testing the elements of free speech. and the photographer who is dismantling stereo types one portrait at a time. ♪ and we begin tonight with the anger inside ferguson, missouri and around the country, and what is being done about it. it has been one week since the grand jury decided not to indict a police officer in the killing of an unarmed black teen. students walked out of dozens and high schools and colleges today. tonight things got heated. jonathan martin is in ferguson with more. jonathan. >> reporter: john the meeting wrapped up just about 30 minutes ago. it started normal and peaceful, but things quickly changed. the commissioners really had to scrap their agenda. many people these commissioners are out of touch with the community. >> i haven't seen any of you out there outside when there's a meeting. people are tired of meeting to meet. >> and we are honored that you all have credentials, and you are educated, but you do not reflect the community we live in. >> reporter: and again, john, this was the very first meeting of the ferguson commission. 16 members appointed by the governor, teachers, police officers, and their goal to look into some of these economic issues. many here were upset that the governor did not show up. and it took 3.5 hours for the public hearing portion of this. they felt some of these commissioners spent too much time giving their resumes and not talking about the issues in the community. as this wrapped up, you saw a different tone. the commissioners sitting closer to the people in the audience. some of these guys took off their suit jackets and ties, trying to be more connected. a lot of the people tell us they just feel right now there is a disconnect between what the commissioners want to do, and the concern of the residents. >> does this commission, john, have any authority? >> reporter: they were appointed through the governor, and swoen in. but their goal is to do research and then come up with a plan to the governor. so while they won't be voting to make any changes that will immediately happen, their recommends the governor say he will use. across the country many walked off of their jobs or out of their classrooms in support of the protesters in ferguson. >> for weeks now protesters have been trying to get at -- attention to this cause. and the protesters were out in force again today, supported by a very public display by some st. louis rams on sunday afternoon. >> reporter: from coast-to-coast support was evidence. the university of missouri, st. louis, and in new york where hundreds of high school students walked out of class. other demonstrators blocked intersections in manhattan. protesters also took to the streets in philadelphia, minneapolis, and for a third straight day in washington, d.c. >> demilitarize, clearly. they are too aggressive, and they don't understand the people. >> reporter: the outpouring comes on the heels of sunday's gesture which five st. louis rams. the nfl decided not to fine the players for the protest, saying: but the st. louis police officers association says the players should apologize and that the league should punish them. in a statement the organization says: some witnesses told police michael brown had his hands up, when he was shot and killed by officer darren wilson. by wilson says brown was preparing to attack him a second time, that he feared for his life. kenny britt was asked if the players were taking sides? the >> you want me to pick sides? >> reporter: that's how people are interpreting it. >> not at all. we just wanted to let the community know that we support them. >> the rams are getting support from one of the men behind a similar incident that played out more than 40 years ago. on the podium at the 1968 olympics in mexico city. it is of course raise their fists in the black power salute. today carlos said the rams have a right to express themselves and nobody ever got injured or shot for expressing their emotions. >> all right. paul thank you. courtney alan curtis is a missouri state representative. he is with us tonight from ferguson. welcome. good to have you on the program. we heard the outbursted tonight. what is it going to take to heal this community? >> it is going to take a lot. a lot of barrier breaking. real discussions and not sugar coating things. that's going to be the ugly start, but we can get to healing. >> are you suggesting that the people on this commission are sugar coating the problems? >> there may be a tendency too, just because these are well-respected people in the community. some of the members may just let it go, but we have a composition of people with a good standing in the community, and they may lose something by being too honest? >> what else did you hear from constituents tonight? >> well, i was actually at another meeting, but i got a run down and some of the individuals wonder who is leading the commission, what the goals are, and if a year is too long, and what they can give to the governor to do a year from now, when he only has two years and it will be a year at that point, and there is still the super majority republican legislation that he would have to work with to implement a change. >> lately he has suggested some steps to improve relations, is the president on the right track here? >> i think he is, unfortunately it is a little late, but it's still a step forward. the body cameras is