>>> as many americans, and, that earlier generation, called it saigon more jobs.ap living, and a once-in-a-lifetime adventure overseas. >>> new wave that's going to come over here, and, new people come in, and i think that the more american businesses come over here, the more vietnamese businesses pop up. >>> take advertising business which didn't exist here, and now most of the major u.s. ad agencies have set up shop here. >>> demand for vietnamese speaking americans, with my background and, art and music, and, the demand is so great . >>> i didn't really tell my mom and i called her, and i said i'm leighing next week. >>> i washing for the school and i at a coffee shop, and, i was here, and i produced six films and, it's been good. >>> and, it took awhile g. people come over here because there are a lot of opportunities and they won't get those in the u.s. right now. >>> fast forward to more recent ahead for ho chi mincity. >>> and now, it is now the largest exporter to the united states, and they expect to see a record 6% growth in the next year. >>> next, they

the fall of saigon had been coming for months. but u.s.assador graham martin wouldn't even talk about a possible evacuation. >> we've been seeing scenes of people fighting their way onto choppers for a month. we had a human tsunami rolling south towards saigon. that in the last two months of the war. so the scenes of the last day had become terribly terribly familiar and unfortunately there would be -- there would be more of them. >> reporter: the launch of operation frequent wind catch the operations in saigon by surprise? >> graham martin never thought that day would come. he was the ambassador in vietnam. he had convinced himself the communists would accept a negotiated settlement to the latest hostilities. but he simply had not considered that the war would ever be lost. how could he? graham martin was a cold warrior in the old stripe. he had lost an adopted son in vietnam. it wasn't in his constitution to admit the war was finished. he would not surrender to the godless commune is. >> reporter: but the communists were intent ops on ta

saigon is based from falling any citibank assistant manager, a man who could've been anyone of us us is given a choice. go home and never looked back or risk your life to save others. what would you have done. i'll tell you what john riordan did. he risked his life to rescue more than 100 friends and colleagues of what would certainly be described as great danger. it was a daring mission. the details will astound you and if you haven't already, you need to read the book. hang on. i'm not done yet. because one courageous men risked his life more than 100 lives were saved. they are now here in america with their children, grandchildren all thanks to this man. today we are lucky enough to be joined by some of the people whose lives shown forever changed in a moment we will hear stories. first, an honor to introduce a real hero someone who embodies the real ideals to inspire all of us. showing. [applause] true great determination and selfless actions, we couldn't be more proud to host this reception in your honor and those who helped rescue. we are thrilled to have you with us, have your

but 150 ideas were submitted to the "saigon makeover" competition. the organizers are proud of the success of their project. one of the submissions is a proposal to revamp the city's trash cans. >> because these are very popular in the streets in the morning and at the end of the day people collect trash to keep the city clean... make it more colourful, more amusing. the next challenge is to raise funds so that the winning idea can be implemented. for now, everyone working on the project is donating their time and input. >> we have people in finance, the start up industry, the arts. we all have a different way of viewing the world. but what we do have in common is that need and drive to make a contribution to our community. >> elaine phuong nguyen and her colleagues belong to the global shapers community and can now exchange ideas with other like-minded people around the world. although elaine studied in the us, her heart belongs to hochiminh city. >> from contemporary town planning, to the monolithic guardians of an ancient polynesian culture. these

all seeking a last sanctuary in the saigon area in april, 1975 >> even me i didn't think saigon fall right away maybe next two months, maybe two or three years. >> reporter: photojournalist nick wheeler on assignment for newsweek and u.p.i covered the fall of bien hoa. the last major military base just outside of saigon. and the initial shelling of the city. on the morning of april 29th, the advancing north vietnamese artillery had shutdown the airlift out of tan son nhut airport forcing the americans to implement their backup evacuation plan. >> the signal was to be through armed forces radio which was going to be playing "i'm dreaming of a white christmas". when we heard that on the radio we were to grab our bag and head to the evacuation point. >> reporter: wheeler's bus ended-up at the american embassy which was besieged by thousands of south vietnamese, many of them connected with the american war effort, who believed they would be evacuated along with the americans. >> once we couldn't get in through the embassy gates was to start climbing over the wall and get helped into the

