With murder almost can a scandal force a university to follow a blueprint for change. Also spreading sickness, how the law in indiana helped to create an h. I. V. Epidemic. No one wants to go to gaol. Theyll share, the h. I. V. Is going to continue to be in scott bases. Thank you for joining us, im joie chen. Infectious disease experts imagined the major h. I. V. Outbreak would trike a big city. Instead the hot zone is rural indiana, where an unprecedented outbreak is under way. The ingredients dont have to be Large Population centers, and risky sexual beforehands. What is behind this outbreak is, in part, the actions of state lawmakers. As Jonathan Betz found in austin, indiana. I have the track mark here. Most of this is oxikotin track marks. Same over here. The part with my neck, thats new, thats opana. Reporter kevin admits hes an addict hooked on opana. Aint nothing like it. Reporter hes the face of a new epidemic, one thought was on the decline in the united states. A friend of mine and myself went down and got tested for h. I. V. Came back positive. Blew me away. Last thing in the world i expected to hear. Reporter he lives in austin, in scots county, indiana. Its the outbreak. Every day i here a story of someone tested and they are elated, they are negative. Or you see the look in their the results were. Austin is facing the worst outbreak of h. I. V. Ever. More than 100 cases since december. 20 times more than a typical year. Jennifer, with the Indiana Department the heated is in charge of the response, she was in austin to help clean up discarded needles. We want project what the total number would be, we havent reached the peak, we are hopeful it will be soon. Reporter the virus is spreading largely by sharing infected needles. It was nothing to share a needle. As long as we got the reporter users say clean needles are hard to find because of the law. They can face up to three years in prison. Needle. You couldnt find them. Indiana governor suspended that law. Today i declared a Public Health emergency in scott county, indiana. Due to an outbreak of h. I. V. Virus that reached epidemic reporter teams of workers arrived to provide testing, doctors, counselling and a Needle Exchange in an attempt to contain the outbreak. Help yourself, take reporter with little experience of its own indiana turned to an established Needle Exchange in chicago for advice. We began Syringe Exchange in january 92 and have done it since. It has grown to exchange 3 million a year. Doug is a master mechanic, fixing everything and anything. The Chicago Alliance relies on addict like doug that bring in used needles, and they may site. If it helps me from getting aids. Reporter though controversial, decades of Research Shows Needle Exchange is effective in reducing h. I. V. Inyections. Dog who has been injecting says its not the needles. If you take the needles, some would cut their arm open and pore it in. Reporter when big brought the programme to austin, he almost immediately ran into resist sans from authority. Participants were ready to be part of the solution, breathing life into the Governors State of emergency and the Health Department came. Reporter he said local Health Officials were uncomfortable when he passed syringes to users, no question asked. The scott county Health Department is limiting syringes, huge mistake. What we know from all evidence gathered is that you feed to be generous with syringes, and embour people to reach others. Reporter he heard reports that Law Enforcement cracking down on needle possession. Seems the austin and state police are confiscating syringes, taking new syringes away. I heard a couple of reports from that, that is disturbing. Reporter america tonight was there as the county prosecutor clarified the executive order. As i read the order i think it says we cant enforce the possession of paraphernalia, not just needles. Reporter days later, last wednesday, officers showed up at kevin polys house. I received 1500 syringes a week before that that i was giving out to people in the community that are afraid to get help for repercussions like this. I was down to about 130 of them. They confiscated those from me. Polly says a woman snt house was arrested and charged with possession of a syringes. Many addicts believe those that use the Needle Exchange are targeted by police. No one wants to go to gaol. They dont want to go to gaol with an unused dirty syringe. Theyll continue to share and h. I. V. Will continue to be in scott country on a high basis. Reporter the scott county sheriffs accident and jinned state troopers didnt return our request for comment. It was confirmed however that a woman was arrested on pollys home and held for tches of a hypodermic syringe, one that words. Right now you shouldnt needles. Reporter Needle Exchanges are banned in half the states, torn. The Needle Exchange programme you support or dont support. Both. Chief spicer is used to arresting drug users, not helping their habit. If its going to save lives, i have to support what they tell me will work. They know more than i do. From the Law Enforcement side i cant support it, we aint able to do what we need to do. We are giving these people things to use drugs to. Im torn between both side. Reporter it bothers you you cant arrest at the moment. Absolutely. Reporter dan big says such an attitude could lead to a Public Health disaster. Unless we get serious about Public Health in southern indiana, well suffer from this. Reporter the states statistics show that based on a spike in help tight us c, that prevent the presence of h. I. V. , up to 25 of indianas counties outbreak. The numbers have been increasing weekly. We dont know how far this has spread. Thats why it is important to get in front of it now. Republican state representative chairs the house Public Health committee and is pushing it expand Needle Exchanges to 22 more highrisk counties. The fact it no one is far from scott county. No one in indiana, or anywhere, especially recognising that scott county is on i 55, a major northsouth thorough fare. Reporter the plan faces