This is Al Jazeera America live from new york city. Im stephanie sy. The man who allegedly highjacked an egypt air jet is now in custody in cypress. There were 55 onboard when the plane was taken off its course from alexandria to cairo. All having released, apparently unharmed. Officials say the situation is over. The highjacker initially claimed to be wearing a suicide belted, but Authorities Say it was a fake. No explosives were found onboard. Now officials are questioning the man. The motive does not appear to be terrorism. Hours after the crisis began, the final few hostages are seen exiting the highjacked plane. One dramatically escaped through the cockpit window. Everybody else used the mobile stairs. They were escorted or thear mack by police. The highjacker is believed to be among them. Egypts minister of Civil Aviation announced the revolution. All the passengers along with the crew were released. They are now safe and sound. This is what we worked on at any cost from the very beginning. The highjacking cannot be branded as an act of terrorism. All facts are now being analyze by forensic experts. The highjacker is now in police custody. Egypt air flight 181 was flying from alexandria to cairo when diverted to cypress. The highjacker claimed he was wearing an explosive belt. Security teams could not jeremy this but were treating it as a credible threat. This is striking at the heart of the whole system of aviation security. Faith in the Security System has been destroyed. The regime were in now is that anybody if there is no faith in security, anybody can make such a claim in the future and the captain will do what hes told. Egypts government said details of the investigation will be released in due course. For now, its marking a small victory, the release of everyone onboard egypt air flight 181. Gerald tan, al jazeera. Turning now to the president ial race, were a week from the wisconsin primary. That states governor announced he is backing ted cruz. Absolutely. I spent a lot of time, a lot thought, a lot of prayer about this. I decided after all these years of the Obama Clinton failures that its time we elect a strong new leader and ive chosen to endorse ted cruz. Todd walker said ted cruz is not afraid to take on special interests in washington. He said he feels cruz has the best chance to win the general election. Wisconsins primary is winner take all with 42 delegates at stake. Walker dropped out of the president ial race back in september. All the president ial candidates are campaigning in wisconsin today but there will be extra security for donald trump this afternoon following an anti trump rally last night. Eighty protestors show the up in janesville. Six were arrested. The police plan to have three times the normal number of officers out for todays events. Most will be coming from Neighboring Police departments. President obamas choice for the Supreme Court will sit down for the first time with the senate republican. Illinois senator mark kirk is meeting with judge merrick garland. He broke ranks with his partys leadership in call for a senate vote on the nomination and then agreeing to meet with garland. Kirk faces a reelection challenge in november for the senate seat once held by president obama. The Supreme Court has just ruled on a closely watched case out of california. The justices split 44 over whether unions conflict dues from nonunion members. That means a Lower Court Ruling allowing the practice will stay in effect. The challenge was brought by a group of teachers upset at what the union did with its money. This is the second four to four ruling by the high court sips the death of Justice Scalia last month. The Capitol Visitor Center is open again this morning after a man drew a gun and was shot on monday. Police identified him at 66yearold larry dawson, a pastor from tennessee. He was shot after pointing a weapon at officers. Dawson is in the hospital this morning in stable but Critical Condition facing assault charges. Based on the initial investigation, we believe that this is an act of a Single Person who has frequented the Capitol Grounds before and there is no reason to believe that this is anything more than a criminal act. Dawson is believed to be the same man who disrupted the House Chamber last fall. He previously wrote on his Church Website that he was going to urge congress to raise the minimum wage to 15 an hour. The f. B. I. Is analyzing the data inside the iphone of one of the San Bernardino shooters. Investigators say they were able to unlock the phone without help from apple. The Justice Department is now dropping its case against the company. Jacob ward has more from san francisco. This is the end of a long and bitter court battle. Over the last few weeks, weve seen apple and the f. B. I. Posturing, filing hundreds of pages of document, the f. B. I. Saying it has in fact accessed say yesterday farooks iphone and does not need the companies assistance. The idea here is basically a technical observers have suggested that this is probably a matter of having copped the contents of the flash memory of the phone and rewriting it back in, like loading a saved video game when you get to a part thats just too hard, you keep dying, you just reload that point you wanted to be at. Its some sort of concept like that. To security analysts, this is not good news. Its, you know, a sign that the government has in fact