it has to be a female officer who's gone to an undercover school.n the second thing is you rely on your fellow officers who, you know, are there and they know what to look for and they're also well trained and they know what the danger signs look like on the track. >> got the door open. trying to talk to her. >> be careful. be careful. be careful. >> as dusk descends on the track, this particular browser captures the team's complete and undivided attention. >> the driver door is completely open. he might be trying to recruit her. so just stand by. >> are you trying to be friends? i'm in the business of making friends right now, man. i'm in the business of making you happy. give me five minutes, i'll make you happy. >> police are not sure if this browser is a would-be john or pimp but he does appear to have enough street smarts to evade their sting. >> all right. no play. he's pulling off southbound. he didn't want to pay. >> he didn't have any money. >> he wanted to be our friend. >> you can almost translate that. what do you mean by being my friend

okay. >> the undercover confirms that chastity is working in the hotel. but he'll have to call her once more to get her exact location. >> i am not going to know where this girl is at. i'm going to have no idea until i call. and i may not even know then. okay? she may tell me -- you know, she may tell me go up to the second floor and i'll wave you in. or we don't know, we have no idea. so we have to play it all by ear. >> give me two guys. is all i need. >> at the same time undercovers also have a second date on the way. >> you've got to hide. >> my girl might be coming. she sees that camera, she's running. >> the team must now scramble to make two simultaneous takedowns. >> all right. unit on outside, we have possibly two girls in this hotel. outside unit, be aware. he's talking to the girl. she's right around here somewhere. so keep an eye out. >> the woman directs the undercover to room number a-3 just as sergeant walker spies a man who may be her pimp exiting the same room. >> and he has something to do with her. >> as the undercover makes his way to

>> meanwhile, female undercovers pose as sellers of sex. posting their own ads online to lure unsuspecting johns into the trap. >> i'm tall. blonde hair, blue eyes. >> ideally, undercovers will attempt to make the deal for sex on the phone before the subjects even arrive. >> for you, i'll do, if you drive a little bit further, i'll do like, 75. i have someone on the way now. he, i posted an ad on to backpage.com and he responded to one of my ads. i have charges on him. half an hour. a hundred dollars. >> what's up, girl? >> meanwhile, this male undercover also has an unsuspecting mark on the line. >> can we have fun stuff or what? >> i responded to an ad for an escort. she goes by the name of black magic. she goes, how much time do you want. i said 30 minutes. i said how much is 30 minutes? she said $130. you have charges? >> yes, sir. >> with charges in place, black magic goes up on the board along with the john and the team prepares for their arrival. >> it's crazy. they'll come. there are periods where there are two and three people comi

>> and veterans are constantly training rookies in undercover tactics. >> we just put on an undercoverchool. what we'll do is take these guys out and get their feet wet. let them try and pick up some girls and see what it's like to follow a car and that kind of thing. >> detective jim saleda is an eight-year veteran of the task force. tonight he'll be working closed cover keeping a protective eye on the undercover cops posing as johns. >> again, if shots are fired be mindful you always want cover. >> tonight's sting requires two dozen officers and nine cars. >> and if there is an officer down we'll react to the threat as we just talked about. we actually have one of our close cover officers, plain clothes officers, who was watching the incident, be approached by two guys and tried to rob them at gun point. a gun fight ensued. we've had a male officer just recently shot at by a female prostitute. so you name it, it's happened. >> it's just after 5:00 p.m. when the task force hits the streets. >> run up and down a few blocks and see what's out there. >> it doesn't take long for saleda to

now back to msnbc undercover. >>> we have got a guy here. >> in a typical human trafficking sting, undercoverofficers troll the internet to lure johns and women for hire into a dragnet. >> can you come now? >> but this undiscover taking a slightly different tack. he's posing online as a pimp with juveniles to sell or trade. >> are you running an ad? >> yeah. >> what's the substance of it? >> kind of that i have experienced girls but i'm looking to bring in new girls. or if you are looking for girls, you know, that we can trade out, basically. my goal is to find girls who are being sex trafficked, and essentially bait the people who are holding them. >> i'm trying to just focus on trading girls. >> it's ann unchush strategy that first occurred to him during a previous operation when dealing with a john who was looking for sex with a minor. >> i explained to him that she was 14 years old. then i get approached with him saying something to the effect of, have you ever thought of selling her? the man on the other ends of the phone in that operation was 30-year-old warren white, an active duty nav

