tim ballard, the best man. in charge of the money.arcus is a local tout who has been backing that he can arrange anything. >> what do we got? >> we got some new chickens? >> yeah, what it is, i got six chickens. >> reporter: obviously they're not talking poultry. they're after girls for the big party and the younger, the better. but they have to speak in code because what they're looking to do, hire underage prostitutes, is illegal here. marcus tells them to be careful. >> it's illegal. you can go to prison for that [ bleep ]. >> reporter: that's not to say he's unwilling to provide, if the price is right. >> okay, of the girls that we already have that are sure, how many of them are actually minors? >> we have -- >> seriously minors, i've got -- >> yeah. >> nine. >> what ages? >> i've got between 15 -- i got -- i got one 13, between 13 and 16 years old, i got. i've got one that's 13 right now. >> this is a colombian operation, i want to make that very clear. >> reporter: in truth, tim ballard doesn't want to buy these girls for sex.

. >> reporter: tim ballard has one mission, to track down child traffickers. ago he was awent on tips that children were being sold. >> within a half hour an individual walks up to me asking what i hear, what i want, and within minutes he said i've got kids as young as 11 years old. >> reporter: ballard, a former homeland security agent now heads up operation underground railroad, a nonprofit group that rescues trafficked kids. after that first meeting colombia asked him to put up a sting. underground operation railroad spent months planning, rigging this house, putting in hidden cameras and negotiating. >> what they do is lure them in pretending to have a modeling agency. they target them at age 10 or 9 or 10 years old and by 11 they're ready for sex. >> reporter: what is it like? >> it's horrifying. giebt a smile in the face of evil. >> reporter: less than 24 hours after the operatives landed, the suspected traffickers arrived on the island and the final deal with the undercover teen began. 54 boys and girls aged 11 to 18 were ushered in for what had been bi

. >> tim ballard has one mission, to track down child traffickers.hs ago colombian authorities asked him to investigate a tip that children were being sold there as sex slaves. >> within half hour, this individual walks up to me and starts asking me what i'm here for, what i want, and within minutes he says, "well, i've got kids as young as 11 years old." >> reporter: ballard, a former homeland security agent, now heads up operation underground railroad, a non-profit group that rescues trafficked kids. after that first meeting, the colombians asked him to put together a sting. >> no men will be in here, only women. >> reporter: operation underground railroad spent months planning, renting this house, rigging it with hidden cameras to document the crimes, coordinating with columbian authorities and negotiating. he how they find these kids is they lure them in by pretending to have a modeling agency. they target them at nine or ten years old. they say by 11 they're ready for sex, they're ready to be sold. >> reporter: what is it like looking into that

earlier i spoke with laurie holden and the man who planned the operation, former cia agent tim ballardd the team behind operation underground railroad tells their story. >> laurie, i understand that you got involved in this, partially, at least, because of the writers' guild strike in about 2008, i think, where i and others were out there on the picket line, my union. and you found something worth doing at that time that the, since actors were mostly out of work because production had shut down. >> yes. during the writers' strike in 2008, i volunteered to work in south africa in crush, which is a day care center for hiv orphans. many of the children who had hiv had been raped, because there was a myth that if you have sex with a virgin, you'll be cured of aids. so-so many of these children, and i mean they were young really young. had hiv because they had been raped. and it just, you can imagine, i spent months of my life with them, taking care of them every day, and i, i was so, my heart just broke, and it kind of changed everything for me forever, and i went back to the united states

abouteed to talk to you jake ballard. >> what about him? >> he was taken into custody two ago, and hasn't been seen since. >> so who will come to jake ballard's aid? will it be olivia pope or someone else? there's also another innocent man in tonight's episode. answers and more, tonight on scandal, at 8:00 here on abc 7. >> okay. thank you very much. body,instead of rock your betin timberlake might soon rocking a baby. he and his wife are expecting their first child. after weeks of speculation, an insider source revealed that the former seventh heaven star is at least three months along and due in april. not confirmed the news. >> a young woman in oregon made international headlines weeks announced her plans to end her own life on a date of her choice. that date, this weekend. come, why brittany she may be says having second thoughts. >> plus, medication that help levels of their testosterone may actually be bad for their hearts. residents vote on tuesday to legalize the on marijuana, if they do, should they follow suit on on marijuana, if

is his honor with whom ballard had been whispering. you must go with me to georgia the stranger snarled. ball was taken and walked to a place where 51 other people are waiting in chains and he walked into the chains with them. the fact that enslaved men were locked together as they were marched south is very significant because their feet and their legs were not chained but their arms, their hands were chained together and this prevented them from doing anything except walking in step. this prevented resistance very effectively. this prevented running away because 51 men chained together with a couple thousand pounds of iron being carried between them are not going to be able to get away quietly or quickly. but it did make certain things very difficult like eating, like normal bodily functions like going to sleep was very very difficult for 51 individuals chained together to actually manage those kinds of very simple things. so one of interesting things about the autobiography that charles ball later dictated to a white abolitionists w

one key to understanding this episode is trying to see what happens to olivia's boyfriend jake ballard after he was framed for murder by her father. >> this feeling i have inside is actually right, and something bad happened to him, what if i am supposed to be saving him right now instead of sitting here drinking wine with you? >> olivia, what could possibly have happened to a man like jake? >> all right. well, speaking of jake ballard or actor scott foley of course, he visited huffington post live this week where he revealed exactly what it's like to work with carrie washington. he says she is a jokester and always up to be the butt of any joke. more juice for you now. we are finally going to meet abby wayland's abusive ex-husband. entertainment weekly reporting he has landed the role of charles putney. we should soon be seeing more of actress jessica nicole set to play huck's wife. get ready to welcome back paul adelstein who will reprize the role of political operative leo bergin. no word on when all of this will happen but you can be assured it's going to get ugly. ith your scandal

