from neil gallagher that fought against the fbi when he was the chair of the subcommittee on the invasion of privacy that resulted in the freedom of information act. he had a question for you. he said he has been following the reporting with great interest in the parallel. and as a member of congress from 59 to 73 he saw firsthand how the fbi used the methods like the nsa to data difficult compromise on the members of congress to force a vote on the key issues. he opposed the stand and he says my question to you is what can you tell us about the potential for the executive branch to use the nsa as an internal policing unit able to control the congress and the judiciary for the personal scandals and outcome from all of this as the hoover fbi did in his day? >> i get in trouble with my editors and journalists i work with the story and when i do give those previews when i had a momentary loss of control -- [laughter] -- [laughter] there's all these headlines after my colbert report saying it the greatest story.

trace gallagher is live on this story. >> reporter: 18-year-old logan steiner was a good athlete and was prom king and friends say he did not do drugs and rarely even drank a cup of coffee but the coroner says he overdosed on caffeine. we're talking about powdered caffeine that you can buy in bulk on the internet and this stuff is very inexpensive. let me give you context. a cup of coffee has about five micrograms of caffeine. 50 micrograms is toxic. logan had 70 micrograms in his system leading to his heart racing and severe seizure that led to his death. the coroner had never heard about caffeine overdose but have now done some investigating. >> we found out this was being sold in bulk powder form and it was being used by young people, especially students, especially athletes, and it was just to give them edge because most of them, like all of us, thought

gallagher you can come on up. >> good afternoon. i'm jim gallagher i'm here representing many of the employees and designers that were at the meeting they were not available to be here. i'm here to ask the members of the committee to vote no on henry adams street this is a shining example of what pdr space should be it's 90 percent full of viable businesses i ask that the historical committee stop the rush to convert the pdr space throughout the city to the landmark loophole conversions were we're going under 17 percent in my major city mayor ed lee and you supervisor cohen recognized this to stressing the expansion and growth of the manufacturing and light sector unquote why would you consider giving up pdr space the pdr l were to provide assistance for people that needed financial saunsz it was showcased by the previous owners they collect $3 million a year from the current tenants this is 90 percent vacancy this is you can't what a pdr building should look like the pdr owners are looking to make a profit knowing it was a pdr buil

andy gallagher has more. >> reporter: there was a time when the towns of wilcoxes county hummed to the sound of sewing machines and saw mills, but those days are long gone. all over the states, factories that once employed hundreds now sit idle. adding to rural alabama's chronic unemployment problem. >> it has been nearly 50 years since there was an aindustrial aflouncement here in wilcox, alabama. quite frankly despair and back of hope has been the rule here. >> but now the tables are beginning to turn. across the state chinese businesses are taking advantage of tax breaks, falling energy prices and cheap labor. >> as you can see this is the table we have set up just for our chinese guests. >> reporter: he has worked hard to attract chinese investment, and for his county it has worked. the golden dragon copper pipe frac try -- [ technical difficulties ] >> and the bergening businesses here in the state of alabama represent just a small slice of the overall picture. last year, chinese firms invested $14 billion in the u.s. economy, and now directly employ 70,000 workers. a decade ago t

trace gallagher with the very latest from our west coast bureau., senator walsh's campaign told us today he's fully cooperating with the army war college review, but he's not doing interviews. although as you mention his story is beginning to shift a bit, he's accused of plagiarizing his research paper by lifting passages by nine different authors. in several he copied the passages word for word. when he was confronted he cited post-traumatic stress disorder. now he says that's not what he meant. listen. >> i am in no way, no way, tying to what i did to any type of, you know, ptsd. you know, that had nothing to do with the mistake that i made. and, you know, people are trying to say i may have said that. you know, if that was thought of that, that's not at all in any way what i meant or said. >> except that he actually did say this, quoting here, "i don't want to blame my mistake on ptsd, but i do want to say it may have been a factor." the website updated its version of events saying walsh's tank was hit by hundreds of ieds and then amending to on

