This is Aljazeera America good morning live from new york city im randall pinkston. Thousands of firefighters are working to contain hundreds of wildfires burning across the state in california. Theyve burned more than 100,000 acres of land, destroying homes and roads along the way. We have more. Fires are burning all along the west coast but the worst hit area is northern california. The largest fires burning north of San Francisco where it has destroyed two dozen homes. Day and night firefighters are racing against the clock trying to contain wildfires blazing in california, washington and oregon. Doomsday, thats what it looked like. The flames are fueled by lightning, trees and high temperatures. We have seen a couple of spot fires and those escalate, got pretty big and took up the mountain. Firefighting planes are making the rounds, including dc10 tankers releasing fire retardant. An Evacuation Order has been issued north of San Francisco. One resident is temporarily camping in an r. V. With his pet. Just quiche and eye to see when we can get back in and they give us the ok. 38yearold Forest ServiceFirefighter David rule lost his life as he surveyed a fire near the oregon border. At least four others have been injured. California govern jerry brown declared a state of emergency. That activated the National Guard to help with recovery efforts. Nearby states are also sending in resources to help, randall. There is dangerous and deadly weather in the midwest with more on tap for today. One person killed, 20 injured after a storm blew through a festival outside chicago. A sudden storm brought high winds, hail and rain sunday to the annual wooddale prairie fest 20 miles outside the windy city. People south refuge under a tent that collapsed. It was ripped into the air landing on the crowd blow. I was talking to one of the theme, i didnt know her but i was telling her we were afraid about the lightning. We ran under with her because she was the only person near we kind of knew. Her grandson and grand and her husband came over and they were huddling everywhere, so we were in the mixture and stuff and we turned to look and then the tent flew off into the sky and then the fence blew off and there was everybody on the floor and we heard screaming and crying. The form forced organizers to briefly shut down the lollapalooza Music Festival in grant park. Heavy damage in the rogers park neighborhood and more rough weather is forecast today. Later today, the white house is schedule would to release a new strategy for combating Global Warming. The clean power plant is aimed at reducing Greenhouse Gas emissions. It focuses on electricity production which accounts 31 of those gases. States have to decide how to meet the cut. The plan faces fears opposition from republicans. Opponents plan to suh immediately to block the deal. Many states threatened not to comply. The fed voted to end federal funding for planned parenthood, but the republican backed bill is not expected to pass. It has been defending itself against allegations it has been selling fetal tissue to researchers. The group apologized for comments in videos released by an anti abortion group. The planned parenthood insists it has not broken any laws. President ial candidate rand paul called for todays vote. A lot of people, even a lot of pro choice people are upset by these votes. They manipulating the baby, turning the baby around to get the body parts and then selling the liver and doctor cavalierly saying yeah, liver is popular right now for sale. I think most americans dont want their tax dollars going to this. If you look at this, we have 9,000 Community Health centers that do everything that planned parenthood does but they dont get into abortion. Should be much less emotional for everyone if we funded Community Health centers and didnt fund planned parenthood. Planned parenthood said abortions account for 3 of its activities. Secretary of state john kerry is in qatar seeking to ease fears over the Iran Nuclear Deal. A summit is underway now to discuss security across the middle east. Hashem, this meeting is a gathering of sunni Muslim Leaders in the arab world. Iran is a shia majority country. Does secretary kerry face an uphill battle trying to assure the arab countries that this deal really makes a difference . He certainly does. Hes now talking to them, trying to convince them that Irans Nuclear deal for world powers is good for stability in the region. I have toes that just as the officials remain quite skeptical, they have huge political and financial influences in the region. They are concerned and say the deal could pave the way for iran that play an aggressive role in the region. They say that iran has been sponsoring its proxies like the houthis in yemen, Bashar Al Assad in syria to further undermine the geo strategic interest in the region. Today, they are going to be asking kerry for more guarantees, defensive guarantees from the americans that they will do their best to put an end to irans military influence in the region. If you would turn your attention just for a moment to another trouble spot, that is syria. There are reports that russia is criticizing a u. S. Plan to provide air support for some syrian rebels. Any reaction on that u. S. Move at todays meeting . No reaction so far but we expect that to be addressed at a presser by u. S. Secretary of state john kerry and the qatar Prime Minister anytime soon. Of course there are home differences between the russians and americans about how to move forward in syria. The Russian Foreign minister has said a while ago that foreign minister Sergey Lavrov was here in doha, Holding Meetings with the Saudi Foreign minister, with u. S. Secretary of state kerry and the qataris. The russians are willing to see a political settlement in places by syria and yemen. They mean the political establishment have to be preserved. This is not the general sentiment shared by the countries who have been staunchly backing anti assad forces asking them to play a significant role in the near future saying at the same time that assad should have no future in syria. Thank you. An independent Monitoring Group says the u. S. Led Coalition Air strikes are killing civilians caught in the crossfire. The bombings are targets isil fighters and strong holds. A report alleges more than 450 civilians have been killed in airstrikes across syria and iraq. The group says there is a lack of transparency and accountability from the coalition. A reported divide is growing inside the taliban. The family of the late taliban leader moala omar is refusing to back his successor. Mansour was announced as the new leader on friday. He is seen as a proponent of peace talks but for now those talks are on hold. Jennifer glass has prosecutor follow kabul. The announcement of the death of the leader of the taliban have put the peace talks on hold indefinitely. They want the taliban who come to the negotiates table to speak with one voice. This division in the taliban makes it more difficult for the Afghan Government to know who they are negotiating with. President ashraf ghani met with advisers to talk about the situation. He said hes been speaking to the pakistani leadership, as well that he is committed to bringing together the two countries, the two countries should have peace and stability. Of course the taliban leadership of moala omar, he died in pakistan. The new leader is in pakistan. Its