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terrorism. we have a special story on that. plus, ice cream, what is ice cream? joyful past time here as well as everywhere else around the world for children have to do with sanctions? we'll explain. all that's coming up. let's go "outfront." good evening, everyone. i'm erin burnett, "outfront" tonight, live once again from iran. in the capital of iran in tehran tonight. it's election day, and the polls here closed at 11:00 p.m. local time. right now, it's 3:30 a.m. there was hope there could be some results, an early rumor, pretty soon, but they're going to come in some time in the next day. we should find out whether this goes to a run-off election or not, voting was extended a little later tonight than had been anticipated. a lot of people voted today. the ayatollah, the supreme leader voted this morning. there was a press gaggle who

went with him to film him formally voting. he said in a headline captured in this country that high turn out would be the blow to the enemies to iran, that would be the west and the united states. it seemed like that worked. there were plenty of people who were out there, and you know, perhaps a little bit of a last-minute interest in voting. today is the weekend, and we saw long lines at the polling stations we visited and we saw that early in the day. we also, though, talked to people who said they weren't voting at all. they didn't want to talk about it on camera. when we asked why, they said it should be pretty clear why we don't want to talk about this on camera, but they were very frustrated and said what's the point in voting at all? frustrated with the lack of change that they saw in this country. today, we also saw some of the world's most expensive luxury brands and saw them here, and they were nice stores and they were the real

bull garri, even the fancy italian brands, they were here. we also had a chance to speak to some women. there were a lot of people, 686 people originally running for president, there were women on the list. none actually made the cut from the supreme counsel and supreme leader to run for president of the country we asked the women. the government wanted high turnout, they wanted to make a point to the world, and they're going to report they got it. it's fair to describe it that people felt patriotism and pressure when it came to voting. here's what we saw. the lines started early with people waiting in the boiling sun to cast their vote. this polling station, a mosque transformed for the day. here's how it worked. voters must bring their national id card and birth certificate to vote. a utility just doesn't cut it here. >> two parts on the left, write the name who comes to vote.

name, surname, date of birth. national code. the name of the city, the name of father, and these things. okay? >> and here is where i fill out for president. >> yes? >> chara is in charge of this polling station and insists it's practically impossible for the government to know who a voter picked. >> we can't find this person is for this person. >> you can't find that out? >> we can't find that out. >> the majority of votes at this station seem to be for the mayor of tehran. they came home from kuwait to vote for them. can you tell me who you decided to vote for? >> mr. call abod? >> he's a great man, changed the city. >> the supreme leader's words influenced some people. high turnout for election will dash enemies' hopes was the front line. maybe this headline is the people we talked to who aren't voting won't talk about it on camera. they say they voted before and nothing changed so what is the

point. it wasn't just the mayor who got a lot of buzz, another name we heard, hossam ruani. some of his younger supporters were enjoying their day off in the mountains. did you vote today? >> yes, i did. >> you voted, and who for? >> for rohani. for the purple. >> the purple nail. >> yeah, the purple man. >> but she wasn't hopeful. she told me she doesn't think he will win. we wrapped up this day in a conservative neighborhood and found people voting for the most conservative candidate. >> translator: because of the hijab, god willing, he will make it stricter. >> still, even the most ardent supporters all told us they believe this election will go to a runoff. and they believe it will go to a runoff. to win outright so there's no

runoff, a candidate would have to have 50% plus one, one individual vote to actually win and not have this go to a runout. as i said, everybody we spoke to thinks it will go to a run off. we'll get the results in the next 24 hours or so. joining me now is the host of npr's "morning edition." here it's really early. i guess you're used to these hours. we saw. we saw here in tehran, enthusiasm, lines, the mayor of tehran was very popular here. what did you see at the polls? >> i was interested that some people seemed to make up their minds at the last minute to show up. you mentioned some people were determined not to vote. we talked with voters who said last night, we were 50/50 and decided to show up. i also heard the word several times, change, erin. sometimes spoken in english. american political consultants talk about being the candidate of change in a time of trouble.

