to day illegal fishing is taking the bread out of our mouths. a different georgia was built in front of the very eyes of tbilisi citizens who made architecture was dismissed and the president personally approved the new ridiculous constructions. holes shaped like giant pipes they were erected in tbilisi ruining the historical parts of the city is clear that the georgian authorities were keen on putting form over substance the size of the capital the president experimented on the city of but to me several point just skyscrapers were built. north philly regarded everything is as personal villa he got on his private jet landed here and then threw parties with lots of girlfriends the boulevard was closed off of course this is outrageous this was the case not just in but to me. to tbilisi to. georgia's ruling elites combined a passion for western ways with the violent fits of russia phobia traditionally the vast majority of georgian spiegel understand the russian language and the history of virtually every family is linked with russia and all of a sudden georgians were

however the admiration of georgia. when it became a soviet republic in nineteen twenty one. today they're talking about economic and cultural expansion in. some of the to me as areas are taken by talk certainty where they live in. all our major projects such as hotels or a turkish should. other than the economic influence we're also dealing with the demographic presence which is quite noticeable. looks at this matter somewhat differently. in area where it has historical and political influence. it was he. really had one of the first expropriations of the roots. clans property was returned to the state treasury price in that instance the young reform was dead only to seize property from the relatives of the l.c. shevardnadze his son in law. they are not authorized. the monthly. pensioners and teachers will be covered by this amount that had been transferred by schaeffer nazis daughter from new york. in february two thousand and five the anti corruption struggle receded into the background. georgia was shocked when prime minister. this century the second man in the country died

dmitri says the georgian police reform was the most successful initiative in countries georgia was one of the most corrupt countries in the former u.s.s.r. but in nine years it was able to get rid of corruption. somehow it was able to get to the point where you can no longer be stopped by a cop asking for a pride in this country you can have your passport done in five minutes and you don't need to pay anybody. the georgian army was at an unprecedented rate at the same time the authorities didn't make a sequel to the georgian cannons would a match in case of war. before we go into the army reform was based on the idea that russia was our potential enemy. was in armenia and azerbaijan or turkey or russia was a threat for us so preparing for a potential carrillo warfare was among our tasks. the georgian armed forces were formed according to the west an image at that time georgia set a world record by increasing its defense budget thirty times. having secured the us supports the un prison drastically georgia westwood he was moving towards withdrawing from russia's sphere of influen

a turn in the course of its history. georgia made his first attempt to withdrawing from russia's sphere of influence and finding a western patron in the early twentieth century after the collapse of the russian empire the mensheviks established the georgian democratic republic that when turkey lawyer states invasion from the south the georgian authorities also germany to help them soon after that the german expedition we call landed in the ports of but to me . at the time europeans view dimension george as a bacon of democracy and past the end of liberalism and social justice according to the second international delegates who would often travel here to enjoy the local wine georgia became a civilised corner of asia. however the admiration of george just stopped when it became a soviet republic in one hundred twenty one. and. today they're talking about economic and cultural expansion in. some of them to me as areas are taken by talk certainty where they live and. all our major projects such as hotels are a turkish. other than th

the days of flake. just. keep. it different georgia was built in front of the very. nature was dismissed and the president personally approved the new ridiculous constructions. holes shaped like giant pipes they were erected in tbilisi ruining the historical parts of the city it's clear that the georgian authorities were keen on putting form over substance besides the capital the president experimented on the city of but to me several point just skyscrapers were built. philly regarded everything is as personal villa he got on his private jet landed here and then threw parties with lots of girlfriends the boulevard was closed off of course this is outrageous this was the case not just and but to me. to tbilisi to. georgia's ruling elites combined a passion for western ways with russia phobia traditionally the vast majority of georgian spiegel understand the russian language and the history of bushie every family is linked with russia and all of a sudden georgians were forced to think that anything russian is bad lessons were dropped from curriculum in schools and movi

