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president obama celebrates the civil rights act. and behind the scenes of a demolition of the old bay bridge in san francisco. why it's at a critical and very dangerous new faze. >> the justice department said today it has found patterns of excessive force by police in albuquerque new mexico. officers have fired at 37 people since 2010. 23 were killed. the report comes weeks after officers shot and kill add homeless mass during a confrontation in the cities foothills this investigation actually began before that incident. the report also says albuquerque police have used excessive force against people who only posed a minimum threat. heidi jotas row is live for us. heidi, how significant are the findings and what will they mean for the police for? >> hey, tony. the findings found today were a stunner. it is also an affirmation for those that have lost love ones always to their claims that police have used excessive force. and this announcement came in 4 points, tony, fist that the albuquerque police department too frequently used deadly force against people who posed minimal threat. that the police department also excessively uses tazers, that a too frequently used force for the mentally ill, and that these problems are systematic. that these deficiencies are long standing, and from the doj's letter the police department, that there is a culture of indifference, to constitutional policing. >> in fact, we found that sometimes it was the conduct of the officers themselves that heightened the danger and escalated the need to use force. >> now the department of justice has offer add lit of recommended changes for the police didn't. and if nothing comes of those, the department of justice does have power to file a civil lawsuit. tony. >> heidi, what reaction if any are we hearing at this point from the city, city officials and police officials? >> sure, it is interesting tony, the city, mayor, and the police chief said they received these findings just about the same time as way in the media did, and they held a press conference, immediately after in which they acknowledged the findings, may accepted the need for improvement, and the mayor of albuquerque said he was optimistic that this was a good step, and that changes are coming. >> it is difficult as the findings in the record are, and there are some difficult findings in the report, and we recognize that, the good news, is that this is an achievable goal. our community can have confident that their mayor, their chief, and the police department will embrace these challenges and that we are embracing these, the process is made to move this forward. these are problems we can solve as long as we work together as a community. >> now, there have been various protests throughout the city since the killing of james lloyd on march 16th. and there's been an effort to recall. the mayor. i asked him today if he considered resigning and he also declined an opportunity to apologize to the families who have lost mens due to excessive force. >> in albuquerque new mexico. appreciate it, thank you. ukraine's government is hoping for a peaceful solution to the crisis in the eastern part of the country but images like these are not helping the situation. plate toe released a satellite images today showing thousands of russian troops amassed near the ukrainian border. meanwhile, prorussian protestors are reenforcing barricades outside a building they seized in the city. ukraine's interior ministry, repeated it's threat to use force to clear the building if protestors do not leave. kim reports from one of the stand offs. >> from inside their barricaded empire, protestors keep watch, as reinforcements arrive. this they say is their domain. that they would rather face the use of force. a lot of statements about storming the buildings we are living from one statement to the next, what can we do. we are not ready to step aside and the people are not ready to either. they leave in the east they won't face prosecution, and as part of the deal they could gain more regional control. >> we are ready to consider the issue of reform, of local government expanding the rights of local council, including the creation of executive authorities for councils. we are ready to take that path to the region who will also be responsible for the situation in the country, and not just refer to what is going oin kiev. >> but protestors say it is the authority whose should be listening to their demands and not the other way around. they have a legitimate government of the region, they say they have no plans to evacuate the building and are continuing to prepare for any assault. >> despite the declaration, they are already a republic, protestors now say they want a referendum on the issue to prove they have the people's support. interim if the amnesty they say is meaningless. >> no we don't trust him, he is just creating a reason to push us out of here, and then the of presentation will start. >> he is a liar. the people don't trust him any more, and don't want him to be the acting president of this country. it is an illegal authority. >> i am an ordinary person protecting my home. we are not standing anywhere with any weapons and everybody and claiming they are russians but here we are people. >> kiev with though accuses russia of orchestrating unrest in the east, as a pretext. regardless of where the opportunities has been sent in or night, time is running out for authorities. how much they are willing to compromise the determining factor over these trenches will turn into a battlefield. also today, threatens to shut off natural gas supplies if it doesn't help ukraine settle it's multibillion dollars gas bill, al jazeera peter sharp has that part of the story now from moscow. >> the message from president putin which was relied by his press spokes men on thursday was quite simply in, he was telling the european leaders in his deep concern, at the ukraine's failure to pay it's natural gas bill. putin was sitting down to discuss how this could be solved. he urn ways that if it wasn't solved this could effect gas prices and the supply of gas coming into europe. don't forget 40 pest of all gas coming into europe, flows through the ukraine, and one only has to look back to 2009 january 1st, when russia over another failure to pay it's bills flipped the switch, cutting ukraine off, and within days quite honestly, the supply of gas coming into europe, was also seriously reduced with ukraine, alleging to have been siphons off the gas that was due to go into europe. so a reminder there of those gas wars and what could becoming a part of the future here. >> peter sharp reporting for us, we are learning more today about a government review into last year's boston marathon bombing. the new york times reports russia declined several fbi requests forking in on bombing summit. screws may be closer to finding the resting place. the official in charge said a plane detected what may be another signal coming from a man made device deep in the indian ocean. several other sounds have been heard in recent days. in adds to hope that searchers may soon be able to pinpoint the objects location, and send down a robotic submarine. to retrieve it. venezuelan president is set to meet with oppositions leaders and it marks the start of talks and have dozens of people that al jazeera mariano sanchez has a preview. >> they say it is impossible to live here any more, because there are so many murders that the u.n. says 53.7 per 100,000 inhabitants. that sometimes it is difficult to understand these numbers just to put nit context, and for you to understand, on important, there were eight people dead. seven of them have been killed. two numbers say one in four are scared at any given time, but what does that mean. that means that every time a person wants to go and buy their basic needs, they go to a super market, and it is highly likely that there will not find either flour, or chicken, or oil, or meet, this is what is happening every day in venezuela. people have to go from one store to the next to be able to get their basic needs. now the government will meet later on with the political oppositions this will be the fist round of talks between both sides. after two mondays of protests and they have different agendas the government says that they want to speak about the economy, and the insecurity and the political opposition has sort of a different agenda, while these issues are very important, they want to talk about the liberation of whom they call political prisoners, they want changes in the supreme court, in the national electoral tribunal, and these government institutions which are completely dominating there won't be any student representatives in these talks and these students say they want to continue pressuring the government, continue protesting because they want immediate changes and they want the president to resign. she is the assignment editor that is considered government friendly. a young opposition leader says her relationship with pinto is the reason she was kidnapped. a young opposition organizer went on twitter here is her twitter page, to say that she had a close relationship with the journalist, and ariano accused the government of kidnapping for political reasons. you will see she has 193,000 followers and here is a picture with the journalist. never the less, a campaign is taking place right now. journalists from all over the country, from print, radio, and television, holding up signs asking her to be released. these are two prominent in venezuela. meaning free, this is a school of journalism. and also you even have kids here from this publication, with this sign, saying to inform is not a crime. now one of the many mysteries surrounding this kidnapping tony, it's been four days since pinto was kidnapped so far no demands or contact with the family, that we know of. >> okay, will you keep us posted on this. >> yes, definitely. >> this year marks 50 years since president lindon johnson signed a law banning racial discrimination in public places. today's the first and the man whose efforts made it possible, mike has more. >> to the lbj library. to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the signing of the civil rights act. something that he signed in june of 1964, in this building behind me, and to celebrate lbj himself, a man whose legacy was tarnished over the last generation because of the escalation of the war, principally, but to relook at his record, passing landmark reglation. to medicare, food stamps a host of social programs but the civil rights act, and the voting rights act. two landmark pieces of legislation pushed through in a time of racial division and social unrest. the president talked about the cynicism, president obama about the cynicism that pervades an american society, and is the jaundice view of washington with and keep pushing forward as lbj himself did. >> rereject such cynicism, because michelle has lived out the legacy of those efforts. because my daughters have lives out the legacy of those efforts, because i and millions of my generation were in a position to take the baton that hend had to us. it was a broadly dramatic speech, applauding the accomplishments and talking about the need to keep pushing forward in the legacy, and stay away from complacentsy, he called the enemy of good government. >> coming up on alleges, eric holder says he and president obama have faced unprecedented and ugly adversity in office. we will look into that claimant in today's power politics that's next. and we will take you live to eastern washington, where a dam is cracked, engineers are racing to figure out how it happened and how to fix it. it was one of the worst days of the year. almost 260 points. taking an especially nasty beating today. sinking 3% in total. after a five year economic crisis greece is finally beginning to recover. the country is returning to international financial markets today offering a five year bond that investors are meeting with some enthusiasm. joins us now from mountain view california and he is the president and chief financement officer with america investments it is good to see you, sir, thank you for your time. i am trying to figure out the big deal here, here is what i mean. realistically, greece is just starting to climb out of this hole, right. doesn't the country zillion have a jump credit rating it received what an i.m.f., an ecb. an e, bail out. it has a long way to go here, correct? the good news is that private risk funding is chasing yields. the other one is it only going to be paying 5%? also, when the head of the bank says he will do whatever it takes people should be given a chance to go after the yield. will i put my money there? no. two relevant thing here is if greece were to move forward. then it is risk friendly, which is not the end of the world. >> what is the likelihood, even as we are seeing a bit of good news here with these investors diving in. that greece can still default? >> greece used to have a primary deficit, which means they used to have a banner deficit they could not fund operations. at that stage, it was their interest to go to the bargaining table, and say please give us a lot of money, now they are a surplus, which means they are not depend on it, and at any time they say we with don't want to pay it any more, and if they don't, life will continue. so they are in a bargaining position. so things are great, the whole zone is designed to push down the road so that banks one day will be able to stomach the loss that is at some point will come. >> why does greece and it's economic problems and with it is having a good day, and whether these are snapping up these bonds why does that matter to the larger global economy? and to investors here? i would argue it doesn't matter any more. and the turning point was cypress. and the relevant again, it is private capitol. that means for their losses it is no longer this conteh june. it is no longer the large banks that everybody is depend on. that's a key reason why it is as secure as it is, because disno longer a crisis for the rest of the world. >> finally, is unemployment easing there? is it spill around 25%? >> who knows what these numbers are, because they don't have the skill ises to measure them. but they are positive signs and is they are able to continue pushing with reform, so they are taking the tough medicine, and is the reason is because that's imposed by the market. that was terrific. candid, and honest. with america incomerments. thank you, the head of the international monetary fund, says the fall out from the crisis in ukraine could impact the entire global economy. christene la gar tells our ali velshi, that russia's economy is being battered by negative reaction to it's actions and that the ripple effect, of that, may put the worldwide recovery in jeopardy. it's clear that political tensions in that part of the world, and anywhere for that matter, are not helping growth. are where people that were going to create jobs will hold off. >> you can hear more of the interview with christene that's tonight on real money. that is 4:00 pacific right here. a collection of environmental groups is suing oil and gas companies for decades of damage done to louisiana's environment. they call themselveses the green army, and they are making war to protect their coastal wetlands. kimberly has more in the second report of our series, climate sos. but now he is fighting a new battle to save his statement's environment. >> because of the impact of the oil companies, that have come here, and basically had their way in the state of louisiana, they have hung their flag over the state capitol. he says it was caused by the oil and gas industry, he says it is easy to spot the wells and uncapped pike line. >> environmentalists complain the state government allows the industry to sell regulate, that's why the green army has file add lawsuit asking nearly 100 oil companies to honor contracts requires them to repair the construction. >> every scientific study, including the industry's own has concluded that the industry caused a significant amount of damage. there is this idea that they are above the law. >> that would stop such lawsuits. the statement, the louisiana gas association said the green army is just one more group seeking to extort money from the oil and gas industry. >> but ornery says little industry profits ever line the pockets of resident, louisiana is the fourth largest energy producer in the u.s. residents are the second poor nest the united states. thus, democracy does not work here. this place is controlled by an industry, oil and glass. and they write the laws. and the people of louisiana have to fight marry own government to try to protect this place. >> despite decades of -- to help protect louisiana's coast. kimberly, al jazeera, new orleans. how about this, billions of dollars that was just kind of effective, we will take a look at why they spent so much money, despite claims it didn't really work, to come back bird and swine flu. and the demolition of the bay bridge enter as dangerous new faze. we will take you to san francisco for a behind the scenes look. the u.s. government may have spent more nan a billion dollars for a drug that is marginally better than tylenol. a new report found team flew is not as effective as fighting bird flu or swine flu as once thought. the study -- paul has more. >> in asia,ivian influenza was spreading. experts warned that billions of people were at risk. epledged as the leading medicine, by this new report claims that drugs benefits were exaggerated. also tells us there's no effectsen othe flu. >> it led to this, warehouses full of drugs stock piled for emergency, the british government spent $793 million on it, the u.s. government is staggering $1.3 billion on the drug. flu systems can would have lasted seven days were reduced to 6.3 for adults and 5.8 days in children. gains so marginal that the report say over-the-counter drugs could have had the same effect. do get access so the raw research data, and the findings not only question the drug but also criticize the system. the way drugs regulators are only ever president with selective data by the industry. >> they perform the study, they provide the regulator with what they ask for, but they do not go out of their way to prevent the benefit in a reasonable fashion. tamaflu is manufactured by rosch. >> we shared all of those things with the regulations and they reflected accordingly in the label. so i think we feel we with have been as transparent as we have been at the time. the world health organization still has an essential medicine. >> and was respond to the cvc release adequater of the anti-??? measures including fampa flu. more than 55 million people have received a vaccination, and joining me now is one of the authors of that report, about theth cassie, peter -- good to talk to you. so tamaflu is still saying in the after math of the release of this, that it is effective? so i asked you, is it? the question is it effective to reduce the outcomes that one cares about from a public health perspective. that's the question here. and that's like does it reduce death, and hospitalization. >> what's the answer. >> does it cut the spread of the virus. >> we found no credible evidence that it does those things. >> did your research find that tamaflu is potentially harmful? and does that potential harm outweigh the benefits of using the drug? a lot of the discussion talks about how effective it is, and so we did a systematic review of all the trials randomized trials out there, and to answer that, about benefits, and harms. on the harm side it is not a risk free drug. like nausea and vomiting. and then we did find significant increases when the drug is used for a much longer period of time. thicks like psychiatric disturbances and headaches. so if this drug isn't effective, how should we approach treating the flu in the future? there will be other outbreaks? well, it's no that it has no effects, there is a duration from seven days to six, so there is a small effect, but when you have a drug that the benefits are so small, especially and the risks are present and real, i think we need to reassess that and ski whether this is the thing we want to spend money on and prescribing at a mass level. >> so are we almost better off letting it run its course? are there are many effective treatments. that public health officials could be stock piled. >> yeah with, there are other thins that we could be doing. we could be spending money upfront on the research side of this. before spending money on purchasing and renders research, so we could be looking into better therapeutics. better vaccines that we can make faster. we have barrier interventions like staying home, using masks, there's a lot of things at that level as well. when it comes to complications the fast capture of those people, capture in the sense of you want to treat them early. because these bacterial are treatable. >> a last question for you, when do these drug makers come up with these claims one here is that by using the results show that there were fewer hospitalizations. how does it test those claims? where did that claim come from? >> well, i think people will be surprised to know that most medical science, you couldn't test those claims. so it started in 2009, we tried to test that claim by accessing the raw data. and they did not give us the raw data, but that went on for 3 1/2 years and it was only last year when they did give us these very big reports. our conclusions were very consistent with the fd action, in the set up, also gave those reports to. the fda says on the label, it has not been shown to prevent such complications. that's on the label. yet, we have gone along with stock piling under the assumption it can do this. this is hard to understand. >> all right, thank you for your time. one of the authors of that report on theth cassie. joining us from baltimore. the united nations is sending about 12,000 troops to central african republic to help maintain peace among widespread religious violence there. in sir is yeah, dozens of fighters have been killed as they battle each other for control of territory, along the iraq border. fighters based in iraq, are trying to capture the town from rival opposition groups. now, it is currently held by the free syrian army, and the front. in who will be the country's next government, voters and the country's most pop list state could be key, security was tight in parts of the state, to prevent religious violence between with the muslims and hindus. india has three times as many registers voterring as the u.s. and they will all have a chance to vote over the next five weeks. in kenya, people effected by a police count down have obtained more than 4,000 people, they say it is part of a campaign to prevent terror attacks. but many say it is targeting discrimination, most of them are muslims and many say they have had enough. >> we are going to sit on monday we are going to fight they want a judge to stop the police from arresting those that don't have the right documents. people who live here say they are innocent. some say is they feel unwanted and those who come from somalia say they can't go home, because their country is still at war. he says he filmed this secretly at a police station in nairobi. >> with everybody there. men, children, women. a very unhigh jettic situation. mrs. a mesh overhead. and that's all they have for cover from the sun, from rain, all bugs. the government denies the allegations and insisted these have been doctors. >> i took them myself, and they are not photo shopped. i haven't done anything beyond the click. while claims continue, they say some of those arrested have been released others have been sent back. process against have largely been peaceful but unsuccessful, now people plan to tight the fight to the courts. al jazeera. nairobi. allen joins us live with more on this, allen. >> tone nit, the damn is just a couple of miles down steer here, and engineers had to drop the level of the water behind it to ease pressure. by about 25 feet, in the body of watt tear is known as the lake. that's made the dam safe, but it has immaterial packeted people in four different counties. people like food grower billy nelson. >> i will never live to see this this low again. no, i mean how many times in a person's lifetime do you see a crack in a dam. >> where billy nelson draws water the river hasn't been this low in half a century. since the dam was built. to grow apple apples and apricots in this dry country, he pumps water 24 hour as someday, because of an unprecedented problem with the dam, he has had to install temporary piping to reach the dropping river. sounds like a lot of extra work it is, but you have to have water. but anyway, it makes -- i mean, i have water going up to my farm and that's what counts. >> it isn't just growers effected. docks are high and dry, marinist and boat ramps closed public access limited along eight miles of shoreline. at the crescent bar resort for r.v.s and tent campers barbara is hoping the summer can be