>> joie: it doesn't mean that the people couldn't enter it. it's just the mandate part of it. >> you need the mandate that is what makes the risk pool large enough to bring the costs down. that is why you have a big giant risk pool you have people who are really sick or really healthy you put them all in the pool and you spread the risk and that whthat is why it goes down. that is why it's a problem to yank out that single mandate. the supreme court asked the question, is this mandate constitutional? yes it is. the american people by five million people said i like that obama guy. and the republicans have put a bill on the floor to repeal obamacare 45 times. and so now they are saying, we won't fund the government unless you get rid of obamacare. and we are like we have seen this movie before. we have done this, that's it. >> all right, back to your constituents and what you can do to serve them in these days an whoeveandhow ever long these da. what is going on up there on the hill. are you working? is your office staff? did you have to put yo

and joie, since the navy yard shooting a few weeks ago dr. richie is a little bit on edge. she says she is now more likely to admit somebody to the hospital at least for a few days to sort things out if there's a possibility of violence. >> lori jane, her family reportedly says she did have some indications of mental illness and was being treated. i think people are most concerned with her young daughter just a year old or so. is there any indication what's going to happen with her? >> joie i talked to the child protective services in washington, d.c, their protocol is to connect the home state and they would determine what the appropriate location of the baby would be. >> that would be connecticut i guess. lori jane gliha, thank you very much. >>> tom morris is an experienced reporter who as it happens has a tie to stamford connecticut. can you tell us about your connection to law enforcement there? >> i do. i'm an honorary member of the robbery squad in stamford pd. >> they were familiar with this particular woman? >> they were. they had encountered her in december when h

i'm joie chen and you're watching america tonight.n an historic phone call between president obama and rawrn's new ruler hassan rouhani friday, seemed to open the door between united states and iran. but an easing of tensions is making iran's archenemy nervous. israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu met with president obama today. warning him. >> timing they say is everything, and timing it seems was not on israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu's latest trip. for one, his meeting came days after a symbolic if not historic turn in relations between the u.s. and his country's arch rival, iran. the first direct conversation between an american and iranian president in more than 30 years. >> i spoke on the phone with president rouhani, of iran. >> something of a public relations coup, as he signaled taking the two countries in a new direction. israel has not been charmed by the new tone from iran, something netanyahu made clear when he left for the u.s. >> i will tell the truth in the face of sweet talk and the onslaught of smiles.

. >> joie: the government shutdown, the budget battle, all of this ties back to the bitter bicker over the president's program to bring affordable healthcare to americans. there is another struggle over american healthcare in homes across the nation. a personal fight faced by many families over the end of life. we know that most americans want to die at home. but most of us made our end in hospitals or nursing homes how that could change might begin with a tough talk on how w how we want to die. >> my name is joe nyre. i am 40 years old. i was diagnosed with stage four brain cancer. it's the most dangerous brain cancer there is. the medium is 1 14 months from diagnosis. the standard protocol is to be on chemo for life. 14 days on and five days off. i did five days on and it took me 13 of the 14 days to get off the couch and do what i love. for me it's more about quality of life than quantity. i opted not to continue the chemo protocol at all. it was too much time of feeling horrible. and very, very slim gain. >> joe spoke to his family making it clear how he wanted to be cared for and

so joie all sorts of people are affected by this. they are in limbo wondering what kind of penalties they will be facing. >> there are a lot of citiics of anonymous. what do they think of the group's are attempt to fight the law? >> there are private information has been exposed. they say they become victims of a mob mentality sometimes where all sorts of information is released without having all the facts. so that has caused some of these hactivists to be labeled as bullies. the sheriff's office and the county prosecutor's office felt bullied. even today this happened a couple of days ago but even today those websites are still shut down. on the flip side, you have eric, who wonders what kind of penalty he is going to be receiving. when we interviewed him he talked about all kinds of anxiety about what will be lapping to him. there is got to be a happy medium, where the punishment does fit the crime. >> we are working in new and uncharted territory. lori jane gliha, thank you. >>> we talk to cindy, we appreciate you being with us,