now has the largest orthodox cathedral in georgia. his construction was funded by in vanish really essentially been seen and vanish really was the only person with enough money and power to challenge second israel. on october the first two thousand and twelve georgians used their want to fight. says that during second israelis rule georgians experience the biggest turmel's since world war two. in the last nine years almost three hundred thousand people have had some experience with georgia's penitentiary system they were either imprisoned or came in contact with the system in some other way. our people have never been traumatized like this before. we are this poorest but the safest country but we paid an extremely high price for our safety. georgia has the highest number of prisoners per capita. lists of political prisoners longer than those in north korea and a fair bit of these facts are backed by european observers as well that. people enjoy just say that just ahead of the election many was swayed by footage of torture and abuse in

that he didn't care much about the safety of innocent people a full but. georgia chose in two thousand and three was covered with roses at first not a single shot was fired during this revolution the young leader came to power back then it seemed the euphoria would never end into the right perspective georgians practically worship saakashvili in two thousand and three and nine years later the same people took to the streets shouting. what happened to these people why didn't george i wish the west considered him a beacon of democracy in the caucuses turn out to be a very different country why is this energetic young leader hated by the majority of georgians now how has power to change the young reformers away is georgia headed now. now it's obvious to everybody that this was a scripted revolution that had a clear goal and the organizers use methods that time it didn't seem to matter in november two thousand and three georget was going through a political spring the grace awakening hundreds of thousands of georgians took to the streets really believing that life wou

the globe. up to. fifty. a different georgia was built in front of the very. nature was dismissed and the president personally approved the new construction. hole shaped like giant pipes they were erected in tbilisi ruining the historical parts of the city it's clear that the georgian authorities were keen on pushing for substance besides the capital the president experimented on the city of but to me several point just skyscrapers were built. philly regarded everything is personal villa he got on his private jet landed here and then threw parties with lots of girlfriends the boulevard was closed off of course this is outrageous this was the case not just in but to me. to believe the two. combined a passion for western ways with. majority of georgians speak or understand the russian language and the history of every family is linked with russia and all of a sudden to think that anything russian is bad. or drop from curriculum in schools movies from television a new generation of georgians grew up not knowing a single. we don't get to speak russian often. there

the next one, after a time out by georgia. the last one, a pass. three different calls led to the opportunity for rajion neal to follow that senior offensive line into the end zone. verne, aaron murray did it last week but he did it with keith marshall. he did it with michael bennett. he did it with justin scott-wesley. those guys aren't on the field. >> verne: bulldogs have one time out left. palardy will kick off. not known for his ability to get it into the end zone on the kickoff. about one out of every three, but this time he booms it. wow. >> verne: aaron murray. >> gary: both coaches are trying to project to their team right now that you have got to be calm. you've got to make the plays. "we practiced this. settle down. let the announcers, let the fans are excited. we have to play assignment football." >> verne: lynch in the backfield. chris conley and reggie davis are two wideouts. here is murray. drills it. >> gary: no chance. >> verne: threw it away. >> gary: nobody to throw this football to. had to get rid of it. >> verne: 1:46 remaining

i'm from the state of georgia. president carter from the state of georgia. you go back to the carter administration, come 16 years forward, democrats controlled this institution, shut the government down 15 times. 15 times. in the carter administration, mr. speaker, it was all democrats. democrats in the white house, democrats running the u.s. house, democrats running the u.s. senate shut down the government five times for more than 50 days. i don't celebrate that. but i do recognize that when people refuse to sit down and talk to each other, that is sometimes the outcome. didn't have to be the outcome this time. but here we are. so we can either throw up our hands in disgust or we can start pointing the fingers of blame or we can start doing something about it. again, mr. speaker, not one member of this body has come to the floor to attest that the passage of this rule and the passage of these underlying bills wouldn't make a difference for american families, and the reason they haven't is because they would. i understand we're going to continue to disagree.

