as hell on earth. >> behind me is a prison gouged out of the windy gray hills that stand outside of lima, peru. the international community of human rights describes this as the worst prison in the world. and any prisoner going inside without his own money to buy food and medication, their fate is sealed. he will rot to death. >> i am where nightmares are eternal. daunte's inferno is real. i take you into the belly of the beast. a a.band oned hope, all he who enter here. i will be the first reporter from the united states to document on hidden camera the horror of the prison. >> the guards don't worry here. they'll shoot, shoot to kill. you're dead. you're dead. there is no morales and no ethical code to go by. it's dog eat dog. the fittest survive. >> his name is john robbins. he walks in the prison three times per week. he's an irish missionary in a place where a cup of fresh water is a reason for murder. his god is a watchful god. >> it's like one... fate made, everything just gets water, when this comes running after three days. and they're dying of thirst. and they're sort of pandemonium. anyone is liable to be murdered you have to buy water. >> in this belly of a lost soul, charles wheaton, a drug smuggler spent 26 months here beyond his six-year sentence talks about starvation without money. >> now, it's after about two months, no food. no food. >> no food in. >> no. not at all. there, they're cooking but there is no water. >> if lucky they can get their hands on what is left from a nearby slaughter house f not, rummaging through garbage to eat refuse that wasn't fit for rodents. >> no medical. nothing. there is no... the only thing to help. >> the guards seem to be specially bred to strike terror into the souls, brutalizing the condemned as a trophy, killing at joy. >> when a person is murdered in prison there is not an open cry as in america. or england. it's a they're led away. >> life goes on in 10 minutes fchl you can call this living. men locked in tiger cages made infamous by viet congress. and human warehouses full of misery. this wasn't the punishment to fit the crime this, is torture. >> and some days it starts. some days it's -- there is family of the first sending in medical communities. >> this poor man was given a piece of filthy gauze to treat his ulcer yaited leg. by the time you see this story only a miracle will prevent him having the leg amputated. >> this is very dangerous. >> worse, he will, as john says, probably die in prison. they took me to their sole source of water. a black mosquito infested puddle of rain water. >> you'll die if you drink that water, dangerous. >> that is terrible. >> yes. >> we have to drink. >> the first of four days, the guards tried to shake me down for money. on that day... i would meet george presidentan. a south african smuggler. they called a one armed man courtesy of a motorcycle accident. >> i saw george friday he told me he's getting out. i didn't believe him. >> but then, the unbelievable... >> hey, george. >> i'm out! i can't believe it. >>. >> hi, how does it feel? >> incredible. >> unbelievable. >> this is freedom. >> there are no words. >> let me take your bag. >> i better say goodbye to my mates. >> last farewell to some, who will never leave alive. >> what a prison. >> i would give george a first beer in six and a half years. >> thank you. >> his first real meal. >> the worst in the back of a hotel. really hell. hell. hell. in a good man, poisoning, stabbing. killing smrks killing people. cutting them into pieces just months ago we found two people that couldn't put half a body in each bag. >> in these cells of hell, everything is bought and paid for. particularly women. even a grim rilt rit twal. a victim? a woman visitor. >> they came looking for her. in a group. they wrap her in blankets, soak them on water put them on the floor. turn up the music nchl a circle. you've got a special art of slapping at human body while they're alive. that is what they did with her while alive. >> george borrows a bike. rides one for the first time since being locked up. he steers and talks about how he thought woe lose that after being stabbed with a bottle. >> you can see this. >> yeah. >> i mean, it's beautiful now. 20 days later. this is snapped open. sewn up with clothing thread, no ant septic on the needle. >> ziploc presents ziplogic. we throw out over $500 in food every year. help save more of it with new ziploc freezer bags... featuring smartzip. edge-to-edge protection you can hear. get ziploc. and get more out of it. s.c. johnson. a family company. two times with comfort inn or any choice hotel, you can feed a family of four. book now at choicehotels.com to start earning your $50 restaurant gift card. [ male announcer ] even before science was science hydrogen bonded with oxygen. and oxygen bonded with carbon. and those were the bonds that link human kind to humanity. fire was fire. and the first language, the language of chemistry, was universal and eloquent. and the unique ability of chemistry to change everything has never changed. it is still the catalyst in the never ending cycle of need and discovery. it is still the hope of human history to come. its still the bond in partial between the elements. hydrogen, oxygen, carbon and human. >> there is 8,000 prisoners in a facility that would house about 1500 in the states there. is nine blocks divided into the communities. one is a homosexual block. others for drug charges. the rest for peruvians. some in jail for four years before they get a trial. >> there is john smith, not his real name, talks in shadows asked for a real voice to be alter sod friends in california won't know he's spent three years in the prison. >> there is every night fires inside of the cell. there is kerosene inside of the cell. there are drugs being smoked. i recall there was my bed set on fire with