stunning photos taking the pulse of new york. ♪ israeli prime minister benjamin netenyahu is outspoken, controversial controversial, and he is making news again. with his political future on the line, his remarks that are creating a fire storm in israel and the u.s. he says his leadership there will not produce a palestinian state. he told a reporter that doing so was simply yielding territory for radical islamic terrorist attacks against israel. those who do not understand that, he says bury their heads in the sand. a key issue in the election the economy. average israelis have been hit hard by rising rents and morgue cost of living. dana lewis has more. >> reporter: it doesn't look like much and it's a bit rickety. but it's home for this woman and her partner. one bedroom, ground floor, $800 month, which leaves this young hard-working couple with very little cash to live on. >> we work a lot, lots of hours a way. and we don't see each other enough. and in the end of the month the -- the payment is not that high as you would expect to be. >> reporter: how much money is left in your pocket at the end of the month? >> we don't have any. nothing. >> reporter: they keep a running budget on the door calculating mostly what they can't afford. >> the frig is pretty empty. >> reporter: they buy only the bare minimum, because rent eats up more than 35% of their incomes. he says my main concern is the economy. there are a lot of people suffering here. polls show housing is the number one concern as israelis go to vote this week. growing social issues have ignited street demonstrations in the last few years here. and while netenyahu has bet his campaign of security concerns others question his integrity. >> translator: you are simply afraid. you were afraid over the last two years. we exposed your corruption, we exposed how you took israeli public funds, the taxes the public worked so hard for, and you transferred to your friends. >> the price of homes have increased by over 60% in the last few years, and since those families are renting right now, they do not yet own a house, and rent has increased by 30 to 40%, they find it very very hard to save. >> reporter: while the housing crisis has mushroomed dramatically critics say at the same time netenyahu's government wrote a blank check on settlement expansion. and like most israelis these two's salaries haven't increased in a decade. housing prices skyrocketing rents off of the charts. they will vote tuesday for a different government they say, and for a different quality of life. in the last week prime minister netenyahu has started talking a little bit more about social issues and housing and the economy, but observers say it is probably too little too late to turn those people who are more concerned about we economy back to him today. >> thank you. we're joined by a reporter from the israeli newspaper. welcome. good to have you back. let me go back to what the prime minister had to say in his comments today and he says there will be no palestinian state under his watch, which he has said before. but he said anybody who does try to create a palestinian state is simply yielding territory for radical attacks against israel. what is your reaction to that? >> he is doing the opposite of what usually politicians do in elections, instead of first shoring up his base and then turning to the center and get more moderate voters he is giving up on the moderate voters andlurch to the right. his aim to take away voters to his right, and the reason is he wants to be the biggest party. you don't have to head the biggest block, but if the former labor -- the zionist group, if they have a significant gap they will be choseing the next government. >> is this a sign of desperation? >> it's a sign that he's worried. i think he's -- definitely as of last week -- he was trailing and the momentum was against him. what he has done is dominated the agenda for the past three, four days and the atmosphere is that he succeeded in blunting the momentum and the only reversal occurred this afternoon when it was announced that she would be giving up her rotation agreement with hurtzog. but these have been good days for mr. netenyahu politically speaking. >> if there were a change in the government, if someone else were to take his place, would there really be the chance for a palestinian state? i mean is that a realistic idea at this point or not? >> i don't know if i would go that far, but there would be dramatic changes, first of all in the thing that is most important to israel which is relations between israel and the u.s. i'm sure the white house would be breaking out in a party tomorrow night if it turned out that netenyahu was lost they will go out of their way to accommodate mr. hurtzog. >> if you ever seen anything like this in israel? >> no nothing as blatant as this. the partisanship has never been as exposed as this for everybody to see. >> does it damage -- what -- what has it meant for israel? >> well for israel i think it has done great damage to israel the state of relations between the prime minister and the president and i think the damage is trickling down now to lower echelons which have supposedly been professional. the question what has it done for mr. netenyahu politically? there are parts of his camp that don't like mr. obama at all, and therefore they support the prime minister's antagonistic attitude but i don't know what the effect has been on the center of the political map, and even though people in the center are suspicious of mr. obama, they may think mr. netenyahu has gone way too far in damaging the relations. >> is the economy the biggest issue? >> it's hard to say. the issue until now has been a referendum on mr. netenyahu. and the left of the center have not succeeded in putting the economy on center stage of the campaign, but yes, it is a lurking, burning issue, and if mr. netenyahu does not win, this will be the sleeper that sort of did him in because there are parties that