figured out how to do something that apple otherwise was supposedly the only institution that could do, and so the security vulnerability of that phone, shakes peoples confidence in a way. This is not the end of this court battle or any court battle around this kind of issue. There are at least a half dozen other cases according to unsealed Court Documents in which the Justice Department is in some way applying to apple for help in unlocking an ire phone being used as evidence in a case of some sort, as an investigative avenue. So this phone was one of the last sort of vulnerable phones. It was put out in the software that was on it released just before apple had wildly upgreat its security regime such that even if the company that created the product cannot break into the phone once its out in the wild, but the phone that i carry, probably you carry are vastly improves in terms of security, so apple is going to need sorry, the f. B. I. Or anyone applying to apple for help with this is definitely going to need the Companies Help to break into any newer phone. Even hope toette court case ended in this way, its undoubtedly the case that we are going to see more court cases coming up in the future winning exact argument and that is why both apple and the f. B. I. Argue that lawmakers need to step in and figure out what rules we should live by when it comes to this tension between private and security. Apples c. E. O. Tim cook released a statement saying a mississippi woman is due in court today, accused of planning to join isil. Officials say 20yearold jalon young will plead guilty. She and see former Mississippi State University Chemistry student. She and her fiancee were arrested last august after they tried to board a flight to istanbul. They planned to travel to syria to join ice pill. Her fiancee hasnt been sentenced after pleading guilty. Chicago mayor rahm emanuel appointed 27 year Eddie Johnson as interim police superintendent. The department has been under scrutiny since video showed the shooting of teenager laquan mcdonald. The new boss said misconduct with him not be tolerated. Trust between the police and the people we serve, trust between the rank and file and the command stand. I know that the first trust has been broken too often, not just in chicago, but across america where Abusive Police practices have occurred. The mayor chose johnson over three candidates offered by the police board. He called johnson a cops cop, uniquely equal filed to rebuild morale in the democratic. Parts of nevada could see more snow after getting buried under more than a foot of the stuff. The spring storm left roads slick in reno monday leading to dozens of accidents. Some parts of that city got more snow than the mountains. There were a dozen cancellations at the reno tahoe airport due to poor visibility. Blizzard warnings are up in the west as the storm system moves through. Lets bring in Nicole Mitchell for more on that. Kind of unusual to see that kind of snow in reno. This quantity at this point of the season. This one is definitely packing a punch. Heres that broad system, yes, nevada is getting more of that snow today, different areas, but this spreads all the way now to snow up as far north at man to know in a through colorado. Showers build up ahead of this, showers and storms, another component of this. Before i get the wide view, the system is clearing in the northeast but still wind behind that through this afternoon. This is our big player. Theres high winds with this, the jetstream is really carving out a trough. Those are the upper level winds and another finger of that, theyre kind of causing a Pressure Gradient thats so strong, it cranks the winds 5060 miles an hour, not out of the question and because of that, plus the snow, heavy at times, thats why we do have pores was wyoming under the blizzard warning. Could see a foot of snow, plus blowing and restricting the visibility and even if youre outside of the blizzard warning, widespread areas under the winter storm warnings for those elements. Ahead of this with the winds, we have fire danger, nevada into the accident today. Thats not like where it looks like this rain is going to develop also all of this gets going through the next 24 hours. This is through tomorrow at this time and continues to spread from there. Taking a look at that kind of frame by frame, weve got moisture spry into the midwest. By tomorrow, we see more in the south. Some could be places that had heavy rain, so flood concerns are back up in the forecast and that starts the Severe Weather that shifts into the gulf coast thursday while more weather itself goes up and down the coastline. Tomorrows forecast, heres that slight risk area, but this is the time of year that risk means wind, hail, possibly even some isolated tornadoes, so weve got definitely a wintery side, and more of the spring side that we see more typically this time of year. Definitely more than just spring showers this time around. Nicole mitchell, thank you. The backlash over a North Carolina law critics say goes after lgbt people. Well hear from the lead plaintiff in a new lawsuit against the state. Caught in an immigration loophole, why children who entered the u. S. Illegally are now being detained. Inside story takes you beyond the headlines, beyond the quick cuts, beyond the soundbites. Were giving you a deeper dive into the stories that are making