. >> stephen: it takes place in baltimore, the same fictional city from "the wire."g request spoilers away, can you give the people who haven't heard requested serial a nutshell of what the case is. >> it's the murder of an 18-year-old girl. she was a high school senior at a high school in baltimore county and she went missing one day after school, and nobody knew what had happened to her, and then her body turned up about a month later in a city park. she had been buried. and a few weeks later, her ex-boyfriend, a 17-year-old kid, a fellow senior at the high school was arrested. and -- >> stephen: why reopen this case? you guys week to week go into a different aspect of the case, why go back into his story? this happened in 1999. do you really think that a guy nade adnad said could get a fairer trial after 9/11? is there a goal? are you an advocate journalist? are you trying to advocate for this guy? >> i am not advocate for this guy. what grabbed me about this story is a friend of his family came to me and said, i believe this guy is innocent. the trial was crazy.

an edgy police drama, supposed fictional look at a city ravaged by crime and corruption, after all those with means to leave did. much of what "the wire" portrayed is real. >> this is the area i grew up in. my old high school is over there. >> reporter: i go home to baltimore often. what role does race play in the dynamic here in baltimore? >> you have to let race go. we joke that nobody's white, nobody's black. we're all blue. >> excuse me, excuse me. >> i did ask you a question, flight. >> reporter: distrust between the public and police is palpable. >> they just see the uniform and see a police officer. >> reporter: we spent several dales and nights with comes on the street. a call goes out for a cop in need of backup. plain clothes and uniformed officers speed to the scene, guns drawn. turns out, it was one teenager stopped on possession of drug possession. that show of force made neighbors livid. >> the pedestrians that want to stand around and walk through, we get harassed the most. >> there's such a police presence in this area. you didn't need 20 police officers there, but everyb

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fictional families, and where he consequent wrong. >> hi i'm john siegenthaler, coming uf after "consider this," new york city's mayor asking for a suspension of protests and politics. until after the police officer funerals. break his silence and remembering the life of joe cocker, right after "consider this." >> i'm adam may, you're watching "talk to al jazeera." norman lear. >> what will be for norman lear? >> that's interesting and there will be a next. >> you have any ideas you want to share with us? >> i'd like to do a nondenominational church service for all people who will get together to honor our common humanity. and set our religions aside. because we have killed each other enough in the name of that. in the name of religion. i'd like to be a part of seeing that happen. >> you have a wide range of children right now. 60 to in their teens. what are your reflections upon being a father? >> i'd like to have been a better one. there was a time i had five families on the air. and one, as i put it on mooncrest drive. the one on mooncrest drive, i saw to it that the kids were fed. and they get up in the morning they got dressed, they we

cities and measures as secure as possible. >>> some theet rs in the u.s. have started showing the controversial film, the interview. it's about a fictional plot to assassinate kim jong-un. at one theatrtheatre, more than people lined up. police cars were stationed around the building. sony pictures has initially canceled the release of the comedy after suffering a cyber attack allegedly by north korea. the decision fueled debate in the u.s. over freedom of expression. >> yes, i think they made a mistake. >> the company reversed its decision and released the film on thursday as some 300 mainly independent theatres. >> it wasn't a serious attack on anyone, i think it was just kind of a silly movie that was ultimately a lot of fun. >> i think it's important that we all share freedom of expression and creativity. it's not good to point a finger at just one person or one race. that was the problem i had with it. >> the number of theatres showing the film is only about one tenth of what was planned, but many people went to the premier largely due to the controversy. the coed tor in chief of variety magazine said the decision to cancel the rele

cities may be added. just a small fraction of what was supposed to be the entire country. last week sony scrapped the comedy about the fictional assassination of north korea's leader kim jong-un because national -- because national chains would not show the film due to security concerns. people we talked to say sony is doing a 180 after the backlash of canceling the release. >> yeah they're going to make more money off the controversy than the actual movie. >> i don't understand why the big theaters won't play it. i mean the movie was set to be released. we should be releasing it. >> reporter: in a statement, sony says it's working on another -- open other platforms to release the movie. the studio will release it on its own streaming service called crackle. and right after the announcement this morning, the limited -- the limited release that's going on on thursday seth rogen tweeted -- he's one of the stars of this movie -- the people have spoken. freedom has prevailed and sony didn't give up. the interview will be shown in theaters on christmas day. live in san francisco, ryan takeo, kpix 5. >>> park rangers had to close ha