are running only on the economic issue, especially the party that is headed by a former minister and could be the king maker, and if he does well and i expect he will he eel take a lot of votes away from netenyahu because of the economy and the gap in income equality in israel. >> thank you. we're joined by the director on the project of middle east policy. welcome. let me ask you this how do palestinians view this election? >> they are waiting for the results. of course if the incumbent wins if benjamin netenyahu wins it will be more of the same so that's not particularly good news. it's more hardships and no progress on the peace front. if the left does manage to secure a big enough vote and then be able to achieve an effective coalition, then there could be good news for the peace process in that there might be some progress. >> is -- you say there might be some progress but is there hope among the palestinian people that that progress would actually happen or -- or not? >> hope would be an open statement, unfortunately, because there have been several elections in the last decade -- two decades of peace process and the peace process hasn't gone very far. and palestinians aren't closer to statehood or freedom or economic improvement. so no they are not holding their breaths over this election. it would be good if there's a change, but they are not waiting for the election results. >> a change -- or do they have a particular candidate, the palestinians think should be elected? >> i don't think there is a particular candidate they like but definitely in general, the sense is that the current inbum -- incumbent is not good for palestinians. >> would there be a change in attitude on -- on the palestinian side if there was a change in the government? >> i would think so. i would put that with the caveat that the new government would need to take actions that show seriousness, vis-a-vis the economic situation but also vis-a-vis the peace process, however, given the history and legacy of benjamin netenyahu and his party, a change would be welcome. palestinians would expect better -- at least a mild improvement of the situation since the netenyahu government has only produced two wars and worsening economic situation. >> we talk about the palestinians almost like it's a mono lit, but there are differing opinions right? not everyone agrees on the election or the best strategy to move forward, right? >> that's true. palestinians disagree on the process by which you can achieve liberation. however, i would argue that all palestinian factions have found for various reasons have found the netenyahu government to be particularly bad for the palestinian cause, even if it's for different reasons. >> what do you expect? this >> i don't know. it is quite impressive, the campaign to get the vote out by the left and they -- the israeli left that is. and i believe they were smart in highlighting the economy and bringing the message of netenyahu is just going to be more of the same and the same is bad already. i think that's smart of them. the proof is going to be in the action actions that the next government takes if indeed it does manage to unseat bb because the ability to form an effective coalition is in fact -- has always been the secret of israeli government. if you don't achieve an effective coalition, you remain hostage to a few voices. >> have palestinian leaders effectively represented the palestinians? >> in palestine, you mean -- >> i mean in general, when you look very closely at whether or not netenyahu reflects what the palestinians want, do you think the palestinian leaders reflect what the palestinian people want? >> yes in general they do. there is disagreement on the way to move forward. but generally palestinians want to achieve liberty. there are differences on how to do that, and there are differences over the socioeconomic system and the two main parties, hamas and fattah has represented those schools, let's say, even if the political process is a bit chaotic and not regular to say the least. >> it's good to have you on the program. thank you very much. this election is also critical for israel's arab political parties. a deadline now is fast approaching on a nuclear deal with iran. there were hints of progress today as negotiators got back to business in switzerland. reports that iranian leaders confronted the u.s. over a letter sent to iran last week warning iran that any deal could expire as soon as president obama leaves office. the white house addressed that letter today. >> we do not believe that this letter was helpful to the process and it did seek to ung mine the president's ability work through these negotiation process. st >> iran's foreign minister later flew to bussels. and now to washington is please deal spared the former commander of jail time after he gave military secrets to his mistress. now a contractor says the deal exposes a profound double standard by the white house. >> reporter: retired general petraeus has admitted giving his hand-written journal to his biographer mistress, in return for his guilty plea to mishandling classified information, the government has agreed not to ask for jail time and he is still held in high regard advising president obama privately. >> he is i think legitimate regarded as an expert when it comes to the security situation in iraq so i think it's -- it makes a lot of sense for senior administration officials to on occasion consult him for advice. >> reporter: the plea deal is one that steven kim would have taken in a heart beat instead he is three months away from finishing a 13-month sentence in federal prison in maryland. but his lawyer argues to the justice department: the case also shines a light on one of washington's dirty little secrets, lots of supposedly classified information is shared openly with reporters covering national security. members of the senate armed services committee were outraged when one such authorized leaker was thought to have given up