the security housing unit, or the shu. >> inmates that were placed into the shu housing unit were placedhere 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. >> i

they're known as security housing units or the shu.located at pelican bay. >> many of them are in here indeterminately. they'll never leave shu until a committee decides they are not a part of a gang anymore. >> this officer works at the shu. he told us a simple lapse on his part could result in gang warfare. >> if i were to pop two doors at the same time and they were, the mexican-american from los angeles and a mexican-american from sacramento, the odds are very, very good they would immediately commence to fight because that is expected of them in prison. that's the rules of the game. if word got out that they had an opportunity and didn't go after someone, they would have some explaining to do. that's just life in prison. >> they are restricted to their cell for 23 1/2 hours a day. they only get a half hour outside in their little hard yard right next to their cells and then they're right back into their cells. >> despite the restrictive conditions in the shu, gang members still find ways to make weapons, sometimes carving them rig

. >> 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 collected. 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 back

unit or adseg. it is valley state's prison within a prison. while adseg houses those on temporary lockdown the other side 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 cot. >> they think i'm a threat because i was in an 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 adseg or shu isn't just a more intense experience for the inmates, correctional officers like diane vasquez are under the pressure of dealing with a different brand of criminal. >> working here in adseg 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. [ yelling ] >> you hear yelling, you hear occur-- you hear cursing kicking, banging on the doors. this is how it is 24/7. at nighttime they don't sleep. any time you're dealing with any of the inmates here you have to be ready to react to any

they are segregated in this high security housing unit. >> translator: this is a pavilion for dangerous inmates. this is a jail inside a jail. >> "n" stands for the polish word for dangerous. ours was the first television crew ever allowed inside. >> upon entering the facility, what i noted most was the fact that i could not see any inmates. in american prisons, there is always some kind of window. even in the super maxes. they have these little peep holes the officers will look in before they opened up. that struck me as highly unusual. >> as you opened the door, there were bars. it was a two-tiered system that i hadn't seen before. the security door unlocked and then you have to unlock the bars themselves, as well. >> the solid outer doors are to prevent inmates from communicating with one another. they rarely leave their cells. and even their meals are brought to them. but we found that the cells in "n" block differ from most american high security american cells in two especially significant ways. in american prisons, cameras are generally placed only in common areas. here they are

management one inmate, meaning he will be housed alone in the prison's most restrictive high-security housing unitthe hearing is penn's one chance to change their minds. >> recommendation is post man one based on an assault on a staff member that results in a mandatory referral for a year. do you have anything to say about this? >> yes, sir. i had some lab work to get done. we get back, it's about 3:30ish. he told me to cuff up. i told him i wanted to speak to the captain and not cuff up. he said, no, you cuff up now. i said i would look to speak to the captain. before i cuff up at all. he put his hand on me. it took off from there. i understand you gentlemen are the authority figures and i respect that to the utmost here. but i am also a man while i'm still in blue. he put his hands on me as a man, i felt i had a right to defend myself as a man. it wasn't a cu he i i have to gentl >> di p back and >> yes, >> officer' >> >> if or >> i >> no, >> yo >>> learns and -- >> he does have an extensive discipli ba >> [son] all right,she has no idea. [man] no one told her,right? [son]hi! [mom screams] ♪ >>>

the state inspector general says more than 4000 inmates are held in secure housing units for most of the day. >> 6:16, right now treasury secretary jack lew, he is testifying before congress telling senators congress needs to raise the debt ceiling immediately, kyle a campbell kyla campbell joining us live from washington with that. >> reporter: he says it is out of control and raised the debt ceiling to that. we are taking a live look now at the room where he argued it is not about that, he says congress already agreed to pay these bills now due. he warns if congress does not increase the limit before then americans will suffer from job loss to higher interest rates to impacts on the housing market he says it is all bad news. >> today we face a manufactured political crisis that is beginning to deliver an unnecessary blow to our economy right at a time when the united states economy, the american people have painstakingly fought back from the worst recession since the great depression. >> this hearing comes ahead of several meetings at the white house today, democrats are meeting wi

