>> tonight congress says african-american farmers discriminated for decades by the u.s. government deserve payment. one republican congressman says the program is riddled with fraud and is really a way to make reparations for slavery. his remarks have set off a firestorm. tonight you'll hear from him. is the congressman playing fast and loose with the facts or are his opponents? also accused of ethics violations, maxine waters, her hearing was supposed to begin, but now the ethics panel is in disarray. the lead investigator mysteriously taken off the case. can congress really police itself?

details tonight. and later, hiding in plain sight, the child slavery business right here in america. hard to believe. we have the evidence, though, for you to see for yourself. we begin as always keeping them honest. the congressman who says a billion dollar federal program for settling african-american discrimination claims is full of fraud, pushed by what he calls a, quote, very, very urban barack obama and amounts he says to slavery reparations. we're talking about steve king, republican of iowa. you're going to hear from him in a moment. at issue is a program just passed in congress to extend payments to african-american farmers who have been discriminated against by the u.s. government. the government, the u.s. department of agriculture in this case, admits they discriminated against black farmers, unfairly denying them federal loans, for instance, loans they needed as all farmers do from time to time to stay afloat. the usda admits for years they ignored or even threw away discrimination claims made by black farmers. a farmer named pigford sued, it became a class action suit. the government came up with a settlement and now a new

settlement for farmers who missed the filing deadline of the first one. congressman king objects to this latest round of payments saying there is widespread fraud. he's alleging three quarters of a billion dollars were wasted in the first round of payments and this week congressman king spoke on the house floor for an hour attacking the process and president obama for sponsoring a bill supporting it when he was a senator. >> figure this out, madam speaker, we have a very, very urban senator, barack obama, who has decided he's going to run for president and what does he do? he introduces legislation to create a whole new pigford claim. >> congressman king did not point out then-senator obama was representing the state of illinois, some 80% of which is made up of farmland. he went to equate these with slave reparations. >> we've got to stand up at some point and say, we're not going to pay slavery reparations in the united states congress. that war's been fought. that was over a century ago. that debt was paid for in blood

and it was paid for in the blood of a lot of yankees especially. and there's no reparations for the blood that paid for the sin of slavery. no one's filing that claim. >> president obama is on the record as opposing reparations for slavery. said it several times. i asked him about it during a presidential debate three years ago. >> senator obama, your position on reparations? >> i think the reparations we need right here in south carolina is investment, for example, in our schools. that's the kind of reparations that are really going to make a difference in america right now. >> so point one, president obama's not for reparations. but the president's motivations aside, what about congressman king's claim that the first phase of the pigford settlement was full of fraud? he says 94,000 people have submitted claims but only 18,000 african-american farmers could have qualified and that the vast majority of those claims were fraudulent. here's what he said monday night about a federal claims processor he talked to.

>> one of those individuals and i've had anecdotes from several, but one of those individuals felt the burden of the corruption and the fraudulent claims that were coming forward in front of him, that he copied a box of applications. a literal box of applications, which i'm really sure that would not have been very constructive to him maintaining his job with the usda. but it bothered his conscience so much and when he came back to iowa he wanted to make it a point to make sure that i knew that these applications that he was dealing with, were, he believed, a minimum of 75% fraudulent. 75% fraudulent. if you apply that to the $1.05 billion in claims that were paid out, if he's right in that number, $750 million were wasted paying people that didn't have it coming.

>> $750 million out of $1 billion wasted according to the congressman. if true, it's a shocking amount of fraud. but he gets that figure by extrapolating from at most several people. we asked the usda, they gave us this statement. all allegations they say were forwarded to the office of the inspector general who in turn referred them to the fbi. the fbi prosecuted a total of three individuals. with approximately 20,000 claimants, three prosecutions means 0.015% of the claimants were determined by the fbi to be serious enough to merit prosecution. congressman king also says there have been more claims than possible farmers. the usda says in a nut shell that in the 15 years covered by the current bill, farms changed hands. according to the department, the 44,000 african-american farmers in 1996 were not all the same farmers in 1981, hence the additional claims, and that many farmers were driven out of business by discrimination. i spoke with congressman king a moments ago along with john boyd, president of the black farmers association.