too many details about the secret plan to retake mosul, iraq from isil fighters. >> there are lots of people talking about what we are doing. >> reporter: there are significant differences between the two cases. petraeus's biographer had a security clearance, and she did not publish any secrets. kim exposed that northeast was planning nuclear tests which may have tipped off north korea that the u.s. has sources deep inside of the regime. but both admitted lying to the fbi. what irritates some is the apparently hypeocrisy. there was a man who gave names to reporters, and he got time in prison. at the time they said oaths matter and there are consequences for those who feel they are above the law. petraeus can give one speech and cover his $40,000 fine but john is bankrupt. >> jamie thank you. still ahead, one woman's story of secret success and giving up. a california town in water crisis is finally getting some help from the state. i'm here to find out if it will bring them the relief they so desperately need. and what took so long. there are new questions tonight, new debate in ferguson missouri over the motive in the shooting of two police officers at a protest last week. 20-year-old jeffery williams was arrested for that crime. he appeared in this court today, but did not enter a plea. investigators say he told them that he fired into the crowd, but said he was aiming at someone else and not targeting the officers. both were treated and released last thursday. ferguson's municipal court is getting a new judge. he's a missouri appeals court judge. he has been given the task of overhauling the municipal court. a u.s. justice department report criticized the juz us system and the police department. in places like east porterville, there is almost no water to conserve. jennifer london has more. >> reporter: for residents here in east porterville, california this sound is the promise of water. drilling 150 feet into the ground spending $14,000 for a basic necessity. >> people have got to have water. >> reporter: 75-year-old gary came out of retirement to drill private wells. >> either their drill a well or the city deliver water or something. you have children at home, and how hard is it to watch them go to bed dirty and thirsty. >> reporter: homes here have been without running water for months. some for more than a year. these homeowners are among the fortunate few. they can afford to drill a new deeper well, but there is no guarantee the water will last even then. and those who can't afford to drill a new well have found themselves helpless. >> that day my well went dry, as we can say, i thought it was the end of me because what are we going to do without water? and i still don't know what to do. >> reporter: and do you think you should be having to live like this? >> no. no. i don't think -- i don't think we should be living like this. >> reporter: blame the drought. blame the private wells that have run dry. some blame the state for not stepping in and helping earlier. >> i think this is a natural disaster and it should be treated as such. >> reporter: and people need help now? >> and people do need help now. they need it now not six years from now, or five years from now, or to be forgotten. >> reporter: al jazeera has been following this story since last august when we first reported people's wells has run dry. since then we have returned four times to meet with residents and local authorities, as the water crisis has worsened people have become more desperate and frustrated. so we travelled to sacramento to take concerns directly to state officials. >> we have never seen a drought that we're experiencing statewide right now. east porterville is being hit incredibly hard. >> reporter: what do you say to residents who say, but where has the state been? we're not feeling the relief? and we're not feeling it quick enough. >> well, the state is getting water to them. we are delivering bottled in their homes. we're setting up tanks. we're paying for the programs for them to get sanitation water. we're doing everything we can to meet their needs while we start to look at longer-term solutions. >> reporter: we're talking about water and thousands of people without running water to their home. that's about as bad as it get. so has the state done enough? >> well mother nature is our biggest obstacle. in east porterville if we had water flowing through the tullely river we would be in a completely different situation. >> reporter: under the california disaster assistance act, the state has committed $1.2 million to help drill a new county well. the problem? it could take nine months to complete, and it is estimated it will cost 1.6 million, and it's up to the county to find the funding to make up the difference. in the meantime it's a race to get as many of these tanks installed before the heat sets in. is it acceptable that people are living without running water in their homes? >> well we have a situation where we have wells that have run dry because there is not a water source in the nearby river. so we have to continue to get weather to these individuals. >> reporter: is that happening staff enough? >> it can be faster. it nighed to happen faster. i would agree with any resident that says can we do it faster? yes. and we're working to do that each and every day. >> reporter: back at yolanda's house, help can't come fast enough. >> we need the water now. not next year or the next year. we need it now. we need it since yesterday. >> reporter: what does the state need to know? what does the state need to understand about what life is like for you right now? >> oh my god, should i just say come over here with me and live it? live it with me? you won't -- well people won't last a day with what we're living right now. >> reporter: two county officials tell me they plan to apply for a grant through the usda to fund the remaining $400,000 needed to build the new county well but john as we mentioned that could take up to nine monks to