a deal schwartz rejected. wall street journal editorial board member has been following the story and joins us now. joe, who was aaron schwartz and why was it it a big deal. >> he's an important figure in the digital world in the sense he's an open source activist. he advocates an ideology says that information wants to be free, so the data base that he went after called jay's store charges universities and libraries a subscription fee as high as $50,000 a year, what he did was he downloaded all of these articles and was going to release them kind of into the internet and was about digital democracy and open access to information. >> paul: versus the copy right and intellectual property protected under law. fou big a crime, though, really is this? >> right, well he was stopped in the act and he never actually released the articles. and while a lot of people find this, his ideas deplorable in the sense that intellectual properties for owners how to decide how to use for it, how much to charge. >> paul: he actua

against schwartz. have faced up to 35 years in prison. he was accused of downloading millions of files. they say this was ridiculously out of proportion. prosecutors say stealing is stealing. holly hughes is here. do you think the case against aaron schwartz was too extreme? >> you have to draw the line in the sand. at this point, the basic bottom line is he did in fact break the law. he was stealing. what is not being reported is there was a plea bargain in the works and he could have done as little as six months in prison. so to say that blaming the criminal justice system for what is a tragedy, i mean, this young man chose to take his own life. that's what's out of proportion in my opinion. legally speaking, if someone had broken into your home with a gun and stolen a million pieces of documents out of your home, you would want them prosecuted. everybody would be up in arm said. but because he did it with a computer, everybody seems to think that's excusable. >> so there's no difference between brea

schwartz came up with the computer code https when he was just 17. schwartz family say it is u.s. attorney in massachusetts and mit pursued exemptionally harsh charges that could have sent him to prison for 30 years which the family claims contributed to his suicide. mit announced today he is probing an internal launch into their role in schwartz death. thousands of supporters have taken to the social networking site to provide links to academic papers regardless of whether they have permission. the protests is meant to be a virtual representation of schwartz beliefs and the availability and access of all information. >>> a recent study draws a connection between spanking young children and their aggressive a few years laterment researchers from the university of wisconsin found spanking kids under the age of one led to aggressive behavior by age three. and depression and anxiety by age 5. the studies author says this is the first time there's been evidence found on all of those behaviers. research found most parents think kids still need a spanking at least once in a while. >>> a

schwartz took his own life over the weekend, marla. his lawyer, elliot peters told the "huffington post" this morning prosecutors were after publicity and newspaper headlines. congresswoman z ovrnlthse laugh man says it's time to update the hacking laws. some believe those laws were taken advantage of for downloading academic papers without per migsz. she proposed the idea to change the law on read it, the internet forum schwartz faced. originally he faced more than 30 years in jail, though it was reduced to a plea deal offer. the prosecutors including u.s. attorney carmen ortiz have become targets of criticism, so much so her husband, ortiz's husband, an ibm executive went to twitter criticizing the schwartz family on the day of the young man's funeral saying, quote, truly in their own son's obit they blame others for their son's death. the account has since been deleted. 28,000 americans have signed a petition to have that prosecutor fired. it takes 25,000 to require the white house to make a response. >> scott, thank you so much. >>

erin schwartz is a name you may or not be familiar with.apartment on friday night. he's bed known as the creator of reddit. it's one of the most powerful tools online for sharing information. he was also remembered as a hacker, as a programmer, and as an activist, and his parents are now putting the blame for his suicide on the u.s. government and one of the most prestigious universities in the united states. dan simon is "outfront." >> a brilliant computer programmer. a world-class university, and a federal prosecutor. a three-way collision that some speculate led to a deepening depression for 26-year-old aaron schwartz. schwartz was best known as the co founder of reddit, a widely used social news and entertainment website built around user submitted content. president obama even used reddit to reach more than 5 million voters in his re-election campaign. most of them young people. in his short live, he became a folk hero, pushing to make web content free. but with prosecutors pressing serious charges, schwartz hanged himself friday in hi

the family of an internet activist to aaron schwartz accuses u.s. prosecutors of being complicit in his suicide after he faced decades behind bars for downloading academic documents for public use. fronts gives assurances its military operation against the mali islamists will be short lived and with warnings the country risks being bogged down in the conflict for far longer than expected. germany is set to persuade the greek opposition that austerity is what it needs that's critics say berlin's trying to please all sides in athens in a further attempt to push through its belt tightening medicine. thanks so much for joining us here on r.t. today i'm rory sushi with worldwide news live from moscow. the product of a criminal justice system rife with intimidation and overreach that's how the family of the celebrated internet freedom activist erin swartz has described his recent suicide swartz face decades in prison after federal prosecutors allege he illegally downloaded millions of academic papers and planned to distribute them for free we have frequen

