wabash valley. kids spend their time behind the walls in the wabash youth unit.3-cell block becomes the fortress of the mundane. they rarely leave the cell blocks due to the dangers just outside their door. >> at night that's when it really gets to you. you just think like all the things you could have been doing on the outside, everything that you're missing out on. >> the kids incarcerated in indiana do not come in an all-size fits one package. colt is doing 30 years for conspiracy to commit murder. 18-year-old robert committed battery and threatened to hurt a police officer. he's serving a two year sentence. >> i'm the ccu for fighting. >> he's at the start of a three-month stint in segregation. >> we was playing cards and a guy smacked my face with the cards and so i ran up on him and hit him a couple times and then he's on the ground, i started kicking him. >> so what brought you to wabash in the first place? >> i went to see my brother in the juvenile block. i got in trouble just to come here. >> you got in trouble on the outside to get arrested so you coul

. >>> on the western edge of southern indiana is the wabash valley town of carlisle where main street conjures images of a by gone era and besides the daily passing of a csx freight line, this one-light town might be all but forgotten. just a couple miles down u.s. 41 is evidence that carlisle is hardly forgotten. >> it's out in the middle of nowhere. what going on out here? prison. that's what goes on out here. >> surrounded by little else but big skies, the wabash valley correctional facility houses more than 2,000 convicted felons, including some of the highest security prisoners in the state. it's a fortress amid farms. >> we have a total of seven towers blanketing the facility including one tower in the center of the south yard. we have two sets of fences around the facility. the inner fence is a nonlethal stun fence. the inside fence is a 14 foot fence covered with razor ribbon. shaker alarm on the motion detector. motion detector in between the fences. we think the perimeter is secure for us. >> security is tight inside the perimeter as well. especially in the secured confineme

if you started nor lindsay go to mississippi for the ohio river to the wabash river through the wabash and erie canal into lake erie, through lake erie to the erie canal to the hudson. that is incredible highway and the hub is toledo. as stephen mason was the first governor to challenge that adjustment that ohio made and the governor of ohio, robert lucas said hey, we erased tape. yuri territory. you cannot alter a state line without her consent. i am abbreviating things are missed here, the mason cityoutcome of this term is going to stop this? ecliptic territorial militia. lucas had my attorney will call you and we are too malicious his two thieves and what is known is toledo war, which almost part the full-scale combat, but didn't because congress quickly intervened and said to michigan, how about this? located this peninsula appear cutting off -- what is it? wisconsin. hardly anyone living near. and if we do not how about you in ohio have its way? to simplify, michigan and they said okay we'll take the deal. robert lucas went on to become the territorial vitter iowa it was in that c

. >> our crew got a glimpse of how prevalent self-mutilation is at the wabash correctional facility inna. >> i need to go on 11. >> 11. >> 11 range, thank you. >> prison psychologist mary ruth simms conducts group therapy with cutters and other self-mutilators assigned to wabash's secured housing unit. >> if i see my blood, in another world i'm somebody totally different from myself. that's the only time i can actually, you know, feel real, feel alive, feel like everything's going to be okay. >> simms says this particular group does not injure themselves for the typical reasons. >> they self-injured as a way to control their level of pain. that when they're in so much pain they don't know what to do, they are starting to feel like suicide, self-injury cuts their pain down. so it is pain control. >> you give the baby a bottle because he is crying, change his diaper. me you give me something sharp to hurt myself with and i'm fine. >> you're communicating things are not okay for yourself. >> if i don't cut myself at least once a week i'm not right. >> some people here think there's nothin

one in particular was called the wabash and erie canal.a connected the wabash river where that circle is on the map to the mommy river. what that did was create a waterway to the entire hinterland of the united states. i'll start at the bottom. this is now looking at this map. if you start at new orleans you go up the mississippi, to the ohio river, to the wabash river through the wabash and erie canal into lake erie to the lake erie to the erie canal to the hudson to the ocean. that is an incredible highlight. and the hub is toledo. [laughter] so stevens t. mason was the first governor, talking still a territory of michigan, to challenge that adjustment that ohio made. and the governor of ohio, robert lucas, said hey, we are a state, you're a territory. you cannot alter a state line, you know, without our consent. i am abbreviating things enormously here, but -- [laughter] mason in effect subject, and whose army is going to stop us? he called up the territorial militia. lucas said my arm is going to stop you and he called of ohio's militi

webw lives on wabash avenue and also own a vacant loss next door which has water meter. she has two water bills to pay every three months the most recent bill was 19,34-- $19.300.44 and was more than in all the years she owned the property. >> i wasn't using that much water and from the time she said this was wrong because we had paid this house and this too the lot. and we didn't owe anything not a penny. >> reporter: abc2 news contacted the city's department of public works a spokesman says webb's bill was misreading of the meeters and -- meters and human error she doesn't have to pay the $19,000 water bill. sherrie johnson, abc2 news. >>> this morning all caught on tape. you won't believe this a school bus driver in florida watching her cell phone not the road. the bus is moving and you can see that over her right shoulder and she is keeping her eyes from the phone to the road. and now in all she spends 10 seconds looking at the phone. the bus driver told her supervisor she was watching a game on her phone. >>> an oklahoma high school student is in the hospital after

webw lives on wabash avenue and owns the vacant lot next door with a water meter. she has two water bills to pay and the most recent bill for the vacant lot was 19,300.44. this is more taft total amount she -- this more than the total amount she paid for all the water bills in the more than 42 years she owned the property. >> there's no water on the lot. never been any water. no house has been there. >> i talked to the water people, and they fixed it. >> did they? >> it's fixable. i appreciate that base knew i wasn't going to fix it. -- because i knew i wasn't going to fix it. >> reporter: a spokesman says the bill was a result of a misreading of the meters. it was human error and she doesn't have to pay the $19,000 bill. sherrie johnson, abc2 news. >>> news around the nation in indiaa video last month of a police say it was an attack on a officer. this is dash cam video from the day. investigators say the suspect led officers on a chase and after the car crashed police say gunman stabbed an officer in the face and other officers on the scene then opened fire killi

