Hi, can you tell me your name . Gabriella. Workers like gabriella are not uncommon. How old are you . Nine. How old were you when you first started working out here . Seven. Seven the Us Government estimates that nearly 10 percent of hired field workers in this country are children. When it comes to children, it is a big deal. Young children that we heard about, collecting blueberries, 3 and 5 years old, 7 years old and the rationale was, because their hands are so tender and small, that they would not crush the blueberries. What theyre doing is noble and helping the family, but they need to break the cycle. If the public were more aware, i think theyd be outraged. This week on fault lines investigates children at work in agriculture, americas hidden harvest. Its saturday morning at mariana higaredas house. Shes taking her daughter and granddaughter out to the fields to pick onions. Since its a weekend, it will be a full day of harvesting. Mariana and her children follow the harvest ac
Workers like gabriella are not uncommon. How old are you . Nine. How old were you when you first started working out here . Seven. Seven the Us Government estimates that nearly 10 percent of hired field workers in this country are children. When it comes to children, it is a big deal. Young children that we heard about, collecting blueberries, 3 and 5 years old, 7 years old and the rationale was, because their hands are so tender and small, that they would not crush the blueberries. What theyre doing is noble and helping the family, but they need to break the cycle. If the public were more aware, i think theyd be outraged. This week on fault lines investigates children at work in agriculture, americas hidden harvest. Its saturday morning at mariana higaredas house. Shes taking her daughter and granddaughter out to the fields to pick onions. Since its a weekend, it will be a full day of harvesting. Mariana and her children follow the harvest across texas, into new mexico and colorado. T
Narrator the news that day would start a chain of events that would threaten to forever change the way americans see the game of football. It is hard to find a former pro Football Player whose body hasnt paid a very high price. Narrator mike websters body was delivered to the Allegheny County coroners office. Webster ends up in the autopsy room. And the pathologist whos on call that day is this guy, bennet omalu. Omalu parked his car and walked into the office and he said, whats going on . And one of his colleagues said, its mike webster. Hes up in the autopsy room. And omalus response was, whos mike webster . And everybody looked at me like, where is he from, is he from outer space . Who is this guy who doesnt know mike webster in pittsburgh . Hes a nigerianborn, incredibly welleducated guy, but he doesnt know anything about football. Narrator a doctor, omalu was also a trained neuropathologist. From the beginning of the autopsy, dr. Omalu could see the effects of 17 years in the foot
Thats where you find us right here on capitol hill. We will tell you whats happening in our nations capitol and give you a chance to get involved in the conversation at 86655press. How about a big news today . South carolinas jim demint announced he is going to resign from the senate to head the Heritage Foundation. That is good news not senate. At a time gets rid of one of the most whacko extremist members of the senate. Bad news for the Heritage Foundation because they are going to be known as just a bunch of rightwing extremists. We will find out about that. First lets check in with Lisa Ferguson with this mornings current news update. Good morning, everyone. Happy friday. The president has a pretty light day on his schedule today, just a morning meeting with his advisors and this afternoon, he will sign into law the Child Protection act of 2012. Now, that law protects children against child pornography, sexual abuse and sex trafficking by giving Law Enforcement more power to protec
Appeal to the supreme court. A car bomb exploded near a mosque, just outside damascus while worshipers attended mass. According to u. N, 100,000 people have been killed in syrias war so far. Hawaii is the next state to consider same sex marriage. Could begin issuing licenses and performing ceremonies on november 14th. Keep it here, fault lines is next. Next practices 75 years ago. But today, Us Agriculture remains a stronghold for child labor. I know most kids come out here to help their parents out, get the money to pay the bills. Its just another day on the fields of america. Hi, can you tell me your name . Gabriella. Workers like gabriella are not uncommon. How old are you . Nine. How old were you when you first started working out here . Seven. Seven the Us Government estimates that nearly 10 percent of hired field workers in this country are children. When it comes to children, it is a big deal. Young children that we heard about, collecting blueberries, 3 and 5 years old, 7 years