i charge pelican bay with racism, promoting inmate-on-inmate violence. how it was in the beginning it shall be in the end. the righteous shall live and the wicked shall perish. >> ever since it opened in 1989, pelican bay state prison in northern california has always had a reputation as one of the most violent and volatile penitentiaries in the nation. when we first visited the institution in 2000, it was under lockdown, still reeling from one of the worst prison riots in u.s. history. five years later, we went back inside pelican bay, where the staff has worked to curb gang activity and prevent violent outbreaks but in an environment simmering with bitter rivalries and racial tension. finding any long-term solution is a never-ending battle. >> inmates in the general population right now consider everything a state of war, so they are ready for everything. >> some guys gonna get their head blown off, some guys are going to get stabbed real good. >> there's no hope. >> we are in the new alcatraz. >> isolated on the northern coastline, some 300 miles nort

teda boyle is a retired lieutenant from pelican bay.watch commander on the day of the right. >> the kind of people that were there were guilty of some of the most heinous crimes. murder, strong-armed robbery, rape. >> within the 275-acre penitentiary is the security housing unit known as the shoe. a prison within a prison. shoe inmates spend about 22 hours of every day in solitary confinement. locked up in an 8 x 10 windowless comment windowless see meant cell with little human contact. inside the shoe are about 1,000 level four prisoners. what boyle calls the worst of the worst. inmates that other wardens don't want or can't handle. dangerous gangs found within the penal community. >> because of their gang leadership, they have the authority to authorize other people in the community to commit these types of crimes. >> and on that day two alleged gangs go to war. it's sunday, and it's raining. 200 shoe prisoners are released into b yard for exercise. boyle says that the entire prison is on edge dating back to a smaller racially charged

that violence could be against other inmates or against officers. >> it was here in pelican bay's most secure unit that we came across perhaps the prison's most dangerous inmate. >> my name is scanvinski hymes. i got the name from my mother. she wanted me to have the name no other black man in america would have. >> hymes was originally sent to prison for possessing a weapon in a youth facility. at the time our cameras profiled him in 2000, he had been locked up for more than 12 years, almost half his life. >> everything's the same every day. nothing really changes too much. i mean, wake up in the morning, eat breakfast, go to the yard. when i get bored, i got -- i got to get into stuff, you know? >> the stuff hymes most frequently gets into is provoking officers to extract him from his cell. each inmate is assigned a security risk classification score based on his disciplinary record. the average score ranges between 19 and 27 points. >> i probably have the highest classification score in this prison system. i'm over 2,000 points now. i've caught over 30, almost 40 felonies in prison.

your son called me a pelican one day here on the show. >> shame on you. >> a pelican? why?ecause he said i had a pelican-like chin. >> no, more turkey-like. >> okay. >> and he likes florida, so. >> maybe jay leno. >> i lost 15 pounds and i still don't get credit. >> can we get back to romney? >> what do you want to say? go ahead. >> he's the guy. >> and read the book. >> here's my address for the invitation to your party. >> i'm going to give it to don so he can kick your, you know what, for hitting on his wife. here's romney on cavuto from earlier today. let's roll the tape. >> hello? look. politics is not my career. my career was in the private sector. my passion is my family and my kids and my grandkids. and i want to get america strong for them and for the people of america. that's why i am in this. if i'm lucky enough to be president i'm not going to be playing, what, 80 ored 0 rounds of golf, i'm not going to be going off tore hawaii or any other spot for three weeks. i'm going to focus on helping the american people get good jobs and rising incomes. >> i thought that

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. >>> we all know john grisham as an author of legal thrillers like "the firm" and "the pelican briefalso in a real-life crusade, one that put him in front of a senate committee this week. he is working the innocence project to save people who are behind bars after being wrongfully convicted. john grisham joins me now. i've been curious about this. i've been an avid reader of your books that got me through many a vacation. did you ever think about that time before you sold a quarter of a of billion books, before all the movies were made based on the books and now grossed a billion dollars worldwide, you were a humble criminal lawyer. do you ever do that? >> i think about it every day. i still get inspiration from cases i had back then, clients i knew, people i knew back 20, 30 years ago. that's where many of the ideas come from for novels today. so i have never gotten away from those days when i was a young lawyer in the trenches and, you know, fighting to help people who were accused, sometimes falsely accused. and i think that's kind of led to my work with the innocence project even

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holland island, nesting home for hundreds of brown pelicans, was once a thriving community... hundreds of residents, a general store, school, church, and a fleet of schooners and skipjacks. but the chesapeake encroaches, almost at will. decades of erosion from wind and tide, and the ravages of hurricane isabel in 2003, the island slips into memory. sharps island lighthouse stands near the entrance to the choptank river, warning seafarers of the shoals off poplar island. the towering, cast iron, concrete-filled hulk, proved no match for the mighty force of winter ice that thrust sharps island lighthouse into a precarious 20-degree list. prime real estate high atop the cliffs at calvert county comes with spectacular views. but these edges, where land and water meet, are on the move. every now and then, eroding earth tumbles down to the shore. the cliff top is receding. breakwaters and riprap slow, but cannot stop the process. the forces of nature are continually at work, shifting the shoreline, reshaping islands, creeks, rivulets, marshes. a long-term, barely perceptible transfo

