in illinois has spent a total of 556 years in prison. but that is only part of the story. consider what it means for all of us as taxpayers. in the same city, it was revealed that those wrongful 85 convictions cost taxpayers in illinois $214 million. that figure will likely grow to $300 million when all is said and then could 81 of the 85 cases were found with misconduct or error from state officials. in the meantime, the actual perpetrators continued to their crime sprees which included 14 murders and assaults. what can we do to about it? that is why we traveled to chicago for an in-depth look at one of america's under-reported stories. let me start by asking what is happening here in illinois? why are so many people in this state wrongfully convicted? why is this an issue in illinois. >> it may be the they have a basis in other places sell well -- as well. there is a movement here to uncover the situation. fowomen know the case of dan burch -- we know about the case of dan burich. he was in the right place at the right time. he was in

i think the senator from illinois would agree with me. the last approval rating of congress i saw, both sides of the aisle was about 16%. and i'm yet to encounter anyone in that 16% category in my travels back to my state. by the way, i would like to note the presence of the budget committee chairman here, senator conrad, who i think has made enormous good-faith efforts to reach an agreement on some of these issues. and i thank him for his work, and i want to assure him his

dozens of cases have surfaced in illinois. after an investigation from the center of wrongful -- wrongful convictions from northwestern university. we will hear from the men whose lives were nearly destroyed. we are glad you have joined us. difference, you help us live better. >> nationwide insurance supports tavis smiley. proud to improve financial literacy. nationwide is on your side. >> and by contributions to your pbs station. thank you. [captioning made possible by kcet public television] tavis: we continue our look at the work being done to deal with those who have been falsely accused and wrongly convicted. the human toll on the innocent people behind bars is only part of the story. the debate over using taxpayer money is front and center. consider what these cases are costing us all. 85 cults convictions over a 35- year period have cost taxpayers $240 million. that figure will rise to $300 million or more after lawsuits are settled. in 81 of the cases, the study found misconduct or error on the part of state officials.

. >> i'm diane eastabrook in belvidere, illinois. still ahead, i'll tell you what one midwestern town thinks the government should do for it. >> tom: it's "nightly business report" for wednesday, august 17. this is "nightly business report" with susie gharib and tom hudson. "nightly business report" is made possible by: this program is made possible by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. >> susie: good evening, everyone. another day of jitters here on wall street. investors still haven't recovered from last week's violent volatility, and, tom, looks like they just don't feel good about stocks. >> tom: lots of nervousness, susie, and that's why investors have been yanking billions of dollars out of stock and bond mutual funds. the investment company institute tracks the numbers. $40.3 billion pulled out of those investments last week alone. stock funds alone saw $30 billion in outflows. it was the biggest single week for withdrawals since the 2008 financial crisis. >> susie: now, investors may have doub

he wraps up with two town halls in rural illinois. on the one hand he's been able to reconnect with voters with one on one politicking on this noncampaign trip but had tougher moment with these confrontations with the tea party. in an interview with cnn the president was asked whether he'll be a one-term president if the economy doesn't recover? and he seemed to acknowledge that tough situation. >> ultimately the buck stops with me. i'm going to be accountable. i think people understand that a lot of these problems were decades in the making. but ultimately they say, look, he's the president. we think he has good intentions but we're impatient and want to see things move faster. >> of course, this trip has been sort of a split screen for us with the republicans. rick perry in particular and his campaigning miles from the president but yesterday he was more subdued. he got back on his jobs message still accusing bernanke of treason, didn't ril up the white house. the president chose not to pick a fight with him. >> you've got to ask yo

illinois obviously his home state.lack caucus proposes a jobs tour on the schedule right now through detroit, cleveland, atlanta, miami and los angeles. you see the president out here largely in white rural america. the cbc saying let's have a jo s focus in african-american and minority communities across america. does the president's focus on states critical to his re-election overlooking communities that need his help. house democratic leader james clyburn. let's get straight to that. would you prefer -- i know you support the president and you know he needs to go to these electorally important states for him. but would you prefer if he does a jobs tour that he start in columbia south carolina where unemployment among african-americans is 19%, selma, alabama where it's above 20%? >> i don't think we have to worry about where he starts. the problem is where will the impact be of job creation? will we get a jobs bill out of the congress? i understand that the president's going to be coming forward in september with a c

