the security housing unit, or the shu. >> inmates that were placed into the shu housing unit were placed in here for the most part because of violence. 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 is the same. 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. [ bleep ] the average score ranges between 19 and 27 points. >

security offenders. what probably sets us apart is the different segregation units. >> offenders who assault staff or other inmates are moved to the secure housing unit, a prison within the prison, known as the shu. >> there have been discipline problems, they've been assaulted and they've had issues at other facilities. so they send them here. >> designed to look and function like pelican bay, a maximum security prison in california, the shu is composed of windowless, concrete cells measuring 7 by 12 feet. of the 288 inmates housed here, 179 have been diagnosed by psychiatric staff as mentally ill. >> i heard the horror stories of this place back when it first opened up. >> sergeant dan haskins is a veteran of the secure housing unit. >> out of sight, out of mind. the outside world, out of sight, out of mind. they don't -- probably don't want to know what goes on in here. >> the population of the shu lives on 23-hour lockdown. leaving their cells only for showers and solitary recreation. >> some people will tell you that segregation unit is not the place for people with mental illness because we didn't design that particular unit for treatment.

. >> this was made by an aryan brotherhood member in the security housing unit.was destined for an officer. you can see how he honed it down on concrete. i mean this is incredible. >> the squad is also responsible for screening any suspicious mail entering the institution. >> there's approximately 5,000 pieces of mail that come and out of our mailroom daily. that's not counting the newspapers and the magazines. the trafficker that prepared this particular envelope, they knew that all the mail that comes into the mailroom is opened by a machine. they cut the top of the envelopes. what this person did this they took small doses of black tar heroin and put it along the glue fold of the envelope and simply sealed it with a greeting card. >> jim dejenet is a member of the pelican bay security quad. he has witnessed some wide range smuggling attempts, some nearly impossible to detect. >> okay. we will take that with us. >> the traffickers on the street, they took methamphetamine and they applied it to the paper. every place where you see color ink, that is all thick me

. >> even the most secured housing units can't always protect so-called chesters from an inmate set on hurting them. when we met christian knight, he was serving 79 years for murder at california state prison corcoran. >> just seeing christian the first time, you kind of knew he had some kind of story. very dramatic looking. you know, with all the tats and very intense. >> it turns out knight had several incredible stories but one involved his attempt to attack a sex offender at the los angeles county jail. >> got this freaking child molester on the tier. he's actually in the van talking about what he does. you know, i like to keep myself, hey, i don't lose my temper. keep myself calm, cool, and collective. that dude made me snap. i get in the van and i tell him, i'm going to rip the toilet off the wall. i'm going to bust through this frickin' glass. i'm going to drag it down the tier, and i'm going to bust through your glass and cut you up your [ muted ]. you're a dead man. yeah, yeah, yeah. then all you hear is steel bending. i got behind the toilet, pushed the toilet all the way bac

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. >> until he makes bail barnes will reside in one of the jail's low-security housing units, but someates pose a greater threat to security. they are housed in the confinement unit, where they are locked down 23 hours a day. today, about 180 of them will be moved to a newly refurbished confinement unit, and staff is taking an abundance of caution. >> good morning. today we'll relocate the inmates from 3 delta to 1 delta, concluding the housing for refurbishme refurbishment. we will be moving our most problematic inmates today. as you know the majority of inmates down there have histories of assaulting us and are disciplinary management problems. you will have binder chains available to you unless they require a box chain. there are ten down there that will be in box chains. >> we will do it in numbers. there is two deputies, sometimes three, maybe four. >> just grab a set of chains. 205, one man. 206 has assaulted us before. two man with a box chain. >> one of the inmates on the move is esteban. >> i have got in trouble with the guards. i guess you could say i attempted to batter one

unit or ad seg. it is valley state's prison within a prison. while ad seg houses those on temporary lockdown, the other side of the building known as the security housing unit or shu is for serious offenders who are considered a more permanent problem. >> i was set up. i was set up. that's what i was. inmates were afraid of me and they put a shank under my mattress. >> they think i'm a threat to the institution. >> inmates in the shu are kept in their cells almost 23 hours a day. they are allowed out for only three showers a week and ten hours in the recreation yard. life in ad seg or shu isn't just a more intense experience for the inmate. correctional officers like diane vasquez are under the pressure of dealing with a different brand of criminal. >> working here in ad seg shu is very challenging. you deal with a lot of physical abuse, mental abuse, emotional abuse. it just depends on how much you let it affect you. you hear yelling. you hear cursing. you hear banging, kicking on the doors. this is how it is 24/7. at nighttime they don't sleep. anytime you're dealing with any of the inmates in here, you have to be ready to react to anything.

