robert ray is in san juan. robert. >> antonio, well said,. drop in the bucket. many are worried about this uptick in the sales tax and also cuba. it's the first day of a new fiscal year in puerto rico. the sales tax jumped to 11.5% to help curb the island's financial crisis but the reality is, more than $70 billion in debt looms. >> hola. robert ray, al jazeera america hola. >> an emergency meeting between mayors and the governor on wednesday looking for solutions and common ground on perhaps the biggest challenge the commonwealth has ever faced. >> you guys are mayors. you have a finger on the pulse probably a little bit tighter than governor has. >> that's what we're here for. >> and do you believe that the governor is doing this in the correct way with negotiating with bond holders and also washington, d.c. or what would you guys do differently? >> there are huge ideologic differences here but the main thing here the most important thing is to get puerto rico out of this problem and we all have to get through it together whether we think alike or not. >> the

robert ray visited the island as the fiscal crisis tightened, and shorter. >> reporter: it's the new fiscal year in porto rico, sales tax jumping to curb the crisis, the reality i is more than 70 billion in debt looms. >>> robert ray, al jazeera america an emergency meeting between mayors and the governor looking for solutions and common ground on the biggest challenge the commonwealth faced. >> you guys are mayors, you have a finger on the pulse, probably tighter than the government has. >> that's why we are here. >> do you believe the governor is doing this in the correct way, with negotiating with bond holders and washington d.c. what would you guys do differently? >> there are huge ideological differences here. the nanning now, it's the most important thing, to get peurto rico out of this problem and we have to do it together. >> reporter: the mayors told al jazeera, they are fighting for statehood, they feel like second class citizens, but they need washington's hep. the white house said don't expect a bailout. carlos and his family opened this clothing store since 1918. these d

robert ray is in san juan tonight. robert. >> reporter: john, good evening. indeed, puerto rico escaped some of the debt today. they paid vefertion paid investors and bond holders about $1.2 billion. the concern this evening the speak on the street is sales tax increases and cuba. it's the first day of a new fiscal year in puerto rico. the sales tax jumped to 11.5% to help curb the island's financial crisis. but the reality is more than $70 billion in debt looms. robert ray, al jazeera america hola. >> an emergency meeting between the governors on wednesday looking for solutions and common ground on perhaps the biggest challenge the commonwealth has ever changed. >> you guys are mayors. you have a finger on the pulse probably a little bit tighter than the governor has. >> that's why we're here actually. >> reporter: do you believe the governor is doing this with the correct way negotiating with the bond holders and also washington, d.c. $? what would?what would you do differently? >> there's hue ideological differences here. but whether we agree or not. >> th

. >> months later, sir mario owens and robert ray, who'd both been implicated in the barbecue shooting, were indicted for javad and vivian's murders. >> this case becomes one of the biggest cases in colorado, and a prosecution in this case also in arapaho county, they seek the death penalty. >> i think it's pretty clear why we sought death in the cases of sir mario owens and robert ray. listen, they murdered a witness to a murder. it's not just its own killing. it's an attack on the entire criminal justice system. >> they had killed before. so the thought was, what do you give them? do you give them more time? more life on top of life? >> but the state's case against owens and ray was largely circumstantial, and getting death wasn't guaranteed. so rhonda fields took an active role pushing for the ultimate punishment. >> i was not a supporter of the death penalty prior to the death of my son, but now i believe that there's some crimes that are so heinous that they deserve the highest punishment that the state has to offer. >> i've seen mothers, people who were killed who have been taken

robert ray joins us live now from new orleans. >> some documented. some undocumented. but all of them with one message, they want integration reform by the united states government as soon as possible. >> inside this federal appeals court three judges listened to attorneys for the 26 states trying to stop president obama's executive action on immigration. >> when executive action happens it was divided in two sides. the sides that will benefits 5 million people with working permits. and another side with a new set of memorandums that will set new deportation priorities. >> just a couple of blocks away hundreds of protesters marched through downtown new orleans spreading their message and deportations and keep families together. some blocked streets, 14 were arrested. but for many like ronald martinez walked peacefully with their children. >> i have my family and my children here. i work every day because i'm a member of this community for 11 years. i came before katrina and this is my community. >> amid a festive scene kathy gomez marched for her husband who is current

