one retailer says sales of air purifiers jumped tenfold after the red alert was issued. >> translator: i'll buy an extra air purifier because my house is large and the air pollution is in beijing is awful. >> clerks at this store say air cleaners capable of removing hazardous particles are selling well. despite having a price tag of around $800. face masks are also in high demand. the red alert is expected to remain in place until thursday. >>> malaysia has welcomed the arrival of its first group of syrian refugees. two families fleeing syria's civil war were the first of many who will eventually enter the country. the southeast asian nation plans to accept 3,000 refugees and migrants over the next 3 years. both families arrived at kuala lumpur international airport on tuesday night. they were greeted by malaysian government officials. their plan is to live with relatives who have already settled in malaysia. >> the malaysian government, help us to bring our family to be safe here. >> malaysian officials say they'll continue to accept migrants and refugees as planned but given recent

he created an air purifying tower that stand at 23 feet tall called the smog free tower. it's ready to be shipped to beijing. it can clean up to 30,000 cubic meters of air in an hour t. latest goal is to install the towers into at least 20 public parks. a man tries to snort cocaine during a traffic stop t. man was initially pulled over for driving without his lights on. the incident quickly took an unexpected turn t. driver tried to claim it was vitamins, was eventually booked for possession of a narcotic. >>> president falwell is encouraging students to legally carry guns on campus. in the wake of the shooting in san barndz, california, he faid made some controversial remarks during the school os convocation on friday. one of the largest christian colleges. they offer a free concealed weapons course. secretary of state john kerry is headed back to paris on climate change agreement. he'll join other top officials to fight global warming. >>> yesterday marked the start of hanukkah, observed around the candle is lit and a mennora another hanukkah traditions are having a dra

simple light and i'll never i'll never walk alone again at night ohh ooh a star of joy a star to purify a star of days old days of old a star of days days of old and a star that's filled with gold ooh a star to rain and storm on desert now, strong winds are beating me with stormy winds and rain my limbs are hurting from the weights of heavy chains now, now but give me one star just one simple light and i'll never walk alone again at night so give me a star give me one star to clear the mist and fog away clear the mist just give me one star give me one star to light the world in dark today yeah said just one simple light give me a star oh, lord just one simple light i'll never walk alone alone again at night hey, said give me a star give me one star yeah to clear the mist and fog away all i want is a star give me one star to light the world in dark today just one simple star said the world needs a little more light, lord give me a star just one simple light and i'll never i'll never walk alone said i'll never i'll never walk alone yes, i'll never walk i'll never walk alone alone again ag

we had national guard from other states come in and purify the water for the hospitals. i remember my father-in-law along with the president of the union of distributing water to cynthia: to this day people still appreciate free-flowing water from their faucets and being able to flush their toilets. the little things in life. gov. branstad: anheuser-busch canned water for as in beer cans. we still have some souvenirs at the historical building. cynthia: we have some around here somewhere to back. oo. we are >> branstad represents to us what it means to govern, take spots ability, and manage the system -- take responsibility and manage the system. cynthia: more than 1000 people in attendance to honor governor branstad after becoming the longest-serving governor in history. john dickerson on hand for that gal at the iowa state fairgrounds less than two weeks ago. what was that might like for you? gov. branstad: surreal. john dickerson is a great interviewer. i was able to share some of the war stories we had been through in the times i served the people. i feel so humble a

we have an air purifier. we have an action camera, a security camera.: how much money do you generate? hugo: this year, we estimate we will have about one billion u.s. dollars in net revenues from services alone. emily: you are invested in 30 or so different startups. they partner with you. what is the relationship there? what sort of cut do you get? what cut to the developers or makers of the product get? hugo: it is the unique model which i have not seen done anywhere else. the way it works is we help these companies get started. in many cases, we will put the founders together, work together, and built this. we will get them funded to start with, then we will leave them alone to operate independently. then, we pick the best products they make and we put our brand on those products and sell it through our e-commerce engine. if these guys do a good job, they will enjoy success. some might even go public before we do. there is a startup of wearable products and they ship about one million of these a month. this makes them, a small little chinese company

an air purifying tower is called the smog free tower.o be shipped to beijing, cleaning up to 30,000 cubic meters of air in an hour. the goal is to install the towers into 20 public parks. >>> from nbc news.com, man tries to snort cocaine during traffic stop. the 73-year-old man was initially pulled over for driving without his lights on. >> 73? >> the incident took an unexpected turn when the driver tried to claim the cocaine was vitamins. he was booked for possession of a narcotic. >>> president of liberty university is encouraging students to legally carry guns on campus. in wake of the san bernardino shooting, he made controversial remarks on friday. one of the nation's largest christian colleges, they offer a free concealed weapon carry course. >>> john kerry is heading back to paris to talk about climate change. he'll trying to get a pact to fight global warming. >>> yesterday marked the start of hanukkah. each day at sundown, a candle is lit in a menorah. other traditions include spinning a dreidel and making fried potato pancakes.