representative king, you liken these payments to slave reparations but factually speaking how can you say that? these payments are not for anyone descended from slaves, they're not even for black farmers discriminated against all throughout the 1900s, they're payment specifically for black farmers who the usda admits were being discriminated against between 1983 and 1997. so how were these slave reparations? >> well, i've sat on the judiciary committee for eight years, i sat through reparation hearings held by john conyers and through the hearings here on the pigford farm claims. and the motivation that comes to this looks to me like there's no resistance on the part of the proponents to hold back or look for fraud on this, they simply seem to be content for every black farmer would apply would get defined by judge friedman in his opinion as virtually an automatic payment. >> let me just ask you specifically, though, staying on this topic, representative king has talked about a hypothetical

johnny who was born on a farm but, quote, went off to the city, became a drug addict and now wants the money from this claim. how strict is the vetting of these claims? >> first of all, i think that that statement has a terrible, terrible racial undertone and very, very offensive to our black farmers. and we need to forget here, we helped feed the country. we helped feed the world. and we paid our price to be in this country and to own land. and what the government done to black farmers is wrong. >> how strict is the vetting? representative king is saying just about anybody who is african-american can claim to have been -- >> that's not true. >> -- a farmer. how strict is it? >> african-americans who farmed or attempted to farm between 1981 and 1997. and the reason we use that definition is because the civil rights office at usda was closed under the reagan administration and we went in and found -- investigated and found thousands

of black farmer civil rights cases that had never been processed. and that's what this case is about. this case is not about fraud, this case is about bringing justice and equality and fairness to a group of people who deserve it. and it's long, long overdue justice. >> it is shocking when you start to look into what happened in the usda. they were literally throwing out discrimination claims, just dumping them in the garbage in some cases. you claim 75% of the claims now being made in this program by african-american farmers have been fraudulent. you say an unnamed person working for the usda gave you that estimate. usda says that percentage is complete nonsense. the fbi investigated, found only three cases of fraud. where's the proof of this 75% claim you make? >> well, and john boyd says there's no fraud. the fbi or the usda has reported that the fbi came up with three cases that they prosecuted. now, what is a level of fraud here? i've said that i had a district director who was deployed to washington, d.c., to help administer the distribution of

the first $1.05 billion under pigford. he came back. he among others with stacks of copies of documents, sick at heart. he said at least 75% are fraudulent. and so we can't say that there's no fraud here. here's what we know. >> anderson, let me jump in here. >> judge friedman put in his decision, he wrote 40 acres and a mule in his decision. i'm not making that up for reparations, that's the code words for reparations. and he also said -- >> i've read that decision, and he just -- sir, i've read that decision and he just used that in a recitation about the history of the interaction between african-americans and the u.s. government and the usda. he wasn't equating 40 acres and a mule to this program. >> let me say, anderson, he laments that -- all the wrongs in one civil rights case. now he's got a second one coming. >> i want dr. boyd to be able to respond. >> let me talk here. the farmers deserve this restitution. it's long, long, long, long

overdue for the black farmers. this is not a rush to judgment. mr. king has known about this issue. i have testified before him many, many, many times before. and this case is about african-american farmers who farmed or attempted to farm who was discriminated against by the united states department of agriculture, and i can tell you about discrimination because i had a county official to spit on me and to tear my application up and throw it in the trash can. and i begged and pleaded with the committee to have that person fired. that person was never fired. he was transferred to another county office to continue to work out his service for the united states department of agriculture and they gave him a big party. a big retirement party. so i can tell you that this discrimination is real and i invite mr. king to walk in my shoes, and other black farmers' shoes in this country before he pass judgment and refer to them as johnny or someone that has a drug problem. and i'll tell you that, anderson, these farmers have proven their case and they deserve to have their cases

heard based on its merit. and mr. king needs to stop with that kind of rhetoric and making racial undertones. >> i'm not going to sit here and allow you to call me a racist or misrepresent the language, i voted for a bill that put $100 million cap on this thing. and that's what the chairman of the ag committee says. either he misrepresented it or you did, john. now which one is it? >> sorry, representative king, finally i want to give you a chance to respond. a lot of liberals have attacked you because you described president obama this week as urban, they say a euphemism referring to the president's race. >> we had to look this up about and figure out how anybody could hyper ventilate about calling the president urban. actually very, very urban senator at the time. he comes from an urban area. it's not something that would occur to someone in my background that that would be a racial pejorative, he simply comes from a city that's urban. you come from the country, you're rural. i'd say john boyd is a rural. i'll say also in spite of the way that he has insulted me, i

