lindsay moran is ex-c.i.a., she's about to join them. entering a biolab. >> sorry, we cannot confirm your identity concern? >> what is going to be like ebola, but we haven't seen it yet. dr charlotte mcshane is a mechanical engineer. tonight what she learnt about tornados. phil torres. i'm phil torres. 'm an entomologist. that's hour team, nout let's do some science. >>> hey, guys, welcome to "techknow", joined by dr ross shimabuku, and lindsay moran. microscopic things have been making news. viruses. take ebola - it caught america offguard. in some places we overreacted and in other places we doesn't do enough. >> there's a lot of scare around ebola, because we don't know much about it, compared to measles. which is also a hot topic. >> when we think of diseases we tend to think of containment. how do we contain them. i had an opportunity to meet a small group of scientists who are seeking out the pathogens in order to understand it. it might surprise people that metropolis. that's good reason for that. let's have a look. >> reporter: w

lindsay moran is an ex-cia operative. tonight she has a real drama, a face transplant that almost ended in death, a

lindsay moran has more. >> you're asking me, is someone preparing the battlefield against the united states and it's allies? you bet it is. >> they are a husband and wife team tracking a cyber threat. a type of malware that has innovated some of america's most critical infrastructure. >> the only way you break into this is figure out how it works so you mighted? use it to do what? to bring down the electricity grid. >> it's dubbed black energy. he's a virus huntish who has been tracking the threat. when he unleashed it inside of his portable lab he found that black energy could be remotely programmed to evolve from espionage to sabotage. >> the concerning aspect about this malware, it's modular in nature. you can take a piece of destructive code and introduce it into black energy, and use it to be destructive. >> it seems to be geared more to taking over the control of the system, and directing it to get information from it. >> which is a much more frightening thing. >> yes, it is. >> jen we'dman she hunts down hackers, who is level of sophistication is like an adversary of the u.s.

lindsay moran, aljazeera washington. >> you can watch lindsay moran's special report at 10 p.m. on america tonight. >>> ash carter returned to the penitentiarypentagon today as the new boss. he has worked in it the pentagon before in different posts, most recently as the deputy of defense. and he met with president obama at the white house. he seceded chuck hagel. >>> and the obama administration announced that it will allow foreign companies to export armed drones. but the companies can only use them for national defense or situations covered by international law and the remote devices cannot be used for surveillance, and they will review perspective sales on a case by case basis. >>> coming up, academy award director xander, the salt of the earth. about the extraordinary life and work of a trail blazing photo journalist. >> there's out rail in turkey over the murder of a young woman last week. >> david they not only raped this woman they killed her in brutal fashion and we're talking about the murder of a 20-year-old college student which has sparked protests among turkish wom

. >> al jazeera contributor lindsay moran did a special section on this as the former c.i.a. agent >>> khalid sharif spent two years in a stret prison not knowing if he would live or die. >> what are the officers told me i can pull out my gun, kill you and i will not be accountable. if you don't speak. i'll shoot you and hold it outside. >> it wasn't one of his men that made the threat. it was an american working for the c.i.a. when sharif was imprisoned by the americans, he was a high ranking member of the libyan group bent on tackling muammar gaddafi. he was living in exile as a devout muslim the americans thought he way know something about al qaeda. >> translation: after 9/11 america didn't distinguish between these that attacked them and those did not. we didn't have tieless, our goal was to fight muammar gaddafi. >> al-sharif spent two years at a black site after being snatched from his hoax. >> he was shackled. forced into painful stress positions. despite having a broken foot. >> i was home from the sealing and left for three or four days. i was deprived of sleep unti

. >>> ing al jazeera am lindsay moran, on the agency's use of torture so bad even agents rebel. >> you will do whatever it takes to get this man to talk. do you understand. >> and i physically recoiled reflexively recoil and my response was, we don't do that. and he says well, we do now. >> an insider's look at the cia's use of torture and whether anyone will be prosecuted. next up on "america tonight," fast-forward on health care behind bars. >> what do you mean they use kitchen sugar? >> the fast took mcdonald's, they pour it inside and put gauze over it and tape it up. >> "america tonight's" adam may gets up to date on the prison system some say is a prescription for bad medicine. >>> and dying on the track, more than 900 racing greyhounds have died on the track since 2008, is it the sport's last lap? find it on aljazeera.com/americatonight. >> mondays on al jazeera america. technology, it's a vital part of who we are. >> they had some dynamic fire behavior. >> and what we do. >> don't try this at home. >> techknow. where technology meets humanity. mondays, 5:30 eastern. only on al

officer lindsay moran here says one of the experts say it goes to vladimir putin. i thought the cold war was over. >> we have seen an increase in cold war rhetorics, and hostilities have never been greater between russia and the west since the cold war, up until now. what you have to understand is this is personal for vladimir putin. he has made no bones about the fact that he wants to restore russia to its previous greatness. so that includes, you know, increased nuclear capabilities, a modernized navy, and what we are seeing new tools in what is essentially information warfare. threat. >> absolutely. >> so much of this is pointed at the energy infrastructure. sac like 50 types of malware pointed at the energy. what is the serious risk. day. >> we have to live with it. inconvenience. >> when you think of new york city, the blackout. a large scale. this could impact americans and go behind inconvenience. >> health risks, absolutely. >> we are not just talking about the grid, we are talking about pipe lines, nuclear facilities, any and any critical infrastructure. t

lindsay moran is an ex-cia operative. tonight she has a real drama, a face transplant that almost ended in death, and an invasion that saved a woman's life. tonight she is in the mountains of california where condors are making a come back, thanks to a simple use of technology. and i'm phil torres, i'm an entomology. i study insects in the rain forest of peru. that's our team, now let's do some science. >> ♪ ♪ hey, welcome back to another week of life changing invasions in science. we are starting today with lindsay. you have incredible touching story of a transformation in a woman. who had a face transplant, tell me the story? >> this was truly a life changing use of technology. she had a full face transplant. here is the procedure. i want to emthat size, this is still very cutting edge. there have only been seven face transplants in the united states. carmen's was the 7th, and there have only been 30 full or partial worldwide. carman took an incredible risk, even having this procedure done. and by doing that, she actual

lindsay moran is an ex-cia operative. tonight she has a real drama, a face transplant

lindsay moran is an ex-cia operative. tonight she has a real drama, a face transplant that almost ended in death, and an invasion that saved a woman's