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64 and nay 35. With that it was over, negotiations lasting well in the wee hours this morning but senate has a twoyear budget and debt deal and going to the president s desk for signature and good morning and welcome to your world im delve walters. And im stephanie and prevents a government default next week but discontent over the deal forced a rare overnight senate session. I will not give this president any power to borrow unspecified amounts of money. Our debt now equals our entire economy. Reporter republican snore and candidate rand paul railed against the budget deal into the early hours this morning and one of many republicans who complained the agreement brokered by president obama and congressional leaders in private contained too much spending. Those of us who believe it to be not a good deal were not allowed the opportunity to have an alternative. The time is now to say enough is enough, no more debt. Reporter paul had promised a filibuster the measure and never got support he needed from his fellow republicans, without a deal the government would have defaulted on debts early next week but it suspended the debt limit through march 2017 and means the government can continue to borrow money to pay its bills. The budget also boosts spending by more than 80 billion over the next two years, the funding is split between military and domestic programs and that led to more republican objections. 85 billion dollars to our national debt, 85 billion to your children and my children that they are somehow expected to pay. Reporter budget supporters say that increased spending without be off set partly by 168 billion in longterm saving from changes to social security. Its not perfect as my friends and Republican Leaders said, no legislation is, the budget is good for the middle class and good for the economy and good for the country. So the deal reduces the chance of a government shut down in december but doesnt eliminate it entirely. Congress still has to pass a funding by by then to keep the government running. Stephanie congressman paul ryan beginning his first full day as speaker of the house. I felt like the moon, the stars and all the planets had fallen on me. We should all feel that way. A lot is on our shoulders. So if you ever pray lets pray for each other. Republicans, for democrats, and democrats for republicans. Reporter ryan is the youngest speaker in nearly 150 years. He is 45 years old. His biggest challenge will be to try and unify his own party and wants to restore public trust, improve the economy and close the wage gap. This morning an iran american is in detention in iran and a family friend tells the Washington Post he was visiting relatives in tehran earlier this month when Security Forces arrested him, word of his detention is coming out and he is a business man who lives in dubai and descendent of a prominent iran family and state Department Says its looking into the reports. We are following a developing story out of syria this morning at least 45 people were killed, 100 others injured after government missiles reportedly struck a busy marketplace in the damascus suburb of duma and images are one reason every major foreign player involved in the syrian conflict is meeting today in vienna, the goal is to try and broker a political solution to the fouryear crisis without the Syrian Government or opposition though in the room. Among those taking part secretary of state john kerry as well Foreign Ministers of russia, saudi arabia, turkey and for the first time iran. Al jazeera mohamed joins us live now from vienna and Mohamed Kerry meeting with zarif yesterday and talked about the iran deal but not syria and what role are we expecting the iranians to play in the talks about the war . Well, del, essentially while the talks will be difficult even with the iranians being here the first time, all diplomates that are here realized that if iran were not here it would be impossible. Iran being not only one of the primary backers and supporters of syrian president Bashar Alassad but also one of the primary sponsors of lebanon militant Group Hezbollah and have have a play here and in the conflict and big supporters of Bashar Alassad and hezbollah sending in fighters for a few years now to bolster president Bashar Alassad troops in the Syrian Civil War and have been many attempts in the past for diplomates to get together to try to negotiate a peace settlement and compromise when it comes to the Syrian Civil War and have all essentially failed, that was without the iranian presence. The u. S. , in fact, in the past has made sure they were disinvited and wanted to be involved in the past and didnt happen now but the Iran Nuclear Deal having been reached the u. S. And west encountries realized that iran needs to be at the table here and even though they are here and even though they want to be here its going to be extremely difficult here in vienna to try and come up with a compromise to the Syrian Civil War which is raging on and on with the humanitarian crisis spiralling out of control in syria, del. That being said there is some speculation this morning the u. S. May be softening the stance on president bar char alassad and iran are softening and are we looking at possibly a political breakthrough . Very good point you are making and we have been hearing the softening in tone and not just from u. S. Officials but french officials earlier today and French Foreign minister instead of expressly stating that assad must go before anything happens says he has a role to play in the future and this is a very subtle diplomatic language that has been noticed to the run up to the talks and during these talks, countries such as the u. S. , france and others involved in the talks no longer expressly demanding from the outset that Bashar Alassad must step down before a political solution can be found but, in fact, saying they are ensure what kind of role he has to play in syrias future. That is an important distinction here. A subtle one but an important one. Everybody who is gathered here is determined to try to make it work and this is the make or break day and even yesterday john kerry saying trying to find an end to the civil war is like charting a course out of hell and everyone is guarded and optimistic but the diplomatic bar has thus far been set pretty low. For us in vienna and thank you very much. Stay with us in about 15 minutes we will be talking more about the Syrian Crisis with former pentagon analyst matthau. Del the last british resident held in Guantanamo Bay is on his way back and released a Saudi National after 13 years, another detainee was sent home on thursday. Neither man was ever charged with a crime. And as al jazeeras emma hayward tells us this case in particular Drew International attention. Reporter he had been held at Guantanamo Bay for more than 5,000 days. Never charged, never convicted, and the last british resident to be detained at the u. S. Base. His supporters have always maintained he is an innocent man and his family has been robbed of a father, a husband and a friend. The campaign for his release has been a long one. 14 years of torture. I mean torture is bad enough but when someone has never been charged and therefore assumed innocent its just intolerable. Reporter he was picked up in afghanistan in 2001. His family says he was doing charity work and he was sold for a bounty to u. S. Forces, u. S. Authorities alleged he was leading a unit of taliban fighters. In his 13 years as an inmate in the worlds most worst prison he was never charged. He did go on Hunger Strikes several times. One of the many prisoners whose only form of protest was through their stomach and campaigners say he was held in appalling conditions and sometimes in solitary confinement and beaten. Early in his presidency barack obama promised to close guantanamo, a legacy of his predecessors war on terror. So far though it remains open and is still the subject of human rights allegations. His release comes after 13 years, its expected he will be reunited with his family including one child born during the initial stage of incarceration, emma hayward, al jazeera. 112 detainees still at the prison in Guantanamo Bay and 52 of those have been approved for transcript tear. A weeklong manhunt in kentucky for a man accused of shooting and wounding an officer is over this morning. Police shot and killed Floyd Ray Cook and happened in the South Central part of the state overnight and convicted rapist had been on the run since saturday. There is a feeling of relief that is over, that the community is safer now just because we found him. Reporter schools and businesses in the area though had been shut down while authorities search for cook two of his alleged associates are in jail and awaiting charges. Beginning this morning the Justice Department will release about 6,000 inmates from prison, this would be one of the largest onetime releases of federal prisoners in u. S. History, the move is in response to a loosening of harsh mandatory minimum sentences for nonviolent drug offenders and Obama Administration insists those being released have been screened, about a third of the prisoners will eventually be deported. A florida man accused of shooting and killing a man in a theatre will use the stand your Ground Defense in his murder case. Reeves is a retired officer and his Attorney Says he only started shooting in response to something chad olson did and video in the theatre shows him throwing his cell phone at the former officer, the trial is scheduled to begin in january. A former prep School Student in New Hampshire is free this morning after being sentenced to a year in jail for Sexual Assault and 20yearold was granted a stay as he appeals conviction and sentence and he was found guilty of luring a freshman into a sexual encounter as part of a senior ritual at st. Paul school and before the sentencing the mother spoke to the judge. We humbly ask owen take full responsibility for his criminal actions and for the trauma his blatant disregard