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about the legalization of marijuana but our story is about how and where it's being grown. many growers are trespassing on parks and tribal land using highly toxic pesticides to grow pot. the effects are real and deadly. flying high above some of the country's most well-known national parks, sequoia and king's canyon south of yosemite. look closely and you'll see it. thousands of acres on or near u.s. forest service land used as marijuana grow sites. >> it's a huge problem, almost an epidemic in our community. >> with destructive effects. and now goes beyond the politics of pot. >> what we know is there is a massive use of toxic can'ts out there. >> i know they're specifically targeting animals. anything that can kill a bear can kill me, as well. >> it's how they're doing it that's wreaking havoc on some of california's rarest species and precious resources. >> here is well over 1,000 pounds of marijuana. >> this is the new ground zero for marijuana cultivation in california. so far this year, the sheriff's department has identified more than 500 grow sites and seized more than 2400 plants and roughly a half a million plants were found on national parkland statewide. other sites were discovered just outside public land. >> how far are we away from federal public land? >> just over that hill. >> lieutenant rick coe heads the marijuana eraddation task force for the county. his team discovered shotguns, nearly 300 plants and the poisons used to protect them. >> natural? >> absolutely not. fertilizers pesticides and other things are placed to make it grow like this and protect it. >> protecting plants but harming wildlife. this was a 5-year-old pacific fischer, one of only 300 left in northern california. scientists at uc davis found this one suffered an early death near yosemite last month. he's part of a population has been exposed to an illegal form of rat poison. >> how deadly are these chemicals? >> they're acutely poisonous. >> so strong, a quarter teaspoon can kill a 500-pound lion. pot farmers are using 50 times that and 0 a single plant to keep animals away from their crops. gabriel has found 86% of the fischers he's studying have been exposed to the poison six have died so far. >> i got a signal. >> with the help of a wildlife biologist on a hupa valley indian reservation, they tag the fischers and set up cameras to track them. we hikeded into one of those recently abandoned grow seitz where we saw the trash. >> you'll see cans and things. >> and poison left after growers finished the season's crop. >> you could deplete a whole prey base in an area so many species are dependent on, northern spotted owls, fischers, hum belt martins. >> last year a government task force spent $23 million hunting down and seizing marijuana plants on public land in california. but little funding is set aside for the clean-up. and than could have effects even beyond the wildlife for years to come. >> what happens when it goes down stream? >> basically flowing with the water and then it's picked up by those species that can use it the most readily. >> i don't want to drink out of the creek now and come home and not wake up. >> don blake lives on the reservation. she believes it's only a matter of time before toxic can'ts from the water can make those in her community sick. >> marijuana operations are potentially destroying the landscape. >> they're killing the animals and the forest. and they don't care. >> hiker like rick fleming fear the water issue could affect them, as well because of the proximity of the grow seitz to worthy sources. he's part of the volunteers trail crew, a non-profit dedicated to cleaning up what growers are leaving behind. >> if they're trashing the place and if we can pick it up and get it out, then great. >> it's a green rush. >> a green rush for marijuana instead of gold at a cost to our environment. >> and it doesn't just impact our state. these are our national treasures. these are our national forests and national parks. >> and just this week, senator dianne feinstein urged the environmental protection agency to step in and help fight the environmental damage caused by pot groves in the centralvale. it's not just happying there, it's happening throughout the state. >> if you have a tip for elise or anyone else in our investigative unit, call us an at 888-996-tips or send us an e-mail to nbcbayarea.com. >> now to a developing story this halloween. a night of trick or treating turned dangerous for two young boys. a driver hit a 12 and 13-year-old in the town of clover dale about 30 minutes north of santa rosa. police say the driver is a 75-year-old man who is cooperating with the investigation he is not believed to have been drinking, speeding or using his cell phone. the boys were transported to the hospital but their conditions not released. new tonight, a family from brazil is in san francisco tonight on a frantic search for a loved one. they got a call from the missing man on monday saying he was in trouble and they haven't heard from him since. nbc bay area's gene ellie is live in san francisco where his sister is retracing his steps tonight. >> he had a bus ticket for a ride home to los angeles on sunday, but eighths here at the greyhound station say he never boarded that bus. we also know he called family on monday frantic telling them he needed help and was in trouble. that was the last time family heard from him. >> and eats a nice boy. he was not the type of troublemaker boy. he is -- he's really intelligent. he speaks four languages. >> anna rodriguez is desperate to find her brother. 23-year-old paolo netto. she and her mother flew to san francisco from brazil after receiving a frantic call him monday night. >> the obviously he was terrified. he called me saying please call the police. i'm in trouble. there's people toing me. >> she asked officers to check 505 shotwell in the mission district where his smartphone was located when she got the call. no one has heard from him since. >> it's really unusual. we usually speak to him almost every day or every two days. >> the family filed a missing person's report today and is retracing his steps and say the netto arrived in san francisco friday on a bus from his home in los angeles. the artist was in san francisco looking at art schools. he stayed at a hostel where workers say he seemed like a nice young man. he checked out saturday night and checked in with his family. >> we spoke to him on the phone and he said that he was okay and he was going home. he was going to take a bus to go to l.a. he was going home. >> he never arrived in l.a. and then made those frantic calls monday. >> since monday, we didn't hear from him. >> for rodriguez and her mother, the silence is horrifying. netto's sister and mother a they plan to continue showing this picture to anyone in san francisco who will take a moment to look hoping for any clue this picture and his information are already entered into the san francisco police department's missing person's database, a database every police officer has access to. reporting live in san francisco, jean ellie. >> the fbi is on the case of a reported bomb threat on a plane that left from sfo today. the united express flight was on its way to san antonio but was diverted to phoenix at about 5:00 this evening. all 42 passengers were evacuated safely. you see help getting ob buses here. the fbi is not confirming the specific nature of that threat. a san jose father is an us cooed of leaving his two children in an suv overnight. 29-year-old julio reyes milpitas police say he parked his car near calaveras and 680 around 10:00 p.m. on tuesday night and left his 8-year-old son and 10-year-old daughter inside that car with the doors unlocked. now, neighbors called police about a suspicious vehicle. about 1:00 p.m. on wednesday so the following day, police pound the children inside and alone. >> disheveled, hungry, the first thing we did was get them food, make sure they had nutrition in them and we wanted to make sure they were fed and taken care of. >> a short while later reyes called to report his vehicle and children missing. police arrested him after talking interviewing him. they also say the children's mother was at work and had no idea of any of this happening. a bizarre story on the stanford campus. a dining hall and dorm both getting a deep cleaning after 51 students got sick. yesterday, they came down with norovirus type symptoms like vomiting, stomach pains, headaches and diarrhea. although health experts say this is the time of year when norovirus outbreaks happen, they're trying to pin point the surface. new regulations are in effect for rail workers. the california public utilities commission an be proed the new rules today. the cpuc says it was not in response to the accident but has been talked about for years. the new rules include man da.'> troe three-way communication, speed restrictions and warning flags are now required in work areas. the rules apply to all 12 transit agencies that the cpcu regulates including b.a.r.t. and muni. >> he could be sent to prison or suspended by the league office. for now the 49ers just want him to play football. the team reactivated al done smith. he's now eligible to play. the 49ers had deactivated him last month after he was arrested for dui and marijuana possession. he faces three felony counts on weapons charges that stem from a party he hosted at a south bay home last year. the 49ers' next game is november 10th, just two days before his court appearance to face his dui and weapons charge. we'll hear from our 49ers insider matt later. >> coming up, a small ornament and big controversy. why the lgbt community is especially upset. >> you may need a medical card to get pot but your pet doesn't. the pill that might benefit your dog, plus -- >> it's halloween night in san jo jose. we're inside the temple of doom in front of someone's yard. take a look at the attention to detail. the story coming up tonight. a spooktacular success, long lines all night at one of the most elaborate haunt the houses in had the bay area. >> it's over the top. george kitayama is in san jose this evening. what's his motivation and do his neighbors mind? >> the neighbors don't mind. in fact, the neighbors bought into the whole idea and the guy who did this has been doing this for 12 years. they're used to this. i went inside twice and the first time i went inside, my feather was right behind men an at one one point he disappeared. i had no idea where he was. i waited ford him for about ten minutes and he finally came out. he was okay. look at this. take a look at this thing. it is impressive. the detail. the attention 0 detail from the "indiana jones and temple of doom." this is in someone's front yard. if you're ready to enter the temple of doom, let's do this. as you enter, you're transported to a whole different world. you're no longer in san jose, you're in the temple of doom. >> it was a lot of fun. it was so scary. >> she was one of 5,000 trick-or-treaters who stood in line that went around the block. the temple of doom is a stand alone structure in front of bob schiro's home. >> it brings the kid out in all of us again that i remember being a kid. i wanted to bring extra to that. >> the inside was definitely inspired by the movie "indiana jones and the temple of doom," with a little halloween twist, of course. twists and turns, you didn't know what was going to pop out. >> at the end when that guy came out, that got me. it really did. >> look at that. you can see the skeleton. he didn't make it after all. he was trying to climb up to the top but didn't quite make it. this is the first time this has been done in front of this home. they're already getting ready for next year. that's what i hear, but they're not telling us what next year's theme will be. we're live in san jose tonight. george kitayama, nbc bay area news. >> it's almost midnight and there's still a crowd outside of the home. angry birds, spiderman found treats at the children's hospital. young patients collected candy at today's special halloween party. doctors and nurses got into the action and went door to door to help bring halloween to the children who weren't healthy enough to leave their hospital rooms. >> new tonight at 111:00, halloween may be over but this is just the beginning of the halloween season. it's already starting with controversy. hallmark removed the gay from a classic christmas karol. you might imagine, that's not going over well with everyone. we're live in san francisco with the story. >> jenelle, it all comes down to this christmas sweater and these words, don me now our fun apparel. the fun should be gay. but hallmark decided to change it to fun and that has a lot of people talking tonight. >> we all know the song ♪ ♪ don we now our gay apparel >> but wait, hallmark says the word gay should be changed to fun. >> i'm offended. >> what is it? >> it's wrong to say gay. >> wrong might be too harsh a word but when haw mark introduced its 2013 keepsake christmas sweater, the twitter sphere went crazy when the company changed the word gay to fun. >> fun doesn't say the same thing that gay does. you know, gay. you know, not grim. >> stuart and john lewis feel the same way. they fought for years for marriage equality and so changing the word is a slap in the face. >> everybody most enjoys it and there was no need to change a single word. >> i think that by taking the word gay out of deck the halls, they really are silencing, you know, i saing it's not okay to say the word >> haul mac saying the ornament was created in the spirit of fun. later, the company released an apology by saying "we never intended to offend or make political statements with our products and in hindsight, we realize we shouldn't have changed the lyrics on the ornament." in andy's opinion, they may not like it but -- >> not going to take it personally if somebody gets really, really involved with saying fun supposed to gay. what's the big deal? >> reporter: well, it has become a big deal. and it will be very interesting to see how many people actually buy this sweater. reporting live in san francisco, i'm cheryl hurd, nbc bay area news. >> thanks. that means it's holiday season. >> it is holiday season. >> jeff ranieri joins us now. halloween is almost over and november is tomorrow morning. >> i thought you were going to ask me for a christmas forecast. can you do this. >> yes, i know you like to push ahead towards the next big holiday. we do have christmas-like be temperatures coming our way in the seven-day forecast. it's going to stay warm. high pressure gives us two days of incredible weather with the storm track just off to the north. let's get right into the friday forecast. i know you're going to love it if you like today. temperatures for the interior valleys we'll start off cold with 40s and clear skies. by 4:00 p.m., upper 70s. we may even have a few isolated low 80s. we'll see temperatures by the bay going into the low 70s. outside right now to the high definition view. crystal clear on this halloween evening. here's the other side fact about this october as we wind it up tonight. no october rain in san jose. we're 65% of normal. we could use rain drops. we'll have more on the forecast on a few drops that will be getting close. 39 in st. helena, 39 in napa, you need extra blankets. warmer for the east bay. 46 in livermore, 49 san jose, 46 in redwood city. some of the ocean air helping to keep san francisco warmer with 52 degrees. on friday, numbers in the mid to upper 70s. we ratcheted these up a little bit from the earlier forecast. 77 in evergreen. 75 san jose, 72 in santa cruz. palo alto getting toasty for this time of year along the peninsula. in the east bay, we've bumped these numbers up a little bit. close but not quite there the to 80. 77, 76 plesstantton, not following too behind behind castro valley expecting 74. san francisco we expect 70 in downtown up against the immediate coastline, it's going to be mid and upper 60s, back to berkeley 73, and oakland at 75. the next thing in the world of weather we are watching is wind building in by late saturday and sunday morning. winds 15 to 30 miles per hour at the coastline. we could see winds range frpg 15ing to 30. sunday is the next big horizon change in the world of weather. speaking of change, don't forget the clocks as we head toward sunday. push those back one hour. that cooler weather coming our way for sunday, monday and tuesday with 60s. so 78 tomorrow inland to 60s by sunday. >> an extra hour of sleep. thank you. >> medical pot for pets. that's next. 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>> i really don't have a way of knowing what they're doing. but certainly it does appear that way. >> the information that we get from the navy is all denials, saying everything is fine, and there's nothing to worry about. and they haven't found anything that is of alarming at this point. >> paris and cindy hayes have lived on the island for 11 years. they're among the two dozen families abruptly informed last month they have to move in april. >> they told us that our relocation was based on the fact that the navy needed to do more surveillance on the property. but it was not related to any radioactive material findings. >> but in this map, the hayes and five other residential buildings were identified as on or near areas of radiological impact. like bigelow court, now need to be surveyed for radiation. >> there isn't evidence of radiological materials being buried where people are currently living. >> treasure island director bob beck. how would you characterize how straightforward the navy has been in informing residents? >> i think they've been extremely straightforward in informing the residents. >> is there any radiation near the buildings where the folks are being asked to move out? >> not right now. >> we requested an interview with a navy corpsman. we tried to speak with him before a public meeting. the meeting doesn't start for another 15 minutes. >> that's not true. the official part of the agenda starts. we have a holiday session here. you're interrupting that. so please refrain from interrupting that. thank you. >> you're not able to answer any questions during the potluck, sir? >> i said thank you. >> thousands of people are lying. >> it's been a frustrating ordeal for the 2,800 people who live and work on treasure island whose voices have grown louder as more information surfaces, contradicting the navy's claims about the contamination. >> so you come here and tell us what you want us to hear. but i think we should go back to whoever it was and let them know that we're no longer buying. >> done wadsworth said six years into his work at treasure island, he has this assessment. >> my job is to protect people and the environment. so it's just not getting done. >> the navy reaffirmed it is working with regulators to, quote, investigate, and clean up contaminated areas on treasure island and that the state, city and navy do not have any data indicating a risk to human health to current tenants. in the meantime, a $1.5 billion development plan for the land is on hold until the island is cleaned up. we will keep you updated as that cleanup progresses. coming up next, we investigate, a visible change in restaurant inspections may be coming to santa clara county after our undercover report. investigative reporter jana has the details after the break. ♪ ♪ turn around ♪ every now and then i get a little bit hungry ♪ ♪ and there's nothing good for me around ♪ ♪ turn around ♪ every now and then i get a little bit tired ♪ ♪ of craving something that i can't have ♪ ♪ turn around, barbara ♪ forever i've been praying for a snack in my life ♪ ♪ and now i have a brownie ending all of my strife ♪ ♪ i finally found the right snack ♪ ♪ welcome back. low scores and little accountability. it's been nearly a year since we went undercover to expose restaurants keeping health inspection results a secret. our first report prompted the board of supervisors to take action, and change the way santa clara county provides you information. tonight the investigation that started it all. >> have you ever been been shut down or anything? have you ever been shut down? ever shut down? these restaurant employees don't know they're on camera. >> have you ever had problems here? >> no. >> those answers are not true. you're about to see when it comes to health code violations in santa clara county, diners are left in the dark. >> how important is it that the public is aware of what's happening at restaurants? >> it's very important. >> meet heather, she's in charge of the county's restaurant inspection. since there is no grading system, the only way to know if a restaurant has been shut down, and why, is to schedule an appointment to view the records. but state law does require all restaurants keep a copy of the most recent inspections on hand. if you ask to see it, they have to show it to you. so we tested the system. to see who was willing to share. he's the manager of this denny's in sunnyvale. >> documents show it was shut down in late 2011 for a large amount of roaches. and inspectors found more roaches living at denny's just last summer. kobe in santa clara said it was known as the best japanese restaurant, known by inspectors for the cockroaches at the sushi bar. have you ever been been shut down? instead of showing us freeport, they showed us the door. this is yummy buffet in south san jose. the latest inspection report, 16 violations. >> of the ten restaurants we visited, only one showed us the report. oh, great. is this acceptable? >> it absolutely is not acceptable. i am disappointed that the restaurants are not providing you with truthful information. or any member of the public. what i do want to emphasize is that the public can get this information in other ways. >> like going to the county's website. but even if you go to the trouble to look it up, the information is vague. while it shows categories of violations, it doesn't give any details of what inspectors found. take these two restaurants. both cited for vermin. one major, one minor. but what does that mean? we pulled the files. the minor violation was for fresh rodent droppings and one rat caught. major was for a dead fly in the whisky. these two restaurants showed enforcement action taken. but why? files show one was closed for a fire, the other infested with cockroaches. this report on a fast food chain in san jose just says enforcement action. >> i would have to look at the file and look at it a little more closely. this is the first time i've seen this. >> how are customers supposed to know what it means if you don't know what it means? >> i'm looking at this right now for the first time. and i would want to take a look at this a little more closely. and review it before i can respond to this particular case. >> do you see why i'm having trouble looking at this, how someone at home could have trouble understanding what that means? >> yes. i agree that there are improvements that can be made in this system. >> i think santa clara county could do more to help people understand what that information means. >> dr. phillip leslie is a professor at ucla's business school. he conducted this study in los angeles, after the city started its letter grading system. he found food-borne illnesses dropped almost 30% in three years. he says having information in the window incentivizes restaurants to stay clean and allows diners to make an educated choice of where to eat without having to ask. >> even if all restaurants did have that information on hand, at the restaurant itself, people are still not going to ask for it. that's an awkward moment in a restaurant. you don't want to start out that way. >> and even if you do, in santa clara county, sometimes the answer is hard to swallow. our investigation prompted the board of supervisors to demand sweeping changes. including revamping the way the county puts inspection information online. to make it clear for diners. the board also formed a committee to evaluate possible grading systems. next month they'll vote on it, meaning silicon valley could finally have a scoring system that holds restaurants accountable. coming up next, "we investigate" rising violence, where bay area residents go to enjoy the outdoors. investigative reporter elycee kirsh ner takes you inside. 