they will get back to d.c. shortly. there in the foreground you steel met of those who died in kali kaline, texas, just outside fort hood. we ve been proud to bring you this service without commercial interruption and the tribute to them. while this has been going on we ve been following developments. there have been several other stories today. i m sure you heard what happened in pittsburgh. police say a 16-year-old boy with two knives came into his high school just outside pittsburgh and began to stab people, slashing and stabbing his classmates and unthinkably, the stabbing went on for nearly an hour. by the time it was over, investigators say 19 of those young men and women in pittsburgh were hurt as well as a security officer who took down the suspect with the help of an
double digit. if i got to do time, they got to give it to me. i ain t pleading guilty. he has pled not guilty to weapons charges and aggravated assault. he hoped to reach a plea deal with a sentence of five years but prosecution had a harsher sentence in mind. 15, three years running consecutive. meaning i have to do 15, 15. so 18 years? give or take. bates will now take to to trial but he ll stay in bergen county jail. i believe michael bates is highest ranking member in the jail. michael bates is the real deal. he throws his weight around here. i hold a high rank around here, o.g., original gangster. i don t stab people in prison, i don t orchestrate riots i ve
aspect of prison life, especially for the members of those gangs. should any of them refuse orders to carry out hits on other inmates, the prison says they are likely to be assaulted or killed as punishment. their only other option is a process called debriefing, during which they agree to cut all ties with their gang and provide prison officials with detailed information. in exchange, these inmates are moved to a special needs housing unit and permanently segregated from the rest of the prison population. an individual can be in good favor with the gang for years, can do their dirty work, smuggle drugs, stab people, beat people, do whatever, but if he says the wrong thing to the wrong person someday, or looks funny at
the fact we were lifers, we were probably going to have to stab people. first thing that got into my head was we better get some knives. living on the street, you learn one thing. you survive by any means necessary. you do whatever it takes to get out of a situation like that. so if that means i have to become an accomplice, so be it. i m not going to die. you know, i m just too young. it became it came from there. and they said i was to go on a mission. my mission was to stab a man who came from another yard who was supposedly no good because they wouldn t have jump off in a riot after they got attacked. the woods in the riot were no good because they wouldn t attack the blacks after they got attacked. i stabbed this man three times and i got away with it. i walked off into the middle of the yard before the buzzer went off on the yard before everybody to get off. i had blood all over my hands. i was trying to get it off, so i licked the blood off my hands to get away with the crime.
should any of them refuse orders to carry out hits on other inmates, the prison says they are likely to be assaulted or killed as punishment. their only other option is a process called debriefing, during which they agree to cut all ties with their gang and provide prison officials with detailed information. in exchange, these inmates are moved to a special needs housing unit and permanently segregated from the rest of the prison population. an individual can be in good favor with the gang for years, can do their dirty work, smuggle drugs, stab people, beat people, do whatever, but if he says the wrong thing to the wrong person someday, or looks funny at somebody, somebody thinks he is disrespected by him, he s through. they ll stab him, they ll kill him, they ll toss him away like he s nothing. a lot of them get tired of prison politics.