our political correspondent michael shure will explain what it means. the deadly stampede in mecca sparks request anger in most of the middle east. >> saudi arabia is suggesting pilgrims are partly to blame for yesterday's hajj stampede that killed more than 700 people. one official said worshipers may not have followed crowd instructions. king salman has called for review of instructions but that has not called some. saudi officials to be held accountable in court. more now on the surprise announcement in washington today just a day after he hosted pope francis at the capital, house speaker john boehner resigned. boehner rode to power on the tea party rise that gave republicans a majority in the house but lately hard line conservatives have been threa threatening his leadership. boehner says he will leave congress in the end of october. michael shure, was he just fed up with the challenges to his leadership from the more conservative members of his party? >> i think antonio i want to circle all of those answers as correct. john boehner, he has a lot of

gap between the two sides, but actually the concern who knows the most about kevin mccarthy is michael shure. >> yeah, michael, what do you think about potential replacements for speaker? >> well, i think there are two of them. many think that paul ryan would be the anecdote to all of the problems. ryan said no, he's not interested, but many minds have changed when you have the entirety of your caucus urging you to run. kevin mccarthy is a newbie to the congress, but he is somebody who can bridge between the what is now the moderate membership of that caucus, and the more conservative. you heard john boehner singing zipdy do da, it's the song of the south. and the republicans from the south, many of them, think they are underrepresented in the leadership. steve scalise is the majority whip, and he would likely run for majority leader, but there are other names, there's tom price of georgia, he is somebody who badly wants to have that job. daniel webster got i think 12 votes when they elected speaker boehner this year. he's from florida, he's a tea party conservative. a lot of republicans loo

michael shure joins us from washington. does this mean the government won't shut down? >> well, it means it won't shut down for now randall. what they are going to do is vote on this measure. they voted on it 78-20. another surprise. 78-20 in the senate was a lot bigger than most people thought, and it speaks a little bit to what mitch mcconnell was able to do with the conservative wing of his senate caucus there in the senate. but it doesn't mean that it is going to go away. it goes until december 11th. and that is one of the things that has frustrated harry reid. >> looking at the clock, now, we are almost 14 hours away from what could have been another republican shutdown of the federal government. this is totally unnecessary. we'll likely avert a shutdown tonight, but they brought us dangerously close. >> reporter: reid knows what is at play. he knows that the republicans are stalling. it's going to go to the house, get voted on in the house, but he is saying negotiations have to continue to get this budget done, and he wants it done before john boehner leaves offic

michael shure is live for us tonight in los angeles. l how things have changed for fiorina since the last debate. >> yes. you got a feeling that she had a little bit of mojo that she may not have had. she was on that small debate stage in cleveland, and made the most of that opportunity. and you already see it, del, in the fact that donald trump is addressing her. she was not a consolidate that people were even talking about. and now she has to do more than just be talked about. she has to go at candidates like donald trump. she marched off of the lower-tier debate stage in cleveland last month and has not stopped marching. now she is on her way to the main stage of the next g.o.p. presidential debate. >> we're in the top five in basically every state, and top ten nationally. that's pretty good. i'm very encouraged. >> reporter: the energy coming out of the first debate has gin her a burst. she is up from 3% to 7% since july, doubling her number, but still in the single digits. >> hi. hi, how are you? >> reporter: and that renewed enthus

michael shure joins us live now from los angeles with more. michael, what reasons did the governor give for leaving the race? >> you know, richelle he was actually quite discrete about his reasons for leaving. people are saying that he had big financial problems, wasn't able to keep the money, spending too much money. but one of the really interesting things that you heard from scott walker, and i don't remember ever hearing this before, is he was trying to galvanize the race. and it can just be construed that the reason would be to get donald trump to not be the nominee. >> i encourage other presidential candidates to consider doing the same, so the voters can focus on a limited number of candidates who can offer a positive, conservative alternative to the current front runner. this is fundamentally important to the future of the party and more importantly to the future of our country. >> of course walker didn't endorse any specific candidate. he didn't put his power behind them. but as you said at the top richelle, heed a .5% in the most rec

