so did you know the drug enforcement agency organizes drugs in america in the five categories depending how hard on how harmful they are and how addictive it how addictive they are and what the medicinal benefit benefits of each are excuse me the da calls these categories quote unquote schedules with schedule five referring to the least dangerous drugs with widely accepted medical use drugs like cough suppressants and and tie dye reels and schedule one referring to the most dangerous drugs with absolutely no medical value drugs like heroin l.s.d. and ecstasy in between within schedules two three and four you'll find other drugs like cocaine codine steroids opium methadone amphetamines all the which are dangerous yet have redeeming medical value that keeps them out of the most dangerous classification of schedule one drugs and then there's marijuana. a drug that has never killed anyone a drug that study after study has shown to treat numerous medical ailments and a drug that's proven not to be physically addictive so what schedule do you think the da has put marijuana in well it's not sc

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as the drug enforcement agency was fighting a war on drugs across the border, would only reach a level if they were tied to profits from narcotics. we believe that this case will provide important lessons for the global financial system. hsbc executives are expected to make a formal policy when they are groomed to buy u.s. senators in washington on tuesday. >> this giant bronze lion has been guarding the asia headquarters since the early 1920's. he represents a good luck and good fortune. two qualities that the bank will need plenty of. bbc news, hong kong. >> our business presenter is here. given what we just heard, you would of thought share prices have gone all the way down. that has not happened. >> absolutely. they have traded in hong kong. >> sorry. a mistake there. i will keep talking. this is traded in hong kong. it traded in london. share prices up about 0.25%. part of the reason, we're being told by the experts, is this has gone on for decades. this investigation by the u.s. senators has taken one year. they have reviewed nearly 1.5 million documents. at the end of the day, w

relationship between the sentences go police department and the drug enforcement it -- the sans francisco police department and the drug enforcement agency? >> i do not feel qualified to answer that question. those relationships are complicated. i know there is some interaction, but to give a definitive answer, i do not think i could do that now. >> so they would have that information or be more qualified to speak to that? >> probably the commander of the investigations commission, but i am glad to give effect to the commission with -- to get back to the condition with a more comprehensive statement. i know there are numerous relationships and a not such i could describe intelligently. >> my other one has to do with if you could give us some idea as to what the federal financial contribution to the city is that is earmarked for drug enforcement if any. >> i do not know. >> my final question is activities in the bayview community which assistance in which -- assistance from the highway patrol who is employed, are those activities aimed at the y are rest -- at dui arrest? how often has the department had to bring in other agents with a tra

drug enforcement agency personnel on board. there were more than 100 planes coming into the country with drugs. interdictions of drug operations do happen. death and injury are not the norm. >> cocaine has become the curse of the honduras. what was a backwater is now a battleground in this seemingly never-ending war on drugs. bbc news, muskego -- mosquito coast, honduras. >> you are watching "bbc world news america." still to come, elton john talks to the abc -- bbc about how they haven't acted his life and what inspired him to write a book about it -- as they have impacted his life and what inspired him to write a book about it. in north korea, a top army official has been relieved of his post. he has been a constant picture at the side of kim jong-un and was regarded as one of the key figures helping support the new leader after his father's death. the surprising announcement comes just days after he last appeared in the public. -- in public. >> this was, until today, one of north korea's most powerful men. as chief of the cou

the drug enforcement agency leading a nationwide bust on drugs like synthetic mariner marijuana and bath salts. to the at least 90 people are behind bars. ats have confiscated more than $36 million in cash. these types of drugs are typically found in specialty shops and convenience stores. they were being marketed as spices, incense, and even plant food. >>> one of the men sexually abused by jerry sandusky in the penn state showers plans to sue the university. the victim's identity is not being released. lawyers for the victim say the school's reckless behavior contributed to the abuse. they also claim the abuse rasted many years after that shower incident. lawyers released voice mails left by sandusky just last fall in them. sandusky can be heard saying i love you to the victim. >> i'm just calling to see i don't know if you had an interest in going on a penn state game this saturday. and when you get this message, give me a call. and i'll just talk to you later. thanks. i love you. >> meantime, sandusky's wife dot toy told reporterses yesterday she still loves her husband, he's, quote,

