melissa chan joins us. what are they saying? >> they are saying it's not enough. it's a great first step for the white house to conduct the investigation, and they pulled together a task force. thet released a report -- they released a report last week. again, it's not enough, they are saying, because the report essentially was a list of recommendations. i want to give an example. the white house is asking universities to conduct a climate survey, look at campus environment. now, you know, the way a woman at u.c. berkeley explained, her reaction was that it's like asking wall street to regulate itself. >> aerial butler and sophie's friendship started in an unusual way on campus. they connected as survivors of sexual assault. >> i was assaulted one, and a week later assaulted again. in the course of that week i was tormented by this man. >> in one case the man was a known repeat offender to whom the university did nothing. >> they listened to the survivor, and maybe if you are lucky they'll put him on disciplinary probation and give him a writing assignmentment. >>

melissa chan, al jazeera, isla vista, california. >> an elaborate swearing in of india's prime minister. much hope is riding on this new leader. leader. true business-grade internet comes with secure wifi for your business. it also comes with public wifi for your customers. not so with internet from the phone company. i would email the phone company to inquire as to why they have shortchanged these customers. but that would require wifi. switch to comcast business internet and get two wifi networks included. comcast business built for business. trwith secure wifie for your business. it also comes with public wifi for your customers. not so with internet from the phone company. i would email the phone company to inquire as to why they have shortchanged these customers. but that would require wifi. switch to comcast business internet and get two wifi networks included. comcast business built for business. >> in nigeria today the military is saying it now knows where those kidnapped school girls are, but will not use force to rescue them. yvonne ndege is there. yvonne, tell us what you kno

melissa chan, al jazeera, california. >> boko haram has admitted to kidnakidnapping hundreds of gir,they slaughtered more. we'll hear more on what the united states is doing to help the nigerian government. >>> also following a string of attacks, the u.s. state department has decided to close the doors at one of its embassies. we'll explain where and why up next. >> i'm joe berlinger this is the system i'd like to think of this show as a watch dog about the system... to make sure justice is being served. with our personal liberties taken away from us, it better be done the right way. is justice really for all? >> returning to our top stories. fighters from the boko haram radical group killed hundreds in a town in my jee nigeria. the attack comes as the nigerian police offer more money for information on the kidnapped girls. the united states is sending a team of military advisers to nigeria to help with the search. jay jay green joins us. ten military personnel, we're sending military equipment and communication equipment, how is this going to turn out. they need intelligence, diplom

melissa chan, isla vista, near santa barbara, california. >> worlmeteorological associati, higher co2evels increase the risk of drought, extreme heat and rising sea levels. >>> this memorial day, communities all over the country are honoring those who have given their lives in military service. president obama visited arlington national cemetery, he laid a wreath at the tomb of the unknowns, praised troops still overseas and those soldiers who have died. >> here today at arlington we pay tribute to the nearly 2200 american patriots who have made the ultimate sacrifice in afghanistan. and we will honor them always. >> thousands in texas celebrated memorial day by taking part in a symbolic walk for loved ones who died in wars. the tradition is called carry the load. participants spend hours walking for as long as they can while carrying heavy back packs to honor the fallen. mike schneider has that story. >> it's a physical grind and emotionally wrenching but for those who come to this trail in dallas it's also deeply satisfying. walking miles at a time, carrying heavy loads. weighted ba

melissa chan has the story. >> brian has spent the past year looking for a job and has had absolutely no luck. >> it's been a struggle and i've been looking for a job and put in applications and gotten virtually no responses. >> he now lives with his mother. >> i felt bad for him. you know i've always raised him to be very independent. and it's hard to do that if you can't support yourself. >> my mom's been wonderful. without her support, i might be -- dare say i might be homeless at this point because my mom's been so supportive. she's allowed me to stay here virtually rent free when i'm trying to get back on my feet. >> he's heard the prediction that mil millennials will be the first generation in history to do worse than their parents economically. and he's heard the complaints that millennials look entitled and spoiled. >> you start to question yourself as an individual. >> while parts of the country have started to recover from the financial crisis the sacramento area is not one of them and continues to struggle with an unemployment rate higher than national average. it floats be

