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/techno. follow our experts on twitter, >> this is aljazeera america, live from new york city, i'm tony harris. upheaval in greece. the prime minister has resigned and called for new election. he said that the mandate he once had has run its course. state emergency in macedonia, with a flood of people trying to enter the country. and a strong show of force from police in the st. louis area. concerns about a militarized force.
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big news out of greece today. the prime minister has resigned on the very first say that. day. many the latest from athens. >> it takes the greek prime minister less than a minute to walk to the president's had office to resign, but this is the first. just as the bailout dollars arrived, the man responsible for the deal said the vote is once again needed. the sovereign people should take the vote. you can your vote will decide you represent the country with resolve and scourge with
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different negotiations required. while he came to power opposing strict austerity positions, alexis has accepted them. he is now the victim of a rebellion in his own party over the tough measures, worth $15 billion over three years. painful sector cuts and far-reaching pension reforms angered many in his party, affectively robbing him of his remain parliamentary majority. the rebels say that they will have a new move. >> he cannot glow on like that forever, and he needs to seek to go o he's trying to portray himself as the guy who got the best deal possible for greece. he said it's not a great deal, but no one else could have gotten that before a deal, and he's looking into the future with lots of optimism. >> he decided to go freight for
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the nation in an attempt to silence the rebels and renew his mandate. and it could work. he has played the election rule book devastatingly well, by triggering two previous election, he advanced his party's share by 20 points. and that helped him take the party that he inherited 70 years ago and 36% of the vote in january. a familiar political is not working now. he is still popular, and he'll be asking the greek people to elect him before the new bailout measures are felt. and he'll be giving them time to organize. and his message to the nation is that he wants to strengthen the majority strengthen the aus territory more than he did this summer. amal, athens. >> there was a big sell off in wal-mart today.
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the worse loss of the year for the dow jones, and it's facing a real toll on the other indices. ali velshi, explain it, please. >> taking a real toll on your 401k as well. it's where it was months ago. we saw the third straight day of loss on the stock market. and the it investors are are a worried. the dow dropped 358 points, and it's a loss of more than 2% for the day. the dow is below 17,000 for the first time since october of last year. let me put it a different way. your money in the dow, if you follow the dow index is worth what it was last october. and the s&p 500 lost 2% in the trading and that shows what americans are more investing in, and that's dodge more than 1% for all of 2015. so we're in august, and you've lost money. nasdaq taking the biggest loss,
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2.8%, and investors are reacting to want many second economic slowdown in china, and reacting to a it decision by the federal reserve to raise the interest rates, though the fed is now rethinking that, given all of the data that we have seen. all because of the falling oil prices. and oil fell in trading today. i didn't think that you and i would be talking about oil with a 3 in front of about it about t that's a possibility. and it's the last week that we talk about china's currency evaluations, and now other had countries have started devaluing their currencies, and there is a bit of a currency war going on. there's a lot of unsettlement affecting workers in america. >> hang on here, you mentioned our bread and butter. we're talking about 401ks and iras as well.
