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wrongfully imprisoned. cop protectors meet the ex cop that goes from drug bust to improving the industry. and okay go. part pop music part performance, the band is back with a viral video, and they are here to talk about it. we begin with concerns over the use of drones. the remote controlled aircraft were a thing of fantasy and science for example. they are a reality. used on combat surveillance flights and targets across the world. at home unmanned aircraft come in all shapes and sizes. police departments have fleets real estate brokers turn to them to showcase homes and they are

toys for kids. there are widespread restrictions and we report on close calls. how safe are they. until now the figures are unknown. we have answers, and they are surprising and troubling. jonathan betz is here with more. >> it's interesting technology the military relied on it for years. new reports are raising question about how safely drones can fly. >> reporter: drones fly over war zones and american towns. many times the flights end like this. in 2004 a military zone recorded its own crash. after taking off over iraq an oil leak sparked a fire it sparked a fire and crashed. soldiers recovered the engine and electronics. it build up the rest. it's a routine repeated. "the washington post" showed 400

military drones crashed since 2001 - abroad and within the united states. >> almost half of the u.s. air forces drone fleet has been involved in a major accident since 2001. >> there was problems with pilots. one crashed because she didn't realise it was upside down. drones rely on fragile lings that can be disconnected. >> we found the links were disconnected. they flew around on the loose. they crashed and in four cases over afghanistan, they took off and were never seen again. >> drones cost up to $4 million and can have wing spans the size of a commercial jet. they found several close calls in which aircrafts crashed. a major concern as the united states considers opening its skies to commercial drones next year. the technology has been tested at sites across the country.

>> a lot of people are familiar with the amazon video. what it didn't show is how the amazon helicopter was going to avoid colliding with the domino which is bringing your pizza. something that noods to improve. as many as 75-00 drones could fly by 2018. troubling for sceptics. look at the crashes the military had. >> they are pretty good at flying these things. they have more experience. they crash sa lot. >> the military points out most flights go well. there's accidents over the years. critical to point out, nobody has died from a drone crash. >> great piece. >> the center for disease control reports more workers may have been exposed to an accidental release of antrax.

83 were effected. the numbers were put at 75. everyone is monitored or given antibiotics to avoid a conflict of interest. the c.d.c. said they turned over the investigation to the department of agriculture. doctors without borders warp the ebola outbreak in africa is unpresence dented and out of control, beginning late last year or this year. and has been linked to 330 deaths in guinea sierra leone. it's a fatal virus causing bleeding. dr seal een gown erk r jones us to tell us how the ebola virus spreads. what is ebola? >> it's a virus, generally transmitted through contact with a sick person or a contact with body fluid. it may be blood, saliva vomit,

diarrhoea, any kind of infected body fluid can transmit the infection. through direct physical contact. >> given that it means direct physical contact. do we assume it will not transmit as easily to the united states. >> it's less likely to come here. you are talking about a rural part of west africa where there's not a lot of american travellers visiting or coming to the u.s. it's a rapidly progressing disease, you are likely to develop symptoms en route as you travel. you do need the direct contact. >> how dangerous is it for the doctors, and we see doctors without borders. how dangerous is it for them. >> it's important that they take the appropriate precautions, involving wearing gowns, gloves masks, goingles that -- goggles, that sort of thing, protecting themselves from

contact with the body fluids. it's a frightening disease, what it causes in term of eye sock et cetera and body orifizes that start to bleed. >> it's dramatics. the symptoms are like the flu - nausea vomiting diarrhoea, fever. as the disease progresses you have organ failure, difficulty clotting blood. you have red bloody looking eyes. bleeding from a needle stick. blood pressure bottoms out and the immune system is week or you are at risk of additional infections. >> how come more people in africa are not coming more forward to talk about this? >> this is a dramatic disease, deadly disease, and it's stigmatised. not surprisingly when you have a disease killing people so quickly and horribly it's stigmatised. those that have been exposed or