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[ female announcer ] try new pillsbury heat-n-go mini pancakes. welcome back. this next report involved armed drug dealers protecting their valuable crops, illegally grown on public land, from national parks to indian reservations. it's causing serious safety concerns as they inch closer to hiking trails, and to communities. just over the hill from sequoia in king's canyon national park, it's one of hundreds of illegal pot grow sites. and it's getting busted. by agents from the fresno county sheriff's task force. one arrest made. you have a medical marijuana license? 300 plants confiscated and several shotguns found. >> it's a violent activity. it's drug smuggling. traffickers are now growing thousands of plants at a time year round on some of the country's most fertile land. then selling it for up to $50 a gram. or $22,000 a pound. and they want to protect those valuable crops. >> we had six murders at grow sites last year. we have shootings, home invasion robberies, and other types of crimes at grow sites almost daily. >> reporter: on public lands in 2007, the u.s. forest service found nearly 600 firearms and weapons. and made around 2,300 pot related arrests. most are now part of large marijuana growing operations like this one, located deep in the six rivers national forest near eureka. during a raid in august, agents found more than 5,000 plants here, protecting the garden they also discovered this 21-year-old mexican foreign national with a loaded 9 millimeter semiautomatic handgun. >> we came back in here to do a reclamation of the site. >> reporter: darrell rush is an assistant special agent in charge with the u.s. forest service. he's along for the cleanup of the site. they picked up trash and found a knife in a tree. >> we see more and more of these people in the groves. they are armed with either side arms or rifles. >> reporter: unlike decades ago, many grow operations are controlled by mexican drug cartels. because it's cheaper to grow it here than to smuggle it in. according to the u.s. forest service, 80% of the cultivators on national forests are mexican foreign nationals. >> there is a big concern of bumping into something like this. they don't want to bump into them. they don't want to get involved. >> reporter: that concern is shared by hikers and those living in nearby communities. >> the potential is there that i could be attacked. >> on your own land. >> mm-hmm. >> reporter: dawn blake is a member of the hoopa tribe. the tribal land and the forest have become overrun by illegal pot growers. >> they're armed. you know, i don't know what their frame of mind is. i know that they have a resource to protect and they have a job. >> it has an impact by folks not being able to do what we're accustomed to doing for thousands of years. >> reporter: ryan jackson is a councilman for dawn's tribe. he said fear is also keeping tribe members inside. and unable to do many sacred practices, like burial rights and basket weaving, something that's been passed down through generations. why are those areas so appealing to growers now? >> they're not traversed very often, so they have a little bit of cover from not being seen. certainly from roads or other houses. so that's a huge appeal. >> reporter: appealing because of the density that public land offers in california. at the same time, areas that so many cherish. >> this is huge. it just doesn't affect our county or our state. it affects the entire country. >> more than 12 million plants were found on national forest service land in california from 2008 to 2012. that's the most in the nation. followed by tennessee, and oregon. to put that in perspective, both states had 30 times fewer plants. law enforcement says if you're hiking and you see a water line like the pipes we showed you in our report, it is most likely connected to a grow site. coming up next, "we investigate" -- >> kids are playing russian roulette with their lives. >> the frightening results of prescription drug abuse. how california is the first in the country to use the internet to fight back. welcome back. it's a growing nationwide problem with often deadly consequences. misuse of prescription drugs. according to the centers for disease control, more people now die from misuse of painkillers than from heroin and cocaine combined. but california has a new approach to curb this problem, becoming one of the first states in the country to address it, using state law. >> he was loyal, charismatic, passionate -- >> a.j.'s father reads what no parent should have to read. eulogies written by a.j.'s friends which were read at the 19-year-old's funeral less than a year ago. >> no matter what he did, a.j. kept his beat. >> a beat that last december stopped. >> i want people to understand that, if their child died this way, it doesn't make them bad people. it doesn't make their kids bad. they just made a mistake and it cost them everything. >> a talented musician and 4.0 student in his class, he just started his freshman year at uc santa barbara. no one could have predicted a few months later one night and one pill would take all that away. >> not a day goes by for not kicking myself for understanding the problem with prescription pain medication. >> it was opana, a pain medication that a.j. took at a party. a drug not prescribed to a.j., a drug that combined with alcohol turned out to be deadly. >> i wouldn't wish this on my worst enemy. it hurts. >> while the loss and pain remains raw for a.j.'s parents, they are not alone. deaths resulting from overdosing or misusing prescription drugs are going up all over the country. according to a study by the group trust for america's health, prescription drug deaths have quadrupled in the last decade in west virginia, kentucky, iowa, and indiana. here in california, deaths are up 30%. and according to the kaiser foundation, california is handing out the most prescriptions in the country. with nearly 400 million scripts filled in 2011. >> there's a lot of pills floating around this state. and it's pretty scary. >> bruce goldberg serves as special assistant agent in charge of the dea field office. he says teens have easier access to prescription drugs than ever before. >> kids are playing russian roulette with their lives by ingesting things that they're not aware of how dangerous they are. >> these drugs were meant to alleviate pain, and they're causing too much pain. >> this rising problem prompted state senator of walnut creek to begin fighting four years ago to get a special system to track prescription drugs and the doctors who write them into law. they finally voted to fund the system and the governor signed it into law only last month. the idea, to stop doctor shopping by letting prescribers see a patient's prescription record. it's a system that the senator says may have helped avoid two bay area tragedies. >> the personal stories made a big difference to me. >> the personal stories of bob pack of danville and april rovero. her son, 21-year-old joey was at arizona state university four years ago when he took a trip to l.a. with friends and doctor shopped. he then later overdosed on a combination of prescription drugs. >> it's terrible losing a child. i don't know of anything else that could be any worse than this. i truly don't. >> just because it's a prescribed pill doesn't mean it's okay. >> bob pack's 7-year-old and 10-year-old were both killed nine years ago when a driver high on muscle relaxers ran them over. >> it's been a motivator for me since the tragedy with my family, to try to do something about it, and hopefully prevent a tragedy that would be similar for someone else. >> that motivator resulted in this new law, which funds secure system. >> i do think by doing what we're doing in c.u.r.e.s., we'll make a difference. >> i don't want anybody else to have to feel this. >> jeanette and rick speak out now, in hopes of inspiring other parents to talk to their children about the threat of prescription drugs. >> this tremendous young man didn't get to live the rest of his life. >> to get this law passed, lawmakers had to make concessions. that included dropping a provision that would have required doctors to use it. so even though 200,000 prescribers in california must enroll in this system, actually using it is voluntary. the senator hopes to tweak this part of the law in the coming years, and we, of course, will be staying on top of this story. that's our show. we thank you for watching. we invite you to join us regularly here on nbc bay area. because "we investigate." good night. >> justin bieber arrested. how you can win a date with george clooney. why arnold went undercover. and chilli takes on the kardashian. hi everybody. welcome to "access hollywood". weekend edition i'm shaun robinson. we start with justin bieber arrest in miami for drugs drinking and drag racing. billy has the details. >> i was starting to believe the rumors but. but you look like you are doing good. >> first case this afternoon is justin bieber. dui arrested without veils. >> not uttering a word during the appearing in front of miami judge it took less than 5 minutes to determine the amount of bond. >> total bond would be 2500 dollars. >> discuss continue wearing a red jail issued jump suit indicating he was kept away from the general jail population and held in isolation. before the hearing justin posed for this smiling mug shot. and joining me from w tv j in miami entertainment reporter roxanne vargas.
MiamiFloridaUnited-statesJapanKentuckySanta-clara-countyCaliforniaIndianaFreeportOregonRussiaMexico . this is kpix 5 news. a bay area grocery store manager was just doing his job when someone came up and attacked him. good evening, i'm elizabeth cook sgli eem ken bastida. that manager was sucker punched right there in the aisle. juliette goodrich is there. she's got the latest. >> that safeway store manager is in the icu tonight. his friends say his head injury is so bad, he doesn't recognize his wife. >> san leandro police want everyone to take a close look at this guy. police say monday around 11:00 a.m., the suspect approached the store manager. words were exchanged and then the suspect violently punched the man. the store manager fell to the ground. the attacker took off. long-time safeway customers know the manager as mo, and tonight, mo's friend tells kpix 5, he has serious head injure ris. >> that really hurts me a lot. especially the coworkers. he's just trying to do his best to keep the store safe, which, you know, things happen. >> police are hoping someone will see this surveillance video and help identify the attacker. >> really not much to go on at this point. he was in the store a little bit prior to so we don't know what his intent was there and, again, the exchange between he and the manager was extremely brief like you see on the video then it was really one strike, and he was out the door. >> employees say mo is a great boss and great friend. >> i know the managers about three years now. he's nice. he trys to protect the store. this isn't the first time the safeway got ripped off. >> that safeway manager called mo is at'den valley medical center tonight in critical condition, his wife by his side. police are asking anyone with information to come forward immediately. in san leandro, juliette goodrich, kpix 5. you hear loud noises near your home. you go outside and check it out, right? a dad in mrez santon did just thats and now hanging on for his life. probably coming from a group out of teenagers. emergency crews showed up to find lamont lying in front of his home unconscious with his wife at his side. he's now in a coma. >> i was very shocked because this is a quiet town. this is something that you would not expect from anywhere really in the valley from san ramon, dub lib, danville to pleasanton. it's not something you would expect. it's very sad and kind of a crazy idea to think that kids would disrespect an adult and then eventually beat him up to a point of putting him in the hospital. >> police are questioning students from nearby high schools calling them persons of interest. no one has been arrested yet. word tonight is the feds think asiana airlines may have broken american law by not doing enough to help the families of the passengers on board the plane that crashed at sfo. these were the charred remains in july. tonight the ap is reporting the ntsb is investigating whether asiana had an adequate family assistance plan that included offering loved ones a toll free number to get information as well as transportation and a place to stay. this is the first investigation of its kind, and asiana isn't commenting. tomorrow we'll know if the weather cooperates if oracle team usa can pull off one of the greatest comebacks ever in sports history. >> as they come to the line, the comeback is complete. >> yeah. even the announcers today sounded a bit surprised by oracle's latest win on the bay. the reyes is now all tied. joe is standing outside right now. who would have thought that it would come down to this, huh. >> ken, barely anyone thought it would come down to this. maybe oracle team usa and their die-hard fans have been coming down to the waterfront to watch these races. >> the competition began with a bang. it's not exactly nascar but this slight fender bender at the start of the first race slowed team new zealand down so much they never recovered. oracle team usa took two victory laps today. >> are you kidding me. >> at the kiwi bar at peer 29 instead of crying in their beer they claim they've got the americans right where they want them. >> you were bored. >> yeah. we just thought weed play with you guys for awhile, and we were just like get you all xietd and build up the interest in this cup, and tomorrow we're going to smoke you one and a half kilometers lead. >> but if they are going to come back, they might need a little help from their fans. >> what do they need? maybe the war dance. >> that would be awesome. >> well, actually it turns out that tried that earlier today. i guess it didn't work. >> we are all even. >> it's awfully suspicious. >> actually comeback, whether it's just good luck, whatever it is, it's been phenomenal. >> believe what you want to believe, but right now it's going to be the most amazing comeback in history. >> if today was any indication, you can expect there's going to be a lot of people rushing down to the embarcadero from here all the way around to field to watch that last race, and we may finally get those huge crowds the organizers have been promising for years. reporting live in the embarcadero, joe vazquez. >> a lot of people skipped work today even the oracle ceo larry ellison to come watch the races. he was supposed to give the keynote address, but here he is on his yacht instead. the final deciding race is set for tomorrow as joe says. 1. 15, again, if weather cooperates. san francisco police need your help niebding a guy who killed the man on muni. the 20-year-old man was shot to death just before 10:00 last night as he got off an muni metro car in ran doll f and bright streets in eng l side. take a close look at the suspect. he's asian between 20 and 30 years old with a stocky build. he was wearing a black baseball hat, white hooded jack sxet blue jeans before he got away. police say the attack apierce to be random and unprovoked. also tonight iran says it's ready to talk about its nuclear program. president obama and ie rainian president both addressed the assembly today but did not meet in person face to face. in his speech, he spoke out in support of the syrian government, reiterated i ran's desire to have nufk lar power and said nuclear weapons have no place in i ran's defense plans. the two presidents could meet tomorrow. according to cbs news poll out tonight, 40% of americans disapprove of the way president obama is handling relations with iran. >> at the expense of the middle class. >> here's a live look at the senate floor where republican senator ted cruz is trying to out filibuster some of his political pierce. he's been talking almost 12 hours all in what what everyone know social security an attempt to stop obama care. his kids were watching him. >> it was very cool when he can make them do a flip high in the air and catch them. i'll credit my father. he invented green eggs and ham. do you like green eggs and ham? i do not like them sam i am, i do not like green eggs and ham. >> eight white castle restaurants a year. i like their little burgers. >> the federal government will run out of money to pay its bills next tuesday, october 1st. that's also the day the affordable care act goes into effect. tonight we spotted video on you tube of a bay area guy coming face to face with a bear in the sierra. wait till you see how he handled it, and only on 5 you'll hear the story he told christin ayers. >> hey, bear! we're here. you want to turn back. >> the bear was just coming up the trail, and so i was just kind of like, you can't -- we're going to have to figure this out because there's nowhere for him to go, nowhere for know go. >> a close call with a black bear in the sierra captured on a camera phone. >> weir here. you can go around. >> kevin burton ceo was hike solo through king's canyon two weeks ago. lucky for him, this was not his first meet wg a bear. >> i've had about a dozen encounters with bear. >> it's a good thing. burton new exactly what to do. >> with a black bear, you kind of want to actually intimidate them. >> so burton announced himself. he also knew to make himself appear bigger than he is. his assertiveness paid off. black bears are known for being timid, and this one shied away, making his way around burton. >> the great thing about going in the wilderness are those moments. >> hey, bear! we're here. you want to turn back. >> this moment, one he won't soon forget. christin ayers, kpix 5. >> of course, that was a run of the mill california black bear. now, of course, if confronted with a grizzly bear, you basically want to do the opposite of what that guy did. play dead. >> okay. a bay area prosports team -- i got the chills -- comes face to face with a military tank. why it crashed through practice. you want to know when the next big earthquake will hit, the early warning system coming to california. think your boss is up to no good? how you can make money by turning them in. clear skies tonight but getting windy out there. coming up in weather, find out what that wind is going to do to our fire danger and also what it's going to do to our temperature. 7-day forecast coming up in 7 minutes. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ [ female announcer ] it's time healthy gets a dose of happy. new yoplait greek. bye-bye, stir. so long, sour. hello, happy. it's time to lick the lid again. ♪ at kaiser permanente we've reduced serious heart attacks by 62%, which makes days with grandpa jack 100% more possible. join us at kp.org and thrive. just feet away from him. . a close call for a player on the earthquake soccer team this afternoon. a crash -- a tank crashed just feet away from him. yeah. a real military tank. our kiet do at the scene. kiet, how is this even possible. >> yeah. hi there, liz. a big mess out here in san jose, as you can see. chunks of concrete pretty much everywhere out here. all right. so how did this happen? easy. the tanks go right here, and the soccer field is right here. pretty crazy and loud experience. >> a bradley fighting vehicle just like this one was rounding the corner of the test track when it lost control and broke the concrete barrier like it was styrofoam. >> like a crunch or crash. >> pretty much a loud bang. >> san jose earthquake's president dave was at the team's practice field when the tank crashed about 10 feet away from goalie john bush. >> luckily there was a barricade and fence in between, and luckily there was, like, an awning so you couldn't really see through. i think if you could have seen it, it probably would have been more frightening. >> bae system has been testing tanks at san jose facility for years. the bae track butts right up against the team property. an employee told the mercury news the tank was not going above the track speed limit. >> they said different tank tracks that they have in the tank weren't well sutd for the -- i guess, the speed so it went around the bend and just crashed straight into it. >> no one was injured. the tank didn't even look like tad scratch. in san jose, kiet do, kpix 5. >> bae told the team it will look into changing the orientation of the track or to try to prevent future tank crashes. have you ever suspected that your boss is up to something shady? well, allen martin shows us how you can get paid for spilling the baens on pirated software. >> in the old days, spoth pirates used to be easy, but not anymore. >> worldwide we're looking at a 42% piely sa rate which equates to $63.4 billion a year commercial loss. >> demonstrating a commitment --. >> peter heads up enforcement for the business software alliance. it's an industry group that hunts down software pirates on behalf of more than 80 companies, including apple, adobe and microsoft. >> bsa receives about 2500 tips a year. >> he says napping pirates depends on those tips from inform mants like chuck cost. >> having the programming software we use literally said you're on day 245 of a 30-day trial. >> cost is a computer science teacher who says he got frustrated when his district wouldn't stop using pirates software. >> let us ask questions. you know, you're telling us to legally download our music, but we're using software here that expired three years ago. >> so he filed a report through the bsa's inform mant web site, no piracy.org. >> you had to be concerned about your job or some sort of retaliation maybe. >> it crossed your mind but really no. it was very confidential. >> he can't mean the school district he ratted on. that, too, is confidential. turns out businesses that are caught can pay extra to keep the settlement confidential. we know of at least one bay area company busted last year. it was here at this office park in pleasanton. it was called litigation solution an online legal firm that has since closed down. the owner told us he paid the fine but didn't have what he calls the hush money. punishment is harsh. >> the tine can be up to $150,000 for each infringed title. if the matter is pursued criminally, the niens jump up to $250,000 with the possibility of five years in jail. >> in pleasanton, allen martin, kpix 5. >> some of the money from fine social -- fines is used to pay the rewards but only about half of tip sters actually ask for it. a bay area woman could become a saint. kora e vans lived in boulder creek and died back in 1957. once upon a time, evans was a mormon but converted to catholicism. she was a mystic. now, in order to be the vatican would need to find evidence of two miracles. there are some 10,000 saints but none from california. a couple of people standing down by the marina green going i saw a miracle. >> kidding. >> i saw a boat go by that had oracle written on it that a week ago had no chance of being here today. 8 to 10. now, it's 8-8. >> wind is going to increase but uong weir going to hit that threshold where it's too much wind. all of you want to come into the city tomorrow, swert going to be okay for it all be it a bit breezy. we have ourselves mainly clear skies with a beautiful moonlit night we are having. oakland touched down the bay bridge. no low cloud cover to speak of. chilly night, though. we're going to lose that heat pretty quickly. napa down to 50. fairfield 52. oakland 57. redwood city 54. sunrise one minute after 7:00. mentioned earlier the wind is picking up. higher elevations really going to pick up late tomorrow. that will increase the fire danger. then we're going to get warmer. that's going to drop the humidity level. that will also increase the fire danger. fire weather watch has been issued for all higher elevations all throughout the bay area from tomorrow night until friday morning so fire danger on the increase but temperatures aren't, at least not yet. menlo park tomorrow sunny but cooler. high not even hitting 70 degrees. talk about what's going on because we have the on shore flow. it's strong. it will be stronger for you tomorrow. that's why temperatures are going to be dropping. low pressure passing by to the north. lots of rain fall for the northwest. we don't get the rain this time unlike saturday but will get the on shore flow temperatures down despite the fact you'll get sunshine all day long. then that low does nothing more than move. we're get ago north wind. that will get us sunny. that's going to get us warm because it's offshore wind. also going to get us quite try. relative humidity going to go way down. that's why the fire danger for all of us will be high. wind increasing tomorrow but not above that threshold. offshore wind by friday. humidity goes down. what a weekend if you like the warm stuff. 80s perhaps oeven in the city but definitely all throughout the bay area on saturday and sunday. livermore tomorrow 11 glooe degrees below average. san jose also 11 greece below arch. high of 70. palo alto 68. hayward 76. low 70s for pittsburgh, concord, san ramon and dublin. in the city tomorrow 66 dprees increasing winds. san rafael your high 72 degrees. here is your extended forecast 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a dad in mrez santon did just thats and now hanging on for his life. probably coming from a group out of teenagers. emergency crews showed up to find lamont lying in front of his home unconscious with his wife at his side. he's now in a coma. >> i was very shocked because this is a quiet town. this is something that you would not expect from anywhere really in the valley from san ramon, dub lib, danville to pleasanton. it's not something you would expect. it's very sad and kind of a crazy idea to think that kids would disrespect an adult and then eventually beat him up to a point of putting him in the hospital. >> police are questioning students from nearby high schools calling them persons of interest. no one has been arrested yet. word tonight is the feds think asiana airlines may have broken american law by not doing enough to help the families of the passengers on board the plane that crashed at sfo. these were the charred remains in july. tonight the ap is reporting the ntsb is investigating whether asiana had an adequate family assistance plan that included offering loved ones a toll free number to get information as well as transportation and a place to stay. this is the first investigation of its kind, and asiana isn't commenting. tomorrow we'll know if the weather cooperates if oracle team usa can pull off one of the greatest comebacks ever in sports history. >> as they come to the line, the comeback is complete. >> yeah. even the announcers today sounded a bit surprised by oracle's latest win on the bay. the reyes is now all tied. joe is standing outside right now. who would have thought that it would come down to this, huh. >> ken, barely anyone thought it would come down to this. maybe oracle team usa and their die-hard fans have been coming down to the waterfront to watch these races. >> the competition began with a bang. it's not exactly nascar but this slight fender bender at the start of the first race slowed team new zealand down so much they never recovered. oracle team usa took two victory laps today. >> are you kidding me. >> at the kiwi bar at peer 29 instead of crying in their beer they claim they've got the americans right where they want them. >> you were bored. >> yeah. we just thought weed play with you guys for awhile, and we were just like get you all xietd and build up the interest in this cup, and tomorrow we're going to smoke you one and a half kilometers lead. >> but if they are going to come back, they might need a little help from their fans. >> what do they need? maybe the war dance. >> that would be awesome. >> well, actually it turns out that tried that earlier today. i guess it didn't work. >> we are all even. >> it's awfully suspicious. >> actually comeback, whether it's just good luck, whatever it is, it's been phenomenal. >> believe what you want to believe, but right now it's going to be the most amazing comeback in history. >> if today was any indication, you can expect there's going to be a lot of people rushing down to the embarcadero from here all the way around to field to watch that last race, and we may finally get those huge crowds the organizers have been promising for years. reporting live in the embarcadero, joe vazquez. >> a lot of people skipped work today even the oracle ceo larry ellison to come watch the races. he was supposed to give the keynote address, but here he is on his yacht instead. the final deciding race is set for tomorrow as joe says. 1. 15, again, if weather cooperates. san francisco police need your help niebding a guy who killed the man on muni. the 20-year-old man was shot to death just before 10:00 last night as he got off an muni metro car in ran doll f and bright streets in eng l side. take a close look at the suspect. he's asian between 20 and 30 years old with a stocky build. he was wearing a black baseball hat, white hooded jack sxet blue jeans before he got away. police say the attack apierce to be random and unprovoked. also tonight iran says it's ready to talk about its nuclear program. president obama and ie rainian president both addressed the assembly today but did not meet in person face to face. in his speech, he spoke out in support of the syrian government, reiterated i ran's desire to have nufk lar power and said nuclear weapons have no place in i ran's defense plans. the two presidents could meet tomorrow. according to cbs news poll out tonight, 40% of americans disapprove of the way president obama is handling relations with iran. >> at the expense of the middle class. >> here's a live look at the senate floor where republican senator ted cruz is trying to out filibuster some of his political pierce. he's been talking almost 12 hours all in what what everyone know social security an attempt to stop obama care. his kids were watching him. >> it was very cool when he can make them do a flip high in the air and catch them. i'll credit my father. he invented green eggs and ham. do you like green eggs and ham? i do not like them sam i am, i do not like green eggs and ham. >> eight white castle restaurants a year. i like their little burgers. >> the federal government will run out of money to pay its bills next tuesday, october 1st. that's also the day the affordable care act goes into effect. tonight we spotted video on you tube of a bay area guy coming face to face with a bear in the sierra. wait till you see how he handled it, and only on 5 you'll hear the story he told christin ayers. >> hey, bear! we're here. you want to turn back. >> the bear was just coming up the trail, and so i was just kind of like, you can't -- we're going to have to figure this out because there's nowhere for him to go, nowhere for know go. >> a close call with a black bear in the sierra captured on a camera phone. >> weir here. you can go around. >> kevin burton ceo was hike solo through king's canyon two weeks ago. lucky for him, this was not his first meet wg a bear. >> i've had about a dozen encounters with bear. >> it's a good thing. burton new exactly what to do. >> with a black bear, you kind of want to actually intimidate them. >> so burton announced himself. he also knew to make himself appear bigger than he is. his assertiveness paid off. black bears are known for being timid, and this one shied away, making his way around burton. >> the great thing about going in the wilderness are those moments. >> hey, bear! we're here. you want to turn back. >> this moment, one he won't soon forget. christin ayers, kpix 5. >> of course, that was a run of the mill california black bear. now, of course, if confronted with a grizzly bear, you basically want to do the opposite of what that guy did. play dead. >> okay. a bay area prosports team -- i got the chills -- comes face to face with a military tank. why it crashed through practice. you want to know when the next big earthquake will hit, the early warning system coming to california. think your boss is up to no good? 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control and broke the concrete barrier like it was styrofoam. >> like a crunch or crash. >> pretty much a loud bang. >> san jose earthquake's president dave was at the team's practice field when the tank crashed about 10 feet away from goalie john bush. >> luckily there was a barricade and fence in between, and luckily there was, like, an awning so you couldn't really see through. i think if you could have seen it, it probably would have been more frightening. >> bae system has been testing tanks at san jose facility for years. the bae track butts right up against the team property. an employee told the mercury news the tank was not going above the track speed limit. >> they said different tank tracks that they have in the tank weren't well sutd for the -- i guess, the speed so it went around the bend and just crashed straight into it. >> no one was injured. the tank didn't even look like tad scratch. in san jose, kiet do, kpix 5. >> bae told the team it will look into changing the orientation of the track or to try to prevent future tank crashes. have you ever suspected that your boss is up to something shady? well, allen martin shows us how you can get paid for spilling the baens on pirated software. >> in the old days, spoth pirates used to be easy, but not anymore. >> worldwide we're looking at a 42% piely sa rate which equates to $63.4 billion a year commercial loss. >> demonstrating a commitment --. >> peter heads up enforcement for the business software alliance. it's an industry group that hunts down software pirates on behalf of more than 80 companies, including apple, adobe and microsoft. >> bsa receives about 2500 tips a year. >> he says napping pirates depends on those tips from inform mants like chuck cost. >> having the programming software we use literally said you're on day 245 of a 30-day trial. >> cost is a computer science teacher who says he got frustrated when his district wouldn't stop using pirates software. >> let us ask questions. you know, you're telling us to legally download our music, but we're using software here that expired three years ago. >> so he filed a report through the bsa's inform mant web site, no piracy.org. >> you had to be concerned about your job or some sort of retaliation maybe. >> it crossed your mind but really no. it was very confidential. >> he can't mean the school district he ratted on. that, too, is confidential. turns out businesses that are caught can pay extra to keep the settlement confidential. we know of at least one bay area company busted last year. it was here at this office park in pleasanton. it was called litigation solution an online legal firm that has since closed down. the owner told us he paid the fine but didn't have what he calls the hush money. punishment is harsh. >> the tine can be up to $150,000 for each infringed title. if the matter is pursued criminally, the niens jump up to $250,000 with the possibility of five years in jail. >> in pleasanton, allen martin, kpix 5. >> some of the money from fine social -- fines is used to pay the rewards but only about half of tip sters actually ask for it. a bay area woman could become a saint. kora e vans lived in boulder creek and died back in 1957. once upon a time, evans was a mormon but converted to catholicism. she was a mystic. now, in order to be the vatican would need to find evidence of two miracles. there are some 10,000 saints but none from california. a couple of people standing down by the marina green going i saw a miracle. >> kidding. >> i saw a boat go by that had oracle written on it that a week ago had no chance of being here today. 8 to 10. now, it's 8-8. >> wind is going to increase but uong weir going to hit that threshold where it's too much wind. all of you want to come into the city tomorrow, swert going to be okay for it all be it a bit breezy. we have ourselves mainly clear skies with a beautiful moonlit night we are having. oakland touched down the bay bridge. no low cloud cover to speak of. chilly night, though. we're going to lose that heat pretty quickly. napa down to 50. fairfield 52. oakland 57. redwood city 54. sunrise one minute after 7:00. mentioned earlier the wind is picking up. higher elevations really going to pick up late tomorrow. that will increase the fire danger. then we're going to get warmer. that's going to drop the humidity level. that will also increase the fire danger. fire weather watch has been issued for all higher elevations all throughout the bay area from tomorrow night until friday morning so fire danger on the increase but temperatures aren't, at least not yet. menlo park tomorrow sunny but cooler. high not even hitting 70 degrees. talk about what's going on because we have the on shore flow. it's strong. it will be stronger for you tomorrow. that's why temperatures are going to be dropping. low pressure passing by to the north. lots of rain fall for the northwest. we don't get the rain this time unlike saturday but will 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Boulder-creekCaliforniaUnited-statesOaklandIranEmbarcaderoSan-leandroRedwood-cityBostonMassachusettsSyriaNew-zealand marriage equality is about to take a big step forward in the eyes of the federal government. tonight attorney general eric holder will announce a major policy shift for the justice department. he'll issue a directive granting equal status to all married couples including same-sex couples. holder is giving a speech tonight in new york where courtney has more. what is expected tonight? >> reporter: well, jonathan, he's expected to make news. now, they are doing sound checks behind me so you can already tell that this is going to be quite the celebratory evening. it's a fundraiser for a known game rights organization. now, the news that he is going to be making tonight is he's going to be announcing, the slid identification of the department of justice policy aimed at irradicating the discrimination of same-sex couples with federal law. the three key points are under the criminal justice system the accident same-sex couples will enjoy the same legal rights as heaheterosexual couples in termf not having to testify against each other in civil and criminal cases, being able to file bankruptcy. again we are having the sound check, also he will be announcing a lot of news. as you can tell they are already getting the sound system ready for his remarks, jonathan. >> so celebration expected there tonight, courtney. it's been a big year obviously for game rights activist this is past year. hour significant are these changes? are you getting any early reaction from activists there? >> reporter: it's big news. people here already have smiles on their faces and gearing up for a big party. this comes off the back as you remember of the supreme court declaring it uncon unconstitutio degreed al benefits to same-sex couples last june, this is a continuation to reright rules to lessen discrimination. and holder is quite a game rights champion. you'll sigh a big, packed ballroom this evening. >> without question. we'll have more on our later shows tonight. thank you. thousands of marching for civil rights in north carolina. it's called the moral march. the group's organizations posted photos online at today's rally? raleigh. they are mad at new policies like voter i.d. laws which protesters call immoral and uncons tugsal. more than 900 people were arrested at last yi march. although it did remain peaceful. in west virginia residents are still worried their without sport safe. they filed a competition against the department of health. hundreds of people marched today angry about the chemical spill last month that cut the water off to 300,000 people. andy joins us live from charleston, west virgina. andy, what happened at the protest today? >> reporter: well, it got noisey for a while, jonathan. health officials say despite the odd smell of licorice in the water it is still safe. the demonstrators who don't buy it have now turned their anger away from the company that caused the chemical spill towards the company trying to manage it. hundreds of people marched saturday from a charleston church to the city's water company. last month, they were furious at freedom industries for causing the chemical spill. which shut off access to water for 300,000 charleston residents. but today, they are protesting the water company, accusing it of not providing enough compensation for the he is special of losing their water the th organizer of the rally sd 14 schools