definitely a good choice. the commission may be able to do some things headed up by the former philadelphia police chief, i believe. all of those are very promising steps. we just need to see more, and more action and less talk. >> you have see the action, the protests across the country. the protests on the part of some of the rams. what is this -- what does this tell you about what is going on in america right now? >> it's basically letting everyone know that there is a large contingency of individuals that feel that something is not right. you wouldn't have all of these protests and demonstrations across the country if anything was right. there is definitely something we need to look at. we need to stop sugar coating things and have the real honest discussions that we never have. that's the only way we can truly become one america. >> representative there were a lot of people who have many questions for the governor and local police about how they handled the situation the other night when things got really rough. do you think the governor, the state, the city, the st. louis area, were officials really prepared? i mean they had plenty of time. >> it doesn't appear to be that way. i was actually out there, and i saw peaceful things happening in front of the police station, but after several gunshots went off, and a large part of the crowd went down the street, some things happened that i didn't see, but the commissioner of public safety said they cob tin againsies planned for everything. but luckily things have winded down just a little bit. but ultimately we want change, and hopefully that's what we'll get to lessen the potential continued protests. >> representative thank you for being with us tonight. >> thank you. >> the white house proposed federal changes in response to the events in ferguson and mike viqueira joins us with more. mike the president is asking congress for hundreds of millions of dollars, right? >> that's right, john. a lot of people look at the speeches and meetings that have been happening around the country the last couple of days, including here at the white house, and they say we have seen all of this before. this time the president says he is fully engaged. and this time things are going to change. at the white house it was all ferguson, all the time. meetings are civil rights and news leaders including two from ferguson. afterwards president obama vowed to get results. >> this time will be different. and part of the reason it will be different is because the president of the united states is deeply invested in making sure this time is different. >> as many look to washington to act, awaiting the results of two investigations, mr. obama announced two initiatives asking for police training and equipment, including up to 55,000 police body cameras, forming a task force focused on building trust, and a review of what equipment local law enforcement is getting from the government. that's because there are concerns local law enforcement has become too militarized with police obtaining combat-like gear from the federal government, and there are more calls for mr. obama to talk to the citizens of ferguson. so far the white house don't commitment to a trip. >> because he recognizes not one trip will sell -- solve the problem. >> reporter: some say their main concern is how the police interacts with the community. >> the work is around race relationships in this country, not only around training of officers, but around recruitment of officers, and what our cultures are in our community. >> we want to set a tone for everyone across the nation, that a civil, substantive, candid discussion about these issues is what is needed. not posturing, not politics, not gamesmanship, and not partisanship. >> john, one of the attendees at the white house today was the attorney general eric holder. that made him late to his appointment to the listening tour, a conversation about some of the issues exposed in the controversy and crisis around ferguson, john. >> all right. mike thank you. jacob ward has been looking into the use of police body cameras. he is in san francisco tonight. jake, let's talks about this technology? hasn't it been around for a while? >> yes, absolutely. this is very simple stuff. you have seen it on the dashboards of delivery vehicles and truck drivers. they keep a 30-second loop of the footage, and then discard it until the prater manually activates it. >> so what do we know about the effects of body cameras on actual police behavior? >> there has only been one well-controlled study in reality, california, a city of about a hundred thousand people. and it showed there can be a dramatic effect on the behavior of police. the police were randomly assigned sort of half of the force was wearing these cameras at one time or another, and would use it to go about their business, and it turned out that in one 12-month period, the incidents of police -- complaints against police dropped by 88%. from 24 complaints to just 3. and the use of force was half as likely on people who were wearing the cameras as for police officers that were not. the problem here john is really how the technology is used and disseminated. right now it's up to the officers to manually activate the recording. that raises all sorts of problem, not to mention the problem of who will see the footage down the line. >> would reporters