for another human being. Reporter he did not speak during the sentencing hearing but had argued during the trial that the two did not have sex. This morning stephanie federal investigators searching for what sparked the dramatic airline engine fire in Fort Lauderdale, florida. Engine on fire, call the fire trucks. Reporter the plane had more than 100 passengers on board, nearly two dozen people were hurt as they tried to evacuate. Al jazeeras lisa stark has more on just what went wrong. Reporter the jet a wide body boeing 767 operated by a Company Called dynamic air waves was scheduled to fly from Fort Lauderdale to venezuela and taxiing for take off a pilot on a plane behind noticed there appeared to be fuel leaking from that left jet engine and then the engine caught fire. Smoke bill lowed into the air as passengers and crew, 101 in all scrambled to get off that jet and came down the emergency shoots. Fire crews responded within minutes. They sprayed foam on the plane to put out that fire but 15 people were injured including one who suffered burns. One person sustained serious injuries and those are burn injuries. I dont know if its a crew or passenger. We still have not figured it or got information yet and remaining are walking wounded, things like bumps, bruises, contusions that nature. Reporter the airport did shut down for a number of hours and when flights resumed it was limited basis on just one runway. Now dynamic air waves is a fiveyearold company and based in North Carolina and it operates flights mainly out of fort lauder day and new york to venezuela and gianna, the plane that caught fire had been used by other carriers in the past and it was 30 years old. The National Transportation safety board is sending a team to florida to investigate this accident. Lisa stark reporting to us from washington d. C. , according to ntsb Dynamic Airlines had one minor accident before that fire in Fort Lauderdale. Easier to walk along Lake Michigan this morning, look at the incredible able waves in muskegon on thursday and some topping 15 feet and this morning they are down to typical 35 feet. Not easy to walk around the gulf coast and flash flood warnings up along the coast and those are pretty ominous clouds behind you. We have rain coming in and a lot of flash flood watches are preempted because we are expecting the rain but as you look at all of in this is a system we have been watching as it moved through the rockies now pulling out, it will interact with more moisture now its getting closer to the gulf and already Severe Weather this morning and watching that very closely through the course of the day and Central Texas is under that slight risk and lets put the different hazards up and right now we have a Tornado Warning for wilson in bexar county and a wider area that is under the watch that means the potential and goes until noon central today and could move, we already had a couple reports of damage right now, its being considered win damage but it was night so they will go back during the light of day and see just in case it was tornado damage and all the greens ex tending into louisiana are flash flood a lot of watches because the potential of rain is coming in. This is moving through and in portions of texas, 78 possible over the next two days and then ive stopped this where it is on halloween eve so from the great lakes all the way to the gulf coast some moisture could spread and that is where you want to watch out for kids and as we get into the day on saturday moving to the east coast kind of misses parts of the northeast so for the marathon for example in new york city might not be dealing with the rain hopefully. Nicole mitchell thank you. Taking on the kkk. Tell you about a hacker group threatening to expose identities of thousands of members of the ku klux klan. Justice in the courts and to accept a plea bargain eveni if you are not guilty. From the border where a dramatic scene is unfolding at this hour and crowds of migrants battling with police trying to breakthrough to austria. That is a small child to the top of your screen. Wave of refugees breaking through the border with austria. It was moments ago the crowds there battling police on the slovania side of the border and hundreds of peep people crashing through the gates and several people were injured in the stampede and a child there with a pacifier and calling on the e u to address the growing refugee cities and feels shame for failure to prevent on going tragedies like you saw and 22 people and 13 children drowning overnight when boats cap sized in the mediterranean and john has more on this. Reporter heading to athens on track to the balkins and relieved they crossed dangerous waters in rub by dinghys and most are refugees needing protection from the war in syria or the perils they face at home and waiting for his travel documents is a man who paid the price as working as an interpreter for u. S. Coalition forces by being hunted down by the taliban. The taliban they came and shoot bullets in front of my home and they put a letter on my door. When my dad got the letter my dad told me because of you i told you dont work with these guys and you have worked with these guys and because of you my family life is at risk, take the money and get out of afghanistan, go where you want to go and dont come back in my home. Reporter he waited for two years for an american visa and he can wait no more and is asking for protection in europe. But the process for him and thousands more who arrive daily is bureaucratic and slow and they spill over barbed wire fences into olive groves and no running water, nothing to eat and no where to sit down, only children manage to escape briefly from these daily realities. This is greeces first eu hotspot where new arrivals are screened and room for about 10,000 people in camps like these across the country. But greece has now been forced to raise that capacity to 50,000, most of it in governmentbuilt temporary shelters, the remainder in private housing. The reason is that Eastern European countries are overwhelmed by the convoys of thousands prompting some to shut their borders. Greek migration minister says european leaders were pressing greece to do even more. Translator instead of the 60,000 hospitality positions in one camp they were asking of us in way in reality is more like a concentration camp we succeeded to get approval for 20,000 places of temporary residence for subsidized rents. The greater the surge in refugees trying to beat the on set of winter the greater the risk to free movement. John with al jazeera on the island of lesbos. At this hour secretary of state john kerry is sitting down with every foreign player in the conflicten colluding iran but the opposition is not there and fa talks trying to end the civil war and u. S. And iranians may be nearing a compromise on the future of syria president Bashar Alassad and we will go to a resident fellow at the American Enterprise institute and joins us from washington and matthew good among and the presence of iran at the talks has been called significant, should we expect it pushes things towards a solution toward the syrian war . Well, i think everyone involved in the talks right now are hoping for some type of potential breakthrough and though i think both sides remain doubtful there is any immediate solution to this. This is a fouryear civil war, there is a lot changing on the ground in the fighting and because you dont actually have president assad or his representatives or the Syrian Opposition there, the president , its going to be difficult to really get to any type of solution here. At the core of it. And leads to the next points syria is not at the table and it has become a proxy war as you know, can the syrian civ war be resolved without the participation of the syrians . Well, i think given how dependent assad is on iran and Russian Support and frankly how dependent most of the opposition is for external support, i think that there is you cant actually perhaps solve a good chunk of it by the major world and Regional Power players there. At the same time though you have to recognize they are players that are not anyones proxy in the situation, like i. S. I. S. Or daesh so you cant really solve the entire problem with those that are in vienna right now. There is speculation that the iranians and others are softening their stance on keeping assad in power. Why might the iranians be willing to do that . Well, i think the iranians are looking at a situation that has not been going well for them frankly for a number of years, that is part of the reason why they were willing and wanting russian intervention recently. I think the iranians are seeing that the outlook for preserving what they still have in syria is frankly been kind of grim and i think that they are recognized that president assad frankly has not handled this situation very well at all and frankly i think made the ran iranians blame them for the problem in syria and a willingness to transition away from assad and the problem is transition to what and who would be taking his place and i think that is what everyone is fighting over. To that point is that how russia feels and one soldier that has died in syria and the fact it has more to lose with its military involvement in syria make it more likely to compromise on its support of assad and also leads to the same question but then who . Youre absolutely right and i think actually this is where it becomes very interesting between iran and russia, russia does not want to be in some multi gear engagement in syria. I think they want to look for a relatively way out of the situation and have interest they are willing to fight for there but i think that the russians and iranians may have a different calculation about assad and i think the iranians may be at least the russians may be more willing to kind of you know get rid of assad quicker and more favorable terms to those like the saudis or the americans than they would for iranians and i think iranians are a little worried that the russians will cut them out