developing symptoms are afraid to come forward, one, that they are about to die, and they don't want to be quarantined. and one of the reasons that the world is not paying attention, there's no economic interest in play other than the folks in west africa. it's a different story if we deal with an outbreak of elola in paris and london where we are more exposed and more important economically. >> if somebody is travelling to africa and the united states and they have forwards are there any precautions that travellers can take. >> same as you advise to health care workers. if someone is sick in an area where there is an outbreak. you really don't want to come into contact with their sick person. for whatever reason if you decide you want to travel to the

areas. maybe you are someone that should be wearing appropriate medical gear. into. >> thank you for joining us. this year more than 170,000 undocumented immigrants poured across the southern u.s. border with mexico. tens of thousands are unaccompanied children. it's creating a growing crisis in texas, now the obama administration is stepping up deportation efforts. >> as the humanitarian situation unfolds, children and families streaming to the united states at the border with mexico must turn back. if they are apprehended they would be sent back. the administration and trying to counteract a resumour driving many children and families to get into the united states. that is if they get here there'll be an amnesty, they'll say it's not the case they are

emphasising. vice president joe biden in muammar gaddafi, trying to send the -- in gadda malla trying to send the mettage, if they k -- message if they come that's no legal way for them to stay. they are also trying to do something about the violence afflicting the youth of many of these countries, honduree guatemala. 40 million to reduce gang membership. 75 million to build youth outreach centers in el salvador and 78 million in honduras. trying to be as clear as possible was the white house spokesman at his cally briefing. >> we are working in collaborative fashion with countries in central america to address the problem at its root.

some is an informational campaign and kourneding this -- countering this intentional misinformation campaign that is propagated by criminal syndicates. >> the fam lace that have been -- families that have been apprehended at the border caned be turned back. mean are at military bases across the country, 150 million arriving on friday. at the air force base is also being used. >> mike viqueira at the white house. bonuses paid to executives at the department of veteran affairs came under fire. during a committee meeting a law-maker said the out landish culture needs overhauling. they paid $3 million to performance, going to some same executives accused of

misrepresenting hospital wait times. the u.s. army promoted a general considered a rising star. he was demoted from brigadier general to colonel ahead of a sexual assault investigation. he admitted to a 3-year long relationship with a junior officer of it was embarrassing g embarrassing to the army and him. he served for 27 years, with five tours of combat. the army says his demotion is appropriate for inappropriate conduct with women under his commapd. he has been forced to retire and will lose some of his pension benefits. tonight we are wrapping up our special series "guns around the world." as we have seen the united states is far from the only country that endured a national reckoningment other countries have gone on to change gun laws. the united states has not.

it's a source of frustration for president obama. >> a lot of people say it's a mental health problem not a gun problem. the united states does not have a monopoly on crazy people. >> what have other countries done about the intersection of mental illness and firearms and what can be done here? >> paul beban has more. >> when will enough people say stop the mad possess -- madness, we don't have to live like this. >> after losing his son in may, richard added his voice to the long litany over gun violence. >> too many have died. we should say to ourselves - not one more. >> in the vast majority of western industrialized countries, the response has been not only to improve mental health care but dramatically

tighten gun laws for etch. consider these cases involving mentally disturbed gunmen. >> the enormity of the acts perpetrated at the school. >> scotland 1996. the killing of 16 school children and their teacher spurs an overhaul of british gun laws. including a ban on private firearms. since then the united states gun homicide rate declined. australia 1996. 35 people killed and 21 wounded in the tourist town of part arthur. 12 days later the conservative government announces a slate of measures including a 28-day waiting period a ban on semiautomatic measures. lawmakers say it worked. gun deaths plummeted and mass shootings dropped. >> we averaged one a year. we didn't have any in the decade

afterwards. we have seen big falls in gun homicide and big falls in gun suicide too? the u.s. in aurora at newtown, connecticut and other tragedies, gun laws are largely unchanged. while everyone agrees the u.s. mental health system needs improvement. most mental health specialists say it is about reducing guns. as you scroll through the decades, you see more and more red, almost inteerl in the u.s. -- entirely in the u.s. red means an automatic or semiautomatic weapon. >> if your ambitious it to kill a bundle of people. hard to do with a knife. not hard for some.

