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clooney and his father nick clooney asked action immediately for the humanitarian crisis. >> immediately we need humanitarian aid allowed into the sudan before it becomes the worst humanitarian crisis in the world. >> clooney and the protestors blocked the front door way of the sundanese embassy. after several warnings officers arrested them. >> trying to humiliate me. >> the world needs to know and we need to make a statement to encourage food be made available for people that are being mistreated. >> we hold citizens every day -- we who are citizens every day being born into peace and prosperity have some obligation to speak for those who suffer every day for the accident of their birth. >> we spoke with the event organizer thomas andrews about the movement. >> a blockade has been established by the government preventing any food or humanitarian aid getting into these desperate people who have no food and so starvation is being used as a weapon against these innocent people. >> andrew says a lot of people including elected leaders don't understand what's happening. he says this is just

both clooneys were arrested by the u.s. secretary accurate service -- secret service. >> reporter: they complained that the government of the nation is using starvation to force certain populations to move away from their areas. george clooney blasted the regime of north sudan. >> the government to stop randomly killing its own innocent men, women and children, stop raping them and stop starving them. that's all we ask. >> because what we know is that there are people who are in danger now. we will stand with them as long as they are in danger, my son and i stand with the sudanese. >> reporter: the two clooneys then joined 15 other demonstrators as they blocked the door of the sudan embassy. officers of the secret service pulled out the plastic handcuffs and started making arrests of the clooneys, dick gregory and martin luther king the third. the group were in custody at a local police lockup before paying small fines. >> what we are trying to achieve today, bring attention to an on going emergency, one that has about a si

clooney being arrested?outh sue can is not producing the oil, north sudan is not pumping the oil out so it's stopped. >> pipeline trouble? a mock -- >> no, they're note getting along and they've just called it quits on the oil production. >> they can't get it out unless they're in unison? >> that's correct. and. >> okay. >> it's important because china uses although oil 6% comes from that region so they're taking it from the rest of the oil market. >> if they can put it on the market they would both become booming economies. >> improved economies and the government -- [overlapping speakers] >> why did clooney do that? >> he wants to elevate the issues, just the way the culture works in this country right now, people are paying attention to it. he was arrested on friday in front of the embassy of sudan and the twitter-verse exploded. that's important because it elevates in the public eye whatç is happening in sudan and the public is weir of all these world crises. >> what about elevating africa. >> hillary di

police arrested actor george clooney.oney's father, virginia congressman jim moran, and dozens of others for protesting outside the embassy ever sudan in washington. the demonstrators accused the president of sudan of provoking a humanitarian crisis by blocking food and aid to the country's border region with south sudan. clooney is urging the international community to help ease tensions between the two sides. >> a former rutgers student could spend ten years behind bars for spying on his gay roommate back in 2010. a jury found deron ravi guilty of a hate crime and invasion of privacy today. ravi use ad web cam to videotape roommate tyler clemente with another man and told other students about it. clemente later committed suicide in embarrassment by jumping off the george washington bridge. >>> people are cleaning up today after a powerful tornado ripped through dexter, michigan. more than 100 homes were damaged by yesterday's storm. no injuries or deaths were reported. initial estimates put the twister's speed at about

clooney, mr. clooney!he other side of me. >> my, oh, my. >> don't push. >> lots of pushing. >> well, he wanted attention on the issue, and by the looks of that crush of photographers and reporters, it looks like he got it. >>> meantime, the president of afghanistan, karzai, blasting america for not allowing authorities to meet with the american soldier accused of shooting and killing 16 afghan civilians this past sunday. coming up, we have lots of new details on when the soldier is supposed to be back on u.s. soil. >>> i want to talk more now about the massacre of the 16 afghan civilians. the american suspect is to arrive on u.s. soil very, very soon. this is all according to his newly hired civilian attorney. that was john henry browne. he said his client should arrive late this afternoon. you're looking at ft. leavenworth, kansas. we're going to talk about this facility in just a moment with our correspondent, chris lawrence. but let's take you back to sunday morning when that massacre happened, and it c