in the end of a final deal. Matthew mcginis thank you for insights this morning, appreciate it. Trying to solve the crisis and booted from the locker room. Amen. The High School Coach placed on leave for leading his players in prayer after the game, why his suspension has created a rift over religion onandoff the field. Snow caps in montana are disappearing, effects of warmer weather on the region and how its effecting the wildlife and the water supply. To diminish the Muslim Population inside burma, its part of a genocidal process. Rohinja faced abuse at every turn. Rape, forced labor, torture, arbitrary arrest and detention. It was planned violence. The truth could not be revealed until today. Coming back with a live look at union square in the romania city and probably wont find vampires there its the unofficial capitol of transylvania and its 7 30 eastern time. [switching captioners] it also boosts spending by more than 80 billion over the next two years. President obama has said he will sign it into law. The week long manhunt for a man accused of shooting a Police Officer is over in kentucky. Police shot and killed Floyd Ray Cook in the South Central part of the state overnight. The convicted rapist had been on the run since saturday after shooting and wounding a Police Officer in tennessee. Talks are underway this morning in vienna, where the u. S. And other foreign leaders are discussing ending the syrian conflict. There are reports the u. S. And iranians may be nearing a compromise on the future of future president Bashar Al Assad. The Syrian Government and opposition are not taking part in these talks. Theres a top u. S. Military general saying boko haram has lost territory in nigeria, contradicting the groups claims that it is expanding. The head of u. S. Africa command said the Group Remains a major threat. He says boko haram is using a lot of the same tactics at isil and Getting Better at carrying out attacks. Nigerias army has a most wanted porter of fighters, calling on the public to call a special hot line number if they see these men. There are 100 men on the poster. The military is given a deadline to defeat the group. A retired army general and former commander of u. S. Africa command joins us live this morning from washington, d. C. Thank you for being with us. How much progress has been mailed in the fight against boko haram in africa . Well, its been uneven over the past several years, but i think the last few months have been encouraging, particularly because of the emphasis placed on defeating boko haram by the Nigerian Government and by the surrounding nations. General, when americans hear about boko haram, the first thing that comes to mind are the 276 girls kidnapped by boko haram. You had experience training african troops. If Something Like that happened on u. S. Soil or europe, they would move heaven and earth to try and get them back. Did you find that to be the case in africa . Well, i think there was no lack of will, but i think theres also the complexities of geography, lack of infrastructure and Security Forces, police and i military who were in my estimation probably not quite up to the task. Thats changing now. You say there are complexities. You are talking about 300 girls, 276 girls, nigeria just rescued other kidnapping victims. How many kids are we talking about that this group may have kidnapped and do we really have a firm number . No, i think there is no firm number. Certainly, the girls gained International Recognition, rightfully so, but there are many, many hundreds, perhaps thousands of others who have been kidnapped over the past several years, but not in as large a single group as the girls. Were you frustrated as a military commander in washington i mean in africa with washington itself, because Troop Deployment relatively small, the president announced 300 will be deployed to cameroon, compared to 3,500 troops in iraq and syria. Do the numbers themselves send a message . No, i dont think so. You should not measure the u. S. Commitment purely based on the number of american troops present. In fact, in my estimation, large american troop presence can be counter productive particularly in africa, the key to all of this is an africanled effort supported by the United States and others in the international community. I think were seeing more and more of that. Im encouraged by the Regional Cooperation that seems to be emerging from nigeria but also with their neighbors, cameroon, niger and chad. General, thank you very much. The Obama Administration said its policy on Edward Snowden has not changed, despite a strong signal of support from the european union. The e. U. Europe yawn passed a resolution to protect him from extradition, calling him an International Human rights defender who should be shielded from prosecution. Snowden lives in asylum in russia. He is facing espionage charges in the u. S. For leaking documents. In a tweet, he called the e. U. s vote a gamechanger. The state department is expected to release another batch of Hillary Clintons emails from her time at secretary of state. Last week, the emails came up during her marathon hearing before the house benghazi committee. The f. B. I. Is investigating whether she handled classified information by using a private server. The monthly email releases are expect to continue through january. A California Court rejecting a right to die lawsuit brought by three terminally ill patients who wanted doctors to prescribe fatal medications. The court said physicians break the law if those drugs are prescribed. It will not take effect until next year. The Hacking Group anonymous plans to pull the hoods off 1,000 ku klux klan members and reveal their true identities. John siegenthaler has details of their plans. Anonymous is calling it hackers versus haters round two. The International Cyber Vigilante Group setting a date for the unveiling of up to 1,000 members of the ku klux klan, a social Media Movement under the hash tag banner hats off. It is branding it operation k. K. K. In a letter posted earlier this week, the socalled hackta i. V. Ist group posted you are more than a hate group, you operate much more like terrorists and you should be recognized as such. Members of the hacking collaborative became infamous for their iconic guy fox masks, a trinity to the man behind a failed attempt to overthrow the British Government in 1605. Anonymous said the unveiling will take place on november 24, designed to coincide with the First Anniversary of protests and rioting that broke out in ferguson, missouri after a grand jury did not indict the officer who shot michael brown. Anons are well known for attacking groups they disagree with. They targeted k. K. K. Members who threatened to use lethal force on the streets of ferguson. Back in january, anonymous took down a website believed to have ties to isil and has since taken down several twitter and Facebook Accounts linked to the group. John siegenthaler, al jazeera. That you says of knob violent federal prisoners are being released starting this morning. It is the latest step in a movement to reform mandatory sentencing. Advocatesar taking aim at plea bargains. Many say they were forced to take a deal rather than risk trial. Ive got a walker and a wheelchair. 69yearold sonia had a decision to make. Your house burned down. Yes. You were charged with arson . Yes. And insurance fraud. Yes. I havent gotten a penny from insurance, but i didnt do either one of them. Fullers defense lawyers gave her a lie detector test. She passed. But going to trial meant risking 30 years behind bars. They kept threatening me. Something she says aggressive prosecutors dont let her forget. Had you gone in for 30 years, you would have never left there. Uhuh. That would be it, life over. That would be the end of that. When prosecutors offered a deal, she took it. Fuller isnt alone. Across the United States, only a tiny fraction of defendants actually go on trial. In the federal system, 97 accept a deal and plead guilty. State courts are not far behind, with a plea rate of 90 . People are wrongfully convicted. That happens and theres plenty of them in there, too. Charles has worked as a defense investigator for more than two decades. Theres not a defense attorney in this country who hasnt at some point stood next to a client and watched them plead guilty to an offense that he or she did not commit as part of a plea deal package and thats just a fact. Anyone who would dispute that i would challenge them on that. The rate of pleas rose sharply with tough new sentencing laws 30 years ago in order to stem the tide of Violent Crime with more prosecutions. Crime rates in the u. S. Have been dropping since the 1990s, but case loads, they have not budged away in atlanta, business is booming and the only way to keep up is to reinvolve as many case before they go to trial. With that comes a fundamental power shift. What that does is that takes the power away from defendants, takes the power away from the judiciary, from judges who have ultimate oversight and gives the powers to the prosecutors, who ultimately make the charging decisions. Attorney lisa wells used to be one of those prosecutors. You dont want to be seen weak amongst your pierce and of course you certainly dont want your boss to think they hired someone who is weak. Wells says defendants are often overcharged to force a deal, including some of the clients she now represents. It is so gut wrenching, knowing that they could be convicted, but also not wanting to plead to something that they feel is unfair and they didnt do. We know that theres almost this cost benefit analysis that takes place with defendants where they dont have a trust to get a fair shake, so they make a, decision, essentially. The association of u. S. Attorneys though says thats an oversimplification. Theres a lengthy colloquy between the judge and the defendant with his attorney there in which hes advised of his full rights, including the right to go to trial. All of that is to make sure that a defendant is entering the plea knowingly and voluntarily. A