>> hi, ern, this is aljazeera america, i'm john seigenthaler. >> isil's horror, a captured pilot burned alive. tonight, jordan promises an earth shaking response. argentina scandal. new evidence implicates that country's president. new crackdown on supplements. prosecutors say what's on the label is often not in the bottle. and harper lee. the rediscovered novel by the

reclusive author of an american classic. we begin with a new act of barberrism from isil. the grotesque murder of the jordanian pilot on video. the armed group released it yesterday, and it reportedly shows the pilot set on fire, burning alive another part of the horrific propaganda campaign. we will not show you the video but the response appears to be spreading. it could be a tipping point. >> grief in jordan after isil released a video reportedly showing the killing. when the news came in, the 26-year-old's father, safi was attending a tribal meeting in in amman.

he met secretary of state, john kerry on tuesday. >> we have received with sorrow and anger news of the killing at the hands of a dire organization. a criminal group which does not represent our religion. >> reporter: many people on the streets of amman are in shock. >> we are so sad for him, and honestly, i consider him a hero and martyr. i'm so proud that he was defending the country, and regarding the sadness, we are also his family. >> it's not civilized and suitable. why, is this islam? this is not islam. >> reporter: the lieutenant was captured in it december when his plane came down in syria. jordan tried to secure his release through a prisoner swap, but demanded proof that he was alive.

but that never came. >> he was ordered to frighten and scare the government and the people of the coalition members. arabs in particular. >> reporter: jordan's military has promised what it calls a severe reaction, and with emotions still raw, the government is asking people to attend mass prayers in memory of the pilot on wednesday. >> jordan promised swift revenge for the pilot's murder. and it will begin at dawn. jordan will execute a prisoner, a would-be suicide bomber that isil said it wanted in exchange from kassasbah. new what it explains against isil. >> any kind of back stepping from the role. and as we know, jordan

contributes fighter pilots, as well as military and officials and intelligence to the coalition, and number two, this is a moderate sunni state. and the u.s. officials have been trying to combat the ideology of isil. and jordan helps with that. and don't forget refugees. there are 1 million syrian refugees inside of jordan, and that's straining the state's capacity. not only for the coalition but for the middle east. jordan has a huge role to play in u.s. intelligence efforts across the region, and generally, the cooperation will continue. u.s. and jordanian officials i talked to are saying that this will encourage the resolve. and a jordanian official telling me, this does not change our resolve. u.s. officials who work in the middle east said that the king is going to double down on the efforts within the coalition so john, tonight the general feeling is that the jordanians are angry at isle.

not only trending in jordan but the region. >> but there are some jordanians refusing to fight against isil. why? >> yeah, this is a big deal. we're seeing the anger right now against isil, the barbarism of this radio is so shocking, of course you'll get the anger b. you especially in this family they are an extremely important one within a tribe in southern jordan, and the tribes give the king his legitimacy. for the very first time, we have seen members of this tribe being quoted by the local media, america wants to drag us to war and one member of the family said the king should be unseated. that's unprecedented for the tribes to come out and say that about the king, because the tribes contribute the majority of the members of the military. and they are seen as giving the

king his legitimacy. but on the other side, they are the poorest part of jordan, and we have seen isil recruits from this area. so it's a tenuous support that the king is getting. bottom line, chances are the king of jordan will rally around the government and call for revenge as soon as the government gives them the revenge. but the officials are worried about erosion of support especially among the integral tribes to the future of the government support. >> that's nick schiffrin reporting, thank you. the king of jordan was in washington today to meet with the secretary of state. but after he learned of the pilot's death the secretary met with the king, and gave his support for the fight against isil. jamie mcintyre is there with the latest. >> the murder of moaz al-kassasbah by isis fighters

was met in washington with resolve. >> it's just one more indication of the barbarity of this organization. >> and the revelation that the 26-year-old pilot was burned alive in a cage a month ago, while isil pretended that he was continuing to negotiate for his life, the president says that their ideology is bankrupt. >> i think we will redouble the vigilance and determination on the part of a global coalition to make sure that they're degraded and ultimately defeated. >> jordan's king abdullah was in washington, meeting privately on capitol hill with members of the senate foreign relations committee. the king cut short his u.s. visit after a meeting with president obama and recording a short video message.