have access to it? like they had access to 9/11 tapes? >> that's really the great question here, john. that's the achilles heel right now. there are no standardized rules around this. denver has a pilot program going right now, but the police chief is really the only person who is allowed to decide who gets to see the footage. you can't just march into a police station and say, hey, i would like to see myself. and it's not even clear whether a public defender in a court case would be able to use that footage. so we're talking about a simple technology that has very complicated consequences. >> one member of member of the commission met with our joie chen. >> i think the ferguson commission is also a starting point with all of these things that are popping up across this nation, of young people standing up and having their voices be heard now. everyone wants to figure out what can we do to make it better. the ferguson commission is just like with me with the president, it's a start. i hope we'll be able to implement real things so people don't have to continue to feel like they are not human in this world that we live in. >> you are see more with joie chen tonight at 9:00 eastern time. now we turn to hong kong where protesters have been ordered to stay off of the streets. central government offices were temporarily shut down this morning. police used pepper spray and water hoses to clear protesters. protesters demanding full autonomy in the 2017 election without intervention from beijing. coming up next, the plunging price of oil. plus what the fbi is telling service members and veterans to remove their social media pages. ♪ nigeria is tending to its wounded tonight after separate attacks on two state capitols. the bombs went off in a crowded market killing at least five people, dozens more were injured in another city, gunmen struck several targets include university. the attackers are believed to be from the rebel group boko haram. boko haram's violence has left thousands dead and forces hundreds of thousands flee for their lives. many survivors are children left to fend for themselves. >> reporter: he watched from hiding has boko haram slaughter his father aelder brother and captured his mother and sisters. he struck out alone in the desert, veering into cameroon, before showing up at this camp two days ago. >> translator: i saw everything. i was crying. crying on the mountain. there were times i did not have food or water for up to two days. >> reporter: lost among the thousands of people displaced by boko haram's violence, are hundreds of unaccompanied children. their parents are killed in this mahay. for years boko haram has attacked school children, pushing thousands out of school, now as the group shifts its tactics, they include seizing territory. many children are no longer spared even in their home. here there are 65 unaccompanied children, some as young as two. at least 700 more are scattered in other camps. they are assigned to foster mothers and provided food and some education, but local agencies are pleading for more help. >> specific children, food, and then some -- books, and instructional materials, and then if possible, extracurricular items that will amuse the children. >> reporter: community leaders believe the camps hold only about 2% of the actual number of displaced people. 16 unaccompanied children are taking refuge here. not looking behind, this girl got separated from her mother and four siblings. >> translator: they don't know where i am. i don't know where they are. that's all i think of. >> reporter: most of the children have been dropped off here by total strangers. some are suffering from serious trauma. >> the major area of challenge is the area of counseling. we don't have professionals we can invite to counsel these children who have been traumatized. >> reporter: it has left them with no one and nothing. journalist is the founder of sahara reporters, a new website that reports on government corruption in africa, and he is in our studio tonight. welcome. >> thank you. >> why can't the government do more to fight boko haram? >> well, the government of nigeria hasn't been able to do anything tangible against boko haram, because the nigerian military has been decimated over the years as a result of corruption, so we have troops who have limited training, and we spoke to these soldiers all of the time on the battlefield. and some of them have not been paid allowances. some of them do not have -- you see pictures of these soldiers on our website. they do not have gear. they do not have places to sleep. so what they are left with -- and some of them have not been rotated for years. so you just have an army that's very -- has low motivation against a rampaging insurgency that have people who are motivated, not only by religion, but also taking a lot of money from robbing banks, and, you know, doing all kinds of criminal activities that makes them, you know, feel better and more -- much better than nigerian troops. >> do you get the sense that boko haram has a highly thought through plan? or are these random? >> no, they are random. i did have the feeling at the beginning there was a [ inaudible ] group of people. they only wanted to recruit people and preach to them. but they realized very quickly they could move to the next stage, which is to begin to do big things. that's when they abducted the