me in it. >> after constant torture, smith was pushed to the limit. >> i was pleading with them to, stop. i remember that first night... this is a point screaming for them to kill me. >> death can be an attractive alternative. and if tiger cages aren't frightening enough how about getting put in the hole some. >> dungeon. rats, feces all over the place. filthy dirty. stinking dank, filled with murderers. a nightmare. >> i was there five days. they wanted to take my teeth out. >> charles wheaton has a pervian girl girlfriend who is a lawyer. charles isn't starving. not so lucky as pablo from miami. he has been here seven years, sentenced to 25 years for arms dealing. lost 35 pounds in two months. he will die in the prison. >> the i sense that i was here on my own. just because of no medication coming. >> what about your neck? >> the guards. >> this man has snapped throwing water away. he would be attacked that afternoon by prisoners then thrown into this place called the crazy house. four walls no proof. in their mindlessness, perhaps these people are the happiest. >> can you imagine is in the guards are crazier than anyone. >> this lawyer has helped free 15 americans from the prison. >> an american thinking of jail thinks of what they see in the united states. the closest thing they can think of in the movie "midnight express". what is depicted in that institution. and to have experienced this is to have exkbreernsed a night nair. >> these two americans pictures of their bodies were sent by prisoners. they were involved in escape. >> they may have died as a result of their own hands in fear for what is going occur to them or other circumstances. >> simon keeps a grim record of the prison. reminiscent of holocaust victims. >> do you does it feel when you kill people in cold blood over them? >> he recalls with a chill. the guard blew a hole in the army of the prison to execute rebellious prisoners. >> when that block, it felt like a major earthquake. and there is just one of the many, many mass ka kers that we witnessed in this place. there is a brutal disregard for human life. human life, in this jail means nothing. $5, $2. someone wants someone else killed, pay them $2 to do the job. >> i can't... clothes, food. i have to say things like there is a sometimes the lord believes you can work in this situation. >> our hidden camera couldn't record what is about to happen. i got swept way from the crowd. one prisoner tried to hit another with the rock. a missionary doesn't trust his guards this day. he tells me to get out. >> there is is a guard here worried about my presence. >> murderers. no clothes. >> outside of the prison, the women line up for visiting day. their arms are strapped with a number. there is a last wave to the legion of the lot. >> then he'd marvel at the miracle of running water. >> and showered many times the next day. there, he would be violently killed. i'll never forget you. >> this is still peru's largest prison. becoming joran van der sloot slooth's -- if to become joran van der sloot slooth's new digs it would be sweet justice. p you consider the mavericks in half moon bay, you've reached new heights. these waves can break up to 50 feet high. talk about hanging 10. >> woo! >> there is nothing like the perfect ride. and there is biggest of the big, mavericks. a search for a killer ride can be deadly. there is we're thinking we're going die in the rock autos with a force smrks times you don't ride the wave. it rides you. >> and this reminds me of a vish waffle a man skiing everest. he's falling, tumbling and falling, just endless abyss. >> when world class surfer wiped out it was so gnarally it made "new york times" magazine. jay paddles out. and paddles behind me, says hello. and this just stands out. i looked down like look down at a three, four story building. the most morery fiing thing i've seen. this is just a train wreck. >> he escaped with a few bruises. hawaiian mark fu wasn't so lucky. his day was the last of his life. >> i never, never thought would it be someone like mark. >> he was one of the best surfers on the planet. this was fu's last run. people there believe he was sucked down into underwater cave autos those rocks are scary. you go in there, you're not coming out. >> fu knew the risks he was taking. so did the others but to this champion surfer, it's worth it. >> when you hit the beach after a session, it is one of the most yu foric intense feelings that you have. there is no place remotely like it in the world. it's like drugs. addicting. >> it's full on drug. your heart beats. you're scared. skin dog has been surfing mavericks since 1992. >> it's like looking over a five story building. next thing you know, you're hanging up. it's the best. you're almost going to free fall. you just look like this, you're going straight down. that is a rush. your heart is beating you're like, yeah! best feeling in the world, man. nothing cares. nothing. that is it. right there. >> and fear? >> i'll feel butterflies and fear. >> i want to go out there. >> there is sometimes, i catch myself dreaming. >> you've got to love both parts of the game. >> and jeff clark should noi. >> i was scared. surf is out there. couldn't last. and this is like wow. radical. >> that is a need to prove themselves drew the best in the world for the first ever men who ride mountains contest. fox files was there. 15 hand-picked contestants were ready when big waves rolled in. >> waves are here. weather is here. we're going to put together the best big-wave contest yet. >> i kept waking up every hour. and this is waking up at 12:00, 2:00. your heart is going 100 miles per hour. >> with skin dog as our guy, fox files caught the action of the big day. >> there is sure, he had the right look but what about right stuff? ross clack jones as well as peter mel from santa cruz had great days. >> i got fourth. >> and there is when this is over, one man stood out from the pack. >> you're great! >> there is our champion! >> and he mixed it up. he probably caught one of the biggest waves of the day. he got barreled. and did this pit drive. >> this is a wave is with you until you die. you know? 