropriate medical treatment. >> if the system is incapable of detecting exposure, it means this is in jeopardy for some period to come right? >> that's true. the answer is to put workers on what's called supplied air, like wearing a scuba tank except at the tank farms and they have to wea

and lori jane, good to see you. first of all give me a sense of what you're hearing, what you're seeing, what you're getting from the activists, the demonstrators you are speaking to and even the police contacts you've made during your time on the ground there. >> yes and really a little bit of an update of what's going to happen with the nowm. we found out a few hours ago, that the grand jury has come up with their decision and only in the last hour we got the e-mail that said there would be a press conference at 8:00 p.m. but we're waiting for the logicallalogistical details. behind me is where the press conference is going to be, where the announcement is going to be. there is a lot of media around me, and just a few minutes ago we saw police dogs go by sniffing for explosives and that type kinkind of thing. one of the people i spoke to earlier on was the mayor of ferguson who also was noticeably not involved in that latest press conference, the governor and st. louis mayor, we didn't hear from the mayor of fergu

. >> our lori jane gliha, sex crimes on high school campus and what's been done to stop it. >>> also, more women move in on capitol hill. but is 100 really a sign of progress and how will the next class in congress change the picture and policies in america? and this: the bottom drops out as more cities see record cold and the only blanket is more inches of snow. brace yourself. it's only novembe november . >> and good evening, thanks for joining us. i'm joie chen. imagine the fear of a sexual assault survivor, a very young one. the national conversation about sex crimes has now reached fever pitch on college campuses. "america tonight" finds another wave of sex assaults is flying under the radar, at high schools, even middle schools. a majority do not report their rapes and neither do we find many of their schools. "america tonight's" lori jane gliha william a young woman who did and her school's shocking response. >> rachel carries her rubik's cube almost everywhere she goes. it's her security blanket. >> now it's in line i feel so much better. >> rachel has been doing this for four

"america tonight's" lori jane gliha is there. lori jane, what did the protesters tell you?> that's funny john, the prosecutors didn't tell them much more than they are going to get a heads up. what we do know from the other day is the prosecutor said the schools would get a few hours' notice. at this point they're kind of waiting and having their planning sessions. they met again today to discuss how they would organize once that grand jury announcement is made. >> the commission was appointed yesterday. what else do we know about that commission? >> well, the commission has very specific things that they now have to do. they have a deadline and they have to come up with a report in which they make policy recommendations. and they have until september of 2015 to do that. they have very specific things they have to look at. for example the citizen-police relationship, the racial ethnic divide how the government and the courts are working, the disparities of education and health care and childcare. if they can make that decision ahead of that those will be considered. how tha

lori jane gliha found many young victims don't report. and often neither do their schools. >>> well, the national conversation about sex crimes reached fever pitch. "america tonight" found another wave of sex assaults is flying under the radar on high school campus, even at middle school. the majority of victims do not report their rapes, and neither have many of their schools. lori jane gliha's story with a young woman who did report and the shocking response. >> reporter: rachel carries her rubik's cube everywhere she goes, it's kind of a security blanket. rachel has been doing this for four years, ever since one afternoon when she was 17, a high school senior, a member of the marching band in the small town of henderson texas. inside that building is where you were raped. >> right. >> reporter: another student, a football player and fellow band member lured her into the band her. >> it was strictly forced. the entire type of immediately after i was raped i went to the bathroom and was scared. >> reporter: rachel's mum said the high sch

"america tonight"s lori jane gliha. we want to bring in debbie hines, a trial attorney in the city of baltimore. you have been before grand juries, you can tell us the circumstances that we are talking about, an unusual case, an unusual decision by the prosecutor to present all of the evidence. and people suggest that this is pretty much like a trial behind closed doors. >> exactly. and the grand jury is always behind closed doors, but what doesn't normally happen in the grand jury. we are not taking in every witness and throwing in everything, including the kitchen sink for the grand jurors to decide. we take a selective amount of witnesses in that we feel can make the case, evidence. >> it's not to determine guilt or innocence, but establish probable cause to go forward. >> absolutely. standard. >> what is the problem. the prosecutor, and lori jane gliha, you saw this much the prosecutor emphasised look, i have given all the evidence available to the grand jury, they had access to everything, and the prosecutor said h