sitting federal judge who asked not to be named told us judicial review is a sham. He called plea bargains private and secret back room deals that are bad for the system. Our Founding Fathers had in mind that defendants would be tried by a jury of their pierce. That constitutional right to a jury trial gives defendants the choice, one that critics say the system has now eliminated. Robert ray, al jazeera, atlanta. An update on a story a a lot of you are talking about, the Washington State football coach attending his team said game as a fan. He was suspended for praying with his players on the field. He says he is not giving up his fight. Coach kennedy was torn about whether or not to show up last night. He said he decided to go after the teams captains insisted. His presence was controversial. The High School Assistant coach joe kennedy was back praying thursday night as his team fought for a playoff spot, but he prayed from the stands, not the field. I never wanted any legal stuff. I didnt want any problem. I just wanted to give things for my team. The School System suspended him after he repeatedly ignored a School Mandate to stop leading on the field prayers. I dont understand the laws, and i dont know why americas come to this, i thought it was so pure. Hopefully well get it straightened out. This group of self described ate tanists were there, protesting kennedys practice of praying on the field. The debate has reached capitol hill. Protecting one coaches rights to pray protects every persons right to pray. In the stands, the opinion was more mixed. I do support his rights to pray. Everybody has the right the pray. Its just not the right venue. Separation of church and state, teaching our kids region not in the classrooms, i understand that. If the kids want to join in, i think thats perfectly acceptable. His lawyers are with the conservative Liberty Institute group. They say they will file a federal discrimination charge on kennedys behalf. Im willing to take this as far as it goes to defend the rights of the constitution until the end. If it comes back one way or another, i fought the good fight. We love you, jesus. They won 2720, had a one in five record before this prayer controversy broke. Since then, the team has won two out of three. He said he was following that film facing your giants when he prayed. You saw the cameras. How do the parents and players feel about the fact that so much attacks is being taken from the field . We certainly heard from one parent last night, talking about the fact that its really all about the kids and the coach believes that, too, he put a message to as much on his facebook page, police focus on the exploits of these kids. Thank you very much. A few rounds of wet weather for the west coast. Lets bring in Nicole Mitchell for more on that. Good morning, its going to feel like the spigot got turned on. We just had one a couple of days ago pull out, but now its going to be frequent enough that it will be almost constant. Some place could see over a foot of rain. This is part of the area in the drought. We dont want it all at once. Im getting more concerned because of flood concern. We had flood watches in the area. You get more interior with systems. High wind warnings. Most of the area is under at least weather advisories for kind of watch out for the water and the rain or the rain and the wind that is going to be coming in over the next few days. I mentioned the next few days. You can kind of see this continue to tap into the region. By the end of all of this, it starts to make its way by the third day, so really more into sunday night, monday morning into portions of california, one of those next storms. That could be our first big snow. For place like tahoe, theyre excited about it, because weve had poor winters recently, not a lot of snow pack, affecting the ski resorts. Some like the forecast. Temperatures in seattle, 61 and a big cool down in the northeast, temperatures drop to about 15 degrees. Back to you. Ok, Nicole Mitchell, thank you. For centuries there has been snow year round on the Bear Tooth Mountains from wyoming to montana. After the warmest winter on record, the snow has disappeared. Scientists warn it may not be coming back. We report from wyoming. High up in the Bear Tooth Mountains near Yellow Stone National park, something is missing. Normally, at this elevation, wed look up on the side of the mountain and see snow patches. Theyre gone. We dont have them. Snow and ice have been fixtures for thousands of years. This one weve monitored 2030 years, went in and found bison bones underneath. There havent been bison bones above tree line in hundreds of thousands of years. They havent come up here. This summer, almost all the snow fields disappeared, experts predict forever. Is this a warning that we should be paying attention to . This is a warning. You could call the loss of permanent snow is the canary in the coal mine. Jim wound to take us higher into the mountains to see where the ancient snow fields existed, however winter is coming and the roads are closed. A closure made more out of seasonal habit than necessity this year. On that land positive the trees, the alpine, look at that snow field on the right. Five years ago, it was much bigger. Five years from now, it may be totally gone. We eventually moved down into the valley to see the fallout. Winters in montana along the banks of the yellow stone river, snow melt off drains into the yellow stone. Tristan . Welcome to the yellow stone river. With out from unlimited, he said the loss of permanent snow will have big impacts on trout. We are not locking at extinction, were looking at a shifting of the ecosystem. Were looking at a shrinking of suitable trout habitat. There might be local extinction of some local species. Another concern, a hit to the economy. Fishing brings in about 950 million a year to montana economy. What weve got is changes mid continent affecting recreation and nature to commerce and agriculture. The take home is the alarm sounding here, the effects of hitting. Hitting an ecosystem where a massive thaw out is the new reality. Al jazeera, the Bear Tooth Mountains, wyoming. When we come back, more and more kids choosing to sit it out on the sidelines. We look at the growing trend of kids choosing not to participate in teen sports and one of the reasons behind it. Stunning new images of pluto allowing us to see the dwarf planet in new light. Another out of this word image of pluto this morning caught see of nasa, the new horizons spacecraft snapped this image in july, capturing 15 minutes after the ship made its closest approach ever to the dwarf planet. The images take months to download. It shows hazy layers around plutos atmosphere and some mountains on its surface. Tomorrow is halloween. If you look up, the chances are you will not spot any flying jackolanterns, but if you look, you will see an asteroid. Fewer kids are playing team sports these days in america. Experts say there are a number of reasons, but one is pushy parents. We have the story. Soccer practice for third graders in new york city. Its a crowded field. For now. But many of these kids will end up dropping out of team sports before becoming teenagers. A recent survey suggests total sports play has declined 10 . Not a good sign, according to experts who say playing team sports is good for a childs development. Most kids are not benefiting from all of the important life lessons that are attainable for kids in sports, things like perseverance and being part of a team and just being active as a kid. Director of Sports Management said parents are too focused on the future. They want their kids to special ice in only one sport, hoping to land big scholarships at top schools. Its not the most important thing to be the best 9yearold pitcher. The real job as a parent is to protect them and help them reach the ability to be a top athlete. Many get the wrong message and drop out. Max is 10 years old and said soccer has taught him more than just how to score goals. I learned how to really try your hardest. It gets harder every year, and like the one time we lost, we tried to learn how to lose. Sometimes parents are the ones kind of pushing kids towards sports, and kids arent interested. You can only push them for so long. Hockey coach tom mariano said many parents dont follow that approach. Be positive. Dont coach your kid from the stands. Dont be banging on the glass, pointing, telling them to skate and move his feet. I see it all the time. The poor kid, the kids worried more about the parents than theyre worried about the game. Mariano said the risk where he coaches focuses on developing basic skills before advancing kids to the next level. Im all about positive reinforcement. I think thats a lot of our motto here. I think thats a lot of why we are so successful. Thats good news for mariano, because hockey is experiencing one of the biggest declines in child enrollment. U. S. A. Hockey is the governing body for amateurs, reducing travel and raising the age kids can bodychecking. Now they get hit a little bit and get banged around, and go whoa, maybe this isnt for me. The new guidelines are so successful, many are following the same model. Let ben tell you what they want to do. A strategy that can prove to be a gamechanger. Al jazeera, new york. Some of the other reasons fewer kids are signing up, a lot of parents say they cant afford the expensive equipment. Others fear their children will get hurt and the too much training is a problem, as well. That accounts or half of all sports related injuries. It is shaping up as a do or die game for the mets. The mets lost the first two games to the Kansas City Royals and now face an uphill battle. Only 10 teams have ever come back from that deficit to win the fall classic, but one was the mets who came back way back in 1986 to win the series and cap that amazing season. They are hoping history repeats itself in new york. Ahead in our next hour, thousands of federal inmates are being reds this morning as the Obama Administration releases nonviolent