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many people are not happy at the way the government is run, but at least we know it will keep running. a couple of hours ago after bickering, the house passed a $1.1 trillion spending bill. libby casey is on capitol hill. >> it was a roller-coaster of a day, with the clock ticking down. democrats and republicans huddled behinds closed doors, with hours left before a government shutdown. in the end they were able to pass this megaspending bill. many were concerned about it. ultimately it felt like it was their best shot at compromise. >> on this vote, the ayes are 2619, the nays 2006. the motion is adopted. >> reporter: hammered out by leaders in both parties, in the house and senate. it won backing from the white house, and included funds to fight ebola, and the group known

as i.s.i.l., and included a raise for members of the military. >> the president supports the proposal. >> the devil is in the details, as members dug into the specifics of the bill. they found plenty of reasons to fight it. >> here we are in the house, being blackmailed, being blackmailed to vote for inprop rightses bill. house democrats staging a revolt. >> this is about reckless behaviour. it is about a give away to the largest financial institutions in this country, and it's up to

us to say "no." >> and not just democrats are upset. some conservatives say the bill green lights too many white house priorities, including obama care, and the president's executive action on immigration reform. >> we need to hold funding back or who knows what else he'll do. >> the conservatives were not able to make enough of a stand. neither were liberals. house democrats were dismayed that the white house wept against them -- wept against them on this one. republicans managed to get traction, and most importantly when democrats looked at the big picture, they were concerned if they come back to the negotiating table in 2015, they'll be able to get less of what they want because republicans at that point will control both the house and the senate. now the senate has to pass the big spending bill. that is looking likely. and will pass a short-term spending measure to get over the

hux. >> more reaction in the senate report on torture. c.i.a. director john brennan admitted the agency made some mistakes and defended the use of brutal tactics following the 9/11 attacks. mike viqueira reports. >> hit by outrage and calls for accountability, john brennan made a rare and dramatic play. appearing at c.i.a. headquarters, to answer his critics and boost moral for an agency under siege. >> yes, admitted c.i.a. director brennan, some interrogations went too fash. -- too far. >> i leave for others how to label them. for me, it is regrettable. >> he disputes a major finding that the enhanced interrogation techniques yeelded no --

yieldled no useful information. >> there was useful intelligence from people subjected to e.i.t.s. would integrators have learnt the same information if they had not been subjected to the same measures. brep junior stop pd short of claiming the techniques were essential. >> there's no way to know whether some information op tained from an individual subjected at some point during his confinement, could have been obtained through other means. >> reporter: his rocks come as he and the c.i.a. are hit by harsh criticism. udall on the senate floor wednesday. >> director jacob brennan and the cia are proceeding to provide inaccurate information and misrepresent the evocation of torture. in other words the c.i.a. is

lying. >> since release, president obama kept a low profile. thursday, brushing off questions in an event centered on foreign tried. >> we are talking about exports. >> before the speech, brennan's record of service was praised. >> it makes him a patriot, and someone who has the full confidence of the president of the united states. >> bucking up morale among employees. >> c.i.a. operators are operating in dangerous places. there is some concern and disappoint. about what has happened. >> as calls for accountability mount. they were uncomfortable with the scrutiny for an agency accustomed to staying in the shadows. >> there's more than enough transparency in the last couple of days. it's over the top. >> throughout, dianne fienstein, unveiled her report on tuesday,

and was tweeting back like a live block, taking issue with some of the things he was saying, agreeing with others. after the speech she put out a statement, largely conciliatory, but drawing a distinction, whether or not the information could have been obtained by other means, less harsh means is not unknowable, it's a fact that the harsh methods were not necessary. >> thank you. the online hacking group anonymous carried out cyber attacks in organises from corporate giants to governments and our own, and played a role in the arab spring. are they social crusaders, criminals or both. the mask is lifted as we talk to a high-profile member, a top hacker, and became an fbi informant. paul beban joins us with more on the group. >> anonymous supporters call the group digital crusadersor

