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Status for the rest of the night. >> clearly the gang problem is so large, no part of the prison is safe from the politics. before officer garcia and the igi staff consider putting former gang members together on the sny, they must be convinced dropouts are sincere in their desire to leave the gang lifestyle behind. after the debriefing interviews have been conducted and the inmates have been approved, they move into the integrated yard program. >> this is phase two. what they have to do, is com...

Comes down to fighting the riot. i have to be part of it. >> why? >> if im not a part of it, then its all mad for me. with my people. im a soldier. and if i dont do my duty, then its up to them to take me out of the ball game. >> what does that mean? >> thats it no more. >> the white guy broke it up. he went to the shock collar for the south siders in the building and said you need to check your people. the south siders said, no, i am not going to check my people, you need to check yours. it got...

>> we try to have an informer on every deck of the compound, thats literally thousands of informants. every single one of them can call our office direct, a lot can call our cell phones directly from the tiers and tell us whats going on. >> since january, 2008, the ciu has solved 20 murders and more than 150 drug cases. but with its limited budget and staff, the unit faces an uphill battle against chicagos rapidly growing gang problem. >> gang members per capita by state, we have the most gang m...

Block it is. >> evanston is not the only community battling gang activity from the city. its a widespread phenomenon, fueled in part bit closing of chicagos public housing projects. now, gangs are sprawling into 88% of the suburbs throughout cook county. >> the chief of police asked me, how do you know i have a gang problem? i tell him, chief, i have this. i understand what this stuff means. i cant be a gang expert if i dont know what this means. >> one of the best places it track the chicagos a...

Establishment and the local political establishment. >> in monterey, people are too scared to talk about the fire in front of their own face. but not samara perez. >> translator: i am not afraid. i lost my fear when i lost my son in that casino. i want mexico to change. >> she holds on to the ashes of her son. who would have turned 19 today. the murder of 52 civilians shows how the mexican drug cartels are expanding. beyond drugs to extortion. most of those killed were women, playing bingo. on a...

up right now, and thats a good sign considering were more than halfway through the trading day. you are seeing stocks rally on good economic news of the jobless claims numbers fell last week and we got strong corporate earnings from a bellwether company, cisco system, and you are seeing wall street focus on the positive today and we are seeing the bargain hunting going on as well, and you are seeing the bargain hunters getting in there and buying stocks up, randi. >> and the trader mth...

Hell do it. >> all right, well, nick ayers, we are long-time watchers of those jazzy jerry bruckheimer-like videos that you have been releasing for tim pawlenty so let us know if you have anymore of those coming up. so thank ifss for your time thi morning. >> thank you. up next, news that japans nuclear crisis has now reached chernobyl markets has sent the asian markets downward. whats it mean for wall street? well get a quick preview, next. president. but first, our washington speak. >> for...

Understanding that if people have guns, if regular civilians are allowed to have guns, it might stop somebody from stop somebody from trying to attack them? >> yeah, but the reality is -- and, look, i support gun control. i have no issue with that. i dont think people need 10, 15 guns. thats nonsense. the violence thats taking place, theyre not going to gun shops. theyre not going to the suburbs and buying a gun and bringing it to the city. theres an underground gun culture that is going on. wha...

Go into the union, run into the ground schools, all of these things add up. where are the pastors, priests, where are the churches? chicago is the black epicenter of the intelligenceia, where are they all? >> a lot of folks, pastors, black, white, hispanic, are doing their part. the issue is chicago has a serious gang problem, whether youre talking about blacks, hispanics, whites. that has always been the case. i think one of the things that has to happen, you have to have the surge attitude to ...

Semblance of city government and services to the community. and so i think theres got to be a more balanced approach. i dont think anything can be off the table, and i think thats what the council is going to have to address, not only towards the end of this fiscal year, but as we look to next years budget. i just dont think you can realistically keep going in a direction of anything off the table at this time. >> heres what i -- you know, growing up in california and going to school in l.a., li...