our world what it is. Al Jazeera America, proud to give voice to the voiceless. We are creating a class of adults exposed to mediocre education. Theres bad people out there in these sports. We call chicago chiraq because we have more killers than iraq. In order to save my children, i had to try to save everyone elses. I had to encourage them. To tell them, theres a better way. I have to do my one hundred percent best so i dont end up in a place like this again. You have kids here whove killed someone . Yes we do. My homie got shot five times. Have you ever seen anybody get shot . Highlighting threats to children around the world. Its very difficult for us. We dont have clothes, we dont have food. In terms of child labor, myanmar is ranked one of the worst in the world. Do you make anything that ends up in walmart . Yes. This is where a lot of americas clothes come from, and its a reality Many Companies dont want us to see. Shelee, how old are you . 12 years old. Shelee, do you go to school . I used to. The shells exploded right in the middle of the room. You have to remember that this was a school and the blackboard still has a lesson plan on it. This is imagery and scars impacting scores of children across gaza. Pernilla ironside and unicef sponsor therapy for children who have lost a parent or a home. 10 year old Ibrahim Nasser lost both. Thanks to the exercises, ibrahim can look forward. Can you tell me what you want to be when you grow up . A doctor. Why do you want to be a doctor . To heal the wounded. Al Jazeera America proud to tell your stories. Utah has away first of its kind restriction on abortion. It requires anesthesia if the procedure takes place 20 weeks sue pregnancy. The bill said its designed to keep the fetus from feeling pain. Opponents say it is unnecessary sedation for women. A new law in North Carolina say discriminates against lgbt people. Part of that law requires using bathrooms based upon gender. That is not where i belong. That is not where i feel comfortable. Its not comfortable for me or the people in the restroom, the other women. I have been using the mens room exclusively. I am a male. It is incredibly anxiety provoking. Its about dignity. Its about respecting us as other members of the state, as a big part of the community. We would like for it to come down to, you know, congressmen to recognize us at valuable citizens of the state, as residents, and, you know, change their idea of this bill and the far reaching discriminatory acts and say this is about respecting you as residents of the state rather than oh, this is motivated by the power of business. He says many North Carolina businesses are being vocal on line with their disagreement for the law and support of lgbt rights. Federal Officials Say more than 330 individuals have been retained, some of them teenagers. We have the story of two teenagers caught in an immigration loophole. At this georgia church, a special prayer for someone who cant be here, kimberly chavezs family holds hands, hoping she will soon come home. We spoke with her from the Detention Center where shes being held. The 19yearold never imagined immigration officials would scoop her up one january morning on her way to school. What have these last few weeks been like . Very sad, its too hard for me to stay here, because i want to go with my family. I really miss my family. She is one of more than 300 individuals detained since january targeting those who came here illegally as unaccompanied children but now are 18 or older and no pending cases in court. We were shocked. No one could believe it. She has friends who traveled to washington to plead for the teenager. Her lawyer never filed the proper petition for asylum before she turned 18 and now she is stuck in be a complicated immigration loophole. She is being grouped together with other immigration and should be handled as an unaccompanied minor and now is trapped in that world. This teenagers lawyer told him not to show up at court. Its been more than 40 days since he was brought to this Detention Center in georgia, 50s High School Teachers and classmates are pleading for his release. It is difficult here. Its difficult . Difficult. Difficult, difficult. Like most unaccompanied minors, acosta wants asylum, citing fear of returning to honduras because of gangs and organized crime. Youd rather be detained here than go to honduras . I stay here. Rather than go back to your country . I dont want to go to my country, because i have big traumas, because the people want to kill me. Of the 3600 asylum requests filed by minors in the last quarter of 2015, at least 40 were approved. The department of Homeland Security said the recent detentions part of our broader and on going efforts to enforce immigration laws in line with our stated priorities. Acosta said he is speaking out for other young immigrants. This letter is the way chavez shares her voice, thanking parishioners for their prayers and the offers of driving her family three hours after sunday services. Her family said those visits are the toughest. Tears swell up as she thinks about leaving her behind after each visit, wishing she could bring her home. Al jazeera, atlanta, georgia. There is a growing battle between taxi drivers and Ride Sharing Services that has led to violence in some places and new laws. In toronto, this cab driver was so incensed by competition from uber, he clung to an