the father took the boy to guyana first so leslie followed. what was it like in guyana? beautiful?aradise? >> not paradise by any means. >> did it feel like you were in captivity? >> oh, right away, right away. your passports were taken right away, seized. >> and this did not raise red flags? or it did? >> it did. well, you knew -- in your heart of hearts you had to know that there was no way out. there was no way out. ♪ welcome ♪ ♪ aren't you glad >> tim carter praised jonestown in this testimonial. >> it's beautiful. i can't -- i've never been so totally happy or fulfilled in my life. >> as long as he was not being eaten up by bugs. you could see him scratching the bites. these are home movies made by jim jones to attract church members to his namesake. >> american bananas are nothing like these. >> he showed off the supplies. >> flour, flour, rice, black-eyed peas. >> and then this. >> kool-aid. >> kool-aid. the reality of jonestown? hard work, long hours, too much heat, too little sleep, and, as leslie wilson remembers, meager food. >> dinner was rice and gravy and sometimes so

i'm soledad o'brien reporting from what was once jonestown in guyana, south america.

tim carter and his companion spent a few days in a guyana police cell, then were released.nestown lived through the suicide night. two men were able to sneak away during the slaughter, one of them odell rhodes. >> he was telling people it wasn't painful and that, you know, people had to die with dignity. >> this 76-year-old woman, asleep in the infirmary, was overlooked. so was one elderly man. only 33 left alive out of almost a thousand faithful followers in jonestown that day. the rest came home in metal coffins, as ostracized in death as they had been isolated in life. many of the children could not be identified. other victims went unclaimed. the unwanted, the unnamed were buried on a hillside, more than 400, in a mass grave here in oakland, california. >> i don't think society cared because they were nameless -- they were nameless faces. >> leslie wilson's mother, her niece and nephew are here. on a recent summer day she stood and offered an epitaph for the reverend jim jones. >> i would say jim jones was a psychopathic, hypocritical, egotistical maniac who wanted to g

on november 18th, 1978 four were killed at the jones people's temple in guyana. the killings were followed by a mass murder and suicide by 912 temple members. today as they have every year since the tragedy, family members of the victims attended a memorial service in oakland. as we'll mary, they were there not only to remember -- hear, they were there not only to remember but to protest. ♪ the heartache they bring ♪ >> reporter: this memorial service started with the covering of a memorial in this oakland cemetery, something this family calls the plaque of shame. >> it's horrific. we lived that tragedy, my family, many people never got over it. now we have to see the insult. >> reporter: because among the names of the almost 1,000 people who died in jonestown is of in 1978 is that of the man dealed responsible, jim jones, who ran this colony in guyana. many of his followers were from the bay area. 27 were family members of wynonna norwood. >> he comes with this grand scheme that he's taking all these people to the promised land. they believed it. >> reporter: 34

guatemala que no ha resuelto sus problema mÁs al sur venezuela sigue discutiendo su zona con colombia y guyanao conflicto armado ha sido no es mucho si consideramos que esto fue hace 200 aÑos y en muchos casos lejos las fronteras en lima perÚ, marÍa luisa martinez, univisiÓn. >>> esta noche en divisiÓn de noticia univisiÓn estrena fuerzas comando es un programa que se ponen a prueba los soldados mÁs fuertes los ejÉrcitos de la americas hombre que como nos cuenta enrique estÁn preparados para enfrentar todo tipo de rescate, vamos a ver. >>> fue una fuerza de comandos y debe con una esfuerzo de tli jernz. >>> una unidad de elite de ejÉrcito de colombia, debÍa liberar a 15 secuestrados por la farc tipo derramar una gota de sangre, estaba Íngrid betancourt y 3 ciudadanos de estados unidos. >>> los militares se harÍan pasar por integrante de una misiÓn que participarÍan 8 hombres y una mujer. >>> cada uno se entrenÓ por lo menos, 2 meses antes en su rol. >>> ahÍ unos que dicen que los de fuerzas especiales estÁn locos. >>> no somos locos estamos entre nados. >>> especialmente para enfrentar situaci

major program of training tens of thousands of foreign soldiers from the across the globe artie's guyana chittick and now takes a look at what's in it for the u.s. . the pentagon's new outlook forget about full scale invasion is and large footprint occupation instead think special ops and off the army's next destination libya the obama administration has received congressional approval to allocate money for a special unit reportedly made up of some five hundred people who will train the country's forces according to one b.b. and militia commander a team of americans is already in the country looking for recruits a major obstacle in their wary a vastly divided society there isn't an army and maybe and now and the army is not going to be because whenever you try and get militias which have been region says to a variety of rays of things than the national interest so they have the legions to drive or to a sect or to a religion rather than having allegiance to the nation or to the country you cannot build an army. but with training and aid fully via the u.s. we have more pragmatic goals then

ryan and checking spear went to investigate the peoples temple cult in the south american nation of guyana and jim jones came from san francisco to that jungle settlement. they believe that there was a utopia of social harmony and racial justice. however, this turned violent and this was followed by a mass murder and suicide. 900 men, women, died. >> national news a possible serial killer could be targeting people of middle eastern descent and york. three brooklyn store murders have been murdered since july. the same 22 caliber weapon was used. all of these were in a 5 mi. radius. the latest was a 78 year-old man killed friday and each case the man was covered was with store merchandise. >> that parade float in midland texas leaving four people dead investigators were able to use video to recreate the accident and determined that the train blew it for seven seconds before ramming into the flatbed truck. the community is still and shock. there was a candlelight vigil >> i think that i told a thunderous something that is that happening and we prayed. >> to show our support for our city, for