but we'll see. >> this male undercover is in contact with a very young-looking female. her ad says she's 20. but he suspects she may be a juvenile. after some negotiation by text, she finally agrees to an outcall and arrives at the hotel shortly before 9:30. >> has my time started? all right, okay. >> and no anal. >> no anal? >> a price of $340 is agreed upon for half an hour of sex. >> good? >> yeah. >> okay. >> as soon as the money changes hands, sheriff's deputies move in and make the arrest. the woman in custody is 21-year-old stephanie. she is quiet and cooperative. but investigators quickly get a sense of her personal distress. >> you ever been arrested before for prostitution? >> no, sir. >> where's your mom and dad? >> my dad i haven't talked to in -- i couldn't even tell you how long. and my mom, it's probably been about a year. she's really sick. >> a tattoo on stephanie's back offers detectives insight on her troubled family history. >> it says "colesta." >> i knew from the name of it because it's kind of an old-school kind of name that it was either a mom or

>> affirmed. >> all conversation stops once the undercover hits the street.ight pairs of eyes track her every move. >> so now basically sitting and waiting. >> who will grab the john? >> all three of us will exit the vehicle. john in the car will be told to turn off the engine. put in it park, put the brake. then we ask him to get out of the car. once he gets out of the car, we'll handcuff him and then transport him back to the staging area. >> within five minutes of standing on the corner, a driver calls out to the undercover. >> she is approaching a car that is white or beige hatchback. she's talking right now. >> all right. we're good. [ siren ] >> sir, police. turn off your engine. put in it park. put the brake on, please. take off your seatbelt. keep your hands where i can see them. >> i'm not doing anything. >> okay. just do what i'm telling you, okay? step out of the car please. >> am i okay? >> step out of the car. >> you're not going to arrest me? >> step out of the car, sir. face the car. turn around and put your hands behind your back. just relax.

backup officers listen carefully to the undercover's wire. >> all right, follow us, i'm going to take the male, drop him down, spanky's going to go to the door. >> keep your hands on top of your head. >> the male suspect is quickly cuffed in the parking lot. but inside the room, investigators make a troubling find. >> do you have anything with your name on it here? >> no. >> a very young-looking girl with no identification. >> how old are you? >> i'm 19. >> where are you from? >> i'm from arkansas. >> who else is here with you? >> right now i'm here by myself. >> whose shoes and stuff. >> whose shoes? they're mine. >> you have some big feet. who's the guy outside? >> i don't have no idea. i was asking him -- >> just be honest. >> i'm being honest. >> no, you're not. >> the suspect outside is a little more willing to talk. he provides police with a first name for the girl. >> she came into the room -- >> who is she? what's her name? >> alicia. >> alicia, what's her last name? >> she said alicia. >> how old are you? >> now, first things first. i need to know who you are. okay? do you ha

>> on that sting, they met with the undercover officer.girl had the money, she actually slipped the money up under the door to jason. he picked up the money. he was detained in the stairwell by the arrest team with a laptop on him and our undercover money. >> tonight, police say jason was using april to break in this new recruit, a 23-year-old we'll call laurie. >> she tried to convince me her friend was okay, that she was cool and that she was there to have a good time as well. again and, the other girl at this point is moving around the room. she looked nervous. looked out of place. it was evident to me this was probably her first rodeo, so to speak. she was very out of place. >> back at the state police post, investigators separate the women for further questioning. >> hey, how you doing? you want to give a statement? you want to talk to me? >> no. >> not at all? >> no. >> how come? >> because i don't want to talk. i want my lawyer. >> okay. not a problem. >> tonight, april takes the fifth, but her friend, laurie, is ready to talk. she