. >> reporter: julia ballard says the woman who was robbed in an alley at plum street near spruce street lives her block in bristol borough. police say around 9:30 sunday night two men armed put up a gun to the woman's head and demanded money and her cell phone. it's the fifth robbery in a month in this area causing neighbors to feel unsafe where they live. so far police have arrested one person in connection with an armed robbery earlier this mon month. >> we got watch when we get in the cars and stuff, and we got to make sure nobody follows to us our car, messing with our cars much it's getting bad to the point a lot of people don't feel safed to anything. >> reporter: and back here live tonight, police tell me they have several leads they are following on different suspects. jeff? >> thank very much. >>> they say police have also increased patrols in the area as well. let's see. developing now, a fast-moving fire leaves dozens of residents outside of their homes tonight. this video captured the midday fire at the club at main street in voorhees, new jersey. for some residents it's a d

the couple had known ballard since he was a child. >>> a court date today for a volunteer firefighter who is charged with setting fires in delaware county. john corcoran has a pretrial conference and investigators say he set several fires in darby borough and township. corcoran arrived on a fire truck to help put out the fires. >>> this morning, delaware county detectives are trying to determine if a fire that destroyed one home and damaged two more in clifton heights is the work of an arsonist. three people were hurt in that fire yesterday, including a firefighter. now, witnesses you'll see here captured the flames and smoke from the home on the 200 block of south springfield road. the homeowner just stepped out to run an errand and returned to find his house in flames. >> i would have been dead. the whole upstairs fell down. >> he was obviously upset. the homeowner said he believes that fire was set on purpose. the red cross is helping three people displaced by the fire. >>> a fire at a dance studio was intentionally set. we first reported this fire as breaking news yesterday after

. >> reporter: julia ballard knows the victim. according to police the woman didn't have money but handed over her cell phone but the suspects through it to the ground said it was worthless and took off. >> we got to watch when we get in the cars and stuff and make sure nobody follow to us our car or messing with our cars. it's getting bad to the point like a lot of people don't feel safed to anything. >> all five robberies happened within three blocks of each other and in some cases the victim suffered minor injuries being attacked duringly robbery. police say they stepped up patrols in the meantime neighbors fear anyone of them could be next. >> i'm definitely concerned. definitely concerned. >> reporter: police arrested one man and say they're following leads on several other suspects. they say some of them could be charged in multiple robberies. in bristol borough, shawnette wilson, fox 29 news. >> and now a developing story. a philadelphia priest facing child porn charges to night. the archdiocese says it moved reverend mark

>> guest: i've seen some of the shots that -- that bob ballard took, and they're absolutely tremendous. they're so atmospheric. you can see the starboard side of the ship and how it's -- the prow is twisted up where it -- it bent back as the prow dipped and hit the seabed. absolutely dramatic pictures. c-span: now, you -- you have this -- we'll show you up close here in just a second -- in the early part of your book. and it's a notice. where was this published? >> guest: the notice was published in a number of united states newspapers, including "the new york times." and it appeared the very morning that the lusitania was due to sail out of new york, and it was warning people that a state of war existed between britain and germany, and it ended with -- on a rather ominous note. it said, you know, "passengers intending to embark on a transatlantic voyage" -- you know, "they are doing this at their own risk." so of course, you can imagine the reaction on the docks that day. c-span: let me read it. and at the bottom it says, "imperial german embassy." is that who paid for it? >> guest: a

gadaffi plus our ballard -- but two months later vis on and on to attack and it is from benghazi. and we would be very rwanda as sized because that happened in the second largest and when it there was no blood bath. plywood he'd not duplicate that? where was the and it threat? this is seen steady as cnn's jill is being closely monitored. but the thing is what has become of the movie and the book and all the information coming out is obama, this is something that no lot of information voters do not understand what a non colonialist is. they don't know or care probably the way you look at his mother that she had to go to the bathroom for whole in the ground he apparently recanted that and by the way she left her second husband when he wanted to join and fight but to what i am saying is if he were, i don't thing he would do anything different from what he has been doing now including the results of having isis. i know they have taken baghdad yet, i don't think so but i know they're just marching on and on. and this is why i don't get. if he has all these millions come in from the sou