girls. and the moment they abducted the girls, they started thinking about creating their own territory. and that has happened already. they now have their own country, and what they are doing next is to create a buffer to protect that territory, by, you know, the regular incursions into the nigerian territory. so there is a boko haram territory now, and a nigerian territory, there's no question about it. >> what else can the international community do? >> i think what should have been done is treated boko haram the same as [ inaudible ] is treated today. boko haram in the last video that we got to them actually pledged allegiance to isil leadership. and they are very brutal. we have an idea of what isis is about because they are very media savvy. boko haram sends videos out once in a while. but they do worse things than you can imagine at all times. but they don't get the kind of heavy hand that isil is getting. >> you are not suggesting that these two groups are connected, just they are acting in this similar ways in some cases. >> by now i think they are very well connected. >> really? >> yes. they are deriving motivational training from isil. there's no question about it. you can find boko haram fighters training there. >> so you think they are communicating? in >> oh, there's no question about it. they have come to the point where there's an interface. >> will the country ever find the missing girls? >> maybe we should ask ourselves are we going to ask the missing boeing plane from the militia airlines? because nigeria never -- nigerian leadership never looked for the girls until it was too late, until boko haram has already taken away the girls. and they have come out and said they married the girls to their fighters, the same way isil does in syria and iraq. so i'm not sure we will find the girls. when you fiekd, you are not going to find them the way they were when they were taken away. >> it's good to have you on the program again. thank you. >> thank you. coming up next, internet threats, where does free speech end and criminal conduct by gin? plus hearth break at ohio state university. the newed a tension one athlete's injury is bringing to concussions in contact sxorts. this is al jazeera america. i'm john siegenthaler. coming up, isil alert, why the fbi says the group may be tracking military members and veterans on social media. plus testing the limits, the supreme court case that could redefine free speech on the internet. and the photographer who changes the way we see one another one face at a time. ♪ isil is planning an attack within the united states. the fbi has issued its strongest warning yet to members of the armed forces and veterans. jonathan betz is here with that. >> now the fbi worries isil members may use facebook or twitter to go after members of the u.s. military. more than a month after the attack in canada's capitol, the u.s. is worried copycats may target current and former members of the u.s. military at home. overnight the fbi and the department of homeland security issued a bulletin urging u.s. service members to scrub their personal media accounts. >> it's sort of like be on the look out for, or change your behavior, because we believe it can potentially put you in harm's way. >> reporter: isil sympathizers may be able to track down an attack from social media members. an isil tweet warned loan offenders in the u.s. might use the yellow pages and sites like fate book or twitter to find the addresses of service members, show up at their homes and slaughter them. >> we're telling you that's how isis finds people. so for your own safety and your family's safety. you need to modify your social networking profile. >> reporter: since u.s. air strikes began in the summer, isil forces have repeatedly called on members around the world to kill service members. the pentagon say there is no new threat, but it also warns that individual attacks like those in canada are hard to predict and prevent. at least 100 americans are now fighting with isil oversees. officials aren't just concerned about them returning home, but also those who feel connected to the group. the rise of isil and the war in syria have driven millions from their homes. nearly 2 million syrian refugees have taken shelter in neighboring countries. now the world food program says it can no longer afford to feed them. >> reporter: this muddy field is home to more than a thousand people. they have escaped war and left everything behind. but the fight for survival isn't over. >> translator: oh, god we are freezing to death. i don't have any blankets. a neighborhood gave me a piece of foam for my baby to sleep on, and another one in which three children sleep. >> reporter: here, there's no running water, electricity or sewage. meals are ublly provided once a day, but that could end soon too. the u.n. has been providing food vouchers to refugees in jordan, lebanon, iraq, and turkey. they have been serving more than 1.7 billion people. but now they say the money has run out. the agency says it has no choice. >> it's definitely a catastrophe. we feel for the refugees. we're trying our best, but this is an unfortunate situation, and unfortunately, the refugees have to face. and the story is very simple. it's -- the world food program is unable to deliver food to those people, and if we cannot give them voucher, they will simply not