few, though, made as lasting an impression on us as solon league of california's san quentin state prison. >> i'm a third timer. youngster is a first timer. he got 12 years. i only got 13 days now. so i'm really preparing him to what's ahead for him. keep our house clean. >> league gave both his cell mate and our producer a lesson on the finer points of laundry behind bars. >> i clean my t-shirt. grab my bar of soap. dip it in the toilet. i keep my toilet fresh and clean. scrub it out. use soap. when your toilet fills up, it's fresh water now. i can just rinse it. i fold my towels. put it here. right up under here is my clothesline. >> league went on to give us a cooking demonstration using toilet paper like a stove top burner. >> take this. you sit it on the edge of the toilet. because it's got to breathe. might sit it here. i might light it at the bottom. as you see, it's like a fire. you hold your can over it. and you cook. your water gets hot. flush it down. you grab a damp towel. because you don't want it to be on the toilet. you don't want to burn your toilet up. i get my bowl, crac

built in 1852, california san quentin is one of the oldest prisons we visited. >> approximately 1985, a brand new correctional officer here at san quentin. i was working graveyard in a section called donner. >> this officer is a member of the investigative services unit, an elite team of c.o.s who track gang activity and other threats to the institution. >> one night my partner and i were working graveyard. i was sitting with my back to a file cabinet just like this. there was a row of padlocks on the top handle. my partner and i were talking, all of a sudden, the locks started rattling back and forth together, clacking. he looked at it. i looked at it. see, i'm getting goose bumps just thinking about it. we both ran out of the office. we had no explanation as to what that was. we asked some other officers and they said that, you know, the unit is probably haunted. so never can tell. there was no explanation for it. there was no earthquake. the inmates weren't complaining in the unit about the ground moving. there were no wild animals in there. i didn't bump it. he didn't bump it. so

. >> this is california's san quentin state prison, one of the first prisons ever profiled on "lockup." >> for a photographer, san quentin was a really interesting place to shoot because it's the old-style tiers and the big exercise yard and there's a lot of corners and shadows and things to attract your lens. so it was just as a photographer, it was really an interesting place to shoot. it can be a very dangerous place because it's got incredibly dangerous or infamous history as a dangerous place. >> on our first day of shooting here, we got a stark introduction to the constant security threats posed by gang warfare. >> we're basically getting ready to feed the level four, which are the maximum security inmates. tonight we're expecting some type of problems possibly. so we have extra coverage tonight to provide security. >> let's g >> the correctional staff received a tip that a gang-related attack might occur at dinner. >> hispanic inmates, the gang members specifically, are doing what is called cleaning house. anyone that does not want to participate in their gang activity, if they

>> our cameras were at california's san quentin state prison when officers received word that a 20-year-oldate was suffering severe chest pains. >> be advised, medical emergency. >> the thing you have to realize about san quentin is that this is -- this prison was built prior to the civil war and the cells are stacked five stories high. no elevators. so of course the emergency that we were covering, it was on the fifth floor. so not only did we have to haul our stuff up there but so did the responding correctional officers. >> up on the fifth tier, officers tend to the inmate inside his cell. >> you're going to have to take some deep breaths, man. i know you might be in pain, but you're going to have to help me. >> moments later the paramedics arrive on the tier. >> the paramedics had to make the five-story climb as well and it's difficult to respond right away because of that. but the bigger challenge though was getting the inmate out of his cell and back down all of those stairs. >> hospital door carson 2 be advised, we have inmate in stretcher, en route to the urgent care clinic. >> the

