polaris operates a national hotline to help identify traffickers. merges think slavery ended 150 years ago here, but in fact hunls of thousands of pemt are being held against their will in this country today. many are forced to work on farms, in factsries or in the commercial sex trade. this modern-day slavery is one of the fastest growing criminal industries in the world. second only to the illicit drug trade, bringing in an estimated $32 billion a year, according to polaris. anyone can be a victim. >> the much bigger issue in the united states than most people understand or realize. >> passports were withheld. >> reporter: gibben came to america as part of a choir hoping to earn money to support his six orphaned siblings. instead of being paid, he was forced to work for free. >> i never spoke to my relatives the whole twlooe years i was in the united states. i never spoke to my brother. i never spoke to any of my siblings. so i had no way to let them know what was happening to me. >> reporter: the hope is that this exhibit will raise awareness abo

we're also putting contact information for the polaris project on our website. they also man a nationwide hotline to get help for human trafficking victims. >> i'm curious how long it took investigators to take down the suspected ring. >> the investigation really got off into full force last november after that girl friend went to her school officials and told them about her boyfriend being a pimp and then the last four months they've arrested 11 people including the five whose pictures were released today. >> audrey barnes, thank you. >>> the latest in the trayvon martin shooting, tonight we have more surveillance video of george zimmerman in the hours after the killing. the footage is raising new questions about exactly what happened and how police responded. fox 5's wisdom martin has the latest. >> tonight there continues to be strong reaction to that video of gorge zimmerman seemingly uninjured -- george zimmerman seemingly uninjured after a fight with trayvon martin and based on everything that's happened in this case so far, some wonder if zimmerman will b

they typically lead one to the northstar, otherwise known as polaris.o i thought it has a layer of theme. >> let's talk about some of the other elements in the peace. we are walking along, and there is a weather vane. there's a sweet little bird hanging on the side. what kind of bird is that? >> [inaudible] the smallest of the gulf species, and it lives around the bay area. >> you want to talk about the types of flour patterns that you send? >> [inaudible] around 1926 or so by the dahlia society. >> what is this bird here? >> that is the california quail. >> coming up here, we had a little blustery theme. what is this area here? >> this is supposed to be the side view, the expense of the golden gate bridge. >> there it is. >> there are really beautiful elements of architecture still around, i would say that it gives that feeling over to the work. >> what are your hopes for it? >> that in a way it just becomes part of the area. i think it is starting to have that feeling. people utilize it. they sit and, and have their lunch and play on -- they sit and,

people, even people who were not literate were very familiar with the stars, so they knew how to find polaris, they knew how to find the north star and they knew at nighttime on a clear night you could head in that direction by finding the north star. many of them knew or became informed of the fact that particularly if you moved into an area like iowa and illinois, and other rivers in the north you could move as i said against the current of the river. to answer your question a bit further, however, there are some wonderful irony in the fact that there are slave stories reported after the civil war that slaves who worked particularly not owners and their friends complaining about underground railroad operators, sometimes mentioned them by name and the towns they lived in so some occasions slaves planning to escape learned about underground railroad locations or operators that way but for the most part, they took off and were on their own, and much of what happened is that they came upon underground railroad operators by pure chance. yes? >> i'm surprised knox college got to be selected as on

polaris operates a national hotline to help identify traffickers. >> most think slavery ended here buthat hundreds of thousands of people are being held against their will today. many are forced to work on farms or factories or the sex chain. this brings in an estimated $32 billion a year. anyone can be a victim. >> the bigger issue in the united states. >> reporter: came to america as part of a choir hoping to earn money to support his six siblings. instead of being paid he was forced to work free. >> i never spoke to any of my siblings. i have no way to let them know what was happening to me. >> reporter: the hope of this exhibit is to raise awareness. >> as long as the community is not aware, low risk. and so the traffickers can tip toe around while the community is asleep. >> so sometimes we would stop. she kept saying if you can be strong i can do it. i just kept thinking i had to do it. >> reporter: athenna jones, cnn, washington. >>> when lehman brothers went down four years ago hundreds of employees went down with it. there are stories of survival. we'll show you how one man bo

he wants $3800 for an '06 700 polaris.t that deal. >> i like lass lals, but for me local radio is all dj, chicken on power 102.9 in new orleans. >> it is thursday, dj chicken. you got any posse? >> out to our teachers giving so much homework. >> to children who don't like their homework and want a good education. >> you're going to need that, brother. >> do you understand what's going on there? on thursdays we call in with our huh-uh and we say huh-uh to whatever hyperlocal thing going on. that is dj chicken and big abe. what we listen to in the radio, my local audio grapevine. with me at the table is a panel of new york's radio hosts, esther armah, brian lehrer and ms. kilkenny. what about this idea that radio is democratic with a little "d" but also a hyperlocal space. >> absolutely. radio when it comes to locality is tribal. it gets into literally the streets where people live. it has this specific intimacy that people feel like this is my area, my community, my conversation. i matter. i can contribute. i want to pick u