>>> thousands of children brought out of vietnam in the final days before the fall of saigon. they were the children of the baby lift. adopted in america. the young arrivals began a new life in their new country. and the children left behind who waited more than a decade in vietnam after the war to be reunited with their american fathers. all straight ahead on a second look. >>> good evening and welcome to a second look. i'm julie haener. tonight on a second look, a look at one of the largest humanitarian air lifts in u.s. history. this month marks 40 years since operation baby lift. the emergency evacuation of children out of vietnam as the war came to an end. in april 1975, ktvu reporter claude man climbed aboard an airways plane carrying children from vietnam. entering san francisco at the presidio. the children were on their way to oregon. from a war ravaged country where food was scarce, many of the children suffered from malnutrition. others were sick. one child clutched a dog tucked into his sap -- satchel. none of them knew where they were going. it's not clear how man

saigon was clearly threatened. the situation was urgent, urgent understates it. >> at this time, ambassador martin had been back in washington trying to persuade congress to vote for additional aid. he came back to saigon and my boss this cia station chief said tell the old man what's happening. i said mr. m. basset are half of the south vietnamese has disintegrated. we are in grave trouble. please plan for an evacuation and at least allow us to begin putting together lists of south vietnamese we should rescue. and he said no frank, it's not so bleak and i won't have this negative talk. young officers in the embassy began to mobilize a black operation, meaning a makeshift underground railway evacuation using outgoing cargo aircraft that would be totally below the radar of the ambassador. >> people like myself and others took the bull by the horns and organized an evacuation. in my case that meant friends of mine who were senior officers and the south vietnamese military. as the north vietnamese came closer and clos

we were in saigon. i was recording officer and i carried a particular area and when henry came out, i was assigned the task of taking get to the northern part which is called in -- that is how i got to know henry and then i went to the paris peace talks as you mentioned and i was recruited. kt: i do not know if it destroyed not but there's a story when kissinger was in saigon, you had some incidents. john: indeed. he was there as an advisor. on one of his last days there was november 1, the anniversary, there was a big parade and site -- in saigon and my apartment overlooks the parade route. i had champagne breakfast. and when henry came, dick brought him up to my apartment. when he got up there, he realized he lost his wallet. he lost his white house pass. [laughter] professor smyser: we took him to a cabaret. kt: is this a story we can say? is it a pg story? professor smyser: of course. the idea was he wanted to meet some characters that were not in political office. we took him there and he got up to

>> and 40 years after the fall of saigon. tonight, a look back at the mission to save thousands of vietnamese children. some of whom >> well, it was a mailman in a mini copter that caused a major scare at the u.s. capitol. >> this is not good people. >> cell phone video captured 61- year-old doug hughes landing his one man gyrocoptor on the capitol lawn. he had a letter for each member of congress demanding campaign finance reform. he had been planning this stunt for months and chronicling his quest with the tampa bay times. >> i had carefully planned it so nobody will get hurt. i'm not suicidal. >> he also realized he needed to do something big in order to again turn the attention of the american public to this very boring subject. >> after checking the copter for explosives, capitol police toted away. hughes could face civil and criminal penalties for this stunt. >>> some thieves in the east bay hit a new low. mark sayre says they pulled off a heartless steal on a bunch of young baseball players. >> reporter: as the as take

marking 40 years after the fall of saigon. here from a u.s. marine who was there on that fateful day in 1975. >>> plus a mass ifr inferno in the central valley. what burned that sent these flames and smoke pouring into the sky. >>> the baltimore ravens make a special visit today to spread a positive message. >>> check out this postcard. temperatures already 23 degrees warmer than yesterday. i'll show you where the 80s and 90s are today and when the cooling will come to your >>> a massive fire in fresno is still burning now more than seven hours after it we began. it's in northwest fresno at a business that sells utility poles. the major challenge is lack of fire hydrants. only two are being used. the power poles are coated with a wood preservative that can cause health problems. no word on how the fire started. >>> a privately owned camera shows the baltimore police van that carried freddie gray made a stop on the way to the police department. one the officers didn't tell police about. gray died from a spinal injury a week after he was arreste

coming up in our special "flight from saigon: 40 years later" it airs right here on kpix5. >> we had a beautiful day. temperatures came up 6-14 degrees in spots. cool on the shoreline. the numbers still warm. the readings if you head out to concord right now, 73 degrees. in san francisco, 61. santa rosa, 76. and here is what is happening. hardly low clouds along the shoreline. so, that kept the inland areas warm right along the shore here, though, the water, cool temperatures, high pressure builds in. the high pressure spikes into the middle 80s inland tomorrow. then, high pulls off shore, cool down, keep it windy on tuesday. future cast shows there is not much in the way of low cloudiness overnight. here is sunrise in the morning, here is the approach, northerly winds, bringing it along the coastline, off shore, that will cool us down a bit. cooler and window tuesday, then, the usual low clouds in the morning and sun in the afternoon. the temperatures still on the 70s, though others inland, the latter half of the week. tomorrow is warm, heading up to redding, 92 degrees, 5 in fresno

