paul beben has more. >> on thursday former secretary of state and democratic frontrunner hillary clinton testifies before the house committee on bengahzi. almost a year and a half after the committee came into existence in may of 2014. but as the committee calendar finally turns towards thursday's main event the republicans are playing defense against accusations that the investigation is nothing more than a political witch-hunt. >> she's an important witness, but she is one witness. by the time we're throw, john, we'll have interviewed 70 witnesses. she's one out of the 70. >> democrats including the committee's top democrat maryland's elijah cummings says that the real mission is not digging up the truth. it's really about damaging hillary clinton. >> we literally had a plan where we would have been interviewing all of these key people. he really threw that away and went straight after hillary clinton. >> clinton herself cited kevin mccarthy that it chipped away at her in the polls. >> i think it's clear they might have thought they were doing, they ended up becoming a partisan arm of

paul beben is up next. i'll be back with our international hour at 9:00 eastern and for the latest news at any time go to www.aljazeera.com. >> good evening, i'm paul beben. john seigenthaler is off. after the rampage, the details and the questions on the campus shooting. the suspect and gun control. tough talk. >> there is no way for assad to be part of the long-term future of syria. >> as president obama takes on glad glad, al jazeera talks to secretary of state john kerry on the growing

paul beben, al jazeera. >> investigating the high cost of prescription drugs, why the federal government is getting involved after prices spiked. >> some favre sui pharmaceuticals are charging more for drugs. this pharmacist was caught off guard for filling ativan, $2,300 for 30 pills. >> that one was crazy. >> crazy he said because the drug was first approved in 1977. he says it's part of a wave of price hikes in brand name drugs including ear and eye drops. >> both have gone from $20 a bottle to $100. >> any reason given? >> no. none whatsoever. >> the common thread both drugs are owned by valiant pharmaceuticals based in quÉbec, and the company has been sharply criticized over two increases over two heart medications. valiant bought their parent company in february 2015. that's when the cleveland clinic noticed the price go up 601% and 300%. >> the thing that is troubling is it's the exact same drug coming off the same manufacturing line probably by the exact same people. the only thing that has changed is the name on the label and the company owning it. >> the chief pharmacy officer

>> good evening, i'm paul beben. john seigenthaler is off. after the rampage, the details and the questions on the campus shooting. the suspect and gun control. tough talk. >> there is no way for assad to be part of the long-term future of syria. >> as president obama takes on glad glad, al jazeera talks to secretary of state john kerry on the growing crisis. >> wake-up call. author d watkins beat the streets of baltimore. he talks gun violence, race relations and the law. >>> philipp, the man on a wire. hollywood has the new movie, but we have the real thing. his mesmerizing story of walking between the twin towers. >> and we begin with the mass shooting at a community college in oregon. there is a lot of new information on the massacre and the gunmen. we're going to get to all of that. but first the innocent lives lost. we have their names now, and we want to share them with you. first, lucero alvarez, trevon taylor anspach, rebecca ann carnes. quinn glen cooper. kim saltmarsh dietz. lucas eibel. jason dale johnson, and lawrence levine and

al jazeera's paul beben reports. >> vermont center bernie sanders is pushing back after hillary clinton suggested sanders was actually talking about her gender when he said there was too much shouting about guns during the democratic debate. >> wellers first of all, i'm not shouting. [laughter] it's just when women talk some people think we're shouting. >> you're the one who is voting senator sanders. >> i certainly do not have a problem with women speaking out. i think what the secretary is doing there is taking words and misapplying them. >> for her part hillary clinton is taking a short break from the campaign trail to celebrate her 68th birthday monday. her husband made his first appearance for her on saturday in iowa. they'll be in new york on saturday night for a fundraiser. clinton seems to be picking up the majority of democrats who have been holding out for vice president joe biden. he announced thursday that he would not be sumping into the race. new polls showing clinton hedging ahead of sanders in iowa, closing in on him in new hampshire and past him in south carolina. she m

paul beben is in columbia, south carolina, paul? >> well, here in columbia today was the first sunny day in almost two weeks. you could feel the collective sigh of relief as the rains stopped. there is so much work yet to be done. there are thousands of people here without power. there are thousands of people being told to boil their water and evacuations may still be happying east of ear as a huge search of floodwater continues. the water would have been over my head, and as floodwaters recede here, the extent of the destruction is now just coming clear. >> presbyterian minister larry bates spent the day going through a soggy floor full of debris. family items were set out to dry. the reverend had a foot of water in his living room. but down from his home the water rose over the rooftops. here people are getting back in their homes for the first time since the weekend, and the damage is simply staggering. >> so in this part of columbia this is the neighbor that people are calling the encenter. it's just a little neighbor street. bu

paul beben is here with that. >> 72 hours after this shooting there is still more questions than answers. but here's what we do know. after playing a late-night show with his van, cory jones' car broke down in the wee hours of sunday morning on i-95 in delray beach, florida. a police officer there pulled over to check out the situation and seconds later cory jones was dead. >> so far it's hard to nail down exactly what happened early sunday morning in delray beach, but one thing seems certain. tensions and emotions are rising in the wake of the death of 31-year-old cory jones. the president of palm beach county's police benevolent association said that the officer involved is getting death threats. he blames the police chief for not being transparent. >> what happened in ferguson, remember, it was days before the police chief and the administration came out. and spoke about the event. this is what i didn't want to have happen. that's why i had to get on the media outlet to give the chief a little kick in the butt. >> jones' family is also pushing for more details. >> what would you say t