eat. >> translator: i have been in lebanon one year. i survived thanks only to the u.n. food vouchers. >> reporter: they say more than $64 million to feed the refugees in december as long. oil prices plunged to their l lowest point in five years, partly because of opec's decision not to cut production. this year alone, crude prices have dropped 30%. patricia sabga takes a look. >> reporter: from caracas to tehran, to moscow, countries that count on high oil prices are bracing for tougher times. >> the whole atmosphere can change drastically when prices come down. >> reporter: the latest slide follows saudi arabia's dominated opec's decision to keep pumping oil at its current pace. a tactic aimed at protecting the cash rich market share at the expense of poorer members. >> the iranians need about $140 price, and the venezuelians who need about $120. >> reporter: non-opec oil producers are also in the cross hairs, including russia. already reeling from economic sanctions, and high inflation, moscow was counting on oil fetching $100 a barrel to fund its budget next year. price pressures are also building in north america with crude trading below $70 a barrel, middle of the range, where most frac-ers are believed to break even. this could result in fewer jobs as well. but governments who have grown fat off of oil production are in need of belt tightening. india and other developing countries depend heavily on agriculture. in countries like the united states where people rely heavily on cars, consumers will benefit from lower prices at the pump, but the biggest winner of all could be the global economic as falling fuel costs move money away from producers into consumer's pockets, providing they spend the extra cash. >> reporter: an american couple is stranded in qatar tonight, a court overturned their conviction sunday on charging they starved their adopted daughter to death. officials stopped the couple at the airport. roxana saberi continuing the story. >> reporter: this couple is stuck in qatar. >> this have been a long emotional trial for me and my family. and grace and i want to go home and be reunited to our sons. >> reporter: the ambassador met the couple at the airport, but qatar officials blocked them from leaving. they expressed their frustration in a statement saying: matt wong moved to qatar with his wife and three adopted children in 2012 to work on a project for the 2022 world cup. then in january of last year, their or deal began. their daughter seen here died from dramatic weight loss. a court originally found them guilty of child endangerment, and sentenced them to three years in pri sop. they argued that she fufred from malnutrition-related diseases since they adopted her. >> we continue to be trapped, and we feel like there is no end to this court. this court that we believe is a sham. >> reporter: as the case continued the couple sent their two santas live with relatives in the u.s. when the court overturned their sentence on sunday, they said they wanted to return home to their sons and to grieve the death of their daughter. the state department said on monday it learned some paperwork needed to be filed before the wongs can leave. >> while the case was overturned, the travel ban was not yet overturned, so that is of course, the issue at play here, and one we're certainly working with all relevant folks to resolve. >> reporter: a firm representing the wongs said they filed all of the necessary paperwork to leave the country. and they said they are not at risk of being rearrested. a spokesperson another the qatar embassy in washington told us they won't comment at this time. the supreme court heard arguments today in a case that could effect what you can and cannot post online. the case focuses on a pennsylvania man convicted of threatening his estranged wife of facebook. >> reporter: john the court has long given wide latitude to free speech. even speech which is offensive. and some believe that the court is likely to decide that this facebook speech was free speech and in fact not threats, but some of the justices were clearly worried about that. worried this could open the flood gates to offensive language online. the case involves a pennsylvania man who took to facebook to pose what he claimed were rap lyrics, violent language about killing his estranged wife, shooting up a kindergarten class and attacking an fbi agent. in one post he says: alarmed his wife got a court protective or order, but that didn't stop him: at that time he said he was just representing; that his writings were therapeutic, a form of free speech. here is his attorney. >> after the protective order was put into place, the tone of his posts changed, and one thing he said repeatedly was these aren't threats. and, you know, one thing he said repeatedly again and again, is that these are threats. >> reporter: but his wife disagreed and so did a jury, which sentenced him to nearly four years in jail. one key question is where is the line between speech protected by the first amendment and criminal threatening speech? does the person have to intend to do harm? or is it enough that a reasonable person would be fearful based on the threatening words. one justice worried arresting someone for posting violent words might go too far: but the government argued his postings were in fact a true threat to harm another person, which the court has historically