money or no formal education cahow purple and they struggled. they did not immediately hit it big and they were discouraged the first few years but they persevered. they never became rich. never became famous that working as a bartender and of vapor, another had a lot of jobs for:she worked as a cashier then made at the imperial palace i lived here six years growing up. them back to miami my dad primarily was a bartender working their jobs at the bowling alley here is what they achieved they owned a home in a neighborhood to raise four children and left all of them better with a life better than what they knew to retire with dignity and security. the neck cemetery the american dream is to leave, as many make it is not true so people all over the world have the dream. the desire not just to be better off so why they call that the american dream with so many can achieve it here. that is the real american dream. so it has a very profound statement read every human being in nor
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considered by the team owners who will eventually decide his future. damming information. tonight that an change in the d.c. fire department may hurt communication in an emergency. some fear the problem could cause a scenario much like the confusion in the moments after the september 11 attacks. sam ford is in northwest washington with what is being done. sam? fire departments in montgomery and prince george s have expressed alarm at the d.c. s talk of encrypting fire communication, to the point that one montgomery official said his units were not come into the city if they cannot communicate. reaction to the city s plan has been overwhelmingly negative. assistant fire chief joe rochette showed us his radio program for d.c. fire as well as his other channels. i could call right now. that might change as d.c. talks of encrypting fire channels. a decision has been made to begin the encryption of tactical channels only after the proper technology is in place. even the
didn t work out. michael sam fails to make the cut. now the first openly gay player grafted by the n.f.l. faces an uncertain football future. good morning, welcome to al jazeera america. coming to you live from new york city. i m morgan radford. more islamic air strikes in iraq. war planes attacked amerli. the town has been under siege for two months, and planes dropped food and humanitarian supplies. today australia said it would arm the kurds. australia has great to join an airlift of military equipment to the kurds. we have agreed to join this airlift at the request of the president obama administration in the united states, and with the permission of the iraqi government. abbott says his government is helping to send rocket propelled grenade. so that are there has been no requests by the united states to play a come bat role. good morning to you. we hear there s an offensive going on. what is going on right now. it s a dramatic partial lifting so far of a siege
if you agree raise your hands. those were the words of the palestinian leadership as they signed a treaty applying to join the international criminal court. it was one of over 20 treaties signed by mahmood abbas following the rejection of the draft resolution for an end to israeli occupation. in a moment we ll have reaction from editor james bays. what has been the reaction there? well, a bold move after a very disappointing day. several international treesies, including the rome statute. this is very significant because it effectively starts the palestinians down the road of joining the international criminal court. that s something that they suggested for years now that they wanted to do. now predictbly theville are very angry at it. benjamin netanyahu saying, quote, the palestinians have more to fear from the icc than the israelis do. this is significant. the icc would effectively allow the palestinians to press war crime charges against the israelis. the israeli prime m