there's a lot of trouble in the country and the people who want change seem to be going for rohani. there were people who turned out hoping their vote can change things. >> and that's interesting. you really did see that. we saw that, some of the younger voters for rohani. what was it like for you covering this? i want to share this with our viewers because we were having this conversation before, sometimes people flock over and want to talk to you. with those people very quickly come authorized or self -- >> self-appointed security and police forces. >> absolutely. those are two things that go together over the last several days. wewere told the people were depressed, sad about the situation. as soon as i showed up and i'm obviously not from here, people come to me, and i was in the bazaar just a few hours off the plane, immediately drew a crowd of people who wanted to tell more and more intense stories about things that had happened to them. a umwoo talking about her son who had been imprisoned and tortures and then we were

stopped by the police because there is massive security here. i was outside of a campaign rally on monday night and you walked outside, there were hundreds of security people, uniformed and plain clothes along an iron fence. this is everywhere in tehran, everywhere else we have been able to go, really intensive security. >> i think just to try to explain it to people, what it's like, you're there and we're not from here, so we don't recognize who is who and what is what and they demand your leaders. someone who worked for the sxrum leader at one point, came up, and then they want to film what you're filming. and as a journalist, the people have fear and you have fear because you don't want to jeopardize those people. >> i got impatient in the last 12 hours and there was one guy who demanded my papers, i demanded his. he didn't take to that well. it turned out to be okay. there were people who seemed rather threatening. there were also people who seemed afraid of failing to catch something because they

would get in trouble. there's a lot of fear in the country and a lot of courage. people are speaking out when they can. i'm sure you had people who even when they were aware, they still wanted to talk to you and they still wanted to tell the passionate stories of go ahead, bring it on, because i want to talk. >> which was a bit of a surprise again, and maybe that will be reflected in the election ruls. we don't know who will win or if we'll have a winner in what may be the first round, but we saw at least in the polling stations i was able to go to, an increase in turnout through the day. light in the morning and heavier and heavier and lines in the end. >> steve, thank you so much. for those of you who listen to "morning edition" and i'm one of them, you finally got to see steve, and what a pleasure it was. thank you so much. i really appreciate it. live in tehran, covering this election for npr's "morning edition." coming up after the break, social media. i have not been using twitter since i have been here in iran,

and a lot of the internet sets, you get redirected, but it's kind of a little more complicated than that. we have a special report out front on that. plus, the luxury goods, all of them in a very fancy neighborhood where, well, if you're linked in with the powerful revolutionary guard, you might have access to those kind of brands and sanctions haven't seemed to heard those people, and who are those powerful revolutionary guard, the ones who control the economy so overwhelmingly and who are so powerful and yet still so secretive? we'll talk about that. all that coming up "outfront" live from tehran after this. it starts with little things. tiny changes in the brain.

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tight restrictions on the use of social media and the u.s. of the internet, but that doesn't mean that they just don't exist, that they're not here. that's not true, and there's a lot of tech savvy individuals, some of whom i have spoken to who say there are ways around this, this is how you get on facebook, on twitter. some of the most surprising users of twitter, of social media, are the presidential candidates here in tehran. >> on the eve of iran's presidential elections, candidate rohani tweets he's ahead in the polls. his rival tweets a link to a young rapper's campaign rhyme. it is one of iran's many head-scratching contradictions, that in a country where the regime blocks social media sites, most of iran's presidential candidates have twitter accounts. >> the airany is that these candidates have taken to using social media, twitter, and

facebook, are hamstrung by the policies of the iranian government. they have very few followers actually, in the hundreds, precisely because it's very difficult for people in iran to access social media. >> iran banned most social media soon after the 2009 elections when sites like twitter and youtube fueled an anti-regime uprising when the government barred reporters from covering the protests, iranians used social media to expose the regime's brutal crackdown. a graphic youtube clip of the dying moments of a 26-year-old allegedly shot by authorities, made much of the world stop and pay attention to iran. authorities eventually crushed the opposition movement and clamped down on internet access. today, iran's cyber police restrict the free flow of information by slowing internet speeds and blocking thousands of websites and blogs.

