>> atf agents trying to arrest david koresh and search the branch davidian compound. ation that winter morning was the culmination of an eight-month investigation. the feds believed koresh was illegally converting semi-automatic ar-15s like this one into the fully automatic machine guns soldiers use. the federal agents had rented a house across the street, posing as college students, trying to buddy up to koresh. but he never bought the act. >> we knew we were being watched from across the road. we knew there was some kind of government agency -- agents over there. >> atf planned a military-style raid, what they call dynamic entry. it hinged on the element of surprise. hide 76 agents in innocuous looking cattle trailers and strike while the davidian men were outside, away from their guns. >> we practiced for it. they drilled over and over again. >> the pressure for federal agent to act rose when the local newspaper published an expose about koresh's multiple wives and sex with underage girls. with this side bar, the law watches but has done little. >> and so as atf is

. >> my name is david koresh. >> to his followers, david koresh was a messiah. >> god speaks to me. >> manifestation of god in the flesh. >> we believe this man had the truth. >> but to the u.s. government, david koresh was a threat. >> machine guns and explosive devices. >> in 1993, they went to war in waco. >> this ain't america anymore when the atf has that kind of power. >> it ended in catastrophe. 86 people dead. including at least 24 children. >> there had been nothing like this before. the siege was new and unique in america law enforcement history. >> if you distrust the government, waco is going to be symbolic to a lot of people of what they really fear. >> i'm talking to you, somebody's going to get hurt. >> if he asks god for some kind of sign and god gives it, what does that mean? >> every saturday morning, clive doyle and shelia martin study the bible. >> the lord, god, will come with strong hand and shall rule -- >> they are about all that's left in waco of the branch dafdians. an offshoot of the seventh dayed a adventist church. it issued its own currency during the gre

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on the state agents tried to serve an arrest warrant to the cult leader david koresh.ur agents were killed. a standoff took place for the next several weeks. on april 19th agents launched a second assault on the compound. that compound burst into flames and about 80 people inside were killed many of them children. >>japan withheld crucial information about the meltdown's at a nuclear power plant. that is according to in your report a powerful earthquake and tsunami hit the country last march causing the meltdowns. the rebuilt japan initiative foundation said that government leaders played down the risks to their own people and to the united states the study took six months and more than 300 people were interviewed. >>fetch plans for new oil pipeline in the united states makes a comeback ... but on a much smaller and less controversial scale. transcanada announced that it will build a pipeline that will stretch from oklahoma-texas the company initially wanted to build a pipeline that ran from canada all the way to the gulf coast oppose a concern that it would hurt the e

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