>> this cowardly terrorist act has no relation to islam. it's the duty of all muslims to stand together. >> at the pentagon, the president called the pilot's execution twisted and said that it will put down support for isil in the muslim world. >> i think that this will continue to backfire in the region. >> but the pentagon realizes that the gruesome video does have some propaganda value. >> now, will it possibly attract some young disenfranchised young men? it might. >> pinned down by u.s.-led airstrikes, unable to move or take new ground, their defeat some months off is increasingly inevitable. >> the pentagon today makes a point of not responding tit for tat for these executions of hostages, but it's not giving up on anybody still being held. the history shows that the u.s. special operations forces are willing to take significant

risks if they think they have the intelligence to launch a rescue mission. >> jamie mcintyre at the pentagon and thank you. now to our other to story. one of the most powerful women in the world. the president of argentina and tonight, she's apparently implicated in a case we have been telling you about. involving a dead prosecutor, a deadly attack on a senator and a cover-up. >> reporter: he spoke loud and often about his suspicions that the argentinian government derailed his investigation on the suicide bomber in buenos aires.

a 28-page document found in the trash, shows he was serious about the accusation. it calls for the arrest of argentinian president christina kirchner and her former prime minister. itprime minister eastman said that he had proved that there was a secret deal between argentina and iran where they agreed to protect in change for oil. argentina's cabinet chief tore up the newspaper. >> it's important that the argentinean people know who is lying to them. they have been trying to establish a story of false information since it was made. category orichly saying that we repeal the lies because the truth always triumphs.

the cries are louder, not only for him but the people who killed him. as for president kirchner, she said all signs point to suicide, but she said that nisman's death is a conspiracy against her. and she stood her ground. >> no one is going to blackmail me. no one is going to intimidate me. i am not afraid of me. they can say what they like, and make the accusations they want to. let the prosecutors call me and make the accusations but i'm not going to move one centimeter from what i've always thought. >> it turns out that the draft request for president kirchner's arrest was not included in the judiciary and meanwhile, kirchner is calling the cover up absurd. >> emily, she was with the

bubble and she's in buenos aires. and what does this discovery mean? >> good evening and this discovery has added another layer of mystery to a case that's not coming anywhere even close to resolution. not only does it state that at some point prosecutor nisman have an accusation of the government, but it states that the prosecutor's office issued an incorrect statement. they wrote their article and published it on sunday, stating that in the trash can of nisman's apartment, there was this draft that called for christina and some of her high-powered members to be

impeached. and on monday, the prosecutor issued a statement saying that that was completely false. at the time, on monday, he shredded a newspaper and said they were lies. and for the prosecutor in charge of the case, stating that in fact, the article was true and the note as issued by the prosecutor general's office on monday was incorrect. >> so let's talk a little bit about the reaction in argentina, now that this has become public. >> reporter: i mean, argentina is a very politically divided country. and what this has served to do is essentially deepen that rift. so those who are and have been in favor of the current government are still in favor and think this is a plot to destabilize the government.

whereas those who have always thought, or for a long time been against this government, to finally have what they see as proof of this government's corruption or at the very best, it's ineptitude. >> what do you think kirchner's legacy will be, and what happens next? >> reporter: i mean, what happens next is -- it depends on how the situation plays out. it depends on what comes to light. i think this will tarnish kirchner's legacy, and kirchner would have already have had a difficult legacy given the economic state that she will leave the country in at the end of the year. but there of been constant accusations of cronyism and corruptness, and i think this gives at least some evidence that all is not right within harad mix, and there's some level of cronyism. just today paul had a piece

decrying the cronyism of harad mix, and until a year ago, he was very in favor of the kirchner economic policies, as a way to the austerity that other countries in crisis have. so i think this will definitely affect her in the long-term from a legacy standpoint. but how it affects her politically, however the next few weeks of information play out will determine that. >> so there have been protests, and this has been all over the front pages of newspapers and on television? >> yes. it's definitely been the dominant story on television. and we thought that it would taper off but in terms of media coverage, it's sort of snowballing, and christina has been playing the let it all stay away game. she waited a long time to face the allegations and she has

now left the country. but if this continues to come to light the chances of this fading into oblivion diminish with it, right? >> emily hersch. we appreciate it. doctors tell congress that children need to be vaccinated. big named stores accused of selling supplements claiming to be something they're not.