well, festivities today in vietnam 40 years to the day since the fall of saigon. thousands gathered there today for a big military parade and what's now known as ho chi min city. it was this day in 1975 communist forces ended the decades lock conflict. more than 58,000 americans died in the fighting. >>> and now the largest number of vietnamese americans in the country is in san jose at 160,000. only on 5 this noon kiet do shows us the challenge of keeping the culture alive with younger generations. >> reporter: the year was 2001. bobby hernandez, a mexican- american, was the nervous groom in a vietnamese wedding ceremony. it doesn't get more san jose than that. >> how young we were. >> i had hair. >> reporter: 1 years later their two young children are seeing it for the first time 13 years later. [ applause ] >> that's you, right? >> what do you think of mom and dad? [ non-english language ] >> reporter: the bride, sara do says she has been waiting for this moment to pass on what it means to be vietnamese. >> we have these mixed kids. and i wanted them to grow up

it's been 40 years since the fall of saigon.o learn their culture it takes a lot of work. >> from the kpix 5 weather center, good morning. temperatures soaring into the 90s. we'll show you where and how long this heat wave will last. >> and got a flight to catch over by sfo? hopping a ride on 101? everything looks clear so far. the rest of your morning drive we'll have it coming up. >>> good morning? >> it's thursday, april 30th. i'm michelle griego. >> hi, everyone. i'm frank mallicoat. it is 5:30. >>> the search is on for a home invasion suspect after a high- speed police chase from fremont to menlo park. the pursuit began yesterday afternoon when a officer saw a suspect getaway car from a robbery in fremont. that chase ended at a business park in menlo park. investigators say one suspect fired at fremont and newark officers. police arrested two of the suspects. one of the others got away. nobody was injured. >>> extra cops are patrolling arroyo trail in livermore after a man attacked a woman sending her to the hospital. the 2

formally saigon the capitol of south vietnam. the fall of saigon in 1975.le the final end of the u.s.' decades involvement in the country. and the people there came out to celebrate. 75 to 2,015. the 30th of april 1975. it has spent the last four years sending back information to the plannest closest to the sun in an hour's time, i think nasa's messenger mission to mercury will finally come to an end as it crashes into the surface of the planet. the science editor will explain the knowledge about the formation of the solar system and it's smallest planet. it is only slightly bigger than the moon, until the spacecraft arrived in the orbit in 2011, little was known about the planet. a sol i core, with much bigger and it is now almost assured that there is a liquid core also there surrounding this mercury which is producing a magnetic field. >> messenger reveals mercury's moon like service in unprecedented detail. scarred by the collision of asteroids and meet rides. the effortrecorded surface. and it happened ancient lava flows and discovered ice at the polls

and then just wrote back in saigon without any problem. they don't have any intelligence guards on the road. [laughter] in the hopeless situation, i don't have any other thing that i can do for my husband. so that is what, i don't know whether the holy spirit drives me to do it or not. [applause] >> so as the conditions worsened, and estimated 2 million vietnamese people attempted to escape. most famous when the boat people. they eventually escaped and came to america. mr. lee actually trying to keep the anon 10 times unsuccessfully. he continued to live in vietnam for 30 years. can you describe what life was like under communist vietnam? >> i am unlucky. i tried many times that failed. but i still have a lot of friends in vietnam right now. they don't have any chance to get out. finally, i have been here 13 years. i finally found my luck. i'm not in a camp. but my friends, let these people, were in the camps. some of them try to escape several times that failed. and then when they got back to the camp, they tried to kill them. actually se

it was a symbol for the fall of saigon. >> here is the gait in front of the reunification palace. in the four decade that unfolded the country has been ruled by the communist party. the economy is booming, and those born after the war are thriving. embracing western cultures they enjoy life in many ways after the war. >> i think my future depend on me. if i have a future, it will be bright. some feel there's a cost to the system. >> embracing global capitalism. it's politics and rhetoric have changed. it's sensitive about criticism, institution, individual who would in any way be seen as challenging the government's absolute control. >> reporter: as vietnam's leaders mark their history and celebrate peace, the younger generations embark on a new era as prosperity bounds. this while living in that system led by the ideas of the father of vietnam's communist party >>> just a reminder that you can keep up to date with all the news on the website that you see on your screens. that's@aljazeera.com. 's@aljazeera.com. >> the us is now the world's largest oil and gas producer in part beca

