this is jeffrey smith. here when you're one of the more than two dozen farmers that gave him a call describing problems with pigs they could get pregnant big. because of the g.m. corn is all right. so so. what i may do it another time i'm on my cell phone now but i might actually after we talk a bit i might actually email you and tell you exactly what i've written down about what we've talked about to make sure it's accurate. all right. thank you very much. so that was good news he said that he was willing to talk his cell phone was dying on the battery and he said first thing he said was is my name going to be in the article you're writing so i had to put him at ease and tell him no it's not if you don't want it to be in the article it would be in there. that's that's the truth that's why we don't have a lot of whistleblowers if farmers farmers are not interested a lot of scientists are scared about it and that's the whole state of the art right now where almost all scientists focused on genetically engine

early saturday morning, 32-year- old jeffrey smith was shot and killed just off bell air road. his friend anthony jasper isn't surprised by the violence. >> as time goes by i'm trying to deal with it but you never know what can happen. >> reporter: early sunday morning, deon barnes was found dead in his car. police say shot multiple timeless. soon after, a 30-year-old taxi driver had a bullet grace his back while police say two passengers robbed him. >> we do have a person of interest identified in that case. we are working to bring him forward to police. >> reporter: on sunday night, a man was shot in the chest on north bellard avenue, he is recovering. so far this year there's been 192 homicides in the city. down 10% from last year. but police say that's no cause for celebration. >> we do continue to target bad guys with guns as the commissioner would say and we're going to keep doing that no matter what the numbers are or what the weekends bring. >> reporter: despite that assurance, long time city resident james kinsler says he doesn't feel safe. >> it's the mind set of peop

jeffrey tucker. they joined forces and got fairfield greenwich up and going. >> smith: walter noel's assistant remembers how, at first, they struggled until they found madoff. >> jeffrey just told walter, "i've got this guy who's got really impressive returns." you know, "come meet him. let's look into it. maybe there's a product we can develop." once they created fairfield sentry to invest exclusively with madoff, that's when things really started to accelerate. >> smith: and what attracted them was not just madoff's steady returns, but an unusual fee arrangement. >> madoff didn't charge them any fees. he said, "i'm making all my money on trading through my market-making operation and commissions, and so i won't take any fees and you can keep it all." >> smith: for a feeder fund like fairfield sentry, those client fees added up to around $100 million a year. >> the feeder fund is taking, you know, two in 20 or one and 10, 1% of the assets and 10% of the returns. and all these guys did was just dump money in, do no due diligence, and count their money. it's amazing. >> smith: and while tucker handled fa

jeffrey brown. >> suarez: and i'm ray suarez. on the "newshour" tonight, we debate the magnified importance iowa plays in the nomination process with historian richard norton smith and political analyst jeff stein. >> brown: then, paul solman looks at some of the defining moments in his coverage of the economic downturn this year and we examine the challenging path back to a robust economy. >> suarez: another in our "american graduate" series on the nation's high school drop- out crisis. tonight spencer michels reports on a california program designed to keep girls in school by encouraging science studies. >> science is probably one of the easiest things to get them interested in. science is a place where we can do some things that are fun, intriguing, challenging. >> brown: and we >> brown: and we look at the visa holdup for thousands of iraqi civilians who provided valuable assistance to americans during the war. >> brown: that's all ahead on tonight's "newshour." major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by: >> computing surrounds us. sometimes it's obvious and sometimes it's very surprising where you find it. soon, computing intelligence in unexpe

smith, "24 days" which is still taught in this school. and elsewhere. still available. and you continue to fall the enron story for years afterward. the court cases, jeffrey skilling appeal which went to the supreme court. is there one sort of big lesson that you kind of took away from this whole experience? >> i don't know. some of them are so self evident. i don't know, better to be honest than july. fashion than july. it is worse to lie and be caught than july. so, you know, i don't know. enron in some ways, jeff skilling used to say all the time that enron was caught in a perfect storm. and oddly enough in some degrees he was right. when enron collapsed it was still lots of things we didn't know about the inner workings of enron. that would come out through this gigantic federal investigation, which i think was the largest federal investigation ever of a single corporation, and they created this task force that was unprecedented. and, of course, one question people could have is, you know, there have been relatively few indictments out of the 2008-2009 meltdown of top corporate officials. now, that may be because this is not evidence there, it was so