robert ray joins us from tennessee with more. >> reporter: it's a small rural county in tennessee decatur county, and decaturville is where the county clerk and mayor exist. when same-sex marriage became legal by the supreme court ruling a couple of weeks ago, many counties in the south decided they didn't want to abide by the new rule of the land. the countyalong with two other employees decided they did not want to go along with this. now they have resigned because of their religious beliefs. this evening there is a meeting that will go on to elect a new county clerk. in the interim the new county clerk feels it is okay to issue these marriage licenses even though he doesn't agree with it. >> apparently the supreme court has decided they are going to overrule what the people of this state said. i do not agree with that. but i still have a job to do. and that's to take care of selling marriage licenses to whomever. >> reporter: the interim county clerk has said that no one has actually come in and applied for a same-sex marriage certification, since the supreme court decision a couple of

that's robert ray in new orleans. thank you again. >>> new york city is celebrating the new york champion women of team usa today. the team was honored by the mayors and others at city hall at a taker tape parade. morgan radford joins us live on the phone. it seems like a pretty joyous event. >> reporter: indeed. i wish you could see me covered in ticker tape red, white, and blue. a day when fans were out celebrating and honoring the team. we just heard from abby who said this is the best thing i have been a part of my entire life. i can't help but think that message was for the thousands of young girls who were out here in the crowd today bisi. the woman i spoke to said they looked up to the u.s. players because of how they conducted themselves on and off the field. but what was interesting was also the number of young boys in the crowd. and thigh said they would gladly trade in their men's soccer jersys for the women's. >> this is a significant parade for women, and women's sports in general. >> definitely. the icon

robert ray has more. >> reporter: from above it looks like an island paradise. vibrant in many ways but the view at close range reveals many businesses shuttered - poverty front and center. the u.s. territory of peurto rico is broke. >> translation: this is not about politics, it's about maths. >> reporter: 72 billion in public debt that the governor recently said was unpayable. >> translation: the first step is to revive economic growth. but we need to do more, much more. because peurto rico is not a state it cannot file chapter 9 bankruptcy. washington advised it would not throw money at the island. . >> there's no one in the administration or dv that s considering a federal bailout of peurto rico, we are committed to working with them and their leaders. >> reporter: there's 3.5 million leaving on the island of peurto rico, and there's over $70 billion in debt. if each resident paid $20,000, that would eliminate that massive amount of money. the medium income for someone working full-time in peurto rico, just over $19,500. >> it's been hard. basically the last

robert ray has their story. >> jaime came to the u.s. with his parents from mexico when he was six months old. >> i learned both cultures. >> with a latino activist is georgia is not a u.s. system, though he holds a work permit and social security card, qualifying for president obama's executive action. >> people say the illegals are bad for america but the city of dalton benefited from immigrants from all over, especially from mexico. >> immigration has changed the face of dalton, georgia. it's a small town in the north georgia mountains. in the 1990s thousands of people from mexico and central mexico flocked here to work in the carpet mills. there are nearly 15% latinos holding the population. >> i think there's a chance the carpet industry could have moved out of the country years ago if they didn't get the labor force in here that they got. >> republican mayor dennis mock and jaime are working together in dalton to help bridge cultural gaps in their community of 30,000 people. >> we've got over 90 nationalities represented in this co

. >> robert ray reporting live, robert, thank you. the on going u.s. trade embargo on cuba through the years has made it tough for americans to travel to that nation but some of those restrictions have now been lifted and airline and companies want with to make it even easier for tourist to travel between the united states and cuba, melissa chan joins us live, is there much interest in traveling to cuba right now with the developments going on. >> it is a very divided city, but at least with the people that we approached there was caution interest. i definitely would. i have always wanted to go because it is so close i love the caribbean, it is putting aside the political issues, and those get worked out, i think it would be a wonderful opportunity to open the dialog and go and visit and do something new. >> best recommendationky give to take advantage of one that opens and be able to see a place as beautiful as cuba, there's a lot of infrastructure, and basically the development of cuba that brings new business opportunities too i think in the tourist

robert ray is there with more. >> good evening, peurto rico has been in a recession for nearly nine years, people have been leaving in droves as the rest of the u.s. economy has been in recovery. the united states government said they will not give a bailout to the island of peurto rico and the electric company who owes bond holders $4 million tomorrow is doing an overnight deal in hopes not to default, as other public agencies figure out how to pay off the debt over the course of the summer. >> reporter: from above it looks like an island paradise. vibrant in many ways but the view at close range reveals many businesses shuttered - poverty front and center. the u.s. territory of peurto rico is broke. >> translation: this is not about politics it's about maths. >> reporter: 72 billion in public debt that the governor recently said was unpayable. >> translation: the first step is to revive economic growth. but we need to do more much more. because peurto rico is not a state it cannot file chapter 9 bankruptcy. washington advised it would not throw money at the island. >> no one is consider

