. >> a group of armed vigilantes is trading machine gun fire with members of the knights templar cartel until early this year, the town of nueva italia in mexico's western state of michoacan was under the control of the cartel but after more than a decade of fear, something changed these men armed themselves, and town-by-town, they began to drive the cartel out. they call themselves autodefensas, or self-defense forces. their leaders claim that 20,000 have joined the armed movement. their advance has been welcomed by many, but it's also plunged this state into a new kind of lawlessness. >> we've just arrived to michoacán and we've heard that four heads have been discovered on the steps leading to this church here in this small town of zacan. >> it's a gruesome warning from the templars, as the autodefensas approach this town from the south the bodies were taken away by authorities before we arrived. but people here tell me they expect little more from the investigation. in mexico, it's estimated 98 percent of crimes go unpunished. failed by the state, the vigilants say they've been left

i want to talk more about michelle knight, an amazing woman.ned by a sigh tie cripsyd a clinical psychiatrist. good morning to you both. >> good morning. >> michelle knight has been in the public light often after this ordeal and we've come to care about her and worry about her. should we, gayle? >> anybody through a trauma of this magnitude is of course somebody you would worry about. i think it's the unusual person who could be resilient enough, quite honestly, to function in a healthy way and in healthy relationships, most importantly, after something like this, because recouping trust, i think, is going to be very difficult. the fact that she in her -- in her being public, is trying to help others, i think is a really great coping mechanism for her. it wouldn't necessarily be for everyone, but it seems to be for her, and serving her well. >> well, it seems she wants to reach out. because to me she seems like such a solitary person. the other who women formed a partnership. they're going to release a book together, without michelle knight, a

michelle knight very upset.uestion a victim in this particular way this soon when you don't know all the facts. this is making other women in similar situations fear coming forward. does she have a point? >> i think she has an excellent point. it is hard for people to understand who were probably around. every time there are one of these stories, carol, everybody questions why didn't she break free at this time or that time. they don't understand the psychological chains that essentially a perpetrator exerts on a victim that telling the victim often i'm going to get your family deported, i'm going to kill your family. your family doesn't care about you. your family is gone. i'm the only one here for you which creates this stockholm syndrome. this psychological situation where the person believes the only person they have to rely on is their perpetrator and they have to stay. and so it's not a matter of whether they have a moment to break free physically, psychologically they cannot break free. i think people hav

the 18-hour journey takes us from the foothills into the rugged hearts of the knights templar territory, a cartel on the run, or hiding out in the months since vigilantes and police worked together. the first sign of trouble - radio chatter from cartel look outs. the foot soldiers, some barely 18, are sure they've been spotted. their leader says despite the danger, they must keep up the fight. >> translation: we don't want the knights templar to regroup. if they do, they'll put children in slavery. >> at a one-time camp for the cartel the leader meets the top authority. the police rely on the vigilantes knowledge of the terrain. at each stop the trail is going cold, a sign that the pray is ahead of them. their search is anything but stealthy. towards the end of the day, it's a telling moment. they come up on another group of vigilantes and suspect them of being member in disguise. such are common, hard to prove. no shot was fired. they diffuse the crisis and want to make clear who is in charge. >> if any of you search houses i'll [ bleep ] you up, and if you to do others, i'll [ bleep ]

michelle knight is one of the bravest. almost exactly one year ago tonight she and two other women took on a monster and won. here's savannah guthrie. >> on the broadcast tonight, the daring escape for three young women missing for a decade. >> amanda berry, gina dejesus and michelle knight found, held captive in a home within miles from where they were last seen. the news shocked the world. >> you can truly believe that miracles really do happen. >> three young women breaking free from a boarded up house in cleveland after a decade in captivity. >> amanda berry, i've been missing for ten years, i'm here, i'm free now. >> investigators who spent years searching for the girls were stunned. >> i just -- my mouth dropped open. >> the most amazing case ever. >> against all odds, the young women have survived. >> i've been in this business for over 40 years, i've seen a lot of heroes in my life. but these girls top it off. >> tonight, the woman who was held the longest, michelle knight, tells her incredible story of strength an

he was knighted. he undertook difficult diplomatic missions, but religious and territorial wars in northern europe raged on. rubens grew discouraged. he withdrew from court and public life and went home to his baronial house in antwerp. his first wife had long since died. he married the 16-year-old helena fourment. it has been suggested that he was satirically alluding to himself and helena when he painted this aging but lusty satyr carrying off a young nymph. his paintings joyfully and sensually celebrated his love for helena. he purchased the castle of steen and with his family and his titles retired to a twilight fantasy of country life as the lord of steen. rubens' landscapes are suffused with a kind of nostalgia. they evoke a dream of aristocratic life, a life based on the ownership of land. today it's only half an hour by car or train from the landlocked aristocratic landscape that rubens painted to the canals of the dutch netherlands. though not far apart physically, these two societies were as