how these flight attendants turned heroes on the last flight out of saigon. coming up, our special series on the just can't seem to escape... another sneeze attack... you may be muddling through allergies. don't get caught off guard. try zyrtec® dissolve tabs. powerful allergy relief, now in a tablet that starts dissolving instantly. zyrtec® dissolve tabs. muddle no more™. >>> a popular san francisco pub goes up in flames. firefighters rush in try and save liverpool lil's across the street from the presidio. kpix 5's anne makovec on why some neighbors were worried about the pub becoming a fire hazard. >> reporter: smoke started pouring out of the roof of this iconic san francisco bar and restaurant at about 7:30 a.m. a business with four decades of history inside. >> it's been liverpool lil's since 1973. >> reporter: gary hough's home is one of several connected to the restaurant. >> i heard the alarm and then smelled smoke. and i thought it was my building. >> reporter: his building and several others including the travelodge motel were evacuated through all

the fall of saigon had been coming for others, but u.s. ambassador gram martin, wouldn't talk about an evacuation. in 1977, graham published a controversial memoir, revealing that sensitive documents had been left behind in the rush to exit sighing an, and cia operatives were all named in the files leaving them vulnerable to arrest, or worse. 40 years after the fall of saigon frank snepp spends a lot of time here, exercising the demons that he brought home from the war. >> you can watch michael's full report on "america tonight" at 10 p.m. pacific. for a look at what's coming up at the top of the hour, john ig sig is here. >> coming up be tonight the arrests, tens of thousands of people on the streets of american cities, and my conversation with sheila dixon on what's next in race relations, and stopping big oil with kayaks. kaikayakakayak. >>> and barney frank talks about his new back on same-sex marriage before the supreme court decision. >> if the court decides that it is illegal for a government to deny to people based on their sexual

david was born in to wealth living in the biggest house in saigon, a seven -story mansion. his father owned the recycling company and biggest paper mill in south vietnam. >> my father, they used to call him the king of trash. >> reporter: the family empire vanished overnight on april 30th 1975. communist soldiers seized all their properties. they escaped in a boat with just the clothes on their backs. >> we left with nothing. >> reporter: a rescue ship rescued them from their sinking boat. >> we're so lucky. if they don't rescue us, definitely we're going to die. because we see it in front of our eyes. >> reporter: after years at a refugee camp, they came to the u.s. the family landed here in the tenderloin. 16 relatives cramped in to two studios. david was 19 at the time. he quickly learned the road to success wasn't paved with gold, but with cardboard. >> after we do our homework early in the afternoon we jump on the truck we go help and pick up cardboard on the street with a van. >> reporter: a job his family did every day for three years. the pay-off their first recycli

. >> plus the fall of saigon 40 years later.. how he led 100 refugees to freedom. that's ahead. >>> "time" says tattoos might be a problem for the new apple watch. people with tattooed wrists report sensors on the underside of the watch cannot read heartbeats. >> is your tattoo throwing off your watch? >> no single tattoo. thinking about it. >> thinking about it. where would it be. >> gayle, you don't have any -- >> i can see charlie with a tramp stamp. >> we're all clearly kidding, boys and girls. >>> the "los angeles times" says the 3-d printer saved the lives of three baby boys. they suffered from a rare condition that prevented them from breathing properly. at first the doctors from the university of michigan were able to print custom splints that help with their airways and then it dissolves inside their little bodies. >>> a spin-off of jump street now sony has hired the writers from the comedy series "broad city." it comes as "ghost busters" shoot this summer. >>> the "washington post" reports which jobs are most likely to

today also as before it anniversary of the fall of saigon. but first, to these protests. protest around the country around the death of freddie gray. juan, you are in baltimore at a labor conference. it certainly passed through the holes of -- juan: it was a big topic among labor leaders who would come from around the country, especially from baltimore itself. everyone was talking about the curfew and the police presence. in critical of the mayor of baltimore for some of your best of her remarks calling the protesters thugs. it showed a class division that exists in baltimore between elite leadership, even african leaders, and the masses of people who are sick and tired of the divide and not only the economic divide in baltimore but also the continued police repression of black community. amy: as the officials advise people to wait to read -- to remain calm some of that information will be coming out reports will be coming out -- a report was "leaked" to "the washington post" of the prisoner who was the in the police van about five minutes at the end of freddie gray's jou