>> mentally ill people are not the problem. most are not violent and mass shootings are rare. guns are plentiful and easy to get. >> the young people who become violence in response to humiliation or whatever can go in and smile to a dealer and they have no record. the gun dealer does a check. they can get a gun. that is exactly what elliott roger did in santa barbara, buying three guns from three different shops much. >> it's a tragedy that lives are cut. the path forward needs to include a recognise negotiation that the dirty harry fantasy it that. that the typical use of a gun is not someone defending against an aggressor, but a depressed

middle aged person taking a life. spousal violence fight between teenagers on a saturday night, shetled with shooting. police officers are expected to keep drugs off the street but now after several states legalized pot. there's a growing trend for marijuana businesses to hire law enforcement officialses. >> how many cameras are there? >>. >> reporter: jake guarding the goods, using what he learned in 17 years of law enforcement, including undercover work with the royal cannes aid yen mounted police. >> my career has been spent investigating nah cot ecks including cannabis. >> now he's protecting the pot. heading security for a medical marijuana producer licensed by the canadian deposit.

he shrugs off suggestions that he's a traitor to his former trade. >> it's prooubd by a doctor for the ben fits of canadian health. it's a different transition. i'm fine with it. that's what it is. his boss sees the skill sets and knowledge as a natural fit for the booming industry. >> we had a 2-month period where a former d.e.a. agent was touring. looking at cannabis groves. >> in six weeks i saw more grow operations than in 16 years. >> patrick is the d.e.a. agent. busting drug rings, for more than a decade was his job. >> it will be complicated. he works for the seattle capital firm. navigating the league at

landscape. he reveals a legal responsibility. >> to stand up the industry making sure it's compliant, professional well run. it's a mainstream product by mainstream americans. the consent as main extreme is hardly young versal in law enforcements. >> i would never make the jump. >> tom fought the drug trade at various levels of law enforce for 45 years, running a federal law enforcement programme out of denver. >> how do you do that when you uphold an oath of office for all your life and just like that you turn on it. why do you do that? i don't know. >> they say former colleagues are supporters and see more pot fighters becoming pot facilitators. heavy storms hit the midwest hard this week creating

mudslides, interstate closures and flash flooding. more storms are expected to hit the region this weekend. kevin corriveau has been tracking it. >> we have seen storms already. look at nebraska. we are clear. towards evening the thunder storms are popping up. they are popping up in the same areas we have seen a lot of damage in terms of tornados. now we are dealing with hail as well as wind. this is what we are looking at. wait until you see the pinks and oranges, where the severe thunder storms are. where you see the greens that's where the flooding threat is for the weekend. the red river, the big sioux river and the mississippi, you see how the flood warnings and watches are on opposite sides of where the rivers are. the rain will continue. saturday doesn't look too bad. when we get to sunday we expect

heavy rain through the region it will continue towards monday. just in this region we are expecting to see 5-6 inches of rain on top of areas that are saturated that cannot hold any more. the flooding threat will go through the weekend and into next week and i expect that we'll see the flood watches up and going all the way through wednesday and thursday. back to you. two government agencies saying a good proportion of homs in america are in dangerous places to live. the u.s. geological survey and noah say half of all home are at high risk of tornado, earthquakes or earthquakes the the highest risk area is tornadoal yes. the level of risk does not have an impact on home prices. next teen court with a jury

of their peers. improvement. an update on tracy morgan's condition as new concerns emerge about the dangers of long hall trucking. trucking. >> the didn't even ask for the money they just shot him. >> horrendous crimes committed by kids. >> i think that at sixteen it's a little too early to write him off for life. >> should they be locked away for good? >> he had a tough upbringing but he still had to have known right from wrong.