melissa chan reports. >> reporter: we talk about drought in california. but how about a drought that's at the lowest level in a decade. there are major challenges ahead for southern nevada. lake mead, the largest reservoir in the country, completed in the 1930s with the completion of hoover dam. it bottles up water from the colorado river, but it's future is not looking as bright. >> you know, in 2012 and 2013, those consecutive years were two of the dryest years on record. >> reporter: take a look behind me, this white band is the watermark where the water used to be. we're standing 100 feet below the top of that mark. the lake is at its lowest level since construction. after a decade of drought, the lake holds only half of its maximum capacity x because it provides 90% of las vegas' water, the stakes are high and the pressure is on to secure water for the city. >> right now, the limiting factor for las vegas is water, and sooner or later it's going to come back to bite us, because water is not an unlimited source. >> reporter: it turns out, the city of

. >> melissa chan for us live in california. nk you very much. >>> coming up on al jazerra america, vacant lots abandoned homes all too familiar in detroit these days, now that city taking matters in to their own hands. ♪ >>> it has now been 10 months since the city of detroit declared bankruptcy. but for some the city, both officials and residents they say they are making strides trying to save their city. billion dollarb.c. is there. what did the blight task force reveal today? >> reporter: the task force has spent the past eight months analyzing every single property here in the city of detroit. and what they found is that there are over 80,000 blighted structures in detroit. now, this is a report that was compiled by businesses as well as the city of detroit. and they estimate that it will cost $2 billion, if not more, to rid the city of all the blight over the next several years. this afternoon, the city's emergency manager kevin orr addressed the media and said that this report is essential to moving detroit forward. >> for

what are the students saying about the government actions, melissa chan? >> the main message that we got is it's a great first step, it's not enough. they'd like to see the white house do more. earlier this year they pulled together a tavening force, and -- task force, and they put out a report, a set of recommendations. people want to see more action from the federal government. i want to give an example of a white house where are recommendation. they'd like the universities to conduct a surveyment look at the campus in an environment. one woman said it's like asking wall street to regulate itself. >> airial and sophie's friendship started in an unusual way, connecting as survivors of sexual assault. >> i was assaulted once, and a week later assaulted again. in the course of that week i was tormented by this man. >> in kara srk ek's case the man was a known repeat offender to whom, she says, the university did nothing. >> they listened to the survivor, and if you're lucky, they'll put him on disciplinary probation and give him a writing assignment. >> bot

i'm melissa chan. we begin with a city problem faced by a boom town in the heart lpd. with a spike in domestic oil production bringing north america closer to energy dependence small towns are handling what they can't handle. in our series, dirty power, we explore the risks involved in the black gold rush. >> how do you describe what the place looked like when you were mayor 20 years ago. >> i don't want to adead, but probably die -- to say dead, but probably dying. >> the sign says it all, williston north dakota, boom town. for the past five years this mayor saw his town come back from the brink of death. >> it's come back. it's amazing what oil can do, black gold. >> the race to extract the gold from the prairies of north dakota is evident everywhere. pumps dot the fields. you can here liquid money filling up the tank. trucks haul it to the nearest train depot. and trains pulling the crude rumble through all day and night long. >> it's a great quantity and quality of oil. they had a huge success rate. it changed the community. >> all of a sudden boom. >> yes. >> next

melissa chan, al jazeera, sacramento, california. >> a big controversy brewing over the labors on yours in vermont will require genetically modified food to be labeled. >> searches happening around the clock in nigeria for more than 200 school girls who were abducted last month. >> this comes amid allegations that nigerian military was warned aboutage attack beforehand, but they failed to act. we have more from the capitol. >> reporter: could this have been avoided. sources have told >> they had to flee for their lives and more villagers fled to the bush. that's a shocking revelation. we've been repeatedly calling on the nigerian authorities to provide adequate security for people of nigeria, especially the schools because they have been vulnerable targets in the past couple of years. >> reporter: the nigerian government response has led to protests around the country. nigeria's president has dismissed suggestions that the girls have been taken into cameroon but admits he does not know where they are. specialists from the u.s. and u.k. are in nigeria to help with the search. the nigeri

