then unless unchecked they would not stop if not for honest eyewitnesses they would not go into the la brea tar pits they embraced it from a sketchy source and pushed out like cheap math so they were the media approved evil when they were caught pushing the why they blamed everyone but themselves. but thanks to nbc's savannah guthrie we can see it in all its glory by comparing her questions to the ones that she asked the native american nathan phillips. >> do you owe anybody an apology? do you see your own fault in any way? we my first question. how are you doing? do think it was a good idea to start chanting back ?-question-mark it has been a whirlwind few days for you on the front page of every newspaper. how are you doing? . >> you certainly have been through a lot these last few days but some people see you as a young kid with a smirk on his face. do you think you should have apologized? do you think if you are not wearing that hat this might not have happened? have you feared for your safety since all of this has happened? there is something about standing your ground. >> talk about a

taking in the sparkle dust of city lights as you ride the dip at a baldwin hills heading north on la breaget a witness? can i put in a bottle? this ran parallel to what was the working of l.a. beaches, cool indoor outdoor capitol expenses. the endless cocktail party. people can fight against the flattening of the neighborhoods. it is to understand that you know, some of the features of places, architecture, how things came to be that story you know, the neighborhoods stories, those can stay in place in some way, i know other people and are actively going and are part of a neighborhood. the story projects. that are being launched. there is one getting ready to start in the baldwin hills area for example. where they are looking at trying to get to some of the elders so that we can know the stories of those place or that place. some of it is going to exist in public art, some of it will exist in libraries.just that when people arrive, they know what they are sitting on. and i do not expect things of course, we do not live in a museum. but we should absolutely be able in some ways, to honor t

. >> there will be credit card transactions and phone records of me driving from las vegas back to breaalifornia. >> night of the murder, said ernie, he was at home in southern california hours and hours away from his parents' house. he had driven from las vegas that afternoon, stopped for gas and a bite to eat at a mcdonald's in primm, nevada. and yes, there were credit card records to prove it. he arrived home around 5:00 p.m., fell asleep on the couch for a bit, watched a movie on tv and went to bed. wife and son were away, he said. and bright and early the next morning, he met his elderly grandfather for a bridge tournament which his grandfather ernest i confirmed. still, detectives had some questions that ernie surely should have been able to answer, shouldn't he? >> so we asked him what road did you take to get to your home. and he was not able to tell us. we asked him, what television show did you watch? he wasn't able to tell us. >> and then when they checked ernie's cell phone records, they found an unusual gap in transmission right around the time of the murders. from the afte

you may have heard of the la brea tar pits. large basically pond filled with tar between here and downtown los angeles, and it is near one of our large art museums, the los angeles county museum of art. that was a very unique resource. so the tar or pitch was a sticky, black substance. it is the same thing we use today to make asphalt. the tongva used that to make tools, pitch their canoes. they did have oceangoing canoes where they would go out to the islands in santa monica bay and this tar or pitch was important for that, as well as other local societies they traded with. another unique resource that the tongva utilized was soapstone. soapstone is a type of rock that is known for being very malleable. you can carve it into cups, bowls, small implements, and it does not break. it can be placed directly in the fire without cracking. the tongva are known for not making any pottery or ceramics, and it is believed the reason is because they had access to soapstone. much of it was mined on catalina island, and that was another ite