in the particular housing unit that inmate allen was in, those doors are not secured. he nature of what kind of housing unit that is. they are not supposed to be going into another inmate's cell at that point. at the time when he was in that particular housing unit, he was on a detail that detail was the night detail, that's why he was awake at 3:00 in the morning. however, he chose to take advantage of the situation by entering someone else's cell at that time. inmate allen is typically not a disciplinary problem. >> i've been here almost a year and a couple months. and i haven't had one disciplinary action. this is my first one. so all they charged me with was being out of place. that's all the charges was. >> william will now have to serve out the remaining six months of his sentence in jail. >> now i have to go into survival mode. i mean, you regret your movements, your actions. you have to think about whether to bite your tongue or hold your tongue, this is a game of chess here. this is nothing but an art of war. this is all it is. >> while things have been tough f

california's pelican bay state prison, he had to be flanked by two officers for his interview in a secure housing unitat our man right here. you got this rambo camera. who do you work for? >> 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. 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 let the producer know that nobody is entirely safe around him. >> the last white cat cam

. >> corcoran security housing unit, or cshu, is the largest in the state of california. and holds the worst of the worst inmates. robert glen is no exception. though ironically, his prison history all began with one nonviolent crime. >> i came to prison for grand theft auto, i got sentenced to three years. >> but instead of simply doing his time and going home, robert has assaulted more than a dozen inmates, lengthening his original sentence. >> because of all of them assaults, my points again rose to a level four inmate. and the classification committee decided to give me a indeterminant cshu term, and put me up with a aryan brotherhood member, and that began my life as a prison gang. >> the aryan brotherhood used robert to carry out their dirty work. >> prison gangs involved everything from stabbings, killings, drugs, weapons, whatever needed to be done. i did it. >> we warn you. the details of his violent acts is extremely graphic. >> there was an inmate that came up here. he was accused of raping a woman out on the street. because i was up in coming in a gang at that

especially in the secured confinement unit which houses the prison's most violent and disruptive inmates. today internal affairs investigator frank littlejohn has been called to the unit to investigate a report that possible escape paraphernalia has been found inside a cell. >> last night an officer had looked inside of a cell and observed a sculpture object like a, we refer to them like a dummy-like object on a comment report. which is escape paraphernalia. so they conducted a shakedown of this guy's cell and during that cell search they also found an 11-foot rope. when you put the 11-foot rope with the sculpture of the face then that gives concerns that the guy might be planning a possible escape. >> this here is actually the head that was removed from the cell. and this here is the rope. and it looks like an intertwined sheet that was braided together. it is about 11 feet long that was also removed from the cell. if he was to get outside of a cell and have this covered up and a body-like object in the cell, the staff might walk by, especially if the lighting is bad in the cell and at

also some national security concerns right here in the united states. testimony today before a houseommittee, don, about hezbollah apparently having operatives right here in the united states. we're checking that. we've got the latest on romney and santorum. a lot of news happening right here in "the situation room" don? >> thank you, wolf. we look forward to that. >>> you know, they're here, they're among us and they can attack whenever they want. that's what a panel of witnesses told a house committee on homeland security today. they warned that hezbollah agents backed by iran are raising money across the u.s. comedian peter king says there may be hundreds of them already here. >> these threats are real. they can be sooner rather than later and as a committee, as a congress and as a government we simply cannot afford to ignore this threat. >> i want to bring in our senior national security producer susan kelly who was there today? how serious is this threat? >> that's a great question, and the really important thing to understand in talking and hearing numbers like hundreds of hezb

. >> new officers like ellis receive thorough training inside every one of the prison's housing units, securityther facilities before they are considered full-fledged correctional officers. >> i am a female in a male prison. so a lot of hooting and hollering. i get that all day long. all day long. you have to kind of learn to ignore that. good morning. >> how you doing today? >> you let it get to you, you might as well go ahead and quit. unless it's something really severe, you've got to just really let it go. >> ronnie tye might have to let go of something as well. the prison has denied his request to be married, and things are about to get even worse. >> this is approximately a seven-inch weapon that the offenders carry. what we call shanks. a homemade knife. it's made out of a steel rod you can find inside the cabinet. >> the shank was not found in tye's cell but in that of his half brother, ricki wilson. >> i just moved into the cell like a week ago. i have no clue how it got there. >> wilson is serving a life sentence for the murder of tye's other brother during a methamphetamine-induced h

