in his early 20s, michael wanted to be just like the drug kingpin main character. it took him just two years to reach that goal. and the next 20-plus years to reach a very different one. >> did everybody check your e-mail today? i sent you ten questions. >> if any of michael san francisco state students began this school year asking their teacher how he spent his summer, the answer might surprise them. michael was in federal custody. >> you know, i just want to share pli experience with you. >> then again, prison is where michael santos has spent the last 26 summers. of his life. >> 26 years, 9,500 days. 9,500 days from entrance to release. >> it was in 1987 that michael was convicted in federal court of bag drug kingpin. of shipping kilos of cocaine from miami to his hometown of seattle. >> i made every bad decision you could make. >> but before michael was even sentenced, before he spent a single of those 9,500 nights in prison, michael made one very good decision. he picked up a philosophy book and learned about socrates. >> particularly when he had an opportuni

and it was bad. >> without the kingpin, the crane is doomed.er, big blue and the roof come crashing down. >> watch it! >> there's no -- there's nothing you can do, you know. it's terrifying. >> the crane and roof fall away from jeff's yellow man basket seen on the right and miss him. but another crane on the left is hit. it's holding a man basket with three other iron workers in it. >> there was a crane holding my three friends and then my crane and then blue and mine was the only one left standing, i think. all of the other cranes went over. >> all three men lose their lives. it's a devastating blow. >> jerry star was a really nice guy. he was our union steward on the job. jeff wisher is the guy i knew the most. and bill, the diver, we call him on the job, and i just met him, and he was a real nice guy, you know. >> several other people are injured, including kasinski. he sustains a career-ending back injury when his basket is lowered and stopped too quickly. >> that was my last day on the job. >> an investigation finds several factors are to

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were bumping up against it, either through butting out recordings by charlie patton, one of the kingpinsssissippi delta blues, and was a paramount artist. or through these connections, we had a set by a white banjo player. some of his recordings turned out were pressed by paramount records. although they were on another label. it just seemed like at every turn, fairmount reared its head and was irresistible as a force ad so jack and i shared passion for this stuff. >> the music. to give people who may not know the story and may not know the music or to have the music in one place? >> yeah, there is plenty of labels like columbia that have been around 100 years and they are still around today, they have muscle and money to expose it in a bigger way. paramount is sort of a strange record the history of labels but the beautiful part about them is they accidentally captured american culture by wanting to sell record player cabinets. they were a furniture company, and they fell into this by getting a job from the edison company to make cabinets first. and that is what i love about it. has a h

it's for large, you know, gang take-downs and kingpins of that nature. one individual said if individuals come in and make these cases and they are not going anywhere, it's a waste of federal resources. >> in this case didn't - what many said is to criticise what the atf did, they manufactured crime. people are going out buying guns and bringing them to the atn siting operation, and operated pawn shops where they'd buy garments and other technology so people stole it and brought it to the a.t.f. >> that's right. they'd do it over again. that happened in pensacola and arizona as well. that was not a component here. but time and time again they'd buy these things and that was a concern that the state prosecutor in florida said, that they realised this could stimulate the burglaries in the area. an individual stole a bike, rode it there, sold them the bike. the operation was burring larize in pensacola. one guy stole a dvd player from the a.t.f. and sold it back to them. >> it's an interesting article and reed. thank you john diedrich, for your time. >> swi

it's for large, you know, gang takedowns and kingpins of that nature. their point, one individual put it this way, this individuals are coming in making these kinds of cases and they're not going anywhere, that's a waste of federal resources, in this former prosecutors version. go ahead. >> in this case, what many have said, to criticize what the atf did, they were manufacturing crime, buying guns at higher prices, people were buying guns and bringing them to the a.t.f. sting operation. they operated pawn shops where they would buy garmins and other technology, so people were going out, stealing the stuff and bringing it to the a.t.f. >> that's right. they would do it over and over again, that happened in pensacola, in arizona, as well. you know, that was not a component here, but what we saw was time and time again, they would continue to buy these things and that was a concern that the state prosecutor in florida said from the outset. they realized that this could stimulate the burglaries in the area, and one individual stole a bike from walgreens, ro

