this guy has 3,000 alone. he said what are you going to do with all the money? he says we re going to las vegas to help my sister. have some fun. cash as evidence, even if there s no evidence of crime. thanks for joining us i m joie chen. innocent until proven guilty, it is the very basis of our system of justice except when things don t work out that way. consider civil asset forfeiture, it allows to seize property, they think could have been the ill gotten gains of illegal activity. it is a powerful tool that can benefit cash strapped communities but it can be abused too. used even against those who have never even been charged with a crime. america tonight s lisa fletcher found some calling for aned to it in september. reporter: in september of 2010 stephen skinner and his son were driving from chicago to las vegas, nevada. there skinner was going to help a family member remodel her home. he and his son also planned to do some gambling. on the way their gps acc
this guy has 3,000 alone. he said what are you going to do with all the money? he says we re going to las vegas to help my sister. have some fun. cash as evidence, even if there s no evidence of crime. thanks for joining us i m joie chen. innocent until proven guilty, it is the very basis of our system of justice except when things don t work out that way. consider civil asset forfeiture, it allows to seize property, they think could have been the ill gotten gains of illegal activity. it is a powerful tool that can benefit cash strapped communities but it can be abused too. used even against those who have never even been charged with a crime. america tonight s lisa fletcher found some calling for aned to it in september. reporter: in september of 2010 stephen skinner and his son were driving from chicago to las vegas, nevada. there skinner was going to help a family member remodel her home. he and his son also planned to do some gambling. on the way their gps acc
lot of machinery. home health care nurses. it was real expensive. also night, highway robbery? this guy has 3,000 alone. he said what are you going to do with all the money? he says we re going to las vegas to help my sister. have some fun. cash as evidence, even if there s no evidence of crime. thanks for joining us i m joie chen. innocent until proven guilty, it is the very basis of our system of justice except when things don t work out that way. consider civil asset forfeiture, it allows to seize property, they think could have been the ill gotten gains of illegal activity. it is a powerful tool that can benefit cash strapped communities but it can be abused too. used even against those who have never even been charged with a crime. america tonight s lisa fletcher found some calling for aned to it in september. reporter: in september of 2010 stephen skinner and his son were driving from chicago to las vegas, nevada. there skinner was going to help a family m
for six years we traveled to u.s. cities bringing the book scene to our viewers. watch more of our visits at c spab.org slash cities tour. back in 2008, the brooklyn anniversary th party that the city of new york threw. and mayor bloomberg presided over it and he said that the brooklyn bridge was the icon of new york city. and he s absolutely correct because if you look at television, or read magazines, it s very hard to watch tv and not see repeated images of the brooklyn bridge. it really is the icon of new york city. and it originated here in trenton. john was born in 1806 in prussia which later became part of germany. the town he was born in is about 100 kilometers southwest of berlin. when he came here, he had a first class engineering education in germany by some of the best architects and engineers in europe and he arrived here just as america was taking off in terms of the industrial revolution. and there were very few train engineers here. trained engineers here.