justice, but critics say they are pranksters or a cyber lynch mob. whatever it is, anonymous is a force to be reckoned with and it's here to stay. it is a group with no formal members and no official philosophy. when members appear in public, they wear masks. a website affiliated with the group says we do what we want because we can. who is anonymous, what do they wants? >> anonymous is a loose collective of people who meet up on the internet through various channels, who are united by a certain sense that they want to advance the cause of civil liberties through various online tactics. some legal, some perhaps less legal. >> there's no reliable estimate of the size of anonymous. the group is believed to have thousands of supporters around the world. recently they made their presence known at the protests

in ferguson, missouri. when the ku klux klan threatened members yes took over their website and uphooded some alleged clan members, revealing names, addresses, phone numbers and other personal information online. members of anonymous were active in the occupy wall street movement, working with organizers and protesters. >> they had a hostility towards the so-called 1%. the corruption they perceived, and complicity of the government in the bailout in terms of defending and not prosecuting the people responsible for final catastrophe. >> anonymous gained notoriety by taking on the church of scientology, attacking the website and staging protests after a video suppressing a

video of tom cruise. >> that was seen as an affront to the values of what was the anonymous movement. they started a campaign against science tollingy, the first -- science tollingy, the first semiorganised campaign. >> the fbi and other groups prompted investigators to target members for arrest. >> they were, indeed, committing crimes. they were seek as being people likely to commit more illegal acts in the future. >> several anonymous members are in prison. it may have chilled the group, anonymous is not going offline any time soon. >> anonymous steams to have raised its -- seems to have raised its voice in the wake of tamir rice, the 12-year-old boy shot by cleveland police while carrying a terrorist gun. anonymous claimed responsibility for shutting down the website

and posting a video saying rice was killed by an overzealous rookie police officers. looks like anonymous is getting more involved in a conversation about police tactics. >> joining us is hector, a former anonymous member. good to have you on the programme. you were doing things that were illegal from a young age. >> yes. >> did you worry about getting caught? >> it's a hard answer. you know emily you'll get caught. when you get into hacking, reading stories, ancient hackers in the '80s, most of them were caught. you expect it. once you hack, there's a point of no return. you get taught ently. >> by getting involved in anonymous, what did you do. >> it's an idea, not a movement or group. the idea is i'm anonymous, you

are anonymous, but we can work together. the whole point is to be decentralized. >> you are saying anonymous made mistakes. >> it is not what people think it is, it's an idea that stayed away from what it originally once. once you have irc servers up, and twitter, the idea is flawed. >> how d did you get removed in what happened in the arab spring. . >> at the height of the matter i attacked their systems. i went on an attack on the tunisia infrastructure to dispupt the communications against the protesters. snow you like that. . >> i thought i was doing something great. >> you got in trouble for it.

>> i did, it was a charge. >> tell me about the day you were arrested by the f.b.i. >> they came to my place, arrested me. they said we know what you are doing. they sat me down. the evidence they had was only for, like, one charge. i could have fought my case if they didn't extort me with children. >> are you saying you didn't do it? that you didn't commit crimes? >> i didn't, i never said that. i did. >> you agreed to the deal, and you started to work for them as an informant. cooperators, yes. >> they said keep doing what you are doing, we'll watch you. do what it is you do. we'll watch. my computer was locked. when ever someone would hit me up or a message flies by saying "we hacked into the department of justice." they see it. they were able to jump on it.

>> jeremy hammond, a top hacker. >> not a top hacker a random person who got caught. >> he's serving 10 years in prison. >> yes. >> did you help put him away? >> no. >> you had nothing to do it? >> there was conversations between me and him. i never asked for a number or name or an ip or information. none of that happens. >> he says you entrapped him by helping him hack into government-run websites. >> well, you know, we came to a situation where in my case i admitted to my crimes, 12 charges. adealt with the situation the drama. it's time some people man up. it's not a popular opinion. everyone wants to consider him a martyr. if you commit crimes and get kau. it's time to admit your