melissa chan reports. >> reporter: we talk about the drought in california, how about a drought thatasted a decade. we are at lake made, it's a reservoir that serves los angeles, and there are major challenges for southern nevada. >> lake mead, the largest reservoir in the country, created with the completion of hoover dam. it bottles up water and reliably provided water for decades. the future is not looking as bright. >> in 2012 and 2013, those consecutive years were two of the driest years on record. >> take a look behind me. this white band is the water mark where the water used to be. we are standing at 100 feet below the top of that mark. the lake is at its lowest level since construction. after more than a decade of the droughtment the lake holds half its maximum capacity. because it provides 90% of los angeles's water, stakes are high and pressure on to support water for the city. >> water, sooner rather than late will come back to bite us, because it is not an unlimited source. >> it turns out the city of excess has one of the highest per cap ita water consumption rates desp

melissa chan has their story. >> this woman has a list of chores.s afternoon there's work on the front lawn - but it's not hers, her mothers. 40 years after doing chores as a teenager, she's back at home. >> when i was a teenager, this was my bedroom. now it's my mother's bedroom. >> she lives in the basement. struggling to make a career switch in 2009, she was tired of her job as an office manager, the financial crisis meant opportunities dried up and she found herself unemployed and homeless. >> look at me. i'm in a position where i need to depend on my mother to have a roof over my head because i can't get a job. >> janine is one of many baby boomers and california who moved back in. the numbers are growing. in the past decade almost 200,000 older californians moved home - a 68% increase. >> millennials suffered from lack of proven job experience, the boomer job experience suffers from age bias and discrimination. >> when you are 50 or over, finding a job is harder than if you are in your 20s or 30s. you see people losing their homes, jobs and lo

melissa chan, aljazeera, san francisco. >> unofficial results from egypt's presidential election are showing the country's former military chief has won. al sisi received more than 90% of the vote, the polls closed last night and the only other candidate for the presidency has already conceded defeat. the election wasn't smooth. the voter turnout was low, showing many chose to ignore it. it's raising questions about how well sisi will be able to lead. officials results are expected to be announced next week. >> let's head to washington to find out what's going to be on america tonight. >> sound that reaches beyond borders, an unusual combination of sun and song way down in the big bend of texas, where a community wrenched apart by efforts to protect the border launched protest music and it's own way of reuniting with its neighbors. the answer a surprisingly festive border crossing, even under the watchful eyes of security agents. they call it a fiesta protesta and sounding out against what they see as injustice. >> if you go up and down the border, residents, politicians are not happ

melissa chan, al jazeera, sacramento, california. >> next, astronomers flocking to the desert in chilee we are with my baby, my favorite telescope. >> why they say it's perfect for discovering the mysteries of space. >> how old are you? >> 9 >> child labor in america >> in any other industry, kids need to be 16 years old to be able to work. you don't see any of that in agriculture >> low cost food >> how many of you get up at 4 or 5 o'clock in the morning to go out to the fields? >> who's paying the price? fault lines... al jazeera america's hard hitting... ground breaking... truth seeking... >> they don't wanna show what's really going on... >> award winning, investigative, documentary series. children at work only on al jazeera america >>> astronmembers in chile made a stellar discovery, one of the oldest stars in the universe. it's thought to be nearly 13 billion years old. nick clark has more from the adakama desert. >> spectacular and desolate, the oldest desert on earth and the driest, some parts get no rain at all. >> that's why it lures atrost members like professor anna freebe