resistance in the legislature, but he says politicians have to spreading. Where theres smoke, theres fire. If we identify the areas where theres smoke, we can keep the fire from spreading. Reporter as for kevin poly, his doctor warns if he doesnt stop using drugs, hell die. Im going to start. Starting inpatient next friday. Looking forward to it. I hope it antitoo late next a high flyer, and another low blow. We fastforward to new questions about the future of the militarys most complex and controversial aircraft. Later our sex crimes in sport series america tonight sara hoy on campus, and community schools. After being labelled the nation adds rape capital. Hot on the website no fair play, violent hazing in High School Locker rooms, student athletes and sex crimes against their own teammates at criminal gangs risking lives its for this. 3 grams of gold killing our planet where its blood red. Thats where the mercury is most intense now, fighting back with science. We fire a Laser Imaging system out of the bottom of the plane revealing the deadly human threat because the mercury is dumped into the rivers and lakes, it then gets into the food chain. Thats hitting home it ends up on the dinner plate of people. Techknow only on Al Jazeera America part of Al Jazeera Americas special month long evironmental focus fragile planet Al Jazeera America, weekday mornings. Catch up on what happened overnight with a full morning brief. Get a first hand look with indepth reports and investigations. Start weekday mornings with Al Jazeera America. Open your eyes to a world in motion. In our fastforward segment. What should have been the militarys technological show piece, its the most expansive Weapons Programme in u. S. History with a price tag of 1. 4 trillion. The fighter jet experienced setback after setback. After america tonights Sheila Macvicar found when she spoke with pentagon insider. Reporter so far the pentagon bought almost 150 f35s, with more on the assembly line. Seven though the plane is not cleared for combat. Eventually the air force is expected to buy more than 1700 f35s. With the navy and the marines purchasing 700 more, ones modified for them. Why buy so many f35s when they are not cheer for battle . Congress and the military believe the plane can be refined is more being built. From the futuristic shape to the lines of computer code acting as artificial intelligence, its a complicated beast. Miller is one of the places it is being tested. Ltcol bishop is a test commander. How do you compare the f35 to the f15e. You are licensed on both. The f35 is a monumental leap in capability. It is something our air force needs to secure the national defence. From a military man, that may be what you expect to here. Other reviews are less positive. The plane has been plagued by flaws and setbacks, rarely a week goes by out a head line. The latest this report by jay michael gilmore, the tester and evaluator, a pentagon watchdog. His report details so many problems, a Defense Industry always the g 35 a hot mess. Lets look at why the pilot. Reporter it doesnt make for easy reading. We asked him to take us through it. An engineer that evaluated planes. He designed the f16 in the 70s. He has left the defense department, he has spoken with pilots that flew the f35. She have among their concerns is the planes safety. Think of the engine as a blow torch surrounded by fuel. That is what it really is fastforward to another downer for the high flyer. The pentagon warping capitol hill, that for call superior technology, the f35 will not be able to protect Ground Forces as well as the ageing f 10, the war hort. The air force is aiming to retire it. Next the blueprint for a way back. A campus called the rape capital and our look at sex crimes in spot. Friday back on the water. Five years off the bp oil spill, is the gulf catch safe to eat. Response. To say that its well and good and we should go home is a great talking point. That is not the truth. What happened after the spill, and whether the community can make it in the long haul. Thats friday on america tonight. Monday. A lot of these mining sites are restricted. A silent killer. Got a lot of arsenic in it. You know your waters bad and you know youre sick. Unheard victims. 90 percent of the people will get some type of illness from the water. Where could it happen next . I mean, they took away my life. Faultlines. Al jazeera americas hardhitting. Today they will be arrested. Groundbreaking. Theyre firing canisters of gas at us. Emmy awardwinning investigative series. Water for coal. Monday, 10 00 eastern. Only on Al Jazeera America. Part of Al Jazeera Americas special month long evironmental focus fragile planet in america tonights extensive reporting on campus sex crime, we have seen case after case in which the system on and off campus failed to increasingly survivors reported their attacks to the u. S. Department of education, hoping that federal scrutiny can force change, where they could not. At the university of montana, america tonights sara hoy looked to the blueprint for change, in our series sex crimes in sports. Reporter the university of montana in missoula. Home to the beloved grizzlies. In the fall, scores of fans poured into town filling the stadium. Growing up we came here for a game. We came here to visit family. I loed coming up here for a loved coming up here for a football game. I was going to live here. Reporter for this senior, that changed the night she says four university of montana Football Players raped her. It was december 2010 when kelcey and a friend went to a party at an offcampus apartment where they played a drinking game. Next thing i know, im in a bedroom, dont know why, and then someone walked into the room, and there was a crotch in my face. And i was like i dont want to, and i pushed him away. And he grabbed me by my jaw and i blacked out after that. Reporter it didnt stop there, before the night was over kelcey says the four Football Players took turns raping her. After what seemed like hours, i got really sick, called a friend to take me to the hospital and realised