still support your claim, john. i just don't support the fraudulent ones. >> appreciate your time. thank you very much, both of you. >> thank you. >> let us know what you think. live chat up and running. >> up next, did the slurpee summit just turn to slush? yesterday democrats and republicans agreed to work out a deal on taxes, work better with each other. remember, kumbaya, all that sort of stuff? now the senate republican leader is threatening to hold up all business until he gets his way. we're keeping them honest. and amazing video, see how a boy held captive for a year escaped, picked up on a surveillance video. you see him there with a shackle on his ankle, ran into a gym begging for help. we'll show you more of the video ahead. [ female announcer ] there's complete.

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keeping them honest tonight, promises made by politicians only yesterday to try to get along better and get things done in washington. today senate minority leader mitch mcconnell sent a letter to harry reid saying republican z

would block all democratic initiatives unless they got their way on extending all the bush tax cuts. no action they said on don't ask don't tell, extending jobless benefits, none of it. this was a day after the summit at the white house with senator mcconnell in the room at which all sides talked about working together. >> i was encouraged by the president's remarks regarding his perhaps not having reached out enough to us in the last session. and that this meeting was the beginning of a series in which he hoped we could work together in a different fashion for the benefit of the american people, given the problems that we face. >> and i agree that the president did make an important point that eric mentioned that he hasn't spent as much time with us reaching out and talking to us. and committed to do so. and as i told the president, i think spending more time will help us find some common ground.

>> i think that there was a sincere effort on the part of everybody involved to actually commit to work together, to try to deal with these problems. and they understand that these aren't times for us to be playing games. >> well, a day after both sides agreed to work out a compromise on taxes, senator mcconnell sends his letter and boehner says this today. >> i don't know what my colleagues across the aisle didn't hear during the election. american people spoke pretty loudly. they said stop all the looming tax hikes and cut spending. >> stopping the tax hikes even for the wealthy. democrats are calling statements like that and senator mcconnell's letter today a slap in the face. republicans are saying they're listening to the american people and the priority should be on the economy. you can decide for yourself which side you believe or support. but keeping them honest, some of the claims for extending the tax cuts aren't necessarily supported by the polling data. >> no tax increases for nobody.

>> the american people spoke loudly. >> the american people spoke in deafening terms. >> the american people spoke loudly and clearly. >> the american people spoke on election night. >> the message i heard this last election cycle was, we don't want anybody's taxes going up. >> americans don't think we should be raising taxes on anybody. >> the message was clear from the american people. >> we should prevent a huge tax increase. >> keep tax rates where they are. >> no tax increases for any american. >> the message they sent was stop the tax hikes. >> and we heard them. >> according to a gallup poll last week, about 80 -- well, 80% of the american people do not want to see taxes raised. >> that's senator jon kyl of arizona saying that 80% of the american people do not want to see taxes rise. in fact, it's not exactly true. according to that very poll he cited, just 40% of americans want to keep all tax cuts for all incomes. 44% want to keep tax cuts but set limits for wealthy americans. 13% want the tax cuts to expire for all americans. joining me now, editor of bigjournalism.com and radio talk

show host dana loesch and democratic strategist and pollster cornell belcher. all this talk yesterday of working together, was that just complete huey? >> i don't think it is. i think both sides do need to work together and they immediately need to start with figuring out what they're going to do with this tax rate. it's not so much a tax cut as it's talking about extending the current tax rate. which when you look at our economy, you look at our unemployment, you look at where everything is. we cannot afford to pay more. we cannot afford right now to have the government take more discretionary income from people, especially the people who create jobs, and attempt to redistribute. that just doesn't work that way. >> and you support them sending a message nothing else gets done until decision is made on these bush tax cuts? >> honestly, anderson, i don't know how we can really act on anything else at this point until we figure out what's going to be happening with people's bank accounts after the first of the year. that is supremely important. and that's going to affect everything -- everything.