she's the president of quality float works in schaumburg, illinois. in the past year, she's hired seven full and part-time workers, about a 30% increase in staff. deenihan says quality float works has a backlog of orders for mechanical floats into next year, after expanding sales in the middle east. she's confident she can boost sales and staffing even more, but is concerned increased government regulation could derail her plans. >> if they come down the pipeline for business, that will mean i will have to stop r&d, i will have to not make capital improvements and of course i will have to stop being able to hire people. >> reporter: both deenihan and hickey think u.s. manufacturing can regain its place on the global stage, but they think it will take innovation from manufacturers and assistance from washington. diane eastabrook, "nightly business report," bedford park, illinois. >> tom: here's what we're watching for tomorrow: earnings-- we'll see how two of the biggest initial public stock offerings in recent history are doing now; general motors and

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marion illinois it's the southern illinois and he's been moved to you know call the communication management unit something that actually no one had ever heard about and he didn't know anything about it. so these units pulled what they consider people not necessarily charged with terrorism but somehow associated with terrorism which is very vague and it could basically mean anything they want it to mean. i lived in new york for nine eleven i experienced that. for me it's the kind of. really difficult to swallow that label being put on him considering i actually do know what. terrorism is and. someone who destroys property. with absolutely zero intention of harming a single human being. in my mind is not a terrorist. or president obama's pledge to close guantanamo on the secret overseas cia prisons calls are increasing for him to reexamine the treatment of prisoners detained as part of the so-called war on terror being held inside the united states with little public scrutiny of the bush administration open to secretive prisons and indiana and illinois newness communication management units o

places like decatur, illinois, which we featured in a report, have seen some hiring going on.s not as bad in the rural areas of illinois but the big cities are suffering. >> brown: david swenson, you certainly had politicians in galore in the state of iowa recently. i mentioned that the unemployment is 6%, which feels a little low to many, but how does it feel there? >> well, 6% unemployment rate is much higher than iowans are comfortable with. we went into the recession a little later than the nation, but we rose at about the same pace or at the same slope thereafter and we've maintained a high... relatively high unemployment rate since that time. the higher-than-average unemployment rate is worse, though, out in some of our medium-sized cities. those cities depend on manufacturing jobs, we know that manufacturing has taken an extra special hit. manufacturing is a big component of the iowa economy. those economies are the economies that are hurting a little bit worse than the state average. they were in the recession sooner, they're probably going to come out of the recession

tambiÉn vamos a hablar con el congresista luis gutiÉrrez, de illinois, sobre los esfuerzos porque elÚe unilateralmente, para ayudar a parte de nuestra comunidad y mucho mÁs. comenzamos con el tema que estÁ generando titulares no solamente en estados unidos sino en el mundo entero, la situaciÓn econÓmicas de estados unidos. mi charla con la secretaria del trabajo hilda solÍs. >>secretaria, gracias por estar nuevamente con nosotros en "enfoque". >>gracias, bienvenido aquÍ, a mi oficina. >>¡me encanta su oficina! gracias. esta semana hubo miedo e incertidumbre, porque el jueves usted sabe que la bolsa cayÓ mÁs de 500 puntos. solamente siete veces en la historia ha ocurrido eso y sin embargo, el viernes su departamento saca algunas cifras que podrÍa ser positivas o por lo menos un poco de luz al final del tÚnel, ¿quÉ estÁ pasando? >>bueno, hay muchas cosas que estÁn pasando en este mundo,? pero yo tengo que concentrarme en lo que estÁ pasando aquÍ, en este paÍs y los nÚmeros de empleo se ven mejor en el sector privado, pero sabemos que todavÍa nos falta bastante. tenemos que tener planes