. >>> our top story tonight, george clooney behind bars in a d.c. jail, the hollywood actor arrested by the secret service out protesting outside the embassy of sudan. >> 11 other people were placed under arrest including clooney's father and a virginia congressman. >> this all went down at the sundanese embassy on mass avenue in northwest. kristin fisher joins us now live from the second district police headquarters were clooney was booked and released. >> reporter: can you imagine what the people already held here must have thought when george clooney just walked in? his arrest was clearly very carefully orchestrated, but clooney has been charged with one count of disorderly crossing of a police line. that is a misdemeanor and it will go on his permanent record. a sundanese woman cheers as george clooney is arrested by secret service and taken away in plastic handcuffs. >> do you understand these right as i have given to you? >> reporter: just minutes earlier clooney had marched up the sundanese embassy joining hundreds of protestors accusing the

clooney has been to sudan six times. most recently to the nuba mountain region where the government is bombing villages and blocking food aid in a battle against anti-government rebels. a sad replay of crisis we saw first-hand in darfur. the u.n. says there are now a staggering 1.8 million refugees living in camps like this one here in darfur. clooney spent a couple of hours behind bars. paid a $100 fine and was freed. not quite "ocean's 11." although, like all prisoners, he was forced to turnover his personal belongings. even his shoe laces and his belt. afterwards, we talked to him about his most recent trip to sudan. >> it's really rough. >> reporter: clooney shared his jail cell with more than a dozen other protesters. how did they treat you in there, by the way. >> it was really rough. you can imagine. have you ever been in a cell with these guys? >> reporter: this is your first arrest ever? >> it is my first arrest. thanks for asking. and let's hope it's my last. >> reporter: jonathan karl, abc news, washington. >>

clooney pralzed the president for his dedication to the crisis.s a right time for a renewed focus on sudan. >> the good news for us, we feel there's a commitment on a very high level and has been, but it feels, there's been a sustained commitment but there seems to be a new version of that coming up. with the escalation of danger to the people in the mountains, there's a real concern of opening some form of humanitarian corridor. obviously that's not something we'd do unilaterally. it would have to be done through many different, with the help of many different countries. there is a great interest in working with china, not in any adversarial relationship but working together for their own economic interests, since china is losing a considerable amount of money in oil revenue right now. so there seem to be a unique moment, unique time to act on some of that. >> clooney also used his star power on capitol hill. athena jones has details on his testimony to congress. >> reporter: george clooney isn't just a big draw at the box office. arriving on cap

a full week for george clooney, visits congress, the white house and d.c. jail today. he was placed under arrest. "nightly news" begins now. captions paid for by nbc-universal television >>> good evening. tonight we know the identity and family story of the u.s. army staff sergeant arrested and held following the massacre of 16 civilians in afghanistan. he's 38, an 11-year veteran. like so many in uniform this past decade, he saw a lot of action, two different wars, multiple deployments. what he's accused of goes way beyond him and continues to unfold, as a big international incident. it has the power to change the course of the war in afghanistan. we begin with the new details tonight. nbc's miguel almaguer is in ft. lewis. good evening. >> reporter: good evening. the soldier is a career military man. he spent all his time at this base since he enlisted. tonight, we are learning much more about him. u.s. officials confirm the shooting suspect is 38-year-old robert bales, shown here training at a california military facility. deployed to afghanistan in december, the st

clooney, mr. clooney -- >> just -- [ cheers and applause ] >> i'm not.the other side of me. i'm bending over backwards. >> don't push. lots of pushing cut it out. >> get back. get back. >> george clooney, hi father nick clooney, they were arrested as well as several members of congress as well as the head of the naacp, ben jealous. he is now out of the jail and i'm told being seated in our washington bureau. would el have a conversation in just a moment, but first here's a piece from cnn heroes. >>> in nepal, when parents are arrested by the police and children don't have a local guardian, some children go to prison with their parents. before i visited the jail, i was -- i saw a small girl who just grabbed my shawl and just gave me a smile. it was really hard for me to forget that. my name is -- and my mission is to make sure no child grows up behind prison walls. in 2005, i started a daycare where the children can come from the jail in morning and good back to the jail in the afternoon. we have children who are from 2 to 4, and they have coloring, readi

actor and activist george clooney is in washington this week. he's asking government officials to do something about the humanitarian crisis in sudan and today got arrested for the cause. clooney, his father, members of congress and nearly two dozen others were taken into custody following a protest outside the sudanese embassy in northwest. the demonstrators accused the president of sudan of making it impossible to deliver food and aid to that region. they hope these protests will help shine a light on the crisis. clooney spoke after he was released. >> what we've been trying to achieve today is we're trying to bring attention to an ongoing emergency, one that's got about a six-week timetable before the rainy season starts and a lot of people are going to die from it. so our job right now is to try to bring attention to it. one of those ways was apparently getting arrested. they were charged with crossing a police line and spent three hours in custody. clooney said it was his first arrest. we'll have more a bit later. david gregory will stop by