city. >> fascinating to see australians turning it around. love conquering hate and making sure everybody understands where they feel about this and trying to separate fact from fiction about what the lone wolf was trying to voouf prove. sara james, thank you so much for your reporting. >>> nbc foreign correspondent ayman mohyeldin is here with us on set. two fronts i want to discuss this morning. the more we're learning about the lone wolf aspect of this, it seems more and more likely that it was social media that played a large part in certainly what he was able to learn about isil and isis activities that inspired him to go and do something like this and, of course, the media attention that he gets from it. >> this is an individual who also has a very strong criminal past. he has been politically active in australia. he's appeared at rallies, he's had controversial statements in the past. he's an individual who was on the scene, so to speak, known to authorities. i think the thing that kind of outshines all that have he had a very disturbing criminal past. some sexual charge, the fact he had been wanted in connection with to the murder of his ex-wife. i think when

cities, you can see things. and of course, you've got a rich tradition of actual, real-life spooky science fiction stuff.eep beneath the desert floor. it's out there. >> so where are we? >> ground zero of where everything seems to have started. >> submitted for your approval. norio and his friend, james, two men associated with the new mexico ufo and paranormal forum. >> this is where america's rocketry actually started. >> at the end of world war ii, classified units of the cia and army intelligence were busy sandbagging and sneaking away from probable prosecution, cadres of the world's best rocket scientists. did i mention they were nazis? oh, yeah. many of them were sent around here. >> other very mysterious things even took place allegedly in 1947. >> 1947, roswell incident. >> that's right. that's still a mystery. >> some say. you notice how they always say that in those dubious cheaply reenacted doc shows. "some say" it was the remains of an alien spacecraft. anyhoo, back then they were working on some pretty cool stuff. for instance, a mylar-like weather balloon designed to carry high-resolution c

city, this is "charlie rose." >> margaret atwood is here and she has written more than 40 books and her new book turns to short fiction for the first of it nearly a decade. it is called "stone mattress." i am pleased to have her back at this table. welcome. why did you return? chris it just kind of happens. the first one, i really was on a boat in the arctic and i really did start writing a story about how you would murder someone on the boat in the arctic and get away with it. and there really were five people called bob on board -- >> five people called bob? >> he was a number so you can change them around her >> you call them tales. >> i did not want people to think it was realistic even though we kind of are. i do not think there are any anything in the story. there are certainly people interested in cut off hands that crawl around by themselves and other mem of the form. es >> you would think that short stories would be easier, but it is not necessarily so. >> it is not necessarily so and on the other hand, some of the problems are similar in that if you cannot get the person reading the past the first page, you

fiction on into fact. craig bo isn'twell for cbs-3 "eyewitness news". >>> well, a lot have problems out in center city, todayso we can see a lot of brake lights here. thinks the vine street expressway, the eastbound lanes having more volume right here. between 19th and 23rd street for last half an hour at least or so we have had a lot of police activity on the scene and road closures so they are not allowed to access the vine street expressway. they seem to be having opened so far but you can still see residual delays and vine street local really packing a big punch so far this afternoon due to protesting. so now we can expect these protests to be moving around for quite sometime around city hall and ben franklin parkway and police activity following those protesters around to make sure that everyone is safe. we will keep you updated as they move around the area 95 northbound really heavy, trip so far from the vine street expressway into woodhaven road a 27 minute trip there and schuylkill press way not doing too good heading eastbound, we have there i as well from the blue route to the vine about a 31 minut

city, this is charlie rose. >> charlie: margaret atwood is here. she has written more than 40 books of fictionritical essays. her new book turns to short fiction for the first time in nearly a decade. it is called stone mattress, nine tales. i am pleased to have her back at this table. welcome. >> hello. >> charlie: why did you return to short stories? >> i think its just kind of happened, but the first one, i really was on a boat in the arctic and i really did startÑi< writing a story about how you had murdered somebody on a boat in the arctic and get away with it, and there really were five people called bob on board. >> charlie: five people called bob? >> yeah, you want a number of bobs on board so you can change them around. >> charlie: you call them tales, though, not short stories.>> yeah, i called them s because i didn't want pem to think we were in the land of total social realism, although we kind of are in a way because i don't cheat, i don't think there are any real zombies or anything in the stories, but there are certainly people who are interested in cut off hands that crawl arou