saved. >> monetarily it will have a huge immaterial packet. we have reserved our campground almost all summer long, and so now we will have to cancel probably a fair share. >> in late february a, whoer spotted this in the top of the dam. a sign of serious problems under water. a fracture that was 65 feet wide, deep and open about two inches with water flowing into it. so when we reduced that. >> the dam is stable, but the future isn't clear. >> engineers are drilling into the damaged pier to map how far the crack extends. answers can come in june, and the final fix with the levels restored to normal. >> so a time line for fix has yet to be determined. we still have to get this analysis done. and we still have is to identify what the cause is is. >> the cause doesn't matter much to billy nelson and others peopling the irrigation water flowing and the p cos growing does. >> i have heard all kinds of rumors. it could be six months or longer. >> now the county which operating that dam is now saying they believe the cause of that crack is water pressure over time. just the pressure of the water in the river backing up behind that dam. that, of course, has some serious implications for the 12 other concrete dams along the columbia live system, and frankly for concrete dams all over the country, and around the world. it's just the simple passage of time and water pressure can do that kind of damage. a lot of questions to be answered still. >> can you imagine, all right. allen, appreciate it, thank you. a man hunt is underway for the drive who call add car to crash into a day care. tony, the driver of the car that caused a fatal wreck is still at large. police are looking for this man, florida authorities consider himself dangerous, he is accused of ramming his dodge draining go into a car that crashed into the building filled with children. a four-year-old girl was killed and 14 others were injured. am lex a sophomore at franklin regional is being charged as an adult, he faces four counts of attempted homicide, and 21 counts of aggravated assault, police say they are still trying to determine a motive. in tennessee a new bill is trying to bring back the electric chair for execution. it is a propose sad legislatures are pushing because of a lack of available drugs use for he that will injections. if passed it will be challenged as a violation of the constitution's protection against cruel and unusual punishment. the last electric accusation in the state was in 2007. pleaded no contest to corruption charges. they were convicted last year of stealing 11 million-dollars from the working class suburbs of los angeles. their plea deal avoiding a retrail on remaining charges each of the five faces up to four years in prison. >> maria, appreciate it. thank you. in today's power politics attorney general is igniting a fire storm of debate over how congress has treated the obama administration. this is a hot one, david chuter joins us to explain. >> yeah, tony, fueled by both sides it is clearly a debate that some democrats and republicans want to have, because it helped their own political standing. which is dedicated to racial equality, and holder said the obama administration had faced unpress tented unwarranted p adversity. by a house committee, it has nothing to do with me, forget that, what attorney general has ever had to deal with that kind of treatment? pretty strong stuff, right. so what was the treatment? well, far right republican louie noted that holder has already been held in contempt of congress for not responding, as republicans wanted to document requests. i realize that contempt is not important to our attorney general. i don't want to go there? about the contempt? >> you should not assume that it is not a big deal to me, i think that it was appropriate, and unjustice, but don't think it was not a big deal to me. >> i am just looking for evidence, and there is no indication that it is a big deal, because your department is still not forth coming and we can't get the information to get to the bottom, so i don't need lectures from you about contempt. >> still, holder was playing politically to is base, likewise gomeser represents one of the most conservative anti-obama districts in the country. and as far as his politics are concerned he quickly posted his insubstitutes on you tube. election year -- he is the married and self-is proclaimed christian conservative who was caught on surveillance making out with a female staff who is not his wife. louisiana state republican chair is now asked to resign, and so is the republican governor. officials say the g.o.b. does not want to be associated with him, especially in an election year. flag burning is back in the news. the semicelebrated the 40th anniversary of breaking the home run record. it should have been uplifting but nobody checked the angle of the pyrotechnics and it set a giant american flag on fire. the material was flame resis tent, but it didn't burn for very long, but the night ended with the braves losing. that a tribute. >> we were trying to fire out from and the red glare, and the bombs -- yes. >> good thing for the braves flag burning is still legal. just saying. >> appreciate it, thank you. >> coming up on al jazeera america, big news, for late night david letterman's replacement has been announced. and jacob ward takes us to the top of the old bay bridge in san francisco. taking the roadway apart in pieces slowly peeling it back so they have a, whoing surface by which trucks can carry material out. i have to tell you as i am talking here i am feeling terrified because the whole thing is moving and it is kind of very scary thing to be on obviously unsupported bridge like this. bridge is just as hard, if not harder than building the new one. this is the moment that engineers are worried about. not this moment, me being up here, although that is terrifying, but the next three to five years because during that time, an quake could strike, and this bridge could tip over and damage the 6 1/2 billion dollars bridge they just finished building. >> scientists have been detecting small sheets up and down the coast recently, and although no one can predict when an earthquake will strike, it is certain that the old bridge would be terribly dangerous, especially to the new bridge. the old bridge use as classic design. it is a long span suspended between two tours. to the engineers had to use enormous four-ton jacks to pull back separating them. then they cut it in half. the crews separated one of the joints causing the whole structure to vibrate and sway. >> i have to tell you as i am talking here i am feeling terrified because the whole thing is moving and it is kind of -- it is a very scary thing to be in obviously unsupported bridge like this. >> the disassembly will happen in three fazes. first, the western most span where it touches treasure island the middle of the bay, then the rest of the bridge, and finally the part between the mud line and the bottom of the bay. which will require underwater demolition experts. until that point, however, san francisco will simply continue to hold their breath and hope that the bridge that served them for seven decades can remain standing just a little bit longer. that was one of the scarier things i have ever done in my life. >> how high up were you? is. >> well, the height in is deceiving it is 390 feet from the water, but when you are unthere, you can feel it moving it feels higher than that. >> you felt it? >> oh yeah. that's the thing, because the whole thing is held in tension, they put it into this neutral tension, and the engineers really judged by how much it moved when they cut away another piece, so they cut away. and the whole thing bounces a little bit, and that was my experience. you are comfortable with heights like that. >> . >> no. one foot in front of the other. be uh that's the thing, in an earthquake that thing is really dangerous. and that's the whole point here. >> appreciate it, thank you. glad it is you and not me. big news in last night, stephen coal bear will replace david letterman. he signed a five year contract to take over the late show. no date yet for letterman's last show. hhe is hosted that particular program since 2005. okay, your top stories coming up in just a moment, but first, one of the seven new acts getting inducted into the roll and roll hall of fame tonight, see if you can figure it out. ♪ i want to rock & roll all night ♪ president obama toured the lbj museum today. mr. obama took the occasion to remember those who fought for racial equality. >> we recall the countless unheralded americans black and white. students and scholars. preachers. housekeepers. whose names are etched not only monuments but in the hearts of their loved ones. and in the fabric of the country they hope to change. >> the police department is guilty of using excessive force, the doj released it's findings today from an investigation that began in 22/00/7712, it says the department needs to implement reforms and provide officers more training. the shooting death of a homeless man trigger add string of public protests. officials looking for the missing malaysia airline plane, narrowing their search field, they are hearing more signals coming from the same area. aljazeera.com inside story is next. >> who was right about nafta, it is the inside story.

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and illegal e-mails, where reading work e-mails after 6:00 p.m. is now against the law. and breaking news tonight, al jazeera has con if he remembered that health & human services secretary kathleen seb he'll why is resigning. president obama is expected to name her replacement tomorrow. we will go straight to mikeva vaquera. >> it will be sylvia matthews burwell. she has been there for about a year. what she will bring to the department of health and human services, white house officials hope is management expertise and many of them frankly think that has been lacking. clearly, john, this was the time now. you recall about two weeks ago, april 1st when the president and in the rose garden to announce the end of the sign-up, the surprising number of 7.1 million people reaching their stated goal of sign-ups to healthcare.gov after a rocky rollout. that was a bit of good news, a window of opportunity for kathleen sebelius to leave. she said she never intended to be here until 2017 to turn the lights out. but she is obviously been under fire from october 1st, ever since the rocky rollout of healthcare.gov, arolout that she, herself, said was nothing short of a debacle. many have been calling for her head. the president had defended her time and time again. one telling moment, john, came during that rose garden appearance with president obama when he announced that sunday last minute surge in sign-up bringing them to more than 7 million. kathleen sebelius was not by his side and after a series of shoutouts the president gave, her name was not mock them. we understand that she will appear tomorrow when the president names her successor. john? . mike, thank you. joining us is our political contributor, jason johnson. jason, why now? >> well, it's a time to turn over a new leave. the president and the administration hit the $7.1 million dleadline. i think she was on the chopping block. the president is stub orrin and he is loyal and he didn't want to fire her during the worst part of the healthcare roll out. now is the time. >> is this about putting a new face on obamacare? >> there are challenges over the summer. there are 2014 i am politic indications to this. think about it. now sebelius is out of. there will be a confirmation heari hearing, republicans screaming at a brand-new woman. this is going to be a situation where the obvious could be beneficial to the administration and to do a change people have been calling for, for five or six months. >> doesn't this call attention to the problems that the president has had with his healthcare plan? >> it does, but he really has no choice about that. part of the issue last fall was that no matter how many mistakes were made, he kept sebelius in her position. they rehired the same incompetent people to work on the website so this is a kind of change that people have been asking for, for a long time. if you can spin this as i have heard what you are saying. we've got the 7 million signed up. now, we are about to turn a new corner, it might be something that innoc lace him this fall. >> special pressure on her replacement, i would assume. >> yes. yes. >>h she worked for the wal-mart foundation, the bill and melinda gates foundation. this wol is a proven leader, at least so far. a lot is going to be determined about what happens on the state level. as long as she appears to be competent during the hearings, as long as she can answer questions, she will do better than her replacement who fails in everything from senate hearings to speaking on the colbert report. >> good to see you. thanks for being with us. there is more breaking news tonight from central america. a strong earthquake has rattled nicaragua. it struck the capitol of managua. it knocked out telephone lines t pour in some areas so far. no reports of injuries. we will have more on the story throughout the broadcast. a looming deadline in eastern ukraine. kiev says pro-russia activists camped out in government buildings and have until friday morning to either leave peacefully or be removed by force. so far, the group in donesk is refusing to budge and kim vanell is in donesk with more. from inside their barricaded empire, protesters keep watch as reinforcements arrive. this, they say, is their domain, an independent republic representing the people. the offer of an amnesty quickly refused by those at the top who say they would rather face the use of force. >> there has been a lot of statements about storming buildings we are living from one statement to the next. what can we do? we are not ready to step aside. the people are not ready to either. the offer came, saying if they leave they won't face prosecution. as part of the deal, they could gain more regional control. >> we are ready to consider the issue of reform, of local government and expanding the rights of local coun sizzle including the creation of executive authorities for councils. we are ready to take that path to the regions. we will also be responsible for the situation in the country and not just refer to what's going on kiev. >> protesters say it's the authorities in kiev who should listen to their demands and not the other way around. >> the republic say they don't need an amnesty, claiming they are the legitimate government on the region. they say they have no plans to evacuate the building and are continuing to prepare for any assault. >> despite their declaration, they are already a republic, protesters say they want a referendum on the issue to prove they have the people's support. interim president's offer of am nest city, they say, is meaningless. trontron no. we don't trust him. there is reason to push him out of here? >> he is a liar that people don't trust him any more and don't want him to be the acting president of this country. this is an illegal authority. >> translator: i am an ordinary person protecting my home. we are not standing anywhere with any weapons, and everybody is claiming they are russians but here, we are donesk people. >> kiev, though, accuses russia of orstrating unrest in the east as a pretext for an incursion. regardless of whether paid provactours have been sent in or not, time is running out for ukrainian authorities. how much they are willing to compromise, the determining factor in whether these tremblings will turn into a battlefield. trenches will turn into a battlefield. >> ukraine's government is facing an ult matim from its own. putin says if kiev fails to pay its soaring natural gas bill, moscow could cut the supply. >> could create major problems for europe down the pipeline. peter sharp has more from moscow. >> the message from president putin which was relayed by his press spokesman on thursday was quite simply this: he was telling the european leaders of his deep concern at the ukraine's failure to pay its natural gas bill. it now 0s the gas giant, russia's giant gasprom, $22,000,000,000 on supplies delivered last month and all through 2013. and putin was calling on european leaders to try to sit down and discuss how this problem could be solved because he warned quite simply that if it wasn't solved, this could affect gas prices and the supply of gas coming into europe. don't forget 40% of all gas coming in to europe flows through the ukraine and one only has to look back to the 2009, january 1st, when russia over another failure to pay its bills, flipped the switch cutting ukraine off and within days, quite honestly, the supofs reduced with ukraine alleged to have been siphoning off the gas that was due to go into europe. a reminder of the gas wars and what could be coming a part of the future here. >> peter sharp, economic fallout could hurt the global recovery. >> that's the warning from the head of the international monetary fund, christine la guard. she spoke about the potential rim effect with ali velshi. >> your organization, the international monetary fund, downgraded the growth outlook for russia in the midst of what was going on crimea, but, in fact, just a little bit before the actual vote and annexation of crimea. given what's happened since then, things don't seem to have calmed down a great deal. are you further worried about deterioration of the russian economy and the effect that that's going to have, both on europe and the world? >> in a way, whether there is a downgrade or upgrade on a bi-annual basis. we will leave numbers as they are for the moment. but it's clear that geopolitical tensions in that part of the world at the moment and anywhere for that matter are not helping growth, usually creating enough uncertainty that people who were go to go invest are going to wait, where people who were going to create jobs are going to hold off. >> now, steven koen joins us from new york, the professor e mer tus at nyu and a contributing editor to "the nation" let's start with the pipeline and the threat from vladimir putin. how serious is that. >> it's half serious. the natural gas, as your reporter said, much goes to europe. over the years, a decade or more, the ukrainians have been eye fonning off part of it for themselves. the russians have tolerated it as a kind of bribe to be sure that the gas gets to europe. the problem is if the russians turn it off, their quarrel becomes with europe, not with crain. >>, i think is a last resort. those pipelines in ukraine are age enormous asset. there have been rumors the europeans would like to buy them. the russians like to buy them. it's unling will let it go. it's the one thing they have got. >> other than that, how big an impact are these sanctions having on day-to-day life in russia and the economy in russia? >> i don't think enormous yet. i mean after all, everything now is compared to what? we are, jon, literally in the worst international crisis in decades. ordinary russians understand this. certainly my friends in russia do. and they are not thinking about their everyday life at the moment. they are asking themselves what's going to happen? and for russia, this could mean war with the west. it could mean russia moving into isolation, which means moving eastward toward china. a lot of my western-looking russian friends are unhappy about that. for now, these sanctions don't hurt a lot. the resistance to sanctions, of course, is coming from western corporations whom if these sanctions are adopted would hurt as much as russia if not more. >> what does vladimir putin want? >> i think i know what he wants but i think it's been lost in the narrative. the narrative is wrong in saying he wanted this crisis in ukraine. he didn't. the narrative is wrong in saying he initiated the crisis last november. he didn't. but now he's got it and he is pushing back very strongly as i think most of us knew he would. what he wants is a stable ukraine that is not a member of nato, whose territorial integrity is intact and it remains an essential trading partner with russia. now, on march 17th, although it wasn't reported in this country, those are the proposals put forward by the russian foreign ministry. not clear to me how seriously they are being taken in the united states. it's a basis to begin talks. the russians aren't going to get everything they want. neither are we. >> you in fact said that on this program some time back. i just want to focus a little bit more on what he -- what he might want out of this. so, if he wants stability in ukraine, then moving on pro-russian activists, troops, security forces into these eastern ukrainian cities, that doesn't make ukraine more stable? does it? >> no. let's separate those two things that you reported. i mean he has reportedly 20,000 -- 20 to 40,000 troops on the ukrainian border. >> that's not stabilizing. but i think most any leader of russia would do that. they are on russian turf. they have the right to be there and they are meant to be precautionary. the real question is with john kerry, american secretary of state said the other day, that the unrest in eastern ukraine inside ukraine is all caused by provacateu are. s or paid demonstrators sent by putin. jon, to take that view is to deny that there is a political, deeply fractious divided political life inside ukraine. what kerry said simply isn't true. it may be that there is russian provocateur s. there may be american, lithuania and polish provacateu are rs. but the underlying, ukraine is not one country. at the minimum, it's two. the russians have offered the idea of a federalized ukraine, you know, a union like we have in the united states. it would be extremely hard, maybe it won't be stable. but the alternative is either war or two ukraines. >> in the last two weeks, have we moved closer to war with russia? >> i don't know because there is a question to which i don't know the answer. many people in brucels in the nato command and washington, to a certain extent, are calling for the movement of nato troops deeper into eastern europe. this is a long story. these eastern mean countries, nato is saying we have to move troops deeper, closer to russia. if that is happening beneath our radar and we don't know about it, yes, we are closer to war. if it's not happening, no, we are not closer to war. >> steven koen, thanks for your insight. we appreciate it. a report from the justice depart confirms what some albuquerque residents have been saying for years. it could includes the albuquerque police department has engaged in a reckless pattern of excessive and, at times, deadly force. heidi jo castro reports >> reporter: indication, that's what the father of ken ethelis iii shot felt thursday upon hearing these words from the department of justice. >> we found that officers used deadly force against people who did not pose an immediate threat of death or serious harm to the officers or to others and against people who post a -- posed a threat only to themselves ellis was begungunne he was suffer from post-traumatic stress disorder. >> ellis senior said it has been his mission to fight for police reform. >> i am sure he is watching. >> the justice department says the majority of fatal police shootings in albuquerque from 2009 to 2012 were unreasonable and violated the fourth amendment. the federal probe also found encounters with persons with mental illness too frequently result in excessive force and that the problems with excessive force are systemic and a part of a culture of indifference to constitutional policing. >> these deficiencies combined with inconsistent implementation of policies, inadequate training, and a broken civilian over sight process contributed to the use of excessive force. >> the federal investigation in 2012, but it was this video released this martha brought public to a boiling point. james boyd was homeless and mentally ill. officers killed him at point blank range. he was holding knives. >> the video provoked protests on albuquerque streets. it prompted police to respond with tear gas and riot gear following the justice department's report. the mayor and police chief acknowledged for the first time the department's shortcomings but they didn't go as far as to apologize. >> those families, i am sure, feel that tragedy. our goal is to reduce any type of an event, any type of a situation where our officers always take the appropriate action. that's our goal. >> do you want to offer them any apologies? >> at this point, we are working -- we are working really hard on this situation. >> they are trying to circle the wagons and trying to, you know, save face and the reality is that they have been part of the problem all along. >> the mayor in office since 2009 says he hasn't considered resigning. the next step, talks between the doj and albuquerque police to address reforms. and while many hearsay they have lost trust in the city's government and police, they acknowledge this is a step forward. heidi jo castro, al jazeera, albuquerque, new jersey. president obama was in texas today paying tribute to president lyndon johnson and the civil rights act of 1964. 