uber drivers car. Cabbies have attacked uber drivers in paris and mexico city. Even here in chicago, uber driver perez, an immigrant from mexico city said shes felt the heat, too from cabbies. They throw a cup of coffee on my car, like yelling at me. One of the guys told me go back to the kitchen being a taxi driver, i think there are great drivers within the city of chicago, but, you know, we have a stigma. Cab driver sergio said since Ride Sharing Services arrived in chicago, the taxi business is losing this battle. If you work within the city of chicago, especially the north side, theres no more business. I would say that 60 , 65 of the business is gone. Now, a possible lifeline from Chicago City Council could also be a devastating blow to ride sharing companies. The council will vote next month on propose also that would require ride sharing drivers to have the same chauffeurs license requirements at 600 per license and the same regulations an their vehicles that cab drivers face. If you come in with a Business Model where you say i dont have to follow regulations or rules, then youve got a better Business Model when it comes to profit. When it comes to public safety, the taxi industry, the limo drivers have a much better model and thats what were trying to get uber up to. None of these things to level the Playing Field help taxi. Reduce the burdens and regulations that they have, dont hurt the people are chicago who have access to a safe different option. The back and forth between the two sides has been bitter. Taxi drivers are livid over the revelation that ride sharing drivers open the city of chicago 15 million in unpaid traffic fines. Sooner said its getting on drivers to pay those bills quickly and expect to have them resolved within weeks. Taxi drivers point to several reports of local uber drivers assaulting passengers. Sooner says if its background checks were anymore stringent, many immigrant drivers would lose out. Uber also argue that is its brought rides to riders and work to drivers in these economically dough pressed south and west side of the city, places you cant find a taxi. The taxi industry said its determination to better serve those neighborhoods through incentives to drivers is why the city council is leaning favor of those proposals. Neither industry will say a loss puts them out of business in chicago, but both sides are worried. With those regulations, its going to cult a lot of the money. Business is gone, and they did take the whole entire city. Al jazeera, chicago. The earthquake risk, by some measures now as high in oklahoma as it is in california. How human action is creating the danger, threatening millions of americans. Officials in alaska say there is no threat to the. From the volcano that erupted sunday putting an ash cloud into the sky. It forced Alaska Airlines to cancel flights. It hopes today to resume flights. It is remote on a remote peninsula in a southwestern part of the state. There are increased worries that the hunt for oil and natural gas are raising the risk of earthquakes. Al jazeeras John Henry Smith has more. The u. S. Geological survey says that the eastern and southern part of californias bay area remain at high risk for a major earthquake. The most likely candidate would be an earthquake on the hayward fault. Several states in the central part of the country are also at a significant risk. The newest earthquake hazard map for the first time points out the worries in colorado, oklahoma, texas, arkansas, new mexico, and cans. Oklahoma had more 3. 0 to 4. 0 earthquakes than california did last year. There was a 5. 1 quake in january. Everything was just coming off of the shelf. It was scary. But while californias quakes are natural, these others are believed to be man made. The usgs said the natural Gas Exploration process called hydraulic fracturing or fracking is to blame. To get oil and gas out of the ground, companies have pumped large amounts of water in. All that waste water causes faults to slip. It just tends to push the sides of the fault apart. Oklahoma has seen a 600 increase in earthquakes since the fracking boom began in 2009. According to the new maps, 7 million americans are at risk with oklahoma and texas in the greatest danger. So far, the earthquakes in those states havent led to any deaths, major injuries or Major Property damage, but scientists predict its only a matter of time before a bigger quake happens there. Well, i think peoples lives and property is at stake. In a lot of ways, the legitimacy of government is at stake. John henry smith, al jazeera. Finally, a philadelphia brewery is launching a series of beers marketed toward donald trump critics. The dock street brewery craft add beer called the short fingered stout, a reference to the on going conversation about the size of mr. Trumps hands. The founder distribution it as a bitter and delusional stout. He said the drink is a toast to free speech. Thanks for watching, im stephanie sy. This is al jazeera. Hello, and welcome to the news hour. Im in doha with the top stories on al jazeera. Hostages flee an egypt airplane in cypress, bringing a hijacking situation to a peaceful end. Police in pakistan arrest hundreds over the suicide bombing in lahore. The fbi says its retrieved data from the San Bernardino gunmans iphone despite apples refusal to help. Plus, thailands
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