the end of the world, the final apocalypse. it's been part of the imagination for thousands of years. in every age there have been preachers and prophets who have cried that the end is nigh. people who predicted humanity's demise and claim to know exactly when it's going to happen. >> the world is coming to an end. >> there are always believers, those who rally behind the vision, who sacrifice everything, even their lives for it. and yet, through all of those prove -- prophesies, we're still

here. i'm on the big island in hawaii to look into the ideas of one such self-proclaimed prophet, and those who believe in him to try to understand the anatomy of a doomsday cult. >> reza aslan is a author and scholar. >> as a scholar, as a muslim, as an american, what's your reaction? >> i've been studying the world's religions for 20 years, and now, i'm going to live them. i've been coming to hawaii for years. there's no place on earth that i feel closer to creation. there's a sense of spirituality, of devine presence.

you can feel it in the soil. the big island especially tends to foster new age spiritual gatherings and off the grid religious communes. one of these is called sinnerland, also known as rainbow village. it's run by a self-proclaimed prophet who calls himself jezus. that's jezus with a z. and that's who i've come here to find. aloha. i'll take an all beef. aloha. so, i'm here like talking to people about spirituality and religions that come out of this island. have you ever met this dude named jezus with a z. do you know who i'm talking about. >> cinderland. >> he's got a lot of followers.

oh my god, he was told to build an ark. i used to laugh at him, but you know, it's foolish laughing anymore until you see what they really have. >> the guys at the hot dog stand filled me in on jezus. about 15 years ago, jezus with a z bought a three acre piece of property here in pahoa here on the big island. since then, he's gathered disciples from all over the world. united by a doomsday prophesy. a vision that he has about the end of the world. guys like him are pretty rare, even more rare is finding one who's still alive, let alone willing to talk. about 20 years ago, a radio evangelist by the name of harold camping convinced his followers that jesus christ was about to return to earth to rapture believers and destroy the world. >> the bible says there will be signs in the heavens. there will be great earthquakes,

islands will be removed from their place. the peoples of the earth will be terribly frightened, they'll be calling for the rocks to crush them. >> camping used the bible to calculate the exact date that the world would come to an end. he was wrong. we're still here. it's funny. when i was a kid, i feel you heard about cults all the time. there was all this anxiety and fear about your kids being swept away in some religious cult, being brainwashed, taken away from you. remember jim jones? he claimed to have visions that the world would end on july 15, 1967. it didn't. yet, far from abandoning him, his followers doubled down. they moved together to the jungles of guyana and built a commune called jonestown. a few years later, the end did come, though not through god's hands. jones convinced his congregation to drink kool aid laced with cyanide.

>> die with respect. >> over 900 men, women and children died in that jungle. and then there was david. koresh. >> i'm sorry some of you guys got shot, but, hey, god will have to sort that out, won't he? >> his followers called the branch davidians gathered at a compound in waco, texas in 1982 to prepare for the eminent end of the world. >> it's true i do have a lot of children. it's true i do have a lot of wives. >> he believed that he himself was the second coming of the messiah. >> the book of revelations said in the future god will sit on a throne. and he'll have a book with seven in his right hand, and he gave that book to the land. >> your followers believe you are the lamb, is that correct? >> there is a reason for that. >> when the government found out about the huge cache of weapons that koresh had stocked at his compound, it didn't end well.

four years later, the world met marshall applewhite, known to his followers as do. >> we'll title this tape planet earth, about to be recycled. your only chance to survive or evacuate is to leave with us. >> applewhite believed there was an alien spaceship following behind the hale-bopp comet, just waiting to transport his followers on board. but first, they had to shed their bodies. 39 of them did just that. in a mass suicide. >> i guess really in the end when you think the word cult, you have this idea of some closed, evil organization under some mastermind whose

controlling the minds of all these people who've totally subsumed their identity into his for some kind of insidious design. it's not every day you get to interview a cult leader, let alone a doomsday prophet. this is an opportunity that i just can't pass up. i guess this is it. aloha. i'm reza. how are you? >> good, i'm doing good. welcome, welcome. welcome to the tribe. >> aloha. welcome home. >> how are you, man? >> good to see you. how are you? >> wonderful. >> thanks for having me here. >> good day in paradise. this is amazing. this is incredible. >> welcome to our rainbow village. >> thank you, it's beautiful, man. >> follow me. >> just drink it right out?