raise money by selling ads on city property a new bank of america signs are now plastered on the wabash avenue bridge over the chicago river the mayor hopes to collect $25 million for the city through public at sales last year the city council approved an ordinance giving the city the power to place signs and other promotional materials on bridge houses a chicago tribune online poll found 96 percent did not like bridgeheads >>we have more coming up next at noon ... more on those occupied protesters evicted from zucotti park in new york city and it's an update on the disgraced penn state football coach and the foreign policy question that caused herman cain to♪ ♪ you want to save money on car insurance? no problem. you want to save money on rv insurance? no problem. you want to save money on motorcycle insurance? no problem. you want to find a place to park all these things? fuggedaboud it. this is new york. hey little guy, wake up! aw, come off it mate! geico. saving people money on more than just car insurance. i occupy wall street protesters are returning to the new york city park wit

investigators said that the two approached the carcass he was getting into his car behind station at 94 than wabash last night. the man pulled a gun on the clerk and ordered him out but the crooks let back during the struggle the man toss the gun to the woman who then shot the clerk of the stomach the two of them ran off and the clerk was taken to christ hospital where he is listed in serious but stable condition. >>peapod grocery delivery driver guillermo palin get has been arrested in the sexual assault of a woman in her south loop home he is expected in court today to face charges for the attack in october on 1100 block of south michigan avenue the victim a woman in her twenties told police that she is attacked and sought for apartment officials and not said whether he was making a delivery at that time >>a jesuit priest is being held on $100,000 bond in chicago on charges of sexually assaulted the boy 10 years ago in colorado the rev. richard kurtz was arrested yesterday at the society of jesus office on north clark street authorities say that reverend hertz assault a boy in 2001 south of denve

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. >> when we visited the shu at indiana's wabash valley correctional facility, the staff made it clearhe shu can be the worst day in the shu in about two seconds. some of the challenges we face are the threat of being gunned down, as we say in here, having feces or urine thrown on you, spit, blood, semen, anything you can think of has happened in this building. >> but for inmates in the shu, the monotony brings a horror of its own. they told us what it was like to spend 23 hours a day in a windowless concrete cell, sometimes for years at a time. >> it's like you're always trying to find a way to come up for air. this place suffocates you. you know what i'm saying? >> it's a tomb for me. you know? it's like a tomb. it's like a tomb, a concrete tomb. what if they would have sent these punk ass dudes to -- and he would have succeeded in killing them, right? >> during our first day on the shu, we walked into a heated exchange about murder. >> what you saying about the killer? you saying both killer. >> but it wasn't about prison violence. >> showed up, saying that macbeth sent him. >> it w

and wabash at mount hope drive. let's take a live look. as you can see, traffic still continuing to build on the north side at harford road. this traffic report is brought to you by amazon. check out their free app for blackberry, android 7. >>> straight ahead. violence on the soccer field. but it is not players launching the assault. >>> reassuring news for parents of children on adhd medication. don't miss healthy watch. >>> three teens charged with felony assault. the unusual weapon they used in the parking lot attack. >>> a terrific tuesday outside. lots of sunshine and mild temperatures. more on those changes in the first warning forecast. >>> a romanian soccer fan is charged with breaking a player's cheek in bucharest. check this out. after he is hit in the face, his teammates knock the guy to the ground and started beating him. he was whisked away by security. the player remains sidelined with a broken cheekbone and will be sidelined for 45 days. the referee called the game. >>> caused by an improperly positioned track switch. the r

that appeared to be the case with an articulate young inmate we met at wabash correctional facility in indiana. but before our crew could really get to know 23-year-old jonathan richardson, they had to get past his appearance. >> seeing jonathan richardson for the first time was kind of shocking. you had to wonder what was going through that guy's head to do that to himself. he stood out. >> when i first saw jonathan walking down the corridor it was like, whoa, i've seen some -- some odd-looking dudes in prison, but i think he was one of the oddest. >> richardson is serving a 55-year sentence for a murder he committed at the age of 19. when we met him, he was assigned to the secured housing unit or shu for the violence he committed behind bars. in this never before seen interview, he explains what happened. >> i got into an altercation with my bunky, i ended up stabbing him. he had wanted certain sexual favors. i wasn't that way. so i ended up stabbing him, basically to defend myself. >> the inmate survived but richardson has not only directed violence towards others, he has turned it

widespread river flooding could be expected in indiana by thursday, the wabash river is of concern.fic northwest by late today. look at the temperatures, carol. 43 in atlanta for a high today and 63 in new york. boo. >> sounds perfect to me though. >> i'm coming to visit. >> please do. you can run through central park with me later this afternoon. >> ooh, i would love it. >> i'll be waiting. >> only five miles, though, that's it. >> that's good. that's perfect. >>> another bombshell against republican presidential hopeful herman cain. a new accuser has come forward with her story. this time it's a story of infidelity. atlanta business woman ginger white claim she and cain had a 13-year affair. reporter amy napier with our atlanta affiliate wsb caught up with white. >> my heart goes out to many people. this was not something that i wanted to hurt anyone, not a fun thing. >> reporter: i asked ginger white why she decided to come forward with her story about an affair with gop presidential candidate herman cain now. >> there were leaks. there were people -- there were threats of people