we will get reaction from the aclu full's top all of that and more coming up. this is democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman. the supreme court has ruled police must obtain a warrant before searching the cellphones of people they arrest. the ruling likely applies to other electronic devices such as the top computers. the unanimous decision overturns the conviction of a california man sentenced to 15 years to life in prison after police pulled him over for expired vehicle tags, found guns in his car, then searched his phone. data from that search was used to tie him to a shooting. the ruling is being hailed as a major victory for privacy rights in the age of smartphones. we will have more on this story after the headlines. fight for magic wallet he has picked up new victories with rulings against bans in utah and indiana. in a two to one decision wednesday, the 10th u.s. circuit court of appeals found that utah's ban is unconstitutional. although lower courts have struck down a number of state bans, it is the first time a federal appeals court has

the aclu is suing. age limit is 60. one plaintiff was given the test when she was nearly 70. laura? >> alameda county does mandatory pregnancy testing. the sheriff's department did not return our calls today, aclu says whatever the rationale, they're a sweeping violation of civil rights. . >> i was arrested at peaceful demonstration >> susan harmon says it happens to her four years ago. she was arrested in downtown oakland in the wake of verdict. >> they tested us for pregnancy. i was 69 at the time. >> she says she was never told the reason for the test or results. now, harmon is one of three plaintiffs in a lawsuit against the sheriff's department. >> we have written several letters and asked them to stop this practice. >> the suit claims mandatory pregnancy testing by a jail is a violation of civil rights. and illegal. >> that folks in custody are required to give informed consent. >> alameda county policies to test all women age 60 and under. contra costa county doesn't do it at all. >> homicide investigators hope $20,000 rewards will help them find whoever killed two people las

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but most of the raids the aclu looked at were focused on suspicion of a crime. chris gephardt, a 15-year police veteran and three-time s.w.a.t. commander in utah. chris, thank you so much for coming on, because i want to hear your side of this. you sat, you listened to this family's horrible story. what's your reaction to that? >> thanks for having me. i wish it was under better circumstances. you know, what happens to elise i can't and her baby should never happen anywhere in the united states, anywhere in the world. it -- not knowing the full investigation into what occurred, my initial gut reaction tells me there was a training issue. during training for deployment of a noise flash device, flash bang grenade. the officers are taught to look where they're going to deploy that device. we can assume no officer wants to do damage or hurt or injure a child. obviously, there is something wrong. >> i understand there are hardened criminals and i want them like i'm sure they would want them behind bars. why in so many of these instances, at least the ones we keep see

citizens, four are veterans represented by the aclu in their own lawsuit for being put on the no-fly himself. the impact of being on put on any of the lists compiled behind closed doors goes beyond the ability to fly. >> people may be applying far job and may encounter difficulties because they are on a watch list. >> reporter: jim healy left his post at the terrorist screening center a year and a half good. not being able to my is a small surprise pryce to pay. >> if someone is on the no-fly list and it's wrong, they miss a flight. if someone is allowed on the plane and they shouldn't be allowed on the plane and they take it down, people die. >> reporter: the no-fly list was created under the george w. bush administration in response to 9/11. the list has doubled under the obama administration to about 21,000 names, including 500 americans. in january, she won her case against the u.s. government, the first person in the world to have cleared her records in court. a decade into being denied reentry she is hopeful she can return to the country she considers her second home. >> my chi

. >> harmon is one of three plaintiffs named in the civil suit filed by the aclu against the alameda county sheriff. it claims the department policy requires women, 60 and younger to take a pregnancy test. >> this is not part of any comprehensive health screaming. >> aclu attorney elizabeth gill says it is a violation of the women's rights, and state law. >> we know alameda county is the only county in the state that is doing this, and it is horribly offensive. >> this former arrestee and mother, whose childbearing days are behind her agrees. >> to know whether or not you're pregnant is very intimate and personal, and something that a woman won't want to discuss with her loved ones and her doctor, not with some matron in a jail. >> now she has a lawsuit to add to her file. harmon says she is part of this lawsuit because requiring that pregnancy test she says was an intrusion not just for her, but for anyone. i reached out to the alameda county sheriff's office today they say they haven't been served with this yet, but when they are they will have a response. >>> former taliban prison