i'm joie chen. at the heart of detroit's future what seems to be a simple equation. but in the motor city today, the first bid to be declared bankrupt delivered a scathing assessment. he has calculated the pluses and minuses on detroit's ledgers and determined the amounts don't add up. it would be $250 million in the hole at best. but city workers and pensioners just aren't buying it. hundreds came out in protest today. they say the shortfall claim is just purification and that city leaders didn't work hard enough to negotiate settlements with creditors before detroit's july bankruptcy filing. it could be free from having to pay out its pension obligations to these city workers. >> it makes me feel as if i'm irrelevant, insignificant and my voice just doesn't matter. so we have to get out and show support for those who have been unjustly treated in this whole bankruptcy scheme. >> in some ways, detroit's financial downfall isn't all that surprising. we have heard and seen many reports from the former industrial powerhouse and we understand the challenge of maintainin

joie chen has a preview. >> my head was slammed into a bathroom door and then again next to the toiletand you know the assault proceeded. >> i remember putting my hands in the sink and looking at myself in the mirror and not even being able tofully comprehend what had--to fully comprehensive what had just happened. >> most assume will be a haven of learning and saiferlt, college. anne annie was a freshman and andrea, a sophomore, attending unc, chapel hill. >> they treat it as a compliance issue something that can be treated where a policy. >> one in 20 college women in the united states will be the victim of a completed or attempted rape in a typical college year. according to the national voings against women--i women--violenct women survey. >> that has the sign of safety. >> since 1972 the u.s. department of education under title 9 of the civil rights act has said institution he receiving federal funds -- institutions receiving federal funds must receive an education free of sexual discrimination. many institutions said they were unaware of their obligation he under title nine to al

but joie that law has been on the books for 15 years now. that right to die movement is very slow, with vermont becoming the third, the was a referendum in massachusetts last year, and even though the polling was very popular, that ended up losing. and there were ads paid for by the catholic church. >> let's talk to somebody who has direct familiarity with the oregon law, marnie wood. you became involved after your own sister's death. she had a long struggle with lou gehrig's disease. i think do you -- do we all feel that do people have regret, do we have doubt and did you have any regret after? >> no, i certainly did not have any regret after and i'd like to share that my sister nancy, being a resident of oregon, was totally aware of the legislation that existed there. and when she was diagnosed with als, lou gehrig's disease she and i began having very serious conversations. and she said, of course, she knew about the legislation and that would be a choice that she wanted to pursue. and so she did. >> marnie i'd like to ask you, there is o

. >>> turning now to washington, d.c., joie chen standing by to tell us what is coming up on "americaight" at the top of the hour. hi, joie. >> hey, diop, tonight we have a really big story about the one that very nearly got away, the story of one of the great treasures of the desert. archaeological experts tell us that this is one of the last few spots in the world where there are still discoveries to be made. unfortunately profit tiered have moved in. >> i got a phone call from an attorney that doesn't ever call me. and he says here is the deal. i have a friend of mine who went to law school for me. and he is the private attorney for mongolia, and they are going to file a suit against a man who has these phones. >> we'll look for that, joie, thank you very much. >>> hip hop diplomacy, break dancing a message of peace. ♪ news was happening. >> here are the stories we're following. >> find out what happened and what to expect. >> international outrage. >> a day of political posturing. >> every morning from 6 to 10am al jazeera america brings you more us and global news than any other

and joie chen is standing by to tell us what is coming up. hi, joie. >> good evening, john.ht we'll follow the developments on the government shutdown and bring you some signature reporting behind the headlines. we'll hear a different sort of report about a drought that is facing prisons. u.s. manufacturers have cut off death sentences for lethal injection. >> when it comes to quality control in terms of the process leading up to an execution, if you make all of that secret, you are grave danger of causing torture. that story and more coming up at the top of the hour on "america tonight." john. >> joie thank you very much. >>> after weeks of finger points and name calling on capitol hill, the mood in washington has been shifting. we go live to capitol hill where libby casey is standing by. libby, what is it going to take to get this done. >> well, it will take a little give on both sides and work by senate leaders to hammer this out and schedule it to their caucuses, watch for harry reid to talk to democrats tomorrow, and mitch mcconnell to try to sell it to republicans. hou

