they drink intheir trunks, but nthrough their trunks.woune be like us drinking throughcour noses. they draw water up into it -- about five gallons or so -- and squirt it into their mouth. they have very fine motor skills. they can pick a leaf off of a tree, and they can also uproot trees and snap tree limbs in half. the number of muscles that allows them to do that -- it's actually 40,000 or more. >> i heard that these elephants can step on an egg without breaking it. why is this? >> that's correct. they're very agile and very sensitive animals. they have great sensitivity in their feet, and they actually use their feet to communicate. they can sense the vibrations through a form of communication that they use with each other across great distances, across the savannas of africa and asia -- it's called "infrasound." it's below our level of hearing, but they can feel the vibrationk in their feet. so as large as they are, they're actually quite agile. >> what do these animals eat? >> they eat about 200 pounds of food a day, which consists

in this guy's trunk. >> him and his friends have a good laugh about this., here's the thing, these guys think this is funny. they think this is hilarious, but the guy does have his driver's side door open, i would say most cars come with a trunk release inside the car, if you can get in the car, you can get in the trunk. >> these guys are laughing pretty hard. what is funny about this? >> simple guys, beth. simple guys. facebook fans, did this cabbie get what he deserved for holding up traffic, or did phil baroni pull a jerky move here? >> that's it for this edition of "right this minute." one more video, time-lapse video called electric new york. enjoy it. don't forget another 30 minutes of "right this minute" are on the way. ♪ ♪

not only a historical will sick trunk but to use the scholarly term pretty cool. to get a sense of thinking about army life what you put in here, you in essence put in all of who you are, and this is what you carry with us. this is a great case that's going to allow us help people real understand what life was like during the civil wear this story of the african-american experience is both a story of resiliency and achievement but it's also a of e hard parts of exploring this ate who were at the worst tended to be other americans. and so that to interpret this because americans aren't used to being the bad guys. one of the things that's powerful is objects like this that convey the sort of strong anti-black sentiment. this is a ku klux klan banner om the knights of the ku klux klan and as you know the klan began after the civil war, it sort of goes underground, and then it sort of bursts new as a result of the film "the birth of a nation" and the klan becomes not a southern phenomena but ' and 30s and this banner is what people would use to celebrate their investm

times" charlie had drawn a picture of his mother in the trunk of the family car.rding to police, powell sends and e-mail to his attorney that says "i'm sorry, goodbye." minutes later, his sons are brought to the home by a social worker for a supervised visit. powell ushers his sons inside, locks out the social worker and does the unthinkable. >>> here at the scene, investigators say there are clues josh powell planned this out in advance. he dropped off personal items, including boxes of toys to goodwill. and he dumped as many as ten gallons of gasoline throughout the house prior to his boys' arrival. >> joining me from the washington sheriff's office and steve downing, attorney for susan's parents. you say the items had been found inside pow eel home shows he had been planning this for some time. how so? >> we found two five-gallon cans of gas, spread throughout the residence, axel rapts throughout the residence and one was lit and why the fire burned so fast and hot. we also found he had taken personal belongings and dropped them off at donation centers and not

this is a trunk that was carried by an officer of the 55th massachusetts. you remember regiments were segregated but the officer tended to be white. this trunk was owned by george garrison, who was the son of the abolitionist william lloyd garrison and he served as an officer in the 55th massachusetts which was the companion unit to the more famous 54. and i think that being able to make sure that we're telling the full richness of the story from a variety of perspectives, this kind of trunk allows us to do just that. not only is it a historically significant trunk, but it's, to use a scholarly term, pretty cool. and so to get a sense of thinking about army life, what you put in here. you in essence put in all of who you are, your belongings, your clo clothing and so this is what you carry with you. and so this is a great case that will help people really understand what it was like during the era of the civil war. this story of the african-american experience is both a story of resiliency and achievement, but it's also a story of struggle. and one of the h