at a minimum, it will include a move to the secured confinement unit where inmates are housed 23 hours a day and lose many of their privileges, including contact visitation. few people know more about how difficult life in confinement is than christopher trotter. after ten consecutive years there, he has been released to a transitional housing unit on his way back to general population. >> probably known him for 12, 13 years. when i heard he was going to open pop, i couldn't believe it with his reputation that he has. i didn't think they would let him out. >> oh, man. this is what i do all day long, drink ice water. it's been ten years since i had a cup of ice water. i was like, dang, i never knew that water tasted so good. but it does, just ice water. and these are the little things we take for granted. >> trotter, whose name is infamous in the indiana state prison system, will now be around other inmates and staff without handcuffs and shackles for the first time in ten years. he originally came to prison nearly three decades earlier on a four-year sentence for theft. but then trotte

is walking around living and breathing. >> one reason higgins can defend himself he's housed in a minimum security unite penitentiary has a very different existence. larry morgan spends nearly every hour of every day in a small protective custody cell. where he never sees the sun. >> what happened is they accused me of killing a little girl back in 1994 and next thing i know i'm in prison, and then there is people talking about a contract supposed to be out on me. >> morgan was convicted of kidnapping, raping and murdering a 9-year-old girl. he is serving life without the possibility of parole. >> there has been a lot of threats against me, and it was a high profile crime at the time and everybody in the system knew about it and of course they are all trying to stand up and be some sort of righteous convict like oh well i only rob banks or i only do drugs, i only sell crack to kids, but this guy, he killed one, so now we're going to go and kill him. >> protective custody inmates like morgan are locked in their cells 23 hours a day. to keep them from other inmates. >> at first it's claustrophobic being

the main bar to this is the russians and chinese using the veto on the security council of the united nations. told the house yesterday in a phone conversation presuming to congratulate him on his election, but i did have a chance to talk about syria. and do you have any optimism that his attitude may change? >> well, i did discuss the issue of syria with president putin and with medvedev as well, yesterday. you're right. what's happening is absolutely appalling. the loss of life is appalling. the butchery being organized, ordered and carried out by this regime in my view is critical. and it was extremely disappointing that russia and china vetoed a resolution which would have helped. i raised the issue, i think that we do need to try and persuade the russians that i don't think we're going to agree about everything to do with the future for syria, but we have to persuade them that it is absolutely essential at the very least there's humanitarian access and we have a clear resolution about a stop to the violence. and there's no doubt that what everyone thinks of the russian position and i think they are abso

once again underscoring the fact that the security council must unite and speak with one voice and some good will hunting. with the international community houses. well although we have seen that the security council has been divided for a year now we do know that russia has called on all security council members to support kofi annan is efforts in syria we have we have seen a member members of the security council the u.s. and european countries that have essential he said charlotte sides days are numbered and have been pushing for before process of regime change in syria also arab countries of the arab countries support that move russian foreign minister sergei lavrov said that now is not time to point fingers and cast blame on our one side he said both sides bear responsibility for the conflict and violence taking place right now and the most important thing is that all members of the security council support kofi annan mission and to not undermine it take a listen to what mr lavrov has to say it's because of this those fish every time we have a feeling that we managed to achieve some positive change in the states of damascus there's an imme

presidents to speak at apac it was no different this year the united states will always have israel's back work comes to israel secure house the senate in a third of the house made an appearance at apac republican presidential candidates ron paul being the exception all took turns making their pro israel speeches before the lobbying group i think we've had an invented palestinian people who are arabs and it's language like this j. street attendees say that hurt israel i don't think. really supporting real peace on the ground now but rather pushing to us the peace that the israeli government has a mind that is not really funky to on the ground it's a concept and not something realistic but little election year under way some say catering for the rich and powerful group is the only way to stay in the game that would be my guess that he just needs to be making sure that he does get the votes he needs. this year despite the pomp and circumstance of apac street attendees say they represent the voice of the jewish mainstream and their voice will only grow louder and stronger and i don't think that is dying by any means but i thi

