And why the school disagrees. Welcome to al jazeera america. Im stephanie sy, a glimmer of hope in the number of missing people. The number missing has been lowered to 90. It was as high as 176 earlier in the week. 140 people who were previously unaccounted for have been located. At least 35 peoples stance is uncertain. Allen schauffler is in the west with the latest. Another day, day five for search and rescue cruise doing the dirtiest kind of work. 200 people are at the site today professional searchers from local and federal agencies, helped by volunteers, neighbours who clamored to be involved. It is humbling. The stress of the gruesome work is showing. The derrington firefighters get their first break since saturday. They have lost friends and had hard moments. The babys nursy is all crushed. The crib was there, the pieces. I picked up a little picture book, and rubbed the front of it to get the mud off it. It said 20 big things for little hands to do, it took my breath away. You
Money. Onethird of all american households 38 million in total live paycheck to paycheck every month. Get this, the majority of them earn around 50,000 a year. What most people might consider middle class in this country although some would say thats far too low to be considered middle class. These are findings of a new study. The family set aside little or nothing for a rainy day making them vulnerable when and if hard times hit like a medical emergency or lost income. Of the 38 million americans who live paycheck to paycheck. 13 million with an income of 20,000 a year. These poor handtomouth households tend to be younger and often live paycheck to paycheck for years because they have a harder time improving their financial situation. Heres the thing, 25 of the 38 million households arent what you would call poor at all. Not only do they earn around 50,000 a year, theyve got assets, 50,000 on average. 50,000 annual earnings puts them pretty close to the medium income for all household
Deploy probes. And tim peeks tells us how he is choosing a name for his first space mission. Hello, everyone. It is a defining moment for afghanistans future foreign combat troops are well advanced in packing up so all are out of the country by the end of the year. Afghanistan will choose a new president to replace hamid karzai. Two respected journalists working for the Associated Press news agency. One anja needinghouse was killed instantly. Her reporter was seriously injured but stable in hospital. They were e traveling with election observers. 12 Million People out of more than 30 million can vote in arts election. In the lead up to this week general, many risk their own safety to attend centers to apply pore a Voters Registration card. 350,000 Afghan Soldiers and police will secure the venues right across afghanistan. There are now eight candidates to choose from. The current president , hamid karzai is unable to stand for this election. Our chief International Correspondent lyse d
This is from bloombergs headquarters in london. We begin with the Banking Center the banking sector. Have a report card and we are looking at a settlement and the latest on a widening global investigation. Lets hear from was a former governor had to say. Not pass wasat did close and you made a lot of progress. The question is about subjective and qualitative factors about how good the process is. They did not just want to rely on the basic model. They want to rely on the approaches that can make the banks folder hair out. Lets kick it off with you. Who failed the stress test . Citigroup is the big one and last week was about whether they in thehstand a crash stock market and an increase in the unemployment rate. Yesterday was about capital plans and the process. It is not only a capital buffer issue. And rbs is the interesting one because they want to get rid of this one. Flag foraise a red potential buyers . There is a reputational thing going on here. It is interesting. They have bee
Thousands of odds intentions are out on the streets to voice their anger against the rising cost of living. And dozens of villages are washed away by massive flooding in sudan, which has killed more than a 100 people. Ah, israel and turkey are restoring full diplomatic ties. After years of discord, both countries will be reappointing ambassadors. The Turkish Foreign minister says that despite the moved turkey would not be abandoning its support for palestinians, reginald said he has more from estoppel. The breakthrough announced it to be from his ride to Prime Minister yet la pete. At defined a moment for the 2 states that used to cooperate in military and other spheres, but who over 10 years had become estranged. And the turkish water minister made a chow shoulder was quick to confirm. The development is fled in normal, less messy conason that up among the steps we plan to normalize relations. There was also the re appointment of respective ambassadors. If you remember, we made a stat