A former Oklahoma CityPolice Officer is now facing life in prison after being convicted of Sexual Assault including rape and welcome to your world this morning im stephanie sy. Im in for del walters and daniel preyed on a dozen of women using his badge to victimize them while on patrol. And we have the story. Reporter on his 29th birthday daniel found out he will spend the rest of his birthday behind bars. Guilty of the crime of Sexual Battery and sets punishment at eight years. Reporter ex oklahoma guilty of rape and 14 other counts and facing 36 criminal counts in total. Defendant guilty of the crime of oral sodomy and punishment is set at 20 years. Reporter they said he used his position of authority to sexually abuse 13 African American women while on du duty. In our neighborhood and warning no one to look at them, i believe justice was served. Reporter all accusers were African American women from the lowincome neighborhoods he patrolled and a former star College Football player is white and asian. He was an all white mostly male jury who returned the guilty verdicts and recommended penalties up to 263 years in prison. The African American community ill say this to them as well i appreciate you trusting us and standing down and making sure nothing foolish happened during the investigation of this case and during the trying of this case. You trusted us and we appreciate that, the Oklahoma CityPolice Department did the right thing and so did we. The latest Police Officer nationwide to lose his badge for sex crimes. The Associated Press says over the last six years a thousand officers have lost their jobs sentencing in this case has been set for january 21st and the judge will decide that day whether he will face those 263 years consecutively or whether the sentences will overlap. How did the Oklahoma CityPolice Department react . The department put out a statement saying that it firmly believes justice was served and he was fired in 2014 and back then the chief of the city called it the greatest abuse of Police Authority he witnessed in his 37 years as a member of the agency. John thank you. In louisiana two Police Officers have been indicted in the shooting death of a sixyearold boy last month and derrick and greenhouse are facing murder charges, the boy jeremy was sitting in the front seat of his fathers truck when stafford and greenhouse opened fire and officers said at the time the father tried to run them over as they were trying to serve a warrant and authorities have not released any more details about what they believe really happened. More protests planned in chicago today and they will meet at city hall demanding that mayor emmanuel resign and angry over the shooting death of mcdonald by Police Officer last year. On thursday 100 medical students laid on the sidewalk for 16 minutes, that is one minute for each of the bullets that hit mcdonald. Emmanuel has apologized for how that shooting was handled but says he will not step down. Next week al jazeera takes an indepth look at chicago from local politics to the financial divide, a series five days in chicago starts monday right here on al jazeera america. More people are dead after a medical helicopter crashed in california and it was on its way to a hospital in bakersfield and there was heavy fog and rain in the area but its not known whether the weather caused the crash, the dead include a pilot, a nurse, a par medic and the patient on board. More than a dozen Syrian Opposition groups agreed to take part in u. N. Sponsored peace talks with the syrian government. More than 100 representatives of syrias armed and political opposition groups put out a joint statement saying they will go to the talks next month and they insist that president Bashar Alassad has to step down at the start of any transition period and the u. S. State Department Says it we comes news of the agreement. After years of waiting, screenings and processing the first group of Syrian Refugees to be resettled in canada as part of a new government plan has arrived in toronto and families got a warm welcome this morning at the citys main airport and a major canadian newspaper is greeting the group in english and arabic with the canadian flag flying in the background and robert ray reports. Reporter it was late thursday night when 163 Syrian Refugees arrived in toronto and the long journey from the wartorn country was finally over. Unlike some areas of the United States and many other countries Syrian Refugees are being warmly welcomed in canada. This is a wonderful night where we get to show not just a plane load of new canadians what canada is all about but get to show the world how to open our hearts and welcome in people who are fleeing extraordinarily difficult situations. Reporter in resent bloomberg poll nearly 65 of canadian citizens support Syrian Refugees taking up a new life here in canada. That is compared to just 27 in the United States. It took hours to process the group. The first of 25,000 refugees to enter the country by february of next year. He runs a Sponsorship Program in toronto. To those that say, you know, these are people that are coming in to canada or the u. S. That we really dont know a lot about, we are afraid, what do you say . Well, it goes right back to that us versus them mentality. I think its important that we dont play into the hands of these terrorist organizations