what had happened. And told the nurse that i would officer. Reporter kelcey reported her rape to police and had a rape kit performed. She kept the incident to herself at first. Anyone . The police said keep hushhush about it. Reporter you were told by Missoula Police to keep quiet. Yes. Reporter at the time did that seem suspicious to you . It didnt. I thought maybe, you know, this is how they do things, i dont know, i dont know how the law works, im not in law school, i dont know. I was listening the to authorities. Listening to people that i thought i could trust. Eventually university vetted her case, leading to the punishment of three players and the expulsion of another. No criminal charges were filed. Football is king. The boys walk on water. They can do no wrong, and they can get away with murder almost. It seems. Reporter kelceys attack was one in a string of Sexual Assaults involving university of montana Football Players, earning them the title of rape capital in america. A low rate of prosecution led to that 2012 department of justice investigation into how rape cases were handled. The university signed an agreement with the d. O. J. Agreeing to policy change, including training employees on how to investigate and conducting surveys on students. The university fired the football coach and athletic director. In a letter, the d. O. J. Said the agreement would serve as a blueprint for colleges and universities throughout the country to protect students from Sexual Harassment and assault. The president doesnt like us to be considered the blueprint. Its because this is something universities. University of montana christine advices the school on addressing Sexual Violence and oversees the survey. The school has been criticized and theres headlines this is the rape capital, rape campus. Its egregious in terms or how the university of montana was looked at. Assessment . No, i dont think anyone here does. I think that the Missoula Community was heart broken, and the Campus Community was heart broken to be called that. Especially because we dont have any more statistically than other university campuses. Its hard to be the example, and hard to be called those things. But if, in the long run, it will help the problem get better, everybody here is ready to stand up and do something about it. Since the d ox j agreement d ox j agreement, there has been 22 reports of Sexual Assault and more of rape. A student has been expelled. Ongoing. We are seeing that survivors are feeling that its more comfortable to report. If thats the right choice, they process. Marina volunteers for the student advocacy center, or stark, assisting student victims Sexual Assault. I dont think we have gotten there yet. We havent seen improvements with trials. Thats a bigger cultural issue, how we address the broader rape culture and Sexual Assault culture that we have. We will not see different attitudes. The d. O. J. Investigated behind montana. Charges had been pursued in 14 out of 85 reports of sexual prosecution. In its report the d. O. J. Said the county Attorneys Office brought incidents to the point of putting women in missoula at rib of harm. In kelceys case, she felt she was on trial. What are we looking at here . We are looking at a police report. I notice a lot of black. What is going on with this . These are all the statements made by other parties that i am not allowed to see. Reporter it is all redacted statements i mean page after page after page after page of story telling. You are only able to see your statement. Given . That it was an invasion of privacy. Reporter how do you feel about that response . In this case im the victim. My privacy was way more than violated, why do i not have the me. Reporter kelceys case was closed because the county Attorneys Office said they couldnt prove she didnt give consent. You were drinking. Yes. Reporter you were. 0219. Undermontana law a victim that is incapacitated it is rape. What were you told . I was moaning. So i was not incapacitated. Theres no definition, but its a high standard. Kirsten is the attorney, replacing her predecessor in june 2014. Some of the allegations in the department of justice letter are not accurate and are sensational. But at the same time i look back and say i could have done things differently, and its important to recognise that we can always learn, we can learn from the better. Reporter the Missoula County Attorneys Office agreed to changes as a result of the d. O. J. Investigation including giving the montana attorneygeneral Oversight Authority for Sexual Assault cases and training for prosecutors. Kelcey said she decided to come forward when others shared her experience. Im not going to let Something Like this control my life. Absolutely not. I lost control one night, look where it got me. Im not going to let them have any power over me not going to school. Me. Kelcey graduates spring and plans to find work as a state. Reporter in this alert from the university to the state, it says an agreement will serve as a blueprint for colleges and students to protect against Sexual Assault. You . A little yes. This is two years later that this is coming about, and Nothing Happened to the boys in my case. It didnt change her case, kelcey is hopeful it will make a difference to others. I do not want this to happen to anyone else. I call myself a momma bear, and this is huge. It makes me excited that, you know, people act a certain way, guess what, therell be repercussions. Its unclear if the montana blueprint will change the culture to victims get justice. At the least she hopes other schools have been put on notice thats america tonight. Tell us what you think. At aljazeera. Com americatonight. Talk to us on twitter or facebook and come back. Well have more of america tonight tomorrow. Is. The man who may become yemens next president appeals to the warring faction to his stop fighting. Hello, i am nick clark you are watching al jazerra live from our headquarters in doha. Also coming up. Pictures that left u. N. Officials in tears. 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