. >> 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

. >> in certain high-security housing units lockup field teams are required by the prison to wear stab-proofests before entering. >> the first time i put on a stab vest was in indiana at wabash valley. it was definitely an uneasy feeling knowing i had to wear this to walk on to the unit an that the potential to be stabbed was higher here. it definitely makes you a little more on your toes and a lot more alert of your environment. >> we noticed that these vests said lock down. wile we're here we're going to slowly but surely change every stinkin' one of them. >> if i'm required to wear a stab vest i usually just make light of it. i joke around about how it adds ten pounds to me and the color don't go with my outfit. i make it into a joke. >> and a sense of humor goes a long way in breaking the ice with many of the inmates featured on lockup. >> coming up the one lockup crew member inmates love to rib. >> sometimes i'll hear people say stuff through their cell, hey fat boy. i have to look at myself, really? >> and later previously unseen clips from one of the more memorable inmates we ever met

practice next year, the state inspector general says more than 4 now inmates are being held in secure housing units for most of the day. >> the coliseum will be packed tonight for the game. the as named sunny gray as the starter, he pitched eight shut out innings against them in game 2, gray will go up against justin verlander, the winning team faces the red sox in the american league championship series, coco crisp is counting on oakland fans to help. >> in all my playoff games they have probably been the loudest last when we played at home so if they can top that that will be amazing. >> there will be several thousand extra people at the coliseum complex tonight because pink is holding a concert there, expect a traffic jam unless you leave early, better yet take bart because parking lot opens at noon and will fill up quickly and the game starts then. >> big day ahead. >> yeah. >> they are involved in an abortion controversy, what the university president did and why some of the staff say they feel blind sided. >> sounding the alarm, changes on the streets, how a effort to make pedestrians safer c

. >> most of the n-dorm inmates work on a construction crew, building a new low-security housing unit on a plot of land adjacent to santa rosa. the dogs are trained to suddenly sit still when they detect the scent of whatever contraband they're searching for. >> that's a good girl. that's a good girl. she's alerting us to narcotics. that's a good girl, yes! that's her reward. that's a good girl! that's a good girl! >> we had both dogs alert on this particular box, so there is evidence that drugs have been in this facility, right here at this bunk. we have determined that the two inmates that are assigned to this bunk work on the construction work site, so we are pulling them in. they will be drug tested. >> when they show interest or have what we call a change in behavior, we follow it up with a good, thorough search, just to make sure we're not missing any kind of narcotics. that's our main focus. >> want to check this? >> the search turns up some plastic wrap bundles, but they are not drugs. >> some of the times you'll see them take drugs and hide them inside things like garlic powd

he has a past record of violence when he was in prison, he could be transferred to a higher security housing unito, come on in. few formalities. what is the last state prison you were in? >> folsom state. >> what level? >> level three. >> while you were there, did you get any 115s, 128s, writeups there? >> no. >> what writeups did you get there? >> riots. >> i was in a riot at folsom. they had stingers on the yard, to warm up your coffee. i knew ahead of time it was going to happen. i filled my tumbler up with baby oil. when it popped up, the stingers heated up the baby oil, slung them on the blacks. faces peeled off, all pink underneath, burned them. >> what else? >> there is a lot of other mutual comments. >> where at? >> roscoe. >> roscoe also? would you say a lot of, what do you think, two, three, give me a number. >> six to seven. >> six to seven. okay. what else? >> that's about it. >> that's about it. okay. >> basically what is going to happen now is we'll flex you up to a level two inmate. you'll probably be down here until i can get you a house. you may need to spend the night here. >> o

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

in ben water's case, it's the secure housing unit, next to the fire garage.ll i had to do was pick the day. >> we're glad you picked today to be with us here. give it up for sylvester stallone, ladies and gentlemen. for real. oh. we love it when you stop by. and spend a little time with us. and i have to say, you think you've seen every kind of prison film, this one is so different. and it even got your attention when you were reading it early on. >> i thought that arnold and i -- we've been working together -- at least in the film business, for the last 250 years. so, we don't bring a whole lot of surprises. but the actual prison itself, the construction of it and the aura of this horrible place, that's what started the movie. >> you talked about arnold. you brought him back in "the expendables," a great franchise. but early on in your careers, you were going for the same roles. and you have an incredible friendship. >> we started out hating each other. even our dna hated each other. we are very, very competitive. oh, my god. how do you compete with a guy se

