Its unclear if any production infrastructure was damaged in the take over. A major storm system has caused chaos in western states. Eight deaths have been blamed on the storm winter storm warnings are i in effect for parts of california through today. Those are the headlines im Johnathan Betz with more on the historic dei deal in geneva. But first consider this is up next. You can always go online to aljazeera. Com. The knockout the game spreads fear across after around the country. Teens are cold cocking strangers and its turned deadly four times. Consider this how wide spread is the problem and what is the best way to stop it . We will take you to a place that has been increasingly struck by kids playing the deadly game. Have you ever asked yourself if you can beat your child in a race at their their age. The mobile individual yo game candy crush is pulling in millions of dollars a week. Our candy crush and games like it built to hook you like a drug. Im antonio mo. Mora. We are bringing you the knockout game. They tend to knock people out with one punch while another records it. There have been at least 18 recent attacks and four deaths attributed to it in the past two years. The crime has spread across america as videos have gone viral. Janette looks at the terrifying new trend. Watch as the gangs of teens approach this 50yearold Pittsburgh School teacher. Sucker punched and out cold. And another 00er i 00 here in n. The game could turn deadly when the victims head smashes into the could b concrete. That has happened ottawa twin year. One teen explains the idea behind the game. Knockout is a game that a lot of teenagers play where they dare one. Guys to randomly what doe choose walking down the street. Some say its random but others say there is more of a pattern of how offenders target their victim. It happens to be a jew in each and every case. They are he roo purge t referrit happened in this jewish neighborhood. It was right on this block that the 12yearold hebrew student was attacked on november 13th. They have the hate Crime Task Force looking into the attacks to determine if they were hate crimes. One reason some are not reporting the crimes the teens dont steal from the victims they simply walk away. Are they going to take someones money or cell phone . No they are going to nap you out. What is the point . For the fun of it. To run around and hit people and knock them out. They think its funny. They think its funny. They think its amusing. What is a joke to some is costing others their lives. For more im joined by dr. Boyce watt continues wattwa. And thank you both for coming on the show. Dr. Watkins i want to start with you. There are reports that attacks like these have been around for a decade or more. But we are certainly seeing more attacks recently or hearing more about them. What do you think is happening. Well i mean, i think teenagers naturally have be a inclination to engage in some degree to social defensivians. Defensive defensivians. Defensive g i think what you really are seeing is a society where our kids are desensitized to violence. They grow up playing grand theft auto and you are doing the knockout game but with ak 47s and attacking random citizens. Thits a lot to be alarmed abou. We dont know how many attacks have occurred. Some victims dont report the attacks because there is no robbery involved and in some cases they dont know what happened. We have some numbers across the kung. Country 7 in new york city and one in denver and one in syracuse and two in st. Louis and one in chicago who died and we have another one in san diego. Dr. Gardier new york seems to be the e ep ep b epi center. I know you have a friend that was attacked. It was a fellow physician and she was walking down the street and she was surrounded by a group of young men and one of them swung on her and she avoided the punch and she studied karate and was able to stay on her feet. And what she said to them was hey what you ar are you what y . Where are your parents . Go home. Who is taking care of you . As a physician she recognized these were young men had no purpose and no academic goals and had nothing to lose and knowing they could kill someone or injury them in a very gross way they just didnt care. And i believe these are youngsters who dont care about life and dont care about themselves. Dont care about the consequences that they may end up going to jail or killing someone. That is big issue. And that friend probably has the fear instilled in her. Im glad she was okay and not knocked out or worse. Yes with the pub list ti pube you concerned about the fear is instilled by people walking down the street. We were talking about it in our editoeditorial that you are loog over your shoulder more. Black youth are not stigmatized by this. There is already a fear of black men. And now these individuals have done bad things, lets be straight about that. I dont want it turning into a race situation because we know many jews have been attacked in brooklyn and now they have to look over their shoulders and be afraid of any young black male that approaches them. This is a real problem. I do want to address race in a moment. The videos are Popular Online and they hav they are getting hf hits. And when you find them you discover kids laughing about it. You punch someone and they go to sleep when you hit them. For the fun of it. Little kids run around and hit people and knocking them out. Even though they shouldnt be doing it they are doing it. Dr. Wat watkins what went wr. Itits chilling to hear them tk about it like its a silly glam. One thing we have to learn about society is desens desensitized g people. You have kids growing up playing video games that are incredibly violent. Like grand theft auto. It does fee sens desensitize kio violence and they look like real people. We have a whole generation of young people who have been ignored by our society we dont invote in education or preschool or after Cool School Programs and the identif idol me devils workshop. And we have so many million of kids who have grown up with out struck fu fur instructure in th. Do you see them as sociopathses and not understanding the contesconsequences of their act. Lets be clear. Teens