he was serving life for two murders at the holman correctional center in alabama. one of the murders was committed on the outside and the other in prison. he told us both involved disputes over money. >> i killed somebody because i felt like they were taking something from me, and then i come from a world where everybody thinks they can take something from me. so, you know, you got a convergence of forces here. >> during our original 2006 shoot at holman he was battling the warden for a transfer closer to a prison near his elderly mother's home. you run this place. >> that's what i'm saying, that's your decision. >> i follow the regs. >> gilbert was denied the transfer for various intractions. when we shot our extended stay series at holman a year later, gilbert was still trying to get his transfer. >> bobby had a very close relationship with his mother. for her to visit him, it took a lot. it took money. it took time. none of which she had. i think she was his sole support system emotionally speaking and knew he was going to stay in prison for the rest of his life

he will most likely not leave holman until his 30-year sentence is complete. >> i have two daughters. do i want these people around my family? no. but there again, some day in this case robert teter is going to walk out this door free. so you have to look at it from that side. he's going to go free. he's going to eos his sentence in 2014 and he's coming out. and society's going to have to accept that. >> see you later. >>> coming up -- >> i'm making a birdhouse right now. >> two inmates seek a creative respite. from hell. >> art is my sanity and my salvation. that's what keeps me stable. [ male announcer ] the new new york is open. open to innovation. open to ambition. open to bold ideas. that's why new york has a new plan -- dozens of tax free zones all across the state. move here, expand here, or start a new business here and pay no taxes for ten years... we're new york. if there's something that creates more jobs, and grows more businesses... we're open to it. start a tax-free business at startup-ny.com. we're open to it. hoo-hoo...hoo-hoo. hoo-hoo hoo. sir... i'll get it together

. >> at the holman correctional facility in alabama, the cats are even more abundant, but none of themre invited. >> at holman, they're just wild cats who the inmates connect with and start feeding, even though it drives the staff crazy. >> i'm going to catch him. i'm going to catch every one of you cats. >> there was a sergeant this charge, sergeant english, whose job it was to try to deal with these feral cats and get them outside the prison. the cats became his nemesis, particularly fluffy. >> there's fluffy. i think you're going to have a little trouble with that one. it's personal between him and her, you know what i'm saying? so it's wit, animal wit against human man wit. >> i have been trying to catch fluffy for six months. i haven't caught her yet. >> the inmates love the cats and the cats trust the inmates. and it was just a neat story to see the officers trying to get the cats and the inmates trying to protect the cats. and it just proved to be a really cool story. >> fluffy's having another kitten. >> fluffy seemed to be perpetually breeding more and more kittens. >> she's g

. >> during our "extended stay" shoot at the holman correctional facility in alabama, we were filming interviews in the administrative segregation unit when a loud disturbance occurred. >> they put me in a cell! where it comes down to my [ bleep ] bed. it comes down on my bed, man. i can can't [ bleep ] sleep. >> inmate jamie bell is in a rage because his toilet is overflowing. he blames the inmate in the cell above him of creating the problem by interfering with the plumbing. >> [ bleep ]. >> jamie bell. listen. >> i'm trying to handle this. >> the confrontation becomes so heated that warden grant culliver gets involved. >> if you would shut [ bleep ] up, then nobody would be so [ bleep ] off at your ass. you're acting like a child. >> listen. >> we just moved him in. >> the inmate above bell's cell is serving life. his name is andrew alexander. >> there was no proof that this guy above him had done anything. but while we were filming i glanced up and i saw andrew alexander staring at me through his window. and i kind of asked him with my mouth, did you do this? and he just had the m

elise holman, al jazeera. >>> over in germany they have stretched their unbeaten run in the league to1 games. they have now gone a whole year without a league defeat, and on saturday hamburg went to scotland. the goals fueled a 3-1 win. they go into winter break as league leaders. third place dartmouth went again pop inhiem, and they fill a goal back. he leveled from close range, the 2-2 result was dropped by points behind second place. >>> sergei garcia picked up his first win in a year in thailand. the spanish golfer that led the field since the second round turned in 168 on sunday. steve henriks did by two strokes to win the champion. he celebrated with his girlfriend, who was his caddie for the week. >>> skiing for you now. world champion tessa has won the third world cup giant sla lom event of the new season. they managed to avoid the fate of some of her rivals in switzerland. she posted the fastest time in both runs. they were defending over a world cup champion. >>> american college football most prestigious individual honor the heisman trophy went to its youngest ever winner.