this week as elections approached, iranians said internet speeds slowed to a crawl. google said a spy campaign targeted gmail users. the outcome has been a chilling effect on political discourse online. >> they're trying to make it clear to the population, don't try a repeat of the 2009 protests. it's a highly secureatized atmosphere. >> even so, iranians have more access to the internet than any other country in the middle east, despite aggressive regime controls, tech savvy iranians are still finding ways to facebook and tweet, even the presidential candidates themselves. >> so amazing that some of the contradictions that you point out there in that piece. i was just smiling because some people today were saying, oh, the joke here in iran is you call it the worldwide web. we call it the worldwide wait,

when you were talking about how slow the internet is. it looks like the government is determined to restrict access. how are they able to get online in such big numbers and do so without the government being able to identify them and punish them? >> erin, when you're young, tech-savvy, and tired of the government mesing with your internet, you're going to find a way. half of iran's population is under 35. they're sharp, educated. you probably met a lot of them this week. and what they have done is use vpns to get around cyber blocks, to get online, but the problem is the government has hit back. they found ways to block the vpns and now they're working on a national internet. this is an internet that if it worked and it's ready, it's going to only offer iranians iranian websites, no more google, no more yahoo, but it's very unlikely than iranians are going to stop efforts to use sophisticated ways to get

online, erin. >> certainly, certainly is, and just a fascinating report there by reza, a lot of you watching may think things are shut down. it's just so much more complicated and more fascinating than that in so many ways. i want to bring in christiane amanpour. she's covered so many elections in this country. i know as we're waiting for the results and there were some rumors coming from here in iran, actually, on twitter, ironically, in light of reza's report, that there might be results in a few hours. now they're saying it could be longer than that, and we'll hear them from the iranian state media. everyone is saying there's going to be a runoff. what are you hearing a runoff might look like? >> i heard that, to be honest with you, before the vote began. certainly from rohani's campaign, who believed a surge gern toward him could put him in a

runoff, and they believe could be the mayor of tehran. he is a hard-line conservative, he has very deep ties to the iranian revolutionary guard, and that's where they think the potential runoff will be. so interesting that you're talking about all these -- the internet and what people have said coming up to you. covering it for so long, there's an eternal cat and mouse game. people figure a way around it and on and on it goes. also, all these people coming up to you and steve mentioned as well, they are desperate, the iranian people are desperate to talk to people from outside, to travel outside, to have better relations with the rest of the world, including the united states. and it's not clear that this election is going to provide them with that. >> yeah. yeah, and it is so poignant, how you say it, we did just hear

that from so many people and how they just, in that moment, they didn't seem to care who was watching or filming them. they wanted to seize the moment to talk. and it really, really brought it home to me in so many ways. crest christiane, i know mahmoud ahmadinejad is a name most americans know partly because of his rhetoric, but what happened to him now? he's had a tense relationship, obviously, with the supreme leader. does he stay and everything is fine for him in this country, or what happens, do you think? >> potentially, every is fine for him in the country. it's hard to know. he made a career out of being the belligerent face of iran. he made a career out of standing up to the west and really poking a stick in the eye of the west for the last eight years. that was popular for a while outside of iran. with many muslim nations, many muslim people around the world. not so much inside of iran because what the iranians could see was that this attitude was actually making things worse for

them. and so ahmadinejad, while hae has challenged the supreme leader, has never done it in a way to benefit the people of iran. it would be to benefit his own personal ambitions. this will be interesting to see where in fact it leads. i covered his election and i covered the disputed election of 2009, promising to deliver the goods to people. praum promising to put, as he said, the oil money of iran, on the table of the iranian people. well, in fact, exactly the opposite has happened. the mismanagement of the economy and the incredible sanctions have simply made life just exponentially worse for each and every iranian. as you just reported, since the 2009 uprising, there have been more and more people put in jail and right now so many journalists and bloggers are in jail in tehran so they can't write about what's really going on. and you have mentioned all these police and undercover police and others on the corners.

