walker, was killed in vietnam. he was in the first calve. -- in the first cavalry. >> what was his relation to you? >> he was my cousin. then i had a friend i attended high school with. he also was drafted and they both were in the infantry. i decided to volunteer. the reason i decided to volunteer was i had the opportunity to choose my own career field. and i did. and i had a good career field. it wasn't combat arms. it wasn't infantry and i was very pleased about that. >> what was your sense of the vietnam war before you decided to enlist? >> i looked at the news one morning and i saw an article about vietnam and i saw some of the people and i saw the kids, some of the kids. i said to myself, i wish there is some way i can help them out. that was a contributing factor as to why i decided to volunteer. when i volunteered, i was very pleased to get in the aviation field, versus combat arms. >> doing what? >> i was a 67 november, helicopter mechanic. >> mechanic. >> yes sir. working on the huey's and the delta model

i came from the central part of vietnam, it used to be the capital of vietnam. what was your family doing? were they working? >> tuy-cam: my father was working for the government. my mother took care of all us. were you in school? >> tuy-cam: yes, i was in school, the school for girls. donghokn. to do know what you wanted to do with your life? >> where you still learning at the time? of the vietnam war? tuy-cam: during the time of the vietnam war, i was still working for the u.s. government. we will get back to that in a >> minute. i want to talk about the escalation of vietnam. in the early 1960's, what were your opinions of the vietnam war as it began? james: well, we didn't know much about it in the united states and even the state department as a young foreign service officer. i joined in december, 1962. it wasn't a big topic even in the state department them. it became so gradually over time. as it turned out, that was after a couple years in the state department, that was my first overseas assignment was in 1965. to vietnam i got there in july 1965, the sa

narrow, central part of the anon. -- vietnam. separated north and south vietnam. south vietnam was separated into 45 provinces and five of them --e in the first quarter core military region and extended right on the coast. that is a capital of the province. there's a big seaport. there are two provinces south of that. >> what were some of your favorite places having lived in the country?? >> of course, my hometown. it is very beautiful. it has a river, the river, the ocean, and the mountains. ->> did you go traveling to the country at all? >> yes, but never to the north. washe north not good to travel? >> it was under communist control. >> as you are both living and working in vietnam, what are some of the memories that you have? >> just arriving in vietnam. those my first overseas assignment in a foreign service. job,getting to know the learning about the people, seeing the different culture. making the adjustments that one has to go through to become a diplomat, a foreign service officer. kid on myry green first overseas assignment so i had a lot to learn. to be

vietnam is still a poor nation.ot with the relaxing of hard line communist economic policies. more and more foreign tourists every year. western chains inevitably are everywhere. and president obama is visiting for the first time, taking another step on the long path toward normalizing relations between the countries. >> live is good. hot. i hit the chili hard. ♪ ♪ >> such a pleasure. we have it ready to go. >> yes. by bottle or put in a glass. >> how would you do it. >> in the glass. in vietnam particularly in the north it would be improper for a woman to drink straight from the bottle. >> oh -- she's devoted her career to help strengthen the bonds between vietnam and the u.s. today redrove to the outskirts of hanoi. tall buildings. people moving from the country to the city. mark jack could bes, prad da. >> very much a young country. >> kentucky fried chicken, a lot of time on internet. history of our country is history of war. 1,000 years under the chinese, and then we had 80 years under the french, and then the

we think about vietnam as a monolith. we don't understand that people were refugees in their own country, and then they were refugees again. just to be brief, you just have to look out the window to see the impact of 1968 on philadelphia. >> one of the legacies along with the militarization peace, wars on crime, etc., but also a lack of confidence in the american role in the world. certainly the u.s. was rightly shaken up about what it was doing, and vietnam was the beginning of that concern and demoralization and what are we doing anyway. like 1968, most people agree we should not be the world's policeman. today, we are dealing with a whole other issue around that, what is the american role in the world? does the united states have a role in the world as it did for much of the cold war, at least in the sense that the u.s. stands for values, democracy, or our present situation where we have a president questioning that, that the u.s. role in the world may not be as expansive. in those ways of introducing principles, for e

