and by the frontline journalism fund, with major support from jon and jo ann hagler. >> corporate funding for frontline is provided by >> whether it's discovering an aspirin a day can prevent heart attacks worldwide, or creating cells that regenerate new heart muscle, our goal is developing treatments that save lives. brigham and women's hospital. >> al ahmad: i came to yemen to try and understand what is driving the groups now fighting for control of the country. (gunshots) in particular, i wanted to meet the houthi rebels. the houthis had mobilized thousands of fighters, and by last fall they had begun pushing south from their northern stronghold close to the saudi border. yemen's government was weak, its army fractured. the houthis saw an opportunity. when i first arrived several months ago, the houthis had already pushed into the capital, sana'a. the houthis are mostly zaidi muslims, from the shia branch of islam. their slogan is now seen everywhere. it's a political chant from the days of ayatollah khomeini and the iranian revolution. it reads: "god is great, death to america, death

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with major support from jon and jo ann hagler, and additional support from laura debonis and scott nathancorporate support is provided by: ♪ >> us lives here. where we can be surprised by others. and ourselves. the y. for a better us. ♪ ♪ >> my name is brittany smith, and i'm nine years old. it's tough because my mom and dad are poor. my dad just lost his job. monday i tried getting in the shower, and it was cold. i put the hot on all the way and no cold, and it was freezing. it felt like shoving your face in a bunch of snow. it was freezing! the hot water shut off because we didn't pay the bill in time. it was overdue. >> so what's the next bill due? >> electricity. it's going to be $318. we just need to put roger's ass to work. >> yeah. >> when you see the flat-screen tv and the computers and our ps3 and stuff, that's just things we've acquired over the years, stuff that we've had before all this happened, like when we were not this poor. >> sink's broke. (laughs) i don't know how or why, but it broke. and the cheapest plumber is, like, $65 an hour. i can't even afford $20. >> we lived

and by the frontline journalism fund, with major support from jon and jo ann hagler. corporate funding for frontline is provided by... >> whether it's discovering an aspirin a day can prevent heart attacks worldwide, or creating cells that regenerate new heart muscle, our goal is developing treatments that save lives. brigham and women's hospital. >> martin smith: syria, january 2011. the arab spring was sweeping across the region. >> thousands of demonstrators... >> a huge step towards democracy... >> smith: a new u.s. ambassador, robert ford, was just arriving in damascus. >> democracy taking place in a lot of these countries... >> demanding change, they're fed up... >> smith: at the time, it seemed syria's dictator would be next to fall. >> protesters in tahrir square drove hosni mubarak out of power... >> mubarak actually left power in cairo the weekend after i got there. and in my first meeting with bashar al-assad, i asked him point blank, "looks like kind of a difficult time for authoritarian regimes. what kinds of steps are you thinking of to get ahead of the

and by the frontline journalism fund, with major support from jon and jo ann hagler, and additional support from scott nathan and laura debonis. >> second and three, ball on the three... in motion... wide open... touchdown! >> the brains are precious cargo. >> now back to the third, and he goes outside... >> we have to get the brain usually within hours of the death. >> touchdown. >> play action... going deep... >> you have a brain that's intact; it's been removed from the upper spinal cord. >> picks it up, looks for running room. he's at the 40, he's at the 45, midfield, he's gonna go! desean jackson! >> narrator: it is the brain of a former football player. >> this is a process that is awe-inspiring in the old-fashioned sense of the word. >> you have the responsibility of actually possessing somebody's brain, which is probably the best representation of who they were. you really treat it with the utmost respect. >> from a scientific perspective, there's this secret that's being unlocked. >> we take it out, we weigh it, we photograph it, all the external surfaces. >> the attitude is so car

and by the frontline journalism fund, with major support from jon and jo ann hagler, and additional support from scott nathan and laura debonis. (horns blowing) >> erenberg touchdown! >> listen to this crowd, they're on fire! >> the steelers have their key receivers in. stallworth on the left, 82, swann, 88, on the right. franco harris is now at the 30, big pileup. he fumbled the ball! and let's see... minnesota has it! jeff siemon on it. >> oh, yeah! it's still wild and woolly, and i love 'em that way. >> you love 'em wild and woolly and you're seeing it now. >> impressive drive by the steelers. >> everybody loves everybody when you win. >> the drive has used a lot of time. here's a roll-out. bradshaw fires... touchdown! an awesome physical team were the steelers today. (crowd chanting) pittsburgh, the super bowl champs. >> narrator: pittsburgh. for 70 years, they've loved their football team: the steelers. >> this is a tough town. the people here are tough, tough-minded. the way the steelers played the game meshed perfectly with the people. >> hit him! hit him! >> they loved that hard-hit

with major support from jon and jo ann hagler.orporate support is provided by: ♪ >> us lives here. where we can be surprised by others. and ourselves. the y. for a better us. ♪ >> narrator: the cyber attack began with an email. >> "hi john. someone just used your password to try to sign in to your google account." >> john podesta, in his role as chairman of hillary clinton's campaign, gets a lot of email. so he has other people who are, you know, checking out his email as it comes in. >> "google stopped this sign-in attempt. you should change your password immediately." >> narrator: but this was not from google. it had been sent by russian hackers-- a computer phishing attack. >> spear phishes are a term of art in the cyber world for emails that are meant to look legitimate. "someone's tried to use your password to get into your account. please click on this link and change your password immediately." >> a number of people had access to my email account, one of whom checked with one of our security people about whether it was a ph

and by the frontline journalism fund, with major support from jon and jo ann hagler, and additional supportrom laura debonis and chris and lisa kaneb. >> martin smith: in the spring of 2012, hollie harsh and brian french were both homeless and looking for ways to improve their lives. >> we were addicted to methamphetamine for a while, and we ended up in a bad place, going homeless in a tent. and it was like that for four years. we just one day said, "we're done." we had enough. >> i had started getting online, doing some research about government grants, and i put in my email address, phone number, all the information that they asked for. >> smith: brian had stumbled on a lead-generating website that collects information from visitors. within 24 hours, they got a sales call from corinthian colleges, one of the largest for-profit schools in the country. (phone ringing) >> he has a deep accent, and he tells me that they will grant me a decent amount of money. and i thought, "we owe this to the kids to move forward in our lives." >> smith: the recruiter offered hollie and brian money if they t

with major support from jon and jo ann hagler. and additional support from laura debonis and scott nathan. corporate support is provided by: ♪ >> us lives here. where we can be surprised by others. and ourselves. the y. for a better us. ♪ >> we looked around and tried to find the perfect spot between brooklyn, where i grew up, and she grew up from jersey, so staten island was the medium. we said, "this is the place we want to live." >> he loves fishing, it's right off the water, and it just fit into our life. there was a lot of joy and happiness that this ocean brought to us. >> the ocean can be joyful. and the ocean could also swallow you up at any given time. you know, it's unpredictable. >> clear and present danger. sandy swirls along the east coast. >> the time for evacuation is over. >> get back behind the building. >> fishing staten island for 20 years, you pretty much know what the tides are. the tide was the highest tide i'd ever seen on staten island. i ran up the whole entire block and i said, "this is the storm. we have