hi, joe whic -- joie. >> good evening, john.ou have the presence of mind to start your camera controlling to capture a scene like this. there at one at one of the office buildings, causing the u.s. officials to come to a final face off. >>> joie thank you very much. >>> you could soon own a piece of twitter. the social media site filed the papers to become a publicly traded company. they hope to raise $1 billion by selling shares. it will be the biggest tech ipo since facebook last year. >> finally, the last piece of the puzzle, the advertising markets have really cracked open over the last two years, and we're definitely seeing engaged consumers on the network, and maybe it's a more powerful mechanism than facebook. >> the race for the world sere i haves in full swing. michael eaves joins us next with action from the major league bail's post season. plus the big easy is known for its music -- ♪ >> -- but for many musicians in new orleans, life is anything but simple. how the community is trying to support its local talent. tomo

and joie it's not just because of the shutdown, that's terrible it's essentially because they are in a lot of trouble. now what we don't talk about as a nation very much, and there are reasons for that, is the fact that the middle class of this country is disappearing, it's collapsing. poverty is a number of people living in poverty is at an all time high. people are saying what about us? my graduated college deeply in debt can't find a job, what are you doing about that? >> and has moved back home. >> has moved back home. i'm 55 years of age, my boss fired me, i may never have a job in my life, i'm one of the 48 million people who can't afford to go to the doctor what about me? or i was working at a factory and you know what they shut it down. >> at what point is government that? if you look at the fight over obamacare, the challenge of making obamacare work not be picked apart not be run out of town, not be held hostage, if you look at how difficult all that has been, how can you say that we're ever going oget to a point in this country where we can finance more of these services t

joie?ning, on "america tonight" we'll continue to closely monitor those developments up on capitol hill. we are also tonight going to meet a very different sort of american politician, one who is not connected to the day's events here in washington. he is the new mayor of jackson mississippi. what is so interesting about that? he is proud to say he is a revolutionary who has been standing up to the establishment for decades. "america tonight" correspondent adam may traveled to mississippi to talk to this leader. >> all right. joie thank you very much. in the nfl, peyton manning and tom brady have been putting up incredible numbers. but who quarterback is more credible? ross shimabuku will have that debate. >>introduces america tonight. >>in egypt, police fired teargas at supporters of the ... >>a fresh take on the stories that connect to you. [[voiceover]] they risk never returning to the united states. >>grounded. >>real. >>unconventional. [[voiceover]] we spent time with some members of t

joie chen, al jazeera, chapel hill. >> meteorologist: well, top of the morning to you all. it's a very chilly morning across the northwest certainly across billings where right now it is 31 degrees mostly cloudy overcast skies. we're going to see snowfal snowg in billings, the heaviest snow certainly across portions of montana, down into northern idaho. we're going to see the snowfall in the highest elevations, and we have a winter storm warning in affect. we can see anywhere between two to five inches of snow around billings, but much more across the mountains. >> thank you very much. thank you for watching al jazeera america. i'm del walters. "inside story" is next. for updates throughout the day go to our website at www.aljazeera.com. where the news continues 24 hours a day. policies kill civilians in ally nations questions of sovereignty and legality get in the way of good relations. drones in pakistan. that's tonight's inside story. >> hello, i'm libby casey in washington. pakistan and united states have a complicated and often strained relationship. the two countries

i want to get back to joie chen. i don't know if joie's chen can speak to this, but host of america tonight, she's following this for us. >> thanks very much. here at america tonight's studios we're a few blocks away from capitol hill, you can see the dome behind me. we did hear the chief's report earlier that there was a little girl he believed to have been involved. here in the studio with us is lee spivey, a government relations contractor who happened to be at the senate building this afternoon just about the time that this all started happening. you yo were coming in from lunc. >> right, coming in at lunch, two minutes before all this happened. the police started running outside, you could hear on the walkie-talkies there were shots being fired. >> you knew something was wrong. >> you could see all the police cars. they have large glass doors looking out on constitution, and there were secret service, which you don't typically see on capitol hill. as this is happening, and as you're watching out the window the p

i'm joie chen. thanks for being with us. tonight we begin our week-long focus on sexual assault on campus and the impact on victims. what we found in weeks of reports at a variety of college campuses is the repeated belief campus rape is the result of miscommunication or things getting out of hand. allegations that amount to murky he said/she said that are impossible for schools and law enforcement to adjudicate. the reality is that can be a very mistaken assumption. rape is rape not a misunderstanding. sometimes by students who prey on intoxicated fellow students, and often get away with it. our report begins with correspondent chris bury. >>> obsession dental college in los angeles private and pricey is known for its commitment to social justice. so it is even more striking that this campus has reports of rape and sexual assault, much of it allegedly committed by repeat offenders. >> i ended up walking back to his place with him. once we were there, he raped me. >> reporter: in the shadows two students who asked us to hide