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and people are worried. what can you do? >> as you and i know, we have worked together for years. and i don't tend to talk about the stock market for many reasons, one of the reasons, can you get it on your phone, but i think that it has reached the level that it's worth talking to average americans about. let me give ud perspective. the s&p 500 has almost doubled in the last five years, up 90%, and now it's negative for the year, but it has done very well for investors. so you're not at risk of having lost your life savings in this one. markets do this, and is he investors need to be careful about this. but it's likely that you should look at your investments, and if you're a good investor, you should be rebalancing every now and then. there are probably buying opportunities if you have someone to consult or read up on these things. log onto your account and see what it's doing, and what's happening in the market. you might want to sell some
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winners and buy some of the losers. you and i talked about this the other day, stuff going on at amazon.com, and i'm looking at both sides of the argument, tony. who is right? the companies that say, i give you a paycheck and you handle the rest of it on your own, or companies that make all of the lists of being the best places to work. i'll have both sides of the art on the show. >> thank you, and you can watch ali velshi right here on 7 p.m. right here aljazeera america. now to washington, where it's less will likely that congress might be able to block the deal with iran. nancy pelosi said that the democrats have the power to up hell hold any veto of congress disapproving of the agreement. so libby casey, the minority leader appears confident here. >> reporter: that's right,
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tony. nancy pelosi gave an interview to the associated press in which she says that the members will be able to susstain what the president needs. that the president's veto would be sustained. this is significant because nancy pelosi is known as a master head counter, a very influential democrat. but there are a lot of politics in play here. she needs to give the democrats the sense that they need to support the president, and pushing back against a huge ad campaign this week. bob menendez of new jersey is against the deal. and this is not the first time that she has given herrer support to it. she came out and supported it. and at that time, is he said she was optimistic that the house members would have enough votes to support the administration. the reason we're looking at it, there are two importanter
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numbers tore remember. 34 had senate members and the senate has to get either of those numbers to prevent congress from overriding a presidential veto and that will all unfold in the next couple of weeks, but in the meantime, much jostling and pushing from both sides. >> anchor: had libby, what are the chances that the disapproval even reaches the president's desk >> reporter: you know, a couple ofin' weeks ago, that didn't seem possible. it seemed that there were definitely votes in the house and want senate to take a disapproval vote. and it's pretty much in the air, but neither side has a solid win at this point, and the republicans came out hard this week in outrage because of a report from the associated press claiming that the iranians will have the ability to conduct their own inbeingspections of suspicious
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sites. in response to that, the house foreign affairs committee, eld roy, put out this statement, saying that international inspections should be done with international inspectors, period. now, the head of the international energy agency is refuting this, and saying no, that he's disturbed by these statements, and they misrepresent the way in which the iaea will undertake this important verification work. but a lot of members of congress, including democrats, the answers about just what the iaea and iran are agreeing to, which is separate from the international deal. so as long as the republicans can keep press on that front, they still have some wins on their side of the argument. >> all right, libby, good to see you. libby casey in washington. and the nuclear deal is helping to accelerate a thaw in had relations between britain and iran.
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the reopen the embassy in tehran. it was stormed by protesters and he closed. it tensions are escalating between north south korea today. the two nations exchanged live fire across their heavily nortfied border, and this comes as the u.s. and south korea hold their joint had military is exercises. now a south korean news agency reports that north korea's leader has ordered the he hello military to have it "full readiness for war." >> reporter: for 11 days now, santa claus shot clock has been using giant speakers to put shared messages across the border with the north. and wednesday, north korea, twice shooting at the south carolinian territory. the south koreanle military fired back with dozens of rounds of artillery, around the
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same time that it said it will have military action if the speakers weren't taken down within 48 hours. the military raised it's had alert to the highest level. we're also maintaining ourle military readiness to respond if there's any provocation. >> reporter: south korea's president was meeting with the nationaller security council, is responding to the north korean provocation. it has its roots in this movement. a land mine blast. two south korean soldiers lost limbs, and what seoul said a week later as a nort north koren attack. had were this response. >> the reassumption of the broadcasting is a declaration of war. >> reporter: for both countries, the 70th
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anniversary of the end of jap kneels colonial could provide an opportunity for warming of relations, and instead, hostilities. south korea lost soldiers in a torpedo attack, and later that year, north korea killed south koreans on an island. in exchange of fire across the military zone is not unprecedented. just last october, north korea attempted to shoot down prom ganda balloons. and south korea returned fire into north korean territory. at that time, the tensions seemed to ramp down afterwards. and this time, with the 48-hour deadline being imposed, they are being ratcheted up. >> president jimmy carter is battling cancer. he had to interrupt his humanitarian work when he began
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having health had problems this spring. he shares with us his diagnoses. robert ray has it. >> reporter: yeah, tony, indeed. president jimmy carter, the 39th president, 90 years old, came out in his memorial here behind us, and talked to reporters. he had on a sport coat and jeans, and his wife of 69 years sat in the front row. and he's completely at ease with whatever comes his way and that he has had a wonderful life. >> thank you all for coming this morning. >> reporter: a seemingly upbeat jimmy carter sat down for an upbeat discussion about his cancer diagnoses. the president began to feel ill in may during a trip to monitor elections in guyana. a thorough checkup should found a growth in carpenter's liver, and it was found to be