more than 6,000 soldiers and veterans paraded through ho chi men city, formerly saigon.l of saigon in 1975 marked the final end of colonial room in america's decades-long involvement in the country. it's estimated 3 million vietnam east and 58,000 americans died in the conflict. >>> 75 million liters of toxic chemicals were dispensed in vietnam and the dark legacy of that continues. unite find some of the images in the report to be disturbing. >> reporter: she wasn't alive during the war that you carries his country's name i'm war that end 40 year old ago but it's contamination has robs the seven-year-old of a normal life. but much more than that, it will kill him. just like it killed his sister. she was seven when she died from the same blood disease that he suffers from. his father works at the airport a site where u.s. military planes were loaded with agent orange during the war. it contained die objection an the chemical that causes birth defects, cancer and other diseases which can be passed on from parents. >> i wish the us would fully did decontaminate where agent

as we look ahead to this week's 40th anniversary of the fall of saigon we explore the changing imagesa vietnamese community here in the bay area. >>> we'll be monitoring the situation in baltimore tonight. we'll bring you the latest. plus bud light backlash. the label the company is apologizing for tonight. i'll have that story and much more on bay area night beat, 10:00 on our sister station. >>> encouraging african american students to pursue careers in science and tech. that's the goal of this week's recipient of the super bowl host committee's playmaker grant. they'll use the $10,000 prize to fund some summer science camps for students in the south bay. >> i'm looking in to going in to nuclear engineering. i think this program really helps me focus in on those goals and help foster the interest to stick with it. >> the super bowl host committee is giving out 50 of these grants in the 50 weeks leading up to super bowl 50. kpix 5 the media partner for super bowl 50. we're just 284 days away from the big game, and for all things super bowl, you can head to our website cbssf.com/super

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. >>> tomorrow marks the 40 year anniversary of the fall of saigon.operation baby lift their task, air lift thousands of infants out of the war torn country and take them to safe havens. four decades later those survivors are looking for answers. sarah hoye reports. >> i have directed that money from a $2 million special foreign aid children's fund be made available. >> mr. ford announced an air lift to the united states from vietnam. >> that air lift would become operation baby lift. an operation in which some 3,000 very young children, many of them orphans were air lifted out of south vietnam just weeks before the fall of saigon on april 30th, 1975. many to be adopted by american families. >> i didn't know, that gerald ford himself an orphan by the way had decided to air lift some people out of vietnam. >> authorized to fly the first baby lift flight out of saigon. just after 4:00 p.m. with the barest of necessities and more than 300 people on board. 12 minutes into the flight at in 22,000 feet disaster struck. the locks on the plane failed. >> only

. >> and 40 years after the fall of saigon, a look back at the mission to save thousands of vietnameseme of >>> searchers found the body of irwin don meyers who never returned from a hike late yesterday in the sunol regional wilderness. dozens of rescuers including dogs spent almost 24 hours trying to find him. >>> a very close call for a woman in oakland. her car was crushed by a huge eucalyptus tree. she was driving near lake merritt on first avenue this afternoon when it happened. she was unharmed. >>> a neighborhood in morgan hill is fuming after thieves stole an american flag for the second time. a world war ii veteran is going to set up a stakeout to catch the crooks. >>> four east bay high school athletes are behind bars tonight. the prosecutor says the crime is so heinous they are going to be tried as adults. kpix 5's da lin with the crime that has them in serious trouble. >> reporter: they have played in the state championship game four months ago. now three varsity players including star runningback miles harrison are facing lengthy jail time. harrison was a candidate for the

. >> the fall of saigon was nearly 40 years ago. on april 30, 1975.ext, the university of louisville posts a panel of south vietnamese refugees, including veterans of the south vietnamese army and air force, they reflect on the vietnam war experience and escape from the country following the fall of saigon. panelists eventually settled in kentucky. this is about an hour and half. >> i would like to introduce the moderators for tonight. dd and donald. they are amazing folks and they are the leading effort behind moving voices and this evening tonight. it is amazing to have worked with them over the last few in putting together this event. dd is a daughter of vietnam war refugees and an attorney. she is also u of l alum. and this makes me proud, she will enter the army jag core this friday. this really is her last big event in civilian life that she's joining us at. [laughter]

