in sierra leone, a place that "s"save the children" ranks s as one of the very worst places to be a mom, a new government program is trying to turn the tide, as we see e in this short film from "vieiewchange." wowoman: afterer a brutall decade-lonong conflict, sierra leone has the highest child and maternal mortality rates in the world. [m[music playsys] [dr. tagie gbawru-mansaray] i'm a medical doctor housed here at the princess christian maternity hospitital. narrator: one in five children die before their first birthday and one in eight women die during pregnancy. narrator: the one referral hospital in the capital of freetown services a population of over 400,000 people. ibraham thorlie: good afternoon. narrator: though the hospital is severely understaffed, it is not the only reason so many people are dying. [ibraham t thorlie] narrator: and often, those patients who come too late are very close to death. [ibraham thorlie] narrator: : rather thahan watchg their patients die, many doctors s and nurseses like reba pay for r the worst cases s from theieir own small sasalaries. narrrrat

it also operates a network in sierra leone and has a full-time approach to education. in bangladesh that have experience working across africa. it runs a network and last but not least, in liberia they are in seminaries both local and providers. we just concluded it operated at 93 schools in third and counties across liberia, providing free quality education to around this encouraging result. this data creates enrollment on teacher behavior, including reviews and greater time teaching. about 90% on average across all psl schools and as high as 98%. teachers are also 9% less likely to be outside the classroom of psl schools. these the same mike small things should be taken for granted, but no achievement in the context such as liberia. today, the program has also delivered a much-needed resources and infrastructure, a teacher for every classroom and training opportunities. they have also generated a new appreciation for a longer school day all without charging any fees. just this week, for up to a providers in the psl program relieves the report, during the first year o

brighton academy which also operates a network of schools in sierra leone and has a hold time approachation. and ngo founded in on the -- that has experience working across africa. [inaudible] which runs a network of schools in nearby ghana and last but not least, the liberian youth network and. [inaudible] both local and liberian providers. in the first year of psl, wheat which just concluded, these eight providers operated at 93 schools in 13 counties across liberia providing free quality education to around 27000 children. following the first year we have seen some encouraging initial results. according to the line data with an increase in beneficial impact on future behavior including reviews absenteeism and greater time teaching. teacher attendance rates are about 90%, on average, across all psl schools. they are a tie at 90% in the case of one provider. [inaudible] these should not be taken for granted but they are note minor achievement in the context such as liberia. to date, the program has also delivered much needed resources including desks, chairs, infrastructure, material,

street child, another nonprofit provider which also operates in sierra leone and nigeria and has the focus not only on providing education but, also, training and supporting communities to manage and hold their students to account. rising academy, which, also operates a network of schools in sierra leone and has a whole-child approach to education. -- an ngo founded in bangladesh that has experience working across africa. -- which runs a network of schools in nearby ghana. last but not least the liberian youth network and -- -- both local and liberian providers. in the first year of psl, which just concluded, operated as you heard earlier 93 schools in 13 counties across liberia providing free quality education to around 27,000 children. following the first year, we have seen some encouraging initial results. according to the data we've seen both increased enrollments and impact on teacher behavior, including absenteeism and teacher rates. -- they are as high as 98% in the case of one provider. teachers are also 9% less likely to be outside the classroom at psl schools. these may see

i was in sierra leone and liberia in the early 2000 people thought that was on earth and it was. and it was. two years after the end of the war in sierra leone i was standing there talking to colleagues from different areas. you didn't feel like you were in the war. people stepped in. there is national reconciliation process, accountability, leadership and i think i'm not no one of the things that's lacking the most for me is just the political will to step up and take a leadership position because all of the elements are there and this is something we could do. it's an incredibly complicated situation. it's a very sad and tragic situation that is getting worse by the day. this isn't the first time it has happened. we've seen when we get together and take action, that we can bring about resolution of these types of problems. >> thank you for that, steve. mario, closing thoughts? >> yeah, actually i would love to see the u.n. continue support for south sudan. on south sudan and the border -- [inaudible] with the international community as a whole, i would love to support the peace

but two years after the end of war in sierra leone, i was standing in freetown talking with colleagues from different, local colleagues from different areas, and you didn't feel like you were in a place of war. they went, people stepped in. there was actual reconciliation process.pe there was accountability. there was leadership. and i think on that note, i think one of the things, the thing that's lacking the most right now for me is just the political will to step up and take a leadership position. because all the elements are there. and this is something that we can do. it is an incredibly complicated situation, it is a very sad and tragic situation that's getting worse by the day. but this isn't the first time that this has happened, and we've seen when we can get together and take action and unify that we can bring about resolution to these types of programs. >> excellent. thank you for that, steve. only fitting that we close with our south sudanese panelist, mario. closing thoughts. >> yeah. actually, i would love to see the u.s. continue to support for south sudan. one of the --