the trunk and the measurements of the trunk are well within the boundaries. g>> 3 you have a picture? >> yes. >> would you put it on the overhead? >> yes. is it faceup now? you can see the lean of the treat your gut -- aline of the tree. the sidewalk was done within the last few months, so it looks really nice right now. >> the other tree, what was the reason for granting approval? >> the tree is diseased. gooyou can see in this picture f the tree on the left is very small compared to the tree we are asking for. there is agreement it is diseased and should be removed. the one on the left has been approved for removal. >> is a disease contagious? >> i have no idea your gut >> i assume that is the neighbor's driveway. an -- i have no idea. >> i assume that is a neighbor's driveway. have cars hit it, or has there been any issues? >> there has been. we had to cut off of brownish -- a branch because it was hitting the car is going into the driveway. there has been an issue. what perturbs us is not so much inconvenience but possible safety problems. >> you mention

that's it until we dealer up the mommy in the trunk stuff, they --. >>randy: unfortunately, if you prosecute and i have prosecuted and defended kids cases involving kids, kids are very impressionable and people speak, did mommy go into the trunk, yes, and this is a reason kids are presumed not to understand until they are 12. >>shepard: but it seems like you should check on it and do some checking and try to protect those children. we called associate services and i am sure there is a social services worker out there, i imagine being that poor woman at the door. the door closes and the house employees up and the children you have been protected --. >>randy: you will see a change those rules because you know she should not have let the kids go first but she did. >>shepard: and ... poor "her." i mean, whatever ... not always a very fund job. nice to see you both. more later. syria is slipping closer to civil war with enormous developments pertaining to our government. we closed our embassy. more ahead. wake up! that's good morning, veggie style. hmmm. f

their mother had been in the trunk. and that later, their mom and dad walked out into the desert. and mommy got lost. >> reporter: fire investigators will sift through the charred rubble of the home to try to

they say one of the boys even drew a picture indicating their mother was in the trunk of the car. >> that's daddy. that's charlie and that's me. and then he said, well, mommy's in the trunk. >> reporter: shortly after susan powell vanished, josh powell moved to a town south of seattle with their boys and had been living with them there at his father's home. both sat for an interview with abc's abby beaudrew in 2011. >> i would never hurt her. i would never hurt my boys. >> reporter: late last summer when the home josh shared with his father was raided by police, josh lost custody of two his boys to susan's parents. in the raid, powell was charged with possession of child pornography. >> susan was very, very sexual with me. she was very flirtatious. i mean, i'm her father-in-law and i did -- i mean, we interacted in a lot of sexual ways because susan enjoys doing that. >> you knew about this. >> she's a very flirtatious person. >> reporter: susan's friends say she never wanted her children anywhere near her father-in-law. >> the very first time i met josh and susan, they told us about

so did you bring your swim trunks? >> nope. >> no. what did you bring?> nothing. >> why'd you come here today? >> it was stupid. i should have known better. she's a baby. >> he says he wasn't really going to do anything with her but his chat log seems to say otherwise. you say that you're a pretty normal, horny, old man. and i would love to make wild, passionate love to you. >> oh god. >> i'm trying to understand why you thought it was a good idea to come over here to visit a 13-year-old girl. >> i don't know. i don't know. i wasn't thinking. >> but you sent this picture, right? >> yes. >> and that's you? >> yes. it's not something i would have normally done. i should have known better. >> he seems to think i'm a cop and even tries bargain with me. >> i know what the law says. but i'm really hoping for a warning. >> so you think you should just get a warning? >> i'm begging. i'm begging please. >> well, there's one warning that i can give you. and this is it. that i'm chris hansen with "dateline nbc." and we're doing a story on adults who solicit minors