. >> from the movie version of another grisham blockbuster "the pelican brief." there have been three trials that i covered a lot this year. i'm curious what your instinctive criminal lawyer verdict would have been based on everything you read about them. one was the infamous casey anthony trial. what did you think of that? >> didn't really follow that closely. i'm really suspicious of trials where the cameras are in the courtroom because it creates this circus around the courtroom that i think really does not help us pursue justice. as i understand the case and you can't completely avoid the case, the prosecution could not prove the place of death, cause of death, you know, none of the basic things you have to prove. and i think the jury was face the with a very difficult task. but probably made the right decision. the prosecution has to walk into court and prove basic elements of the crime. if that's not done, then the jury must acquit the accused. so, again, i don't know a lot about it just based on what i picked up with everybody else and saw on television, t

. >> when we first met ivory taylor at california's pelican bay state prison, he had to be flanked byinterview in a secure housing unit or the shu. >> hi, guys. okay. you got it. look at our man right here. he got this rambo camera. where you say you from? >> msnbc. >> nbc? >> msnbc. >> tell us who you are. what's your name? >> they call me double life because i've got two life sentences, a life without the possibility of parole and 25 to life. and they call me godzilla because i've got more points than anybody else in the prison system. so i fight everybody. i'll fight anybody who will fight with me. and i've been in the hole 19 years straight. >> taylor spent all those years in the shu because of a list of violent infractions rivaling any inmate we've ever profiled on "lockup." >> i've had my nose broke, hip broke, shoulder broke and foot broke, all in confrontations with the police, distractions, yard distractions, hospital distractions, shower distractions. anyplace you can get in a fight, i've gotten in a fight. >> when our crew later visited taylor's cell, he felt compelled to l

said to his attorney general philander knox, "is there anything that would prevent me "from naming pelican island on the indian river in florida "a national bird sanctuary?" and knox, the attorney general said, "no, nothing." and so roosevelt said, "i do declare it." coyote: when roosevelt arrived in yellowstone he was in the middle of a national tour unprecedented in its ambition. 14,000 grueling miles. 25 states. 150 towns and cities. more than 200 speeches in the space of 8 weeks. from the day he left washington, he had been looking forward to some time off in yellowstone, and immediately upon his arrival he set off on horseback with the army's acting park superintendent as his host, leaving the rest of the presidential entourage behind including his staff, his secret service men his physician, and all the reporters covering the trip. "as far as the world at large is concerned," his private secretary told the press "the president will be lost." only john burroughs, the popular nature writer, was allowed to come along. the summer tourist season was still two months away, so roosevelt had

times included reports of pelicans and cormorants wandering around drunk and throwing up anchovies.by birds to drunk and lethal effect. i got biological oceanographer wondering could that same algae that got them drunk in 1991 have caused all the other sea birds to go nuts 30 years earlier? it's a question for which there is data available. sea birds and turtles gather back in 1961 after the mess in monterey bay, had had the stomach contents collected and preserved. a scientist had her team study what had been saved and indeed, bingo, toxic algae, they found it present in 79% of the plankton that the unfortunate 1971 drunk birds had eaten. so the sea birds that helped inspired the birds most likely ate anchovies that had eaten toxic algea and in a toxic confusion they plunged themselves.

andd caller is talking about theodore roosevelt in florida had protected pelican island, florida off vera beach created our first wildlife refuge and saved part of the ding darling national wildlife refuge so t.r. was very much in bird protection and protecting of wild florida. i would not put conservation in that way high on ross perot's list. but i put him on the side of being a conservationist. he was simply in that climate in 1992 to be pro-e.p.a. in the way that he was. and in this election, many republicans don't like the e.p.a. and ross perot did because he did feel that companies needed to be regulated. >> in 1994, the g.o.p. had an historic retaking. house of representatives. newt gingrich who is a candidate for president this year around was looked upon as the architect of that and became speaker. house and set the stage for a huge debate over the size of the debt leading to a government shutdown that very much pitted the two men, president clinton and newt gingrich, against one another. how responsible was ross perot's highlighting of the debate issue for those subsequent