50 years ago, johnson led the way in switching the civil rights act through congress and apolissuing the jim crow laws of segregati segregation. >> he nude that he had a unique capacity, the most powerful white politician from the south, to not merely challenge the convention that had crushed the dreams of so many but to ultimately dismantle for good the structures of legal segregation. >> president obama said lbj's role paid for the way for him to become president. hillary clinton was speaking in las vegas faced some hostility from one member of the audience who threw what appeared to be a shoe at clinton. the former secretary of state dodged the object. police took the woman into custody. here is another look at the close call. clinton made it through unscathed and cracked a few jokes afterwards. coming up, a waste of money. new research on whether tamiflu is worth it and when fighting the flu. plus deepdive, a look at the under water vehicle being deployed to help find the missing flight 370. and assessing growing evidence in the debate over whether jesus christ had a wife. borderland only on al jazeera america flight 370 may be far below the indian ocean. specialists are hunting to the jet's two black boxes. the plane accident happendisapa week ago tomorrow. >> a powerful psyche low forecast to make landfall in queensland in just a few hours, the same system that generated deadly floods earlier this week. our kevin korrveau is tracking the storm. >> we are hours away from this storm making landfall we are looking at a tropical depression. i want to show you the video of what this tropical depression did. in two days, we saw over 10 inches of rain it was deadly you can never under estimate the power of a tropical depression events to show you what we are going to be seeing as the system moved. the storm is making its way towards queensland. there is the eye. it would be equivalent to a category 4 hurricane if it was in the atlantic. very powerful we expect to see massive amounts of flooding it. it will could not toward saturday before it exits back over to open water. >> thank you. two years ago, an ancient looking document was discovered, a fragment of papyrus. it suggested jesus had been married. critics cried forgery. now, researchers say it's real. rochelle is here with that story. >> it's fascinating, jon. this analysis won't resolve questions over whether the tiny scrape of paper is genuine or whether jesus had a wife but it's bound to renew debate over the status much women in christian churches. it's about this tiny piece of frayed papyrus about 1 and a half by three inches. the text in blotchy faded inc. isa in coptic. the keywords are jesus said to them, my wife. when a harvard researcher revealed in 2012, the vatican denounced it as a fake. now, harvard says a wide range of scientific testing prove the papy papyrus is an ancient document. baptist minister paul roshanbush says this will give christians a lot to think about? >> it's a moment for us to re-examine what this papyrus really talks about. and the implications for the church back then and, of course, the church today. >> the sentences torn from a larger document aren't about to persuade everyone that jesus had a wife. >> this means not conclusively jesus was married. of course, we will never know that. but it means that in the early church, that was a subject of conversation, which makes it interesting for us today. >> the fragment also contains the words "she will be able to be my disciple. a potentially even more pro provocative frays if it's true. >> the early church was very interestedphrase if it's true. >> the early church was very interest interested. this will talks about women not only as perhaps jesus's wife but also as a disciple and within, you know, the body of the early church. >> one brown university researcher remains unpersuaded saying it contains gross grammatical errors that a native speaker of coulptic wouldn't ha made. >> there is the question of where it came from. harvard said it got the fragment from the person who owned it. but jon, we don't know who that is, how it was discovered. he only says it probably came from e. >> the debates are just starting? >> just beginning. >> richelle, thank you. sending in pizza keep erps. coming up, united nations votes unanimously for 12,000 troops on the ground in the central african republic. we will have that story. plus evidence rejected. he job description prosecutors try to make their case against our colleagues detained in egypt. cutting the electronic leach, while a million french workers will be required to turn off their phones after they leave the. >> welcome back. a lot more to cover this half hour. back in court, our al jazeera colleagues see what egyptian prosecutors claim is evidence against them. fighting the flu. why some researchers say the popular drug tamiflu may be a waste of money. bringing down the old bay bridge before an earthquake hit. first, richelle is back with the top stories in tonight's briefing? >> health secretary kathleen sebelius who oversaw the healthcare roll out is redsining. president obama is expected to nominate her replacement tommy. a senior administration says it will be sylvia matthews burwell. there is evidence of excessive force by the albuquerque police department. the investigation found police there often use more force than necessary on people who pose a minimal threat. police in albuquerque have killed 23 people in the last five years. a strong earthquake has rattled nicaragua with a 6.1 magnitude quake struck toward the capitol less than miles offshore. there are power outages but no major damages or injuries have been reported so far. a count down is on kiev. crepe's interior ministry has threatened to use force to clear pro-russia activists from government buildings in eastern ukraine. it's giving them until monday morning to leave peacefully. the groups have rejected kiev's offers of amnesty. these pro-russia groups say they want to be able to vote on the political future of their region. that's what happened in crimea. >> all right, richelle. thank you. three access english journalists i am prisoned in egypt were back in court today. the prosecute produced video material which it says supports it's case against the three. it included reports from kenya by gresta and content from sky news arab i can't's news of egypt. the defense lawyers say the video has nothing to do with the case. the three are accused of providing a platform to the outlawed muslim borrowerhood. al jazeera rejects all of the charges and continues to demand immediate release of its staff. in our first person report, we spoke about sharif mansuer from the commit to protect journalists tonight. he calls it nothing short of shameful. >> it was very embarrassing for the government everyone was looking forward to the quote, unquote evidence that they have that will prove that they have done anything wrong what the prosecute came up with is an actual evidence that those are world class journalists. these people had career working for other organizations who have done things that doesn't have to do with egypt or the muslim brotherhood and nothing about terrorism. someone in the government has to pay for this the case was built in a very different sometime, promoted in the media as we saw in the court, nothing comes close to anything illegal that can prove any case against them. >> someone has to step up in the egyptian government: it's a matter of time until the government sees how much they have done to hurt the international community and the international press, going to have to stop shooting themselves in the food. >> that is sharif man sewer. >> 12,000 peacekeepers to restore peace. the country has been battling mounting violence between christians and muslims. crist an salumi has more. >> more than one year after muslims and christians being pitted against each other. they authorized an international peacekeeping force, 12,000 strong for the central african republic. >> it has been adopted unanimously. >> it was a move the transitional government there desperately sought. >> i am pleased this has been heeded. this marks the start of the decisive phase in restoring peace and security in central african republic. the former ruler that 2000 soldiers working along 6,000 troops from the african union. >> it is such a large country with violence continuing as we speak, what difference do you think this can make realistically? >> it is doing a great job and doing its utmost. we have a robust man date to stab stabilize the situation they are doing it in bangee and slowly going it in the rest of the country. a country where violence currently goes unpunished. the peace keepers' man date gives them brought authority to maintain law and order including the power to arrest and detain. this was done at thetritional government's request and according to humanterians who have been on the ground, with the support of civilians. we are go back to cultivating fields or being with our cattle and life can resume. so that's critically important it tooks months of debate and it will take months more for the additionaling peace keepers to be recruited and deployed. the september 15th deadline can't come soon enough for a population still in harm's way, christian salumi, al jazeera, the united nation. >> when fears of bird and swine flu pan dimmics hit their peek. new research suggestions it's month nor effective than aspirin in prettying the flu. paul brennan reports. >> in 2003, the world face truck driver al pandemic. experts warned that billions of people around the world were at risk. tamiflu emerged as the leading antiviral medicine. this new report claims that the drug's benefits were exaggerated. >> there is no reduction in complications like pneumonia and hoped ideation. it also tells that there are no effects on transmission of flew that would beware houses full of drugs stockpiled for an emergency. the british government spent $793 million on tit. amiflu. the u.s. $13,000,000,000 on the drug. the new report found tamiflu worked but only a bit. flu symptoms which would have lasted seven days were reduced to 6.3 days for adults and 5.8 days in children. critics say over-the-counter drugs would have had the same effect their findings not only question the drug but also criticize the system the way drugs regulators are only ever presented with selective data by the pharmaceutical industry. >> they are a conflict of interest and provide the regulator with what they ask for but they do not go out of their way to present the reasonable sfaings. >> tam few you floe is manufactured by rosh. it is disputing it? >> we shared those things with the and they reflected it on the label. so, i think, you know, i feel that we have been as transparent as was suitable at the time under the regulatory environment that there is. >> the debate has not affected tami flew's status. the world health organization classifies it as an essential medicine. paul brennan, al jazeera. >> of course when disasters strike, time is of the essence. first responders were desperate to locate victims and save lives. now, a new technology designed by space scientists could play an important role here on earth. "techknow"'s lindsey res am looks at the heart beat fund. >> disasters are a gruesome fact of life. >> searching for life in an earthquake is similar to searching for life in our solar system. >> measure how precisely far away the spacecraft is for the signals to get to the spacecraft and come back to us. >> they were redesigned at jp for a more urgent endeavor here on earth. to search for a trapped survivor by detecting their beat heart within a year, two protocols were up and running and ready for field testing. gentleman waiting for the changes. i will climb into the rubble pile. hopefully they will be able to detect my heart beat in there? >> okay. it's working. >> i am pretty enthusiastic about this one for more on the heart beat finder, we are joined by "techknow" lindsay. >> i am slightly claustrophobic so it was harrowing until they did find me. >> could this be used like in the terrible landslide in washington state, the mud slide? >> it could be used. the challenge would be getting it there quickly enough. first responders tell me that mud, the pressure of mud is so heavy that it would suf /* suffocate you and present you from breathing. it's a liquid. it fills up creff situations if you were stuck in an area like many people were after katrina, you would have a good chance of survival. it's about the right people being there at the right time with the right gear, which finder clearly is. >> is this technology able to desire between humans and animals? >> believe it or not, it is. it turns out animals have different ranges. dog and cat have higher heart rate than humans. they can tell if it's a human. they have other ways to be able to detectif it's a human heart beat signature, so they are not going to mistake some debris as a bhiefrment they are using this for wildlife biologist in order to keep count of how many bear there are versus coyotes what about spacey? >> well, this technology is based upon the same technology that's used to monitor spacecraft in deep space. this kind of technology enables space reece searchers not only to navigate spacecraft but to gather new scientific data. for example, the evidence of occasions os one the saturn's movement was made because of this kind of technology. they haven't actually detected et's heart beat yet. who is it to say if extra traer estrals have heart beats but we know from the movie they would be glowing red. >> i understand you have another story that talks about the technology that can turn robotic voices into human ones. not happy to hear about this? >> it's amazing. here in baltimore, we are familiar with ojberganza, former ravens star who was afflicted with lou gehrig's disease. he is an inspirational speaker but he has to do so using a robotic voice. we looked at new technology that is going to change that for people who are suffering with als and it's truly a real emotional journey saturday. >> i didn't know that's the story. it sounds amazing. does it try to determine what his voice would be? and then use it with a computer? is that it? >>. >> there is new technology that's enabling people who are diagnosed with als to essentially bank their voice, to record their voice so that when they do lose, eventually lose their voice, they will have recorded -- recordings of their own voice so they will continue to be able to communicate with loved ones and medical providers using their voice, not a robotic voice. >> a beautiful think. turn into the latest episode of "techknow" 4 pacific time this saturday. for some people, being bombarded by after work e-mails is part of the job. a new law in france now gives some employees the right to ignore them groundbreaking labor agreement requires staff to stop looking at work-related material after 6:00 o'clock. companies must ensure employees don't feel pressured to do so. the law came about after union members were unhappy about dealing with work issues during their time off. the deal affects million dollars of employees in technology and consulting businesses. there is a new heir apparent in late night. steven colbert will replace david letter man. he said he will not do the new show as his satirical right-wing character from the colbert report. coming up at 11:00 eastern tonight, we will hear from a former stamp at the colbert report about this change in late-night t.v. next, trying to crack the case. washington utility workers trying to figure out where a 65 foot crack in a damn came from and the damage it could cause. >> i am jake ward hanging on for dear life atop the old san francisco bay bridge. i will explain why engineers are scrambling to take this down as fast as they can before an earthquake strikes. >> this programming note coming up onsurd, a new original series, borderland, six diverse americans retracing the footsteps of three migrants who died trying to cross into the united states sunday 9:00 eastern, 6:00 pacific. all the way from boston down towards atlanta, it has been a beautiful day. it isn't going to last as we end the week. those temperatures were well. washington, you are 68 degrees. we saw it just about 70 degrees this is what it would look like if you were around the region. many areas temperatures down toward raleigh into the mid 70s for washington, you see, of course, cherry blossom festival is just underway. this is what it will look like today tries the tidal basin. the peek will be friday, saturday and sunday. the problem is we have rain showers moving in and clouds are going to be moving in as well. from washington tomorrow, don'ts think it's going to be a great day. we are going to see thunderstorms in the forecast there. but for saturday as well as sunday, it will be beautiful. monday will be nice as well. by the time you get to mid-week next week we have another system moving in. >> will affect a lot of cities on the eastern seaboard. from new york, rain showers starting tomorrow night. by saturday and sunday, we are looking good as well. >> all right. that is a look at your natural weather. the news is coming up right after this. >> in eastern washington state, an effect on power and water. engineers have lowered the water upstream to relief pressure on that dam. it could mean a long, dry summer for the area. alan schofler joins us in washington. how is the community preparing, alan? >> i know, jon, people have adapted pretty well to this. we are seeing folks up and down the lake that's formed by this dam who are finding ways to get the water they need in most cases, they are being able to to get it will, and a scramble, people like the fruit grower we met, billy nelson. >> i will never live to see this thing go this low again. no. no. i mean how many times in a person's lifetime are you going to see a crack get in a dam. >> where billy nelson draws water, the river hasn't been this low in half a century since one of them was built. to grow apples, he pumps water 24 hours a day 6 months a year because of unprecedented problem with the damn, he has had to install temporary piping to reach the dropping river. a lot of extra work and money. >> it is there is no getting around about that. but anyway, i water going up to my farm and that's what counts. >> it's not just growers affected. docs are high and dry. marinas, parks and boat ramps closed, public access limited along 80 miles of shoreline. at the crescent bar resort for rvs and tent campers, barbara hirsch is hoping the summer can be saved? >> monetarily, it will have a huge impact, you know. we've had our campground almost all summer long. we will have to cancel probably a fair share. >> in late figure, a worker started this curve in the top of the dam, a sign of serious problems under water. >> a fracture that was 65 feet wide, gaping open about two inches. when we reduced that water elevation, it set pa peer back in case. >> the dam is stable but the future isn't clear engineers are drilling into the damaged peer to map how far the crack extends. the answer doesn't come until june. the final fix with the river levels restored to normal, a time lime for fix has yet to be determined we have to get this forensic analysis done we have to identify the cause. >> the cause doesn't matter to billy nelson and others. keeping irrigation flowing and crops growing does? >> i have heard rumors. it could be six months. it could be longer or less. >> mean while, the level of this water will rape about 25 feet below normal. >> will cause some trouble and some challenges for folks this summer. what caused this crack? dam engineers are saying they believe it's simply a matter of water pressure and time. the water pushing on that dam and snapping that crack open then near the base of one of the bill pylons. that has interesting i am politic indications for the 12 other dams built of similar materials on the columbia river in canada and in the united states. syn? >> alan scholfer reporting. a different kind of structure in san francisco. the demolition of the old bay bridge is entering a critical new phase. with it, serious datnger of collapse. science and technology, jake ward? >> the only thing more dangerous in an earthquake than an outdated bridge, it turns out is a half did you say adembeled outdated bridge. >> 78-year-old san francisco open bay brimming is just as hard and it may be harder than building a new one. the demolition project scheduled to take three to five years is a sprint in engineering terms. a section collapsed in 1989 but engineers are far more worried about its safety now. this is a moment engineers are worried about. me being up here. >> that's terrifying. the next three to five years when they take patrol this bridge because during that time, an earthquake could strike. this brimming could tip over and damage the 6 and a half billion dollar bridge they just finished buildings. being on top of any bridge is scary enough. >> this laughter, it's terror. scientists have been detecting small shakes up and down the california coast recently. it is tape in a big shake, the old brim would be terribly dangerous especially to the newbridge. >> at the far end that way, the two bridges are no further apart than my arms are out stretched. >> the old bridge uses a classic design. it's central portion is a long span suspended between two towers. those two towers lean in toward one another. the engineers had to use enormous 4-ton jacks to pull back on each side of the span separating them then they cut the span in half while we were on the deck, the crews separated one of the big 30 ton joints causing the whole structure to vibrate and sway under food. president whole thing is moving. it's a very scary thing to be on an unsupported bridge. >> the disassembly will happen in three trayses, where it touches treasurer island and then the rest of the bridge and finally, the part between the mud line and the bottom the bay which will require under water demolition experts. until that point, san francisans will hold their breath and hope the bridge that served them for seven decades can remain standing just a little bit longer. >> john, i was on that bridge earlier today and my palms are sweating just hear that report, just makes me frightened all ogen. >> you laugh but you have a fear of heights? >> it's tremendous in irrational fear land sharks are highest but heights are a close second. when you are standing on a bridge and you feel it go doyoyoing the way it does, it shuts down the brain. >> this is going to be an interesting story to follow as this bridge comes down now, all new at 11 eastern time, james dean, jimi hendrix and madonna, what's cool about america. an art exhibit brought those iconic images under one roof. >> here comes steven colbert. my conversation with the comedian, the warm-up act on the colbert report. 11 eastern, 8 pacific time from the make's capitol, cherry blossoms, peak bloom in the tidal bassin. headlines coming up next. the presidential election and the future, "consider this" 10 eastern, only on al jazeera america. welcome to al jazeera america. i am richelle carey. here are tonight's top stories, health secretary kathleen sebelius who oversaw the healthcare rollout is resigning. president obama is expected to nominate her replacement tomorrow. a senior administration official tellsays it will be sylvia math annual burwell. the white house appears to be orchestrating a campaign of incitement and sabotage in ukraine. pro-russian activists in eastern cities are staring down and ult massive from the government. kiev says they shall leave the buildings they are occupying by friday or be prepared to be 40sed outed. the department of justice released the findings of investigation into the albuquerque police department today. the department found evidence of a systemic use of excessive force that violates the constitution. police in albuquerque have killed 23 people in the last five years. another day in court for the three access english journalists imprisoned in egypt. defense lawyers say video produced by the prosecute today had nothing to do with the case. mohammed fami, peter cresta have been accused of providing platform to the outlawed you mayu muslim brotherhood. al jazeera continues to demand the immediate release of its staff. those are the headlines. i am richelle carey. america tonight is joey chin is up next. always get the latest news online at our website. that is arningsz.com. on "america tonight," where is relesha, our in depth look at the accident happenaps of a missing d.c. 8-year-old exposes new details about a system that didn't protect her and a family struggling to explain what they did do. >> anybody could could have picked up the phone for me. >> did anybody else call the police? 