cuffed clooney and took him away. trying to draw attention to genocide and other actions in sudan. clooney with his father and other activists were arrested when they crossed a police line to send an urgent message to sudan's president. >> we need humanitarian aid to be allowed into sudan. immediately. and the second thing that we're here to is a simple thing for the government to stop killing its men, well, and children. >> reporter: demonstrators blocked the steps to the embassy. to symbolize the blockade of food and other aid. survivors joined the a list protest to put pressure on the sudanese government. >> we do every possible to keep ourselves here and get people to listen to the voices. >> reporter: by friday afternoon clanly and the other protesters were released from jail. >> it is my first arrest, thanks for asking. let's hope it is my last. >> reporter: clooney was released after paying a $100 fine. he met with president barack obama this week. jessica kartalija, eyewitness news. >> others arrested include

police arrested actor george clooney, his father, nick clooney and martin luther king, iii, and several members of congress outside of the embassy in washington, d.c., i was outside of that scrum while was happening. >> you know, i'm proud to be standing here with my father. >> right before clooney was arrested, i was able to speak with him as he was escorted away by police. >> i'll stand together here with my father, so that at one moment in time when you people ask you where were you, where did you stand i want to say i'm standing on the right side of history. >> the father and son frafled to darfur in 2006 and have been trying bring attention to the regime. chris cillizza is managing editor of post politics.com and nbc haes david gregory is moderator of meet the press. you interviewed george clooney, he will be on "meet the press" this sunday. he is one of the celebrity using his fame, as angelina jolie has, he has traveled there and our own ann curry as you know, he talks and talk and walks the walk. >> and he knows that people will follow after him and get a lot of attention. he th

or was it about george clooney.ean i would rather watch it and get the movie about issues in the middle east than watch him be arrested. >> he does raise the visibility of the issue. >> to where though? >> he went to the white house yesterday. i don't know what the result of that conversation was but presumably, he met with the president. he testified in congress. >> yes, but i think it is also that people are concentrating on the problems that we have here in this country as well. there are people who go to bed hungry every night in america so it is understandably difficult for people dealing with hunger right here at home to be thinking about it halfway around the globe. >> that is a really important issue and i think it is an issue that feeds into -- we were just talking about the fact that there are people running for president who don't want it anywhere, even in humanitarian causes overseas but because presumably, they want to either cut taxes here or hopefully invest in our own citizens but it is a tough issue

george clooney is out of jail.id to land behind bars. >> reporter: clooney is one of several people arrested during a peaceful protest outside the sudanese embassy. [ crowd noise ] >> reporter: police cuffed him and took him away in a secret service van. the actor trying to draw attention to crimes happening in sudan. clooney along with his father and other act #1ri69s were #r5e69ed -- activists were arrested when they crossed a police line. >> immediately we need humanitarian aid to be allowed into the sudan before it becomes the worst humanitarian crisis in the world. immediately. the second thing we are here to ask is a very simple thing. is that the government in car tomb to stand randomly killing its own minute men, women, and children. >> reporter: demonstrators blocked the steps to the sudanese embassy to symbolize the country's block of food and other aid. they joined the a-list protest to put pressure on the sudanese government. >> do everything possible, keep ourselves all the time here. until the interna

clooney then made the move that got him, his father and 11 others arrested. they crossed onto the embassy's lawn. it's a misdemeanor offense, an act of planned civil disobedience and it got clooney charged with one count of disorderly crossing of a police line, but he says it's worth it if it helps the sundanese people. >> it needs to start now because best estimates are tens of thousands of people are going to die from starvation that is manmade. this isn't a familiar in. this is a manmade tragedy. >> reporter: in washington kristin fisher, 9 news now. >>> topping tonight's campaign 2012 coverage, president obama was on his home turf for a major fundraiser in chicago this afternoon. during his speech to supporters the president called out republicans on their continued attacks on his record as president. seats at this fundraiser in chicago ranged from $2,500 to $10,000. from there the commander in chief will hop on air force one for a campaign fundraiser in atlanta hosted by film producer tyler perry. >>> rick santorum one of the republicans looking to unsea