that cop followed schwartz to his son's house, words were exchanged and schwartz ordered to remain in car. three more officers soon arrived at the scene and handcuffed and arrested schwartz right in front of his grandkids. swart' attorney said the u.s. appellate court decision to hear the case reaffirms that police don't have the right to arrest people merely because they feel insulted. the court said it will hear the case in the spring. >>> $10,000 for a college degree and there's no catch. it is a proposal. republican dan logan is proposing a system where they would join forces to offer science and engineering students a bachelor's degree within 18 months. the cost? $10,000ful participating students would start earning college credit in high school through advanced placement courses. the bill calls for launching a pilot program in the areas of chico, long beach, and turlock. >>> more than 40 years ago he seemed to have it all. in recent years he was broke. he said record company duped him, leaving his homeless. >> now the sicker from the 1960s is launching a comeback. a story of a b

thing she thing there are enough activists out there now who can carry on mr schwartz's fight. well. it's carrying a very heavy legacy that would be difficult to do. but there are a lot of people that fight for the same goals that were tried to. go into what he was fighting for and i think they're the political movement that is fighting for. is this strong and we will get stronger in the next months and years and there is no. risk that. this is a very heavy loss for the entire community will. bring a. real bring a stop to political movement. with the suicide of mr schwartz is certainly sending reverberations around the online community for your reinhart a representative in the pirate group of the berlin parliament live from berlin thank you very much thank you very much. is the world update now starting with the israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu has pledged to continue building settlements in the west bank is just hours after the country's police evicted around two hundred palestinians from the site marked for construction at the outpost made up of a twenty tenants were

professor aaron schwartz. a professor of law and the director of the center for ethics at harvard university. he is joining us tonight from austin, texas. larry, i would like to welcome you back inside "the war room." >> it's great to be back. >> jennifer: yeah, you knew aaron for 12 years, i'm told and as his mentor and friend -- i'll get to the legal stuff -- but i'm curious what you would like people to remember about him. >> well, i really think of him as the mentor and me as the mentoree. he was around 14 when i first met him, and every single stage of his life, he was pushing people to -- to try to build something that was -- that fit the ideas that he had about what the internet could be, what we could be as a society. by then of his life it wasn't so much internet activism as social act -- activism he got me to change a number of things i was working on because of piercing questions we would push and the standard he held us all too. >> jennifer: let me get to the specifics of this case where he was dow

ortiz saying the feds may have been satisfied with not sending schwartz to prison saying schwartz's defensensel would have been free to recommend a sentence of probation. the big question this morning is why was the world originally under the impression the feds wanted to send schwartz to prison for decades and when did this idea that he might not have to go to prison at all surface and did he know about it? did schwartz know before he took his own life or did he still think he faced a harsher punishment. the new statement raises a lot of new questions. jon and marla? >> reading an recaarticle yeste and decades in prison. >> the prosecutor saying maybe we wouldn't have sent him to jail at all. wait. hold on. who knew what when here? >> thank you, scott. >>> 5:56 right now. christina loren is keeping her eyes on the sky for us and all that sunshine coming our way. >> a beautiful day shaping up. thank you for joining us this morning. i get to be bearer of good news. finally. it's been weeks. temperatures will climb into the 60s. right now we have mostly clear conditions. fog starting to devel

they'll fight to continue the struggle. >> schwartz facing up to $2535 years in prison andk%-/ a $1 if convicted. >> sky 7 is live over breaking news. a shooting theer the intersection of lee avenue just a block from oak grove high school. police not giving out details but we understand it may be gang related and we believe the victim was still alive when taken to the hospital. we plan to bring you any information as soon as we get it we have confirmation lance armstrong confessed to years of doping. >> it's tearful ad >>> lance armstrong reportedly now confessed to using performance-enhacing drugs to win the tour de france. a source confirms armstrong admitted to doping in a taped interview today with oprah winfrey that will air on thursday on her network. for years armstrong denied drug use but the u.s. antidoping agency stripped him of highs seven tight yilels last year, he broke down as apologizing to the staff at the live strong foundation. >> we have new details tonight on why the los angeles county coroner changed death certificate of actress natalie wood. the actress drowned

