that is amazing. >> jacob ward. al jazeera, pasadena, california. >> that will do it for this edition of al jazeera america. i'm morgan radford live in new york city. we leave i with a live look of los angeles, where crews are looking to survey the damage down by the earthquake. >> hi, i'm lisa fletcher, and you're in "the stream." marijuana legalization. many believe it's not a question of if, but when. but taking it off the streets and putting it in the stores, is it really safer and better? my cohost, rajahad ali, is here, and he's bringing all of your social media as always into the program.

jacob ward follows the story from san francisco. we are talking about icann. tell us about that organization, and how the internet is organised. >> with the internet you need someone controlling a list of the domain names and the numerical addresses. when you type in aljazeera.com, you need to make sure there's one, and your search goes to that one site. to icann - the organization - has done this since 1998. it's a california nonprofit under an agreement with the u.s. department of commerce, and that agreement is about to come to an end. the gathering in singapore is to figure out how icann will operate as a non-state entity controlling the master left of domains in america. >> some are calling it america's internet surrender. does it matter who is in control? >> that is the thing. here is what the icann president of global domain - the global domain division at icann had to say about the change. >> the idea is to change the stewardship from the u.s. government to a global stakeholder process, and i don't think anyone will see a difference on the way the inte

jacob ward, he has the coolest job on the planet. give us a view of the galaxy. >> reporter: thank you, i like my job, too. at first i didn't really get it. i thought big space photo, yeah sure, i've seen that before. turns out i had no idea how amazing it was to drive this thing. >> between 1990 and 2003 nassau launched four satellites to photograph our galaxy across the spectrum. they made up the agency's great observatory program. and each saw things differently. the hubble was the most famous and saw visible light like we do. they caught gamma rais rays and x-rays, and now this one. >> this is an infrared camera that detects objects that our eyes can't see. it has taken $2.5 million photographs over ten years of operation. here at caltech in pasadena they managed to stitch all those photographs together. >> what does our galaxy actually look like? you would think that it would be simple because we're in the middle of it. but actually that's what makes it hard. it's kind of like being dropped down in the center square of a city an

jacob ward joins us from san francisco. jay, good to see you. explain how this is going to work. >> reporter: the problem you have trying to provide wi-fi the way facebook wants to is that you can't just do it with towers. cell towers are too close to the ground. they get a lot of signal to a few people, but you need a higher source for the signal, and that in this case is going to be drones and satellite. that's what they're talking about. drones flies atalit flying at 6. and satellites high enough to beam to people below, but they need to boost that signal, so they're talking about connecting those via lasers. it's all in effort to bring internet to those who don't have it. >> there are plenty of areas in the country who could use this. facebook seems successful. why go off into this area? >> that's the thing. it does seem silly. it's not likes and pokes and shares, but on the other hand it is. on the one hand this could an good thing. studies have shown that economic advantagement, and changing one's social status has to do with whether or no

jacob ward explains. >> between 1990 and 2003 n.a.s.a. launched four satellites to photograph your galaxies across the spectrum of invisible and visible light. the hubble telescope was famous, seeing visible light. com tonne saw gamma-rays, and channed re x-rays. the youngest of the four finished its mission. the spitzer space telescope is an infrared camera. it has taken 2.5 million photographs over the course of operation. they managed to stitch the photographs together. what does our galaxy look like? >> you think it would be six because we are in the middle of it. it makes it hard. it's like being dropped in the center square of a city, and be told i want you to draw a street map. >> that makes the spitzer so useful and why we are lucky robert heard and his college piec pieced together the 10-year panorama. it allows you to zoom in and see out past the dust that blocks the normal vision, and look through infrared, through the dust out at stars at the edge of the known galaxy. being able to sees all of it means we are seeing stars 100

jacob ward is following the story from san francisco, and joins us. what we are talking about is known as icann. tell us with the organization and how the internet has been arranged and organised until now. >> well, there's basically got to be some organization that keeps the central list of don't an names and the num -- domain names and numerical addresses. so if you type in al jazeera america, so there's only one site, not two competing sites. the organization that looks after this is icann, a nonprofit in california, farmed in 1998, in an agreement with the department of commerce. what the u.s. government is doing, is letting the agreement lapse. the gathering in singapore is $to take pubic -- is there to take public comment to figure out how icann will be run international a. >> some call it the american internet surrender. does it matter who is in control? >> here is what the president of icann's global demands division had to say? >> the idea is to change the stewardship from the u.s. government to the global stakeholder process. and i don't thi