>> welcome to our tribe. we want people like you from all around the world. >> how many people would you say are here? >> 30, 40 right now. >> do you feel like more and more people are starting to come -- >> yes. this year we've had more than ever before come in. >> why do you think that is? >> i think the time in the year right now is a sense of urgency in the air. the storm is coming. aloha, mama. >> we have mamas, kids, old people, young people. no one really leaves. >> no one really leaves, huh? >> about how big is the compound? >> this is the three acres. what did all of this used to be? >> that is all used to be is flat like this. >> and nothing by cinder. >> this was just basically -- >> rock. >> volcanic ash. >> well, how did it become all of this then? >> jezus. >> jezus built all of this. planted all the trees -- >> planted all the trees. >> you're telling me everything that i see here -- >> yes. >> was put here by him? >> yeah.

it started like that. and with the help of the tribe, yeah, we've made an edible force. >> that's amazing. >> we've made a whole forest. >> how many years? >> about 15. >> it's hard for me to imagine what this looked like 15 years ago because i mean, this is a jungle. i'm not sure what i expected, but it wasn't this. what started out as three acres of ash and cinder is now a living, breathing forest with over 20 structures. dorms for men, women, and children. >> we've got fruit trees. coconut trees. jack fruit trees. this is one of our dorm spaces, just for women only. it's the goddess sanctuary, we call it. >> nice. >> this is my bedroom dorm space also. bed over here. another bed on the other side. private camp for mama and son lives here. >> oh, nice. and this is just them. >> this is just them.

right here where you can get close to nature. close to spirit. this is our solar tower power station. we catch the sun, store in the batteries. and we usually use them for just for lighting and stuff like that. >> that's great. >> and we have gardens back here. >> what are you guys growing? >> name it. we have lettuce. tomatoes. beans. sprouts. kale. slugs like to come in and try to run around and stuff. so we keep them raised. we keep copper around the edges. they don't like the copper. >> that keeps them out? >> keeps them out. >> this is the fridge right here. fresh fruit right off the vine. >> amazing. >> is jezus here, can i meet him? i'd love to meet him. >> in time. in time. >> all good things come for those who wait. >> i hear music down here. >> welcome home. >> aloha. ♪

>> many different kinds of people end up at cinderland. for the most part, they are fairly young, progressive. there are more men than women. ocean told me that normally there are a lot more people living on the compound. but right now, it's harvest season in california, and a lot of the cinder landers are on the mainland making money on the marijuana farms. money that they'll bring back to the tribe for food and materials. some folks here are just passing through. they have no interest in jezus's prophesy, but others are hard core believers. when did you get here? >> 11 years ago. >> where are you from? >> california originally. >> oh yeah. what were you doing? >> before i was a technician. yeah, automotives technician. worked at the top of my field. after a while, watching people living on tv, what am i living for? all of this stuff. i wanted to say the word jezus without people freaking out. >> did he talk about his belief and prophesies? >> oh yeah?

>> what did you think? >> believe it. nibble jezus' proficiencies. of a storm is coming. we must prepare. >> so would you call yourself like follower of jezus? >> wherever that man goes, i go. i believe in juzus. ♪ oh! the things you say ♪ ♪ oh! ♪ ♪

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i've got some jack fruit over here. >> it's amazing. so listen, seriously, like what -- i want to meet jezus. like that's why i came here. >> there's certain process that takes place. and initiation before you meet jezus usually. >> okay, all right. >> one of our ceremonies is you spend the night in a cave. the ancestors will greet you and guide you and tell you what you need to do. cole will take you where you need to be. >> i'm going take you. >> i never spent the night in a cave before. i've been brought to a rocky coastline by coa, a native hawaiian and devotive follower of jezus with a z. i actually like the fact that jezus is making me do this. it shows me a couple of things, first, he's not going to make it easy for me to meet him. that shows he's not desperate for outside attention. he wants to see if i'm serious. second, it's grounded in

history. i mean, after all, caves play a huge role in religious methodology. but it's also theatrical and ballsy. the mark of every good doomsday cult leader. >> you be careful. >> okay. lead the way. >> okay. there are spirits all over these lands. very magical, very powerful, this place is. >> coa says these caves are haunted by the lost and restless ghosts of human souls. >> sacred, very sacred. >> i'm not afraid of ghosts, but i am afraid of drowning. >> these caves are subterranean. right now i'm about 50 feet underground. last night there was a flash flood and if it rains again, i'll be under water. i guess this is my bed here, huh? >> yep. >> all right. aloha.