institution is a maximum security prison housing many of state's most violent inmates. >> come here and cuff up! >> inmates considered a threat to security are housed in a special confinement unitalled close management. >> basically, the worst of the worst offenders we have here at santa rosa, the staff here do an outstanding job here of maintaining that population. >> hands behind your back! >> depending on the severity of their violations, close management inmates are allowed a limited number of hours outside their cells per week. >> did you hear that? >> you play cards? >> when they let us out of cell, three, four times a week. i'm playing some spades. anything works for money. >> at santa rosa, a simple game of spades serves a purpose. the prison-issued playing cards are like nothing you will find on the street. >> these are the only cards they sell, dead people, homicides, missing people. that's all they sell. >> it's cold cases. they hope some of the inmates may see the cards and know something about the case where they can help solve the case, put the family at rest. >> did you ever see anybody you know in there? >> no. if i did, i would still say no. >> why is that? >>

. >> officers inside the housing unit security home room witnessed the site. >> the team arrested and secured hidalgo. >> they came and dropped their knee on me, boom, split my chin, cause med to get stitches. blood's coming up. i was lying in my blood. >> as hidalgo and guerrero were escorted, another home member jeremy gonzalez witnessed the possession. i wasn't going to let it ride, you know what i'm saying? i kind of let my anger get the best of me and popped out with the shank. >> he defeated the device, opened the cell door and was holding a piece of 7-inch metal. >> it was made out of a squeege. >> unfortunately by the time he decided how to pop the cell door, they had left the unit. >> he came out in the day room and thought everybody was fighting. he got to right about here and then he realize thad, you know, he was a day late for the party. >> there was four laws down there, sergeant, lieutenant, corporal, and regular officer. >> and he started to get real nervous because, you know, head no backup, he's over there with a weapon in a secured facility. with gonzalez out, they'

the fallout in a statement officials say the white house is reviewing the way america gathers intelligence to account for the security concerns of united states citizens and allies. the "wall street journal" reported that the white house cut off some monitoring programs after learning of them including the one tracking german chancellor merkel. the germans are enraged. headlines this weekend that the united states has been listening to her cell phone since 2002 and president obama knew. the n.s.a. denies the president was aware. also, reports that the embassy in berlin houses a secret listening post spying open german government officials and business leaders, one of 80 such posts. >> the suspicion in europe is this is not really about counterterrorism but more about industrial espionage. >> many members of congress believe n.s.a. data collection is an essential tool to combat trim. >> we have saved many lives because of the intelligence we have given them. they are given information that is transmitted useful to us and useful to germany. >> five allies have summoned the american ambassador in their country to launch a formal complaint

house 220. known inside the walls as the hole. >> shut up! [ bleep ] you. >> this is unit cell house 220, the disciplinary detention unit for long-term disciplinary detention inmates. this is your maximum security of a maximum security prison. here's where we house all the disciplinary detention inmates that couldn't be handled in our general population area. now we have to deal with them over here. >> the co's told us these inmates are among the most incorrigible of all inmates within the prison. and my observation was that they seemed to be lacking in the ability to restrain their impulsive behavior. >> i'm in here for cutting myself and stuff like that. getting a bunch of reports for flooding my cell and stuff like that. >> and some are in for more violent deeds. our female producer was warned to keep a safe distance from luis nieves. >> just don't get too close. >> i'm being accused of attempted murder to the staff. >> nieves is known at iowa state as the monster. he was appealing a murder conviction when we met him. >> were your victims or alleged victims mostly women or all women or what? >> i'm not allowed to say that. >> convicted of brutally killing a woman on the outside, he's in disc

united states in san francisco and germany. the white house is reviewing the way america gathers intelligence to account for the security concerns of united states citizens and allies. the "wall street journal" reports that the white house cut off monitoring programs after learning of them including the one that was tracking german chancellor merkel. >> we are continue to follow breaking news. a driveway death in the south bay involving an s.u.v. >> a sleep in with a mission in a popular san francisco park tonight. so before the first sneeze help protect with a spray before the first tissue help defend with a wipe. and help prevent with lysol to get 10x more protection with each hand wash and kill 99.9% of germs around the house. this season, go beyond cleaning to help protect your family with lysol. start healthing. imagine a place created all around family. where everyone, can relax or play.. ♪ now imagine that place in hawaii. welcome to aulani.... ...a family paradise... with just a touch of disney magic. for special offers, visit disneyaulani.com >> good morning, here is how it looks from sutro tower. it is not bouncing muc