. >> we were on the phone with them joie.were on the phone with them all night, and pretty much giving them a play-by-play of the water rising and what happens disappearing, which was probably what did that and made them more nervous. somebody. >> i made about 17 calls to 911, and they kept tell me they were on the way . >> i know looking at anthony's documentary that one of the things that they were thinking about after saving his brother's life, how can i save mom and dad's things. you got some boys there. >> yeah. we got dad's guitars and the laptops and their papers. the only thing i didn't get was dry clothes. when i got upstairs and my sister is a size zero. >> so many families along your community on the shore lost so much. >> i think we all helped each other. we understand what each of us went through. >> our neighbors when i watched the house on the side of the street over from us, and it -- we were next. when those houses come down, we just looked at each other. our eyes -- we just looked at each other and pleaded w

joie. >> good evening, john. we're going to look further into the weekend raids by u.s. forces in africa. and we'll consider the reach of an al-qaeda partner group right in to the heartland community. minnesota is home to more somalia immigrants than any other state. investigators are aware that the al-shabab group has tried to recroup sometimes successfully. we'll meet some somalis in minnesota who remind us of the war and violence they tried so hard to escape. sgloovrjs myself and most of the parents don't fear of the radical regime, but what actually i scare for the most or for my kids is being monitored, being profiled just because we happen to be somali and muslim. >> we'll hear more about the pressures and pain about minnesota somali community. >>> there is another debate happening in washington. at issue the name of the city's football team. the franchise says it honors native americans. al jazeera john terrett has the story. >> reporter: a seminar lead by the onita nation. many native americans find redskins a racist slur. >> if it's offending people, then it eac

america tonight is up next with joie chen. i'm john siegenthaler. i will see you back here at 11:00 eastern time and 8 8:00 pacific. you can always get all of the news at al jazeera go aljazeera. ♪ >> on america tonight, booze and bad behavior, how they play a roll arole as rapists target vi. a startling look at the hook up culture. it documen doesn't matter what . everybody does it. >> also tonight. so sorry. >> this initial experience has not lived up to our expectation or the expectations of the american people. >> vision on the horizon. what is taking shape in the north dakota black hills, very, very slowly. ♪ jogood evening and thank you fo. we begin tonight with the hook youp culture. >> california campuses.ll pus >> we are trying to understand a problem that is more common that you probably think. more common that we thought when we began the in-depth reporting on this disturbing story. >> consider this 20 to 25% of women will be raped or the victim of attempted rape. while they are in college. more than half will tell no one. at least says t

those are the headlines for this hour, and america tonight with joie chen is up next. you can get the latest on aljazeera.com. >> on america tonight, inside of the dark net where you can speak your mind or commit a crime in the most anonymous corners of the digital world. >> there are plenty of people who are just fooling around, and experimenting with either their paranoid fantasies, libertarian dream of living in a world without government's spying eyes. >> also tonight, who is the victim? a big payout to the california officer fired for abuse, and fashion forward, the new effort to buy a home and do better in the world. even when that seems hard to do. >> you cannot really buy clothes these days, all fabrics are produced there. >> good evening, i'm joie chen. and thank you for become us. it was one of the world's biggest online marketplaces for goods and services until the fbi cracked down on the silk road. underground website was hidden in a part of the internet called the dark net. we are shown how to access this secret online world and explains how some are using

joie chen, al jazeera, chapel hill. >> let's get more news from europe now. felicity bar in are london now. >> georgia now, the new president has pledged to get more information from neighboring russia. his jann dream party now controls both the presidency and government. international observers have labeled the election free and transparent and he willing nawgd owillingwillinwillinginaugurate. >>> organizers are also under fire facing claims of corruption. david chater has more details. >> $50 billion and still rising. the bill for socchi winter games will be the most expensive ever. and the stadium where the opening ceremony will be staged is far from finished. the authorities here don't like cameras. every time we tried ofilm security guards politely but firmly told us to go away. it was meant to look like a giant snow flake, the semi tropical climate here occasionally spawns violently destructive winds. now it looks like a giant clam. >>> president putin sought to defuse criticism over his treatment of gay people in russia. we are doing everything both th

