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Attach a pin to it with a needle. spin a needle on the can, go back and forth. and i make the ink. ill burn plastic and baby oil. soot will go up. ill collect the soot. mix it with shampoo until its thick, black ink. >> tattooing in prison is illegal and poses a variety of health risks. but weve met countless inmates who have gotten their ink both on the outside and inside. many tattoos represent gang affiliation and are documented by prison officials. most of the rest have a meaning all their o...

Former new york city mayor michael bloombergs money to shut down an average of one coal fired plant every ten days. in the process theyve won unplikly allies from business interests who have been convinced the numbers no longer add up for king coal. joining us now is michael grunwald. >> thanks for having me. >> why has this beyond coal campaign been so successful? >> well, i think you got at it. the numbers are changing since 2010 the price of natural gas and wind and solar plummeted and while ...

Be -- if theres 200 plus passengers on that train, there may well be 100 people standing there. can you estimate how many people you see standing there where the passengers are standing who seem okay? >> 1100 seems about right. the problem now is that people in the neighborhood are also standing out here. so its very tough to tell who was on the train. i mean some people have you know, like soot on their faces and blood on their clothes and thaesz easy to tell. but otherwise, its a little tough ...

It struck the bullet. they were identical. also inside the barrel was a small drop of blood. dna testing proved the blood was ken maclennans. >> it made sense based on the soot on the hand that mr. maclennan had actually grabbed the gun before the shot was fired. because of that contact with the hand, some of his blood then did blow back into the barrel of the %-p evidence, matt moeller admitted he was involved but insisted jason maclennan was the killer. >> he tried to talk me into going and ki...

Theyll take paper and oil and burn on it the bottom. >> burn baby oil or hair oil, hair grease, styrofoam cups back in the day. styrofoam cups, chess pieces. anything that doesnt burn complete. thats what soot is, unburned carbon. put it underneath a desk or in your locker box or something. >> then you put that in your body. >> oh, yeah. >> does it pose any health risks? >> yeah, of course. of course. but so does homosexual activity and they not trying to stop that. >> he told me that he learned...

But he says the extra time in prison is worth it. >> the time ive lost by getting caught doing what im doing is well worth the sanity that i would have lost if i had just done what they said and walked the line. shut my mouth and went to my house and did nothing and just sat there and watched my tv. im more at ease with myself. i respect myself a lot more for having done what i want to do in here. thats my outlet, thats my escape. >> its always been fascinating to me how these guys manage to get...

Examiner expected to find evidence of smoke inhalation. instead he found no soot or debris in her trachea. and her hyoid bone in her neck was broken, which usually indicates strangulation. >> ive never seen a situation where a bone in a persons throat has been crushed by accident unless theres been in traumatic car wreck or some other explanation. >> the medical examiner also found marks on the outer part of her neck. >> they were consistent with fingernail marks. whatever happened before she di...

Stabbed his wife to death and then stabbed himself to death. ive always understood that it was, you know virtually impossible to do that to yourself and stab yourself multiple times. >> well, first of all, we know that she was dead before him. there was an arson set. it was a gasoline arson. the autopsy revealed that there was no soot in her airways so she was dead before that fire took off. as far as he is concerned you can have somebody stab themselves, hesitation marks, superficial stab wound...

Get your car off of it. >> crisis on a florida highway has a 20-foot highway with three people on board explodes into flames. >> oh my god. >> but to everyones great surprise. all three passengers are alive. this good samaritan risking his life to save theirs. if there when i saw the young people in the back. and they were trapped in there. i couldnt believe it when i got them out. their mouths and their faces were full of black soot in their nostrils. >> terrifying screen on camera. >> thompson...

Study finds soot from wildfires is blowing on to the depleted snow pack. remnants from old fires helping to create more intense new ones. >> the soot leads to earlier snow melt which leads to earlier drying and a longer, drier season, which then leads to more vulnerability to forest fire intensity and timing. >> reporter: with the drought create creating fire fuel, crews showed us what worries them most. more homes surrounding pockets of thick brush. just out of winter firefighters are preparing...