. >> reporter: michaela deprince was born in the midst of a civil war in sierra leone. she lost her parents at 3, was abandoned at an orphanage and labeled the devil's child because of a skin condition. what were your chances for success in this world? >> for success, there was none. >> reporter: she witnessed so much horror and was almost killed herself. >> i felt very much alone. i really wanted to die. >> reporter: but there was one random moment that changed everything. a gust of wind blew a magazine up against the gate outside the orphanage, and she found it. this is a copy of that magazine, and the image of a ballerina on the front cover gave a desperately sad orphan something she'd never had before -- hope. >> it was not just the fact that she's a ballerina. it's the fact she looked happy. i wanted to be happy. >> reporter: you knew you wanted to adopt -- thousands of miles away in new jersey, elaine deprince and her husband decided to adopt the girl who one else wanted. michaela showed elena the magazine she had received. >> i couldn't believe i adopted an orpha

this in a sub-saharan commonwealth country say food crisis in nations like malawi mozambique or sierra leone and want to fight for tourism a you can telephone plus four for three four five six hundred eight zero eight zero but elsewhere in the u.k. military world defense secretary son michael fallen who characterizes jeremy corbyn as a u.k. security threat appears at today's royal international air tattoo at aria pfeffer in the southwest of england fallon's visit comes in a week with a briefing document obtained by the n.g.o.s child soldiers international raises questions over british military recruitment.

of gambia in sierra leone. and so in the water filter when a wire comes in if it says tajik oh it will get stopped but what do you see with these geniuses figured out which is the add little dots or dashes to the actual name the payment when it match and the payment will go through and that's what i call what they were doing so i was like wow are all these payments going through when they're supposed to be stopped and then that's. i realize this was the absolute criminal operation and later on actually what the ended up doing was firing all these debt collectors in the other side of the building and hundreds of them and then they rehired them as and the money laundering compliance officers would know in my experience nothing and they just had them clearing transactions all day long. but again going back to your question i i saw the there is an emergent national security issue that needed to be a trust. and i couldn't go to the f.b.i. because they hired a former counterintelligence f.b.i. agent to run the depart

about a solution especially like liberia in the early 2000's but it was but two years later in to sierra leone i was in these areas people stepped in with national reconciliation there was leadership. so on that note what lacks the most right now for me is the political will of that leadership position because of the elements are there. it is incredibly complicated it is a sad and tragic situation but it is not the first time this happened. we have seen when we can get together to unify the matter to bring about the resolution. >>. >> so of the country but that international community i would read like to see that as a cancellation but. [inaudible] so we have good intentions some could say it was the robust violation and of those sudanese because of the u.n. does not speak with one voice so as they come to tell you what to do. >> that will allow us to close please give them a round of applause as banks for hosting us this morning. [applause] [inaudible conversations] this was hosted by the american enterprise institute, welcome to the american enterprise institute. i'm a senior vice president

this in a sub-saharan commonwealth countries a food crisis if nations like malawi mozambique or sierra leone and want to fight for theresa may you can telephone plus four four three four five six hundred eight zero eight zero but elsewhere in the u.k. military world defense secretary son michael fallon who characterizes jeremy corbyn as a u.k. security threat appears at today's royal international air tattoo at aria fairford in the southwest of england fallon's visit comes in a week with a briefing document obtained by the n.g.o.s child soldiers international raises questions over british military recruitment specifically it concerns the so-called this is belonging campaign and you can make a comment that he comes. reportedly a briefing document on that u.k. taxpayer funded campaign spells out that the key audience is sixteen to twenty four year old c. to d. e s. that's marketing jargon for the poorest and youngest eligible to kill or be killed in british society and not only that but it targets northern cities especially hit hard by tatar resume and the fallout of the twenty zero eight west