crimes. >> did you entrap them. >> that's an argument for appeal. i didn't. >> you know this. anonymous said: how do you respondment. >> i respond - this is the situation we are at, right. they were the same people that were like we hate the united states government and fox news. as soon as fox news and the government came out with a story, they ate the spoon-fed story. they basically were bamboozled into believing what the government wanted. how to destroy a movement without leaders. tell them they have a leader. they said who is the leader, we arrested and compromised them,

now he'll take you down. look what happened post my exposure. it's not what it was, they are not going what we were doing. >> i asked how serious the threat of hacking is for america, and if the government is secure. that's coming up at 11:30. at the bottom of this hour the west coal street are getting hit with some of the worse storms. power was knocked out in some parts of the california, flooding so bad people in one community had to use kayaks to get around. meteorologist kevin corriveau is here with more. >> you can see on the satellite image from space, taking a look back how big the storm is. the big problem is we are seeing a lot of rain, it's not moving, it's constant. it's been that way. you see the area of low pressure moving onshore. we are hitting with gusty winds, as we go to the south, it's across central california where the rain, for the last 12 hours

has not moved at all. we are not getting rain down to the valley, but it's heavy to the north. we have flooding watches and warnings effect up here and down south towards parts of san francisco. we'll see the rain through the evening and through tomorrow. we had totals today, nine to 10 inches of rain. tomorrow we'd see more rain on top of that. the good news is we need the rain. but we'll see a break in the rain, the system will move towards the east, across the mountains. as you go towards today. it will be the snow across colorado. and there we see anywhere between a foot and a half to two feet. >> thank you. tensions running high. palestinian leaders bury one of their own. could it be a flashpoint for more conflict. >> a little later.

corporate hacking. controversial emails from sony executives. how the private messages wept pubic.

thousands of mourners turned out for the funeral of a

palestinian official, dying at a protest after a confrontation with border police. there's conflicting reports about what caused his death. >> the disagreement with how ziad abu ein die is increasing tension. today was about mourners marking the life about a man willing to fight in the trenches. he has street cred in part because of how he led and part because he spent years in israeli prisons for attacking israeli people. his death comes at a time when many are looking for leadership. >> reporter: for the first time in a decade the palestinian government buried a member killed in an altercation with israelis. >> a casket wrapped in a flag, received full honours from the military and full attendance by

the cabinet. the president led prayers. and a crowd followed his body towards the cemetery. they drove through ramallah streets and celebrated a man who directed the chants. they chanted slogans of reports, and held posters declaring the minister became a martyr. he was surrounded by security, and a guard that led the crowd that escorted him. >> his journal was a state funeral. his body was taken through the streets of ramallah. he was a popular figure, he led protests for much of his life. >> the last protest he led and his death was caught op camera. >> as always, ziad abu ein was in the front, arguing with

israeli border police. police struck him in the chest before wrapping his hands around his neck. >> he began to feel faint. an israeli medic administered first aid. by the time protesters carried him to an ambulance and placed him on a gurney, he would never regain consciousness. >> an autopsy showed with no doubt he was murdered, executed by the israeli army. >> reporter: the israeli doctors said he decide of a heart attack, even if it was caused by israeli police. >> this is caused by stress. it can be found that some bruises, minor bruises in the muscle layers. >> the disagreement over how it died came as no surprise to the people that believed he was unique. >> why is this death

particularly affecting so many people. >> he was on the fronts lines. that is why he was respected by the people. >> today they buried one of the few palestinian leaders whose death leaves a void at a moment when these mourners are looking for leaders. tomorrow leaders will meet to see how they'll respond to the death. they have threatened to stop cooperating or coordinating with the military. it helped to keep the violence from exploding further. the threat is significant. it has been made before. we expected a lot more violence and protest after today's funeral. perhaps, john, a sign that there's not enough energy or crucially leadership on the ground today to make ziad abu ein's death a trigger for a larger confrontation. there was a suicide attack in afghanistan. it took place in a french-run