the war of two thousand and eight georgia's political elite away from brush of a good the same time he really became something of a pariah for the international community. is no european nation would welcome the president of georgia for an official visit he was seen as a disappointment even by the americans who took to calling him a loser behind his back. from the georgian leader. the. false patriotism is the last resort of scoundrels you. know just where he found himself in this role and he exploited it in every possible way. he used it to assert himself beyond limits feasting on it it would be pointless to look for any rational reasons here. the woman. for the fallen georgians of world war two was the first of all victim to the new policy. on the the. mo morial was over there all over by that tree. today there are any seventy two war veteran still alive in could see see his really however was i'm concerned about the memory of that war all the veterans' opinion. three hundred thousand died in the war one hundred twenty three of them were heroes of the soviet union it's a sign of utter

strong, advocate for veterans, the gentleman from georgia, mr. avis scott. >> ladies and america, don't be fooled. don't be fooled by what the republicans are doing tonight. 19 hours ago, they closed down this government. they closed down the government on the veterans. they close down the government on dc they close down the government on those who serve our parks. many of them when they left your 19 hours ago were high fighting and celebrating. we closed it down, we closed it down and now they are here. they are here today with this hypocritical and deceitful act that now they want to do something for the veterans. they want to use these veterans -- ladies and gentlemen, this is nothing but a fig leaf to hide the shame of what this republican party did last night. and to use the veterans-- instead of just talking about 10 or 12 weeks -- to be able to send a 5.2 billion dollars in seo done something -- we have 21 veterans committing suicide every day. where are you talking about that? 4 in my district alone. we need to treat our veterans with the

you see the family and friends in valdosta, georgia, right now. just a moment, we'll talk about what happened with cnn legal analyst sunny hostin. victor blackwell doggedly chasing the story for more than six months and walks us through what happened. >> reporter: months of protests. sit-in and marches have shaken the small south georgia city of valdosta. demonstrators say they want answers in death of 17-year-old kendrick johnson. in january, kendrick was found dead at school. investigators with the sheriff's office says kendrick squeezes his 19 inch shoulders into the 14 1/2 center of the rolled gym mat. he got stuck upside down while reaching for the shoe. after an autopsy, a medical examiner with the georgia bureau of investigation agreed, the official cause of kendrick's death, accidental positional asphyxia, suffocated by his own body weight. >> we examined all of the alternatives presented to us and the only one that fit the physical evidence and forensic evidence and testimonial evidence was this is an accident. >> an accident? we just didn

a spokesperson for the georgia bureau of investigation said the agency stands by its team of medical examiners 100%. but other experts wonder whether the initial scene could have been more thoroughly investigated. >> i think the case has to be reopened. there are too many questions being raised. >> reporter: this week on what would have been johnson's 18 persistent birthday, his parents hired the same civil rights attorney who represented the family of trayvon martin. >> these parents sent their child to school with his book bag and he was returned to them in a body bag. >> reporter: they are pushing for the school to release more images from gym surveillance cameras. so far the only angle made public doesn't show how johnson ended up in the mat leaving the family with more questions. >> we're going to fight to the end. until we get justice for kendrick. >> reporter: for many, a death so strange it's proving hard to let go. gabe gutierrez, nbc news, georgia. >>> coming up next here tonight, spectacular pictures of what the astronauts witnessed from a window of the international space

the georgia from georgia. lso would time i like to extend our condolences and we would also like to our appreciation to the sergeant at arms and to the capitol police for their hard thek in making sure that people that work in this capitol and the members and visitors are safe and we vigilancee their during the recent incident. i would like to yield one minute to the gentleman from california.ho a >> the georgia from california is recognized for one minute. >> thank you, mr. speaker. our speaker, give us back committee. give us back our chairman. mr. culverson worked with all veteransdeal with appropriations bill. this is not it. disasterous bill. this cuts $2.6 billion out of the bill that we passed. this doesn't help veterans. this is game-playing. appropriations committee is supposed to have 12 bills on this floor. we have is none. a simple one just to pass to keep government open. never done this before. never. no preconditions ever in the this.ry like we have a good committee. we have a good chairman. give

they got clarence involved and this struggle became alive in song. >> the three of us sat down in the georgiaoing to be a song turned into 12 songs at this point. because clarence's story is so rich. >> my mama's face -- >> the song is based on my life experiences. but all of them is speaking for all of the people wrongly accused. >> it is an opportunity for his voice to be heard. >> i actually see him letting go of some of the pain. >> it didn't just happen to me. it would happen to anyone. >> he has a great attitude, doesn't he? to find out more about clarence's story, check out lifesentencealbum.com. >>> hello, everyone. thank you so much for joining us. i hope you're having a good afternoon or evening, depending on where you are in the country. i'm don lemon. washington lawmakers talking tonig tonight. but on this sunday evening, the eve of a work week and four days until the debt ceiling deadline. there is a new level of tension for what happens next. believe it or not, most house members are out of town. they will return tomorrow but the senate did meet for a few hours today but they ad