that's what so amazing. >> jacob ward, al jazeera, pasadena, california. >> coming up our picture of the day. plus: ♪ ♪ >> you may recognize this eerie sound. it's called a theramin. you play it without touching it. ♪ ♪ >> you've heard that before. "over the rainbow" played in a most unusual way, called a therafin, the world's first electronic musical instrument. professional theramist rob schwimmer. what is a theramin? >> the first electronic instrument by 1919, 1920. his name has been put on it. it has an oscillator just a tone-producing electronic piece but there's two electromagnetic fields around it. this is the kind of electromagnetic field, and as you get closer to it, as dorrit is doing now the pitch will go up. >> when you are playing this, how do you know what note you have, how do you find a note? >> i think it's kind of like singing, where you also know exactly what note you will hit before you -- you kind of 40 it iformulate it in your head. >> can you play a g on this? >> you have to have absolute pitch which i don't, i think rob does. is that a g? >> pretty clo

jacob ward explains. >> as your plane pushes back and gets ready for takeoff, it's entering a sprawling and complex system. it's safe with only 0.2 accidents per million departures, but the national air suppose is ipp efficient. >> it's a manual process, starting at the gate with a ramp controller. he or she will hand it off to a tower controller for the air force surface. they'll hand it off for another controller in the departure and arrival area. that will be handed off to an en route controller. >> since no central system coordinates the people, the faa is working on one that will. the new system is the next generation air transportation system. n.a.s.a. is building the new system. ground control will be replaced with gps, a technology capable of tracking every plane. right now the system relies on humans handing over to one nor. >> there's variability, there's limitations of the human mind. >> here in the united states, the most technologically sophisticated society, we use strips of paper. n.a.s.a.'s system will replace it with a software-based system. it can decide when you leave

jacob ward is al jazeera america science and technology correspondent he took at look at the story. >> the information that malaysian authorities are using comes from a company that is a british telecom company that is one of the biggest commercial satellite operators in the world. it offers free global maritime distress assistance. and it has done an unprecedented analysis. it's analysis that seems to provide a new picture of the final hours. all of the other aircraft communications systems stopped transmitting, they continued to receive pings from the plane, seven or eight in total between 1:11 and 8:11 when it disappeared from satellite. these are not gps enabled, they are just basic communication satellites so the company had to do some very complicated math to figure this all out. they combined elevation information with the time the signals took to reach the satellite. at that time they knew it was moving north of south. then they figured in the doppler effect, the way that waves change form when the something observing them is moving. so they couldn't triangulate using multiple

>> jacob ward. al jazeera, pasadena, california. >> that will do it for this edition of al jazeera america. i'm morgan radford live in new york city. we leave i with a live look of los angeles, where crews are looking to survey the damage down by the earthquake. >> hi, i'm lisa fletcher, and you're in "the stream." marijuana legalization. many believe it's not a question of if, but when. but taking it off the streets and putting it in the stores, is it really safer and better? my cohost, rajahad ali, is here, and he's bringing all of your social media as always into the program. and raj, one of our guests tonight believes that if the current approach to legalizing marijuana doesn't change, we could have a health crisis on our hands. >> and the community is buzzing about tonight's show. i promise no more puns, i had to do that.... >> yeah, it will increase addiction among kids. colorado and washington were the first two states to green light marijuana for recreational use, and now kentucky and arizon

science and technology correspondent jacob ward shows us what it could mean. >> reporter: 24 ithis is a veryg deal. here is the analogy. imagine someone dropped a rock in the ocean a long, long time ago. the scientists basically built a piece of equipment that managed to defect the ripples that emanated from that rock. they had to build this equipment in the south pole to get away from the background noise of the earth and listen for over three years and study the data for another three years to confirm that these ripples actually exist. the theory is called inflation. and it's a big deal. here is one of the founding force of that theory. hearing the news that it was right. hearing it on his door step last week. >> what? >> i have a surprise for you. >> what? just a second. >> as clear as day are .2. >> so tony, you can see that he found out that his life's work is correct. what i love is that his wife gets it before she does. she's a professors will at stamford. but what is such a big deal if it is independent by confirmed, which it probably will be, this is a huge deal. it's proving

