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New york's confrontational advocacy group, actup, are looking for new ways to get the message across. >> as we got into the '90s, the number of our friends within actup dying was just escalating and we were really getting tired of metaphors. and a lot of people were using rhetoric, when i die, throw my body over the white house fence. >> in 1992, with the presidential election looming, actup's activists seized the opportunity to put aids research on the national agenda. >> actup began a year-long campaign called campaign '92: aids, vote if your life depended on it. >> on october 11th, three we...

Much eggnog. they are not just drinking eggnog. they were all over the city yesterday. >> civil libertarians were fighting back to shut the whole thing down. saying you have to clean your act up. so they were nicer yesterday. >> eggnog is potent, by the way. residents are cleaning up after a pineapple express storm slams california. camarillo springs was destroyed by a rare mudslide. >> and a rare tornado ripped off several roofs and knocked down trees in southern los angeles. >> rick mireichmuth, what is th story today? they have a day and a half of cleanup in between the two storms. the ...

He still continues to make threats and [ bleep ] act up and violate the rules of the department. >> lieutenant medeiros has a problem with me. >> you tell him. >> he's a [ bleep ] [ bleep ]. >> with gomes safely restrained, deputies conduct a search of his cell, checking for weapons or other contraband. it isn't long before they find cause for concern. >> we discovered inmate gomes tied multiple shoelaces around his shower head. inmate gomes has done this in the past to not only use the shoe laces to pull and activate sprinkler heads but he's also attempted on several occasions to harm himself...

He recently had a cup of urine confiscated from his cell. he says he was going to throw it at a particular officer, but an even more sinister concoction. >> i was planning on making a special remedy we used to do back in the old days called funky cold medina. it's kind of like skunk juice. it's made out of some really nasty parts, urine, feces, peanut butter and sour milk. and we mix it together until it's liquid. if you hit anybody with this, they ain't coming, they're not going to want to go home, trust me. >> bricks, i didn't finish coloring it in. >> a few weeks later, gomes had managed to...

Child. one, over $20,000. one slightly over $2,000. there's a financial motive. then, we get into the sexting issues. why would that be relevant? well, it's relevant because the claim will be, that his marriage was falling apart, he was having relationships with other women, and he was looking to become child free. so we've got a lot of evidence there of why he would commit such a horrific act. he then proceeds to set the act up, to make it look accidental. and so he sets up this whole scenario, where he tries to look like it was an accident. but, you know, after it's done and he's in custody,...