high school in kabul. a teenage bomber targeted a crowded auditorium during a play that condemns suicide attacks. a german national was killed. 16 others, mostly african citizens injured. the latest in a string of bombings targetting foreigners. >> an al jazeera correspondent was killed in syria. he died when his car collided with a vehicle driven by rebel fighters, the fourth journalist killed. our colleagues at aljazeera.com call him daring and gorgeous. >> immigration is a sensitive subject in america. european countries are dealing with their own immigration issues. in the u.k. a struggle is about social services lawrence lee reports. >> reporter: for chris and jane finding a doctor happy to treat them is less than straight forward. chris is a british citizen and met jane when he was over from

the philippines on a tourist visa. she was married and became pregna pregnant. when looking for a doctor she was told she'd be reported to immigration. >> they were intimidating, saying they wouldn't be able to do anything for us at all. >> how did is it affect you during the pregnancy? >> i was stressed and worried. >> it was hopeless. >> i was really hopeless. >> reporter: kris works in a care home, pays taxes, his pregnant wife and baby's health was jeopardized because the health service says it can't cope with immigrants. >> it's unethical and safe, and it could have long-term consequences. >> the anti-migrant status occurs all the time. a go-home van, trialled by the home of has been parked.

stories about border guards checking people at hairdressers or health clinics. in the same bay it's harder for undocumented migrants like the syrian orphans in northern france to enter the country to claim asylum. by anyone's reckoning, 2014 is a horrendous year. it's led to extraordinary upheavals of millions of people who have been displaced to other parts of the planet. and here, certainly, the political will to try to bring some of those people in on compassionate grounds seemed in shorter supply than ever before. >> all of this left those that lived undocumented lives in fear of authority or a source of limbo. rights groups say children grow up not knowing they are not british, until the day comes when they have to find a job. >> there's a number of undocumented migrant children in the u.k., who have been here

for years. it's difficult for them to regularize their status, it's complicated. they can't get free legal advice and representation, and the decision making is not as good as it should be. >> if she's married to a british citizen. many would regard jane as an illegal overstayer. authorities will tell her if she has to leave the u.k., british husband and british baby behind next - blaming the victim, a striking report on how a christian university treated victims of sexual assault. >> it's known as a party drug. is it the next treatment for depression?

this is al jazeera america, i'm john seigenthaler. coming up, university and an apology over how they treated sexual abuse. special k. a party drug used to treat depression, is it safe. hacked - sensitive - many say offensive emails from sony

executives end up in the public lie. eye. -- public eye. tonight an apology and a promise from one of the most prominent christian colleges in america. a new investigation of bob jones university in south carolina says that for decades the school blamed the victims in assault cases. sara hoy has more. >> i think they should have told me it wasn't my fault. i think they should have not heaped more shame on me. i was filled to the brim with shame. i didn't need any more. >> reporter: katy is putting the pieces of her life back together. it's been nearly a decade since she let the university, she says it was a place that failed rape

victims like herself. >> i loved my teachers. i loved the school. not sorry i went there. what i am sorry about is that they seem - they seemed so unwilling to acknowledge what they have done wrong. >> so here is the so-called fortress of faith. bob jones university in greenville south carolina. there's 4,000 students who go here to the private college. the teachings follow a pretty literal translation of the bible. and the rules on campus are super strict. there's no tv, no hand holding, no popular music. and even a little violation could get you kicked out. her assault did not take place on campus. she was 19 and working for an ambulance company in colombus ohio, when she says her supervisor raped her.

an evening while counting supplies she felt the prick of a needle. >> i couldn't move anything. he came over and took my clothes off. i could still speak, i was telling him no. and he raped me. and my eyes filled with tears, i couldn't brush the tears away. >> reporter: scared to tell anyone, she returned to work. i have five more shifts. three out of the five he raped me again. two weeks later i left for my freshman year at bob jones university. >> raised in a conservative family, afraid of her attacker, she kept her secret until her junior year at bob jones when she sought help. >> i didn't understand why he picked me. i thought there was something about me. was it something that he saw

