on the frontier of green technologies, creating electricity from trash at dumps around the south african city of durban. now this city of 3.5 million people is drawing power from this surprising source. >> this landfill is one of the largest in southern africa. approximately 4000 tons of waste per day. a portion is biodegradable. so the landfill gas extraction system was implemented. >> for most people, dumps are a smelly necessity to modern living. but it is this gas, the smell, the contents methane. >> we expect it to a destruction system. we take it down to the gas compound where we then use it as a fuel to the engines which generate electricity and put back into the electricity grid. >> long perforated pipes are laid in vast trenches and then covered. these hoses siphoning that in the comes off of the decomposing layers of garbage. this gas is channeled to the power generation compound. 108 cubic meters of gas and our comes from each well. foreign experts to visit the project are amazed at what this third world city has accomplished. >> early on, the brain center of the whole project, and

taken with a lot of african americans at a time when the segregationists in the south objected to that greatly. certainly that helped the roosevelt coalition in the northern cities where the african americans were voting. and so franklin, although he did not attack the southern segregationists in congress because he had to work with them still could make use of the eleanor's interest in civil rights to attract a liberal constituency. so there were all these countervailing currents. [inaudible question] >> hello. i think we all know that journalists, very important in society, civilized society. they are to bring to the people what is happening, where, what, and win objectively. but today with the internet we have the rise of the citizen journalists. and sometimes they don't give it objectively. so what do we, readers, do in this psittacine journalism? >> well, that is a very good question. how do you maintain some semblance of finding and formation that is correct and accurate? i can only answer that. i wish i could give a really good answer, but i can only answer by saying that in a lot of universities, including the one that i have worked for many years, there

taken with a lot of african-americans at a time when the segregationists in the south objected to that greatly but certainly that helped the roosevelt coalition in the northern cities where the african americans were voting and franklin, although he didn't attack the southern segregationists in congress, still could make use of eleanor's interest in civil-rights to attract a liberal constituency. countervailing currents. >> hello. i think we all know that journalists are very important in a society, civilized society. they are to bring to the people friday's happening, where, what and when, objectively. but today with the internet we have the rise of the citizen journalist. and sometimes they don't give it objectively. so what are we readers going to do in this citizen journalism society? >> very good question. how do we maintain some semblance of finding information, i can only answer that -- i wish i could give a good answer but i can only answer by saying in a lot of universities including the one i work that for many years, university of maryland at college park, an increasing interest on providing course work and media literacy that will give some people some

neighborhoods, the poor sections of the city, lack of opportunity, no jobs available to them and this even applies to african-americans who emigrated to rural areas of the south. so they turn to crime at the people discriminated against, people excluded from social advancement historically have turned to crime in order to better themselves. not as an excuse but a reality. this is what's known as the ethnic succession. the irish coming jewish people, italians, blacks, hispanics in that order heaviest organized criminal activity as a means of social advancement with american society. if we look at traditional organized crime, the chicago outfit in earlier known as the component syndicate, if we look at the criminal organization through those classes, we see a different interpretation than the one that argosy was imported from the south of italy. we can get into what the mafia was in the south of italy at the turn-of-the-century. it last century. it was vastly different than what the media tells us it was, was portrayed in the movies. people forget the godfather is fiction. it was in a real story. it was in fact just a story. there is evidence that gangsters ind

fox at 3:00 in new york city, the olympic blade runner, as scare pistorius, cried in court as prosecutors indicted him in the murder his magazine model girlfriend. the south african throw it and double amputee wiped away tears as prosecutors laid out their case with new details. they say oscar pistorius intentionally shot and killed his girlfriend back only valentine's day. today's hearing came on what would have been her 30th 30th birthday. oscar pistorius always said her death was on accident. he thought he was shooting an intruder hiding behind the bathroom door. today's indictment goes against the story oscar pistorius gave to investigators. prosecutors cite witnesses who say they heard a woman screaming before the deadly gunshot. the case will now go to trial. but it will not be a jury deciding his fate. instead, under south africa's legal system, single judge will decide whether he is guilty. amy kellogg with the news live in london. the indictment calls it an intentional murder. what else are prosecutors claiming? >> that's pretty much the same as premeditated murder and that's what the prosecutiones going for. of course pistorius will be going for somethi

city. cast to play villainous role of krueger, a mercenary who works on earth for the elite of elysium was the director's long time friend, a south africanident. >> more a metaphor than a futuristic piece, taking intensified dramatic version of it at the moment. >> it is not only the setting of a futuristic civilization but matt damon's future as well. you are moving to l.a. starting a production company? is it fun? >> uh-huh, we are excited about it. we had a dl together. for a long time. when he won the oscar for best picture, we were look maybe we should get offices. so we are getting more serious about it. awe thought looks interesting. i will watch it. >> very intense, huh. >> an onion. many layers. check this out, the director apparently didn't want a hollywood star when he initially was trying to cast the show. he dent want to lose control of the script. matt day mmon had to convince h. initial choice to star in the film was eminem. >> would have been interesting. if he campaigned for the part. the part must be pretty good. or he want have campaigned. he is great in it. and opens tomorrow nationwide. i looked at my options. then i