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melanoma. it's usually on the skin. >> they did an mri and found there were four spots of melanoma on the brain. they are very install spots. about 2 millimeters, and i'll get my first radiation treatment for the melanoma in the brain this afternoon. >> reporter: carter has a family history of pancreatic cancer. he lost his father and three siblings to the disease, and he has been regularly monitored for signs of it. and compared to that, this may be good news. >> the survival for pancreatic cancer, especially somebody in their 90s would have been 6-12 months, at best two years, and with medical gnome a. he may have a few years ahead of him. >> reporter: the doctors are trying to determine where the cancer may have originated and where it may have spread. his treatment will include radiation and immunotherapy to
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help him fight back. >> he tolerated the surgery quite well. and that speaks very positively to his overall health status. jimmy carter is overall quite healthy and very active still. so i think this bodes well for his overall recovery. >> reporter: since leaving the white house in 1991, carpenter has built a legacy as humanitarian and diplomat, traveling the world nonstop. and teaching at emery university and staying active in his church. last fall, he celebrated his 90th birthday. carter had planned a trip to napal for habitat for humanity, but he and rosilan have talked about slowing their busy pace. >> we talked about it when i was 80, and again when i was 90, and this is a propitious time for us to make the plans. >> reporter: but the
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president made clear, his hopeful outlook has not diminished. >> i'm ready for it, and looking forward to a new adventure. >> reporter: tony, president carter's grandson, jason carter, he ran for governor of the state this past october. and he's going to take over as the chairman of trustees here at the carter center and the memorial library as you can see. but believe it or not, jimmy carter will actually go to sunday school this weekend and teach a class just like last weekend. strong guy, and a real inspiration. >> ready for anything, ready for a new adventure. robert, appreciate it. strong man indeed. robert ray for us in atlanta. strong winds battle the firefighters in the west. and some of the biggest wildfires in washington state have begun to merge. three firefighters died last night. and three others were injured,
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one of them critically. and the governor wants president obama to declare a emergency in his say. >> these are heroes ep protecting small towns. there are 350,000 acres burning, and last year was bad, 250,000 acres. and we want to make sure that the evergreen state doesn't become an ever fire statement. >> the first of 250 active duty soldiers are expected to join the firefighters tomorrow in washington state. a city on edge. protests in st.lution over the shooting death of a black teenager. we look at the police tactics used on the streets. plus -- >> it's definitely part of the history. >> we hear from the first female soldiers who will graduate from the army ranger school tomorrow. the only way to get better is to challenge yourself,
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>> the first two women to make it through the grueling training to become elite army rangers graduate the program tonight. first lieutenant, shay and captain kristen rice appeared with the rangers today. but once the women graduate, they won't be joining their classmates on the battlefield due to restrictions on women in
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battle rolls. rice said that she wants to change all of that. >> i do hope that with our performance, we'll be able to inform that decision as to what they can expect from women in the military. that we can handle things physically and mentally the same as men, and deal with the stresses. >> of the two rangers, 19 women it started. defending the fatal shooting of a black teenager by a white police officer, and residents are taking to the streets in protest. police say the 18-year-old had a handgun when he was shot on wednesday, and they sail the response to controlled crowds last night was justified. the critics say that it was
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unnecessarily military risk. and it came two weeks after the death of michael brown's one year in missouri. what is acceptable, and unacceptable. and last night, there were bottles and other things being thrown at these officers, and how do the police respond? what are the protocols, and what should be done to handle these situations? >> one. things that the police want to do in disorderly incidences, they want to set a permitter. >> they want to set a permitter around -- >> around the demonstrators, and they want to keep them in a certain place to ensure that this doesn't become a
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combustible situation as happened in baltimore, not for example. >> you don't want the amoeba affect, there's a group here and a group here. >> it becomes very abbe extract at that point, and difficult to contain. >> so what's the issue? the criticism is that -- we'll show some of the video here, that these it vehicles were brought in. these armored vehicles, these humvees, and that's the issue, and that in many cases can set people off. >> when we look at the federal government's program, 1033, and it's a program whereas the federal government -- >> grant, right? >> the grants are something that came from the department homeland security. but the 1033 is something that came from the pentagon, which focus on the disbursement of had military had armor for the police. this goesback back to the '80s. but however, the fortification. >> look at this video here. i mean, the question is whether
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or not that vehicle should be part of the response to this episode. what's your take on that? >> well, the seismic shift in militarization came after 9-1-1, and they felt it was had necessary to give the police departments these military weapons, but a lot of the departments have used them in ways that have been questionable to say the least. and therefore, the federal government is calling them back. >> that's great. and i'm not sure that answers my question, so let's run the video again. darren, you're running this department in st. louis, and are you deploying these vehicles? look at this. is that the kind of vehicle that you're rolling out to handle a demonstration? i don't recall seeing anything like that during the eric garner demonstrations here in new york city. >> occupy wall street. you didn't see that in new york city.
