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Jenna: another horrific attack in mexico to tell you about today. it happened only a few hours drive from our border and the location might surprise some of our viewers, rick. what do we know? >> reporter: jenna, you might not usually think of a drug rehabilitation center as target in mexicos brutal drug wars butter this. this is just the latest. there was one hit last year. two years ago five drug rehab facilities were shot up. cartels are going after members of rival gangs that are being treat...

Experts reviewsing recent deadly crash which a world war ii era plane plunged into the box seats at the grandstand. the panel made safety recommendations. those changes will be put into effect before the show in september. jenna: the mexican military arresting a powerful drug cartel leader, accused of dumping dozens of bodies on a busy highway this month that really caught our attention of course. based on that news, rick folbaum is following this story now today. rick what do we know. >> report...

>> in general population, gd, and the vice lords, they wouldnt associate, they would be against each other, they wouldnt talk. in here, since theyre isolated, they have to. they have to, they realize theyre more the same, more the same than different. maybe they were brought up different in rival gangs, but theyre really more similar than they are different. >> i got a little brother. if he got locked up i feel like i was a bad role model, because he followed in my footsteps. >> me, too. i was v...

Down for it, no matter what it takes. >> you can tell any time somethings going on. any time theres any type of issue or anything like that, the section will split apart. >> certain words will be said. theres some obvious words, punk, bitch, stuff like that. >> going up to somebody saying "f" your hood or something like that. >> even if it doesnt involve you, even if its two different rival gangs, youll go and gravitate towards your own gang because you never know whats going to happen. >> withi...

Head of the stg unit which has documented more than 150 different gangs inside the prison. >> we have our hispanic gangs, which basically fall under southern cal or southern hispanic or northern cal, northern hispanic. we have crips, and we have bloods, and then we have our white supremacists. >> the most active gang members at usp are segregated into one section of the prison, away from the general population. >> its pretty amazing. you got a bunch of different people associated with gangs for ...

Getting your ged, going to trade school or going to college. i mean, the biggest factor that will tell whether or not you come back to prison or not is education. >> program director eric courtney oversees the program that puts rival gang members side by side. >> what kind of things do you want to teach your daughter that maybe your father wasnt around to teach you? what kind of things different do you want to do with yours? >> teach her to get an education. >> in general population, gd, and the...

And the vice boards, they wouldnt associate, they would be against each other, they wouldnt talk. in here, since theyre isolated, they have to. they have to, they realize theyre more the same, more the same than different. maybe they were brought up different in rival gangs, but theyre really more similar than they are different. >> i got a little brother. if he got locked up i feel like i was a bad role model, because he followed in my footsteps. >> me, too. i was very nervous. i feel scared on...

For protection. it was at that time that we realized that we need to do something to try to curb gang activity within our prison system before it led to a violent nature. >> captain darren smith is the head of the stg unit which has documented more than 150 different gangs inside the prison. >> we have our hispanic gangs, which basically fall under southern cal or southern hispanic or northern cal, northern hispanic. we have crips, and we have bloods, and then we have our white supremacists. >> ...

Occ, ogdens craziest chicanos, a local utah gang. hes serving 11 months for possession of a controlled substance. >> ive never seen so much gang all in one place before. if youre gang-banging, and youre down for your set, youre down for it, no matter what it takes. >> you can tell any time somethings going on. any time theres any type of issue or anything like that, the section will split apart. >> certain words will be said. theres some obvious words, punk, bitch, stuff like that. >> going up t...

Theres a civil war brewing inside chicagos cook county jail. two opposing factions of the gangster disciples are fighting for control of their organization. >> just a quick question. >> investigators drake carpenter and adrian sandoval want to stop them before the conflict turns violent. theyve identified 26 senior members of the gangster disciples either in power or trying to take over. >> a lot of times, until one person from the street comes in thats heavy enough that says, hey, listen, this ...