she is still hopeful she can return to the country she's considered her second home. >>> now, 2 aclu the nerks decision in its case focuses on what kind of procedured your production it can hear. for example, the hearing with a judge. nbc bay area news. >> today, government officials vowed to find that malaysia plane. they gathered in beijing today to pray. searches have turned up nothing. malaysia officials say at least 7 passengers have received insurance payments of 50,0 $0. >> protesters took to the streets and lost fire crackers outside of one world cup stadium. protesters say they're gechbs the lavish spending on the stam yums for the world cup. >> in afghanistan, a violent backlash following a run-off vote in presidential e lerkss. today, a roadside bomb killed at least 11 people. according to election officials, voter turn out was 60% yesterday. the talibanb has denounced the election. >> the search for three missing teenagers continues today. he warrants that a plilt kal cost will be extreme. about 80 palestinians were arrested in an overnight sweep including some senior fig

new aclu report takes a snapshot of police militarization in the united states specifically the reportthe way that s.w.a.t. teams are using the weapons of war. my next is the writer of that "the washington post" article. he's also written a book, "rise of the warrior cop." after ten years of war in iraq and afghanistan, a lot of hardware is coming home. where it is ending up? >> a lot of it sending up at police departments across the country. we're not even talking about big city police departments. these mine resistant armored personnel carers designed to with stand blasts from ieds are ending up in places like the ohio state police department or tiny sheriff's department. this is stuff designed for use on a battlefield being used on american streets and neighborhoods. >> is there a need for it? i imagine law enforcement might be saying we don't know what we're up against. it's a good thing the federal government is making this available to us. >> up hear this argument a lot. a lot of police officers say we live in an increasingly violent society. police officers work in war zones. th

aclu says charges are based on accounts of undocumented children being held.order protection isn't ensuring hi gene is being met. given proper medical care, mistreatment, or misconduct is not tolerated. the obama administration says 60,000 unaccompanied children could cross america's southwest border this year. tonight, the crisis is growing, children coming from countries other than mexico, immigrants from guatemala, honduras, el salvador. >> undeniably, there's a problem of humanitarian proportions. >> reporter: today on capitol hill, homeland security secretary jay johnson told congress he visited the border. >> i approached a 10-year-old girl and asked her where's your mother, and she told me, i don't have a mother. i'm looking for my father in the united states. >> reporter: johnson told congress the u.s. is opening three new facilities to house the children. and pulling scores offing as from their duties watching the border to watching the kids. >> we know we must do something to stem this tide. >> reporter: republicans told johnson the situation at the

. >> reporter: fairness is what the aclu says it is fighting for.eople have a strong mistrust of the criminal justice system and the police. people feel it is not fair. >> reporter: as it stands unless the prosecution decides to reprosecute, anyone convicted must hire a lawyer if they would like to open the case. the amount clu sass the process is unfair, putting a defendants. >> dukin went to gaol, but they let the convictions stand. that's not american or the way the system works. you don't get to cheat or win. that is at the core of this, that those convictions shouldn't stand because they were based in front. the aclu's carl williams asked the massachusetts supreme court to vacate all drug convictions based on testimony. >> i think it is fair to say that the 40,000 cases should be dismissed. really it should be on the other food. prosecutors be in the same situation at the beginning. if they can prove the case take it, prove it. if they can't, let it go away. if it happened you think there'll be people getting off the hook? >> there's a way you

the aclu. and it was a case where the wireless surveillance ram was being challenged -- program was being challenged by the aclu, and people who could not say that they had themselves been tapped. and the government was arguing that they had no standing to bring the suit, and this was an argument that don made that i have to say i was giving him an especially hard time on. i wasn't allowing him to speak, and i was interjecting lots of questions. this the course of this argument -- in the course of this argument, don told the court that, in fact, that if a person was, if a criminal prosecution was brought against a person as a result of evidence coming from a -- [inaudible] that that person would be notified, and that that person would be able to challenge the program so that the program would be challengeable by somebody. then it turned out a few months later that notwithstanding that don had vetted his brief and his argument with all the right people, notwithstanding this, in fact, the nationa