. >> the drug enforcement agency has a new targets in its site. oss the country. >> they can lead to violence and even death. >> it is a massive nationwide crackdown on designer synthetic drugs. in city after city similar scenes played out. agents walking out with bags of evidence. >> we have thousands of pounds of product here. we believe we will have large sums of currency as well. >> they raided targets and 109 cities. after a raid at this san diego business, one man said he was always a bit suspicious. >> it would be a guy walking around in a lab coat with gobbles on in the parking lot. it makes you think something not normal. >> the dea says these substances can be found in smoke shops and even convenience stores and gas stations. >> sold and legitimate looking packaging, these insidious substances are marketed to teenagers and young adults with the catchy titles. >> experts say the drugs can cause extreme paranoia and of violent episodes. in the aftermath of the crackdown, the dea says there are 5 million fewer packets of these drugs on the s

you should know as chief administrator for the drug enforcement agency. eroin worse for someone's health than marijuana? >> all illegal drugs are bad-- >> does this mean that you don't know. >> cenk: of course, of course, of course heroin is worse. why would you put this woman in charge. don't worry, i find out in an article in "gq" that president obama might rethink his stance. according to ongoing discussions with obama aides and associates if the president wins a second term he plans to attack another war, the four decades of the drug war. it doesn't say how he's going tackle it, so you don't know if he's going to be more in favor of legalizing or actually even harsher than the war on drugs. why are they doing this? this is obviously a leak to a friendly reporter saying why don't you put the word there yeah for young voters, we're going to soften our stance but don't say we're going to soften the stance because that might cost our voters who are afraid to say that. write a vague article about how we're going to change but not tell people what we're goin

-mexican border, the drug enforcement agency found two drug tunnels but these are not ordinary re renorced, ventilated and lighted all the way through. they run from arizona into northern mexico. the de ea. estimates it took more than a year to build and cost $1.5 million. >>> just one day after gop presidential candidate mitt romney woos booed, vice president joe biden received a warm welcome by the naacp. he delivered the keynote address at the organization's annual meeting. during his speech, biden talked about all of president obama's accomplishments including the affordable care act. >> he prevailed where no president had done before. he was right. he was right. >> president obama won 95% of the black vote in 2008. the president did not attend the meeting this year but did he send a pre-taped video message. >>> a metro train derailment caused by the extreme heat. that is what happened last friday on the green line. >> up next, detail of what metro is doing now in hopes of preventing a repeat of this. now, let's check in with tucker. >> we've got clouds moving in. a few showers ou

the drug enforcement agency helped lead a nationwide crackdown on drugs like synthetic marijuana and bath salts. in addition to the arrests, police recovered more than $36 million in cash. these types of drugs are typically found in specialty shops and convenience stores. they were being mart we as spices, intense, and even plant foot. >>> we are following a developing story. dozens of flights nationwide are canceled or delayed this morning because of storms across the oath cost last night. several are for flights in and out of washington. the situation was even worse last night, especially in new york. laguardia saw more than 150 cancelations. >>> in new york, one of the communityst hardest hit, a tornado touched down there splitting trees in half, blow g ing roofs off homes. the national weather is vservic reports other twisters in new york and pennsylvania area. but want to know what last night's storm felt like think back to last month. forecasters in new york say it was a derecho. this is what it looked like in the big apple as clouds rolled in and the winds picked up. scary sce

they are supposed to report an incident like that to the drug enforcement agency.f fact, whenever even a single narcotic is missing, if they, for example, find a sir syringe of phentinol missing, they're supposed to report that. but often they don't. they don't report it. they just want to get rid of the perpetrator and move on. >> so he moves on to the next hospital in 2008, ends up at exitor hospital in new hampshire. did they notice anything? >> it got to the point where his supervisor called him in and said what's going on here? he said oh, my aunt died. i got the news last night. i've been crying since 3:00 in the morning. his supervisor said well, why don't you just go home. and according to a federal official we talked to, he said it appeared like the supervisor just bought the aunt death story. turned out his aunt didn't really die. >>> some video surfaces that shows the two iowa girls missing since july 13, riding their bikes on the days they disappeared. the time line matches up to when they left the house. tito jackson's son t.j. has been appointed tempo