an undercover health inspector goes in to request a massage.he undercover a moment to make the deal. >> let's go. let's go. >> and scramble to gain entry and observe the situation inside. the receptionist seems nervous, perhaps with good reason. there are two male customers in massage rooms down the hall. >> i'm going to get dressed if you don't mind. can you leave the room for a minute, please? >> picture. >> inspector walsh observes and documents that both masseuses are dressed improperly for work. meanwhile, evidence of sex on the premises is recovered in a bathroom at the end of the hall. >> so in doing a trash pick in this trash can, i located two unwrapped condoms, wrapped up in toilet paper. >> upstairs investigators find a tiny living space cramped with beds, food and five women from china and thailand. >> do you have a massage license? >> not with them. >> the nervous women carry no documentation, no massage licenses and no legal i.d. they admit to being recent transplants from china and thailand but say the owner has their passports a

for the safety of the female undercovers. >> i'm just going to sit across the street from where they're at. as soon as they make a deal with whoever the john is for a sex act, i'll tell the takedown cars that it's a go, for them to arrest the car. >> are they out? >> yeah. 10-4. >> in front of the gas station? >> she's south of dickens right now. >> okay. 10-4. >> sergeant ray, a 20-year veteran, will take the lead in the command car. >> we're just south of o'hare, so there's people getting off work, you know, a lot of workers all day and night. a lot of customers coming through. >> we usually work in the evenings, the vice team. the street-level prostitution is in the morning. a lot of the girls wake up and they're sick. it's sad, unless they get their heroin, they're throwing up. so the first thing they do in the morning is they're on the street, getting the guys on their way to work. >> within the next ten minutes, why don't we just switch out? >> okay. >> after 30 minutes and no takers, it's clear to detectives that decoy one with her flip-flops and mom hair falls short in appeal. t

instead's an undercover montgomery county cop. he instructed the undercover cop to quote either put her in a wheelchair so she could never talk and never walk again or put her six feet under. >> the acts were vicious and on going. he deserves the spend a significant amount of time in jail. that's what justice is about. >> reporter: court documents reveal the undercover officer asked him what he wanted the crime to look like? a robbery or home invasion? he said he only wanted to take her out and just kill her. >>> new information tonight in the surgery for a man wanted for sex crimes in silver spring. this afternoon detectives released this sketch of what the man may look like. victims described him as hispanic late 20s, 5'11"155- pounds. one woman said he tried to rape her. the other said he exposed himself. if you know this guy montgomery county police would love to hear from you. >>> state department worker charged with soliciting sex to a minor is out of prison. he posted bond today. he has to be supervised. he can not have con

we arrested one guy last year, 74 years old, he is looking for sex from our undercover girl.n the guy got out of surgery two weeks ago on bypass surgery and he is out looking for a girl. >> this officer is going to take care of you and tell you what's going to happen. >> sex sells. men think about it all the time. it's just the manner they are willing to go about obtaining it and the risk they are willing to take. >> they don't seem to care. most of them are married, most have families. most are businessmen. they all have jobs and they come and just want to have a good time with someone in private and having discrete and nobody is going to know about it. >> the salmon is going upstream. >> police say that most johns don't think too deeply about all the consequences of buying sex until they get caught. >> police. let me see your hands. >> they are looking for one thing. obviously, a guy is going to pay for sex he is looking for that, he is looking for sex. they don't see the ramifications of paying someone, they don't see the outcome of a traffic victim. i don't think they wan

. >> reporter: you're undercover with the i-team inside a northeast philly hotel. it's where men think they're meeting a prostitute but have no idea we're watching them from across the hallway. and so are police. >> he's in. >> reporter: to provoke the vice squad officers we can't show you their faces. they're the ones who post provocative ads on back page.com where theism team found hundreds of similar ads posted daily. within minutes of posting the ads the men started answering them. >> white male 6-foot on his way up. >> reporter: they're completely unaware that the prostitutes they've a rangeed to meet are actually undercover officers. once the deal was made police moved in. >> police, police! >> i'm not doing nothing. >> reporter: officers arrested this man for criminal solicitation. >> the last defendant offered our undercover officer $50 for sex and a bleep. >> reporter: it's a scene we watched unfold not once -- >> come on man. please don't do this to me. >> reporter: not twice. >> wow! really? go, go. >> reporter: but seven times. all of them in just three