>> i might as well find a place to get comfortable. sure you guys don't want to hang out with me? >> no, man. we got to get out of here. >> throughout religious history, caves have been places of transformation. you go into them as one person, and you come out another. when moses asked to see god's glory, god placed him in the hollow of a rock. elijah the prophet retreated into a cave where god spoke to him in the darkness, and the prophet mohamed's first revelation took place in a cave near mecca, called heera where the angel gabriel revealed the first verses of the koran. i actually don't know how long

i've been in this cave, but it feels like a very long time. just me and my blanket and my lantern, and my coconut. and i am soaked to the bone. the rain is coming down hard. i want to complete this initiation, but there's no way i'm going to risk drowning in this cave. i've got to get out of here. ♪ >> hey. >> good morning.

>> good morning. >> made it through the night okay, huh? >> well -- >> thank you, great spirit for blessing this town, bless this land, bless these people. >> i'll take that, i'll take that. >> great spirit. >> i've got to tell you something. >> yeah. >> i couldn't do it. >> let's walk. so you're from iran. >> yeah. >> and you wrote a book about jezus. >> i did write a book about jezus. yeah. >> do you believe in jesus? >> i do, yeah. >> jesus christ. >> i do, yeah. >> your heart is right. today's the day you'll meet jezus. >> all right. all right. we'll seek. we'll find. ♪

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aloha, jezus. >> jezus. >> thank you so much for talking to me finally. i've been searching everywhere for you around here. this place is kind of amazing. >> this is my most sacred place

at cinderland. >> they told me that you built this basically from nothing. >> no, that's a lie. we built it from nothing. it was me and about 1,000 other volunteers. give or take. you know a few. >> so tell me, where were you born? >> i was born in the yucatan, in merida, the yucatan. i was a good boy. i spent ten years and india, in central america, you know. >> yeah. >> you know, that's what i did in my 20s. >> how did you come here? >> here? >> yeah. >> that's a long story. >> tell me. >> i'm responsible for everything that happens here, you know. >> it's a part of you. >> it is. and it's 15 years old, you know, and it's evolving. it's growing. you know. it's teaching so much to so many people. it's a success story. >> thank you. >> there you go. >> you know what i mean, in a world of so much failure, this is one to have -- one of the

success stories. >> yeah. i'm really interested in this message that you were -- >> i have so much to share with you. so much. >> i spoke with jezus for over two hours, and he began normal enough, but then things took a turn. >> i'm not going to preach right now to you. i'm going to come from the eye place. i'm going to own what i tell you. i'm going to take responsibility for it. i believe that my father is the sun, the heat, the fire, you know. >> uh-huh. >> and then, i believe in the goddess. pele. they call her pele here in hawaii. but it all starts right here with her fire, her fire! >> this is where things got really weird. >> i am the messiah. i am the king. >> the more he preached, the more manic and theatrical he became. he started working himself up into a fervor, and there was little for me to do but stand

back and watch the show. >> i died for my sins. not a [ bleep ] biological death, obviously. >> and then, finally, wet got to the prophesy. >> i'm a prophet. i believe in my prophesy. i had a vision, a dream, of things to come. >> what did it look like? what did you see? >> i saw that the destruction of the entire planet by an ecological apocalypse. millions died of fire. millions more drowned. they choked, they got smashed by sea surges that wiped out the entire coastline, the whole planet. there's one [ bleep ] hope. i'm building an ark to escape environmental apocalypse. >> this prophesy is a little bit hard to follow, so let me just summarize it for you. some time in the very near future, he hasn't set a date,

california is going to break off into the ocean. the tsunami that follows will flood the world, at which point, 124 carefully chosen followers will board jezus' ark and sail to machu picchu which will become a port city due to all the flooding. there he will establish a home base from which to repopulate the planet with the offspring of his followers. >> there's an ark here on this, in this compound? >> yes. we started building the ark. >> can i see it? can i see the ark? >> of course. >> jezus is a lot more unhinged than i expected. there is definitely something compelling about him been something that is attracted all of these followers. to be honest, he kind of reminds me of charles manson, that they look-alike is undeniable. but his speech patterns and energy are similar. >> are you jesus christ? >> which jesus? there's a black jesus down in florida, he's having a good time. there's a mexican jesus in