were close aids couple of days ago because of smelly water there is no con phipps defense the problems have been fixed. >> who do you trust is the community question right now? we get such cringe re contradicu things from day-to-day. i was told it was safe to take a hour and i can did and i got infections. >> reporter: the tide is turning for local politicians who have long supported businesses like freedom industries. >> marches like this hopefully will show them that industry may be their gravy train but there are other industries who really wants to be here and who really want to do a really good job for our state. >> reporter: these folks say the protests will continue. >> this is a place worth fighting for. >> reporter: those demonstrators are each mailing a list of their demands to the water company, each putting them in an envelope that each contains a piece of black licorice, jonathan. >> okay, andy live for us in charleston tonight. thank you. west virginia towns not affected by the chemical spill now too are in need of water. seed or grove rushed to help during the crisis, it shipped water for neighbors unable to use their taps, but all that demands how now strained the system. >> the reservoir tanks are down to next to nothing. they have been serving everyone for a month. and now they need help. >> the town hopes to truck in water from other counties to help refill their own supply. ivon supreme leader did not hold anything back when he said the u.s. would overthrow iran's government if given the chance in a very blunt speech told a crowd of air force officers that america is living when it says that it's friends with iran. he cautions officials economic recovery may not come from sanctions relief. offered in that nuclear power deal. the supreme leader was speaking at a ceremony for the anniversary of the 1979 islamic revolution. more and more civilians are being killed in afghanistan. a u.n. report out today says not since 2009 have so many women and children there been attacked. al jazerra's jane ferguson has more now from kabul. >> reporter: it's people like this who bleed the post in conflict. civilians, shot, blown up and battered by two warring sides. a teen aimer was simply standing too close to a suicide bomber last week. >> translator: there was an explosion, it threw me and i was unconscious. after that i got up and was very dizzy. i fell down again. i couldn't see. >> reporter: he is part i've growing number of civilian casualties here. according to a u.n. report released on saturday, 2013 saw an increase across the board of civilians being injured or killed compared to 2012. most of the casualties were caused by anti-government versus says the report. the taliban say they don't target civilians and reject the findings. when civilian casualties increase that, of course, includes children, children like here, around 11 years old injured in a bombing where she's from. but in this ward even younger than her is her here, we think she's around two years old, injured in the head by a bullet. one of the very young victims of afghanistan's war. 561 children were killed in the fighting last year. those in charge of this hospital in kabul say women and children are dieing more because the war has changed. once a cat and mice game with foreign forces as they leave the taliban is confidently engaging afghan forces and the intense battle grounds are flanked by villages, farms and schools. assassinations are also on the rise says the u.n. targeted killing of civilians, these are anybody who is not directly participating in the hostilities is a very serious thing. it may amount to a war crime under humanitarian law. >> reporter: but people here don't care who pulls the trigger or why. to them, life is trying to survive the relentless march of this continuous war. jane ferguson, al jazerra, kabul afghanistan. an aid convoy was taxed in sear ye today. state tv says four red crescent workers were hurt in the of h.o.m.s. one truck shot. a mortar shell landed near another. there are con nibbling reports about who is responsible. the fighting cut short the three-day seize fire reached yesterday so aid could be delivered. earlier today 80 people were evacuated, more expected to leave throughout the week as part of the deal. in bosnia after days of protest, there was relative calm in the streets, people have been protesting the government since wednesday. who hundred hurt after police used batons and tear gas to fight protest he is setting the capital afire. tim friend reports from air area owe. >> reporter: the anger here is still growing mainly aimed at politicians who the country blaine for the country's economic crisis. >> not past 20 years, 25 years, we are suffering from our government, we are not doing anything, we are just, oh, my god, we are live in a bad country but nobody does anything. >> reporter: unemployment is at a record high. the worst figures in the balance cans. while neighboring countries have made economic progress, bosnia has stagnated. overnight, violence erupted. the targets were government buildings, and factories which had laid off thousands of workers. in central sarajevo. government archives and other important documents were destroyed in the blaze. protesters were out on the streets again on saturday, this time demonstrating peacefully. sarajevo has not seen violence like this since the end of the war in 1995. some of these buildings have stood since the hungarian empire, but now they have been severely damaged but the anger of the crowd. some politicians admit that the public have been let down by an unwheeledding system of government. >> this is an outcry of the people of bosnia. no matter where they live to basically bring the judgment over the politics that has been -- that has produced these problems over the last 20 years. and this is basically -- this has a revolutionary connotation in terms of that people are really dissatisfied, they want changes, and they are aware that if they don't go out on the streets and basically do something physically about their destinies, that these politicians won't do much for them. >> reporter: the government has called some of the protesters hooligans. but even those who did not take part in the violence say that they can understand why it happened. and pressure is growing on ministers to take immediate action to somehow revive the economy. tim friend, al jazerra, sarajevo. >> and joining us now live from sarajevo, director of social overview service, it's a sarajevo-based think thank you live there and i am curious how is it there and how why spread is the anger? >> well, this was definitely the biggest and the widest spread protest that we have seen and the biggest event since the end of the war. we have seen things developing in sarajevo, today after the horrible day of violence yesterday, today the situation has calmed down a little bit. but there are still protests going in several places and what is interesting and encouraging is that we have seen people in places like sarajevo gathering and cleaning the place with the message to politicians we are cleaning our mess, so should you. >> so explain to us, then what is the source of all of this anger? where is this coming from? >> well, the anger is coming from a cal accumulated frustrats after many years of political crisis which had a terrible impact on the economic and social situation especially since the last elections in 2010 when specially in the federation, essentially political scene did he since grated in to an all-out war with almost every political fraction shun fighting each other in various combinations which has logged the reform process. and further enforced european union to belong to -- block funds in the amount of some 50 million euros for the country. >> do you get the impression by what you have seen in recent days that bosnia is possibly on the brink of a revolution? >> it's really difficult to say. and the situation is definitely unpredictable. new protests are scheduled for tomorrow and for monday. i would like to say that bosnia herzegovina does not have much of a culture of civic engagement, this is part of the reason and part of the frustration that people did not have a normal communication with politicians, now what we are seeing as a result of this is over the three regional government were forsed to resign so we are interesting into in a known territory. no one knows who will take over the power in some of these regions as a monday. and how the protesters will continue, they have come up with some very concrete demands, regarding the establishment of new governments. but a part of the problem is that the country facing new elections in october, so it is highly unlikely that the country could have early elections in the next two weeks or months because it's too close to the october elections. >> a lot of unknows there. thank you. with social services in sarajevo. thank you for your time today. to the ukraine now where restlessness is knowing. thousands of people faced government wrote testers many of fed up with months of revolz, they squared off against a police barricade but it did not turn violent. they immediate with one man who says he won't leave until the government does. >> my name is victor, i am from political party people's movement of ukraine. i am here from [inaudible] from november 2000 for 10 years. in this huge are living 20 people. it's our headquarter. headquarter. >> reporter: so where do you sleep? >> yes, yes. here our people is -- are sleeping. are sleeping. >> reporter: it looks very comfortable. >> no, ma'a comfortable. comfortable. >> state in state. state and kill. we have our police, our army, [inaudible] service, and our people are on this barricade all day. ukraine is historically is the part of europe and we will be with europe. we hope that parliament take decision which we want. >> reporter: if they do not take a decision, which you want -- >> no, no, no. we will stand here to victory. we will stand here to victory. >> one of the many voice says in ukraine today. disturbing news about an american missionary being held in north korea. the. not all winter games in sochi. a competition of ice and snow. that's ahead on al jazerra. ♪ ♪ well, apparently athletics sunday enough to win a gold medal in sochi. al jazerra has more on the technology behind the games. >> becoming an olympic athlete takes years of train, the blood, sweat, and tears and dedication, does an athlete need more than that to win it all? now that the olympic games in sochi are underway, we'll see how technology is playing a role and giving athletes that edge to bring home the ultimate prize, a gold medal. joining me now is jenny editor of popular science. in preparation of the went every games the u.s. team worked with engineers, scientist to his develop the ultimate technology. now, did the u.s. have do that to be competitive with other countries? >> they do the olympics have become somewhat of an arms race, teams working with district scientists and engineers to make their technology the best. the place you really see that is in the winter games because they are so rerights on equipment, like skis, snowboards and skill skeleton sweats. >> olympic skiers have been training in the high-tech winds tunnel what does that do? >> you don't get much practice in the middle i've jump. what though is go signed a wind tunnel where they stand there and practice their form and see which parts of their former actually creating the most drag and adjust their bodies. the u.s. team found a wind tunnel near their home base in utah and retrofitted it to practice in it. built ski bindings in the middle of the floor and projects the drag data where they can see it. they can practice all they want and take what they learned to the gee jumps. >> snowboarders have a reputation of being chill but are very competitive when you been it. this year the members are wearing a device tracking their g force and speed and velocity, what is this device. >> it's actually made by catapult sports called the mini max s4 and they strap it to their butts when doing training hundreds in the halfpipe it has an excelling romster and measures their g-force. it lets them figure out how to adjust their form to get the maximum speed which will make them -- their tricks even brith and that's what snowboarding is all about, it's all about going big. >> we'll have much more on the story coming untonight at 8:00 p.m. eastern time. including how the u.s. bobsled team has been working with bmw to create the ultimate driving machine. as for the action on the ice, the first gold medal awarded at the sochi games went to an american snowboarder. if you said shaun white, wrong answer. i am talking about sage kotsenburg, the 20-year-old kid from park city utah had to qualify earlier in the day in the slopestyle competition which is making it's a olympic debut. but when he qualified he tweeted whoa, how random is this, i made the finals of the olympics. not only did he make it, he captured a gold med and did so with a trick that he's never done before. kotsenburg calls it the holy grail. four and a half rotations while catching some serious air and he nailed it, scoring a 93.50. cat sen berg saicot sen said bee decided it do it half way through his run because he says i do random stuff all the time. that's who i am. hey, lady is. the women's hockey team 532nd in the game, hillary knight scored the first goal for the red, white and blue as the americans win 3-1 against a very good finland team who captured the bronze medal four years ago. team usa will continue qualifying against switzerland on monday. one of the hot topics of the sochi games has been about the awful, awful hotel conditions from yellow water to missing light bulbs and door knobs that do not open. don't believe me. check this out. american bobsledder johnny quinn had to bust out of his bathroom because apparently he got locked in after taking a shower. so, quinn, decided to go incredible hulk and use his bobsled train to go breakout. it helps that quinn also use today play football in the nfl and cfl and hopefully he will be good to be once the bobsled competition starts on february 16th. that's a big hole. but he's 6-foot. 220. >> locked in the bathroom sabotage maybe, i wonder. >> maybe. >> and you know, we were saying earlier it looks like the summer olympics out there, frankly the weather is so nice in sochi. >> meteorologist: it's beautiful. do you want to go there with me? >> let's go. >> meteorologist: very mild this time of year. not saying that sochi is the warmest playing to ever host the winter olympics and temperature is very comfortable. this is a look at each the main umaintain us terrain and the events are held in the high he have elevations where they are pecks a little bit of snow as when he had in to monday and tuesday down in the city of sochi which is right along the coastline the black sea there which helps to mitigate the cooler temperatures which you are used to. but mild temperatures expected the next couple of days, temperatures going to be in the upper 50s, pushing 60. right around sochi. light rain as i said expected in sochi and a little bit of light snow to dust the mountains in the higher elevations and as i already said it's the warm he had city to ever host the winter olympics according to nasa. we have more snow to talk about on the west coast of the sr*r are very good news after exceptionaexceptional levels of. pineapple express the river the moisture pushing in out of the hawaiian islands travels further air cross the east and northern california, right now winter storm warnings in effect, that's snow falling across the sierra all the way from y yosemite park which is gorgeous in the went time especially when it's covered with snow down in to king's canyon and the spread i stream of moisture not looking to quit. winter storm warnings in effect we could see anywhere from two to three feet of needed snow, so this is great news. that rain coming down also along i-5 in northern california all wait towards fresno. now, remember that the ground has been very, very dry. and so with all of that sunshine, some of the oils from the roadways have been seeping up to the surface when you combine that with the rain that's when we see a lot of accidents out west, so please be careful in you are traveling just a little bit further towards the east it is cold, jonathan. back to you. >> cold indeed. as you know, it has been a harsh winter and it is not over yet. but not everyone is complaining about the snow. some actually find it inspiring. al jazerra'al jazerra reports f. >> reporter: the winter games may sochi, but for these artists in chicago, the competition is heating up. 27 teams both foreign and domestic are taking part in the sixth annual international snow sculpting competition. >> we have a number of teams from warm-weather climates and they practice with sand. so it's pretty amazing how they practice to get prepared for this event. >> reporter: each of the 15 professional and 12 student teams begins with a 10 by eight by eight solid block of highly compressed snow. >> well, we have to tap it up like we are doing here, and we use the other can to compress it. and then we continue that over and over and over. >> reporter: the better the snow compression the easier it is for sculptors to work with. from there, the teams begin the process of chipping away at the snow block. some use small clay models to help good the painstaking process of creating their arctic sculptures, everything from monitors to the abstract. while a balmy 30 to degrees fahrenheit is ideal to building snow men may seem great to snow scumming, that'sculpting, that'. the single digit temperatures are better. under 10 degrees is better for us. last year we were at about 32 degrees and we had a collapse the day before judging and we had to rebuild. >> reporter: this year mike and his wisconsin team are fairing better, with their death moth discuss the trusculpture. the freezing temperatures are a drastic change from their hometown of mexico. >> yeah, it's okay. it's okay, because we are moving and the sun is shining and everything is okay. >> reporter: so for these artists with the competitive streak and a penchant for the frigid it's all part of the fun. and with palm trees knit middle of thmidin themiddle of two winn complain. still ahead in america, the over and under on the minimum wage we'll take closer look at what americans are actually making. plus a spanish princess makes history in court. and welcome back to al jazerra america. here say look at our top stories this half hour. justice department is giving more rights to game couples, tonight the attorney general is expected to announce the department will grant full equal treatment for same-sex married couples in the federal court system. this move would provide marital privilege and couples living in states that do not recognize game marriage. violent protests in bosnia saturday marked the fifth dave protests in that country where 25% of the people do not have jobs, government buildings ransacked and set on fire as thousands took to the streets. now aid workers injured in homs this voids the three-day seize fire reached on friday. rebels and the syrian government are pointing the fink at one another for the out break in violence. ray new jobs report showed many americans are making more money. overage hourly earnings up 2% to $24 an hour. millions still make less than minimum wage patricia has more. >> let's go, let's go. >> reporter: training to trade up. this program by the northern manhattan improvement corporation teaches young adults construction trades that can may $50 or more an hour, substantially more than the 7.25 an hour 23-year-old single mother tanisha anderson used to earn. >> being on minimum wage was like -- it's like you was living day by day almost, you had to budget and things and it's like i never really -- i never really thought that it would be as hard as it was. >> reporter: the program gets calls daily from applicants like anderson trying to escape an inflation-eroded wage floor that hasn't been lifted in almost five years. >> america deserves a raise. and there is overwhelming consensus. the people are ahead of the -- some of the politicians here in washington, across an ideological spectrum. people understand that you can't make end me on 7.25. and that we should reward hard work with a fair wage. >> reporter: advocates argue increasing the minimum wage to $10.10 an hour would have positive knock ons throughout the economy. lifting wages further up the scale. increasing output by $22 billion. and creating roughly 85,000 new jobs. president obama has turned up the pressure on congress, using his executive powers to raise the minimum wage of federal contractors to 10.10 an hour and placing retailers like costco for [inaudible] creasing employee pay bought government prompting. but opponents arc hiking the minimum wage could harm small businesses and lead to job losses. >> now, there is a law of demand which is also called common says that says the higher the price of anything the less people take of it. and it applies to workers as well. >> reporter: while congress debates, tanisha anderson will keep working toward a better paying job. patricia, al jazerra, new york. anti-immigrant bias in housing is nothing new but a landmark case in new york could become a mod the for communities who are fighting it. al jazerra's kalin ford has more on that. >> reporter: ever since he came to the united states from honduras 19 years ago, juan antonio has called farmingdale home. >> translator: i have liked this community since i came here but finding housing has been a problem. >> reporter: he set until