Were getting word that a thousand people in northeastern columbia are being told to leave because a dam is about to break in that area. This is one of the problems theyve had over the last few days. 11 dams have been breached, more than 30 are being monitored. Voluntary evacuations are happening especially in the lowlying areas. Were near the ashley river, the edishow river is expected to rise. Right behind me, youll see this, water coming in from a nearby river, the road is closed, could be closed for weeks. We know the weather is brighter there, but the governor warning people that the danger isnt over. Thats right. Governor haley saying fema and National Guard is on the ground. More evacuations could come in the next 24 hours. The mid lands, all that water is going to move down to the low country, so we are going to be extremely careful. We are watching this minute by minute. People on the ground are giving us feedback. Theres hundreds of people in shelters and more people could go into those shelters if those evacuations happen. We heard earlier this week about boil orders, that people were told that they had to boil their water in certain areas of South Carolina. Any information on the situation for people who dont have access to the Public Water System now . Right. Many of them are getting bottled water and also the Water Treatment plant is under repair right now. Hundreds of people in the colombia area are under a boil advisory. We saw a local sheriff going house to house delivering water, saying is everybody ok, and do you need any water, taking water out of his trunk and just giving it to the residents. Thank you. Lets move to meteorologist Nicole Mitchell. Any word on when the rivers will top out . Some of them already ever, depending whether you are up stream or downstream. We are going to continue to see places crest even damage weekend. We are going to watch all of this moisture moving its way toward the coastline, so some of these places will have nor problems later during the week, but widespread, some place two or three feet of rain, the highest 27 inches, so theres a lot of water to get out of this area. Over the next couple of days, we already still have the watches in place and warnings in place, even though were not getting that new rain on the radar. Where we are getting new rain on the radar, we have a disturbance through the southwest. That could lead to heavy down pores at times. That could lead to temporary flash flooding, something to watch. We have a little disturbance making its way through the midwest eventually to the east coast. This his the one that could be more troublesome. If you get under a heavy downpour, definitely a problem. Heres the outlook. We see this through the morning and through today, but then start to watch the midwest. That front will dip down, coming through the midwest and hitting the east coast it looks like sometime into friday or saturday. That could be the next batch of rape for places like the carolinas possibly into this weekend. There will be a chance to kind of dry out in the meantime. That could cause more problems with additional rain coming in especially six some of those rivers wont have crested by that time. A lot of temperatures armed the country are going to be pretty comfortable through the day today, 60ed through the Northern Tier of the country and 70s up and down the east coast for much of the region, so theres good news for South Carolina, but still a lot of recovery before that next round of rain comes in. Thanks, nicole. Searches today are turk their attention to finding the data recorder, black box drop a cargo ship that sank in 15,000 feet are water when it was out in hurricane joaquin. The search for the he will faroe have turned up more debris. They have 30 days to find it before it stops pinging. Doctors without borders is calling for an independent nonmilitary investigation into the air strike that hit their hospital in nonafghanistan. 22 people died there. The top u. S. Commander in afghanistan on tuesday called what happened a mistake, and admitted the u. S. Was responsible for the strike. The decision to provide fire was a u. S. Decision made within the u. S. Chain of command. A hospital was mistakenly struck. We would never intentionally target a protected medical facility. The u. S. Militarys participating in three separate investigations into what happened, one with nato, one with Afghan Forces and an internal inquiry. Doctors without borders called the strike a possible war crime and told al jazeera they have yet to her directly from the military. We have not received any real explanation. Most of it has been through press reports, statements, changing stories over the last 22 plus hours which underscores the need for an independent inquiry to what happened on saturday morning that led to the deaths of 22 of my colleagues and patience. There needs to be independence to the investigation. Over the last few days there have been reports of this being just Collateral Damage to being a strike called by Afghan Forces to now the u. S. Government taking responsibility for ordering the strike, so it just we need answers. This is key to our ability to work around the world. Its not just about what happened in afghanistan, its also about the respect for the geneva conventions humanitarian international law. The same structure in our compound which has been known to the u. S. Government and Afghan Forces. Its been there for four years, treating tens of thousands of patients every year. That week, we treated close to 400 wounded from the fighting in kunduz. In tent needs to be looked at and thats the responsibility have the investigators today that, but were going to presume until told otherwise that this is fact was a targeted