. >> fall of saigon, forty years later. >> we have no idea how many were killed. >> unanswered questionsthdrawal lives lost. examining the impact that still resonates today. a special report continues tomorrow, 10:00 eastern. on al jazeera america. the u.n. has launched, a $415 million appeal and aid has finally reached some remote areas, and many have not received many needed aid. the french justice ministry says it's investigating allegations that french u.s. peacekeepers, abused young children. and a senior o u.n. official has been suspended. >>> and police, made arrests over 60 people, were arrested, in new york, marching for justice for freddie gray. >>> vietnam is marking 40 years since the end of the war and a parade is held, formerly known as saigon. >>> the 1970 victory an estimated 3 million people died and, thousands more continued to suffer, as a result of toxic chemicals and its estimated that the u.s. dropped, tons of bombs and, that's more than the a bombs used in world war ii, and people in vietnam are still being killed by u.s. explosives. >>> around 40,000 people have b

we really tell the story of what was going on in saigon in those last 24 hours.he airport was bombed. the north said you've got 24 hours to get out of here. the evacuation was moved to the embassy. it was based on a helicopter airlift. so the perspective we tell is what was going on at that airport, what was going on in the embassy, what was going on in the fleet. what were the helicopter pilots doing? what about the marines who were left behind. what was happening and the reality was they were doing everything they could to save south vietnam -- vietnam needs. i think it does adjust our understanding of those final days in an important way. >> woodruff: rory kennedy, the documentary is "last days in vietnam" on american experience. we thank you. >> thank you so much. >> ifill: finally tonight, broadway honors some of its finest shows and performers. the tony nominations were released today, with the musicals "an american in paris" and "fun home" leading the pack with 12 nods each. arts correspondent jeffrey brown has profiled several of this year's nominees, inc

we begin a look back at the fall of saigon. 40 years later. "america tonight"s joie chen travels to new orleans, where the largest vietnamese community outside of vietnam lives. she find out why refugees fled there after the vietnam war. >> part of al jazeera america's >> special month long evironmental focus fragile planet . >> if you haven't already used it, chances are you have heard about uber. that ride-sharing service you can access on your mobile phone. it is so hot analysts valued it at $40 billion, and it is rolling into new cities giving taxis a run for its money. at a place where a slow crews is part of the scene, michael oku found an effort to pump the breaks. >> reporter: sin city, where the strip is lined with invitations for gambling, guns and girls. just about anything goes in vegas. one thing not going anywhere is uber. the ride sharing technology it is not feeling the love from this silver state, where it has no permit to operate. there's a $400 million taxi turf war in vegas. a hand full of companies own the strip and everyw

presidio and a tribute to historic event at the end of the vietnam war: 40 years ago the fall of saigon prompted a huge evacuation of children called "operation baby lift." who are joined with more by our reporter. >> the extraordinary story of the orphan children live on including the adoptees and parents of them the volunteers, nose would helped the children they may not necessarily know each other but share a connection by sharing them emotional experience. operation baby lit, a dramatic event in history more than 2,000 children rescued from their war-torn country after saigon fell in 1975. 1,500 of the children passed through the presidio before being adopted by american families. their legacies live on through this exhibit marking the 40th anniversary of operation baby lit and the end of the vietnam war. >> a certain generation, you remember this, it was in the news, very popular but you may not have fully understood it. it has kind of a profound affect. >> the pray was not sanctioned by the united states or vietnam and this woman's his was on operation 19ed in a deadly crash. >> i

the fall of saigon in 1975 marked the final end of the u.s.'s long involvement in vietnam. >>> three diplomats have walked out of a meeting on human rights. when north korean diplomats insisted on reading out a statement, the spectators started chanting storm north korea. they then snoerm stormed out. >>> vladimir putin said north korean leader kim ki-jong will not be attending celebrations in moscow marking the end of the second word war. he earlier said kim had accepted an invitation to the victory day. it would have been his first foreign trip since three years ago. here is harry fawcett. >> reporter: well despite the resounding silence on this this visit had seemed to be very much on. russia said so the south korean intelligence service said they found it highly likely that kim ki-jong would travel to moscow. and now it seems to be off. from north korea's perspective a snub to china, which has been under harsh criticism of north korea. and from russia's perspective, it would have been a signal to the united states that if you threaten us we