andy gallagher, al jazeera, ar, nacoya. maria innes ferre has a story for us. innes. >> picture posted online from people all over the world and some of them coming from mixed families, my mom is jewish my dad is muslim. how can i be an enemy of myself? this one, mother jewish, father palestinian, whatever we suffer, hate makes it worse. now these two college students in new york have been active with the campaign and one of them grew up in tel aviv, the other is a muslim from syria. they realize, a hashtag itself won't create peace but they do hope it will create dialogue. >> if you are not my enemy we can listen to each other and learn from each other. maybe there's a lot more we agree on than people think. >> if someone isn't busy accusing someone of being a certain way because they identify with a certain political group, if we create that type of movement, people will be able to hear each other more and this is what we need. >> reporter: and the students told me the dialogue online over the last month has really gotten so violent that they hope that this w

trace gallagher is in the west coast news hub. what other allegations are in this suit? the lawsuit, named wendy -- whitney wolf, and she claims she is the one that came up with the name continueder -- tinder, and she s quitted with the growth of tinder, and sending you around the u.s. to visit sororities was the best investment we could make on the marketing side. then she start dating another cofounder. the relationship went bad and she claims he began to harass her, seeing a young female cofounder makes the company seem like a joke and sending her texts like this one, quote, if you then me i will bark back bike -- like a psycho. she claims he criticized her future boffed boyfriend saying, you prefer to social climb middle age muslim pigs that stand for nothing. it's unclear what she is seeking in the lawsuit but clearly it's in the millions. >> she claims the behavior went to the very top of the company. >> she claims the company0s ceo told her, her ex-boyfriend -- if they didn't get along it was her fault and she would be fire and another top company executive told h

reminds me when john gallagher stepped down. >> we like the way this weather is during the last, the end of july. >> me too. >> well last let's find out here. first we'll take a look at our storm scan. temperatures are in the 70's now. showers to the west. maybe an isolated shower will make it east of the mountains tonight. otherwise a partly cloudy day. better chances with increaseed humidity friday, saturday and sunday. eileen whelan in tonight and she'll give you an update on the showers as well. >> "abc world news" is coming up next. >> join us again at 11:00. have a good night. >>> welcome to "world news." tonight, ebola alert. two more americans placed in quarantine. the peace corps caught in the largest outbreak in history and the scare at one hospital here in the u.s. >>> outrage, another civilian shelter hit in gaza as our terry moran takes us into the battle with israeli forces. >>> and limits of forgiveness. kelsey grammer, his murdered sister and the decision about the murderer tonight. >>> a good evening to you on this wednesday night as we come on the air. there's urgen

andy gallagher, lacoya, costa rica. >> that's it for us on "americaa tonight."ca tonight" explores is the american dream dead? that's tomorrow on the program. thanks for watching, have a great night. >> israel's invasion of gaza continues tonight. >> we have been hearing a lot of >>> bombs hit a hospital in gaza as the death toll soars for palestinians and israelis, but now hopes for a cease-fire. >>> also, pro-russian separatists finally release victims' bodies and the black boxes. welcome to "consider this." those stories and much more straight ahead. >> the bombs in gaza got more ferocious.

andy gallagher, lacoya, costa rica. >> that's it for us on "america "america tonight."ca tonight" explores is the american dream dead? that's tomorrow on the program. thanks for watching, have a great night. >> israel's invasion of gaza continues tonight. >> we have been hearing a lot of tank shelling coming from where we are, here. >> every single one of these buildings shook violently. >> for continuing coverage of the israeli / palestinian conflict, stay with al jazeera america, your global news leader. >>> well despite their many differences the israelis and the palestinians have this in common, both get billions of dollars worth of aid from countries around the world, including america. i'm following the money in the middle east. and i'll tell you how big changes at the panama canal could shape bridges and harbors hen