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but oftentimes, when you bring out this overt show of force, it can incite passions. >> right. >> and one of the key things, the police and the community leaders need to maintain a constant contact. >> dialogue. so they need to be talking to one another, and what does what in a situation like in? >> it diffuses these combustible swayings >> so do we have a better handle now -- is the criticism valid in my mind, is that valid criticism. >> i see both sides. i see the federal government being one of the chief critics, saying we didn't give you these weapons for use against civilians in the manner in which they're being used on the other hand, police are saying
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we need this stuff to control citizens from being harmed in their principalities. >> darren is a retired nypd and criminal justice professor. it tens of thousands of people are fleeing their homes in syria and west and east africa. why they're risking it all on these dangerous journeys, and plus, documenting destruction, how an artist is calling attention to the introduction in syria,
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>> britain and france are taking action to try to stop people from trying to sneak through the channel tunnel. and today they increased security around the tunnel. those measures include better fencing and surveillance cameras, and thousands have camped out at the french port of calais, and many hope to start a new life in britain. and in mass donna, a huge had flux of people trying to reach had europe. mass it donia is sending riot officers after chaotic scenes at railway stations. 2,000 people illegally cross
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the boarder every day. hundreds of people arrived on the greek island every day. and the humanitarian agencies are doing all they can to help them. but however, they're not getting enough help from greek authorities. >> reporter: the sea front at the height of the holiday season has become a refugee camp. tourists had might have once lingered here for the view, and they don't anymore. outside the police station, frustration rises by the day. those with more obvious claims to asylum, like syrians fleeing civil war are given priority and processed very quickly. and others fend for themselves. [ yelling ] >> international agencies are
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trying to help speed up a process that's grindingly slow, but they say that they're getting little help from the local authorities. >> we have offered to the municipal authorities our support. we can pay and provide services, but we need them to provide us a site where we can put the tents. >> reporter: so the greeks are dragging their at the feet? >> let's say we haven't received a positive reply yet. >> reporter: this is what passes for formal accommodations, and a hotel with meager facilities. >> they're coming from their countries, we have malaria cases, and some typh oiled. some tb. >> quickly, could the authorities be doing more do you think? >> they could be doing a little bit more. >> how long have you been here? >> well, 25 days, 20 days.
