Tonight another round of rain what they dont need. Its going from bad to worth, torrential rains. Devastation and a rising death toll. Now spilling over the banks. In houston, getting slammed. Jonathan martin is in the houston suburb of rosenberg. Yes, it is raining adane y again and again, this is an area under a mandatory evacuation. You can understand why. The river is well above the flood stage. This is the rain and flooding. Many of the people 75 homes here people in 75 homes have been told to get out of here. Police went door to door last night and came back as it started to rain to tell people to get out of the area. There were about 50 to 60 homes, and they were told if they can evacuate, some of them decided to leave, some decided to stay. I can tell you in the last half hour as more rain came down Law Enforcement went back to some people reminding them of the danger. We see more and more people. A lot of people seem to be taking it seriously. Not here but across the houston area where the rain is getting harder and harder. It was picture perfect today, and it rained again. A few hours ago it was sunny, everyone was out here and two hours ago the rain came a cell came through, it would stop for 10 minutes and more rain would come thats what forecasters predicted, saying there would be 35 inches of rain in the area. The question was would the rain move quickly or stall. It seems we are seeing a lot of rain is stalling here it is coming and is leaving and coming back again. A lot of danger here and concern in the area. Reporter on that note what are the forecasters are saying is it going to stop soon or is this a pattern that slams the state for days to come . Thats the question. We know for the next two days forecasters said anywhere from one to five inches of rain could come in the areas. Some areas closer to houston, they got some of the worst of the flooding. They are not expected to get as much of it. This area here south of houston will expect to get the worse, this is the area and another area under mandatory evacuations. Jonathan martin live in texas. Stay dry. Another democrat says he wants to be president of the United States. Former Baltimore Mayor and governor Martin Omalley announced that he is running. His number one concern is the commi. Chi a small group of protesters greeted the Baltimore Mayor, saying they were upset over the recent death of freddie gray who died in police custody. Martin omalley saying it was a reflection of the nations poor economy. Hillary clinton sent him a tweet saying earlier, Al Jazeera America said Michael Shure said hes not sure if the candidate can overcome the stigma of baltimore. Francis molo Martin Omalley has a problem with baltimore. It happened at the wrong time. Its the biggest city in his state. Problems existed. I think its a problem for Martin Omalley. Hell be asked about it dogged about it on the campaign trail. Its smart of him to take it by the horns in his opening remarks. Secretary of state john kerry and the Iranian Foreign minister meeting. The deadline for the agreement with iran is a month away. One of the issues is the push to International Access to their sites. And tehran wants sanctions lifted. Theres concern that there may be the need for extension to the june 30th deadline. More than 70 have been killed in northern syria. Government forces dropping barrel bombs in two areas. The worst attack was on a marketplace in alback under the control of the Islamic State group, that attack killing 55 people alone. We have this report. Another gain for Syrian Rebels in northern idlib. These are fighters of a coalition of rebels including al nusra front fighters allied to al qaeda. And control the town. It is thought to be the last major stronghold tore the regime. After days of battle. Soldiers have left. The newsagency says Government Forces have pulled out to the outskirts to regroup. Tens of families are fleeing. Some people are scared that the regime will destroy the town using barrel bombs. Rebels have also moved on to the village in the western countryside, killing a number of government soldiers. Days earlier, rebels captured the town. Last month they took control of idlib, the provinces capital. The next major battle could be the president s stronghold on the coast. And syria, the Islamic State of iraq and levant is widening its control. These photos show a glimpse of one of syrias notorious prisons. Tens of inmates removed by Government Forces before they fled. Further south a war of attrition. Fighting between hezbollah and others are not over in the qalamoun mountain ranges. Hezbollah announced it made big gains in the area. But with fighters carrying out hit and run attacks. More than 40 hezbollah fighters are set to have been killed since fighting started this month. Qalamoun is crucial for hezbollah and the Syrian Government is where both sides get weapons of reenforcements. Fighting in syrias multiple battle fronts intensify. Too many warring factions with different agendas are battling themselves its not clear who will win the final battle 17 people were found dead on a boat today, like so many they were trying to make it to italy. Officials say more than 4,000 migrants have been pulled off the parties on friday many reaching ports in sicily. That is where a British Navy Vessel dropped off 700 migrants half rescued from an over crowded boat off the coast of libya. German and irish vessels picked up the other half. Emma haywood has more. Reporter in the middle of the mediterranean sea, this was a scramble to stay afloat. A desperate scene, repeated many times over. A german frigate involved in this rescue where hundreds of people were picked up from different boats. Among them the very young. And few can imagine how this mother might have felt being reunited with a little boy. Others exhausted from their journey were able to rest on deck. And unprecedented numbers