- santa needs our help delivering presents. - hurry, it's almost christmas! - i love christmas! - odd squad is made possible in part by... - ...a cooperative agreement with the u.s. department of education, the corporation for public broadcasting's ready to learn grant and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. - my name is agent olive. this is my partner, agent otto. this is my 9th favourite colour. but back to otto and me. we work for an organization run by kids that investigates anything strange, weird and especially, odd. our job is to put things right again. (theme music playing) - grrr! - yeah! - heyyy! - aaah! - who do we work for? we work for odd squad. - olive, it's christmas eve! -stop and smell the candy canes would ya? - can't stop. important business. - what's more important than christmas? we shouldn't even be at the odd squad today. we should be at home hanging our stockings with care, waiting for-- - --him? - santa! - oh ho ho! hello, otto! (chuckling) - wait, what are you doing here? - oh! well my elves, of course, can build just

december 2011, sweetwater, florida, two weeks before christmas.s home has the holiday spirit but these thieves don't. at first, this homeowner is amused when she sees her surveillance system video. >> translator: it was so funny that i didn't get angry. it's incredible how something like this could happen. >> her son, omar sanchez, also finds it funny when he sees the video. >> in my head i was laughing because i was in disbelief. >> but the humor fades when reality sets in. >> our house was getting robbed and that's not very common in this neighborhood. >> but even more than that, it occurs to ingrid and her family that these yard decorations are worth more than money. >> my dad passed away about three years ago and he really helped us with the decorations. >> translator: it was very sad. because they were a way for us to remember him. we always put out his favorite holiday decorations. my god, how can people be so heartless to take away the joy and smiles of children who have lost their father. >> but it's not the videotape that helps catch the

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but to earn a body what christmas calls a bad ass, well, that's going to take more. >> christmas abbott 33-year-old crossfit competitor weightlifter and fitness model hasn't always resembled the picture of perfect health. >> i was in terrible shape. i had almost a decade of you know really destroying my body. >> she smoked too much drank too much and says she could barely run a mile. >> it was devastating to me at 22 years old, i couldn't run a mile and when i finished it it took me a week to recover. so i wasn't interested in fitness. >> that first attempt to complete a short distance run came during a pivotal i'm in abbott's life and came from the green zone in iraq where she was working as a contractor. >> how close did it come to you? >> it came in the camp ground. my first month there, it was only a few weeks, i panicked. i did everything wrong. in that moment i realized i didn't want to die. >> abbott quit smoking and started hitting the gym, but it was an exercise video she saw online that really hooked her on fitness. >> i was just amazed because there was these three tiny littl

the two went christmas shopping together.d he said that wesley was carrying a large amount of cash. >> i can't say how much it was, because i don't know, but he pulled out a nice wad. and when he was peeling, he was looking to see if he had a 20, but he didn't. all he had was fifties and hundreds. >> wesley's cousin said when they were finished shopping, wesley left with friends whom he didn't know. he said there seemed to be some tension among them. >> they go to the back of the car, talking. and when they're talking back there, it's an intense conversation. >> it wasn't an argument. but you can see that he was talking like he was either frustrated or angry, but it wasn't loud. >> the three men drove off. and the next day wesley person was dead. police questioned wesley's family and learned that the men matching the description were wesley's long-time friends justin glover and lawrence murrell. both men were in their early 20s, and like wesley, had minor brushes with the law, but had never served time and had no violent offe

is it christmas day? oh go up and buy all the gooses. keep them out of those lazy hands. and if you see a boy on crutches push him down. he's not crippled.

in panama it runs from roughly christmas to easter.beautiful images. thank you, major. >> you've got it. >> it reminds you of how beautiful nature is. >> i was wondering the same thing. i wondered if you were going to go out and get ax body stray or as the kids say all good. >> if it worked i would. i heard it doesn't work. >> translation, he's all good. >>> who's ready to pucker up those famous lips for a new audience. >> the man i know needs no introduction. he's going to -- his first single is out today and he ee going to be talking about it >>> steven tyler from one of the most famous rock and roll bands, aerosmith. you know that. he's taken a new direction. he showed nancy o'dell how he's changing his tune. he's in language. nancy, do tell. >> good morning, gayle. you know i want to talk about this, being country. he's not going solo but, yes, he is going country. at 67 years old his first country hit single "love is your new name" comes out today. while it's different than what you're used to, i can assure you his legendary pipes