jacob ward joins us. jake over to you. >> tony it pay seem like a straightforward thing to say we shouldn't be driving stoned. certainly from legal and policy perspective that's true but when you look at the science of detecting stoned driving it turns out to be incredibly complicated. >> there is very little research into how stoned is too stoned to drive. even in washington state, legalizing spall quantities of marijuana. >> without a doubt can science of impairment and marijuana is very unclear. it is not obvious that it will ever get clearer, that we will ever be able to create a bright line standard. >> the science that does exist is spotty and contradictory. studying street quality weed, what we do know is largely from foreign studies and even those studies are highly variable. one well-known study found the risk of an accident would be higher when a driver has five nanodprams oograms in their blo. very different from what we know about alcohol. scientists have a few broad notions about what pot doe

jacob ward was just talking about some of the technology that is available. but in many instances is just too expensive for people, airlines, and maybe for nation-states to pay for. what are your thoughts on satellite uplinking so that you can get realtime data from the flight recorders? >> well, you know, everybody's talking and i was part of many of these working groups. we're talking about uplinking the flight data recorder and sending tremendous amounts of data into the air. right now as we're speaking, there are 6,00 6,000 airplanes e air. can you imagine uplinking all that information? i could say we very easily could take the location data, speed direction and where am i because we already have it on the airplane in gps and uplink that every five minutes or ten minutes so that there is a repository of data that says where the airplane is at all times. and i think that's very much more affordable than what you were just talking. >> john, appreciate it, john gulia, he is a former member of the national transportation safety board. thank you. >>> and sout

our jacob ward has a piece on limits of technology. >> because there is so many of us using cell phones the cost of this kind of transmission technology is quite low. that's not the case when it comes to transmitting to and from an airplane. the airplane needs satellite information in order to get to and fro with transmissions which are very expensive. a live uplink with a satellite would cost an individual airline up to $300 million per year. that's not an acceptable amount of money about the incredibly small and shrinking incident of airline disaster. the particular aircraft the boeing 777 has seen only one prior accident the asiana airlines crash in san francisco which killed three people. it is one of the safest airplanes ever made. to face this expense in face of the odds doesn't make sense. there is the argument about search and rescue. couldn't the black box replacement, couldn't a live uplink via satellite give us a jump of finding survivors of a crash like this? typically there are not survivors of a crash like this. there have been miracles, the miracle on the hudson, the u.s.

science and technology jacob ward recently visited that facility. what did you see? >> reporter: well, tony, the facility was built to refine nuclear weapons. that's it's ostensible purpose, but it's revolutionizing how we make power. they have to get the hang of using the world's biggest laser first. about an hour east of san francisco there is a government lab that can simulate a nuclear explosion in the middle of the son. it is a $3.5 billion federal project, the a largest laser in the world. in february achieved a breakthrough getting more energy in a piece of fuel. we received a tour. the facility gives birth to tiny perfect laser beams. it amplifies them in huge machines until they're incredibly powerful and then fires them at a target. >> the lasers actually are created in this three locations. we time them very precisely before sending them out. before we send it on its way to the target. >> the funding for this facility is mostly military. it's purpose is to simulate the kind of conditions and science that you see in nuclear explosions. but the potential for

jacob ward has that story. >> this week the u.s. navy announced it would be pulling the uss "kidd" off the flight. it would send in submarine hunting aircraft. this is a militarized verse of the boeing 777. it's amazing, it bristles with sensor, can cover 9,000, and drop sonar boys that ping to connect met on on the floor of the seabed. what passion the poseidon noble is it's part of the broad area maritime surveillance system, that could make the search easier in a few years, but may make searching entirely unnecessary. the poseidon will be paired with an unmanned drone called the triton. it's built to do long flights over the open ocean, longer and higher than any human could handle. tritans would be able to fly for 30 hours at a time at 60,000 feet. they are like satellites. the idea is that there would be five orbitz, areas where a tritan is on patrol. they are designed to stop a par scope from 60,000 feet up. they can goom in on it with a camera and call in the nearest poseidon and its crow to confirm what it found. when the sy