in afghanistan three road side soldiers were killed and a military dog. few details have been released. u.s. forces have largely shifted from combat to training missions. they face attacks on insurgents trying to derail the western-backed government. to the ukraine, where that country's president ordered a ceasefire. petro porashenko told forces to halt military operations against pro-russian separatists for seven days because it's the first step in a plan he hopes will end the fighting. the kremlin dismissed the plan saying it sounds like an ultimatum and lacks an offer for talks with insurgents. now to the world cup. costa rica is earning the title of giant killer beating italy 1-0. it was the second major upset. last week they beet uruguay,

another champion. protesters made headlines. demonstrations are smaller, they have not gone away. >> reporter: sao paulo and a couple of dozen world cup protesters take to the treats. a week into the world cup, the fro tests are smaller. the police response has not. here police swiftly break up the small crowd, and things get ugly very fast. this man pepper sprayed after being restrained. in rio de janeiro, the same day, an kint world cup protestor. one that starts but takes a turn for the worst as press haul a man away before dispersing the crowd. a few days later another protest. no more than 25, mean dressed as

clowns banging on cans several hundred police standing disorder. >> none of the protests came near the stadiums it has not prevented police from detaining 150 people since the tournament began. >> the deposit says the right to peacefully protest is guaranteed as long as it doesn't deliver with the world cup matches, and there's no strategy to round up protesters. they have a zero tolerant policy. they have been known to confront the police to provoke mayhem. they are seen in rio launching petrol bombs at police in a protest leading to running street battles. it's the peaceful protesters who likely are being filmed by police. add it up and activists say

police are using criminal laws to justify a crack down. >> it's a law aiming to fight organised crime. it's a way to intimidate and criminal ice protesters. that's a claim the government rejects. few argue small once they'll likely be met by police and a lot of them. a press bett airian church voted to divest 17 million and three american companies. the church says the businesses are supporting an unjust occupation. those against the move say it's seen as an attack on israel. being the church ace the company is sustaining israeli

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welcome back to al jazeera america. i'm david shuster. coming up, settlement. the so-called central park five reach a multimillion deal after being wrongly convicted. help wanted - why so many restaurants in new orleans are looking for a lot of workers. here they go again. the rock band back with another viral video. new york city is making a move to finally put the infamous 1989 central park jogger case depend it. the vicious nature of the crime and the arrest gripped the city. the five black and hispanic man convicted of raping and beating the jogger claim they were

coerced. civil rights victims say they were racially motivated. the men served 6-7 years in prison before convictions were tossed out. d.n.a. evidence connected someone else to the attack. the city will pay the men a reported $40 million. we are joins by the journalist that covered it. what is your reaction to the settlement? >> i'm glad that they have asked at some type of settlement. this is hopefully that the settlement will go through. i'm glad they have arrived at the settlement. i believe it's a long time coming. . >> why has it taken so long. >> it's so obvious. it laid it out. it was a clear case. >> how many it has taken so lodge for the city to settle this? >> the former administration believed that the city was not

culpable because they said that the teens confessed so it wasn't the fault of the police that they confessed. consequently the city was not at fault. >> when you look at the history on this case. these coercions, these confessions were crowersed. 14 15-year-old kids kept at a police station and wanted to go home and we were told they were coached on what they could do to go home. >> exactly. they were - the process - the interrogation process is troubling in the way it's executed. you have a situation where they are young, and they were constantly separated from their parents, and there were times when they had a parent or guardian in the room. there were many times they were not in there. and their individual

circumstances for the teens convicted. but in the context of the interrogation, the process involves the police giving them information about the case as a way of finding out what happened. and if they repeat that it becomes part of what they say, and suddenly that becomes a concession. >> is there a way to describe what the atmosphere was like in this case? >> it was an intense environment to report the case. the city - there was a lot of racial tension in the city. in part it came from attacks - attacks on blacks in the city at the time. white attacks on black, and the - there was tension around a crime, tension around drugs. >> a lot of pressure on the