christmas dinner, on the face of it, it's a little odd. american and european troops being served by indians and nepalese in afghanistan. the workers line up separately for indian food. when we requested to film here the u.s. military had to ask for permission from floor. floor denied our request. but i did speak to some on the base. it wasn't long before i heard about a unique aspect of their employment. to get these jobs they all had to pay fees to recruiting agencies. recruiting agents. >> i asked several people if they would talk to me, most were hesitant not wanting to jeopardize their jobs. but a few hours later, i got a message. >> one of the workers in the dining hall has contacted me. he wanted to contact us about his story. it isn't easy to speak about his story because it's right here so we tried to find a place to meet. the worker asked us to conceal his identity and disguise his voice. we will call him ronnie. we met him after his shift. robbie told us he was tricked to working in asks for a salary less than half what he was p

. >> reporter: tonight it started out as a cozy evening of christmas cocktails but this family gatheringended in gunfire. >> they started drinking and -- >> reporter: one of them wound up dead. >> and one of them wound up dead. this dedicated dad, gone. >> it came down as a possible suicide. >> reporter: suicide? well, it was his own hand wrapped around the gun. and he had money problems big ones. >> we lived how we lived, robbin' peter to pay paul. >> reporter: but investigators became suspicious. >> i keyed on that gun that was in his right hand. it looked like it was placed there. the dead man's wife said she'd been asleep. how is it that you didn't hear the shot? >> her stepdad, said he had no idea what happened. >> i don't remember a lot. we drank two bottles of vodka. >> reporter: prosecutors said one of them had to be lying. >> there were two glasses, with ice in both of those glasses. tells us that two people are up drinking. >> reporter: unwrapping the truth about this holiday tragedy. suicide? or something truly sinister? >> it made the hair back of my neck stand on end. >> rep

here, refusing to accept her christmas presents. they know that christmas, gift-giving, toys.y violate flds rules and mean a one-way ticket to hell. this estrangement becomes one of the big reasons sabrina finally musters the courage to fight for custody. the court order was a sweet vindication of her efforts. >> there's no tears. i was too happy to cry. >> reporter: and you got right in the car and went to go get them. >> yeah, we did. >> reporter: and that brings us back to the standoff. >> they won't send them out. they won't let me get them. >> reporter: it's now noon and we're 18 hours into this thing and as the crowd surrounds sabrina's van with video cameras, it's clear that her kids are siding with the faithful. that's isaac, the eldest, right there. and this is, rulon, the younger boy. and here are daughters saundrah and latisha. >> had to lock the doors, little people are throwing chickens in the van. >> reporter: at one point, the boys even try to put a calf in her van. >> i am so sick of this. this is so uncalled for and so unnecessary. >> reporter: what do you thi

and he told her, ma'am, it's christmas, merry christmas, don't worry about it. >> bob and his wife, amy, had two small children and lived a very comfortable life. >> he was very well off. he had nice cars, nice home, loved boats. he had pretty much all the toys that anybody could want. >> until one night, something happened that changed their lives forever. shortly before dawn, they woke to find an intruder in their bedroom. [ gunshots ] shots were fired and the intruder fled. >> someone is breaking into our house and my husband -- >> stay on the line with me. >> during the call, amy could hear the intruder, who was still in the house. >> oh, my god. i don't know what to do. no! you can't go up there, it's my kids. >> where are they at, ma'am? >> there was a loud thump and suddenly amy wasn't on her end of the phone anymore. >> the 911 operator called amy back. >> is he in the house now? >> he just left and he shot my husband. oh, my god! he shot my husband! >> it took police only minutes to get to the scene. >> we found bob bosley facedown on the mattress. his knees to the floor, kind

. ♪ i'm dreaming of a white christmas ♪ >> bing crosby's christmas classic bleard on blared on the radioplicated operation frequent wind, the largest ever air lift of its kind. more than five dozen military choppers took part in the operation. fearless pilots flew over 600 flights, air lifting 7,000 people out on that final day. including 900 from the u.s. embassy alone. as word got out that the americans were leaving thousands of south vietnamese swarmed the embassy gates. desperate to flee. many had worked directly for the u.s. mission in vietnam and were considered high-risk. >> during the last day we played god. we determined who would be saved and who wouldn't. and it was heart-rending. you would get one person in a family but not the child. not the molgt mother. other. not the father. we separated families in a wink because we hadn't planned adequately. >> it was every man, woman and child for themselves. this footage stain by taken by a british television crew showing how crazed those last moments were. >> we like the frightened vietnamese and their families had to fight and claw

