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>>> now to a remarkable discovery and a record pot bust along the nation's border with mexico . federal agents have found a massive secret passage , an elaborate tunnel equipped with a rail system and an elevator used to smuggle drugs into the u.s. tonight nbc 's mark potter takes us inside.
>> reporter: federal agents say it's the most elaborate smuggling tunnel they've seen in years. more than 600 yards long with wooden walls and floors.
>> this tunnel has lighting. it does have good air flow indicating there's some type of ventilation system forcing air in from mexico .
>> reporter: the tunnel begins on the mexican side of the border in a warehouse in the tijuana airport . to lure drugs into the tunnel there's a hydraulic elevator which leads to a rail system where an electric cart waits to carry marijuana to the u.s. side. on steps leading upward the tunnel emerges inside another warehouse in otaymesa, california. this enhanced aerial photograph shows the tunnel going beneath a runway, roads, a big park lot and the border fence . all considered, a highly-efficient mechanism to move narcotics in an underground environment.
>> reporter: police say they seized 32 tons of marijuana, a record for a single tunnel . much of it was hidden in pumpkin boxes. federal agents suspect it's the work of mexico 's powerful cinaloa drug cartel , harvesting its ever increasing fall marijuana crop. authorities say especially this time of year, traffickers need tunnels to smuggle huge drug loads to the u.s.
>> if they can't cross the border above ground, they attempt to tunnel underneath it.
>> reporter: the cartel is headed by joaquin guzman , known as el choppo or shorty since his daring escape from prison 10 years ago, mexican authorities have been unable to touch him.
>> he has the police under his thumb. he controls much of the judicial system in his state and neighboring states. and he's virtually an untouch untouchab untouchable.
>> reporter: in the last four years, american agents have found 75 tunnels from mexico to the u.s. but say this one is the most sophisticated. mark potter , nbc news, miami.
>> when nbc nightly news continues,
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NEW YORK -- A new national survey shows that the way people pay for theater tickets has changed over the past few years, with subscription sales down but single-ticket purchases up.
The Theatre Communications Group issued a report this week that showed average subscription income dropped by 15.1 percent for about 1,800 not-for-profit theaters between 2006 and 2010. But the number of single-ticket buyers rose by 3 percent over the same five-year period.
"I would speculate that the reason is because there's ever increasing kinds of opportunities that people have for leisure time," said Teresa Eyring, executive director of the group, the national association for American theaters.
"People are just busier and there's more stuff to do so people's desire to commit to four or five plays at one theater ahead of time is less," she said. "It may also be because new generations of theatergoers are less inclined to have that particular kind of relationship with theaters."
Sixty-two percent of the theater companies participating in the survey said that they ended the year in the black ? a larger number than the 43 percent in 2008 and the 41 percent in 2009 ? even though contributions fell.
"Overall, it was a better year for the theater field," said Eyring, who added that theaters seem to be getting better about managing their resources and financial health.
The economy has a significant impact on the fiscal health of theaters, just as it does on other nonprofits, Eyring said.
National theater attendance also fell last year, but only by 3.6 percent, and the report found that while attendance at main stage productions declined, there was a 28.5 percent jump in attendance at less structured events like workshops and readings over the five-year period.
"Theaters are getting better about realizing that there's value to their communities to make different kinds of opportunities available besides just buy-a-ticket-and-come-see-a-show," Eyring said.
One worrying sign for Eyring is a steady decline in the resources theaters have to meet their financial obligations and day-to-day cash needs, which may inhibit risk and experimentation. "It's not devastating right now, but if it keeps going more and more negative I think it could mean more problems for more theaters."
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Israel has pulled a controversial series of ads that portrayed American Jews as out of touch with their roots. The flap illustrates a growing distance between US Jews and Israelis.
The immigration and retention of Jews is now and always has been a major priority for Israel. But a recent government campaign in the US targeting Israeli expatriates infuriated a broad swath of American Jews.
Skip to next paragraphBy some estimates, 2 million Israelis live in the United States, and the Immigration Ministry apparently decided to do something about it.
Hebrew billboards in at least five US cities warned Israelis to come home before they lose their identity, and a series of slickly produced videos drove the point home.
In one, a clueless American boyfriend of an Israeli woman doesn't understand why she's mourning on the day Israelis mourn fallen soldiers. In another, the child of Israeli Americans answers "Christmas" when asked what holiday her family is celebrating, while her grandparents look on in horror, a Hanukkah Menorah on the mantle behind them. In a third, a father ignores his young son's entreaties of "daddy" until he reverts to the more acceptable "Abba."
The ads were pulled yesterday, after the Jewish Federation of North America said in a letter to supporters that "we share the concerns many of you have expressed that this outrageous and insulting message could harm the Israeli-Diaspora relationship" and the head of the Anti-Defamation League said they were "demeaning."
Israeli Ambassador to the US Michael Oren apologized for the campaign in a statement, writing: "Prime Minister Netanyahu, once made aware of the campaign, ordered the videos immediately be removed from YouTube, and he ordered that the billboards be removed as well. The prime minister deeply values the American Jewish community and is committed to deepening ties between it and the State of Israel."
Minister for Immigrant Absorption Sofa Landver oversaw the campaign. Ms. Landver is a member of Yisrael Beiteinu, a right-wing partner in Mr. Netanyahu's coalition government. The party's leader, Avigdor Lieberman, currently Israel's foreign minister, is emerging as a possible future rival to Netanyahu.
The flap illustrates a growing reality ? that there are real and growing differences, of both style and substance, between American Jews and the Israeli state. The rise of the ultra-orthodox right in Israel is having an influence, and younger American Jews don't appear to identify with Israel in the same way that their parents and grandparents did.
The underlying message of the campaign certainly seemed to be you can't really remain Jewish in the US. The Jewish Channel called it a "semi-covert national campaign" carried out in at least five US cities with large Israeli populations to "convince them that their heritage will be lost if they don't soon go back to Israel."
The Jewish Channel said the ads suggest that "marrying American Jews could make Israelis lose their sense of identity" and ended the segment by segueing into growing Israeli complaints that it's hard to live there unless you pursue an "ultra-orthodox lifestyle."
Jeffrey Goldberg, an American Jew and ardent Zionist, wrote:
I don't think I have ever seen a demonstration of Israeli contempt for American Jews as obvious as these ads. ...
These government-sponsored ads suggest that it is impossible for Jews to remain Jewish in America. How else are we supposed to understand the "Christmas" ad? Obviously, assimilation and intermarriage are issues in America in ways they aren't in Israel. Israel has other problems of course, such as the fact that many of its rabbis act like Iranian mullahs. ...
The message is: Dear American Jews, thank you for lobbying for American defense aid (and what a great show you put on at the AIPAC convention every year!) but, please, stay away from our sons and daughters.
Follow Dan Murphy on Twitter.
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