police department to solve the high-profile case. >> absolutely. >> and the pressure on the police department translated given the context of the environment. translated into them not considering things that were there in front of them to consider. a woman was raped by a person who raped the jogger two days before the jogger was raped. 200 yards. that was not considered in the scope of things. what has become the central park drive. in your estimation is 40 million enough. >> who is to say it's enough. it's necessary. it's necessary because i believe it's important that institutionally the government acknowledges that this was

annistic life that has to be addressed. this case was used as a launching pad to step up juvenile justice laws and to bring them into the adult criminal courts. >> and as far as the central park five have they been able to rebuild their lives. >> i think they work at recovering their lives. but we can't give them back the time they lost. we can't give them back the broken opportunities, the lost moment lost relationships. we can't do anything about it. i believe they are incredibly strong forgiving in the way i have met them and interacted with them full of strength and grace. >> dr natalie bifield author of "savage portrayals", thank you for coming on. a court programme in

maryland is offering teenagers a chance to clear the criminal records as lisa stark reports. punishments may be harsh, but the rewards will be great. >> you need to make major changes. >> stern words from a judge, hardly unusual. this is no ordinary court room. the judge is a volunteer. the jurors are teenagers, and the person on trial 16-year-old ginny admitted her guilt as a deal to have her case heard here. >> there was no real reason. we liked them we took them. >> welcome to teen court. where young people get a chance to erase their mistakes and have their records wiped clean. in this court jurors ask the questions to figure out where the teens went wrong and how to get them back on track.

>> do you steal often? >> do you think you will steal again if you weren't caught? >> when the questioning is over. ginny leaves the court room and the jurors deliberate. >> i think she would. >> teen courts are becoming increasingly popular. there are now more than 1200 nationwide. up from 80, two decades ago. >> it's minor offenses misdemeanours that end up in teen court. there are things that can derail a teen's life. speeding theft, assault. they work with kids caught with marijuana. >> sara vaughan runs the programme for charles country maryland. >> the purpose is to give them a second chance. to avoid the situations that got them to teen court. >> vaughan handles 200 cases a

year. >> the fringe benefit that it get from being a judge is that i get to lecture teenagers, and they have to take it. >> stealing stuff, lying about stuff is not productive for you. >> along with community service, the court ordered her to write letters of apology to her parents and a store she stole from. write two essays about shoplifting and not to go to shops without a shaper own. ginny has to create a plan for the future. >> i might have to cut a few people from my life. >> like some of the people you hang out with now. >> yes. >> why is that? >> they are not the rest influences. >> reporter: 90% of teens complete their course and are less like i to become repeat sanctions. if ginny completes her sanctions

the shoplifting charge comes off her record. one of her requirements is to serve three times on the teen court jury. >> "the system" with joe berlinger takes a look at the criminal justice system. lawmakers on capitol hill lashed out at the head of the irs accusing him of lying and abusing his position. it happened during the congressional hearing focussing on how the irs lost hard drives and emails from key staffers who may have known about the targetting of tea party members. paul ryan congressman, got heated during an exchange. >> you are the internal revenue service. you can reach into the lives of hard-working taxpayers and with a phone call email or letter you can turn their lives upside down. you ask tax pears payers to hang on

to seven years of information, and you can't keep 6 mons worth of employee emails. >> a report was acknowledged concluding that irs reporters acted improperly. they cited a lack of evidence of a political motivation. comedian tracy morgan has been transferred to a rehab center two weeks after a crash that nearly killed him. the driver responsible for the crash was reportedly speeding and approaching the federal limit for how long he could be behind the wheel. jonathan betz has more on the crash and push and regulations for truckers. >> reporter: it was a horrific crash on the new jersey turn pike. >> it's a terrible accident. the car flipped ux they slammed

