they arranged for barb's aunt and uncle to legally adopt her raising barb as their own. >> nearly six dad. "today's" michael miller shares her story. >> this is a certificate from the hospital where i was born at. >> at 6 years old, barb's parents revealed they adopted her as an infant and were biologically her aunts and uncles. >> i was told at that point because my adoptive parents were adopting another child which was my adopted brother. my life was really good. i had a very good childhood. >> did you feel something was missing? >> it was something that was kind of on the back burner emotionally. i did always kind of wonder who they were or even if they knew about me. >> as her kids grew older, barb started looking for her biological family off and on. she had old photos of her dad and knew he had two other children. >> here is your natural grandfather when he was in the navy. >> you had little bits and pieces. >> i did. like a puzzle that really needed -- >> put together. >> exactly. >> one night she began searching on facebook and found josephine herman, her natural father's seco

that barb can be extremely dangerous.u might remember, was killed by that -- >> a barb. yeah. >> that thing is huge too. i can't tell how large, but -- >> bigger than him and the tail alone -- >> four feet wide, at least. >>> a look ahead and a look back. president obama will unveil new plans to help americans pay down their student loans. he'll expand his pay as you go plan. it lets people pay pay no more than 10% of their income to loan payments. and donald the duck, 80 years old today. thinking of a donald duck saying. >> there he is. >> a quack. the character first appeared in the cartoon "the wise little hen," part of disney's silly symphonies. >>> and natalie portman turns 33. johnny depp, 51. actor michael j. fox, 53 years old and going strong. keep it here for more news, weather and sports. i'm richard lui with bill karins and the entire "early today" team, thanks for hanging out with us today. have a good monday. let's face it, most people don't know how to choose a new dentist. that's where we come in. we've hel

but who are the types of people that are like putting themselves in the mud and under the barbed wirets and snakes and all that is this. >> you would be surprised. we are surprised. 4-year-olds to 80-year-olds come out to compete. the 4-year-olds won't do the full course. >> is there a kids course? >> there is a kids course. fire barbed wire section and blasting people, to make it tougher, and i saw a woman that looked like flo from the brady bunch and i thought, it has to be a costume. she was 75 years old under the barbed wire and passing young people. >> incredible. >> it's a state of mind, right. >> if you're aggressive and want to get out and active, come out. >> age is a number. what you tell yourself. >> joe, i want to go back to the point i was talking about earlier, the idea of playing through pain. elaborate on what you said, though, in terms it's a frame of mind that people these days, i feel, because they live in these electronic worlds, with their smartphones and their tablets and computers, they never really push themselves physically. talk about how important that is, n

they arranged for barb's aunt and uncle to legally adopt her raising barb as their own. >> a decade laterer. my life was really good. i had a very good childhood. >> did you feel something was missing? >> it was something on the back burner emotionally. i did always kind of wonder who they were or even if they knew about me. >> as her kids grew older, barb started looking for her biological family off and on. she had old photos of her dad and knew he had two other children. >> here is your natural grandfather when he was in the navy. >> had little bits and pieces. >> i did. like a puzzle that really needed -- >> put together. >> exactly. >> one night she began searching on facebook and found josephine herman, her natural father's second wife. >> was that the moment you realized, oh, my gosh. >> i was, like, oh, my goodness. >> barb sent her a short message and by clicking through josephine's page, she discovered her half brother and half sister. a couple of days later they wrote back. >> i just cried. it was something i wanted for so long. >> new family members flooded barb's page with fr

most people when they try to get into the united states illegally, they try to avoid the barbed wire.e into this country from mexico if you know where you're going or know the right people. this is the border fence, typically you can't climb over it or go through, but what the illegal immigrants do, they come through in a little village like this of the there is some barbed wire, but all you have to do when you are on the mexican side is take a little walk. no wire here, as you can see. this is one of the many areas where the influx of children has been coming through. right over here there is another water bottle up here. and really all you need to do. doesn't matter if you're old, young, sick or well, one foot here and in mexico. the border patrol gets angry if you go on the other side, even if you're ast r reporter. but it is easy to do, 25 milings of wilderness, once you get here, most people have arrangements made to get past here through the cities of the united states. the fact is most of these people hire coyotes, human smugglers to get across the area to find these areas. the