nature has an amazing way of purifying things. so if you wonder why we cold-filter our beer. well, you're looking at it. coors light. the screen moments ago. the trophy raised by the head coach of michigan state. second time in 3 years. mark dantonio has done that. the head coach joins us. elway in 1997 put together a you have your drive and some cardiac moments. >> it's been a good play for us. an option play. he has the ability to pitch it out. he made plays on that really throughout his career. put it in the hands. didn't want to throw it. we had a shot to get it. we went that direction. >> coach. >> congratulations. this is how you love to win games. cincinnati and michigan state. i have seen this. tough, physical. run the ball. the question i would ask in that last drive. did you make up your mind? were you going to throw the ball would live by the run. >> dash ve warner makes all of those calls. we got closer. football. scrimmage. my hope was to take the game and the clock. that was the mind set and lj scott ran the ball with authority. we caught a little fire. that's w

the red light on her air purifier, indicates a high level of pollutants in the room.her home, a reminder of one of the reasons why her child can't venture outside. the coal-fired power station that provides heat to her apartment block. the worsening air quality has spurred an increase in gadgets that measure air quality, often offering advise and dark humohu. there was a reading of over a thousand, anything over 100 is considered unhealthy to at-risk groups. china is the world's leading emitter of green house gases, but the government hopes those emissions will peak by 2030. but that still means we could have many more days like this or perhaps even worse. adrian brown al jazeera, beijing. ♪ >>> this breaking news from chicago. there are reports the mayor has fired the police superintendent there. gary mccarthy criticized in recent weeks over the killing of a black teen by a white officer. that officer now free on bail after posting $150,000 cash bond. >>> v-tech shutting down one of its websites after a major data breech. they hacked the name of thousands of children

that water purified at the santa clara valley water district's plant would be more than suitable to drink if you can get past your initial gut reaction. is that end product as clean, less clean, or cleaner than what's coming out of our sinks right now? pam: it's cleaner than what's coming out from your sinks right now. sam: because it's gone through so many processes? pam: correct. sam: so, how soon does the good as new tap water come to your faucet? the santa clara valley water district board of directors estimates about 3 to 5 years before they hit their goal of 40 million gallons of recycled water a day. coming up next on "reality check," how much money is your boss raking in? taking stock of the ceo to worker pay gap, and whether the divide is as wide as people think. plus-- john kerry: this is in the interest of every nation on earth. sam: the paris climate agreement, a major step forward or just a drop in the bucket? we address serious concerns that the unprecedented deal is meaningless. not just your boss, how much does your ceo make? the scc wants to know exactly how much more chi

ethylene glycol and purified terephthalic acid... are combined to create a polymer... resulting in a lightweight but strong material. >> why then does it last almost to infinity in a landfill? >> these essentially are the same type of bonds that hold together a diamond. >> if you're conscientious enough to throw a water bottle into a blue recycle bin, like we do here at techknow, then you probably think that water bottle is gonna be turned into another water bottle. but that may not necessarily be the case. techknow wanted to find out what happens next ... so we followed the water bottle. >> this is the massive puente facility near los angeles california. located near a large metropolis, it can take a lot of trash... >> if you take a football field from post to post 10 feet high uh, fill it up with trash - about a third of that or a quarter of that comes over here every day. >> three thousand tons a day. this facility offers a glimpse into the world of single stream recycling, because all the recycled material it receives comes from a single source bin like this. conve

