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>> i lost the plot. >> oh, thats okay. it all comes back to me as the world shifts and tilts. although i had been looking out a whole lot of hotel windows these days struggling to figure out where i am -- >> okay. >> -- being here, throwing back shots of rice whiskey with these guys, i know im back in thailand. ♪ not just thailand, but northern thailand. once known as kingdom of a million rice fields, its a fertile, green and gorgeous area, home of the ancient latta people. welcome to chiang m...

It all comes back to me as the world shifts and tilts. although i had been looking out a lot of hotel windows these days struggling to figure out where i am, being here, throwing back shots of rice whiskey with these guys, i know im back in thailand. ♪ not just thailand, but northern thailand. once known as kingdom of a million rice fields, its a fertile, green and gorgeous area, home of the ancient latta people. welcome to chiang mai province, tucked up near the borders of burma, china, laos,...

>> oh, thats okay. it all comes back to me as the world shifts and tilts. although i had been looking out a whole lot of hotel windows these days struggling to figure out where i am -- >> okay. >> -- being here, throwing back shots of rice whiskey with these guys, i know im back in thailand. ♪ not just thailand, but northern thailand. once known as kingdom of a million rice fields, its a fertile, green and gorgeous area, home of the ancient latta people. welcome to chiang mai province, tucked ...

He had two, three security that were karate experts hammering on me pretty good. >> parks was put on a hard work crew out in the hot sun digging ditches. in jonestown, even his 11-year-old daughter tracy parks got up for work before dawn each day. >> i had to work in the rice fields. you had to use a big machete or the big rake that had the knife at the bottom and you had to cut the grass down. >> one day she went to the infirmary with an earache. >> and they looked in there and pulled out a coc...

Were karate experts hammering on me pretty good. >> parks was put on a hard work crew out in the hot sun digging ditches. in jonestown, even his 11-year-old daughter tracy parks got up for work before dawn each day. >> i had to work in the rice fields. you had to use a big machete or the big rake that had the knife at the bottom and you had to cut the grass down. >> one day she went to the infirmary with an earache. >> and they looked in there and pulled out a cockroach the size of my -- half of...

Ditches. in jonestown, even his 11-year-old daughter tracy parks got up for work before dawn each day. >> i had to work in the rice fields. you had to use a big machete or the big rake that had the knife at the bottom and you had to cut the grass down. >> one day she went to the infirmary with an earache. >> and they looked in there and pulled out a cockroach the size of my -- half of my thumb, huge. >> tracy parks saw no future in jonestown. >> i knew that in the first month there that im stuck...

>> alaska is a state that people have immigrated from all over the country and criminals dont change their ways when they move. theyre still criminals. they just go to another state and do time in that prison system. >> outside society is big on giving people a second chance. my philosophy is when they reach spring creek theyve had their chances and now they will toe the line. >> craig turnbull has been superintendent of spring creek for five years. >> they think they can come to alaska and hide...

>> alaska is a state that people have immigrated from all over the country and criminals dont change their ways when they move. theyre still criminals. they just go to another state and do time in that prison system. >> outside society is big on giving people a second chance. my philosophy is when they reach spring creek theyve had their chances and now they will toe the line. >> craig turnbull has been superintendent of spring creek for five years. >> they think they can come to alaska and hide...

Spring creek theyve had their chances and now they will toe the line. >> craig turnbull has been superintendent of spring creek for five years. >> they think they can come to alaska and hide out in the wilderness and never be seen again. they find thats very hard to do. we are surrounded by ice fields. were surrounded by the gulf of alaska, one road in and out. and although beautiful, very challenging terrain. >> at spring creek correctional center theres only been one successful escape. it was ...

More than 200 people in the deadliest flooding one country has seen in more than a decade. its our top story as we go around the world in 80 seconds. cambodia. a disaster management official says the rising water affected more than a million people and damaged thousands of structures, including schools and temples and homes. the flooding is also reportedly ruined hundreds of thousands of acres of rice fields. new zealand. forecasts of rough seas causing trouble for crews trying to get oil off ...