trace gallagher with more, and he is live in our west coast news hub for us this an. trace, exactly what do we expect to happen in court today? >> reporter: well, we know that all the major players are in the courtroom, i believe it started on time. we also expect this thing could last about three hours. but the media and the public are not allowed inside, so we're not going to find out what happened till afterwards. the lawyer for tammarisi says he left out a few facts, but today he'll tell the whole truth and nothing but the truth. his testimony will last about 45 minutes. this is not a statement. this is questioning by his attorney. the prosecutors will then try to cross-examine him, but unlike in the united states, he does not have to answer their questions. now, after tammaris testifies, the mexican customs official will also testify. that's, of course, if they show up. and in mexico, anything could happen. his attorney says their testimony is very key. listen to him. >> i hope they tell the truth because if not, i'm going to make them tell the truth. and it's no

trace gallagher from los angeles with information on this airspace. >> you brought up a good point about whether pilots have discretion or not to fly around volatile areas and the answer is yes, just like they fly around bad weather. pilots are given notice to airmen and as we reported, the faa issued one of these back in april telling u.s. commercial airlines not to fly over that area. we have also just learned that the united kingdom also issued one of these saying -- i want to read part of this. "it says due to conflicting air traffic control instructions from ukrainian and russian authorities and for the related potential misidentification of civil aircraft, u.k. aircraft are strongly advised to avoid the airspace over the crimea black sea, et cetera. air traffic controllers in russia were giving conflicting information from air traffic controllers in ukraine. avoid the area at all costs. this is also fascinating. we got this from the international air transport association which says we extend our deepest sympathies to the families and friends and passengers and crew. based on infor

. >> gallagher, just this evening we are receiving word of nine more israeli soldiers killed. that brings to 52 the total number of israeli soldiers killed in this war. >> yes, it does. but this hasn't deterred the israeli extensively openly behind its government and army this evening. the israeli prime minister with his minister of defense and the lieutenant general, head of israel's army by his side announced that israel would not back down from its goal of destroying those tunnels used by palestinian militants to infiltrate the israeli borders. the prime minister insists that israel wants the de-mill tarization of gaza and warning that may take some time. you mentioned more than 50 dead in the ranks of the israeli army. however, at this point this does not seem to have any kind of a negative effect in terms of how the israeli public perceives this operation and the need to move forward. the message which was being delivered by the israeli prime minister this evening was very clear, and it was addressed mostly to the international community, which has been making very loud c

trace gallagher is live in the west coast news hub.know who the father of the first pregnancy was? >> we don't yet, harris. we know when she announced, erin corwin announced the pregnancy on facebook the first time she tagged her husband, jonathan corwin, on heir facebook picture. so we know she was pregnant. we don't know exactly when she miscarried, but her friend in tennessee has confirmed that when she got pregnant the second time, corwin believed her lover, christopher lee, former marine, was the father, because she said he was concerned if his wife found out she would divorce him and keep his child away from him. but now police believe that wife of the lover might also be involved because she apparently told her landlord that the body of erin corwin would never be found. >> so everybody is focused on the couple, and i understand they moved. >> moved to alaska, and police don't have enough evidence to bring them back. right now all they know is the couple is missing a few guns, and they know when they found erin corwin's car there

shep. >> trace gallagher out in los angeles.race, thanks very much. >>> a nutrition watchdog group is out with its annual awards if you want to call them that for the unhealthiest restaurant dishes. sara has some of the winners, if you will. i guarantee you they're delicious. this looks amazing until you read the bottom line. >> it does indeed. the center for public science interest looked at 200 restaurant. red robin's monster burger meal at almost 3600 calories. but the cheesecake factory also cleaned up. by the way, that would take 12 hours of brisk walking to burn off. the cheesecake factory cleaned up getting three out of the nine awar awards. >> they do good. zloo including brule french toast which has almost a week's worth of saturated fat. and just about 2,800 calories. but their farfalle chicken dish is also up there with 2400 calories. this looks good, their reese's peanut butter, cake, cheesecake, reese's all rolled into one, and it's 1,500 calories. >> good lord. >> this didn't make the list. it didn't win within awa

