you know, natasha... (natasha) yes?hope you appreciate us going all the way out here for your sand. well, i wish you'd drive a little bit faster, and we would already been done, by now. i'm very stressed, because she's irritating the piss out of me. she's always on my back. you're not going fast enough, 'cause you see that truck in front of us? if you were going any faster, you would've already passed it. do you know how fast i'm going? (announcer) eager to get this fool's errand over with, dawn puts the pedal to the metal, when suddenly natasha decides that now, she's going too fas! i feel like i'm on a roller coaster-- whooo! will you make up your mind? seriously? well, you can't be tryin' to kill us on the way, either. you're going too slow, so, i go faster. then she complains, i'm driving crazy. she needs to make up her mind. (announcer) eventually, natasha spies what must surely be the world's greatest sand pile, and forces dawn to do her dirty work. are you seriously gonna take an hour to get sand? shut up! come o

[laughter] >> natasha trethewey who is the u.s. poet laureate, thanks for joining us of the national book festival on the c-span bus. >>> we are the lou henry house on the campus at stanford university. it's significant because this was the primary residence of the hoovers and significant as it relates to hoover because she was the one who designed it. she had a strong grasp of design and how she wanted the house to look even though she was not an architect or lucky to have a lot of the original drawings and documents and correspondence relating to the design and construction of how she wanted the house to look. >> the influence came from her travels in the southwest of the united states and also from her travels in north africa when she traveled with herbert hoover. it's a great legacy of lou henry because she designed the house, she created it. it was inspired by her ideas and she had a very close involvement in all aspects of the house's creation. >>> for the last 15 years, book tv has brought our viewers the national book award

jeffrey brown continues his travels with poet laureate natasha trethewey. >> poetry lives on your doorstep, like a baby in a basket waiting for a new family. >> sreenivasan: and visits a motor city school where poetry lives. >> this poetry really gets them truly motivated and excited. and i'm talking about my football players, my athletes, my basketball players want poetry. >> sreenivasan: and from the pacific northwest, a report on how climate change could be making the local shellfish toxic. >> they just were so violently ill. i just knew it had to be the mussels. >> sreenivasan: those are just some of the stories we're covering on tonight's "pbs newshour." >> major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by: >> supported by the john d. and catherine t. macarthur foundation. committed to building a more just, verdant and peaceful world. more information at macfound.org >> and with the ongoing support of these institutions and foundations. and... >> this program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like

. >> i'm natasha guinane. 90% of these students rely on a free or reduced lunch. coming up. a day in the life of families who are struggling to put food >> the most important money stories of the day might affect your savings, your job or your retirement. whether its bail-outs or bond rates this stuff get complicated. but don't worry. i'm here to take the fear out of finance. every night on my show i break down confusing financial speak and make it real.

[applause] >> thank you natasha. thank you natasha. now i'm going to tell you two guys, members of united states senator here to fight with us and stand with us. senator cardin and the ever faithful bernie sanders right here with us right now. [applause] 's the first you for being here. thank you for always showing up. senator whitehouse from rhode island was also here and senator mikulski is speaking on the floor of united states senate right now about the shutdown. we have friends in the united states senate and we have a simple message to speaker boehner. stop this tea party shutdown of government. both -- a vote, vote. [chanting] the message is simple. speaker boehner put down the gun that you have put to the heads of the american people and open the government. i am honored to represent the people of maryland over 200,000 federal workers. they want to go back to work! they want to go back to work area i've talked to a 15-year-old taylor. both of her parents are federal employees that are on furlough. she told me about the fear tha

natasha ghoneim joining us live from florida. she has been there all morning watching people line up outside of a mobile food pantry. quite a site. >> reporter: it was. the truck arrived shortly before 10:00, and when we arrived at 7:00, people had already been lining up. this is a persistent problem. a recent gallup poll shows that 20% of americans in the last year have had trouble buying enough food for their families. at the peak of the recession in 2008 that figure was 20.4%. so this problem persists largely in part due to unemployment, and specifically the difficulty people are having in finding full-time employment. so people are relying on charities and government programs to put food on the table. . >> and a lot of families are relying on the schools as well just to feed their familiar list? >> dell, schools have become a nutritional lifeline for families that are struggling. we visited a school in palm beach county. the school offers through a state program, free breakfasts, they have a food pantry to families in crisis,