robert ray has been meeting with officials saying that it will be business as usual in the county clerk's office. >> it's the picture of america's rural south. with church steeples, flags and storefronts from another era. since the supreme court decision to make same-sex marriage legal this tiny region of west tennessee has been reeling. the entire county clerk office resigned, saying the high court ruling, which meant issuing marriage licenses to gay couples, clashed with their beliefs. >> are most people on this commission against what the supreme court has ruled? >> i can't say that it's a majority or not i would say that it's a high probability. >> in the past few weeks decatur county is facing unique challenges. >> linda broadbent was voted in and since monday has taken over the job of granting marriage licenses, including same-sex applications. >> we have now overcome those challenges. miss broadway, who has stepped forward to take on the county clerk's position. >> so far decatur county has not had any couples apply for a same-sex marriage license. >> you can see the mayor and the

. >> robert ray in san juan >>> the taliban claimed responsibility for a bombing targetting coalition forces in kabul. it appeared to target n.a.t.o. forces travelling in a convoy near the american embassy, two were killed, 20 injured, including two u.s. soldiers. another suicide bombing in helmand province killed two. in context - another look at c.i.a. torture. two tortured by the c.i.a. meld by the u.s. -- held by the u.s. has been released and returned to tunisia. they were detained at black sites before travelled to u.s. military prisons. the senate intelligent's committee describes how one of the two men were tortured for 700 days. the or for 400. kate is with the international justice network and represented the men. good to have you with us. let's start with who the two men are. najar was supposed to have been a body guard for osama bin laden, some relationship with al-qaeda are. was evidence presented to that effect? >> no. the u.s. government never justified the detention of either man and we have never gotten information from the u.s. government about why they held them to

. >> robert ray in san juan, puerto rico. >>> so the changing relationship between the u.s. and cuba is helping travel between the countries. airlines are starting internships and ferries could go between florida and cuba. mary, what are you hearing as to when this fairy service could begin? >> well, tony, we understand that it could happen in a matter of weeks or later in the early fall. and i think that i would want to press this with detail about the fact that a lot of cuban-americans travel to cuba between cuba and united states by charter flight. but now there's going to be a new option for them. >> our vision is that we would like to have the ferry operating three days a week in the beginning carrying 2500 passengers when they're allowed. exciting times ahead. and there's a lot to do. but we have made a lot of progress, and we're confident that we're one of the better opportunities out there for the cubans to deal with, and looking forward to the new challenges. >> and tony, one of the things that's going to be much cheaper than a round-trip flight. 200 to $300. and th

. >> robert ray, thank you very much. >>> joining us now from new orleans is congressman luis gutierrez democrat from illinois, congressman you and hundreds of other activists were there frosting the fifth circuit. did you hear anything? have you gotten any reports from the hearing this morning that gives you any reason to be optimistic? >> yeah, the lawyer. the chief proponent for 26 republican governors and attorney generals, we don't object that the 4.2 million people can benefit of the president's executive order hey, we think the president can let them stay. what we object to is that they get a work permit. what we object to is that they get any benefits from their stay. i found that just incredible today. in other words, you can stay, and you can work, and you can pay taxes because we don't object to that, but you won't be protected. >> you described the argument from the proponents as incredible. did the judges find it incredible? what did you hear them say in reaction to that, a you want? >> you know what i heard ask a lot of questions. you have to understand something, these ar

robert ray is in georgia. >> this is dalton georgia north of atlanta about 100 miles, it's known as the carpet capital of the world. in the 1980's and 1990's, immigrants flocked here looking for jobs. the jobs here are because of the carpet industry, stores and mills that continue to thrive even today. there's a lot of families here that have been torn apart because of illegal immigration policies, many parents have been sent back to mexico or central america and the kids left with family members that are current residing here. many of them want president obama's executive order to go through. what that will entail is not necessarily a path to citizenship but temporary work we are mitt that could keep families here and kids in school that were born here. many are scared as they tell al jazeera if they get pulled over with a driver's license or they don't have a driver's license if they're perhaps walking to work and found out that they're illegal, that they're going to be put in a jail and sent back to where they're originally from. a lot of these people are looking for a better life up

robert ray, al jazeera decaturville, tennessee. >> it is decision time for greek lawmakers. parliament votes whether to accept bailout terms but will greek accept the deem. >> a starbucks expansion that brings the company closer to the source of its coffee. stay tuned. >> good morning to you. welcome to al jazeera america. i'm morgan radford from new york city. here's a look at today's top stories. flashing flooding washed away dozens of homes in kentucky. two people have been killed after caught in rushing water. at least six people are missing after several had to be rescued from trees or cars. >> the former bookkeeper of auschwitz has been convicted for his role in some 300,000 murders. the 94-year-old has been sentenced to four years in prison after admitting to moral guilt at that infamous concentration camp. he insisted he was not legally responsible for those deaths. >> new details of the prison break that freed the world's most wanted drug lord. mexican authorities released this security cam video showing the moment that el chapo guzman escaped a maximum security pri