. >> the most violent are housed in single-person cells 23 hours a day in the secured confinement unit. >> 1205. >> few however are more notorious than leonard mcquay who spent 16 years here. >> he is escorted anywhere he goes by staff. he is cuffed behind the back. his recreation is solitary by himself. his activities are limited by himself. that unit is designed for people like mcquay. everybody knows his history. >> the most infamous chapter occurred at indiana state prison 17 years earlier. that's when he stabbed a corrections officer to death. >> we approached him from the front. stabbed him one time in the front chest area which broke a rib he stabbed him with such force. the sound targeted a staff member who was one range over to respond and he observed the second stab to the back according to the reports. before the officer died they said he told them he didn't know if he was going to make it or not and that mcquay is the one who stabbed him. >> mcquay was serving 20 years for sexual battery and sentenced to 60 more years after the murder of the officers. mcquay still proclaims

the united states will always have israel's back when it comes to israel's security. >> also today the white house and president obama will hold his first news conference of the year. not clear though what he plans to discuss. >>> back here in the bay area, thousands of yahoo employees could be out of work soon. insiders with the sunnyvale company say the new ceo, scott thompson, is planning a massive restructuring. and that is expected to include layoffs in the thousands. the restructuring is expected to be aimed at yahoo's large products organization. public relations, marketing and research could also face cuts there. >>> and another bay area headline, pg&e was warned more than 20 years ago, that there could be problems with a section of pipeline that exploded in san bruno. the chronicle reports that a retired gees -- that a geologist said a section of pipe should be replaced in 1990. >>> vandals slashed tires on more than 50 cars over the weekend. all of the vandalized vehicles were in the area of ventura court. police believe it happened between 2:00 and 7:00 a.m. yesterday. the first call ca

defense, tim dechristopher was recently removed from a minimum security prison ward into an isolated cell known as a special housing unit. he reportedly shares the tiny cell with another prisoner, and has been allowed outside of it just four times over two weeks. tim dechristopher's freedom to read books, write in his journal, and communicate with the outside world have all come under new restrictions. to hear interviews with tim dechristopher, go to democracynow.org. a federal judge has barred the importation of a drug used in executions of death row prisoners. tuesday, judge richard leon of the federal district court in washington ruled the federal drug administration had unlawfully allowed sodium thiopental into the united states. the case was brought on behalf of death row prisoners in arizona, california, and tennessee. in his ruling, judge leon chided the fda for what he called a " california is indifference to the health consequences of those imminently facing the executioner's needle." republican hopeful newt gingrich has announced he's scaling back as campaign, cutting back on appearances, and layining off o- t

. >> the most violent of these offenders are housed in single person cells 23 hours a day in the secured confinement unit. >> 1205. >> few, however, are more notorious that leonard who's spent 16 years here. >> he's escorted. two-man. he's by himself. he doesn't get to rec with the other people. his activities are kind of limited. it's all just by himself. that unit is designed for people like mccoy. everybody in there knows his history. >> the most infamous chapter of his history occurred when he was serving time at indiana state prison 17 years earlier. that's when he stabbed a corrections officer to death. >> we approached him from the front. reports. stabbed him one time in the front chest area which actually broke a rib he stabbed him with such force. the sound of it targeted another staff member that was one range over to respond and when he responded he actually observed the second stab to the back. according to the reports, before the officer actually died, they said that he told them he didn't know if he was going to make it or not and mccoy is the one who actually had stabbed him. >> at the tim

: the white house showed president obama and the israeli prime minister side by side in pictures and positioning. >> the united states will always have israel's back when it comes to security>> the one thing that stands out is that israel and america stand together. >>> the leaders said their concerns that iran is developing a nuclear weapons program. he is concerned too and says they want to visit a military base suspected of conducting research for explosive devices. iran insists it is peaceful. the united states and allies aren't convinced, including israel. >> israel must reserve a right to defend itself and after all, that is the purpose of the state to restore to the jewish people over our destiny. >> reporter: president obama says he prefers dim elementic solutions but says -- diplomatic solution. >> i will take no options off the table and i mean what i say. >>> the challenge for israel and the u.s. is defining what actions will work best and when to use them. trying to decipher iran's new intentions. >> gary is up next, spring baseball under the lights. gary has giants-cubs and all the sports next. [ click ] it's truck month! no. it's truck month! no. it's truck m

secure a different time frame. the orders for the violation are mentioned in a couple of instances. chapter three of the san francisco housing code requires all apartment buildings three units be subject to periodic health and safety inspections. when the inspector could not get in, he found himself at the adjacent property. he saw the peeling paint on the subject building, there is a presumption of lead-based paint. he wrote that notice of violation, but we never had a chance to get in to see the whole building. there has been a conversation as of september of this year between the inspector and property owner, but we have not yet been able to get in and see that. while we were able to see parts of the south side, we were not able to see this location. it is not our policy to try to crash addition policies -- adjacent policies when we are doing a routine inspection, so that -- had the inspection occurred, we would have seen that he painted the building, given documentation to show us the fire escape at the front of the building was serviced, as far as maintenance. we have not been able to get inside, though, to see that this side has been done to see the garage and the cir