. >> i'm natasha guinane. 90% of these students rely on a free or reduced lunch. coming up. a day in the life of families who are struggling to put food on the table. what happens when social media uncovers unheard, fascinating news stories? it drives discussion across america. >> share your story on tv and online. >> call it an invisible ep tellic. hunger in america. according to a recent flu gallup poll, 27% of americans haven't enough money to buy food for their families, al jazeera's natasha guinane spent a day with a family struggling to put food on the table. >> jerome middleton is nine years old, five feet tall and 110 pounds. >> he's a big boy. i want to say when you don't have enough food you can't eat, that would kill me as a mother. >> are you ready? >> yes. >> terrell leaves for school. without sitting down to eat breakfast he purchas purchase me cereal. thanks to a state program, the state serves a free lunch to students, another guaranteed solid meal to fill their bellies. >> food and security basically runs our school. kids will come in off the bus and you can

. >> i'm natasha guinane. 90% of these students rely on a free or reduced lunch. coming up. a day in the life of families who are struggling to put food >> the most important money stories of the day might affect your savings, your job or your retirement. whether its bail-outs or bond rates this stuff get complicated. but don't worry. i'm here to take the fear out of finance. every night on my show i break down confusing financial speak and make it real. on inside story, we bring together unexpected voices closest to the story, invite hard-hitting debate and desenting views and always explore issues relevant to you. >> call it an invisible ep tellic. hunger in america. according to a recent flu gallup poll, 27% of americans haven't enough money to buy food for their families , al jazeera's natasha guinane spent a day with a family struggling to put food on the table. >> jerome middleton is nine years old, five feet tall and 110 pounds. >> he's a big boy. i want to say when you don't have enough food you can't eat, that would kill me as a mother. >> are you ready? >> yes. >>

. >> i'm natasha guinane. 90% of these students rely on a free or reduced lunch. coming up. a day in the life of families who are struggling to put food [[voiceover]] every day, events sweep across our country. and with them, a storm of views. how can you fully understand the impact unless you've heard angles you hadn't considered? antonio mora brings you smart conversation that challenges the status quo with unexpected opinions and a fresh outlook. including yours. >> how old are you? >> nine. >> how old were you when you first started working out here? >> seven. >> fault lines how children are hired by us agriculture to help put food on america's tables. >> in any other industry kids need to be 16 years old to be able to work. you don't see any of that in agriculture. >> they don't ask, "is she 12?". they just want their job done. >> how many of you get up before 5 o'clock in the morning? >> every morning from 6 to 10am al jazeera america brings you more us and global news than any other american news channel. find out what happened and what to expect. >> start every morni

natasha for us in florida. thanatasha appreciate it. thank you. ♪ >> and ross is here with a look at your sports headlines and the dodgers live to play another game. >> you have to love it. like the bee gee's the dodgers are "staying alive, staying alive. >> the boys in blue down three games to one against the cardinals. now we have a series. because the dodgers were going, going, gonzo. adrienne gonzalez hit four yesterdayesterday. the card want to close things out tomorrow. st. louis had a 3-1 series leading the post season before. last year to the giant and in 1996 too the braves. the card ended up losing both of those series. in the alcs we are even steven. and detroit wicked good in their 7-3 win. so this series is tied at 2 games a piece. game five tonight in motown. and it's a pitching rematch in game one with sanchez facing lester. >>> in the n.f.l. first place. the cowboys head to philly to take on the eagles the nik michl vick won't be starting. so nick foes will be making the second start of the season. he was brilliant again

natasha joins us from miami-dade county. and natasha, what are they doing? >> reporter: well, people are pushing to pass new laws, but i want to put things into context for florida. florida is very dangerous when it comes to ped screen deaths. it ranks number one in florida by a large margin. whether you take that and the hit-and-run epidemic in the state, you can understand why people are doing everything they can to make the state safer. patty often thinks what would have happened if she ran into the man who killed her husband. the driver lives three miles away and he has already served his time >> i'm so angry, i can hardly talk about t i feel that such an injustice has been done, it's almost embarrassing, the obvious lack of sense that it makes. >> aaron was riding his bicycle with hi friend along a scenic stretch of road in miami-dade county when traverso slammed into him. he left the scene, called his attorney and turned himself in hours later. the investigators found evidence that he may have been drinking, but driving away made it impossible for the