contains 25 course obstacles, including the wall, a cargo net, a barbed wire crawled -- but the most challenging was the slide for life. it had a three level, 30 foot tower at one end into one level timer at the other. longtween was 200 foot rope. you had to climb the three tiered tower and at the top, you grab the rope, slung undereneath, and pull yourself hand over hand until you got to the other end. the record had stood for years

contains 25 course obstacles, including the wall, a cargo net, a barbed wire crawled -- but the most challenging was the slide for life. it had a three level, 30 foot tower at one end into one level timer at the other. longtween was 200 foot rope. you had to climb the three tiered tower and at the top, you grab the rope, slung undereneath, and pull yourself hand over hand until you got to the other end. the record had stood for years when my class began. it seemed unbeatable. until one day, students decided to go down the slide for life headfirst. instead of swinging his body underneath the rope, he bravely mounted the top of the rope and thrust himself forward. it was a dangerous move. seemingly foolish and fraught with risk. failure could mean injury. without hesitation, he slid down the rope perilously fast, it only took him half the time. by the end of the course, he had broken the record. if you want to change the world, sometimes you have to slide down the obstacles headfirst. during the warfare phase of students go to an island. the waters are a breeding ground for great white

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>> barb. we're working on this as hard and as fast as we can with our in iraq. said, i don't have confirm iranian special forces inside iraq but just also been clear, not this week, but we have been consistently clear that iran needs to be a responsible and we in the region continue be to urge them to do that. yeah? you said you want iran to be responsible and prior to this they should play a constructive role. can you first outline what a role could be -- >> they can stop supporting extremist networks, right? one thing. involvement by iran be constructive or not in that situation now? going to writet iraniann plan for the government to play in the region. we have been clear about what our expectations are for iran and i think i certainly have clear here today that we want all of iraq's partners to theya constructive role as face this very real challenge sovereignnd iran are states. the disagree to -- degree to which they talk to one another and make decisions, that is between the leaders of those two but this is aes very real threat inside iraq. it's certainly

fight for their country, the families they left behind were still defining home and hearth by the barbire encircle their internment camps. >>> when fighters went to iwo jima it was the only code of japanese never broke. hollywood produce add movie about the code talkers. allison burns was there. >> reporter: there's a last living navajo code talkers. american heros who developed the only code the japanese could not break in world war ii. during the nation's capital joined by hollywood stars and government leaders at the world premier of the new story that tells their story. >> if you got caught the code would be useless. >> their involvement was instrumental in winning the war. what they were able to do was expedite medical aid and air strikes and it had a lot to do with our victory. >> reporter: for a long time america kept code talkers a secret. only recently have they been recognized for their contributions. >> when they came i didn't know anything about military policy or nothing. but i do know there was a war going on. >> reporter: soon brown and dozens of others from the navajo n

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he realized i had pulled the barbs out. he looks at his back-up officer as to say, what are you going to do? this guy is not falling. >> after being tased a fourth time -- >> i understand -- >> why are you shooting him with the taser? >> z falls to the ground. >> all we were asking for was his i.d. >> the police report states z pushes an officer in the chest and injures another officer in the hand with a handcuff. the charges, battery and resisting a law enforcement officer. z pleads no contest. the plea avoids prison time but ends z's chances for a job he always dreamed. >> you are all going to be charged with crimes. >> a career in law enforcement. >> this is not justice. >> i am not an enemy of those who serve and protect. quite frankly, i forgive the officers for what they did to me. >> i have been assaulted. >> you're in handcuffs. >> i have a license to carry. >> an unloaded gun, brass knuckles and a pocketknife are found in noel's backpack at the time of her arrest. she pleads no contest to carrying a concealed weapo