wrongly focuses on activists like schwartz when there are real hard criminals at large. short says some buddy who had this inclination that information is power and that you shouldn't be able to treat it just as a commodity that copyright hawks shouldn't just be able to keep this information guarded if if it's available to the world then everyone could be a lot smarter in the united states we've seen a focus on internet activists as of late and i shouldn't necessarily unique to united states but what is remarkable is that there are criminals in the united states that could be prosecuted like bankers are people who have engaged in real crimes like torture but it seems like the justice department in the united states has more interested it has more interest in going after people or people like schwartz are let's get into it now the aussie will of the day it will start with protesters who are angry at a decision to stop flying the british fly permanently from the city hall in belfast have again clashed with police leaving at least one officer and a bus driver injured this i

. >> 26-year-old erin schwartz committed suicide in new york.go prosecuters say he illegally down loaded millions of science journals. we're live with his bay area connection. >> as indicated the federal government considered aaron schwartz a thief, for allegedly down loading academic paper was out permission. a case many believe led to his suicide. his robin hood like advocacy had strong bay area influences. >> schwartz gave a lecture last may. >> if we've lost the ability to communicate over the internet it could be a changed bill of rights, freedoms guaranteed in the constitution he dropped out of stanford but maintained a close friendship with lessic whoççí[ spoke about him today he was going to -- an incredible soul who inspired millions who,( now weep as we've seen a crossek:÷ e internet in outrage and devastation that he would have been driven to the cliff that he stepped over. >> the cliff was felony charges by the'z. swr justice department when he down loaded research papers at m.i.t.. cindy cohen met him six or seven years ago. >> h

activist schwartz says that he may have been driven to commit suicide by the ferocious prosecution against him aged just twenty six the internet crusader faced decades in jail for downloading millions of academic papers which he believed should be available to anyone and. reports federal prosecution was relentless. he was a computer prodigy an online activists co-founder of the social news website read it and he was also a frequent guest on our team but twenty six year old aaron swartz was also the target of a federal computer hacking case and the trial was scheduled to begin next month that beginning will never come because swartz committed suicide inside his seventh floor brooklyn apartment in this building behind me on friday morning according to police he hanged himself and left no no behind and according to reports his girlfriend found him in the bedroom with a belt wrapped around his neck now swartz was arrested and indicted two years ago on allegations of breaching a computer network at the massachusetts institute of technology to download millions of pages of academic articles and

and linda schwartz in the past two years congressman i say has wasted taxpayer dollars and he railed president obama's about agenda with repeated which which investigations into things like fast and furious have been gazi but he's finally doing what he should be doing and that's looking into the d.o.j. extreme actions towards peaceful activists so as they say even a broken clock is right twice a day. it's the good the bad in the very very hollow be asleep ugly the good steve chalke chock a baptist minister in the u.k. and one of the leaders of the evangelical movement has published an essay in support of same sex unions and relationships it is s. a truck writes we refuse to make room for gay people to live in stable relationships we consign them to the lives of loneliness secrecy fear and even of deceit i do believe that the church has a god given responsibility to include those who have for so long found themselves excluded this indorse from same sex unions is a big deal especially coming from an evangelical leader the bad congressman walter jones the north carolina congressman who

aaron schwartz i mean he stopped sopa with his efforts he stopped soap and he became a target a political target ok and that's why all these things happened to him there's no reasonable. cost behind the going after a young like that in the fashion that it's political. and you can see the full interview with came dot com here on r.t. this thursday in the military is breaking the set that will be back with more stories for you after this short break. well to the. site but still on our minds radiation from the still exceeds the norm let's try to live smarter with smart phones you never know what some people are hiding things can't be sure to you probe down to the molecular level learn that what the doctor ordered is often based on secrets under our skin let it shine the light on a kid in the world. we've got the future. you know how sometimes you see a story and it seems so sleek you think you understand it and then you glimpse something else you hear or see some other part of it and realize everything you thought you knew you don't i'm sorry welcome to the big picture. little mission. criti