joining me now to talk about this, cnn vatican correspondent delia gallagher.nn religion commentator and host of the sunday masses father edward beck. delia, the pope here begged for forgiveness from these victims. tell us more about who they are and how this meeting happened. >> this was a historic day for pope francis, as you said, first time he's met with victims of clerical sex abuse. there were six of them, two from great britain, two from germany, two from ireland, three men and three women. the meeting was organized in part by boston cardinal shean o o'malley. the victims were brought to the vatican yesterday, able to see the pope briefly at dinner and this morning, a private mass with the pope and after the mass, a half an hour face to face, private meeting, for each victim with pope francis. father lombardi, the papal spokesman, said at a briefing just a few moments ago, that he saw that both the pope and the victims were very moved by the meeting. >> and obviously, father beck, this is an important gesture here. but some of the -- one of the leading g

let's cross to gaza to speak to gallagher fenwick. you have just been at a location where another family was killed during an airstrike. tell me, what did you see? >> exactly. i am in the center of gaza, and it is precisely where a strike occurred earlier today, killing about a dozen people who were caught under the rubble of a house. moments ago in this very densely populated and poor area of gaza, we witnessed a similar scene with about 12 missiles launched by an israeli f-16, over some of the houses which a right behind us. it is impossible to know what precisely occurred over there, whether or not there are casualties. we were prevented from approaching the point of contact i locals who said we were risking our lives and could be above theones flying area and observing movements on the ground. we also witnessed several ambulances trying to make their way to that point of impact, and they were prevented. we asked the ambulance workers why they were not going to the area which was hit by the israeli missiles, and they were explainin

joining me assistant manager of "fortune" magazine lee gallagher.ersion, the topic of "fortune's" cover story. it's perfectly legal. even though companies are picking up and leaving, they can still reap the benefits of the u.s. system? how does this work? >> it is perfectly legal. it's called inversion. our writer alan sloan who wrote the article calls it desertion. he calls these companies deserters. it's been legal, but we are seeing more companies do it. nothing changes physically. you might still see the headquarters on whatever parkway in whatever city or state they are based in the u.s. or were, but it's about the financials. what we find is so questionable or wrong about this is these companies are drawing from so many benefits that you get when you are an american company. benefit from our deep financial system and markets. our rule of law and democracy. benefitting from our physical or intellectual infrastructure. a lot of these companies are drawing technologies from our research institutions or testing them on the military or having the m

trace gallagher has more in our west coast news hub.tell us about the guy who died in prison. >> his name was kenneth trenedud, would was picked up on a parole violation after to the bombing and then brought back to a federal prison in oklahoma city. he had a very strong resemblance to john doe number two, same height, same weight, even the same dragon tattoo on his left arm. john doe number two was never identified. kenneth hung himself in prison but his body has dozens of bruises and stab wounds. his brother, jesse, believes the feds thought he actually was john doe number two and that he was murdered in an interrogation gone wrong. the family, by the way, was awarded $1.1 million for the way the death was handled in prison. i was subsequently lowered to $900,000 but that is what the brother is trying to establish in court, john. >> so when he goes to court, or the bradshaw, -- the brother, what do we expect? >> the brother is going to court because he says there was a secret service document logged into evidence shortly after the bom

trace gallagher has the report from our west coast newsroom.ld they would only be brought back if the public can be assured the virus won't spread. and if this ebola virus spreads to other countries, patrick sawyer, the man from minneapolis who died from ebola, could be at the very heart of the outbreak. he flew from liberia to nigeria. there were three legs to his flight and it was on the third leg he showed signs of being very ill, vomiting and diarrhea. that's bad because ebola is spread through bodily fluids, even sweat. he flew with hundreds of other passengers who then flew off to dozens of other countries. the incubation period can be up to 21 days, so even medical experts in the u.s. are now trying to raise awareness. listen. >> i think we should be on alert. i don't want to cause panic, but i do think that, you know, people do need to be concerned and pay attention. particularly those in public health professions and things like that. >> reporter: the two american missionaries who contracted ebola, dr. kent brantly from ft. worth worki

