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Government or for a city agency in new york, that they can do whatever they want. >> according to jimmy, many officers tasked with enforcing traffic and parking laws are also breaking them. >> the same people who write these tickets have these placards they put in the windshield of their cars that identify them as traffic cops, as police officers, as court officers. then they use these parking placards illegally. >> april 2009. jimmy justice is on patrol in brooklyn, new york. >> i notice a vehicle with a police department placard in it parked at a fire hydrant, and ç that raised my suspicio...

Very interesting. >> two words. which in combination are among the most likely in our language to be greeted with dude, bummer, are probably traffic and ticket. traffic ticket. dude, bummer. can't read them off a teleprompter without saying dude, bummer. among the most popular ways to avoid tickets have general pleading and begging, a charm offensive and see for a very small percentage of the population celebrity use of the do you know who i am card. though there is no reliable data, it is generally believed that none of these methods is particularly effective with traffic cops. leave it then ...

Traffic cops because a lot of municipal pro-gadhafi people have fled this country. but they tell us they are keeping a very close eye on what's happening in tripoli and that they are actually trying to mask together a group of about 2,000 fighters to go and help their comrades, they say, in tripoli. the difficult thing for them is going to be getting there. tripoli is 700 miles from here. to get there, you have to cross the desert in the middle of the country, which gadhafi's tribe is still very, very loyal to him. >> are you hearing from them whether or not they are hopeful that what happened...

>> reporter: this is a place few outsiders have ever seen. at first glance it looks like any other major city. high-rise buildings, kids playing, couples strolling, people jamming into street trolleys, wide roads with traffic cops, male and female. but this is no ordinary city. this we're headed there during one of the most dangerous times in its history. we landed late in the afternoon on thursday, december 16th. the north koreans take us into a room and confiscate passports and cell phones. on the trip with me, governor bill richardson and four aides. >> whenever i go to north korea, and thi...

A suspected terrorist attack has shut down a gas pipeline. it feeds gas to jordon and syria. president mubarak is meeting with new government ministers. for the latest on what is happening on the ground, we are joined by nic robertson in alexandria, egypt. good morning, nick. let's talk about this day of departure. mubarak is still there, still in the palace and possibly still in power. now what? >> reporter: now frustration and now divisions and now the potential for chaos and further crisis. looking at the streets of alexandria, it's more normal than we have seen for several days. there are ...