of people are trying to make the perilous trip from north africa to europe to escape war, poverty and persecution. Many are gambling on better economic prospects in europe. But they are risking everything in the process. Vessels from europes and large tritan Naval Operations have been working nonstop. Among them britains Navy Flagship h m. S. Bulwark, arriving in toronto. Hundreds on board, sum under 18, and travelling alone. Italy is bearing the brunt of arrivals but not all. In recent days dozens arrived on the greek island of cos from turkey. This group careful to destroy their inflatable boat before walking ashore. While europes navys rescue the migrants politicians make plans to disperse them throughout the e. U. Many countries dont want them. There has been no slowdown in the flow trying to reach the shores. Lets take a look at the numbers, 4,200 people were rescued over the past 24 hour that is the highest in recent months on april 12th. 38 hundred migrants were saved on that day. In on may 2nd, 3800 were saved. Many arrived in italy, some 1770 arrived, dying to get there. There has been a travel ban against 89 officials. Germanys foreign minister is one of the critics touring ukraine. He is on the list. Most of the people affected are outspoken critics of russia and Political Security and military leaders. Possible retaliation against sanctions on russia imposed after russia annex crimea. Knewly reelected and defiant. Sepp blatter, says he doesnt fear being arrested. A bribery scandal rocked the organization he vows to destroy the tarnished representation. Reputation. It got a little harder day one of a fifth term as president. And sepp blatter is not happy. I have said i forgive, but i dont forget when it comes to perps persons and not to facts he chaired a meeting of the committee, thats the panel that makes footballs biggest decisions. David gill and newly elected member from europe chose not to attend in a protest at blatters reelection. The Manchester United director saying he couldnt see there being a positive change at f. I. F. A. While blatter was in charge. Its a detail in a split between f. I. F. A. And european footballs governing bod body u. E. F. A. You have the best competition, and the best players. When it comes to clubs, if you dont have the players from the other continents they will not be so rich or good in football. They have to be an example, also not just to save f. I. F. A. They shall help and come in and take responsibility. And responsibility you kont take when you are elected or dont come to the first meeting. This is no responsibility. You are elected, you have to come. Whoever is the president of f. I. F. A. Blatter has loyal support in many countries beyond european borders, and thats why he was able to survive a week seeing seven highranking members arrested on suspicion of corruption the thought of resigning never crossed his mind. The congress are of the opinion that i am still the man to go into this problems and to solve this problems. U. E. F. A. May find it ironic told to set an example by the head of an organization that has seven senior officials residing in a prison on corruption charges. U. E. F. A. Countries will meet in berlin on saturday. The topic of pulling out of f. I. F. A. Will be discussed. Now for the fans its going to take more than any scandal for world cup soccer. Football mania to go away to give you a sense of how big this is globally look no further than the fan base. Soccer which the rest of the world calls football boasts more than 3 billion worldwide. Its under half the worlds population. We dont have figures for the last year World Cup Final in brazil. But the previous one in 2010 drew an estimated 900 million, and that doesnt count people watching in bars or videos. Compare that to the 114 million who tuned in to watch the super bowl, and you get an idea of soccers reach and power. All the soccer eye balls translate into serious cash f. I. F. A. s revenues have gone from strength to strength clocking in at 4. 8 billion, half of that coming from the world cup tournament. There is more at stake than the bottom line. In many countries, soccer is the embody. And expression of national pride. When a team plays in the world cup, cities can grind to a halt because so many dropped everything to watch it. The sport retains a hold on people around the globe, despite the fact that f. I. F. A. Had a reputation for dubious conduct for decades. Ask a fan of the beautiful game if its all about the money, and theyll red card you. Like the n. F. L. Fans seem to be able to separate their distaste for scandal from the love of the game. Erica pitzi, my colleague, talked to dave zirin about whether sepp blatter will be arrested and if f. I. F. A. Will survive the scandal. I dont know if hell be the next arrest you dont know what will happen in this case it will have more twists and turns than a pretzel. At the same time sepp blatter is the end goal. What is the end target of the u. S. Justice department. Even though attorneygeneral Loretta Lynch did not use the words sepp she was point that this was about uprooting 20 years of malfeesans. I dont think f. I. F. A. Can five this. What we have seek the last week is the beginning and end of f. I. F. A. As we know it. The idea of having that organisation, with terrible governance, in charge of setting up tournaments and in charge of rooting out corruption its hard to imagine how it can operate under the same umbrella coming up on Al Jazeera America what will become of the patriot act, set to expire in a few hours. Well take a deeper look as the Senate Returns to d. C. For a special session. Later, common core not making the grade in new jersey why governor Chris Christie is getting rid of the curriculum in his schools. Its saturday night, time to take a deeper look at the patriot act. The senate returning to washington while lawmakers are trying to