. >> called the illinois street bridge.t's a port project. >> port project, okay. >> it's actually for freight rail as well as vehicle. >> okay, freight rail. okay. and here, these are cranes for unloading containers from vessels. and, you know, we don't see many vessels there unloading. >> not container vessels. >> and the short reason that we don't see container vessels is? >> oakland has the gig. >> why doesn't san francisco do container? and here is what i think and you can tell me if i'm right or wrong. most containers are double stacked on railway cars and we have a tunnel that limits the height of trains coming into san francisco and therefore they cannot double stack the containers, and therefore it's not profitable or reasonable to ship containers in and out of san francisco. is that -- >> actually -- i mean, that's partly true, but the bigger issue is geography. and san francisco being at the end of the peninsula, if you go -- if you're a container ship, you can go to oakland and get it on a rail that immediately

president obama will get to reach out to voters today in his home state of illinois. he'll hold back-to-back town hall meetings on the final stop of his three-day bus tour. >> i hope i can count on you in the days ahead to lend your voice to this fight to strengthen our economy. >> reporter: the president continued pushing his economic message in iowa tuesday. he asked local business owners and farmers for their ideas, while also trying to reassure them. >> we can put the country ahead of party. i know that our future is bright. i no he that our best days are ahead of us. >> reporter: but the president wasn't the only one trying to woo iowa. just a few miles away, texas governor rick perry pulled in on a bus of his own. >> our nation can't afford another four years of the rising unemployment, the rising taxes, the rising debt. >> reporter: with the economy being the top priority for most voters, perry is campaigning on his record of creating jobs in his home state. >> we have tried two and a half years of government creating jobs. it's time to let the private sector c

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. >>> president obama takes the economic bus tour to illinois today as he focuses on creating jobs. the president is also answering republican criticism on his own job performance, especially from the newest candidate in the race. abc's karen travers has the latest. >> reporter: president obama heads to his home state of illinois today hoping to leave the republican attack behind him. over the state border yesterday in iowa, mr. obama and texas governor rick perry played campaign trail cat and mouse. at one point, the bus tours came within seven miles of each other. >> we have competing job tours. >> reporter: perry has only been on the race for a few days but he has keyed in on the key issues. >> how many jobs will you create? >> as many as i can. >> the shoot from the hip texan kept up the blistering attack on the president. >> one in six job-ready americans don't have a job. that's in the a recovery, mr. president. that is an economic disaster. >> some of perry's comments raised eyebrows. for now, obama said for now he will cut him some slack. >> i think everyone who runs for pre

he is the golf coach at the university of illinois down in champagne, illinois. with streef stricker. 16, 17, 18, we will add them up. nick: smashed a drive. dufner had his second shot and lost it to the right, one of the first signs, because he had been so consistent. keegan bradley hit a fabulous shot in there to about 10 feet shot in there to about 10 feet below the hole. nick: you would definitely say dufner would feel as if he lost it. keegan bradley would feel rejuvenated based on what happened on the 15th. jim: tonight on cbs, 60 minutes, big brother, same name and "csi: miami" on america's number one network. we knew since thursday there would be a dramatic story at the end. somehow the final four holes would rachet up the excitement. it certainly didn't disappoint. nick: peter kostis made a good point. somebody would lose it down at the last four. this is such an interesting moment. the emotions of these two players, which way do you lean? do you lean towards dufner because he is just going to churn it out, or do you go with a guy that is showing way mor

and the illinois -- > illinois. >> he raised money over the course of three months. we were in the middle of a debt crisis. >> that's true. >> your complaint makes no sense. >> it makes perfect sense. politicians raise money. >> he is not president. >> he gets to raise mey the same way people running for president do. >> it is tacky in any event to have a fundraiser to celebrate oh my birthday. >> the nerve of him to have his birthday right at the end of a debt ceiling crisis. >> oh things are tense in here. >> i like patti ann browne better. >> so do i. >> we will be right back. >> now we will get tweets saying, why do you hate anne? >> why do you hate me? >> i don't hate you. >> she said absolutely the president has a right to celebrate his birthday. are you a rhino? >> i am an independent. i believe in birthdays, especially 50th birthdays which none of us in this room will ever have. >> why, is something tragic going to happen to me? >> we will be 39 forever and the president is getting a little gray hair. >> anne, you used to be uh districted to nicorette. did so