they're there, and they're, you know, they're deciding who goes in, who doesn't. who reports, who doesn't. it's very, very much under control, but they might get a surprise at the polls. we'll see. >> we'll see, and certainly, it is just fascinatingdynamics. thank you very much for taking the time to join us. christiane has been covering these elections for so many years. when we come back, we're going to talk about what women want. there were women on the slate for election, but ultimately, it was the supreme leader who had control over who the final candidates were, and not a single one made the cut. what do women think? we talked to some women about that. plus, ice cream. it's been really, really hot here, and ice cream is a staple. how ice cream has become a s symbol of iranian resistance to international sanctions. you heard me right, ice cream a symbol for resistance to

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on electio day, time to think about the fact there were 686 candidates in this competentry who were only running for the presidential election. when it came to the final ones yo you were allowed to vote for, the ayatollah decided who those were. there were eight people who made that cut. none of them were women. as a woman here in tehran and anytime i'm in the middle east, i'm fascinated to understand a little more about what they want.

and so we talked to women, and the ones who would, because a lot of them were cautious and hesitant to talk to us on camera about what they wanted. one who was willing to speak to us and actually in english was a well-known politician. she was an official in the former reformist cutawny administration, and i asked who she's voting for. running the country for the past two years and they believe we should be on the sidelines. isolated more. the representative of modern iran, the representative of those who seek reform and change within the constitution. >> appearances can be deceptive, a woman in iran can vote. she can drive, and she can go to college. in fact, about 60% of the

college graduates in the country are female, but the truth is only 12% of the work force according to freedom house is comprised of women. and one candidate actually campaigned of women staying at home. and this has some women we spoke to pretty angry. >> translator: the most important is to raise their positions in the government so that they can show their abilities. then they can achieve their goals directly, to remove the obstacles. for example, when a woman becomes pregnant, they leave the work force. this is the reason women are generally not chosen. this is really terrible. >> and what she was talking about, she said there was sort of a nine-month required time women had to take off during and after their pregnancy and she said that's why they're not hired, not promoted and they're offer laid off. and that conversation was fascinating, there were a lot of women when she spoke i had been trying to speak to, who said

they didn't want to speak, but they said it's okay for me, i have an education, but for most wim aome women, they have no chance and they need changes, and more and more, women came over to watch the conversation i was having with that woman as she was going through what was happening and she didn't care who was watching and who was filming it. she was passionate, she wanted to make a point, and she believ believed strongly in her conviction and was inspiring to speak to, standing up, saying what she had to say, and to seize that moment and it's something i certainly will always remember. after the break, we'll talk about something we saw today in a very nice area of tehran because there are some incredibly, incredibly wealthy people here, bulgari, escoda, tag hiaier, you can go right ino a very, very glamorous mall and buy them here. you might be scratching you head and saying, wait a minute, aren't there supposed to be

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and center here, but they're also a huge topic in washington. united states has put all of its eggs in the sanctions basket to try to change what it says is a nuclear program here in iran that is focused on building weapons. of course, the country says no, it's for paefrl power, but for the ranking member of the senate relations committee, they're a crucial part of how the united states can change what is happening here in iran, and i spoke to him today. we're going to get to that in a moment. first, i want to share with you what we have seen on the ground about the impact of sanctions. some of this is really going to surprise you. iran is an oil mega power, so you think gas would be plentiful, right? that wasn't the case until sanctions. iran used to have to import n r

