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Grown terror or are the inspirations so varied its hard to put your hands on? >> well victor, as you recall, there was a white house three-day meeting about countering violent extremism. as paula sort of indicated in her report, why people radical size and how is complicated and stopping it is not easeasy. if you stop somebody before they become a militant how do you know you are successful because we cant look inside peoples souls. the reason that these people are often stopped at the airport b...

Leader of isis. hes got a background in computer programming. he is in his early 20s. this is pretty typical for somebody who would be a senior leader of a terrorist organization doing these kinds of things. you think about the lead hijacker on 9/11 studying for his doctorate at a german university. even in this country, major nadal hasan, a army psychiatrist and an army major from a middle class family. theres a comforting idea that these people are the dispossessed but they tend to come from q...

Steven sotloff video. analysts say he may not have done it on his own but mohammad emwazis videos played a huge role in escalating americas war against isis. >> lets put it this way. had it not been for these videos we probably wouldnt be bombing syria today. >> reporter: has jihadi johns propaganda value diminished now that he has been named? the analysts we spoke to dont think so. they say as long as he keeps menacing the west on camera he will have propaganda value to isis. the one mitigating...

They can go there and the iraqi army will put their guns down and walk away and you can do whatever you want. nobody has challenged them. >> theyve definitely succeeded in making look what theyre doing over there in some glamorous way, theyve made it look like you can come over here and you can be part of something. for a lot of young people young men of a certain age, that can be attractive. theres a reason why a lot of them join the military because they want some adventure. so what isis has b...

Yemen and then in the tribal areas of afghanistan and pakistan. what makes this unique is those were focused on those dais praus and what you are seeing play out in syria, is people all over the world, 90 different countries and backgrounds and many of these individuals will not go overseas but isis has put great emphasis on trying to inspire people not to come overseas but to engage in terrorist activity in the its. >> frank, back to commissioner bill braton later. and how do we stop our very o...

>> this is from vex robotics, it is a hexalator. its a ball machine the kids actually build. they put the whole thing together and crank this up. they are learning about the mechanics of making machines, making these ball machines. >> you are telling me a kid can put it together. >> it is for 8 and up and comes with all of the instructions they need. >> my question is can an adult put it together? i dont know. lets go to this. this is fascinating. >> creative play and technology meets with -- th...

>> this is the tilt shift photography. its a method of where youre actually shooting down at an angle, and it blurs out backgrounds and really focuses your attention on particular scenes and people within those scenes. >> theres sort of two ways people make these tilt shift images. on one hand, people use actual tilt shift lenses sometimes. but then people started figuring out ways to do it in post production. >> the thing that makes it feel like toys, its a combination of two things, really. th...

To reach out to other people. and it lasts throughout the year if you want it to. its a work in progress. >> we are joined live from atlanta at the hidden annual passion conference. good morning, todd. thank you for being with us. >> hey, anna. great to hang out with you. >> why do you think this is being ignored by other media outlets? >> well, look, you know how the mainstream media is. they always like to cover the bad things that the young people are doing, whether they are out there rioting...

Incarcerated in the five facilities that make up the orange county jail system. their charges, stories, and backgrounds are as diverse as the southern california communities most of them hail from. but for the vast majority of these men and women, there is a common element that led to their troubles with the law. >> if you talk to any of the inmates in jail, most of them will have done drugs. their current crime is not drugs. theyre stealing for drugs, or their life of crime began with drugs. th...

Lot of the time. especially at the beginning. chazz would tell you that for the first six years or so of that professional relationship they didnt like each other at all because they were competitors for different newspapers they came from different backgrounds. but, you know, whats interesting is as that relationship went on professionally it became more complicated and its not like a hollywood version where they went from vitriol to love. it wasnt that pure it wasnt that simple. but they did c...