step this way. >> reporter: clooney and the others were taken to the d.c. police second district station in northwest for processing then released after paying a fine. >> so what we're facing now is hundreds of thousands of people who are looking at the possibility of starvation because the rainy season is coming. it needs to start now. because best estimates are tens of thousands of people are going to die from starvation that is manmade. this isn't a famine. >> reporter: naacp president benjamin jealous also arrested during the protest shared a cell with clooney. >> it's sort of a father/son thing where he and his father got into this together. and his dad was here who's not a young man by any stretch. going to jail with us. >> reporter: clooney has been a presence in washington over the last two weeks. he showed a very graphic video of his trip to sudan to the u.s. senate. and he was also a guest at the official dinner at the white house. jackie bensen, news 4. >>> one of the creators of that kony 2012 documentary is in the hospital tonight. police detai

way to go, coach. ♪ >>> as we mentioned, george clooney had a full week.sday he testified before congress, then attended a state dinner at the white house. thursday he met with the president again. today he got arrested at the embassy of sudan during a planned protest against the conflict in darfur. nbc's andrea mitchell covered the protest and has never really believed in covering a story at arm's distance. today she got a whole lot closer than that. as she reports tonight, it's all an effort to do exactly what it did, focus attention on atrocities taking place overseas. >> reporter: he is using his celebrity to sound the alarm, trying to arouse the world to stop atrocities by the leader of sudan. >> we are not talking about military intervention. not talking about money. we are talking about political wills. work on the sanctions, freeze this man's money so he can't buy weapons. >> reporter: time is short. in weeks the rains will start. urgently needed aid won't get to a half million starving people. desperate times call for desperate measures. today the

clooney and his father, nick clooney, were among 17 people taken into custody. police pulled out the handcuffs after they refused to stop the protest. clooney has traveled to the sudan several times and is trying to get support to stop the government there from slaughtering its citizens. >> we need humanitarian aid to be allowed in the sudan before it becomes the worst humanitarian crisis in the world, immediately. >> kony paid a $100 fine and joked about it afterward. the arrest caps a week where clooney testified before congress about sudan and attended a state dinner with president obama. >>> all right, let's go back and talk about the weather again. you know how much damage this storm has caused around the bay area. now we will have more on the storm. >> it has been fast-moving and intense. here is where it is located on live doppler 7hd. it is from the south bay and down toward the monterey bay. we are getting downpours right now. we take you down to the street level and blossom hill road in san jose is getting wet. bailey avenue, downpours as well heading

clooney was just there. works in bringing more tension attention and putting pressure on sudan. >> it certainly brings in the cameras. it's getting us talking about ichlt he said if action is not taken, we'll have a humanitarian disaster. how can people push to get something done? our government realizing they want them to get involved? >> well, there are a couple of pressure points. one is sudan unpressured, made some concessions to outside pressure. and there's some possibility it could be embarrassed into allowing food into the mountains, for example. if that doesn't happen, then we are, as clooney says, going to face a famine in about two months. maybe three months. then the question will be, do we have air drops of food. do we send food to the border to get it in? this attention will lead outside countries to be more forceful and robust to get them in. >> nicholas kristoff. george clooney is set to be chris matthews' guest on hardball later today. >>> breaking news here on msnbc as we were telling you a

actor george clooney and person pendergrass just back after a trip to sudan and testified before congress about the campaign of murder they saw in the region. george, let me start west you. what is it you saw you want the rest of the world to see and pay attention to. >> we went up to the mountains that is one of the areas still not settled after the north-south became the newest credit in the world. there is some rebel fighting obviously. we went up a road that was pretty rough. they go back and forth. there was a lot of dead bodies on the road. the north had it for a while and the rebels took it back, that kind of stuff. as we got further up into the mountains, we see burned out village, burned farms. the people have had to move into caves because everyday they are indiscriminately bombed. we were there as those chinese 200 and 300 millimeter rockets came over. we saw three of them hit. we got a good idea of what the move is. it is to hurt them if you can, not that accurate, terrify them and starve them to death. >> is the ethnic cleansing, no question about it. >> there is no one that

and why was george clooney under arrest? the film star has been making a stand. >> hello, welcome once again, the american soldier accused of murdering 16 civilians in afghanistan has been named as staff sergeant robert bales. within the past hour, an air force cargo jet arrived at kansas city international airport, about an hour from the military personnel of ft. leavenworth in kansas where he's expected to be transferred. earlier friday the afghan president accused the united states of failing to cooperate into an investigation into the killings. quentin summerville reports from kabul. >> the blood of afghans spilled inside their own homes. they were killed mostly by a single shot to the head. the gunman, an american soldier. he gathered them together, including the children and burned their bodies. translator: we started with a prayer. when the villagers came to the presidential palace. >> 11 people were killed in one home, raged this villager. they were acting like animals smashing down doors. president karzai listened a