those convictions shouldn't stand because they were based on that. >> reporter: the aclu's carl williams asked the massachusetts supreme court to vacate all drug convictions based on dukin's testimony. >> i think it is fair to say the 40,000 cases should be dismissed. we are asking that the shoe be on the same foot. prosecutors be in the same situation. if they cab can prove it, go ahead and do it. if they can't. let it go away. >> reporter: do you think there'll be people getting off the hook. >> that's the way you could say it. will it be fair, it will be fair. >> it's a terrible idea. >> reporter: what is better idea. >> what we are doing, individually putting in the pap staking hours of -- painstaking hours of going through the files and make sure we can keep the convictions. >> reporter: how realistic is it to go back through each case in a cost effective way. >> what's the cost of a homicide? what's the cost of a drug crime. >> reporter: district attorney cruz remembers the days of dante hood. because the annie dukin scandal he was released and later accused of killing a man. >> th

. >> reporter: in a response to a freedom of information lawsuit by the "new york times" and the aclu the obama administration released a key justice department memo on the killing of a u.s. citizen. the memo was the legal basis for the cia's drone state that killed a new mexico citizen. the u.s. government claims broad authority to kill american terrorist suspects without authority of the courts. quote high level kwoft officials concluded he's a leader of al qaeda in the arabian peninsula whose activities pose ad continued and imminent threat of violence to the united states persons ain't. today the aclu said the administration offers little concrete evidence against the cleric and factual basis for the drone strike. >> we know that there's at least one other memo addressing constitutionality of the administration's claims that it can kill a u.s. citizen and release of that memo will be critically important. >> reporter: the memo was drafted by harvard law professor david baron whose confirmation to the bench was held up by the senate. today the white house spokesman said three year

the aclu put out a report of people convicted with nonviolent crimes.ound the country are in prison for nonviolence offenses for the rest of their natural live ls. on those, more than 80% are there because of mandatory sentencing regimes. if somebody is looking at a potential plea and seeing the potential of their life stretching out in front of them entirely in prison if they go to trial where they're looking at a plea deal, that's extraordinary pressure. >> let me come back to you for the last piece here. i heard you say you keep reasonable case loads and as a result you can push your attorneys the to take things to trial to the diseffect that jew gene was talking about. how do you manage sufficient resources and how to better come to their offices. >> i'm able to say if the case loads are too high, we can't take anymore cases. and that's the only way to ensure that we have reasonable case loads. and two other things i wanted to mention. judges penalize people for going to trial. it's called a trial penalty. we have to stop that. we have to reform the

. >> reporter: the aclu is concerned the surveillance system will violate people's privacy. the police chief says the surveillance system will reduce the city's burglary and robbery rates. he knows information collected from the system will be stored for a limited time to insure its not misused. the cameras and readers are slated to be installed next year. reporting live in fremont janine de la vega ktvu channel 2 news. >>> meantime police in hayward want to hear from the public. should police officers wear video cameras? the issue has been studied by the police department for the past year preponderate daily review newspaper says the department favors cameras about the size of a tube of lipstick. tonight at 6:30 a public form um on the issue will be held at the police northern district office on main street. another meeting is scheduled there on june 26th. the police department plans to ask the city council to approve this plan next month. >>> jury deliberations are set to begin today in the trial of two men accused of killing an oakland toddler. three-year-old carlos nava

the case was brought by the aclu in 2010. filed on behalf of u.s. muslims four of whom happened to be u.s. military veterans. they were only aware they were placed on the list when they were blocked from boarding a plane. first of all, what exactly does this mean going forward for the no-fly list? >> well, the big question is how do you find out, you know, whether you're on the list, and if you are you feel like it's a mistake how can you get off the list? up to now, if there's a mistaken identity, you can get off fairly briskly. there was a big case in 2004, senator ted kennedy found himself on the no-fly list because somebody was using the alias ted t kennedy. they tried to resolve the mistaken identity cases quickly. what is tougher when they have gotten information from perhaps a source overseas, signal intelligence that suggests to be on the list. they don't want to say what the information is. it's very difficult for people to challenge the designation. >> the no-fly list, of course, established in 2001 right after the attacks. according to th