drug offenders. Well look at the implications in the immigration battle. The violence in damascus adding new pressure to the international talks with the u. S. , russia and iran now at the table. We are back in two minutes with more of your world this morning. Tough that the country gave up on me. Look at the trauma. Every day is torture. This is our home. Nobody should have to live like this. We made a promise to these heroes. This is one promise americans need to keep. Out of jail, the Obama Administration begins releasing thousands of prisoners convicted of nonviolent drug crimes, many now facing deportation. Dramatic scenes of desperation this morning along the sloveniaaustria border, refugees push past police. The last british resident held at guantanamo sent back to the u. K. After 13 years and no charges. A spooky situation for pumpkin lovers, a pumpkin shortage that could stretch to the end of the holiday season. Welcome to your word this morning. Thousands of inmates who spent years behind bars in u. S. Prisons will walk away this morning. It is part of adjusts Department Program in response to revised mandatory minimum sentences for drug crimes. It is the largest one time release of federal prisoners in history. Al jazeeras patty calhane has the story of one man hoping to get out. Charles ford is a man who really likes to talk about his brother, todd. Comedian, just, he demands the room, always has. Hes got that certain aura about him. Always smiling, growing up on the poverty stricken site of washington, d. C. The pictures stop. At 24 years old, todd foster in his first runin with the law was found guilty of dealing krakow contain. Along with seven others, they possessed a combined 15 kilograms and that meant his sentence, life in prison, no chance of parole. You sell drugs. Life without parole for something you can put in your pocket . I would never see that in a million years. The judge had very little discretion because of mandatory minimum sentence that is looks at the type of drug, the quantity, circumstances and that adds up to the sentence. The independent commission that oversees sentences just changed the formula, reducing the time future and past prisoners will have to serve. Shaving an average of two years of prison time for drug offenses, but for people sentenced to life, it means they will know freedom. Part of the reason, money. The u. S. Spent 80 billion a year on prisons, and they are overcrowded, almost half of the inmates are there on drug charges. Congress is considering lowering the penalties further, but that has its critics. Its going to drive the crime rate up, because these people are unfortunately, theyre going to go back, many of them to what they did previously, and that is victimize the public by selling of poison, drugs, heroin, cocaine, crack, meth amphetamine, poisons that destroy peoples lives. The vast majority of prisoners that get out go back to prison. Ford knows the challenges he faces. His support system is going to be, you wants to hey, im there, im going to be tied like this. Ive got to make sure. Hes going to be good. Hes definitely going to be good, i promise you that. He and i want got no choice but to do the right thing. After 21 years of thinking there was no hope of freedom, knew hell have a chance to find out. Patty calhane, al jazeera, washington. About a third of people released will be deported. Well talk about the reasons for that and the impact in the immigration debate in about 15 minutes. President obama says he is going to sign that budget and debt deal approved by the senate early this morning. After a marathon session, that vote finally happening at 3 00 this morning. The measure prevents a Government Shutdown next week but many republicans arent happy. They force that had rare overnight session in the senate. I will not give this president any power to borrow unspecified amounts of money. Our debt enough equals our entire economy. As you can see, rand paul was one of several republicans voting against the measure. The deal suspends the nations debt limit until early 2017. It boosts spending by more than 80 billion over the next two years. The last british resident being held in Guantanamo Bay is on his way back to the u. K. This morning. The u. S. Released him, a Saudi National, after 13 years. Another detainee was sent home to mauritania thursday. Neither man was ever charged with a crime. As al jazeeras emma hayward tells us, aamers case Drew International attention. He had been held more than 5,000 days, never charged, never convicted. The last british resident to be detained at the u. S. Base, his supporters have always maintained he is an innocent man and his family has been robbed of a father, a husband and a friend. The campaign for his release has been a long one. 14 years of torture. I mean tortures bad enough, but when someones never been charged and therefore assumed innocent, its just intolerable. He was picked up in afghanistan in 2001. His family say he was doing charity work and that he was sold for a bounty to u. S. Forces. U. S. Authorities said he was leading a unit of taliban fighters. In 13 years, he was never charged. He did go on Hunger Strike several times, one of the many prisoners whos only form of protest was through their stomach. Campaigners say he was held in appalling conditions, sometimes in solitary confinement, and beaten. Early in his presidency, barack obama promised to close guantanamo, a legacy for this predecessors war on terror. So far, it remains open and is still the subject of human rights allegations. The release comes after 13 years. Its expected hell be reunited with his family, including one child born during the initial stage of his incarceration. Al jazeera. There are 112 detainees still held in the prison in Guantanamo Bay. 52 have been approved for transfer. A fourth iranian american is said to be held in an iranian jail, Family Friends saying he was visiting relatives in tehran earlier this month when he was arrested by Security Forces. Word of his detention just enough getting out, though. He is a businessman who lives in dubai anded descendent of a prominent iranian family. The state department is looking into those reports. There has been a deadly missile attack in syria killing people in a market in the damascus suburb of douma p. The strikes were targeting rebel groups p. M. Images like that are one reason every major foreign player is meeting in vienna today to broker a solution. Neither the government nor the opposition will be in the room. Today is one month since russia began its aerial campaign. The u. S. Question moscows motives within alleging the bombers are focused on anti Bashar Al Assad fighters. Some are softening their approach on Bashar Al Assad. Are we seeing the framework for a real political breakthrough . Theres definitely been a softening of tone toward Bashar Al Assad and what role he might play in the future of syria, particularly from the the western countries represented here. Wed heard indications of this from statements that have been coming from the u. S. Over the course of the past week. Just today, French Foreign minister spoke to the press earlier, and he was saying that it wasnt clear what role, if any, the syrian president Bashar Al Assad will have in the future of syria. Thats a big change. Its subtle, but in diplomatic speak a big change from where many of the western countries involved were in the past when several countries demanded outright that there was no role for Bashar Al Assad when it came to the transition in syria. With rewards to iran, theyve not specified where they are yet when it comes to Bashar Al Assad. Clearly they have a huge role to play in syria, and they want to make sure that Bashar Al Assad remains at least through any potential transition but the russians have been clear at this point. The russians have called for elections both parliamentary and president ial in syria. The russians as primary backers of Bashar Al Assad including iran have a stake in this. This is the make or break day when it comes to talks to see if any kind of political solution can be reached in these very difficult talks. Neither the sir i cant be government nor the rebels are represented at these talks. Can a solution be brokered without these players . Thats certainly a challenge. You have powers here that back either the opposition in syria, more of the players here back the opposition. Then you have russia and iran backing president Bashar Al Assad. Certainly that is a challenge company overcome here, one of many challenges, the fact that you dont have the primary actors involved in the actual conflict in syria, neither members of the regime of Bashar Al Assad nor members of the opposition. In fact, the opposition have stated several times since yesterday that they are displeased that they are not here. There has been talk that perhaps the opposition may be invited to further talks in these syrian negotiations at some point down the line, maybe as early as next week. This is one more thing to overcome in these talking about in which the diplomatic bar has been set very low. Practically every person speaking to the press have stated how difficult it is going to be to effect any compromise, made more difficult by the fact that the fighting in syria just rages on today, dozens more People Killed with this devastating missile attack in syria earlier today. That was in douma. Reporting from vienna, muhammed, thank you. Critics say it will be hard to reach any sort of agreement without the government at the table, saying the talks are more about finding compromise between interested parties, like iran and russia. I think given how democrat Bashar Al Assad is on iran and Russian Support, and frankly how democrat most of the opposition is for external support, i think that there is you cant actually perhaps solve a good chunk of this by the major word and Regional Power players there. At the same time, though, you have to recognize there are players that are not anyones proxy like isis or daish, so that you cant really solve the entire