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was married >> this was cut through your property? >> right through the middle of my property. >> a small town take okay big oil. people in rural kentucky trying to stop a gas pipeline they say will run right through their yards. good morning, and welcome to al jazeera america. i have stephanie sy in new york. a fiery crash leaves 10 people dead. the city happened about 95 miles north of sacramento. california highway patrol says a fed ex truck slammed into a bus. thomas drayton shows us the truck and bus went up in flames. >> i just kind of see black, but there is fire up in front of the bus. it's crushed in the front pretty much. so we all start jumping up to run away. >> this is what's left of the horrific collision on california's interstate 5. the charred remains of a fed ex truck and a tour bus that had been packed with high school students. the california highway patrol says the crash was caused by the driver of the tractor-trailer who was among the dead. >> flipped a white car that is further in the ditch up there, sideswiped it, went head up with the charter bus, immediate explosion, and there are 44 students, three chaperones and a school bus driver on board, so 48 people. >> police are unsure why the truck swerved across a median separating traffic on the interstate. the high school students from schools across los angeles were on their way to visit humble state university north of sacramento. >> i would invite any parent to call their schools immediately, all of the principals of all of the schools involved are informed. >> witnesses describe a fiery aftermath that devoured both vehicles. >> a shroud conic boom about 5:00 o'clock and the whole house shook. the tour bus was fully engulfed in flames. it just kept popping and booming as it was on fire. there was nothing left of the tour bus. >> police and ambulance rushed to the scene setting up a triage unit on site. some students walked away from the wreckage while others needed to be carried. back on the burned out bus, bodies of the victims were draped in blankets. >> right now, they are putting together all of the pieces of the puzzle to determine what caused the fed ex driver to cross over the median and into on coming traffic as well as any actions, evasive actions that the bus driver may have taken to avoid the collision as well as the car that was in front of the bus driver. >> thomas drayton, al jazeera. >> an official at humble state, the college the students were going to visit say our hearts to out to those who have been affected. we are here to support them and their families in any way possible. >> the teenager of going on a wild stabbing spree at his school may have been bullied, according to the lawyer for 16-year-old alex ribal although police are not confirming that. ribal is accused of stabbing 22 people with kitchen knives at his high school in suburban pittsburgh. he is facing multiple charges including attempted homicide. he was charged as an adult. some are calling her the latest casualty of president obama's controversial healthcare bill. kathleen sebelius is stepping down after five years of health and human services secretary. she follows tony trungal, the former head of the center for medicare and medicaid who stepped down last november. she was a political target during the botched rollout of the affordable care act. libby casey joins us from washington. libby, what are you hearing are the reasons behind secretary sebelius leaving? >> reporter: this is a natural break in many ways for a secretary who served over the fight of, passage of and the implementation of the president's signature healthcare law since open enrollment just ended, it's the connell collusion of an arc but secretary sebelius is stepping down before the mid-term elections really heat up when she could become even more of a symbol of what went wrong with the affordable care act. >> heavily criticized over the disastrous rollout of the healthcare.gov website, there were many calls for kathleen sebelius to resign? >> the only thing i can conclude is that it's impossible to do something in this administration that gets you fired. >> heavily criticized over the draftrous rollout of the healthcare.gov website, there were many calls for kathleen sebelius to resign. months after those initial calls, she is stepping aside. the former two-term kansas governor offered no hint she was leaving on thursday. instead using the opportunity to tout the president's signature healthcare law? >> we do not anticipate additional delays, but i think the basic policies are now in place and we anticipate moving forward. >> over the lightning rod of criticism over obamacare's rocky start, republicans gave her one last grilling. >> before the affordable care act went into effect, how many were forced to give up their w healthcare? >> i do not have data to give you right now in terms of who exactly was previously uninsured. we are collecting that. >> sebelius never shied away from taking responsibility for the glitch-filled website. >> it's unacceptable. i am focused on fixing it, and i am accountable. >> her boss always stood by her. >> you know, i think kathleen sebelius under tremendously difficult circumstances over the last four and a half years has done a great job in setting up the insurance markets so that there is a good product out there for people to get. you know, kathleen sebelius doesn't write code. she wasn't our it person. >> the resignation comes one week after president obama celebrated his healthcare act's last minute search. >> despite several lost weeks out of the gate because of problems with the website, 7.1 million americans have now signed up for private insurance plans through these market places. 7.1. noticeably missing is the rose garden announcement she will be there today when the director of the office of management and budget is named successor of the post sebelius held for five years. >> en though there is a new face, the botched rollout of the healthcare law, let's remember, it's called by many critics it's called obamacare not sebeliuscare. it's the president's legacy and republicans were quick to crit sues even sebelius's resignation saying it's cold comfort for those disappointed by the law. >> we are seeing the spin already, libby. let's talk a little bit more about sylvia matthews burwell. president obama's pick to replace secretary sebelius. what do we know about her? >> she has been -- she is in the president -- been the president's budget director for about a year. she got a strong confirmation, a vote of 96 to zero. she as weathered battles including the government shutdown of last fall. she served during the clint ton administration and spent time with the bill and linda gates foundation and the wal-mart foundation, the charitable wing of wal-mart. she is younger. she is under 50, a harvard grad and so many democrats hope that she brings a younger sense of how do use technology, how to reach americans and deal with some of the management structures of the affordable care act over the coming months. >> would you expect a confirmation battle with here? there is always a chance to have a confirmation battle because republicans will be able to use this opportunity to attack the administration and to attack the affordable care act, itself and sebelius, also, we have to remember dealt with other controversial issues such as whether or not churches had to cover contraception. so sylvia matthews burwell will inherit some of those. even if she is not controversial, the law she takes on is. >> a tough job, libby casey reporting from washington for us. search cruise say they are zeroing in on the signals but it's still unclear if the pings that have been heard in the indian ocean are from flight 370's black boxes. the chief marshal leading the search says the latest signal for thursday is probably not from the flight recorders but australia's prime minister tony abbott said they are confident other signals picked up in recent days are related to the devices. an earthquake off the south pacific nation is under a watch as a result of the 7.for magnitude quake. it is unclear if there has been any damage earthquakes are common in that ring of fire. in nicaragua at least 23 people were injured and over 100 homes were damaged. that was a mag nude 6.1. eastern australia is getting slammed with a cyclone. let's bring in nicole mitchell. >> good morning. looking at some of the rain as it moves into australia. you can see how driving that is out here. we've got the psyccyclone which what we would call a hurricane here in the united states. it's just called different things in different parts of the world. but tropical cyclone ida, right now, the wind's equivalent to a category 4 storm for the united states. so that would be 140 miles per hour right now. here is a look at that. and we were just mentioning, we are recovering from an earthquake in papau, new guinea. that he took a hit. we are waiting for recovery numbers for that, as well. here is where the storm is. and i haven't had an official report or seen the official report of this making landfall, but if you watch the eye and look at the coast line, it is either very close or has made that landfall so i will report that in the official statistics as it comes in. doesn't matter. either way, it's making the impact area with the winds to 140 miles per hour. this is because the southern hemisphere has seasons opposite of ours, this is hurricane season in this part of the world or tropical cyclone season, already has caused a lot of damage as it moved along. pit papua new guinea as well. as it moved through the solomon islands, almost 10,000 people homeless, and they are watching for similar problems as this will track across the australian coast line, weakening, as it moves across land and interacts with land but still, flooding around expected across the region, high winds and damage because of that. we are watching storms in the united states. i will have more on that coming up in just a little bit. back to you. >> nicole mitchell, thank you. in eastern ukraine, pro-russian sep rattists are not bowing to pressure. they have defied a government deadline to leave occupied buildings. in donesk, 1,000 activists rejected an amnesty offer. their refused's refusal raised fears the ukrainian government to the follow through on a threat to use force to clear the building. protesters say they would stop only if kiev agreed to hold a referendum on the status of the mostly russian-speaking area. hoda del amid is there >> reporter: despite repeated warnings, protesters here seem to be digging in throughout the day, they have been fortifieding their offensive positions behind the barricades. now there are piles of stones and they same they don't want a violent outcome to this stand-off, but they have to defend themselves. meanwhile, the local counsel issued a statement that sounds a bit as an offer of compromise. no statement, it calls on the government to make official that offer of amnesty by issuing a decree that amnesty should be for police forces and protesters. it also called on the government to call for a referendum, not on separation but rather on federalism. it also calls on the government to consider a bill that would make the russian language the second official language of this country. these are some of the demands the protesters have been making. they say since february 23rd basically since the day victor yanukovych fled this country. they say basically that they have been ignored all along from the authorities in kiev and that's what pushed them to take over that security building that's not too far away from where we are standing. they say it's the only way for them to get their voices heard. but now, they do want this referendum on federalism not to split from ukraine. actually, some of them showed proudly their ukrainianpass port. they want to be able to administerthane own eva's by themselves. >> hoda del hamid in eastern ukraine. the crisis could speed up a gas deal between russia and china. they have been talking for nearly a decade about a gas pipe agreement. now, the talks are heating up. a deal would allow russia to sell pipeline gas to china for at least another 30 years. russian state-owned gasprom said an agreement would be signed in may when russian president vladimir putin will be in bay ying. >> there has been progress until negotiations between israeli and palestinian dealers but is denying there is an actual agreement in place. the u.s.-backed talks took a hit when israel cancelled the scheduled release of palestinian prisoners. palestinian prisons signed a series of international treaties. the u.s. has been pushing the two sides to agree to a framework for further talks. a barrage of artilleryshelled shells killed four teenagers, one day after two car bombs exploded in the same neighborhood killing 25. fighting between rebel groups has intensified. opposition groups say more than 50 fighters were killed this week. an american ship docked in spain is getting ready to take on and destroy some of syrias deadliest chemical webs. organizations tapped with clear that stockpile are racing to meet the deadline. some 4,000 kilometers away from syria on the other side of the mediterranean sea lies a vessel that's about to play a crucial role in the destruction of syria's dead lee chemical weapons. it spent the last few months being equipped for this next mission. it will be dealing with the decommissioning and neutralization of 560 tons of chemical components from syria. >> chemical materials that come out of syria. >> it's a monumental, multilateral mission. the syrian government aims to complete the handover of chemical components of its sites by the end of the month. danish and norwegian vessels will receive the chemicals. and when that happens, cape ray will go where the stockpile will take place ship to ship. >> we believe they have all of the tools they need to get on with the removal of the remaining chemicals and at the same time, we need to stress the time is running out. what you you have to start with is not water. >> it's here where it will be handled with the utmost care. on this pressurized deck is where the mustard and seron gas will be neutralized. it renders the chemicals symbol industry waste where it will be able to to be processed in commercial plants. after the neutralization process, those who have been involved in those operations will begin their own decontamination process. >> washed all over, head to tow. >> the whole process is expected to take place within two months in international waters in the mediterranean sea and they are banking on syria to live up to its promise of delivering the stock piles on time. on the cape ray in southern spain. >> now as of this week, the agency overseeing the process says it has only received about half of syria's declared 1200 tons of chemical weapons. the nasdaq takes a tumble. just a fluke or a sign of another economic downturn? you are looking live at the exchange. the specific type of tech stock being sold off that caused the drop. >> a fracture that was 65 feet wide gaping open about two inches with water flowing into it. >> a crack is found in a dam along the columbia river. what it could mean for the water supply for large parts of the northwest. a tiny piece of parchment that could change christianity as we know it. the writing that says jesus christ had a wife. look at this t some clever champ pansees almost escaped the zoo. he uses it as a ladder. as many as six chimps follow suit. the ringleader clearly but none left the zoo. grounds, the staff was able to lur them back to their enclosure with food including chocolates. good morning and welcome back to al jazeera america. i am stiff knee sy. straight ahead, a shake-up on wall street as the naz dabbling plummets. is it another bubble about to burst? let's see with temperatures we will see across the nation. meteorologist. didn't you love that chimp video? >> i am with them on the chocolate thing. >> as we head out this morning, a lot of people happy it is friday. we have had quiet weather recent. mild weather. >> trend could nots this morning. 50s up and down the coastline, 40s into the midwest. we have a front coming through that's now approaching the east coast but there is not a lot of cold air with it. so you look at somewhere like chicago not looking too bad. a lot of temperatures already rebound today. to 66. a lot of temperatures through the 70s in the south, 80s, parts of texas. but we can tell the next weather system starting to come in, in saturday, billings drops into the 40s. we will see that spread as the system comes along. chicago, not only chances for rain increasing but temperatures dropping with the next system back to you. >> thank you. on wall street investors have been worried about their first quarter earning. today, two big banks are on the calendar. j.p. morgan and wells fargo. expected to report a drop in earnings as much as 11%. weakness in the mortgage business will hurt the bottom bottom line. and analysts say the bank's legal troubles may not be over. it remains a problem. for the large banging industry as a whole, so that will remain al head wind in a cloud and evaluation for the stocks until issues cleared up. >> wells fargo is expected to post a product largely from cutting costs. amazon is getting into the digital comic books, al library of old comics from dc as well as content from more than 75 publishers, comicolo deby is among the most popular appears in itunes. the markets are coming up a major sell-off as no, ma'am analysts unload companies like twitter and face book saying they have become too expensive. the dow starts at 16170. the s & p is 1833. nasdaq at 4054. yesterday's 3% loss was the first one-day percentage decline since late 2011. the tech sell-off spread overseas. asian markets ending lower with the nikkei falling more than two %. european markets sharply lower at this hour. so, for more on the market, we are joined by david nelson, chief strategist at bell point asset management. mr. nelson action thanks for being with us? >> thanks for having me. >> the markets took a big hit yesterday. he specially the nasdaq. if we drill deeper past the 3.1% drop in the nasdaq, we see that one of the hardest hit sectors was biogtechnology. fell 5.6%. so what was driving this selling? >> i think the first crack actually started to show last month. you mentioned the biotech sector. i can think the particular day the house subcommittee had sent a letter to the ce off of gilead pharmaceuticals questioning the pricing of one of more he knewpensive drug. >> set a shock waive through the sector. that's fallen 30% from the highs earlier this year. it was up 30% in the first few weeks of the year. so, it may have been a blow-off top. as you said in your lead-in which frightened me just listening to it, but -- >> was it wrong? >> no. you are absolutely right. >> is it true there is a concern some of these tech stocks are over-priced? >> we probably pushed the valuation envelope on some of these a little too far. these are wonderful businesses. you mentioned one the top, amazon, wonderful bids, will be around for decades to come growing. there are a lot of names like that. we have seen this rotation from growth to value ultimately, it's probably healthy, you know. if the rotation hadn't started, we would probably have something worse. >> because a needed correction. >> nobody likes a correction. we get them ever so often. i am sure a lot of your viewers are concerned right now. thing probably looked at their 401(k)s thinking maybe it's 2008. >> remind us what happened in 2008? >> in 2008 obviously was the financial crisis, and we had a lot of excesses, principally from the mortgage markets back in 2007 which peaked then. that unraveled. the banks needed a lot of help. we repaired a lot of that. what our economy is struggling and some around the world, principally china, we are not in that framework any more. >> you talk about the average investo look at the tech stocks go down. should they sit tie or consider at this point rebalancing their portfolios? >> if they're concentrated on names like this, they need to rebalance and rethink what they are doing because people fall until love with these names and change the momentum and hedge funds chase momentum. professional investors make mistakes and a lot of the selling is coming from the hedge fund community. >> is it a bubble that we are seeing? >> some of these stocks, sure. son-in-law of these names probably are like netflix. amazon, a wonderful business. >> what about the big companies like facebook and twitter relatively -- >> i have a problem with facebook. i wrote an article on it not that long ago. i think mark zuckerberg is drunk with power. he can do what he wants. he spent -- >> made a lot of expensesive acquisitions. >> very actionpensive. 21 billion in two acquisitions. one makes no money at all. the other, very modest income. i think that's an overreach on his part. he may have jumped. >> rebalance? >> make sure you balance. >> david nelson, chief strategist of bell point asset management, thanks for being with us. >> thanks, stephanie. she became the target of the anti-obamacare movement. a closer look at the i am politic indications of kathleen sebelius's resignation and whether it's a black eye for president obama's healthcare overall? >> it seems like they tend to get their way a lot of times. >> a david and goliath fight. people take okay big business over a gas pipeline running right through their >> a small scrap of paper with potentially big implications that some say proved jesus had a wife. i am stephanie sy. we will have more on that story but first our headlines. a fed ex truck slammed into a tour bus in northern california, killing 10 people, injuring dozens more. most of the passengers on board the bus were high school students on their way to visit a college. many of the teenagers jumped out of the windows before the bus burst into flames. despite a government deadline that has come and go, pro-russian sep rattists are refusing to leave state buildings in eastern ukraine. the prime minister amnesty but offered to use force if the buildings were not vacated by today. secretary of health, c kathleen sebelius is going to call it quits this morning. she was criticized following the ro rollout of healthcare.gov. president obama is expected to no, ma' nominate sylvia matthews burwell to replace sebelius. we are going to talk a little more on that now. kathleen sebelius surprise announcement, you have denny fayeman with more on this. thanks for being with us. i want to ask first of all how much responsibility does secretary sebelius bear for the problems with the rollout? >> well, think of her as the ceo of the company. ultimately, it's her responsibility. she did a great job taking that responsibility when she went on jon stewart. she made it very clear. i am the one to blame. blame me. i commend her for taking responsibility and that's what she should have done. >> was she ever viewed as a fall guy in some ways? especially in the fact that some say she wasn't really qualified for the job as it turned out to be. she had a distinguished record as governor of kansas but in this job, it may have required a certain type of expertise? >> she was lacking the ability to work across party lines. she was an insurance commissioner and she was combative with insurance companies. when she went in, we couldn't really expect her to cooperate with them. she was combatav with republicans as well. the incoming replacement, sylvia burwell is much more willing to work with republicans. she has worked to establish communication lines tattered over the years. >> what else would you expect from the nomination of burwell? she was accepted by both parties for her current position. >> right. >> would you expect there to be a battle about that nomination? >> i don't think it will be a real battle. i think it will be mostly rhetoric. i think republicans are going to take this as an opportunity to attack the healthcare law. they are going to take it as an opportunity to grill her because her nomination went through without any issues. 96 to zero in the senate. even senator colburn praised her during the hearing. i think this will go more or less smoothly. >> you think she is going to be more qualified? >> 100%. she has terrific management experience in the private sector and public sector. she is the right person for the job. >> you know, it's easy to, i think, at this point, politicize that sebelius is stepping down at this point in time. the fact is, she is 65. according to "the washington post," her tenure as secretary as health and human services lasted an avenue of 500 days longer than most people have been in this position. is this being spun politicalcally or is this just a life choice? >> am i think it's a little bit of everything. apparently, she discussed with the white house her decision to resign back in march. so this didn't just come out of nowhere. but i do think it also came from the higher ups. i think they realized they needed to put a new face on healthcare.gov, on hhs and get someone in there that could rebrand the program. >> denny fayeman, a fellow at the manhattan institute, thank you forrun insight? >> my pleasure. >> what happens in vegas usually stays in vegas unless someone throws a shoe at hillary clinton. the former first lady was giving a speech in sin city when that happened. an object whizzing by her head, a shoe, a woman in the audience did it. she was behind the shoe. here is another look at that. the woman was arrested immediately. mrs. clinton not only made it through unscathed. she joked about it with her audience. venzuela's president nicholas madduro is meeting with opposition leaders today, talks ending weeks of violent demonstlaingsz. as marchian a sanchez reports, he is not meeting with student groups who have been rallying against him. >> there was no dialogue in the streets demonstrators marched as a conversation began. >> they don't represent us. i think before going to these talks, they should know what those of us fighting for a r radical change want. >> students boycotted the meeting at the presidential palace where they showed mistrust. the president accused the opposition for the violence that has left at least 41 people dead and hundreds wounded and detained. you can't burn a university and call it a fair protest. 