science and technology expert jacob ward is the latest. as your plane takes off, it's entering a sprawling system. with only 0.2. the national air space is inefficiently. it starts at the gate with our control are. he or she almost handed it off to a tower controller, and they'll be handed off to another controller to the departure and arrival area. and be handed off to another control are. and many other end route controllers. since no system coordinates all those people, the faa is working on one that will. >> the next one is the agency that commissioned n.a.s.a. to build tracking software for it. the system will replace the ground control with gps, a technology capable of tracking every plane. it relies on humans handing planes to one another making it possible to coordinate in vans. >> there's a lot of variability. these are limitations of the human mind. they can't plan ahead. >> here in the united states, we still use strips of paper to denote the planes that we are in and the gates we are at. n.a.s.a. will replace it with a software

jacob ward takes a closer look at how the data is being gathered and analyzed. >> the information that malaysian authorities are using comes from a company that is a british telecom company, one of the biggest commercial satellite companies in the world. it provides free global marry time distress services. and the company says it has done an unprecedented analysis. it seems to provide a new picture of the final ours. even after all of the other communication systems stopped transmitting. they continued to receive pings from the plane. seven or eight in total between 1:11, and 8:11 am when it disappeared from radar. these are not gps enabled. so the company had to do some very complicated math to figure this out. analysts combined elevation information at the time it took the signals to reach the satellite. then they figured in the doppler effect. this is what changes the tone of a police car when it goes by you, and the way that waves change form when the thing observing them, in this case the satellite, is moving, so they couldn't triangulate, and they had to essentially make up a cr

our science and technology expert jacob ward sets us straight. plus the power of music. the extraordinary story of how rhythm and blue is being used to bring peace to a war torn country. we begin with the fate of malaysia airlines flight 370. two weeks ago tonight the plane with 239 people aboard vanished without a drais. -- trace. the focus is on a remote patch of the indian ocean 1500 miles off the australian coach where satellite images showed two objects floating in the water. it's the second day in a row, malaysia is now asking the u.s. to provide undersea surveillance equipment to help. the pentagon says the u.s. has spent $2.5 million on search efforts. so far, nothing connected to flight 370 has been found. at the same time, officials are pouring over the transcripts of the final 54 minutes of recordings between the pilots and ground control. joining us to discuss these transcripts is former american airlines pilot jay raulins. we know you have looked over these transcripts. what jumps out to you? >> richelle, in a short answer, nothing. these are transcripts of

. >> jacob ward, al jazeera, san francisco. >> a pharmaceutical company has created a be resistant-type substitute for hydrocodone. 15 marijuana related companies recruiting for a wide rage of positions. one of the fastest growing industries in the cub. akiko fujita has the story. >> consider this denver empour yum a candy factory or all things is is marijuana. from marijuana infused sodas to pot truffles, more than 100 green edibles for medicinal marijuana. >> year over year today we have approximately 40 full time team members. >> reporter: and it's expected to double again in the next year since colorado began legal sales of recreational marijuana in january, can a majority of those sales coming from licensed marijuana dealers in-state. edibles that contain thc content can't be shipped out of colorado because pot is still banned by federal law. the so-called green rush is be overcoming john rush who packages all of dixie's products. >> i would never have imagined all the opportunities that exist here. >> and more opportunities popping up everyday. since california first legalized med

jacob ward. >> it is a british telecom company that's one of the biggest satellite services, the company says it's done an unprecedented analysis of the signals that came to inmarsat satellites. a new picture of flight 370's final hours. even after all the aircraft addressing systems, so-called acars system stopped transmitting, the system continued to receive signals, they are not gps enabled, there aren't multiple of them, just basic combination satellites. the company had to do complicated math to figure this out. analysts combined elevation information from the time it took to reach the satellite. either moving north or south along a pretty specific line. then they figured out the doppler effect, the aware that waves change form when the thing observing them is moving. in this case the satellite. to figure out the plane was moving south, they had to make up a cruising speed but by comparing their projections to other flights they say their projections add up. the company says other independent analysts have evidently confirmed their conclusions. there is no way to be more specific. t

jacob ward joins us from san francisco. jake, we know that the addiction to painkillers is a problem, but how big of a problem is it? >> reporter: well, it's really quite out of control, and from pharmacies to the street corners this new drug reaches the spectrum of deeper addiction or worse. for johnny lorenz who runs an exchange in san francisco, the difference between heroin and oxycontin is just the difference between availability and cost. >> i know a lot of people who started using oxycontin, but because costs are prohibitive started using heroin. >> food and drug administration approved zohydro, a painkiller ten sometimes stronger than vicodin. this week the medication will begin to reach patients. the centers for disease control describes prescription opennoid abuse as an epidemic. philip seymour hoffman was originally given pain medication for back pain. >> even though this has been getting worse over the last 15 years the ane analgesic have ben making it easier, not harder, but easier to make these drugs available