new aclu report takes a snapshot of police militarization in the united states, specifically the reportare using the weapons of war. my guest now is the writer of that "the washington post" article and he has also written a book "rise of the warrior cop, the militarization of america's police forces." good to see you. after ten years plus of war in iraq and afghanistan, a lot of hardware is coming home. where is it ending up? >> well, a lot of it is ending up at police departments across the country. we're not even talking about big city police departments. these mine resistant armored personnel carriers designed to with stand blasts from ieds are ending up at places like the ohio state university police department or in, you know, tiny sheriff's departments and police departments, little towns across the country. this is stuff that was designed for use on a battle field being used, you know, on american streets and neighborhoods. >> well, is there a need for it? i imagine law enforcement might be saying, look. we don't know what we're up against. we don't know what is on the other side

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>>reporter: elizabeth is the aclu attorney who filed the lawsuit. suit claims mandatory pregnancy testing at any age by a jail is a violation of civil rights. and illegal. >> unconstitutional. violent women right to privacy and it's also unconstitutional search and seizure t.and it violates a very clear california law. folk in custody are required to give in formed consent. >> very personal thing about being pregnant or not and if sheriff's officer isn't the person that the first person that i want to know whether of i was pregnant or not. >> as it is now alameda county policy to test all women age 60 and under. in san francisco the test is voluntary. contra costa county doesn't do it at all. in oakland, laura anthony abc 7 news. >> we want to share heart warming story from the children hospital on the peninsula. this is if a 6-year-old palestine b from refuse you gee camp suffer from rare orthopedic condition that causes his knee joints to stick and his feet to face the wrong direction. he could not wawchblingt his family sought help and team of su

believe it's life but based on the membership numbers because the unions negotiated life coverage for aclu 10 to one that has over 10 thousand members. i'm going to give us a little pause and call upon the wellness manager stephanie fisher to do a report on wellness week and on the wellness plan that's been presented to the initial startled group and the unions the cdc we've made changes to the plan based on the input. you can make additional or take comments from the audience. it's so far been i think the other significant thing we're partnering with rec and park department for instructors for our wellness class it's great they have such a wide bunch of experts and will save money. i'm going to call upon stephanie. weren't you going to do our wellness presentation. oh, i apologize our innovate after pamela in my report so - >> the sf manager oh, i see you can't hear me. 1235e6 fisher manager. >> do e you somebody to help you with that. >> so fairs or first i'm going to give the update on wellness i have the presentation. >> we have a presentation. >> oh, there you go. >> all right. so thi

customs and border patrol checking out allegations from the aclu and some activist groups, ingrant groups that a quarter of the kids reported physical abuse, 100 allegations of punching, kicking, children who were raped while in u.s. custody, strip searches, shackles, not enough food, not enough water, now those allegations are being investigated as the u.s. tries to stem the flow of the kids. 47,000 so far this year, which could go up to 90,000, that would be six times what we saw six -- just two years ago. rich sna richard? >> the coyotes making up to what could be hundreds of millions of dollars because of the situation. thank you so much there, live in washington for us. >>> two potential presidential contenders in the headlines on same sex couples. texas governor rick perry compared homosexuality to alcoholism. the san francisco chronicle saying when asked whether he believe homosexualities with a disorder, he said in part, quote, i may have the jennegene coding i'm inclined to be an alcoholic, but i have the desire not to do that. and like at the homosexual issue the same way. and t