found is not protected speech. and justice samuel alito was concerned about permitting violent content if the writer claims it is just rap, it's entertainment: that's how domestic violence groups feel, worried if he wins it will open the flood gates on vic rims. >> all of those abusers out there who didn't want to let go, who wanted to be able to hold on, who wanted to be able to continue to exert their power and control over their victim's lives will now have been provided an additional method of doing that by the court. >> reporter: it's now in the hands of the court, a decision expected this spring. there was a lot of talk in the courtroom about context. at one point chief justice john roberts quoted the rapper eminem. he said could he be arrested. the government argues no it is all about the context. they were words sung at a concert in public. >> jamie this isn't just about whether or not you can say something on the internet, right? >> it's about what you can say on the internet, and as lisa just pointed out, the context. i would have like to have been in that courtroom to hear john roberts sing a few lyrics from eminem. >> but what is the difference between doing it in person or sending a letter and doing it online? >> 45 years ago, the u.s. supreme court carved out an exception to the first amendment, because love to say i have a first amendment right to say this. but one of the exceptions is you can't make a threat. so then the question is what is a threat? if i threaten you face-to-face and you are afraid, that's a threat. and i can't do that. so now if i make a threat on the internet it's kind of atenuated. you are wait over there, i'm over here. i know you, but i can't get to you right here in this moment, so that's the question. a lot of threats are anonymous -- >> is this about anonymous speech? >> it can be extended to that. we have all kinds of games played on the internet. people are talking about this case in that larger context. but here it's a man who knows his estranged wife. he knows where she lives. it's very specific to her, and she was afraid. so it's about his intent versus her perception, her fear, and that's what the supreme court was struggling with today. >> but it's not necessarily about the technology? >> well it is, because as we heard that last woman say the technology has allowed abusers to engage in what they do exponentially. so if you want to chase down your victim, you can do it much more efficiently -- >> without walking to the front door -- >> without walking to the front door, or being in their face constantly, and that is a real concern for the court. but does that mean it is not speech? it is speech. >> the internet has been held up as this great thing that allows people the freedom to go online and say what they want to say, even anonymously. >> and it removes our inhibitions. >> so if the supreme court -- by just taking this case, because the supreme court move into an area that has been considered sack row sang since think internet existed? >> they have four or five cases thus far. and people on the internet enjoy first amendment protection, but what they have not dealt with is social media. this is the first social media intersection with the first amendment. and is social media somehow different, because that's where we engage privately as well as publicly, and that really raises questions of intimacy in a public forum. that's what the u.s. supreme court is going to be dealing with. >> it's an interesting case. jamie floyd always good to see you. thank you. it seem hackers has found a new way to make money. they are tricking pharmaceutical and medical companies in to trading personal information. generic drugs account for 85% of all drugs dispersed in the u.s. they used to be a bargain, but now the price of some generics are skyrocketing. up by as much as $1,000. christof putzel reports. >> reporter: this doctor has owned this pharmacy for over a decade, and he is never experienced anything like this before. he serves almost a hundred people a day. predominantly black and hispanics. from low-income households in his metro d.c. neighborhood. and the big drastic change he is talk about is the dramatic rise in the cost of generic drugs. >> the generics are priced so high. >> reporter: sometimes as much as 100%, even a thousand percent spike. this man too is baffled by the price rises. >> payments to the pharmacies are staying the same. and patients are left with the bill and pharmacies are left having to subside big gaps and loses lots of money. >> reporter: for how long can these independent pharmacists cover the price gap. >> if it's not the patient, it is going to be the employer or the taxpayer. so someone is paying for it. there's much more on the rising costs of generic drugs at the top of the hour coming up on "america tonight." students and faculty are mourning tonight on the campus of ohio state university. a college football player was found dead over the weekend. police suspect he may have killed himself. now investigators want to know if concussions played a role in his death. >> reporter: the body of the 22-year-old was found in a dumpster sunday near ohio state's campus. the college football player, police say, shot himself. >> we have recovered a firearm at the scene. the parents have been notified. the investigation is ongoing. >> friends, family -- >> reporter: the discovery of the body brought an end of days of searching. now his family begins the search for answers. his mother told police and several media outlets around the time he disappeared wednesday, the defensive tackle sent a text message apologizing for being an embarra embarra embarrassment. standing 6'5", 284 pounds, he spent three years as a wrestler at ohio state. he joined the football team as a walk-on this year. he suffered several concussions, including one just last month, and often complained about feeling con uconn -- confused. the ohio state football coach wouldn't comment on his death. but had this to say about the medical staff. >> this is the best group of medical people i have ever been around, and the way they handle their business at the attention to detail. >> reporter: george's death is again bringing attention to concussion, suicide and sports. health experts say it's too early to tell if that same condition lead to this college athlete's death. bisi onile-ere, al jazeera, detroit. coming up on this brad cast, our picture of the day, plus one photographer's lesson in tolerance. 10,000 portraits on the national mall. ♪ good evening, tonight we are watching an area of low-pressure here off of the coast of california. we call this is a cut-off low. this is bringing some of the heaviest rain we have seen in california since last february. we are looking at a landslide in the area that closed parts of the pacific coast highway in the area. we don't expect it to reopen until tomorrow, but about 15 cars were actually stranded in the area, no casualties, but we saw about two to three inches of rain fall. and this is an area that has seen quite a bit of wildfire activity over the last year. take a look at the radar, we have seen a little bit of a drop in the rain over the last 12 hours, but unfortunately more rain is coming into play. for the northern part of california it means snow in the sierra nevada area. for the drought situation, this is not going to break the drought, but we do expect to see some sort of relief here in the northern area of california, maybe up to about five inches of rain by the time this ends. so for tuesday we're looking at very heavy rain up and down the coast. for san francisco that means tuesday, wednesday, and thursday we'll see rain, and for los angeles we expect the rain to start to ease up as we go towards wednesday. across the eastern seaboard, we are looking at a mix of rain. ice and snow is making it's way across virginia and pennsylvania, that means conditions on the road is quite icy this evening. even up in to massachusetts where we expect to see a little bit of accumulation that will continue on tuesday and start to ease up on wednesday. more news is after this. 2014 has been an important year for the lbgt community. gay marriage is now legal in more than half the country, but intolerance is still a big problem. in tonight's report, we talk about a photograph project aimed at changing that. >> the project i'm working on now is called self-evident truth, and i'm focusing 10,000 people in this country who identify anywhere on the lbgt spectrum. i want to take a simple black and white straight-on portrait of you. the aim is to humanize this vast community. and the slogan is we are you. which is to say we're effectively all the same thing. and then i'll take those 10,000 portraits to the washington monument and way them all out on the national mall and stage a wide-scale march on washington. there was a disconnect in terms of familiarity. i couldn't understand how people in this day and age in a place with such tarnished civil rights records in the united states could vote against each other's civil liberties and social freedoms. so in pondering what the problem could be, we thought an issue of familiarity, where people believe all of the myths they hear, and they think we are sick, and you are going to get aids and die, so i decided to create a documentary of this community. so they can see rewith everyone else. in 29 states right now you can legally be fired for being other than straight. we are you, as a slogan, is about bringing people together and spreading the notion that like if i wear this shirt some kid walking down the street is going to know i'm okay with them, and i'm supposed to support them. and ideally once this project has accumulated at the washington monument, it will spill over and become a generalized movement against other myths and the damaging of all othering of people that we don't understand. >> as of today she has photographed more than 8,000 people in 39 states. coming up tonight at 11:00 eastern time, how architects are using less energy in building designs. now our picture of the day, our freeze frame is from india. social activists release ribbons and balloons to mark word aids day. they hope to bring attention to more than 35 million people living with hiv worldwide. that's our program. "america tonight" with joie chen is coming up next, and we will be back here at 11:00 eastern, and we hope you'll join us then. thanks for watching. on "america tonight": no letup one ferguson fallout. coast to coast and all day long. judge the president spent most of his day focused on ferguson too, and why hands up, shows no sign of surrender. facebook, gory postings showing up before the justices

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