you may remember in 2014, she returned to new jersey after caring for ebola patients in sierra leone.he flu into newark international and forced in to quarantine. she later tested negative for ebola and was allowed to go home. new rules say people will be quarantined only when medically necessary. >>> the fda has ordered to come up with new regulations that would lower the amount of nicotine in cigarettes. the agency says the goal is to prevent more young people from becoming addicted to sgretdgets. >>> three jcpenney stores in our area will be closing for good next week. the stores at philadelphia mills, king of russia mall and willow grove park hall will go dark monday. a total of 5,000 jobs will be affected. in march the retailer announced that it was closing nearly 140 stores to cut costs. >>> we want to say thank you for supporting the nbc 10 supporting our schools initiative. it will make a lot of teachers and students very happy going into the new school year. here is the deal. we've been asking you to help make a difference in our classrooms. many of you are doing just that. s

stems from nurse casey who was quarantined after working in sierra leon during the ebola outbreak. announced the settlement yesterday to include changes to ensure a person is quarantined only when it is medically necessary. >> waking up. this foggy weather out there. little overcast. take a live look at the building in center city. potentially severe weather later on today. bill henley has the most accurate forecast for your neighborhood. >> pretty quiet start to the day. we will see heavy weather later today. heading out right now. foggy view. from philadelphia international. morning fog will only be around for a few hours and then it clears out. we might see a break or two of sunshine. during the day, the clouds will be building and then later this afternoon and tonight, clouds will be building for showers, thunderstorms, and a potential for heavy rain. which will lead to a flood threat. we're starting off with fog. just got a bit thicker in allentown. one mile visibility in pottstown and quaker town. thicker than when we went on air this morning. light fog. three mile visibility

against the state that nurse casey hick cox says she was quarantined in 2014 after working in sierra leoneoutbreak. new jersey says it will change its ebola quarantine guidelines doing what's medically necessary. the state has settled with hick cox. >>> well, we are less than a month away i didn't know this from a total solar eclipse. >> yeah. pretty cool. one couple on the oregon coast has been preparing for years in a really unique way to catch this once in a lifetime event. fox's john hendricks has more. >> reporter: tuck away in the coast range. >> this is our little bit of heaven. >> reporter: you'll find kay wyatt. >> this is our observatory. >> a retired seismologist and imagery astronomer what is unique about her story after traveling the world and united states she and her husband decided to retire on the oregon coast. they wanted to do earthquake out reach and catch a once in lifetime event. >> i think we had two criteria. town find a home that was out the tsunami zone and another that was in the path of totality for the 2017 eclipse. >> reporter: they bought property put a home

. >> michaela's story starts here in the impoverished african country of sierra leone.as born in 1995, named mabinty bangura, in the midst of a civil war that killed thousands. her father was killed by rebels, and her mother died soon after from disease and starvation. >> i can't remember what my biological parents looked like. i can't really remember any happy moments. >> 3-year-old mabinty was abandoned at an orphanage where she was treated like a pariah. >> the women at the orphanage, they called you -- >> the devil's child. they kept saying, "why would somebody want to adopt the devil's child?" >> so they saw the pigmentation and they thought that it was evil? >> yeah, definitely. >> mabinty was born with the skin condition vitiligo. what she called her spots were the reason the adults in the orphanage thought she was cursed. >> so they ranked us, like, number one was the favorite child and number 27 was the least favorite. i was number 27. >> number one gets the first dibs at food? >> yeah. first dibs at food. first choice of clothes. >> what did number 27 end up w

michaela dreams of returning to sierra leone and starting an art school for kids where she'll teach balletarts saved me. dancing saved me. saved my sister. singing saved her. >> michaela and her family have received an outpouring of support and love from viewers. maybe not surprising, their powerful story has been bought for the big screen. >> mgm is making a movie. what do you think of that? and who should play you -- >> meryl streep said she wanted to play me. >> are you kidding? >> no. we were at a women's conference. >> and you met meryl streep-- >> and -- yeah. i met -- we were talking and she said, "i wanna play you. i want to play you. can i play you?" i said, "meryl, i have no say in the matter." i said, "besides, you're probably too tall." >> so who'll play michaela? she told us she'd actually prefer an unknown actress to take the role. but michaela's sister mia has a dream candidate in mind to play her -- lupita nyong'o. we'll be back in a moment. even without methotrexate. xeljanz xr can lower your ability to fight infections, including tuberculosis. serious, sometimes fatal inf