. >> reporter: even here though it's not entirely safe, red light on her air purifier indicates a highllutants in the room, beside her home a reminder of one of the reasons why a child can't venture outside, the coal-fired power station that provides heat to her apartment block. the worsening air quality spurred an increase in gadgets that measure air quality often offering advice and dark humor. in one part of beijing the government monitoring station recorded a reading of nearly 1,000 on monday night. anything over 100 is considered unhealthy to at-risk groups such as the elderly, people with asthma and children. china is the world's leading e mitter of gasses and hope it will peek by 2030 and still means we could have many more days like this or perhaps even worse, adrian brown, al jazeera, beijing. >>> thick smog hanging over new deli too and al jazeera is in the indian capitol. >> reporter: this area in the east of new deli is officially according to deli's pollution control committee the most air polluted part of the city. the levels today on tuesday have been recorded at eight t

after the honey is diluted and purified, it goes into the fermenter. he adds the same yeast they use to make grape-based champagne. >> probably the best thing i will ever drink out of a beaker. so why is it that there's just honey in here but i'm tasting these other things? >> because honey contains the essence of the flowers from which it was composed. >> really? so the bees are drinking the nectar of the flower and they actually take some of the essence with it. >> absolutely right, and that's what makes honey such an amazing substance. turn turn turn. >> the final step is pretty cool. it's called riddling where every turn of the bottle slowly sends the remainder of the yeast sediment to the top of the bottle. >> how was that? >> perfect. nice. >> good? >> yes. >> and the way i figure it, mead just might be the next big thing... with a very interesting backstory. all possible because of science... of course. >> why don't you do the honors? very good. >> well it took 4 months from honey bee to mead so cheers to the honey bees. >> cheers to the honey b

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we have three air purifiers here at home. we changed the filter today. this is the new white one.e a look at the one from two months ago. beijing's pollution was improving in the first ten months of this year, but still this fifth grader couldn't go to school today. what do you think about that. >> so bad. >> reporter: and as to why the red alert was issued. here's the straight talk of a 10-year-old. just last week the pollution was worse, but there was no red alert. >> yes. >> reporter: what do you think of that? >> kind of weird. >> reporter: kind of weird? >> uh-huh. >> reporter: of course, last week china's president was in paris for the climate conference, and the government here was widely criticized for not sounding the pollution alarm. schools and factories are expected to remain closed for two more days until a cold snap comes in and hopefully pushes out the pollution. >>> former daily show host jon stewart returned to his old set. it wasn't all fun and games. stewart is trying to draw attention to what he calls a national disgrace. the expiring health care benefits for f

companies that make air purifiers that have been strong demand. as they so pollution starting to wane there was a bit of a switch out. a strong rally coming into the close of the shanghai share markets. jonathan: that is what is happening. first up, druggies the lemma -- druggies dilemma. --ns desperate iran's volkswagen's first family breaks it silence over the emissions scandal as sales slump in the u.s. ♪ eurozone inflation data out at 10:00 u.k. time coming a day before action of the european central banks. , ramana kieser. -- the dataser coming in today. i go back to last year, that speaks for mario draghi. we get inflation back. it failed. is it out of their hand? if they don't believe they can reach their 2% target for the next nine years. -- that is the key thing draghi is going to watch. it moved up quite a bit after he came up with the fairly dumbest statements. jonathan: that is the point. market expectations have picked up. that's the point, the market pricing here. he needs to follow. he has no choice tomorrow. ramin: also some kind o

they are killing nonmuslims, they are killing he is athe sunnxi jinpinga, the -- shia, they are purifying the islamic state, it is all islamic what president obama said the islamic state i not islamic, if it is notice lambic then what it is. tom: at same time, the surveillance of mosques -- others will say, no, that a house -- not a house of worship but a house of recruitment, which is it? does it vary by mosque to mosque? >> it both. unlike -- no one cares about religious component, but islam is a comprehensive system, it legal, economic, military political, problem is political islam. nobody cares if you worship a stone, just down stone us with it. the idea that you is -- tradition it is okay, because it is part of your religion that is ridiculous on its face, must monitor the mosques. against those who preach jihad and the sharia that not a foggy issue this is crystal clear. tom: do you believe there are mosques that are primarily recruiting for jihadists? >> absolutely. look -- tom: what percentage? >> well, according to 4 surveys, over 80% of mosques in u.s., and one of those studies

they are killing nonmuslims, they are killing he is athe sunnxi jinpinga, the -- shia, they are purifying the islamic state, it is all islamic what president obama said the islamic state i not islamic, if it is notice lambic then what it is. tom: at same time, the surveillance of mosques -- others will say, no, that a house -- not a house of worship but a house of recruitment, which is it? does it vary by mosque to mosque? >> it both. unlike -- no one cares about religious component, but islam is a comprehensive system, it legal, economic, military political, problem is political islam. nobody cares if you worship a stone, just down stone us with it. the idea that you is -- tradition it is okay, because it is part of your religion that is ridiculous on its face, must monitor the mosques. against those who preach jihad and the sharia that not a foggy issue this is crystal clear. tom: do you believe there are mosques that are primarily recruiting for jihadists? >> absolutely. look -- tom: what percentage? >> well, according to 4 surveys, over 80% of mosques in u.s., and one of those studies