complete and it's clear the people are struggling now. >> other than the grant jennifer, has the federal government done anything else? >> last year the obama administration pledged $180 million to help drought-stricken california. but that money was earmarked for farmers, even food banks. no specific dollars were set aside to help the people of east porterville. >> jennifer thank you. still to come on this program, vladimir putin reappears, where he has been and the new questions about russia's role in crimea. plus -- what you did was illegal. and you broke the law. >> i did. i did break the law. >> one woman's confession how she became a wall street success, while living in the u.s. illegally. and the heir to a giant real estate fortune arrested. do journalists have an obligation to report to police? hi everyone this is al jazeera america. i'm john siegenthaler. >> vladimir putin out of sight for a week suddenly reappeared. the rumors and new reports about crimea and nuclear weapons. made in america. a whiz on wall street who came here illegally. one immigrants story of lies and redemption. an heir to a real estate fortune arrested. but will the recording really count as a murder confession? plus night and the city new york like you have never seen it before. ♪ russian president vladimir putin has reemerged and he is back in the spotlight tonight. he made his first public appearance in over ten days. his absence led to a flurry of rumors about his health, his political standing in russia even his love life. meanwhile they are starting their biggest military exercise since the crisis in ukraine began. we are joined by an associate dean of international affairs here in new york. nina welcome back. >> thank you. >> let's start with the military exercise. why is putin testing their combat readiness at this point? >> well he has been testing their combat readiness all the time. it has been a year plus that [ technical difficulties ] >> he is becoming a very unpredictable heard. very similar to a lot of soviet leaders at the end of tear tenure. [ technical difficulties ] >> just died we're going to rule in his legacy. it's -- russia hasn't changed in that sense. it's a secretive kremlin, and people continue to wonder. >> nina it's good to have you on the program again. thank you very much. >> thank you. >> one year ago today, voters in crimea passed a referendum to leave ukraine and join russia. today the u.s. state department called it a sham and accused russia of carrying out brutalities in crimea. rory challands has more from the capitol city. >> the official anniversary of what russia now calls the crimean spring is just days away. and here the patriotic flag waving has already done. such jubilation isn't for everyone, though. others have businesses to run. on the windy step land of central crimea these new vineyards have struggled. but for the director it's come with upsides. >> ukrainian market is considerably smaller than the russian. since crimea became part of russia we have a status of domestic producers, and can easily sell our produce. plus we have good government support. >> the biggest challenge has been water supply. ukraine provided 85% of the water down this pipe now it is dry. ukraine shut the water off last april. for other businesses the problems have been financial. elaine that's company sells roadside advertising space. >> reporter: the banks took all of the money in our account. the sum was considerable. we needed the money for taxes, salaries bills, developing our business. >> reporter: with crimea now off limits for most international banks, the peninsula has become predominantly cash only. visa and master chord have also pulled their services in the region. the only thing i can do is cancel. now this has been annoying for businesses and individuals. there's no sign when the services will come back. near the airport, children's murals proclaim the russianness of crimea. but keeping crimea afloat has cost russia some $2 billion so far. it has been a challenging transition and it's not over year. people like these two might express cautious optimism but it would be unwise to toast a prosperous future just yet. now to an american success story with a very unusual twist. a new york woman who went from selling funnel cake to working as a vice president of goldman sachs, but she was afraid to go to work every day. >> that's right, john. beneath her beautiful suit and that very healthy wall street paycheck she lived in fear that someone would discover she was in fact undocumented. she seemed to have it all, top grades in high school and college and even a high-paying job on wall street but she admits her entire career was built on a lie. >> that's in mexico. in that was a birthday party. >> reporter: she came from mexico illegally when she was 11 years old. her parents owned a funnel cake standing in texas, and filled her with dreams of one day going to college. >> they were really hardworking, and i admire them so much because they made so much with so little. >> reporter: but when the propane tank on their truck exploded it left her mother with a coma and her family had a tough choice. >> it was either spending it on her medical bill or use that for my college education. >> reporter: texas law allows undocumented immigrants to go to colleges, but they are nottelicable for grants. >> my intention was to get a job so i could pay for college. eventually i got to this woman who sold papers. i remember getting the papers and still -- i still didn't know whether they were going to work. >> well they did. with those same papers she paid her way through college and landed a coveted job on wall street working for goldman sachs. she rose through the ranks to become a vice president. where she made between 200 and $300,000 a year. at this point goldman had papers from you, they just weren't real. >> right. >> what do you say to people who say what you did was illegal, and you broke the law. >> i did break the law. i