i'm michael oku. thing about your life for a second. do you own a home, car, cell phone. do you go to the doctor, dentist or doub load music on -- download music on itunes. chances are you have signed away a fundamental right. the right to have your way in court. it's called arbitration, for the past six months we talked to dozens of experts and combed through thousands of cases to see how arbitration affects you. you may find the results surprising, if not shocking. >> everywhere you have to sign these agreements. >> you're going to sign it. >> arbitration is the name of the game. >> reporter: tens of millions of consumers are players in the game. the opponent sets the ground rules and picks the referees, few of us know it exists. arbitration. >> for the vast majority, corporations but arbitration in the fine clause. what it says is if they break the law, you can't go court or have a jury or a right, you'll go to a private system that they set up essentially, and there'll be a private judge who will be depicted by a company they pick. whatever the private judge does, you

i'm michael oku. >> our american story is written everyday. it's not always pretty, but it's real... and we show you like no-one else can. this is our american story. this is america tonight. there is a 20% threshold, donald state. it look like ted cruz will pick up some at 23%, marco rubio unless he breaks the 20% threshold, so he may pick up a couple of delegates here and there but largely could be shut out f they get shut out, these delegates would be awarded to ted cruz and donald trump, the people who broke the 20% threshold. vermont, not many delegates in the republican side, but donald trump is leading 32% to 30 over john kasich. this may be the only delegate or two that he gets tonight.

we begin with michael oku. >> i ended up against a house, and a big wave came, pressed against my throat. i thought if my throat breaks, smothering. >> burying in a mud slide. that is how dire the situation was for ann in february 1998. the last time the u.s. was rocked. somehow, the southern californians escaped death when the home was wiped out by a massive wall of mud. >> take me back to 1997. what were you anticipating. >> we were warned that el nino was coming. none had an idea what to expect. we just figured a lot of rain. >> back then, the average californian had little understanding of el nino, or how el nino influenced the climate. storms are not larger, there's more of them. demrrm it's back to back like a conveyor belt of storms. >> in october 1997, there was an ominous sign as to what lay ahead. it caused flooding and deaths in and around acapulco mexico. it moved north, the first of a number of el nino stomps which battered until february. >> if we look at the winter of 1998, we had a huge february, where we had almost five times our normal rainfall that we normally get. >>

michael oku brought us a look at the abuse behind bars. crowned. hands behind my back, and i have four or five officers around me. then i here a noise. >> reporter: that's what happened, says leo when they went to visit his brother at a notorious gaol in america. the men's central gaol in downtown los angeles. in july, 2010, figura had a phone call from his younger brother juan. juan, a veteran of desert storm had trouble adjusting to civilian life since leaving the army. over the years he had a few minor scrapes with the war. it never amounted to much. what he heard left him stunned. your brother calls you from gaol busted. >> yes, sir. >> and what else. >> his ribs are broken. >> did he give you any information as to whether he sustained the injuries. >> that the los angeles sheriffs hurt him. >> yes. >> did you believe that. >> yes. >> reporter: figerrela went to the gaol hoping to see his brother. he approached a deputy in the visiting area, and so began his own ordeal at the hands of the los angeles sheriff's department. stop resisting. i yell

i'm michael oku. >>> republican candidate donald trump and the democrat candidate hillary clinton are the big winners from super tuesday. plus the donald trump phenomenon. we will report on the billionaire's businessman's surge in the political arena beating all the odds >>> welcome. you're watching al jazeera live from doha. also in the next 30 minutes, the european union promises you millions of dollars in aid as the refugee condition gets worst on the borders. an artefact found by a boy on a field trip >>> we begin with the u.s. election and results of what is considered to be one of the most important days in the campaign to lands the job in the white house. hillary clinton and donald trump were the big winners. we had special ongoing coverage from washington dc. >> reporter: the race for the white house is still far from over, but with 12 states holding contests on tuesday, the front runners have now become clear. democrat hillary clinton has won a total of 7 states massachusetts, tennessee, virginia and georgia. her rival bernie sanders didn't go home empty-handed, winning these

i'm michael oku. >> our american story is written everyday. it's not always pretty, but it's real... and we show you like no-one else can. this is our american story. this is america tonight. there is a 20% threshold, donald state. it look like ted cruz will pick up some at 23%, marco rubio unless he breaks the 20% threshold, so he may pick up a couple of delegates here and there but largely could be shut out f they get shut out, these delegates would be awarded to ted cruz and donald trump, the people who broke the 20% threshold. vermont, not many delegates in the republican side, but donald trump is leading 32% to 30 over john kasich. this may be the only delegate or two that he gets tonight. he may get 7 or 8 the way things are going and that would be it for john kasich. again, marco rubio could get shut out in the state of the vermont. it is a rich history again in terms of why the republicans what they did. it look like it is coming back to purn them because it is essentially giving donald trump even more momentum that he would have had u

i'm michael oku. thing about your life for a second. do you own a home, car, cell phone. do you go to the doctor, dentist or doub load music on -- download music on itunes. chances are you have signed away a fundamental right. the right to have your way in court. it's called

i'm michael oku. thing about your life for a second. do you own a home, car, cell phone. do you go to the doctor, dentist or doub load music on -- download music on itunes. chances are you have signed away a fundamental right. the right to have your way in court. it's called arbitration, for the