. >> melissa chan in san francisco. >>> we are getting a look at the diversity of google's work force or lack thereof. google says 30% of its employees are female. 30%. and less than 14% are minorities. google says it wants to improve those numbers. the company says it is investing in education to promote computer science within the two groups. rival palestinian groups hamas and fatah agree to form a unity government, but will it stick? and what will that mean when it comes to peace with israel? we will explore and heights students angry over their yearbook photos. they say the pictures were altered to show less skin. ♪ palestinians appear to be on their way to forming a unity government. it would bring the palestinian liberation organization. they have agreed that there is a hang-up on who will be foreign minister. details like that have de-railed and saiditionis hopes history repeats itself. sglofrnling it is expected to be announced in the next three to four days by president mac moodament abbas. thursday we learned it will be led by current palestinian authority prime minister ram

melissa chan reports from sacramento on the plight. >> brian has spent the past year looking for a job and had no luck. >> it's been a struggle. i have been looking hard to find a job. i've put in so many applications, getting virtually no responses. >> unemployed with no alternatives, he lives with his mother. >> i felt bad for him. i raised him to be independent. it's hard to do that if you can't support yourself. >> my mum is wonderful without her support, i would be homeless. she allowed me to stay here almost rent free. >> they wonder and worry about the full court, hearing the prediction that millennials will do worse than their parents economically. and he heard the complaints that millennials act entitled and spoilt. >> the difficult thing about looking for work is you question yourself as ab individual. >> reporter: parts of the country recovered from a financial crisis. they continue to struggle with an unemployment rate higher than the national average. >> it floats between 8-9% here, and for millennials, those wean the ages of 18 and 31, it's worse. 20% have no jobs. 40% li

melissa chan is in california where a campus memorial is september up for today. melissa, good morning. >> good morning, stephanie. i'm standing in front of the deli, one of the many stops he made and where he shot and killed christopher martinez. a makeshift memorial has been set up with candles and messages that students have written on the ground, messages of peace and love and as the long weekend wraps up, students are starting to remember the lives lost. ♪ >> the vigils and memorials have spread beyond where the three were gunned down. high schools and universities remembered the victims, including the parents of george chen, who added their names to this memorial. according to police, their son and two others were stabbed to death by elliot roger before he went on his shooting rampage. >> we would die a hundred times, a thousand times, but we don't want our kids to get hurt. this shouldn't happen to any family. this should be the last one in the united states. >> chen had been visiting rogers two roommates, whose parents at home on monday could not contain th

. >> melissa chan joins us live from california.are hearing about a new you tube video and also that lengthy manifesto emailed right before the killing spree. what did elliot roger say? >> this was 140 pages long. it just covered everything under the sun, really. i mean he talked about his childhood, about the serious impact his parents' divers had on him and the kind of revenge that you ever against women, a war on women, he said. he talked about his very well laid plans, about the fact that he was going to kill his roommates, which in fact he did, primarily because he wanted to do so in order for them not to prevent him from continuing on with his plan. he had very elaborate, violent images that he talked about in terms of torturing people. all of this in hindsight, you wonder whether any of this could have been prevented. >> this young man no stranger to local law enforcement. what are they saying about the number of times they interacted with him. >> he had a few brushes with the law already, the earliest in the summer of 2013,

melissa chan, aljazeera, san francisco. >> it's not just the baby boomers that are moving back home, young adults known as mill len yells leaning more and more on their parents for money. we'll focus on why so many of them are living paycheck to paycheck if they can find a job at all. >> lets look at temperatures across the country today. >> for that, we turn to our meteorologist, nicole mitchell. good morning. >> not too bad heading into the weekend. we've got a couple spots where we've got cool air, but overall, it's going to be fairly comfortable. as the northeast and northwest, where we have more temperatures in the 50's this morning, all the way up through the midsection of the country, a lot of 60's and 70's, very comfortable as we get into the heat have the day. we're looking at places like miami, 87 degrees, thunderstorms really start to go build in the afternoon hours, through the course of the weekend, that meet and humidity, this is a beautiful shot out of st. petersburg this morning, you saw thunderstorms lift into the atmosphere, so about a 50-60% chance in the heat of t

. >> angelina jolie, mark wahlberg, sharlene and channing tatum and melissa. hi everybody. robinson. the summer season is officially here and that makes the biggest best movie in theaters. returning favorite laugh out loud comedy, big action adventure and biopick and romance. this summer has it all but we start with angelina who tells that you say eva never looked so good. >> in early 20's did you ever imagine you would be a un ambassador. mother of 6. engaged. a director. an actress. can you believe this is your life? did you ever think about all this? >> no. no. not at all. honestly it's no secret i was quite a dark person. didn't know if i i was