that's a trunk.n elephant painted it with a little guidance by its ear. >> the elephant's holding the paint brush in its trunk and the handler is more like a joy stick. just hugging slightly in different directions. >> so the elephant can philley the enforcement its ear and do this. >> it's an amazing sort of show. shows how dexterous an elephant is. >> this was painted by gentleman kari, a chimp. the exhibition is taking place in the grant miami of in the grant museum of zooology and if we accept the squigals and drips made by humans as art, then why not this? and these ape artists seem to enjoy painting and certainly let you know when they have had enough. it's certainly not new. congo the painting chimp was a teeny star. there used to be a joke that a chimp could do it. congo's work recently sold at auction for $25,000. >> well, we're going to continue the theme with animal magic. imagine having a barbecue then this. it's an absolute monster. this is a giant prawn. they are calling it a super gian

you get to the trunk, you have to open everything up. what are you going to do? your hands are full. this is what you do. miking tell us. >> what we have on the new escape, the hands-free lift gate with the quick kick. the lift gate will go up. you can load up all your goods. another kick under the gate and the hatch will close. so give it a kick again. and watch it come down. >> reporter: that is some cool stuff. >> it's great. this is just one technology that we have on the 2013 escape. that we're so happy to debut in baltimore. come on out and see it. it's got wonderful new technologies like the hands-free lift gate. a 1.6 ÷a?zecoboost engine to gi us class economy and fuel leadership. >> reporter: that kick with the opening of the trunk, does any other car have that? >> we are the only vehicle in its class to have this exclusive kick gate as we call it. we're proud to have it only on the ford escape. >> reporter: of course not any stranger can just come and kick. tell us about having the key, you have to have the key to the car? right? >> it's a great questio

their mother was in the trunk. the boys reported she and their father got out of the van, went for a walk and their mother got lost. >> reporter: after susan disappeared josh moved with the boys from utah to washington state. together they lived with josh's father steven powell but after steven was arrested on child pornography charges and voyeurism custody was awarded to susan's parents chuck and judy cox. in august josh powell told nbc news his boys were his life. >> some days i don't know how i get through the day. except for my sons. >> reporter: sunday charlie and braden said a final good-bye to their grandparents. a social worker was taking them to see their father. it was the last time chuck and judy cox would ever see the boys alive. >> they're innocent children that were killed by their father. they are back with their mother now. his act was a cowardly, desperate act. >> reporter: utah detectives say they want to speak to josh powell's father steven powell. he's in jail awaiting charges on voyeurism and c

was thrown in the trunk like so much kindling wood.eople didn't -- at that point didn't -- i think with the passage of 60 years, it lost some of that sting, so they were willing to hand it over to me. and at that time it was still largely just an idea, so they weren't thinking of it, you know, am i willing to display this. the early years, the '50s and '60s, i think people wanted to forget about the war. they needed to get on with their lives. they didn't want to have any kind of public or private reminder of what they went through. so, these things did get hidden away. and -- but, you know, in 2000 it wasn't as hard to ask them what they had, and it wasn't their parents that was, you know, that the niseis, the second generation that brought it out. the objects were done by untrained artists. they got it into camp by necessity. they could only take what they could carry. and the orders of what they carried had to include the bedding, their eating utensils and then you add in their clothes, it didn't leave for much. so when they got to

. >> reporter: but one boy recently drew a picture of the trip and said his mother was in the trunk.hat's daddy. that's charlie. and that's me. then he said, "well, mommy's in the trunk." >> reporter: there are questions now about whether the state did all it could to protect charles and braden, whether they should have allowed visits with their father. but experts say without criminal charges the state had no reason to cut off all contact. >> there was simply no indication that something like this was coming. there had been visits for a prolonged period of time with no indication of any problems until this happened. >> reporter: the boys' grandparents are just trying to pick up the pieces of a shattered family. >> well, we know that the children are with their mother and they're safe. >> reporter: neal karlinsky, abc news, seattle. >> beyond heartbreaking. >>> to capitol hill now, where a bill to speed up the modernization of the nation's air traffic control system is now heading to the president's desk. the senate passed the $63 billion legislation 75-20 despite objections from som