afghanistan says the united states is sticking to its plan to withdraw troops from the country by 2014. he told the house armed services committee in washington the although the security situation in afghanistan had "improved," the afghan troops were not ready to take over patrol. >> he hinted at a quicker withdrawal despite public pressure to withdraw from afghanistan. there have been a number of recent incidents that have set back the fragile u.s.- afghanistan relationship. >> on the surface at least,, karzai appears to enjoy a cordial relations with western leaders. that those relations have become frayed in recent weeks for several reasons. in february, at least 30 people were killed when anti-american demonstrations and riots swept the country, when u.s. troops burned copies of the koran dispose of them. u.s. officials apologized for the incident, but that did little to calm the outrage many afghans del. last week, u.s. army sergeant killed when an and civilians in a late-night shooting rampage. once again, public anger spilled over. the afghan government said it reached the limit of its patients. >> this horrible behavior, this horrible activity cannot be tolera

united states. a panel told the house homeland security committee they're here and they are raising money for their g out of this hearing, authorities say more than 70 used car dealerships in the united states were part of the hezballah money laundering scheme and more mysterious booms in the night reported in a town in wisconsin. it is all happening in clintonville. at least the number of calls is down a little bit from what they saw earlier in the week. still, no word as to what in the world is causing the racket. everyone seems to have a theory. >> i think it is man made. >> sink holes. >> ground shifting. >> don't know if it is man made or something geological. >> new equipment is arriving today for sensors that will be placed aren't town this afternoon to determine the source of the booms. >>> and a record seizure at washington's dulles airport, the most heroin ever recovered from a human stomach. listen to this. customs officers actually became suspicious anythingly of this woman who arrived saturday and the routine patdown led officers to take her to a hospital where x-rays showed this hidden

house. >> the united states will have israel's back when it cop s to israel's securities. >> we face commonnow that too. for them, you are the great satan and we are the little satan. >> but what are thei

house. and do it in the name of national security and the defense of the united states of america. now, judge webster, and he would like to be called judge, i don't think ever got a grip on how to use this power in an effective way. he wanted it done in a legal way. he didn't want to be caught violating the constitution like his predecessors. but the f.b.i. fell behind the curve in a number of ways in those years. for example, it was penetrated by a soviet spy who worked for the f.b.i., an f.b.i. agent named bob henson who stole pretty much every important national security secret you could get in the f.b.i. >> and is in prison. >> yeah. but he ran files for 22 years. i know. we shake our heads. how is this possible, right? any f.b.i. director, any c.i.a. director who goes to sleep at night without thinking that the enemy is sleeping in his camp is a fool. >> how -- let me start with this. what one thing did you find that you put at the top of your list in all the research you did, a nugget -- >> that was news to me? >> yeah. >> that shocked and surprised me? >> yeah. >> after 25 y

marshall fund of the united states, previously he served as senior vice president of the institute, and a senior director for strategic planning on the national security council at the white house. is also worked at the department of state as an of of the policy planting staff, and is other specified in the office of international religious freedom, and also has significant experience on capitol hill. so what our great pleasure to have will who will be moderating the discussion. take it away. >> thank you and one for turning out on this lunchtime on friday for what we hope will be a very same living, and insightful question. as the moderator i'm humbled to be the presence of these three. i will go through the lengthy bios. sufficed to say, any one of them would be more than capable of delivering the keynote address on his own. the fact that agree to come together for a conversation i think it's all the more enriching. there's also a tremendous amount of statecraft experience represented on this panel. by my calculation, our members together have served in several presidential administrations. everyone since, literally everyone since the ford administration. and during that time

>>> a house homeland security panel is holding a hear drag on why -- holding a hear drag on why a suspect in an alleged bomb plot against the u.s. capitol has been living illegally in the united states for 12 years. amine el khalifi was arrested last month and the criminal case against him is renewing the debate over the government's failure to track millions of foreign visitors who overextend their stay. >>> a growing number of people are trying to flee syria now as the fighting intensifies there. thousands of refugees have crossed into lebanon in the past few days and the fighting between the rebels and the government forces is leaving many caught in the middle. >> reporter: these families are among hundreds trying to escape the violence in syria. the exodus starts at night when it's less dangerous and mainly quiet. but some can't control their emotions. this woman asks why are we homeless? because we asked for freedom? activists call it a humanitarian catastrophe in the making. nearly 10,000 syrians have fled to lobby non. 11,000 to turkey -- lebanon, 11,000 to turkey. the red cross is being blocked from bringing humanitarian aid. the president assad is facing growing inte