a low income housing complex in 2004 then told they had to leave. >> we were kicked out early one october morning because there was an emergency, but it is a small emergency to have evacuated everyone. that same night my friend christina contacted profess ore stephon and that's how the long fight began. >> reporter: he and his law students took on the case for free, suing the lan authority make repairslandlord to makerefr when they found tud it was tagger towed for other area. >> the people were tagger ned the area. the latinos 78 the building was sold to make way for they can luxury apartments, that year stephon took the case to federal court. >> we sued to be able to get comprehension for the clients, for being evicted from this building. but we also sued to force the village to replace the 54 units of housing that had been destroyed for low income people. >> we are working for the people of this community, looking after their lawns, looking after the irrigation systems for their homes. so if they don't want them in the community, but they want them to be doing the work for them. >> reporter: the case stretched on for more than eight years. >> i never imagined that in my second year i would be given assignments on complex housing discrimination civil rights case. >> reporter: right before it was due to go to court the case was settled. the settlement garn fees 54 units of affordable housing will be built but they won't be guaranteed housing here where they once lift. farmingdale's mayor helped broker the settlement which includes undisclosed compensation for the nine plaintiffs. >> farmingdale is and will continue to be a model for affordable housing, we believe that 10 to 20% of the projects that come in to the vellum should be affordable and work fours hog. >> reporter: that means staying in the community where he has worked and lived for decades. >> translator: it's hardening that the authorities have finally taken us in to account. they know we contribute to the community just as there are professionals here, we day labor ares are also part of the working life of the town. >> reporter: a town that will include affordable housing for years to think come, thanks for the perseverance of the nine immigrants, kalin ford, al jazerra, farmingdale, new york. state capitals across the country law makers are dealing with an unexpected dilemma of budget surplus, two dozen states are taking in more than spending. sometimes much more. new york now enjoys a $2 billion surplus. these states are in the black for a variety of reasons, north dakota's revenues grew as it's a gas and drilling industry expanded in some places suhr sus was the result of higher taxes joining us now from san francisco is david crane with the stanford ins doubt of economic and policy research. we hear these numbers, surplus sounds good, what does this tell us about the economy overall? >> good afternoon, jonathan. it depends on the state. so, for example, in california, where i am, the fact that the state has more revenues is mostly a function of the stock market going up 30% last year. and real estate markets doing well. and that's because california taxes capital gains at ordinary rates. and a lot of the income that the state gets is based upon unpredictable stock and real estate investment market. which is why governor brown rightfully has said don't spend it, because it's highly likely toy vanity wait over the next year. other states oftentimes the revenues do reflect an improving economy because their tax systems are more closely a tuned to their economy. but that's not the ca us in california. >> so is that a real concern that this is short-lived, they might be back in to a deficit? >> well, there are two concerns, one is that in states like california, again, not all states are like california and very dependent upon capital gains, but the other big concern is that governments get to use a unique form of accounting that nonprofits and corporations and others do not get to use. they get to use something called cash-base budgeting. for example this year in california, the state expects a four plus billion dollars surplus but that's because the not recognizing more than $6 billion of costs. it's not paying contributions for retirement benefits, that it's otherwise required to pay. but by not paying them, they don't have to record those aspenses, so that's really the bigger problem. and that's not true just for california. it's true of many states across the country. >> so are you saying that these numbers are not as encouraging as they might be and that these states are using accounting gym it's icgimmicks to make it looke they are larger surpluses than they actually do? >> yes. two things, the revenues are at risk because they are not dependable and secondly that the expenses aren't being fully recognized and so therefore there aren't really surpluses and that's why former chairman of the federal reserve fall voelker and former lieutenant governor of new york who form a commission on the state budget crisis their number one recommendation on that commission of which i was a member government should be forced to use the same acting of everyone else and that would allow the problems to be recognized immediately rather than pushed off. the real consequence by the way is for the next generation, by not recognizing the expenses today, by saying we have a surplus, when we really don't, what happened is that those expenses accrue interest and grow and become very large liabilities for the next generation. >> so meanwhile there has been a debate in state capital as cross the country i about what to do with all this money, should they spend it, put in rainy day funds, what do you think is the best course of action? >> in a state like california they should use the money to pay down debt. the rainy day fund this california which is otherwise a good idea would earn 1%, money that just goes in to a bank account. the debt that they are not paying down related to the expenses that they are not recognizing accrues interests at rates as high as 7 1/2 person, one of the liabilities they are not paying in california is for the teacher pension fund, that liability they are not paying is over $3 billion it grows at 7 1/2% a year that's where they should use the money and the governor recognizes that. there is another big liability toy rostislav he tire-y health care, another $3 billion. [inaudible] krugeinning kruger r and a half percent. >> we'll see if the lay makers agree, david crane. thank you for your time today. >> thank you. new information in the case of kenneth bay the american missionary jailed in north career has been tr-pbs ford now to a labor camp. he has been held for more than a year after being se sentence toy 15 years of hard labor. he's accused of trying to over overthrow the state. some u.s. law makers on the ground humanitarian mission to cuba. the congressional delegation an american serving 15 years there, and they toured the detention center in guantanmo bay. bail refused for a father killing in a theater for texting it. the hearing shows surveillance video from inside the theater. >> reporter: it was supposed to be an ordinary afternoon at a movie theater north of tampa. but before the movie even started, one man was dead and two wives were devastated. prosecutors say 43-year-old chad olsen was textng his babysitter during the previews. his two-year-old daughter was sick. the theater was empty, but prosecutors say curtis reeves sat down behind olsen and tapped him on the shoulder and told him to stop texting. then reeves we want to get the manager. when he returned he continue to argue with olsen. the surveillance video showed in court appears to show olsen throwing popcorn. then you see reeves reach for his pistol and shoot. reeves shot olsen once in the chest and killed him. olsen's wife was shot in the hand by the same bullet. witnesses say she had her happened on her husband's chest. in an interview with police immediately after the shooting, reeves said he shot because he was scared. reeves says he was hit with a cell phone, prosecutors dispute it and say there was no sign that anything but reeves' pride was injured. olsen's wife spoke to the reporters after the judge denied bail. >> i am very happy and relieved by the judge's ruling i have no doubt in my mind that it was the right decision. >> reporter: reeves' attorney says it hinges on self defense, his client had been assaulted. he said it's too soon to say whether he will use the controversial stand your ground law as a defense but sited it several times in court. that aal jazerra, dade city, fl. new testimony in yet another florida case put the stand your ground law back in court. a crime scene investigator said that nine bullet holes were found in the suv in which teenage are jordan davis was killed back in november of 2012. the man on trial is 47-year-old michael dunn, not him, who is white accused of shooting an african-american teen after arguing over loud music, dunn was carrying a 9-millimeter handgun for which he had a concealed pep are weapons permit. prince christina appeared in court in spain to face accusations of fraud and corruption it's the first time in history a member of the spanish royal family has been involved in a criminal investigation. more from spain. >> reporter: no royal fanfare for the duchess as she approached the court on saturday morning, princess christina appears calm, almost cheerful as he entered the courthouse greeting the press on her way insides. on the other side of the building, there was little sympathy for her plight. republican demonstrators gathered outside this is within scandal that has fueled anti-monarchy feeling in the country. >> what spaniards are living say comedy. we are being defrauded by the monarchy, what we need is food and jobs. >> translator: we as citizens need to take some responsibility because corruption is a symptom of society's failure to deal with it. >> reporter: this is the out cool of a second attempt to question the duchess about her finances. she is suspected of tax fraud and money laundering at the company she co owned with her husband. he, in turn, is accused of using his nonprofit organization to embezzle public funds, investigate ares have allegedly undercover billings to the companying, for their mansion as well as privates dance classes at their home. her lawyer said that she had been looking forward to this day to prove her innocence. the involve of princess christina in one of the most high profile corruption scanned little in the country has been a blow for the monarchy i, even though the royal household has tried to create a distance between them and the rest of the royal family. floss doubt the damage has been done done and will take an enormous amount of every effort to try to reverse it. >> translator: the public doesn't tolerate corruption, stealing funds or ta*bgs fraud d all of this has been reflected. this is why this case has left the public disenfranchised from the royals. >> reporter: it's left many angered in light of how the financial crisis here as affected the lives of ordinary people. that members of the royal family were allegedly involved in such cases has only increased dissolution. with the country's establishment. >> beatle mania again descend odd new york city. marking the 50-year anniversary of the fab fours visits to the u.s., the beatles flew to the states back in 1964 met by thousands of screaming fans, days after they touched down they made their first u.s. television appearance in five decades later a plaque was unveiled at jfk airport with fans singing a lot to the cover bands. and when the beatles arrived in the u.s., vinyl records were king back them. the music business went digital long ago but vinyl never fully went away. now as jonathan reports, it's making a come back. >> in this location the first beatles seven-inch in america was presses. >> reporter: it's the largest vinyl record plant in the u.s. for more than 60 years united record pressing in nashville was been making is examine distributing vinyl all over the world. 30 hydraulic presses push out one album every 30 seconds. >> it seems like magic a little bit. but the whole process is a science and a skill as well as an art. >> reporter: cds all but killed the lp industry 30 years ago but final sales have turned a corner in 2013lp sales increased by more than 30%. of course, while the trend is up, the number of vinyl albums sold is still a tiny fraction of music sales. and for what is behind the resurgence, audio files have always said music just sounds better on vinyl. >> few would debate that it's the best sound experience. >> reporter: but there is also a revival of the appreciation of the object itself. from the cover to the inside sleeve, albums put art at the forefront of the musical experience. >> those people who prefer having something tactile and want that optimum listening experience, are the people who have gone back to vinyl. >> jack white solo album blunder bust in 2012 was the highest selling vinyl lp in the united states that year. >> reporter: jack white on lps is nothing new, he started his label third man records five years ago and since the beginning, albums have been a key components. >> it's always been on vinyl. so we have never stopped. this isn't new to us. >> reporter: what is new is that while album sales are climbing, digital music downloads are diving. in 2013, for the first time since the dawn of i itunes digital sales fame. on demands streaming, online radio and to a much smaller degree, vinyl all corrected to the decline. final is so hot in the albums are moving so fast, the record store just expanded adding one here in nashville. it's not just records flying off shelves, turntables are hot commodities too. >> it's fairly addicting i find once a sale somebody a turntable they are in here every week. >> reporter: most vinyl releases come with a digital component giving collector the analog sounds they enjoy with the convenience they love. showing once again vinyl has staying power to keep on spinning through generations to come. jonathan martin, al jazerra, nashville. >> what's old is new again,. still ahead on al jazerra america, the real men behind the new movie monuments men. we'll tell you about the artwork they saved from the nazis. plus an extraordinary discover any england, human footprint thoughts to be 800,000 years old. >> with al jazeera america. it is the true story behind a movie out in theaters. during world war ii the monuments men were art curators and historians who volunteered to help rescue artistic treasurers from the nazi. another mission was also underway not in the battlefields but in the museum. >> it's the one thing we can't allow. >> reporter: the monuments men builds itself as the true ahead men viewers of a bands of brothers on the greatest treasure hunt in hint. george clooney's character leads a crew who knew more about michelangelo than military tactics. the character of sam epstein played by dimitri, was inspired by harry, at 88 years young, he's one of the few living members of the monuments men. born in germany, his family fled for america in 1938. the day after his bar mitzvah. >> the >> the rabbi recommended that we leave that afternoon for a ab eye to tell a jewish person to travel on saturday is a sync but that's the way the conditions were. >> reporter: he would return to germany a 19-year-old u.s. army private and ended up with the monuments men by accident when heading for the front an officer discovered that he was fluent in inner man. >> he said, good, sit down in that chair and this guy next to you will tell what you to do. and that's my entry in to the monuments men. >> reporter: he would spend much of the rest of the war sorting through thousands of plundered works of art stashed in salt mines deep underground. the goal return them to their rightful owners. so this is one of the works rescued by the monuments men. >> it was indeed. it was the collection of lou i nathaniel rothschild and his entire collection was looted. >> reporter: but another side of the story would play out high above europe. alied bomber pilots of maps of targets to hit. but they also had more than 700 maps like these, drawn up by a team working in the frick art reference library in new york. so these maps are literally to make sure these buildings didn't get destroyed or bombed. >> that's right. they were distribute today the air corp. so that the bombing pilots would the not hit the leaning tower of pizza. or not hit the mother church of franciscan order. >> reporter: without the efforts, the leaning tower of pizza might have been reduce today rubble. >> thr-rl 54 bombings rates on pizza alone, the fact that the tower and the cathedral are still standing is something of a miracle. >> reporter: a miracle made possible by a war-time decision to safeguard rather than detroit. >> i believe it's the only time that a country at war bent over backwards to preserve the cultural treasures of the enemy. >> reporter: for there y, being a monuments man say source of patriotism. >> for a brief period of time in civilization, a country adapted a policy not to take things, but to return it to their rightful own are. i am american and am very proud of doing that. >> reporter: proud of honest that saved millions of cultural treasurers from the most destructive war in history. all, al jazerra, new york? great story there. most history. in england archeologists have found footprints believed to be athlete 800,000 years olds, samardzija spoke with bill kimble from arizona state university about what this discovery means for human evolution. >> the scientists who have authored this paper today are reporting the discovery of footprints made by some of the earliest inning lab tats tans of northern ube europe and in particular great britain. roughly 800,000, perhaps a little over 900,000 years old, they represent a small number of different individuals, some of whom they infer to have been young and others adult. based on the size of the footprints. together they have a series of footprints that help us discern how early europeans moved about the landscape, the sorts of behavior in terms of finalling they might have been engaged in, about their height and weight which we can tell from footprints. they are by no means the earliest footprints of human ancestors but these are the earliest in our. footprints outside o of africa e very rare. we have the ability to take one step closer if you will to the actual individuals who were walk on the grounds landscape in this part of northern europe hundreds of thousands of years ago, one step closer because we don't have to rely only on their fossil or ar archeological refi, but instead can actually see where the feet hit the ground so to speak. and to learn something about their body weight, the size of their strides, how fast they might have moved during various sometimes of behavior like forging or moving from place to place. apparently the footprints include both young and older individuals. perhaps something even about social structure of these early europeans. each of these prints needs to be studied in great detail and compared to the footprints that have been found in other places in other times in order to make sense of them in the context of the scheme of human evolution. >> our thanks to bill kimmel from arizona state university. quite a history there. more headlines when we come back after this quick break. >> ground breaking... >> we have to get out of here. >> truth seeking... al jazeera america's breakthrough instigative documentary series. over a year after the bengazi attacks, chaos in the streets... unspeakable horrors... >> this is a crime against humanity >> is libya unraveling? >> there's coffin after coffin being carried into the cemetery. >> fault lines libya: state of insecurity only on al jazeera america real reporting that brings you the world. >> this is a pretty dangerous trip. >> security in beirut is tight. >> more reporters. >> they don't have the resources to take the fight to al shabaab. >> more bureaus, more stories. >> this is where the typhoon came ashore. giving you a real global perspective like no other can. >> al jazeera, nairobi. >> on the turkey-syria border. >> venezuela. >> beijing. >> kabul. >> hong kong. >> ukraine. >> the artic. real reporting from around the world. this is what we do. al jazeera america. you are watching al jazerra america live from new york, i am jonathan betz with today's headlines. the justice department is giving a major boost to same-sox marriage, tonight they are expect today announce they will grant full equal treatment to same-sex couples. providing for couple not in state recognizing them. the group's organizers posted images online of today's rally in raleigh. mad the new policies like majorityism d. laws. violent protest no bosnia saturday marks the fifth day of unrest in at that country where athlete 25% of the people do not have jobs being government buildings ransacked and set on fire as thousands of people took to the streets there. four aid workers were injured after their convoy was attackeded in homs voiding the three-day seize fire reached yesterday. rebels and syrian officials are pointing the finger at each other for the out break of violence. iran amounts supreme leader said u.s. would overthrow their government in given the chance. he told a crowd of air force officers america is lying when it says it's friends with iran. a am jonathan betz back in an hour with more news, but "inside story" is up next. >> it's taken us a day to trek to the small village of mulatos. we are up here in the mountains, and this is where colombia's war has continued, where the government has pushed the paramilitary, and they're at war. we have come to meet a group of activists.