trace gallagher is live at our west coast news hub for us this afternoon.ce, never find a body, that suggestions she knows something. >> yeah. well, they know a lot, shep, because police are finding out through court documents they found out about this affair initially from another neighbor who confirmed that, in fact, christopher lee, the former marine you talked about, and erin corwin were having an affair and then corwin's friend back in tennessee, as she confirmed the affair including text messages to back up her claim and one text message she says that erin told her christopher lee was worried that if his wife found out about this whole thing including her being pregnant, that she would divorce him and keep him away from his child. but now police believe that wife is now heavily involved. and not just saying that the body won't be found, but also telling her landlord that police missed something when they searched the couple's home and saying that she had to berate her husband for not keeping his lies straight. that couple, by the way, has now moved ba

from haiti's central plateau, andy gallagher has this report. >> reporter: the united nations this isant and highly visible mission. it's the second tear general ban ki-moon's first trip to haiti since a deadly outbreak of cholera claimed the lives of many haitians. this is no apology tour. instead the secretary general made a pledge to help. >> the people will never suffer from this cholera. i think if we are united that we came to help haitians, and you can count on the united nations, and that is why i'm here. >> reporter: but those words mean little to this man. he buried his wife here two years ago after she died from cholera, a disease easily treated in the developed world. he left behind five children that he can no longer afford to send to school, and he has no doubts about who is to blame. >> translator: i'm angry because cholera wasn't here before. ban ki moon should apologize. >> reporter: that sense of anger is backed by an increasing body of evidence that it was usoldiers that brought cholera to haiti. for his part ban ki-moon has said the united nations has a moral respo

andy gallagher has more. >> let's grab some boxes am time to feed the people. >> reporter: at the islamicoundation of south florida, he's wrapping up food parcels for the local community. these boxes are sent out to needy people of all faiths, and he says part of his job is to promote a greater understanding of islam. >> we stay more focused on the peace side, on the individual side of nurturing what islam truly is, which is a peaceful religion. >> reporter: the concerns about islamic extremism in countries with large muslim populations is on the rise. the pew research center surveyed people in more than a dozen nations and found many are increasingly worried. >> if you look at countries like lebanon, jordan, egypt, tunisia, turkey, in all of these countries, the percentage of people who say they're worried about extremism is higher this year than it was last year. >> reporter: for those concerns and the increased attention on extremists also make the job harder. he's a spoke person for the muslim community in south florida and says all the negative publicity isn't helping build bridges.

waves like this -- with waves like this it's hop hoped that tt will soon change, andy gallagher, al jazerraiti. >>> now three al jazerra journalists have now spent 214 days in an egyptian prison. last month mohamed far m fahmy d peter greste seven years, and another seven years plus three years because he had a spent bull net his possession one he picked up at a protest. they are falsely impressed and al jazerra continues to demands their release. >> people have suffered and died from ebola for years. it's a devastating disease. what makes this latest west african outbreak the worst ever? the number of dead, the geographics spread. the threat of many more case. ebola is the "inside story."

know not knowing whether we're receiving accurate information security and privacy researcher kevin gallagher says one way the u.s. government can spread misinformation is through fake bots on twitter you're followed by a lot of these accounts to. have a really set up their profiles apparently i have a bit of a fake following because this account it's been treating me using my probably all of your colleagues trying to get you guys interested in this link according to the guardian some of the d.o.d. funded research monitored and analyzed the twitter feeds of occupy activists and reportedly went so far. as to message on winning social media users in order to track and study how they responded in an era of mass information critics say that it may be leaving messages is equally growing into a valuable tool of the u.s. military very important i our team new york. there are plenty of stories online he too including biting the bullet and eric is going on a shopping spree for the a k forty seven over a fish you could soon struggle to get one in the u.s. you can find out more about r.t. dot com also.