vietnam has come a long way since the fall of saigon and the decades that followed. >> absolutely. no other country in the world experienced the 20th century that we talked about. 20 decades of war. a long post-war declarations. and it's only since the '80s that the economic wees picked up. >> it had a rough decade after the end of the war with the communists coming in. this century economic growth has been tremendous. the economist described vietnam adds leadership assadently capitalist communists. it's the totality tarry regime claiming it's marxist lennonist. >> i would characterise it as that. the marxist lennonist is a party that insists on historic and future indispensability. this is the challenge. there are voices in vietnam from not only outside, but within the party to recognise that the party in practice has developed a more pluralistic political culture. there is vibrant debate within the party. there's the guardians of single party rule that imbrich and intimidate and things of this nature. but this is a country that is experiencing major changes in its political cultu

only on al jazeera a >> fall of saigon, forty years later. >> we have no idea how many were killed. >> unanswered questions, a botched withdrawal lives lost. examining the impact that still resonates today. a special report continues tomorrow, 10:00 eastern. on al jazeera america. >>> welcome back, let's recap the headlines. a 15-year-old boy has been rescued from the rubble 5 days after the 7.8 magnitude earthquake. more than 5,000 are dead. the u.n. launched an appeal for aid >>> saudi arabia's newly appointed foreign minister is to attend a summit in the gulf. the war on yemen will be top of the agenda. yemen will make a why to join the council >>> vietnam marks the 40th anniversary over its victory over america. it's estimated 58,000 men's died in the don nilent >>> the earthquake in nepal. it's not only the death toll that is rising. the number of wounded is becoming clear as people get access to health care. many have traumatic injuries facing a long recovery. we have this report from a hospital in the capital. >> reporter: i'm at the main military hospital in kathmandu. this is

embassy in saigon. that ended the vietnam war for america, but to this very day vietnamese are still being killed by american bombs dropped long ago. we sent barry petersen to vietnam to find out more. >> reporter: these demolition experts are hunding leftover death, and they find it. a cluster bomb in a ditch another in a nearby field. america dropped three times as many bombs here as it did in world war ii. by some estimates as many as 10% didn't explode and are waiting to kill. duong tam showed us how dangerous it can be. "it's armed," he says. "if anyone picks it up, they can set it off." >> every single day, our teams get two calls, five calls, occasionally more. >> reporter: chuck searcy founded project renew in 2001 shortly after he came back to vietnam to still the anger of an idealistic young soldier in saigon who had volunteered for the army specialized in military intelligence then turned against the war. >> i feel responsibility to try to deal with the cons consequences of war that we left h

. >>> and the fall of saigon 40 years later. the remembrances taking place today to mark the close of the vietnam war. >>> and fight club fallout. who's set to lose their job at the san francisco county jail after accusations inmates were forced to fight each other. >>> taking a live look at traffic at 4:11. the oncoming traffic is eastbound. that's normally the heavy commute section at this hour as folks head from the peninsula toward hayward. smooth sailing on the right-hand wó >>> a couple bay area residents in the nepal area during the earthquake are okay. francis h. gonzalez called this morning to share the good news. gonzalez was traveling in the himalayas last week. we learned today another san francisco resident jeff smith is safe in kathmandu. we spoke -- he spoke with abc news about his ordeal. >> it's safe to say we both feel very fortunate that neither one of us were hurt in the earthquake or anyone in our group. >> more than 5,000 people have died. rescuers are still hoping to find people buried beneath the rubble.

. ♪ >> fall of saigon, forty years later. >> we have no idea how many were killed. >> unanswered questionsd withdrawal lives lost. examining the impact that still resonates today. a special report starts tonight, 10:00 eastern. on al jazeera america. you are watching al jazeera and time to recap headlines and u.n. warning 8 million people have been affected by saturday's earthquake in nepal, the government says more than 4300 bodies have been recovered so far but that death toll could more than double. the national guard has been called in to help restore order in u.s. city of baltimore, there was rioting monday night following the funeral of a black man who suffered a spinal cord injury in police custody and later died. let's take you back to nepal where the government says it's in urgent need of tents and medical supplies and dozens of countries sent aid and rescue team and help is beginning to arrive and people are frustrated it's not getting to them fast enough and andrew simmons sent this from the outskirts of kathmandu. >> reporter: they are fighting over sheets of plastic, anything