we have three air purifiers here at home. we changed the filter today. this is the new white one. take a look at the one from two months ago. beijing's pollution was improving in the first ten months of this year, but still this fifth grader couldn't go to school today. what do you think about that. >> so bad. >> reporter: and as to why the red alert was issued. here's the straight talk of a 10-year-old. just last week the pollution was worse, but there was no red alert. >> yes. >> reporter: what do you think of that? >> kind of weird. >> reporter: kind of weird? >> uh-huh. >> reporter: of course, last week china's president was in paris for the climate conference, and the government here was widely criticized for not sounding the pollution alarm. schools and factorors are expected to remain closed for two more days until a cold snap comes in and hopefully pushes out the pollution. >>> former daily show host jon stewart returned to his old set. it wasn't all fun and games. stewart is trying to draw attention to what he calls a national disgrace. the expiring health care benefits f

they're indoctrinated to believe they're purifying islam and restoring islam to a fictional glory. this is how islamism works. who knows? maybe this mother desaided she was going to participate in jihad to give a better life to her baby daughter. we don't know. >> when we think about san bernardino, i mean, if someone said something this might not have happened. now i think you're going to see muslims under more scrutiny than ever. i guess my question is, you know, you've been talking, a lot of been people have been talking about almost voices in the wilderness, but is there a burden now on the muslim community to prove to americans that this jihad by these extremist muslims, is not what everyday muslims are about. >> i think we've been bearing that burden since september 11. in your opening statements, which are alarming to me as a muslim who is about to become an american on friday next week, that we are feeling unduly vilified. you're describing that we close down visa programs. i came here on educational visas. there are thousands of muslims in america who come here for all the

when they kill shiia they are purifying the islamic state.mict when president obama says it's not islamict? tom: the question of the first amendment where the government should not interfere with your right to practice your religion, yet at the same time the surveillance of mosques seems like it's government interfering in religion. others will say no that it's a house -- it's not a house of worship, it's a house oft, which recruitment. which is it? is it varied by months to be mosque to mosque? >> no one cares about the religious come points. islam is a comprehensivete complete system. it's economic, it's political. the problem with political islam. nobody cares if you worship a stone as long as you don't stone us with it. the idea that you can preach sedition is ridiculous on its face. you must monitor the laws and enforce the laws against sedition. this is crystal clear. tom: do you believe there are mosques that are primarily recruiting for jihadists? >> absolutely. tom: what percentage, do you know? >> no less than four surveys, over 80% of mosques in the u.s. one of the studies is b

and in my car, i also installed an air purifying system. >> ifill: and in india, heavy smog also blanketed delhi, cutting visibility to a mere 200 yards. air quality in the indian capital routinely gets worse in the winter, when more coal fires are burning. investigators in colorado shed no light today on the case against robert lewis dear. he's accused of killing three people at a planned parenthood clinic. there was no discussion of motive as dear had his first court appearance, via video link from jail. he's being held on suspicion of murder. in baltimore, jury selection began for the first of six police officers charged in the freddie gray case. he died in police custody last april, triggering protests and riots. officer william porter is charged with assault, manslaughter and reckless endangerment. and a judge in chicago set bond at $1.5 million today for a white officer charged with murdering a black teenager. squad car video showed officer jason van dyke shooting the victim, laquan mcdonald, 16 times. release of that video led to days of protests. in israel, a judge has convicted tw

the red light on the air purifier indicates a high level of pollutants in the room.eside her home a reminder of a reason why the child can't venture outside. the coal-fired power station providing heat to the power block. the worsening air quality spurred an increase in damage et cetera. offering advice and dark humour. in one part of beijing, a government monitoring station recorded a meeting of nearly 1,000. anything over 100 is considered unhealthy to at-risk groups, such as the elderly, as mattics and children. china is a leading emitter of greenhouse gases. it's hoped they'll peak by 2030. that means we could have more days like this, or worse. >> that's it for this international news hour on al jazeera. i'll be back with more news in 2 minutes. >>> good evening, i'm antonio mora, this is al jazeera america. keeping a promise. the pentagon follows through on a commitment to fight i.s.i.l. many in congress are not sold on a plan >>> out of a job. the mayor of chicago fires a police chief after a year after a murder charge against an officer >>> on the road again.