decide whether to extend key parts of the pact used to justify the bulk data programme. Collecting the phone data using your phone numbers and friends. Libby casey has more from washington. Dell government Officials Say they are winding down parts of the patriot act in case the senate doesnt come up with an extension by tomorrow night. The real wind down begins tomorrow at 4 oclock as the senate gabbles in. The president is warning that its a serious situation. Sunday at midnight a bunch of authorities that we use in order to prevent terrorist attacks in this country expires. The president pointed to measures like roving wire taps. I dont want us to be in a situation where for a certain period of time the authorities go away and suddenly we are dark. And heaven forbid. We have got a problem. Where we could have prevented a terrorist attack. The president is supporting what is being billed as a compromise passed by the house. The u. S. A. Freedom act, ending the collection of telecom records by the government. Instead, Telephone Companies will keep them. You can confer more from the pattern than the conversation. Reporter the freedom account goes too far say some. None of the reforms, whether the freedom act or the reauthorization bills will do anything to end bulk collection. I think the political will in america is not there for the programs to continue indefinitely. Reporter theres resistance to the freedom account in the senate for liberals and libertarians like rand paul. We entered into a momentous debate. A superpact supporting pauls bid for the white house is using his stance to promote him. And an antisurveillance group called fight for the future is sending a message by blogging the websites redirecting visitors. On the flipside theres push back against the freedom account. Republican majority leader wants the full patriot act renewed. Do we want the law to expire. The options is pass the freedom act, reknew or be at piece with it expiring. If the isnt date does other than pass the freedom account, the house would have to follow up. This will be a £to watch. Weekend to watch joining us to take a deeper look at the patriot act is faisal patel, director of the Security Programme at the Brennan Centre and a former adviceo to senator harry reid and host of the agenda, a National Morning radio programme. Pfizer ill start with you. There seems to be an assumption that terrorists dont watch television. Given we are told therell be a gap in the efforts if the senate does not move will that leave it vulnerable or is the white house playing a high stakes game of chicken little . We dont know all the programs that the n. S. A. Conducts. But we do know that this authority has not proven useful in counterterrorism. We know that we had two review groups say that the federal bureau of investigations Inspector General came out with a report saying this programme hasnt added any unique value, theres that. On the other hand there are other parts of section 215 of the act which will expower along with the phone metadata programme, and the question is whether the government has other ways to fill the gaps and we dont know enough about the n. S. A. s programs to answer that question. Mr raiben is the lapse that we see in the bulk Data Collection programme, is it y2k of the 21st century or is there something to be concerned about. I dont think theres something to be concerned about. My tendency my coe guest first off, the n. S. A. Everyone i know that works there always believes in building redundancies into systems. My tendency is to believe the critical stuff has redundancy into it. And theres widespread agreement that the patriot act went too far. If that means a pause, thats what it means. Let me push back against that and ask this question. Should there be another attack it would be the monday morning quarterback of the n. S. A. C. I. A. And others. Saying why didnt we know more and if we did why didnt we do something. So is talking efforts away from the n. S. A. Authority away from the n. S. A. The way that america really wants to go. I would span that back on you. We can prevent there are 30,000 that die from motor veh ible death, if we make it 10 Miles Per Hour we can prevent it not one single wall to wall with blanket coverage that was not the case on 9 11. I mean so you are suggesting that because the tv media covers something, that means its more of an urge crisis. No im saying the argument of numbers to numbers it not an accurate number. The art is whether or not the n. S. A. Bulk collection will prech a terrorist a prevent a terrorist act. Emotionality is more important than the constitutional rights. Im not going to buy that argument. We have constitutional protection for a reason it is very specific. In particular the bill of rights on what our rights are of citizens. For too long we satisfied the rites that had not come from it. When the procedures had been reviewed its shown they have not stopped terrorist attacks. Im not buying that. Faisal patel. Rand paul says its a debate about whether a warrant with a single name of a Single Company can be used to collect phone records of all of the people in the country with a single warrant, he said our forefathers would be aghast. Are they rolling over in their graves or laughing . I imagine they are shocked because what rand pauls argument is is that the programme uses broad orders they are like the general warrants and if you go back to history, thats where you say go off and search for evidence of criminality, that is what was so upsetting to the american revolutionaries, and that actually was the basis of the fourth amendment. We are rite that the broad orders are what the forth amendment is supposed to protect against. Instead what we so is a court has been issuing them in sequence, year after year after year. And with little evidence in counterterrorism effectiveness. Does it bother you tha