attack and a war crime. What were doing is trying to cooperate with some of the investigators in afghanistan, but for the most part, you know, the populations left without access to health care. That is the larger cost of this strike beyond the immediate loss of life of my colleagues and our patients. Jason koan said the staff at the hospital insists there was no indication of any taliban fighters in the compound. Afghan forces had said the taliban was firing at them from the hospital when they requested that air strike. The pentagon is considering how many u. S. Troops to leave in afghanistan. During Tuesdays Senate hearing. General campbell said the u. S. Should reconsider the plan to withdraw most u. S. Troops by the end of next year. We still have to do train, add advise and as, for of ation, logistics, intelligence, special operating forces. We need to have a Counter Terrorism capability and you need to certain amount which forces to be able to do that. General campbell said afghanistan remains engaged in a violent battle against the taliban but the government in kabul cannot win alone. Russia has reportedly carried out more airstrikes in syria overnight. The defense minister said Russian Forces have hit 112 targets in syria, moscow saying it is part of an air campaign targeting isil. Syrian Officials Say it was accompanied by a ground assault against isil by Bashar Al Assads forces. There are reports of civilian deaths in the latest round of russian strikes. What we saw over the last week is russian airstrikes trying to weaken the defenses of the opposition to stop a rebel advance toward the countryside. Today that air power is being used to provide support to a ground operation on the ground. This is what we understand from activists. There is intense military activity in the Southern Idlib province, northern countryside, a very strategic corner in western syria. It is situated on a main highway that linked the Southern City of damascus to the Northern City of aleppo. Now activists report intense airstrikes, talking about surface to surface missiles. What we do understand is that the government did give a warning to people in the village, and we understand that thousands of people have started to flee yesterday. They told them they are going to push into this town as they push further north. What is becoming clear is that the Russian Aerial campaign is helping the government recapture territory, and really, yes, russia is calling this, you know, a war against terrorism, but for them, theyre using isil, you know as a blanket term for most of the opposition groups. They believe most of the opposition groups on the ground are quote unquote terrorists. The russian airstrikes stopping the rebel advance, weakening the rebel defenses and now being used to help the government advance. The question is will they succeed . Will this ground operation succeed . It has just started and we have to watch developments closely. Zeina hodor reporting from bay rat. Russians Defense Ministry said it may accept the pentagons offer to cooperate in fighting isil in syria. Former u. S. Ambassador to nato curt volcker said russias tactics in syria are something weve seen before. It sounds very familiar. It sounds very much like what we saw in ukraine where russia denied it was doing anything inside ukraine, but maybe there are a few volunteers when in fact what we saw was a russian led, russian trained, russian equipped and russian manned military operation that first took over crime mean i cant and now very active in eastern ukraine. I think its going to look similar in syria. The only thing i would give credence to russian statements is where they dont want it to be a largeriesable regular Russian Military operation. They want to keep it smaller, more special forces. They want to keep it more flexible and on the front lines, they have hezbollah there, they have the assad regimes forces. They have help from iran, so i think they dont want to have russia in the principal role in the front lines because that could create backlash inside russia, but every other form of support including personnel well find there. Two russian fighter jets violated turkish air space. Russia is said to be testing how the u. S. Reacts. New questions this morning over isil and how it is able to gain access to western vehicles. The bam map administration said it is asking toyota how isil has obtained so many of the companys pickup trucks. The japanese carmaker said it does not know how isil obtained the vehicles, since many of the pickups even in videos are older models. Police in jerusalem say a jewish man was stabbed by a Palestinian Woman there. According to police, the man pulled out a gun and shot the woman, but some witnesses tell al jazeera the man was not stabbed and that the woman was attacked first. Israel said it will lift restrictions on worship at the al aqsa mosque to ease tensions after three weeks of violence. Hillary clinton strikes back at republicans over their investigations into her time as secretary of state. What she is now saying about the benghazi committee. A new age of schooling, one university hopes a digital shift could raising the bar on Higher Education. The investigation into Hillary Clintons use of a private email server is expanding. Connecticut based company will turn over any emails it has to the f. B. I. The company had been backing up her emails on a Cloud Storage system since 2013. Investigators have been trying to recover emails clinton said she deleted because they contained personal information. Clinton is hitting back at critics for another investigation, this one into the attacks on a diplomatic compound in benghazi. Its all part of her First National ad campaign. Al jazeeras Michael Shure has