you were around when attica happened so you know that this is not again a new reality in this country. when did you first begin to wrestle with this yourself? >> well, when the war on drugs began to produce so many people going to jail, and it was just suddenly an increase, five times an increase in just a matter of years in the prisons. but i've done a number of documentaries over the years on incarceration. i did the very first documentary ever on television about women in prison back in the '70s, and i have paid attention to it. but rikers island that sits between manhattan and queens, is very visible. i live between them. i paid very little attention until there was a culture of brutality that was developing there. and then after about 15 years some brilliant investigative journalism by "the new york times," "the new yorker" and other approximapublications, bu were built because of necessity, because of the journalists, not the witnesses. so i wanted to do a documentary that would allow the detainees at rikers to tell their own stories in their own voices and words with no filter

before they are dispapers she was a stup attica brio college, she had intermittent contact with her parents sleeping on her friends' couches. they are keeping details as to where and how she died secret until someone came forward. >> we're hoping someone will say we saw ms. harem in and around this area and we might be able to match that up with information we know which will tell us whether or not the information is credible. >> her son is now 4, raised by his father who seth r investigators say has been cooperative. there is an added measure of pain to this story, both of harem's parents died not knowing what happened to their daughter. chuck coppola, nbc bay area. >>> catch me if you can, an arsonist is torching cars in the east bay almost on a it inially basis. cars on fire, as you can see here, right in the driveways, and streets, and quiet communities. the question now, will it continue tonight and into the weekend? here's the running total. a total of seven cars have been targeted so far in walnut creek, lafayette, martinez, and brentwood. thom jensen is in walnut creek for us this e