the most important race is cookson versus mcquaide for the seat of power. lee wellings, al jazeera, long done. >> there's more on our website at aljazeera.com/sports. >> thanks for that. >>> now, more than two years since the tsunami devastated parts of japan's east coast, debris is still washing up on beaches in north america. alaska has thousands of kilometers of coastline, and that's what's going to get most of it. allen schauffler explains. >> reporter: the high wide view is spectacular, america's largest uninhabited island looks pristine. walk the shoreline with the cleanup crew, and you get the true close-up picture. a picture of what he calls a slow-moving environmental disaster. metal barrels, parts of old shoes, plastic bottles, fishing floats and buoys from aq aquaculture farms across the pacific litter the beach. >> it's not hopeless. just need more resources and people but it's never-ending. >> half or more is tsunami debris. it's collected by hand and packed in huge bales and flown out by helicopter but on the barge for the long trip back to ci

but cook son and mcquaid, cycling seated power. >> now she's struggled with injuries and lack of formt venus williams is on track to finish the tennis season on a high. going to the semifinal of the pan pacific open in japan for the first type she overcame canada's bushard. and i the fastest serve in tenn. >>> the detroit tigers are celebrating a third consecutive title in the american league central. the division was secured with a 1-0 defeat of the minnesota twins on wednesday. seven shutout innings against the twins. the twins 2002 of 2004 to win the division three years in a row. >>> well, could that be the second time in 19 years of postseason won't be th the new k yankees. ending their wildcard hopes the yankees are preparing to say farewell to two players on sunday. >>> for more on next year's winter olympics check out www.aljazeera.com. you can look at our teams using facebook and twitter. again, www.aljazeera.com/sports. i'll have more later. >> thank you very much, indeed. that's the news from the news hour team with david foster. for now, we have more coming up after the br

he replaces pat mcquaid after 24-18. mcquaid had held the role for eight years but has been criticized for the sport's failure to control doping, particularly the lance armstrong scandal. >> i'll make cycling fully independent, and to work for a swift investigation into cycli cycling's doping culture. >> we have been following the story. the sport of cycle something probably made the right decision going for a new man. but cookson has massive challenges ahead of him. >> well, with all the major problems that this sport has had over the last couple of decades, this was cycling's big event. this was the big day, never mind what was happening on the roads and on the tracks. they had to get it right and they nearly messed it up. it was an utter shamble as they tried to get the election going. in the end they had to have a vote to decide if pat mcquaid was even allowed to stand for president again. he didn't have an official nomination in the end he had nominations. that was disappoin disputed. in the end it was cookson who s

. >> reporter: james mcquaide has been a federal employee more than 30 years. he lived through the government shutdown in the '90s. >> there's a potential here i think for it to be worse because the battle lines are drawn so strictly and there are people behaving irrationally. >> reporter: lieutenant haraz gambury is pulling double duty supporting his young family and protecting the united states. >> we're going to honor our commitment regardless what happens with any potential government shutdown. >> it's a scary situation. i don't know how long it's going to last. >> reporter: on capitol hill surae chinn, wusa9. >> now despite staring the shutdown in the face, the federal government does seem to have enough cash to help out the city of detroit. this summer the motor city became the largest u.s. city in history to file for bankruptcy and now the feds are doling out 100 million bucks to try and at least help and fix the problems. >>> d.c.'s mayor is declaring all government workers essential in the face of this shutdown and i want to know do you agree? cast you

>> james mcquaide lived through the government shutdown in the '90s. >> there's a potential i think for it to be worse. >> it's a scary situation. i don't know how long it will last. >> paycheck will come. >> just now i spoke on the phone with president row rouhani -- rouhani of the republic of iran to reach an agreement over iran's nuclear program. >> high temperatures 74 today, very close tomorrow, 74 downtown. this is average, 76 in bethesda, 75 in rockville, 75 also in fairfax, down to the south mid- to upper 70s into southern maryland. >>> three times over the past few weeks women residents have woken up to a strange man standing at their bed staring at them. >> i had no idea. >> i'm shocked. >>> global warming is real and humans are to blame. that's the conclusion of the new u.n. report on climate change. >>> maryland has the highest death rate due to air pollution of any state. >> this study means more people die. >>> at the washington navy yard there's a real message of hope and healing from the counselors and survivors of the shootings here. >> for the most part we expect that