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[ male announcer ] call today or go to esurance.com. from america's news headquarters, a delicate operation is underway in the gulf, crews in the process of replacing a cap over bp's gushing oil well. under sea robots have taken off the existing cover. the plan is to install a tighter dome funneling more oil to collection ships above. if it works it could be contained within days but a permanent solution is still weeks away. and police in the bahamas are baffled by the so called barefoot bandit. authorities say it's been days since there has been credible sightings of the 19-year-old colton harris moore suspected of stealing a plane, then crash landing it. harris moore called barefoot bandit was he was allegedly shoeless, escaping from a group home more than two years ago. now "from the fox files" too. >> when 24-year-old douglas webster died the government didn't want to you know he was carrying an h-bomb. the pilot, the bomb and the cover up. >> this is a sad time. naturally, i think. >> it's christmas. a time to celebrate with family, savoring life's blessings but for margaret webster it brings back painful memories of her beloved son. he died 33 years ago, december 6th, 1965. >> there is a feeling of emptiness comes to me. i can't believe he's gone. >> doug was her only child, a war hero. he died while engaging in a top secret nuclear exercise violating a military treaty with japan. because that have the government erased his very existence. >> i think anger was my reaction. and if find myself getting sentimental, i get angry. that is my defense. >> 85-year-old margaret webster is still devastated by the death and outraged that the truth about the fatal accident was kept secret from her and u.s. public for decades. >> well... the powers that be in the navy and washington are certainly i a bunk of liars. how could they lie 20 years? >> what the government didn't tell webster is that her son died in a nuclear exercise. doug's plane sank to the bottom of the spaific orks carrying doug and a hydrogen bomb. >> respect these young men. who trained and dedicate and give their live to their country. and measure up to them, please? and stop your lying and deceit. >> but why didn't the u.s. government tell the whole story? fox files spent 11 months investigating the mysterious circumstances surrounding the death. there is critical information out of the billions of classified documents the government locked away. 19656789 america was falling in love with anything british. twiggy defined mod and back home in ohio, everyone was consumed with beatles. vietnam was still a distant war though by the end that have year, 2000 american men would die in southeast asia. doug webster, the little boy with a passion for planes couldn't wait to go. >> in training he got a new plane he just thought that was the best. the great yeast doug often wrote home to his mother. >> october 31, of 65. this promises to be a long, dirty tour. but i'm glad i'm here. if something should happen to me, mom, just remember that. this is the way i wanted it. >> doug webster joined attack squadron 56 in the fall of 1965. as a navy pilot, doug was among elite. he would flew 17 successful combat missions over vietnam. after more than 30 years, squadron leader william kneelan was reluctant to talk to use danger is there all the time. it's intense. high level of skill for any pilot. and doug was... exceptionally skilled and very, very good on all of the carrier landings and carrier work. >> however confident webster did confide he had concerns about the open seas. >> i do have fears. it's rather unlikely any jet pilot operating off carriers doesn't. i'm anxious about this pitching deck i've heard about over here. >> with disturbing accuracy, webster predicted the circumstances of his own death. >> a little bit bothered about the chance of getting blown overboard while still in the cockpit. i just couldn't look at it. i left it in a box 20 years. it's such a personal thing. it brings back a lot of pain. a lot of memory autos douglas webster sank more than 16,000 feet into the ocean. a prisoner in his own plane. his mother heard shocking news from a telegram delivered by a cab driver. >> no one from the military reached out to me except this letter from a commander said in this letter that... the accident was in no way caused by the dead crew, or people connected with it. telling me it was doug's fault. >> to ases blame directly on doug or for her to feel that the only thing left was nobody else was assigned a level of error or blame that then, it must have been doug's error, i can understand how she would, could feel that way. it certainly wasn't meant to be. >> documents at yaibed by fox files reported the accident was reported to us us atomic nfrg commission and president lindon johnson. some details of the nuclear training exercise remain a secret to this day. >> because it was a nuclear weapon. we had very firm restrictions on confirming or denying the events of nuclear weapons aboard ships. aboard the air station. they basically that restriction still exists. >> what did happen? buried in his deck log from that day, we can see scant records to the death. but no explanation. fox files tracked down three eye wits and brought them to the intrepid, a mere twin of the ticonderoga. airman bill lane through within 30 feet of the sky hawk being pushed on to ship elevator. >> they're rolling this airplane back. seems it started to accelerate as it hit the elevator. the plane pushers about 20 