into a bus. tracy morgan was hurt. his friend killed. the truck driver hadn't slept in 24 hours. activist says accidents like this happens. >> this has attention because tracy morgan is an entertainer. >> in 1993 daphne's son and three sons were killed on the way to a haunted train ride. >> they pulled into the break down lain. and a truck driver wal-mart truck driver fell asleep and ran over the curb. >> in the years since he has worked to worn others about the dangers. the federal government tightened rules on how much sleep truckers have to get, and require them to take brakes at night. they have to rest for 34 hours after driving in 70 hours in a

week. it must include brakes in one and 5:00 pm. they have voted to suspend rules. restrictions increase the rick on the road. >> it essentially puts more trucks on the road at 5:01am on a daily basis, when come uters and children are going to school. >> reporter: 4,000 people were killed in trucks in 2012, up over previous years. there's debate about how much tired drivers are to blame. >> there are larger pieces of the puzzle. lower ranking fruit to advocacy groups should work on. >> like speed, distracted and aggressive driving. fatigue is at the heart of the battle fought in the belt wave about what happens on the highway. >> jonathan betz al jazeera.

>> new orleans is known worldwide for great food and now, nine years after hurricane katrina, restaurants are booming. the numbers have doubled since the storm. there are not enough qualified workers. jonathan martin has the story. new orleans brides itself on many things. it's cuisine is high on the list. >> we had a great melting pot of cuisine, defining who we are. >> from fine dining to french quarter cafe the restaurant industry has not just rebounded, it exploded. there were 800 restaurants before the storm, today there are more than 1400. >> because of the younger generation and people going out and spending money in stroounts

stroounts, -- restaurants, it spurred more to open uch. >> reporter: there is a short in of workers, chef managers people with degrees. >> we are on the hunt. >> hailey is director for the ralph brenner group, which has five popular restaurants. with another location set to open. she'll need 150 workers to staff it. >> i wake up at 3am and worry about where to find good people what does the company need to do to attract people. >> a restaurant critic says while hospitality has come back the population and workers have not. >> you can't come off the street and cook. the audience for the cooking is too sophisticated. it hasn't helped that management

schools are maxed out. the college has 140 students enrolled. >> part of the problem we have is we can't produce enough. with a larger facility more faculty, we'll turn out naturally more qualified students. >> the shortage is a good thing. she had several job offers. one restaurant was willing to offer higher wages, health insurance and a stipe epd. >> you pay and it pushes me to take the job. >> a new cullin urea and restaurant associations raising awareness about the industry could help with demand keeping the stock of staff in a place with a growing appetite. is it 150 boats set off from rhode island in a race across the ocean to bermueda. for one of the crews it was a

struggle the to get the boat in the water. we have their story. peter lives to sail. most days 78 retired school teacher out on their boat. we refer to the boat as a fifth child. >> reporter: they bought the boat in 1974 and kept its name. >> we sound out that it means we together we together alone. so when we think about it when you are on the boat you are there alone. there isn't much that can keep people on the boat. not even a rare disease. fip is a long protracted deterioration. it's taken until now, to the

point where i use a walker or a cane all the time. >> reporter: in spite of his illness, peter, his son and five others compete in dozens of races and have won big. >> it's you and the wind and people's voices. we put a lot of miles on this old girl. >> shin fin's biggest challenge wasn't a race. when hurricane katrina came the boat was destroyed. >> the boat and my father were in intensive care. we looked at it. there was a gaming hole numerous holes. the boat was flooded. >> they were not ready to say goodbye. they took the insurance money and got to work rebuilding. >> they gave us $50 grand for

the boat less deduct ibles, and we spent money, and still spending money. thousands of hours of work later shin feign is on the water and the crew hopes ready to compete. the boats raised 635 miles to the ocean. they can get up to 10 knots. if they can make it to bermuda, depending on the wind. >> reporter: shin feign has won the race twice. if the sun can fix the toy, it was worthy of the sacrifice, a sacrifice the crew hopes will pay off as they set their sites on bermuda. our image of the day is next. plus it's not just a music

video, it's an optical illusion. and the band explains how they make the viral videos.