. >> reporter: james mcquaide has been a federal employee for nearly 30 years. he lived through the government shutdown in the '90s. >> i survived that. that's about all i can really say about it, but there's a potential here i think for it to be worse just because the battle lines are drawn so strictly and people are behaving irrationally. >> i'm not so worried about getting a paycheck because at end of the day we signed up to serve a cause greater than ourselves. the paycheck will come if there is a delay. >> reporter: lieutenant haraz gambury, a navy reservist is pulling double duty supporting his young family and protecting the united states. >> i know for the members of the military we have a commitment and we'll honor it regardless of what happens with the government, any potential government shutdown. >> it's scary. it's a scary situation. i don't know how long it's going to last. >> reporter: maggie rivera's husband is an army captain. the family is concerned but has saved up for these types of emergencies. >> i mean especially feel so bad for the people

. >> reporter: alison mcquaid shares the same british acsent and 20-year friendship with lynne spaldingnd she worry idea spaulding went into the hospital with a bladder infection, but got more alarmed when lynne thought she was on a cruise ship. >> she e-mailed me and was a bit confused. i love lynne. >> she will be drinking tea and nibbling at biscuits. >> reporter: but lynne was gone. >> we found from the nurse that basically she had gone missing, she walked out. she is a homebody and when she asked me where she would be hanging out, it would be at home. >> reporter: if spalding tried to walk home about a mile away, it was in pouring rain and she had become frail lately. that is why her friends hung missing fliers from northern beach wharf and contacted others. >> it was a bad day, a lot of rain, this is the area she lives in. this is where she came. so we don't know. but she literally has disappeared into thin air. >> reporter: tonight best friend alison, has a heavy heart. she and lipe were regulars here, a few times a week through many years of good times and memories. >> can i ima

who knows what would have happened if pat mcquaid would have won it. but cookson won it in the end.y we had a proper election, and the uci has spoken. >> we know in the years under pat, the sport's image has taken quite battling. can the sport now finally restore its reputation, and is cookson the man to take it forward. >> this was seen as an absolutely critical day for cycling. i look at the tour de france, there were allegations and claims being made against them. why? because people don't trust cycling. they don't trust what they see in the tour de france. people have lost all of their trust in cycling, and it's up to brian cookson to try to rebuild that trust, and to realize the lance armstrong affair, and two decades of doping properly came out last year, it is time to move forward and reclaim cycling. and he is under no illusion, and says he hard work starts out in. >> there is a special section on this on our website, aljazeera.com/sport. >>> now [ inaudible ] and his father have appeared in court under allegations of tax evasion. the four-time world [ inaudible ] for half a

. >> reporter: james mcquaide has been a federal employee for nearly 30 years. he lived through the government shutdown in the '90s. >> i survived that. that's about all i can really say about it, but there's a potential here for it to be worse because the battle lines are drawn so strictly and there are people behaving irrationally. >> i'm not so much worried about getting a paycheck because i say we've all signed up for a cause to serve something greater unanimous ourselves and the paycheck will come -- than ourselves and the paycheck will come if there is a delay. >> reporter: lieutenant gamberry is pulling double duty supporting his young family and protecting the united states. >> i know for the members of the military we have a commitment and we'll honor that regardless of what happens with the government, any potential government shutdown. >> it's scary. it's a scary situation. i don't know how long it's going to last. >> reporter: maggie rivera's husband is an army captain. the family is concerned but as saved up for these types of emergencies. >> i mean