nearly all of its gasoline, but sa sanctions forced it to build refining facilities, and now a gallon is 30 cents, and they say they'll be self sufficient in terms of gasoline production. 30 cents a gallon could go to be cheaper. i stopped by a dealership in central tehran where i asked the manager if sanctions were making it impossible to sell certain kinds of cars. especially the high-end kinds of cars like lexus and porsche. surprisingly, hamad is selling everything, including mercedes. you're probably asking where do these cars come from? after all, germany is not supposed to be sending lexus to iran. that's not where they're coming from. he said they're coming from dubai and the united arab emirates, kuwait, that's where most of the luxury cars are

coming from. by far, the most popular brands they have here are the mercedes and the other german brands and the japanese brands. for the luxury carmakers like the ones sold here, that's a lexus. cars aren't the only luxury brands making their way into iran, either. apple is by far the most popular american brand here when it comes to electronics. just a couple weeks ago, the u.s. actually lifted sanctions when it comes to things such as selling things like mobile phones and computers. we're told it hasn't affected the prices because apple still won't sell directly to them, so they're getting their apple products from, you guessed it, dubai. a 16 megabyte phone costed about $850. that's 30% more than the united states and too expensive for a lot of people here. the people in the store were telling us business is down. but what about necessities like food? there's new u.s. measures that are going to take place on july 1st and they take aim at the currency. the impact could be food prices are driven sharply higher.

so that costs me 20,000 real, and that is double for these tomatoes was it was a year ago. this is a poor neighborhood. every single one of these vegetables is grown locally, but even the locally produced items have surged in price. labor costs have gone up. even the sanitization costs have gone up. just in one year, the price for a tomato has doubled. senator corker, thanks so much for taking the time to be us. today, i was in various neighborhoods of tehran. one was a very upscale neighborhood. i saw a store, tag heuer for the watches, also bulgari and escada. there's a mall of luxury stores we saw, and we saw yesterday, the lexus mercedes-benz, and porsches at a dealer. they're more expensive, but it seems like the richer have done time. the poor, shrimp prices have doubled, tomato prices have

doubled, and their incomes aren't going up as quickly and they're struggling. is this how sanctions are supposed to work? >> first of all, i think you know there's another round of sanctions both congress has passed and now an executive order from the president that kick in on july 1st. i think you're hitting on something we dish cused in our last hearing regarding the sanctions. that is it's affecting the broad population a lot more than the rich and powerful and those people that are close to the supreme leader, and as we move down this road, we've got to really cause this to be painful for those around the supreme leader and not the mass population because those are the -- the supreme leader is the one who controls the nuclear portfolio. so that's where the behavior change needs to take place. i think your point is well taken. i think most of us understand the difficulties with this. we still want to keep the sanctions going. but we got to figure out a way to make it more targeted towards those people that actually

affect the public policy in iran. >> you know, we were at a rally for jalili who may win the presidency, and they were chanting when the nuclear program came out, death to america, death to israel. they were very friendly to me, but that was the platform and people were onboard. and when i asked regular people, are the sanctions working, are they making you want to negotiate, here's what they said. >> translator: once science is learned, science cannot be unlearned. >> translator: resistance and also progress. that's what we want, and we will persist until the verient. >> what does that say to you when you're talking about winning over the hearts and minds of the iranian people, senator? >> well, i think generally speaking, the iranian population, as you mentioned, is generally individually friendly to americans. and again, the point of our sanctions should be to change the behavior of the regime, the supreme leader, not to have a

negative effect on the people themselves. i do think, erin, that this is going to affect their economy and much more substantial ways beginning on july 1st. and i think we're doing everything we can to target these in an appropriate way, and to keep the collection of countries who are supporting us together. we've got to do this in a way that does that also. so look, i don't know of a better way for us to try to change behavior. i realize there are outcomes that are unintended, but i mean, i don't know what else to do. i mean, the only other step that's being advocated is military action. i think the whole community and certainly the citizens of our country expect us to do everything we can on sanctions to try to do it in a more effective way, but i think they expect us to do that to try to do everything we can to change behavior before we move to a step that is obviously one that most people want to do everything they can to avoid but know that it's on the table if behavior change doesn't occur.