that airpower campaign can show south vietnam and north vietnam and even our allies, look at u.s. resolve when we are in a conflict in this cold war environment. this is our resolve against communism. the more practical ideas are, we need some kind of strategic destruction of the north vietnamese ability to make war. where are all the material coming from? is it north vietnamese industry or not? this is the idea, not only is a strategic to graft or transportation but also to prevent that stuff from moving around. the transportation line -- the reason for it is even if stuff is coming from outside, to help prevent that keeping north vietnam sustained, make them feel the pain of war. let's to an interdiction campaign that prevents material from going from the north down to the south, primarily through laos. the development happening in 1964, if we do a strategic air campaign. then there is another incident, there is a lot of small attacks. insurgency is still happening in the south. we get a situation in the gulf of tonkin off the shore of north vietnam where patrol boats attack int

the vietnam vets i found to be more reluctant. but, yes, there is reluctance among world war ii vets with some of the things that they saw and struggled with as you can imagine. >> you told the story a moment ago but what is going through your mind as you talk with the veterans? >> it's interesting. i am an entrepreneur as well, and one of the things i often experience is a moment where i see what real stress is and realize it's the kind of stress that i think i deal with, it's nothing compared to the dangers and risks and horrors that these folks saw to pay for our freedom. >> and that often includes the loss of a comrade, a friend. have you heard those stories? can you explain? >> absolutely. we have heard many of the stories. some of them stick with you and stay with you. for example, a bomber crew flying over the mediterranean began to go down and the pilot said prepare to bail out. one of the soldiers in the tail did bail out. misunderstood the rule or got anxious. they were able to fix the engines in flight or get them opera

during the vietnam war. this restores the presumption of service connection for those suffering from diseases that have been linked to agent orange. our nation's heroes have answered the call to protect the liberties we enjoy on a daily basis. today it's our turn to answer the call and assist our veterans in return. i urge my colleagues to support this very important bill. i thank chairman roe and representative valadao for leading the charge and not giving up. i know we didn't agree on the pay-for initially. chairman roe did not give up and worked tirelessly on behalf of our veterans. i'm so proud to serve on this committee. let's pass this good bill and get it to the senate. i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman reserves the balance of his time. the gentleman from california. mr. takano: i continue to reserve. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman reserves the balance of his time. the gentleman from tennessee. mr. roe: general bacon, i appreciate the opportunity to yield one minute to one o

the fall of south vietnam to communism in 1975 and the unification of vietnam was a huge blow to theite house, right as it was fighting this battle with conservatives over detente. although president ford blamed the democratic congress, presidential advisors were shrewd enough to know that much of the public would blame him. in the days before the final evacuation, people saw military and civilians being evacuated from south vietnam. one sergeant in the u.s. marine corps, valdez, recalled, we began seeing the south vietnamese military changing out of their uniforms into civilian clothes because they didn't want to be caught once the north came in. he -- it's hard to describe how surrounded we were at the u.s. embassy. we had no idea who the enemy was and who we should try to let in and to evacuate. 28 months earlier, nixon had promised peace with honor but a peace that would be a victory for the united states. that wasn't what the country was watching on their television sets. [video clip] >> the vietnamese who have worked for them and who might be in danger. the plan was for a helic

now there are finite limits to the destruction vietnam can absorb.e time is at hand when we must decide whether it's futile to destroy vietnam in the effort to save it. >> we are prepared to move immediately toward peace through negotiations. >> daddy tried to the end to get peace with vietnam. >> i'm no goddamn fascist. i'm trying to settle this thing. both daughters' husbands are going out. one is going to hue and the other to da nang, right there in the middle of it. god knows i'm more concerned than anybody. on the plane tvinak out to get and so there's a picture of chuck and me carrying this tin of cookies. and before he left on the airplane, i am now pregnant, but it's secret. and he says to me, i have signed my will, and if i'm killed, the marine corps will take care of everything. >> now as in the past the united states is ready to send representatives to any forum at any time to discuss the means of bringing this ugly war to an end. >> by the end of march, president johnson is in despair. bobby kennedy, his great nightmare, is in the race. >