because that is a tactic they use, the fear and divide. More than 5700 miles from home and a world apart the syrians have a chance at a new life in a country where they now have status as permanent residents, robert ray, al jazeera, toronto. Pentagon says the u. S. Led coalition against i. S. I. L. Has killed the groups financial head. We recently conducted strikes against three leaders in i. S. I. L. s financial and leadership network. Their removal will degrade i. S. I. L. s ability to command and control troops and disrupts their ability to finance their efforts. Reporter abusaleh is the third official killed in the past three months and pentagon says they killed two other i. S. I. L. Operatives. Investigators said to be expanding their probe into the San Bernardino shootings looking at more people connected to the couple that killed 14, police and federal authorities are now taking a close look at a lake still searching for evidence. A week later and a new lead in the deadliest Mass Shootings since new town and searching the lake at the scene of the rampage. The reason we are here searching this lake today is because we did have a lead that indicated that the subjects came into this area. We are seeking evidence of anything that had to do with this particular crime. Reporter officials also urged patients for the people in the community. This investigation as ive mentioned many, many times is massive. And that is going to take time so i know its a little bit of a disruption to the area, it would not be uncommon for us to do neighborhood canvass. Reporter as this unfolds the focus intensifies on the couple behind the massacre, syed farook and Tashfeen Malik who the fbi says appear to have been radicalized before they met. Earlier in the day f. B. I. Director james comey briefed lawmakers of the status of the investigation. The f. B. I. Can keep it but no its a dangerous world. And the f. B. I. Is conducting a thorough investigation and its far from over and we are not going to leave. Reporter investigators have not found any direct links between the couple and any violent groups. According to reuters in months before the attack the couple tried and failed to Contact Armed islamic groups and the groups ignored them the report says, probably because they were afraid of being caught in a u. S. Government sting. Meanwhile investigators are continuing to monitor the role, if any of marquez, syed farook relative by marriage and neighbor and says he purchased two of the rifles used in the shooting. Marquez a muslim convert checked himself into a Mental Health facilities after the shootings and all of this as officials meet with families of victims and those who were injured. The emotional and physical scars that were suffered by them will take years to get over and many of them will never get over some of the emotional scars. Reporter investigators also believe that syed farook may have been plotting attack as far back as 2012 but that attack was called off when several men were arrested in nearby chino, california on terrorism charges. A new poll Shows Majority of americans are against Donald Trumps plan to ban muslims from entering the u. S. And found 57 of americans disagree with trump but among republicans the sentiment is mixed 42 support trumps proposal and 36 oppose it and frontrunner Hillary Clinton responded to the latest comments on late night with seth myers and says it plays directly if the hands of terrorists and trump has crossed the line. I no longer think he is funny. Yes, i will say i started feeling that way. You know, i think for weeks you and everybody else were just bringing folks to hysterical laugher and all of that but now he has gone way over the line and what he is saying now is not only shameful and wrong its dangerous. Reporter clinton says other politicians and the Republican Party need to take action against trump and this mornings Washington Posts reports republicans are preparing for the possibility of a brokered Convention Next summer and what is when no one candidate has the delegates needed to win the nomination. Breaking just a few moments ago a major merger between two giants in the Chemical Industry, dupont and dow chemical announced they will join forces, this is a deal valued at 130 billion. With that new company eventually splitting in three entities and the deal is expected to face some intense scrutiny from u. S. Regulators and this year is on track to top 2007 as the biggest for mergers and acquisition. Congress hoping for a few more days to hold off a government shut down, the Senate Unanimously passed a stop gap budget deal the day before the deadline, and under this plan lawmakers have until wednesday to reach a longterm deal, the bill now goes to the house for a vote which is expected later on today. Citidel suspended over an image posted on line and they surfaced on social media earlier this week and shows cadets dressed in hoods and all White Clothing and said it was for a christmas skit and were dressed as ghosts of christmas past. I think they know what they were doing and i think its a shame they did it and pitiful and speaks to the mindset of a lot of people that are still out there today and people like to deny that kind of stuff exists but everything points to reality and simply under scored the reality with an explanation point. The pictures are not consistent with the schools