every aspect of american life. i think once we figure that out we can move forward. >> what about that? the fundamental argument that conservatives are making, the only way to figure the economy is to give americans more control over their money. >> a couple things before i try to go after the score after usual cheap political points let's try to be informtive. i think what's happening now is you have five different parties and they've all five need to get to different place. >> what are the five different parties? >> senate democrats and senate republicans, house democrats, house republicans, and the white house. arguably from a political purely political tactical standpoint, house dems right now have more in common with the senate republicans, and look -- quite frankly you can see mcconnell picking up the playbook of no, no, no, a day after saying we're going to be bipartisan. a very successful playbook. at the same time you have speaker pelosi saying the other day that, you know, i'm going to -- i'm not afraid to be the sole voice for the middle class

because boehner has to come in and he has to govern. now can speaker pelosi pick up the boehner playbook because now she doesn't have to govern, and from a purely political standpoint be more in line with what you see mitch mcconnell doing now which isn't about governing, it's about politics. >> dana, can't, though, members of congress do multiple things at once? can't you have a vote on don't ask don't tell or other issues at the same time you're working on whether or not to continue these tax cuts? >> oh, sure. absolutely. and i might say, i'm just going to lay it out. i'm not bffs with mitch mcconnell by any stretch of the word but i'm impressed to see him get a little brassy, finally, and start getting tough with the stuff. i agree, we've played politics for too long with american people's money. individual money. i don't understand this incessant push to have the state control the output of that -- fruits of the labor from people. if you look back from -- can you go back as far back as 1916 with woodrow wilson and look at what

happens when you raise taxes on folks. look at the discretionary income taken out of people's hands and look at the revenue that comes into the government. you get more net revenue, the government does, by letting people have their own money and decide how to spend it. that's ultimately what this argument's about. >> look, anderson. the truth of the matter is if these -- if these tax cuts were creating jobs we'd have jobs out of our ear holes. what this is fundamentally about is -- is we're in an economic crisis. and do the rich have an obligation to carry their fair share. the other day -- >> they are carrying their fair share, paying the majority of the taxes. >> actually, they're not. >> yes, actually they are, and that's according to irs data. yes. yes. absolutely. >> if you look at warren buffett said he went to his office the other day and saw his employees were paying a higher proportion of taxes than he was. and the factor the matter is -- >> you know what, cornell? >> let him finish his thought.

>> the fact of the matter is we're in an economic downturn. we're in great debt. why on earth would we take $1 trillion away from the middle class children and give it to -- and give it to the wealthy under this idea it's going to create jobs. it hasn't created one job yet. >> dana? >> why don't we do that with the stimulus? i'll tell you what, if the stimulus, that was supposed to create jobs and it didn't do anything. if you want to pay higher taxes, you know the treasury department accepts donations. are you donating now? you think people should be paying higher taxes? so i assume you are freely and voluntarily donating to the u.s. department of treasury. because if you're not, then i believe you like the government to come in and force people to divide up their money as they choose. and quite frankly, i chose my own acumen when it concerns my money over the government they're not doing so hot right now. >> you know the heightened political rhetoric has just gotten so dumb in this country -- >> that's not rhetoric, that's fact. >> it doesn't move the argument forward.

the truth of the matter is these millionaires came out saying we don't need more tax cuts, we want to pay our fair share. quite frankly what you're talking about doing is robin hood in reverse. taking $1 trillion from middle class families and giving that to the wealthy and it's not creating jobs. and by the way, the stimulus, it did create jobs. >> no, it doesn't. you're moving the goalpost. you're moving the goalpost with that. that's pseudoscience. >> we've got to go with that. guys, appreciate it, dana loesch, cornell belcher, thank you very much. what is going on on the ethics cases on capitol? two of the attorneys building an ethics case against maxine waters have been mysteriously removed, no explanation, including the lead investigator on the case. waters' hearing was canceled. tomorrow charlie rangel faces his punishment but you might be surprised to learn how light that punishment is going to be. also extraordinary video released of a teenage boy who escaped, held captive for a year, ran into a gym where the video recorded him begging for help.