the story. Hillary clintons First NationalTelevision Ad is a preemptive strike coming a week ahead of the first democratic debate and two weeks before shes on the hot seat at the House Special Committee on benghazi. Republicans finally admitted. Republican Kemp Mccarthy saying the committee was created to destroy her candidacy. Clintons campaign unleashed the ad tuesday, pouncing on a recent comment by kevin mccarthy, the man likely to be the new house speaker. Everybody thought Hillary Clinton was unbeatable, right, but we put together a Benghazi Special committee, a select committee, what are her numbers today . Her numbers are dropping, why . Because shes untrustable, but no one would have known any of that had happened had we not. I agree. Clinton supporters have said it all along, the investigation into the deadly attack on the American Embassy in benghazi is all about partisan politics. In recent days, clinton has gone on offense, lashing out at republicans over the benghazi probe. Look at the situation they chose to exploit to go after me for political reasons, the death of four americans in benghazi. Her aggressive stance comes after months of scrutiny over hish use of a private server while asks. You get them thinking so much about what their own guy said and so infuriated that theyll be aggressive. Thats her strategy. This ad hits the gop and meant to rally voters who began as ready for hillary and have recently become ready for hillary to fight back. Michael shure, al jazeera, washington. The Justice Department is close to carrying out the largest release of federal prisoners in history. More than 5500 federal inmates serving time for nonviolent drug offenses are set to go freed between october 30 and november 2. It is part of a White House Initiative to reduce overcrowding in federal prisons. Officials estimate that some 40,000 prisoners could eventually be released. The Parent Company of budweiser trying again to buy one of its biggest rivals anheuserbusch is offering 400 billion to purchase s. A. B. Miller, but despite the higher offer, s. A. B. Mill are said the bid still undervalues the company. Changing the way we measure education, an on Line University focuses on analytics, while teaching its students, but is it working . Cam calendars taking a major step towards ensuring equality in the workplace. The govern signed one of the toughest gender equity bills in the country into law. The california fair pay act requires equal pay for substantially similar work and allows people to challenge perceived pay discrimination without the fear of getting fired. Brown says the law is aimed at closing the wage gap between men and women. This is really a big day, important, the in equities that have plagued our state and burdened women forever are slowly being resolved. Right now in california, analysts say women who work full time only earn 84 cents for every dollar a man makes. Businesses say they expect more lawsuits once the fair pay act takes effect january 1. On line colleges are nothing new. They have been around as long as the internet and generally are not well respected, but a new school hopes to change that perception. America tonights adam may reports on the minerva project. Minerva still in its first year of operation is a new on Line University that aims to compete with the nations most elite schools. Founding dean, steven costlin joined the startup after a lifetime in the ivy league. I dont think students are being effectively educated, given tools for life. I dont think they are acquiring the great cognitive schools that allow them to succeed. He may have a point. One recent study of a sample group of undergraduates found that 45 demonstrated no significant improvement in Critical Thinking and complex reasoning after their first two years of college. A world class neuroscientist, he said minerva doesnt teach traditional subjects. First year students take course witness titles like formal analysis and complex systems, designed to teach Critical Thinking skills, rather than content. The technology is designed to compel students to participate. You actually see the full video of the class. You see all the times that anyone spoke, anyone typed anything. You can filter down to say i only wants to when people have talked for more than 10 seconds. I want to see when people raised their hand. Intriguing technology, but still experimental. Do you have concrete date that that shows that this method of teaching is working . We have data showing that principle underlying this method is working well and some practices work extremely well, but other ones, we dont know yet. He turned down berkeley and ucla to join the founding class. I can take classes from anywhere. I actually went and visited a few friends at other schools. The tuition is 10,000 a year, room and board 18,000, thats half the price of an average private college. We do claim that were a solution. Right now, the battle of ideas, its not about the substance of education. Its not about the substance of the student experience, and when universitys engage in be that battle again, then that is going to be what will not just save but elevate Higher Education all around the world. Adam may, al jazeera, san francisco. You can watch the full report on america tonight at 10 00 p. M. Eastern here on Aljazeera America. When parents tell kids to go to bed early on school nights, they may be on to something. A new study finds a link between teenagers staying up late and gaining weight. Researchers at university of california berkeley say every extra hour a teen stays up, they add mass to their body. Thats it, thanks for joining us. Stephanie sy back in two minutes with more Aljazeera America morning news. Keep up on aljazeera. Com. New calls f