know not knowing whether we're receiving accurate information security and privacy researcher kevin gallagher says one way the u.s. government can spread misinformation is through fake bots on twitter you're followed by a lot of these accounts to. having really set up their profiles apparently i have a bit of a fake following look at this account it's been treating me using my probably all of your colleagues trying to get you guys interested in this link. into the guardian some of the d.o.d. funded research monitored and analyzed the twitter feeds of occupy activists and reportedly went so far as to message on winning social media users in order to track and study how they responded in an era of mass information critics say that manipulating messages is quickly growing into of valuable tool of the u.s. military here in a port ny r.t. new york. city is coming up tough hostile pair moscow going bust is coming your way next but if you're watching us in the u.k. it's going underground with action returns. the money is the root of all easy pickens and money is the root of all crashes or once every

on the south coast al jazeera's andy gallagher hits the surf. >> reporter: here on haiti's southern coasturfers are not an unusual site. a few months ago some of the boys couldn't swim. now look at them. they are all part of surf haiti, an ambitious project aimed at wringing tourists and their money to the beaches. surfing here is about more than catching waves. >> you have to be - you have to take pleasure, to take the waves. the pleasure is to share the life of people. >> and at a place where most live on $2 a day, that sense of community is vital. the boys are thought about the environment and there are plans to show them how to make surfboards, and run surf haiti themselves. samson, one of the first boys to learn to surf here, tell us us the promote has the potential to change the lives of his entire community. it's not going to be an easy road. >> i have travelled over haiti, but for surfers with a sense of adventure, it doesn't get getter than this. the biggest change is getting people to come to haiti in the first plus. for many, haiti is seen as dangerous and dirty. the beeches in

andy gallagher reports on its unique approach. >> reporter: north-western costa rica can look like the land time forgot. beneath the rugged surface are megawatts of power. costa rica sits on the pacific ring of fire. there's over 100 active volcanos. this is gohho thermal heavy -- geothermal heaven. this is where all that energy is harvested. enough to provide electricity to half a million homs, and the draw backs - there are none. it's clean, renewable and potentially an endless source of power. the process involves extracting water. something that the costa ricans have been doing for years. it is an ideal region to take advantage of a power source that is constant. engineers say it has global potential. >> we have been working on the progements for over -- projects for over 25 years, and are open to helping other countries. we are convinced other nations will be able to gain a great deal from what we have done here. >>> the process released greenhouse gases, less than the extraction of fossil fuels. many of the plants are built in national parks. the authorities say environmental con

. >> kevin gallagher is a professor. >>> welcome, you see the roads needing repairs, and they won't get it unless the congress can get a trust fund. and few americans smoke, but the tobacco business is a drag. >> the embattled highway trust fund that helps to pay for maintenance and construction of america's roadways got a reprieve from the house of representatives today. they passed a $1 billion extension that keeps transportation funding going through may of next year. and the bill goes to the senate for a vote before it can be law. the bill came just in the nick of time. highway trust fund is expected to go bust next month without money from congress. here's a look at what the highway trust fund does, and where it gets its money from a. the trust fund was established by an act of congress in 1956. it was a key part of president eisenhower's plan to connect the country with an elaborate system of highways. it contains the four r program. reconstruction, resurfacing, reconstruction the highways. it's funded by proceeds of the federal gasoline tax that all motorists say. and over the ye

trace gallagher is in los angeles. how did police come to name her as the suspect in the first place? >> well, that wine glass she talked about may have been her undoing. they identified her using fingerprints from that wine glass. they also matched her to the video on board the boat by using her tattoos and they found a trail of e-mails and text messages between her and the google executive. investigators then lured her back to santa cruz by posing as a client who was willing to pay upwards of a thousand dollars for sex. when she showed up at a luxury hotel, that is when police busted her andvmp;n she was arts carrying heroin. here's police now talking about the motive. >> i don't know that her motive was necessarily to kill. but she territorially had a negligence and callous disorder showing there was an attempt to save herself and lack of responsibility toward a situation she created. >> police had been tracking this woman for the better part of eight months and financially decided to nab because because they believ