HondurasFarmingdaleNew-yorkUnited-statesYosemite-parkFresnoCaliforniaTurkeyBeijingChinaNairobiNairobi-area intense fighting continues no syria assayed workers struggle to reach people in the city of homs. organizations are trying to get food and medicine to the city. this is video of aid workers taking cover from the shelling. watch that as a humanitarian effort has been delayed by fighting between the syrian government and the rebel forces. meanwhile, bomb raids have killed athlete 11 people. al jazerra's stephanie decker has more from beirut. >> reporter: civilians are being evacuated out of the old city of homs but from what we understand it's creating tensions on the ground. part of the deal was that boys under the age of 15 and men over the age of 55 were allowed out including women and children. any men in between are considered of fighting age. we are hearing reports men between these ages are coming out. the syrian army has taken them away. we don't know to an undisclosed location, the u.n. determined to continue with this operation we are also hearing reports from a different activist groups there have been incidents, reports of explosions and gunfire and some civilians have been killed and injured as they are awaiting to be evacuated. so certainly that all points to this being a very difficult operation to carry out the u.n. determined that they will execute it there in there we are armored vehicles escorting the civilians out and we have the syrian restless crescent waiting on the other side to provide much needed medical aid and food and water. >> peace talks between the two warring sides are set to resume in geneva tomorrow. turkey's prime minister says he is not optimistic the talks will lead to peace in in syria. he spoke exclusion i have to al jazerra. >> translator: the steps that we are taking in the geneva one talks were not accepted by the regime in geneva a two. in my opinion the geneva two conference didn't have a good start. it is still ongoing, but it doesn't look like we will get a good outcome from it. we see that it is taken a negative course. >> so far turkey has taken in about 400,000 refugees from syria's civil war. thousands more have gone in to other countries including lebanon. meanwhile, hundreds of demonstrators took to the streets in the country's capital protesting new internet laws, critics say the legislation will clamp down on web freedoms but protesters threw firecrackers and stones at police and they respondsed with water cannons. nearly 70,000 an this government protesters are gathered in ukraine capitol city. this weekend government supporters were near the beige indicates. neave barker met some of the demonstrators who were demanding that europe does more to end the standoff. >> reporter: in a square plastered with anti-government slogans these pro tests are doing something different. with blank placards and coffered mouth they march through the city to the german embassy. they are demanding europe do more to end the bitter standoff. >> we are calling for people to pay attention on our cause and stop being blinds and death outta troughs at thises to, the oppressions, murders, tortures happening right before their eyes. >> reporter: on independent square demonstrators straight much-needed cheer with serve i goes of hot food. others who have been camped here for weeks while the way the time with chess. >> translator: there are always knights and pawns in this game. in this game we the people are the pawns but there are times when pawns become knights and this is what happens happening now. we are united because of our spirit and we are becoming more and more powerful. >> reporter: sundays have regularly drawn 10s of thousands of demonstrators. it's a chance for opposition groups from different political parties to share ideas on what to do next. opposition protesters have described independence square as being like a state within a state. protected by ice field barricades. but as temperatures start to rise it's only a matter of time before these barricades start to melt leaving the square more fragile and vulnerable to police attacks, but over in parliament, there is no sign of any kind of political that you. the future of the country hangs on the formation i've new government. but so far no decision has been made. the question is, will that new government lean towards russia or our up. and will ukraines next prime minister be the people's choice or the president's. neave bark, he al jazerra, kiev. meanwhile, protesters in bosnia are outside a police station in air area oh, they are did he hasn'ting the release of those arrested during last week's violent demonstrations. protesters set fire to government buildings angry at high levels of unemployment and their living conditions, al jazerra's tim friend reports from sarajevo. >> reporter: the protests and frustrations aimed at bosnia's leaders are unrelent lending. lending. the violence has ceased but the passion remains. >> go in the streets. you have to find you have to fight for your future because they don't fight for our future in i more. >> reporter: this country is in crisis. years oyears of pent up anger oa stagnate economy finally he erud in battles. the people are preparing for a peaceful demonstration but they know to achieve their aims they will have to keep up the pressure on politicians at a national and local level. two local government workers examine their offices burned out during friday's rioting in sarajevo. they tell me they managed to save the building during the bosnian war in 1992, but now it's been wrecked by their own citizens. police say that of 44 people held, 10 remain in custody. civil rights groups claim police are leaking these photographs of seized guns and drugs in an attempt to discredit demonstrators. police deny the claim. unemployment has hit the young hardest here. an economist tells me this may be the moment when ethnically divided politicians finally see sense. >> with the limited anybody of resources what we would need in this very moment is to make savings in public sector and then to push them and to invest the amount of money in modernizing the education system which is a very weak link in preparing youth to the labor market. >> reporter: attempts at genuine political progress may be the only way to prevent further violence, tim friend, al jazerra, sarajevo. a security guard in eastern russia has opened fire during a sunday church service, killing two people. victims of the attack on the far eastern island include a parishioners and a nun. six others were injured. iran, the international atomic energy agency wilin spect and their investigation has been stalled for years, but the agency believes iran has been secretly working on nuclear arms, this agreement is separate from the nuclear dear that iran made with six world powers late last year. a major beef recall after determine that go deceased animals weren't properly inspected 10.7 million pounds of meet is being called from rancho feeding corporation in northern california, that is a huge he is ca hangs from mid january just this year when only 40,000 pounds of meat were recrawled. the recall is for male shipped to california, florida, illinois, and texas since january 2013. so far no one has been reported six. but speeding of six flu deaths are rising in louisiana. state health officials say they received reports of two children dieing from the flu. 53 confirmed influenza deaths in the current season including four children. the state health department says hundreds of people have died of the flu in louisiana since october and the flu season continues all the way through april. in a major milestone for game rights, the government plans to expand recognition of same-sex marriages in federal matters. al jazerra's courtney kealy has more. >> on monday i will i can i a new policy memorandum that will for the first time in history formally instruct all justice department employees to give lawful same-sex marriages full and equal recognition to the greatest extent possible under the law. [applause] >> reporter: attorney general eric holder received two standing ovations during his speech at a fundraiser for the human rights campaign. the prominent gay rights organization hailed his remarks as a victory calling holder a crusader for civil rights and comparing him to robert f. kennedy. >> this means that in every courthouse, in every proceeding, and in every place where a member of the department of justice stands on behalf of the united states, they will strive to insure that same-sex marriages receive the same privileges, the same protections, and the same rights as opposite-sex marriages under federal law. >> reporter: the new policy will protect same-sex couples from being forced to testify against their spouses in federal courts. gay couples will also be able to file jointly for bankruptcy. and in federal prisons mayored gays will have spousal privileges that straight couples already have. they must be legally married but holder says the justice department will apply the new rules nationwide, even when cases are being heard by federal courts in states that don't recognize game unions. the department of justice is solidifying it's a policy to end discrimination against same-sex couples. the shift in policy doesn't come as a surprise. it follows changes that motioned last year after the supreme court declared it was unconstitutional to deny federal benefits to same-sex couples and builds on the promise president obama made in last week's states of union address. courtney kealy, al jazerra, new york. >> the new changes would also make same-sex couples eligible for federal death benefits. more concern now about just how easily edward snowden managed to down low national security secrets. he used common software that indexes data on the web to grab some documents which raises serious concerns about how the nsa protects its secrets, snowden fled the u.s. after he started leaking his downloaded documents and then was granted temporarily asylum in russia. but questions about what the government knows about you may actually pale in comparison to what private companies know. here the details that big businesses know may actually disturb you. >> reporter: the major u.s. retailer office max knew not only that mike's daughter was dead, but how they she died. >> it says mike say, daughter killed in car crash. or current business and this is my home. why would they have that kind of information? why would they need that? what purpose does it serve anybody to know that? and how much more information if they have that do they have on me or anyone else? how do they use it and what do they tuesday for? >> reporter: these are all questions that congress has been investigating. last month a senate committee concluded that billions of dollars are being made each year by the data brokering industry. the selling of information about all of us taken from online and off line sources. moreover, that there is no comprehensive way for us to find out what that information is. where it came from. how accurate it is. who is buying it and what inferences are being made from it. of concern is vulnerability-based marketing. lists of those either documented or inferred to be vulnerable. who would be interested in such lists and why? rachel lobbies on behalf of data brokers to preserve self regulation. >> i think consumers are smarter than perhaps you give them credit for. i think consumers understand generally that we all live date driven lives today. information is constantly flowing in all sorts of different directions and what we are doing here is making sure that it's only flowing in responsible directions for responsible uses. >> reporter: the federal trade commission's job is to rein in the data brokers and stop information from being used to discriminate against us. it's asked how that can be possible when there is no requirement for transparency about what is being sold and to whom. >> if we don't know how the data is being used it could be used for any purpose. so it could be used for purposes that try slate the law. >> reporter: we do not know whether the date is is only being used to market products to us that we might need. cell phone technology and mobile apps now provide an unprecedented level of individualized information about our movements and lives as to the vast stores of information held on our behalf by technology companies. but up to now, only the government's access to that information has been widely debated. and not b the very existence of private unregulated databases. up next, bad weather all across the globe from a deadly snowstorm in japan to devastating flooding in south america. those stories plus the forecast coming up next on al jazerra america. >> every morning from 5 to 9am al jazeera america brings you more us and global news than any other american news channel. find out what happened and what to expect. >> start every morning, every day, 5am to 9 eastern with al jazeera america. 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teresa and her young family now call home. >> translator: we had to leave everything behind in the flood waters. we just couldn't get it out with all this rain. there is nowhere to go. we are living on the side of a road. >> reporter: adding to the misery, people's lives are also under threat around 17,000 17,00 hectors of prime agricultural land has been flooding devastating poor farmers are. more than 100,000 cattle are also at risk of starvation because there is little dry feed left. >> translator: this area is at terrific and if in the next few days we don't receive help or are rescued and taken to higher ground all of these cattle will die. >> reporter: the government has declared a state of emergency across bolivia. but food and relief supplies have been slow to reach those who need it most. the outlook is grim. more heavy rains are expected to batter parts of the country for athlete another month. al jazerra. meanwhile, japan is struggling under mountains of snow. the heaviest snow in decades fell in tokyo which is more than 10-inches, seven people died in accidents that were snow related. more than 1,000 people injured. many of them slipped on the ground or fell while shoveling. meteorologists say more snow is on the way. and & then there was record-breaking snow blanketing much the northwestern u.s., where drivers look at them pushing the truck, during the brunt of the winter storm in washington, oregon and northern california. slick and snowy conditions caused accidents all across the three straights. the snowfall has shattered records for the pacific northwest, meanwhile over in australia, there is another issue and our very sonia leila ahmed brings us more on that. >> meteorologist: thank you very much. this is video we have across portions of australia. you can see the kangaroo trying to get way. not only is human life at risk we have to think about the animals trying to make their way around. we have a brutal blaze, inferno here across melbourne, australia because high pressure is in control in the southern hemisphere. it's summertime right now. let's look at the map. very little cloud cover across south eastern australia. high pressure in control. plenty of sunshine push to go the region with low relative humidity increasing the threat for wild fires exactly what they have been dealing with, but we have been hearing about this since portions of november. and these is going to continue to be an issue as we are not looking at any meaningful rainfall within the next couple of weeks, no pattern change, luckily for those of us in the southwestern portion of the united states, we did see a pattern change, we had high pressure in control here the last several weeks, it was the driest year on record last week, but finally meaningful rainfall. making its way in to the pacific north weighs across the sierra. yesterday a winter storm warning extending from portions of yosemite park down in to king's canyon, they ever received an a abundance of rainfall and quite a bit of snow falling across the areas 8,000 feet and above receiving anywhere from two to three feet of snow, the reservoirs up here in northern california when the snowpack melts it will fill up some of the reservoir that have been empty and the water will make its way down to southern california that's very good news for folks there. we have a winter storm warning in effect, throughout the course of the day. again we are looking at anywhere from two to three feet of snow, meanwhile, very, very chilly in fargo this morning, right around minus 9, minneapolis minus 1. feeling like negative 19 in minneapolis, although it's so cold they'll see quite a bit of sunshine out there today, morgan back to you. >> thanks so much jelelah. fire departments all across the country are fighting now more than fires, they are battling the affordable care act, employees with 50 or more workers to provide health insurance to employees working more than 30 house a week, that's a big challenge when firefighters work long hours and department budgets are tight. jim reports. >> reporter: on a cold and snowy colorado afternoon, michael haney is trying to keep his driveway clear. even when he's working had i second job, construct being websites. haney would rather be here. the 40-year-old is one of 12 part-time firefighters at fire rescue about an hour north of denver. >> if michael haney had his druthers ill be here all the time. >> reporter: for haney fire fighting is his dream job. he used to work 50 hours a week, but starting in 2013 the part timers had their hours cut to less than 29 hours a week if they worked more than that they would be classified as full-time under the affordable care act and the department would have to pay their health insurance. >> this is our apparatus bay. >> reporter: the chief says the department doesn't have the bum tote cover additional insurance costs on top of the $400,000 it already spends. >> and we would supply health insurance to all of our employees if we could. if we were asked to bring on another 12, for example, back that could cost us around $776,000. >> reporter: charlotte is a benefits expert for the payroll company. >> how are these municipalities supposed to get the money to pay for it? the excess funds aren't in the budget it's not like they can find the money and have it. it's restricted. >> reporter: what has cost them is the traditional firefighter shift it's 24 hours straight. 80% of the 30 weekly hours needed to request of for insurance, counting hours is driving schedules craze. >> i this is a big challenge. in fact a daily challenge. it's not a monthly challenge it's every day. >> reporter: chief brady wore are iworriesthe schedules to af. we have to redoubt the service left or put off the purchase the fire engines, ambulances. >> my cash flow is cut in half. >> reporter: with his hours cut michael haney believes it will be a struggle to pay his bills. >> i would rather be at the fire hours, i have said it before it's a rewarding job. it's a career that will change you. >> reporter: fire departments want congress to approve waivers for part-time employees before they have to change the level of service they provide. jim, al jazerra. windsor, colorado. and 50 years after beatle mania exploded in the united states, a return to the english port city where it all began. that's coming up next on al jazerra america. we have to redoubt the service left or put off the purchase the fire engines, ambulances. >> my cash flow is cut in half. >> reporter: with his hours cut michael haney believes it will be a struggle to pay his bills. >> i would rather be at the fire hours, i have said it before it's a rewarding job. it's a career that will change you. >> reporter: fire departments want congress to approve waivers for part-time employees before they have to change the level of service they provide. jim, al jazerra. windsor, colorado. and 50 years after beatle mania exploded in the united states, a return to the english port city where it all began. that's coming up next on al jazerra america. good afternoon and welcome back to al jazerra america. a am morgan radford here on today's headlines. more attacks on convoys in homs and the u.n. says it won't be discouraged more than 600 people have been evacuated from the city today. protesters in the ukraine continue to marching against the government where thousands flock kiev in opposition of the president. demonstrations began last november and don't seem to be losing any momentum. and the u.s. giving greater legal rights to same-sex couples. attorney general saying federal rights given to straight couples will be given to gay couples. whether or not their states recognize their unions. 50 years ago the beatle made their tv debut on the ed sullivan show. ♪ ♪ >> the band broke broadcast records with an estimated 73 million viewers. al jazerra's phil goes back to the place where it all began. >> reporter: it is from this northern england port city of liverpool where the legend that would become the beatles began. the mercy sound named after the river that runs through town, is characterized by multiple harmonies and lots of guitars. fewer than half a million people live here, but more number one hits have come from performers from deliver pool than anywhere else in the world. 