that said it was okay to do this to her. was it something inside of me. and then i thought if he could see it, does that mean others can see it as well. and i just - i needed help. i needed help really bad. >> she was referred to jim berg for counselling. a dean of students at the time. he blamed her for the assault. >> he asked me if i have been smoking pot. i started to get a dizzy feeling. then he asked me if i'd been in fear of this man, had i had relations with the man, and i kept telling him no to the questions, but he didn't believe me or hadn't heard or was no going to help me and said we have to find the sin in your life that caused your rape. and i just ran. i ran out the steps of the administration building, and he

confirmed my worst nightmare. it was something i had done, it was something about me. it was my fault before the report was made public today the university's president said in a statement: you can see more of the report on "america tonight" at the top of the hour troubling data from a british study on drug resistant back fearia. researchers say by 2050 super bugs could kill more people each year than cancer. science and technology correspondent jake ward explains. bacteria are becoming resist ants to drugs we use to kill them. in the united states, 2 million people are infected each year with bacteria resistant to anti-by otic, and 23 thouds die

as a result of those infections. that is a problem, one that droughts public health threats. and there are factors that contribute to the problem. the group in london is gathered to address one. the fact that drug companies are not making new antibiotic. it's expensive and time-consuming to create the drugs, and making pharmaceuticals is a business. and they are hoping to convince world leaders to better insent vice the business. there are a host of other factors making bacteria harder to kill. antibiotic drugs are less affective. as they are used in greater numbers, the bacteria are getting more opportunity to resist. thing of it like practice. the more the bacteria has a chance to practice. the more they see them, the better they get at resisting their effects. >> there are two reasons the bacteria is getting practice and

exposure. there's a basic misunderstanding of the role of antibiotics. there's two types of infections, viral and bacterial. anti-biotics kill bacteria, not viruses. 49% of europeans across the e.u. believed that antibiotic drugs kill viruses - the cold and the flu. researchers show that doctors show that the drugs are administered in people that don't need them, and that is giving the bacteria a chance to adapt. >> antibiotics are given in a blanket way to huge numbers of farm animals, to help keep them healthy. we are talking of millions of animals dosed not as individuals, but in large groups through feed and water. that gives them a shot at developing resistance on a massive scale. what we are looking at is a crisis of management, one in which we are using drugs too

much. and sometimes the wrong drugs, making them less effective. it is not a matter of business incentives or livestock or limbing prescriptions. all will be necessary to keep us from growing a bug we do not have the means to fight. >> jake ward reporting. now to an experimental treatment for depression. some say it could be the biggest breakthrough since prozac. there's a catch. it's based on a club jub called keda mean or special k. there are serious questions about whether it's save. dr edward is a psychiatrist specialising in mood disorders, and is in the studio. what is your biggest concern about using keda mean to treat depression. >> all too often people want a quick fix. studies are strong. it treats depression within 24 hours in a patient population

that is treatment deficient. that aspect is enticing. >> to doctors and patients. as patients we want a quick fist. there's a chance patients will not want to try yoga, exercising - maybe taking prozac, they'll want the treatment to have results right away. >> the patient comes in saying "i want kedamine and it is given to them. >> that is my biggest concern, yes. decisions should be made in concert. that's the way we try to approach it. we want to find the right treatment for each person. it's different. some wants the treatment. someone else - that's the last thing they want. they want you to tell them everything they do before trying

medication. that's a great idea. everywhere should do that, whether they are taking medicine or not. >> what about the misuse of the drug. you study addiction. >> i treat addiction. it's in the back of my mind. we have so many drugs that are currently being used that have abuse potential. kedamin, doesn't have any extra potential. when it comes to pharmaceutic s pharmaceuticals, the biggest problem is opioids. that's a bigger concern. it is addicting. >> cada mean is a low-risk anaesthetic. how does it work for people in depression? >> no one nose. -- knows. everything assay will be wrong