not about the Afghan Government and taliban the pakistani government are involved, as well. Complicate situation here. The pakistani government hoping the peace talks move forward but now more complicated over whether the taliban seems willing to accept its new leader. Puerto rico debt troubles get worse, missing a payment sending a warning message to its creditors. Protestors in mexico demand answers over the death have a journalist. The dangerous conditions for those trying to report in mexico. Welcome to al jazeera america. It is 7 42 eastern time. Taking a look at todays top stories. Malaysian Officials Say a piece of debris that washed ashore in the indian ocean is from a bowing 777 but it is not clear if it is from Malaysia Airlines flight 370. Investigators will analyze it this week. The Greek Stock Market is toppling today. It reopened for the first time in five weeks plunging 23 at the opening bell. Banking shares were the hardesthit. Officials in new york scrambling to find the source of a legionnaires disease outbreak. Theyve been testing water and ventilation systems. Pores reek missed a multiMillion Dollars debt payment, and that could throw the u. S. Territory into default. The government failed to pay down a 58 million bond this weekend. Officials simply do not have the money. On friday, the territory made a 169 million payment but it owes tens of billions of dollars more. Pat sob reports. Whether this is a default dependency on who you ask puerto rico argued missing payments on this type of bond would not constitute a default because they are moral Obligation Bonds meaning issuers have a moral but not a legal obligation to repay them. Most Credit Rating agencies will call this a default. Puerto ricos governor was not mincing words when he said the territories economy is in a death spiral and cant service its 72 billion debt load. Does this 58 million missed repayment means puerto rico is not afraid of defaulting . That could be the signal its sending to investors especially hedge funds that bought puerto rican debt for pennies on the dollar but hoped to make a huge profit having those bonds bought back in full. These socalled vulture funds suggest the territory do things like raise taxes fire teachers, cut Public Health spending. They would like to see their debt restructured and are working on a plan that could be unveiled next month. Under federal law, puerto rico cannot declare bankruptcy and get a bailout from washington because it is a territory, not a state. Demands for justice after a journalist was found dead in mexico study. Hundreds marched for rob a enespinosa. Dozens of journalists have been killed in that country and many say they are afraid to do their job. We have more from mexico city. Even in death photo journalist Reuben Espinoza takes his camera with him as he did where he was threatened and harassed around in mexico city where he fled to. Its hard to do journalism or live in veracruz. Anyone who criticizes the government is attacked. I had to leave because of violence. All unless have experience that had. While i lived here, he is the 13 journalists killed in the state. He was killed along with four our people on friday. Fellow journalists gathered in mexicos main avenue to mourn and denounce his death. Protestors, many of them journalists are showing their anger over what happened with their colleague. Theres a real sense of fear. Mexico city is meant to be a safe haven for journalists under threat in other parts of the country and thats been shaken by what happened. They know that what happened to rob a ennis pin knows is a could happen to any of them. Mexico is the most dangerous country in latin america for journalists. It made me very afraid. Killing him for me was a message. They say even if you run away, we will find you and well do the same thing we did to reuben. The Governors Administration may be particularly oppressive but all over the country its local authorities rather than organized crime that are the biggest danger to journalists according to a prominent human rights group. Threats especially from the government this is something we have documented over the last five years is well spread over the whole country not only in the northern region, so pretty much in every single state youll find a case of a killed journalist or kidnapped journalist. Very few of those crimes have been solved. Now theres another on the desk of the very authorities that many mexican journalists have come to fear and mistrust. Al jazeera mexico city. New fallout from the wikileaks document showing that the u. S. Spied on a key ally, this time its japan. The revelations could derail a major trade deem with asia. California is grappling with a catastrophic draft. The die conditions are exacerbating fires across the state right now. Too much rain at once is not a good thing. Imagine we all tried to help with the California Drought and poured water across the state. It would take us 11 trillion milk jugs. Thats whatness at a figured out. Another way to think of that, olympic size swimming pools and water they hold, we would need 17 million of those dumped out across the state to get that water that we needed. Of course, thats not how things work. Were going to have to really depend on Mother Nature to do this. What we would need in terms of rain is widespread across the state, about an average of a foot or more. Some northern parts of the state easily a foot and a half. Parts of california definitely needle the most rain, but you cant get that all at once, either. It would cause flooding to get it all at once. The ground wouldnt absorb it, it would run off. We need a few wet seasons. The reality is it took us a few years to get into this drought it will take at least a few years of average or above rainfall to get out of the drought and we havent seen a normal rainfall year since back in 2011. Back to you. Nicole mitchell. Californias drought may seem a distant problem for many americans, but its impact is felt across the country. Agriculture is a nearly 50 billion industry in california. The state is a top grower of many of our favorite fruits and vegetables as well as producer of dairy products. This means in one way or another, all of us who live in this country are consuming californias water. You cant get away from it. What do you mean . Do you like ice cream nuts on the top of your ice cream . People like these things. Thats only a fraction of a whole walnut. One walnut requires two gallons of water in order to grow. What about fresh fruit . Everybody loves california fresh fruit. Single mandarin, 42 gallons before this is ripe to pick. What about tomorrow morning getting up, going to have breakfast, cook an egg 18 gallons of water necessary for this one egg. Were you to wash all of this down with a single glass of milk like this one here, the cow that is produce this milk would take on 36 gallons of water. Weve got two gallons of water here. We couldnt fit 36 gallons into the studio. California said on going drought is not just a california problem. Until the state gets substantial rain, we can expect produce prices to go up and if the drought continues perhaps quality of this kind of stuff to go down. On the healthbeat this morning, researchers called it a breakthrough that could save thousands of lives. Scientists in the u. K. And spain developed a simple urine test that could detect pancreatic cancer testing for a protein signature