mexico. i mean, there's all kinds of jewish jesus, i mean, jesus, you know, all kind of jesus coming back everywhere. another gastapa. it's a consciousness that lives in your mind. >> people forget that whatever else manson was, he was also a doomsday prophet. he predicted that the end of the world would be triggered by a massive race war. he and his followers planned to wait out armageddon in the desert and repopulate once everyone else was gone. >> this is the reason why we're going to survive right here. this is what's going to save us. plastic. life expectancy a thousand years. >> so this will just be one piece, one piece of the larger structure? >> yeah. of the super structure. what i call the arkmata. >> how many more like this do you need? >> 20.

>> 20 more just like this. >> exactly. 20 more. >> jezus' ark is basically a series of plywood platforms latched on to recycled plastic barrels. the plan is to float the ark out to sea, all in the midst of an apocalyptic tsunami. they've been working on this ark for many years, in fact, this is their third design, in the past, they've hauled prototypes tout a local bay for sea trials. one thing to note is that cinderland itself is the ark. when jezus gives the final word that the end times are nigh, all the structures at cinderland will be disassembled and the material used to make the final ark. this is all recycled material from the camps we live in. >> why not use what you've got? >> i got to give jezus credit, as far-fetched as this plan may be, he has these devoted followers who are willing to put their blood, sweat, and tears into realizing his vision.

>> are we going [ bleep ] make it? >> oh yeah we're going to make it, jezus. >> do you believe in the prophesy? >> of course. >> doable in the supreme commander in chief? >> i do. >> commander of the ss ark? >> look, he's either getting messages from the gods or he's bat [ bleep ] crazy, but no reason why you can't be both. i mean, he's got people around him, obviously, they believe what he has to say. this ark, i mean, this [ bleep ] ark. you all saw the ark, right? i really don't know what i've gotten myself into here. i really don't. this is the silverado special edition. this is one gorgeous truck. oh, did i say there's only one special edition?

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today is the start of a religious retreat. i guess jezus calls these every once in a while. they pick up camp and they come down here. somebody told me the last one lasted 30 days. the truth is i don't really know what to think about jezus right now. he obviously believes his vision. he obviously believes his prophesy, i guess other people

do too. not that crazy to think that we're destroying the environment. >> jezus' prophesy stems from a fear of climate change, and that makes sense. end of the world prophets have often been inspired by current events and climate change as scary as it gets. as global warming gets worse, i wouldn't be surprised if we see more self-proclaimed saviors with prophesies like his. >> down just a little bit. palm fronds are great for thatching and basket weaving and making hats and stuff. >> donald is the chief architect of the arkmada. he's been with jezus for more than five years. maybe he can shed some light on what it is that makes jezus worth following. >> so yeah, if you want, we can grab these, start take them over toward camp. >> so i finally got to talk to jezus.

is he always like that? >> no, he's not always like that. generally jezus, he's really grounded. he's a very intelligent person. he's really smart. but when he's really passionate about something, sometimes his emotion kind of get away from him. he acts out quite a bit. i've known jezus for years, and even with me, sometimes if i don't do something exactly whatever's in his head, he has a tendency to kind of, you know, kind of flip out just a little bit. >> let me ask you a question. >> okay. >> do you believe the prophesy? >> as far as, you know, the prophesy, and the seas rising, i hope he's wrong, but, you know, it's pretty evident that stuff is going on. and, you know, jezus wants know me to build anark, 20 a i'm all about it. jezus has really hooked me up. when i met him five years ago, i was going through a divorce, isolated up in maine in the cabin in the middle of winter. on the verge of suicide. i was having a miserable freaking life. i was playing around online, saw

a website for rainbow village, i called up jezus and had an hour and a half, two-hour conversation, and we hit it off immediately. and so he said come on down. essentially, he just basically saved my life. and so in that sense, i owe him quite a bit. >> when you hear something like that, my life was saved by jezus with a z, it becomes hard to just dismiss him as some kind of crackpot. i mean, clearly he has a magnetic personality, a charisma that has drawn people to him from all over the world. people who believe in him. this is jake, he's one of them. what did you think when you first met him? >> oh, i thought he was a bit s sent -- eccentric, just like anybody else. he can really get passionate and his passion runs hotter than other peoples. he may start screaming at times, that's just because he feels things are eminent. the clock's always ticking. and that's something that a lot of us really don't have.