56 so far, according to the guinness book of records. billy kinsly from the band the mercy beats used to play the famous cavern club alongside the beatles. he says the merchant sailors and nearby american military bases imported the sounds that influenced them all. >> it was a combination of all these sounds that we had, all the bands in britain, plus all these -- well, the association with all these people from back and forth to america. bringing us all these great records that no one else in the country had. so that meant a great deal as well. >> reporter: but the seaport is all but dried up and liverpool is facing hard times. luckily, the beatles are a big industry here, a british government analysis shows that liverpool gets over $400 million a year from music tourism, from all around the world they come to see where it all began. >> this is the place where 15-yd paul mccartney first met 17-year-old john lennon. >> reporter: for seven years jay johnson has been porudly showing his city and the beatles connection to his visi visitorst says without his city the world would never have known pits like pen elaine or strawberry fields. >> we have a saying here in laver pool that was it was little pool that made the beat examples not vice versa. >> reporter: there is little doubt the band changed this city profoundly. it's clear from the moment you step off the plane to which you check in to a hotel, this is beatles territory. they may have traveled far and wide, concurred america and changed the pop music landscape forever, but in this hearty northern england town they are firstly four local lads who made good. phil, al jazerra, liverpool. as always thanks so much for watching al jazerra america, i am morgan radford. 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>> thank you. we have reached home stretch old eastern section of the bay bridge going to close in just two days then eight days from now new bay bridge will open there is going to link existing aprechs to the new span. >> we thought sau knit 2007 and 2009ful that area area keeps moving it becomeszñ=7t moe sluggish. >> a chain cutting scheduled for labor day at 3:00 p.m. it's not qleer will hold the torch. you can see how close the new bay intrij to opening by checking out caltrans kux camera. look under see it on tv. we haven't v.information on how to down load our waze traffic app to help you navigate traffic. one of the most-valuable resources is our tloimpk service bart, ac trance skbrit sf bay ferry are offering. we're going noit our followers as soon as the bridge opens you can follow us on abc 7 news bay area. >> a child psychiatrist pleaded no contest to child molestation charges in may and prosecutors claim' bused boys between 1991 and 1996. >> their vision is to ensure all students tools to attend college in the future. >> we're leading the pack at this school. >> how helping7j óñ to lead the charge is marlene castro. >> these amazing answer autos the teacher told her class it wasn't easy getting her. she glup a neighborhood where gangs, drugs and violence replaced reading and writing. so her first lesson included teaching students valve respecting and supporting one another. >> just can be an umbrella for a lot of things. >> marlene is one of only five students from her former middle school when made to it college. after graduating in the spring she set her eyes on the community she felt needed her most.çxxu÷ >> reality of teach qlorz only focus on ones doing well and everyone else who is too far gone was too far gone. and not worth time. >> marlene shows -- knows she has her work cut out for her according to a report one out of five african american boys in oakland were sus spekded from school at least once. >> every time i do see a younger boy male of color that is my younger brother a boy i cannot give up on and a young woman who needs a role model that i never had, i'm hoping for for them. >> this class of 27 students are faces she sees reflected in her own. >> you believe in the kids? >> i do. i really do. it just comes from, i have no excuses. for myself or expectations i will hold for them or myself, as a teacher. >> back to school in the bay area means alarm clocks being set earlier and earlier. and of course traffic alerts visit abc 7 news.com/apps for detail autos big consumer qe. how truthful is labors on food products? some. >> so how do you know what is in there? >> you may be tempted to toss things in your shopping cart like a butter blend that helps block cholesterol and foods say they're natural. but consumer reports says not so fast. >> for snacks and cereal, kix sayswtyñ all-natural corn but te company admits its)ñp÷ may contn genetically modified corn and sugar. >> smart balance makes a claim it may block clegs troll but how much could you wow nid to eat to potentially lower your right after this snk. >> 13 table spoons every day. the whole tub. and that much has 1300 calories. >> and what about 7 up cherry soda? these treats serve up 7 to 9 tea spoons of sugar. >> one of the misleading labels is not on processed food but chicken. free range label producers can air five minutes per day and meet requirements. that is just sad. >> there are some labels worth their salt. usda organic means 95% of the ingredients produced without synthetic fertilizers and most pesticides and meat and poultry the claim raised with out antibiotics means the animal should never have been given antibiotics. general mills says look for products labeled kert fied organic. consumer'mc reports contacted smart balance about its claims. the company did not offer a response. >> golden state warriors making upgrades adding a second row of floor seats give fans the opportunity for the space the team did not say what enjoying these new amenities will cost. >> they're not good enough. >> triple a predicts holiday trafl going to increase 6% compared to labor day weekend 2012. 3.9 million californians will leave home. most will drive. and believing increased consumer confidence is driving the surge. >> if that shot is an vacation fast. >> i think so. there is a little possibility. a wrinkle labor day weekend. okay. >> just a small chance. >> that is what is getting interesting. many of you enjoying sun low 60s to mid-80s. patches of fog near the coast blue skies. look together south keeping an eye on moisture continuing to move into southern california, what is once tropical storm eva. blue skies now out over the bay. it's 65 in san francisco. 70 in oakland mild now redwood city in the 70s. you can see patch of fog here near ocean beach. 77 nef vatto mid-80s fairfield. the view from our camera coastal fog warmer tomorrow and mild to warm weather short term this area of low pressure backing off a bit. geel with a warmer pattern we're going to see 90s showing up near. sunny skies today. we've had temperatures in the 80s. here is what is going to happen in addition to sun we're going to watch moisture moving north. there is a chance of thunderstorms. that is concerning for firefighters. thunderstorms may be slow-moving. we'll keep an eye on thunderstorms into tomorrow. morning we'll start out in mid-50s to low 60s. they might need one layer but fog will slow you down right near the coast. and right near the bay. limb yitd compared to this morning. tomorrow afternoon, 81 in the south bay. 78 milpitas. santa cruz beautiful day. 80 in redwood city. 72 millbrae. 67 half moon bay. sunset district mid-60s. check out downtown san francisco. 68 south city, 70 degrees. north bay sunny skies for everyone. east bay, temperatures in the 70s and 80s. inland spots where you should be. accu-weather forecast mid-60s to low 90s. light dip rising again friday, then then, labor day weekend cooler weather saturday, sunday. only 80 degrees sunday, inland. 60 coastside there is a slight possibility of showers there on sunday. one model saying not quite. >> thank you. >> just ahead political plan to put women in the board room. >> big problem with the digital communications system. scientist may have discovered a test to find ovarian cancer at earliest stages. they found it was a way to detect the disease without surgery. ovarian cancer is often difficult to find because symptoms often don't appear until spread beyond owe varies. >> the state senate passed a resolution calling for nor women to build corporate boards of publicly heltd -- held companies in california to fill three seats withfe> if approved california would be the first state to pass such a resolution. >> still ahead how a hall of fame jer helping young qidz illnesses. >> the plan bringing music therapy to children. shhhhh! in our day, we didn't have u-verse high speed internet. yeah, our babysitter didn't have a million ways to serve mom up on a silver platter. we had to count sheep to fall asleep. and i always worried that i was creating an overcrowded sheep farm. in my head... never looked like that farmer took proper care of those sheep. too much? 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United-statesBerkeleyCaliforniaOaklandOcean-beachRedwood-cityHetch-hetchy-reservoirMilpitasKing-canyonSyriaSan-franciscoCalifornians for me, it was a hard, bumpy road. >> bad decisions have landed thousands of inmates in corcoran. >> that is the life i picked for myself, and it's really hard. >> in prison they've got two choices, do their time and go home -- >> i've got a baby brother who doesn't have anybody out there right now. if i go home and he can look up to that -- >> reporter: -- or become even more destructive on the inside. >> more crazy people in your cell, and crazy things happen. >> stabbings, killings, drugs, weapons. >> the path they choose could determine the difference between life and death. >> you take care of yourself, and the rest will fall into place. >> another alarm. ♪ >> i live on corcoran, 3c facility. it's a sensitive needs yard for inmates that cannot program around the general population inmates. people with sex crimes, child molesters, gang dropouts and people like myself that have testified. my path to prison started when i began selling drugs in little rock, arkansas. three years after selling drugs, i ended up going with a buddy. not really a murder-for-hire, but we were supposed to beat a guy up really bad and make it look like a robbery. i told my father about it later on that night, and six months later, my father called me on the telephone and asked me, how much would it cost to get a dog run over? i didn't understand his little code at first, but later on, during the conversation he told me that some relatives wanted to get their husband killed for supposedly molesting their 8-year-old daughter. during this whole time, my relatives are phoning me, constantly, leaving me messages, pleading with me, afraid that he's going to spend another minute alone with his daughter. so at that time, i decided, hey, this is family. i got to do this. so i asked him, i said, hey, just tell me exact time and exact place where i can find him. they end up telling me tuesday, at about 2:15, he would go to a daycare center to pick up his son. i staked out the place, planned my escape route, went to mcdonald's, grabbed something to eat, went to some abandoned horse trailer and put on my armor, my disguise, a hat, glasses, jacket, and i went and waited. and i waited for -- i don't know, it seemed like forever. he parked in the parking lot about 20 feet from the front door of the daycare center. and i remember the blinds were drawn. that's one reason why my relatives said it would be a good time, because the kids would be sleeping, and the blinds would be drawn, and nobody would see me. so i remember, i got in the car, and i slowly crept to his window. i just remember taking the gun, and i tapped it a few times on his window. and kind of startled, and as soon as he looked at me, i knew it was him and i didn't think or nothing. i just started pulling the trigger. closer than you and i are right now. i just started shooting. and i didn't count the bullets. i didn't even know how many i fired until reading the police reports later on. and now here i am. as much as i would like to say that i really killed for a righteous and solid reason in people's eyes, the truth is, i believe i was mistaken. i believe that it was a bitter custody dispute, that one of the ladies manipulated us all. and got family and got me to believe that he was molesting his 8-year-old daughter, and the truth is that i just may have been mistaken. and i may have done all this for no reason at all. >> bryan modglin turned state's evidence against those who hired him to commit murder, and now spends his days in the sny. >> i'm here because if you testify, then you're a rat. i ended up telling the whole story of everything. i implicated my two relatives that paid me. i'm the lowest of inmates because i decided to tell the truth about my crime and implicate other people. i may never get out of here. every day i think about, this may be my home. man, i don't deserve to get out. >> a sense of hopelessness leads many lifers to destructive behavior. when an inmate commits any crime inside corcoran, he is sent to the administrative segregation unit, or asu, until his case is heard. >> this is a pretty secure unit, everything is controlled as far as any kind of movement, incoming, outgoing, whatever. so canteen, walking to see a visitor. here everything is controlled. for meals, we bring them. there is a set program that we go by. >> how are you guys doing? all right? good, good. >> today our producers are granted access to a case being heard by the institutional classification committee. >> morning, morning. i am here today to review your asu placement, to determine if your housing is appropriate, and to ensure that due process has been available to them. >> inmate ed duane smith and his cellmate are charged with prison murder. >> i've been trying for the past month to get my 115 heard. >> did you not postpone to the d.a.? >> yes, but it says, according to -- >> do you have your request with you? >> no, but i did submit it. >> who did you submit it to? >> i sent it to captain fields, one to grimsley. >> this is what we can do, smith, when you return back to your cell, write a quick note indicating that you want this 115 heard immediately, and we can list where we can provoke your postponement. >> i've been writing to get an interview. >> well, at some point in time, the d.a. will come out here -- >> it's been over a year. >> i understand. >> i've never heard in my life that a person can be charged with a murder and nobody comes and interviews the suspect, you know? and i've been trying to get an interview with any of you guys for the longest. i really hope you listen to this. >> and i believe you've already stated that and we are listening to you, and we are giving you some recourse. and this information has been referred to the local district attorneys office here in hanford, so we can address your concerns. i want to make sure you understand why you're going to be detained here and the d.a. process. do you have any other concerns, sir? >> this -- it's just -- >> do you have any other concerns? >> no other concerns, besides the fact that -- >> thank you. you have a nice day. >> it seems it's going to be overlooked again. >> ed duane's cellmate and co-defendant in the murder case is more outspoken with his displeasure about the charges. >> that man right there is part of it. that's the man right there. captain fields. you can take a picture of him. >> you know you're wrong. >> what did i do? >> you know you're wrong, fields. you know me and these four brothers haven't done anything. you know that. there is no way possible. i showed you the time restraints. >> while i was at smith's cell door, his cellmate took the opportunity to vent a little bit on me, and understanding that these inmates need the opportunity to vent, he took his opportunity. >> i've come to you every time i can. i sit in that damn seat with tears running down my eyes. please, can you please just read it? fields, you are the captain, man! something is happening -- i got 30 years and it all rides on you. i'm innocent. >> you want to talk to somebody from psych? >> no, i don't need any psych problems. >> i'm just making sure. >> no, i don't need any psych problems. i'm not tripping, i'm not crazy, i'm not mad. i'm not illiterate. >> you seem mad. >> these papers -- >> i don't take it personal. if i did, i'm probably working in the wrong spot. prison wouldn't be the place for me. >> you've got that request to revoke? >> yeah, that's fine. >> so although i don't appreciate it, i don't respond in an unprofessional manner. most of the time, i'll turn around and walk away. >> all right, we'll get it heard. coming up, another icc meeting and another unhappy inmate. >> they put crazy people in your cell, and crazy things happen. and later -- bryan struggles with life on the sny, where he is forced to live among sex offenders. >> man, i don't want to know. because i still think it's a horrible crime. once you plant the seed, it just grows and grows and grows and grows. more of him now. -i'm not calling him "dad." -oh, n-no. -look, [sighs] i get it. some new guy comes in helping your mom bundle and save with progressive, but hey, we're all in this together. right, champ? 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[ speaking in foreign language ] >> i paid for it myself. i've been in this lifestyle for 27 years. there is nobody to blame but myself. >> today he is meeting with the icc. not for that brutal stabbing, but to find out if he is eligible to move to the sny yard for protection against retaliation. >> i feel a little nervous. it's a new journey in my life. i don't know how to explain it, because it's going to be a new experience for me. >> already been heard, correct? do you have a cellie? >> no, sir. >> no. you do understand that once you go to an sny, you are required to take a cellie. >> yes. >> you also understand that when up go to sny, all of the prison politics go right out the window. >> yes. >> you can be housed with almost anyone. of any circumstances. you understand that, correct? >> yes. >> okay, so we're going to go ahead and release you to facility 3c sny. do you have any concerns with that? >> no, sir. >> do you have any questions for me? >> no, sir. >> do you agree or disagree? >> i agree. >> thank you. you have a nice day. >> i haven't been like this in a long time. you know, i've always been stressful, always thinking they're coming my way and what i have to do. but now i can just choose for myself. now that i've made this decision, it leaves all of that behind now, you know? all of that is gone. >> reuben's realization that the gang lifestyle is a dead end came only after a violent fight with his cellmate. for daniel bobian, another gang dropout, early retirement was also involuntary. >> i've been hanging with gang members since i was a kid, so it really wasn't news when i came to prison. i already knew what i was going to be, a northerner. now i've got to take -- an individual called me on some names, and i took off on him, and he called me a punk or a [ bleep ], i'm going to take off on you, especially in prison. but we cannot fight against each other, so for that, we were both removed. >> being removed means that the inmates are now considered enemies of their former gang. >> he got a slash, right here and i just got a little mark. they trying to get me in my sleep, at 5:00 in the morning, and i was drinking coffee most of that night, trying to stay up, but you can only stay up for so long. and they tried to get me in my sleep, and i woke up and hit him in his arm. and he ran so i could not see him, he couldn't see me, and i was bleeding, and that was it. going to the hole, i was there for like, eight months. going back and forth, they were like, yeah, you're a piece of [ [ bleep ] you can't come back. and i was man, you got me -- [ bleep ] i'm coming back. and they were like, yeah, after so many months, i'm tired, i'm cool. i'm not going to catch any time for anybody else. i'm not going to do more time in prison for something that don't really care for me anymore. just a mule -- anybody in prison is just a mule to gangs. i'm not going to be that person anymore. >> daniel has already lost a brother and a sister to the gang lifestyle. but he says the opportunity to mentor his only surviving sibling has become the reason to change his behavior in prison. >> i've got a baby brother who doesn't have anybody out there right now, because i'm in prison, and his older brother and sister are dead. what does it look like me being in here and he's out there? if i go home and doing something better for him, he can pick up and look up to that. i've had months to think about that, months for thinking about a better life for my family. >> in an effort to fill his remaining days in prison more productively, daniel is applying for a job. but it's not up to him. >> you've got to talk to your counselor first, and let your counselor know that you want a job, a committee, and they put you in a job, and you have to be patient. it's part of the process to better myself. hopefully it works. >> still ahead. >> i enjoy hurting people. >> this inmate's temper has earned him a permanent position in the shu. >> put my foot on the back of his head and just started sawing away. n't really talk about your insurance unless you're complaining about it. you go on about how... ...it's so confusing it hurts my brain. ya i hear ya... or say you can't believe... ...how much of a hassle it is! and tell anyone who'll listen... 