in agent's on the scene what the drug enforcement agency in charge of the rain. dow jones is the hottest five plays and is almost at 13,000 once again. while most stocks are up is down. it was $30 a share at face spokes ipo but now it's at $22. it is trading at 2309. it was at $38 on its opening ipo. it was some of the disappointing to some investors. >> when ever you have that many people using a service is a lot of potential. keycorp are using it for more mobile applications and do not have a solid in comes stream from those gets. -- yet. we'll be right back as the kron 4 morning news continues. púwnw >>darya: will tran is that the garlic festival let's go to welfare >>will: they are expecting about 100,000 people to show up. i can tell you at this place a low they plan on going through 20,000 lbs. of beef and 7,000 lbs. of calabar a plus 2 t of barley. -- garlic. if you come down here a cost $17 for adults and $12 for children. will tran reporting from and they gilroy a garlic festival, kron 4 news. >>james: we may see some patchy fog this morning but by the a

burn out gang operation was a joint effort at the oakland police, the united states drug enforcement. the secret agency and the da. >> a southwest plane landed safely today after the smell of smoke filled the cabin. it was coming las vegas and was miles out when the captain declared the emergenciy. the faa is working with southwest to try to find what caused that smell. >> in the wake of storms across the midwest utility crews struggling to restore power to millions of customers. the storm system affected more than four million homes and businesses in seven states and the district of columbia. many people in tyler county west virginia have been without power since friday. a heat waiver has settled in on the area. >> somebody called and said they were giving water away here. we came and got some here but it's 104 degrees in the shade at house right now. >> the president has declared federal emergencies in ohio and west virginia. >>> thousands of fire vacantes are returning home in colorado springs. the officials are calling the aldo canyon fire the worst in that state's history. at one point more than 3

drugs. the dea took action after local law enforcement agencies asked them for help dealing with this problemand bath salts. in city after city similar scenes played out. agents walking out with bags of evidence. >> thousands and thousands of pounds of product here. we are going to have large sums of currency as well. >> reporter: the drug enforcement administration raided targets in 109 cities. after a raid at this san diego business, one man said he was always a bit suspicious. >> he would come around and the big guy walking around in a lab coat with goggles in the parking lot. of course it makes you think, there's something not normal. >> reporter: the dea says substances can be found in smoke shops even convenience stores and gas stations. they're often disguised innocently even sold in wrappers with cartoon characters. >> sold in legitimate-looking packaging, these insidious substances are marketed directly to teenagers and to young adults with benign and catchy titles. >> reporter: experts say the drugs can cause extreme paranoia and violent episodes. even death. in the aftermath of thi

drugs is quite low compared to the profitability of these other areas." the united states take our response ability to dismantle organizations operating within our own borders very seriously. last year united states law enforcement agencies dismantled 612 drug-trafficking organizations that were on the attorney general target list. that focuses on a major drug- trafficking organizations that operate in our own country. we have interagency task forces operating in every part of the country to disrupt a major drug- trafficking distribution networks within the united states. we welcome the dialogue on the best tactics to address the threat posed by transnational criminal organizations. we recognize it is appropriate to continue to examine what works best. transnational criminal networks would not disappear if drugs were made legal. these organizations do not derive all of their revenue through drugs. they would not simply disband if drugs were legalized. institutions like csis play an important role in developing a rational approach to the international drug is you. too often we continue to face this polarized debate. this administration is committed to the way forward. legalization is not a policy nor is locking every offe