it was just a workup for vietnam. do this. don't ever do this. when we sit in a position, they would say if you were in vietnam, this is the most likely avenue approach. this is where the north vietnamese would come from, so it was great training. great training. when i returned 18 and returned from the med, i was quickly sent over to vietnam. >> were any of those returning vets the one you met, were they shook up at all or worried about you guys? >> yes. if you nodded off in a class, they became extremely agitated saying you better take this seriously. this is serious stuff. they were very careful with our weapons and rifle fire reminding us, repeatedly, if one of these bullets hits you, it will be devastating. you better be careful with these things. these are not toys. many of these guys had been wounded. it's kind of a shock. the shower is communal showers with six shower heads in a stall. so you could see bullet locals in these guys and the massive surgery intended to repair. it was scary and sobering, so i paid attention. >> how did that af

. >> richard nixon played a subtle political game on the vietnam war.that plan. >> when and if we win this election, i hope the war will be over. but if it is not over, i will welcome a new team to go in and that will not be tied in with the things of the past. >> now humphrey was articulating something that many americans felt but weren't hearing from richard nixon. >> does this change your opinion of him as a candidate? >> it might. >> why is that? >> because everybody wants the bombing to stop. >> when humphrey gave the salt lake city speech, it really alarmed me. because he united that party that had been ripped apart all year. and you could hear the footsteps behind where i was. >> the anti-war activists, they stopped heckling him. >> in charlotte, north carolina, a you of 10,000 people cheered the vice president wildly. and he loved it. it was about the same wherever he went. tennessee, west virginia, florida. the vice president gained new confidence. >> i need you, quite frankly, i think you may need me. >> nixon spends his whole life running sca

the condition that north neat vietnam has asked for has been met.peace talks, will happen. well in saigon november 1st, the president stands up and drops his major bombshell. >> translator: south vietnam cannot participate in the negotiations. >> i have no more things to tell you. >> embarrassment is commonly today among americans here in vietnam particularly those of us who have acquaintances among the vietnamese. we find ourselves apologizing. >> once we heard the means were not aboard, i said let this play out, when the south vietnam thing breaks it's going to look like johnson didn't have all his ducks in a row and it's as political as can be. >> i think president johnson wen into this bombing clause with the very best intentions. i think the reason the ducks were not in a row is he was relying on an old team. a team of well-intentioned men but they're tired. i think we need a new team. a new team that won't make these mistakes. which most pills don't. flonase helps block 6 key inflammatory substances. most pills only block one. flonase. i'm sti

when i'm talking about is not only the experience of vietnam veterans. but i'm talking about a narrative of the war lack of faith in the government and what the narrative does is to allow that group of alliances and increase paramilitary and increase violence so the title of my book bringing the war home calls our attention to the way white power is related to others in the same time period. a very literal extension in civilian space and a major activist throughout his life with the white revolution he would wage at home. including interventions and the gulf war. he remembered nothing else it overruns times and space. and two other takeaways. and that was covered in reported at the time it occurred. with morning news shows and then we knew about that. and with that misunderstanding and that strategy to construct that ideology particularly after oklahoma city. that left open the possibility every surgeon so that we knew and we forgot. so there are many misconceptions and to discuss power violence and that it is a social movement. that the religious ceremo