. >> fault lines has obtained from the aclu office, emails from the ice leadership in washington to the atlanta office pointing out that they are 12 hundred deportations behind where they were the previous year. completely worried about making their quota. >> the email reads: 'please implement your initiatives and reallocate all available resources.' >> and then this is the kicker: "the only performance measure that will count this fiscal year is the criminal alien removal target." >> a year later obama lauded the results. >> we focused enforcement efforts on criminals who are here illegally, who endanger our communities. and today, we deport more criminals than ever before. >> dan martinez has been studying how the government has expanded the list of deportable offenses. >> we need to be really careful when we hear these, in the media, when we hear reports of the number of criminal aliens being removed... what does that mean? what does it mean to be a criminal alien? >> we picture people who rape, murder, rob, burglarize, assault. however there's an important piece of legislation in 19

i don't think there's a way to keep it properly taken place whereas it can be used by aclu the year. there's absolutely no reason to split the baby in half if you keep the hardtop as it is and fence off the proposed terrace and path area and leave a small area in the area for days ago everybody does not wins. there's no grass in the high school by 3 blocks south there's douglas park it's fenced with a playground flat and perfect for kids to run around and a to play much better than this area of the court. basically, i obvious to the park it's been turned over to dogs and young children and all the rest of us are being go forward in the planning process. this park does work and needs to be fenced we don't need to lose the play spots it's irresponsible for rec and park on that recommendations >> thank you. >> larry and jen and martha and others. >> commissioners general manager ginsburg i'm larry king i'm a father of 3 active young girls i have a dog murphy i rarely use this park with my dogs i served on the library commission for 8 years we reviewed projects and this was one time for

toys from their own homes, bringing it to these kids. >> we have no doubt that we don't believe the acluough i'm sure there have been some abuses when the numbers are so big. now, why did this happen? why in the past 8 months have 50,000 unaccompanied minors crossed into the united states? why? >> well, what i have asked, i was there, and i spoke to children, and i asked them directly, i said what caused you to do this? to come here? there is a lot of them. i pretty much got the same answer from all the individuals i spoke to. and it was the media down there and in their central america is letting them know that right now is the time to come to america. and they will pretty much get a free ticket. there is also religious groups that are speaking to these individuals and telling them right now is the time. if you go down there, the chances of you getting sent back or deported back to your native country are slim to none. >> is that true? >> we're turning them over -- border patrol is turning them over to ice. ice is in charge of the relocation. we know that some are being bused and being

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. >> reporter: she is one of three plaintiffs named in a suit filed by the aclu against the sheriff. it claims the policy requires women 60 and younger to take a pregnancy test. >> this is not part of a health screening. >> reporter: she says it is a violation of the women's right and state law. >> we know alameda county is the only county that is doing this. >> reporter: this former arrestee and mother whose child bearing days are behind her agrees. >> to know whether or not you are pregnant is personal and something that a woman would want to discuss with her loved wins and her doctor -- loved ones and her doctor. >> reporter: now she has a lawsuit to add to her file. i reached out to the start this afternoon, i got an -- sheriff's department this afternoon i got an e-mail saying they haven't been served with a lawsuit yet and when we are i will have a response. noelle walker, ktvu channel 2 news. >>> we are following developing news tonight. the coast guard is searching the bay at this hour looking for a sailor who went missing after his sail boat started sinking. the sail boat is

. >> reporter: for those people who have done nothing, the aclu of southern california believes the lapdicense plate readers may be violating civil liberties. >> a system of license plates reerds pervasive enough to track the movement of every car in the city in reasonable detail would substitute gps trackers. the public should decide the difference. >> reporter: the lapd believe the public wants it on their side. >> you want the effect of 30 detectives working that burglary or auto theft. it is hugely important to make those cases solvable. >> fascinating stuff. >>> coming up, forget driving to the airport. waiting in line, dealing with flight delays and all the hassle with air travel, imagine stepping into a pod, zooming through a city and then you're loaded right into your plane? the future of air travel -- next. any projects on my home. i love my contractor, and i am so thankful to angie's list for bringing us together. find out why more than two million members count on angie's list. angie's list -- reviews you can trust. now they're part of our 2 for $25 guest favorites!r one olive