denise holman has more. >> reporter: one of the greatest formula one drivers of all time, but michael schumacher was known to be an experienced and world skier. he was skiing with his 14-year-old son and others on sunday when he struck his head on a roblg. he had been wearing a helmet. within 10 minutes he was air lifted to a hospital in the nearby town before being taken to the university hospital center. while initial reports down-play the seriousness of the injury, the hospital confirmed his condition. >> translator: mr. schumacher was admitted to the hospital at 12:45 in a late morning skiing accident. he suffered a serious brain trauma and he needed a near surgical operation. he remains in critical condition. >> his wife and two children are at his bedside while supporters worldwide hope for his recovery. >> reporter: i'm like you. i heard the news, and as i am from the region, i came to see him. as we can't see him, we'll see tomorrow. >> reporter: michael schumacher won the formula one championship seven times before retiring for a second time last year. his trademark fight and

most of it at the holman correctional facility in alabama and sometimes it seems to have been just as's heard the sound of his real name. >> they call me red top. >> hey, redtop. >> they call me redtop. they call me ringating red. >> is there one you prefer? >> none. i just answer to them all. i've learned to answer to them all over the years. >> stall began serving his sentence 28 years earlier, when he was 22 years old. >> back when i first came here there was a lot of violence. >> was it scary? were you scared a lot? >> scared to death. >> my first impression of lawrence stall was that he doesn't fit. he didn't fit in those surroundings. i think that's initially what brought us to him. he looked a little meek. the red hair. the glasses. he looked more like a college professor, versus an inmate. >> the social system in here is totally different. it's nothing like the free world. it's a totally different world, you know? i mean, it's like moving to japan and not knowing japanese, you know? you know, you're lost. and that's how i'd be now if i got out. i'd be lost. >> due to a fatal a

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for them, as "newshour" correspondent kwame holman reports, there is a battle playing out across the country to win a guarantee of higher pay. >> it's not fun to survive on low, low, low, low pay. >> reporter: mcdonald's employees gathered in the nation's capital on thursday, including workers from the franchise inside the smithsonian's air and space museum who struck a seasonal note as they proclaimed they're tired of having to scrape by. >> you know, you shouldn't have to resort to the government assistance to live and take care of your children if you're eligible and able to work. you should be able to get paid for what you do and what you're >> my grandkids. i can't never say, they ask me, nana, can we go to the store? can we go to the park? you know, any place like that. i can take them to the park but as far as having money to spend, i don't have it. i got paid yesterday. wednesday. and i'm broke already. >> reporter: over the past year there's been a small but growing chorus of fast food workers who have pushed to raise their wage, from an average of about $9 an hour to what's

and alice holman al jazeera. >> and they beat them 4-0 and scored the first hat trick as they moved sixr at the top of the table and looking for a third successive league title and beat them for the second win in five league games. in germany they had a shock home defeat to frankfurt and they were trying to keep in touch with league leaders but frankfurt had a header and had 1-0 win and ending a ten-match losing streak and 7 points behind. and they won a title heading in the match with sam lorenzo had two point advantage over the opponents in a game of few chances and lorenzo keeper earned the wages in dying moments for a 0-0 draw and another match finishing 2-2 and was enough to see them clinch the title and first in the league since 2007. a judge in brazil ordered work to stop on the world cup stadium. it's pending an investigation after the death of a worker who fell 35 meters through the roof on saturday and scheduled to host the world cup games in june. nba nuggets beat the pelicans and blocking one on the court and making 2 of 14 points at the upper end. and that was jjhickson and

newshour congressional correspondent kwame holman begins our coverage. >> reporter: the president toutedefits of the affordable care act at the white house this afternoon, flanked by people who've gained under the program. >> right now, what this law is doing is helping folks. and we're just getting started with the exchanges, just getting started with the marketplaces. so, we're not going to walk away from it. if i've got to fight another three years to make sure this law works, then that's what i'll do. >> reporter: the president's appearance opened a new public relations offensive to move beyond the law's troubled rollout. >> do not let the initial problems with the web site discourage you because it's working better now, and it's just going to keep on working better over time. everyday i check to make sure that it's working better, and >> reporter: meanwhile, white house chief of staff denis mcdonough reported the healthcare.gov web site had more than one million visitors yesterday after weeks of work to fix it. there also were reports not all the kinks have been smoothed out. yester

"newshour" correspondent kwame holman begins our report. >> reporter: until very recently jang song thaek was considered the second-most powerful figure in the democratic people's republic of korea. but on state t.v. today his remarkable demise was made official. >> ( translated ): the special military tribunal of the ministry of state security of north korea condemned jang song thaek as a wicked political careerist, trickster and traitor in the name of the revolution, and the people ruled that he would be sentenced to death the decision was immediately executed. >> reporter: married to the aunt of leader kim jong un, jang ascended the country's ranks rapidly following the stroke of kim's father-- kim jong il-- in 2008. and he rose further still following kim's death in 2011. though not a career military man, he was made a four star general and was fond of appearing in his white military uniform at state events. he played a key role in shaping economic policy and was considered the architect of the country's joint ventures with neighboring china. however, in beijing today, a spokesman was