"action news" investigative reporter going undercover to expose an all-too-common way that some stores be ripping you off. >> all that glitters isn't always gold. the ear rings may look shiny but tonight investigating a practice called under careting thinking you may be buying one thing but may be stunned to see what you were sold. >> this store 29 years. >> at this store in philadelphia mills michelle says her and her fiance spent around $10,000 buying almost every piece of injury she owns from the engagement ring to nearly a dozen pairs of ear rings purchased 3-5 years ago. >> i feel very ripped off. >> after taking the gold to the local jeweler to get it cleaned. >> going through the jewelry and telling me which were fake. >> some. pieces like the engagement ring the most expensive item were real. but several pairs of ear rings were not, which she said she was told she was buying. >> completely junk. >> like the ear rings she bought for $300. >> we paid 14 karet gold prices for silver. >> but didn't say their word for it, went undercovered and purchased two pairs on our own. >> this

he is in. >> once inside, the undercover makes contact with four young women. >> hi!o. >> they are dressed improperly and offering the usual prelude to sex in this establishment, illegal massage. >> tell me what you saw. >> when i walked in, a female in teal came out one of the doors and she opened up her lab coat with lingerie under. another girl came out another door and opened up her lab coat. a third girl came out of a separate door and opened up her lab coat. all of them were in lingerie and she sat down on the couch. >> who is the owner? who is the owner? >> he not here. >> what's the name of the owner? >> yeah. >> the mama san or madam is polite. she plays dumb as inspectors turn their attention to identifying the younger women working here. these three women have legal i.d. but no massage permits. and this young woman has no i.d. at all. >> you have no, no wallet? >> i don't have anything on me, sorry. no. because i want around here and i don't want nobody to snatch stuff from me. >> what do you do here? >> me? >> i do nothing. >> you do nothing? >> no. >> the

the police officer's because he's undercover. the incident begins nearly an hour earlier on a cold, snowy morning in toronto, canada. a 16-year-old boy walks into a bank on february 26, 2008. he says he has a gun and demands $150,000. well trained bank employees take their time, complying with the robber's demands and alert authorities by silent alarm. the city's emergency tactical force responds. sharpshooters take up positions outside the bank and out of view of the bank robber inside. >> he didn't know we were all there. he was oblivious to what was going on outside the bank. >> police aren't the only ones who respond to the incident. >> i got a call saying there is a bank robbery hostage-taking scenario, can you go directly there? >> global news reporter katharine mcdonald scrambles to the scene. >> there was a feeling of anxiety because you just didn't know what might happen. >> shoppers running their morning errands are caught unaware as police lock down surrounding stores. >> so people with children in strollers were going

. >> msnbc goes undercover and investigates "sex slaves texas." >>> by day, houston, america's fourth largest city, radiates the wealth of the oil tycoons who built it. but, by night, this interstate is ground zero for one of the darkest industries of the american underground economy, modern day sex slavery. behind the doors of the spas, massage parlors and bustling urban bars called canteenas, teenage girls and young women sell themselves for cold cash. from high-end escort girls online to back alley mattresses behind a cantina, those who fight human trafficking say foreign and homegrown american girls commit these sex acts oftentimes against their will. theirs is a story that must be told. it's 10:00 a.m. in overcast houston, texas, and it seems like just another sleepy saturday morning at this airport hotel. but behind closed doors in room 106 investigators of harris county's human trafficking task force are laying a trap. >> what we're doing basically is just trying to hook up our camera equipment inside the room here and make sure we've got a clear shot. >> the camera is focused

the i-team's scott mcfarlane went undercover to show you. >> reporter: a morning routine playing outming up the car while waiting inside from the cold. but watch this. recent surveillance video from a beltsville home. a white car idling in the driveway as another vehicle slowly drives by, backs up. within second a man hops in the white car and takes off. thieves call them puffers because of the puff of ignition coming out of the back. they're easy to spot even from far away and easy to steal. >> people usually again think their driveways are safe. >> reporter: the i-team spent several cold marngs with the wave team. washington area vehicle enforcement. >> we make several arrests throughout the day. >> reporter: we are not showing their faces because they work undercover not only looking for cold car thieves but warning potential victims too. >> the one right next to us is lit up as well. >> reporter: in an upper neighborhood we first spot that giveaway puff of smoke from a bmw. within minutes we're surrounded by other unintended cars. >> we've had one, two three, four. -- >> includin