only present in people with the disease. In more than 80 of cases, it is detected too late for effective treatment. Japan calls new claims that the u. S. Has been spying on its politicians deeply regrettable. Wikileaks released documents showing washington had several people under surveillance. Giant corporations like mitsubishi the governor of the bank of japan there was a conversation listened in on that took place in the office of the Prime Minister, a cabinet briefing. Among the topics apparently of interest japans Nuclear PolicyClimate Change policy, the positions it was setting out on complex trade talks with other partners, including the united states. Monday, the chief cabinet secretary of japan came out and said that if these claims were true, they were deeply regrettable and he says hes made a strong request to the u. S. Director of national intelligence, James Clapper to clarify the facts. This relationship was so marked by the horrors of war 70 years ago, but has developed into one of the strongest alliances on both sides in the decades that have succeed that had. This will be of great embarrassment to the united states. It is unlikely to derail this relationship at a time when the Prime Minister of japan seems so keen to upgrade the alliance and give a more military contribution to that alliance from japans side. However, this is a bump in the road and one which will be of embarrassment in washington. Harry fossett in japan. A new type of hacker is emerging in the Digital Space putting skills to work for the good of the community. They are called civic hackers and often work for free to help cities become more officials. We take a closer look. Christopher whittaker arrived at his government job to discover the state of illinois was operating in a kind of time warp. First day of work, i turn on my computer, wait about five minutes, because its from 1985, its got a monitor bigger than my head. I had more power in my cell phone than i did on this system that i needed to use to help my neighbors. He did what thousands of americans have begun to do. He joined the civic hacking movement. By day hackers like him are regular citizens. By night they volunteer to come together at weekly meetings like this on their own time in their own peculiar ways to do the things that local and State Government have neither the budget nor expertise to do. If you were to define this, could you just do that again . Its informal. Some is hardly english. Basically loves you to send requests to multiple a. P. I. s. The meetings design ways to avoid the problems like with Affordable Care act website. I think that the ethos is were government, lets major work together. Lets roll up our sleeves and do things. If we sit back and wait for the government and people in those positions to do it, you know, governments going to continue to operate like it does right now, and for a lot of people, its not operating very well. Here in chicago civic hackers have created computer applications like my building doesnt recycle which allows you to report recycling scoff laws, and helping to search the kind of public assistance they can access. From that, you may not be eligible for our program but here are other agencies you may be eligible to get services from. If you live here, you can use the same system bureaucrats use to find unemployment benefits, housing subsidies and city aid. Because most users dont have Internet Access or a smart phone, the hackers have come up with a system where you can send a text mental and answer a series of questions all via text and find what benefits youre eligible for. The group code for america has 20,000 hackers in 105 cities around the world all volunteering to do for their communities what their governments cannot. Al jazeera chicago. The journey is over for now for a robot hitchhiking across the u. S. The team says it was vandalized beyond repair and abandoned in philadelphia over the weekend. It had traveled only 300 miles before it was destroyed. The bot was a social experiment to see if robots could trust humans. It relied on the kindness have strangers. It traversed 3600 miles in canada and even hopped around europe. It went to a wedding saw a red sox game and checked out radio city music hall before it was damaged. Its creators insist the experiment is not over. Thank you for joining us. Stephanie sy is back in two minutes with more on Aljazeera America morning news. Keep up on aljazeera. Com. That wildfires burn out of control in northern california. The threat today that they could spread even further. President obama lays out a plan to cut Carbon Emissions opponents plan to sue and many states threatening not to comply. A manhunt in memphis a person of interest in the shooting death of a Police Officer. Good morning. This is Aljazeera America live from new york city, im stephanie sy. Thousands of acres of land in california are on fire today. Firefighters are working to contain a growing number of wildfires there in just days the fires have destroyed more than 100,000 acres. 10,000 people have left their homes. Fires are burning along the west coast the worst hit area northern california. North of San Francisco a fire has already destroyed two dozen homes. Day and night, firefighters are racing against the clock trying to contain wildfires blazing in california, washington and oregon. Doomsday, thats what it looked like. The flames are fueled by lightning, tinder dry trees and high temperatures. We have seen a couple of spot fires and those escalated, got pretty big and took up the mountain. Firefighting planes are making the rounds, including dc10 tankers releasing fire retardant. An Evacuation Order has been issued north of San Francisco. One resident is temporarily camping in an r. V. With his pet. Just keep an eye to see when we can get back in and they give us the ok. 38yearold Forest ServiceFirefighter David rule lost his life as he surveyed a fire near the oregon border. At least four others have been injured. California governor jerry brown declared a state of emergency. That activated the National Guard to help with recovery efforts. Nearby states are also sending in resources to help. Dangerous weather in the midwest with more on tap today. One person was killed and 20 injured after a storm blew through a festival outside chicago. A sudden storm brought wind and hail to the annual wooddale pairry fest 20 miles outside chicago. People south refuge under a tent that soon collapsed. It was ripped from the ground and blew up in the air landing on the crowd. People, i didnt know her, but i i was talking to one of the people, i didnt know her, but i was telling her we were afraid about the lightning. We ran under with her, because she was the only person near we kind of knew. Her grandson and grand and her husband came over and they were huddling everywhere, so we were in the mixture and stuff and we turned to look and then the tent flew off into the sky and then the fence blew off and there was everybody on the floor and we heard screaming and crying. The storm forced organizers to briefly shut down the lollapalooza Music Festival in chicagos grant park. Heavy damage is reported in the rogers park neighborhood and more rough weather is forecast today. In michigan, a possible tornado touched down in the northeastern part of the state with hail and high winds. 