they seek to purify the religion from what they say is the corrupt influence of the current saudi arabianns are said to have died. >> this group of radicals took over very abruptly, very suddenly and very quickly islam's holiest sites. >> saudi officials rush tanks and troops to mecca surrounding the shrine. eyewitnesses say as many as 10,000 pilgrims are still inside the grand mosque, and sniper fire was heard all day in mecca. >> broadcasts from iran today blame the united states for the assault on the grand mosque in mecca, the muslim holy city in saudi arabia. those broadcasts were heard in islamabad where a mob stormed the american embassy, killed a marine guard and trapped about 100 americans in the embassy. >> the mob was screaming "kill the american dogs" in islamabad. this is the third major event in the muslim world in the last 24 hours. >> in tehran this morning, millions of people are shouting "death to the shah, death to carter." that is followed by the cry "god is great." >> these groups are very hard to dissuade. these people believe that god is on their side. that is a ver

lot of pressure on xiaomi who are competing for the same segment and it's also expanding to air purifiers, tablets, fitness trackers and that sort of thing. >> also action cameras. but some are also reading this as desperation because in some ways when you look at actual growth percentages it's a maturing market but apple is making a lot of in road there is in china. >> exactly but what xiaomi is trying to do is recognizing that ultimately harder manufacturing is an extremely low margin business for everyone, basically, except apple. so by trying to spread it around and all of these other products and move out internationally it's trying to basically leverage some size and really try to make that margin more substantial. >> they're also trying to invest in developing their own software. how far away are they from that being a realistic proposition where they don't have to rely on android. >> ultimately they'll be based and using android in the short-term. it's really not -- i can't see a future where they will completely move away from android particularly as it looks to expand globally.

. >> reporter: even here, though, it's not entirely safe, the red light on her air purifier, indicatingh level of pollutants in the room. beside her home, a reminder of one of the reasons why a child can't venture outside. the coal-fired power station that provides heat to her apartment block. the worsening air quality has spurred an increase in gadgets that measure air quality. in one part of beijing, the government monitoring station recorded a reading of nearly a thousand on monday night. anything over a hundred is considered unhealthy to at-risk groups such as the elderly, asthmatics, and children. china is the world's leading emitter of greenhouse gases, but the government says it hopes those emissions will peak by 2030, but that still means we could have many more days like this, or perhaps even worse. adrian brown, al jazeera, beijing. >>> and thick smog is hanging over new delhi too. our correspondent is in the indian capitol. >> reporter: this area in the east of new delhi is officially, according to delhi's pollution control committee, the most air-polluted part of the city. l

in saudi arabia and the fact that they went there, they were looking for their roots and found a purifiedislam. >> uh-huh. >> which leads to islam. and somehow they expected those roles and the more i see this, the more i know that indeed is what happened. >> art, i want to ask you about his childhood. allegations that his mother was beat by his father. his mother set up an online profile for him, enjoyed target practice in the backyard. these are things that seem to fit the profile of other horrific attacks, like even in the newtown shootings. how important are these things? >> erin, i think that the key part here is even in newtown, there were psychological issues going on here. we don't specifically though that about this individual. i think a lot of people grow up, unfortunately, in this country under that type of parenting and a lot of them don't go out and kill 14 people and wound another 19. so as much as we hear about a horrible childhood we have, i don't think we should be betting on the fact that that's why he went out and did this. >> to the point you're making, the gunman's ol

confusion that you know even if it is in a situation an historic district not specifically under our purifyut a project we could bring that before the ar c or maybe because it is we don't have jurisdiction but maybe have opinion to help guide the staff towards how you know how it fits in because i think a project like that you know it is none ever seize it and then you know people like the woman that came first thing and said i don't know if you have any jurisdiction over the arts we do but in a case like this sorry we can't do anything is disingenuous we can talk about buildings in national districts you know other historic districts or that maybe even the staff thinks you know like that one that i showed you of the project maybe the staff knows the ar c can look at that and get feedback. >> commissioner pearlman. >> i'm sorry what building on polk you're referencing. >> in the presentation that on - between eddy and - >> oh, this one right here. >> it is taken the scaffolding off. >> yeah. it was built a while ago. >> but the scaffolding just came off the other buildings. >> commissioner