clinton hasn't been responding that much. >> michael shure good to see you have.nk you very much. >>> shaking hands and kissing babies has long been a part of the campaign culture, but now every day the candidates are asked to pose for selfies. here is tonight's first-person report. >> we're the presidential selfie girls. we are trying to take a selfie with every presidential candidate for 2016. >> we go to the events, and we go there and talk strategy, sometimes, be assertive, go up to the candidate, smile, be polite, and we just find our little holes to the candidate and we politely ask them to talk to us, and so far everyone has said yes to a selfie. we have 19 so far. >> we still have to take photos with these four, cruz, huckabee, rubio and jim webb. so we have a song. ♪ chrisfy, chaffy, busch, and graham, carson, o'malley [ inaudible ] jim gilmore, kasick, walker, trump [ inaudible ] rand paul, hilary, bernie too, we still have four more to do! [ laughter ] >> since we interviewed the girls, they have managed to get photos with five more candidates only thre

the people of mill ford new hampshire seem excited about it >>> michael shure reporting. that is the view on the ground in new hampshire. the big pictures in the democratic side as the nomination race heads, front runner hillary clinton by most accounts is facing a challenge that she and her campaign have never seen or imagined. >> we are going to fight until we finely break through the barriers to equal pay for quarl work. >> reporter: for hillary clinton, the underline is troubling. as summer turns to fall, the democratic candidate has seen momentum from bernie sanders. >> we'll create an economy that works for all of us, not just of the people on top >> reporter: the latest poll suggests that bernie sanders is leading in new hampshire, pulling ahead. the poll suggests that is sanders cut clinton's lead to 11. in july, the same polling organization had sanders behind by 24. i think the secretary's people are nervous about the enthusiasm our campaign is bringing forth. >> this labour day weakness underscored problems that hillary clinton faces. she refused to take a clea

michael shure joins us from washington. does that mean that the government will not be shutting down? >> well, it depends on what your definition of when is. it will not for now. they'll pass the stop-gap spending measure, 78-20 in the senate earlier today. there are some amendments being floated. they're not even sure when they're going to be voted on. i spoke with nick mulvaney's staff, they'll offer to defund planned parenthood and it may not get a vote. this will be put off, and we'll ask that question again then. >> what happens now between now and september 11th? >> plenty. this is a distracted conference. you mention john boehner leaving and that puts the leadership into flux. they are going to have those elections next week. kevin mccarthy is the frontrunner but also creating distraction as he addressed the bengahzi hearings, another one of those distractions, and he said these were, in fact, political. >> everyone thought hillary clinton was unbeatable. but we put together a bengahzi special committee, a select com

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michael shure has the story from washington. >> good evening. you hit the nail on the head with that. it's more than about the right to life. this is once again a fight between the democrats and the republicans in congress. it was a contentious day on capitol hill, and marked by an issue in planned parenthood. today there was a lot of back and forth and combat in congress. >> a day before the government is set to run out of money, the battle over planned parenthood raged. from the house floor. >> that we stop beating up planned parenthood. >> to the senate. >> we ought to ban funding of tax dollars for planned parentho parenthood. >> and in committee, where prosecutors continued the attack. >> i don't want to be numb to wasting the taxpayers dollars. as best i can tell, this is an organization that doesn't need federal subsidy. >> reporter: c.e.o. cecil richards who voluntarily appeared before the house, faced a bar age of questions on how planned parenthood spends its money. >> could you function on nonfederal dollars, why do you need it. you m

. >> michael shure in san francisco. >>> clinton is set to testify before congress about her use of themail use. >> those words from frazier glencross who also goes by the name frazier glen miller, when the verdict was announced. he faces the death penalty for killing three jewish people in kansas. he said he wanted 20 protect the white race from jews. none of his victims were jewish. >>> a funeral is set for friday for a deputy shot and killed at a gas station near houston. the suspect was in court today when authorities gave new details. >> when dep tas arrived they found him face down, he had clearly been shot multiple times with a firearm. he was dead. >> reporter: the 30 year old has a history of mental illness. >>> more than 40,000 americans die every year of drug overdoses when it comes to heroin users police have reported success in saving lives with the drug narcan, but using it comes with some controversy. jake ward reports. >> who is this? >> that's my friend ariel. she and i were friends and worked together. >> reporter: this woman runs the drug overdose prevention and educa

stands, and we will go out and we will hit hard and win >>> al jazeera political correspondent michael shure joins us from los angeles. last month trump publicly refused to sign a pledge during the debate. what changed? >> what changed is his candidacy changed. he has led in the polls, and does not want na issue to be a distraction. the other parts that are important is he needs to get on to the ballot in some states, in south carolina, for example. they will not leap on the ballot until he signs a pledge like that. here is the other side of it, is that this was designed for donald trump, when donald trump, now the front runner in the polls looks at it as a way of saying to the other candidate you can't run against me if i win the nomination for the party. long term, could be back out of it if things don't go well in the primaries? >> we all know donald trump. we know that he can challenge the rules if he wants to, saying the party left me, i didn't leave them. they are not supporting me. at any time donald trump can find fault in other people. we know that. he could do that at the end. floe