here refeuding to accept her christmas gifts.this, just last month, in fact, that sabrina sought and received full custody. on the night of her victory in court, sabrina, her brother and new husband drive in to the hearth heart of flds country when they show up with a court order at the house where her kids have been staying. >> that's them. >> reporter: that's suddenly more than a dozen vehicles from church security known as the god squad, encircle them. >> backing out. >> the god squad. i got a bad feeling in my gut. i'm like lock the doors. >> reporter: the next morning she returns and spots two of her sons. >> there's isaac. >> my cute little son. >> reporter: when sabrina goes to talk to isaac who's 13 it doesn't go well. >> i said isaac let me talk to you and he's like get away from me. get away from me you apostate. >> reporter: she tries to associate with the chief caretaker but the woman seems to be stalling for time. >> she says warren is coming and he will deliver these children. he's coming. >> reporter: this is when

sleepy town. >> she was going to buy her daughter a dress for her christmas concert. >> reporter: a young mother on a 60-mile journey through winding back country roads. when do you start to get a little worried? >> right around that time, once it started getting dark. >> well, he actually called me, asked if i had heard from her. and i said, "no." >> i just had a bad feeling. i just didn't know. >> she hasn't been back, and i'm really freaked out. >> reporter: jennifer ramsaran, wife and mother of three, had vanished. >> a nightmare, a nightmare. >> reporter: and before the nightmare was over secrets would come tumbling out. the kind that make you wonder if you ever really know anyone at all. did this kind of play out almost like a novel? >> it could have been a made-for-tv movie script. marriage affairs, sex, nudity, sexting, social media, misleading the police. it's got everything. >> reporter: where it all began would be a picture-perfect setting for a movie. nestled in the backwoods of upstate new york is a town so small it barely registered 2,000 people in the last census. it'

"saved by the bell" actor dustin diamond accused of stabbing a man during a bar fight last christmas tells the version his side of the sorry story. the prosecution says diamond lied and carefully scripted his story. >> and ed sheeran keeping it real with a guitar, mic and that amazing voice. ♪ kiss me under the light of a thousand stars ♪ >> reporter: how the boy next who once opened shows for his famous friends, blossomed in to a rock star himself. ♪ >> but first -- the "nightline" five. >> it's macy's super saturday sale. save 50 to 75% store wide. plus get an extra 20% off with your macy's card or wow savings pass. text tv 62297 to get the wow pass sent to your home. >>> when salon pas began in 1934, a single patch created a category of pain relief. now 80 years later, salon pas has evolved in to a complete family of pain relievers. perfect for back, muscle or joint pain. salon pas. for targeted relief. >> number one in just 60 >>> good evening. thank you for joining us. you are about to meet twin sisters, survivors of a radical religious sect known for allegations of sexual abuse

it's christmas eve. are you gonna spend all day on that thing? i made a promise.mas phil got an elliptical machine and vowed to walk the equivalent of our house to canada in one year. this body doesn't just happen, ladies. if he didn't make it no machine in the bedroom. except for this machine in the bedroom, ladies. who are these ladies? oh, phil, give it up. oh, you would love that, wouldn't you? just when i'm so close to the canadian border i can smell the bacon and the reasonably priced medications. mom, this came for you from nana. i don't know why she bothers to wrap it every year. it's always the same thing -- slippers. you never know. she might surprise you this year. would you care to take a visit

we have seen them delivering christmas trees. kittens. what is next?l: when they raised money, the deck had zero slides on these types of things. whatever might be next. that is not to say the company is not interested. they are testing food delivery, they have done flower delivery on valentine's. i think it is something they are watching. i think, for the time being, everyone knows that focus is critical to great execution, and the opportunity in front of us is immense. emily: what about taking on fedex or ups? bill: i would say we are not as well situated for that type of thing as we might be for a quick -- i know people that have put objects in uber. a lot of people have done that. emily: snapchat is another company you have gotten into early. how do you know it is not just a fad? bill: when we were looking at the investment, we talked to a number of kids and they said facebook to us is like linkedin to you. i think there is an element that the younger generation wants to be able to communicate, have fun, and not worry about whether the permanence m

for christmas, we would roast a whole pig for christmas eve.lo and abuela, did not speaking english. mark: do you have a favorite cuban singer? senator cruz: i tend to listen to country music more than cuban music. mark: on the political front what is your aspiration for the republican presidential nominee in 2016? what percentage of the hispanic vote will they get? senator cruz: if you look at who has been hurt under the obama economy, the hispanic community has been hammered. it is far worse off. the rich are doing great under the obama economy. but the most vulnerable -- young people, hispanic, african american, single moms, their lives have gotten harder and harder. i intend to campaign in the hispanic community across the country on expanding opportunity for everyone to achieve the american dream. and i also intend to campaign vigorously on school choice, which i think is the civil rights issue of the 21st century that every child, regardless of race, ethnicity, wealth or zip code deserves an opportunity to receive an excellent education.