>> thanks very much to senator bob corker. big decisions coming up for the u.s. and for iran. it shows you how crucial this election is. one of the forces in this election, perhaps the most powerful force, is the revolutionary guard corps called the irgc. iran's revolutionary guard corps. it's about 125,000 strong. that's a formal number, though. it's really the case if you are an up and comer, someone who has a really successful business in this company, you are part of -- you are subservient to the revolutionary guard. that's how it works. the guard was founded in the 1979 revolution but has become stronger and stronger and stronger, and now some estimate controls between half and three quarters of this entire economy, and cosome are saying because o sanctions while regular people have been hurt, some of the incredibly wealthy members of the revolutionary guard have gotten more powerful, stronger,

and richer, an unintended consequence. out front, a senior analyst. thank you so much for taking the time. >> thank you. >> the revolutionary guard has such enormous control. you experience it when you go to the nice neighborhoods and see the businesses here and you see it through this entire economy. why do they have so much power? >> because the supreme leader has relied on them to consolidate power. he's relied on the ruvlutionary guards to crush his opponents. in 2009, the guards played a major role in preventing musaby from being president, and they're going to play a role in making sure their guide becomes president, and it's not their guide, whoever is president listens to them. this is hamani's tool to control his power given all of the challenges he's facing. >> now, what does it mean for the election, you think, ali

reza? they're links to the revolutionary guard. do you think he's the one for sure they want? or who else would they be all right with? >> that's not very clear, but i think the government's strategy has been to engineer the election. this is a term that revoluti revolutionary guards themselves used, they want to engineer the election to make sure only certain candidates emrm, that they are not a threat to the system, jalili is one of them. rowhani, not as much, but you have to remember when the reformist was in popular, the revolutionary guards did a lot to constrain his ability, to change iran's direction domestically and in terms of foreign policy. whoever is president, he's going to have his hands tied by the revolutionary guard if they don't really like what he's doing. >> and ali, what has been

amazing here looking at the impact of the sanctions is you see food prices have surged, and that has hurt regular iranians complaining to us about how painful it is to them. yet, you see at the higher end, sure, sanctions are biting and the currency restrictions will impact some of the luxury cars we're showing you that are readily available, but you can go to bulgari or escada or the fancy restaurants and it seems a lot of the wealthy who are part of the revolutionary guard who are doing absolutely fine, and in fact, maybe even better than before because there's a black market and they're being forced to develop new industries and that's more opportunity for them. so sanctions won't work unless that power group is affected. are they being hurt or helped? >> well, the wealthiest iranians aren't going to suffer as much. the poor are going to get poorer. so the population is really bearing the brunt of sanctions. but at the same time, the regime is also feeling the pressure. look, the revolutionary guards were dependent on oil revenues

duck ahmadinejad's presidency, and they have declined. their budget is dependent on that. we can't say that the r revolutionary guards aren't hurting. it's just not as obvious at this point. if the nuclear crisis and impasse continues year after year, the revolutionary guards are going to feel it. i think that even though it's very close to huh mony, they're very aware that iran faces a crisis, and this crisis affects everybody and not just the average iranian. >> all right, obviously some crucial insight there. ali reza, thank you for your time tonight. we're going to take a brick. when we come back, some of the crucial domestic headlines tonight. the wildfires in colorado as well as new details on the gunman in santa monica. we're finding out new information on where exactly he got that gun. we'll have that on the other side of the break, live from tehran. it starts with little things. tiny changes in the brain.