michael shure has more. >> reporter: one month after an exclusive first debate, the g.o.p.ontenders are getting ready for round two. they will have a cnn debate on wednesday night. >> somebody will attack. >> reporter: rand paul and the entire republican presidential field have zeroed in on trump in the last six weeks who transitioned from a phenomenon to a formidable candidate. >> the biggest difference is donald trump, donald trump, and donald trump. the biggest difference with donald trump is the fact that every single republican candidate has to take him seriously, but he is their focal point. >> reporter: he has stuck to its combative style, and despite attacking megyn kelly, and tossing a journalist out of an event, he is soaring in the polls. he is increasing his lead, but ben carson is surging since august. last debate, carson took heat for fumbling the question about the black lives matter movement. but since then has spent time in ferguson, missouri. >> these people say, well, he is an idiot servant, he only knows how to do surgery. [ laughter ] >> anybody who thi

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political correspondent michael shure was there. >> presidential candidate damaged trump came to the u.s.s. iowa in san pedro california with what was supposed to be a foreign policy speech. he was talking mostly about immigration. >> we're going to build a wall and mexico's going to pay for the wall, believe me. >> and while that is exactly what the crowd here wanted to hear, some were still outside of this event, complaining that trump is talking too much in a divisive way about immigration. here is someone from can pedro before the event. >> he's a racist. i'm a mexican and i've lived in san pedro my whole life. my family came in the 1920's, 1918, so my family's been in san dade degree for over 100 years. yes, i believe he is totally racist, as far as you can see my sign, no human being is illegal. we're all from other countries. >> so trump steps off of the u.s.s. iowa into the debate tonight in as simi valley. he is going to be the target of all over 10. 11 candidates will be on the stage tonight. all 10 candidates are going to be looking straight to the middle of that stage, st

michael shure, al jazeera, los angeles. >> triple-a expects 35 million cars will be on the road bid end of this labor day weekend. let's bring in nicole mitchell for a look at the weather across the country. >> i'm so happy to have this forecast, because a lot of sunshine across the country mean people traveling cannot blame it on mother nature for the most part. we have a little disturbed be weather in the southeast and a front heading through the midwest, but a lot of sunshine. i want to qualify right ahead of that front in the midwest is fog. that's our only problem. a lot of our beach and coastline are going to be lovely for today, so break out the sunscreen. over the negligent couple of days, the front doesn't move too quickly. this by the time it ends moves into wednesday. a few showers make it to the west coast, but even then it's spotty activity. as we get out into temperatures for today, the front does usher in changes in that democratic ahead of the front, a lot of 80's and 90's. ahead of it, more 70's and 60's and feel just that touch of fall, even though we're not quite ther

we begin with this report from michael shure. >> labour day, the end of summer coinciding with what was once the traditional beginning of a presidential race. it has changed. so, too, has the role of labour and presidential politics. >> we are free unions and collective bargaining is lost. >> ronald regan launched a campaign with those words. a year later, he fired 11,000 striking air traffic controllers, he set the tone for a future relationship with organised labour. >> there has been a movement for decades on union rights and movement in general. brian maloney. >> few support labour groups. >> on top of that, union membership declined. according to the department of labour, membership among wage and salary was 21.9% in 1983. the number is 11.1%, down 9%. all of this has political candidates and watchers uncertain about the importance of union endorsement. democrats have not lost sight frt fact that the demographic changes played to their constituency. today they combined to 22.4% to union workers. >> thinking about the union, the common pace of labour may have been now. increasingly

michael shure is in simi valley, california. what are your thoughts tonight?they have finally gotten to that range of issue. they had to get by donald trump to do that. there was back and forth between donald trump and rand paul but then john kasich said let's talk about issues. and they began to talk about issues. the biggest thing about cnn was, there were 11 people on the stage. they didn't get to mike huckabee until 40 minutes in. >> the earlier debate did feature four of the lower polling candidates. did either of them had a break through? >> it's hard to say. the four candidates did have a more substantive effect, bobby jindal the governor of louisiana went after donald trump and a lot of the republicans. he was pretty feisty. i had a chance to ask a question of bobby jindal after the debate. >> it is time to fight for our beliefs. that is why the voters are so mad, they say one thing during a campaign they do something completely different during the actual governing. it is time to put an end to that after these barbaric videos. if the republican party