>> a major healthcare tool is at the center of a debate in washington today. vaccinations, and politicians were taking sides following the measles outbreak. mike viqueira joins us now from washington. mike. >> reporter: good evening john. as the number of measles cases in this country continues to grow the question of whether parents have the right to keep their children from being vaccinated has become a political football for at least one 2016gop hopeful struggling for an answer. for experts there's no dispute, keeping kids immunized

is the right thing to do. >> you have one of the most highly effective vaccines against any virus, and you have a highly contagious disease, measles, that can have serious complications, so it's a slam dunk. >> but do parents have the right to refuse the vaccinations for their children? deep political core, for those calling it individual liberty, against others, who cite the responsibility to keep a community free of exposure. rand paul, a medical doctor, and likely gop contender for president, warned of dangers. >> i heard of many tragic cases of walking, talking, normal children, who wound up with mental disorders after vaccines. >> but theories linking vaccines to autism, have been debunked time and time again from research.

paul's stance brought ridicule from hillary clinton, who tweeted, the science is clear, the earth is round, the sky is blue, and vaccines work. let's protect all our kids. hashtag grandmothers know best. and late tuesday, paul tweeted this picture. he said he's getting a booster shot. he blames the media. the latest numbers, 102 cases of measles in 14 states this year. most are linked to california's disneyland, and most of those inffected had never been immunized. obama's budget proposing a cut to immunization programs. >> if everybody should be vaccinated, why should you cut that program. >> the answer, new rules under the affordable care act. >> we have required the insurance programs include preventive coverage, including vaccinations like those with measles. >> mr. obama is walking a fine line, urging parents, but stopping short of requiring. >> we should not need a federal

law, people should use common sense. >> republicans like john boehner has taken a similar stance. >> i don't know that we need another law, but i do believe that all children ought to be vaccinated. >> now john, rand paul, the senator from kentucky, has been backtracking all day. he put out a statement that he doesn't believe there's a causal link between vaccinations and mental disorders, but ted cruz and others have said that children should be vaccinated. >> . >> all right mike, thank you. another big debate in washington today. this over president obama's plans to normalize relations with cuba. marco rubio days after returning from a trip to cuba, the top u.s. diplomat to latin america, facing the tough questions on efforts to improve

ties between the two countries including an embassy in havana. >> we will never agree with the cuban government that we will agree to limit our personnel. >> we're going to keep pushing to get those restrictions lifted as part of an embassy. >> it's a pretty straightforward question. would we ever agree that in order to open an embassy, we would agree to send our people to not push democracy? >> i can't imagine that we would go to the next stage of our diplomatic relationship with an agreement not to seek democracy, no. >> there will be more talk on restoring dip attic relations. some activists say that president obama has already conceded too much. today's hearing come as pictures emerge of former cuban leader, fidel castro. these are the first images,

public images seen of fidel castro since last august. since then, pictures have emerged about his failing health or possible death. the obama administration is putting new limits on the nsa and how it collects data. analysts will be required to delete information incidentally collected on americans, if it lacks intelligence value. the same goes for foreigners, but analysts have five years to destroy their data. the rules call for public disclosure of security letters which require companies to turn over information about users. >> members of an elite world war ii commando unit received the congressional gold medal. the unit was made up of both americans and canadians. and they called themselves the devil's brigade. we spoke to one of the recipients.