then he said, mommy's in the trunk. >> reporter: there are questions now about whether the state did all it could to protect charles and braden, whether they should have allowed visits with their father. but experts say without criminal charges, the state had no reason to cut off all contact. >> there was simply no indication that something like this was coming. there had been visits for a prolonged period of time, with no indication of any problems until this happened. >> reporter: tonight, the boy's grandparents are just trying to pick up the pieces of a shattered family. where do you go from here? how do you pick up the pieces? >> well, we know that the children are with their mother. and they're safe. >> reporter: child welfare officials say they're conducting an investigation of their own to determine if there is more they could have done. the boy's grandparents say they blame only one person, diane, josh powell. >> all right, neal, thank you. and there is a growing call across the country for police to release all the information in this case to add to understanding and make ch

check my trunk. i have my fishing gear. my fishing license is in my console.was sex with a 12-year-old girl is what you were fishing for. >> please. check my trunk. >> you told me already about getting gas and going fishing. >> who are you? >> who am i? >> yeah. >> i'm chris hansen with "dateline nbc." we're doing a story on adults who try to meet children online for sex. now, if there is anything else you want to tell us, we'd be happy to hear it. if not, you're clearly free to walk right out the door you came in. >> i don't want to walk out the door. they're going to take me, they want me anyway. >> is there anything else you want people to know about your situation? >> my life is screwed. i'm done. my family is done. they're waiting to arrest me. they're waiting to take me to jail. >> in fact, the long beach police are getting into position. >> staying here won't help you. >> i feel like i'm going to throw up. >> maybe another good reason to go outside. it won't help you to stay here any longer. okay? rick? i'm serious. >> can i have a drink of this? >> if

had started going there, and it had to be so secret at the time that he actually was brought in the trunk of a car across the border because it was illegal for americans to, um, to do business. so when larry died, um, there were, there were some investigations including a grand jury that was looking into his activities in vietnam. but after he died, after the plane disappeared and some people still think he's alive, so i should say he disappeared, another investigation began, and that was of larry's sex life. now, there were a lot of rumors, and it's not difficult for rumors to spread on an island like saipan. he told a friend he had slept with over 250 virgins. he had told his law school professor who is now the dean of bolt hall that he had spent millions of dollars procuring virgins because he was terrified of aids. he had told his surgeon and his wife, kind of a larry thing to do, that he, you know, just did this all the time, and he'd actually flown out the board of continental airlines of which he was the major shareholder to seat that many and manila and took some of them on a tour

. >> almost all of the 18th and 19th century exist in people's trunks. we were able to find harriet tubman's hymnal when she went to the south to help rescue the slaves, she would sing. we also collected nat turner's bible, he used that bible to read revolution to say now is the time to strike a blow for freedom. and we have a painful set of slave shackles, made for a child and you'll also see louie armstrong's trumpet. what we want to see is moments that you'll ponder, and moments that you'll fly on the resiliency of this community. >> what about president obama, something from his inauguration, perhaps. >> what we have done is we have collected his campaign because we know how important this is, and what we will do, at the end of his tenure, we will ask him, tell me what represents america to you? for me, president obama is definitely going to have an important place in this museum. >> what about areas of rec reconciliati reconciliation? i thin aboll legs, abolition, do you think it's -- >> i think it's important for that story to be told. for this gen

you put a fire in his home after he killed his wife because one of the kids saw his mother in the trunk of the car. life has changed. i come to talk and to think about the scandal we have. the 49ers, free tickets, the copy you can see on the internet and another copy i have. they said that the stadium costs $525 million in 1997. smart supervisors like you, i want you to show me why they said it is $1 billion now. i believe that the 49ers tried to give you, free tickets, to get the money they want. mr. supervisors, i have a letter here that you and i will give you a copy, if you do not mind. i ask you that i deserve the free tickets better than your mother-in-law. do you know why? because i worked day and night to help them in 1997. i was not coming to get free tickets but i am stopping to stop this candy and the tragedy. >> stop the corporate rate of the public library. do not give money to the friends and foundation or do not accept money. every once in awhile, i placed my comments in historical context to demonstrate the continuous intersection of abuse of open government and democrac

if you have one in the trunk of your car that's great. also have one at work. gean