>> the speech we just heard was from ata, illinois, a town of about 800 people in rural illinois. it's in the quad city, iowa, media market and i think that's another reason for it because iowa is very important as a general election battleground. one thing i was struck by is he was, even from these friendly crowds, the questions he were getting were all gloom and dominant. a young college student stood up and said "i don't think i'll gel -- get a job." a real estate agent said, "i haven't been able to sell houses for a long time." he was trying to reassure them. with you after send -- spending several weeks at rene vents, the hope and confidence and optimism is on the republican side this time and the worry is on the democratic side. you talk to those voters who like obama overall, they are worried for his future and re-election. he was trying to show that he's going to be a rational fighter. he is going to, as alexis said, he is the anti-republican congress. but he wasn't as fiercely partisan. he was trying to be the adult in the room, as he's said so many times, and that look,

he represented illinois as a state senator. the real estate market, one woman stood up and said she was a real estate agent and talked about the fact that ever since the debt ceiling debate and debacle as some would have it here in washington where the country almost went into default over lack of agreement, the phones have stopped ringing in her real estate office and people were asking about the debt and the need to raise taxes and you mentioned the fact that the president is going to be making what is billed as a major speech after labor day codifying and packaging some of the very items he's talked about repeatedly over the next several months, the need to pass trade agreements, the need to extend a payroll tax cut and more spending on infrastructure, traditional projects, like roads, bridges and airports, but is president also saying that revenues are going to have to be part of any debt ceiling deal, that so-called super committee comes up with. they have that deadline of thanksgiving. >> right. >> a mandate of $1.1 trill

and suffering families, that one day right there in michigan, ohio, illinois, indiana, all of these families will be able to enjoy full employment, social and economic justice and all will be able to join hands as brothers and sisters. i have a dream today. i have a dream that one day every valley shall be exalted and every hill and mountain shall be made low. the rough places will be made plain and the crooked places made straight. and the glory of the lord shall be revealed and all flesh shall see it together. this is my hope. and this is the faith that i go forward with every day. with this faith, we will be able to hew out of a mountain of deficits and debt, a stone of economic hope and justice for all americans. with this faith, we will be able to transform the janging discourse of inemployment and home foreclosures into a beautiful symphony of full employment and affordable housing. with this faith, we will be able to work together, to pray together, to struggle together, to go to jail together, to stand up for freedom together, knowing that we will be free and fully employed

he has been in minnesota and iowa and wrapping it up in illinois. you live as soon as it happens. >>> meantime, texas governor rick perry is there in new hampshire. and so perry says he created jobs in texas as governor and he is hitting the president hard on not being able to do the same. just how successful was perry in creating the jobs? should he be getting the credit for it? >> that's what he talked about. he talked about his job creation down in texas. he also, you could say, he tripled down on his criticism that ben bernanke, and he noted that president obama lectured him regarding how he should act on the campaign trail. at a breakfast this morning, listen to what the governor had to say. >> yesterday, uh, the president said that i needed to watch what i say. i just want to respond back, if i may. mr. president, actions speak louder than words. my actions as governor are helping to create jobs in this country. the president's actions are killing jobs in this country. it's time to get america working again. >> there you have it, rick perry, t

the senator from illinois? mr. durbin: i'd also like to thank the senator from arizona for the few minutes we shared on the floor. and i hope more members will do this rather than just taking turns and giving speeches. these exchanges even when we disagree are valuable. but i hope at the end of the day i agree completely with the senator from arizona, at the end of the day we cannot allow our economy to lapse into this default. it will be devastating to a lot ofnnocent families and businesses across america and will cost us dearly in terms of our national debt. so let us he that we can find this bipartisan agreement that people are working on even at this moment, and i hope that we can do that soon. incidentally, i want to say for the record former senator alan simpson said -- and i quote -- "ronald reagan raised taxes 11 times in his administration. i was here. i was here. i knew him better than anybody in the room. he was a real friend and a total realist as to politics." i yield the floor. mr. mccain: in retrosp

