is just the tip o backpage is truly a global empire.ccording to the senate report, it operates in 97 countries and 943 locations worldwide. as far as what the future holds, the senate subcommittee is considering referring this case to the department of justice. the california a.g. has filed a new criminal case against badge page citing new evidence. backpage says it will fight these charges. >> to be clear, this is a crime. it is a crime that is rightly punishable by incarceration in prison. >> reporter: nichol, tom, and natalie back home are waiting for their day in civil court. >> what was it like to tell your story face to face to this committee that's been investigating this guy? >> relief. >> this is a family fight. and you guys aren't going to quit anytime soon? >> no, never. not until they're dead or go to jail. >> this is not a fight, tom, nicole it's one they say they're determined to win, for other little girls and their dreams. >> there's nothing really i'm not looking forward to. >> reporter: for "nightline," i'm gloria rivi

. >> they can call backpage and get the name of the person running the ad. >> backpage has doe notedillion to her organization. and in a statement the called the senate investigation an attack on its first amendment rights. it also says censoring the site will do nothing to change the problem of human trafficking. nora. jan, thank you. glad this issue of human trafficking is getting the attention it deserves. >>> a former senator is thrown off a long delayed flight. ahead, the reported outburst to rally passengers against the plane's crew. i've lost over 40 pounds. weight watchers, i can honestly tell you, i struggle no more. i've eaten everything i love. tacos, pasta... i've never felt deprived. i would say to anybody who's thinking about joining weight watchers... take the leap, and get about the business of enjoying a fantastic and full life. in the first 2 months members have lost 15% more weight than on our prior program. join for free now and lose 10 pounds on us. ...better than a manual, and my hygienist says it does. but... ...they're not al

backpage is the name of the place.hut down its adult section after a senate report accused the website of editing ads to, quote, conceal the underlying nature of the transaction. backpage now calls itself a victim of censorship. jan has more on thp the. >> backpage makes its money from users who pay the site to advertise a range of services. but the senate report not only accuses backpage of teaching users to use clean ads but say they failed to report underage activity. >> after consultation with counsel, i decline to answer your question. >> during a senate hearing tuesday, backpage executives pled the fifth after a scathing report taking aim at the website. >> the 53 pages of document alleged that by late 2010, backpage altered up to 80% of its ads before posting them online by deleting words, phrases and images indicative of criminality, including child sex trafficking. >> it was clear they were trying to clean up these ads. >> claire was on the senate committee conducting the investigation. >> we found the e-mails

backpage is truly a global empire.ries and 943 locations worldwide. as far as what the future holds, the senate sub committee is considering referring this case to the department of justice. there's a new criminal case against backpage citing new evidence. backpage said fight the charges. >> reporter: this is not a fight the parents chose. but they're determined to win for other little girls then a their dreams. >> there's nothing really that i'm not looking forward to. >>> certainly hard to see those young girls. >> yeah. >> and the position they've been put in. knowingly, really. >> this has been a passion product for our reporter who as she mentioned traveled all over the world to try to track down this ceo. she was pointing out on twitter just being there in the room at the senate hearing with him after chasing him around the world and chasing those folks around the world was so chilling for her at that point. >> i can imagine. >> great work. >>> insomniac theater time. and my cold medicines' ugh, iwearing off.chti

police say both incidents occurred after dates were arranged on the website backpage. com.iptions of the gunmen are similar, but police cannot confirm a connection or a shared motive at this point. alvarez, woman, long time community activist, says regardless whatever was going on at the time these trans gender women were victimized, police need to take these crimes seriously. philly police department says they are. >> this is knock new. we've been saying this for years, women of color, transgender women, in eminently more danger than most of the other folks in the lgbt community. >> little too early for us to say any particular group is being targeted as a result of people responding to backpage adds or as a result of these incidents. again we don't know in a for sure at this point in time. >> i think this then may be targeting transgender women, again, they feel like they're distensible, but they feel like they are an easy target. >> reporter: discrimination in the lgbtq community is on the city radar, last night commission on human relations held know your right meet to

starting in 2010 backpage deleted words including teenage, rape, young, little girl, teen, fresh, innocent, schoolgirl, and even amber alert. >> reporter: based on the findings lawmakers say they will look to see if any legislative changes are necessary and consider referring this matter to the justice department for further review. >>> thank you to liz there. and top fox news host bill o'reilly has been at the center of a sexual harassment case. the new york times reports o'reilly was accused of pursuing a relationship with a former fox personality back in 2011. the paper reports fox executives struck a deal with the woman just after roger ailes was ousted from the company amid the sexual harassment scandal. in exchange for her silence, she was reportedly paid a sum in the high six figures. >>> in paris they're looking into whether the robbery of kim kardashian west was an inside job. more than $10 million of jewelry was stolen while she was staying in paris in october. the possibility of an inside job was raised after the arrest of a chauffeur and his brother. >>> you ever play monopoly