of us are trying to stop this plane from rolling off this side. >> moving aplane from the hangar deck to flight deck was routine but something went awry. >> last i saw him, he put his hands on the cockpit and looked out. he couldn't make this plane stop. >> another eye witness, rick bailey, a member of the fuse crew recounts of horror of what he saw that day from the flight. >> i saw a plane go over. i saw the pilot just like he was like this, going to try to get out. >> grabbing the airplane... trying to hold it on the ship and it won't stay. it just went over, backwards. we lost him. >> seconds later bill lane remembers that the a 4 e carried a 500 pound nuclear pay load. >> i can see headline ship disappears in a cloud of vapor. >> the commanding officer made an announcement over the public address system. that none of the personnel aboard ship should write or say anything about the accident. >> this is all a cover up. they wanted to deny it that the accident ever happened saying he never lived and though he never died because they wouldn't acknowledge it. which is quite awful. >> it was not until 24 years later in 1989 that margaret webster learned the truth about the death. not from the government, but from joshua handler a researcher at greenpeace. antinuclear activist group. >> i found out about the bomb being on his plane. and 88 or 89 through greenpeace. >> he discovered a small item in a list. >> one that was of interest to us was a rather brief rever yens to an 54 aircraft lost an h bomb in the pacific more than 500 miles from land. the carrier was close. >> and in fact the h bomb lost about 80 miles off the coast of japan. >> i think the government lied, not told the truth the last 20-30 years that it only had a small note saying he died in operations. >> i think they could erase a great deal of my hurt by putting doug's name on the wall where it belongs. he earned that. >> letter skmz z.memories are all margaret has left of her son, doug. >> this is a letter i received from doug saying though i'm always thinking it in my heart, particularly today i'd like to say what you have not put into words, mother. i have always thought that i am what i am today all because of you. what i have somehow managed to do up until now and including what i hope to do in the future is inconceiveable without your support. >> margaret finds solace of happy memories of christmas when doug was a child. >> one of the things i remember about christmas is that one time he was sick. we had gotten him a bicycle. and he wanted so much to ride that bike. and i finally said, okay. and he rode it around in the living room, kifen into the hall, went around and around. and that satisfied him. that was a good christmas for him. christmas comes on the fact you're not going hear from him. he's not there for you. you have so-to-accept that every christmas. >> margaret webster passed away in 2005. her son douglas is name snot on the vietnam veteran's memorial wall because technically he was not killed in a combat zone. but his bravery and sacrifice should should never being for gotten. >> up next, the lady is a champ, and a knockout. >> when she step food the ring there was a crowd. a real beauty and a beast. in boxing. bridgit riley. >> she floats like a butterfly and stings like a bee. she certainly prettier than mohammed ali. >> i love to fight. >> meet bridge yet baby doll riley. >> i'm not a flashy boxer, i'm a champion. >> bridgit has been practicing this science for three years, she's been an athlete all her life n high school was a cheer lead skbrer gymnast. and good training for her next athletic challenge. kick boxing. >> and i started because all of the guys were kick boxing. >> she was a four-time female world kick boxing champion and decide she needed a new way to get kicks. boxing. >> i love the challenge. >> at the gym bridgit may not be one of the boys. but she trains as hard as them. >> if i can hit these guys in the gym and split their punches look out. >> this didn't take long for her to lime to the top rope of professional womens' boxing. she's an international female boxer association phantom white champion. >> i'm not afraid of getting hit. it doesn't hurt. >> when are women and boxing a good combination. >> it's here and here to stay. >> so if you knock people out for a living can be still be considered a knockout? >> all i know how to do is just be me. i don't put on fronts for anyone. i've been like a big girl. i love getting my hair done. makeup. facials. fox files spent the day with bridgit. it wasn't her left job she's concerned with. >> how many trainers get hairdoes? >> time for the weigh in. >> i hope we make weight. >> obviously it doesn't look like it's a problem for bridgit. hours later enters the convention center for her big fight. her manager william blinky rodriguez. >> it's time for her to shine. >> to do that she'll have to overcome her opponent. >> i'm sure she knows she's in for a fight. i just want to look good and i want to win. i want to look sharp. >> she goes through the same warm up as any boxer, hands are wrapped and then, it's time to work up a sweat. finally, the moment she's been waiting for. >> introducing bridgit baby doll riley. >> in the ring, bridgit baby doll riley shows she has the right stuff. dominating her opponent with fancy foot work and lethal combinations. in the end, there is no contest. >> the winner by way of unanimous decision, bridgit baby doll riley. >> she can punch. she has awesome power in either hand. i think bridgit is destined to be a star. >> been a long road that doesn't happen overnight. and we're ready to go to the next level. >> bridgit riley hung up her gloves and gone hollywood. she's still kicking butt as a stunt woman and actress. and coming up, jay-z rags to riches story. ... 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