more from andy gallagher. >> every day that homeless come to the halifax urban ministries for a hot meal. it's a familiar thought. for one couple it is not enough. debbie and chiquo retired with the aim at helping the homeless. they were feeding around 100 people. until the police told them what they were doing was illegal. >> in a mobile video an officer can be heard telling them they need a permit. what happened next left debbie in tears. >> they were threatened with arrest. i was crying. of course. because i was scared. they were telling us you can't do this. the problem is an ordinance that bans sharing food in public places. it's a quality of life laws, makes it harder. >> according to activists, it's a problem, a wider problem. there are bans on sitting in a public place. all of which campaigners say homelessness is a crime - something that is not costly, but counterproductive. >> study by the law sector, quality of life laws of endemic. law enforcement officials say operating independently of federally funded programs cases problems. >> there are people in there, people wanted on

andy gallagher al jazeera. >> one giant leap for man kind.ing at the kennedy space center was renamed after neil armstrong today. nasa renamed the checkout buildings where nasa's apollo rockets were built. listed on the national register of historic places. yesterday was the 45th anniversary of the apollo 11 moon landing. all of our time for news hour. thanks for joining. i'm tony harris. >> looking ahead to an end to the fighting between israelis and palestinians, president obama wants them to look back to the ceasefire that kept the peace. secretary of state john kerry is in the region. who's got the claugh clout to ge two sides to stop

. >> andy gallagher reports from the florida keys. >> reporter: this is the first time in weeks that they are breathing fresh air and open skies. since the beginning of june he's been living and working 20 metres below the surface in "acquirious", a specially built laboratory. the idea using techniques that his grandfather jacque developed. >> i think he would have loved to talk to people, whether they were students, young at heart, or other skype tists around the world from aquarius. >> it's the advances in research na makes this significant. while scientists are living under water, they don't need to go through a process of decompression. months of reach can be done in weeks. the wak weigh naughts can put in a work day, staying si. to eight hours. they only need to go back to the habitats to get food. it is the om laboratory of its kind in the u.s. and expensive to run. the benefits outweigh the costs. aquanauts say in a month they'll introduce new findings, work that would take a year. in an eco system like the florida kees, it could make the dumps. less than 10% of the world's oc

andy gallagher reports. >> reporter: every day the homeless of daytona beach come here for a free hota familiar site in cities across the u.s., but for one couple it isn't enough. these two retired with the aim of helping the homeless. and they were feeding around 100 people a week in a local park, until the please told them what they were doing was illegal. an officer can be heard telling them they need a permit. but what hand next left debbie in tears. >> i have never been arrested and we were threatened with arrest, and i was horrified. i was crying, of course, because i was scared. they were telling us you can't do this. >> reporter: the problem is a local ordinance that plans sharing food with homeless people in public places. now there are bans on lying or even sitting in a public place in 180 cities. 81 have banned sleeping in cars, all of which critics say make homelessness a crime. studies claim quality of life laws are endemic, harsh, and do nothing to help homelessness. >> there sex offenders that are going in there to get fed when you have children playing in that park. th

trace gallagher is more on what's the back story here. trace?ter: the border protection agent is a ten-year veteran. before that he spent 20 years in the air force and back in 2013 he was arrested for transporting $100,000 from a cocaine deal. it turned out that deal was a federal sting operation but he claims that he was hired as a security guard for a legal transaction and not to transport drugs. and the fed set him up. federal agents then -- they wanted the agent to become a mole for them to get information about corruption at a u.s. border station. when he refused, he was charged with money laundering. during discovery, his attorney wanted the feds to give him information on how much was spent on this multi-year operation including hotels, adult entertainment, and even tickets to a fight in vegas. but the feds refused to give the information because they said it was irrelevant and the judge agreed. so the lawyer filed to have the case dismissed writing "the sole purpose of the operation was to entice an innocent agent to commit crimes. as a