"newshour" congressional correspondent kwame holman has our story. >> reporter: these are familiar images to many americans, all captured by official white house photographer pete souza. they show private moments: president barack obama speaking with pakistani activist malala yousafzi or lunching with former secretary of state hillary clinton, but many others were taken while news photographers covering the president were excluded, such as during mister obama's air force one flight to south africa with former president george w bush. such examples have caused a simmering feud between the white house and the press, with photographers and reporters arguing their access to the president is more restricted than in the past. mcclatchy newspapers' senior white house correspondent steven thomma: >> we expect a small group of journalists at a minimum to be allowed into the room in the white house or elsewhere when he's meeting with a foreign leader, when he's meeting with his cabinet, when he's meeting we are granted access less and less since this white house took over in 2009. >> reporter: of c

newshour congressional correspondent kwame holman has our report. >> the house will be in order. >> reportere house was gaveled into session, intent on finishing the budget deal before leaving for christmas. lawmakers from both sides said the agreement wasn't perfect but a step in the right direction. wisconsin republican paul ryan, chairing the house budget committee, helped craft the proposal. >> this is the government, it's also divided government. and to make divided government work you can't ask each other to compromise a core principles, because we don't do that here. we ask each other to find some common ground to advance the common good. and that's what this agreement does. >> reporter: the deal would void $63 billion in automatic, across-the-board spending cuts. in their place, $85 billion in targeted cuts, plus increased revenues-- including higher airline security fees-- to be achieved over the next decade. the bill does not extend unemployment benefits for the long-term jobless, to the dismay of many democratic lawmakers. jim mcgovern of massachusetts: >> let's not turn our backs

"newshour" congressional correspondent kwame holman sums up the agreement. >> by having a budget agreementt does not raise taxes, that does reduce the deficit and produces some certainty and prevents government shutdowns. we think is a good agreement. >> reporter: after weeks of negotiating with democrats, house budget committee chairman paul ryan had to sell the agreement to members of his own party this morning. >> we know that this budget agreement doesn't come close to achieving what we want to achieve on our ultimate fiscal goals. but again, if we can get a step in the right direction, we're going to take that step. and that's why we're doing this. >> reporter: ryan and senate budget panel chairwoman patty murray announced the agreement late yesterday. their proposal includes: $85 billion in spending cuts and increased revenues. those include higher fees for airline passengers and greater pension contributions from newly hired federal workers. it would also roll back $63 billion in automatic spending reductions that hit defense and domestic programs. some house republicans said they'd

robert holman is the ceo and co-founder of glass door, a free jobs and career website, which, by theis morning. robert, good to have you back. welcome. >> thank you. good morning. >> $50 million will buy a lot of servers. benchmark's been with you, and now tiger. what's it going to be able to do for you? >> well, you know, glass door is building trip advisor for jobs and companies. we're about helping people find jobs they love, and about companies help finding top talent in this community that we've been building. it's working amazingly well in the u.s. it's begun to work internationally very, very well, and this money will help us accelerate globally. >> you got data on nearly 300,000 companies, right? >> yeah. that's right. >> 3 million salaries and reviews, a lot of them generated anonymously, which reminds people of maybe a yelp dynamic, where you're unable to sort of control or effectively curate a real review or a fake review. how do you manage that? >> glass door, from the beginning, we've had a human touch that reveals every single piece of data that goes live. we've been ex

inclusion of white boys is in the public page of the naacp general to welcoming women like libby holman interracial benefit. famous for what we would all call and insulting performance of a black prostitute in brown it to a genuine love on the part of her perris and even for sharon would cause it mason to a kind of heroic status for nancy cunard, her work in putting black cultural expression, the largest intelligent and i think today has still never been created. harmelin tells -- held back on it the judgment. holland said mullen and not quite sure what braces. me know if it is in essence, the will to celebrate it. none of it is in essence of want to be free of it. we don't know if racism and thicken and really know the people we were born to an and. we don't know where we stand, so let's get it all on the table. it was a remarkable cultural openness to cringe worthiness. cringe when enos was invited in. and that convinced me that my job was to put everything into a book about these women and to hold back my own judgment because i think we might find that the more we all put on the tabl

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for more i'm joined by james holman of politico and democratic strategist.after october's shut skwloun we have house republicans looking really bad in the poll. what looked like a real possibility that democrats could take back the house. however, the aca and the problematic rollout for obamacare, does that possibility do you think still exist, or have republicans been able to shore that up? >>> 11 months is an eternity in politics. so anything could happen. but, there basically is a zero chance that democrats will win the house. a lot would have to go wrong for republicans. they'd really have to blow it traditionally, the president's party loses seats in the sixth year of his administration. remember 2006, so a lot would have to happen for democrats to have a realistic path. and because of redistricting, there are fewer and fewer competitive seats even on the table that democrats could win if they had good candidates and the environment was favorable. >> i think the redistricting issue is a more a realistic one than a steady as she goes approach for the rep