and he would say hey, barb, look at this.ome here and take a look at this. and you could see that it was just a terrible shock for them. but at the same time, you saw strength in both of them. >> my first reaction was how sad it was for my parents. and of course, both of them, being so optimistic, they were like don't worry about it. everything is going to be fine. o. >> he didn't even flinch. he looked at that devastation and the president of the united states put on a pair of rubber coat coveralls and immediately started shoveling sand out of his living room. >> he was pretty depressed. but he also said, we're going to put it back together. we're going to fix it. this is still going to be my favorite place and i'm going to come back here. that perfect storm defined what he felt had happened in his life that year. abe! get in! punch it! let quicken loans help you save your money. with a mortgage that's engineered to amaze! that would be my daughter -- hi dad. she's a dietitian. and back when i wasn't eating right, she got me

year walk first is a key component focusing our jerry on the high corridor network and today, we're barb and need traffic zero fatality by 2024. we're co-chaired by sfmta with key partners with other city agencies including the planning department as well as important leadership from walk first and the coalition. in the traffic world depending on 3 to 580 of traffic safety includes engineering and education and advocacy and usc evaluation and analysis they're key to reducing injuries and fatalities open our streets. key to vision zero is saving human life is the highest priority that is requiring a safe system people make mistakes but designed it is faced with the consequences of those mistakes are not death. again with respect to the issue of equality we see at the bottom part of the slide that our most vulnerable road yourselves users are 60 percent of pedestrian fatality were pedestrian in 2013 when compromises only 20 percent of the city trips we're also seeing a increase in bicycle fatalities. this is a somewhat complex map of the corridors but the point is we've looked at the pedes

holot detention center, wasteland, sand, and barbed wire, a bleak place in the middle of the negev desert. since mid-december, african refugees whose residents' permits haven't been extended have been taken here. that now amounts to several hundred asylum-seekers and the camp has just been enlarged to accommodate up to 5,000. holot is what's called an open detention center. inmates can move about freely, but there are strict regulations. here we meet keni again. you and he's having trouble getting used to the camp. there are attendance checks three times a day, at 6:00 a.m., noon, and 10:00 at night. afterward inmates are shut in. the food is bad, he says, no one is allowed to work. boredom reigns. >> life in prison is hard. we sit in there and look for solutions to our problems. there's huge uncertainty. in nobody wants to stay in this prison. you can't do anything in here. and outside, you're lost, because you don't have any papers. >> 250 kilometers farther north, is tel aviv, israel's second most populous city. here an entire district is marked by the misery of refugees. many here hav

after this man forcing him to just dive to try to get out of the way, but you know, stingrays have barbs and they will use them to protect themselves if they feel threatened. this man is very lucky that's as bad as it got for him. >> any chance this guy was trying to protect himself? did he see the thing swinging around and thought i need to scare it away because it's stalking me? >> according to reports sounds like this man was intentionally taunting the stingray. >> you can't even just say stingray. >> you have to say gigantic stingray. it's bigger than him. >> people that saw his go down were upset saying they didn't like the fact that he was being so disrespectful to these creatures. >> he hasn't respected this. trying to make a video, him attacking a stingray. it's not smart. >> who sees that in the water and goes know what i'm going to do, mess with this thing. let's see what i can get away. that's incredibly stupid. >> out of your element to. you're never going to outrun or outswim this thing. >> you can't watch this without thinking about steve irwin who knew everything there was