90-year-old jim summer sides, who agreed to join at the age of 19. >> when we look at the history it makes you wonder, how did it get from george washington to me? it's fun to say the least. >> these men saved the free world. now they are free to safer the triumph and saver the stories for years to come. >> several times i regretted joining, but those times they're forgotten i think. war is hell, and we found out it was. in italy, we were given the rations that were left over from the desert war.

there we were. there was nothing left in the buildings, and we had beautiful floors, they don't make a very good mattress, but when you have one blanket under you and one over you, you could stay. this smart looking colonel all dressed up in american dress uniform, came into the camp, and he was looking for volunteers. he made it sound good. he didn't say you're joining a suicide outfit. he said you are going to an elite outfit. and we had fruit cocktail for dessert. we thought we had died and had gone to heaven. a lot of them did but thank god, i didn't. my brothers, we went through hell together. i just thank the good lord i made it as many as i have.

and i've had the chance to maybe pass the word along that please, do something with the world. we tried. did we fail? i don't know. >> coming up, dietary supplements, whether they contain any of the ingredients listed on the label. plus -- >> high grade pharmaceutical heroin. i'm in dc. and this is the only place in america where if you're hooked enough the government will help you shoot up.

>> hi, everyone. this is aljazeera america i'm john seigenthaler. over the counter supplements are companies deceiving consumers? the right fix prescribing heroin forim in vancouver canada. and to kill a mocking bird. the rediscovered book from harper lee is about to be published. and subway cars, pash of the effort to save the environment. >> reporter: a warning tonight about dietary supplements. they are exempt, sold over the counter, and many do not include the ingredients on the

bottle. they are telling them to get off the shelves. john is here with more. >> reporter: an investigation found that some of the supplements sold ant the country's most popular stores were filled with nothing but chip fillers. the $30 billion a year industry especially since we found some of them still on the store shelves. herbal supplements promise better heaping. yet a new investigation by the state attorney general show that some are not at all what they claim to be. >> in some cases, there was no organic product, there was sand. >> store supplements found that nearly 80% of the time, they didn't have what was listed on the label. the new york times raised the question years ago. >> it was not just a few bad apples, so if you cannot buy supplements at gnc or walgreen's without being assured that what's on the label is actually in the pill,

then it's hard to have any faith in supplements. >> for example, ginky bilboa didn't have any, but instead garlic, rice, spruce and asparagus. the same with target, and walgreen's st. john's wart. it did have garlic, rice, and a kind of house plant. and wal-mart's spring valley brand ginseng had no ginseng but it did have rice, pine wheat, citrus, and that same house plant. >> one more reason to stay away from the vitamins and minerals to begin with, they don't do what they want them to do, and now we don't want to pay it. >> they demanded that the retailers pulled them from shelves, but the next day, we went shopping and found them at two gnc stores. >> ginky bilboa, and st. john's

wart, and ginseng, still on the shelves here at gnc. >> but at walgreen's down the street, a different story. >> turns out that these are still on the shelf. but when i took them to the counter and tried to buy them, the clerk said that they have been recalled. >> target and wal-mart are pulling them from their websites. >> of course i'm upset about it. there's a reason i take it. >> gnc says they will pull the products, but they doubt the accuracy of the state's tests. adding, it stands behind the quality, purity and the potency. they are removing the products yet, it's a betrayal to some shoppers, who are watching their health and now they are feeling it in their wallets. >> if i found out that they had nothing in them for any health benefit, i would be frustrated because it's flushing money

down the toilet. >> it's raising a call for more oversight. and it's up to the companies to make sure that the product is safe and accurately labeled, but that depends on the honor code. >> very interesting jonathan, thank you. and he's a physician and assistant professor at the nyu school of medicine, so dr. debbie how significant is this? >> so this brings up a couple of things. it's the larger debate about supplements, and then fraud. you're saying that you have these ingredients in your supplements, and they're not there. >> do doctors recommend supplements often? >> it depends on the specialty. i'm in pain management and i see a lot of people who ask about recommendations and i don't usually recommend them. but i acknowledge that a lot of people use them, so we have that discussion.