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these guys haven't got no goals, no ambitions, no calls, you understand what i'm saying? i've been in the hot desert, pelican bay, every one of them, major riots with guys getting their heads blown off. dudes with knives, constantly. but here, nothing happens. because they want to keep you on lockdown for nothing. >> what's wrong with change? >> another inmate faces the icc after fighting with a cellmate. >> they put crazy people in your cell, and crazy things happen. he was having problems with somebody else, so they moved him in my cell. this guy is having problems, why is he moving this guy in my cell? i don't need no problems. i had an operation on my testicles, because one of them swelled up as big as a softball. so when they let me out of the hospital, i came back to the cell, and there was this guy and he jumped on me and kicked me on my testicles after i had my operation, and hit me in the head with a cup. so i grabbed him and held him and choked him and made him quit. >> what really happened, nobody really knows, because we were in the cell, and an altercation occurred. he wound up getting hurt worse than i did. so it looked like i'm guilty. >> michael callans is brought before the institutional classification committee. >> if you are found guilty, you can receive an expected shu term with projected murder of 123009. we're doing about expected shu term with a projected murder of 12309. and we're doing an expected cshu term, because he has an extensive history. >> do you have any questions for me? >> well, i'm the bad guy here. and that's not the case. >> well, you do understand that you battered an inmate with a weapon back on february 15, 2008, correct? >> i understand. i got battered. >> we did refer this to the d.a. we have not received a response from the d.a. so as a result of that, we're going to go ahead and retain you here in asu pending the d.a.'s referral. >> i don't want to be in the hole for sure. i don't think i should be, because i think i'm the victim here. >> okay. and all of that will be figured out when the actual scenario is heard from the attorney's office. the senior hearing officer. then you can go ahead and give him whatever information that you have. do you understand that? >> yeah. >> any other questions? >> no. >> thank you. you have a nice day. >> you, too. >> the postponement of his hearing means that michael will remain in ad sag for the foreseeable future and still faces the possibility of a 15-month shu term. >> my life is in turmoil, i'm looked in this little bitty cell. if i get found guilty by the people, these people, this is going to be a kangaroo court. i've got 15 months in the shu, which most likely i will be found guilty. and then, the worst part is that they are asking the d.a. to press charges against me. if the d.a. presses charges against me, and i get convicted over there, i have another life sentence on top of the life sentence i already did, and i i'm a victim here. so, i mean, it's just crazy. i don't really know what's going to happen. i'll probably be locked away a year or longer. it's very disrupting. >> do you have any razors? >> three tuna. three nachos. >> thank you. >> thank you. >> martinez, victor. >> thank you. >> bryan modglin told us he's trying to be a new man, but living on the sensitive need yard with child molesters is a strange twist of fate not lost on him. >> i committed the crime because i was under the impression that the man i killed was molesting my 8-year-old cousin. and then come to find out, by me testifying in court, it put me in the same situation, and the inmate population looked upon me the same as the guy i killed. so a couple years later, i end up coming to an sny yard, where i'm surrounded by the same type of people that are actually convicted of the crime that i thought the guy i killed actually committed. >> on brian's own cell block, there are several sex offenders like this inmate, whose identity corcoran asked us to conceal. >> i was a minister on the streets and had been for 45 years. my charges against me was for having a relationship with ladies under 17 years of age or 18 years of age, and so i have 15 to life sentence for that. i am 67 years of age. i came in when i was 65 years of age. i shouldn't have allowed that to happen. i'm an adult. i made a wrong decision. in my church, i had people who were cos, and they told me a little bit about prison life, and, of course, the first thing they said, make sure you go through an sny yard. at first, i didn't know what to expect. i was scared in some ways of maybe somebody jumping me or whatever. that's my life now. >> a lot of them stick out. a lot of them don't. but i just try to -- man, i don't want to know, because i still think it's a horrible crime, and i would be lying if i said it's not something in the back of my mind. every time i'm around the person. a comment comes up to where they said, oh, you know what that guy was in here for, you know what that guy did? 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some people call me b, just a regular b, because like a bee, a swarm of bees. some friends know me as snaps because i click when they're not too far away from me, i'll do a click sound. >> corcoran security housing unit, or cshu, is the largest in the state of california. and holds the worst of the worst inmates. robert glen is no exception. though ironically, his prison history all began with one nonviolent crime. >> i came to prison for grand theft auto, i got sentenced to three years. >> but instead of simply doing his time and going home, robert has assaulted more than a dozen inmates, lengthening his original sentence. >> because of all of them assaults, my points again rose to a level four inmate. and the classification committee decided to give me a indeterdeter indeterminate cshu term, and put me up with a aryan brotherhood member, and that began my life as a prison gang. >> the aryan brotherhood used robert to carry out their dirty work. >> prison gangs involved everything from stabbings, killings, drugs, weapons, whatever needed to be done. i did it. >> we warn you. the details of his violent acts is extremely graphic. >> there was an inmate that came up here. he was accused of raping a woman out on the street. because i was up in coming in a gang at that time, it fell to me to either make another inmate kill him or i myself kill him. i chose to kill myself. if i didn't kill this guy, or if i didn't have this guy killed, then i myself would be killed. that's how the prison gang system works. so me and two friends of mine, fellow gang members, went into his cell to play cards with him. the plan was for his partner in pinochle lose on purpose and to get him down to do push-ups. and when he got down to do push-ups, i got down on his back and applied a little pressure. that was my excuse to get up next to him. at which time, i put my arm around his throat, kind of choked him out a little bit to make him weak. but he wasn't dead yet because i wanted him to feel exactly what was going to happen to him. i didn't want him to make a lot of noise, because the co is 15 cells toward the front of the tier. he could have heard me at any time. and another inmate passed me a razor shank, and i slashed his throat repeatedly. blood was everywhere. and then another inmate passed me a shank about that long, with a handle on it. and i just started stabbing him. stabbed him over 100 times, in the back, sides, neck, he was crying, telling me to stop, begging for me to stop. and he was still alive through all of it. that was one of my favorite ones right there, because he was a rapist, and i despise rapists, i cannot stand them. child molesters, rapists, the worst. >> in spite of his love of violence, robert eventually grew tired of the gang politics, and decided to drop out. he was transferred to the sensitive needs yard. >> they thought that all sny men were all equal. it's not the case. they celled me up with a convicted child molester, he molested his sister between the age of 8 and 14. so a couple of days later, i dealt with it. i took my boxers apart and took the string out and braided it up and on either end i put a slip knot and rolled up two socks and waited one night while we were watching tv. i picked a fight with him. once he stood up, i put him in a dual choke hold. he was already passed out. i put the garrote around his neck and killed him. i put my foot on the back of his head and put the string over his head and just started sawing away. wasn't doing it as quick as i wanted to, and so i just quit. and then i just picked him up, and put him on his bunk and left him there. next morning, i went out to chow, ate, came back to my cell and waited. i feel a lot of anger towards cdc for celling me up with this inmate. i had a release date of 2019, i was going home. but also, i do take responsibility for my actions. i could have very well just beat the guy up and forced him that way to move that way. i chose to kill him. i enjoy hurting people. >> robert's violent choices sealed his fate in prison. but for other inmates inside corcoran, even a life sentence isn't reason to give up. back on the sny yard, bryan attends a program for inmates serving life sentences called "dare to hope." >> i would like to bring on randy. >> originally a lot of us went out of curiosity and none of us knew what to expect. we didn't know if it was going to be a continual program or one-time shot or whatever, but we are always looking for a little bit of hope. >> how are you guys doing? >> good. >> all right. it's really an honor and pleasure for me to be here today. how many of you guys are lifers? you're all lifers? everybody in this room? you know, my heart -- the people i want to talk to is you guys. and the reason for that is i paroled 3 1/2 years ago after doing 30 years. my message to you when you come here is you guys cannot give up. this is not all our supposed to be. this is not your destiny. you can accomplish a lot more. >> are you foreseeing a change in the curve of parole opportunities in the future? 2006, there was 4,657 parole hearings. 23 people made it out. is that what you're all motivating us to try for, that one quarter of 1%? >> the public views us with fear. that we are not human beings anymore, and they have all of these programs established for us upon release, but what is going to be established for us before -- prior to release, that we can do now? >> you missed everything that i said. change you. don't worry about the world, don't worry about politics. don't worry about how many -- i don't care if there is 89 programs or 5,000 programs. it doesn't matter, if you don't change you. >> he did 30 years, but he is still telling everybody, hey, don't give up. don't give up. and he even spoke towards the end of his term, they gave him a date. took his date back, and then that -- sent him to drugs and so on and so forth. but then all of a sudden he wasn't the man that his family knew he could be. >> all i could see at that time was right here. that's it. just the bars in front of my face. that's all i could see. don't believe that. you guys can accomplish a lot of things. you'll be amazed at what you can do. start right now. don't do these things to please the board. do them for yourself. even if you don't get out for six years, change your life, be a different person. because when that time comes, you'll be out there, and you can accomplish a lot of things. >> so he straightened up again, and then he got out. and my biggest thing is that we've just got to start working. we've got to change ourselves, right now. don't give up. keep on moving forward. make yourself better. constantly. coming up, we follow along as this inmate uses his one day get out of jail free card. >> fresh air. >> strings attached, of course. we present limu emu & doug with this key to the city. 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>> i have been in prison three times. the first time i did a five-year bid for assault with a deadly weapon. and then i got out and returned back for a violation. my third time, which is now, i got caught with 23 pounds of methamphetamine and was facing life with three strikes. so i ended up getting 15 years. been locked up ever since may 22 of '95. >> we'll let sanders speak a little bit about himself, what happened to him, how he ended up in prison, the choices that he made. because, really, it's all about the choices. >> for me, it was a hard, bumpy road. i was involved in gangs, and then i started to see the light as i got older. >> they was coming around and asking people do they want to go talk to the kids at the school and stuff. next thing i know, they said, i was the only one that was going to this program. >> right now, i'm leaving the prison. it feels wonderful going to talk to the kids. going to try to educate them and let them know to make the right choices in life. it seems like we have a locked gate right here. i'm familiar with those. oh, yeah, this is going to be fun. school -- to be back in school again. fresh air. fresh air. >> it will probably be in the front there. >> yeah. in the front there. >> coming in the side. >> good morning, everyone. good morning, everyone! >> morning! >> better. a lot better. i'm officer martinez. this is my partner, officer ford. okay? today we brought with us inmate sanders. he's actually doing time right now at corcoran. all right? we brought a program it's called "another way." what the "another way" program does is it talks about the realities of the choices that you are making right now, okay? the choices that could lead you to prison. >> i can tell you how to get it to prison. it's not that hard. we're here to tell you how to stay out of prison, if you want to hear it. we all know there's crime out here in these streets. we all know there's gangs out here. but how do we stop it? that's why i'm here. all right? mr. sanders. >> good morning, everybody. >> good morning. >> my name is sanders, my number is do 9582. i've been doing time since the early '80s. every morning you wake up, get up at 5:30, you go eat chow, you go to your job assignment, whatever. it's no fun. you know what i mean? >> how many people in here have family in prison? >> yeah, family or friends. >> i have. >> how many have brothers and sisters and family and cousins that say it's cool up in there? oh, they say it's cool up in there, huh? come join us. i feel sorry for you if you do join them. >> right now, you're in junior high. you have so many doors open for you right now, but you can voluntarily give up your freedom. some of you, at the age of 14, can end up in prison already. so that's what we're here to talk about. the program, this is what we do. we bring the prison to you guys. we don't want to see you in prison. we'd rather see you out here. sanders is here to enlighten you, let you know about the choices. don't make these certain choices that he made. >> my dad has been in and out of prison since i was, like, born. and my mom, she's just -- we have just been living together alone, and just going back and forth to my grandma's and my mom's. >> how many of you in here have been arrested before? how many have been arrested? two? keep it real? two? click, click, cuffs the whole nine yards, huh? >> i was in trouble for tagging a high school. and we got caught by cops and all of my friends ran. and i had one backpack, my friend's backpack with all of the spray cans in them, and the cops caught me and threw me in the car and cuffed me and took me down to the juvenile hall and they called my mom. >> how did you like that feeling? >> i felt scared. i didn't know what to do. i didn't know how my mom was going to act. and i was just scared. >> did it make you change, being cuffed up? no? it didn't make you change? what about you, dog? did it make you change? >> it, like, taught me, i don't want to go to prison. and dude, i never want to go there, ever. not even -- not ever again. >> right now, you all have a goal to become something in life. it's your opportunity to try to figure out what you want to be in life. listen to your teachers. they're not going to school you wrong. >> i think i got a message to say to the kids. i think i got a pretty strong message to try to change their opinion in life. they pretty much got a lot of future ahead of them. they are our future. it's no limit of what you are capable of doing. if you are out there doing it wrong, you will end up where i am at. >> larry's freedom is as short-lived as the day day comes to a close. but his work continues in prison, where he hopes other inmates will follow his lead. and join the "another way" program. >> maybe i can get out there and share some of this knowledge. that's all up to them. >> but it's hard to find inmates sincere about making a difference. >> would you say that you're just trying to occupy your time to get past this time to go out and do the same? 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>> back in ad seg, another inmate faces the icc for a brutal assault in prison. >> this is a special review committee no replace ad seg after receiving a complaint due to battery on an inmate. you are issued a work sheet 115 where you were charged and found guilty of an a1 offense, which says that a 29a has been completed with the murder of an inmate. >> and do you want to stay in ad seg until we move you over? any questions of us? >> this is my first time though. >> this is the minimum, and the medium and the maximum and the minimum is 15 months, and so we have to go by the regs. so you got any questions? >> no. >> okay. thank you. >> the assault has earned this inmate a 15-month cshu term. but reuben cruz who we last saw in a similar situation -- >> 17 stab wounds. and i came out with none. >> is now making himself at home on the sensitive needs yard. >> s.n.y. is just a name for -- honestly, i don't even know. you know? i love it. i honestly do. this is the first time that i could choose who i want to talk to, who i want to play basketball with. honestly, it's just a whole change of scenario. a whole change of lifestyle. it's better. honestly, it's a lot better. you know? this right here, as you can see, it is the same as general population, and the same people play basketball and people working out and people running their own program. they don't have to go through all of that other [ bleep ] that we used to go through before. it's very much different and a setting that you need to get adjusted. from what i understand, they say there's child molesters and rapists here, but i haven't encountered one, and not that i am looking for them, but i would rather not know who they are, you know? that is basically it. i just socialize with the guys i know who is who. this is a different crowd. i have several associates over here, and friends are hard to come by. i could figure out of 1,000-some inmates here, i have two friends. i don't socialize with everybody. there is only one or two persons that you can really stick with each other, because you don't know who is who. the lifestyle of the rich and famous, you know what i mean? >> while the inmates on the sny may not be rich, there are opportunities. daniel bobian applied for a job and approved to be an inmate assistant program worker. >> i am to help the mobility impaired to help clean themselves and if they need to go to chow or get pills. >> daniel hopes that the responsibility will prepare him to one day hold down a job on the outside and mentor his younger brother. >> if i can work in here, i can work on the streets, and if i can work for five cents, i can work for $5. what is better, five cents or $5? 15 cents or 15 dollars? i feel good. i feel like a man. >> bryan has chosen to work in a different capacity. >> i just want to introduce our speaker today. it's bryan, and you know him as lefty. he's going to come to give us a wonderful sermon on john 3: 16. so come on up. [ applause ] >> i didn't like the guy i was. i wasn't the person i told everybody else i was. i definitely was not the man i wanted to be, so i ended up telling the lord one sunday evening and i said, hey, you know what? i want to serve you 100%. let me get out to see my family one day. that is the only thing that gives me hope. >> if bryan stays out of trouble in prison, he'll be eligible for parole in 2023. meanwhile, larry sanders continues trying to point younger inmates toward the right path. >> i mean, i ain't never been up in here. >> well, you ain't never been in here. >> a lot of them are involved in gangs and stuff, because they have to be, because the way how it is in here. >> why you want to go talk to the kids? >> because, you know, nobody never came and talked to me when i was in school and talked to me and gave me a different outlook on the way i took life in, and you know, if somebody did, i would probably not have ended up in this situation that i am in today. so i want to get to somebody and because i am young, too, they wanted me to speak, you understand, to young people on a different level than they is, so i wanted to let them know that they can change. >> the younger ones, they come to me for opinions, and wants to know if they are doing the right thing. a lot of them wants to stay out of the gangs. >> would you say that you're just trying to occupy your time to get past this time and go out to do the same or -- >> no. i'm never doing what i did again. that is a promise to myself more than anybody. i ain't never selling no crack again, and that is what i am in for. selling crack. i ain't never doing that again. >> but you must have education to get a nice job to better yourself. >> yeah. >> to basically -- to focus in society these days. it's not no hand-me-downs. ♪ america's prisons, dangerous, often deadly. there are 2 million people doing time. every day is a battle to survive and maintain order. >> down, on your feet. down. >> among the nation's toughest, california state prison, corcoran, severely overcrowded and plagued by racial tension. we spent months inside where officers try to maintain order with an institution with a notoriously violent past. this is "lockup, corcoran, extended stay."
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