joining me is sara horowitz, executive editor the freelancers union representing freelance workers inll 50 states. one in three workers are what you call contingent. 42 million freelancers or contractors or as you say independents. tell me about the growing trend. >> it says that we are in a gig economy. people are working from project to project and job to job and not just one job for 25 years. we know that just by looking at the way we work, our friends, our family,ing our colleagues. >> i guess you have real independence. what are the benefits and challenges of flexible workers for the companies that hire them and for the workers? >> for the companies, what has often spent they can make people flexible and not provide benefits, which is not always a good thing. what it means is we can have a flexible work force where we have benefits, pension and health insurance and unemployment system and looking to make it fair for workers, the same way that we did in the new deal in the 1930s. every time we see a change with we have to think of how do we go back and start to build a new kind of

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ron is reporting and sara horowitz is an investigator from the "washington post." >> the surveillance camera does pack a lot of apparent information showing no damage to this man who claimed ha tof been brutally beaten by the man he killed. >> a couple things, chris, first, the tape, what you're seeing is 40 minutes or so after the gunshot was fired. it's pretty soon. zimmerman's defenders emphasized he was treated by paramedics, at the scene in the back of a police car and he was, as you say, cleaned up. that's why you don't see blood, they say. also, we were able to zoom into the back of his head and there is some sort of abrasion. on the back of his head, which seems to suggest and give more credibility to his story. ultimately, the bottom line is how much bodily harm do you have to endure before you can legally fire a gun in self-defense in this state. witnesses said they did see martin on top of zimmerman. there was some kind of fight witnesses say. you have to put all the pieces to the puzzle together. a lot of people are saying, don't rush to do many conclusions because of this