and by reva and david logan, committed to investigative journalism as the guardian of the public interest. additional funding is provided by the park foundation, dedicated to heightening public awareness of critical issues. and by the frontline journalism fund. >> narrator: on the day of the earthquake, the national penitentiary held 4,500 inmates: powerful gang leaders and hundreds of their foot soldiers, men accused of robbery, kidnapping and murder. at 4:50, they were finishing their evening meal. >> narrator: terrified prisoners, packed 300 to a cell, tore down the gates with their bare hands. facing them were the prison guards. >> narrator: as daylight faded, the guards began to panic. >> narrator: even prisoners crushed by falling masonry managed to crawl free. >> narrator: the escaped prisoners melted into the slums of the devastated capital. among them, gangsters who'd once controlled much of port au prince. now the earthquake gave them the chance to do so again. the world promised to help the haitians rebuild a new and better country. with the escaped gangsters still on the loose

and by reva and david logan. committed to investigative journalism as the guardian of the public interest. additional funding is provided by the park foundation. dedicated to heightening public awareness of critical issues. and by the frontline journalism fund, with a grant from millicent bell through the millicent and eugene bell foundation. additional funding for frontline's expanded broadcast season is provided by the bill & melinda gates foundation. >> narrator: before they filled liberation square in cairo, down a side street, in a small office, they are planning a revolution. they call themselves the april 6th youth movement. >> narrator: they have a list of demands, and a plan: a national protest fueled by the internet. ahmed maher is their leader. >> ahmed maher is a civil engineer. almost compulsively quiet, compulsively limelight-avoiding young guy. but very tech savvy. >> narrator: david wolman from wired magazine has been reporting inside april 6th movement and watching maher use the web to spread ant

and by reva and david logan.ommitted to investigative journalism as the guardian of the public interest. additional funding is provided by the park foundation. dedicated to heightening public awareness of critical issues. and by the frontline journalism fund, with a grant from millicent bell through the millicent and eugene bell foundation. >> bergman: we all die, two and a half million americans every year. sometimes, the cause of death is no surprise. sometimes, death comes suddenly-- from accidents, heart attacks, homicides. there are medical experts whose job it is to figure out why and how people die. they are called forensic pathologists or medical examiners, and they perform the postmortem, the autopsy, your last physical exam. ( saw buzzing ) one of the leading forensic pathologists in america is dr. marcella fierro. >> when i was treating live patients, i spoke with them. and when i have dead patients, i talk to them, too. >> bergman: but they don't talk back. >> they talk back to me with their physical

and by reva and david logan. committed to investigative journalism as the guardian of the public interest. additional funding is provided by the park foundation. dedicated to heightening public awareness of critical issues. and by the frontline journalism fund. major funding for frontline's expanded broadst sean is provided by the bill and melinda gates foundation. >> narrator: it was just after midnight, september 9, 2001. >> a trooper was doing what a trooper would do. saw a speeder. pulled over the speeder. ( siren wailing ) >> narrator: the maryland state trooper ran the driver's name through the local police database... >> and he gave him a ticket. the driver, from all accounts, was polite. had proper registration, license. there was nothing that the trouper could have done, other than to write the ticket, tell him "have a nice day"... or ave a nice night." that was it. >> narrator: the driver headed to newark. he was meeting friends at the airport. his name was ziad jarrah. >> united flight 93 crashed near

and by reva and david logan. committed to investigativemi[Ñ journalism as the guardian of the public interest. additional funding is provided by the park foundation. committed to raising public awareness.ç p >> last week, the government presented its final report on the buffalo crash of continental 3407-- the deadliest u.s. air accident in eight years. >> it is the watershed accident. >> it's become the symbol of everything that's wrong with the industry. >> the investigation focused on a major transformation in the airline industry. >> today's regional airlines are really the backbone of the domestic network system. >> tonight on frontline, correspondent miles o'brien journeys into the world of thei regional airlines... >> the major airlines created the regional industry as a way of lowering costs. >> ...investigating the financial pressures... >> if we didn't move those airplanes, they didn't make any money. >> ...examining the experience of the pilots... >> boy, in nine months, you were a captain? >> yeah. >>

and by reva and david logan. committed to investigative journalism as the guardian of the public interest. additional funding is provided by the park foundation. dedicated to heightening public awareness of critical issues. >> dretzin: so, it really hit me one night not that long ago. i was in the kitchen and i was cooking dinner, chopping vegetables. and my husband was in the next room on his laptop, and across the table from my husband was my oldest son, who was also on a laptop, doing his homework. wash your hands. did you wash your hands? and my younger kids had picked up my iphone and were playing a game on it or something. and i don't know, it just hit me-- we're all in the same house, but we're also in other worlds. and i don't know, it just kind of snuck up on us. i didn't see it coming. >> these young teenagers on the phones and on the computers, it's amazing. like, when i was growing up, it wasn't like that. >> i just remember, when i went on my honeymoon 25 years ago, we were away for two weeks, and we

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>> david, first of all, we're all horrified and outraged by what seems to have been a horrific attack against lara logan and we've condemned it and doing everything through our embassy and with the egyptian authorities to ensure that we know as much as can be known about this and not those who are responsible are held accountable. >> but no answers yet? >> not yet. >> the other question in egypt and again where critic jim comes from our allies the u.s. publicly and privately pushed mubarak to go without a real sense of what would come next in terms of democratic reform, even a democratic process since there's not an identified opposition leader as of yet. the presence of the muslim brotherhood the most organized opposition force they write this. in the scramble for power among groups of various political identity after last week's ouster of president mubarak, the brotherhood, an islamist group that has held as many as 20% of the seats in egypt's parliament in recent years. said brotherhood spokesman whose forehead bore the callouss of those who prostrate themselves five times a day in prayer. if the bro

david stevenson, ktvu channel 2 news. >>> cbs news reported today that one of its top correspondence was the victim of a brutal attack. cbs posted this imagine of logan taken minutes before she was separated from her security group. tonight she is in a hospital recoverying. >>> president obama said that egypt's neighbors need to get the message that they want freedom. in particular he pointed to iran. >> what's been different is the iranian government's response, which is to shoot people and beat people and arrest people. >>> president obama said he found it ironic that iran would pretend to celebrate what happened in egypt while continuing to oppress it's own people. >>> google's ceo says the company is very, very proud of gonim the google executive who helped organize egypt's uprising. gonim started a facebook page that helped organize the uprising. >>> governor jerry brown today ordered a state government hiring freeze and another move to help cut california deficit. the governor's executive order applys to vacant, seasonal, full and part time positions. there are some exceptions here, including positions that include public safety. >>> bay area p