george clooney, why is this so important to you? there are so many parts of the planet that are in conflict, where people are suffering. and why this trip? >> well, before we talk about this trip, initially, you know, when you're in the position i'm in, part of your job is to try to shine a late in areas. i'm not a policy maker. my job is to try to bring attention to places that don't have it. when i started reading articles in the "new york times" in 2005 about what was going o it seemed like this was a place where bringing a spotlight could actually have some effect or at least there wasn't enough of a spotlight on it. so i gawld involved becaus got . that was daughte daughter darfot working with them and it gets in your blood stream and you have a responsibility to them and you continue to go back. this trip in particular was important to us because there is violence first of all going on against civilians, and there's also a ticking time clock of danger which is as a rainy season comes and these people are hiding in caves becaus

clooney and his father, nick clooney, were among 17 people taken into custody.ice pulled out the handcuffs after they refused to stop the protest. clooney has traveled to the sudan several times and is trying to get support to stop the government there from slaughtering its citizens. >> we need humanitarian aid to be allowed in the sudan before it becomes the worst humanitarian crisis in the world, immediately. >> kony paid a $100 fine and joked about it afterward. the arrest caps a week where clooney testified before congress about sudan and attended a state dinner with president obama. >>> all right, let's go back and talk about the weather again. you know how much damage this storm has caused around the bay area. now we will have more on the storm. >> it has been fast-moving and intense. here is where it is located on live doppler 7hd. it is from the south bay and down toward the monterey bay. we are getting downpours right now. we take you down to the street level and blossom hill road in san jose is getting wet. bailey avenue, downpours as well heading acro

actor george clooney is under arrest. the actor joined local lawmakers and hundreds of activists to demonstrate against the sudanese embassy, occluding leaders there of war crimes. john gonzalez is live with breaking details. >> in an effort to fight genocide in sudan, about a dozen protesters were arrested moments ago as they marched down massachusetts avenue to the sudanese embassy. among them actor george clooney, his father, and the president of the naacp. we spoke with george clooney before. the before the well-known actor and activist was handcuffed and arrested on a d.c. street. it was an outcome that he expected even though he jokingly told me otherwise. >>will you be arrested? >> i hope not. >> they're accusing the sudanese president of war crimes and genocide. >> the idea of the government attacking its own people. innocent women and children. >> the actor was arrested alongside congressman jim moran and martin luther king iii. >> without any reason. >> george clooney is asking for u.s. help to stop the crisis o

police arrested george clooney and dozens of others. they are demanding sudan stop blocking mood and aid from reaching hundreds of thousands of its people. news4's trace illcousins is l-- live in washington. we saw them arrest george clooney. >> reporter: also congressman moran was taken into custody as well. let me show you what it is looking like down the street. that's where george cloony aey a number of other activists were speaking before a number of them were taken into custody. accused of denying humanitarian aid to reach the people of sudan. hundreds of people gathered here in protest including actor george clooney who as we just said was arrested. taken into custody. he just returned from a trip to sudan. he was joined by congressman andrews, jim mcgovern, jim moran, also taken into custody. martin luther king iii and hundreds of protesters who have been down here. pretty write much all morning. they are demanding immediate action to top s-- stop sudan's use as a weapon. half a million people in sudan's newland mountains risk s

george clooney has political clout and assets. he was among the guests at the state banquet in honor of david cameron. >> this is your third and final warning, you will be arrested. >> george clooney and his father come on a dozen activist deliberately defying the police knowing perfectly well what would follow. -- george clooney and his father, along with a dozen activists, deliberately defying the police. >> the latest version of the apple ipad went on sale today. another big push for the electronics giant. there is a growing focus on what it takes to make these products. the company's code of conduct for suppliers insist that all workers must be safe, well paid, and rested, wherever they are in the world. we have spoken to workers who make ipad parts in china and they say they have little choice but to work excessively long hours. >> the broken bones and the burns are almost 3 months old but still visible. these men and women were making parts for ipads when a cloud of aluminum dust exploded, the second such explosion in a year

clooney is a high-profile critic of the khartoum government. >> the united states has condemned northorean plans to launch a satellite next month. >> north korean state television says the communications satellite will be lifted into orbit by a long-range carrier market to mark the 100th anniversary of the birth of the country's founding leader. it was slammed three years go by the u.s. and its allies in the region as cover for a testing missile technology. >> returning to the wld of spts. th week and wilushe in the start of the new 2012 formula one racing season at the australian grand prix. >> the first training session has already taken place. it was a pretty heavy day. heavy rain turning the circuit into a skid park. few drivers managed to keep their cars on the track. some of them, like the defending champion, had a really terrible time. schumacher drew on his experience to upstage young stars with a rare returno the top. >> should marker theost successful driver of all time is preparing for what is probably going to be his swan song season. ♪ >> schumacher on perhaps his final m