charles: ballard doesn't have a voice. she doesn't voice.reak the last billion into 2 billion cases. you take it off the table, sort of giving yourself a pat on the done. our work is almost the considerable time, you're spot on there. any change with respect to taking qe completely off the table to me is a red flag. >> no. if they reduce it down to where they're supposed to go, that's fine. he put on the table a potential qe four. if we happened onto solve -- it went down 15, 20 percent, all of a sudden they could have raised the pace of purchase versus reduce it. anyway that's behind us. right now we have to look in front of us. traders need to see whether we hold in here. risk going to year end. and so do fund managers. they're not getting a free pass. last week when the market was down they were feeling pretty good. now the s&p is up, if we go up another two or three they have to play catch up. at this point there's a lot of edgy people. if you're not involved with risk you're edgy. you have to be a good stock picker right now. charles: w

you can visit facebook.com/msnbc to ask your question while you're watching jose diaz ballard.gain, that's coming up at 10:00 a.m. on msnbc's facebook page. >>> developing right now, we are watching wall street very closely. stocks dropping at the open. right now, the dow off to a sluggish start, as you can see there, down 12, 13 points. s&p, nasdaq, also down. this, of course, follows that 2% decline on all three major indexes yesterday. for the dow, it was the worst one-day drop of the year. rising volatility, concerns about a slowing global economy, are fuelling the losses. of course, we also heard from europe yesterday, from leaders in that country, that triggered the selloff. again, we continue to watch wall street. >>> coming up next, though, here on "the daily rundown," we're learning more about the 2-year-old prostitution scandal that rocked the secret service and the panel that will be tasked to investigate the agency's recent security lapses. the woman who broke the whole saga wide open, "the washington post's" karen leone when "the daily rundown" comes back in three

you know they own front gate and ballard design businesses. i did not know that.n something new every day in this show. that is our only goal. >> a buy and target of hsni. only about 10% upside. they said mobile sales are a big catalyst especially because they are bringing in younger and wealthier buyers to the hsn family of products. >>> now to "talking numbers." we take one stock and look at it from fundamental and technical perspective. today is one of the worst performers of the s&p 500 right now. that is coach. we have mark newton on the technicals. mark licktonfield on the fundamentals. mark, coach sales below where they were last year. is there a reason you see for our viewers to put their money into coach? >> if you are a patient investor i think it is a buy. this is a classic contrary yn story. we have seen this many times before. we have a hot brand or company that runs into a rough patch and everybody piles on with negative sentiment. hasbrois a similar example. wall street hated the stock up 50%. intel last year same thing. you have a new creative dire

. >> reporter: to which foundation spokesman nate ballard shot back did,. >> here's the documentation that shows that she voted for the grants that she is criticizing. >> i don't have any choice. yeah, i did, because you know why, i have -- that way i can carry on, continue to work my husband -- [ indiscernible ] although i -- it's a very hard. >> reporter: jennifer is an expert at foundations at the university of san francisco. her take? >> an elected board is not necessarily a problem that happens within foundations. it is a problem if it is closely aligned which they appear to be. >> reporter: is it good practice for charity to be giving to conservative causes? >> look, this board has contributed to all kinds of educational enterprises and all kinds of foundations around the world mostly to support jewish causes and to support causes here in the bay area. and they stand by all of the grants that they have made. >> told me he wanted to support the poor people. >> reporter: one of the things that mrs. koret wants is for believe it or not willie brown to be made head of the foundation

police say the victims had hired the suspects to clean up their property and the couple had known ballard since he was a child. >>> and new this morning, combatting crime. in response to resident concerns, the 15th police district is adding officers to expand their coverage across several neighborhood. take a look at the area we're talking about here. the 15th is the largest in philadelphia that stretches from hunting park avenue north to ron street and from the delaware river to roosevelt boulevard. this includes a frankfort, tacony sections of philadelphia. most of the crime takes place on the southern end of the district, but more than two dozen officers, many from recently graduated cadet class call it home and it is making a difference. >> i noticed that the calls for service and people aren't waiting as long for the police to show up on assignment. normally in the past, it would take us an hour or two to get to some of those locations and now it's win minutes. >> the department is trying to hire 400 officers for next year citywide and they're hoping some of them will go to the 15th

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we're doing our first headline worldwide tour, bringing out frankie ballard. >> anything goes. >> that'soat ride. >> that's right. southern delight weather for you here. so, boom, we're going to hit this and show you. here we go. >> hey. >> we're going in. so, right along the florida georgia line, chattahoochee, it will be sunny and 78. who is from monroe? >> that would be me. light, humid -- sunshine. >> very happy. >> happy sun. >> ormond beach, looking like a beach day. 84 degrees. bring your shades. >> that's what mr. sun wears. >> that's right. >> florida georgia line, great to see you both. >>> lots of sunshine and a healthy breeze, too. temperatures will climb into the 07s, wind classrooms to near 30 miles per hour. gusts settle down tonight and it will be cooler as a result with clear skies and dry air. 67 on thursday afternoon. a bit of sunshine on friday will fade. clouds increasing leading to some late day showers and some rain. saturday, sunday, and into monday. warmer tuesday. >> and don't forget, florida georgia line back to perform for us on tuesday. that's your latest wea