and he's -- he's really trying to get us to understand, we don't want to have all day. >> when did you first hear the prophesy? >> actually, i first heard the prophesy not too long after i started hanging out at cinderland before i started living there. and for me, it wasn't like a shocking revelation. it was just something that i knew. >> what do you mean? >> i've been pretty much brought up since day one to know that the world's going to end, and basically my lifetime, not so much my mom drilled in, and that i was so worried about the world ending -- >> and you believed it? >> yes, i believed it entirely. i still do, and -- but the thing is, it might not be the interpretation that my mother had. >> you said that when you heard from your mom about the end times and the apocalypse and all

that stuff that all it did was make you afraid. why doesn't when jezus talk about it, why doesn't that make you afraid? >> because the ark is basically our vessel to survive the storm. and there's no guarantee that we will. but, that's why we're all here. >> i think i need another shot at jezus. i want to see what everybody else sees in him. get him to calm down and talk to me like a person. not like a prophet. maybe i'll wait until he puts on some pants.

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i don't know what to think. you know, sometimes i get lost, i get lost in your words. sometimes you make perfect sense, and then, i don't know, something happens, and i just like lose you. what's going on? >> the effect i had on you, you know, it's the same effective on everybody when they first meet me. you know, i've got this speech. i've got this sermon, you know. so when i first meet you, i'm [ bleep ] break it down, man.

let's see if you can even, you know, sort of vibe my narcissism, you know. and if that doesn't turn you off and you don't leave that day, now you passed the test. >> so you feel like sometimes you have to put on a bit of a show. >> it's a mask. i have two personalities. and i'm schizophrenic. >> i think that sometimes you know, you're talking about this mask that you wear and it makes you a little fake. >> so then let's be real. >> yeah. >> you doubt sometimes? >> yeah. you know, i've been called jezus, you know, since i get to the island. this is 15 years of jezus and jezus, and i believe that jesus christ had even existed, and i'm lie, hell, if he didn't even exist, what the hell am i doing, you know? >> you started doubting yourself? >> completely. >> were you doubting the prophesies too?

>> i was doubting everything. and i went to visit my family. i was going to sell the property. >> you were going to give all this up? >> forget it, man. my sister got a jacuzzi and a sauna and guest house. i realize, i have the responsibility to provide for my followers. because they're also coming here because they're searching and the same way that i was searching when i was their age. >> what you say is true, that's a lot of suffering about to happen. how do you think about that? how do you think about your sister, your mother? don't you feel stressed about what they're facing? >> you worry, you know. you know, you feel sadness. but what can i do, you know, they don't believe in me. they all think i'm nuts, you know. loco. >> listen, i mean, most prophets, their families don't accept them. so that's a pretty normal thing, i would say. >> i'd be blown away from everybody like instantly like, all hail to the prophet, you know. >> but you don't think you're wrong? >> i don't think so. >> have you thought about what would happen if something happened to you before the

prophesy gets fulfilled? i mean been what happens to all of this? who's going to succeed you? >> i've been busy recruiting. disciples. but most important for me, apostles. >> they go and preach and come back. >> yeah. they always come back. >> tell me about the stress that's involved in having to keep all of this together, all these people who rely on you, what kind of responsibility do you feel about that? >> it's hard. it's really hard, you know. i have the responsibility to provide for them, food, water, safety, shelter, but you also have to provide spiritually. i feel responsible for their soul. they're there because they believe in my vision. and the fear that i'm going to let them down, you know, it's

>> it's hard being a prophet. i guess it. i see why people are drawn to him. he's clearly charismatic, and what he's built here is truly remarkable. a fully sustainable utopia. people come here because they're searching for answers. they're looking for hope. and jezus offers it to them. no one here is brainwashed. they're free to come and go as they please. i'm certainly not worried that they're going to all drink kool aid and die. but i am curious to see what's going to happen when the world doesn't end. will this movement continue? will jezus' message change? will it continue to spread? and who will do the spreading? after all, something similar happened with that other jesus, you know, the one with the s. after his death, his followers sold all their possessions and