had two choices to give up on my future or break the law. those were my only two options. i know some people might say why didn't you just go back to your country? i left mexico when i was 11 years old. this is my country. >> reporter: she feels like she paid for her choice. >> while you were working your father died in mexico. what did you do? >> that was the worst day of my life. not being able to go back and be with my dad and -- and be with my family. >> reporter: she couldn't attend his funeral, because if she did, she risked not being able to get back into the united states. >> i know my dad didn't want me to go. i can almost imagine him saying like i'm going to die. so there's nothing you can do. you are not the doctor. >> reporter: every day on the job her anxieties grew worse. >> each step was nerve-racking and things could have gone wrong at every corner took. >> reporter: she eventually got married and got her green card. >> the biggest thing that having papers gave me was freedom. like i wasn't free before. >> reporter: and with that freedom came change. she left her job on wall street and now raises money for the non-profit, define american a group dedicated for complaining for students in the same situation she was in. what people who say what you did was patently un-american? that you didn't do it by your own bootstraps because you didn't do it the fair way? >> i would just ask them a question. what is fair? is it fair for an 18 year old girl who has worked her entire life to get to really good grades and get a higher education, is it fair that she doesn't get to go to college? >> reporter: and even though her journey may have begin on a lie, she says she is now living her truth. al jazeera has reached out to goldman sachs about her employment but didn't return our request for comment. she say since she left the country, goldman sachs has a more strict application process. >> so it slipped through the cracks at goldman? is that what happened? >> she said she doesn't really know what goldman knew but she did give them false papers. >> is she concerned about being prosecuted for perjury? >> not terribly. in order for her to have the citizenship that she currently has now, she had to fill out a form and there is a box where it says have you ever lied to the u.s. government. and she said yes. and with that they still granted her citizenship. so it looks and feels like it is over. >> it's a fascinating story. thank you very much. robert durst is an excentric billionaire and would be a murderer. he was in a documentary called the jinks. did it go too far? erika pitsy has more. >> los angeles prosecutors have charged durst with murder of his long-term girlfriend. the fbi says when he was arrested durst may have been trying to flee to cuba though his attorney denies that. millionaire real estate heir robert durst is now in custody facing murder charges of his close friend who was shot in the head 15 years ago. >> he is ready to end all of the rumor and speculation and have a trial. >> reporter: long linked to that murder in california another in texas, and the disappearance of his wife in new york his life played out in the hbo documentary series the jinks. >> did it make sense to you that there were people that suspected you? >> oh, sure. she was my spokesman all of a sudden she is dead. >> the arrest came the day before the airing of the last episode in which he is caught talking to himself in the bathroom. cleaver the series profiles susan berman's murder in 2000, along with the disappearance of his first wife, and the killing and dismemberment of his neighbor in 2001. >> he cut him up into pieces. packages him like trash with the trash. and through him in the water. >> reporter: we the jury find the department robert durst not guilty. >> reporter: even though the jury acquitted durst, the judge did not buy it. >> i did not believe for one minute there was any self-defense or panic involved. >> reporter: on camera in the documentary, durst repeatedly insisted he did not kill anyone. but it is when he is off camera in the bathroom after the filming of the final interview that is he heard saying what sounds like a shock admission. ten seconds later. the filmmakers say it was two years into the ed ticketing process before they came across the bathroom audio. the director thinks that durst had the outburst in the bathroom because he wanted to get caught adding the apparent confession is likely a relief to him. the lapd says the hbo series had nothing to do with his arrest. john. >> erika thank you very much. jamie floyd is with us tonight. did the documentary have anything to do with the arrest? >> police say no. they say their investigation has been ongoing. but you have to look at the timing. they come up with some documentation that provides additional possible proof in one of these three deaths and we should point out that really the first is just a disappearance. there has never been a body found in the missing wife -- >> but would this -- go ahead. >> and there's the confession, can we call it that? the words on tape. it's hard to believe this would make it to trial without that. >> will it make it into trial? >> that's the big question. first of all you have a chain of custody problem. the filmmakers have been a little unclear about exactly how much time went by before they found those words on tape. and you and i are in this business, right? stuff can sit in a can for a long time before you actually listen to it. >> right. >> they said initially two years went by. this morning andrew said it was a few months that went by so already we have a question of the chain of custody. that's the word we use in law, and that affects admissible. and there's the good old fashioned hearsay rule right? when you say something out of court, there's a question about whether or not it comes into court. usually if you say something that implicates you in a crime that comes in but if i were robert durst's lawyer i would argue that