our paul beban is here with more on greste's release and the fight to release our al jazeera colleagues paul. >> after a lot of anxiety and anguish peter said his freedom was a total surprise. he was on a daily run when a guard came and told him it was time to pack your stuff. it was a moment more than 400 days in the making. >> i can't tell you how relieved i am at being free. i really dent didn't expect, we were settling in for a couple of months and for a few moments notice is extraordinary. >> reporter: on december 29, 2013 three al jazeera journalists were arrested in cairo, peter greste, mohamed fahmy and baher mohamed were accused ever supporting the muslim brotherhood and spreading false news in the aftermath of a military coup. from the beginning, al jazeera rejected the allegations and demanded the men's release. within a few weeks the hatchet #freeajstaff had gone viral around the world. human rights groups called the five month trial a sham. the so-called evidence against the three men included a video of sheep herding footage of peter greste in kenya, as well as footage fro

paul beban is in chapel hill, north carolina with more. paul. >> reporter: well, good evening john, yes the community here at the university of north carolina chapel hill really shocked. this is a big quad called the pit where they held the vigil to honor and mourn these students tonight. about 1500 students and community members maybe more were here lighting candles talking about their fallen friends. we heard from the mayor of chapel hill, we heard from relatives of the victims. the campus bell rang out during the ceremony. sharing memories, sharing tears as well, the victim -- the perpetrator, the alleged perpetrator the accused gunman is in jail, craig hicks and police are trying to understand his motive. >> craig hicks charged with three counts of murder. >> all three were pronounced dead at the scene. >> the motive, according to investigators, a dispute among neighbors. >> based upon all our information that our office and that law enforcement has at this time, that the events of yesterday are not part of a targeted campaign against m

tonight, as paul beban reports, newly released documents are raising questions about one prominent sceptic's research. >> have we received money from exxonmobile... >> this is dr willie sune a researcher at the harvard smithsonian center for aft ra physics, with a doctorate. he is a climate sceptic saying greenhouse gases have little or nothing to do with climate change. skeptics like him are a tiny minority, but have huge influence when it comes to politicians who want to block action on climate change. dr sune doesn't deny receiving money from the oil industry but denies that it had influenced research. >> i'll write and they choose to fund me. the only condition is same thing, i will never be motivated by money for anything. >> the environmental group green piece disagrees. it had released documents that suggest dr sume's ties to oil and energy companies are closer and more extensive than previously known. over the last 10 years, the documents say ha has received more than 1.2 million from the fossil fuel industry while publishing papers and scientific journals without saying who was writ

paul beban choice us from chapel hill. >> good evening. you can see behind me here the candles from the vigil held on campus, a few flickering here after hundreds more than 1500 students and members of the community gathered to mourn and remember the students. people have been telling me that the muslim american community in the area is large, old, well-established and well integrated. people cannot under whether this was a hate crime for a dispute over parking, how it could have spiralled into a senseless tragedy. >> together they gathered. more than 1500] people from this diverse but tight-knit college community. the faces of three victims shining on a screen on this night, for mourning and remembering. as am grew um with deea barakat. the two studied together. tell me about them generally. >> the most genuine guy. the greatest guy you would ever meet. every life he touched, a ray of life. >> barakat's sister was trying to come to grips with the shooting. >> they inspired us serving as roll models for the youth. we ask that you celebrate

paul beban joins us with their story. parents are understandably distraught. >> yes, it's horrifying. the worst fears, the families of the girls - they may be realised. they are described as normal girls, straight a students. david cameron said they were radicalized and dubed by extremism, and it appears to be too late to stop them joining i.s.i.l. >> we cannot stop them. please think twice. >> a plea from a father. desperate for his teenage daughter to come home. last week three girls left their homes in east london heading for turkey. authorities believed they could have been planning to join i.s.i.l. at gatwick airport they caught a flight to istanbul. the families had no idea the girls were leaving. >> there was nothing different about her. there were no changes in her behaviour, in anything. she was just our baby. >> tuesday authorities announced they believed the three girls crossed to syria, coming a day after the turkish prime minister accused britain of tracking the girls and taking too long to track them. europe

paul beban has more. >> reporter: federal investigators spent the day examining the charred remains of a metro north train that collided with an s.u.v. north of new york city. the national transportation safety board is using social 3d laser scanning devices to take images of the train as they try to figure out what led to the commuter railroad deadliest crash. >> we are not here to speculate or determine the cause of the accident. we are here just to collect the information, and then we go back and conduct a thorough analysis of the facts. >> the s.u.v.'s driver and five from killed. dental records are being used to identify them. a dozen were injured. one is in critical condition, another in serious. the impact was so severe that the electrified third rail pierced the train. the first rail was engulfed in trains. a passenger in the second car shot a video of people trying to leave the train. the driver of the s.u.v. was trying to lift the crossing gate at the time of the crash. there are more than 200,000 grade crossings in the united states, this is in valhalla new york down the roa