. >> at first it's like a big grey building, and then there's a lot of barbed wire everywhere. >> ina privately run detention center in eloy, arizona, we caught a glimpse of what can happen when families are pulled apart. >> it looks scary from the outside but when you walk in it doesn't look too scary anymore. >> juan de leon was nine when his mother died. he left guatemala to live with his sister, a legal resident in the us. he was ineligible for obama's dreamer deferral program because he was caught shoplifting as a teen. fast forward 9 years. juan says that after a disagreement with his boss, his boss called the sheriff. he was arrested for using a fake id to be able to work. that act, a felony, brought him to the attention of ice. >> why did you have someone else's id? >> so i could provide for my girls. >> you have to have an id to work. >> yeah, you have to have an id, social security number. i know it was bad, i was breaking the law, but it was the only thing i could do to provide for my daughters. i feel sad that i haven't been there the whole year. for both of them. missed

. >> along with the collapse of the soviet union came a new border which was strengthened with barb wire when lithuania joined the eu. there is high unemployment here, and the lack of prospects on both sides of the border in a region that was once prosperous. >> it was like a mix of cultures in the border. now with belarus, all the people there there, but younger people move like us. >> she is a rare example. many young people live -- leave for bigger cities or go abroad never to return. in an attempt to escape high unemployment and our hall-related problems. just a few days ago, a 29-year-old died of alcohol poisoning. she hopes to build a better future. >> is really difficult to find a job here. new factories, just a few schools. -- no factories. i understand for young people, if they have education, if they know a language, they should move. i also tell them to please integrate for study, but come back and help me to build a new lithuania. >> she organizes workshops and events for young people who are stuck in the border area. she wants to create networks and persuade young people to

great strides over the years overcoming the challenge, there are still those that suffer from the barbsinjustice. >> i was denied service at various establishments. >> i was mugged in the mission district. >> i was asked to leave a coffee shop and the reason why is because "we don't do that here." >> hold on a second. what the [bleeped] have you got on your faces. >> google glass. >> google what? >> google glass. >> and that's what this is all about? >> yes. >> yes, it seems even in this day and age, you can still be treated differently just because of how you look wearing a $1,500 face computer. sadly glass-o-phones like tech author larry rosen are all too comfortable to openly discriminate. >> i don't think we're seeing discrimination against people for wearing google glass. >> i bet you don't think they should get married either? >> i'm actually very pro technology, but you don't know if they're videotaping you or taking pictures of you. that's a level of privacy that we're finding people don't want violated. >> what? those nerds can videotape me? >> it's basically a cell phone on yo

contains 25 course obstacles, including the wall, a cargo net, a barbed wire crawled -- but the most challenging was the slide for life. it had a three level, 30 foot tower at one end into one level timer at the other. longtween was 200 foot rope. you had to climb the three tiered tower and at the top, you grab the rope, slung undereneath, and pull yourself hand over hand until you got to the other end. the record had stood for years when my class began. it seemed unbeatable. until one day, students decided to go down the slide for life headfirst. instead of swinging his body underneath the rope, he bravely mounted the top of the rope and thrust himself forward. it was a dangerous move. seemingly foolish and fraught with risk. failure could mean injury. without hesitation, he slid down the rope perilously fast, it only took him half the time. by the end of the course, he had broken the record. if you want to change the world, sometimes you have to slide down the obstacles headfirst. during the warfare phase of students go to an island. the waters are a breeding ground for great white

atlantic wall was composed of mines and take obstacles, trenches and cliffs, guns, pillboxes, barb wire, machine gun nests, and artillery trained accurately on the beach. in the first wave of the landing on omaha, one unit suffered 91% casualties. wrote six bradley hours after the landings, we held only 10 yards of beach. commando unit had half of its men killed or winded -- wounded taking the town. a d-day veteran remembers the only thing that made me feel good was to look around and try to find somebody who looked more scattered -- scared than i felt. that man was hard to find. at all the beaches and landing grounds of d-day, men saw images they would spend a lifetime preferring to forget. carries the memory of three paratroopers dead and hanging from telephone calls -- poles like a horrible crucifixion scene. images of pain and death, raw and relentless. the men of d-day also witnessed scenes they would proudly and faithfully recount. self givingring and that went beyond anything the army or country could ask. may remember men -- they remember men like technician john pinder, jr., wh