westmoreland takes a beating from historians about vietnam. whether or not he was the right guy for vietnam, i am not here to talk about, but i will tell you he was a first rate chief of staff. he came home from vietnam in june of 1969. he had several things on his mind. he wanted to integrate women into the force. why do you think you wanted to do that? think about it for a second. why would you want to add more women to the force in 1969? the answer is, he was a victim of mcnamara's project 100,000. 100,000 soldiers were put in the u.s. army who did not meet that did not meet minimum standards for enlistment. westmoreland knew we could do better by integrating women into the army, and tap the talent of women, because women in those days were a better risk in terms of insurance, in terms of being trustworthy, a better risk in terms of finishing school, they had a lot of things to commend them. he wanted to put women into jungle fatigues and put them out into the fields in the 1960's in vietnam. guess who fought him? the women's army corps? wh

they were burning babies in vietnam.rian: in this documentary, how -- segment you are interested in doing? joe: it started out that it was only going to be a documentary of the catonsville nine. i did not know that there was a .c that existed it happened in chicago and it reached upstate new york and there was a flower conspiracy and the olfaction in providence rhode island -- providence, rhode island. as i was researching the story, there was so much more story to tell. [no audio]the the catonsville 9 the first of these? joe: no. two of the members were repeat offenders and put themselves in double jeopardy and were tried and lucy's longer sentences because of that. brian: how many of the nine were catholic? joe: two of them were catholic priests. there was dan and phil berrigan. .o them were christian brothers there was a third priest, thomas melville. three of them had been missionaries with the marital order-- with the marinol that went to water model. and margarita was a nun. brian: here is from your documentary --

they were burning babies, literally, in vietnam. [end video clip] brian: in this documentary, how did you partition off which part you were interested in doing? joe: it originally started out that it was only going to be a documentary of the catonsville 9. it was encouraged by the members of the 9. i did not know that there was a d.c. 9 that existed. that led to finding out an action had happened in chicago. it reached upstate new york and the rochester flower conspiracy and the olfaction in providence , rhode island. i sort of learned as i research and was writing the story, there was so much more story to tell. brian: was the catonsville 9 the first of these? joe: no. it was actually the second. the first was the baltimore involved two members of the catonsville nine, and it happened in october of 1967. two of the members were repeat offenders and basically put themselves in double jeopardy . they were try for both actions and received longer sentences because of that. brian: how many of the nine were catholic priests? joe: two of

vietnam, saying, go, go, go. and so a game howard lonesteen who send one term in congress, leading the antiwar movement decided signing petitions and having protest made won't work. he need to find somebody who will challenge johnson directly on the vietnam war and everybody's number one choice is bobby expend they went to see bobby and talked to him three, three, four times times and he , forget immigrant. ... >> you get to washington, as freshman in college, once you get to washington you work like mad to get into the club, you want to be with the power brokers, you want to be with people making policy so they can put you an committees. gene mccarthy could care less. he would mock the leaders of the senate and give interviews, the senate is really, it's kind of like some new guinea, the senate leadership hated mccarthy, he couldn't care less. he jumps into the race for the presidency to have united states. no other candidate like mccarthy he jumps into the race and reporter asked him at press conference, why do

out of vietnam. every time bobby kennedy gave a rabid antiwar speech, it seemed like the next day, lbj increased the bombing. mr. green: one of the things that struck me in the book that i did not remember -- mr. tye: would you tell us how many times you've read the book, by the way? mr. green: i'm the only person in america who has read the book twice. i think. mr. tye: my wife. mr. green: his wife has read it five times because every day he goes home and says, "did you ead it again?" what lyndon johnson did with the civil rights bill for which he gets enormous credit was put bobby in charge of putting it through. the purpose for doing that was that if it failed, he would have bobby to blame. mr. tye: i think there were two of purposes. one is exactly what you said and two, he wanted it. he knew there was nobody better who could play off the dead president's memory. you also have to understand, jack kennedy filed a civil rights bill -- there was a better bill than what lbj ended up with, but jack ke

