Emergency aid is being rushed to the philippines bringing desperately needed basic essentials to the victims of typhoon high, the recordbreaking super storm destroyed villages and hundreds of thousands have no power, food, water or shelter and hospitals are over run and good morning and welcome to al Jazeera America, the philippines red cross said 1200 people were killed in the storm but could top 10,000, slowly relief efforts are going to efforts caught off by bridges and roads and they reached the airport on sunday seeking supplies or a way out. A 2 million Relief Program from the United Nations food program is underway and the u. S. Military sent marines for search and rescue efforts and al jazeera has more detail. Three days after suffering one of the worst typhoons ever the devastation is coming into view. Many of the hardest hit are unreachable and hard to say just how bad it really is. With a death toll expected to be in the thousands and impact felt by millions typhoon survivor
Pipeline project. Its aiming 650 miles of natural gas line. They are on top of the natural gas lines. Theyre blocking us from seeing where the line is, and we want our customers to also see where the line s and also if there was an event, an emergency, we want to make sure that we can get to that line. Reporter but several east bay cities arent buying it. Martinez city manger says theyre determined to fight the removal. We are a tree city usa, so trees are an important part of our community of the and we just hope that they dont move forward without discussing this with us. What we dont want them to do is come into our town overnight, disregard our city ordinances, state and local law and cut down all these tries. Reporter walnut creeks mayor says nearly 700 trees have been earmarked to go there. She says the city is prepared to sue to stop it. We did authorize our attorneys to sue pg e if and when they believe that becomes necessary. Reporter but as communities talk of taking legal ac
Minister says he will resign after losing key support from within his own party. So, high level russian and american diplomates promise to help unblock the deadlock serious peace talks in geneva. As he spoke to reporters in past hour. Inside syria itself, there is no end to the violence. Government helicopters reportedly dropped several barrel bombs on thursday. Near the lebanese border is a ghost town, according to activists. Thats after heavy fighting on wednesday. The violence forced more people to flee from their homes. Many of them going to the lebanese town on the border with syria. We will be reporting from there, shortly. The first two al jazeera diplomatic editor whose is at those talks in geneva, i know you were at that press conference earlier, james, your assessment of where we are at now and what he had to say . Well, as you say, the u. S. And russia are going to do everything this their power to unblock this process. He didnt tell us exactly what they were going to do. We
Someone who is trying to break the silence. Reporter one of the intended targets of this afternoons shooting was a 17 yearold but bullets struck innocent victims. One woman gearing young people away from violence says she needs help. Young people geared with skateboards hang out. The city didnt get to this point overnight. This is a clear sign of larger societal failure here. Today police handled two separate shootings the first near 80th around 2 00 this afternoon. Police say less than a half hour later a shooter opened fire at 103rd hitting four people including an 8yearold. Including a 12yearold and 8 yearold yearold. No one was seriously hurt. Simmons point says that drop out rate approaches 16 where todays shooting occurred. She says investigators will continue putting body line outs at crime scenes until something changes. It took courage, it took people who were willing to put themselves in harms way in order to do the work that needs to be done. Invest investigators still dont
Performance. Sevens dave kinchen joins us live now in the studio with the very latest developments. Dave . Reporter joyce, Tracy Morgans Spokesman Says that he will continue his recovery at home with a an aggressive Outpatient Program after being released from rehab saturday. He suffered a broken rib ands and leg. Morgan now suing wal mart claiming negligence. The lawsuit says the retail giant should have known that its driver kevin roper was awake for more than 24 hours at the time of the crash and that his 700mile drive from georgia to delaware to work was unreasonable. The suit says roper fell asleep behind the wheel before the ju june 7th wreck. Morgan an group returning from a performance in delaware when the crash happened. Wal mart released this statement saying we are deeply sorry that one of our trucks was involved. As weve said we are cooperating fully in the on hey going investigation. We know it will take some time to resolve all of the remaining issues as a result of the a