oh, man, my husband is going to shoot me. >> tiffany and natasha's arrest is barely five minutes old when detectives get word that the next date is en route and only moments away. >> she says she's the blonde one. >> very friendly. she sounds young. i'd say she's definitely 20 or below. >> we're going to shut this door, okay? >> the team has no choice but to stash the women in the bathroom of the surveillance room while the undercover goes to work in the room next door. >> you all right? >> yeah. >> just shhh. >> as soon as this young woman agrees to $180 for a half hour of sex, investigators move in and make yet another arrest. the young woman who goes by the name natalia is only 19. erratic and unusually talkative, she appears at first to be under the influence of drugs. >> i don't understand. >> you just get done smoking something? >> huh? >> you just get done smoking something? >> you smoke something? >> you feel okay? >> my stomach just hurts. i'm pregnant. >> really? >> yeah. >> from chris we got a lead on the other vehicle. >> meanwhile, outside the hotel, investigators run do

natasha guinane. >> the mother asked them to turn themselves in and that's exactly what happened. they were arrested together as you mentioned at a motel in panama city beach just after 6:30 this evening. police say it was without incident, meaning no resisting arrests. the fact that these men were arrested together, would make you believe that they coordinated together. >> talk about the escape. we don't know if it's coordinated but they used forged documents to get out of prison right? >> absolutely right. this is a huge source of embarrassment. both of them were released from prison one in late september one in early october. as a result of forged documents that were doesn't the county clerk's office. they don't know who forged the documents. the fornlgtd signatures went to went--forged signatures went to the same prosecutor's office and judge. they didn't know that the escapes were coordinated but since they were arrested together and since the documents obviously had similar signatures, it would definitely lend credence to the fact that these two men coordinated the escape, t

. >> natasha yo your case is whate have heard more about.ou were furloughed from a census burrow bureau. this broke my heart i had to sit down with my five-year-old girl to have a conversation conversas with her. >> what is the immediate impact on you and your family? >> the immediate impact my husband and i both work. he is not a federal government employee. i make more money than him. my contribution is what we depend on together to make it day-by-day, and just to make ends meet. so it's a lot of pressure on him to hold down bills that he wouldn't be able to do alone by himself. we are finding our self self oug to figure out which expenses we are going to pay over others. most of us will receive our last paycheck tomorrow or no later than wednesday. and not to mention the deductions that already come out of our checks tsp and health insurance and dental and vision will be automatically deducted. by the time our deductions come out we are looking at less than 30$300 to receive on our paychek for the house w we worked on the week before the

natasha ghoneim reports. >> reporter: these two mothers now share a bond no parent wants. their teenage sons were shot and killed in florida last year, nine months apart. george zimmerman shot and killed trayvon martin claiming self-defense. >> i just want equal justice. i want them to be able to feel comfortable walking down the street. >> reporter: a shooter must only prove having felt threatened when he or she pulled the trigger. the law has unanimous support from every sheriff in florida. now they are fighting to quash stand your ground laws across the country. her only child was shot and killed in november of last year. they were in this suv at a jacksonville, florida gas station, a 46-year-old pulled up alongside them and told the teenagers to turn their music down. witnesses say, inc.ry words were exchaked. dunn says he was threatened and thought he saw a gun. he is shot into the suv killing davis. >> i kept screaming and all i could say was jordan is gone. jordan is gone. >> reporter: she also blames stand your ground for her son's death. >> it is not defined so pe

natasha joins us from miami with more on the story.these convicts are going to have to go to court this morning, appear before a judge and face quite a few charges. tell me more about this. >> they are certainly, richelle, going to be facing charges tied to this each ape. bottom line is they were serving life centses without the possibility of parole. police were able to pin point the killers by talking to someone who actually knew one of the inmates and, as you said, they were arrested about 90 miles from where they walked out of prison several weeks ago. >> the killers' brief taste of freedom ended around dinner time on saturday. inside a motel in panama city, in the florida panhandle. >> they surrounded the room. about 20 task force members and using a pa stem from one of the cars were able to instruct them that they knew where they were and they wanted them to come out. >> joseph jenkins and charles walker were less than a 2-hour drive from the franklin correctional institution where they have been serving life sentences without pa