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>> in that time, have you had any help, any support. >> no, everything is very bare know here. >> where do you want to go? >> i would like to go yemen go o german. >> it was a day when multiple nationalities gathered around, british holidays, and these days they come from countries like nigeria, and pakistan, afghanistan. and now holidays. back on the coastal strip, the restaurantures complain that the refugees have driven business away, and in the mayor's office, there's a reluctance to offer more practically assistance. the tourists walk on in place of a better view. >> joining us now, the director
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of the program. 50,000 refugees in greece last month. more than all of last year, and would you agree that this was totally predictable? maybe not the numbers that we're seeing, but the crisis would come back this year? bigger and what woulder than before? >> . >> yes, the situation in syria, which is where overwhelmingly most of the people arriving in greece are coming from, is continuing unabated in getting perhaps even worse as we look at the latest bombings of marketplaces, and seeing that the surrounding countries to syria, that already have 4 million plus refugees have been hosting that very large number of refugees since 2011. lebanon, with the population of
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4 and a half million has 2 and a half million refugees, so the burdens to the country of syria are far worse than anything that the european union is seeing, and we don't see that. what we see less of is the internal displacement of syria itself, which is approaching double the refugees. region. we're looking at something like 8 million internally displaced people. and many of them would clamor to get out if they could to save their lives, so we're nowhereneer a resolution of the situation. >> bill, i have numbers here, and let's just stay were the numbers from the u.n. high commissioner on refugees. listen to this. migrant arrive as in europe in 2015, 158,000 from greece, 154,000 in italy. and only 2,000 in spain. and looking back to the greeks. the greeks are in a position to handle this, and the migrants
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at least from jonah's report, they're trying to move out. >> the europeans set up a system which was basically an unfair system on its face, and they simply said that the country of first arrival had the responsibility for examining the claims, and many of those countries on the external border are the ones with the least capacity to receive refugees and process them and immigrate them. places like bulgaria, they're economically poor, and it's no he surprise that the governments of those receiving countries like bulgaria are waving people along and hoping that they continue on their travels, and the people themselves don't have any interest in staying in those
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countries that are not providing minimal services for them. or the possibilities of really being protected >> so wait a minute, bill. there is an eu relocation scheme out there to ease the burden on turkey, italy, greece, you're smiling, and resettle. 20,000 new arrivals. >> what they asked for -- let me put this in perspective. you said there were 50,000 new arrivals, this month alone, july alone, 50,000 in one month. and the relocation was for 50,000 to be relocated into greece and germany over a two-year period. and they couldn't get them to agree to that number. so there's a total lack of solidarity and lack of burden sharing and responsibility sharing to be politically correct. but this is a burden, no question about t and the burden needs to be shared.
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and it needs to be shared equitably. it's a manageable problem still. despite the way that it looks on calais, this is ail manageable problem, and it's not being managed well at all. >> he's the director much the program with human rights. thank you. more than 6 million people have fled their homes in syria since the war started. and the largest city, aleppo, has been the hardest had hit. and molly crab apple is trying to bring attention to the war zone. and she has this first person report. >> reporter: one of the collaborations that i'm proudest of is with a young syrian writer, and he sends me cellphone pictures, from sometimes pictures under rice is rule. and parts of the cities. he sends me the cellphone
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videos, and i draw interest them. and some of them, reduced to ghost towns because of the lack of electricity and water and because of the bombardment. when people talk about syria, they see it only through the lens of the war, and through the ledges of isis especially. and i think it's important for anyone to know that aleppo was one of the greatest cities in the world. and hopefully it will be that again. there was one old woman coming out of her home, and there was such devastation on her face, such anguish on her face, i felt like it was stabbing me right out from inside of this photo. there needs to be open borders with europe. right now, we have a situation where people are throwing themselves into the mediterranean and dying on
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smuggler's boats to try to get oust a war zone, and then you have the wealthy countries of the world essentially turning their backs on them. i tried to document it as an artist, because it's one of the defining moments of our time. >time. >> the emotional impact of the ebola crisis has placed a strain on sierra leone. and he is using performances to help people talk through their pain. more now from the capital, freetown. >> reporter: the task of burying the dead in sierra leone is grim and never ending. the burials take place daily. and they take a toll on the workers who perform them. which makes this scene both remarkable and understandable. these are members of the red cross burial team.
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laughing and letting loose after performing 16 burials in one day, a normal day for them, and the kind that can lead to sleepless nights. >> i start thinking, you know, six, seven days. >> he tells us that some workers turn to drugs and alcohol to cope, and that prommed the red cross to bring in solutions to help. part of the daily drama was part of the concept. >> drama was so many things. ebola is the new situation. >> reporter: the red cross says that it helps workers express their feelings more easily. camara found it so helpful that he started doing performances for coworkers. from standup comedy and skits, and even traditional dance. for front line workers, to help
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with their stress. mental health in sierra leone, the country went through civil war, which had lasted 11 years, ending in 2002, and leaving thousandsing emotionally scarred. according to a report from the world health organization in 2012, 600,000 people suffer from some kind of mental disorder, partly due to lack of resource. since then, more nurses have been trained in mental health. but a lot more needs to be done. >> reporter: like a mental health professional -- >> we have the war experience. ebola is here, and we talk a lot rather than do. and i think we should wake up. >> he says there's only one psychiatrist in the country in a population of approximately 6 million people, and he's concerned about how ebola will affect the long-term mental health of people.