this doesn't come in. so i think it's debatable. >> everybody in the country has heard it now, though. >> everybody has heard it whether or not you can find a jury that hasn't heard those words on that tape. >> all right. how do they go about this legal -- well let me ask you this about reporters. obviously reporters have a moral responsibility -- everybody does to turn overinformation if you know something about or you have evidence with regard to a murder. what about the law? >> well you have a legal responsibility, unless the case is about to happen. these are cases that are years old. and durst even says that this is decades old, they are going to have to spend so much money tracking me down. this is not something law enforcement is going to worry about. if we're reporting a story, and somebody tells us they are about to commit a murder we have an obligation -- >> but not after the murder. >> not after the fact. so these filmmakers i'm sure consulted with their lawyers at hbo and elsewhere about what their obligations were. the letter that is very much at issue here the letters he wrote, that if you watch this documentary, and everybody now is going to right? they are going to go back and they will see there are two letters that implicate him even more in terms of his handwriting than the words on that tape and that was turned over earlier than the tape. >> and if you are a defense lawyer you don't often tell your client to go do an interview and have a documentary made about you. >> he did this against the advice of counsel. >> jamie thank you very much. >> my pleasure. a cyclone hits a tiny island in the south pacific. and a photographer talks about seeing new york city as an artistic news. cyclone pam slammed the south pacific this weekend. the storm was called a monster by the president of van watt tu. >> it killed 24 and left over 3,000 people without homes. those numbers are likely to rise and nicole mitchell has more. >> these are equivalent of a category 5. winds up to 185 miles. they don't do hurricane reconnaissance but a lot of water damage as well rising at least two feet above the local side levels and we have seen the dramatic video of all of the wind being reported. so you can see all of the dramatic damage from this. this is what it looked like over the weekend at its peak. you can see that well-formed eye. the circular feeder bands coming in. and that's how they use the interpretation to classify how strong it is. so you can see it starting to diminish as it heads south. and as it headed towards new zealand it moved into colder water, and became what we call extra tropical but still impacted new zealand with flooding areas. still had winds to 90 miles per hour. so caused wide-spread power outages and things of that nature. i just want to mention. like us it's the spring and fall that we have the hurricane season, here the systems are reverse verse. >> thank you very much. the price of oil has dropped to a six-year low and gas prices could soon follow. a barrel of west texas crude was going for just under $44 today. nine months ago it was $107. analysts blame the decline of weak worldwide demand and excess gas production in the u.s. now to a story coming up in our next hour a race against the clock to get food to a war-torn region in africa. >> yeah our correspondent will be taking us to a town in south sudan, where food rations are being distributed and far too few of them. 2.5 million people in south sudan face acute hunger but getting food to the people is dangerous. one of the safest route is by boat along the nile. we'll take you there, coming up with the rainy season just a few weeks away the rush to get food to the people before it's too late. >> elton john is backing a boycott of italian fashion designers doleche and gabana. they condemned invitro fertilization, with dolche referring to them as synthetic children. now to tonight's first person report. vincent is a pulitzer prize winning photographer. he has taken all kinds of pictures. photos of new york city at night is his new project. he did it while hanging out of a helicopter. >> recently i shot a series of aerials over new york city titled air. i was contacted by men's health magazine to shoot a story about psychology. and i said wouldn't it be a great thing if we went really high over new york city and shoot the street patterns. it liked like a computer chip to me. and when we went up there, i saw this incredible site of new york in a way i have never seen it before. we hook ourselves up with full body harnesses. we get to our shooting height and i hope the door and step out on the skids and make the photographs. was one of the first times when i was a little bit scared. when you are that high you can literally see the curvature of the earth. whenever i have a camera in front of me i have something to do and all of that fear goes away. i have never seen anything go this viral, i have been involved in several, quote unquote viral projects in my career. i think when you are up there, you see this entire city and you feel a little more more connected with one another. that's part of the reason i can this series air. it doesn't matter whether you are rich or poor or where you live, we all share in the air. and when you see this you see we're not that far apart, but when you are in the air, it's a little bit more intimate. >> that's our news for this hour. thanks for watching. i'm john siegenthaler. the news continues with antonio mora and stephanie sy. is you is >> one day before israeli voters go to the polls prime minister benjamin netanyahu reverses course on the two-state solution. >> i think that whoever moves to establish a palestinian state or intends to withdraw from territory is simply yielding territory for radical islamic for israel. >> secretary of state john kerry takes time tour switzerland during negotiations with iran. and putting an end to rumors, the russian president rea

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