>> are there a lot of companies that make them? >> there are. there's not a lot of regulation about it. so a lot of people can come forward with supplements and that's the issue with the fda. they recommend drugs and medications and there are a lot of protocols that people have to follow in terms of the standardization of the product. and knowing what it's affects will be, and the side effects will be, and the profile. but anybody can create it, and they don't have to follow those rules, there's not the same consistency. >> not many regulations regarding the fda. but what about the ama? do they have any position on supplements? >> the ama tries to look for whether there's any kind of research that would back this. so there were smaller studies that say some of these supplements might be helpful but they're small and who has the incentive to do that? the mih does somewhat, because there are a lot of people interested.

but the manufacturers don't necessarily have the incentive. why try to prove the mechanism of action if it's not clear? but because they don't have the burden to prove it. they don't have the supplement. >> so do we need regulation? >> i think that we need some regulation. we need consistency. everything has pretty much an affect and a side effect, right? so if we knew what those were, and if we could talk to patients, these might help you with this condition but these are the side effects that you have to watch out for. and we need the answers to give them. >> someone who meets with people and talks about supplements every day do you have a new layer of your conversation? >> now i have to watch out more about fraud. this particular topic came up in the news, and that's something that we have to watch out for but i always have to watch out for it anyway. i do spinal procedures, for example, and people don't realize that gingko, garlic,

and ginseng they can cause you to bleed for longer. so if you have surgery any type of procedure you can have serious complications from taking these beforehand. and patients don't always come forward and tell their doctors they're taking them. >> thank you very much. and now a surprising new program in vancouver canada. doctors are prescribing pure heroin to heroin addicts. it keeps them off the streets and off drugs and out of trouble. we have seen this in europe, but never before in north america. how does it work? >> evening john, this is called harm reduction and it's for a small group of severely addicted heroin users. canada has tried to stop this program, call be it feeding addiction under the guise of treatment. but they say that the right so medicine is guaranteed in

canada, and access to the drug, and it's something that can make a drug addict's life liveable. this is hastings street, downtown east side vancouver notorious for street drugs and street violence. >> a guy hit me over the head. >> our tour guides who know the back alleys all too well are kevin home to 5,000 intravenous drug users. >> i'm a heroin addict, but not a junky. in my mind, a junky will say and do whatever for the next fix. >> but they know exactly where they're getting the next fix. not on the street. but here, a government funded clinic where they get heroin free prescribed by a doctor. >> i'm just doing my normal thing. >> we went with kevin for the second of his three daily injections. methadone never worked for him

as an alternative to heroin and repeated rehab attempts failed. >> i'm looking for a vein, because i have problems lately. >> we watch as he can't hit a vein. first in his right arm. and finally he shoots directly into his shoulder muscle. >> when you do it, it's like a big warm hug. your mom squeezes you really tight. and no worries everything is out of your mind. >> at providence healthcare's suggestion we interviewed kevin after his fix. the patients here are considered so severely addicted giving them the drug they crave is the best and cheapest way to protect them ask those around them. >> i get free heroin, and it's either that, or do you want me smashing your car or robbing and hurting you? that's where you bottom out.

>> similar programs have been run in europe for years and many studies show that keeping kevin on an even keel, and not chasing street drugs will pay off. >> they will benefit. and their lives will be ordered again, and things associated with their drug acquisition behaviors are reduced. >> dr. scott mcdonald, who runs the clinic, calls it a science based approach, a way of maintaining an addict's health. but not everyone agrees. abstinence rehab for severely addicted career criminals. >> is it possible for them to get clean? >> i'm 23 years clean and sober, a heroin drug user, what do you think? can't threaten me with hell. i know exactly where it is. >> so for giving these folks heroin, is that a way of giving up with them? >> yeah, we have flushed them.

and categorized them in, and bye-bye. we're not going to deal with you anymore. you need more, we'll give you some more. >> by giving them heroin, are we giving up on them? >> this is a treatment that is not end. we'll engage people not otherwise engaged in care, and if we can't engage them in care, some will die. >> it's like winning the lottery. i probably wouldn't be here. >> kevin has government assistance checks, and a part-time job at an injection site. it's something that he doesn't have to do anymore. he says his regular supply in a clean medical setting has stabilized his life. we hear the same from leanne, for an addict, this is better than just good. >> doesn't the government always get the best of the best in and don't we want our people

to be the best? i mean -- >> have you thought at all of kicking the habit? getting rid of it? >> kicking the habit i have now? i will never kick this habit. from what i was to what i am now -- >> in the future, do you see living without it? >> no. it's part of my life. and an adjustment. and just my -- i love it too much. >> 26 patients are currently receiving heroin. another 94 have been approved but their drugs have not arrived at the clinic yet. >> canada's health minister,rona ambrose tried to stop this program but the clinic sued. they have been prescribing heroin since the middle of december. this is an issue that will likely end up before the supreme court of canada and it could be years before the legality of prescribing heroin