police say both incidents occurred after dates were arranged on backpage. com. a classified website. descriptions of the again men are similar, but police cannot confirm a connection or shared motive between the two cases at this point in time. a transgender woman, long time community activist, says, regardless of what was going on at the time, these trans women were victimized, police need to take these crimes seriously. philly pd says they absolutely do. >> there has been a lot of work done here in the city of philadelphia with the philadelphia police department within city government to make sure that it doesn't matter what the person was doing when they became a victim after crime. what matters is that they are a victim after crime. and the police are definitely doing better with making sure that they don't just allow us to be dispensible. i want to make sure that that's a point, too, that we can go to them. we can go to them and report something like this and feel safe. >> we're not saying a particular group is being targeted, and the effort of investigatin

backpage has been the target of multiple lawsuits and investigations, involving its adult ads. its founders are currently fighting money laundering and pimping charges in california. >>> jamie rascin is coordinating efforts to bring to the capital for the women's march on washington. they board buses for the january 21st event. organizers are expecting about 200,000 people. raskin's campaign is covering the cost of the meal and the buses, but they're also accepting donations. >>> a touching tribute to remember fallen montgomery county police officer, noah liatta. the police department named one of its newest k-9s, noah, in his honor. officer liotta was killed by a drunk driver. there is a new law that requires most people who are accused of driving drumpleg, to -- drunk, to participate in the new interlock program. >>> spotify. position open. only person who qualifies is president obama. the position is called presidents of play lists. the roll requires someone who won a nobel peace prize, which president obama won in november 2009. must also come as highly regarded nation. thi

we had 40 arrests alone where backpage was part of the operation. this is a good result, they took the fifth today in homeland security while you were testifying. but, i wanted to know what your plans would be. the justice department finally came out with the national strategy on sex trafficking which was part of our bill and so it will be in your manhands you are confirmed as attorney general to implement it. could you just give me your thoughts on this issue? >> i'm glad the entire nation seems to be giving priority to this. a lot of great people have given real focus to the problem to sex trafficking and degradation and destruction that results from it. so i think it would be a firm and important part of the department of justice's priorities and i would like forward to following up on the legislative successes and other things that are happening to see if we can't make a real impact against this abominable practice. >> i will say, attorney general lynch and the deputy attorney general yates as former prosecutors like yourself, they worked really

with backpage. it is a scourge.bviously, you know the blue campaign is working to train officers, has been a critical resource for people in my state as we confront the area of human trafficking. please look at that program. i think there are improvements that could be made, but i will tell you that your officers and investigators within dhs has been critical in advancing the cause of protecting children in this country. something i don't think has been raised here, which is first responders. i challenge you to take a look at what is happening with volunteer fire departments. the vast majority of area in this country, the fire protection comes from volunteers. maybe there is a professional or paid staff person, but the volunteers provide that service. having a hard time recruiting volunteers. some of that goes to equipment, some goes to losing a culture of volunteerism, someone else is going to do it. i think it is critical that you role, and going to ask that you pay attention to our response act, which just passed

the children that are reported to the missing exploited children's center have been exploited on backpagesecutor, these guys made my blood boil as they fought us every step of the way. we had to go all the way to the supreme court. but the moral of this story is, if you have a bipartisan working relationship and you actually go after it and don't give up, you can uncover evidence that is more powerful than a piece of legislation. and i think what's going to happen now is this report will go out to lawyers and prosecutors all over the country. and if i had to bet a dollar, i'd bet these guys that have made millions and millions of dollars on the backs of selling children for sex are going to take the fifth today. >> willie. >> senators, willie geist. good for both of you for doing this and getting action. >> thank you so much. >> thank you on behalf of the people who benefit from this. let's look at another side of your job, which will be sitting on committees this week, seeing a parade of nominees come through for the trump administration. i'll start with rex tillerson on thursday. senato

more than $6 million to buy the website while on paper the owner of backpage, the backpage's previous owners retained nearly total debt equity in the company, continued to reap backpage's profits in terms of their loan repayments. they can also exercise control over financial affairs pursuant to the loan and two other agreements. the elaborate corporate structure under which carl purchased backpage through a series of foreign entities appears to provide no tax benefit based on their accountant's information to us and serves only to obscure feara's ownership. it is clear that backpage actively and knowingly covered up criminal sexual activity, sex trafficking that was taking place on its website all in order to increase its profits at the expense of the most vulnerable among us. backpage has not denied a word of these findings. instead several hours after our report was issued the company closed what they call their adult section. they closed it down. frankly, this just value dates our findings. the national center no missing and exploited children said this about backpage's closure of