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a lot going on tonight, that's what we're following. sandra endo joins us with the bulletin. >> president obama is banning new drilling in the eastern gulf of mexico for at least seven years. the ban is a result of the april 20th bp drilling rig explosion that killed 11 people and dumped an estimated 206 million gallons of oil into the gulf before the

well was capped. stunning video has just been released of a teenage torture victim who escaped after being held captive for more than a year. the video was shot two years ago and shows the then-16-year-old with a shackle on his ankle going into a gym to ask for help. 31-year-old anthony waders was convicted last week of torturing the teen. he will be sentenced next month. now for a follow up on a story we've been telling you about, after getting delayed and mired in politics, congress finally passed a bill today to help more than 1,000 haitian orphans get adopted by american families. the orphans were brought to the united states after haiti's devastating earthquake and the bill ensures that they will get permanent resident status. and yahoo! is out with its list of the most-searched terms of 2010. anderson, any guesses on what made the cut? >> lady gaga i see there. >> oh, you're cheating. come on.

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contributions of catholic schools. >> i have introduced resolution today declaring the pitching a perfect game and urging the mlb to overturn a mistaken safe call. >> both republicans and democrats have been pushing resolutions like this for years. some call it good politics, but others like incoming house speaker john boehner see them as a waste of time when there are certainly more pressing issues facing the country. we'll be keeping watch and make sure they're sticking to that promise. more raw politics, the plot is thickening for two high profile democratic members of congress accused of ethics violations. let's start first with maxine waters, democrat who is accused of trying to get a federal bailout for a bank in which her husband held a financial interest. she says she did nothing wrong, that she's being denied due process because of this. her hearing before the house ethics committee supposed to start on monday got canceled because some e-mail communications were found that could affect the case. we don't know how. waters won't say.

she says the committee is just making excuses. but today in a press release, waters says the real reason for the delay is that on the same day her hearing was canceled, two attorneys who were building the case against her were put on administrative leave and she wants to know exactly why they did. no explanation has been given. meanwhile, the case against waters' colleague, charlie rangel is nearing the end, a vote tomorrow on whether to censure him. he was found guilty on 11 violations, including not paying taxes on a vacation home in the dominican republic. and using his office to raise money for an educational center that bears his name. the ethics committee voted 9-1 to recommend the house censure him. dana milbank is a writer for "the washington post," he joins us live from washington, along with joe johns. what is -- most people think, okay, that sounds really serious against charlie rangel that they're going to kick him out or he's going to get arrested. it's -- nothing ppens. >> no. it's sort of a literally a slap on the wrist and if he does get the censure he'll have to stand

there in the well and the speaker of the house will say, congressman rangel you've been a very naughty boy, and then he'll apologize and go on about his business. he's not going to go to prison. he did lose a big prize and that was the chairmanship of the ways and means committee. if they're not going to expel the guy and they're clearly not going to do that, the rest is just about levels of embarrassment. >> joe, what about these -- this thing where these two lead investigators, one of the lead investigators who's been investigating maxine waters suddenly has been let go and a lawyer too. what's going on? >> the other thing that's out there is that when they did all this other stuff last week, they also sent all this information about maxine waters back to be investigated more. and now we find out that, oh, they were getting rid of the top person who was investigating. so it's a real problem. it's chaos and they're running out of time here in this congress to try to handle this thing. it's looking like maxine waters could either find herself over in the next congress, which

would be sort of almost unprecedented handling this, or they'll have to reduce the charges or get rid of her. it's basically a real mess. >> does that mean the case against her isn't that strong? >> it seems that way. nobody has really come up with evidence so far to say it's involving her husband having shares in a bank that was helped by her, but nobody's been able to demonstrate so far she was in particular helping that bank as opposed to all of these minority-owned banks. so we don't know exactly the reasons of what's going on here, but it can't possibly be a coincidence that these two lawyers were suspended on the exact same day they punted on the trial day. so clearly this looks like maxine waters is going to get off here. >> and would you think there would be a certain level of transparency on the ethics committee, but this committee which is notoriously secretive, she wrote tonight, quote, we don't know the specifics but we know the integrity of the committee has been compromised. the more the public's confidence

in the house ethics process is eroded. she's got a point, this very committee which is supposed to be, you know, helping transparency is kind of firing people and not saying anything about it. >> no question. i mean, and a lot of people don't realize this isn't a legal process, it's a political process. you know, up on capitol hill it's a committee with evenly divided numbers of democrats and republicans. but can you imagine in a court of law if the prosecutor basically got completely taken off of the case and suddenly the defense lawyer walked in and there was somebody new? you know, it's like bells and whistles would go off. but in this process it's completely secret and they don't have to say anything to maxine waters, they don't have to say anything to us. >> dana, you've said the thing that's most, the greatest scandal of the ethics committee is just how much they tolerate. >> exactly. the whole notion of congressional ethics has become an oxymoron. so few cases are brought.