they did this is a protest of the vietnam war. notable thing is the age of these protesters ranged from 26 years old to 46 years old. most of them were not in danger of ever being drafted. two of them were veterans. skizz: they waited around to be arrested. knowing the arrests would make the news and lead to a trial, keeping them in the news. those how many of prison?t to joe: all of them, except one who went underground. four of them decided to go underground after the trial and after sentencing rather than report for their prison sentences. mary stayed underground for nine years and eventually turned herself in. i'm not sure if she actually had to serve prison time, but some of them served up to three and a half years in prison. brian: brian: where is catonsville, maryland? skizz: it's a suburb of baltimore. right on the outskirts of baltimore county, right outside the city. did they pick that? what's out there? skizz: the draft board there was easily accessed. it was a small, quiet town. the previous action of the baltimore 4 w

widows whose husbands had died in vietnam. blacks his neighborhood still small. and the young whose dreams had been shattered to send. awning to national cemetery. to probably. was gunned down just five years apart reunited. president john f. kennedy's murder in dallas on november twenty second one thousand nine hundred sixty three that ended the age of american innocence and plunged the country into violence and social turmoil. at his brother's funeral bobby kennedy was consumed by remorse and guilt. and as he reflected on the political life he had shared with john he asked himself who had killed his brother and why. john and bobby kennedy had made numerous sentiments including maffia bosses f.b.i. director j. edgar hoover fidel castro labor union leaders like jimmy hoffa and southern racists . in january nine hundred sixty four lee harvey oswald's widow marina testified before the warren commission which was investigating jav kay's assassination. oswald was shot and killed by jack ruby a dallas nightclub owner who was said to have ties to organized crime. bobby

my uncle my father ran for one reason, to and vietnam. if he had one we had gotten out and gone a different direction. but that was to ensure that we became more powerful and militarism has now become the hallmark. those traumas, they were in and and i would include 9/11. each one pushes us further down the road. you talking about my father's travels. people. [inaudible] one of the things that really turn the cia against my uncle as he gave a speech in 1956 about -- being ruled by the africans. it was led by stevenson opposed him and condemned him. the republicans, rockefeller and nixon also condemned him because at that time there is a bulwark against -- and we needed to support our nato allies who worst trying to hold on to their colonial empires. when i traveled in africa and other countries the united states. i met thousands of people in those countries because he made that stage. it is difficult measuring the success. if people do it by pulling or pulling historians. one of the ways to measure it is that if you measure it based upon

the kennedy visit to vietnam saigon'sit to airport. they left the plane briefly during an hour and a half stopover. time, of course, in 1962, there were far fewer americans there than there are now. on the lush island of bali, the kennedys wore the traditional flowers and were showered by flower petals. romantice of their stops, a bit of relaxation. a stop robert kennedy could take in style in stride. on his arrival in west kennedy was met and together they reviewed a guard of honor. he called the berlin wall shameful and before he left the city, he recorded a message for to east berlin citing the difficulties under which the residents lived. in rome, the kennedys were granted a private audience johnxiii, one of many visits the kennedy family have made. in hisnt kennedy visit a year later met with paul.ccessor pope >> those were the thousand days of the kennedy administration, the spirit of what was called camelot of a young president who had countryto get the moving again, but it all ended that terrible november day in dallas. news co

there's a lot of ignorance about the culture of vietnam.n one of the worst divisions of the war, the way the world was, you could do anything you wanted, kill people because it was are ready seen as a violation of rules and not a criminal act. that is how they covered up stuff. they were told they were going to meet the enemy for the first time in three months. they had never seen the enemy. they went into this village about 500 people, possibly more. they expected to see the enemy. the intelligence was that. -- the intelligence was bad. instead of meeting the enemy, there were just families, women and children and old men. they began to murder them. they put them in ditches. they raped and killed. they blew babies up. this is hard for me -- bayonets. some of the stuff i kept out of the initial story because it was so awful. juan: you initially heard there was a lieutenant being charged with some of these atrocities? talk about how you track him down. >> it came from a wonderful man named jeff collin was just out of law school. he was in a