. >> reporter: for his 18-year-old daughter natasha, a college freshman, hearing her father called ashock. when you saw your father with handcuffs there, what kind of feeling did you have? >> angry. >> anger, huh? >> yeah. >> reporter: is there a message you would want to send the authorities in russia right now? >> i would ask them to open a dictionary and read the definition of piracy. >> yeah. >> in fact, russia's powerful president vladimir putin told journalists last month it's obvious wilcox and the other activists are not pirates but that hasn't stopped a russian judge from denying bail to the greenpeace prisoners. natasha says russian authorities are not let her speak to her father since his arrest. >> he's a dad, and he's a husband. he's a brother and he's more than just someone who was in charge of a crew who scaled an oil rig. >> what did they do to him. >> for now peter wilcox, also a prisoner and an alleged pirate whose family can do little more than wait and hope for their captain to come home. >> ivan watson joins us live from new york. excellent reporting, ivan. do we

that's where aljazeera's natasha is this morning.ow is the shut down affecting where you are in miami? >> there are a lot of unhappy faces, as people drive in here this morning to the national hurricane center. many of them will be told to turn around and go home. there are about 60 employees who work here. their mission is to be america's trusted voice in the eye of the storm and of course they are now in the midst of a political storm. they, along with members of the national weather service are under the national oceanic and atmospheric administration. the majority of the workforce will be furloughed. 5300, most from the national weather service will stay on the job. actually, yesterday to assure people, the national weather service here actually sent out a tweet, telling people their forecasting offices will remain open and they will continue to have warning operations as usual despite the government shutdown. >> you described it as being the source of trust and the eye of the storm, but is there danger to having a substantial nu

welcome to you, natasha. how do you feel about this?you feel you've been sent home, no pay and you may or may not get paid for this period? >> i feel awful. the amazing employees of the united states census burro just want to go back to work. we want to be able to provide services to those that we support from federal, state, local, not for profit businesses throughout the world, and it's an awful feeling to know that i will not receive pay, and don't know when we'll get paid again. >> how do you feel about all the members of congress getting their salaries in this period? >> i don't think they should receive any pay. they need to know what it feels like to not having any resources, and to exhaust your savings and to use your credit cards to make it through this terrible ordeal that we all are experiencing right now. >> you have a five-year-old daughter, niela i think her name is. >> yes. >> what have you said to her about this? >> it's difficult to explain to a 5-year-old that mommy is not working, we're not able to enjoy our activitie

welcome to you, natasha. how do you feel about this? how do you feel you've been sent home, no pay and you may or may not get paid for this period? >> i feel awful. the amazing employees of the united states census burro just want to go back to work. we want to be able to provide services to those that we support from federal, state, local, not for profit businesses throughout the world, and it's an awful feeling to know that i will not receive pay, and don't know when we'll get paid again. >> how do you feel about all the members of congress getting their salaries in this period? >> i don't think they should receive any pay. they need to know what it feels like to not having any resources, and to exhaust your savings and to use your credit cards to make it through this terrible ordeal that we all are experiencing right now. >> you have a five-year-old daughter, niela i think her name is. >> yes. >> what have you said to her about this? >> it's difficult to explain to a 5-year-old that mommy is not working, we're not able to enjoy our a

jeffrey brown continues his travels with poet laureate natasha trethewey. >> poetry lives on your doorstep like a baby in a basket waiting for a new family. >> sreenivasan: and visits a motor city school where poetry lives. >> this poetry really gets them truly motivated and excited. and i'm talking about my football players, my athletes, my basketball players want poetry. >> sreenivasan: and from the pacific northwest, a report on how climate change could be making the local shellfish toxic.

." >> chris: natasha? >> "do you want to be my official black friend?" (laughter) >> chris: doug benson?

with good old-fashioned american con desession and smug superiority, thrown out a little boris and natashaeference. done a little yaukoff smirnoff, in russia gift bag rummage through you, but now-- (laughter) i can only smear at how ham handed their spying is. >> delegates were given usb pem ree sticks and phone chargers equipped with spywear. >> if you're a world leader and you put the usb stick russia gave you into your computer, you deserve to have them [bleep] with your screensaver. wow. that is going to haunt my dreams. oh. like i was hypnotized. but it is now abundantly clear that any opportunity for outrage or moral that we would like to engage in when learning of another country's covert activities is long gone. the only thing left for to us do is pretend we had no idea it was happening. >> the senate intelligence committee senator diane feinstein a loyal defend are of the nsa broke ranks and said they have been kept in the dark of just what the nsa was up to demanding a total sur ray lance review. >> if only we had some way of secretly finding out what the spy organization was up-