and joie chan is standing by.. >> is there any difference in washington that you noticed about the mood since the shutdown began? >> i think there is a lot of frustration in this town. everyone knows someone who works for the government at some level it's a company town after all washington, d.c. we have been watching closely and it is gets frustrating for people wh when y see what is going to on in the nation's capitol. we are going to continue to watch the bhow white house and capitol hill. >> what else do you have coming up tonight? >> we are going to focus on a seemingly endless fight. what is a community to do when drug lords take over? >> one answers is the locals to take on the drug lorsdz lords themselves. >> they have taken to protectening the streets themselves. it's one of the states with the highest my grant populations to the united states. with knows those that stand behind they are faced with reteen violence. they are do it yourself fighters. that has led to face off with the military. they just wan

i'm joie chen.he story is a disturbingly familiar one now, high school athletes, alcohol, the sexual assault of teen girls and outcry spreading through social media. this case involves who betweeners who say they were doubly victimized because they soht justice. lori jane explains. >> reporter: maryville, missouri may be a small town, but right now it's under a huge microscope because of a rape case that dates back nearly two years and it is just now getting national attention. >> i felt like i needed this story to come out for me also, and i needed to be able to voice my opinion along with my mother, and it's just -- we didn't have this kind of support when everything happened, but now that we do have a lot of support and people listening, it's like a miracle. it feels really good that it's finally getting spoken about. we have waited for this day for a very long time. >> reporter: for the first time the 15-year-old is speaking out about the ore deal. she says she was 13 at the time, and claims she

on america tonight. >> thank you joie. uruguay may be the first country in the southern hemisphere where marijuana is legal. >> diego oh says smoking marijuana is legal but buying is not. >> if you want to smoke it is your choice. >> uruguay's senate is expected to are legalize the sale of marijuana. now they want other drugs to be decriminalized. >> all bad things should be decriminalized. tobacco alcohol weapons and marijuana. >> consumers should know they are buying bad quality drugs that put them at risk. that way they can get it in a safe place. >> uruguay's president, the main backer of the marijuana bill, says his goal is to take the lucrative market away from traffickers. the government will give licenses to grow marijuana and will sell it in pharmacies. the president says that means buyers won't have to deal with criminal networks. it's a controversial proposal. >> translator: the government'government's messages are here to say and we must learn to live with them. but we do not understand why we have to accept a

joie chen, al jazeera, chapel hill. >> "america tonight" is taking a hard look at sex crimes on campusin a week-long series starting tonight at 9:00 p.m. eastern. they will focus on the role alcohol often plays in sex assaults and how victims can be made to feel they are to blame. >>> police departments are cracking down on a hidden world, sex traffickic. in minnesota one county is enlisting help to spot sex traffickics. workers in hotel chains. >> reporter: advocates say minneapolis-st. paul is one of the stop 13 centers for sex trafficking which is the buying or selling people for sex. the number of people trafficked into minnesota isn't clear but it is on the rise. surprisingly most victims are girls born in the u.s. the average age of those girls when they're first trafficked is 13 to 14, and in minnesota any given weekend night 45 girls underage 18 are sold for sex through the internet and escort service. >> reporter: this will teach hotel workers how to spot sex traffickers. they're asking all hotel employees to look for signs such as customers consistently refusing housekeeping,

. >> good evening, thanks for being with us, i'm joie chen. if you thought reopening the government and not bumping our heads on the debt ceiling was the end of it, think again. almost as soon as the presidential signed that deal, the issues are back on the table. increasing reports that the launch of the signature feature of obamacare is been disastrous. the early returns on obamacare enrollment and by considering how a few faulty clicks could doom its future. clicking away in the background over the 16 days of shutdown, the start of enrollment in the affordable care act center piece, the online marketplace for health care coverage. the government aims to get 7 million people to buy insurance through the exchanges, and interest in the website, healthcare.gov was high, but officials won't say how many folks have actually signed up. and opponents have quickly moved in to condemn obamacare as a failure already. >> what i intend to do is continue dang with the american people -- costing people's jobs and it's taking away their health care. >> it'