was nothing but politics aaron schwartz i mean he stopped sopa with his efforts he stopped so when he became a target a political target ok and that's why all these things happened to him there is no reasonable. course behind it going after a young junior like that in the fashion they did it's political. well you can see the interview in full with kim dotcom that'll be here or not see this thursday i next though it's obvious autons breaking a set and i hope to see. there are twelve cities in the united states in which half of the people with hiv aids lives within a year of a diagnosis of each anything over six to two percent of those species are diagnosed with a specific problem that frankly is substantially preventable it was like the big elephant in the room and nobody wanted to talk about it there were really good public health campaigns if people really focused on this problem you certainly should be able have a lot less h i feel a lot less human suffering. wealthy british style sun it's sometimes that's right on. target. market why not. come to. find out what's really happening t

was nothing but politics aaron schwartz i mean he stopped sopa with his efforts he stopped soap and he became a target a political target ok and that's why all these things happened to him there's no reason a bore. course behind it going after a young like that in the fashion they did it's political. you can see the full interview with kim dotcom here on r.t. this thursday will be an abby martin's breaking the set for now i'm back with more stories after a very quick break. what mystery is hidden deep the nice. visitors the north welcome here. traps laid for intruders. and the supernatural cannot rise from nowhere. can a human be possessed by the water spirit. mistress of the cave on auntie. download the official application to yourself choose your language stream quality and enjoy your favorite. if you're away from your television well it just doesn't matter now with your mobile device you can watch on t.v. anytime anywhere. thanks for joining us here on r.t. today canada is considering extending its commitment to the french intervention in mali that's including sending in troops f

drops its piracy charges against prominent internet speed them up because our schwartz who took his own life on friday. is the u.s. really that nervous about china's nuclear arsenal two also one is a potential strike or is it just trying to keep its own atomic store in time we'll bring you an expert opinion on that in just a few of. those further turbulence in bahrain where another peaceful rally has been brutally despised by security forces to crowds gathered at the funeral of a protester who was poisoned by tear gas at a previous demonstration approaches have been going on for almost two years now in the gulf war like a human rights activists claim dozens have been killed as the regime keeps cracking down on the opposition and asked not darwish is one of them and she describes how she was personally targeted with yoga. the hearing has been using tear gas canisters or as i like to call it toxic gases against citizens even in their houses not even protestant and the streets in a person an experience that happened to me and division with me is that i am nearly nine months pregnant and ju

joining me is the president martin schwartz. thank you for being here. >> thank you. >> how is vehicles for change different from other programs? >> we are different in the way we use the cars. it is to provide transportation to low income families to escape poverty. we take the car if it is in good condition and we repair it and identify a family that needs a car to get to and from employment to escape poverty. >> tell me about walk in your shoes program. >> what we did in october 4Ñ4s had a program we wanted to bring to light to the public the trials that your families go through without an automobile. we had six local dignitaries. one of them was jim malone. was was susan with the daily record. what they did was traveled with one of our recipients the route they had to go before they got their car. >> i can't imagine being without a car. what was that like having to go through what these people go through on a daily basis. >> i did it as well. i have been running the program 13 years. it was eye opening for me to see what th

. >> friends will gather in illinois to aaron schwartz. he committed suicide in new york. his death comes in the midst of a legal battle over hacking allegations. they plan to picket outside his service and their group was seen last month. people are now remembering schwartz for his legacy. >> all of these people are really just struck by how at 26 he had managed to complete so many lifetimes worth of work. >> the san francisco community is planning on holding a ceremony in his honor. >>> there is a connection between sugary drinks and america's obesity epidemic. >>> coca-cola launched a two minute ad which is launching on several networks. >> we are asking people to come together on something that concerns all of us, obesity... >> that was it right there. they are asking people to consider low calorie options. critics open they will be able to see through the marketing. >> what would you think if phillip morris said we should all get together and fight against lung cancer. it would be hip critical. >> it says the campaign is designed to help educate consumers. >> 455 am i

schwartz was riding shotgun and as they drove past a radar speed trap, schwartz gave the middle fingere to a police officer in the village of st. johnsonville. the officer stopped the car, continue fronted schwartz, arrested him for disorderly conduct. there we are up to speed so to speak. avery, let's start with you and the cop's explanation about why he stopped the car. apparently the appeals court thinks it's a little far-fetched. right? >> yeah, yeah, the explanation by the police officer in st. johnsville, new york, nice bucolic area in upstate new york, there was a possibility of public safety issues. and the three-judge federal appeals panel looked at that and examined the issue of this gesture and even talked about ancient greece. it took centuries of history in this wonderful opinion saying at the end of the day we're going to send it back to the federal court in utica and let's go to trial and see what the jury has to say. >> richard, what do you think of all of this? is that an issue of freedom of speech here? >> well, it is, marty. i'll tell you something, we're reminded co