. >> michael shure, thank you him. >> the officials in washington today to discuss the u.s. territory's economic crisis. representative pedro luisi said that the federal government bears responsibility for the problems, but the white house has no plans for a bailout. they said additional funding would not be sufficient enough to help the island. >>> up next, a call for help. the officers charged in the death of freddie gray go to court. what we're learning about the attempt to get him medical attention. >>> and trying to accommodate thousands of refugees. how germany is trying to determine who has legitimate claims for asylum. >> a woman is scheduled to be executed tonight in georgia, despite amazes for clemency from her family. she was convicted of having her husband murdered in 1997. her attorneys and her children say that she has been rehabilitated while in prison, and they asked the parole board to change her sentence. several of last-minute appeals have delayed it. >>> the first in the series of criminal trials, stemming from the death of freddie gray will take place in

correspondent michael shure reports from new hampshire >> reporter: bernie sanders the only candidate campaigning in new hampshire, a state with 23,000 union members, iowa 1.1 million, hillary clinton is there, martin o'malley is there. ban bernie sanders is cementing himself as the front runner. they are feeling the burn. >> i think bernie is doing well. >> meeting him in person. it's a grassroots movement. authentic, and people are getting the message, hearing what he's saying, it's speaking to them, and they want to get behind that. >> this is all happening at the labour day parade in mill ford. were not only sanders is here, but lim grand, carley fiorina. people are excited about the way he's moved into second place in the polling, and they let it show. >> you saw today it's a traditional campaign, town to town, person to person. that's what voters expected. you have great experience and a record at the federal record. balancing budgets. he's really engaged in order to improve the economy in ohio, he's been successful. >> it doesn't end today, it begins, it's a short labour day pa

michael shure. toxic river, from this summer's mine'sville, they say that the water is not safe for their crops, and jimmy carter. how the 39th president is staying active in the community rile fighting cancer. >> today, a u.s. senate committee heard testimony from the head of the epa about last month's spill of 3 million gallons of toxic waste from colorado's gold king mine. it happened after a dam at the mine gave way while epa workers were trying to install a tap. it bled into the river, and on capitol hill, epa administrator, gina mccarthy defended her response to it. >> we work with the states, and in this case, we were in a remote area, and we know we got ahold of our state partners immediately. and those partners went down and notified the national response center, and it triggered all of the appropriate notifications. >> the disaster affected waterways in colorado, utah and new mexico. and the epa said that the water quality has returned to pre-spill levels. the navajo nation also took a pre

michael shure joins us, and tell us what happened on the house floor today. >> reporter: it was a tumultuous day today, and people coming in, people weren't sure how it was going to play out. and today, the senate voted 78-20 to move forward and keep the government going, and it then went to the house. and there was a little bit of a kerfuffle because it seemed that many of the house members were not happy with it, and they wanted to move and start bringing up the planned parenthood argument on the floor. what they did, they attached an amendment and it was a non-binding amendment and they moved on the funding the amendment and did it. but there was no victory dance for this, because it only funds the government until december 11th, richelle, and that had some in congress, like new yorker, steve israel, unhappy. >> success can't be defined as avoiding catastrophe. and all we're doing today is avoiding catastrophe. the majority's triumph today is not shutting down the government. new. and that's what a lot of the members of the house, especially on the democratic side were saying. yes, we got

michael shure, al jazeera, california. >> the big question this morning who was the clear winner and did republicans make a dent in donald trump's lead. david shuster is here with us this morning. it is clear that trump was the target. >> not just from the moderators but from four or five candidates. rand paul called him sophomoric, carly fiorina called him an entertainer and jeb bush had skirmishes. they argued about the comments about jeb bush's wife and his former president george w. bush. they tangled over donald trump's ties to democrats. watch. >> you said on one of the talk shows you got hillary clinton to go to your we hadding. >> that's true. >> because you gave her money. make it works for hillary clinton, it doesn't work for anybody on the stage. >> i was a businessman, i got along with clinton, i got along with everybody. that was my job, i got along with everybody, excuse me one second. >> no. >> more energy tonight, i like that. >> look, i was asked a question. >> that was symbolic of most of the debate, donald trump getting a shot in at whoever was trying to attack him