have a certain tendency that leads to social deviation. When i was a teen i did things that i wouldnt do today. I am sure p ther there are manye that would agree to that. There was a Wildlife Reserve where they put a bunch of adolescent elephants on the reserve and there were no adults elephants around. The adolescent elephants were doing things unnatural like randomly killing rye no rye rhi. When had mentors they wouldnt do that. When you listen to teens when they talk about the knockout game. They say we wanted to test if we can do the one hitter quitter and we wanted to see if we could knock a person out with one punch. They have no mentors to slow them down and say you could pay for this all of your life. I looked at the most popular trends. Knockout is the 10th most popularrer isch. Popularrepopular search. Its getting a lot of attention on social media. This is spreading across the country. The latest incident has been in san diego on tuesday. How big of a role has this played from the spread of this vicious game and does the Media Attention make it worse . I think what we are looking at is the idea of contagien. When you have youngsters that dont have mentorship or academic goals they are going to be open to venting their anger and hitting these peel i peopley to get back at society. They feel they have nothing. They are at the bottom of the totem pole. They figure this is the way to immortality and away to make a statement. And people are giving them positive reinforcement antonio o by watching these videos and its the wrong kind of reinforcement and they are getting high on the violence. Until this week none of the networks had touched this story and the argument is that people dont want to touch it because its young black males. What is your reaction to that. We need to cover this story and wh what is going on. We are not glorifing it. You are talking about what is the h ediology. And i hope that young people that are watching this realize that what they are doing is not just self destructive but its murderous and their parents need to step in. I think dr. Watkins needs to to agree with this. Step in and po pa pat rolle patn children and teach them that its murderous. What do you say to the criticism that africanamerican leaders have not stepped up and talked about this. You are arguing about the importance of mentors and of parents being there. What about africanamerican leaders speaking out. I like to argue that you have two africanamerican leaders right here. Good point and we are glad to have you both. I would say when you talk about black leadership one of the things i strongly believe there is that black leadership starts in your livingroom and that starts with the parents. We also have to look at as a society what are we doing with the parents. I can give you an idea of a family in chicago that was well disciplined and there was a drug dealer in the family nonviolent and so they sold dru drugs theye the far 140 years in prison and they locked up his mother and brother. They grew up with out parents and as a result they grew up with out guidance. We have millions of households where there are no parents there to do anything. We have a responsibility to address this issue in a holistic way and not point out and say bad plaqu black kids its not go get us anywhere. Its not just black children. Its going to go to poor white children. Its not so much about the race but socia socioeconomics. Lets hope that by you speaking out the attention stops it instead of encourages it. Consider this will be right pack. Back. Power of the people until we restore ten heavily armed pakistani men staged assaults in mumbai. Launching three days of terror that horrified the nation and the world. Now a book raises a litany of questions that were not fully answered. Who directed the attack and and why. What was the roll of the agent. And why was it stow so painfully throw. The taj hotel was the most iconic in was in mumbai. What made these attacks so horrible and different in a way. They went after eight different sites and attacked people at all of these different places is that one of the unusual things about the attack . That is one of the most unusual. We call that a swarm attack. The idea that a swarm team can give a larger foot print and make it look like an army invaded the city. You have ten men armed with machine guns and small amount of explosives and a few remote detonated charges. But the appearance is of an army affecting the city. The second thing that is amazing is that they are controlled by a control room. And the control room has a bank of tvs and they have google earth and cnn and bbc and al jazeera and local tv khabibulin. Anand so this makes it something quite new. Its incredible that ten men were able to do as much as these men g did despite having the controllers in pakistan watching the news reports and guiding the guys from a distance with the new technology. Its amazing they were able to do that. Is it a huge failure on the part of the Indian Government . I think it was a big surprise. There were warnings that were passed over to the agencies before hand. It was attacking a blues busiy t in mu mumbai and total surprised total inpreparedness by the authorities. They were given warnings by the cia and other in tel intelle agencies other than the cia. Given those warnings there may have been intentional disregard of those warnings. I put it down to systemic failure and not a conspiracy. There has been a tendency to allow certain events unfold in order to demonstrate the enemy outside but i dont think this is one of those. I think what you have here is something more slightly depressing really, which is a mounting drum beat. A drum beating louder and louder pointing to specific targets that were going to be attacked. Ten guys and a suicide squad and a inability to develop that and pass the intelligence down. And part of the reason, i think the americans never shared one crucial piece of information which is what the origin of the intelligence was. An american double agent. A american citizen that was playing both sides. He infiltrated the ge jihad grop that launched the attacks. He was sentenced to prison in the United States. What went