. >> robert ray, aljazeera america. >> an emergency meeting between the mayors and governor wednesday, looking for solutions and common ground on perhaps the biggest challenge the commonwealth has ever failed. >> you guys are mayors. you have a finger on the pulse probably a little bit fighter than the governor has. >> definitely we have. >> do you believe that the governor is doing this in the correct way with negotiating with washington, d.c. or what would you do differently? >> there are huge ideological differences here. the main thing right now the most important thing is to get puerto rico out of this problem and we all have to do it together, whether we think alike or not. >> the mayor's told al jazeera that they are fighting for statehood. they feel like second class citizens and that they need washington's help, but the white house that said don't expect a bailout. carlos rodriguez and his family have owned this clothing store on a colorful cobblestone street in old san juan since 1918. these days, they keep the lights off because the cost of electricity is so high. he fierce

chief justice robert ray says and celebrate the ghost of loughner, judicial pushes the way scalia decide what the majority is engaged in. i must say kennedy does say they take it very seriously. they are part of the rule of law in america. you apply them. it's very hard to deny this. 20 years ago i relied on the majority opinion as by using the marriage precedent in a very effectively. this would drive senators crazy. they argue the level of temporality anywhere that they are free to expand. what are the limits. is this not anti-democratic. to which this response is kind of democratic liberation and in this case the beginning and luxembourg. you can see the arguments now use. it's an argument to exclude lesbian and gay couples. lake kennedy sees this as a cleanup operation. the democratic process has worked. it will not work very well in arkansas and some that are still outstanding and therefore it is seen as the supreme court went to a number of states to clean it up. i see a lot of things until i get yanked on time watch. the big take-home point or trend gunmen is how broadly or we are

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commissioner, going through how he basically saved roger goodell during the ray rice scandal. and for robert kraft to come out and basically say he made a huge mistake putting his faith in the league and saying essentially that he was duped. what he was referring to about what happened in may is that he accepted the nfl's punishment. tom brady went on to appeal. but robert kraft said, i'm going to take the bullet for the good of the league, i will accept the highest financial penalty ever assessed on a team and i will accept this statement that we did wrong even though they published that whole website saying, we didn't really do anything wrong. but we'll take the punishment because we're good soldiers. what he said explicitly today is that he thought he was basically making a deal. i'll take the punishment and he expected for tom brady in his words to be exonerated but at least for the suspension to be reduced. he's basically saying that he feels the nfl and roger goodell welched on him, that they went back on the deal. we'll have to see weeks from now, months from now, years

during the scandal with ray rice you saw owners, including robert kraft, come out in support of goodell and his decision. is this the break that might jeopardize the dell -- goodell. kavitha: you can see the disciplinary process in the nfl is haphazard. very arbitrary. roger goodell as unchecked power. it is a farce that he is his own arbitrator. on the other hand, this is what owners agreed to. a little tone deaf for robert kraft to come out and say he regrets putting faith in the league as he has been against neutral arbitration. input himself in a situation that sense. it is interesting to see someone as ingrained as robert kraft start to break from that. betty: he is fine with it as long as it does not come down on him. what about for brady himself? kavitha: i think brady is trying to maintain his marketability and his legacy. there was a report saying the nfl considered having his games total if he came out and publicly apologized . there is a report saying he refused to do that. betty: that would be more damaging for his image. kavitha: much more long-term damage to his brand. he

by roger goodell during the entire ray rice situation. to have him come out and take the shot he is took at the commissioner the nfl today basically saying i can't trust these guys anymore is seismic. the court case, that's a different track. but in the public opinion case, that's where robert kraft came in. >> how has brady explained destroying the cell phone? >> he says that, look, he destroys his cell phone or changes phones every four or five months. he's a public figure, hiss wife supermodel gisele is a public figure is they have privacy concerns so always when he switches cell phones he has his assistant destroy the cell phone, destroy the sim card. we saw a celebrity phone hacking scandal just last year. this is not completely off base he might be concerned about this. the issue, though, is destroying it on or about the day that nfl investigators -- >> the timing. >> yes. fine you have privacy concerns but if you're under investigation and the nfl has requested electronic communications, whether you intend to give it up, don't do s