let's show you the video that offers a result of all the shooting around 545 the undercover santa clara police officer was following a mercedes to the point where here she'd at this point in and around me know the gender of the police officer got officer found cost old enough to pull over the mercedes and got to investigates and an offer saddam celebrant and ended up one after police officer fired several shots as the mercedes and then takes off then called for backup. the mercedes was long gone they told bay area hospitals to be all over just in case the person goes in for gunshot wounds and they can let officers know to the can, make an arrest. so they're not clear every and one of the in the car was hit by bullets. the y intersection was close down for 3 1/4 hours. might be connected to a string of burglaries hope to get an update from them through this kron 4 morning as. >> reporter: measles numbers are out this morning the virus is continuing to spread in california a hundred and seven firm cases. to one or counting all but 18 are tied to power break and disneyland. six percent of

an undercover investigation led officers to a sunnyvale hotel. according to the district attorney's office, simmons met the east bay teenager on social media. undercover agents arranged for a tate with the girl and recovered her from a motel room. they found simmons nearby with more than $6500 in cash and a motel key. >> he had sexually abused her and that he was aware of her age and that he had also physically assaulted her. >> simmons is being held on $1 million bail. co face up to 15 years in state prison if convicted on all charges. >>> an accident between a vta light rail train and an suv halted service in san jose for a short time this morning. the accident happened at north capital avenue and berryessa road before 11:00 a.m. near the stakes. officials say a honda suv came into the intersection and was sideswiped by the southbound train. the air bag in the honda went off but nobody was hurt. the accident has now been cleared and service is back to normal. >>> a new warning today for b.a.r.t. riders. the latest case of measles confirmed in a

use and a lot of violence based on people being ramp up on different drugs this morning we had an undercover officer to get a drug buy who observed mroornz leaving the club they went around the corner and they went back into the club the undercover officer approached the drug dealer and negotiated a price for meth and the officer declined the drug and it turned bad at this point he said man, you disrespect me you're not going no where we're going to take our money it was going to be a physical alteration the officer took action and shoved the person away and gave the sign so the team in the area placed him under arrest he said he had a 45 it ended up he didn't have a weapon it's the kind of you know we talk about the night life on broadway but have the moreno a lot of people it's - i'm it's pretty hard to stay up and party all night on booze so people on stimulants one club on on sunday morning and another sunday night any questions or comments. >> in thank you very much any public comment on the police report seeing none item 5 our permits. >> good evening commissioners we have two tonight

. >> tonight msnbc returns to san francisco and goes undercover with the human trafficking task forceful. >> he is in, he's in, he's in. >> as they fight to pull back the veil on this cruelest of parlor games. >> and try to rescue the girls and young women trapped as sex slaves in the land of the free. >> every minute of their day is spent either being raped or waiting for the next man to show up who is going to rape them. standing guard at america's golden gate, the city of san francisco is uniquely seasoned with asian influence. but the city by the bay has also imported another specialty from the orient. elicit massage parlors that play host to a booming underground sex trade. >> trafficking is live and well in san francisco. >> reporter: inspector ed walsh has spent 25 years with san francisco's health department. >> hi! health department, how are you? >> since 2007 our cameras have followed him on his beat. >> hello, ladies. >> inspecting the city's massage parlors. many of which are fronts for prostitution. >> there is a guy, there is a guy there. >> when we go into these places, we

the undercover agents aboard planes who are there to protect us. explosive allegations they were moved around because of secret trysts. >>> and later, your lying eyes. why do some people see this dress as white and gold while others see blue and black? the answer so many people want to know. >>> news tonight of investigation into allegations of serious misconduct at the federal air marshal service. they're the undercover agents assigned to protect commercial flights. the investigation centers on whether marshals' schedules were manipulated to facilitate secret affairs. here's nbc's tom costello. >> reporter: outside of washington, the air marshal command center keeps track of potential terror threats every day, determining which high-risk passenger planes will get air marshal protection. but investigators are now looking into whether schedulers changed certain air marshals assignments as a personal favor or so they could later meet up for secret affairs. in one case an air marshal was allegedly rescheduled at least 20 times, taking him off assigned

