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Thousands of tourists stranded in acapulco struggle to find clean water as they wait at the airport to leave. Reporter well, after a path of destruction in the southwestern part of the country, Tropical Storm manuel moved up to the southwest part of the country and hit down just a few days ago. The authorities are trying to take preventive measures. Theyve declared a red alert and suspended all classes. This is in advance of high winds and potentially heavy rainfall, but we have not seen the kind of destruction there yet. But weve seen in southern uta mexico. I was in acapulco on wednesday and tuesday, and saw the amounts of destruction there and saw tens of thousands of people who have been affected, people who were in shelters, who had come to shelters because they lost their houses and were desperate to know what the government was going to do for them in the coming months ahead. We also went to villages, remote villages where people havent received much help yet, and people are still living in areas which are very close to the water. Their house versus been flooded, and its just a very difficult situation. Now the authorities are trying to get assistance to these people, but its very challenging to get it to them because of the infrastructure damage that has been done. Is there an indication that the government is up to the task here. This is an operation that might countries. Is there any indication that they will need help . So far the government has not reached out to other countries. Theyre trying to do as much as they can here within mexico. Earlier today we were down at in mexico city, and they managed to bring 30 tons of food, donations made by individuals, also by businesses. The plan is to fly these down to the most affected areas and deliver them out to the people. That said we also saw on wednesday thousands of people who had been waiting in lines to get on to military flights to get out of acapulco, which is basically cut off from the rest of mexico by a collapsed highway. Theyve been waiting for days in the hot sun, and people were starting to get angry. People were starting to get really frustrated and tired with the length of time it was taking to get them flown out. But it is a large, large mission. And from what we saw the government seems to be doing their best. What are you anticipating with the days to come with the weather in the north . Well, thats a very good question. There is this Tropical Storm that has stumped down in northwest mexico. There is a tropical depression that is over the southeastern part of the country. And there is a forecast for 10 more Tropical Storms to hit mexico within the coming two months. Thats how much time there is left in the hurricane season. So it looks like it could be a difficult couple of months that lie highway for mexico. Dave mercer in mexico city dave. Reporter thank you. And it appears things in mexico may get worse before they get better. Al jazeera meteorologist dave warren joins us now from new york. Meteorologist yes, well manuel is now a tropical depression, but that does not take away the danger. It made landfall this morning just after 5 00 p. M. Pacific time. Just 5 00 a. M. Categoryone. It was not the strength of the hurricane, it was this, the movement, northeast at 11 mph, a very slowmoving storm, and now its weakened from a Tropical Storm now weakened to a depression. It is slow moving over the area. The winds died down, but still a lot of rain with this, and only moving 7 mph. This slowmoving storm has put a lot of rain in the same area. Four to six, six to 12, and 20 inches estimated. That has led to flash flooding and mudslides. Its slowly pushing off to the northeast, and it will slowly move out. It will take the rain with it, and this storm, despite the fact that its weakening poses a big danger there. We go to a weakening storm to one that is developing. It does not look to be intensifying all that much yet. Over the next 48 hours it does pose a threat to intensify and it becomes a Tropical Storm and just sitting over the gulf there, and really it could dump a lot of rain over southern mexico. That would be the next main storm in the atlantic. All right, dave warren. Thank you very much from our meteorology center. When we return, infant mortality. Why is it impacting often. A certai search for answers tako cleveland. Now a snapshot of stories making headlines on america tonight. A brave turn to the Washington Navy yard two days after the massacre took place. 13 people including the gunman were killed. Police say military in egypt arrested 65 suspected worshipers o supportersof mohamed morsi. They say theyre looking for those who torched police stations after morsi was overthrown. The countrys most innocent has started a new school year. The government insisted that children should go back to their classrooms even though classrooms have been damaged or are being used to shelter displaced families. The cdc reported one an unsettling fact, if the babys mother is africanamerican, that baby is likely to die before its very first baby. We go to cleveland, ohio, americas infant mortality capital, to find out why those babies are dying far too soon. Reporter its monday morning in clevelands metro north hospital. A newborn baby boy has just been rushed into the neonatal intensive care unit, known at nicu. Weighing just over two pounds hes 14 weeks premature. That means he was in the womb less than six months. His Blood Pressure is really low. Reporter right now theyre trying to get care to the baby who was born here, and getting respiration assistance. This is the kind of scenario that happens all the time on this ward. Medical advances have dramatically improved the odds of survival for premature babies but they have not changed one aspect of this