margaret martin started the harmony project in 2001 after witnessing something on the streets of her hometown, los angeles. >> this positiony of gang members walks into a former's market and stops to listen to a kid playing a violin. that shaved heads attitude. after five or six minutes without saying a word, they pulled out their own money and lay it gently in the child's case. those gun members were teaching me they would rather be doing what that child was doing than what they were doing but they never had the chance. harmony project is a research based program. >> reporter: they are started in tough inner city areas to serve children of poverty. >> dropout rates are 50% in the neighborhoods. more than 80% of poor black and hispanic kids do not read at grade level. >> reporter: children whose mothers have little education are rarely being read to and verbal interaction in those families is minimal. scientists believe this not only puts them behind in school but those children rarely catch up because their brains are not developing as rapidly. >> early sustained music learning is a

margaret. today our david martin confirmed that the u.s. military has deployed a small number of troops as trainers and advisors to somalia. their mission is to help african troops hold off an advance by islamic militants. these are the first american boots on the ground in somalia since 1993 when two u.s. helicopters were shot down and 18 americans killed in the black hawk down operation in mogadishu. during the iraq war, 1,300 americans died fighting al qaeda militants in anbar province. the u.s. prevailed, the militants fled, but now they have returned. the city of fallujah is once again a battleground as iraqi forces fight to regain control. tonight, elizabeth palmer is in baghdad, a city on edge. >> reporter: there's hardly a man here whose life hasn't been touched in some way by iraq's escalating violence. and now al qaeda-linked extremists have come back to fallujah only 50 miles away. the worried congregation looks to the imam for assurance. he tries, but has to stop. fallujah once again a violent front line is his home. "we must st

i'm wondering, margaret, are people out and about? >> reporter: yes, they are, martin.at's about 21 degrees warmer than it was this morning, and overnight there were near record low temperatures. but as you can see, people have started to come out today. we're standing in a parking lot near a church. mass is going to begin at 4:00. so, people have definitely started to go in. one of the biggest obstacles as you can see around me here is also the snow. they've been plowing it and pushing it aside, so people have been trying to maneuver their way around. statewide they had 3,394 plows working through massachusetts, they have capacity of 4,000, that's how much snow they've been having to deal with. as rosa was saying also, we've been through the snow, we've been through the wind, but guess what's coming next? that's right, the rain. tomorrow night and into monday we're expecting a lot of rain. we have emergency workers that have already sent out warnings to people about their roofs because a lot of snow has stacked up. the rain on top of that will make it heavy and they're

martin? >> all right, margaret, it's just astounding you go from so much cold and snow now to a deluge of rain. >>> the harsh winter storm is not finished. tom murphy was in nova scotia, canada, as the wind and rain created whiteout conditions. >> reporter: by midday the storm was really in full swing, there's lots of snow. but that wasn't the real issue, the traffic has been the problem here. trying to get through the city on streets that have not been fully plowed, yes, it's been a concern, but it's the high winds that are blowing the snow around that is causing whiteout conditions in the province certainly in the city of halifax. those whiteouts have been leading to the closures of many institutions around the city including the university, the offices around town. the real problem has been the snow on the streets, building up, and where the streets have been cleared and there have not been that many of them the salt because it's so cold is just not working so it's making for slippery driving conditions and officials are telling people unless you really absolutely have to be driving and on

only to discover that the funeral home sent them the wrong body. 82-year-old margaret porker was vacationing in saint martinn the caribbean when she died suddenly. now her family struggles to find a way to let her rest in peace. joining me is her family. welcome to all of you. let me state first of all to you, peter, absolutely awful you have had to go through this as a family. your poor wife who died on this holiday and what then happened and to both of you her daughters, i can't think of anything worse. and i know it's been very difficult and emotional for all of you. and i thank you for coming in to talk to me about this. i want to try if i can help you to get some kind of closure with this. lisa, tell me really in simple short terms, what happened? >> we were on vacation. we were having a wonderful time on vacation. we were dancing and jumping around and partying and having a good time. and i had left at noontime on thanksgiving and gave everybody hugs and kisses because my flight was leaving. and i gave my mom everybody hugs and kisses. then i had left. and then i got the phone call later on saying tha

margaret, thanks. the pentagon has discovered a gap in the defenses of washington, d.c. and it's about to test a solution. but david martin reports depending on your point of view the solution is either vital for national security or a threat to american privacy. >> reporter: starting this fall, two of these blimps will float at 10,000 feet over the army's aberdeen proving ground in maryland in an attempt to develop a defense for the nation's capital against cruise missiles fired from ships offshore. russia already has a large arsenal of cruise missiles-- essentially low-flying unmanned aircraft-- and other countries like iran are developing them. as it stands today, we have practically zero capability to detect it, much less defend against it, one military officer said of the cruise missile threat. the balloons carry radars that can search for hundreds of miles to detect the launch of a cruise missile and relay the data to interceptor missile which have been positioned around washington since 9/11. but those same blimps can be outfitted with radars capable of tracking vehicles on the ground and with cameras that can watc