. >> a few days before the christmas holiday, after everyone else haleft, maryann stayed late to go over the books. as she was about to lock up the office to leave, she was viciously attacked. the next morning, her partner, george hansen, and another employee, found maryann's body when they arrived for work. >> i saw the blood around maryann. i never seen a dead body before, nothing that horrible. >> paramedics pronounced her dead at the scene. >> she had substantial head injuries, and the pathologist determined that she had suffered at least three blows to the back of her head. >> crime scene technicians found some unusual clues. there was fresh blood on top of coagulated blood, which meant there were two separate altercations. >> i could tell that she was hit in the hallway first, at least twice. and when she went down, she was down for a minimum of 15 minutes before he knelt on her back and beat her at least two more times. >> made you question why that person would go back to her and beat her more. >> maryann's purse was missing, an indication the motive might have been robbery, but

is it christmas day? oh go up and buy all the gooses. keep them out of those lazy hands. and if you see a boy on crutches push him down. he's not crippled. he's crippled at heart. he lacks a richness of leg-ness. are these dplaering-- are they-- are these-- honestly, are these graering contradictions a lack of self-awareness cynicism stiewd intor evil. i don't know anymore and i'm starting to lack a richness of ( bleep ). ( laughter ) what i don't understand is another journalist on another network leaping to defend something so clearly indefensible. >> what about the specific clip of fox news calling poor people leeches, sponges, and lazy? have you ever heard that on fox news? >> no, no, i have not. ( laughter ) >> jon: well, i guess it's time for our favorite game show "did you even try to research this? isthis" all right the rules are simple. first-- ( applause ) joe scarborough sites three words he's never heard fox news call poor people and we see how wrong he is. today's words are lazy, spomps and leeches. ready, set, go. >> these programs do make people lazy. >> th

at christmas park in gaithersburg. it will honor all who have given their lives in military service. there will also be a wreath laying ceremony. >>> today more than 70 world war ii veterans are going to visit the world war ii memorial in the district. they're going to join nearly 2,000 other vets of wars as part of the honor flight program. the honor program takes veterans from across the country to visit their memorials. the non-profit organization aims to bring honor and closure to our nation's heroes. >>> and at this time we want to go back to baltimore where there's a big announcement being made and our reporter derrick ward joins us now live. ♪ >> reporter: well, as you can see the music has started here and the crowd has started to fill in here at federal hill. now something that a lot of people already knew or had a good sense was going to happen. we have some video from some campaign promotional video put out by the martin o'malley campaign. in a little less than 30 minutes he will be making it official he is

christmas was coming around the corner. i thought about taking a taxi. but then i was like no, i want to save the money so we can have a better christmas. so stevie decided to walk home, which was about a mile away. suddenly she heard someone running up behind her. >> the footsteps just stop. the knife was in my back. i didn't want to die. i was willing to do anything that this man was going to ask me to do. >> he said he'd stab her if she didn't take off her clothes. >> as raped me, i just kept thinking in my head just saying the lord's prayer. the more i said it, the more angry he got. >> afterwards, still holding the knife, he told her to get up. >> he told me to turn around and have my back to him. and when i stood up, something in me told me to run and i grabbed my shoe and i booked into the middle of the street screaming at the top of my lungs. >> stevie was traumatized, in shock, but lucky to be alive. >> it was very difficult for stevie to look at him and get a good description other than some general build, general height, things of that nature.