. >>> aclu targeting the sheriff over the privacy of women. civil liberties union says a sheriff's department policy requiring every woman in custody submit a pregnancy test is a violation of privacy rights and state law. the lawsuit filed today comes after oakland activist was arrested during a protest, and then forced to take a pregnancy test while held at an alameda county jail. >> in the custody of the alameda of the sheriff's department is traumatizing, not only traumatizing, it's invasive, humiliating and offensive. >> the sheriff's department has not yet received the lawsuit. >> an unexpected set back for a san jose mayoral candidate on the eve of the primary. rose herrera was hospitalized. herrera felt dizzy had high blood pressure during a forum yesterday. taken to the hospital and stayed overnight. her chief of staff says doctors think herrera has an inner ear infection resulting invert go and nausea. unclear when she'll campaign or return to work. >> nearly a dozen clubs in san jose will take part in the weed for votes campaign tomo

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the aclu and new york sometimes forked their release through the freedom of information act. they reveal administration justified the 2011 cia attack by arguing there was no other way to arrest the al-qaida leader. the government says he had been involved in an attack against the united states and was planning even more. >>> a huge recall involving millions of cars around the world. the problem, defective air bags that could explode. the vehicles affected includes hondas, mazdas, nissan. they all have air bags employed by a major auto parts chain. federal investigators are also looking into that air bag problem. >>> now, since when does a car jacking victim lay about the whole thing? well, ask the woman in seattle who had a gun pointed at her as three teenager tried to steal her car. as is the case sometimes, their crime wasn't very well thought out. >> hi says i want your car keys. >> 70-year-old fredrickson was grabbing something from the trunk of her car when suddenly. >> i turn around and here is this big gun right here. >> she drop hayrakes and says three teenagers jumpe

. >>> and a warning from the aclu. several police departments using military weapons they inherited from the wars in iraq and afghanistan. we'll explain why the civil liberties group says you could or you should be concerned. also, heads up on soccer. millions watching the world cup right now, and the players using their heads to pass the ball around, but there's also a push to keep kids from doing the same. talk to a former world cup player and olympic gold medalist who wants kids to take their heads out of the game. hello to you all. i'm t.j. holmes in for mr. craig melvin today. we continue to follow a story this afternoon, a breaking story today, happening right now at the federal courthouse in washington, d.c. the first suspect arrested in the 2012 benghazi attack will be arraigned within the hour. ahmed abu khattala that you're seeing there was captured two weeks ago in libya after a long journey here on a u.s. navy ship. he was transported to the courthouse this morning. nbc's kristen welker is following develop

he was a high school biology teacher encouraged by the aclu to help challenge one of the walls for getting the teaching of evolution so it was very clear that he broke the law and he asked his own students to testify against him and tell the court that he did teach evolution contrary to the ball on the books but what is important about the trial is not that he was found guilty because that was pretty much confirmed from the outset but rather it became the stage for the intellectual battle representing the voice of the modern science into secularism and william jennings bryan who was a star witness for the prosecution mounting the attack on evolution and presenting the moral and social consequences as the evolution became the norm in the public school classrooms. one of the journalists that covered this was a chill man gang who became famous for writing these hilarious sendups of the fundamentalists that he encountered in tennessee and he played a large role in shaping what i will call mainstream america for the american elite view of the conservative protestantism who would rather burn boo

a high school biology teacher and tennessee who was encouraged by the aclu the help mount a test case to challenge one of the many state laws forbidding the teaching of evolution. so he broke the law. in fact, he asks some of his own students to testify against him and tell the court that he had taught evolution contrary to law on the books. but, of course, what is important about the trial is not the he was found guilty because that was pretty much confirm from the outset but rather that it became the stage for this intellectual battle between the voice of modern science and secularism and a star witness for the prosecution not in an attack on the evolution and presenting a moral and social consequences that he foresaw if evolution became the norm and public-school classrooms. one of the journalists who covered this trial was h. l. mencken who became famous for writing is hilarious send offs of the fundamentalists encountered. he played a large role in shaping what i'll call mainstream america, the american elite view of conservative protestantism and thinking of conservative protest