>> a former ferguson police officer speaks to lori jane gliha.hat is it like to protect and serve in the city of ferguson >>> also, indepth - a single exam aimed at lifting kids out

lori jane gliha has the story. >> inside that building is where you were raped? >> right. >> another student a football player and a fellow band member lured her into the band room where she says he raped her. >> it was strictly force the whole entire time. immediately after i was raped i went straight to the bathroom and i was scared. >> rachel's mom colleen chevalier, said the high school was unprepared and made splaiks fromistakeswhen she went to rep. >> there was semen on her shirt and her principal told her to talk to her attacker. >> lori jane gliha is with us. >> under title 9, they have to have a plan in place, they have to are prepared for sex assaultt cases like this. what we've found is school administrators are not prepared. the police have a higher beg youburdenof proof. schools have an obligation to is a student to make sure they have a safe learning environment. in the case we profiled tonight, they did not do their own investigation. they handed it off to their they determined that the sex was consense walsensual even thoughs reported as an assaul

>> a former ferguson police officer speaks to lori jane gliha. what is it like to protect and serve in the city of ferguson >>> also, indepth - a single exam aimed at lifting kids out of poverty. >> it's one in a million. >> grading a test that may pit minorities against each other >>> and, i'll give you a constantant and a vowel, can you guess the oxford dictionary word of the year? >>> good evening, everyone. thanks for joining us, joie chen is on assignment. i'm adam may. we start with an exclusive. a former ferguson police officer is speaking to us for the first time. the anticipation is building as protesters and police wait for an announcement from the grand jury. it could be a matter of days until they decide if they will indict a ferguson police officer who shot and killed an unarmed teenager. a former colleague says he also nose how it feels to be a target. >> i felt it all the time in a uniform. saying "i hate the police." it was "you don't know me, this is the first time you have met me." they may have had a negative encounter with pol

"america tonight"'s lori jane gliha spoke with the youngest member of the new panel. >> i started toet excited on how maybe we really can get something out of this. maybe some real systematic change and the youth voices really will be heard and not always the older folks, i mean older, older than 20. >> reporter: at 20 years old, rasheen aldridge is on the front lines of the ferguson protest and taking on a new responsibility of changing a system and helping to repair a racial divide, one that's existed in his home state longer than he can remember. >> this isn't a game, this isn't a joke. like we really want to seek the change. >> rasheen is a youngest member of the governor's commission, that will tap into resources to help address the racial unrest in the area. >> i hope as a young person can provide the concerns and issues that young people have and waking up and feeling like your life don't matter, walking outside and feeling like you're getting targeted just because you were black. >> what went through your mind when you were selected? >> i was scary, i didn't expect to make it

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lori jane gliha, al jazeera. washington. >> ahead on "america tonight," testing the waters, the navy will allow female soldiers to serve on submarines. >> what was your reaction? >> first reaction was whoa, they're probably going to be in trouble, because they're going to be in enclosed spaces with a lot of men. women in those situations can be at high risk for sexual assault. >> now a thought about testing the waters down under. after years of debate the u.s. navy wants to allow enlisted women to serve as submariners. the full plate is under review by congress but some female veterans are concerned. they cite the long months at sea and extremely close quarters as precursors of sexual assault. tanya moa moseley reports. >> no women allowed until four years ago. when the u.s. navy allowed female officers board ballistic missile submarines. >> serve he on a crew of almost 150 men when i asked her, whether that concerned her? >> we are all respected officers, i rep rp the respect them and they respect me. >> a nucle

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"america tonight"s lori jane gliha, with an alarming fact about young victims, high school and younger. our look at sex crimes on campus tomorrow, on "america tonight". >>> next, an island paradise. hawaii moves to ban food improved by science. farmers caught in the middle. >> we not so much anti - we go with the science. >> >> reporter: where do the farmers go? >> in this instance, the farmers believe it's safe. >> genetically modified food in hawaii - why it's leaving a bitter taste. . >> we don't want to listen to your science or marketing. we want toxin free, g.m.o. free. >> the political leader is margaret willie. she introduced a bill to ban g.m.o. crops - plants that have genes altered, offered to be more resistant to drought and disease. >> we have all of these emails, 3,6064. >> her bill had more public support than any other legislation. more popular than decriminalizing marijuana. >> the culture in hawaii, the history, why is this important? >> one way that different veets hawaii is that the -- different sheets hawaii is love for the land. we want the indigenous seeds, that