in a few years. >> what are the side effect. when a person has an injection, it's nausea, head aches sometimes. that fades away, within 24 hours, people with strong symptoms much depression gets better. not everywhere. >> is there a culture of drug dependency in the field of psychiatry. >> as an addiction psychiatrist i'm looking to uncover it. there's a lot of people that drink more than they should. there's a lot of people that, i think, with the desire for the quick fix, would want something like xanax for their excity, which is addicting. it's commonly prescribed for panic disorder. things like that. in that respect there's a little bit of a culture in the sense

that mental health professionals prescribe it. >> why do we see it in young people. >> it's related to the use of m.d.m. a. the two drugs are used together. one could argue there's a psychological crash and a depression period and somehow people figured out taking cada mean - people could be helped by that. >> during, thank you for being with us. >> last month sony suffered a cyber breach. it targeted a studio. >> this is the largest hack, involving salary records, unreleased movies to notes from high-level executives, and president obama's name has come

up. this is an email from amy, to scott. the executives were discussing a white house breakfast for hollywood big wigs last november. he responds: the racially tinged exchange is the latest of a number of emails set to appear. powerplayers on the hollywood scene apologised in statements saying: and: the damage to sony's reputation has been done, and the breach may cost sony as much as

$100 million. illegal down loads, lawsuits and security employment. they leaked films on the web. social security numbers and employment of major employees, and revealed information like angelina jolie, comedian kevin heartand oscar winner tom hanks, nuggets that may make them vulnerable to lawsuits and lost business. guardians of piece is claiming responsibility. in retaliation for a film called "the interview", starring seth rogan, and james franco. it's about a c ia plot to kill north korea's leader kim jong un. anonline post talls it the movie of terrorism and demands that sochi pulls the film. >> they applauded the attack,

calling it a righteous deed. >> the fbi vetted the breach. it raises geches about secret emails shared since these were illegally obtained. >> we want to bring you more of the interview with hector, a high profile hacker with anonymous, and game an fbi informant and told me many hackers have no interest in joining anonymous, and explains how vulnerable the u.s. is to cyber attacks. >> there's a lot of hackers who are not into the idea of anonymous. i was one of those person. i started political activism in 2000. i was part of the united states versus china cyber war. the malaysian-indonesian cyber war. i have been doing it for a long time. >> how vulnerable are

corporations or americans to this hacking. >> there is no security. >> there is no security. >> there's no security. >> even the government. >> we proved a point. not only do we hack the government, foreign governments and corporations, we hack contractors, the same people paid to protect the government. it's a good lesson. >> bank accounts. >> bank acts. >> hack bank accounts. >> what is the point of hacking a bang account when you can hack the bank, do you understand. >> you are proud of that, right? >> i'm not proud. >> proud of your ability to do that? >> no. >> no. >> there's no pride in it. it's a skill, knowledge. it's something that i have. >> i can't do it. but you say plenty can u. >> anybody can do it. you can. i could sit here for five minutes and i could teach you you want. it's about understanding security and there has to be ethics. >> why not go to silicon valley.

>> they don't trust me. >> don't these companies need people like you to make sure they do not get hack pd. >> i am sure they do. i would love to work for anyone. i would love anyone to approach me and say "we think you have good skills", to answer your question, we have no security. we want to emphasise that people want to accept that. major issues with the government. the government needs to stop paying contractors billions a year to secure us when they are hacked themselves. >> you are no longer working with the government or helping the go. . >> i have not seen an fbi agent since march 6th, 2012. >> that's a good thing. >> it's a great thing. i want nothing to do with none of them. i'm trying to move on. >> good to meet you. thank you for sharing your story. >> ahead - our picture of the day. plus - we needed more money, it

was a tough sell. >> griffin dunn on his documentary about his famous aunt, author joan didion.

across the north-east we are dealing with a nor-easter, some areas are getting snow. towards western new york, we saw two feet of snow in an isolated location. on friday it will be a problem up towards the north, as well as to maine. by the time we get to saturday, things will improve. towards northern newhampshire and vermont. new york - better conditions, cold in the morning, down to 30

degrees. below freezing. temperatures beginning to warm up nicely as we go through the weekend and into next week. temperatures, a high of 46 to 48 degrees. boston - you'll see a little more snow from that storm system but you will begin to warm up as well. for the rest of the united states, the storm out here to the west - that will bring rain across many cities in parts of seattle, down towards portland and san francisco. friday - as we go towards saturday, the storm system moving towards the mountain state, that is a look at the weather, more news coming up after this.