80,000 households lost power from snapped free branches and knocked down power lines. There are no reports of injury. Later today, the white house is schedule would to release a strategy to combat Global Warming includessing steeper Greenhouse Gas cuts from power plants than previously expected. It is a controversial mover. Opponents plan to sue immediately. June the American West is burning, consuming houses and forcing hundreds to flee. In alaska, forest fires affected 2 million hectares. Parts of canada are engulfed in fires, as well. Drought has left western wood lands tinder dry drained water reservoirs and led to emergency conserve water orders in several states. Against this backdrop, u. S. President barack obama is unveiling a sweeping new Energy Policy that would sharply cut Greenhouse Gas emissions linked to Global Warming. We share with message with your friends and family. He spoke about the need to take action in a memo to the American People posted on facebook. Climate change i guess not a problem for another generation, not anymore. On monday, my administration will release the final version of americas clean power plant the biggest most important step weve ever taken to combat Climate Change. Key points of the plan include requiring existing power plants to cut emissions by 32 from 2005 levels by the year 2030 forcing electrical utilities to invest in wind and solar power. It gives the 50 individual states a target of drawing 28 of their energy from renewables by the 2020s. Power plants supply about 40 of u. S. Greenhouse gases. With just 18 months left in the white house obama may see a climate crackdown as a key part of his legacy, but the plan is sure to set off a political firestorm of its own. The Opposition Republican Party which controls congress is staunchly opposed calling it a job killer and an abuse of president ial powers. Conservative groups in the Energy Industry plan to challenge the regulations in court. Many of the 17 republicans running for president in 2016 question the Scientific Consensus that Global Warming is largely man made. The plan risks losing votes for the likely democratic nominee Hillary Clinton in keep states like ohio, with large coal mining industries. Rob reynolds, al jazeera, los angeles. The senate is set to vote today to end federal funding for planned parent hood, but the bill is not expected to pass. Planned parent hood has been defending itself against allegations it has been selling fetal tissue to researchers. The group apologized for comments in a video but insist it has not broken any laws. Rand paul called for todays vote. A lot of people, even a lot of pro choice people are upset by these votes. They manipulating the baby turning the baby around to get the body parts and then selling the liver and the doctors cavalierly saying yeah, liver is popular right now for sale. I think most americans dont want their tax dollars going to this. If you look at this, we have 9,000 Community Health centers that do everything that planned parenthood does, but they dont get into abortion. It should be much less emotional for everyone if we funded Community Health centers and didnt fund planned parenthood. Planned parenthood said abortions account for 3 of its activities. Federal funding is not used in abortions except in the case of rape incest or if the Mothers Health is at risk. Secretary of state john kerry is in qatar today meeting arab foreign ministers. The fighting in syria iraq and yemen is on the agenda, but kerry is there to ease fears over the Iran Nuclear Deal signed last month between world powers. Kerry said the deal ensures stability in the middle east. It will major all the countries of this region safer than they otherwise would be or were. We have more from doha. The americans are now trying to sell the Irans Nuclear deal with the g. C. C. , saying this is something that is going to curb Irans Nuclear ambitions and allow for more stability and prosperity in the region, but i have to see that the g. C. C. Officials are skeptical saying this is something that could pave the way for iran to further expand in the region. When you look at the map and this is the way g. C. C. Officials look at reality they say this is a shifting Political Landscape with irans ally expanding in yemen in iraq, in syria, in different parts of the world. They are pretty much concerned. They say we would like to put an end to that and the only way to do that is get strong guarantees that the americans are going to step in, provide the region with substantial military aid upgrade the Defense System of the gulf countries and also be there politically to enhance the region. Its going to take sometime for the g. C. C. To convince the americans that there needs to be things need to be done in a different way to maintain the strategic interest of the gulf countries. You are talking about g. C. C. , which is the gathering of predominantly sunni countries concerned about the existential threat by iran and its allies. As Congress Continues to weigh whether to approve the Iran Nuclear Deal, president are are are are are rouhani said they are not interested in pursuing nuclear weapons. The u. S. And ran support opposing sides in those conflicts. An independent Monitoring Group said the u. S. Led Coalition Airstrikes are killing civilians caught not crossfire. The bombings target isil fighters and strong holds in syria and iraq. A report alleges more than 450 civilians have been killed in airstrikes across those two countries. The group says there is a lack of transparency and accountability from the coalition. Nigerias military says its troops rescued hundreds more boko haram hostages. A Government Spokesperson said more than 100 are children. About 70 are women. We have a report from nigeria. 101 children, 67 women and 10 men have been field when the military launched an operation liberating about eight villages, destroyed boko haram camps in those areas. The Nigerian Military captured a very Senior Commander of boko haram. This is all coming at a time when the military is recording success over boko haram fighters. Two weeks ago the nigeria army announced it chased out boko haram in all territories and confining them to the forest in the northeast of nigeria. Right now with the Multinational Task force are also launching coordinated attacks on different fronts to corner boko haram in one particular location to launch a final onslaught. It sees boko haram not only a nigerian and chadian threat, but regional threat. A major offensive is underway now to chase out boko haram and so far collaboration between these two groups is very, very much in the play as this is contrary to what was there before during the previous administration. Demands for justice today in israel after a teenage girl died from wounds she suffered in a stabbing at a gay pride march. A somber vigil took place in telaviv to remember her. A man was arrested in the attack. That along with the killing of an 18monthold palestinian child has led to new security measures. Stephanie decker has more from jerusalem. The vigil took place in jerusalem where the attack took place, but people gathered in telaviv to remember the 16yearold girl. Her family said she was killed basically because she supported peoples rights to live as they please. She was there supporting her friends when she was stabbed in the back. They also said that they would donate her organs to save another life. Her friends and family and supporters gathered. They lit candles played her