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Cease-fire in syria. its complicated over the handling of the civil war. >> bill: syria, new release of pictures claim this site is the location of a crematorium used by the assad regime to cover up the mass killings of prisoners held captive during the six-year-old civil war. >> were assessing if you have that level of production of mass murder, then using the crematorium would allow the regime to manage that number of corpses coming out of the prison complex. >> bill: the syrian government den...

The 48 hours leading up to when this mission was launched. the green light was given. american helicopters took off with kurdish forces inside. they landed near to the prison complex. kurdish forces went in first. they got into a fire fight. then master sergeant wheeler and according to secretary carter in that bite you just played one other special operations commando played a decisive role in turning the tide of that battle. other commandos, american delta force, went into the house and they s...

Across the mountain clearing. but further details were hard to come by. >> how many people do you think were kept there? >> im not sure. >> not sure. weve been given a few seconds to walk through the camp, but i think this is the wrong name for this place. its more like a village or a prison complex. there are cells, rung with barbed wire and watch towers and food, water, storage facilities. theres even a cage were people were kept, i presume, because they tried to escape. clearly, it was a plac...

Future crime. >> exactly and hes not the only psychologist who has gotten in trouble. dr. death testified all the time and gave similar ridiculous testimony but the whole idea of psychologists telling juries they can predict who is dangerous is fraud all and of itself. >> that was the minority report. >> if this case doesnt heard, what message does that send to african americans in texas and the rest of the country? >> if you look at the justice system and across the country, especially in texas...

Youre going to have bad consequences. >> megyn: and they talk the greatest victims of the prison industrial complex are our nations children. the children are the victims of the prison complex? or the victims of their parents terrible choices? >> well, both, right? and its the parents that end up going to jail or prison i should say and not getting rehab. >> megyn: and thats the fault of the policies that make that illegal? >> fault the parents for doing crack, coke or any drugs, anything, but--...

Candidates talking about the urban areas, some places actually work. we can certainly a building of a prison complex getting parents involved works. >> the finest speech that i heard that barack obama made in the 08 campaign was in miami and he said that problems of the cities, of the metropolitan areas, rather, the cities can be the solutions and im going to commit and the kinds of things he promised and spoke of doing, i have been wanting to see more of that because youre absolutely right. if ...

Race against the mississippi river. cnns brian todd is at the louisiana state penitentiary which is also known as angola. brian, inmates there are being called on to actually help hold back that river in what way? >> reporter: well, fredricka, theyre hoisting sandbags to shore up one of the key levees. the levee that im standing on right now. this is the last line of defense against the floods for this massive prison complex. this is floodwater thats coming right up against it. an outer lying le...

benjamin netanyahu is scheduled to speak to aipac tomorrow. earlier i spoke with elyse labbott. i asked her if mr. obamas speech today may ease some of netanyahus concerns. >> i think president obama went a long way to making the prime minister feel better. he was really looking for a strong statement on hamas and the president did say that the israelis shouldnt be expected to negotiate if hamas does not accept israels right to exist. hes saying any country cant be expected to negotiat...

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Disproportionately affected by school closings. black students comprise 81% of those who will be impacted by the closures and 93% of kids affected are low income. meanwhile, governor corbett has no money for schools. he fished under his cushions and found the cash to build a $400 million prison complex in suburban philadelphia. and thats on top of the $1.8 billion corrections budget already signed by corbett. when it comes to pennsylvanias budget winner, the department of corrections all the way...