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send a convicted drug dealer, undercover into a dangerous prison to befriend an alleged serial killer i'm not a serial killer hunter, so how am i going to do this. >> at stake, answers. >> wondering where she is, what happened. >> grieving families. >> you want to find her and bring her home and you can't. >> and one man's freedom. >> they don't just turn around and hand out candy and say you're free to go. i went through hell and back. >>> early each day donna greets her daughter tricia. >> i say hello to this picture every morning. i say good morning, every morning. i look at that and i can hear her say, hi, mom. >> tricia was very kind-hearted, very smart. >> as a child, says father gary, tricia lit up the room. >> she would sometimes just bound into the room, spread her arms apart and say ta-da, you know, that type of thing. >> donna and gary brought tricia here to marian, indiana, to attend this small christian college. one spring evening in 1993, tricia left her dorm room for a walk. on march 29th, around 8:00 at night, tricia came here on this shopping center. she bought a soda

instead, it was an undercover montgomery county cop. >> in the wheelchair. she would never walk. >> reporter: he instructed the undercover cop to, quote, either put her in a wheelchair so she could never talk and walk again or put her six feet under. >> acts committed were vicious, ongoing and he deserves to spend a significant amount of time in jail. that's what justice is about. >> reporter: court documents reveal the undercover officer asked him what he wanted the crime to look like, a robbery or a home invasion? he said he only wanted to take her out and just kill her. >> we take domestic violence very seriously and believe that anybody that would go so far as to hire a hitman to murder the mother of his child and intimate partner should be off the streets. >> reporter: he has a history of domestic violence involving three ex-wifes and his ex- girlfriend in this murder for hire plot. >> this was in 2011. the defendant punched one of his prior wives, girlfriends in the face while she was seven months pregnant. >> reporter: his mother, fiance and other fam

several arrests throughout the day. >> reporter: we're not showing their face because they work undercovernly looking for cold car thieves but warning potential victims, too. >> there's one right next to it is lit up as well. >> reporter: in an upper marlboro neighborhood we notice that puff of smoke from a bmw, but within minutes we're surrounded by other unattended cars. >> one, two, three, four. >> reporter: including this honda. >> go ahead and pull up. >> reporter: officers approach the drivers to alert them about car thieves. >> i have to take that into consideration because it's a one-car family. i wouldn't want my car to be stolen. >> reporter: this fusion sits in the driveway running more than 20 minutes before officers finally knock on the door. vanessa says she didn't realize it's illegal to leave your car unattended in maryland. >> i have to actually be with the vehicle. it would be a $70 fine. >> reporter: but this day no tickets, just a warning. >> i'm think about it. >> reporter: police tell us that can make things worse. >> sometimes they're armed. >> reporter: escalating a

. >> bought this in an undercover operation from a convicted felon, gang member. >> homemade guns withserial numbers and no way to trace them. as 2 investigates found out, they're not illegal. >> later the eve of chinese new year. the traditions underway for a big celebration. >>> 2 investigates tonight, homemade assault weapons with no serial numbers and no way for police to trace them. federal agents say homemade guns are showing up more and more often at crime scenes across california. and they are perfectly legal to make. allie rasmus shows us what is making a dead end for officers. >> reporter: the part of the gun that makes it a gun is this. a part called a receiver. >> what you have is a block of metal, or a plastic. >> reporter: the rifle in his hands was made from a blank metal part anyone can buy legally, called an unfinished receiver. drilled and assembled, that unfinished part become as firearm. >> my agents bought this is an undercover operation. >> reporter: seeing more guns made from unfinished receivers on the streets. >> we started noticing these types of firearms. fir

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so we went undercover to investigate for ourselves. >> gold looked good. all shiny. reporter: tonight we'll show you the test to determine if you're being short charged. we approached the store for answers. isn't that defrauding the customer though. we'll tell you what you need to know to protect yourself from buying something tonight at 11:00. >> a lot of people watching some one. >>> don't fool us. >>> let's take a look outside in delaware county. this is the blue route at baltimore pike. no problems between 95 and the schuylkill. traffic on the blue route moving nicely n camden county 168 between collings avenue and nicholson road construction blocks up to two lanes. that will be out there for another 30 to 40 minutes. >> you could just buy flowers. >> you could. >> but then you would have to test the flowers. >> to see if they're real. >> right. 28 degrees by 9 o'clock. right now we're in the mid to upper 20's with wind chills in the upper teens. not changing much by 9 o'clock. 35 by noon, though and we get up to a high of 39 degrees by 3 o'clock. there will be a