favorite songs so really pressure coming out on the ground on the Israeli Government to do more to tackle these jewish extremists. The orthodox man who carried out this attack did it 10 years ago and only was released from prison three weeks before this happened serious questions being asked about how he managed to break the security cordon around this gay pride parade. Less than 24 hours later, we had the secular attack, arson attack on a palestinian home in the occupied west bank, so very Strong Language coming from the Israeli Government, calling these acts of terrorism and saying they will bring them to justice. The Israeli Security cabinet said they will be passing what will be called administrative detention for Israeli Jewish suspects. It sounds very strong. Its in line with the language coming out from the Israel Government since these attacks happened. We spoke to a human rights lawyer. She told us that its always been the case, they just really havent implemented it. Were going to have to wait and see the details when it goals to the knesset convening in a special session. They will convene on tuesday to discuss this bigger issue of jewish extremism and how theyre going to tackle it. On the agenda today, 14 gop president ial hope was will answer questions at the voterles first forum in New Hampshire. Donald trump will not attend. The International OlympicCommittee Said it will change bidding rules for the 2024 olympics allowing every bidding city to make the final vote instead of having a short list. Police chiefs from several major cities and counties across the country meet today in washington to discuss new approaches for the criminal justice system. Theyll talk about how to combat gun violence. Police in tennessee this morning are offering a 10,000 reward to find the man who killed a Police Officer gunned down during a traffic stop in memphis on saturday. We have this report. A memphis Police Officer shot and killed late saturday after pulling a car over. Officer sean bolton was a former marine who served in iraq. Police say he was shot on a street in the southeastern part of the city. The driver of the vehicle turned himself in to police and has since been released without charge. The passenger of the vehicle who is believed to be the shooter has been identified at 29yearold tremaine willburn, still at large and a warrant has been issued for his arrest. Boltons sister issued a statement, calling the act senseless. My brothers life was just beginning, only for it to end in a tragedy. Theres enough evil in this world and he fought it to the very end of his life. The mayor of memphis asking for prayers, saying boltons death speaks volumes of the dangers of police work. This, again evidence of the fact that there are so many guns on our streets in the wrong hands at any given minute in a 24 hour day theyre dealing with folks who have no rules of engagement. Sean bolton is the third memphis Police Officer killed in the line of duty in less than five years. He was just 33 years old. 13 people in new york city are recovering this morning after a mass shooting in brooklyn that happened at a back yard party early sunday. Nine people were hit with gunfire. Four others suffered cuts and scrapes. The victims were men and women between 1938 years old. All shot are expected to survive. A violent weekend in baltimore, a 28yearold man found dead on sunday had been shot in the face. 45 minutes later, seven people were wounded in a separate shooting. The homicide is the second this month in baltimore. A man was shot in the head saturday. 45 people were killed in the city in july. Police are searching for two suspects who may be responsible for Church Explosions in new mexico. Lass cruses is north of the border. Only a coward would place an explosive device in a place of peace and a place of worship. Whoever did this will feel the full pressure of the law. No one was injured in the bombings. Officials say there was only minor damage. More financial trouble for puerto rico. The territory miss as 58 million payment. There are worries its economy could spiral out of control. Double the love from two daughters. Both donating parts of their livers to save their father. Father. Welcome to al jazeera america. It is 8 21 eastern. Officials in new york are scrambling to find the source of a legionnaires outbreak that has killed four people, testing water and ventilation systems. Seventy have been infected since the outbreak began last month. Zimbabwe is accusing a second american of killing a lion, a doctor from pencil legally hunted a lion with a bow and arrow in april. A new ban on plastic bags is now in effect in chicago. Most Stores Larger than 10,000 square feet are prohibited from offering plastic bags to customers. Theyll have to use paper. Smaller stores have another year to make the switch. Puerto rico missed amulet Million Dollars debt payment throwing the u. S. Territory into default. They failed to pay down that a 58 million bond this weekend. On friday, the territory made a 169 million payment but it owes tens of billions of dollars more. Pat sob reports. Whether this is a default dependency on who you ask, puerto rico argued missing payments on this type of bond would not constitute a default because they are moral Obligation Bonds, meaning issuers have a moral but not a legal obligation to repay them. Most Credit Rating agencies will call this a default. Puerto ricos governor was not mincing words when he said the territorys economy is in a death spiral and cant service its 72 billion debt load. Does this 58 million missed repayment means puerto rico is not afraid of defaulting . That could be the signal its sending to investors, especially hedge funds that bought puerto rican debt for pennies on the dollar but hoped to make a huge profit by having those bonds bought back in full. These socalled vulture funds suggest the territory do things like raise taxes, fire teachers, close schoold and cut Public Health spending. They would like to see their debt restructured and are working on a plan that could be unveiled next month. Under federal law, puerto rico cannot declare bankruptcy and get a bailout from washington because it is a territory, not a state. Republican president ial hopefuls are readying for their first formal debate. 14 gop leaders will answer questions at the first forum in New Hampshire. Donald trump declined to participate, saying his money means he does not have to answer to anyone. I think one of the reasons im doing so well in the polls im not going to have the donors and special interests and lobbyists tell me what to do. Im not running with their money. Every time jeb is out in the ham tons raising money i know the guys giving them money. They dont give money unless theyre getting something for it. Trump fired one of his political aids, accused of making racially charged comments about president obama on his facebook page. Nunberg denied the allegations. Al jazeera Political CorrespondentMichael Shure has more. We are fairly certain who is going to be there in the top seven players, scott walker, jeb bush, rand paul, donald trump and then it goes down to ben carson. Heres one that people werent sure was going to happen, john kasich the governor of ohio. He has gone up in the polling in New Hampshire and a little bit nationally. I suspect youll see kasich. That means either Chris Christie or rick per rye will be out. It looks to me if you are asking me, i would say rick perry is not going to be there. In debate is where his downfall began in 2012. Youll he crafty ways of going after donald trump. Youll see people being dismissive of donald trump. Of course the theater is going to be trump himself. You mentioned at the top trump fired somebody. He does that for a living. That was his show. The question will be how will they be able to handle it. A lot of people say the really substantive debate because of donald trump the substantive debate will be previous to the main show. Donald trumped a he said doesnt have to fundraise. He doesnt have to be beholden to other people. That means that he will be an autocrat. You could have a very, very wealthy person become either the nominee or the president. 