house homeland security committee and other u.s. officials are now warning that iran has a large terrorist train force right here in the united states right now they say there may be hundreds maybe even. hizbollah agents on american soil who could be ready and willing to attack has been following this hearing up on capitol hill is watching what's going on pretty shocking information if true right. are you terrified yet so the deal here is the representative peter king the one responsible for the muslim radicalization hearings on capitol hill well you still the business of trying to scare the crap out of everybody and if you'll remember before those hearings began the media also made a huge fuss over it and then once they started and it was obvious that a lot of the so-called experts the king called were anything but an account became clear that this massive threat of homegrown radicalization had actually materialized and if anything should be looked at across the board if you want to call lone wolves a threat and not just within the muslim community well yeah after all that the mainstream media for the most part has chilled out igno

fund of the united states, previously he served as senior vice president of the lagatum institute and senior director for strategic planning on the national security council at the white house. will has also worked at the department of state as a member of the policy planning staff and as a special adviser in the office of international and religious freedom. and also, i have significant experience on capitol hill. so it's our great mature to have will, he'll be moderating the discussion right now. >> thank you for turning out on this lunch time on a friday. what we hope will be a very stimulating and provocative and insightful question. as the moderator, i'm humbled to be in the presence of these three. i won't go through their lengthy bios. any one of them would be more than capable of delivering a keynote address on his own. so the fact that they have agreed to come together for a conversation, i think, is all the more enriching. there is a tremendous amount of state craft experience represented on this panel. by my calculation, our members together have served in seven presidential administrations, everyone since literally since the ford administration. and during that

units are currently clearing the house to make sure the rest of it is safe. >> reporter: it is a shocking end to this morning's rush hour murder in kensington. the security camera video from a nearby business shows a surreal scene during tuesday morning rush hour. a minivan stroped briefly, presumably when 36-year-old heather mcguire, the estranged mother of his 1-year-old son is shot. the minivan pulls away after her body is shoves out on connecticut avenue. cars drive past for 45 seconds before a tractor trailer stops almost hitting mcguire. court records show she filed a restraining order in 2011 accusing of him of slapping her, shove her and hitting her with a freezer door. he had been lives out of his car since the couple split and was despondent over not seeing his son. police began to suspect he was on foot when they found the minivan. again, an end tonight to the day-long manhunt for the suspect from this morning's rush hour murder on a busy street in downtown kensington. the suspect is dead of an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound in rockville tonight. the victim, heather mcguire, 36 years old, has three other children from an earlier marriag

security check obligations in the mid 1980s. ronald reagan was in the white house. tip o'neill was in the speakers chair. bob dole and bob baker were leading the united states senate. those men put party aside. we had to make tough decisions, and each had to give a lot. but at the end of the day, we saved social security and showed that we could govern. now what we see is the people are more interested in party, more interested in scoring points, and i think we need to get back to finding what colin powell once called that sensible center, where we think about the next generation and not the next election. >> why is that so difficult? why is bipartisanship, why is compromise so much more difficult in today's political environment? >> because it's more about a struggle for power of both of the party. and i believe that we need to get back to remembering that we are there to serve the nation. the oath that we take is to the constitution of the united states of america, one nation under god, indivisible. we don't take an oath to a political party. sure, we sign up for a political platform, but that's advisory and optional. the constitution is not. >> we

house, president obama voiced strong support. >> the united states will always have israel's back when it comes to israel's security. >> reporter: he focused on their most pressing concerns -- stopping iran's nuclear program. >> my policy is prevention of iran obtaining nuclear weapons. when i say all opss are at the table i mean it. >> reporter: while the president says he wants time to let sanctions work netanyahu isn't ruling out an israeli military strike. >> israel has the right, the sovereign right to make its own decisions. i believe that's why you appreciate, mr. president, that israel must reserve the right to defend itself. >> reporter: their meeting came as the u.n.'s atomic watch dog reported iran has tripled its monthly production of enriched uraniuim and the time for diplomacy is only getting shorter. >> israel i'm not sure feels as if there is much time before iran's nuclear program is essentially invulnerable to attack. >> reporter: in washington senator lieberman promised a powerful pro israel group the united states will disarm iran. >> by peaceful means if we can but with military force if we absolutely must.