at a minimum, it will include a move to the secured confinement unit where inmates are housed 23 hours 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 trotter

house. it's in th the national security interest of the united states. 's in the international economic interest of the united states and it's in keeping with our long history as a nation of immigrants that we want a vote in the house of representatives on the immigration reform and we want it now. >> on tuesday members of congress took part in the immigration rally for dig any dy and respect on the national mall. 800 labor leaders were arrested there after they belonge belongn street after the rally. >>> for more i'm joined by a congressman who represents the illinois fourth district. congressman great to have you with us. >> thank you, it's a pleasure to be with you antonio. >> president obama met with senators on friday and to reach an agreement on the shutdown and to see the dibt debt ceiling extended. there is nthere it'sit's not clo be a break through. but majority leader harry reid was caustic saying the six-week extension by the house g.o.p. will go no where in the senate. what do you think will happen? >> i don't know. here is what i can say, it'

. >> siverly's history has resulted him in being housed in the highly restrictive secured confinement unit while he doesn't like it, he does understand it. >> from their standpoint, how can you have somebody who keeps repeatedly getting caught making mass quantities of knifes in population and keep population safe? even if that person's not stabbing people, he's making the knives that are stabbing people. >> with few possessions and little if any contact with other inmates, siverly has refocused his energy from weapons to art. >> president barack obama, commander in chief of the united states of america. greatest nation ever. so i figured "we fight" was a good statement. you know, barack obama being half black, the battle he had to fight to get just where he's at, i figured it was a bold statement. >> while siverly might respect obama's battles, he is firm and he won't help black inmates in wabash with theirs. >> i'm not racist, but then again, i know where the lines are in here. so i know that if something goes down, just because i'm not racist doesn't mean if there's a race riot that the

housing units. now, habitat is locking up. hiring 24/7 security,ted people. >> we're all shook up. >> reporter: shook up but not giving up. the violence isn't delaying the project. most of the victims returned to the site today to continue working for a community they know needs attention. >> we have a huge commitment to not only building a physical structure of the homes. but making the homes a place where we can -- the starting point for improving the neighborhood here. people are dedicated to doing that. >> reporter: they will have help on monday. president jimmy carter and his wife, will be swinging hammers. security will be tight. president carter will be attending a welcoming ceremony in oakland on sunday night, a party. then, he will get to work at that housing site monday morning. security will be tight. the oakland police department is searching for the four suspects involved in that armed robbery. >>> police in redwood city beefing up patrols around kennedy middle school. after a boy was -- the boy was asked if he wanted pop before getti

papers and talking about how the government has to pay its debts, how it has to secure the credit of the united states. how the housef representatives generate bills of revenue, nobody would comp plait to hitdown the government. i think you can make a strong argument that ted cruz is doing is deeply unconstitution m, whether a court would accept that or say it's a political question is a question. cruz ought to look into the constitution and his heard and say what would he do? >> bill richardson, you salt t down with some of the most evil tyrants in the history and not putting ted cruz or boehner or the president in that, but there seems to be a problem here in the ability of the key players in this particular debacle to sit around a negotiating table and get things done. what is the problem, and from all of your experience and as detailed in your book, how do we get through this? >> i suggest add mediator but it's too late now. we're on the brink of a major decision, a catastrophic decision if we don't take action. here is what i would do. i would test ted cruz with a vote. i would test -- john boehner can test his

. >> unless they violate the rules or need to be segregated for security reasons, they spend the days outside their units in housingnits or pods. under a system called direct supervision, a single officer completely exposed to the mates is stationed inside each pod. >> we have general population pods which house 94 inmates. there's one officer in that pod, at all times, just one. >> all right, guys, let's lock down. >> it's not about physical any more. it's about maintaining control. they don't have weapons when they go into the pod. they have nothing but a key and a radio and they're in the pod with 94 inmates every day all day. they're out there conversing with them, looking in on the cells and making sure they shouldn't be doing something they shouldn't be doing. we're going to treat you as a human until you prove to us you can't be. >> studies have shown that direct supervision cuts down on inmate violence and it has grown in popularity throughout jails nationwide. but erik who arrived at tulsa county less than 24 hours earlier but proved to be a magnet for violence. in this surveillance he is talking to the po