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following in the united states, don? >> the deadly wildfires raging in colorado right now, the black forest fire scorched close to 16,000 acres and forced nearly 40,000 people from their homes. officials in el paso county are calling this the worst fire in the state's history. martin is in colorado springs. martin, last night at this time, there was zero containment. what is the situation now? >> reporter: much better today. there is very good news to report. they are crunching numbers but thinks containment is up around 30%, a huge development. they made a lot of progress, a lot of that due to the fact of the weather. the weather has been the enemy, low humidity extremely high winds. 370 homes were destroyed but now that weather is an ally as today, there was a lot of cloud cover and then this afternoon,

rain, lots of rain in some areas, prodominantly over the entire fire zone. now, that in no way put the fire out, and i shouldn't give anybody that false illusion but it did help firefighters significantly. i was out on the fire line today. there is no major wall of fire anywhere. it is primarily hot spots and zones they are dealing with. the fire did not expand beyond the containment that they have managed to draw around it. that is good news, and also, at least in colorado springs, those mandatory evacuations have now been called off, which means at least some people, a small amount of people can begin returning home. those in the most heavily impacted areas, still no word on when they could go back, but this is the day they turn the corner. they are feeling they they switched from the defense to the offense and for the hard working firefighters here and especially, for those who lost homes it's the first step of trying to get back what they lost, don.

>> some good news. thank you martin savidge. we want to go to john sawahri. the 23-year-old tried to purchase a again in 2011 but was denied likely because of a brush with the law in 2006 but the rifle recovered from the scene were from him. the fully assembled weapon is considered illegal in california. live in los angeles. explain the legality of this. how is the shooter able to buy these parts if he was considered unfit to own a gun in. >> reporter: because the parts are illegal. when it's assembled in a certain way here in california. what santa monica police say he bought an 80%, an 80% complete weapon. beyond that point it's considered a firearm up until 80%. these are parts that don't

require registration, don't require background checks or serial numbers and can be purchased easily via the web or out of magazines. here is what the santa monica police told us. >> you can buy legally certain parts, it's called an 80%, you can buy those parts and an under reseverer, the over and understander and put them together with a trigger group and manufacture your own gun with adjustments. in this particular case the weapon he ended up with was by definition would be illegal to possess here in the state of california. >> reporter: under federal law it's perfectly legal to own it if you don't sell it and it's for personal use. even though this man is considered unfit to own a gun, he was able to build one. >> thank you very much. this sunday, girl rising takes a look at the importance of education for girls around the world and afghanistan, more than half of girls are married

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so what's it been like here in iran? as an american journalist it's a fascinating experience. you know, i've been to iran once before to the free trade zone and been amazed at that time at the incredible hospitality and generosity by the people we met. here in teheran, it was the same, people we met on the street who would talk to us were very gracious, very kind and frankly, wanted to tell their story and very courageous. here in tehran you're under surveillance. there is people here the people may recognize as we would say undercover police but with the supreme leader in some cases. there was one young man, i took this picture after we got off the plane, one of the first things we were doing, we went to film a piece of video you saw at

a samsung store and this band came over and demanded our papers, wanted to see them and we had to produce this paper we had with all of our permissions and took ten or 15 minutes of time and after that happens you have to leave and go someplace else because these situations can spiral quickly and that happened in a lot of other places. when we talked to women at bizarre, filming self-appointed, people who take it upon themselves to watch either because they wanted to or afraid they didn't, they might get in trouble themselves. so the people that wanted to speak were courageous and really wanted to tell their stories, and we want to thank them and tell you how cothey were. there was one man mad at iran because he wanted a visa to the

united states. he didn't understand why the u.s. didn't give it to him and that turned into anger but there was one moment, some essence came through. he was young and wearing roller blades, probably 20 years old. we said why are you waearing those? >> he said i wear them every day, every moment because it's the only freedom i have. it's a moment that will stay with me. thank you for watching our coverage and the iranian election. we'll see you back in new york on monday. on monday. right now "ac 360 starts now. -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com why wild fierp -- fires are like nothing else in nature and turning into a multibillion nightmare and your tax dollars paying some of the fright. why is this man smiling? whitey