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the michelle knight.d more than ten years inside that cleveland house of horrors and is now the author of "finding me -- a decade of darkness, a life reclaimed." michelle had a lot shea wanted to say about this story in california. this topic still very important to get her message out. michelle, it is so great to see you. >> hello. i'm glad to be here. thank you. >> it must be hard, i've been thinking, for you to retell your story over and over again especially on your book tour. has it been difficult for you? >> it's been difficult but, like i said, i'm trying to help other people and if i can help just one person buy my story or more than one person, i'm welcome to do it. >> you hear of this story, the possibility of another woman being held, abused for ten years, she was taken when she was 15 years old. what went through your mind? what goes through your mind when you hear about this? >> well, right now what's going through my mind is people shouldn't judge people by what they see and what they hear b

she just listened to michelle knight there. this struck a nerve. >> absolutely. in some ways she's being retraumatized because she's overidentifying with this young woman in california as is absolutely appropriate. what she's saying is absolutely true. a lot of people are judging this young woman from california. let's go ahead and believe what it is she's saying. this is what's coming from her mouth. she says she was traumatized. she was raped. we know that most likely she was brainwashed. we know there is stockholm syndrome. people don't understand. she had every opportunity to escape but actually she didn't. when we look at the psychological trauma, when we look at the psychological bondage, we see this every single day. we see this with pimps and their prostitutes. they tell them nobody cares about you. they lull them into a false sense of security and they constantly threaten them. the police said that this young woman in california was actually sexually traumatized, physically traumatized, psychologically traumatized, all of the things that happen to a youn

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michelle knight has written a book, while finding me a decade of darkness, a life reclaimed. strong person. here is my interview with her. on the outside no one knew the horrors of what was happening inside. for months michelle knight was all alone, chained, starved, brutally beaten and raped by her captor. >> i take myself outside of myself and look at a brighter side. at least i'm not dead yet. >> then on april 21st, 2003 -- >> if anybody knows anything about my daughter, i wish somebody would come forward. >> michelle saw tv reports that a young girl called amanda berry had gone missing. >> when you heard that, what did you think? >> the first thought in my head is he did it. >> you knew right away? >> yeah. >> the man she's referring to, ariel castro, had in fact kidnapped amanda berry. even though they were held in the same house, michelle and amanda rarely saw each other. when they did, they were not allowed to talk. michelle says one thing was clear to her. in that house, though they were both captive, they were far from equal. >> and you got the feeling -- you still h

just bothered by the fact that the toy set feature knights saving woman and none of the knights are actuallywe'll start with knights and all that go to our friend from britain here. dom, can a woman be a knight? >> know she has to be a dame. is awful phrase because it makes her sound like only unloveable spin sister. i was going to call you dame harris. i want to come back superhero thing the value with figures says women are weak. i think it is terrible to put women figures out like this. i think a real female superhero action figure should be one take as pink pill and put real action into action. >> oh, would you. >> dominic, i don't know if there is chair big enough for you. so i am element tall. is that what you say to your little girl -- elemental. >> i think this is fine. these are still extremely fit looking action characters. >> right. >> so very, still glorifying the body. and male characters you see, they have beefed up chests and broad shoulders and -- >> because i know that you were superhero, for what, halloween or what was your -- >> shira i love her. >> haven't heard of shira.