250 million is what mitt romney was worth. He became the nominee in 2012 and he still had to go out and raise a lot of money. Donald trump is worth between 2. 5 billion and 9 billion. Thats a lot of money. He can do it by himself, but its still the same thing. Its money getting involved in politics. On the democratic side, Vice President joe biden is said to be actively exploring a 2016 president ial run. There are reports the democratic will make an announcement by the end of the summer. The Vice President and his staff have been meeting with donors and supporters. His son reportedly urged his father to join the race before he died of brain cancer in may. The olympic countdown, is rio ready to handle tourists and is it safe for the athletes. Taking a look at the next generation of Train Technology that will soon be moving millions of people across london. Welcome to al jazeera america. Firefighters in california are working to contain wildfires burning right now. Fires scorched more than 100,000 acres of land. More than 10,000 people are under Evacuation Orders. The white house is set to release regulations today to wham both Global Warming. The clean power plant limits the Electricity Sector which produced a third of the gas emissions. The plan faces opposition and some states will not comply. Secretary of state john kerry on a mission to sell the iran deal to arab allies in is qatar today, meeting arab foreign ministerrion trying to assure them the deal is good for mideast security. The wars in yemen syria and iraq are also on the agenda. 70 years ago modern warfare was changed forever. An atomic bomb was dropped on hiroshima, later one on nagasaki. 80,000 were instantly killed when the bomb fell on hiroshima. Radiation killed 200,000 over the next five years. 70,000 people were killed when the second bomb was dropped on nagasaki. President harry truman wanted to end the war as fast as possible and keep american casualties as low as possible. All this fueled the birth of the atomic bomb program. We have more. Operation olympic was the code name for the u. S. Plan to invade japan. It was schedule would to begin october of 1945 and would have been the largest amphibious invasion ever. Military planners estimated more than a million allied soldiers would die. The japanese casualties would run far higher. The japanese were planning to fight to defend their home land and were hoping to make the cost of capturing japan so high that the allies would settle for an armistice. That planning came to an end. U. S. Bombers dropped atomic bombs on hiroshima on august 6 and on knack sack key three days later. How many died remains in dispute. The u. S. Democratic estimate is more than 100,000 died. Another 340,000 may have died of effects over the next five years. Now after three years, eight months and 25 days, the japanese war is at an end. Japan surrendered an august 15. Al jazeera. One year from now the world will gather in Rio De Janeiro for the 2016 olympics. There are questions over whether the city is ready for the games. Events this week are hoping to prove rio can do it. Its still a year and three days to go until the summer olympics kicks off here. The mens triathlon event has already come to the beach. Weve got the swimmers coming out of the water. They are now getting on that their bicycles. Theyll then run 10 kilometers through the streets of Rio De Janeiro. We have some of the best athletes in the world. We have Alistair Brownlee who won olympic gold in london, three qualifying spots at stake for the olympics. This is a test before the olympic starts next year. Thats for athletes, thats for the officials thats for the authorities to iron out difficulties including the polluted waters where the olympic events are taking place. It is one of the most pleasant beautiful places you can hold an event like this. We have the Sugar Loaf Mountains in the background, we have the statue of christ overlooking the city the people of Rio De Janeiro not letting the event get in the way of their sun bathing here. Its a wonderful setting on a Beautiful Day 26 degrees, very little wind, top level sport coming to the city of Rio De Janeiro ahead of next years summer Olympic Games. You heard concerns there the quality of the water and thats not the only issue raising concern a year out from the opening ceremony. Concerns are mounting about infrastructure. The i. O. C. Said 60 of the Building Work has been completed. The director of the Brazil Institute at the Wilson Center joins us this morning. Good morning to you. Thank you for your time. With a year to go, before the rio olympics, do you have a sense of whether the benefits of hosting these games will outweigh the costs . Its a matter of debate. Rio de janeiro in brazil, when the games were awarded to rio brazil was on an absolute economic now brazil in a deepening economic crise. Budget cuts have affected some of the works including the ones who control Water Quality in the city of rio so there is a debate but the games will go on. Brazil will host, rio will host those games and there will be benefits by doing. As you said, when brazil won the bid in 2009, it was in a very different situation its economy is contracted. Do you think people regret winning the bid now . There were criticisms even then in 2009 about hosting this, because some of the i understand cases of the economic crisis were already present then. I would not say that in the current Political Climate in brazil which is quite poisonous, i think there be plenty of criticism but people outside brazil will probably not notice that very much, because the focus of the olympics will be one of the most beautiful cities in the world that will be mostly prepared. We do see these images of protests and protests have been happening over everything from forced evictions to Environmental Impact to the lack of funding for education which is a need that people feel has not been addressed as rio builds up for these games. Where is public good will at for these games . Do you think a majority still want the games . I would not be able to give you a straight answer to that. I have not seen any polls on that. Opinion polls in brazil have tended to be very negative in terms of the publics support for anything having to do with Government Action in brazil, the president of brazil is highly unpopular. There are actually this month on the 16th a massive protest called throughout brazil, so the mood is quite sour. The economy will continue to dip in this current year until the olympics so you could have a series of protests. Its not the ideal time to have an olympic game in brazil, but the olympics, you know, will be also will