wrong. You saw that. This was a privileged guy and his dad was a broadcaster and his mother was a well to do woman. When you look back at his life one extraordinary factor david hedley served david hedley. His mother was from maryland and his father was a renowned broadcaster. And every stage of his privileged life he betrayed the friends nearest to him. He eventually was a drug dealer and sold out to work for the dea and a collaboration with the authorities. And near the time when Al Qaeda Rose its head he offered somethinsomething new to the Intelligence Community he said what if i get you inside of the movement. Then he ended up flipping. He was working both sides. But in this case he ended up working welcome to Al Jazeera America we are going to update update yn the breaking news in geneva. A Historic Deal has been reached over Irans Nuclear program. It comes after a marathon that went all day and into the night in geneva that is after days and weeks of what negotiation of what to do with Irans Nuclear program. Phil is standing by live. What can you tell us about this agreement. Well, johnathan, we are getting snipets from what this agreement is. We dont have the actual text yet. Once we do we will go through it with a fine tooth comb. What we are getting at this point is sources within various delegations that are saying that there will be an eleav an alea g sanctions. The question is whether iran has a right to a Nuclear Program. That language will not be in the agreement. From the ey iranian side there s an indication that perhaps there is. That may just be di diplomatic speak and as we kind of expected they may blur the lines on that. We are definitely hearing that there will be sanction relief on the iranian economy. And that is, of course, what brought them to the table in the first place. That is why they came in earnest to these current talks. There has been in the last few months apparently a tweet from the secretary of state that today the world is now a safer playing, there is certainly an air of relief here in agai gene. Johnathan. This is the wee hours of the morning as you mentioned. They may have been working all night. These people are exhausted but they are certainly elated. When we look at the video from within where we expect the signing ceremony to be held, of the body language, obviously, of exhaustion mixed with joy, mixed with relief. The smiles on the faces there. Obviously a sense within the diplomatic core here on all fronts that they have really achieved something significant this evening and now into this morning here in switzerland, johnathan. As we said earlier its a historic break through. And we are waiting to hear from president obama any minute now from the white house to speak about this moment and this agreement. Phil, if you can, kind of put this into per spe perspective w. We are talking about a 35 year icy relation between iran and the United States. This is the first sign of some thaw happening. How significant is this right now . Hugely significant, john. You have to understand, there has been such an icy relationship between tehran and washington over three decades. This first step toward some sort of improved relationship would have been unthinkable. Just six or nine months ago. John we are getting what appears to be yes it appears to be a delegation arriving here at the press conference center. There will be a series of press conferences around geneva in the early hours of the morning. I know we are waiting for the president of the United States. But it looks as if, he yes, thas the secretary of state john kerry. Secretary of state, your mood this morning . Your mood this morning, sir . Its early. So there the secretary of state arriving with the under secretary of state wrendy Wendy Sherman. She has been on the ground doing the preliminary work before the secretary of state that arrived. There were the big boys and the foreign secretary and the secretary of state before they came in on this round, there were a awful lot of people hacking away at this before they showed up. A real sense of really hard work having been done here in geneva. Secretary of state kerry has gone into the presto press confe area. We can expect a press conference any moment now. I doubt he will conflict with the president of the united un d states. A lot of photoops in quick succession. Its great to see the secretary there. You mentioned the hard work that has been accomplished, phil. But still a lot of hard work ahead. Its important to point out that this is really a deal to hopefully eventually make a deal. This only temporarily lifts the sanctions. They are looking for a wider ranging deal six months down the line . Yeah its been stressed time and time again. This is not the end result. This does not resolve the issue around Irans Nuclear program. Its the first step and the fell temporary step. Its time for both sides to test the waters. Its by no mean a per permanent deal. Will be an aleve yates six months from now there will be a a review on how this has gone and well take it from there. This agreement is historic. Its a first step of many and a first step that has not happened in a very long time. It comes with a lot of controversy, phil. Israel has been outspoken about this me tensiona potential agred saudi arabia as well. There are countries out there that are not happy with the sanctions being lifted without a promise from iran that they will dismantle their nuclear arms program. Sure, obviously there are folks on all sides here that are going to be going through this very carefully and go into it with a lot of skepticism the israelis are deeply concerned about the draft proposal that was out there. And they will be taking a very close look at that. They said that what ever is signed they will not adhere to it necessarily. And also its important to stress that there are the hardliners on capitol hill who have grave concerns about this. Not the lif least at which harry reid says he will press on further sanctions on iran in the near future. Ththe delegation that arrived here said they were deeply concerned about that idea. Pushing iran too hard and putting more sanctions on them may poison the well and make things worse not bette