♪ >>> george clooney is under arrest.anticipated to draw attention to a humanitarian crisis there. here's what he had to say a few minutes ago. >> the second thing we are here to ask is a very simple thing, is for the government to stop randomly killing innocent men, women and children. stop raping them and stop starving them. >> and that's a big focus for aid organizations that have been trying to get in there on the border of sudan and now south sudan and get help to the people there along the border. we saw clooney and his dad nick being arrested. martin luther king jr. iii. this is something george clooney is very passionate about. he believes as one of the highest paid and certainly one of the most famous actors in the world he can really draw attention to this that would otherwise be ignored. we'll have more throughout the day on msnbc. that's going to wrap up this hour of "jansing and co." i'm chris jansing. ttd#: 1-800-345-2550 ttd#: 1-800-345-2550 let's talk about the cookie-cutter retirement advice ttd#: 1-800-3

>>> and george clooney's here with us tonight. the actor/activist just came back from the border of sudan and south sudan, the site of all the killing over there. he's bringing attention to the crisis. and george clooney will be right here with us on "hardball". >>> let me finish tonight with the great big slugfest i've been hoping for for a long time. it's now going to be romney versus santorum, mano y mano with the big bout coming this tuesday in illinois. >>> we begin with santorum's southern sweep. won both of those last night. republican strategist steve schmidt ran the mccain/palin campaign in 2008 and eugene robinson is a msnbc political analyst. steve, we've got to start with you, the inside man. what is your feeling about this race? >> well, i think it's become a two-person race, chris. for newt gingrich, he said that he was relevant in this race, that he had a southern strategy. you have to win states like mississippi and alabama if you're going to put together a southern strategy, so i think that's he's effectively fini

george clooney has political clout and access. he was among the guests at the white house on wednesday. >> today's outcome was never in doubt. george clooney and his father among a dozen activists, deliberately define the police, knowing perfectly well what would follow. after years of activism on sudan, mr. clinton that -- mr. clooney shows no signs of giving up. he joked and reminded reporters what this is all about. paul adams for bbc news in washington. >> the latest version of the ipad went on sale today, another big promotional push for the electronic giant. focus on whating it takes to make the products. the company code of conduct for supplies insists all workers must be safe, barely paid, and well rested wherever they are in the world. -- fairly paid, and well rested wherever they are in the world. bbc spoke with workers in china who say they have little choice but to work long hours. >> the broken bones and burns are almost three months old but still visible. these men and women were making parts for ipad's when a cloud

that raises the price of oil. >> clooney asked the senate to strengthen sanctions against sudan. he meets with the president later this week. >> mark your calendars movie fans, oscars organizers set the date for next year, taking place february 24th. they will return to the hollywood and highland center. the venue used to be called kodak theater. and you can watch right here on abc 7. >> already getting excited about that. >> we'll be right back. >>> new tonight at 6:00 authorities raid a marijuana farm in the south bay hills, how this pot farm can be harmful to local environment, also, these lines aren't because of weather delays but a computer glitch. we'll explain what is going on z justice for six priests murdered in central america. the special honor for the bay area man working to make it happen. coming up at 6:00. >> and you'll soon be able to tie the naut on board the titanic, well, a replica of it. >> the experience is opening soon in belfast, northern ireland where it was built and it's full of items from the real wreckage. >> and april 15th will be the 100th anniversar

i caught up with clooney in washington.with john pendergast, co-founder of the enough project. >> george clooney, john pendergast, thank you for joining us. we're all trying to figure out whether south sudan, the newest country in the world, is going to make it, whether it's succeeding. there have been clashes and disputes over oil, but you put up -- you raised money to put up satellites to be able to tell us what was going on when no one was looking. >> right. >> what did the satellites tell you? >> it's an interesting thing. you know, we went to these people, digital globe, who, by the way, donated the time, and it's expensive to do. we said so what happens if, like when you google earth my house, why can't we do that to war criminals, basically? they said, okay, well well, let's see what we can do. in the last few months, in particular the last very recently, the last month or so, we have been able to get photographs of mass graves. it's very hard to catch things like antnovs. we caught pictures of them yesterday activel