natasha reports. >> reporter: these four and five year olds don't know what negotiation means, but eachay inside their classrooms they are learning how to compromise and play well with one another. it's a lesson at least one teacher says congress should learn. >> there has to be a point where you negotiate and compromise, and i think they need to learn what our concern already know. >> reporter: if they don't reach an agreement before next week, 900 children will have to stay home. that's because all of their budget comes from the federal government. with the shutdown the government hasn't been able to disperse its funds. >> how would you feel if you couldn't come back here? >> really sad. >> reporter: and the employees won't be paid. the staff is putting on a happy face for their kids and for their parents who are extremely concerned. the staff worries about parents who can't afford to take time off to pay for their kids or pay for day care. the kids are also fed two meals and a snack at head start. with washington at a stand still, teachers here are determined to squeeze in as much le

natasha has more on their capture. >> their brief taste of freedom ended on saturday in the florida panhandle. >> they surrounded the room. about 20 task force members, using a pa stem from one of the cars were able to instruct them that they knew where they were and they wanted them to come out. >> joseph jeffing ins and charles walker were less than a 2-hour drive from the franklin correctional institution. that's where they have been serving life centses without patrol for two separate murders. ear earlier in the day, their families we want before cameras. >> we love you. we believe in you. we want you to surrender yourself to someone you trust who will bring you back in safely. >> the escapes were an embarrassment to the florida department of krksz. the men were able to walk out of prison, thanks to forged documents sent to the clerk of the court. once they got out, they even walked into a jail in orlando to do what's required by law: to register as felonies. they had mug shots taken and they were finger printed no red flags we want up until the murder from one of the victims said she hea

natasha spent a day in the life of a palm beach county florida family strug to go put food on the tableorter: terrell middleton is nine years old but quickly growing in to a young man. he's already 5 neat towel and 110 oupbdz. >> he's 110 pounds. >> as a big boy, about but we don't have enough food. that will kill me as a month mother. you can't eat. >> reporter: terrell leaves for school munching on dry control yell, eats a free breakfast at growth park elementary. >> i like it because it's free took. thanks to a state program they serve a free breakfast for any student under 18 regardless of income. 94% of the students at grove park eat free or reduced lunches. >> food and security runs our school. kids will come in off the bus and you can tell already what kind of morning it is. >> reporter: grove park elementary has a food pantry for families in crisis in addition, each week the charity feeding south florida gives rotating groups of students free bags of food to take home. terrell's mother, 28-year-old tar -a struggles to put mod need on the able even when food stamps, they makes $1

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nine am in moscow you're watching r t with memory natasha welcome to the program first in syria chemical disarmament may be making progress but there's still no solution in sight to another severe crisis the conflict has created that of the refugees the u.n. estimates that four million more syrians will be forced out of their homes and more than eight million will be in need of aid to discuss the situation and possible ways out i'm now joined live by the president of the international committee of the red cross peter moore. thanks much mr moore for joining us here on r t to talk about the situation well you went to syria last year were civilians are coping amidst a bloody conflict i'm interested to know how they are living there in such conditions and do they get enough humanitarian aid. well certainly civilians have a very difficult life in syria and the need creasing number of civilians have a difficult life because they lack food to water. elementary household item to survive each and every day and in particular they have difficulties to get health care and to get to doctors to hospit

this is r t coming to you live from the russian capital armory natasha welcome to the program well the evil is showing mounting frustration with its ally across the atlantic and demanding explanations over the u.s. government's intrusive surveillance practices at the ongoing european summit in brussels all eyes are now on the and i say as fresh revelations of spying on european the years for some to reconsider their partnership with washington. france and germany are demanding talks with the u.s. on the issue by the end of the year and half old reports that the n.s.a. has been monitoring chancellor merkel's mobile phone and tracking calls made by the french administration the latest n.s.a. leak has shown down the agency encouraged u.s. government official to hand over the or contact list and the use dad data to eavesdrop on the conversations of thirty five world leaders well the european can. and so has issued a statement warning that a lack of trust with washington could damage cooperation and intelligence gathering on top of that germany has decided to team up with brazil which was a

