. >>> i'm chris hansen is date line nbc. >> what? >> we just caught you selling phony tickets to madonna. >>> trick-or-treat. guess who's knocking at the door? >> do not touch him. >> i said get off my [ bleep ]. >> is there anything else you want to say? >> tonight, chris hansen and his hidden cameras investigate the crazy world of the online classifieds. websites that offer anything you want, legal or not. >> you're illegally selling these drugs. >> need a fake tax return? how about a real kidney? >> it's hard to believe that you would advertise your kidney on craigslist. >> chances are you found something on one of those websites. but i bet it wasn't a human body part. or a possible hit man either. >> it seems like you're advertising a business that could kill people. >> what's it really going on online? wait till you see what our hidden cameras find. >> you just did something illegal. >> this is a counterfeit ticket. >> i'm lester holt and this is date line. chris hansen is in the wild wild web. >>> what you're looking at is some

and you're -- >> chris hansen.teline nbc." >> let me explain something to nbc for a second here. i don't know what kind of rap you all got on people but maybe i can get the whole story. this girl is in a role playing chatroom. can i smoke in this room? >> no, you can't smoke in this room. >> i didn't think so. >> you can smoke outside. >> all right, dude. later. >> he decides to go out the front door. >> running to the car. move. >> but that doesn't stop detectives from catching him and placing him under arrest. >> get on the ground! >> and when he shows up at the transfer station, police search him, and he keeps talking. >> you all thought it was just [ bleep ] hey, nbc, two words, role playing chat room, dude. because the girl was role playing, man. >> we checked with perverted-justice and we are told he met the decoy in a florida romance room, not a role playing chatroom. >> put that through your pedophile thing? >> yeah. >> and the transcripts of his online chats and phone calls were enough for the police to ch

>> i'm not a predator. >> i'm chris hansen with "dateline" and we're doing a story.anything else you'd like to say, otherwise you're free to walk right out of this house. >> can i go? >> yes, absolutely. >> please don't -- don't -- don't put this on tv, please. don't put this on tv, please. >> no decisions have been made yet. >> i swear, i will never do this. >> i'm going to have to ask you to leave. >> get on the ground. police. get on the ground now. get down, now. >> sit him up. >> what's your rank in the military? >> staff sergeant. >> staff sergeant? you recognize this receipt? >> yes, sir. >> it is something that you purchased? is it in the vehicle? the coke, the webcam, how about trojans, is that condoms? >> yes, sir. >> you brought condoms with you? >> yes, sir. >> if a guy talks about sex with a young teen online and talks about bringing webcams or condoms or alcohol and food and then brings them, that makes the case pretty strong. obviously law enforcement wants to confiscate that material so they have it to use down the road as evidence in a trial. >> he m

with hidden cameras rolling, chris hansen meets someone who suggests he's a hit man. another guy suggests he's a drug dealer. >> we've got a sneak peek of "dateline" nbc at 10:00 tonight. >> what you're looking at is someone suggesting on hidden camera he's a hit man. playing along as a potential client. >> i've got a problem with a guy. >> okay. >> i've got to take care of it. >> okay. >> reporter: it feels like a scene from a movie. what are the options? >> what do you want to happen to him? >> reporter: what can you do? >> i can do anything. >> reporter: but he's no actor, and he's telling me what he's willing to do to a potential victim. >> disappear, hurt, hospitalized. a lot of things could happen. >> reporter: but this isn't a story about a hit man. it's really a story about where we found him. of all places, in the online classifie classifieds. a place where billions of people worldwide come to sell, share and offer services on sites like craigslist and backpage. you can find anything, apartments, cars, furniture, jobs, or even a spouse. but with just a few cl

>> i am chris hansen with "dateline" nbc. >> i watch that show all the time. don't look like him at all? >> no, not at all. not at all. >> well, i am that guy. >> as calm as he seems the conversation then took an interesting turn, and you'll see that tonight, matt. >> that's bizarre, chris. thank you very much. appreciate it. >> and you can see a special "dateline" the wild, wild web at 9:00 p.m., 10:00 central time here on nbc. >> and good morning from manalapan, florida, at palm beach county at the beach at ritz carlton hotel. big changes coming temperature-wise throughout a good portion of the country, and that may interact with sandy causing some problems. you see today we've got minneapolis at 41. that's 14 degrees below norm a. denver at 38. austin 57. ahead of the system though, burlington, vermont, 70, charleston 78. tomorrow, look at that cold air really streaming n.cincinnati 52. 70 in memphis and 46 minneapolis. the warm air just barely banked along the east coast and there's more reinforcing cold air coming in behind that, so that as the low pressu

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prize winning journalist chris hedges called the keystone pipeline part of the final phase of extreme exploitation by the corporate state and climate scientists james han't james hansen warned that completion of the pipeline would be game over for the climate and yet in the debate we have mitt romney criticizing the president for not building it while the president is building it the trick is the very reasonable question these guys really that out of touch with what's going on on this planet tragically the answer is no they're just scared as hell big oil and the power big oil has in this election thanks to the u.s. supreme court. since citizens united trashed any limits on corporate spending this election big oil has moved to spend huge amounts of money promoting their industry and taking down any politician who doesn't over the line as the new york times reports coal and oil interest groups have spent more than one hundred fifty million dollars on nearly one hundred forty different advertisements that have run tens of thousands of times as election year promoting their interests and criticizing the president's clean energy agenda big coal and big oil of spend four t