science and technology expert jacob ward explains pfn. >> this is very high level physics. imagine that somebody dropped a rock in the ocean a long long time ago. scientists here have built a piece of equipment that can in fact detect the ripples that emanated from that rock and they had to actually go to the south pole to get away from all the background noise of the world in order to have a quiet enough spot and aimed that equipment up into the sky, one patch of sky for three years then analyze that data for another three years in order to confirm that those ripples exist. they also in the process managed to confirm that the ocean and the rock exist but we won't get into all of that. the theory of this is called inflation. and it's something that's been worked on for about 30 years. here is the -- one of the founding fathers of that theory, physics professor at stanford named andre linde. finding out his theory has been confirmed. >> what? >> yes. >> just a second. why repeat it. five sigma. >> as clear as day. can r points 2. >> repeat it again. >> r point two plus or mi

jacob ward is off a little boogie board. he is on an actual yacht from the shore. has any effects from fukushima been detected here in the united states to this point? >> well, tony, that is obviously the $1 billion question here. researchers have been focusing on two areas. one is the condition of the water itself. did any radiation make its way across the ocean in the form of the water? the scientists say in april we're going to see the first plume hit the shores. but the amounts of radiation are incredibly tiny and not harmful to human health. the secondary thing we're looking at is the seafood. in specific the pacific blue fin tuna goes back and forth to japan a couple of times in its lifetime, so scientists have been trying to dissect blue fin tuna and see how much radiation comes from that. if you were to eat a whole blue tuna, you would get as much radiation as a transcontinental flight. so it's not really a fear here. as you look at all the nuclear submarines that sit at the ocean, there are eight that have sunk, their reactors are open and exposed to the o

our science and technology correspondent jacob ward joins us from san francisco. jake, there was a lot of concern, worry that this drug may lead to abuse. >> reporter: well, that's right, tony. prescription opioid i abuse is a plague on the country, and this particular drug raises fear that we'll see even more addicts or worse. >> reporter: for johnny lorenz who runs an exchange in san francisco, opioids and oxytotten is just a matter of availability and cost. last week the food and drug administration approved a new precipitation called zohydro, a painkiller 10 times stronger than vicodin. this week the medication will begin to reach patients. the center for disease control describe precipitation opioid abuse as a nationwide epidemic. as prescriptions fo for painkils have risen. >> even though this epidemic has been getting worse every year for the past 15 years the analgesic division at the fda has been making it easier for the drug companies to get these drugs on the market. >> so the company that makes zohydro maintains its research facilities here in californ

jacob ward joins us from a state of the art lab at caltech. >> the science of how wind, ice and water move the earth around is known as surface processors. geologists study it to understand where we should and shouldn't build. i spoke with isaac larson, and specifically those in washington state. he told me that there has been a long understanding of how unstable the region can be. >> as the ice came out of canada, it blocked up a lot of the river. as it got closer, sand was deposited on top of that. the water can penetrate through the sand. it gets caught and perched on the clay layer. that causes the water pressure to increase, causing the slope to destabilize. there's a river at the base, cutting back into the sediments that steepen the slope and increase the propensity for failure. in the early reports from the 50s, there were propositions to stablilize the slope and burns built to keep the river away. they were quickly washed out and flooded the next year. long-interpret stabilization for a slide of that size is a difficult proposition. >> this is a simulator at caltech's laborat

jacob ward has that story. >> while boats, airplanes and satellites crisscross the ocean, there's a new search effort taking off, drawing on the eyes of every day people. these images are from a company, and they put a fool together in order to invite anyone with an internet connection to search within the grid, looking for signs of the plane. you can mark oil slicks or debris. there's a rich history of searching photographs. astronomers used to have to compare two pictures like these, trying to find differences and find celestial objects. a young astronomer had a dull job. he was given two photos, this is the first, and noticed that this speck here was not present in the second photograph and had moved here. turns out he had discovered pluto. software does the work for astronomers. students have to analyse photographs. there's too much variability there to detect what we are looking for. there's an industry of people looking at images like these, very dedicated people who pore through the images, such as the ones chinese authorities suspect. this is a satellite shot of plant 42. a top-