. -- paul beban joins us with the latest. scary scene. >> this is the latest in a string of accidents involving metro north in recent years. you see these are live pictures of the scene. scorch train and wrecking of the vehicle in front. what we know is six are dead. it's not clear how the accident unfolded. the driver of that vehicle stopped on the track. he was kill. five on the plane drived and dozens injured in a fiery blazy collision. >> outside new york city a scene of snow smoke and scorched metal. at about 6:30 the height of rush hour a jeep cherokee started to cross the tracks in val halla, a suburb 30 miles north of manhattan. after the crossing gates came down on the back of the jeep the driver stopped, got out to check her car. she got back in and tried to drive forward. it was too late. the speeding train ploughed into her s.u.v. pushing it along the track. the vehicle and the head car of the train exploding in trains. passengers felt a bump and smelt gasoline as the train ground to a halt. about 400 of them were

paul beban is here. paul. >> after months of international outcry and a lot of anxiety and outcry he was in the middle of his daily run around the prison courtyard yesterday when a guard came and told him it was time to pack his stuff. >> it was a moment 400 days in the making. >> i can't tell you how relieved i was for being free. i didn't expect we were settling in for a period of months for retrial, so to be out now today with a few minutes' notice really is just extraordinary. >> reporter: on december 29th 2013, three lrnlings journalists were arrested in cairo. peter greste, mohamed fahmy and baher mohamed were accused of aiding the outlawed muslim brotherhood and spreading false news, in the aftermath of a military coup. from the beginning al jazeera rejected the allegations and demanded the men's release. within a few weeks the hashtag #freeajstaff had gone viral around the world. human rights groups called the five month trial a sham. the so-called evidence against the three men included a video o

paul beban is here. paul. >> after anxiety and anguish peter said this came as a total surprise. he was in the middle of his daily run around the prison courtyard when a guard said, it's time to pack your stuff. it was a moment more than 400 days in the making. >> i can't tell you how relieved i am to being free. i didn't expect anything other than settling in for a period of months for the retrial. to be out today with just a few minutes' notice really is just extraordinary. >> reporter: on december 29th 2013, three al jazeera journalists were arrested in cairo. peter greste mohamed fahmy and baher mohamed were arrested and imprisoned in the aftermath of a military coup. from the beginning, al jazeera rejected the allegations and demanded the men' men's release. within a few weeks the hashed greejhashtagare #freeajstaff had gone viral around the world. the evidence of the three men included a video of sheep herding from peter greste, and things that had nothing to do with the proses accusation at all. erupted at the guilty verdict. >> i don't know how the judge came to that deci

paul beban joins us with more, paul. >> right randall as you know these arrests happened earlier today. we're still learning more but here is what we know from now we have court sketches from brooklyn accused of plotting to join i.s.i.l. barring that, those are the sketches there talk of waging war in the u.s., even shooting president obama. new york's police commissioner said the men represented a serious lone wolf threat. >> it was made plain based on their statements that if they were not able to go that they would seek to acquire weapons here handguns, machine gun and seek to attack very specifically police officers. >> the men have been on the gft's radar for months -- government's radar for months now, at least since august. one of them wrote on an i.s.i.l. propaganda website he was in the u.s. and didn't have any weapons but he offered to acquire them and carry out attacks and become a martyr. that website has been taken down but he said, i'm claiming to shoot obama or get shot ourselves and will that do? striking fear in the heart of the infin dells. infidels. >> offering to sh

as paul beban tells us they are putting pressure on the u.a.e. to fix the problem. >> reporter: it's sold as a modern island paradise in the middle of the middle east. it's betting that museums, and luxurious lifestyle will make it a global destination. researcher says that there's another side to it. >> the reality, as with a lot of things, when you scratch that surface, there's something deeper darker more sinister underneath it. >> he says he and other human rights watch researchers found it an atrocious track worker on the migrant workers, coming from poor countries, to build the area. confiscated passports, stlp wages, all issues that more than 100 workers reported to human rights watch between 2013 and 2014. when some went on strike to protest how they were treated. they say they were arrested thrown in gaol and deported without due process. >> i went with the hope of providing my daughter with an education. to get my daughter married. build a house. they are the dreams of the future. i'm unable to afford the education and living cost and l

>> paul beban for news valhalla new york. coming up, regulating the internet. just like a phone service the new proposal for the web. >>> plus a detroit man's 21-mile walk to work inspired a crowd funding campaign to buy him a car. but it's just as difficult to get around the motor city. just a little bit later. we're still taking a hard look at the most important issues out there to get you the answers you deserve. >> "real money with ali velshi" at its new time. 10:30 eastern. >> we're just doing it a little later every night. >> so the last two big name office supply stores may become one. staples wants to buy office depot. it still needs to be okayed by federal antitrust regulators. office depot and office max combined forces a little over a year ago. >>> prosecutors reportedly have their sights on another big credit rating agency just one day after standard & poor's agreed to pay $1.4 billion payout over credit ratings in the lead up to the financial crisis. real money's ali velshi join us with more on this. what else do you know about this aly? >> it's in