15 were burnt down. library classrooms. you can't call this a political struggle. you can't say it's peaceful legitimate protests. you will be measured by the way you measure others. >> in this first round of talks, he accused the opposition of trying to oust him. they say government is keeping the opposition from participating in the government. >> it's only fair that the country hear what the other side has to say to overcome mistrust. >> members of the union of south american nations brokered the meeting to find a way out of the political crisis that has lasted over two months. >> this dialogue for peace cannot wait any longer. there are people hurt because of violence. no matter who is responsible. from the streets of the capitol, protesters are in no mood to negotiate. >> we will not have a dialogue at the tools of our dead brothers. >> they say this will be a debate. they say the only way to remove the crisis is by removing president maduro from? >> venzuela aans have been proce protesting the high crime rate, unemployment. these are the largest anti-government frosts to sweep through the country in a decade. >> there is pressure for the president to finalize the keystone pipeline demandi environmental activists opposing the pipeline which would stretch from canada to texas. president obama must approve the project because it crosses an international boundary. a battle in kentucky over a different pipeline proposal. farmers and other locals are fighting to keep the so-called blue grass pipeline off of their land. jonathan martin has details >> reporter: women of the loretta mother house are typically quiet but for months, these nuns have been out spoken attempting to fear what they -- what they feel may be a destr t destructive threat. >> it's a threat to the environment as a whole. >> it would transport flammable natural gas liquids like propane through underline lines starting at fracking sites in pennsylvania moving through ohio, then central kentucky before connecting with existing lines at the gulf. the two developers, williams company and boardwalk pipeline promised it would be engineered to top safety standards. >> this is considered a very special place. >> still, the sister worries about the possibility of a leak and explosion. the line wouldn't run through her property but would run through several nearby counties. >> over the years, there is a whole database of examples of the danger of these pipelines, and once, once you have made the kind of contamination you don't turn back. >> this would cut through your property? >> through the middle of my property. >> it's an issue of property rights. last month, a state judge sided with landowners ruling eminent domain, the power to take private property for public use can't be used to run the pipeline through private land but developers are appealing. >> these large corporations have a lot of money, have a lot of influence. and it seems like they tend to get their way a lot of times. >> there is a lot of support for the pipeline from some who see the benefits outweighing any potential harm? >> those sayings for the common welt of kentucky and for the nation as a whole to remain competitive have to be completed to go through. the pipeline companies have said several thousand temporary jobs will be created during construction and millions added in tax revenue to the communities involved. and they point out underground transport is much safe earn using a barge or train when moving natural gas byproducts. >> we have programs on the state and federal level to make sure these things are done environmentally safe. >> while developers recently announced their intention to delay construction until 2016, sister vissey intends to keep fighting the pipeline, feeling there is far too much at risk. jonathan martin, loretta, kentucky. >> developers have acquired about 70% of the land they need to build the pipelines projected route. at 8:00 o'clock this morning, another battle over big oil in the south. why some say they are fighting over the future of the louisiana bayou. a crack in a dam in eastern washington state is hurting that area's water supply. engineers were forced to lower the dam's water level to deal with the problem. as alan shoveler reports, it's having an impact on people who rely on that water. >> i will never live to see this thing go this low again. how many times. >> where billy nelson draws water, the river hasn't been this low in half a century. since the dam's built to grow apples and appear cots in this dry country, he pumps water 24 hours a day six months a year because of unprecedented problem with the dam, he has had to install temporary piping to reach the dropping river. >> it's like a lot of extra work and money. >> it is but you've got to have water. you know, there is no getting around about that. but anyway, it makes -- i mean, i've got water going up to my farm and that's what counts, you know. >> it's not just growers affected. docs are high and dry. marinas, parks and boat ramps closed, public access limited along 80 miles of shoreline. at the crescent bar resort for rvs and campers, barbara hirsch is hoping the summer can be saved? >> monetarily, it will have a huge impact. um, we have reserved our campground almost all summer long. and so now, we are going to have to cancel probably a fair share. >> in late february, a worker spotted this curve in the top of the dam, a sign of serious problems under water. >> a fracture that was 65 feet wide, gaping open about two inches with water flowing into it. with the water tcpi behind it, the did a is stable. the future isn't clear. engineers are drilling into the damaged peer to map how far the crack extends. answers could come in june a final fix with the river levels restored to normal. >> timeline for fix has yet to be determined we were to get this forensic analysis done. >> the cause doesn't matter much. keeping crops growing does. it could be 6 months, longer, less. >> alan shoveler, the dam is the largest power producer generating enough electricity for nearly 900,000 homes. two years ago, a business card size document had a quote allegedly from jesus christ suggesting he was married. critics cried forgier. researcher say there is mounting evidence it is real. richelle carey has the questist that questions biblical history? >> it's about this frayed piece of papyrus about one and a half by three inches. the text in blotchy faded inc. is in coppic, a language spoken in ancient egypt. the keywords are jesus said to them, my wife. what a harvard researcher revealed in twill, the vatican denounced it as a fake. but now, harvard says a wide range of scientific testing proves that the papyru is an ancient do you care. baptist minister paul rosenbush says this will give christians a lot to think about. >> it's a moment for us to re-examine what this papyrus really talks about and the implications for the church back then and, of course, the church today. which isn't about to pur sway everyone jesus had a wife? >> not conclusively jesus was married. we will never know that. in the early church, there wat subject of conversation which makes it interesting for us today. >> if contains the words "she will be able to to be my disciple" another potentially provoc-i have been phrase. >> the church was interested in the role of women in jets jesus' life and the church. it talks about women as not only jesus' wife but also as a disciple and within, you know, the body of the early church. >> one brown researcher remains unpersuaded say it contains gross grammatical errors that a native speaker of coptic wouldn't make. richelle carey, al jazeera. >> it was the longest free fall ever. felix von gartner, when he jumped from the edge of space in 2012 as roshi found out, it benefits future pilots. >> it was his attempt to parachute jump from the greatest height in history, riding in a capsule documented a massive helium balloon, we want 24 miles up into the air. he was so high, he could see the curvature of the earth, then he stepped out of the capsule and did the unimaginable. >> i am going home now. >> he jumped. i took a deep breath outside, you know. i was trying to memorize everything. i would see the curve of the earth. i looked up. i could see the sky above me was completely black and i have never seen black sky before. so, i took a deep breath. then you do this totally focused and this one step forward and you are on the way. >> he really was on his way. it's a -- it took him to get totem of space and nine minutes to get back down to earth while free falling, he reached a speed of 843 miles per hour, breaking the speed of sound. >> so he was super sonic. he did not feel it, what he was doing. 8403 miles an hour. the people on the ground heard the sonic boom and he went super sonic. it was an amazing feat that he did. >> still, today, this is still the most valid record because no one ever broke the speed of sound. i am the first human outside of an aircraft who did it. >> to pay tribute to the incredible mission, the stratus exhibit is on display at the smith sesonia smithsonian. perhaps the biggest accomplishment were the scientific and medical add veeps that were learned? >> we developed a protocol if there was an emergency, how we would handle it if they lost pressure risation. it's a new protocol that is revolutionary. >> that's one of the medical benefits of the program. we also demonstrated a new type pressure system that future astronauts will be wearing that has more dexterity to it. so when they were snifb can't reasons why we accomplished it. >> he took up jumping at 16 and is known for daring stunts. in 1999, he earned the world record for the highest parachute jump from a building when he leapt from the towers. it was different and took him five years to prepare. >> we knew this was about good. this was bad. we did debriefs action changed things pretty much until the very end of the program. we constantly changed our check lists. the old days, there was more working on muscles and now, we had to change everything. i spent a lot of time on the cardio bike and changed everything in order to make me physically fit for a long, ongoing challenge. >> now, baumgartner is preparing for his next feat to race 24 hours, a day-long car race in german because breaking the speed of sound wasn't enough? >> we did our comfort zone and did something extraordinary. that's probably the message to the world, it doesn't matter what you have done before. as long as you have the goal in mind, as long as you surround yourself with the right people and as long as you are willing to go the extra miles, you can accomplish everything that you can imagine. >> still pushing the envelope. that was roshi reporting. steven colbert about to hey on one of the highest profile jobs in show business. what the comedy host says about stepping into david letterman's very big shoes. 11 million cars recalled in the first few months of this year. some say the reason auto companies are doing it has little to do with keeping drivers safe. ahead in our next hour, parents arizoccused of making t children sick. we will take a look at what's known as medical child abuse. . a new problem for general motor. the company says there is nor flaw of the ignicians with the 2.6 billion cars. in some cases, the keys cobbling pulled out -- could be pulled out while the cars are running. they will have an additional part to fix that problem. the auto maker says the recalls will cost about $13,000,000,000. gm announced it suspended two engineers. >> according to the national highway traffic safety administration, 11 million vehicles have been recalled so far in 2014. we are halfway to the 22 million cars recalled in all of 2013 we are on pace to reach the 2004 high of 30.8 million vehicles recalled. clarence ditlow is in washington this morning and joints us to delve a little deeper into these problems. mr. ditlow, thanks forb being with us. the heart of the issue seems to be whether the public trust compani companies, has trust been breached. >> it has. the public exists manufacturers to fix cars promptly. >> when toyota was fined 1.2 billion by the justice department last month, in a statement from center for auto safety, you said it was a game changer and they face insignificant fines and no penalties under the vehicle safety act. explain how that was a game changer. >> the safety act, itself, has no criminal penalties in it. the maximum fine today is $35 million, which on a big recall might be a gm ignition switch comes to a few dollars per car. so, it's cheaper in many instances to stonewall than to recall. but when you are facing a potential billion dollar fine from the justice department nguyen, when you are facing criminal charges that me even end up with some executives going to jail, that's a game changer and the auto companies really get serious. >> what connection can you make between what happened with toyota and the patternties and the current wave of recall? >> what will you are seeing is the companies all have a backlog of defective vehicles, and in the past, under the old regime where it was cheaper to not recall the vehicles, they are now looking at those and saying, well, if we don't do it, maybe we will face prosecution from the justice department. so let's go ahead and, when in doubt, do a recall, and in the past, it was when it doubt, don't recall. >> how far back would you say this history of corporations concealing auto defects go back? is this something that we have been played with for decades and it's only now coming to light in the last 10 years? >> oh, it really is. the safety act was passed after ralph nader wrote "up safe at any speed" in 1966. we had the chevrolet corvair. we had the ford pinto. we had the audi 5ooo. wet ford explorer with firestone tires and now toyota and now gm. these were all big safety scandals that the companies tried to sweep under the carpet. and until toyota, until the justice department found they could get away with thet it, they had to do a recall. >> yeah. ? >> but there was real brand damage to them sdmrfrp clarence ditlow, executive director for the center for auto safety, thanks. let's look at the forecast across country today. meteorologist nicole mitchell is back. >> we have been under a pretty quiet pattern. we have a front moving through the great lakes bringing rain along with it so this warning: the radar looks more impressive than what is actually hitting the ground where you are more likely to notice. there are a few light showers out here. but some lower clouds. check your flights before you head out for the east coast line, more rain overnight expected. but again, this system isn't causing too mary problems. already something brewing back mind this, a big player into the weekend. i will have more on that a little later. back to you. >> nicole, thank you. a replacement has been chosen for one of the most high-profile entertainment jobs. >> this man has influenced every host who came after him andina few who came before him. he is that good. i have to tell you. i do not envy whoever they try to put in that chair. >> i think you know that face. >> that's political satarist steven colbert poking fun at himself. he has been named to replace letterman on cbs. he has hosted his own show, the colbert report since 2005. he says he will not be doing the new show in character and is looking forward to stretching his comedy muscles. del walters is here to look at a look ahead. >> here is what we are following this morning. >> tragedy on a california freeway as 10 people are killed when a truck and bus collide, that bus carrying high school students on their way to a college tour. health and human services secretary kathleen sebelius expected to announce a resignation today. russia saying it poses no military threat to ukraine despite an apparent buildup of more troops along the ukrainian border. while demolition experts are in a race against time trying to remove the old bay bridge in san francisco. >> al jazeera america is coming back. we are back with you in two and a half minutes. news . we all started jumping up to run away. >> witnesses describe a fiery aftermath that devoured both vehicles. >> they heard a loud sonic boom about 5:00 o'clock. the whole house shook. the tour bus was fully engulfed in flames. it was booming as it was on fire. there was nothing left of the tour bus. >> police and ambulance rushed to the scene setting up a triag unit on site. some students walked away from the wreckage while others needed to be carried. back on the burned-out bus, bodies of the victims were draped in blanket did. >> right now, the team is putting together all of the pieces of the puzzle to determine what caused the fed ex driver to cross over the median and into on coming traffic as well as any actions, evasive actions, that the bus driver may have taken to avoid the collision as well as the car that was in front of the bus driver thomas drayton, al jazeera. an official at humble state, the college the students were heading to visit released a statement saying our hearts go out to those who have been affected, and we are here to support them and their families in any way possible. >> officials from the california highway patrol, we are waiting for a news conference from the california highway patrol updating us on this bus crash in northern california. we will bring that to you as soon as we have it. >> stephanie, a grief-stricken community is coming together trying to overcome that wild stabbing spree at a high school. >> for the 22 vict simmons of the school stabbing in murraysville, pennsylvania. >> doctors saying one of the vict ills is still in critical condition. one student saying he feared for his life shortly after being stabbed. >> i was thinking like, you know, how long are we going to be in here? losing a lot of blood really fast. i was just kind of scared i would bleed to death. >> the teenager accused of going on that wild stabbing spree may have been bullied according to lawyers for 16-year-olds alex ribal. he was accused of stabbing 20 people with kitchen knives. the teen is facing multiple charges, including attempted homicide. he is being charged as an adult. >> some are calling her the biggest casualty of it president obama controversial healthcare law. kathleen sebelius is stepping down after five years of health and human services secretary. she was a political target after the botched rollout of the botched healthcare website. >> what are you hearing are the reasons she is leaving? >> reporter: well, stephanie, in many ways, it's a conclusion after natural arc for the secretary who served during the entire process of the affordable care act, the president's signature law. she was there for the fight in congress. she was there when it was signed into law. she was there when implementation happened and she was there for the botched rollout of the website. now, so even though this is a natural arc for her to have served for this tenure, she is also leaving the post right before the mid-term elections really heat up and the secretary risks becoming a lightning rod for a very controversial healthcare law. >> heavily criticized over the disastrous rollout of the healthcare.gov website, there were many calls for kathleen sebelius to resign. >> the only thing i can conclude is that it's impossible to do something in this administration that gets you fired. >> heavily criticized over the disastrous rollout of the healthcare.gov website, there were many calls for kathleen sebelius to resign. months after those initial calls, health and human services secretary kathleen sebelius is stepping aside. the former two-term kansas govern offered no hint she was leaving when she testified before the senate finance committee and used the opportunity to tout the signature health law. >> we do not anticipate tus point, senator, additional delays, but i think the basic policies are now in place and we anticipate moving forward. >> but over the lightning rod of criticism over obamacare's rocky start, republicans gave her one last grilling. >> before the affordable care act went into effect, how many were forced to give up their insurance due to man date did under the law? were there any forced to give up? >> i don't -- i do not have data to give you right now in terms of who exactly was previously uninsured. we are collecting that. >> sebelius never shied away from taking responsibility for the glitch-filled website. >> it's unacceptable. i am focused on fixing it, and i am accountable. >> her boss always stood by her. >> you know, i think kathleen sebelius under tremendously difficult circumstances over the last four and a half years has done a great job in setting up the insurance markets so that there is a good product out there for people to get. kathleen sebelius doesn't write code. she wasn't our it person. >> the resignation comes one week after president obama celebrated his healthcare act's last minute search. >> despite several lost weeks out of the gate because of problems with the website have signed up for insurance plans. 