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more from "america tonight"s lori jane gliha >>> rachel carries a rubic's cub everywhere she goes. it as security blanket helping her in anxious moments. >> i feel better. >> reporter: rachel has been doing this ever since one afternoon at 17, a high school senior, a member of the marching band in the town of henderson texas. inside that building is where you were raped? >> right. >> reporter: a student, a football player and a fellow band member lured her into the band room, where she said he raped her. >> it was strictly forced. almost. >> reporter: rachel's mum said the high school was unprepared to handle the incident. and made mistakes from the moment rachel reported the assault. >> she went to the teacher on the day it happened. there was semen on her shirt, and told him, "i have been raped." he said "go confront your attacker." >> reporter: it wasn't until rachel told another teacher two days later, that the campus handed it over to the police, who concluded 24 hours later that the case was consensual. >> i was pissed. i was shocked and angry. >> reporter: in a move that sho

lori jane gliha ins j joins us m clayton, missouri. what is the information you're getting from the ground there in clayton. >> yes, tony ed mcgee who is the prosecuting attorney's assistant sent out a press release, we are about to get an update on when the announcement is going to be made. i got an update from a police officer, several police departments said the announcement was going to be made around 8:00, although we haven't gotten the official word from the prosecutor's office. there are a lot of people mobilizing preparing for what's going to happen tonight. i just got off the phone with the ferg ferguson mayor. he's not sure what time that press conference is going to be and to be ons with you he said i have three speeches prepared for tonight. he is trying to announce to the community what is going to move forward, what is the future of ferguson. he's not sure what's going to happen tonight, he will be giving a press conference. all these weeks i have been talking to protesters and activists, rasheen aldridge says he'sing pla

>> a former ferguson police officer speaks to lori jane gliha. what is it like to protect and serve in the city of ferguson >>> also, indepth - a single

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important grand jury decision, the mayor of ferguson, missouri, one on one with "america tonight's" lori jane the characterization that ferguson was somehow just a powder keg ready to explode and it's a ferguson problem was what i was trying to take reception exception with. the. >> an in depth look at the

the lori jane gliha sat with james noels and asked about the michael brown shooting and racial tensions. >> reporter: knowing that the grand jury will do something soon, what do you hope it does? >> i don't care one way or the other what the outcome is as long as it's a legal and fair out come. no matter what happens the city will work to move forward. >> what's been the hardest part for you? >> the hardest part is seeing the community that i grew up in, the community that i loved and committed to serving, and i've been on the counsel for years, to see it broiled with racial tension and uproar. never seen any kind of racial frustrations or stride, never seen this outcry or any outcry. we are a communicated that bucked the friend. >> some may look at that going how can you be the mayor of ferg wr and surprised that this exists, or that people are this upset or feeling this way when you have lived here your whole life? >> well, i think - let's be clear too. ferguson is a community of 22,000 people. it's a metro region of 2,000 people. we were a mile and a half from the city of st louis, w

important grand jury decision, the mayor of ferguson, missouri, one on one with "america tonight's" lori jane gliha. >> the characterization that ferguson was somehow just a powder keg ready to explode and it's a ferguson problem was what i was trying to take reception exception with. the. >> an in depth look at the mayor's take on what the shooting meant to ferguson.

. >> you can see much more of lori jane glee law's interview with james knolls on aamerica tonigh. >>few minutes ago kassig's parents spoke publically for the first time since the news of his son's murder. he was captured last year while doing aid work in syria. he's also a former army ranger. for more now we go to jamie macintyre in washington. jamie his parents came tout to flee plea for his life about a month ago after spending more than a year in silence watch did they have to say today? >> reporter: as you can imagine, david, they are heart broken today. ed and paula kassig say that they believe their son lost his life as a result his love for the syrian people. and his desire to relieve their suffering here is a little of what they had to a say a while ago. >> our hearts of battered, but they will mend. the world is broken but it will be holds in the end. and good whim prevail as the one god of many names will prevail. >> pleas play for abdul, or pete if that's how you know him, a at sunset this evening. pray also for all people in syria, in iraq, and around the world that are h

. >> you can see much more of lori jane gliha's interview tonight at 9:00 eastern on al jazerra americaining us live from ferguson is missouri state representative courtney alan curtis. you had a meeting today with officials from the department of justice. what did they tell you? >> i actually didn't make that meeting. >> you did the make the meeting. do you know what the meeting was about? >> prem raises for the impending indictment or decision, that's as much as i can tell you. >> it's as much as you can tell us, is that because what the discussion was rule is 60, which is grand jury proceedings have to be kept quiet by the justice department? was this about the grand jury? >> no, that's been the procedure throughout the several weeks that we have been meeting since the beginning. >> you don't know if the grand injure jury has reached a question since or not and the officials you met with with don't know either, is, is that right. >> as i stated i didn't meet with them today but we have met previously. we have been planning and coming tote as a community trying to identifyinfigure out