a few places have it worse than moorhead. across the u.s.iteracy has been on the rise, but the gap between rich and poor keeps getting wider, and that hits especially wide in the mississippi delta, the poorest part of the nation's poorest state. >> they say if you can take the delta out of mississippi the numbers would go way up from what you're saying, and that is true. >> reporter: for some strong parenting overcomes poverty. librarian is putting her daughter through college and enrolled her son into a reading program at three months. >> learning to read and becoming educated at an early age is crucial because it gets our people out of their cycle of poverty. >> reporter: for others there are some state programs. april runs mississippi building blocks a state agency aimed at preschoolers in daycare centers. >> children at that age are a sponge and they soak up everything that you give them. >> reporter: the program has lifted reading rates but operates in just a few dozen of the state's 17 hyundai care centers on a budget of $3 million. 1%

few places have it worse than moorhead. >> reporter: across the u.s. literacy has been on the rise but the gap between rich and poor keeps getting wiser, and that hits harder in the nation's poorest state. >> they say if you take the numbers from delta, mississippi, the numbers would go way up, and that is true. >> reporter: for some strong parenting overcomes poverty. like librarian valerie who has put her son in reading program at three months. >> learning to eat and becoming jade theducated--are learning td and becoming educated is crucial. >> children are like a sponge, and they soak up everything you give them. >> reporter: the program has lifted reading rates but it operates in just a few dozen of the state's 1700 daycare centers on a budget of $3 million. 1 hers of the state'1% of the s. >> what do you do? wait. >> this seems to--are you sure? >> reporter: but the strain is showing. john hedron, al jazeera, moorhead, mississippi. >> the president of algeria will be looking for a fourth term in the elections. a man whose influence still strong ha

they are holding a so-called faint-in to draw attention to dudley moorhead high school one of the university'sldest buildings. protestors say it's an unsafe environment because it has insufficient heating and no air- conditioning. >> san jose councilmember says it's time for the city to start regulating electronic cigarettes. rose herrera, who is running for mayor this year, says because ecigarettes are so new, the city doesn't have any laws to control them. she proposes a citywide ban on using them in public. the city council will discuss it at a meeting later today. >>> an l.a. dodgers standout may have a price on his head. his crazy connection to mexican drug cartels. >> a good meal can do a relationship good. the connection between hunger and ruined marriages coming up. >> many people could look at this and say, oh, it's a vending machine and they would be partially right but mostly wrong. >> see what colorado's legalization of marijuana has led to this time. >> hi, i'm meteorologist lawrence karnow in the kpix 5 weather center. lots of sunshine and warmer temperatures expected today. but

. >>> peter moorhead has been named the new head coach of the cricket team.llowing england's ash defeat in australia. this will be moore's second stint in this position. >>> the detroit's goaltender made 25 saves. they broke a scoreless tie to give the red wings the 1-0 win. game two will be in boston on sunday. >>> rene boruqe scored twice as the canadiens take game two in second game in the series. >>> the top seeds in the west the anaheim ducks lost against the stars. that's all your sports for now. >> thank you very much. we'll see you later. that's it for this news hour on al jazeera. stay with us. >> every saturday, join us for exclusive, revealing, and surprising talks with the most interesting people of our time. >> everywhere i go there they are wanting to tell dr. jane what their doing... >> the inspirational dr. jane goodall talks to john seganthaller >> i started with a notebook, and a pair of secondhand binoculars. which was all i could afford... >> and reveals the remarkable human nature of chimpanzees. >> they have a dark side, and that made th

john henry, al jazeera, moorhead, mississippi. >>> the former city manager of bell, california, wille to pay back more than $8 million stolen from the city. robert rizzo was also sentenced to 12 years behind bars for a corruption scheme that neil brutted bell. rizzo apologized during sentencing. he told the judge, he breached the public's confidence. >> you think? the polar vortex that made such a miserable winter is gone. the country is dealing with what's being dubbed the policien vortex. they say it has created a bad allergy season. >> after we saw the snow across the northeast yesterday, what it means, tony, is because the cold lasted longer than it would have across most of the north and the northeast down here across the southern plains, what what that means is the trees bloomed when they wouldn't have normally bloomed and now, they are playing touch-up for many people -- and when they play catch-up, the trees are going to be blooming much faster and much more concentrated across many of these areas. so, if you are dealing with allergies normally, you are going to be seeing a h

they say dudley moorhead hall is an unsafe environment because it has insufficient heating or no air-conditioning either so they plan a faint-in at 11:30 this morning. the hall serves several departments including sociology, psychologist, history and the economics department. >>> new this morning, remember your sweaty palms before you took the s.a.t. tests? some anxious students can check out the new s.a.t. just what it might look like. sample questions from the new version will be released today. an example here, how much will it cost an american traveling in india to convert dollars to rupies? new s.a.t. tests will be rolled out in 2016. >>> time now though 6:10, relatives of the passengers on board that missing malaysia airlines flight 370 are commanding more answers. the apology they say they deserve. >> reporter: pollen is peaking right here in the bay area! and this is my poison. what's yours? we have the pollen report with mobile weather. >> and so far, so good less clouds around the bay area a whole lot of sunshine coming our way and temperatures are heating up. we'll talk about that comi

students and some faculty members protested what they called intolerable conditions inside deadly moorhead hall, one of the oldest campus buildings, where chanting students today crowded steamy hallways. >> it's very hot in this building. there is no air-conditioning. the heaters are on in the classrooms right now. the heaters are on. >> warm air blew from vents. it was almost 80 degrees outside and almost every classroom they say windows won't open. blinds don't work. the 57-year-old elevator shutters and shakes. >> it's like straight out of a horror movie and that is ridiculous for a building that is in the heart of the silicon valley. >> they also held a faint in. at least three students have passed out in hot classrooms according to faculty members who say the administration has ignored their grievances for years. >> the students are now kind of taking it into the -- i don't want to say into the streets but into the halls to try to get some sense of justice for them. >> ktvu followed a handful of students who charged the university president's office only to find him gone. this is part

. >> chief of custody operations taylor moorhead has been running the jail for the past two years supervising eight jails, 5,000 employees, and 20,000 inmates. >> basically they are arrested by whatever agency in los angeles county. generally all agencies book into now the consolidated booking system which is l.a. county jail system. >> with close to a hundred buses inmates are picked up from the various courts and police stations in the county of los angeles. their first stop inside l.a. county jail is the inmate reception center. >> on the busy days on monday through tuesday we're talking about anywhere from 600 to 800 inmates that are being booked each of those days. wednesdays, thursdays, and fridays the number is somewhat less, but we average about 400 a day if you take out the whole seven-day work period. >> it's 7:00 p.m. on a monday night and the irc's garage is filling up like new york city's port authority. for two hours, buses fortified like prison cells drop off hundreds of inmates to be booked into the county jail. >> the first thing we do is back here behind us we have the searc

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