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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20131230:03:04:00

and for the sake of argument, people say, maybe we will go into a neighboring area. but we really don't want to do business in polk county. >> most of us have done this. so you know what to do. >> it is a little after 5:00 p.m. when lieutenant ward takes the trenches. briefing take-down teams on the protocol for tonight's operation. >> the most important thing is, if you have someone coming on the hook, make sure we got it on this board. >> male undercovers troll the internet looking for sex ads on sites like back page. >> there is this ad, this girl. >> inviting women to visit the hotel and provide sex for money. >> are you doing out calls tonight. >> meanwhile, female undercovers pose as sellers of sex. posting their own ads to lure unsuspecting johns on the trap. >> i'm tall. blonde hair, blue eyes. >> ideally, undercovers will attempt to make the deal for sex on the phone before the subjects even arrive.

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ABC World News With David Muir-20131230-01:41:00

>> reporter: erick munoz found his pregnant wife marlise unconscious in their living room just two days before thanksgiving. he says doctors suspect she may have suffered a pulmonary embolism, and has been on life support ever since. >> we talked about it. we're both paramedics, we've seen things out in the field and, you know, we both knew that we didn't want to be on life support. >> reporter: but john peter smith hospital won't let munoz end marlise's life, because a texas law prevents doctors from removing life support from pregnant patients. but in california, the roles are reversed. time is running out for the family of 13-year-old jahi mcmath. a judge ruling children's hospital oakland can take the teen off life support tomorrow evening. mcmath's family said she went into cardiac arrest following a routine tonsillectomy december 9th. the family hopeful a new york facility will accept the young girl after two california care homes withdrew their offers to admit the teen. >> we'll have to go in court and we'll have to buy time. we're going have to do this by

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Inside Man-20131230-08:03:00

for a city that just declared bankruptcy, stockton doesn't look all that bad. but looks can be deceiving. the whole country suffered when the economy tanked in 2008. but five years later, when other towns are finally digging themselves out, stockton is in deeper than ever, with record crime and one of the highest unemployment rates in the nation. and it's not just my hotel that is empty. last year stockton had the highest foreclosure rates for a metropolitan area in the entire nation. still, it hasn't been all bad. i mean they did win an award. >> "forbes" magazine once again has ranked stockton as the most miserable city in the united states. >> so why was stockton hit so hard? who is really to blame for the mess they're in? and maybe most important, is there any way out of it? >> enough is enough! enough is enough! >> to learn a little more, i decided to attend the monthly city council meeting, where ordinary stocktonians gather to voice their opinions about how the city is doing. >> good evening.

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20131230:03:33:00

>> i know, but i'm feeling like i'm putting my business out there. walking outside to hook up with some dude in a car. you know, that just makes me nervous. that's why i'm saying, you can come to my room. if you don't like it, then you can leave. like, you don't have to stay. >> from their positions outside, police watch the man exit his vehicle and enter the hotel. >> he is walking toward the front door now. he is fixing to enter the building. inside, surveillance cameras follow the man into the lobby. but he does not go up to the room. instead, he places yet another call to the undercover asking her once again to meet him downstairs. >> so, i mean, are you saying you come up to my room like after i talk to you in the lobby? like, what, i don't understand. i feel like you're wasting my time. like, what are you wanting? >> police are not inclined to let the man dictate the terms of this deal, nor do they want to possibly blow their cover by making a scene in the lobby.

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20131230:05:11:00

police department. let's see your hands. keep your hands on top of your head. >> the fbi's human trafficking task force is conducting "operation cross country," a nationwide crackdown on juvenile prostitution. the operation here in detroit is less than one hour old when team one pulls their first juvenile off the street. meanwhile across town team two set up a sting in the rooms of an upscale hotel. >> you got the record button there. >> a hidden camera will capture audio and video in the target room. all that's missing now are the girls. >> hoping you would be doing out calls tonight. give me a call. >> undercover officers browse

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20131230:04:03:00

unfortunately. >> today the task force has invited us to ride along for a firsthand look at their efforts to combat the illicit sex trade in the motor city. >> our objective overall obviously is recover as many juveniles as possible. second unto that is build cases. >> investigators begin the operation by browsing the online ads for adult services in metro detroit. they are hunting specifically for postings like this one for lil barbie, a very young-looking woman who appears likely to be underage. >> who's doing lil barbie? you? >> initial calls to set up a date with lil barbie go unanswered, but detectives will keep her very much in mind. meanwhile, undercover officers begin to set up dates with other women who also appear to be quite young. >> okay. you'll come to my hotel, right? >> investigators have booked adjoining rooms in an upscale hotel. in a matter of minutes, they will transform the scene into a high-tech snare for call girls. >> the surveillance room where we'll be set up is 204, the

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20131230:03:35:00

>> amanda agrees to $100 for half an hour of sex and tells the undercover she is on the way. >> got one here. oh, she says she is coming up now. >> at first glance, amanda appears to be very young, possibly even a juvenile. as soon as she commits to the deal and takes the cash, sheriff deputies move in for the arrest. >> go ahead and take it. >> take it. >> a quick look at amanda's id tells investigators that she is not a juvenile. she's 20 years old and more than 1200 miles away from her home in upstate new york. investigators quickly turn their attention to the car that delivered her to the hotel. >> the man behind the wheel is 36-year-old quinton pittman. police suspect he may be

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Legal View With Ashleigh Banfield-20131230-16:48:00

on december 5, the night teleka vanished. >> the search has been intensified but to date no leads. >> reporter: surveillance footage from that night shows her trying to check in at the radison hotel, the place she was last seen boarding the hotel shuttle bus that took her to her car parked at the medical center where she worked in kalamazoo. the 30-year-old had just graduated from medical school and was months into her residency at the hospital. just hours after she was captured on this surveillance camera, authorities found her car abandoned with a flat tire off interstate 94 in indiana, about 100 miles from where she worked. inside a credit card, some cash, and her driver's license. her bizarre disappearance has investigators in two states stumped after their all-out searches have turned up nothing. these new videos are raising more questions than answers. >> we are desperate to hear something. >> alexander field joins me now

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20131230:08:35:00

the undercover she is on the way. >> got one here. oh, she says she is coming up now. >> at first glance, amanda appears to be very young, possibly even a juvenile. as soon as she commits to the deal and takes the cash, sheriff deputies move in for the arrest. >> go ahead and take it. >> take it. >> a quick look at amanda's id tells investigators that she is not a juvenile. she's 20 years old and more than 1200 miles away from her home in upstate new york. investigators quickly turn their attention to the car that delivered her to the hotel. >> the man behind the wheel is 36-year-old quinton pittman. police suspect he may be amanda's pimp. >> they are bringing him to the side door now.

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20131230:04:16:00

the other vehicle. >> meanwhile, outside the hotel, investigators run down the vehicle that delivered natalia. inside they find two females. both are arrested and taken downtown for questioning. >> we're going to go to the other side here. >> the team now has ten individuals in custody. >> going back for the search? >> yes. >> all are transported downtown where investigators hope to gather new information about the ever changing underground sex networks in detroit. >> right now we're just getting them situated in their cells. we're going to start interviewing them one by one. >> a closer look at tiffany and natasha's case reveals what appears to be a start-up pimping operation ran by a convicted drug dealer out on parole. >> sorry to wake you up. i need some quick information. you can stay down if you want.

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