7.1. missing at the president's rose garden announcement, sebelius will be there today when sylvia matthews burwell, director of the office of management and budget is named successor of the post she held for five years. >> democrats are praising secretary sebelius not just for getting the affordable care act in to effect but for a range of other projects she has worked on. stephanie, republicans are using the moment to the obama admin trace yet again over what they still call obamacare. the top republican in the senate, mitch mcconnell putting out a statement saying her resignation is come comfort for americans who have been disappointed by the law? >> she had a relatively long tenure, we should say, in this position. libby, let's talk about sylvia matthews burwell. you used that sound byte in your piece of president obama saying sebelius doesn't write code. i am assuming burwell doesn't write code either. but what other expertise does she bring to the job? >> she may not write code but she is under 50. so some democrats hope she will bring a younger sensibility to why things like rolling out a website properly are so crucial, so important and she may be able to have more of a management roll. management is her specialty. she has been working on the office of budget and management under the president. so his go-to budget person and she has dealt with some of the tough battles on capitol hill over the past year and had to deal with some of the realities of implementing budgets and getting things back up and running after the government shutdown last fall. she was part of the team that got a budget hammered out. she comes from harvard and she has had experience outside of government working for the bill and linda gates foundation and the wal-mart foundation. she is a veteran of the clinton administration and early reports are that people are pleased with this pick although, of course, her confirmation hearing will be controversial because the law, itself, is controversial. >> libby casey reporting from washington for united states. libby, thank you. stay with al jazeera all day for the continuing coverage at 8:15 eastern, we will discuss whether she has been unfairly blamed for the failures of the healthcare rollout. at 11 eastern, we will bring you her resignation announcement. >> will be live. >> eastern ukraines aren't bowing to pressure. they had defied a government demand. the refusal raising fears the ukrainian government could follow through on a threat to use force to clear those buildings. al jazeera has more in-depth crisis state ahead in eight minutes, we will talk to a reporter who spent months on, on the ground in ukraine. she is going to share her experiences with the people who live there. we will also ask her whether it's likely that the rest of ukraine will break up. also, seven people were killed in a coal mine explosion in donesk. officials say it was caused by a gas leak. the energy minister saying there have been several safety violations at that site. a full investigation is underway. >> search crews looking for the missing malaysian airlines crew say they are zeroing in on the signals but it's unclear if the picks are from the black boxes. the chief marshal leading the search says the latest signals is probably not from the flight data recorders but australia's prime minister, tony abbot says they are confident they are related to the devices. >> the weather could be a factor because a cyclone is now slamming australia. >> for that, meteorologist joins us now. it's a big storm. it could interrupt the several? right. >> it's on the other side of australia. >> that's fortunate news for all of us as we take a look at the image out here. you can see as the several has been going on, on the western side where we have the cyclone is on the northeast earn side. a very well-defined storm here i haven't seen the official landfall report that is put out. this is on the other side of the world. just watching the eye, it looks to me like the eye has crossed over land. so, i am expecting that. but it's had winds to 140 miles per hour and you were talking about the search efforts. some of you know my other hat is with the air force reserve, actually being a meteorologist flying into storms like this that hit the united states, so, you know, when you get a storm of this magnitude, has the search been going on anywhere near this? it churns up the water. the ships have to move out. most planes have to go in. if you are a plane between the clouds and rain it's hard to see anything at times. so they would have had to suspend that. now, what we are going to expect, this has caused a lot of dominguez that as it moved along. has it moved through the solomon islands? unfortunately, already over 20 reported dead with this. about 10,000 homeless as this continued to move along from papua new guinea. haven't had reports of loss of life, but about 50,000 people being reported as impacted. we will watch for the impacts into australia. this will continue to skirt along the coastline. warp good thing with this, it hasn't had a large wind field so the damage area is a little smaller but being what we would call a category 4 storm. watching for that. a couple of other storms in the u.s. you will have more on that coming up in a little bit. back to you guys. >> okay, nicole. thank you. thursday marks the 50th anniversary of the land mark bill that ended segregation in the united states. many credit president lyndon johnson for pushing the civil rights act of 1964 through congress. mike viqeira reports and paid tribute. >> the president and first lady touring the lyndon johnson library in texas. there to pay homage to the 36th president and his land mark achievement of 50 years ago pushing the civil rights act through congress and with the stroke of a pen, abolishing the jim crow laws of segregation. mr. obama praised lbj for his vision and courage. >> he knew that he had a unique capacity, the most powerful white politician from the south to not merely challenge the convention that had crushed the dreams of so many but to ultimately dismantle for good the structures of legal segregation. >> with civil rights icons looking on, mr. obama acknowledged setbacks in the struggle to end racism but drawing on his own personal story, he insisted government still has a role to play in social justice. >> i reject such cynicism because i have lived out the promise of lbj's efforts, because michelle has lived out the legacy of those efforts, because my daughters have lived out the legacy of those efforts, because i and millions of my yenration were in a position to take the baton that he handed to us. >> the president drew a parallel between his own signature law, obamacare, and lbj's rocky path for another part of the program known as the great society. >> then the healthcare law opponents described as socialized medicine that would curtail america's freedom but ultimately freed millions of seniors from the fear that i willness could rob them of dignity and security in their goldep years, which we now know today as medicare. >> for president obama, the legacy of lbj resonates personally and in politics. >> president obama was two years old when johnson signed the civil rights acted alongside martin luther king. >> we continues to follow events in ukraine. pro-russian sep raftists laying down arms with a deadline to do so has come and gone. >> a reporter spent several months in the country, talking about how the people there and asks if ukraine could be broken up even further? >> we are trying to silk the wagons and save face and the reality is that they have been part of the problem all along. >> reaction to that report finding albuquerquets police use excessive force against emotionally disturbed people. what happens now that the systemic problem has been uncovered. >> the big number of the day is 42 billion,$800 million. >> tell you what that means in the battle between television and internet. fascinating on how things have change did . taking a live look at the nasdaq building in time square. the type of stocks sold off yesterday that sent the exchange p tumbling. >> in ukraine, a tense standoff between the government and armed pro russian activists occupying russian buildings. protestors in the towns have refused to lay down their arms and leave the buildings. the activists rejected a government am necessary offer that would have allowed them to leave peacefully. it raises fierce force will be used to clear the buildings. let's go to denejsk, a town under siege. the prime minister was in that town today. what did he promise the protestors? >> well, yes, as you mentioned, interim prime minister yatsenyuk has been here immediating withies and trade representatives and basically offering more power to the regions. the regions will have more say over the state of affairs in ukraine, perhaps a bill could be put through to parliament on the idea of a referendum. exactly what that would be is a referendum, all leaders clear that they want ukraine to stay united. the question now is whether this will be enough to appease protestors. i'm outside the state administration building. >> i've been clear that this is already, they believe, a re public. they are already the legitimate leaders of this leader and want a referendum to show the people agree, the government is kiev. the 48 hour ultimatum of the interior minister for protestors to leave through negotiations or by force is now up. we've been around this building, weaver been around the city. we have seen very few police, certainly no riot police, for now, both sides, you know, this side is standing firm. >> where you are specifically for your live shot looks relatively calm, but that building is one of those occupied. we're seeing pictures of barricades and things like that. is that relatively close to where you are and who are these protestors? are they citizens of denejsk, are they soldiers or are they russian? >> we are a couple hundred meters back from the building. just because various camera crews have had people come up to them to try to disrupt during live shots. if you are from russia, you are very quickly welcomed in. ukrainian channels in particular have been targeted. protestors inside are very well bar indicated, reinforcements around all the time. we've seen weapons, not guns, but axes, ma chet tees, baseball bats, and they're very well prepared. your other question of whether this is representative of the region, it's very difficult to say. opinions and polls suggest these people are not representative. the most recent poll we have seen is around 65% of people in the region would like the region to stay as part of ukraine, and that the claims are paid provocateurs coming across the barredder, these are not true. we're hearing locally the going prays maybe 50 adjustment dollars. >> she is with the christian monitor and spent time in ukraine. you woke up this morning, knew the deadline was expiring, what was your biggest fear? >> my biggest fear is that they would have gone into the buildings and tried to get the protestors out of there and that would have turned into a violent situation. at this point, that's the last thing that the situation needs in order to find some sort of resolution so that was my biggest fear and so far that hasn't happened. >> give us a sense of what you think is going to happen next. >> the guys in the east, they are not going to go as quickly as with crimea. you have a large russian speaking population, however many will sigh i'm an ethnic russian, but i want to stay part of ukraine. i want to be close to russia, closer ties to russia, but only 30% want to separate from ukraine, so it's going to be a very difficult battle. >> give us a sense as to who these people are in these buildings inside the barricades. the united states said they are pro russian provocateurs. >> i have been in the east and done reporting, and i suspect from what i've been talking to other reporters who are there and they say there are probably some russian citizens there. whether or not they're sort of spies, whatever, we don't know, but suspect there are a lot of locals there who hope they can become part of russia. >> 40,000 are you sure troops poised on the ukrainian border, russia saying they are pulling back, nato saying they see nothing that indicates those troops are moving, are you concern of an invasion of eastern ukraine? >> i'm concerned, the ukrainians are concerned about it. the presence of the troops is really dominating everything in that country and ukrainians are afraid of war and they have so much to get done within their own government. they have a failing economy. the threat of the russian troops on the border and war with russia is destabilizing the situation. >> they went toe-to-toe with the government, with the government of then viktor yanukovych. do they have strength to go toe-to-toe with russia to maintain ukraine? >> they say they do. they don't have the numbers the russian army does. they seem to have the will according to them and the passion to stand up for their independent country, but it's nothing that anyone wants to see, because i don't think it would be a fair fight when you put the armies next to each other. >> you are going back as soon as possible. thanks for being with us. >> thanks for having me. >> stay with us for continuing coverage of the crisis in ukraine. we're going to get the rug perspective of the procedure in those government buildings and the four way talks that are coming up next. >> on wall street, stock futures are lower, the markets coming off a major sell off as investors unload high flying tech shares. twitter and facebook have become too expensive. the dow starts at 16170, the s&p is 1833, and take a look at the nasdaq, 4054, yesterday's 3% loss, it's worst one day percentage decline since late 2011. the tech sell off overseas, asian markets lower, nikkei fouling 2%. investors have been worried about the first quarter earning season. j.p. morgan coming in with a bigger than expected drop in profits. the bank earned more than $5 million last quarter. weaknesses in its mortgage business hurt its bottom line. the bank's legal troubles are stick weighing on the company. >> the regulatory environment is still unfolding and the expectation is that the bulk of the settlements are now behind them. the headline risk for a bank of that size always remains, so i don't think they are in the clear completely yet. >> we are waiting to hear from wells fargo. it is expected to post a profit. >> a new king of advertising, today's big number is $42.8 billion, the record ad revenue last year. >> the interactive advertising bureau says the revenue is 17% bump from 2012. mobile advertising also doubled this revenue from 2012 to $7.1 billion. i.a.d. said that's because facebook, google and twitter have all boosted their mobile presence, a sign of the times really. >> the department of justice criticizing the albuquerque police department. >> a systemic problem. >> a broken system contributed to the use of excessive force. >> we're going to take an in department look at that report and how likely it is to speaker real change. >> in the midst of grief of losing our child and to be accused of harming one of our children at the same time. >> a mother accused of making her children sick on purpose talks openly about the accusations that she is to blame. >> at the far end that way, the two bridges are no further apart than my arms are outstretched. >> the threat to san francisco's old bay bridge may pose to the new span that is right next to it. >> good morning. , to aljazeera america. i'm del walters. >> i'm stephanie sy. >> ahead in this hour, what a scathing justice department report says about the albuquerque police department and what it says about the police department. >> the san francisco bridge built to withstand an earthquake and could be in jeopardy. >> doctors getting a better handle on alzheimer's disease. >> a fedex truck slamming into that tour bus in northern california killing 10, injuring dozens. most of the passengers onboard high school students on their way to visit a college campus, many teenagers jumping out of the windows before the bus burst into flames. >> pro russian accept are a activities are refusion to leave buildings in eastern ukraine. ukrainian prime minister offered amnesty to those who surrender but is trying to use force if the buildings were not vacated. >> kathleen sebelius is going to call it quits this morning. the president is expected to nominate the current director of the office of management and budget to replace her. >> the justice department issued a scathing report on the albuquerque police department. the report said officers have engaged in a troubling pattern of excessive force. police there have shot and killed 23 people since 2010. we have details from the city. >> vindication, that's what the father of kenneth ellis three rome, shot by albuquerque police in 2010 felt thursday upon hearing these words from the department of justice. >> we found that officers used deadly force against people who did not pose an immediate threat of death or serious harm to the officers or to others and against people who posed a threat only to themselves. >> ellis was gunned down while pointing a gun at his own head. he had been an iraq war veteran suffering from ptsd. it is his father's mission to fight for police reform since his son's death. >> i'm sure he's watching and proud of his dad. >> the report said the fatal shootings were unreasonable and violated the fourth amendment. the federal probe also found encounters of persons with mental illness too frequently result in excessive force and that the problems with excessive force are systemic and a part of a culture of indifference to policing. >> in adequate training and a broken civilian oversight process contributed to the use of excessive force. >> get on the ground! >> the federal investigation guns in 2012 but it was this video released this march that brought public anger to a boiling point. james boyd was homeless and mentally ill. officers killed him at point-blank range. he was holding knives. the video spurred protests on streets, including to demonstration two weeks ago that prompted police to respond with tear gas and riot gear. following the justice democratic's report, albuquerque's police chief acknowledged for the first time the department's short coming but they didn't go as far as to apologize. >> those families, i'm sure feel that tragedy. our goal is to reduce any type of an event, any type of a situation where our officers always take the appropriate action. that's our goal. >> do you want to offer them any apologies? >> at this point, we're working really hard on the situation. >> they're trying to circle the wagons and trying to, you know, save face and reality is that they've been part of the problem all along. >> the mayor, in office since 2009 said he hasn't considered resigning. the next step, talks to address reforms and while many here say they've lost trust in the city's government and police, they acknowledge this is a step forward. >> david cory, you've been an outspoken critic of the albuquerque police department. thanks for joining us this morning. you have said that this report confirms the criticisms made for the last four years. are you now confident that the needed reforms will happen? >> no, i'm not confident that they'll happen. the report is damning, and it certainly details the troubling nature of unconstitutional policing going on and it does confirm everything that people like kennel listen and others have been saying for years and we've been saying for years, but unfortunately, the 46 page report stops short of really dramatically changing the culture, the aggressive culture of unconstitutional police be. it makes recommendations. >> whose responsibility is it to do more. you described the report a the toothless. what more can federal authorities really do? >> well, what we said all along when people asked the d.o.j. to begin this investigation a year and a half ago, the goal was to appoint a federal monitor to impose these changes, and unfortunately, and this might still happen and we are advocating that approach. it's troubling to us that they would describe in such detail a police department with systemic problems, not just about the policing on the street but leadership training, and then allow that department to implement a series of recommendations, so a federal monitor, that's our goal, must impose those changes and then that's the beginning of transforming unconstitutional policing to community policing with real civilian oversights. >> the mayor of albuquerque had this to say of the d.o.j.'s findings and recommendations. let's listen. >> as difficult as the findings in the report are and there are some difficult findings in the report and we recognize that, the good news is that this is an achievable goal. >> you, sir, have been critical of mayor berry. how is his public support in albuquerque? >> eroding, a recall effort underway. we hope that makes additional pressure on him and that administration. unfortunately, he's involved in these negotiations with d.o.j. about how these recommendations should be implemented. they should be imposed immediately. he has attempted to block this at every step. he was opposed to the doj investigation, only now when he realized these are going to be forced upon him does he welcome this opportunity at reform. these reform efforts have happened before and resulted in more police shootings. >> you have written that there is a "relentless history of police violence in albuquerque." what do we need to understand about albuquerque to understand about why that is continue to go happen? >> you said in this piece that there's been 23 young men shot and killed since 2010, 37 separate shootings. that's the most recent pattern. there was a 10 year period with 31 people shot and killed that culminated in a series of reform efforts, a.p.d. promising to change and after those reforms, new civilian oversight, then they promptly killed over 20 people in a six year period. this goes back to the 1970's. this is a pattern of racialized silence by the albuquerque police department and really since the mid-1980's and 1990's with the hollowing out of mental health services and lack of network of support for the homeless, most of those 23 men killed in the last four years have been homeless. many of them have suffered from mental illness. the police department, as this report demonstrated, more often than not, uses excessive and unjustified force when dealing with people that are homeless or deal with mental illness. >> you made key points about the degradation of mental health services, which is another topic of discussion. we'll to have leave it there. thanks for joining us this morning. >> there has been a unanimous security vote in the u.n. for more peace keeping troops in the central african republic. france will keep its force in that country until additional peacekeepers arrive. fighting between christian and muslim groups have continued with 6,050,000 people displaced. >> the house saying the u.n. ambassador was involved in taking hostages during the iran hostage crisis. he has a long standing career as a diplomat. the legislation needs the white house signature to become law. >> venezuela president is meeting with opposition leaders today, marking the stop of talks aimed at stopping protests that have left 40 dead. he is not meeting with the student groups rallying against him. >> there was no dialogue in the streets of caracas. demonstrators marched as a conversation between the government and the opposition began. >> they don't represent us, and i think that before going to these talks, they should know what those of us who are fighting for a radical change want. >> students boycotted the meeting at the presidential palace where the government and political opponents showed their mistrust. the opposition accused for the violence that has left at least 41 people dead and hundreds wounded and detained. >> you can't burn a university and call it a fair protest. 15 university's were burnt down, library classrooms. you can't call this a political struggle. you can't say it's peaceful legitimate protest. you'll be measured by the way you measure others and if you use violence, nobody wins. >> in this first round of talks, he accused the opposition of trying to out of the him. they say the government is keeping the opposition from participating in the government. >> it's only fire that the country hears what is said by the other side to overcome mistrust. >> the meeting was brokered to find a way out of the political crisis that has lasted over two months. >> this dialogue for peace cannot wait any longer. while there are people hurt and killed because of violence, no matter who is responsible. >> but in the streets of the capitol, protestors are in no mood to negotiate. >> we will not have a dialogue over the too manies of our dead brothers. >> he insisted there will be no negotiations or pacts. he said this will be a debate. the only way to overcome the crisis is removing the president from office say the protestors. >> the protests began in early february against venezuela's high crime rate, record inflation and unemployment. these are the largest demonstrations in the country in nearly a decade. >> the weather has been great, let's get a look at the temperatures we can expect across the country today. >> mean nicole mitchell is back. >> another day to smile. a lot of 50's and 60's up the coastline, even in the midwest, 40's to start the day. this region has had a cold front come through. even that didn't have cold air with it. you'll look at 60's, chicago 66, temperatures rebound tomorrow. of course that's ahead of a strong storm that accounted really change things, east coast into the 70's and as we head to the southwest coastline, 60's and 70's, as well. tomorrow we start to see changes into the midsection of the country. i'll talk more about the severe potential in a few minutes. >> doctors say it's extremely rare, but sometimes parents make their own children sick on purpose. >> we look at the complicated issue of medical child abuse and talks to a marry that she said is being wrongly accused. >> gabriel is a professional 5-year-old, but his mom said he suffers from a rare and poorly understood condition called might toe condrey diseases. >> the part of the cell that produces energy doesn't work properly. >> jessica hilliard said his older sister had a case of the aim illness. >> you can't really see it, but all of her tubes and wires are there. we concealed them. >> she died shy of her fifth birthday. it was a few months later, they were back with gabriel saying he was showing the first signs of the illness. that raised a red flag with the doctors and a charge now known as medical child abuse. >> it's very difficult to describe how traumatic that was for our family to be in the midst of grief of losing our child and also be accused of harming one of our children at the same time. >> medical child abuse can take many forms. >> you have parents who because of their ache site or for any other reason exaggerate symptoms in their children. that's a lot more innocent than the other end of the spectrum where parents actually endues illness. >> one of the most notorious cases was that of florida resident kathy bush. prosecutors proved she had systematically overdosed her daughter with a powerful seizure medication. >> this is a chart we used in child to show the jury how many days each month the child was in the hospital. >> during the years of her daughter's imnesses, kathy bush became a media darling, even first lady hillary clinton highlighted the family's medical struggles, but ultimately, the mom went to jail and the doctor turned out to be perfectly healthy. a case now in the spotlight is that of a 15-year-old taken from her parents more than a year ago after doctors at boston children's hospital suspected medical child abuse. the family, who says justinea also has the disorder claims it has been wrongly accused. >> it's almost never black and white in the complex cases. as a consequence, tragic errors occur on both sides. >> as for the hilliard family, they were investigated