good evening and thanks for being with us i'm joie chen.t's a cold comfort on a chilly night here but the most washington was able to offer to round out another week of the shutdown is the white house and the house republicans have at least agreed that more talking is a good idea. the optimism that an end to the shutdown and a chance to avoid the debt ceiling breakdown was near, well that eevaporated earlier in the day. the president turned down a tide of the short term debt increase deal or no deal. the pressure is growing. even the workers that are not expecting a may check from the government tonight. sarah joining us to explain. >> feeling the pinch of government shutdown are the non-federal employees that work inside of federal buildings. i met with two gentlemen waiting in limbo. alexis is sitting in his bedroom. the 18-year-old was the first in his family to graduate from high school. his mind was set on becoming an architect. he put his college plans on hold to support his family after his father lost his job this summer. >> it was

actually, montreal is french; it's english; it's multicultural, but it has, also, that european joie de vivre. >> ha ha ha! thank you, nathalie. i get to experience modern montreal's happy hour--cinq a sept. i understand that's 5:00 to 7:00, but it really starts at 4:00, and-- >> finishes whenever. >> ha ha! sante. >> cheers. a sante. >> since the city's earliest days, the french culture of montreal has distinguished itself through its religion, language, and food. you should be my expert on poutine. >> yes. i am. >> now, how did that name ever come about? >> an englishman ask somebody who was making fries, "can you put in some cheese..." >> put in. >> "on top of it." so the french guy understand poutine, and then it becomes their name. >> so he's back there putting together the ingredients? >> he's making poutine. so we have golden brown french fries, and he's gonna put some cheese on top of it... >> there he goes. >> mozzarella cheese curd... >> right. >> and then he's gonna pass it to me, and i put some sauce on top of it. >> wow. let's see the final touch here. >> merci, monsieur

. ♪ >>> good evening and thanks for being with us, i'm joie chen.t is a friday evening in october and on ball fields all across the country athletes will face off in football challenges. the latest great to throw a flag down on the game is brett favre, he raised alarm thursday when he sold a radio host that after 20 years in the game and an uncounted number of hits, his worried. >> i think after 20 years, god only knows the toll. this was a little shocking to me, but i couldn't remember my daughter playing soccer. i want to live a long time. i want to live healthy as close to normal life as i can. >> no pep talk. no practice. no game time strategy can prepare an athlete for the unexpected head injuries of competitive contact sport. recently on "america tonight" aired an excerpt of the documentary head games. >> officials at the university of pennsylvania say a football player from lehigh county was found dead in his off-cam pass apartment. he school. >> there was nothing leading up to his suicide -- [ technical difficulties ] >> he played defense, a

joie chen is going to join us a few minutes with america tonight. but you can see, the government might be shut down but the lights are still on, in the senate and the house, congress people are continuing the debate whether they're going fund the government or not. mike viqueira has the story, mike. >> we have a couple of things in the in box, omb are sylvia burwell, let's listen in harry reid is on the senate floor i'm told. let's hear what he has to say. >> this memorandum falls september 17 memo and update on the potential lapse of appropriations. no more potential madam president after midnight. provision providing under the colgd continuing appropriations act expires at 11:59 tonight. unfortunately we don't have any indication that congress will act in time for the president to sign a continuing resolution before the end of the day tomorrow. october 1st, 2013. therefore, agencies should now execute plans for shut down due to the absence of appropriations. that's what she said. so madam president, agencies of government are in the process of cl

joie that video captures what i have been writing about. this is not an issue for debate.s emphatically clear it's a link between binge drinking and sexual assault on ca campus. they have come up with the same result if study of the women on college campuses that were sexually assault the 82 % of them say alcohol played a role. it's how we talk about it and how we educate girls and men. i thought what this video captured perfectly. if a woman is intoxicated and a man is not, and then she is not in the position to consent that is sexual assault. that is rape. when both parties are as intoxicated as those kids we saw in the video. that is where the problem comes. that is what we haven't figured about. >> there is concern about blame. people are putting greater responsibility on the woman than the guy. >> i disagree with that analysis i would argue with the case with both of them being intoxicated we put it on the male. if two people are so intoxicated and they are blacked out and they wake up in the morning and their clothes are not on, the one that is the medical and -- mal

welcome to al jazeera america i'm joi joie john siegenthal in. >>> all 232 members of the house g.o.p. caucus had been invited. >>> janet yell leen is the new k stock exchangnextpick for the f. yellen is the vice chair of the fed. she will be the first woman to lead the central bank. wall street as a favor