house? >> yes. has it been made available to the president of the united states? does the white house get national securityriefings from the nsa? women nsa is one of the contributor. and often are those briefings given to the white house? >> virtually daily. how often if given daily how often does president of the united states attend the briefings? how often does the president attend the briefings? does he receive them personally? >> quite frequently. if this his absence which members receive the briefings? >> the rest of the national security apparatus the vice president and cabinet heads all receive variations but essentially the same briefing. >> and so would the national security counsel staff or the white house who deal with the country in question be made aware if there is any listening going on? would the national security staff or the white house who dreams with the country in question be aware if there is any listening going on? as general response -- if the united was doing any anyn leaders, we learned this week it was news to the white house. would it have been made available in the briefing bo

papers and talking about how the government has to pay its debts, how it has to secure the credit of the united states. how the houseesentatives generate bills of revenue, nobody would comp plait to hitdown the government. i think you can make a strong argument that ted cruz is doing is deeply unconstitution m, whether a court would accept that or say it's a political question is a question. cruz ought to look into the constitution and his heard and say what would he do? >> bill richardson, you sat down with some of the most evil tyrants in the history and not putting ted cruz or boehner or the president in that, but there seems to be a problem here in the ability of the key players in this particular debacle to sit around a negotiating table and get things done. what is the problem, and from all of your experience and as detailed in your book, how do we get through this? >> i suggest add mediator but it's too late now. we're on the brink of a major decision, a catastrophic decision if we don't take action. here is what i would do. i would test ted cruz with a vote. i would test -- john boehner can test his own memb

house. up officially it had a number of security forces confirmed that it was the unit that was also responsibility for killing osama bin l laden in 2011. he was only a junior guard. the fact that al-shabab was able the to fight off one of the most elite units in the world and in the special forces unit that they were very well prepared. they knew this was coming before it anticipated but also suggests that they are very well organized. able to fight off that kind of attacks take considerible skills. >> they are expected to see continued operations against al-shabab against allied forces in the coming weeks and months. >> reporting once again. let's talk about the weather far moment. what was once tropical storm "karen" dispates, things around the gulf of mexico are returning to normal. the florida pan hand the threatened with heavy rain and high winds. mandatory evacwages were lifted in some of the most vulnerable areas although flooding was possible along the northern gulf coast. it's not issues anymore public advisories at this time. >> we have a frontal boundary that will give you the moisture.

house reconsider the role? the mission is to get united states and its allies the security advantage now seems to have worked -- morphed into the mission to get united states the security advantage against its allies. in washington, rt. >> now, joining me to discuss implications of this is a political analyst and editor. thank you for joining me. last month it was also revealed that the u.s. accessed text messages. we received this official statements. this practice is unacceptable and runs contrary. >> mexico is an streaming -- extremely sensitive to any intervention. it is shocking. maybe one of the closest ones in the last decades and is showing the lack of trust that the u.s. has. it was unnecessary to perform this kind of espionage. it is actually trying to reform the policy of security issues, especially immigration. very sensitive issues for both mexico and the u.s. actually, the u.s. needs to explain it formally ended diplomatically to mexico about what is going on, why the system has been implemented in the last year. >> what is interesting is that when he was president and u.s. security agencies had a

if they say yes, we have to give them an option to house in the homosexual unit for safety and securitythe homosexual unit, inmates are classified as either masculine or feminine. >> are you masculine or are you fem? >> i'm gay. i'm gay. >> okay. not me, honey, i am fem. >> you have your masculines are more manley, straight acting, straight looking. >> what's really going on? >> then you have your fems that are, you know, some of them take hormones so they act like girls. >> they live their life as women in the word. transsexuals, drag queens. they're walking around with bras, thongs, things in their hair, being dramatic, loud. 80% of the fights are the fems. shut the [ bleep ], [ bleep ], [ bleep ]. that's [ bleep ]. that's [ bleep ]. >> though eloy orosco are housed with the masculines he was classified as a feminine at an earlier stay at bexar county. >> this time around i butched up, and said i was masculine. they put me in the masculine group. i don't want to be with a bunch of drama queens and girls. i'm trying to be with the masculine group, with the boys. >> starting at age 16,