to heroin users is cleared up. >> any chance that this could happen in the u.s.? >> really doubtful at this point, john. people we talked to in the medical community and in the rehabilitation community the rehab community, say the political, the rec tore climate in this country not going to allow something like this to happen. >> what was it like making the rounds with kevin and leanne, who were quite open about their use? >> they were really open and really up front. and we really appreciate their honesty as we pursued this story. it was a nasty part of town, and we appreciate them taking us around. and we appreciate their openness and honesty. but it was a difficult story and i never have liked needles and the prospect of heroin addiction scared the heck out of me. it was an amazing experience. >> allen, thank you very much. the sony pictures hack

exposed major vulnerabilities in american businesses protecting sensitive information, but there's a newer and bigger cyber threat facing the nation. this could affect everything from power grids to chemical plants. lindsay moran has more. >> you're asking me, is someone preparing the battlefield against the united states and it's allies? you bet it is. >> they are a husband and wife team tracking a cyber threat. a type of malware that has innovated some of america's most critical infrastructure. >> the only way you break into this is figure out how it works so you mighted? use it to do what? to bring down the electricity grid. >> it's dubbed black energy. he's a virus huntish who has been tracking the threat. when he unleashed it inside of his portable lab he found that black energy could be remotely programmed to evolve from

espionage to sabotage. >> the concerning aspect about this malware, it's modular in nature. you can take a piece of destructive code and introduce it into black energy, and use it to be destructive. >> it seems to be geared more to taking over the control of the system, and directing it to get information from it. >> which is a much more frightening thing. >> yes, it is. >> jen we'dman she hunts down hackers, who is level of sophistication is like an adversary of the u.s. >> how can you be sure these are russians? >> they are used by the underground, and they have been developed by russians in the criminal underground. and there's some sort of nexus to russia. >> no foreign nation, no hacker, should be able to shut down our networks, steal our

trade secrets and the privacy of our families, especially our kids. >> president obama said critics say that the bills that he wants to pass will do little to help our infrastructure, and the nation will only be more vulnerable. >> these devices are more connected. which exposes them. >> a recent survey found that 37% of businesses in the u.s. energy sectish have been infiltrated with black energy. >> i'm not sure that we're prepared. and this is a wake-up call. >> lindsay moran, america tonight. >> you can see more of lindsay's story tonight at 11:00 eastern time. 7:00 pacific. the fight against isil has created an unusual ally for the

u.s. here ask stephanie sy with the next hour. >> since the 1990s the u.s. had a kurdish separatist group on its list of terrorist organizations, but recently, they have been fighting the same enemy as the u.s., isil. and they have been doing it well. they helped to liberate kobane. they are clashing with the forces. >> the violence is mutual, the movement is affiliated with the militant pkk which the u.s. calls a terror group. they accuse the pkk of burning their offices and killing nine of its members. if security forces stay quiet the more pkk gets quiet and builds an empire of fear. but today across the syrian border, the u.s. allies, in kobane, they recently defeated isil but they resisted kurdish

efforts before their victory in syria, and crushed kurdish efforts inside of turkey >> so we'll be taking a closer look at the pkk in the next hour and the complicated relationships, john, between the u.s., turkey and even amongst the different kurdish factions themselves in that region. that's coming up. >> and in the next hour, this is a new news program with stephanie sy and antonio mara, and we want everyone to watch after this broadcast. still ahead. 50 years in the making, the follow-ups to one of the most beloved novels, to kill a mocking bird. and plus, turning new york's out of state subway cars into an ocean playground.