. >> good evening, i'm joie chen. and thank you for become us. it was one of the world's biggest online marketplaces for goods and services until the fbi cracked down on the silk road. underground website was hidden in a part of the internet called the dark net. we are shown how to access this secret online world and explains how some are using it to break the law. >> reporter: a hidden site hidden deep inside of the worldwide web. one of the sophisticated marketplaces. silk road before the fbi shut it down this month. the $1 billion black market attracted buyers and sellers from all over the globe, including a washington d.c. 17-year-old who had drugs shipped right to his doorstep >> describe what happened when you got the package? what did it look like? >> it was a birthday card, not too suspicious, average interview envelope and iopened it up and t molly, lsd, shrooms, and that's about crazy. >> the high school senior said he and his ex-girlfriend used coins to purchase highly illegal substances from a completely anonymous seller. he describes

i'm joie chen. we begin with a new term on a long-standing issue - the death penalty, 30 people have been executed in the united states by the debate led to a shortage and questions to the justice system about how to deliver the ultimate penalty. america tonight gets our report from correspondent chris bury. >> in 1990 warren hill was serving a life sentence at georgia state penitentary for killing his girlfriend when he beat a fellow inmate to death. he was sentenced to die. it took his lawyers 23 years to exhaust his appeals. prosecutors eventually prevailed. a final date for hill to be put to death was set for past summer, july 19th. the method lethal injection. on the eve of his execution hill's lawyers scrambled up the steps of the courthouse. they'll trial a last tactic, a legal hale mary, demanding the state reveal what drugs it planned to use to kill him. >> georgia's stock of the lethal injection drug expired six months earlier. state officials refused to reveal what they planned to use. ge

. >> good evening, i'm joie chen. welcome to america tonight, the weekend edition. until the fbi cracked down on the silk road. part of the internet called the dark net. america tonight correspondent lori jane gliha tells us how to access the secret and how some are using it to break the law. >> a hidden site deep inside the worldwide web one of the most sophisticated marketplaces for illegal drugs. hundreds of thousands of anonymous users access the site called the silk road before the fbi shut it down this month. the billion dollar black market attracted buyers and sellers from around the globe. clun a 17-year-old who had drugs shipped to his doorstep. >> describe what you got when you got the package, what did it look like? >> it was a birthday card, nothing too suspicious, not too many stamps, just average, average envelope, open the birthday card, ten lsd tablets, we got shrooooms and other things. >> they used bitcoin to purchase from a highly illegal seller. he scrits as anonymous kind of like amazon.com. >> why do you say it's not as safe if you go on the st

i'm joie chan. sex crimes. and the response of victims to those assaults lead us tonight. we turn to maryville missouri. they found themselves bracing for a major protest by the. the charges were dropped by the accused high school boys. but the girls felt they were bullied for reporting what happened. a newspaper investigation forced new attention on the case and the appointment of a special prosecutor. but the sheriff has affirmed that the local authorities had done the right something. >> ultimately the truth and the facts will come out in this case. and i hope when they do that the people that have been critical in this community are big enough to accept what the truth really is. >> following up on tonight's story. also with us is an organizer for the rally. >> how did the rally go, court ancourtanycourtney. >> the rally was a success. >> and we had thre tremendous st from the community. the overall purpose of the event was to provide support to the victims and their families. but to all victims of sexual abuse and violence. >> we understand that the local law enforceme

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i'm joie chen and you're watching america tonight's weekend edition. over the next few nights anonymous was rallying. as lori jane gliha reports, hactivists. a video uploaded to youtube shows a former steubenville, victim. >> he raped her harder than. >> a picture of the passed out 16-year-old being carried by two players from the town's legendary football team showed up on instagram. the assault continued, some deserve to be peed on. >> never seen so much l oferltl. two players were arrested a week later but she began blogging about the case, afraid that the popularity of the big red football team would prevent the attackers from being brought to justice. her blog came to the attention of anonymous. five months later when prosecutors appeared to be dragging their feet the group hacked into roll red roll the football team's home page and posted this. >> the girl was sexually molested raved and dragged from party to party. >> publicly identify everyone responsible. >> can you hide no longer. you have attracted the attention of the hive. engaged. >> thei