(yelling): pelican! see? i bet you didn't know i was going to say "pelin."terday's pop quiz. one thing was foreseeable, though. d groans that was foreseeable. if something is foreseeable, that means you know what is going to happen. and what happened next should have been totally foreseeable. now i hope you understand the difference between things that are foreseeable and things that are unforeseen. (knock at door) beuse i'll be doing mework for thforeeab fute. helen: you saw something climbing the tent? what is it? there it is! that's what you saw? helen: one puny ant? she didn't sayhe saw mething enormous. it'smazi w ants walk up things without lling off. d you ever wonder what life would be like if you were an ant? nope. uh, no. every day! but e i'm e only one. t gives me an idea for a story. it's called "the adventures of ant alice and ant hel." and it starts one day in this very yard. alice: alice and helen were doing a school report about ants, using a flashlight and a magnifying glass-- that's a special glass that magnifies things. "magnify" means to

we have them in our studios, from pelicans to penguins. there's a temperatureky vulture inside want to go meet us. >> i can't wait for these guys to dance. come on, happy feet, dance, guys. maybe we need to put some music on. >> maybe that will work. >> bill karins has a check of the weather. >> good morning, amy and lester. this guy set the bar a little too high today. today is his wife's birthday. this is his wife, here. what's your name? >> kim. >> kim, today is your actual birthday? >> today is my actual birthday. >> what time did you get the train for you to come here to new york for your birthday? >> we had to leave the house at 1:30 and we were on the train at 3:30 in the morning. >> what does this say here? to my love, happy birthday. good job, buddy. >> let's take a look at the weekend forecast. just showers out there in florida. south texas. it's chillier than we would like in the great lakes, but we'll warm it up for you as we go throughout your sunday. maybe a few showers in california. it's just an a plus >> great late fall we

after doing ten years of hard time at pelican bay state prison for manslaughter, he returned to l.a. for the very crime he claims to condemn, garafalo offers his unique perspective on the new breed of street criminal. >> jails are too full. look at the new generation. carjacking. these kids will go out and stick a gun in someone's face to go joyriding in a car. and turn a misdemeanor crime into a death penalty case. because seven out of ten times they carjack, they kill the person they steal the car from. you got to tell me, there is not something wrong with that. somewhere in that confusion, these kids don't know how to act like proper gangsters anymore. when my dad was a small-time mafioso back east, he used to say there are two kinds of gangsters. there are thugs and there are gangsters. thugs come and go. gangsters are about making money and respect. and if you are going to be a gangster in this life, there are two things you got to know. you don't kill cops and you don't kill innocent women and children. >> 900 max is the home to nccf's discipline module, otherwise known as the

. >> ainsley: there's also the pelican drop in california. in lebanon, pennsylvania. and there's a peach drop in atlanta. >> is there? >> on the way into work this morning, i stepped over some pigeon drops. too easy. >> ainsley: lucky it didn't land on your hand. . >> mike: now let's go out to rick and he'll be in times square, are you going to be stay there until the ball drops. no way. you couldn't pay me enough to be down hook eke eke ehooker-- here like megan and bill. and that's a lot of people to be in the middle of. and so many people are concerned about the weather and there's no need to be concerned for so much of the country right now. we're ending this year on a great note. temperature-wise, 49 right now here in new york city and it's going to stay nice all day long. and no big, a particular outbreak and no majorly cold air anywhere and a little storm you see across the northeast and that will be gone by this evening and scattered showers across the interior sections for now, but no big problems, as you go farther towards the west,

the caller was talking about the roosevelt and florida, protecting pelican island and creating our nation's first national wildlife refuge and then went in and saved the tortugas and saved part of what is being darling national forest. i would not put conservation in that way high on ross perot's was, but i would put him on the side of being a conservationist. he was in that environment, inclined to be pro-epa and many republicans don't like the epa and ross perot did because he did feel like companies needed to be regulated. >> in 1994, the gop had a historic retaking of the house of representatives. newt gingrich was looked upon as the architect of that and became speaker of the house and set the stage for a huge debate over the size of the debt leading to a government shutdown that pitted president clinton and newt gingrich against one another. how responsible for was ross perot's highlighting of the debate issue for those subsequent events? >> that the question. i do is quite important. -- that is a good question. ross perot is talking about paying for a with a gasoline tax, which you d

andd caller is talking about theodore roosevelt in florida had protected pelican island, florida off vera beach created our first wildlife refuge and saved part of the ding darling national wildlife refuge so t.r. was very much in bird protection and protecting of wild florida. i would not put conservation in that way high on ross perot's list. but i put him on the side of being a conservationist. he was simply in that climate in 1992 to be pro-e.p.a. in the way that he was. and in this election, many republicans don't like the e.p.a. and ross perot did because he did feel that companies needed to be regulated. >> in 1994, the g.o.p. had an historic retaking. house of representatives. newt gingrich who is a candidate for president this year around was looked upon as the architect of that and became speaker. house and set the stage for a huge debate over the size of the debt leading to a government shutdown that very much pitted the two men, president clinton and newt gingrich, against one another. how responsible was ross perot's highlighting of the debate issue for those subsequent