crisis. Almost all of the babies in this ward are black. Just under 40 of the babies born are africanamerican, but they contribute to 70 of the babies who die in the first year of life. So you have this huge, huge disparity, and that is business as usual. Its been going on for decades. Reporter this baby is just hours own but hes on a life support machine. The nurses are worried about his chances of survival. Hes so premature he cant breathe without the machine purposing oxygen through his tiny lungs. Its an extreme measure for such a small baby. It puts him at high risk for infection and internal bleeding. Hes helpless it seems like he got it from everywhere. Reporter for his mother its an agonizing time. I really cant do anything but just stand by and watch and wait. Its a long wait. Reporter but lashay cant stay with him. A single mother with three other children, her earnings keep the family just above the poverty line. My doctors have put me on light duty, and my job didnt honor the light duty. Welfare is not enough to support me and my children so i had to go back to work full duty. Reporter after working an overnight shift, finishing at 7 00 in the morning lashay stopped at halving contractions. She was rushed to the hospital and gave birth. But now she has to get back to work. I hate to say it this way, but im kind of glad he did come now, and that hes going to be in the hospital for the next couple of months so that i can work. So thats the oxygen being pushed in . Reporter even if a baby can be saved in the nicu, its an out come and cost doctors say could be prevented. Youre literally talking about several thousand dollars per day. So if you have a baby who has been in the hospital for eight months the math is pretty easy. Youre closing in on a Million Dollars of care just to get that baby home. If you prevent one of those premys, you saved the system hundreds of thousands of dollars. Thats why access to care and prenatal care is so vital. If you have to have a baby born prematurely, United States is one of the best places in the world for that baby for born. Our Neonatal Intensive Care Units are some of the best if not the best in the world. Thats not the point. Reporter doctor arthur james is one of the leading mortality experts in the United States. He said that the heart of the problem lies outside of the hospitals. Unfortunately in this country when we experience families who are in crisis, we generally throw everything in the kitchen sink to assist in help during that period of time. But we are not anywhere close being that vigilant about trying to practice preventive medicine, trying to keep families out of crisis. Reporter everywhere you look in cleveland it seems that those crises are playing out. In a corner of the citys public cemetery, 24yearold lanaye smith is visiting the grave of her infant son jason. He died two weeks ago. The burial sites are marked with nothing more than wooden sticks, but each one represents a story of personal loss. Its just a numbness. And its its just a bunch of dirt. Reporter each year the death rate is growing while the citys population is diminish ing. Is this him . I just wish ed reporter laney had give birth to twins who were more than three months premature. The twin died. Laney said everything was normal until one night when j as i on stopped breathing in his sleep. When i woke him up, it was like nothing. Reporter the doctors told lanay it was sudden infant syndrome, sids. My kids are my soul. My kids are my heart. Heartbreaking. Following up on sebastian walkers report. We turn to dr. Richard davis who is director of neonatal care unit. Doctor, you heard this report as well. When we hear 40 of babies born are africanamerican, but 70 dont make it, how can this be . Is this a peculiar problem just to cleveland, or do you see this in chicago . Every city, every state looked at has a large gap between birth outcomes between black and white infants. What do you attribute this to . Where we live in a society where the medicare is so good, when babies have such a good chance of making it, how can this be . The problem is not what happens after the babies are born. The problem is that theyre born so early and they need all that intensive care to survive, and many of them do survive, but more dont than we would like. So preventing prematurity is really the only way to solve this problem. Is it clear that this is a racial divide . How do we know its not a socioeconomic question or environmental question, how do we know . I dont think its either or. I think its a lot of things working at the same time. The disparity between black infants and white infants has existed and in fact, has widened. Between 1950 and 2000 it increased considerably and steadily over the decades. But theres also another disparity. The affluent. Do you see examples that a lower income white mother might face the same rates of infant mortality than a white woman of a higher economic status . Yes and no. If you compare White High School dropouts to White College graduates the infant mortality rate for less educated and lower income women is about three times as high as the affluent white women. Similarly, if you compare black women who have finished college to those who havent, and lower economic status you see a gap as well. However, having said that, unfortunately, an africanamerican woman who is graduated from College Still has a higher risk of an infant death than a white woman who has not finished high school. Really, so you cant attribute it entirely to socioeconomic factors . I would say you should look at socioeconomic factors and race working together. In other words, a lot of education or prenatal care might not be enough to make the difference . Not in one generation, probably. I think we have to understand that these disparities have very, very deep