the prime minister claims to have restored georgia democracy and believes the nation should be grateful >> translation: a second round shows that georgians would not have a sense of gratitude. we would have won any. victory would have come. i wanted to make sure my feelings are right, i understand you correctly and i love you. >> rival candidates appear not to have come close. david bakradze conceded defeat. nino burjanadze pledged to hold out until official results are in. >> i know people are active and we had real support. i am sure the numbers which will come will be different and that polls have been publicised. >> a roouful mikheil saakashvili is leaving after 10 years at the top, his departure completing a changeover of power, beginning with his administrations defeat last year. >> georgia will go through a terrible period. looks like it, no matter the result of the elections. we have a serious setback, unfortunately in the economy. in our international situation and reputation, i think it's - i hope it's reversible. >> the prime minister is georgia's richest man. mikheil saakash

states pitted against each other because we see that each state has a competing interest in the state of georgia as we saw in my story there drinking water is a huge that's where they get a lot of their drinking water and with that land of the population they're booming the demand for water is also booming in alabama we see that the river is a big source of revenue for industry for business power generation fishing agriculture all of these industries depend on this river and in the state of florida that's where it's kind of heating up right now because in the northern part of florida there where the river kind of empties off is a huge fishing industry particularly oysters and the fishermen there depend on the oysters for their livelihood and the oysters are unique in that they need this delicate balance of fresh water and salt water and able to thrive and now they're saying that they're not getting the fresh water that they need because atlanta is slipping up all that water so they're in their view it's affecting their industry which is a very very much part of their livelihood so we see all thr

the georgia bureau of investigation stands behind their work. now two men who can move this case forward to try to get the johnsons some answers, one is a u.s. attorney who has not yet decided if he will launch a federal investigation, the other is the coroner in the county. he said he would help the family get answers. but then he changed his mind, so we paid him a visit. mr. watson, victor black well, cnn. >> reporter: this is the county coroner, bill watson, he can order something the johnson family desperately wants, but has not agreed to give it to him. >> i will not comment on anything, i would like you to leave my office. >> reporter: we'll come back to this in moments, but for more than several months, this has been the scene inside the judicial center in georgia. ken and jacqueline johnson, supporters, signs and a question, who killed kendrick johnson? >> we want answers and are not leaving until we get answers. they have never believed the theory from the investigators that their 17-year-old son climbed onto a rolled gym mat to grab a

florida is suing the state of georgia because it is overusing water resources. our other u.s. states facing similar things -- threat? >> there was a conflict that is not that uncommon. in the west, waterwars [indiscernible] across stage as to who gets what. -- states as to who gets what. it turns out that people today talking about climate change, you can have 10 or 12 years or 20 years that are relatively wet and maybe 12 or 20 that are dry. you can come up with an agreement where you allocate the water to different states or different organizations. and when you switch, you don't have any trouble. this happened in colorado and effectively, what saved ourselves, utah, colorado, wyoming, [indiscernible] they are under a continuing resolution with the department of the interior. >> the florida georgia case, the dispute was mainly the falling revenue for oyster businesses. i think it takes business interest to really spur change. >> since the 1980s when president reagan was in office, the federal government has gotten out of the business of managing and dispersing water depots. s

we spoke to the olympic committee of georgia which has an absolutely different opinion they are determined to go to the olympic games in sochi. there are many examples in the world when politics interferes with sports and the results are never good it shouldn't happen in my opinion because these are two absolutely different spheres i do not think georgia would in any way benefit from a boycott of the olympic games. one of the facts which infuriated georgians is not a pilot which took part in the five day military conflict back in two thousand and eight which led to some of the city's independence was one of the first torchbearers in russia but we spoke to another torchbearer a very well known georgian singer who has practically the same opinion as authorities back in dili see. just. you know i'm here not because of politics i'm here because of my love for this life for this world politicians should decide themselves what to do and how they don't go into my business and don't tell me what i should sing about neither do i to them sport plus art is a happiness that god has give