some of the workers fell three stories, wayne freedman is live at the scene on third illinois. >> reporter: that is the site of the apartment house that is still under construction. 196 units, six stories, 19th and illinois in san francisco. there were as you said four injuries, three of them critical. they are identified as being in their 20s and 30s. after falling and being buried in concrete. we can't see what happened inside. this was inside a stairwell. the form ruptured sending concrete on to man. it was equivalent of having a large wall fall on you. >>> they were underneath. they were below the concrete. the concrete was being poured on the roof. they were below. there was some sort of failure within the concrete pour, either the form or something along those lines that we'll investigate. as the concrete came down a couple them got hit by the concrete and fell a distance. >>> we don't know exactly what happened. cal osha is investigating. we're told some of the men fell as many as 30 feet. the contractor is midi construction. no comments from the company so far. reporters are waitin

i was talking to a man outside the president's town hall in atkison illinois.e was pounding in flags a couple hours before the president's visit. >> the whole road was lined with flags. >> it was, it was a extraordinary site. he voted for obama and still believes in the president. he said he must have the worst pr machine in history. so this is from a man pounding in flags in atkison, illinois. i said what do you mean by that? he said look at all of the good things he's done, we haven't heard about it. that's one sort of quiet hope for the people who still feel support of the president, that at the end of the day, when you match his accomplishments with whoever his opponent will be that he will come out looking stronger. i'm not sure those independent voters in the middle. people who will decide the election who george talked about in the northern suburbs, will have at least an open mind when it comes to that. i think the president will send out to the heartland his own state of illinois to kind of refuel his tank, if you will, to kind of, energize himself. he

en contra del programa federal de comunidades seguras en el pasado los gobernadores de new york, illinoisopuesto a la implementaciÓn de este programa en sus estados. y en otras 10 ciudades del paÍs. incluidos los Ängeles, san francisco y washington dc se han pasado ordenanzas en contra de este programa. en los Ängeles, jaime garcÍa. univisiÓn. >>> cecilia muÑoz directora de antes gubernamentales, defendiÓ el programa de comunidades seguras, diciendo que es un instrumento poderoso para mantener recursos federales que tiene el gobierno enfocados donde deben estarlo en la mÁxima prioridad para el departamento de seguridad interna como las personas que han cometido delitos en estados unidos. grupos de derechos civiles demandaron al departamento de seguridad interna, acusÁndolo de encadenar innecesariamente a inmigrantes que comparecen en corte. independien independientemente del delito que se les atribuye. las restricciones fÍsicas incluyen grilletes en los tobillos. esposas las manos y cadenas en la cintura entre los demandantes la uniÓn norteamÉrica para los derechos civiles. los familiares

eso es lo que dice, el senador de illinois, como digo, la más cobertura completa, reacciones de nivelesvamos con carlos en los Ángeles, y los últimos detalles. >>> para rigoberto barbosa el estudinte que lucha por el dream act, el anuncio de hoy, salvaría su familia, su mamá no sería deportada, que está detenida, pero no por un crimen. >>> mucha felicidaeseo, y esperanza, por la desesperación de familias, queremos que termine. >>> bajo la nueva guía de determaminación, del departamento de seguridad interna, representantes de agencias federales, revisarán caso por caso, de 300 mil personas que están bajo proceso de deportación, se deportaría a criminales, y peligrosos que entren ilegalmente, y que regresen luego de deportados, emplearían mayor discreción, y postergarían deportación de pniu que no representen amenaza pública, y hasta podriane solicitar permisos de trabajo. >>> las personas que están en tramite, y son de baja prioridad, y sacamos de tramite, son elegibles, para permisos de trabajar, pero no es automático, lo tomarán caso por caso. >>> por una carta de reid, y otros 21 sena