our undercover video showed that. tonight we have new video to show you. >> january 12. >> reporter: this is what made so many of you upset. >> it's about 8:35 p.m. >> reporter: our undercover cameras caught council member evans repeatedly using this no parking zone beyond the stop sign at 32nd as his home parking. >> there is the vehicle. >> reporter: council member evans didn't respond to our repeated requests for a scheduled interview. >> when i come home and you can't find a spot, you tend to park there and move it when i can find a spot. >> there he is. >> reporter: we did see him do that once. but it was after this. watch the video we haven't shown before. this time he is parked with blinkers on in the traffic lane. see the no parking sign on the street? watch this car forced into the opposite lane before the council member moved. >> he is on the corner spot again. >> reporter: we didn't include that one in our tally of six times we caught him parked in no parking zones in random checks. on facebook, some of you

an undercover operation led officers to a motel in sunnyvale. now, according to the santa clara county d.a.'s office, simmons met the teenager on social media. undercover agents arranged for a date with the girl through a website. they recovererred her through a -- recovered her through a motel room. they found simmons nearby with $6500 in cash and a motel key. >> he had sexually abused her. he was aware of her age and that he had also physically assaulted her. >> simmons is being held on $1 million bail. he could face up to 15 years in state prison if convict on all charges. >>> menlo college has dropped its football program but still some. students and the alumni they are fighting to get it back. today they will hold a rally on the school's campus. they will protesting the board's decision last month to drop football after 29 years. a petition on causes.com called save menlo football it already has more than 1700 signatures. now, only 750 students go to menlo college. it was the fifth smallest division three school with a football program. col

the forensic unit along with undercover officers and other detectives returned here about 15 minutese going to show you what they're doing. we have seen them pull out metal detectors as they dig into the ground, scanning the ground where a memorial once stood. they're combing over the crime scene again, as they continue their search for a killer. now, that special task force is hunting for this person police say stalked 56-year-old kim jones one hour before killing her. surveillance video tape shows the suspect following the mother of two and a newlywed moments before she was shot execution style, in the back of her head. jones, a child advocacy workers, died here at the bus stop where she awaited bus 23 every day. investigators showed us several angles of the shooter, who is covered in all black and wearing white headphones. investigators say in the video, you also see the person ambush jones, then calmly place the weapon back in a duffel bag and walk away. now, while a motive is unclear, the task force believes jones was targeted by someone she knew. investigators have been followi

chief investigative reporter tony kovaleski has our undercover look inside the controversy of pot andtony? >> reporter: a lot of moving parts here raj. in san jose, here is how it works out. pot businesses are required to hand over 10% of their sales to the city and another 8 1/2% to the state. now for years, the two sides have battled over marijuana business taxes, a semantic power struggle leaving millions of unpaid taxes in play. >> we're not even close to -- >> reporter: listen closely. >> those prices do already include sales tax to the state and the city has well. >> reporter: you're hearing and seeing one side of this controversy through the lens of our hidden cameras. >> so you guys are on the up and up? >> we're good. >> reporter: our investigation included visits to more than four dozen recently closed and currently operating pot shops in san jose. >> we pay all of our taxes that we're supposed to be paying. >> reporter: you pay all the taxes you're supposed to be paying? >> yeah. >> reporter: employees at san jose area pot shops claim their employers are doing nothing wrong

two, conduct all meetings undercover. three, cover or conceal all equipment.our, remove rank insignia from helmets and collars. five, increase observation. six, do most activity during limited visibility. seven, don't let the enemy know you are aware of them. and eight -- brief patrols to look for single expended rounds and different camouflage materials. a strong point to remember in counter sniper operations is not to overlook women. an estimated 50% of snipers in many third world countries are women will stop patrols should not be misled. if they see a woman with a scope rifle, she's a deadly opponent. due to the fact that sniper skills are very perishable, they must be practiced as often as possible. one way is through the utilization of a sniper sustainment program. this program will provide individual snipers or the team an opportunity to sustain skills in marksmanship and field craft on a regular basis. units should try to develop basis statement program that would require sniper teams to requalify with their sniper weapons on a quarterly basis in conju

