lawyers had been there and there was some legal maneuvering if you will that took place. after this i spoke to the judge personally because i wanted to cross-examine the mexican customs agent that should have released him anyway. there were two court hearings set, one for november 17th, one for november 23rd. so the judge continued hearings until january 17th, i say, november 30th we re ready to go to trial. i m in new york with my kids in thanksgiving i get a phone call, john was taken to court on november 23rd, without his lawyer present, that s me and most important they talked to him. and i was adamant and furious because they really wanted to push him to kind of plead guilty. of course he didn t. yeah, let me tell you. after his first lawyers wanted him said you would be out in three years. i will not allow him to plead to a felony. no way. alisyn: of course you are. you are convinced of his innocence as he is.
four months of this and now reports surfacing that jailers are chaining him to his bed. that s right. we spoke to his lawyer in mexico city this morning for a time hammer was chained to his bed but currently not being chained there. i asked his father about this. his father visited the prison and said while he was there that john hammer was in fact chained to the bed. here is what the father had to say about that. they chained him to the bed so that they could feel safe is he not going to run away and they are not going to get in trouble. clear on the border entrance to mexico. signs posted do not bring firearms into mexico but hammer s family claimed this 60-year-old rifle that belonged to his great grandfather that hammer declared it on both sides of the border customs agent both u.s. and mexicans and he was told it would be okay, harris. harris: steve harrigan staying on the story tonight. thank you very much. software mow juggle john mcafeces he has been acting crazy on pur
gun and heave he was on the way out of the country and the mexican government notified him, is that what happened? 80%. the other part, a u.s. customs agent told him it was legal to go to mexico with registration papers. the problem was when he came back into the states. he goes to mexico with customs and they tell him to wait and then five hours later, he was arrested for violation of article 11, paragraph h of the federal law of weapons and explosives, which has that you can import any shotgun except certain type of shotguns. for example, once a certain caliber. this particular caliber was .410, which is not this is not reserved for the exclusive use of the armed forces, and neither were the bullets, the gains, that was for the non-exclusive. the issue is the lept of the barrel, that s the problem
canned goods, bottled water. gator raid drinks. and, in many cases, a hot meal. a lot of people lining up. we have been here for about 12 hours today, shep. and i would say for about 10 of those hours, until the distribution center closed down, there were hundreds in line. and that distribution center will be back open tomorrow morning, giving the help that these people still, as i say, desperately need and want. shep? shepard: i don t know than hunt in the middle of it it all in brooklyn. torrential rains triggered deadly flooding across several cities and that tops our news around the world in 80 seconds. italy. days of heavy downpours causing rivers to burst their banks in the central part of the country. emergency crews report a car plunged off a collapse bridged in tuscan any. rescuers in a helicopter saved the man from the rising waters. hundreds of people have evacuated the region. thailand, customs agent stopped a truck packed with
port with thousands of cars crossing legitimately every single day. u.s. customs is testing out this a aextra tar. you have to screen these low-risk travelers. the robot will ask a series of questions and using speech recognition and voice anomaly software it will try to detect suspicious behavior. hello, i m now going to ask you a few questions about your sentry application. in a moment i will ask to you say your name then answer some yes or no questions. reporter: so while you are talking to the avatar, there is a customs agent kind of watching every move, tracking it with an ipad. that way the agent can come in and do the followup questioning if there is anything to follow up on.