we have seen them delivering christmas trees. and kittens. but really, what is next?mily: what is the myth of bill gurley and what is the reality? bill: i don't know if i can separate the two. i love being an investor. i think, over the past five years, people have made a big deal out of, do you have operating experience as a vc. i think over the next five years, if the markets play out like i think, they will be saying man, we should have been asking asking, do they have investor experience, because that is what the job is after all. emily: some will only hire partners who were former ceos. bill: 90% of the time when a venture capitalist opens their mouth, they are speaking to the entrepreneur they have not funded yet. there is a lot of marketing messages that are out there. emily: it is said you span a generational shift between old and new. would you describe it that way? bill: when i came into the business, john doerr and mike moritz were ensconsing themselves the legends of the game. i competed with them on the google deal and messed it up. emily: why would you s

we do on advent christmas, emphasize lent and easter but there is no emphasis on pentecost and the spirit. why do you think that is if i am right about that? >> i like to think it is sometimes a very sad commentary for us because folk in our humanists want to follow but not want to be doers. so it is easy to say i am a follower of jesus christ. but jesus' teachings and lessons seem to indicate more of us doing and partnering and participating. sometimes we want to be couch potatoes and watch somebody else doing the work. >> thank you, thank you. >> i think a couple things. when we speak of the holy spirit as holy ghost i am not sure that really is an endearing term for folks, kind of confusing. second, for a lot of churches that aren't necessarily really emotional or pentecost al in their outlook, they'll say what does pentecost have do with us? we definitely can be empowered by the spirit without being pentecostal in our practice. i think we need to claim that the spirit moves with us whether we are a quiet congregation or loud congregation. the spirit can still be present, active, movin

they were carved up like a christmas turkey. >> chasing the germans was getting monotonous.e occasional sniper rifles shot. then one day, i saw myself in the war camp. there were cries. i've never seen him so happy. i told them -- president roosevelt died yesterday afternoon. they quieted down. they all felt that they had suffered a major defeat. i might have stayed there until noon trying to do them up, but there was no time to lose. where to get the men a few hundred square miles. you've got to hurry them up. >> we were in the home stretch, getting deeper all the time. we ran into slave workers. they were sick and hungry and all over europe. the roads were jammed with them. i guess there's a lot more than towns going to have to be reconstructed. >> i started to wonder with those personnel, as they were urgently called for. i soon found out. we are taken the concentration camp. well, i'm not squeamish. i've seen amputations operations deaths, long before i went into the army and -- in '41. i was a warden. i lost count of everything i had seen. this was different. bloody dif

it is called the piece of christmas eve. but while the treaty is signed on december 24, it does not go into effect, not yet. the british understood that 200 years ago. that is something that 200 years of americans have forgotten, the treaties don't go into effect until two things happen. anybody know what they are? they have to be ratified. who ratifies a treaty in the united states? the senate. very good. what else? >> the president has to sign. jim bailey: the president has to sign. you got it. the british knew this. they had been burned by the americans in earlier negotiations, where they figured, we are working with the americans, they negotiated this, and they sent it back, and all of a sudden the american congress is making changes. that's not how it is done in europe. we will talk more about that. you can see kind of the plane diplomatic clothing of the american civilians versus the british admiral, the undersecretary for the colonies, and an admiral warrior. these are actual quotes taken from original documents. feel

running every day i got a new hip for christmas.[laughter] doctor told me no running right away and if i'm smart i'll go biking and swimming and treadmilling those other things. so i miss my running right now. so i can't -- i don't know if i can keep my promise to the doc. [laughter] i do something every day. thanks for your question. and your service. >> if there are no more questions. thank you. >> thank you. have a great day. enjoy this wonderful washington d.c. weather. [applause] >> booktv >> booktv is on @witter andtt facebook. we want to hear from a you. tweet us, twitter.com/booktv.tt or post a comment on our facebook page. facebook.com/booktv. >>> it is memorial day weekend on booktv. three full days of nonfiction authors and books. some of the topics that we're featuring this weekend include the iraq war, america's infrastructure, terrorism washington, d.c. and the civil war, and first ladies. some of the authors you will hear from include former senator george mitchell, cornel west, dana perino and walter isaacson. for a

. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ >> reporter: it was christmas again.ifficult season ever since what happened during that christmas holiday in 2010. but now rob fischer was a convicted man, and the new york branch felt the kind of consolation that comes with the belief that justice has been done. >> do you think about him a lot? >> about rob fischer? no. i try not to put him in my mind at all because i don't want -- i don't want hate in my system. >> reporter: out west, belinda was a mess of contradictions. and of course she had to tell her daughters. the eldest, then 12, took it hard. couldn't grasp that her papa had killed her father. >> my daughter finally asked me about three days later if the verdict had come back, and i said, "yes." and she just looks at me, and i just started crying. and right then she knew. >> that that was her papa. >> uh-huh. she wants to have a connection with him, but yet she doesn't wanna talk to him. so i think she struggles with that, and maybe feeling like she's not being loyal to her dad in some way. >> reporter: belind