you so much motto for joining me you know in the story we just saw there a florida is suing the state of georgia because it's over using its water resources are other u.s. states facing similar conflicts. meter. water conflicts of this color are actually not that uncommon. if you look at the history of america in the rest what it was. and then there was developing compact across state that walked by even the most famous of those. back which was set up at nine hundred twenty it turned out they never talked about what i. mean and what it does so people today talk about change but it continues to. me that you can have ten or twelve years operating. and then the subsequent twenty years maybe try. if you do like they did with the colorado to come up to an agreement where you look at the waters off there to. two different states are different all that a station in proportion to what you think is available on average has been used which to a guy face suddenly. effectively there was. a push state to the colorado utah. wyoming and so forth to develop enough to get by it was an issue but today it is an is

it's a sliver of an island just off the georgia coast. ty, where nature feels large, and people small. this is why they love it here. >> this is the place. this little church was built by freed slaves. this is why johny and carol got married. >> if you ever heard of cumberland island, possibly, it's because this is where the late john f. kennedy, jr. married carolyn biset. >> it was just the most magical moment. >> ferguson, whose family has been on the island for seven generations arranged the wedding. >> by then, i had known him for 20 years, and he was very attached to cumberland. it was a place he knew he could have his privacy. he was very passionate about the history. >> but this story is about her love of that history. and how it shaped her life. once native americans liveed on the island, and then the spanish, the french, and the british came and went. their missions and forts gone now. revolutionary war hero, general nathaniel green bought thousands of acres on land on cumberland in 1783, his wife and daughters graves remains. the

we are talking about democratic that's the essence of communique of georgia geneva. it talk about the transition of the -- including military security all those that existed and then leading in to democratic and transitional period and election. second point from our point of view, we believe that we need the support of key countries in the region. we want their endorsement. that's why during the meetings the leadership had in new york with the member of the international community including our friends. we insisted countries like turkey, saudi arabia, all of those countries would in fact support our going to georgia geneva. we wanted the u.n. eventually to provide some kind of a guarantee that they will be implementation of any arrangement. including maybe the need for some peace keeping forces. i think from all our point of view. we go with an understanding not a precondition. my last point. when we assad should not be part of the process. that's not a precondition. that's our understanding of the literal warning of the geneva communique. believe any political solut

sit ins and marches had shaken the small south georgia city. demonstrators want answers in the death of kendrick johnson and soon a u.s. attorney will announce whether or not he wants answers too. in january he was found dead at school. investigators with the county sheriff's office said he squeezed his 19 inch shoulders into the 14 1/2 inch center of this rolled gym mat and got stuck upside down while reaching for this shoe. after an autopsy a medical examiner with the georgia bureau of investigation agreed the official cause of death was accidental positional asphyxia. he was cufficated by his body weight. >> we examined the alternatives and the only that fit the evidence and the pardon meial evidence we received was this is an accident. >> an accident. we just didn't believe it. >> kendrick's parents kenneth and jacquelyn believe the story is a cover up. >> when i viewed his body that sunday, you can see something happened. you can tell he was beaten. >> they want the u.s. department of justice to launch a federal investigation. >> if they do

the environment x. and such. and staying with georgia up next is a report on the dashed hopes of the rose revolution and the checkered legacy of the nation's outgoing leader. new zealand is boldly going where no government has gone before and according to reuters has decided to create a regulatory body to oversee recreational drugs that is their opening pandora's box it have at least temporarily given approval to fifty substances for sale at special stores which are bad and most other countries the body is trying to take a more scientific approach and determine which substances are actually harmful to the user you know i've heard the argument that the war on drugs just wastes massive sums of money for and lives of the need turn a futile battle which is true it does but the only option people give is just legalize all drugs there are a few problems with this one something is legal that tends to make it ok is it really ok for you to spend your whole life in a trance to avoid reality is it really ok for everyone in town on friday night afte