provide some relief to what is today a very sad moment in brazil. We should say that the world cup seemed to go off without a hitch, really last year. Do you think that the cultural positivity that may come out of hosting the Olympic Games will make up for some of the corruption scandals and the Economic Issues faced today . I think brazil will continue, the authorities will continue to investigate scandals and corruption as they should. At the same time, brazilians are brazilians we know how to throw a party as i mentioned. Rio is a marvelous city, wonderful people, so we will see a mix of that. I think the event itself, it takes a month, you can isolate the city. You can create the situation during that month to have celebration and to fulfill the commitment that you may when made when you decided you would host the Olympic Games. It will be possible as rio despite the embarrassing loss to germany in the world cup that they will never forget. That is a day that shall not go named. Thank you for your insights this morning. A rash of oil train derailments in the recent months raised safety concerns. The fires that often result are extremely difficult to battle. Local Fire Departments are typically unprepared. A new effort is underway to change that. Ever thought about an accident . This is what theyre thinking about, a hellish derailment, unfightable fire, 43 cars off the rails oil tankers accordions together in flames. Firefighters arriving without the know how or the equipment to stop it. At that paint we created something that will not reclose so dont ever push down on these vacuum breakers. For the last two years, more than 10,000 firefighters from across the country have gone through this intense and technical training. We take it to the next step, which is your real life, hand on as real as we can get it training. They are preparing to deem with a new threat, north American Crude Oil newly pulled from the ground rolling through american towns. Fighting a fire like this isnt Like Fighting a structure fire. You cant spray water at it. You need a special foam to have any effect on the flames at all and your average rural firefighter will not have that foam. You need a special technique. If you spray at the flames, you spread them everywhere. Firefighters are learning to bank it off one car or dropping it in from above or bringing it in as a bounce pass almost off the ground that moves a blanket of foam in to smother the flames if they can. The cars themselves are part of the risk. The d. O. T. 111 tanker cars are vulnerable to accidents. Now the department of transportation is replacing them with a new d. O. T. 117 model but those may not solve the problem. Were asking for a thermal blanket to be wrapped around the tank cars, to provide more time for firefighters to respond to a situation. Right now its about 100 minutes thats in the new rule and very advocating a thermal blanket that would give up to 800 minutes. Oil fires are now normal in north america. In july, 2013, 27 died in canada when cars carrying oil from the feeds in north dakota exploded, leveling 30 believes. The department of transportation estimates the u. S. Will seep 10 frein fires a year for the next 20 years. There have been been at least four fires in 2015, including a derailment in march in rural illinois. No one was hurt, but the fire burned for nearly two days. Bnsf is sponsoring this training session. Bsnf has prepositioned equipment, as well as prepositioned environmental and Safety Experts all around our network in the event of an incident. Depending on where the incident occurs, we have them within less than 100 miles. This requires very special equipment. Oftentimes the role of firefighter to simply get everybody out of the blast radius just get out of there report what theyre searing but its not until a specialized crew usually run by the railroad itself gets to the fire that any actual firefighting gets done. If you were left to your own device is and could only do what your equipment allowed you to do would you do an evacuation . Try to cool it down and wait. We have two rail ways that run through the city. We hope we never have to deal with this. Our Fire Department could not handle Something Like this on our own. Malaysian Officials Say debris that washed ashore on an island in the indian ocean is from a bowing 777 but still not clear if it came from Malaysia Airlines flight 370. Investigators in france are set to analyze the debris this week, looking for identifying marks. Flight 370 disappeared in march of 2014 with 239 people onboard. Even before cuba restored diplomatic relations with the u. S. Economic reform was happening on the island. The government has been working to motivate farmers to grow more crops, meaning taking a captain capitalistic approach. Farmers sell their goods on the open market. Buyers haggle over prices. You might call it capitalism with a cuban touch. This time of the year, youve got mangos, pineapples and plantains. They tell that you say 900 farmers, groups of farmers and different organizations have registered to sell at this market here. When raul castro rolled at reforms, he targeted agriculture. Cordero worked as part of the countries centrally planned economy. Farmers used to lose a lot of money, thousands of money and products plantains yucca because we did a place to sell them. Analysts estimate that half a million farmers in cuba now own or lease private land for personal profit, though cuba still i imports 80 of its food. It still has a long way to go with its experiment before it sees better results. California is grappling with a cots trophic drought. It cannot be fixed with a few rainy days. Too much rain is not a good thing. Nicole mitchell explains. Imagine we all decided to get together to try to reduce the California Drought armed with those gallon milk jugs and just started pouring water with those across the state. It would take us 11 trillion. Thats what nasa figured out several months ago when it used satellites to look at water volume needed in california. Another way to think of that, olympic size the swimming pools and water they hold, we would need almost 17 million of those dumped across the state to get the water we needed. Of course thats not how things work. Were going to have to depend on Mother Nature to do this. In terms of rain, we would need widespread across the state an average of a foot or more. Northern parts of the state a foot and a half, central parts of california definitely needle the most rain, but you cant get that all at once, either. It would cause flooding to get it all at once. The ground wouldnt absorb it, it would run off. We need a few wet seasons. The treatment is it took us a few years to get into this drought, it will take us at least a few years of average or above rainfall to get out of the drought. We havent seen a normal rainfall year since back in 2011. Back to you. On the healthbeat, for many parents getting their kids to eat broccoli is a battle. 