guyana >> want to be my hero? get out of bed. get up. >> most people are grumpy at 5:00 in the morning. >> i wanted to be as annoying as possible. [laughter] >> i think you succeeded. >> time out to check on the traffic situation. chris anderson has the details. cooke's due to the federal holiday, an unusual afternoon commute. restrictions lifted on an 395 95, and maryland 270. delays is bound repulsed church and to arlington. everyone tried to take advantage of the express lane. what do i can in frederick moving yet speed but we do have this accident that has been working since the early afternoon hours north of rte. 80 but south of 70 a tractor- trailer that is overturned on its side and the load it was carrying a sellout of the trailer. but the cleanup and investigation will be ongoing. back to you. >> coming up just ahead why this local grocery store is still closed months after a sewage spill. >> james bond breaks a record. can a twilight beat them? i'm arch campbell with entertainment coming up. >> decision might for the re

jones is the san francisco minister responsibility for the mass suicide in guyana. >> horrific. we lived that tragedy. my family. many people never got over it and now we have to see the insult. >> mof the survivors see the memorial as a critical step in healing. more than 400 jonestown victims are buried at ever green. it was the only cemetery in the united states to accept the bodies. for decades it was marked by one granite stone. >>> in the aftermath of hurricane sandy vice president biden is assuring people in new jersey the federal government will not abandon them. he spent most of today touring the damage. the vice president, who spent summers a the jersey shore as a child said he understands the need to rebuild the state's beach communities. >> so as the president said we are not going anywhere, gov. we're not going anywhere and you have a home boy in the deal who gets it. >> the four hch legged victims of hurricane sandy made their way to the west coast. they were flown in on a donated chartered southwest airlines flight chaperoned by animal rescue experts from sea worl

guyana, south america. -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com >>> hello, everyone. i'm don lemon. we are one hour from sunrise over israel and gaza. on a day that could see israeli troops cross the border for the first time in four years. gaza has already seen its share of destruction. this was posted on youtube. at least 11 people were killed today. israel wants to prevent any more scenes like this one, a militant rocket aimed toward the city of ashdod. but israel has the edge in technology here. its sophisticated iron dome system takes out most rockets before they find a target. israel's military is also armed with precision-guided missiles. in this case, striking what is said to be the home of an hamas leader. egypt is trying to prevent this war from getting out of hand. spearheading talks aimed at ending the violence. israel's prime minister says hamas can end all this. bd ben wedeman is watching the conflict play out. >> reporter: we've seen apparent urgent action by the israeli army in this area to get as much material, tanks, armoured personnel carriers and troops in the ar

on this day in 1978 in guyana, bay area cult leader jim jones ordered his followers to drink cyanide-laced kool-aid. a los angeles minister who lost members of her family says it's important to remember the youngest victims. >> every innocent person counts, but children matter twice, because they evoke our present joy and they also determine our future. >> as part of the ceremony today, mourners covered up the part of the cemetery memorial that displays the name of jim jones. dr. norwood said a memorial with his name wrongly presents jones as a victim. >>> now to our continuing coverage of the scandal involving the former director of the cia, david petraeus. computer crime experts say the fbi would most likely not have pursued the complaints of harassment brought by this woman you see here, jill kelley, florida socialite, except that the sender seemed to know the travel schedules of both petraeus and marine general john allen. the sender turned out to be paula broadwell, petraeus' biographer and former mistress. the fbi says because the investigation involved such high profile individuals,

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. >> sri lanka, chile, somalia, china, iraq, grenada, guyana, the palestine, venezuela, vietnam, catarrh, khazikstan, cuba, kuwait, kenya, 11 non, libya, molly, malaysia, madagascar, egypt, morocco, saudi arabia, mauritania, namibia, nigeria, nicaragua, india, yemen, qaeda stan, .elarus mr. president, this important draft resolution is aimed at taking a historic decision, granting palestine the status of non-member observer state. the preamble of the drafted resolution refers to the unacceptability of territory by force stipulated in the charter. the other paragraph in the preamble reaffirms the right of the palestinian people to self- determination, including their right to an independent state of palestine. mr. president, a certain paragraph in the preamble reaffirms prevalent revolutions to the security council as well as the general assembly concerning the peaceful -- that mentions among others that israel must withdraw from occupied palestinian territories, occupied since 1967. that the inalienable rights of the palestinian people with the right to self-determination and their right

there are two places that are less friendly and that is guyana and the condo. if used on the globe, you would hit a country that was a more attractive place for us. the president thinks we can ignore those things. the governor disagrees. maybe we get to respond -- >> we will get into the other questions about tax policy, but on what you said about jobs, the spot to the point that the president has the only focus on the demand side. >> that is not true at all. from day one, while he was dealing with the most serious financial and economic crisis in a generation, he started working on controlling health-care costs and doing the reform bill that has set the stage for a no health care cost growth. he created that deficit reduction commission to start the process of getting us toward make the reductions we need to do, and he put forward a deficit reduction plan last year, working with congress. he pass $1 trillion in spending cuts. there is a big contrast to the president's specific plan to bring down the deficit and bring it down in a balanced way. that is a balanc