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We needed a cable run directly from that house to wherever we set up a command post/listening post. one day we were in a room talking and a sergeant from community relations happened to be in there and he heard the problem and said "ive got the spot for you." went out, look at it, it was perfect. >> the factory or command center we used was an old model paint factory from the third or fourth floor wherever we were we had a birds eye view of the house looking north and the command center was set ...

Started to go down. >> roy choi is a second-generation korean-american. he lives in los angeles. hes the owner-operator of four groundbreaking and much-loved food trucks, among the first to harness the strange and terrible powers of social media to alert customers to where to find delicious food. >> this was the command post. from here, you know, you could look and you could see if fires were going on. >> when the los angeles riots happened in 1992, roy was 22 years old. and this plazas rooftop ...

Where major chains feared to tread, where others preferred to abandon, koreans moved in. so 1992 -- four l.a. police officers are on trial for what sure as hell looked to me like a wildly excessive and prolonged beating of an unarmed rodney king. in april of that year, they were acquitted. for me, it was a holy [ expletive ], i never saw that coming moment. for african-americans it was a somewhat ruder surprise. to say people were angry would be an understatement. >> they dont represent the peop...

Off of the air, it did collapse. once again, we have no idea at this point the loss of life, but i can tell you that there were hundreds of emergency workers down there about five or six blocks. it took probably about, i would say, no more than 50 or 60 seconds for that dust cloud, dust and smoke to literally make it the five or six blocks up here and begin to envelope us at which point we started to move out of the way. there were literally dozens and dozens of firemen who were trying to run pa...

That the bullet wound, the gun wound came at close range, ashleigh. >> so while were trying to figure out how this happened theres still the issue of whoever did it is still out there and what are they doing with the fox lake group and the feds who arrived and the other supporting agencies to find these people? there was a crazy manhunt and now i hear very little. >> there was a 24 hour two-mile radius grid search then suddenly things shifted quickly and what were being told, ashleigh, fox lake ...

That this area, fox lake, is relatively close to the wisconsin border. i remember when we were talking about those escapees in new york state close to the vermont board ere, you obviously some point perhaps have to alert law enforcement personnel in another state to be on the lookout, i want to get back to this idea of coordination because you have federal agencies, county, local jurisdiction and probably sure -- they probably gave wisconsin a heads up. how does that all work out as daylight slo...

Set up the command post, if you would like us to help computerize the searches, we can do that, too. most local departments say, you know what? this is our case. this is our officer. but well take all the help we can get and then they put all of their resources together. just like luke, you know, when we covered the two escaped prisoners from the prison, you had every local, state, county, state agency came together. there was head butting went on in a situation like that but in this situation r...

What started out as a natural disaster became a manmade disaster. a failure of government to look out for its own citizens. >> welcome back to "hardball" of that was president obama in the lower ninth ward of new orleans today. he is there marking the ten-year anniversary since hurricane katrina devastated new orleans and much of the gulf coast. back in 2005, i was on the ground reporting on the immediate efforts to try to save lives and restore some semblance of order down. there it requires th...

We understand there is to be a 1:00 news conference, is that still on, kelly, in franklin county at the command post that has been set up? perhaps then we will learn more about -- >> are we carrying that live? >> we are. >> well carry it live and stream it live. >> i want to get you up to speed on what youre watching for our cnn viewers in united states and around the world. this is the signal live, the broadcast of wdbj, their noon television newscast but its taken on an entirely different tone...

So he wants a document it on his gopro camera. were in a technological society now. everything that happens, whether the police with gps tracking and cell phones and so forth to the perpetrator of the crimes using technology as well. this is the way all of these things are going to develop now. were going to have -- we got shooters with cameras. we got police with cameras. we got trackers, we got all of these systems. were texting. the guy is sending twitter messages. i think twitter, facebook, ...