korea because it depicts the fictional assassination of leader kim jong un >>> still to come - as moscow's economic woes push it to beijing, we look at a russian border city doing business with china for years >>> plus the english premier league leaders chelsea try to pull away from the chasing pack. that and the sport is coming up. bsh bsh >> hands up! >> don't shoot! >> hands up! >> don't shoot! >> what do we want? justice! >> when do we want it? >> now! >> they are running towards base... >>...explosions going off we're not quite sure... >> fault lines al jazeera america's emmy winning, investigative, documentary, series... . >> hello again, ukranian military forces delivered supplies to the besieged airports in donetsk. army vehicles carrying water and canned food was allowed through a separatist held check point. donetsk has been hit by shelling that killed more than 4,500 since april. >> russia's strained relationship with the west over the ukraine crisis is pushing it closer to china. the two countries will have to put years of mistrust behind them if they are to make the most of business opportunities. one russian cities that has been doing busine

city of philadelphia. police say a man is held for hours and badly beaten. we'll have more on the investigation coming up at 11:30. >>> and a business made famous by a fictional crook is struck by real life criminals. we'll tell you what went down at tony soprano's old hangout. >>> this is nbc 10 news. >>> philadelphia police have a suspect in custody an they say a man was abducted, held for several hours, and badly beaten. authorities say the victim was taken from cranston street in wynnefield heights and found in a building on west chew avenue in olney. nbc 10 was the only station to get this video here of the man's rescue. they say he was abducted from his home and brought to this building in olney where at least two men inside wearing masks violently beat him. neighbors are frightened. >> a little unnerving, just the fact that people are looking for him and want to use that much force to actually subdue him is unnerving, especially when it's right next door. >> not far from the victim's home on kracranston street we fd another seen. police are holding two cars for evidence. guns were found in both of them. >>> emotions are running high following the shoot

city still has this major value. are you still concerned -- >> we continue to be committed to their recovery. major? >> josh, let's -- delicate fictionou have create around the cr. it is not a 1600 bill you are aware of? >> not a particularly charitable -- yowza. >> you know what it's in it, negotiated on the hill for two and a half weeks. mckulski is not a stranger to this white house. so, because it's the only piece of legislation that's operative to avoid a shutdown, just tell us the truth, you're he not going to veto it right? >> we have not reached that conclusion. it is possible you can veto it? >> we are going to continue to review the bill before we passed judgment. >> nothing you said this morning is a discouraging word against all the things that are encourage and generally satisfying to you about this piece of legislation? >> at the same time, i'm trying to be honest, we do anticipate things in this piece of legislation we do not like. >> right. not the same as it becoming vetoed? >> that is correct. >> why air not going to veto it, are you >> withholding judgment on this peas of legislation until we have had a chance to r

science fiction film, about 100 brains missing from a college medical lab is one of the stories caught in our global net. >> you're looking live at the u.s. capitol building in washington, the city getting in the christmas spirit with the lighting of the capitol tree last night. good morning and welcome to al jazeera america. i'm stephanie sy. >> i'm del walters. ahead in this half hour, israel on the path toward early elections. we'll look at the possible motives behind the political move in israel. >> an aljazeera exclusive, soldiers say they were made sick by burning garbage in iraq and afghanistan. what they're asking for now. >> in our next hour, a death penalty debate in texas. even republicans walking on the governor rick perry to stop the execution of a mentally ill death row inmate. >> police in missouri are looking into possible charges against the step four of michael brown. when the grand jury decided not to charge officer darren wilson, he made an emotional on camera comments. police want to know if that in cited the violence that followed. we are in ferguson this morning. good morning. what do we know about the potential case against brown's stepfather? >> good mor

comedy about the fictional assassination of north korea's leader, saying the world will be full of fear, remember the 11th of september, 2001. sony has canceled thursday's new york citys at this time, there is no credible threat -- or credible intelligence to indicate an active plot against movie theaters. >>> we are getting our first look inside that school in pakistan where taliban gun men massacred at least 142 people tuesday, most of them children. walls are scarred with bullet holes and floors show damage caused by explosives. officials say the gunmen methodically went from room to room, hunting down their young victims without mercy. >>> for the first time in a long time, good news for bill cosby this morning. just as another family member speaks out in his defense. nbc national correspondent kate snow is here with more on this. >> good morning, natalie. strong words coming out. in a statement to quicks a is he is hollywood," bill cosby's daughter, evan, says he is the father you thought you knew. "the cosby show," she says, was her reality tv. evan wrote on facebook "rape is a serious allegation and it is supposed to be taken very seriously, but so is falsely