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>> reporter: new technology designed to eliminate scary car crashes and keep drivers alert so they dont run off the road like this unbelted driver who survived his rollover. todays automakers are moving toward not just protecting you from an accident, but avoiding one altogether. and its working. >> this technology is the first steps towards a car that can drive itself. >> reporter: 18 car manufacturers, chevrolet, toyota, ford, chrysler, offer optional forward collision avoidance using radar an...

>> gee, its gotten you arrested this many times, youve run over somebody, and now youre in prison. this doesnt look like its working, to me. >> im just a country boy. i go to work, come home and drink a six-pack. thats basically about it. >> its denial in the classic sense, that they are not giving you the truth. these guys have used those lines so many times, they now believe those lines. >> what kind of drugs have you had experience with? >> just like painkillers. >> okay. hydrocodone? >> yeah...

>> gee, its gotten you arrested this many times, youve run over somebody, and now youre in prison. this doesnt look like its working, to me. >> im just a country boy. i go to work, come home and drink a six-pack. thats basically about it. >> its denial in the classic sense, that they are not giving you the truth. these guys have used those lines so many times, they now believe those lines. >> what kind of drugs have you had experience with? >> just like painkillers. >> okay. hydrocodone? >> yeah...

>> take, for instance, natural habitat adventure, the travel company based in boulder, colorado. its founder wanted to create an office just like home to staff so they would look forward to coming in. here you can find pets running around and even beer on tap. and its working. outside magazine voted it the number one place to work over the past several years. >> very important for me that they stay here forever and many our people have been here 15, 17 years. thats really where we want to be. we...

But we only use that as a last  resort if the inmate has knocked another inmate unconscious and  hes kicking him in the head or something. >> corcoran state prison no  longer has to resort to such  drastic measures to control  violence in the s.h.u. yard. their solution? no more yards. the inmates now exercise in walk-alone areas called the  cages. >> the cages is -- the cages is inhumane. thi...

Charge, the fight is on. and its working. joining me now is melissa harris-perreerk host of msnbcs "melissa harris-perry." also a professor of political science at tulane. melissa, thanks for being here. >> sure. absolutely. >> lets pick up back at this chart. lets look at the explosion of the anti-abortion legislation. how did we get here? 25 years we looked at the chart. then we spiked up last year. how did we get to this point? >> a couple of things going on. this will sound like an odd metap...

Class. in america, we dont give up. over the past 23 months, businesses have created 3.7 million new jobs. and manufacturers are hiring for the first time since the 1990s. president obama talking about the comeback in manufacturing jobs in his weekly video address. since the day he was sworn in, the president has been fighting to turn the economy around. and its working. this chart from talking points memo shows the nations jobs picture now trending in the right direction. the lines show three...

Divide-and-conquer tactics. and its working. it works well. ill give them that. they know what theyre doing. next on "lockup" -- >> i want you to take the coverings down, turn around and submit to a mechanical restraint. >> do what you got to do. >> inmates go on the rampage in the prisons hospital ward.

>> yeah, especially because new york needs more homeland security than wyoming. >> and by getting drunk, you put yourself in vulnerable situations, period. >> of either gender. >> its a fact, its not a concept. a pleasure, as always. nice to see you. thatll do it for us. i am dylan ratigan and "hardball" with chris matthews starts right now. neutron bomb. lets play "hardball." good evening. im chris matthews up in new york. leading you have tonight, the bomb thrower. heres why newt gingrich ...

I mean, dont worry about inflation right now. interest rates are really, really low. theyre going to stay really, really low. everyone almost in lock step on that and then as gerry points out, you see these stubborn rises in all this other stuff. >> when you say everyone, youre talking about people who want to see the stock market manipulate higher and wants to see the government find a way to pay off their bills. theyre not talking about savers, not talking about renters and listen, to gerrys p...