20 of kids are so picky its a big struggle to get them to try anything thats not on their short list of ok foods. They will grow out of the habits but new research said tendencies point to other concerns. The study looked at kids ages two to six with extremely limited diets. It found that in 3 of them, picky eating was a sign of Mental Health problems. Children with severe collective eating were seven times more likely to have social anxiety. Scientists in the u. K. And spain developed a urine test to detect pancreatic cancer. In more than 80 of cases, it is detected too lately for effective treatment. Two daughters in hong kong donated parts of their livers to create a new one for their father. Its a medical first using a new surgical technique. Thankful to be alive the patient is surrounded by the daughters who saved his life. Their livers were too small on their own but each donating a half, they were able to give their father a new one. I was in despair because my liver was too small. My sister agreed to return from overseas. She was our only hope. The surgeon joined two halves of the liver before giving i have the to the patient. We are literally implanting a whole liver into the recipient says body, and that saves a lot of time. It is a further breakthrough for a team that regularly achieves medical land mashes in liver transplants from living donors. The prevalence of hepatitis b. In east asia means liver failure is a problem here, compounded by a traditional reluctance to donate organs. Its meant hong kong has become a world leader in living organ transplantation. The family at the center of this medical first just thankful for a successful operation. Rob mcbride, al jazeera, hong kong. After hiding it from the world for decades nasa will display wreckage from the colombia and another disaster. Called forever remembered, the exhibit focuses on how the astronauts lived rather than how they perished. The view from above a look at what will be the largest ferris wheel in the world. Welcome to al jazeera america. It is 8 50 eastern. Protestors in mexico demanded justice for a journalist. Rescue workers in myanmar are racing to help people impacted by floods. Fort six are dead and 200,000 forced out of their homes. Monsoon rains triggered flash floods and landslides. Theyve destroyed homes farmland amounted roads. The Greek Stock Market is tumbling today. It reopened for the first time in five weeks. It plunged 35 at the opening bell. Banking shares were the hardesthit. Under contribution underneath london is an advanced rail line. When it runs in 2018, it will carry 200 million passengers a year. We have a look. Its taken 10,000 workers more than six years but now londons newest underground train tunnelles are almost ready for their rails. Cult at a department of 40 meters, the new tunnels weve 21 kilometers beneath the heart of the city. The biggest challenge has been constructing this massive project in an area of london thats already dense infrastructure. At the design stage the alignments had to be decided in terms of both horizontal and vertical alignment to avoid interruption with existing foundation or terminals. Eight laser guided tunneling machines removed more than 7 milliontons of earth. The walls of the tunnels were then sealed, using 200,000 concrete segments. At the same time, engineers have been working on an all new Digital Communications network the first ever to control all aspects of the railway line. This Commuter Network needs to be able to handle the data of more than 250 passenger information displays, more than 600 internet telephones and more than 1600 highdefinition cameras, all simultaneously. Routine maintenance is done a lot quicker. Also safety aspects moving away from traditional cameras that provide more coverage or passenger safety. It provided realtime information to the operators to make decisions quicker. The control network has also been aisles late to help prevent it from being hacked. All system little are closed off. Theres only a few operating terminals that have the ability to log on, things like u. S. B. Ports were disabled, so have zero access to any of these areas. It will be another three years before the 23 billion line opens and theres still plenty to do that make it ready from an expected 200 million passengers a year. Al jazeera beneath central london. Chinese media released video of the Worlds Largest radio telescope. It spans the size of 30 football fields. Its being assembled in the mountains of southwest china. It will cost 200 million and expected to be finished september of next year. It will be able to hear and analyze sounds far away in outer space. The journey is over for a robot that was hitchhiking across the u. S. It was vandalized and abandoned in philadelphia over the weekend. It traveled only 300 miles in the u. S. Before it was destroyed. It was a social experiment to see if robots could trust humans. Up to this point it successfully relied on the kindness of strangers. It safely traversed 3600 miles in canada, hopped around europe. It went to a wedding saw a red sox game and checked out radio city music hall before it was damaged. The creators insist the experiment is not over. The worlds tallest ferris wheel will rise up in new york city. Developers and city officials bet that visitors will still show up. The president and c. E. O. Explains why in this mornings first person report. The new york wheel is a 630foot observation wheel were placing on new york harbor. The north side will soon feature an attraction unlike any other in new york city. In fact, it will be unlike we think any other on the planet. It will be a ferris wheel not just any ferris wheel the tallest observation wheel in the world. One of my partners came up with the idea, a number of people had been looking at putting a wheel on new york harbor based on the success of the london eye. It will be on the north shore of Staten Island. It will give a view of the harbor from the working harbor side of the harbor to the statue of liberty the whole downtown skyline. We will be at this moment in time the largest in the world when we are built so its going to be a marvelous 360degree view. We broke ground at the end of may of this year. Its scheduled as a 38 minute ride. It will cost approximately 35 for a ride for an adult for a regular ticket. Its hard to do a project like this and not have it be personal. I think what i hope first is that it stands as a symbol for all the things that are great about new york and america at such an important location where people can be inspired by looking at the statue of liberty and all the commerce that takes place in new york harbor. I think this will be something that both my team and i and fright frankly all the people of new york and Staten Island will feel very proud of. The construction and operation is expect to create more than 1,000 jobs. Another world record performance for american swimmer katy ledecky. She was in russia earlier today when she beat her own record in the 1500meter freestyle. She swam it in half a second faster than the record she set last year. Coming up from doha, the latest on the talks with john kerry. Thats it for us here in new york. Thanks for watching, have a agreed morning. Orning. Beyond the verdict and on the streets. Theres been another teenager shot and killed by the police. A fault lines special investigation. Theres a general distrust of this prosecutor. Courageous and indepth. Its a target you cant get rid of. The untold story of what really happened in ferguson. They were so angry because it could have been them. U. S. Secretary of state is in qatar discussing the ran nuclear deal. A syrian Fighter Jet Crashes into a busy market, killing 20 people. Over 100 dead and tens of thousands affected by flooding in india vietnam and myanmar. I have the sport including riding a different kind of