we had a case of seven people on the appropriations committee, defense contractors said they thought they were giving these guys campaign contributions in exchange for earmarks but the committee said, oh, nothing to see here, just move along. finally they bring a case like this one against waters, it blows up on them. rangel's has managed to turn his case into something of a circus, so, and now the incoming republican majority is talking about getting rid of an independent ethics body. so i think we've pretty much got to give up on the whole thing. >> joe, you've been revisiting some of the more ridiculous moments in the history of censures. >> yeah. the one i found really hilarious, there's one guy who got censured way back when for telling the speaker of the house he was thinking too much about running for president. there are a couple members of congress who got censured for caning other members of congress apparently out on the house floor. sure, there are serious ones, too, but it goes from the

sublime to the ridiculous, quite frankly. >> appreciate it. thanks. up next, our series, american slaves hiding in plain sight, dan simon brings us into the battle of trying to break up child prostitution rings. young girls preyed upon by pimps. it's thriving under the radar, maybe in your own town. plus a prisoner who posts pictures of a prison party, him smoking what appears to be a bong. he posted this on his facebook page and yes, i didn't know that earth either of the prisoners have facebook pages and that's why he winds up on our rediculist tonight. [ snoring ] [ light snort ] [ male announcer ] cold symptoms tackled. quarterback sacked.

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over the next couple nights we're going to take you inside a crime epidemic you may not be aware of. a lot of americans aren't, mostly because it's not something many of us think can actually happen here in the united states. we're calling the series "american slaves hiding in plain sight." we begin in northern california where child prostitution is actually very big business.

in oakland authorities are teaming up to rescue kids, that's what they are, kids, and prosecute the pimps who abuse them. dan simon tonight shows us how. >> we have undercover personnel that go out, spot certain activities. >> reporter: we're at oakland police headquarters as these officers prepare for a long night in front of them. we've been given rare access to see how police here are cracking down on child prostitution. >> she says she's 19 but she definitely doesn't appear to be an adult. >> reporter: the mood is tense. as minute by minute reports come over the radio. our focus is international boulevard, known here as the track, a place where prostitutes are known to linger. underage prostitutes. >> the younger girls are probably being paid $100 for sex and $60 to $80 for oral sex. >> officer holly is our driver.

block after block we see them. girls, some obviously very young girls, selling themselves. also along for the ride is charmaine bach, a local prosecutor who runs the human exploitation and trafficking unit. >> to look at them as prostitutes is a complete misnomer because they're sexually exploited children, and victims of child abuse. and it's slavery. >> they're getting pulled over right now. >> reporter: the goal tonight? to get as many girls off the streets as possible. officers posing as johns are to look for the youngest girls and detain them, or more to the point, free them from their pimps. the human traffickers driving this whole enterprise. what surprises people the most when you talk about this issue? >> that it happens in america. what surprises people the most is that it is something that occurs in america with american men exploiting american children and other americans facilitating what in essence is modern-day slavery.

>> reporter: this is the back of a strip mall, this is where police bring the young girls and interview them and process them. right now investigators are talking to them, trying to get some information that will hopefully lead them to their pimps. police question this 16-year-old, trying to get information about her pimp. how rare is it to actually get the pimp and the girl at the same time? >> it's fairly rare to get the girl and then within the next hour or so get the pimp. normally these turn into long-term investigations. you rescue the juvenile victim, then it turns into a long-term investigation identifying who the pimp is, figuring out where he is and getting him in custody. >> reporter: but on this day, nothing the girl tells them leads to her pimp. investigators say child prostitution is on the rise in oakland for one reason. money. so much money that police here are seeing drug dealers turning to pimping. >> why? because drugs, you can only sell once, children you can sell over and over again. >> reporter: the financial gain can be enormous. a pimp with four girls who each