>> we talked about the threats to the north, and the flooding situation there to the south-east. we have a different type of threat that will go on for the rest of the weekend. that is going to be the heat. we have thunder storms that are playing out now. take a look at the high temperatures we expect to see tomorrow. into the 90s from many locations, this is above average. when you factor in the humidity this is what the heat index is going to be feeling like when you walk outside. 97 degrees in atlanta. 104 in orlando. 170 it will feel like in new orleans. this is going to be a dangerous situation. you want to stay hydrated and you want to make sure you check on the elderly and the children making sure they are in the

shade if they do go outside. >> to the north-east it will be a different situation. we'll see nice conditions for most people. look at the temperatures here. washington - getting to 73. do you remember at the beginning of the week we saw temperatures in the high 80s, and low 90s. rain in washington - rainy, things will get better as we go towards the beginning of the week. that is the national weather. the news is after this.

okay go is a band known for creating viral video go. the rock stars continue to draw raves and fans. it was a mind-warping video, the writing is on the wall. it hasn't been online for a week and has 5 million hits. john seigenthaler sat with the guys from okay go as they launched their new ep "upside out." >> reporter: after listening to the videos and watching the videos, it seems like it has a great sense of humour. where does it come from? >> it came from us. tim and i have been best friends since meeting at summer camp.

the mapped is our cree -- band is our creative projects it's a life-long thing. i have known dan for almost 20 years, it's the collective sensibility of the band. >> you guys were doing this before hitting vir at video where -- viral video with "here it goes again." how did that video change what you were doing? >> it made us a bigger band. you know a lot more people knew who we were. it helped to solidify chasing our best - we should chase our best ideas, that trying to ply the music industry game you know fitting the right radio farmat and that it's a whole lot of anxiety and the sort of strategy work that has nothing to do with art or music. >> does someone have a thing for

treadmills? >> we all have a thing for treadmills, we are terrified now. >> i was worried you'd fall. who is the choreographer? >> my sister. she's a film director. that is the five of us at her house. >> how many takes did it take you to get it right? >> 21 tacks. >> 22, i think, for the treadmills. you cam up with the music, you record and do the video. what is the process? >> i mean basically i think we make the music and videos in a particular way. we try to put ourselves in the situation with a lot of stuff to play with you know. [ ♪ music ♪ ] [ ♪ music ♪ ]

>> when we are in the studio it's instruments and beats and lyrics. we throw a bump of stuff together and figure out where the emotions jump out of it. every once in a while you get lust fury melancholy and things combined. once the songs are there, we keep on chasing the creative snicts wherever they go. the video is an incredible outlet. we can come up with any art promote we feel like doing. "needing and getting' is one of my favourites. are the sounds that we here the sounds made while you were making the video?

>> yes, technically they are the sounds made. it's all live sound. it's recorded while we were filming. however, there were 20 mikes in the car, and we did about 20 makes of the track. by the time we had the final mix there was 7,000-8,000 tracks. we could pick which bits we wanted you to hear. >> can you do an impression. >> it sounded like (makes sound). . >> and, dap, how long did it take to film that? >> i believe it took five shoot days. >> yes. >> we were preparing that for two months. >> yes. >> at least. >> i think we were building instruments for two months and there was a couple of months

before that. >> it was an area where all they do is hit metal objects. >> we were slated for three shooting days but the santa ana wind blew down half our set. we had to rebuild. >> let me look at another video. this is beautiful, but you do great work with dogs. how difficult is it to get the dogs? >> those dogs are awesome at what they do. every dog had its own trainer on set. they were in control of themselves most of the time. those dogs could do your taxes if you asked them to. they were incredible. there's a spectrum of treats for them they had hot bait raw economicen. they'll do anything for raw

chicken. >> it's incredible work. we love to watch and lisp. thank you for -- listen. thank you for taking the time to be with us we look forward to what is coming up next. thanks again. now the picture of the day comes to us from a small farm in maine, where you see a flock of sheep enjoying the last sunrise of spring. summer starting tomorrow. i'm david shuster. "america tonight" with joie chen is up next.

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