of natural resources and the university of georgia come to its rescue. have spotted it, because it unfortunately is tangled in a crab pot line. they were led to it because of the gooey above it. >> be careful there. >> they get ahold of the line and they struggle to get the dolphin up on to the boat. at this point, you see they pull it up but it is injured. its tail seems to be wounded and it is bleeding. >> that rope is tangled so tightly around its tail. in the struggle, it cut through. >> that poor little dolphin. he couldn't get out to get oxygen. >> it is wonderful to see the way they communicated with each other in this rescue. >> somebody help me get this out. you can let her back in a little bit. let her back in a little bit. >> they were trying to cause the least amount of stress to this dolphin as they could. >> try not to scratch her all up. >> eventually, they brought the crab pot up. >> it comes down just enough to give the rescuers a solid grip. >> go, go, dolphin, swim. >> hopefully, it will heal just fine and live happily ever after in th

mikhail saakashvili attempted to bring the form of recurring public of south assertive back on the georgia's control and this is when russia had to intervene and friend of the of georgia's forces in a five day conflict relations of course between moscow and police were spoiled diplomatic ties were caught off and this is also something make us. really is get a new lot of criticism for lost here had not told worse parliamentary elections the party of mickelson has been lost after videos were revealed showing yawn inmates in georgian prisons been beaten and humiliated and that's because as again people here and police have told us the last straw for the georgian people to reject such just really well in ten years this man has come full circle from a very popular to one of the most hated politician here in the country who is now facing accusations and to a geisha is this is a pledge for pushed forward by the current prime minister busy even as she leaves artie's a maria financial reporting live there from the georgian capital tbilisi. let's take a look at the other news argentina's leader also s

they ruled it a fumble and goes out of the end zone so it's a touchback. all georgia needs is a field goal and they win the game. marshall morgan nails it. georgia breaks tennessee's heart again and win in overtime. nick saban and the crimson tide welcoming georgia state. they were sharp. first quarter, a.j. mccarron going to lob it into the end zone. white makes a beautiful one-handed catch. mccarron had four touchdown passes on the day. alabama, no problem with georgia state, lsu, they did have a problem against mississippi state. fourth quarter and lsu only up 31-26. mettenberger will find junior, untouched, 33 yards for the score and lsu really poured it on in the fourth but a lot closer than that 59-26 score would indicate. maryland, 25th ranked in the country heading down to doak campbell. jameis winston looking for it and he did. 35-0, 'noles. eludes one tackle, out of the pocket locations him in the end zone and 63-0. tajh boyd looking to make a statement for clemson. visiting syracuse. third quarter, it's 35-14. clemson, boyd, gets a streaky sammy watkins, 91

the gentleman from georgia reserves. the gentlelady from connecticut is recognized. ms. delauro: once again, if the majority had been interested in the n.i.h., it would have moved to introduce its appropriations bill with an increase in funding for the n.i.h., which it didn't. with that, let me just yield 1 1/2 minutes to the gentleman from michigan, the distinguished ways and means committee ranking

there is a view shared with the department of state video everything absolutely you know in the florida georgia case in particular to the dispute was mainly over the following revenue for our eastern businesses do you think it takes business interests to really spur change. i paid is what it's going to come to because since the 1980's when president reagan was in office the federal government environmental regulation has gotten out of the business of managing our planning or developing the water resource so all of us started the fight state board of programs like when it comes to an issue which is across the there's really no clear favorite either one for doing the people who are the groups that are most often. defined i showed in pairs of this this is food supply chain on backwater most of the water in the country is used for food production or for energy production so those other business in. the full frame office to be sure well you know we've heard people say now that water is the new oil to oil in the next generation do you think that's a fair comparison. not quite it's obviously very valu

the country. turned out to be its curse. georgia the story of a disappointment. more news today violence is once again flared up. these are the images the world has been seeing from the streets of canada. trying to corporations are old today. again in madrid thousands of people taken to the streets to protest against a court ruling in favor of the basque separatist movement etter the european court of human rights has ordered spanos release in a torrijos member of the armed group it is delirium who've been in jail since the late eighty's for her role in twenty three killings the spanish government accepted the course decision but warned that it sets a dangerous precedent now john laughlin for in studio democracy in corporations says the stroudsburg courts doing the exact opposite of what it was created to do. it's incredible isn't it that the european court of human rights should intervene in this way to alleviate the sentence of a woman who has been convicted of to due process of the murder of more than twenty three people this woman is a mass murderer and the i