>> harper lee is one of the most celebrated authors in america, and one of the most reclusive. her to kill a mocking bird, at 7878 she's making a comeback with a sequel. it's scout's life after she grewgrew up. she completed the back in the mid 1950s before to kill a mocking bird, but the original manuscript had been lost. she's the director of the documentary, hey, boo. and my friend, mary murphy, welcome. what's the significance of this news? >> i think this is great news, for any reader, writer, scholar, it's a chance to see what harper lee did before she did "to kill a mocking bird"

and anyone who wants more, is sink their teeth into it. >> you've spent a good chunk of your life working on this. and what is harper lee's contribution to american society and american culture? >> i think with her first novel, it was the context in which the novel appeared. she refused a story of a girl who reversed to see things in black and white. and it was a novel of suspense and coming of age and it intersected right in the 1960s with everything that was going on in this country. so in the same way that many people say uncle tom's cabin gave way to abolitionists, many civil rights activists say that harper lee gave them the way to keep going. >> why did she not write for all of those years? >> without talking to her

directly, it's hard to answer that. she was a very shy young woman from alabama who got a lot of attention and publicity when her first novel came out. her sister, who died a couple of months ago, i was able to interview him and she said that harper lee said to her i couldn't top what i had done. and it's a perfect little gem. so you could see why it might be hard. >> do you have a sense of what her life has been like? >> i think it's important to say that she's not really boo radley, not reckless in the boo radley sense. she stops giving interviews and never published a second book. and those two things collided to allow a lot of mystery and picturology to grow up around her. she has had a really, rich life with friends and lots of books and i know that when she lived in new york for most of the time she went to a lot of mets

games, and she had a life, but she didn't choose to talk to reporters about it. >> there are plenty of people who love this book, and you're one of them, but you're one that took it to the next level. can you falk about your personal passion for this woman? >> my adult reading of the novel is the novel that knocked me out of my chair and so much did i really read this as an adolescent? because the writing is so magnificent. and a lot of times the writing is overlooked because you're talking about race and loneliness. and when i started investigating the impact that this novel had both on just writers, and also on the civil rights movement, i was amazed by hooch i could find out about where i went. everywhere i went, somebody had something new or fresh or a different reaction to the novel. and i think that speaks volumes

to what harper lee did with that book. >> let me show you a little bit of your documentary. >> if there was a national novel award, this would be it for the united states. i think it's a favorite book of almost everybody you meet. >> it is a favorite book, but in some ways, how did the movie play into that? >> well, the movie, it's rare that you have a great novel and a great movie. usually you have one or the other. the movie rode the wave of the civil rights movement. it appeared in christmas of 1962 and played when martin luther king, when the boycotting was going on in downtown birmingham, to kill a mocking bird was going on downtown. and oprah herself told me that she once had to sit next to gregory peck at a dinner, and she turned to him and didn't know what else to say how is scout? because the characters are so closely identified.

>> mary murphy, always good to see you, thank you very much. it is an unlikely weapon in the fight to protect sea life on the coast. new york's out of date subway cars dropped into the ocean to create artificial relieves. a stunning story here's malin tonight in a report. >> this barge is parked out in new jersey with the old fork city subway cars, and i had read about the artificial relief project in the new york times, and i thought it finished with the older subway cars and when i saw this, he said that's the mta's artificial reef project. and i said what? and he gave me access when they were loading the subway cars onto the barge and went out for three years on the different drops. >> there's always a little bit

of an emotional ping, a sense of vertigo when you see the sea train that you think you it may have been on a day ago going over the edge of the barge in the atlantic ocean and it's kind of like this -- it pulls you a little bit into the water. this is pooled, and it's referencing to the auk yesence of the water. and i asked if they could do it at an angle for me so i could get a little bit of a splash. so the shot was a little art directed. this is the subway cars stacked on the barge and i love this, the pallet of the subway cars, and you have this wonderful rusty tone in the inside of the cars and this beautiful lum nessent qualities on the inside. this image is entitled "wave."

it was the roughest day at sea when we shot this. this has been featured quite a bit as one of the prints. one of the reasons that the subway cars have worked very well is because they have a large amount of surface area and there's a large amount of space for coral to attach themselves. >> i want people to believe in the potential for recycling. i hope that they walk away with just the sensation of enjoyment. >> steven malin's exhibit opens friday at new york university. you can get there on the subway. from beneath the sea to in the air, and our picture of the day, the formation of the skies over rome, a colorful display and a celebration for the country's new president. that's our program, thank you for watching, i'm job sig sig and we continue with stephanie

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