. >> and about a week later, ryan coogler, our writer-director, came to me with the project. i was like, okay. perfect. perfect time for me to really express myself through my work. and -- and -- it's a story that needed to be told. >> jay: yeah, it's a great story because you always hear someone is shot. and then, you go to court. but this movie tells the story of this young man's life. and he was not a saint. >> not at all. >> jay: he's was in trouble. >> you know, when there's an officer-involved shooting, usually the victim's character gets polarized. you know, he becomes this perfect person, this saint. or he gets depicted as this monster or this thug. and ryan coogler's approach was to spend the day in the life of. the last 24 hours of his life. we wanted the to show this guy, flaws and all. that his life mattered to people who really cared about him. >> jay: yeah. you know, it's like good people sometimes do bad things. and bad people sometimes do good things. and so you really feel that. i always wondered if, particularly with the trayvon martin thing, if the jury had

ryan coogler, director and writer of fruitvale station. thank you for joining us. >> thank you so much for having me. i really appreciate it. >> brown: again, the major developments of the day: president obama scrapped a planned summit in september with russian president vladimir putin. it came a week after moscow granted asylum to edward snowden, the national security agency leaker. egypt's military-backed leaders declared foreign efforts to mediate the country's political crisis have failed. and a military judge at fort hood, texas, temporarily halted the court martial of army major nidal hasan. his standby attorney warned hasan is deliberately trying to get the death penalty. >> ifill: online, rustling up river monsters for scientific research. kwame holman has the details. >> holman: hellbender salamanders are long, flat, slippery amphibians that have been around for millions of years, yet we know very little about them. a group of researchers wrestles them from riverbeds in the hopes of understanding the population and what it can tel