engaged in negotiations world trade center senate and house leadership to secure exemptions and subsidies for members of the united states senate and the house of representatives. i want to thank a colleague of mine from louisiana, senator vitter, for his hard-fought effort on this -- on this particular issue. trying to get questions. i'm not the only person here in this chamber that can't get questions answered out of o.p.m. i'd like to walk for a minute, mr. president, the timeline and the difficulty that i have had with o.p.m. over the last couple of months trying to get direct and truthful answers from this agency. i want to start on august 28. i wrote to o.p.m. asking that the agency -- asking specifically from the agency to ensure that all congressional staff, including leadership and committee staff be fairly treated under obamacare. i'd like to quote if i may from this tickler. this is -- and i said, quote -- "this is a missed opportunity for the office of personnel management which currently operates and manages health care, to ensure that all staff and leadership play by the same rules as the american ta

house democrats unveiled an immigration reform bill for 11 million undocumented workers living in the united states. it tightens border security. minority leader nancy pelosi said she's hopeful that republicans and democrats will now be able to come together to pass legislation. >>> millions of people tried to log in for government-backed healthcare but there were glitches. government officials say curious onlookers and repeat visitors may be blamed for the high volume. inside story is next. >> getting syria to agree to give up it's chemical weapons was one thing. now comes the hard part. how will international inspectors find and destroy deadly syrian arms in the middle of a war? you're watching inside story from washington. [♪ music ] >> hello, i'm sheila, when more than 1,000 syrian civilians died as a result of a chemicals weapon attack in a damascus neighborhood, world reaction came quickly. president obama said a red line had been crossed and such an attack would not be tolerated again. but an agreement from the international community took more time and a lot of more work. now there is a plan in place to get all the dea

house? >> yes. >> has been made available to the president of united states? does the white house get national security briefings from the nsa? >> it is one of the contributors to the briefings that are given. >> how often are those briefings given? >> virtually daily. >> is given daily how often does the president of the united states attend those briefings? >> he is briefed either here or on the road. >> how often does he intend to those briefings? personally? in his absence which members receive those briefings? >> fed national security apparatus, the vice president and cabinet heads all received variations but he essentially the same briefing. >> so with the national security council staffer that deals with the country in question be made aware of there is any listening going on? with the national security council staffer who deals with the country in question be aware if there is any listening going on? >> as a general response, yes. it depends on the area of responsibility. >> if the united states was doing any listening to key foreign leaders, we have learned this week apparently that was news t

those reforms included the removal of all privacy walls in the housing units and the removal of tvs and other electronic devices in securityract deputies. new state-of-the-art surveillance cameras have also been installed throughout the jail. there's been an increase in staff training, and supervisors are now required to be more directly involved in routine activities. >> i guess if there's a silver lining to this tragic homicide, it's the fact that the orange county sheriff's department and the orange county jail are better than they've ever been before, staffed by the highest qualified professionals who are dedicated to their profession. >> the changes have not gone unnoticed. even carlstrom admits that life in jail has improved. >> the respect level is unbelievable now. you can actually speak to the deputies now when you need help filling out applications or anything like that, which is good. >> still, carlstrom feels he has been unjustly charged in the murder. he has pled not guilty as the case slowly moves toward trial. only two months away from leaving jail when the attack occurred, carlstrom says the most devastatin

. >> while tulsa took strides to make houses units more livable, it's one-person segregation cells are more barren. they are security risks. jimmy maxwell falls into the category of security risks. >> how are you spending your time up here? >> planning my next move. no, i'm just kidding. >> with ten felony convictions and a criminal record spanning 30 years, maxwell has seen the insides of cells. but in this one, the priority occupant did what he wanted to make it feel like home. >> it's not a big screen. but it's not too bad. we have a stereo underneath, pretty good speakers. this is one almost any cel is going to look like when you get thrown into it. it's going to look like this, smell like this, it's going to be hot like this, closed in and boxed in like this. and you're going to see stuff on the walls like this, some guy is marking down each and every day he has left. from 1350 to 1325. and then pulled chains and went to the penitentiary. and how many people have been here just bored to tears. how many people have been here not knowing what's coming next. not knowing where their life is going. here's days in th