that tells the story about missoula. also, i should say this. after the book he was a huge success and publishers were tripping over themselves to print his next book, which was a book about fire. and took him 14 years to finish fire." he actually died before he could finish it. but alfred a. knopf said we will do anything, we are at your mercy. and he wrote, he said, you do not know my type. i'm scott irish and we have long memories. he said, if i were the last offer left on earth and you were the last publisher, that, sir, would be in the books as we knew it. which i love as well. [laughter] timothy: directly he got his kicks in, maclean, a to montanan. i was drawn to the story about writing about the dustbowl because, as was said in the introduction, i love these clashes between human beings and nature. you couldn't have anything really more elemental than human beings against fire. is as old as humanity itself, as old as anything. and to tell you the truth i was really going to write initially just a fire story. and to tell you the truth, mo

finally, he said i got to go back to missoula and he dropped the papers off with david.n his way out of town happens to see the woman in her car, and starts following her. well, she calls the police and says this guy is stalking me. the police come, they pull him over, they ask him what he's doing. he calls david and says i need you to bring the papers down and prove that i am who i say i am. david arrives at the scene and his relationship being what it was with all members of law enforcement in flathead county, was told to get back in his car immediately. david refuses to get back in his car after he's told to do so. and is pepper sprayed in the face. an officer puts him in handcuffs. >> i am real familiar with david. i don't want him with his history behind my back while i'm on a traffic stop, okay? >> this had to be a moment where david really snapped. >> it turned out they were members of this militia group known as project 7. the goal of this group was to assassinate people that had wronged them. >> nobody surrender your weapons to nobody. doug. you've been staring

might be, he took that -- the entire curtain with the tissue on it, and we got it sent up to the missoula state crime lab. >> a ouchterlony test identified the tissue as human and the striations meant it was muscle. >> but that doesn't show you that the person is dead. we can all deposit muscle tissue and still be very much alive. >> but before police could question larry moore about this forensic discovery, a letter arrived postmarked from spokane, washington. it was from brad brisbin. in it he apologized for creating what he called a real strain on everyone involved. >> i decided to start a new life for myself. i had to make a clean break from everyone and everything to make this work. it just seemed to be the only way out for me. >> a few days later, larry moore received a similar letter. in this one, brad wanted to make sure his wife reene was taken care of. >> all personal property we own, i want her to have everything. i'm starting a new life with a new person. >> but investigators noticed a slight problem. the name of brad's wife reene was misspelled. >> the letter to the sheriff,

cleveland for unnecessary force, missoula for gender bias against sexual assault victims, new orleans excessive force on minorities, albuquerque for patterns of excessive force and newark for excessive force and unwarranted arrests. and then there was east haven, connecticut. just a few years ago, relations between the police and the latino community was more than just a little frayed. but a local parish priest shot a video and that's where the healing began. >> reporter: the owner of this bodega in east haven, connecticut, says she no longer fears calling the police. >> now they have officers that speak spanish and they are friendly. >> reporter: but this wasn't the case a few years ago. in 2009, she and several other latino residents of this mostly working class community filed a complaint with the justice department claiming constant harassment, abuse and discrimination by police. >> before, we didn't have the confidence to call to the police. >> reporter: the breaking points came after this video taken by a local parish priest of officers inside her grocery store led to his arrest

i live in missoula, montana, and i'm a professional kayaker. >> this 23-year-old has been kayaking all his life and travels the globe tackling rapid after white water churning rapid. >> what i've fallen in love with is the extreme side of kayaking. basically running difficult rivers, hard rapids, big drops and waterfalls. >> tyler paddled over his first waterfall at the age of 15, and has never looked back. >> i would say as an extreme kayaker i've probably run 100, 150-plus waterfalls. i've kind of lost count over the years. >> in september 2007, tyler came across alexandra falls in kalg da -- canada's northwest territories. it was far higher than anything he's ever done before, 107 feet tall, and he decided to go for it. >> the feeling behind running that waterfall was a moment in time that i will remember forever. i surfaced upright without even flipping over off that waterfall. it was amazing. >> the ride over alexandra falls didn't just give him an a major adrenaline rush, he gained the world record for the highest waterfall anyone had successfully kayaked over. tyler thought he'd

. >> he went to a bathroom at the bus station in missoula, montana, and he actually took hairs off thee restroom. and then in subsequent bombs, he would take those hairs and put them in between layers of tape. and the whole idea was when the subsequent bombs exploded at a crime scene, we would think that hair might have something to do with the unabomber. when he was out on a run to collect information or to collect components for his bombs, he would make sure he had a disguise. he put cotton up his nose so his nostrils would look bigger. he had a fake mustache he had worn. >> for another 18 months, everything was quiet. then on december 10th, 1994, the unabomber claimed his second fatality. >> the latest victim was advertising executive thomas mosser. in all 16 bombs in 17 years at locations all over the united states. >> thomas mosser was killed by a mail bomb sent to his home in north caldwell, new jersey. as it turned out, mosser had been targeted because kaczynski mistakenly believed he had helped exxon clean up its public image after the exxon valdez oil spill. just over three mo

host: dori is up next from missoula montana. caller: big for taking my call.y feel that our senate is no longer the greatest deliberative body. you asked one caller about what you felt the change came along. i think it became apparent to me at the point that we put our president in the white house on the basis of lost votes. never recovered, never counted. it has all gone downhill since then. it has been very dishonest between the senate and the president. i think that we all sat here and watch the camera put present in the that we didn't even elect. host: are you talking of voter fraud issues? caller: my opinion -- i probably have limited knowledge -- but might opinion of the conduct or when george w. bush was first elected, there were voters in florida that created a situation that was never clearly resolved. they went ahead and put the president in. host: do you think it created a lack of trust that is reflected in today's dealings in the senate and the dealings between the senate and white house? caller: absolutely. host: dave is up next in michigan. for r