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Recuring lung infection. his health has improved now. good news there. the chinese activist says hes being forced to leave new york universiáy. he escaped house arrest in china last year by scaling the wall of his house. >> he and his family were granted asylum in the united states. ellowship at nyu. he said the school is bowing to pressure from china. they want to build a new campus in china. the university says the fellowship never intended to last more than a year. the house tv celebrity...

China said hes now being forced out of nyu. nyu is denying allegations and said his fellowship has always been a one-year assignment and has nothing to do with the chinese government. >> thank you. coming up, president obama cannot get away from bad poll numbers. >> and was tv chef nigella choked by her husband?

Bowing to pressure from china because it reportedly wants to build a campus in shanghai. nyu denies the end of the fellowship had anything to do with that and the university tells us they made it clear to mr. check relatively early on that his support of support from nyu would be for only one year. a man on a united airlines flight today that went from hong kong to newark allegedly claimed his fellow passengers had been poisoned. these photos were taken of the man after passengers tackled him ...

Until we get there, well never really live in the light. well always live in the darkness. >> come on. take your time. >> few events in life can motivate somebody to find religion like a life sentence. >> you know, you hear a lot of people who come to prison and say, oh, i found god. well, i did. >> robert frys religious conversion came only after he found himself on death row in the penitentiary of new mexico. >> im in for four counts of murder, and im currently serving three life sentences. >>...

>> fry leads a weekly bible study class with fellow inmates. >> i was a drunk. i used drugs. i would fight. i was very promiscuous. when you allow one thing to happen in your life, you will make a series of lines in the dirt, so to speak. and when youre willing to cross one line, youre willing to cross another and another and another and another till finally you get to a point where youre like, how did i get from there to here? through this fellowship, it has relieved me of those failings. i sti...

>> i need this mattress checked for contraband, please. >> we have to break this whole mattress down. regulations require that security check mattresses when theyre brought in like this. lieutenant? this was the area that was concerned, right? >> yes. >> roca moreno is a known member of a puerto rican prison gang called the nietas. he joined during an earlier prison sentence he served in puerto rico, but he insists the nietas are not a gang. but a fellowship of sorts. >> it was a word from the w...

>> what have we got here? >> i need this mattress checked for contraband, please. >> we have to break this whole mattress down. regulations require that security check mattresses when theyre brought in like this. lieutenant? this was the area that was concerned, right? >> yes. >> roca moreno is a known member of a puerto rican prison gang called the nietas. he joined during an earlier prison sentence he served in puerto rico, but he insists the nietas are not a gang. but a fellowship of sorts. >...

The only two states in the country where marijuana is legal. 18 other states have legalized medical marijuana. where do you stand in all this? are you for national legalization of both medical and recreational use? >> absolutely and for our lot of good reasons. >> all right. give them to me. as you know, theres a laundry list of reasons people say its a bad idea. >> sure, sure. so first and foremost, let me quote the late astrophysicist carl sagan. an impediment to fuel utilization of a plant wh...

We were going through it is there were a lot of misconceptions about this fellowship and about this man. and we just thought it was really important to tell it. and finding visual materials, we were about two years into it and kevin and i used to joke, oh, well, now we know why nobody made a documentary about this fellowship before, theyre anonymous. and then we stumbled on these photographs, a trove of photographs. they were lost in a closet basically for years. there were 1,500 negatives. it w...

Hes been called the most famous man youve never heard of, bill wilson, the co-founder of alcoholics anonymous. and now hes the subject of a revealing documentary. >> bill wilson was first and foremost an alcoholic in recovery. he was a stinking rotten drunk who by some divine grace was granted sobriety, was empowered to bring to the world this fellowship, this message. >> the film tells the story of bill wilson and his own struggles with alcoholism and the founding of alcoholics anonymous throug...