they were a big part of the game today. >> the missouri tigers pulled off the upset, defeating the georgia bulldogs, 31-26. gives the tigers their first road win over a top 10 team since 1981. improved to 6 and 1 overall and 2 and 0 in the southeastern conference. all lsu needed was a couple of drives, this one a one-yard score to put the tigers up 7-3. anthony jennings, turns in another one-yard score make it 14-3. lsu tigers reasserted themselves as a key 17-6 victory over the second ranked gatorless. bacgators. 3 and 1 in sec play. now for the tigers still throwing a no hitter in this one in the 9th inning, a combined no hitter five pitchers have been a part, joaquin benoit, now obviously we got a big matchup going on between a pitcher dual between the tigers and red sox out in boston. >> still early, darren hayes, thanks for all the highlights. snow is in the forecast for parts of the midwest. meteorologist rebecca stevenson is coming up next. bring you a sneak-peak of the future, and take you behind the scenes at our evolving world. techknow - ideas, invention, life. on august 20th, >

they are among the maze determined detractors of georgia's how the president. they follow me how selfish really everywhere to leave him in no doubt of where they stand. circus really was the once popular leader of the rose revolution the first color revolution which saw power change in post soviet republics. in the last days of his near ten year presidency even former allies are on the attack. after his successes start of building an authoritarian regime the media was attacked one million people fled one quarter of the population went through the penal system they were either arrested or interrogated in two thousand and seven police used tear gas and rubber bullets against protesters wanting saakashvili is government to resign. in two thousand and eleven they did it again. boudin him ugly people were afraid to express or even have their opinion if they faced injustice they failed to report it as it could affect their families. told me his brother used to run the state audit office and claims he was tortured in jail when he took his case to the human rights caul

the tractors of georgia's outgoing president. they follow mikhail everywhere to leave him and no doubt. he was the once popular leader of the rose revolution. the first revolution that stop our change. -- that saw power change. even former allies were on the attack. >> after success, he built an authoritarian regime. the media was attacked. one million lead. one quarter went through the penal system. there were either arrested or interrogated. >> and two thousand seven, police used tear gas against protesters who wanted him to resign. -- in 2007, police used tear gas against protesters who wanted him to resign. they did it again a few years later. >> people are afraid to express their opinions. it could affect their families. >> has brother used to run the state ordered office and claims he was tortured and jailed. he took his case to the human rights court, he said he was arrested. he said it was a fabricated case. he was another political prisoner. >> i got 8.5 years. i would not have gotten out. in one week, they took off for d

breaking news in the death of a 17-year-old african american man in georgia. for months kendrick johnson's parents insist it's not a tragic accident like local officials concluded but murder. today a judge ordered the release of new potential evidence including surveillance footage from the high school gym where kendrick's body was found taken just before he died or was killed. a few minutes ago, the breaking news. we learned the federal justice department will announce whether kendrick johnson's death warrants a full flown civil investigation. details from victor blackwell who joins us. >> reporter: anderson, at 1: 00 p.m. tomorrow, they will announce whether his death will get the federal investigation. michael moore, who i've had contact with over the four months he had this information led a meticulous search and the family desperately wants this investigation. months after protests, sit ins and marches have shaken the small south georgia city of valdosta. they want answers in the 17-year-old death of kendrick johnson and soon, a u.s. attorney will announce

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says that damascus is part of a regional tour and already been in iraq, egypt, katar and met the king of georgiasting half a million syrian refugees and the next day he had talks of leaders with the free army in turkey and other commanders fighting against the government and on sunday he met iran's president telling him his country's presence is necessary for the geneva talks to succeed and he will arrive in damascus in a couple hour's time but what is expected from the visit? >> he does have a very difficult mission since the geneva one conference last year, nothing has really changed in the positions of either side and i think this morning the state control department was very clear, sort of saying that he is welcome to come to syria but he should come with no preconditions and he should not represent the point of view of one party, that was basically the main complaint last time that he went to syria. some of the media went further and mocked him as an aging tourist so it will be very difficult, the opposition has said all along it will not go to the geneva two conference if there is no talk