. >> reporter: but one boy recently drew a picture of the trip and said his mother was in the trunk. >> that's daddy. that's charlie. and that's me. then he said, "well, mommy's in the trunk." >> reporter: there are questions now about whether the state did all it could to protect charles and braden, whether they should have allowed visits with their father. but experts say without criminal charges the state had no reason to cut off all contact. >> there was simply no indication that something like this was coming. there had been visits for a prolonged period of time with no indication of any problems until this happened. >> reporter: the boys' grandparents are just trying to pick up the pieces of a shattered family. >> well, we know that the children are with their mother and they're safe. >> reporter: neal karlinsky, abc news, seattle. >> beyond heartbreaking. >>> to capitol hill now, where a bill to speed up the modernization of the nation's air traffic control system is now heading to the president's desk. the senate passed the $63 billion legislation 75-20 despite objections fro

one of the family's lawyers said the 7-year-old talked about seeing his mom in the trunk of the family's car. her brother-in-law speculated that may be why josh powell took the action he did. >> i imagine that part of josh's motivation, what could he doe to hide that story to avoid having to deal with the consequences of things he had done. what's the latest from that scene? >> reporter: there's been a lot of speculation about why josh powell may have committed this double murder/suicide. among many of that speculation coming from families and lawyers. they say josh powell was feeling a lot of pressure from the west valley police department. they were getting ready to press some criminal charges. he wrote that chilling three word e-mail to his lawyer just minutes before the explosion. it read, i'm sorry, good-bye. that e-mail sent to his lawyer and other close friends. police are trying to piece together this investigation and what happened here. we can tell you a social worker brought his two young children, to josh powell's home. she knocked on the door. the boys went inside. he forced

. >> if you scream and you fight we put a gag in your mouth own throw you in the trunk. >> no. >> ifdeath and what's coming to you, and take it like a real woman would, then you just accept fate and realize what's is going to happen and stop fighting. >> don't. >> don't struggle. she's watched many of these. >> this is psycho. >> really? >> you're the one that wanted to hang out over here. >> i never realized you guys are psycho. >> this is your debut. >> great, man. >> i'm feeling granny, man. >> i'm a fun loving guy. i always try to get everybody to laugh. comfort people when they are sad. we're not bad people. we're not violent people. we're just bored, drunken kids. you know, we're just out looking for fun. >> any movement that you even so much as sneeze for half an hour i'll slit your throat. >> well, i want to be comfortable -- >> since everybody finally realizes you're behind this plot in getting the girls over here. say something into the camera. >> a little something into the camera? that's my girl. >> me and christina never got along and i don't like to talk about it too mu

controls on the highway so if you are going to the sierra you may as well put those change in the trunk. >>> a system will be here late tonight tomorrow morning, 30s and 40s probably not as cold as yesterday, we had a lot more 20s due to cloud cover. it will be a cool afternoon with increasing clouds. it looks like an okay system. there are signs early next week we will get another system coming in. 30s and 40s on the temperatures, everyone is pretty close here, locked in due to that cover cover, there is a little bit of a break between the front before it arrives and it is still packing pretty cold air. cool and breezy, looks like rain and by this time tomorrow we will be talking rain. 50s on the temperatures to right above 50s. rain cool thursday and showers linger into thursday morning, mostly sunny a little warmer, steve? >>> take a look at this, the third survey of the year, by the state department, it is 30% of normal and the good news no major problems, but last season they left plenty of water in risk voice and lakes -- reserviors and lakes. >>> sheriff ross mirkarimi's trial mo

mommy being in the trunk of the car. >> investigators say the children suffered chop injuries before succumbing to smoke inhalation. a small hatchet was found at the scene. >>> law officials are looking at a growing teacher sex abuse investigation. as bigad shaban reports, angry parents are demanding even more answers. >> reporter: they're angry parents and crying students. but there's no school at mira monte elementary in south los angeles. parent maria gervassia is one of many here, protesting the district's decision to replace mira monte's entire staff by thursday. the controversy began last week, after teacher mark berndt was charged with molesting 23 children at school over a five- year period. a second teacher, martin springer was also arrested. >> it breaks our heart. because two teachers is just not good. >> reporter: she said her daughter is traumatized after learning she's losing her sixth grade teacher. >> he loves us. that's why we should never change the principal or the teachers. [ crying ] >> reporter: the roughly 130 teachers and staff will be paid while on leave. and