lived together, like hippies in a commune. they were waiting for the end to come, but the end didn't come. far from throwing in the towel and calling it a day, they instead started a church. and then a religion. >> so what's this i hear about a spiritual retreat? >> what's up, guys! >> oh yeah, brother. >> we're building the ark, brother! >> we're building the ark. that's what it's all about. >> this is shannon, jezus' favorite apostle. he's just returned to hawaii after some months on the mainland earning money. >> my apostle has arrived. the rabbit. the little rabbit. >> i missed you, jezus. >> one of the traditions at these retreats is a

hawaiian-style pig roast. >> let's go get some pig. >> i'm a muslim. i don't buy piglet alone kill pig. >> shannon has volunteered to go to a local ranch to hunt pig, and i'm traveling along to try to get to know one of jezus' most trusted apostles. tell me about the first time you met him. how did you end up here? >> instant connection the moment i met that man, he was like the father figure that i never really had, you know. and i fell in love with the man, you know. >> do you feel as though like you've got this burden to spread the -- his message to other people? >> i would say that i have no burden at all.

i feel i have a wonderful opportunity to share the knowledge and inspiration with people. >> did you talk to people about that when you were in the main land? >> absolutely. >> you told them all about what's happening here? >> oh, many people. >> what was the general response? >> i don't get wrapped up in the doomsday because people aren't going to hear you. i have a way of kind of pulling myself back from maybe the whole -- the part of it that makes you go, ew, prophecies, ew, you know, this is a religion, you know what i mean? >> right. >> i tend to try to keep away from that because people just shut down. people just shut down. my goal is to get people to come to rainbow village. come breathe fresh air and become connected and see what kind of information you start becoming available to. >> but you believe in jezus? >> yeah, absolutely. >> you'd follow him?

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>> after hunting in the forest for hours, shannon and i finally found the perfect pig, one that i ended up buying for them at a local butcher. it turns out pig hunting is a little bit harder than i thought. [ chanting ] >> bless the food and the land. bring us prosperity and health, with leadership, with light. aloha. >> aloha. >> gratefulness every day. >> okay, everybody grab a [ bleep ] corner right now. no, grab a [ bleep ] corner. you grab the [ bleep ] corner over there. i'm going to direct this [ bleep ]. push! push! come on, guys. >> regardless of how you feel about jezus or his prophecy,

it's hard not to be impressed by his ability to rally a group of people behind him. >> all right, guys. long, level and square. >> that's not to say i'm ready to join his tribe. >> [ bleep ], what are you doing? boom, okay. bring your offerings, please. >> shannon, donald, jake, and so many of the people that i've spoken with here come from religious backgrounds. and that's a common thread, believing in a prophecy, following a charismatic figure. these are things that are comfortable and familiar to them. they may seem like a bunch of

lost souls, but they've created a community, a place where they belong, and that's a good reminder about what religion truly is. because it's one thing to look for an authentic religious experience, something that's real or grounded or historically accurate. but i think that misses the point, because in the end religion is what people make of it. [ chanting ] >> please stand up and show your respect to pele. we are facing an environmental apocalypse. for those of you who would like to join my tribe, you are touched by the example of jezus with a z, i'm going to be performing a baptism at the mermaid ponds starting at sunrise. >> religion isn't about scripture or temples or priests or rules or regulations. it's about the individual and

the quest for meaning, the idea that there is something more to life than just what we see with our eyes, what we feel with our hands, that there is an answer somewhere out there, that there's hope, a point to our very existence. and if that's what jezus is offering, well, then, what's the harm? >> tribal warrior. >> i believe in jezus with a "z" bringing the people together. >> i believe jezus is the prophet. >> i'll follow that man to the horizon and beyond and beyond. >> i believe the storm is coming. prepare, prepare, prepare. >> i'm a prophet. i believe in my prophecy. >> i believe we are capable of great things. >> i believe we are the ones we have been waiting for. >> i believe in love. i believe in life. i believe in the power of the

people. >> i believe in vibration. >> i believe we are the new advanced civilization. >> i believe in mystery and magic. i believe we can do this. a stark warning, turkey's president says the netherlands will pay the price for blocking visitors from turkish ministers. >> a snap election after the ousted president says she is sorry while insisting that there is more to the story. >> plus a major snowstorm is headed towards the northeastern united states. what millions of people can expect and how soon next. >> hello and welcome to our viewers here in the united states and all around the world. i'm rosemary church. >> and i'm cyril. thank you for watchingnn