jacob ward joins us in th the sn clÉmenteo, california, shores. >> reporter: the danger in japan was massive. obviously, tony, we've seen fallout all over the globe. everyone is talking about what does fukushima mean to them. here in california the pacific is the center of all recreational opportunities. fukushima had 500,000 people around that site. here in california the decommissioned nuclear power plant behind me, which was shut down in 2013, still has its uranium fuel on site. yet, 8 million people live within 50 miles of this spot. it's pretty parallel to fukushima in several ways. it has the tsunami walls, it has the same richter scale earthquake tolerance. we saw a few days ago just off the coast, a 6.3 earthquake hit where i live. there is a clear sense it's not so much the danger coming from fukushima as it is the radiation that you might see from a facility like this that could be a danger to the united states. >> jake ward for us. thank you. coming up on al jazeera america, it was funny. president obama shows up as a guest on an online comedy show to pitch healthcare. >>

. >> on turkey's says sore ship of the site, jacob ward. give us a quick history of the company. >> so richelle, jack dorsey one of the four founders of twitter, got interested in dispatch, the system on which ambulances tell them here i am, he thought everyone should have that way, of keeping track of where they are and what they're doing. it's all about data, you can tell all kinds of things about what they're doing. you can see the difference between tourists in new york and people who actually live there. here's a map that shows the kinds of technology that people are using when they tweet. it's this kind of incredible data that makes twitter so valuable and of course has made it so contentious and useful in times of political crisis which we're seeing in turkey right now. >> it is really a remarkable communication tool in moments of political crisis. what are your thoughts on turkey's ban? >> it is an and waited response to the -- antiquated response to the internet, but turkey has joined a weird group of countries who decided to ban i

jacob ward explanation. >> between 1990 and 2003 n.a.s.a. launched four satellites to photograph our satellite. they made up the great observatory program. the hubble telescope saw visible light. compton high energy gamma. chandra x-rays, and the youngest finished its mission. the spitzer space telescope is an infrared camera. it took 2.5 million photos offer the course of 10 years processes. they managed to stick them together into an incredible panorama. >> what does our galaxy look like. you'd think it would be simple because we are in the middle of it it's like being dropped in the center square of the city and be told "i want you to draw a street map", that's what makes the spitzer so unique. >> 2.5 million photographs stitched together in a view. it allows you to bring it in and look past of the dust, through the dust, out at stars that are out the way on the edge of our known galaxy. snow seeing it all in infrared, we are seeing stars. it is un of the most if assive stars. evering in the neb -- everything in the nebular is power of th

we all have iphones and gps systems, jacob ward sort of went into way planes don't have this sort of signalling do you think there should be more signalling so in cases like in the plane is easier to spot? >> well, certainly one can make the argument that for finding out what happened after the crash this would be an invaluable tool but the question for the industry would be, well, that's obviously a worthwhile thing but we have to balance it against questions such as what are some alternatives that could be considered? that could be even more effective at preventing accidents, alternatives that may not include enhancing the black box technology so although it's a great idea, it's one that would have to be considered against other great ideas. >> yeah, have to consider that context and we appreciate that, todd curtis al jazeera america transportation contributor. a deadly attack on an unsuspecting target. >> it was black and disappears and it was a shock, i got up and the first thing that occurred to me was to throw myself out of the window on to the tracks. >> reporter: ten years la

jacob ward, al jazeera, mountain view california. >> stephanie: 6 million have enrolled for health insurance under the affordable care act and 106,000 people enrolled in the first month after the launch and with deadline looming we show you how the administration is coming up, with new ways to get people to register. >> this is what you call a pop-up healthcare sign up center. it's actually in an empty cell phone store and that is the idea here to have a lot of people pass by and see the signs and come in and sign up before that deadline on monday the 31st. given the amount of foot traffic, the place has been busy all morning since it opened at 10:00 through the afternoon and constant stream of people and seen strollers and older people and families going in and out of the doors all day long and straight from the obama administration and president obama calling folks like these the navigators and volunteers from italy to say job well done and hit the 6 million mark. originally back in october before all the snafus with the website the target was 7 million and bumped it down but hit 6 million