ray smock retired as the whole story in 1995 as of the house was at the robert c. byrd center. let's go to this clip of a member of congress no longer alive, out of congress, third time in prison. here is what he used to sound like on the floor. [video clip] >> of baseball will eliminate tw teams. osome surprise. tickets average 20 bucks. a program is $10. popcorn is five dollars and parking is 20 and a hot dog and a beer cost about $10 and most stadiums. beam me up. the amp test of the umpire said play ball, not monopoly. when a family of four needs a second mortgage to see a baseball game, it does not take dr. ruth to explain to major league baseball what has gone wrong! i yield back what is left of america's great pastime after the greatest world series perhaps in our history. ride explain jim traficant -- brian: explain jim traficant. ray: he was flamboyant and sarcastic and also for the underdog and in this case at this clip and he is saying baseball cost too much and the average family cannot go see it. he made references to "being me up." he said it in pretty much every

and rose to his defense during the ray rice affair. he's on the broadcast committee considered the most powerful committee on the nfl. also, he's the owner of the super bowl champions and four of them, yes. he's not a random one-off owner. he's 20 plus years in charge of his team. charlie: this is my franchise, even though they have been accused of different things over the years. ken: you have that and the personal relationship they have had over the years straight it's a bit of a father-son relationship. charlie: do you think it is impaired or simply two man who agree to disagree? ken: it's rough around the edges now. the body language and the literal language common to have an owner get on tv and say i am mistaken for trusting the league to do the right thing is pretty strong language. charlie: did tom brady make any points worth listening to in his case he put forward on his facebook page? ken: yeah, one of the things he said was basically the cell phone records, the cell phone destruction issue is a lark, they already had the text

robert: don't get nervous. we have good and bad news. you're right. okay. the rubber match against the mets. escobar the bottom of the second but if x-rays were negative but he will still undergo more tests. here is the good stuff. two on for michael taylor. singles toeft. decker would score. it's tied at three. high five for everyone. the next batter, fun doesn't stop. espinoza has one on. he doubled to left. brings in the go-ahead run. michael a. taylor would get home. the nats win 4-3 to take two out of three against the mets. robert: this next group of girls have been battle-tested. with all they have been through, like the song says, all they do is win. watch out competition. here come the 8 archdiocese under girls from manassas. >> we went to the world series in florida. robert: boy can they play! >> this is special. i mean this is a once in a lifetime opportunity for the young ladies. this qualified for world series after running away with the virginia state title. how tough are they? even mother nature couldn't send them down. >> june 20 a bad rain

. >> yeah, it's an interesting-- there's layers here because robert kraft was instrumental in having roger goodell chosen may back when. >> and rose to his defense when he was under fire. >> during the ray rice affair. he's on the broadcast committee which is considered the most powerful committee in the nfl amongst the owners. so he is not just any owner. also he's the owner of the super bowl champions, four of them, yes. soes's not a ran done-- random one off owner, he is 20 plus years in charge of his team. >> you have that, you have the personal relationship which they've had for a very long time it is a bit of a father-son relationship, if you will and that maybe goodell is spurning his. >> rose: so you think it's impaired or is it simply too men who agree to disagree? >> no, i think it's rough around the edges now. >> rose: it may suggest that. >> the body language and the literal language to have an owner get on tv and say i'm mistaken for trusting the league to do the right thing is pretty strong language. >> rose: did tom brady make any points that are worth listening to in

or cut on appeal if you look at ray rice and adrian peterson that is certainly true. but the legal theories against them or against the judgment were much more water-tight some people were arguing than they would be in tom brady's case given the discretion that the nfl has. what would you say to that? i just i don't think there's any grounds for the nfl to suspend brady, i don't think there's any precedent. as i said before i don't think the league has done a good job here of accumulating enough evidence, i don't think anyone really knows what happens. and it's not enough to suspend a player regardless of whether he's a star or not. take away his livelihood for as many as four games, it's absurd based upon the evidence that they've you know that they've put forth. and brady is -- obviously has not really done an overwhelming job of you know defending himself. but he shouldn't have to. and in this system it should be that there's guilt and then there's punishment. but there's not any proof of any guilt here. >> drew my first thought when watching bob kraft speak this m