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michelle knight -- were alive despite all they had been through. raped and tortured them repeatedly. under a plea deal he was sentenced to live plus 1,000 years. a month later he was found hanged in his cell, his death ruled a suicide. today amanda berry and gina dejesus thanked everyone who has supported them over the past year. michelle knight has written a book "finding me" is out. why did you want to write a book? why did you want to have your story out there? >> to help other women, children, men, know that they can survive any type of problem in their life. >> that's your message? that you can survive anything? >> yeah. >> that's the feeling i got reading your book. i don't know how you survived. >> tremendous strength. >> did you always know that you could survive? obviously there were moments you thought you weren't going to. >> there were moments. overall i thought i could make it through because i made it through so much in my life. so much pain, so much tortured. i was already prepared for it. >> prepared for it, she said, because growin

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. >> a few years earlier may have been a surprise to local residents to see brandy knight inside the jail. they might have remembered her as a popular secretary at a nearby elementary school. >> many of the people that knew me from school, if any of them would see me now they would know something is seriously wrong. two years ago i started smoking crack and i resigned from my job and lost both my daughters, started living on the streets using crack. >> knight is charged with possession of narcotics. she pled not guilty and is awaiting trial. she says her problems began with a pain pill addiction that escalated when her youngest decided to live with her father zblchlt she wanted a father. i couldn't deny her that. i said you can go live with your dad. from that point on, it became empty. my older daughter was involved in high school sports, wasn't home. and i would work. my little one was gone. didn't have any purpose. i sat down and never left that life. >> that night led to the streets of grand rapids. >> division is a street for prostitution. i did walk the streets prostitution wis

michelle knight was chained and raped and held prisoner in a cleveland house with two other women and she spoke exclusively this morning with our kate bolduan. have a listen. >> michelle, it is so great to be here. >> hello, great to be here, thank you. >> it must be hard, i've been thinking, for you to retell your story over and over again especially on your book tour. has it been difficult for you? >> it's been difficult but like i said, i'm trying to help other people and if i can help just one person by my story or more than one person, i'm welcome to do it. >> you hear of this story and possibility of another woman being held, abused for ten years. taken when she was 15 years old. what went through your mind and what goes through your mind when you hear about this? >> right now what's going through my mind is people shouldn't judge people by what they see and what they hear because there's as lot of people out there that go through pain and they can't stop it. they don't know how to cope with it. they don't know exactly how to go through it. people shouldn't say anything about wh

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. >> a group of vigilantties is trading gunfire with members of the knights templar cartel. and the early this year, the town in mexico's western state, was under the control of the cartel. but after more than a decade of fear, something changed. these men armed themselves and town by town, they began to drive the cartel out. they call themselves self-defense forces. their leaders claim that 26,000 have joined the members. their advance has been lucked by many, but it has also plunged the state into a new kind of lu lessness. with just arrived we have heard that four heads have been discovered on the steps leading to this church here in this small town. it's a gruesome warning from the templars. the bodies were taken away by the authorities before we arrived, but people here tell me they expect little more from the investigation. in mexico, it's estimated 98% of crimes go unpunnished. failed by the state, the vigilantties say they have been left with no choice but to start a war. ♪ we are here to meet a wealthy farmer called paco. he left his orb charreds four months ago to

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>> i have faith in him. >> reporter: that's not all, two knights, sir ian mckillen and sir patrick stewarter of the x men, new superheroes who come together in the fifth installment of the franchise, "days of future past." >> we need you to hope again. do you worry audiences will grow tired of combic book movies? >> what is distinct to "x men" is they always had a philosophical moral content. so that has been at the heart of the whole franchise. >> reporter: we sat down recent leap ly at the restaurant in new york city. city he calls home. you are a british sir and brooklyn hipster. how do you reconcile the two side of you? >> i don't think they need reconciling. i was never a big city person. i always felt intimidated and out of place. i grew up in quite a small town. now, that i should claim that brooklyn is a small town. >> it's the way of doing it if you want to go on living! >> reporter: it is brooklyn's proximity to broadway that often keeps the veteran stage actor busy. collaborating recent leap wily mckiellen, for two classics. >> why do you come here? >> reporter: the two have kno

now michelle knight is telling us what it was like inside that house of horrors and what those first freedom felt like. >>> then, moms have found a new community online in the form of thousands of blog posts who share their stories. for some, those blogs are now making them big bucks. we'll explain how. >>> also ahead, our weekend "today's" biggest fan series kicks off. i went first. my amazing fan, melanie, who taught me how to slalom ski. you're not seeing it with the pictures you're seeing now. we had a great time. we kicked things off really great. he's a wonderful burst of spirit who's going to come flying through the studio in a second. >> she taught you a thing or two, right? >> there are 10 million things i don't know. i don't know how it came out i know everything. there are a thing or two i could learn. she definitely taught one of them. >>> we do begin this half hour with an update for you on a very inspirational young woman. we first introduced you to rachelle friedman chapman a few years ago after an accident at her bachelor et party left her paralyzed. in the time since