areas before these divisions were heavily mined and held the confusion of barb wire and booby-traps.n the afternoon before information communicated to the battalion commanders. 8, the first battalion of the 143rd infantry regiment to attack the summit of 1205. they had moved up the mountain in the cover of darkness. the third ranger battalion to attack 950. battalion of the one 43rd to attack northeast -- 143rd to attack northeast of san pietro. the third battalion, acting in support of the second. the original force to establish the beachhead, the 143rd had spent all but a fortnight in action under extremely bitter weather conditions. taken mortalt had punishment. the task ahead promised no less bloodshed. the first battalion began the long rugged climb. as night fell, the artillery opened up and tonight -- throughout the night hours, fire was laid down on the enemies mainline of positions. enemy's mainline of positioning. it had rained most of the night and was raining at each o hour. 200 yards, then counted nine automatic -- they encountered nine automatic fire. artillery doubly a

really realized he was being used by nazi propaganda he decided to take his own life by jumping on a barbed wire in a prison camp here in sachsenhausen. in total over one hundred thousand people perished in sachsenhausen during its years of operation. it was where s.s. officers underwent training in order to serve a new concentration camps located throughout occupied countries. that included death camps built for the purpose of annihilating entire peoples. the so-called nazi aizen group and killed more than two million jews on occupied soviet soil they deliver death without mercy women children even the elderly most normal people would go mad having to execute orders like that. but officers in s.s. uniform had no such qualms never for alone did they consider that what they were doing was wrong let alone and being a crime they were trained and prepared by nazi propaganda today even the radical measures are not radical enough heels of couples used to say. here in the u.s.s.r. the german soldiers were captives of another myth that in order to bring down the soviet system it was essential to an

hanna: with its whip-like tail armed with venomous barbs, the stingray strikes an ominous presence in the underwater world. i'm jack hanna, at my base camp on the serengeti plain at busch gardens, tampa bay. the thought of intentionally swimming with stingrays sounds like a pretty crazy idea to me, but that was before i met the friendly residents at stingray city. i like the ring of it -- "jack, mayor of stingray city." but you haven't lived until you've been kissed by this saucer-shaped member of the shark family. [ african tribal music plays ]

hungarians and austrians cutting the barbed wire border. protesters joining hands across the baltics. -- czechs slovaks and slovaks. east berliners climbing atop that wall. we have seen the extraordinary progress since that time. , agents inrmany central and eastern europe standing tall as proud democracies. a europe that is more integrated, more prosperous, and more secure. spark, never forget the for so much of this revolutionary change, for this loss amid of hope was lit by you , the people of poland. [applause] history was made here. was theory of 1989 culmination of centuries of polish struggle, at times in this very square. poles whotions of rose up and won independence, the soldiers who resisted invasion from the east and the west. ,he righteous among the nations among them, young tarski, who raced -- who risked all to save those from the holocaust. warsaw ghettothe who refused to go without a fight. whofree poles of normandy, even as the city was reduced to rubble raised the historic uprising. we remember how when the iron curtain d

. >> steve irwin died from a barb, he would have been in bad trouble. >>> all right. we're going to shift to this because technology is doing something quite fascinating. drunk drivers, you should watch out. one, you shouldn't be on the road, but if you are, you can get busted quickly. scientists in poland are working on it so they use a laser on the highway as they do for surprise, but this laser detects if there's alcohol in the vol or vapors from your mouth. >> how does that work? through the glass? >> yeah, but the problem with that is maybe the passenger is drunk in the backseat, so they can't tell just yet. they are working on that, but it's quite fascinating, nonetheless, and, of course, you got something? >> yeah, congratulations. minnesota scout, 17 years old, over the weekend, finished one year straight sleeping outdoors every single night, and you know how bad this past winter was. he said that he wore fleece liner inside a mummy bag inside two other sleeping bags, inside a quilt and seven shirts. >> he raised money for that. >> he did. >> thank you for wat