the early bobby kennedy went to vietnam and said in vietnam, "we will stand by you because we think you can win this war and it is an important war to fight." one of the primary authors of the u.s. counterinsurgency strategy was bobby kennedy, and senated up in the u.s. and said, "i was wrong." he did that on issue after issue, so that is the standard. it's the later bobby kennedy, called "the good bobby." bobby was, the good the dominant personality and the one who was running for president and who would have made, i think, one of the great presidents, and is not accidental that barack obama, and i think hillary clinton, look as their role models more than any politicians in american history to bobby kennedy being the one they want to model themselves after. i would like to say one last inng -- bill green introducing me joked that i had written books on very strange named including on a guy superman. i wrote a biography of superman, and i would like to just present this shirt to build green. it is -- i won't make you put it on tonight. [applause] but give him a wonderful round of appla

i ended up being shipped off to vietnam. i started my tour, took a couple months' leave in july, 1968. >> you went to vietnam in july, 1968? mr. reilly: that's correct. >> well, tell me about arriving in country and where you arrived when you got there. mr. reilly: we arrived basically in saigon, what they call tan son nhut air base. the first thing that struck me, there were metal screens all over every window on the bus to keep out grenades. welcome to the war zone. and we got off the bus and i saw the only air-conditioned room i will ever see in vietnam while we waited for processing and went to different units according to the needs at the time. i wound up in the 199th light infantry brigade in a place called long ben. that was our headquarters. we ran operations -- initially that was brigade headquarters, of course, and then we went out for about a week of training, orientation into the country, and we went out at a battalion level, different battalion locations and you had platoon and squad operations included with tha

the united states ingested the violence of vietnam. 696 arrests were made. 109 injuries were reported. most of the injuries occurred outside of the buildings. >> there was this tide swelling across the country in which cities were burned to the ground. >> a voice was being raised by way of social consciousness and demonstration. and it was an angry voice. the revolution was televised and was televised live. >> dissent is a necessary ingredient of change, but in a system of government that provides for peaceful change there is no cause that justifies resort to violence. let us recognize that the first civil right of every american is to be free from domestic violence. so i pledge to you we shall have upder in the united states. h the phrasethe silent center." >> there are millions of people who do not demonstrate or who do not picket or protest loudly. this is the unspoken voice of america. this is the silent center. >> what that referred to was how the media was holding up these young student insurgents as the paragons of morality, and

vietnam, civil rights, poverty.time he took what was at the time he took it a minority position. the -- they say the negro has made great progress, which is true. they say he should be satisfie d tit, which is neither true or realistic. [applause] >> and iy man aims that -- the negro should be content or satisfied, let him say, he would be willing to change the color of the skin and go to live in the negro section of any of our major cities. [applause] >> i have some differences that -- differences of some importance with the administration on vietnam. but i do not think the answer or solution for vietnam is to question the patriotism of those we disagree with. i do not think we have been putting enough of our resources into the fight against poverty in the last few years. undoubtedly, the reason is because the cost of the war of -- the war in vietnam. but we spent last year in a war against poverty. we spent the equivalent of 2.5 weeks in the war of vietnam. we can do better than that. >> the word ruthless was appl

by now, we are starting to accelerate into vietnam. johnson started to send combat troops over and when we got into 1967, the vietnam war has been going on a solid three years of open combat. we had almost half a million troops over in vietnam. a number of u.s. senators was becoming antiwar senators. kennedy was starting to move in that direction from 67, 66 and 667 but wouldn't commit to it. .. >> to find somebody who will challenge johnson directly and his number one choice is bobby kennedy and they talk to him and bobby said forget it. he cannot be beat on the endorsement and at one point said you will be sorry. and this train is leaving. sorry but this will not work. and the senator eugene mccarthy. and then to jump into the race. if anybody ever looked like president it was eugene mccarthy. and then to work like mad. and then to put you on the good committees. mccarthy could care less he would not knock the leaders of the senate. it is like a new guinea leprechaun with their seniority and to care of us for any of them. no other ca