for medical child abuse. the allegations were found unsupported. >> there has to be a middle ground here and we haven't managed to find it yet where you are able to investigate suspicions that a child is being happened without completely destroying the family. >> so far, that middle ground has been hard to come by. aljazeera, boston. >> neither boston children's hospital or the massachusetts department of children and families were willing to comment on the hilliard case. >> we're going to cross lines over to a presser by the national transportation safety board in washington. they are holding a press conference about that bus accident between a bus and a fedex truck in northern california which killed 10 people. they're taking questions from reporters, lets listen in. >> that we will actually confirm once we are on scene and then give you a source locally of who will be providing that information on a regular basis. so we'll provide local information while you have a contact to figure owl that out. thanks very much. >> you just saw the end of that press conference. we can kell you that the ntsb is sending a team to other land, california, 95 north of as he can are a men toe. ten people died in the accident, including the two drivers and five students that were headed to a college tour. we'll continue to follow that as news breaks. >> an earthquake has struck off the coast of. a with a new guinea. it is under a tsunami watch as a result of the 7.4 magnitude quake. it is unclear if there is any damage so far. earthquakes are common there, on the ring of fire. >> 23 people were injured, 100 homes damaged with a magnitude 6.1 quake. >> it is an active season. >> here's a loaded question. do you hate your job? >> the company that's offering its unhappy worker thousands of dollars to quit. that and more headlines people are talking about this morning. >> it's going to take years to take apart san francisco's old bay bridge. there are concerns it may be posing a threat to the new bridge right next to it. >> an earthquake could strike and this earthquake could tip over and damage the bridge they just finished building. r >> on the next talk to al aljazeera... >> i'm antonio mora and this is talk to al jazeera >> award winning documentary director ken burns, talks about his craft, and his latest project on the gettysburg address talk to al jazeera only on al jazeera america >> san francisco's new bay bridge bill to withstand and earthquake, and it could still pose a threat because of the old bay bridge. >>, to aljazeera america. >> first, the all important weekend forecast. don't want to put any pressure on you, nicole, but deliver. >> we made it to the weekend. i'm just happy about that. we have a cold front moving through, not a lot of cold air or moisture, could see limited rain in the northeast today. nice weather behind it as it clears out. northern plains, snow into later next week. yes, i said that. one of my friends just took off his snow tires in dual ruth. i said might be early. >> first saturday into sunday, the risk spreads, so do watch for that. back to you. >> >> what happens in vegas usually stays there unless it just happens to be a shoe thrown at hillary clinton. you had a catch it real quick, the former first lady giving a speech when out of nowhere an object goes by. a woman threw her shoe. here's a look at the close call. the woman was arrested immediately. she made it through the speech unscathed and cracked a few jokes about it. not the first time it's happened. the instant replay's not one, but two shoes thrown at president george w. bush back in 2008 in baghdad. the president also very quick on his toes, and the person who threw the shoes is still in jail. >> i wonder if that's a qualification for being a president, being able to dodge shoes. good aim, though. >> >> let's take a look at other stories. paying workers to quit. it's part of the pay to quit, in other words, it's sort of roots out employees that don't want to work there. after your first year, you can quit and get $1,000, up to $5,000 if you don't want to work at amazon. >> unemployment rate is still high, keep the job. >> colbert going to be hosting the late show, playing himself for a change. he's always been that character on the colbert report, what is going to happen when he decides to be himself. >> and will he be called colbert. >> chimpanzees escape their enclosure. this is the most entertaining thing i read this morning, the story dead pans it, really entertaining, they never really got out of the zoo. this is the ringleader chimp. >> in defense of the zoo, it's a nice zoo. i don't know why they would want to leave. >> apparently they lured them back by food, including chocolate. all right, serious stories now, crews are taking on a major task in san francisco, taking down the old bay bridge. there are concerns it could collapse and fall on to the new bridge right next to it. >> disassembling the oakland bay bridge is just as hard and maybe harder than building a new one. the demolition project scheduled to take three to five years is a sprint in engineering terms. >> a westbound section has collapsed into an eastbound section. >> a section of the bridge collapsed in 1989 but engineers are far more worried about its safety now. >> this is the moment engineers are worried about, not this moment, but the next three to five years while they take apart this bridge. during that time, an earthquake could strike and this earthquake could tip over and damage the bridge they just finished building. >> being on top of any bridge is scary enough. [ laughter ] >> this laughter, that's terror. >> scientists have been detected small shakes up and down the california toast. although no one can predict when an either quake might strike, but in a big shake, the old bridge would be terribly dangerous especially to the new bridge. >> that way, the two bridges are no farther than my arms are outstretched. >> the old bridge uses a classic design, its central portion a long span suspended between two towers. they leaned in towards one another. the engineers had to use enormous four to know jacks to pull back on each side of the span separating them. then they cut the span in half. while we were on the deck, the crews separated one of the big 30-ton giants causing the whole structure to vibrate and sway on the foot. >> i'm feeling terrified, because the whole thing is moving, and it's kind of -- it's a very scary thing to be on an unsupported bridge like this. >> the disassembly will happen in three phases, first the western most span where it touches san francisco island in the middle of the bay, then the rest of the bridge and finally the part between the mud like that and bottom of the bay, which will require underwater demolition experts. until that point, san francisco's will continue to hold their breath and hope that the bridge that served them for seven decades can remain standing just a little longer. aljazeera, san francisco. >> over the past seven decades, 240,000 people have traveled across the old bay bridge a day. the bridge cost $77 million to build. it first opened in 1936 and when it did, it was the largest bridge in the world at that time. >> here are some of the stories we're following this morning. that tragedy on a california highway as 10 people are killed when a truck and bus collide carrying high school students on their way to a college tour. >> kathleen sebelius announcing her resignation today following the controversial launch of the affordable care act that she oversaw. >> russia says it poses no military threat to ukraine. >> doctors in chicago building personal relationships with always's patients trying to help out their care. >> i'm meteorologist nicole mitchell. major tropical system is hitting australia. here in the states, more severe weather could vessel on that. i'll have that forecast. >> the aljazeera morning news continues. del walters is back with you in two minutes. have a great friday morning and a nice weekend. >> cabinets shake up health and human services kathleen sebelius stepping down at some gop lawmakers step up their criticism of the affordable care act. >> tragedy on a california highway, 10 people dead in a head on crash involving a truck and bus. among those killed, high school students on their way to a college tour. >> democracy does not work in the louisiana. this place is controlled by an industry, oil and gas. >> environmental groups taking action against risky business claiming the local government is ledding business destroy coastal we had lands. >> this means not conclusive lieges was married. we'll never know that. >> the ancient piece of paper and the uproar over the theory of jesus being married. >> good morning, welcome to aljazeera america. i'm del walters. some are calling her the latest casualty of the president's controversial health care law. kathleen sebelius will officially step down as the secretary of health and human services. she was seen as poison for the botched rollout of the affordable care act. why is she leaving? >> the timing could be seen as the natural conclusion of an arc of a secretary's tenure, she's been in the job five years, which is a long time for secretaries to serve. she came in before the obama administration really kicked into gear with the fight over the affordable care act. she was there when it was signed into law by the president's side. she was there for the supreme court challenge and ultimately the implementation. now secretary oversaw the botched website rollout and so she is leaving right now before the mid term elections heat up, before she becomes a political pawn in what went wrong over the health care law. >> hi, how are you? >> heavily criticized over the disastrous rollout of the healthcare.gov website, there were many calls for her to resign. >> the only thing i can conclude is that it's impossible to do something in this administration that gets you fired. >> now months after those initials calls, health and human services secretary kathleen sebelius is stepping oh side. the former two term cans governor offered no hint she was leaving when she testified thursday before the senate finance committee, instead using the opportunity to tout the health law. >> we do not anticipate at this point, senator, additional delays, but i think the basic policies are now in place and we anticipate moving forward. >> whatever the lightning rod of criticism over obamacare's rocky start, republicans gave her one last grilling. >> before the affordable care act went into effect, how many were forced to give up their insurance due to man dates under the law. were there any forced to give up? >> i do not have data to give you right now in terms of who exactly was previously uninsured. we are collecting that. >> she never shied away from taking responsibility for the glitch-filled website. >> it's unacceptable. i am focused on fixing it, and i'm accountable. >> her boss always stood by her. >> you know, i think kathleen sebelius under tremendous difficult circumstances over the last four and a half years has done a great job in setting up the insurance markets, so that there's a good product out there for people to get. she doesn't write code. >> the accusation comes one week after the president celebrated his health care act's last surge. >> despite several lost weeks out of the gate because of problems with the website, 7.1 million americans have now signed up for private insurance plans through these marketplaces. 7.1. >> noticeably missing at the president's rose garden announcement, she will be there today when sylvia matthews bur well, the director of the office of management and budget is named successor of the post she held five years. >> there will be a moment where there is a changing of the guards. don't expect that to deflate all criticism that republicans and others have over the health care law and president obama. >> libby, we know she's taking the blame, she got the blame for the botched rollout but does the white house give her credit for turning the numbers around? >> it's such a tough situation for democrats and the white house, because they have a lot of pride in the law itself and the architecture of getting more americans health care. because the actual enrollment produces was so difficult, fraught with trouble, a top democratic a year ago warned that it was headed for a crane wreck. that's really overshadowed everything else. critics of the law called it obamacare. even as she steps to the side and gets out of the lime light, president obama is still left with both the good and bad of the law, and just how americans feel about it over the next couple of months will determine a lot about the mid term elections. >> some are saying this is a move to bring back the democrats who are distancing themselves from the bill during an election year. is it going to work? >> well, this is the question of how the rest of the process will unfold and how the new director of health and human services, the new secretary will fill the role, what her priorities and goals will be. as democrats responded to see bealouss resignation, many of them highlighted other achievements that she is able to accomplish outside of the affordable care act. represents were quick to criticize her, mitch mcconnell in the senate said that her resignation is cold comfort for those affect by the affordable care act. >> we're going to talk to the co author of howard dean's real prescription for health care reform. we're going to ask when kathleen sebelius is a casualty of the health care act as record. >> now 10 people dead as many as 50 injured in a bus crash north of sacramento. a fedex truck slammed into a tour bus, the crash killed both drivers. five students and three chaperones were killed. both vehicles went up in flames. >> this is what's left of the horrific collision on california's interstate five. the charred remains of a fedex truck and a tour bus that had been packed with high school students. the california highway patrol says the crash was caused by the driver of the tractor trailer, who's among the dead. >> it clipped a white car that is further in the ditch up there and site swiped it, went head on with the charter bus, and immediate explosion, and there are 44 students, three chop reasons, and school bus driver onboard, so 48 people. >> police are unsure why the truck we have beened across a median separating traffic on the interstate. the high school students from schools across los angeles were on their way to visit humboldt state university north of as he can are a men toe. >> i see black, but there's fire at the front of the bus, it's crushed pretty much. we all start jumping up to run away. >> witnesses describe a fiery aftermath that devoured both vehicles. >> we heard a loud sonic boom about 5:00 and the whole house shook. the tour bus was fully engulfed in flames. it just kept popping and booming as it was on fire. there was nothing left of the tour bus. >> police and ambulances rushed to the scene setting up a triage unit an site. some students walked away from the wreckage while others needed to be carried. back on the burned out bus, bodies of the victims were draped in blankets. >> right now, the team is putting together all the pieces of the puzzle to determine what caused the fed ex-driver to cross over the median and into oncoming traffic, as well as any actions, evasive actions that the bus driver may have taken to avoid the collision as well as the car that was in front of the bus driver. >> thomas drayton, aljazeera. >> these are images live right now. you can see both pieces of wreckage still at the scene. the ntsb in washington holding a news conference a short while ago indicating that a go team is heading to assess exactly what went wrong. >> an official with humboldt state college, the college where the students were going to releasing a statement saying our hearts go out to those affected an we are here to support them and their families in any way possible. >> the teenager accused of going on that wild stabbing spree as a school may have been bullied, this according to the lawyer for the 16-year-old. although police aren't confirming that hribal is being charged as an adult. he met with his parents yesterday at the detention center for the first time since that incident took place. >> in ukraine, pro russian accept are a activities aren't bow to ging to pressure. the activists rejected an amnesty offer that would have allowed them to leave peacefully. we are in the town. >> you can see very few people here and colonel not so far, no police are military are seen in the area at all. ukraine's interim prime minister yatsenyuk is calling for meetings with regional leaders in a last ditch effort to try to solve this standoff. meanwhile here, people are here. they are asking people to come down and support the protestors here. the west and kiev accuse moscow of stirring up unrest here, suggesting that perhaps people here are not representative of the wider region. polls would suggest they are right, a recent poll showing 65% of people in the region would like to stay united. people here say they do represent the region and maintain they are part of the republic, maintaining their resolve. they would like a referendum. >> coming up in our next half hour with the expiration of the 48 hour deadline, pro russian accept are a activities, we're going to look at the next move in this tense standoff. >> crews looking for the missing malaysia airlines flight 370 are still unclear if the pings heard are from the black boxes. the chief marshall leading the search said the latest signal heard thursday probably isn't from the flight data recorders, but they've heard several other pings the last few days. tony abbot saying the crews are close to finding the source. >> we have narrowed down the search area and we are very confident that the signals that we are detecting are from the black box. >> crews plan on sending an unmanned sub to search the ocean floor when they pinpoint the exact location of those objects. >> the united states and south korea launching their largest ever joint air exercise, involving 1400 aircraft and military personnel. >> this exercise is part of the annual combined exercises that every year north korea calls rehearsals for invasion. this year, it's not as contentious as this time last year. north korea has made similar pro tests again. during a few days ago, during a combined amphibious exercise billed as the largest in 20 years, north korea chose that date to hold a live drill, firing 100 shells into south korean waters, south korea returned fire. as well as this exercise that we are at today. south korea and the united states are launching what they call the biggest ever combined air defense exercise. that's something that the north careens may well want to react that in some way. this is also the day that the south korean defense ministry makes public its interim findings on its investigation into a number of north korean drones, low flying, low tech drones that have been discovered in south korea in recent weeks, something which has dominated media headlines. >> a u.s. envoy is heading back to washington after talks between the palestinians and israelis, both sides agreeing to extend negotiations beyond the deadline. state department confirms progress but says no deal has been reached. they will return after passover next week. >> a major cyclone in south america today. >> it is on the complete other side of the continent versus the search area. more of the searching has been off to the west, and what we're looking at is on the northeast side, so that's good, because it would really impact things if it were in the same area, you'd have to move ships out of the area, can't get a lot of flying done and if you were to fly into this, you wouldn't see much. you can see the eye and it crossing over land. it officially made landfall. this is in queensland. it will continue down the coastline now. this will be our equivalent, they call them tropical cyclones. a category four hurricane with winds 140 miles an hour. when it made landfall, it started to diminish. you can see it looking organized. they always tend to fall apart a little bit. not only damage from the winds, but flooding is a concern. >> let's get back to the united states. a lot of this not hitting the ground, but today, an overnight watch, chances for rain, most clears out beautifully in time for the weekend. already, though, some things start to go form up behind this. this is how this shapes up for saturday and sunday. saturday, already a slight risk for thunderstorms, but that area gross sunday. and we'll watch that very carefully for everyone this weekend. back to you. >> nicole, thank you very much. >> big oil blamed for the destruction of the fastball jail we had lands along the gulf. critics saying the government is turning a blind eye to what they are doing. >> spending a billion dollars on a flu drug that doesn't work. new questions about tamiflu. >> greek citizens hitting the streets at angela merkel comes to down. the german chancellor supporting austerity measures for athens. the greeks are none too happy. 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[ male announcer ] troubleshoot, manage appointments, and bill pay from your phone. introducing the xfinity my account app. >> welcome to al jazeera america. health and human services secretary kathleen sebelius is calling it quits this morning. the president expected to nominate sylvia matthews burrell, the current secretary of management and budget. kathleen sebelius was criticized over the rollout of the affordable care act. the president of thing progress.org is in washington, d.c. this morning and joins us. good morning. >> good morning. >> talk about the best of times, worst of times if you're health and human services secretary kathleen sebelius. why is she stepping down? >> she certainly tried to go out on a high note, 7.5 million, beyond the expectations, but she's had a rough five years trying to implement the law, writing the regulations, dealing with the budget shortages, republicans opposing her in every turn and the rocky rollout i think will be a blow to her legacy. it's been a long time. she's been there longer than most. this was a natural period after the first open enrollment for her to move on. >> she was noticeably away sent when the president took the victory lap last week. did the white house throw her under the bus? >> i don't think so. i think within the white house, they're very grateful for her. this was a hard job, a heavy lift, and given all of the problems and all kinds of of the complications and the backlash, at the end of the day, they can point to the victory of 7 million in the exchanges, 3 million more in medicate expansion. for that, she bears a lot of the responsibility and credit. >> going forward, what does the tenure of kathleen sebelius say? first, why would anyone want to work in washington, d.c. these days. the contempt creatation against a former i.r.s. official and the woes of attorney general eric holder. who wants that type of abuse? >> it's not easy, certainly, that's the fear is that all of this animosity and the polarization you see, the incredible disrespect that people like holder and kathleen sebelius, will this keep the best and brightest away. we hope that's not the case, but yeah, they take abuse and now when you talk about their legacy, i think more people are talking about the failures than the successes, so it's, you know, it's a tough job to have, certainly. >> sylvia matthews burrow, the white house director of o.m.b., does she have what it takes to lead the agency forward? >> i think so. she seems incredibly capable, tested during that 15 day shutdown. her biggest challenge is going to have a smooth second enrollment period beginning november 15. all eyes are going to be on h.h.s. she has to make sure the website is work egbert. if no glitches, that will be seen as a success. now she's at the point of implementing the law and standards that are already there and i think from her resultation, the belief is that is something she is good at, very detail oriented and can make sure that goes smoothly. >> a lot in washington right now are telling democrats to run on the affordable care act. are they heeding the ball some will so far the mother they run away from the law, the less popular it will become and nobody's going to stop attacking them for supports it at some point, so given the successes we've seen lately, democrats, i think would take some time to consider that kind of leaning into the law and touting its successes could help them over the long term. >> igor, in the five years this has now been law, does it give health care to the people who didn't have it? >> there's plans floating around congress. it's rough for republicans. as one told reporters last week, anything they come up with looks a lot like obamacare, includion provisions keeping children on your plans, high risk pools for sicker people, which was an earlier part of obamacare. the rhetoric has been raised so high that republicans at least their base expect something entirely different and realistically