responsibility to disrupt and dismantle major drug-trafficking organizations operating in our own borders very seriously. the united states law-enforcement agencies disrupted or dismantled 612 drug-trafficking organizations that were on the attorney general's target list. that focuses and major drug trafficking and violent criminal organizations that offer in our own country. we have interagency task forces operating in every part of this country to identify and disrupt a major drug-trafficking distribution networks within the united states and we welcome the dialogue on the best tactics to address the threat posed by transnational criminal organizations. we recognize it is appropriate to continue to examine what works best and we recognize transnational criminal networks would not disappear if drugs were made legal. these organizations don't derive all their revenue from drugs as i just mentioned and they would not simply disband if drugs were legalized. institutions like csi s play an important role balancing the approach to the international drug issue. too often we continue to face this polarized debate. legalization that one end of the spect

agencies have been involved. if there are objectives, local authorities would seem obligated to provide detailed explanations. the execution of drug law enforcement policy is extremely harsh on african-americans, latinos, and young people, while favoring whites or older citizens driving the cities. not only makes little sense, but the result of such a policy exacerbates racial disparity. serious analysis is needed on how to defend such consequences. finally, it is arguable they amount to a violation of human rights under the elimination of all forms of racial discrimination and the cause of the international covenant on civil and political rights, both ratified by the united states and for which census to have strict compliance. sentences for is subject to national and state requirements in a non--- sentences do is subject to national and state requirements. -- san francisco is subject to national and state requirements, get extreme disparities in drug enforcement and paralysis in addressing them conflicts to these -- with these commitments. when a san francisco human rights commission is in place and where the commission was originally inspired

other nations' coast guards and law enforcement agencies, so within the just the first seven months the fact that they've brought in over a billion dollars worth of drugs has been an incredibly successful and what's even more unique is what they've told us that over time, the navy ship, when they're in these indictments has a u.s. coast guard law enforcement attachment these are the guys specially trained over years to go on and identify drug runners and be able to board their ships and they're specially trained, so a navy ship will run up a coast guard cutter flag, warship will then transition from being a military drug operation, military warship, to becoming u.s. coast guard and these drugs that you can see on board of the "uss nicolas," was over this -- over this five-month period among these six different interdictions that they were able to nab, this large amount of drugs. >> so john, before i let you go, let me ask you, i knowthe coast guard has trained s.w.a.t. teams now and then, of course, you mentioned, you know, the navy has incredible assets with these warships, but still, these drug cartels have unbelievable amounts of weapons. so what ha

tell you they don't tell you which agencies you know from law enforcement or even the one facility you may just have not counted that also strictly speaking a foreign drug cartels could be classified as foreign powers so i wouldn't be surprised if ten years from now we found out that a lot of that national security surveillance wasn't investigating you know. so much as maybe. so basically there's a lot of spying going on all the time and your information is safe and then what we know we were out of time unfortunately but the that i think you feel better yeah it makes me feel so grave that this of of writers are also they're making money off this because they're charging the government in order to you know do all the paperwork and processes down and they claim that they're still losing but i don't know it just sounds to me like you got eight million bucks out of it and they've probably don't want to complain about that all that much joy and thanks so much for joining us tonight. are you guys it's time for another quick break but only return another industry isn't bracing self regulation but are the feds going to keep oversight on man then the conservativ

law enforcement is saying, that could have only happened if those included illegal drug proceeds. so what responsibility would have hsbc had or this government agencyortant to note that this probe is not revealing new charges. mexican authorities, u.s. officials were well aware that these funds were coming through the hsbc affiliate. however there was not the proper enforcement action by u.s. banking regulators to make sure that hsbc was held accountable for monitoring illicit transactions going on in their own banking institutions and so while this is not new criticism on hsbc, it is renewed criticism for federal banking regulators on making sure that banks are held accountable for wrong doing and failed risk management and failed anti-money laundering controls. it doesn't happen in this case for several years and the problems were allowed to fester worldwide. >> and trouble with banking oversight, not a headline they want to see when everything else going on. nela anderson, thanks for being here. >> thanks for having me. >> gone without a trace. >> thank you, bye. >> we're saying good-bye again to her. a new effort to find two young iowa girls wh