second leading cause of death for hispanics and third leading cause of death for asia/pacific islanders and native americans. well, our next guest says you have to address the problem with gangs. the professor at the university of illinois at chicago has studied gangs and violence for the past 20 years. i appreciate you joining us here. you start off in the hottest seat of all, i suppose. because it seems we've been talking about gangs and the need to address this forever. why have we made so little progress? >> that's a good question. chicago has had the same gangs for -- since the 1950s, for more than 50 years. the gangs have become very entrenched here and clearly that's one of the issues why rates of violence are high. >> when you talk about gangs becoming entrenched there and study gang violence. we hear so much about the criminal parkts the drug running or anything else, is most of the violence related to any sort of endeavor like that or is it simply violence for violence's sake? >> no, what i think we've learned especially where the rates of violence are the highest in black com

asia into darkness just after dawn. here is how it looks from india to the islands of the pacific. >> it is on your screens at the momentsust one of the few regions that actually witnessed this total solar eclipse. >> you can see half of the sun, beautiful, beautiful. >> what you are seeing on your screens now are images that we are getting in from china. >> i think it is like really special and it is going to happen only once in my life. >> we are seeing a sliver of the longest total eclipse of the 21st century. >> complete darkness. you can hear the crowd go ballistic, because it is complete darkness, the total solar eclipse. >> it was as dark as night. you could see the stars in the sky. >> it's quite exciting. i've never seen an eclipse before. >> what you can see is a dimming sun barely visible. block the view almost completely. >> i'm at the great wall of china and, wow, this is a solar eclipse. >> it was really, really cool toe see this eclipse. this was a great memory for me. >> to our viewers, you are in "the situation room," happening now, "the situation room" investigation. one of the fbi's most important terr

our special relationship with and understanding of the asia pacific region, and the physical beauty and ecological diversity of our islands are just a few of the assets we bring to this nation. i have very personal memories about the day hawaii became a state. i was in elementary school in honolulu and was given the honor of pinning the 50th star on our school flag at a special school assembly before sending the flag up the flagpole. all hawaii celebrated that day. to many statehood represented recognition of a state whose multiethnic, multicultural base was different from that of any other state, but whose sons and daughters were just as american as the people of the other 49 states. 1959 was also the year i became a naturalized u.s. citizen. apparently was also the year that my colleague, kneel abercrombie -- neil abercrombie, came to hawaii and things haven't been the same since. it's a great state and it's given me opportunities that i never would have had had my mother not brought me there. we must always remember that the 50th state is also the native land of hawaii's indigenous population, the native hawaiians. i'm