defense secretary of a real and present danger of a russian campaign of undercover attacks to destabilizetes. good morning and welcome to "countdown>." also coming up, more from mark zuckerberg. well the social network is racing with google to connect the world, he says there is room for the companies to work together. >> people need to be able to search and find information. whether we work with google or others, that is an important thing. i love to work with google and they are a great search product. >> pressure is mounting on greece and its european creditors. the prime minister elect's demonstration well submit a request for a loan extension today. the bailout program expires at the end of february. he says this week marks a crucial point ahead of the deadline. >> we are at a critical and sensitive point in negotiations. we are submitting proposals and we hope we will turn the corner which will give us the possibility of moving forward. >> the ecb has upped the amount of emergency funds. but only by a small amount. sending a signal a political deal should be reached to halt capital

. >> and today is the final day you can enroll for health insurance undercoverred california. covered see a.com list events and store locations by zip code for consumers who want to enroll at the last minute today. now, once open enrollment ends you can buy insurance through covered california but only if you have a qualifying event. israel's prime minister denounced the shooting and said his government plans to encourage a massive immigration overgoes from europe. he said juries aren't safe there. two men were killed in the attack 1 of them jewish. >> and all the way up to maine. >> this is the 4th major snowstorm, the national guard in massachusetts. >> collection of classic cars in san jose yesterday thick columns of smoke could be seen for miles. flames engulfed an housed at a building on the road. long business owner said he lost his rare collection of muscle cars wort 10s of thousands of dollars, fortunately, though, no 1 was injured. >> and president obama is spending the long holiday weekend in palm springs. >>> he was just in the bay area wrapping up a 3-day visit whe

when you look at the data and the undercover agent -- >> i think it is more complicated.re is a lot of grounds of appeal here. there is three major reasons for appeal. first, you have got a judge who limits the defense's ability and ties their hands in trying to put up this defense that it wasn't him and it was other people on the internet who are actually controlling the tore and bitcoin network that was this underground silk road. by the judge not allowing the witnesses to testify she is limiting the defense theory. the second problem is there is going to be a huge fourth amendment issue from this case. this is a hackers being hacked by other hackers. the way the fbi found out who it was is they used their own hackers to hack into tore and realized the servers were in iceland and traced it back to him in san francisco. >> that was an undercover sting operation happening in other case. >> no they did it without a warrant. >> you are talking about technical constitution issues. i am saying the privacy issues will be looked into but the question is regarding the evidence t

>> yes. >> when you saw the screening and were undercover, the people in the room cheered? >> yes.with the moments of how one black men, one white man can fight off a handful of blacks and they are cheering. cheering in the room and whatnot. >> did they ever figure out who you were? >> yes, when i wrote about it. the idea was to reveal both who was the connecticut leader and the number of connecticut members. duke in his press conferences was claiming the drive had been successful and he had 300 plus new members. at the secret meeting, there are only a dozen or so bike types -- biker types, so it blew his pr thing out of the water. >> here is the gus chase. who is gus and who is flora? >> gus is a free slave. >> a white man in blackface? >> absolutely. he ebodies and symbolizes, because he is lusting after flora, a virginal young white girl. >> this is flora cameron? >> yes. >> a part of the cameron family and we saw her brother. >> he fought for the confederacy. gus is the symbol of what any black man, according to griffith, is after and that is a white woman. and so he spins -- g

. >> we have the undercover sports play that is locking in 65% gains.you what it is, next. . >>> welcome back to "fast money." ubs is facing a regulatory probe into whether or not it helped americans evade taxes. this according to a report from dow jones citing sources familiar. federal investors have launched a probe into whether ubs helped americans evade taxes because of bearer bonds. it allows anyone to anonymously claim the indication, coupons or value of the security. a lot were banned in the '80s in the u.s. because of their means to facilitate money laundering. ubs spokespeople and justice department spokespeople declined comment to dow jones as a result of the story but it's the u.s. attorneys office in brooklyn is weighing evidence to determine whether the bank and its employees helped u.s. citizens evade taxes through the use of bearer bonds and bearer instruments. another interesting story involving ubs and possible tax evasion. >>> a big dale for the retail space. a tale of two stories, ralph lauren missing estimates; the stock falling 17%.