we spent the equivalent of 2.5 weeks on the war of vietnam.can do better than that. >> the word ruthless was applied years ago when he was in the senate rackets committee. .is style seemed tough it seemed too self-confident, too sophisticated. he pursued the demons of segregation, racketeering, and price rigging and a manner many thought too seles. listening to people talk about robert kennedy, it was hard to believe they were talking about the same man. >> he looks too oppressive and is much too rude. he is too concerned about the people around him. he is concerned about people in general. he has been built up with this sort of idolatry, and i guess he shouldels that everybody do what he wants and accept his judgment of all problems. >> i think it stems mostly from the fact that he has had the courtesy his had the kurds to ds right and take it head on. -- the courage to take it head on. i would describe bob as dedicated and loyal. saying qualify that by that bob believes so strongly in the ends that he is pursuing that he has not over scrupul

training for vietnam made no sense at all but that's how it worked. thatrted to remember march, i was up at a bunker we helped to build. checking the tree for any kind .f greenery at all finally, it did get there. infantry from advanced training. it would have been something like mark. >> what is involved in advanced infantry training? >> basic combat training, you'll learn how to be a soldier, to shoot, you learn about the military justice, for example. and you get a lot of conditioning in there. con that into hand basic training but advanced infantry training, you're more into weapons. grenades, ami think a second. gun, andhe machine infantry track -- tactics. emily: how long did the training last? mr. reilly: also eight weeks. from there, i was offered a thation at a school and was the sorriest thing i saw in the service. i refused and would have no part of it. i wound up in georgia at the height of the vietnam war, trained only in the infantry as far as the army was concerned. only my mother was surprised. tour with a couple months leave in july o

klansman and neo-nazis who were desperate before the vietnam war to come together. announcer: plus, why amazon is preparing to ship your package -- to the moon? [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. visit ncicap.org] soledad: i am soledad o'brien. welcome to "matter of fact." a new study out of harvard university is upping the estimate of the dead in the wake of hurricane maria in puerto rico. the new number is just under 5000, 70 times higher than the official death toll of 64. the research team not only counted the bodies after the storm hit. asking about their experiences in the weeks and months after the hurricane hit. that is when most of the island was without power and the infrastructure was in ruins. the death toll is a controversial subject because many argue that both the federal government in washington and rer thoroughly enough after the storm. dr. irwin redlener is the national director for disaster preparedness at columbia university. it's nice to see you. it's been a long

and that according to the asia internet coalition will stifle the growth of vietnam's digital economy the new cyber law takes effect on january first next year and in india there have been more cases of fear mongering over the messaging service what's leading to people actually getting killed what's the latest case as we've reported before richard india is what saps biggest market more than two hundred million users the spreading of false messages and fake news is common and it spreads very very quickly making it difficult if not impossible for the or thirty's to debunk recently there's been a rash of child kidnapping stories and when two men asked for directions in a small village in the state of assam they were attacked beaten to death by a mob who reportedly believed they were indeed the kidnappers they've been warned about on whatsapp they were just in the wrong place at the wrong time and these words are proof is what specifically do they consist of what's actually being shared here people are citing messages that have been circulating about men disguising themselves as women to

mentioned it the medium as still resonates the name of the judge with maybe historians of vietnam you tell in this book the story of trying to find sources and witnesses just describe what you go into that is why i just got a tip about it and you know i covered it's not as if i came from nothing i've been a police reporter in chicago and let me tell you about being a police reporter in one thousand nine hundred sixty wanted to go to go it was you learned a couple things you learned all about the weakness as my first job i copied was working for a news agency that covered crimes and police chases and so what i learned was you could do anything you want as a reporter was great fun you're on the street you're reporting about fires and murders but if a cop kills a black person that's off the books you know no matter what your words are going to be taken and if if you ever get into the police relationship with the mafia in chicago you know this is sam giancana though some of those names some of your people know the famous mafioso as you could you could you can see. we fight some guy in the