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>> [ unintelligible ] let me say, it could be a greater dimension -- [ unintelligible ] rather than a proactive one. honestly, we'll always be fighting to it solve be problems. >> traditionally in sierra leone, mental health issues are not seen as an illness. here, some see that a demon has taken possession of a person. people sought out traditional healers to deal with it, and sometimes still do. especially when the patient is becoming violent. >> we lock you up if you're wild and give you a special leaf to drink so you can it calm down. >> reporter: during the ebola crisis, traditional healers were told to stop the practice. the virus is in contact with bodily fluids, and the healer
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often touches patients to heal them. but after it's done, he hopes to combine traditional healers and doctors in western medicine. having the two learn from it each other may be the best way to prav mental be health in sierra leone. for now, healers will continue to use this to cope with their trauma. >> as aljazeera america celebrates our second anniversary, we look back at the stories that we cover. americans are still without insurance, and in had 2013, we met phillips, and heidi joe castro caught up with paula to see how she's doing. >> reporter: when we first met paula phillips two years ago, she was making less than $10,000 a year, and getting-by-taking care much animals. but the 60-year-old had been
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living in poverty and hoped that her uterine cancer would stay in remission. >> if it was to return or develop another type of cancer, i would have to let it take me out. >> now two years later, phillips remains cancer free, but she has had a rough time. >> i'm a little worse off. i haven't worked, you know, a full-time or part-time job in almost a year and a half or two years, and my income has gone down about $1,000 per year. >> reporter: unable to of find work due to a bad back and glaucoma, phillips has slipped even further below the federal poverty line, and ironically that means that she still doesn't qualify for government subsidized health had insurance. two years after the healthcare act went into effect, more than
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4 million americans remain uninsured. a quarter of them live in texas, one of the 19 states that chose not to expand their medicaid programs. in texas, only poor children and parents qualify for meld medicaid. >> they need it come out of their ivory towers and get in the trenches. >> and with obamacare subsidies only for people above the poverty line, phillips is too poor for not obamacare and not poor enough for texas medicaid. so she's left to fend for herself. >> i don't think that they realized that there were people like me stuck in that gap. >> reporter: phillips now depends on a community clinic for checkups, but the women's health services here may not be available for long. clinics were closed after they
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were trying to defund planned parenthood. >> i'm very concerned. and it means that i will no longer have health services to keep tabs on if my cancerrer returns. >> reporter: rely now, she pays $300 a month for medications and specialists, and she survives on food stamps and want generosity of friends. >> sometimes, at the end of the month, i'm many down to eating canned foods. >> reporter: out of her meager budget, healthcare takes priority. and if that means that she has to go a day without eating, she does. because without health insurance, getting sick would be a catastrophe, one that she may not survive. aljazeera, san marcus, texas. >> search at the movies. in the wake of recent theater shootings, and plus, cashing in on drones. the u.s. military uses a remote
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aircraft. and canada has it discovered different uses.