roots. For example, some research that weve done has shown that a woman who is stressed, who is carrying a female fetus, gives birth to a little girl who will grow up and herself will have a higher risk of a bad birth outcome. Despite the fact that that little girl has grown up into a woman with a high income. If her mother was in a stressful situation when she was a fetus, it imparts a certain risk to her that other infants would not have. I guess its a quick answer im asking for, but is there an easy resolution to this . I think the resolution is going to require very deep and profound social and political changes. The strategy that has been taken in this country to reduce infant more tanty has been very much focused on high technology. Were very good at that. I do it for a living. But the problem is the preventive measures as mentioned in the piece we just heard, have not been undertaken seriously. In fact, we seem to be going backwards. Taking away food supports, employment supports housing, many things which would reduce the stress. Yes, those women actually identified would make a difference in their own lives. Dr. Richard david, we appreciate you joining us tonight. Glad to be her. Sebastian walker full report on infant mortality will air on friday night at 9 30 eastern and again on sunday night at 7 00 eastern here on Al Jazeera America. Coming up here pope francis vision and his warning. Why he says the Catholic Church may crumble if it fails to find the most important money stories of the day might affect yourries savings, your job, or your retirement. Whether its bailouts or bond rates, this stuff gets complicated. But dont worry, im here to take the fear out of finance. Every night on my show i break down confusing financial speak and make it real. He has already shown himself to be a very different leader of the Catholic Church, but pope francis first lengthily interviewed released today contained surprising and stunning statements. He spoke to the jesuit, his own order and said the church has become too obsessed on issues like gay marriage, contraceptives and abortion, and he said that the Catholic Church might fall like a house of cards if it doesnt become a more welcoming place for life of all. He did not, however, suggest any changes in church doctrine. We appreciate you being here, why is the hope making headlines in secular media . How big of a revolution is what he was saying . I think there is something relatable about pope franchise, and i think his desire to drill down into the foundations of christianity does release thi these energies that maybe there is something radical that he has to say or revolutionary that he has to say. Lets take a look at some of his comments. This one was about women. He said the feminine genius is needed. Whenever we make an important decision, the challenge is to think about the specific place of women and where the authority of church is exercised for various areas of this church, is he indicating that hes thinking about a different role for women in the church, a more official role, women as priests . I dont think he wants to say that women can priest, and he highlights john ii who highlights the women of genius, the complimentary between men and women and the function of roles. He wants to say the dignity of women is such that their genius is required at every Decision Making level of the church. That would be different in and of itself. It would be a call, i think, for theologians, for lay people to continually ask questions about what new roles and functions women could have in making decisions in the leadership of the church. Lets go to another comment that he made will homosexuality. A person once asked me in a provocative manner if i approved of homosexuality. I told him, when god looks at a gay person, does he look at this person with love or does he reject this important. Of course he said this in italian, so there was translation involved, but he made another comment about homosexuality earlier this year. Yes, when he came back from rio he made this distinction between which we heard about last time. But i think what he wants to do is something, once again, similar to john pa john paul iio opened his papacy about the prodigal son. He doesnt care about the sin. He cares about his son coming back to me. In this quote here he wants to emphasize that god loves the person, and that is something to be differentiated from sinful facts, and i think that is already a challenge to the notion that one is gay by nature rather than one has same sex desires which one acts upon. There is a sense of which we can misread pope francis as the liberal that we want him to be. So maybe not as revolutionary as the secular media is holding him out. At least to that kind of revolution would mean, yes. There is another comment that he said. He said its not necessary to talk about these issues all the time. That comment struck me as a statement about all these things, about homosexuality, abortion, about the role of women. We dont need to talk about these things all the time. What does that significantfyify to you. Thats the most important thing that he felt he said, that the church is a Field Hospital and the church is understood as a place for healing. If the church is understood as a place of healing of many wounds, we dont focus on every one of them. We focus on the message that the church is a place of love and healing. Which does refer to that last screen, the thing the church needs more today is the availability to heal wounds. Exactly. And it can be distracting and distorted if all youre ever looking at is the one sin rather than healing for it. So a new view for the pope and his papacy. He makes a lot of headlines in the secular media. Thank you for being with us. Thank you for having me. The Palm Oil Industry boon in m malaysia is ha