Take a vacant parking lot under the freeway, in the shadows of the skyscrapers of Downtown LA, and plunk down a dozen domes. That's right, domes. What you get looks a little like an outer space encampment, but it's really a transitional community intended to get homeless people off the streets and under a roof, hopefully on their way to the mainstream. Dome village is the brainchild of a man named Ted Hayes, who can usually be found rollerblading around the perimeter of the community or around LA's Skid Row, dreadlocks flapping in the wind. Ted's dream is to build more of these communities across the country. He wants to write up a national plan to eradicate homelessness, and he wants President Clinton to see it. It's a bit of a pipe dream, but while our videojournalists were there, he finishes the plan and gets on a plane to Washington. But will he get his proposal in the right hands? "I Witness" follows Ted and a cast of colorful associates & villagers as they fight to change the face of the homeless in America.
In remote La Verkin, Utah, an hour north of the Grand Canyon, a small group of believers have formed the Rocky Mountain Militia. White superiority and the fight for racial purity are among their core objectives. Our cameras take you inside a world that has never been exposed. We meet Johnny Bangerter, the leader of the Rocky Mountain Militia, along with his followers including his wife Casey, his mother Mary Lynn, his sister Mary, and David Dalby, the resident survivalist and isolationist. Hiding nothing, they put their radical and troubling beliefs right out on the kitchen table.
What is a parents last resort for a kid hooked on drugs and out of control? Wilderness Quest. Forcibly enrolled by their parents, without friends or their everyday crutches--drugs, sex, and TV--a group of troubled teenagers must fend for themselves during a long excursion into the wilderness.
Meet the Josephs, one big happy family. Like most families, they juggle the everyday issues of work, child care, making ends meet, and finding time to sit down to dinner together. They are your stereotypical family unit with one major exception -- one husband, many wifes.