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>> security agents are already searching bags at the airport. now following violent attacks at movie theaters, a movie chain is stepping up its security. >> reporter: the nationwide
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cinema chain has become the first to announce random inspections of bags and backpacks. it posted on the website, regal entertainment group wants our customers and staff to feel safe when working i? in our theaters. a man armed with a pellet gun and hatchet and pepper spray attacked guests at a mostly many empty movie theaterrer. he was shot dead by the police who had this response. >> you may consider this type of incident, regardless of where it happens, as the new normal. but you can't stop living your life. >> reporter: two weeks before that, two women were killed in a screening of train wreck louisiana, and then the gunman shot himself. it came as james holmes was sentenced to life in prison for killing 12 and injuring 70
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three years ago in the dark knight rises. regal operates 700 movie theaters in the country, and it acknowledges that searching bags may be an inconvenience, but the ones we spoke to didn't mind. >> it's a great idea. and security is really important these days. they have a right to check us. >> i think it's a good idea, not mainly because you don't know what is going to happen. it could be in a instrument, or a theater. >> it's mostly snacks. >> more security may not guarantee a happy ending, but it's a small price to pay to enjoy a film. >> all around the world, july was the hottest single month since the u.s. started keeping records 1980. the impact be global temperature was 62°, and
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previous highs in 2010, but also in the month of july, and one new report said that global warming caused by human emissions has likely intense filed the drought in california by 15-20%. in the journal, geo physical research letters, where do you find that? -- the study's authorize had warn that future dry spells could be worse as the global temperature continues to rise, and those 96 million plastic shade bowls, deployed to help keep the water supply in los angeles from evaporating could cause new problems. experts say that the black plastic provides a new place for the bacteria to breed. they were drop food the resident inventory. >> i haven't ever heard of that journal. coming up tonight at 8:00, as you reported tensions are high
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in st. louis after another deadly police shooting and a night of devastation with crowds throwing bricks and more. while the police are wear military gear, why is there a disconnect between those two groups? and making history. two women in the u.s. army are among the military's most elite fighting force, the rangers. their families called it ale momentous and joyce case, but let's hear from the officers, and what they will be doing in their new jobs, coming up. beaches full of trash, from fishing buoys to basketballs, household had items and shoes. we'll look at the steps being taken in seattle after a massive cleanup after japan's tsunami. >> had a lot of the basques were on fishing boats in japan, so we found a lot of these. >> and also tonight, songwriter, producer,
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performer, todd lungren. now at 67, the influential musician is giving of the world more music. >> i never sent out to write a hit record, at least not initially. there were points in time where i figured music would be so formulaic that i would be able to deconstruct a hit. >> we'll hear more from todd in the next hour. >> the use of privately-owned drone technology is heavily regulated. and the military and want cia often use them as weapons of war. but in canada, they found another use. >> factory drone, courtesy of amazon, but it took so long for the u.s. federal aviation to approve, that the test flights were moved to canada. a growing number of firms that
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supply drones and technology to other industries. from rays for solar panels to luxury homes, and something so mundane, mapping factory roofs for he heat loss. >> in the u.s., you're not allowed to fly at night. and canada has allowed us to fly at night. so we can take people off those routes in canada. it's dangerous. >> before all of commercial demand for drones, this factory rest of toronto sold it's aerial vehicles mainly to the u.s. one was deployed in libya by anti-gadhafi forces in 2011. but all of the peaceful drones, that's where they are now. >> what we saw in recent years, was the transition from the military being the focus of our business, back into the commercial market, and the opportunities that we see the
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middle market for professional users, where you can keep people safe and it's a lot more cost effective. >> an eye in the sky over wreckage from this year's earthquakes, and just above the stormy seas over alaska's allutian islands, the most deposit yet of the sea lion population, because canada has been more forward-looking on drones than the united states. >> when you have an agency like transport canada has willing to work with industry, it has been great, because you've had sort of a parallel development of regulations, as well as at the same time the technology is up and coming. >> as the market expands for this sort of aerial work, american regulators are changing, but slowly still. concerns of crowded airspace, and safety on the ground and even terrorism are paramount,
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while in canada an industry grows and considers it'sing options. so think of the cell known, not long ago, they were not used by many people, but now they're everywhere. quite literally, in the future, the sky is the limit. aljazeera, waterloo. >> that's all of the time for our news hour, and thanks for being with us. john seigenthaler is back in a couple of minutes.
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hi, everyone. this is al jazeera america. i'm john seigenthaler. free fall, oil prices plunge. the stock market drops more than 350 points. tonight, the collapse and the connection with china. st. louis shooting. protests, arrests, and new questions over the aggressive response from law enforcement. >> right now it appears one officer fired one shot, the other fired three shots. the suspect was struck. >> after police kill a