natasha is in new york with inside information. >> started off on a yacht and headed over to the botanicalns. everyone performed. they're all his besties, why not? >>> uncoupling news, paul hogan's wife linda filing for divorce from her $20 million man. these are the court papers in support for their teenage son chance. the couple sold their mansion home to chris hemsworth for $4.8 million. >> well, you had to know this one was coming. kim k. getting ripped to sle sh fothat risque pic. >> not mom approved. >> okay. fair enough. >> at the end of the day, i think she looked great, more power to her. and if kim was fazed by the comments, it didn't show because there are more pics of her showing more skin. >> baby's got backlash. kim kardashian's i've got my body back snapshot causing outrage. generating over 79,000 comments. some calling it inappropriate, another telling her to put on a pair of mom jeans. >> as soon as i get in shape, the first thing i want to do is playboy or some nude shoot. >> well, she's almost there. this is a still pregnant dishing to her sisters. >> i want to walk down

twins.ve >> natasha walker could be like a lot of us. kids in preschool and day care. >> my process is to get them in as quickly as possible and leave because i have to be to work or whatever and i am guilty sometimes of just leaving my purse in the car. >> she is the kind of target smash and grab thieves seven feasting on lately in howard county and police said on wednesday they struck again watching women drop off the kids at days care, preschool, jim, just for a minute they leave their purses in the car. >> always take my purse with me when i get cash for that very reason. we have a higher level of awareness now. >> on wednesday, four women reported thefts in the parking lot. >> i just walked to the parking lot. the director of this monarch so a school where one of the thefts occurred says she is doing her part. we are talking to the parents id letting them be aware that walk around school every 10 or 15 minutes. always looking out of what is going on. ofwill this change in habits all? >> yes, it will. >> armor my mom giving me that s

. >>> ella llegÓ con su hija que parece su hermana, y vicky con natasha.y que tratar de ver lo positivo a lo negativo, y por quÉ no, la gente se riÓ de la foto. >>> 17 horas pasaron tras las rejas por defender a un seguidor arrestado en la policÍa en una presentaciÓn en la que se desato el caos. >>> estoy satisfecha con lo que hicimos, estaban atacando a un fan que no tenÍa culpa, uno siente que no es fiesta de uno, y queremos tener la paz en el lugar, se saliÓ de contexto la situaciÓn. >>> desmintieron que por su arresto perdÍan el patrocinio de una marca de tequila. >>> sÍ, teniamos un patrocinio en ese momento, se dieron cuenta, se le explicÓ, veÍan lo del juicio. sÍ, lo del caso, en realidad no hubo un juicio. >>> asunto aclarado, prometieron ser menos impulsivas y mÁs cautelosas a la hora de actuar, "primer impacto." >>> el famoso cantautor dominicano, juan luis guerra fue homenajeado en nueva york. danila polanco estuvo ahÍ. nos cuenta mÁs, veamos. >>> milly quesada, el torito acosta, henry santos, y tommy love, sacaron adelante el homenaje a juan lu

and to quote from our current party or it natasha fresh way, she answered palm pilgrimage a visit to pittsburgh with these lines. in my tree and come up the of history lies down beside me, rolls over, it pains me beneath a heavy iron. my ambition with this trilogy has been for you, too, to feel that heavy iron. to fill the palpable presence of those who suffered much and in some cases gave every day for a period thank you so much for being here. i look for your questions and comments. thank you so much. thank you. [applause] server. >> yes, i am particularly interested in the battle of the bulge, where it seems that american command -- american commanders according to hodges seem to really fall down in the performance of their job, were even omar bradley is kind of denying that the line has broken and their german troops pouring through in the army is coming through. i'm always fascinated as to why these commanders are made plays, particularly court may hodges who wasn't suited for the command of the first place for the first time he and considering the ramifications of what occurred

natasha spoke with one family about this generational divide. >> reporter: in this family the generationsen collide. javier and allay that, sr. are exiles who fled the island as children ander aren't ready to go back. >> i grew up hating communism. >> for their daughters cuba was a place they had heard about and wanted to experience. >> they are a part of us, and we are a part of them, and we need to focus on bridging the gap. >> reporter: that's why both daughters twoebt cuba this year and convinced their father to come along. >> you are paying a lot to go back, a lot of that money is going right to the government, but they want to see, you know, where we're from. >> reporter: they are representative of the generational shift in the cuban american community. gone r are the days when a majority of cuban americans supported the u.s. embargo against cuba and isolationism. recent polls by the institute show there is almost an even split when it comes to the embargo and reestablishing diplomatic reshuns with cuba. >> i consider the embargo as a trading tool. i have not seen yet are where the