schwartz was involved with developing reddit and rss. later he dropped out of stanford university and focused on battling internet censorship. schwartz was facing legal trouble related to his activism and he had blogged about his battle against depression. >>> tomorrow marks one year since the cruise ship ran aground. the wrecked ship still stuck on an island, but it's expected to be towed away in one piece by september. the destination has not yet been announced. residents of the island will observe a minute of silence and release 32 lanterns tomorrow to mark the anniversary of that tragedy. >>> it's the number-one story we're following today here on cnn. public health emergency. i'm talking about the flu. and this emergency now includes all of new york state. that means that nearly every state in the nation is reporting that doctors -- what doctors call widespread flu activity. only the far west is relatively unaffected this weekend, even though the cdc says there's plenty of cases there too. one positive thing in all of this, though,

schwartz was a very young and well regarded computer programmer. he was accused of breaking into a closet at m.i.t. hooking up a laptop into the school's computer system to download millions of academic studies and papers. he was not a student there. the u.s. attorney's office did bring charges and schwartz faced decades in prison despite the fact the publishers of those academic articles opposed the charges. m.i.t. issued a letter to students and faculty say it would look at its own behavior but came to the conclusion right in the letter itself that the school didn't speak up against the prosecution loudly enough. the u.s. attorney's office says schwartz stole the millions of dollars of papers even though the papers were free. back in the '90s a few silicon companies were hit by hackers and would tell prosecutors the hackers did millions of dollars of damage except when it came to their quarterly financial reports those million dollar losses were nowhere to be found. >>> other news, ebay and intel will report profits this week looking back at prev

the hack is revenge for the death of aaron schwartz. they're calling for changes to be made to the u.s. justice system. schwartz was an internet activist who committed suicide two months ago. he helped create the site read it. he was arrested for illegally downloading millions of academic articles. >>> the obama administration is kicking off its campaign for gun safety. the president's organizing for action e-mailed supporters asking them to call their congressman about the issue. but democrats may stand in the way. senators up for re-election in 2014 in alaska, arkansas and montana have all expressed uncertainty about the proposals. >>> snail mail is going to cost you a little bit more starting tomorrow. postal service is raising the cost of a first class stamp to 46 cents. other shipping prices are also going up by 4%. the postal service is trying to make up for millions in lost revenue thanks to e-mail and other technology. >>> still ahead, the nats hold a presidential news conference. we're going to tell you the new commander in chi

i will bring you more analysis on the case of our schwartz including why the case against in greece to such extremes. more than eighty people mostly students have been killed in two blasts at a university campus in this series states have left that there is also believed to have been housing refugees our correspondent policy has the details for us. we know that there were two explosions at the university of it happened on the first day of examinations the state television has banned of this a terrorist act saying that terrorists launched rockets at the campus of activists on the ground say that the explosions were caused by missiles that were fired by warplanes immediately following the explosions a number of cars went up in fire there were bodies strewn across the street and tearful survivors managed to find refuge in a nearby building now we know that the campus is home to university students but also an additional thirty thousand people who have found refuge there since fighting broke out in syria in july last year at the same time the university is in an area that is under the cont

. >>> reaction to the suicide of erin schwartz. schwartz was facing 35 years in prison after being charged with accessing millions of academic articles. erin's law would change the current law, which she described as too broad, schwartz was 26 years old, and had been suffering from depression. >>> an unusual rescue in the central valley today after a woman crashed her suv into a swimming pool. merced police say 69-year-old pamela gwynn failed to turn. she plowed straight into a pool at an apartment complex. police say a good samaritan broke out the back window to rescue the driver. the woman was not seriously hurt. >>> it's making national headlines. we come to a bay area think tank for a strategy about gun control. >>> 49ers fever is heating up ahead of sunday's big playoff game. that's leading to big business in san francisco's japantown. a specially designed t-shirt is flying off the shelves. >> reporter: we're live in the stock room. you can see ten boxes of kaepernick gear has arrived after hours. the design is based on the ta

