Good morning and welcome to Al Jazeera America. Im stephanie sy. New Jersey Governor Chris Christie is seen as the republican front runner for the white house in 2016. Now hes involved in a local political fire storm tarnishing his national image. Emails suggest top staffers were involved in closing lanes to the George Washington bridge. It was payback against a democratic mayor who refused to support christys reelection. The stunt caused massive traffic delays on one of the worlds busiest bridges. Chris christie is viewed as a top challenger to clinton. Fall out from the scandal could impact president ial aspirations. We have a story of a traffic jam on a busy commuter brim. Who in their right mind would close down access to the busiest bridge in the world to send me a message . The mayor of fort new jersey says governor Chris Christie has explaining to do after documents revealed the shutdown of leaps was an act of retribution because the democratic mayor refused to endorse of the re
Overturn it. Reporter a state july in chicago ruled the bananas unconstitutional. The assault weapons ban is still in effect. Iraq and fallujah to, with major fighting. Fallujah had the capital of ramadi and the Anbar Province were overrun by al qaeda fighters last week. Those are the headlines, and you can catch the latest online at aljazeera. Com. America to help. Consider this with the u. S. Promising military aid and troops, can iraq solve the problem on its own, and what is the reality story. 50 years after lbj launched the war on poverty, where are we and why is there disagreement over the governments role to solve the problem . Anxiety succeed. Downtown abbey is a hit, but does it accurately portray the relationship between the masters and their many servants. We begin with the fall of fallujah, the battle for the city in 2004 was the biggest urban operation for u. S. Troops since the vietnam war. Fighters were defeated in a fight that killed thousands of them, but left 100 amer
Chicago cannot ban the sale of firearms because its unconstitutional. Before the ruling chicagos gun law was one of the toughest. The assault weapons ban was in effect. The Prime Minister in iraq is asking tribesmen to help keep al qaeda out of fallujah. Ramadi and fallujah were overrun by al qaeda fighters last week. America tonight fukushima today is up next on Al Jazeera America. Tonight, a return to chaos. As alqaeda retakes control in a key iraqi city. Will the u. S. Step in again . We are not contemplating putting boots on the ground. This is their fight but we are fight. Yes, its cold, really, really cold. But is the polar vor texvortex a real system or a sharknado. Our longrange am models were i wanting at this even two weeks ago. Good evening. Thanks for being with us. I am joey chen. It has been almost sin fukushima spread a banket over wide areas of the japanese countryside. In our first of a series, michael oku investigates whether the massive government effort to the decon
Good morning and welcome to Al Jazeera America, im stephanie sy. The deep freeze spreading across the country is now impacting 187 million americans in 26 states. Many places are experiencing recordlow temperatures usually found in the north and south poles and the monday temperature was minus 37 in minnesota. Records for the day were set in chicago where it was 16 below. And tulsa, oklahoma where it was minus two. All of the temperatures dont take the biting wind into account which makes it feel even worse. We have Live Team Coverage of the dangerous cold weather and erica is in new york which dropped 40 degrees over the last 24 hours but we begin with tonya mosley in detroit where right now its 13 below 0 and she is outside. Good morning, tonya. Good morning, its hard to describe what sub zero temperatures feel like. The only word i can think of is painful. As i was heading out this morning, i tried to open the front door and it was frozen and once i got outside it wasnt much better.
A Jazeera America is the only news channel that brings you live news at the top of every hour here are the headlines at this hour breaking news. Sports. Business. Weather. Live news. Every hour, on the hour only on al Jazeera America an exclusive america tonight investigative series we traveled here to japan to find out whats really happening at Fukushima Daiich three years after the nucular disaster, the hidden truth about the ongoing cleanup efforts and how the fallout could effect the safety of americans are dangerous amounts of radioactive water, leaking into the pacific eververyday . Join america tonights michael okwu for an exclusive four part series, as we return to fukushima only on al Jazeera America every sunday night, al Jazeera America presents. Hearing this im sure from patients. Does big pharma impact the doctors in their decision to not offer alternatives to the pill here . I think that there is evidence that if you have interactions with pharmaceutical companies, it doe