welcome to assignment 7. today on our progr. >> we just.... >> a par 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 behe hardest working pers in america. let's begin with a reversal of the outsourcing trend tang 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 pouing the pavement searching for jobs, one exception is paul ganno 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 secon depending on what it is. >> it's where job seekers link up. the viral work space on the internet the new labor market >> we are availle, retired professors, teenagers, there is a lotof people in any economy are really kind of locked out of traditional white collar employment becaus they can't fit night their lives. >> they have 35,000 workers register. 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 oth 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 fre 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 drin into hiding or arrested. his famous statue was pulled down. millions of documents that chronicled the rise of the ruling bathe party. many iraqis have been waiting for years to fi out what is in those paper >> a private group called the iraqi memory foundation endedp with the documents and they are now on loan to the hoov institution at stanford university. >> there are approximately 4,000 boxes. >> 12 million documents going back to the start of the bathe party in 1968. everythi to routine information how they obtained electricit >> we feel it's one o the most important collections in e world that is ready available right now. >> richd is director of the library, now in charge of

keeping the papers safe. >> this is a speech tt 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 oanize 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 informati 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 kill my mom, killed my father. we need to know. >> but not every detail of the documents will be made public.

they are blocking out the names of an private individuals. high government official will still be identified. all names are available if you have a subena. 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, largt restoration projectn u.s. history. and one san francis man who found an unusual way to get back into the working world with jelly fish. we'll explain, next.

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second longest river in the state has been dry. thewater of the san joaquin river the tap has been turned on once again and now the real work begins. dan ashl reports. >> the san joaquin rver was onceig enough to carry steamboats aded with passengers fromthe north to a booming fresno. the lush banks and its gene waters provided relief on hot summer days. in the water a plentiful run of chinook salmon traveled hundreds of miles to breed in th southern most salmon run in north america. >> historical the salmon population rand in the hundreds of thousands. >> the 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 da that was completed in

the 1940s to provide water to the farm that sprang up, and for flood protection for towns downstream. by 1945, canathat 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 sooneturn to the dead river. >> this is probably not unlike we would have seen historical. >> they filed suit against the bureau of reclamation in 1988 demanding the water flow again and salmon be brought back. 16 years later, th say they had violated state law by not providing enough war to sustain the fishery. in 2006 a settlement agreemen had been reached btween the feds, the state and water users

and environmentalis. >> 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 deltaor the first time in more than half a century opening the flood educate on the largest rer 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 maner for the san joaquin river restoration program. it's expecd to cost 250 to $850 milln to restore it. >> the channel improvement includes in some areas, setting 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. >> our goal is to have a naturally reproducing self-suaining population. >> a saw hatchery willing in. but a of the changes will not comeithout 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 liabily. >> it's permanent planning, you can't shut a tree down or nut trees offor 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 abouthe future of that supply. environmentalists are in court raising concerns about the salmon habitathere 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 n't have to look any faher than where the water flows againo 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 surce 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 s, went down the tubes. analyzing feces sample in the lab, extraing cholesterol fro 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 orr 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 jellfish, most of the peop we talked the streets, they never really given it any thought. >> never gin 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 to wrap the ten cals around a jelly fish. >> gordon's birthday, time fo the jelly fish dip. >> and they have this movement. they want to see the jelly fish. >> they also want to buy it. >> also coming up, the giant

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welco back the state forced the closure of a car dealership for failure to pay taxes. so what happened to the custome? >> alicia's life has spun out of control ever since she purchased this car. >> overall it's a horrible car. >> is shirley jones made a $2,000 down payment on a pontiac grand prix but police confiscated the car six mont later f something she blames on the car dealer. >> i paid that money to put down for this car. >> both purchased their cars f