values and the school says it is launching an investigation. Dozens of homes damaged in washington after a tornado touched down and hit the city of battleground last night about 25 miles north of portland and you can see ripped up trees and took off the roofs of some homes and no injuries reported. More extreme weather could be on the way for the Pacific Northwest, this week that region has been slammed by record downpours and flooding, the storms being blamed for at least two deaths and Al Jazeera Allen reports from deval, washington. Heaviest rainfall out of this system is probably behind us at this point but we are going to see more rain into the weekend in the northwest and water like this is not going any where soon. Its not an immediate scientific word for this but this area is a mess. The Pacific Northwest is drenched a series of storms causing widespread flooding and landslides and Power Outages in washington and oregon and major roads are under water or blocked by mud and rock including interstate 5 northbound the main transportation corridor. This is what was forecasted a strong el nino. Reporter the strongest el nino conditions in nearly 20 years, warm water at the equator which effects pacific storm tracks and west coast weather. Hard to tell though if el nino is to blame for the current misery. Its really hard to connect specific storms to that. Its part of the picture but its just a small part. Even during el nino years we can have a lot of variability where it can be wet, it can be dry as in my year. Reporter some lowlying areas have been evacuated and people forced from their homes by local flooding or rivers spilling their banks. Washington governor jay ensley declared a state of emergency. In the river valley outside seattle lowland flooding is a familiar site this time of year but this week is extreme. It is bad, very bad. Reporter we come across chris rushing helping a stranded driver hub cap deep in water and he hauls her out of the river where she knows she shouldnt have been in the first place. Its just difficult, yeah, but i was trying to be daring and go there and then he saved me. Reporter the rain has done much to alleviate Drought Conditions west of the cascade mountains, federal water experts say and has been a huge help in the dry eastern regions of both states, if this is el nino at work it can be a preview for drought california where it usually has an impact later in the winter. They could use our weather right now. Yes, that need the snowfall and rain as much as the east side does and unfortunately it can kind of be a feast or famin sort of thing and so be careful what you wish for and they might get too much and these kind of el nino kind of patterns flooding then becomes an issue. A change in conditions will be hardly welcomed here and a change for the cold would be good news for a shivering tina tupin. Snow, i would like snow, yeah. Its a little bit easier than this. Reporter the storms this week pushing the region past the annual rainfall average as the soaking wet northwest still a week and a half from winter lives up to its rotten weather reputation. All over western washington and oregon we still have situations like this, roadways flooded out and impassible but the real area of concern in the next 24 hours is the coast where we have high winds, high tides, huge waves predicted and of course coastal flooding in the rivers, allen with al jazeera, outside seattle, washington. Its going to be another day of rain for that area of parts of california are also getting the brunt of the storm and lets bring in metrologist Nicole Mitchell for more on that good morning nicole. Located right on the Pacific Northwest, now the latest system because what we have seen over the last week is system over system rolling in and has not been one big storm but multiple and this is moving more of the rain into Central California and that was expected but still definitely not only some heavy amounts of rain but snow in portions of the see arsierra and we have warnings up through portions of this morning and its a drought area and that is great, the snow pack is beneficial but tricky getting around. You can see the hazards. Only of these have diminished from the widespread coverage we had because one system is moving inl interior and see the effect in the rockies tomorrow and in the plains we start to get this system but still there is so much residual moisture and a little bit even more today to add to that that we have the flood concerns but its really the next storm tomorrow when we will start to get the heavy rain once again so today its a slight break, im not saying the rain is over but not just as heavy so one pushes in and you can really see that spiralling in the atmosphere but we already have one kind of right on the cusp so we will get that break then the next one, that one the heaviest rain will be Northern California and into oregon. Soaked in the Pacific Northwest, Nicole Mitchell thank you. The count down to reach a climate deal. Negotiators in paris pushing back the deadline as they work through the night. 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And welcome back, connecticut is taking new steps to control the flow of guns into that state, governor dan maloy will deny guns for people on the no fly list and calls it common sense a person considered too dangerous to fly should not be a