welcome to assignment 7. today on our program. >> we just.... >> a paper trail of saddam hussein's regime the work of stanford unravels years of secrecy. plus 7 on your side the state closed a local car dealership accused of shady dealing. and we'll introduce you claiming to be the hardest working person in america. let's begin with a reversal of the outsourcing trend taking place in the bay area. david louie says a local company

helping people to find virtual work they can do from their home. >> the recession has a lot of people pounding the pavement searching for jobs, one exception is paul gannon. after a series of jobs he decided to go freelance and found his jobs online. >> there tasks you can do and any given task can be done in a few minutes or few seconds depending on what it is. >> it's where job seekers link up. the virtual work space on the internet is the new labor market. >> we are available, retired professors, teenagers, there is a lot of people in any economy are really kind of locked out of traditional white collar employment because they can't fit night their lives. >> they have 35,000 workers registered. 80% are in the u.s. and the rest

anywhere in the world. they track the work flow. >> the white dots represent people checking out tasks. that is the work has been submitted and waiting for review. >> a peer review process sets it apart from other cloud job sites validating links on a website to ten dollars per page for writing a video script. it's credited the next day for completed work. they think it's a way to make money during free time. she edits documents. >> it movie reviews, essays, medical reports. >> the next year could help determine whether liberty successful or not. company seize it as a long term way to keep costs down and whether workers can make a viable living doing essentially

piece work. >> millions of documents believed to contain records of saddam hussein's are now available to the public at stanford university. >> as chaos closed in around baghdad in 2003, saddam hussein and members of his government were driven into hiding or arrested. his famous statue was pulled down. millions of documents that chronicled the ri the ruling bathe party. many iraqis have been waiting for years to find out what is in those papers. >> a private group called the iraqi memory foundation ended up with the documents and they are now on loan to the hoover institution at stanford university. >> there are approximately 4,000 boxes. >> 12 million documents going

back to the start of the bathe party in 1968. everything to routine information how they obtained electricity. >> we feel it's one of the most important collections in the world that is ready available right now. >> richard is director of the library, now in charge of keeping the papers safe. >> this is a speech that was given at the 50th anniversary of the baath party. >> the preservation work took months. >> we shipped them to a bulk freezing facility where they do blast freezing that retards any growth of mold or mildew. >> it took months to organize the papers and digitize them. the entire collection is in arabic and not been translated. it was just recently opened for research so there is little information about what is actually in the documents. >> as far as the smoking gun, we don't know if we'll find one.

>> many expect include details about atrocities by saddam and the murders of hundreds of thousands of people. >> whole history, he killed my mom, killed my father. we need to know. >> but not everyments will be documents will be made public. they are blocking out the names of any private individuals. high government officials will still be identified. all names are available if you have a subpoena. for people who were tortured or lost their families, the papers mean a new chance on what they call a holocaust. >> this is very important for us. as iraqis and as victims. we just want to know. >> when assignment 7 continues, largest restoration project in

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in california's central valley. second longest river in the state has been dry. the water of the san joaquin river the tap has been turned on once again and now the real work begins. dan ashley reports. >> the san joaquin river was once big enough to carry steamboats loaded with passengers from the north to a booming fresno. the lush banks and its gentle waters provided relief on hot summer days. in the water a plentiful run of chinook salmon traveled hundreds of miles to breed in the southern most salmon run in north america. >> historical the salmon population ranged in the

hundreds of thousands. >> there are no salmon here anymore. in fact until this spring, long stretches of the river had been wiped out, cut off from the water that once passed. this is the plug that stopped it. the dam that was completed in the 1940s to provide water to the farms that sprang up, and for flood protection for towns downstream. by 1945, canal that has take water from the dam were completed. that is really when parts of the san joaquin river started to dry up. >> he is one of a number of scientists and environmentalists who say life may soon return to the dead river. >> this is probably not unlike we would have seen>> they histo. >> they filed suit against the bureau of reclamation in 1988

demanding the water flow again and salmon be brought back. 16 years later, they say they had violated state law by not providing enough water to sustain the fishery. in 2006 a settlement agreement had been reached between the feds, the state and water users and environmentalists. >> the benefit of the settlement agreement it was something we could all live with and work toward and agree upon. >> this march, cameras captured san joaquin river water flowing from the sierra to the sacramento delta for the first time in more than half a century opening the flood educate on the largest river restoration project in u.s. history. >> in 15 years we will have begun making releases. >> jason is with the bureau of recla makes, the program manager for the san joaquin river restoration program. it's expected to cost 250 to $850 million to restore it.

>> the channel improvement includes in some areas, seback s back levees to allow for overflow. >> new bypasses will need to be built to let fish pass by. and salmon breeding habitat will have to be restored. > al is to have a naturally reproducing self-sustaining population. >> a saw hatchery willing in. but all of the changes will not come without a cost to central valley water users. >> some of our districts are totally dependent upon water supplies. >> it depends on the users and many are farmers and ranchers. under the settlement agreement, those customers will likely be fine in average years but the dry years will be the true test of the settlement's liability. >> it's permanent planning, you

can't shut a tree down or nut trees off for a single year. you lost five or six years of your viewing area to produce crops. >> under the agreement, wrought taken away to flood the san joaquin could be replaced from other sources. upton worries about the future of that supply. environmentalists are in court raising concerns about the salmon habitat there and the future of the delta smelt. >> rather than try to start a bed river and bring 500 fish up, why don't we work other rivers that has an existing salmon run and invest in that. >> but they say salmon will come back and they don't have to look any farther than where the water flows again to see life is slowly returning to the san joaquin river. san francisco man is finding it in the high seas, from

selling jelly fish. >> what may look like a jelly fish to you and me is much mr. to alex. he sees a source of life and light that becomes a focal point of any space. he sees a good way to make a living. pet jelly fish craze begin about ten years ago when the monterey aquarium introduced the jelly fish exhibit. >> people were captain elevated by them. they need special tanks. so i decided experimenting and figured out something that worked. >> it was spawned by misery when his job in the east bay, you could say, went down the tubes. >> we were analyzing feces sample in the lab, extracting cholesterol from them. >> suddenly jelly fish never

looked better. he designed a system that would keep them afloat. he found retailers around the world who sold jelly fish. now you can go to jelly fish art.com and order a couple and tank and filter and high nutrient plankton or he can build you a more elaborate tank. >> despite the recent surge of popularity of jelly fish, most of the people we talked the streets, they never really given it any thought. >> never given it any thought of as a petted. >> in all my years, it's never entered my mind. >> but after finding out these jelly fish don't sting and don't need special care and are very abundant they were able