the disappearance of susan, and they said one of the boys had drawn a picture of their mother in the trunkf a car. is that true? >> yes. and also they said mommy is in a mine. and as recently as christmas they were saying things like, if we go to the mine, we can find mommy. they've done searches in utah and nevada. out of the mouths of babes. they were vocalizing things that happened to their mother. and the police knew this. this was also part of when we look at the other case for custody, and in the custody case, chuck and judy had said in declaration that they believe josh killed their daughter, the mother of these children. >> again, our thoughts with this family. absolutely, absolutely evil. ann, i appreciate it. thank you for coming on. >> thank you so much. >>> hear why one college has lost tuition, 22%, after a troubling discovery. >>> a man accidentally shoots himself in the head with a nail gun. find out what he worried about the most in that moment. >>> and the what americans rely on most from the government. the funny thing is, it's not just support. that's next. selected oats

well, we couldn't find any kind of fluids or blood anywhere in the interior of the car or the trunk.en remotely possible. we didn't get much. didn't get any positive results on that. later we learned that the tire tracks weren't the same. >> hi, it's mark mcnett. >> then we got contacted by ken's other daughter who gave us some important information. we received a new letter from kamala, loretta's sister. she had been staying with ken since the time of the murder. and she had written a couple of letters because of some things she learned, so we called her in for an interview. she also mentioned that on the 29th of june your father returned to the house around 6:00 p.m. and he was pretty drunk and that he was crying. tell me about -- tell me about what happened then. >> well, he broke down and was crying. he's like, you know, he gets emotional sometimes when he's drunk, and he was really drunk. and he just said, well, when you get up there where you live and you spread your sister's ashes, you just tell her -- okay. let me remember. you just tell her -- i want to get this correct. i'm

would go to the corner of 4th and maine to get something like this, and it would be out of somebody's trunk and for ten bucks. >> reporter: consumers can shop on illegal web sites like this one. agents shut it down. items for sale look authentic but it's counterfeit merchandise. stick to retailers you know and trust. the fake clothing doesn't just affect the bottom line, it has a far reaching effect. >> for local businesses when you see this type of competition, and people are paying to be able to sell licensed merchandise in their stores, it hurts our local economy, it hurts hoosiers. >> law enforcement officials are also targeting fake super bowl tickets, they expect to see counterfeit tickets popping up on the streets of indianapolis as the game day approaches. >>> big news, starting today's, employees at disney world and disney land and grow beards and goatees. they banned it in 1955 when disneyland first opened. >>> maybe the beginning of the end, when the trial and murder of a lacrosse player begins and how long it will last at 6:00 which starts right now. >>> high speed chase ends in

the family said the kid his recently talked about seeing their mom in the trunk of the car the night she vanished. he also said that josh powell was likely to be in the coming months. >> in the voice mail josh left, he said he could not go on without his sons and could not go on himself. he went on to say he was sorry. >>> george huguly,ly enters a not guilty plea with yeardley love. >> the process continues this afternoon. george hugu -- hug riewrksely charged. both were seniors at uva. hugu ally's attorneys say love's death was an accident. he admits that he shook her and her head hit the bedroom wall. a medical examiner ruled love died from blunt force trauma. >> stay with wjz for complete coverage of the george huguely murder trial. adam may is in charlottesville. and we'll have a live report coming up at 5:00 and 6:00. >>> a judge makes two important rulings in the fraud case against julius henson. wjz is at the courthouse, where the jury selection is under way in the trial. derek valcourt explains what happened today. >> reporter: the judge threw out one of the three conspiracy