meaning mandatory sentences intended for so-called drug kingpins could be applied to a drug conspiracye. according to the federal bureau of prison, within six years of that happening, the number of drug cases in federal prisons jumped by 300%. remember, clarence aaron was serving life for a nonviolent offense. the aclu estimates there are more than 3,200 others just like aaron serving life without parole for nonviolent offenses. well, today, clarence aaron found out that after pushing for comations since 2001, he was finally given one by president obama. and he wasn't the only one. seven other nonviolent drug offenders had their sentences commuted by the president today. each of them had been behind bars for at least 15 years and six, including aaron, are serving life sentences. they should all be released within the next four months. aaron's case had become the focus of a whole lot of concerted attention and activism, due in no small part to the excellent journalism of senior reporter, dafna linzer. >> clarence aaron was an interesting case to begin with. he got this incredibly overly

are the ones who actually went to trial because they did not agree to a plea deal and often the kingpinsthe ones who turn and agreed to cooperate and get lighter sentences? >> absolutely. stephanie george was sentenced to life without parole for drugs for ex-boyfriend stashed in her attic. he took responsibility for the drugs and found to be the leader of the conspiracy, but he has been out of prison for years because he cut a deal. she had no information to trade. she was not involved in any major way. aaron, whenlarence he was in college, he introduced a college classmate's brother to a drug dealer he knew in high school. the drugnimal role in conspiracy. i'm sorry, to drug deals, one of which did not take place, sentenced to die in prison because he had no information to trade. everyone else involved at a higher-level have all been released from prison. he fought the charges and went to trial and lost. because it was a mandatory sentence -- the judge said, i object to this case. i object to the sentence. a similar, we see unfair sentences because of the crack- powder dispirited. jason

but i spoke to the saudi oil minister who is the kingpin here and he said to me he's not worried aboutlet's listen in. >> not me. >> you're not concerned? >> i have said that over many times and i think i've been public about what i said about shale oil. this is a welcome edition to the world oil reserve and we welcome it. >> so that's the external issue blues back to zaz act stan, canada, they could have have more supplies on oil. the nigerians have another half a million barrels to put back on the table. plus the elephant in the room, iran, iran currently allowed to export a million barrels a day. potentially they want to put a lot more oil on to the table. currently exporting 1 million. listen in to what the iranian oil mip sister said to me about potentially how much oil he wants to put on to this market. >> i hope after sanction we will produce more. >> in 2014? >> after lifting the sanctions. >> soes that middle of 2014, you're hoping to produce 4 million barrels? >> we can technically. >> let's not pour cold water on these barrels. the old iraq/iran rivalry still very hot. the n

. >>> plus, he's the kingpin of the reality show blockbuster "duck dynasty."al comments also this morning. >> for him it was a small act of kindness, but for the two of us, he really like made our lives. >> then pope francis delivers his pre-christmas message and abc is there. what he has to say and the americans who felt his warmth firsthand. it is thursday, december 19th. >> announcer: from abc news, this is "world news now" with john muller and diana perez. >> good morning, everybody. needles to say, we didn't, you and me, win the mega millions. >> well, i tried. >> did you check to see if you had a second prize? >> i didn't even check. i have it in my wallet and i did not check. >> we did a story that said a lot of people don't check. they say, whatever. i haven't checked. i have five tickets. i should check. you're right. >> let it go for a couple of weeks to hold out some latent hope in the back of my head. >> i still can't walk off the set mid sentence so it's not that kind of money. >> i would love to see you win for that very reason. >> just for that

i spoke to the kingpin of markets. he seemed non whichchalant and relaxed. >> i have said that many times and have been public about what i said about shell oil. it's a welcome addiction to the reserves and we welcome it. >> now, he says that and yet opec conducted a study on prices. for instance, kuwait, iraq take a 20% cut on prices of oil they ship to the united states. that is a lot and takes them below the cost of production between 80 and $90 a barrel once they have the budget concerns in there as well. shell is ramping up in 2014 which is a grave concern for saudis. what's the bigger issue? iran has a level of exports at the moment somewhere in the region of a million barrels a day. iranians see their place at top table of producers. u.s. around 10 million barrels a day as indeed are russians who aren't in opec. iranians think they can get many barrels a day. from 1 million a day now they think they can get to -- well, let's listen what he had to say about immediate exports once sanctions are lifted. >> i hope a