masks, making the costumes, is making the luchadore bigger and more powerful and more real? yeah. i like it. manuel s home is a shrine to lucha libre. as we talk, i learn mexican wrestling has been around for hundreds of years but it wasn t until the 1940s that the mask was introduced. then i learned that manuel has been holding back on me. who is this? this is you? oh, yeah. it is 35 years ago. i ve broken my back right here, so no lucha for me any more. and that was that? three months in the hospital. champion luchadore. he was a champion? i thought i came to the neighborhood to meet a simple mask maker.
vavoom. how do i keep myself from getting dragged into the ring. but before anybody gets body slammed, i need a very special item. [ singing ] this story starts in south central l.a., a neighborhood where the sights, sounds and flavors of mexico, coexist with southern california and legendary mask maker makes his home. lucha. we re going to have a translator and everything. mike. welcome. thank you. welcome. to my big space. this is quite the space you have here. yeah. just watch everyone, because everything is dangerous. everything is danger? yeah. this is your home? yeah. and your work space? yeah. how long have you been here? i told you, everything is
making the luchadore bigger and more powerful and more real? yeah. i like it. manuel s home is a shrine to lucha libre. as we talk, i learn mexican wrestling has been around for nearly a hundred years. but it wasn t until the 1940s the mask was introduced. then i learned that manuel has been holding back on me. who is this? this is you? oh, yeah. it is 35 years ago. i ve broken my back right here, so no lucha for me any more. and that was that? three months in the hospital. champion luchadore. he was a champion? i thought i came to the neighborhood to meet a simple mask maker. learning manuel s history as one of the very wrestlers he
yum, yum, yum. jail for three new york men convicted of trying to rob a check cashing store. the wrinkle, they were wearing hollywood style masks, really expensive ones. they spent nearly $3,000 for the masks. they are the real thing, folks. they made off with $200,000 in the heist. one of the robbers e-mailed the mask maker to tell them how realistic the products were. that was dumb. they face up to life in prison when they are sentenced. dumb robbers. congratulation for your idiotic bet and dumb reaction. would you want to spend the rest of your life on another planet mr. berman? we can send you up there. 100,000 people said yes, i do. they are in the process of applying for a spot on the mars 1 mission.
hours into saturday. they say syrian government committed a massacre, at least 260 people were killed and over 130 killed in the homs neighborhood. one activist told us of bodies in the streets. those trying to help people were shot at, including ambulances. he said they were in dire need of assistance and medical supplies. these aren t animals lying here. these are human beings. being bombed by mortar bombs and tank shells. no one is doing anything about this. we are going to sit here and get killed. that s one message i want to get out. we are not going to stop. syrian people will not stop 2 if they kill millions. we will remember no one did anything about this. reporter: opposition groups reported even more deaths, saying tens had been killed in different parts of syria. activists reported a funeral procession that took place. this amateur video reportedly shows thousands gathered for that funeral procession. visible are cowans on the ground. the syrian government deni