south african hospital. his daughter says he can now sit up after two months. >> a bangladesh man was sentenced to 30 years in prison trying to blow up the federal reserve building in new york cityris brown recovering from a seizure brought on by stress. they say legal trouble and nonstop negativity caused him to be ill while recording in a los angeles studio. >> gregg: stunning new allegations involving the irs. this week house ways and meanings committee releasing testimony from an unidentified irs agent claiming the agency still to this day targeting conservative political groups. charlie hurts joins us. if true and an agent says it is under oath, is it's indefensible but not surprising? >> it's not surprising because we are talking about the irs and federal government. to just take it out of that it is merely impossible to believe when you consider, gregg, all the coverage that has gone on, all of the hysteria and i say justified hayes tear yeah over this is the last couple of months and the shakeup at the top of the irs and the absolute promising by the president that they are going to fix this and change this and behavior is unacceptable. the idea that it is still continui

city. cast to play villainous role of krueger, a mercenary who works on earth for the elite of elysium was the director's long time friend, a south africanident. >> more a metaphor than a futuristic piece, taking intensified dramatic version of it at the moment. >> it is not only the setting of a futuristic civilization but matt damon's future as well. you are moving to l.a. starting a production company? is it fun? >> uh-huh, we are excited about it. we had a dl together. for a long time. when he won the oscar for best picture, we were look maybe we should get offices. so we are getting more serious about it. awe thought looks interesting. i will watch it. >> very intense, huh. >> an onion. many layers. check this out, the director apparently didn't want a hollywood star when he initially was trying to cast the show. he dent want to lose control of the script. matt day mmon had to convince h. initial choice to star in the film was eminem. >> would have been interesting. if he campaigned for the part. the part must be pretty good. or he want have campaigned. he is great in it. and opens tomorrow nationwide. i looked at my options. then i

city of san francisco. san francisco was 77 and today you'll get to 67. >>> former south african president nelson mandela is in the hospital despite reports he had been released. bbc and other media outlets reported that he was home. the reports are false. he's still in the hospital, but in critical, but stable condition. he's been in the hospital since june and is being treated to are a recurring lung infection. >>> the white house has high confidence that the syrian government is responsible for a web near damascus. they support video and other evidence this was an attack. it killed more than 1400 including 420 children. they left syria overnight as president obama considers launching an u.s. military strike. they've been gathering evidence near damascus. it could be after the final report of analyses is -- analysis of the county. he'll have little international support. russian president has asked the president to consider whether a strike would be worth civilian casualties? syrian officials say they expect an attack any time right now. four us war ships are in the meditteraneanian sea. >>> several membe

city operations. erica? >> thank you. >>> tom is here. he's got the rest of the morning's top stories including an update on nelson mandela. >> good morning, everyone. we start overseas. former south african lung infection is showing great resilience. it's coming from officials who say though his condition becomes unstable at times, doctors are able to stabilize him with medical interventions. >>> hannah anderson's mother and brother will be remembered at a public memorial service. they were killed by family friend, james dimaggio. dimaggio set his house on fire with the victims still inside and kidnapped hannah. >>> large crowds heading to the national mall in washington, d.c. to celebrate martin luther king jr.'s, "i have a dream" speech. it will include a series of speeches. we want to know about your dreams. tell us on #dreamday or tell us what others are sharing on nbcnews.com/dreamday. >>> they don't call him eric mean maline for nothing. he was crowned with the world class rendition. defending world champ justin howard also from the u.s., actually placed fourth. trivia question, what is howard's stage name? we did the same story last year. can you remember? it involved leather. nor

city of washington, dc. he was very aware it was symbolic.a gesture on his part. he also had african-americans appointed to a number of positions in the southmainly. the hayeses were also the first to have a black opera singer performed for them in the white house, and had some other black performers on their saturday performances in the white house. >> many people are interested. we talk about the fact she helped with the funds to finish the washington monument. you earlier mentioned her interest in orphans of the civil war. what other causes was she involved in? >> she was interested in mental health, as well. in terms of the sanitation and treatment that we today would consider to be shellshocked soldiers. she would care a lot about veterans' pensions, if they were disabled. there are wonderful records of when she would care for people, who were -- and this is before she was really a first lady, when she would still be in ohio. there would be wounded soldiers who had not been paid. and she would help set up a system to expedite the on time delivery of their paychecks. she was interested in orphans, veterans affairs, and the education of