joan didian is an author with a life full of joy and sorrow. she's camera shy but expresses thoughts with her right. her nephew is telling her story and is raising the money for the film through kickstarter. >> joan didian is a writer, an

essayist, novelist, national book award, a writer who is probably the most influential writer in america today. [ clapping ] >> people do not know what joan sounds like, that a woman so tiny in frame is a lion, a fearsome critic, essayist, a voice of moral authority and deeply intimidating figure. >> griffin dunn, good to have you. why did you do the documentary? >> i've been making it for three years, and it came about - my aunt suggested me to publishers to do when blue knights came occupy, after "year of magical thinking", to shot - like a marketing thing to go with the book.

they are cheesy and so i said "yes, i'd like to do it, but i want to do it in a particular way and it could coast more than you think." but they said joan is worth it. with joan, we had a crew and cameraman, and we shot a video, different sizes and sections from the book. we had, like, a lot of fun making t. >> you find yourself swimming in the colour blue. the light a blue. the french calls this time of day, and to the english it was gloming. this is called blue nights. i found my mind turning to the end of promise, the dwindling of days, the inevitably of the fading, dying, bright innocence. this is the opposite.

they are its warning." >> i get goose bumps listening to the film and watching it. >> after you did that... >> we did that. joan was pleased. i don't know why i - despite her being in my life, all my life, i assumed there was a bunch of documentaries made that i hadn't seen. and susan edited this, and is codirecting. we found out there was infer a documentary. we asked joan how she felt about that, keeping this going for as long as it takes. she greed. agreed. >> you raised the money on kickstarter. >> we needed more money. it was a tough sell. my cousin, anna, younger than me, much more advanced in the social media said "let's do kick

starter. i said "go ahead. >> it went on at eight in the morning. we hit 80, 1 o'clock in the afternoon. we were making it because no one else has made a documentary about her. it's a mystery. it climbed. in the 29 days you had, it closed out a little over 250. so what that told us, and what that has told all the companies that we went to for money, and were unsuccessful, is that there is an audience for the movie. people want to know about joan's life. >> if she didn't know, she really knew that she didn't just have fans of the people that grew up with her writing. she has a new generation of fans. there was - i was on a subway, and i saw a kid.

17-18-year-old girl, reading blue nights. >> she's incrossed in it. i said i don't mean to bother you. how are you numbering the book. >> i've been in to her signs year of magical thing. isn't that great. >> what does the documentary tell us abouton's life? >> it tells about the process of a writer. for people who love certain passages, she's a portable writer. people remember where they were when they read her stuff. we want to honour that for the fans and yets across what the language looks and feels like. and using that in her life, and having her life as a writer, as a wife. she was - she and john were the greatest love story around. they were an incredible couple.

>> what was your relationship with your aunt? >> the one that i was really close with was john, and with john you get joan. and because you - you really can't say john without jope, and you can't say joan withouton when she was alive. >> whenever, you know, he's a big guy. read your papers, call up, and you'd be on the phone about what was in the paper. before the conversation started, i'd say jeep, i don't know, pick up. there would be two of them on the phone. jope was like the woman i was. she's a relative. as a writer, i was in awe of. and was like, you know, when i was a teenager, if i wanted to bres a girl.

>> the documentary, does it have a name. >> we tell jurisdiction stories. the long one is she'll never make another marquee in order to live. that is a sentence written a long time ago that was prophetic. writing is what kept her sanity or monitor her times of insapty, in the mag irkal thinking. when might we expect it. we'll give ourselves - it will be a good year, year and a half. >> we'll look forward to it, and seeing you in other productions either in front of the camera or behind it. great to see you. thank you very much. now to our picture of the day. high waters hit a california parking lot. one driver who left his car there overnight returns to find it submerged. the flooding triggered by a

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