problem with those that are in vienna right now. There is speculation that the iranians and others are softening their stance on keeping assad in power. Why might the iranians be willing to do that . Well, i think the iranians are looking at a situation that has not been going well for them frankly for a number of years. Thats part of the reason why they were willing and wanting russian intervention recently. I think the iranians are seeing that the outlook for preserving what they still have in syria is frank kind of grim. They recognize that president assad has not handled the situation very well at all and frankly main iranians blame him for what the problems that they have right now there in syria. I think that theres always been a willingness to find someone to transition away from president assad. The problem is transition to what and who would be taking his place. I think thats actually what everyones fighting over. The four and a half year war has left 250,000 people dead and forced half the countries population from their homes. There is dramatic video out of slovenia this morning. It is near the border with austria, refugees and migrants rushing past border officials and through the gates, trampling others along the way. You can see people with small children, several people were injured in that stampede. Austria has been struggling trying to cope with the volume of people arriving. Slovenia and austria are both looking at believe fences trying to control the in flux. The Prime Minister of greece is calling on the e. U. To address the growing refugee crise. He said he feels shame over europes failure to prevent tragedies. Overnight, 22 people, 13 of them children drowning when two boats capsized in the mediterranean. A week long manhunt in kentucky for a man accused of shooting and wounding a Police Officer is over this morning. A police shot and killed Floyd Ray Cook in the South Central part of the state overnight. The convict rapist has been on the run since saturday. Theres a feeling of relief that it is over, that the community is safer now just because we found him. Schools and business the in the area had been shut down while authorities searched for cook. Two of his alleged associates are now in jail awaiting charges. The gulf coast once again fearing flash flooding today. Lets go to Nicole Mitchell. Good morning, nicole. Good morning, some places could get six inches at this system goes through. We are watching the northwest for flooding closely. These have a history of producing some Severe Weather. Theres been at least one wind report of high winds and damage, home damage, tree damage. As this goes along, there is still concern, slight risk today for predominantly wind, but an isolated or tornado not out of the realm of possibility. So we have the wider area of red, thats our tornado watch. The potential going until noon today and the one area thats the brighter red, the Tornado Warning we have in effect for Guadalupe County through the end of this half hour. Watch for those, but flooding concerns all the way through louisiana, we already have watches and warnings up. This is how it stacks up for the holiday evening, halloween and then eventually moves its way sunday into portions of the east coast. Theres threats of that halloween forecast. We can see moisture from the gulf coast to the great lakes, as it slowly moves along, places that were already sad rated last weekend, texas, louisiana, the biggest chance for flooding. This could be an even bigger chance, just system after system in the northwest over the next couple of days. Some places in Washington State, widespread, a foot or more, so we have the flood risk going up. As that moves in for sunday night, that could be a snowstorm for lake tahoe, but they want that snow. Thank you very much. Honda says a new problem found in thousands of its accords sets off the air bag. The company says it is recalling 300,000 accords, recalling the 2008, 2009 model years. The company said the side airbags might deploy if the ignition is on and the door slammed hard. Sending thousands of nonviolent prisoners free. The Obama Administration said its justice, part of its reforms to the prison sentences. Some offenders will be quickly deported. The latest into the investigation of dramatic flames on the tarmac. What authorities believe caused this plane to catch on fire. Fire. The largest prisoner release in u. S. History getting underway this morning. The Justice Department releasing 6,000 people who have been serving long sentences for nonviolent drug offenses. About a third of those prisoners will eventually be deported. The Company Founder and managing director of the united we dream network joins us live from houston. Thanks for being with us. Good to be here. When the public hears about prisoners being released, hundreds of undocumented when put in prison, about a third. U. S. Officials say they will be quickly deported. What happens to them after their release . This is another situation where we see that the criminal Justice System treats black and brown people differently. We have 2,000 of those 6,000 people that will be released today who have committed low level drug offenses, and they are immigrants, but would be immediately deported after their release. Heres a situation where these folks are getting a double sentence without having to see a judge to see if they can stay here under prosecutorial discretion. Any prisoner release in itself is controversial. When the public hears prisoner release, they get concerned. How concerned should the American Public be . These are people that have already its already been determined by a judge they have served their sentence. They have low level drug offenders and set to be released. President obama has said himself that we are a country of Second Chances and in this particular case, for the 2,000 immigrants that will be released today is very hypocritical, because theyre not in essence given a Second Chance when theyre not given a chance to see a judge to stay with their families here but rather being deported right away. Is it your feeling to the Obama White House is using this as an excuse to send 2,000 prisoners back across the border without due process and did they deserve due process because they were undocumented when they came into the country. Its within the law for the Obama Administration to allow these 2,000 people to be able to see a judge so they can determine if they are eligible for prosecutorial discretion. This is a clear case when you see the intersection of criminal justice and immigration justice. This is a clear case where you see the criminal Justice System and immigrational laws that are unfairly punishing now for a second time to folks that have been set to be released. I know i am preaching total choir when i ask this question. The other side of that debate is what due pros are they entitled to if they come into this country undocumented . Well what were saying is everyone in this country deserves due process, and legal assistance. These folks have already served their sentence. What we are saying is within the power of the administration, these folks can come forward to a judge so they can determine if these folks have family members here and have the right to be able to stay with their families. One final question before i let you go. Is it your sense that these prisoners, once they will be released are going to be welcomed back in their home countries with open arms . Well, you know, many people have their families here. They have in. Some cases, no one really at their home in their home country, and we dont understand right now much of the conditions when many people are sent back. Right now, even people that are being deported immediately and separated by their families go through very difficult situations, because the countries like mex mexico and others are now set up to properly welcome folks back, and many of these people have families here, which is why were saying that its hypocritical for the Obama Administration not to give these folks a second chancing to forward and come before a judge. Thanks for being with us this morning. Police in seattle are offering nonviolent offenders an alternative to jail, rehab to help them start over. The program is criticized as too soft on crime. We followed up with three low level offenders to see if its working. Schuyler hooks is a College Graduate living on the streets and stealing to feed his habit. Whats your drug of choice . Heroin . Yeah. Seattle Police Offers him hope instead of handcuffs. He takes it and enters the program, which doesnt require him to stay sober in order to get help. Michael was hookss case manager last year. He literally slept on the sidewalk by the office to make sure he made it in the morning. The second time, i picked him up from under a bridge to take him to detox. Each time within a couple of days, hooks left detox and van issued. Today, hes back in jail this time in a city near seattle. He asks that he gets drug treatment before serving his sentence. Time is running out to find an available treatment bed. Though his journey has been rocky, new data suggestion the 4yearold program has helped the more than 300 people who have enrolled. Lisa who helped design lead says the program is working. People in lead are 58 less likely to be arrested again after they get involved with the program than people who are very similar but go through jail booking and prosecution as usual. When compared to low level offenders not participating in the program, lead participants spent 39 fewer days in jail per year, saving taxpayers 2,100 per person. 