because obamacare has it cooked up into it, it's tough to come up with something. >> igor, thank you very much. >> we find out the government may have spent more than a billion dollars for a flu drug that was no better than tylenol. a report published in the british medical journal finding tamiflu was not as effective as once thought. the study questions the effectiveness and companies behind it. >> in 2003, the world faced stark warnings of a deadly global pandemic. in asia, bird flu was spreading to humans. experts warned billions of people around the world were at risk. tammy flu he merged as the leading anti viral medicine. this new report claims the drug's benefits were exaggerated. >> >> there's no effect on the transmission of flu. >> the fear of a pandemic led to warehouses stock piled for emergency. the british government spent $793 million on tamiflu, the u.s. government $1.3 billion on the drug. the new report found it worked, but only a bit. flu symptoms which would last seven days were reduced to 6.3 days for adults and 5.8 in children, gains so marginal that the reports authors say over-the-counter drugs would have had the same effect. >> the report authors battled for four years to get access to the raw research data and their findings not only questioned the drug but criticized the system, the way drugs regulators are only ever presented with selective data by the pharmaceutical industry. >> they have a conflict of somebody, purchase the studies, provide the regulator with what they ask for but do not go out of their way to present the benefits in a reasonable fashion or to give clear evidence on the harms. >> tamiflu is manufactured by the company rosche, it is dispute be the conclusions and allegations of secretiveness. >> we shared all of those things with the regulators and they right field it in the late. i think, you know, i feel that we've been as transparent as was suitable at the time under the regulatory environment that there is. >> the debate has not yet affected tamiflu's status. the world health organization still classes it as an essential medicine. >> tamiflu sales bringing in almost $3 billion in sales. the deadly bird flu virus only needs five genetic mutations before spreading to people. it's spread through poultry currently. dutch researchers say it has the potential to transfer through coughing or sneezing. critics say the scientists have created a new super bug. the scientists say their research may help prevent a pandemic. >> good morning, nicole. >> very comfortable recently. anything from 50's and 60's up the east coast, a lot of 30's and 40's through the midsection of the country and some 50's along the coastline in california this morning. now the next couple days, staying mild for the most part, even with the weak cold front moving through, it hasn't dropped temperatures more than a few degrees. denver at 76 today. by tomorrow, chicago which is at 66 once that front clears out, back up to 73. you can see more of that warm air in the midsection of the country. that's where a storm system will be brewing. that's actually going to change things a lot, the warm air fueling potential thunderstorms and on the backside of that, temperatures drop, chicago back into the 40's next week. enjoy the warm air while you have it. >> the u.s. threatening russia with sanctions over the unrest in ukraine. what it will take to come together to find a solution to the divisions in the eastern part of the country. >> the piece of ancient paper that raises new questions about jesus christ. >> in a hunt to cure a disease affecting 5 million americans, why building relationships with alzheimer's patients may give doctors the insight they need. >> last night's rock and roll hall of fame induction ceremony coming up, more aljazeera news. >> you're looking at mid town manhattan as investors are getting ready to recoup big losses on the index, the dow losing triple digit figures, ending a two day winning streak. more on the trading day straight ahead. the nasdaq is where most of the losses occurred. >> welcome to al jazeera america. i'm del walters. >> ahead, a group that is suing, claiming that oil and gas companies are destroying louisiana's coastal we had lands. >> angela merkel visiting greece witness protestors take to the streets. >> an increased military presence of russia on the border with ukraine, showing fighter jets and tanks with as many as 40,000 troops near the border. russia has agreed to high level meetings with the u.s., european union and ukraine. russia's foreign minister saying a deescalation of the crisis is possible. the deputy director of the american ukrainian institute is in washington, d.c. this morning. good morning, james. >> good morning. >> on wednesday, pro russian accept are a activities were given a deadline to leave within 48 hours the government buildings, the deadline coming and going. what do you expect to happen next? >> i certainly hope that they do not try to launch any kind of trackdown. it's a real dilemma for the kiev authorities whether they can do so, whether ukrainian security force it is would obey. there have been efforts by local residents to block convoys of security forces, and the big question mark for them is would that trigger another russian move. the russians i think would prepare not to move into eastern ukraine, but the demonstrators have called for russian assistance that could very well trigger it. that's something they need to think hard about. >> why should the government be allowed to remove those demonstrators forcefully if needed. that would be under the presidency of viktor yanukovych. >> that's an interesting comparison. you had an elected president in kiev who was run out of office by some very violent protestors on the streets of kiev. the people in denejsk are protesting against government nobody voted for. you've got a breakdown of law and order in the ukrainian state against whom are they rebelling. that's one of the underlying problems of this entire crisis that if the west and russia want to try to resolve it, they need to address that. >> we some estimates, 40,000 russian troops poised on the borders of eastern ukraine, russia saying it has withdrawn troops, nato saying that it is not. should russia move in militarily should those demonstrators be moved on? >> i certainly hope not and i hope it doesn't come to that. we really are in a fork in the road. ukraine is coming apart at the seams, cannot pay its bills, including for its gas, of course. and either there's going to be a cooperative approach where we try to restore the balance within ukraine among the various regions and eastern and russian influence or we keep going down the road of charges and counter charges and accusations that can lead to unforeseeable consequences. really, i think it's a very dangerous situation. >> as we look at the situation, does the west or russia have a dog in this fight when it comes to military forces inside ukraine, in your opinion? >> i think the russians have a dog in this fight in the same way that we would have a dog in a fight like this if it were happening say in canada, a country that would be essential to our security as the russians see ukraine as essential to their security. certainly the europeans have a dog in this fight. frankly, i don't think the united states has much of a dog in this fight, except to perform maybe a conciliatory role in trying to resolve it in a cooperative way. we seem to be doing quite the opposite, it seems. >> russia saying the troops were there as military exercises, but how should ukraine interpret that build up on its borders? >> certainly, it's saber rattling. even if these exercises were scheduled in advance, they are visible not role they're taking there. clearly this is meant as political pressure, as are the american moves now of sending some of our ships into the black sea, putting fighters into poland and the baltic states. this is a counter productive way to approach this crisis. >> james is the deputy director of the american institute in ukraine, thank you very much for being with us. >> 12,000 new international troops are being sent into the central african republic, the u.n. unanimously approving forces thursday. the troops won't arrive until september, set to replace the 5,000 african union troops on the ground fighting between christian and muslim rebel groups has killed thousands. 650,000 people have been internally displaced. >> a unanimous vote in congress banning iran's proposed u.n. ambassador from entering the u.s., the house saying he was involved in taking americans hostage in tehran in the 1970's. he says he was only a translator during the incident and has a long standing diplomatic career. the law needs the president's signature to become law. >> angela merkel showing support for greece's austerity measures, her visit coming one day after bond sales by greece for more than $4 billion. we are in athens. her visit comes after several protests in greece. remind us why protestors took to the streets. >> they are party of both the communist party and radical left party, the main challenge to the opposition are organizing separate protests to coincide this evening which will be held together with the prime minister's speech. it was very much expect'd. it is a symbolic gesture to show the opposition has a completely different view of greece's economic view than the government. the opposition denied there is even an economic recovery, and that this underlines the accept answer by markets of such a recovery in greece. they are trying obviously very hard to preserve a very different interpretation of the government's performance here. >> what will angela merkel be doing in athens today? >> she has a plan that was also followed in the middle of last year when she last visited. she's going to meet with entrepreneurs opening up start ups, cross bored operations, she will have a chance to talk about the conditions of doing business in greece, one of the main sticking points of competitiveness here and economic recovery firsthand, before she sits down and talks with the prime minister later in the afternoon and of course she will again have a chance to talk to him after the press conference over dinner before flying home to berlin. it's very much the format that the two sides followed on her previous visit. >> is there an indication that the economic woes of greece are now over behind the country? >> well, i think that economists are analyzing the very successful accounts an bond sale as a first step. it's a good day for greece after a four year absence, but remember, this isn't just a market judgment on greece's performance. its success depends on choosing the right moment, the right environmental factors in world forecasts. there was the fact that there was a lot of money sloshing around coming out of the merging markets, looking for a relatively good yield. greece fits that bill. as one economist told me that i spoke to earlier, greece is practically the only bond on the market now that is both high yield and relatively safe, because it's an emergent, it's classified as an emerging market economy but belongs to a hard currency. you get the best of both worlds right up until greece gets marked up for its credit worthiness again by its ratings agencies. >> a group of senate democrats putting pressure on president obama to give final approval to the key stone pipeline, demanding an end to the five year long review of the project. a lot of environmentalists oppose the pipeline which stretches from canada to texas. the president must approve the project because it crosses an international boundary. >> environmentalist groups are suing for damage they say oil and gas companies have done to louisiana. they call themselves the green army and they are making war to protect coastal we had lands. aljazeera has the story in the second part of our series climate s.o.s. >> for more than 30 years, retired lt. general served in the united states army, but now he's fighting a new battle to save his state's environment. >> because of the impact of the oil extraction companies that have come here and basically had their way in the state of louisiana, they have hung their flag over the state capital. >> he has watched for decades as state politicians have turned a blind eye to pollution he says was caused by the oil and gas industries, the gulf of mexico. the air, he says it's easy to spot the abandoned wells and uncapped pipe lines. >> it took nature thousands of years to build these we had lands, but ruffle 75 years or one lifetime, much has disappeared, turned into open water. >>ern environmentalists complain the state's government allows the industry to self regulate. that's why the green army has filed a lawsuit, asking nearly 100 oil quos to honor contracts requiring them to rare the destruction. >> every scientific study, including the industry's own has concluded that the city caused a significant amount of damage. there is this idea that the oil industry is above the law. >> louisiana's governor and oil industry supporters in the state legislature are pushing back. legislation's been drafted that would stop such lawsuits. in a statement, the louisiana ail and gas association said the green army is just one more group seeking to extort money from the oil and gas industry. this group is suing the very industry that is providing growth and steady jobs. some say the residents are the second poorest in the united states. >> democracy does not work in louisiana. this place is controlled by an industry, oil and gas, and they write the laws and the people of louisiana have to fight their own government to try and protect this place. >> it's not clear when the courts will hear the green army's case, so the coalition is working to draft its own laws and gain a foot hold in the state legislature. despite decades of destruction, they hope their efforts will begin to influence state politicians to help protect louisiana's coast. >> the governor recently removing two members of his flood authority who back the green army lawsuit. >> on wall street, high flying tech shares being unloaded, twitter and facebook becoming too expensive. yesterday's 3% loss was the worst one day percentage decline since late 2011. >> the tech sell off spreading overseas, nikkei falling 2%. european stocks opening sharply lower at this hour. >> investors have worried about first quarter earn ins. j.p. morgan coming in with a bigger than expected drop in profits. it was 19% lower than this time last year. weakness in the mortgage business hurt its bottom line. an lifts say the bank's legal troubles are still weighing on the company. >> the regulatory alignment is still unfolding and the expectation is that the bulk of the settlements are now behind them, but the headline risk for a bank of that size always remains, so i don't think they're in the clear completely yet. >> meanwhile, wells fargo reporting that its profit beats forecasts. >> sony said there's a risk that the batteries on the newest vaio could overheat and catch fire, they are recalling the 11a computer. >> while it was the longest freefall ever, felix baumgartner setting the record when jumping from the edge of space in 2012. his stunt benefits future pilots. >> the decision has been made, he will jump. >> the mission called red bull was his successful attempt to jump from the greatest height in history, connected to a massive helium balloon, he went 24 miles into the air. he was so high, he could see the curvature of the earth. he stepped out the capsule and did the unimaginable. >> that is really high. >> he jumped. >> i took a deep breath. i was trying to memorize everything. i would see the curve of the earth. i could see the sky above me was completely black. i took a deep breath and then you do this totally focused and do this one step forward and then you're on the way. >> he really was on his way. it took him two and a half hours to get to the edge of space and only nine minutes to get back down to earth. while free falling, he reached a speed of 843 miles per hour, breaking the speed of sound. >> when he was super sonic, he did not people it. when he was doing 843 miles an hour, he did not have any sensation. the people on the ground heard the sonic boom when he went enter sonic. it was an amazing feat that he did. >> this is still the most valid record, because no one ever broke the speed of sound. i'm the first how many outside of an aircraft that did it. >> the exhibit is on display at smithsonian's space museum. the biggest accomplishment are the advances that were learned. >> we developed a protocol if there was an emergency how we would handle felix. it's a new protocol that is revolutionary. that is one of the medical benefits of the program. we also demonstrated a new type pressure suit that future pilots will be wearing that has more dexterity to it. those are two significant reasons we accomplished the objective. >> he is known for his daring stunts. in 1999 he earned the road record for the highest parachute jump from a building. this jump was very different and took him five years to prepare. >> from every practice, we were growing together at one unit. we knew this was good, this was bad, we changed things pretty much until the very end of the program, we constantly changed our check lists. most of us working on muscles and fast reaction speed, but now we have to change everything, because endurance was the key now. that's the reason i spent a lot of time on a cardio bike and we changed everything in order to make me physically fit or a long, on going challenge. >> now he is preparing for his next feat, a day long car race in germany. breaking the speed of sound just wasn't enough. >> we left our comfort zone and did something extraordinary and that's probably the message to the whole world that it doesn't matter what you have done before. you know? as long as you have a goal in mind, as long as you surround yourself with the right people and are willing to go the extra mile, you can accomplish everything that you can imagine. >> that was one giant step for mankind and that was ross shimabuku reporting. >> a few words with a potential to forever alter the belief of christians around the world, the suggestion they make about jesus and what we know about his life. >> this man has influenced every host who came after him and even a few who came before him, he's that good. i got to tell you, i do not envy whoever they try to put in that chair. >> he says he's grinding a gop in his teeth, set to replace david letterman as the new host of the letterman show. he has host said his own show since 2005, winning two peabodys, one emmy and a grammy. , to aljazeera america. straight ahead, a program aimed at better understanding alzheimer's but first let's find out if it's going to rain across the country today. >> good morning, it's been really quiet, the pattern the last few days. we do have a cold front moving through the northeast, a couple of scattered showers in the northwest. a lot of this not making it to the ground. today and overnight. chances for rain and then this clears out nicely by the walked. we can watch this, already by tomorrow morning, things improving, as we get to the midwest, we start to see more chances for rain. even by later next week, snow again. the system's going to brew in the midwest. we start off saturday with the risk for thunderstorms and the red severe weather. this expands, the end of this is day two, sunday a wider chance especially in the souther plains for those severe storms. we'll keep you posted on all of that. otherwise a mild weekend for a lot of the country. more data coming out from the recovery efforts through the day. we had a major what we would call a category four storm in australia. as this continues down the coastline, in the forecast, causing not only wind damage, but a lot of areas potentially for flooding rain, so a threat there, as well. >> more than 5 million americans have always homer's disease. there's no cure for the form of dementia. doctors in chicago are now trying to build relationships with their patients to better understand the disorder. >> the 23rd. >> ok. >> so work on a story. >> a year and a half ago, 66-year-old psychologist ben ferguson was diagnosed with early stage alzheimer's disease. the news was devastating and forced him to close his practice. >> i felt shame when i found out about the diagnosis. i wondered if people could tell and what they'd think they found out. >> the disease is a reality for more than 5 million americans, and the sixth leading cause of death for adults. >> hey, ben, how's it going? >> hey, zack, how are you doing? good to see you. >> for ferguson, it has become an opportunity, as well. he's taking part in a northwestern university buddy program that pairs first year medical students with patients in the early stages of alzheimer's. >> it's important for the student to understand that a person is more than their medical diagnosis and that the point of the program is for the students who really learn from the person with dementia. >> an important lesson considering that 75% of northwestern medical students who take part end up in fields that deal with alzheimer's patients. it hit home for medical student zachary, who's grandmother was diagnosed with alzheimer's several years ago. >> this program sounded like an opportunity to get to know what alzheimer's is from a medical standpoint and also develop a relationship with someone going through the same thing that my grandmother is going through. >> ben and zack say it's connecting through friendship. >> him talking to me about what's going on with him forces me to pay attention and keep my brain going so that i can come up with a reasonable kind of response to what he's talking about. >> what's been going on with you? >> not much. got another exam coming up. >> zack said it's a chance to slow down and empathize with the person beyond the diagnosis on a chart. >> medicine is not just science. you need to understand the patient's perspective, where they're coming from and who they are as a person in order to best treat them. >> it's an up close and personal strategy that aims to take real world experience that can't be taught in a classroom and put it into practices with new doctors dealing with the challenges of an aging population. aljazeera, chicago. >> alzheimer's is the most expensive disease in the u.s., costing more than $200 billion to take care of those who suffer. >> archeologist discovered at least 12 viking boats in a lake in ireland, dating back 4500 years, a number of weapons also found onboard. the ships expected to be the centerpiece of a new museum in ireland. >> two years ago an ancient document was discovered, no bigger than a business card. it had a quote allegedly from jesus christ suggesting that he was married. critics crying foul, saying it is a fake, but reservers now say it may be real. aljazeera has the story that raises the question was he or wasn't he? >> it's all about this tiny piece of paper, one and a half by three inches. the text and faded ink is in a language spoken in ancient egypt. the key words are jesus said to them, my wife. when a harvard researcher revealed it in 2012, the vatican denounced it as a fake. now a wide range of scientific testing proved that it is an ancient document. this will give christians a lot to think about. >> it's a moment brought to reexamine what this really talks about and the implications for the church back then and of course the church today. >> bits and pieces of sentences torn from a larger document aren't about to persuade everyone that jesus had a wife. >> this means not con loose toively jesus was married. of course we'll never know that but it means in the early church, that was the subject of conversation which makes it interesting for us today. >> the fragment contains the words "she will be able to be my disciple," another potentially provocative phrase if it's true. >> the early church was very interested in the role of women in jesus's life and the church. this talks about women not only as perhaps jesus's wife, but also as a disciple, and within the body of the early church. >> one brown university researcher remains unper sueded, saying the passage contains agree matticcal errors that a native speaker wouldn't have made. >> so the debate continues. harvard saying the discovery not meant to prove that jees was married. they say it was only meant to show that early christians may have believed he was married. >> that's going to do it for this edition of aljazeera america. more news straight ahead. we leave you with the images of today, coming from last night said induction ceremony at the hall of fame. peter gabriel part of those selected to be part of the hall of fame this year. more ahead in two minutes. we'll see you then. >> announcer: this is al jazeera. ♪ >> from al jazeera's headquarters in doha, this is the news hour. coming up in the next 60s, ukraine's prime minister says he will do anything to prevent a crackdown on protesters in the east. pope francis makes his first public plea for fore giveness for child

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