after years of condemning the aclu -- [laughter] i must publicly apologize to them. [laughter] that i called because of its attack on our families would not have been overturned had it not been for this dedicated group of civil liberties organizations. along with the southern poverty law center. they now have my heart. attacksly, those continue. my state will not allow undocumented students to attend select universities. even if an honor graduate had attended kindergarten through the 12th grade, in georgia and the student is undocumented, they have to pay out-of-state tuition. to not issuealk is birth certificates to the babies if their parents are undocumented. how can what i just say not jolted your conscience? there are two things i want to leave you with. irst, how profoundly grateful am that you bestowed this national honor, the nobel prize public service, on me. secondly, that we as a nation can no longer leave hard-working, family-oriented god fearing people to walk in the shadows or to live in the terror of losing a loved one to deportation. we must allow tho

the aclu filed a class action lawsuit alleging that prison health care put prisoners at risk of pain, amputation, disfigurement and death. it alleges that care fell to unconstitutional levels after the state of arizona privatized health jir and signed a contract with corison. they have faced allegations of wrong doing, sued for malpractice 660 times, according to the "miami herald." >> i felt betrayed by the company. they were supposed to keep it everything working properly. >> reporter: until now, no one spoke public lick. teresa ales corize job and arizona officials are trying to tuscon. >> i have one there, two here. it was bad. i was covered. it was itchy. short claims, corizon supervisors told her she needed to frorp work. she -- report to work. she felt it was upethical to treat patients while contagious. she lost her shobment short case -- job. short says the prisoner that affected her still as scabies and several more staff members contracted it and scaibies are the beginning. >> reporter: what were some of the first problems that you noticed when you went to work for corize j

but the aclu applauded the allentown pd of keeping good records of all swat-involved incidents. >>> newersey has given the greenlight to add a third lane to the garden state parkway. crews will widen the road between galloway and port republic. >>> president obama is highlighting a woman's problems paying for day care and other issues. he said she reflects the challenges of millions of other americans struggling to stay in the middle class. the president will host the town hall meeting in minnesota telling congress what they need to do to make the middle class stronger. >> we're following a developing story, armed invaders hit a philadelphia home overnight and they are still at large. find out what they ran off [ michael strahan ] i'm michael strahan, and i love new york. there's no place like it in the world. my favorite thing is the excitement of the outdoors. like rock climbing in the catskills, rafting in the adirondacks, surfing on long island, or getting your heart racing at watkins glen international. come discover your favorite part of new york. plan your summer vacation at ilov

reporter: thank you, the target of a killing of a an american times was only after the new york times and aclu sued the administration in court. that was for the killing of a nwab al awlaki. >> and the memo drawn up by the council was written by davidberren whose confirmation to the federal bench was held up by the senate until the administration released the memos. operations by the cia and defense department are justified. high level government officials concluded that al awlaki was a leader in the araban peninsula and a threat to united states persons and interests. >> but critics say it was the executive branch acting as judge and executioner. the statement reads in part. the government's drone program is. gross distraction objection of the law. this was used to kill a u.s. citizen without trial and far away from the battlefield. having revowed the memo released by the court is how vague it is and how it lacks details as to what the decision was for the administration decision that al awlaki was a criminal and die by drone in the hands of the cia. >> that is interesting. and surely not the

yesterday, 30 privacy advocates including aclu and human right a watch.ote a letter to the senate saying they want stronger reforms. we want legislation to protect human and constitutional rights and insure the oversight of the intelligence community selection of personal information. a year ago, it was not on the the radar of many americans and snowden spilled the beans and he's humbled by the collective success of the leaks. eric. >> thank you so much. >>> boeka haran terrorist in nigeria. there is warnings about this and did not intervene. the full story or what we know so far and you will not believe how a world war ii plane is creating the d- day mission 70 years later. soldiers and air men of the allied air force, you are about to embark on the great crusade toward which we have strove many months. the eyes of the world are upon you. try phillips fiber good gummies. they're delicious, and an excellent source of fiber to help support regularity. wife: mmmm husband: these are good! marge: the tasty side of fiber. from phillips. fifteen minutes could s