37yearold Abraham Hartfield is a success story. He was attending drug counseling while living in a hotel. After remaining drug free for three years, hes no longer on probation. Lead got him a housing voucher, but i struggled to find his own place. With my criminal background and my not having any current income, it wasnt easy. Almost a year later, he found a one bedroom apartment. He now sees his son every other weekend and plans for the future. I do want to get back into, you know, very badly want to get back into the working class. We also caught up with this man, a crack addict who goes by michael. He entered the lead program the day we shot this video last year. With the help of lead, he completed his Community Service and through a low Income Housing program, now lives with family. While michael has not remained consistently sober, lead officers working the Downtown Court say they havent seen him on the seattle streets that he once called home. Al jazeera, seattle. The u. S. Releasing the last british detainee from Guantanamo Bay happened after nearly 14 years. He was held without charge and now must readjust to life at home. Well speak to another former guantanamo detainee about starting over after losing so much. Business man bill browder. If my grandfather was the biggest communist in america, im gonna go become the biggest capitalist in eastern europe. From communist origins to capitalist tycoon. See why hes now set on taking down vladimir putin. The russian government remains determined to ruin me in any way they can, including killing me if they can get away with it. Welcome back. Negotiations going into the Early Morning hours, the senate approving the twoery budget and debt deal. The agreement suspending the nations debt limit until early 2017. It also boosts spending by more than 80 billion over the next two years. The president says he will sign it. The week long manhunt for a man caused of shooting a Police Officer is over in kentucky. Police shot and killed Floyd Ray Cook in the South Central part of the state overnight. The convicted rapist had been on the run after shooting and wounding a Police Officer in tennessee. Talks are underway in vienna where the u. S. And for the purpose leaders are discussing ending the syrian conflict. There are reports this morning that the u. S. And the iranians may be nearing a compromise on the future of president Bashar Al Assad from syria. The Syrian Government and Opposition Forces arent taking part in the talks. The last british resident held at Guantanamo Bay is back on his way to the u. K. This morning. He is released after 13 years. Another detainee was sent home to mauritania thursday. Neither man was ever charged with a crime. Joining us is a spokesperson for the group cage who has been advocating for the release of guantanamo detainees. Tell us about the case and why so many people were rallying in recent days around his release. The campaign to get him home has been a very long one. For the past 10 years, weve had many celebrities, an all Party Committee from our government all campaigns for his release. He was an innocent man who was out in afghanistan before 9 11 building girls schools and wells, and he was captured and sold to the americans for a bounty of 5,000. Let me just stop you there for a second. Let me just clarify for the viewer that another was also a Gitmo Detainee and never charged and was released and now in the u. K. As well. How do you think he will be received and how will he return to life . Will he have a normal life of a free man . Well, the first thing that happened is that he needs Urgent Medical attention. His lawyers have said that after the Hunger Strikes and the forced feeding that we read about in the Senate Report described at torture, hes in very, very bad health. His first step will be to seek medical attention that he needs and try to reconnect with his family. Hes got a 14yearold son that hes never seen in that that will be his first step. After that, weve seen on outpouring of support for him across the country. As people recognize that this mans been through a horrible injustice for 14 years. Thank you for your perspective. He is with the cage organization in london advocating for the release of the Guantanamo Bay detainees, thank you. Nigerias army is out with a most wanted poster of boko haram fighters, the all the way calling on the. To call a special hot line posted to see if they see any of the men. There were 100 men on the poster in all. Nigerias president giving the military a mid november deadline to defeat the group. Retired army general, former commander of u. S. Africa command says finding those kidnapped Nigerian School girls is complex. I think there was no lack of will, but i think theres also the complexities of geography, lack of infrastructure and frankly Security Forces, police and military who were in my estimation probably not quite up to the task. Thats changing now. Excuse me for pushing back on that, though. You say there are complexities, you are talking about 300 girls, nigeria just rescued 300 other kidnapping victims from boko haram. How many kids are we actually talking about that this group may have kidnapped and do we really have a firm number . No. I think there is no firm number. Certainly the girls gained International Recognition rightfully so, but there are many, many hundreds, perhaps thousands of others who have been kidnapped over the past several years, but not in as large a single group as the kidnapped girls. Were you frustrated with washington because Troop Deployment in that region relatively small, the president announced 300 people will be deployed to cameroon compared to thee thousand to iraq and syria. Do the numbers send a message . I dont think so. You should not measure the commitment based purely on the number of american troops present. In fact, in my estimation, large american troop presence can be counter productive, particularly in africa. The key to all of this is an africanled effort supported by the United States and others in the international community. I think were seeing more and more of that. Im encouraged by the Regional Cooperation that seems to be emerging from nigeria but also with their neighbors, cameroon, niger and chad. Although boko haram has lost most of its territory this year alone, a top u. S. Military saying the group is refining its tactics now including suicide attacks. A Close Encounter in the sea of i cant pan. J military jets were scrambled after russian bombers got too close to an american aircraft carrier. The Ronald Reagan had been conducting exercises when the two planes were detect. Four fighter jets were launched to keep tabs on the bombers until they left the area. The pentagon called the fly by routine and the jets stayed at least a mile away. For years, the air force has complained it needs a modern replacement for its aging fleet of longrange bombers. This week a contract was awarded worth tens of billions of dollars to develop the new bombers. Beyond that, not a lot is known about the project. The longrange Strike Bomber at the moment is a concept, shrouded in mystery, as this north brook drummond Television Ad suggestion. Building aircraft, the likes of which the world has never seen. This is what we do. Making the Stealth Bomber in the 1990s, it won the lucrative contract beating out bowing and lockheed martin. Now all three have multibillion dollars pentagon deals. Bowing is building aircraft. The air forces top general said the longrange Strike Bomber is essential if the u. S. Wants to be able to hold any target at risk anywhere in the world. No service chief wants to be in a situation where they must caution a commander or secretary of defense or the president against addressing a threat to the United States either because we lack the appropriate capability or because we would incur unacceptable levels of risk in doing so. This bomber will minimize the possibility that my successors are ever put in that position. For now, the super secret bomber is so stealthy, no plans or even a rudimentary contract has been made public. It is estimated to be worth 60 billion to 80 billion over its life. That will buy 80100 planes estimated cost 564 million each. If all goes well, the first could Begin Service 10 years from now in 2025. As former pentagon officials are quick to note, few complex high tech weapons programs ever go well, at least not at first. They say theyre going to get it for, you know, five or 600 million a copy, but that doesnt include development costs, it doesnt include cost overruns which normally happen in these programs. The bigger argument is need. The bomber would replace 50yearold b52s and 25yearold b ones, as one leg of Americas Nuclear triad. The u. S. Strategy that relies on a a combination of bombers, landbased icbms and submarine launched missiles to deter potential adversaries from starting a major warp with the u. S. Since the stealthy f35 will be equipped to deliver nuke bombs and submarines can send their warheads anywhere in the world, how many bombers did the u. S. Require . The question is do you need 100 of them and still need 5,000 Nuclear Weapons in this day and age. The air force bought 20 of them. Most missions these days dont require planes to fly halfway around the world to strike their targets. Federal investigators are searching for what sparked that dramatic airplane engine fire in florida. Two dozen people were hurt as they were trying to evacuate. Al jazeera has more on just what went wrong. The jet, a wide bodied bowing 767 operated by Dynamic Airways was scheduled to fly from Fort Lauderdale to caracas, venezuela. As it was taxiing for takeoff, there appeared to be fuel leaking from the left jet enjen. It caught fire. Smoke billowed as passengers and crew, 101 scrambled to get off the jet down the emergency chutes. Fire crews sprayed foam on the plane to put out that fire, but 15 people were injured, including one who suffered burns. One person sustained serious injuries and those are burn injuries. I dont know if its a crew or passenger. We still havent gotten that information yet. Then the remaining what we call walking wounded, bumps, bruises, cob tuitions, that nature. The airport shut down for a number of hours. When flights resumed it was a limited basis on just one runway. Dynamic airways is a 5yearold Company Based in North Carolina. It operates flights mainty out of Fort Lauderdale and new york to venezuela and guyana. The plane that caught fire had been used by other carriers in the