but he felt that his record so far was sufficiently strong, his experience in sierra leone and kosovod great confidence that he could do without. sirjohn chilcott suggests tony blair significantly overestimated his ability to influence the americans?” overestimated his ability to influence the americans? i think everybody, from the outside of the united states, thinks they can have more influence with the americans than they do. i worked for ten years in my career inside america and americans talk to americans when it comes to the crunch. but i do think we held them back for a while, i do think we brought them to the un, i do think we had some effect on the way they handled iraq after the invasion. the most of that was too late and too little. given all that, do you think the war was a mistake? i'm not sure the war was a mistake, we got rid of a problem, i think planning for the aftermath was a pretty big mistake and continue to bea pretty big mistake and continue to be a big mistake once we had lost control of the security situation. if we have got that right, i think the argument ab

language that survives through songs and people don't do what they mean anymore is monday from sierra leone. if you look at the basket making patterns they are mostly from up there as opposed to down south in angola. the question would be, why would angola come the name of the language. windows. so, maybe. >> thank you, professor for the talk. i have a finding because english is not my first language. i find that the accident is formed by your first native language when you are two years old, you listen all day long for two years and you catch that accident. you put that in your system. it's very hard to change. it can be changed but for very few people. like chinese, most people don't even look at me and it's the same thing. i came to america and noticed black people talking, different from white people but i say it's because the carrier over from the language in africa when they were brought here from slavery like 200 years ago. so, the difference is the most different in the accident for any part of any race. is that true? i'm looking for confirmation. >> i'm sorry but no, not in this ca

migrating to nova scotia and eventually to sierra leone.an inspiration to overthrow the tyranny of his day. to side with the right against the wrong, with the weak against the strong and with the oppressed against the oppressor, he said. here lies the merit of those revolutionaries and many that have followed. like douglass, most americans are not content with reassuring origin stories. we work now for the prospect of a better future. with past struggles as our guide. when we see the american revolution in its own historical present, we look not only on the grandeur of long-dead heroes, bee we appreciate the efforts of men, women and their losses as well as victories and their determination to turn those losses into lessons that would keep them fighting on. americans can be true to that past by recommitting ourselves for the time to come. taking this history as an inspiration to make the united states the country we dream and need it to be. i for one feel very fortunate that this museum is alive right now. to show a way. >> please welcome t

free child, another not for profit provider which also operates in sierra leone and nigeria and has theng education but also training and supporting communities to manage and hold their schools to account. rising academy, which also operating a network of schools in sierra leone and has a whole child approach to education. rack, an ngo founded in bangladesh that has experience working across africa. ominga, which runs a network of schools in nearby ghana. last but not least, the liberia youth network or fourchette -- for short, fynet. in the first year of psl which just concluded, this eight providers operate d as we heard earlier 93 schools across liberia providing free quality education to around 27,000 children. following the first year we have seen some encouraging initial results. according to the baseline data we have seen both increase in enrollment and beneficial impact on teacher behavior, including reduced absenteeism and greater time teaching. teacher attendance rates are above 90% on average across all psl schools and are as high as 98% in the case of one provider. teachers

born in sierra leone came to the united states at age 17 his first book a long way gone memoirs of a boy soldier have been published in over 40 languages and was named as one of the top nonfiction books. the first novel was published in 2014 and in addition to the writing he has an impressive record as a human rights activist serving as the unicef ambassador and children affected by war as well as a member of the human rights launch children's rights advisory committee he cofounded the network of young people affected by the war and serves as president of the foundation that helps children affected by war we integrate into society with educational and vocational opportunities and last but not least the author of the huntsman a notable book the kings of kings county and most recently the good lieutenant that one of the claim for the treatment of the experiences of soldiers in iraq and the recipient of the fellowship from princeton university's center for the arts. in 2006 and 2010 a reporter and covered for the "washington post" magazine and public radio. nonfiction has appeared in "t