steve schwartz is from brookstone, they're developing this prototype. this seems like a great idea.hat really simple? >> why do dwe do this? why do we take a speaker and put it inside one of our best selling pillows? we did it because a t solves a terrific problem. so many of our tv waters have a partner in in bed, and they cannot watch tv without disturbing their partner. so so many of us, we lead ourselves toward wearing a set of headphones which are uncomfortable. why not take the pillow, connect, it put speakers inside, have a small control box. that connects up so all you do is hook up your transmitter to the tv that comes with the product. >> it's wireless. >> sends it all wirelessly to the pillow. there are two built-in speaker inside which you can't see. they're built inside the memory foam aspects of the pillow. >> okay. then what you get is very quiet sound. you're not going to get a big, loud stereo, you're going to get silent audio that's going to be just what you need. >> and a crazy question, people can still sleep on, this right? after the show is over. >> they sure c

the family or internet activist our schwartz accuses u.s. prosecutors of being complicit in his suicide after they face decades behind bars for downloading academic documents for public use. now a no suggestions just under a metre nervous law in belfast and he's thanks to both sides in the weeks old slant conflict as they struggle to explain what they demand is actually. our friends gave the surest says its military operation against the man islamists will be short and warnings the country risks being bogged down and into conflict for fun longer than planned. this is r.c. coming here live from moscow hello and welcome to the program the product of a criminal justice system rife with intimidation and overreach this is how the family of the celebrated internet freedom activist r. and schwartz have described his recent sort of side shorts faced decades in prison after federal prosecutors allege he illegally downloaded millions of academic papers and plan to distribute the votes free r.t. has three quickly interviewed shorts and our own marine o

we can go to our website on dot com to him or from those who knew schwartz plus another. the idea that he was facing decades in jail is it's just disgusting absolutely appalling we can find out how the case against aaron swartz a group of such extremes and share your opinion in the comments section. we're getting a nasty pictures here at our t. about how it will more than eighty people now mostly students have been killed and dozens injured in two blasts at a university campus in the syrian city of aleppo and the area is also believed to have been housing refugees a middle east correspondent paula she reports now. we know that there were two explosions at the university of illinois it happened on the first day of examinations the state television has banned of this a terrorist act saying that terrorists launched rockets at the campus so the activists on the ground say that the explosions were caused by listeners that were fired by warplanes immediately following the explosions a number of cars went up in fire there were bodies strewn across the street and tearful survivor

have described his recent suicide schwartz face decades in prison after federal prosecutors alleged he illegally downloaded millions of academic papers and planned to disrupt the trip get them for free he has frequently interviewed shorts and our own marina porter nine now takes a closer look at the man and his skates. he was a computer prodigy an online activists co-founder of the social news website reddit and he was also a frequent guest on our team but twenty six year old aaron swartz was also the target of a federal computer hacking case and the trial was scheduled to begin next month that beginning will never come because swartz committed suicide inside his seventh floor brooklyn apartment in this building behind me on friday morning according to police he hanged himself and left no know behind and according to reports his girlfriend found him in the bedroom with a belt wrapped around his neck now swartz was arrested and indicted two years ago on allegations of breaching a computer network at the massachusetts institute of technology to download millions of pages of academic a

expert who was well aware of schwartz's online activities i think the potential punishment never fitted the crimes. when everything is said and done nothing in that area downloaded was ever distributed and they did not pursue any charges against him i think that should have told the prosecuting attorney something you're looking at a crime that essentially amounts to downloading p.d.'s to a hard drive. no person was harmed. there was no financial benefit murder received less punishment i mean i can't even imagine how scary and terrible that must be to have your government hell bent on putting you in a cage for thirty years for downloading some p.b.'s if you're a depressed person that amounts to a death sentence we can go to our website dot com to him or about those he knew schwartz. the idea that he was facing decades in jail is it's just disgusting absolutely appalling you can find out how the case against aaron swartz grew to such extremes and share your opinion in the comments section and also online fear right now on our web site talk about the right to life at all to dot com we've g

and aaron schwartz helped found, that schwartz co-founded was with the searing comments, twitter, hackingnymous has hacked in and crashed the mit website and schwartz's family blames both mit and prosecutors saying i'm quoting here, aaron's death is not simply a personal tragedy, it's a product of a criminal justice system rife with intimidation and prosecutorial overreach. now you have the president of mit saying it planned to actually look into this whole thing, saying it pains him to believe the school played a part in aaron's death. they want a full review of how the school played a role in this, and the company that gets paid to store all of these academic journals, even they have come out saying that this was an overzealous prosecution. the u.s. attorney's office in boston has obviously, because he died, dropped the charges, but not yet commented on the fury that this prosecution has raised. megyn. >> megyn: all right. trace, thanks. well, more moments on our breaking news that the president will be joined tomorrow by children from around the country who the white house says wrote l