the links between the knights templar and the government existed, and there has been proof of it. many say the vigilantes had risen up, and if people had taken up arms, the federal state would not have done anything to stop the situation. >> as far as corruption, any signs of corruption spilling into the vigilante groups? >> there has been some accusations about the groups being infiltrated by other carr it wills and the templars -- cartels and the templars themselves. former templars were part of the vigilantes. that's an interesting point. when you ride with them, when you are with the vigilante groups, there's all sorts of people - businessmen defending their own interests. children - we have witnessed how 15-year-olds have taken up arms to avenge family members, and you see people with a lot of criminal history. many have been in prison for drug-related crimes, it's difficult to know who is who and in the coming months, i am sure, more information comes out about who is leading the whole scene. >> you mentioned may the 9th as a deadline that the government set for vig lanty gr

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one of the villages where the knights templar's cartel remains popular. cartel spent a lot of money here. it recruited young men. legalize marijuana would still be here when -- heroin, crystal meth, cocaine. arrest one liter and whoever is left runs the show. the cartels are bloodied from time to time, but they keep coming back. paul wood, bbc news. since the mars rover curiosity landed in 2012, we have been waiting for the answer to the question -- has there ever been life on mars? a fellow atdam, nasa's jet propulsion laboratory. have they discovered anything that suggests that mars could support life? >> one of the wonderful things about this mission is before we were halfway done which what we call be prime mission, we had taken data that told the scientist that ancient mars could have and would have supported life if life existed. >> how do we find out if it did support life? in theory, it could have. >> that is a tricky question. we keep asking mars, are you alive? it keeps answering maybe. he does not say no. detecting life is quite a challenge. we

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though of disarming especially in light of reports that a new cartel is forming from the ashes of the knights templar. earlier this year michoacan was enmeshed entangled in an open war involving the cartel, vigilantes and security forces. some called it a failed state. fearing they could lose their guns - thousands have chosen to follow the government's plan. after operating for so long outside the law, now these vigilantes are putting their faith in it. such scenes of mutual trust were unimaginable only months ago. steps away from the registration vigilantes are sitting for competency tests for the new force. some 2,200 have already applied. >> this a battle that neither the government nor we in the movement could carry out alone. but together, we can both fight organized crime. a sense of growing faith in the government. >> clashes between police and students in caracas, venezuela have left one dead and four injured. it began early thursday morning national guard troops rounded up hundreds of young anti-government protesters and dismantled their camps. demonstrators filled the streets of ca

and michelle knight's book is out today. she talked to cnn's anderson cooper last night about the first few days in captivity. >> there was a day i screamed until i had no voice. still nobody heard it. and when he hears you scream, he just shoves a sack or a cloth down your throat until you choke on it. >> she's living on her own and has taken up boxing. amanda berry and gina dejesus will be at an awards event. >>> let's look at weather across the nation. more hot and windy fire conditions in oklahoma. it will be dry in the northeast, with a few showers in maine and virginia. showers from the dakotas to mn. some rain and snow in the rockies. >> another day of searing heat in kansas, oklahoma and texas. triple digits in some places. and cooler than average and milder temperatures in the rest of the country. >>> coming up, bored with your ordinary latte? try the supersecret menu at starbucks instead. >>> and a man convicted of robbery, sentenced to 13 years in prison. he is released after less than a year. the major mistake th

. >> steve nicolas and tarius grissom are cell mates at the turner gilford knight center, one of the newer miami-dade facilities. both men are fighting charges of lewd and lascivious conduct. while awaiting the outcome of their cases, they struggle to adapt to their close quarters. >> why are you listening to my radio? >> chill out. read a book, man. >> you read a book. >> i think this place is a little bit too close for a grown man to be in for a long period of time. >> yeah. come in here with him, got to hear him all day. battery going dead, he don't want to give me a battery because he want to talk. i'm tired of being in this room. i want to be out there. i can't use the phone because my people don't got collect. >> since we talking, then you got to be in the room with him. you got to smell him. you got to smell when he blow his nose. his toes stink. >> although the turner gilford night center is considered cleaner and safer than the main jail, both say they would rather serve their time at the older facility. >> the county, know it got rats and everything else, still better. ther