bring in $500 a day are taking in more than $600,000 a year. all cash. tax free. the demand is there, and so is the supply. prosecutors say it's no secret where these girls come from. >> about 70% of these kids have been in foster care or some kind of social service situation. a lot of these kids have been victims of child sexual abuse. and they live in environments where they have no self-worth. that makes them easier prey for psychopaths, which human traffickers are. >> reporter: oakland has gained national recognition for its efforts to curb human trafficking. the alameda district attorney's office says it has taken more than 100 pimps off the streets in the last couple years. it also fought for a law that allows california das to charge pimps with human trafficking. a felony. still, despite their success, authorities say child prostitution here shows no signs of slowing. as any drive down the track will show you.

dan simon, cnn, oakland. >> we're going to continue tomorrow, amber lyon uncovered a disturbing story, two dozen teenage girls lured to america from west africa on false promises. they ended up as slaves working in hair braiding salons in new jersey, held captive under the eyes of their neighbors and clients. here's a quick preview. >> reporter: can you tell us about what it was like having someone else control all of your movements? everything you did? >> well, it was like being trapped, being in a cage. >> it's horrible. you know, like sometimes there's not enough food for us to eat. >> no freedom at all. >> reporter: nicole and zena and another 20 girls like them were brought to the u.s. from their homes in the west african nations of ghana and togo nearly a decade ago. barely teens, promised an american education. they were instead enslaved in newark, new jersey.

>> it's an incredible story. you can watch it tomorrow on "360." coming up, while some may find it a hassle to fly with all the security guidelines, one airline is trying to bring some cheer to your flight between 5:00 and 6:00. and never the brightest idea to post pictures getting high on facebook, and even worse, doing it behind bars. it's enough to land you on the rediculist. ♪

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but amazon came under growing pressure to drop wikileaks after it released thousands of diplomatic cables on monday. on this, the 22nd world aids day, a red ribbon was displayed outside the white house. the u.n. says the number of new hiv infections has dropped 20% worldwide in the past decade. but the number of children with hiv or aids is up 46% in asia. on wall street, stocks rallied, blue chips rising nearly 250 points on word of better than expected auto sales and stronger private sector hiring. it's the dow's biggest one-day gain since september. and american airlines may have come up with the world's worst happy hour deal. until the end of december, american is offering discounted booze on domestic flights that take off between 5:00 and 6:00 p.m., and that's for the duration of the flight. so that little cup of wine will cost you $5 instead of $7 and,

of course, there are still free drinks in first class and anderson i have to say with all those tsa patdowns maybe more people will be ordering up those drinks. >> that's the big savings? $5 as opposed to $7? >> a couple bucks. >> i don't know i think they could maybe lower the price a little bit more. sandra, thanks. time for the rediculist, our nightly foray into the stuff that's just ridiculous. tonight's addition, justin walker, or as he's known on facebook, jus n walk. frankly the online name is enough to get him on the rediculist in my opinion, but wait, there's more, he posted pictures on his facebook page of his partying, drinking booze and taking bong hits, never a good idea to post this stuff. but get this, he's in a different bar scene, behind bars. that's right. justin managed to post all this stuff from his prison cell. he's serving a 30-year sentence for killing an oklahoma sheriff. a report aired on the local news about justin's hard partying ways, hard posting hijinks and he got transferred from medium

to maximum security. these are the pictures he posted. he's also got his blackberry taken away when prison officials found it. oh, yeah. didn't i mention that? he had a blackberry. oh, and they also took away his weed. one of the pictures showed a big plastic bag of weed. it may even be longer until jus n walk walks out of prison. he'll probably face more charges for the contraband. let's set aside how less than brilliant it was for him to post these prison party pictures and look at the bigger picture here. facebook has enough annoyances already. farmville postings, weird status updates from people you barely remember from high school and now we have to worry about friend requests from convicted murderers? used to be the biggest thing to worry about is when you're mom finally joined. remember the snl skit? >> who's your new friend? she looks ill. >> now you have to watch everything you say. unless you get the damnit my mom is on facebook filter. it's the oap