for now though the lawyer who represented aaron schwartz says he warned us or thora to use his client was a suicide risk the twenty six year old activist faced decades behind bars over accusations here illegally downloaded academic documents for public use schwartz's family who claim prosecutors were complicit in his death had received tens of thousands of online messages in support and rick fox and i t entrepreneur and founder of the swedish pirate party says there's a lot of information out there that should be free to whoever who wants it. you could easily say that for instance military secrets or medical journals should not be free to distribute because it violates privacy by those national security but in terms of access to knowledge in public public documents and records. certainly committed not no crime and that even goes with the law or so war the federal prosecution did was throw the book at him in the way this had been obtained in terms of how he had walked into the technical university mit in the united states and set up a laptop to download these public dock public documen

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aaron schwartz points the finger at. u.s. prosecutors driving their son to suicide. high hopes in paris for a swift military campaign in mali with american british. all amid criticism of french realism. and belfast is on edge flag related riots majority rally for. loyalist protests we go and explore the all sides. thank you so much for joining us here and i'm sure with worldwide news from moscow . the family of web information aaron schwartz says that he may have been driven to suicide by the ferocious prosecution process against him aged just twenty six the internet crusader facing decades in jail for downloading millions of academic papers that he should be believed should be made available to everybody in the public because on his marina reports the federal prosecution. he was a computer prodigy an online activists co-founder of the social news website reddit and he was also a frequent guest on our team but twenty six year old aaron swartz was also the target of a federal computer hacking case and the trial was scheduled to begin next month that beginning will nev

. >>> reaction to the suicide of erin schwartz. schwartz was facing 35 years in prison after being charged with accessing millions of academic articles. erin's law would change the current law, which she described as too broad, schwartz was 26 years old, and had been suffering from depression. >>> an unusual rescue in the central valley today after a woman crashed her suv into a swimming pool. merced police say 69-year-old pamela gwynn failed to turn. she plowed straight into a pool at an apartment complex. police say a good samaritan broke out the back window to rescue the driver. the woman was not seriously hurt. >>> it's making national headlines. we come to a bay area think tank for a strategy about gun control. >> and how colin kaepernick and a combination of t-shirts and tatoos are changing the lives of a san jose couple. oh! progress-oh! -oh! -oh! oh! oh! ♪ what do you know? oh! ♪ bacon? -oh! -oh! oh! [ female announcer ] with 40 delicious progresso soups at 100 calories or less, there are plenty of reasons people are saying

schwartz: there's nothing isolated about the herminie situation. it's a very common problem. it's a town that was built before current standards. this is not backwoods rural america at all. it's just an unfortunate situation that was created probably a hundred years ago or more. and the people have to pay for it in a big way now. because the government is choosing to spend its money elsewhere right now, there's very limited money for communities to install adequate drinking water and wastewater, and i think it's criminal. that's my feeling. this country has to get its priorities right, and they're wrong right now. narrator: herminie faces problems because of the way its residents laid out the town generations earlier. across the country, many other cities and towns deal with the unexpected consequences from their early infrastructure design. los angeles county is a land of sprawling development. with development comes hundreds of square miles of concrete, leaving no way for water to naturally soak into the ground. in areas of such widespread urbanization, flooding can be deva

. >>> air and schwartz was facing criminal charges when he died related to a hacking case.e killed himself after being hounded by federal prosecutors. officials say he posted millions of court documents for free online. -- aaron schwartz. >>> think you are a master multitasker. maybe not. >> find out what a new study says about the amount of time you spend checking your phone and e-mail and how many things can juggle at once. >> we are keeping an eye on the weather in sterling and all around the area. this is a look at that scene out there right now. some delays because of the threat of icy roads are already coming in. we have a full list on the bottom of your screen and on myfoxdc.com. time now is 4:56. we are back after this. r one. uh, forgot jack's cereal. [ jack ] what's for breakfast? um... try the number one! yeah, this is pretty good. [ male announcer ] over a third of a day's fiber. fiber one. ♪ shimmy, shimmy chocolate. ♪ shimmy, shimmy chocolate. ♪ we, we chocolate cross over. ♪ yeah, we chocolate cross over. ♪ [ male announcer ] introducing fiber one 80 calorie