from elite auto in pittsrg, they failed to transfer ownership of the vehicles within the 30 days required by the state. she has been waiting for six months. >> the car is registed to the previous owner. i went down to the department of motor vehicles and i was fable to ge any type of paperwork because the dealer has not submitted anytng that says they sold me the car. >> she bought her car in march 2009. dmv confirms they towed the car because the registration had expired. >> i feel like the au has ruined my life. i feel like my life is totally ruined. >> she wnt to the auto return tow yar to get her car back but refused to give it to her because she had no proof of ownership. she current has no car. >> i actually feel really low, as a mom i can't get my children

where they needo get to. >> we went to elite auto looking for answers. dealership dens they are doing anything wrong. >> he says shirley stopped making paents. she showed us $2600 worth of receipts that says she stopped paying when they didn't transfer the ownership. >> nothing happed. >> they sold her car on january 6th. dmv records shows that five days elite auto did trsfer ownership to shirley but it was too late. the car had been sold to someone else. dmv it continues to investigate elite auto. they haveeen stripped of its license by the board of

equalization and dmv for failure to pay taxes. elite auto sales manager, the owner is the victim of hard tim. >> basically a lot of people, same like this one, they owed a lot of money andan out of money. >> she took them to small claims court and wo a $5,000 judgment. she is still waiting for them to pay. she is working with an attorney and says she will sue elite if necessary. >> scientists in menl park have turned the world's biggest x-ray machine. >> not every accelerator has turned out like this one, it was a dream come true. >> we've been excited th this machine has worked as beautifully. >> the machine is a lase, thre miles long, crossing highway 280

six stories under grou. producing x-rays enabling to see processes that were only a dream 20 years ago. >> people are taking images of viruses and we're intereed in proteins and dna. >> not just snapshots. images captured before molecules have time to fly apart. that means the first atomic movies. >> the x rays are so intense we can take flash holograms of molecules. >> it's short that atoms don't have time to move very far. in fact, we're gettinto the point now we can see the motion of the electrons swirling around the atoms. >> a tube like this one generates a pact of electrons the sizef a grain of rice and shoots it through the tube through the size of a straw, now stret that to three football field and the grain of light

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what is a person to do? >> is it and read bumper stickers. >> he doesn't have anything against horsepower. >> record in a dy? >> 22. >> that 22 horses times four hooves each. >> it's art. it's an exact science of an approximatio >> this man has been doing this for 4,000 years but the business hasn't changed. it's been a word of mouth business. then came the internet. >> have you seen yourself on youtube? >> i would have to turn the computer off. [ laughter ] >> we learned about doug when his son chris se us a video. more like a mini documentary.

>> do a film about my dad, document what he does. >> chris produces commercials and entered the project sponsored by a company looking for the hardest working man in america. deordrant. >> hors don't care. >> no one matter to him that doug is a top ten finalist. after we watched for a wle, we understood why. >> it's back breaking work. >> this is 61-year-old man who clearly does not need to go to the gym, not putting hestding 81 pound legs all day. >> do you charge extr for that? >> doug begin the trade 37 years as an apprence and last year just for fun he did so count of go.

>> i've done 57. >> that is 228,000 shoes pulled, nails trimmed and measured and pounded then fit, then nailed, then smoothed. and 57,000 happy customers. >> we can reset them and go one more time. >> easy to find when a man doesn't think of it that way. >> take pleasure in work and take pleasure in your lif follow what you love to do and learn how to make a living it. >> if your kid enters are in a contest, don't it go to your head. >> does it matter if you win this contest? >> no. it doesn't. >> you don't need somebody else to tell you that you work hard? >> no, i don't. >> the pioneers, would approve.

wayne freedman, "abc 7 ne." >> hard working and wise, too. if you want more information, go to our website at www.abc7.com. look under the news links for assignment 7. that is all for this edition of assignment 7. i'm kristen sze. thanks so much for joining us. we hope yo enjoyed the program. see you next time. female announcer ] the sweet moments package is baby blue. calming. tranqu like the sky. but look within and you will find exploding baked chocolate indulgence. coated with sinfulne. oozing with decadence. ooo! observe the dainty birds . but look within you willind primal forces of chocolate. instantly satisfng every iota of yearning. new pillsbury sweet moment brownie bites and bowls. in the rrigerated section.