. >> more than a decade ago, author charles bowden dubbed juarez the laboratory of our future. now that future has arrived, more dystopian than he could have predicted. >> what i thought was there was going to be an explosion. but i never thought we'd go from 2 - 300 murders a year to 3000 a year. it was beyond my imagination. >> but the dimension the violence has taken is undeniably real. in juarez, there's a trail of blood that journalists can follow day by day, hour by hour. it's a saturday morning, and three men have been shot. two were in a car that is now empty and riddled with bullets. a third, a bystander, was caught in the cross fire and fell here. >> so there's a body covered by a blanket right there about 50 feet away, this shooting happened about thirty minutes ago, right in the middle of this neighborhood. the amazing thing is how little this has really changed life in this neighborhood. i mean a block down you have kids playing soccer, you have kids walking around the street here. i mean we're fifty feet from the body, and we're the only ones standing here even pa