i would have gone, wait a minute, boris and natasha, do you need this to plug into your computer? let's check it. there has never been another thing that has come up where i can think about it. finally international spying has come down to my level of intelligence. >> it is a spying that falls under it can't hurt lo try. all you need is one country. >> the new york post referred to the russians as crafty as doing it. there is nothing crafty about it. this is what they should be doing. if you want to be clever one of the other things was a diary. what if the paper were specially treated so that anything the delegates wrote in their diary was instantly transmitted to moscow. that would be clever. >> why don't you use my -- use mine? that would be great. >> out of how many countries 20 fell for it and russia is like like -- they are going through their can -- candy. they are going i can't believe how stupid these people were. >> they should have been dead with the razor blades in the apple. they deserve what they are getting. >> they are lucky it was not radio active plutonium. >> wh

. >> reporter: natasha roger is now a furloughed census bureau employee, supporting a 5-year-old daughter. >> what do you tell your daughter at this point? >> she's too young to understand what's going on. i try not to -- finances will be difficult for mom and dad. >> reporter: also in jeopardy, hundreds of patients, including children with cancer who will have to wait until after the shutdown to start clinical trials with the national institutes of health. our nation's capitol looking more like a ghost town. >> here at the pentagon, a lot of empty hallways. defense secretary chuck hagel says he's got the authority to bring back thousands of furloughed civilian workers who support the troops doing everything from purchasing the weapons to helping them with housing. and key house republicans agree. now the question, will the white house sign off? >> reporter: a question these world war ii veterans aren't waiting to be answered. >> we're going in, brother. >> reporter: despite the government shutdown, these veterans didn't let their patriotism get shut out. ♪ moving past the barricades to t

natasha g'name reports from mim a. patty cohen things about what would happen if she runs into the man who killed her husband aaron. the driver, michele traverso lives three miles away and is already served his time. >> so angry i can barely talk about it. i feel like such an injustice was done. it's almost embarrassing the obvious lack of sense that it makes. aaron was riding his bike with a friend along this stretch of road in miami dade county when michele traverso slammed into him. he left the scene, called his attorney and turned himself in hours later. investigators found evidence he may have been drinking. driving away made it impossible for the police to test his blood alcohol level. michele traverso was sentenced to a year in gaol for leaving the scene. >> >> patty is working through her grief and doing her best to raise a 3-year-old son and 5-year-old daughter. her son barely remembers daddy. >> i really tried to look at it as a challenge, and not be a victim, but be a survivor. >> somehow the dizzy widow is

this time the victims are 28-year-old bernethia mccrary and 29-year-old natasha curtis.parently killed in the same manner but this time left in the trunk of a car set ablaze. >> when you take a look at that situation, very quickly we decided that this was very potentially a serial case. >> chief godbee is very quick to point out that the toxicology reports have yet to confirm what seasoned cops already suspect. a serial killer is on the loose in detroit, hunting and killing young women two at a time. >> when you add to that there was a connection between three of the four deceased to a website called backpage.com, the a-ha moment came very quickly in our investigation. >> recently, there have within two separate incidents -- >> on december 26th chief godbee calls a press conference to alert the public to the clear and present danger of what the local media have now dubbed the backpage killer. >> there is an immediate danger. there is a person that's potentially preying on women of a specific age in their early 20s that have utilized backpage.com or maybe other similar we

natasha has nor >> reporter: two mothers used grief to make i am passed pleas and similar statutes across the country. the law allows a person to use deadly force if he believes his life is in danger. >> because an angry man who owned a gun kept it close at hand and chose to demonstrate unbridled hatred, one baumy evening for reasons i will never understand. these laws empowered his prejudice believes and subsequent rage over my son's on life, his liberty and pursuit of happiness. the imagine charged with killing jordan davis is citing the law in his defendants. davis died nine months after unarmed teen trayvon martin was shot and killed. on the states stand your ground law the person that shot and killed my son the person subpoena walking the streets today. this law does not work. we need to seriously take a look at this law. >> that's what the senate judiciary committee did. it heard from both sides. >> these laws aren't a license to be a vigilante or behave recklessly. they protect law-abiding citizens leaving a place. >> john lott railed against the notion that a racial disparity has