past and it was 30 years old. The National Transportation safety board is sending a team to florida to investigate this accident. She also says according to those ntsb records, Dynamic Airlines had only one minor incident before that fire in Fort Lauderdale. A former prep School Student free this morning after sentenced to a year in jail for Sexual Assault. The 20yearold was granted a stay as he appeals his conviction and sentence. He was found guilty of luring a freshman into a sexual encounter as part of a senior ritual at st. Pauls school. Before sentencing, the victims mother spoke to the judge. We humbly ask the court, urns, that owen be ordered to take full responsibility for his criminal actions and for the trauma his blatant disregard for another human being. He did not speak during the sentencing hearing but argued during the trial that the two did not have sex. A California Court rejecting a right to die lawsuit brought by three terminally ill patients who wanted doctors to give them fatal medications. The Appeals Court say physicians break the law if they prescribe those drugs. California did approve the right to die in legislation. That takes effect next year. China will rely on local provinces to enforce a huge change to the decades old onechild policy. Chinese couples will now be allowed to have two children. As, mcbride reports, it may not have the affect some in the government want. Within an increasing burden of an aging population, abandoning the onechild policy is a cause for celebration for many. It will be a long time before the change works through to produce a bigger working population to support the elderly. Far from certain that call couples will take the opportunity of having a second child. I dont know if it will make enough of a difference, because the intention of women having children is very low. China has 20 of the worlds population, but we account for only 10 have the worlds newborn children. On the streets, a mixed reaction from a generation that has grown up knowing only one policy. The onechild policy was good when we had too many people, but now we have money. Theres no need for such a strict limit. I have no time for more children, so im not planning on having another. Its a good thing. We have serious aging problem and need new blood. At one of beijings parks, a typical scene, babies as likely to be looked after by their grant parents while their parents are at work supporting them both. Many calls face a double burden, looking after four aging parents while at the same time bringing up two children. This will be the generation bearing the strain of chinas demographic imbalance. Romney, beijing. A lot of people dont know that a lot of couples in china have already been having more than one child. You have to pay a fine. Now more couples will be able to do that. Couples in europe now being paid to have more children, so the juxtaposition of two countries. Off the field, still operating. A High School Coach goes back to watch his team. His suspension created a wrist on region on that and off the field. A group of hackers threatening to pull off the who said of the k. K. K. Well explain. Well explain. That Washington State High School Football coach went back to his teams game last night but as a fan. He was suspended for playing with his players on the field but says hes not giving up his fight. The High School Assistant coach joe kennedy was back praying thursday night as his team fought for a playoff spot, but he prayed from the stands, not the field. I never wanted any legal stuff. I didnt want any problem. I just wanted to give thanks for my team. The School System suspended him after he repeatedly ignored a School Mandate to stop leading on the field prayers. I dont understand the laws, and i dont know why americas come to this, when i thought it was so pure. Hopefully well get it straightened out. Satanists were there, protesting kennedys practice of praying on the field. The debate has reached capitol hill. Protecting one coaches rights to pray protects every persons right to pray. In the stands, the opinion was more mixed. I do support his rights to pray. Everybody has the right the pray. Its just not the right venue. Separation of church and state, no teaching our kids religion in the classrooms, i understand that. If the kids want to join in, i think thats perfectly acceptable. His lawyers are with the conservative Liberty Institute group. They say they will file a federal discrimination charge on kennedys behalf. Im willing to take this as far as it goes to defend the rights of the constitution until the end. If it comes back one way or another, i fought the good fight. We love you, jesus. Coach kennedy said he hopes to show his players the importance of standing up for what they believe in even in the face of serious consequence. My question is whether this coach compelled players to pray. No, there isnt. The School District will admit there is no evidence he coerced anyone to pray. The School District said thats not the issue. They said they cant worry about that fact or whether students complained. They might not complain because hes the coach. They copy the coach, see him operating at half time. Before the game, every game. The u. S. Saying its policy on Edward Snowden not changing despite a strong signal of support from the european union. E. U. s parliament passed a resolution that would protect him from extradition. Members call snowden and International Human rights defender who should be shielded from prosecution. Snowden who lives in russia is facing espionage chargers. He called the vote a gamechanger. The state department expected to release another batch of Hillary Clintons emails. Those emails came up during clintons marathon benghazi hearing. The monthly email releases are expected to continue through january. A new threat from anonymous, planning to reveal the true identities of ku klux klan members. Anonymous is calling it hackers versus haters round two. The International Cyber Vigilante Group setting a date for the unveiling of up to 1,000 members of the ku klux klan, a social Media Movement under the banner hash tag hoods off. It is branding it operation k. K. K. In a letter posted earlier this week, the socalled hacktavist group posted members of the hacking collaborative became infamous for their iconic guy fox masks, a tribute to the man behind a failed attempt to overthrow the British Government in 1605. Anonymous said the unveiling will take place on november 24, designed to coincide with the First Anniversary of protests and rioting that broke out in ferguson, missouri, after a grand jury did not indict the officer who shot michael brown. Anons, as they call themselves, are well known for attacking groups they disagree with. They targeted k. K. K. Members who threatened to use lethal force on the streets of ferguson. Back in january, anonymous took down a website believed to have ties to isil and has since taken down several twitter and Facebook Accounts linked to the group. John siegenthaler, al jazeera. There may be some post halloween trouble if you are a fan of pumpkins. I am. A shortage that could keep a holiday treat off thanksgiving tables. Tables. Tough that the country gave up on me. Look at the trauma. Every day is torture. This is our home. Nobody should have to live like this. We made a promise to these heroes. This is one promise americans need to keep. Tomorrows halloween. Pumpkin supplies are low. Its due to a not so nice trick from Mother Nature that is impacting our treats. Its a pumpkin shortage spooking halloween enthusiasts, but the real from itenning forecast is for thanks giving. There are different types of pumpkins, carving and sugar pumpkins. Sugar pumpkins, the type people eat had a material season. 90 of sugar pumpkins from from illinois. In fact, morton, illinois right now would peoria is known as the pumpkin capital of the world. Record rains in june soaked the soil across the state during the critical growing period. This chart shows how high above average the rains were. Look at the darker greens. In those areas, rain was two or three times above the average. There was higher than average rainfall in may and june, as well. Not only did farmers have to delay planting in some fields, the flooding killed the pumpkins it already started to grow. The result, pumpkin harvests this year are down 50 , meaning shelves of canned pumpkins could be hauntingly bare by the end of the holidays. This pumpkin shortage might not be just a one time event. Average precipitation increased two inches in the early spring over the past century in illinois and climate indicates that area could see more precipitation events going forward, meaning there could be more ghoulish gourd shortages in years to come. How long are supplies going to last. Libbys say they should be able to get through thanksgiving, they hope, so if youre wanting the thanksgiving, i would say stock up now. Into next year, if you like the pumpkin stuff year round, it is not bog to last until next years canning. How frightful. If del was wearing a mask, wouldnt you agree its Eddie Munster . Maybe a little bit. Dont we have to read something . This morning, shaping up as a do or die game three as the world series shifts to new york tonight. The mets lost and face an uptill battle tonight. Only 10 teams have come back from the deficit to win the fall classic. One was the mets who came back from two games down in 1986 to win the series and cap that amazing season. Thats it for us here in new york. Coming up from doha, more on the release of another Guantanamo Bay detainee held for children years, never charged. He is now on his way back to the u. K. This morning. Your word this morning is back monday, beginning at 7 00 a. M. Eastern. Have a great day. Hello, welcome to the news hour. Top stories here on al jazeera, more than 50 people are killed by a Syrian Government strike on a marketplace near damascus. In vienna, diplomat meet to try to bring an end to the conflict. More than 20 refugees drown at two more boats sink off the coast of greec