. >>> and at the site of california's death row san quentin prison a legionnaire's disease outbreak continues to spread. six inmates now getting treatment for the disease. more than 70 others have shown symptoms and are now under observation. health experts still don't know the source though of that bacteria and where it's coming from. as a precaution, the prison is serving boxed lunches and bottled water and portable showers are also being used. >>> well, with no cure for the common cold the nest best thing is learning how to avoid it. >> the answer lies in the beds room. boy we're in trouble. frank right? researchers tracked the sleep patterns of people for a week using a fit bit. after a week, they age corrected them with the cold virus. now experfects say there was a -- experts say there was a clear amount of sleep that seemed to set people up for failure of the immune system and six hours was the timing point. >> -- tipping point. >> people that are always sleep- deprived for a long period of time are the ones that have kind of the rundown immune system. and are the ones that are particu

only 13 executions does the long wait at san quentin make the death penalty un-constitutional in california? >>> a tax support scam uses an audio warning and pop ups to get introducing the first ever gummy multivitamin from centrum. a complete, and tasty new way to support... your energy... immunity... and metabolism like never before. centrum multigummies. see gummies in a whole new light. >>> a federal appeals court began a review of the california death penalty. not whether it's fair to put someone to death but fair to make them wait so long to die. rant in los angeles has the story from pasadena. >> 746 people on california's death row. waiting for the execution. it's a long wait. >> the average time from start to finish in state courts exceeds 20 years. >>. >> reporter: michael lawrence argued the death penalty is un-constitutional because of delays. a federal judge ruled last year the system is dysfunctional and results in unpredictable delays. since reinstated in 1978, 900 people have been sentenced to death. 13 have been executed. >> we have a huge influx of cases into the system. w

only 13 executions does the long wait at san quentin make the death penalty un-constitutional in california? >>> a tax support scam uses an audio warning and pop ups to get >>> a federal appeals court began a review of the california death penalty. not whether it's fair to put someone to death but fair to make them wait so long to die. reporter carlos grant in los angeles has the story from pasadena. >> 746 people on california's death row. waiting for the execution. it's a long wait. >> the average time from start to finish in state courts exceeds 20 years. >>. >> reporter: michael lawrence argued the death penalty is un-constitutional because of delays. a federal judge ruled last year the system is dysfunctional and results in unpredictable delays. since reinstated in 1978, 900 people have been sentenced to death. 13 have been executed. >> we have a huge influx of cases into the system. we won't find that system to give them lawyers. >> reporter: this case involves earnest dwyane jones, convicted of rape and murder in 1995. the state says the review is long because that is what the law re

california have been executed. during that period, 94 death row inmates have died from natural causes. >>> tonight, four days after legionnaires' disease was discovered in san quentin prison, they still have to eat boxed meals. they confirmed six inmates are treated for the disease. 73 other inmates are under observation for respiratory illness but have not been diagnosed. no new inmates have been admitted since the disease was discovered. prison officials let the inmates have out-of-cell time today. >>> a highway is open, but a construction project is closed. what really knocked out a pg&e tower and why the work may look a little different in the future. >>> also ahead, what chipotle is using in its food that has california consumers now suing to get rid of. >>> a tourist hot spot goes low-tech to make it safer for everyone. >>> and the issue of climate change and the top hollywood actress joining the fight in sacramento. >>> you can call them real life hot wheels. the cars thieves like to steal most. >>> the project to widen a bridge on the peninsula is on hold right now as investigators try to figure out how this accident could affect the work. the construction

before the execution date, the california supreme court denied our request for a stay of the execution and for the chance to file further appeals in kevin's case. >> san quentinscorted kevin cooper to a new cell adjacent to the death chamber. cooper was about to become a dead man walking. we danced in a german dance group. i wore lederhosen.man. when i first got on ancestry i was really surprised that i wasn't finding all of these germans in my tree. i decided to have my dna tested through ancestry dna. the big surprise was we're not german at all. 52% of my dna comes from scotland and ireland. so, i traded in my lederhosen for a kilt. ancestry has many paths to discovering your story. get started for free at ancestry.com. ♪ >>> just hours before his midnight execution on february 10, 2004, kevin cooper was strip searched and dressed for the death chamber. but cooper steadfastly refused to assist in his own execution. defiantly, he had begun a hunger strike the week before. as midnight approached, a crowd of several hundred demonstrators gathered outside the prison walls. >> we say hell no to death row. >> lawyers were going to attend. the family members were