the consumer likes better product. >> that's america tonight's christophe putzel. he is live. christophe, it's heartbreaking to see, a six-year-old talking about this as if it's normal. it's got to be tearing families apart. >> certainly is. fortunately because there's been such a huge crack down on the safely pseudoephedrine, 40 states have restrict tetd sale one way or another. there's a lot of -- the sale one way or the other. hospitals were having to close down their burn units because they were getting such an influx of patients that didn't have insurance who were there as a result of shake-and-bake or meth-cookless gone wrong. and -- cooks gone wrong. that's a plus that it's down but now you have all of this meth coming over the border, stronger more potent and abuse is stronger than it's ever been. >> i've heard reports of children with meth strapped to their back being asked to walk over the border just to get meth into the united states. this has got to be a huge problem. >> it is a huge problem. any time you have a supply and demand product, meth is such an addictive

up worlds when you eat it. >> that's christophe putzel >> that's christophe putzel reporting and eating and reporting and eating and enjoying it. enjoying it. we understand. we understand. he's certainly going to be out he's certainly going to be out enjoying that over the weekend enjoying that over the weekend this holiday weekend in new york this holiday weekend in new york city, looking forward to all the city, looking forward to all the tasty treats for that and for tasty treats for that and for hanukkah as well. hanukkah as well. that's it for us on america that's it for us on america tonight. tonight. please remember ne -- if you wod please remember ne -- if you wod like to like to comment on anything comment on anything on on our program, tell us what you'd our program, tell us what you'd like to see in our nightly like to see in our nightly current affairs program. current affairs program. if you would like to give us if you would like to give us knish recipes, you can join knish recipes, you can join us us on twitter or facebook. on twitter or facebook. we'll have more of ameri

the knish has all scorlts of culinary passion, where america tonight's christophe putzel has this food for thought. >> on september 24th when the world's largest knish producer, lost its key machine. >> and it has created a shortage of this square fried version of the potato del delicacy. >> the local delicacy. >> the knish problem is much greater than that. >> once ordered by the dozen and sold in street carts, delis around the country. is now -- >> do you have any knish? do you have any knish? no knish? only hot dogs. >> to be honor is, i've never even eaten a knish. so i've enlisted lawsh ah sil ver to help me understand what people are missing. >> when you say knish, people think of period of time, an saysors, people who came to the lower east side to make a living. the knish has all that wrapped up into it. plus it's really good. >> what does it mean to you? >> i'm a native new yorker and born to native new yorkers and grandparents from eastern europe. growing up i felt the knish encapsulated our history. definitely something linked to a jewish past. >> a knish consists of a filli

al jazeera's christophe putzel hit the streets to find out why. >> when the biggest knish producer lost its machine. >> the fried version of the potato delicacy. >> there is one way to create a media fire storm in new york, deprive us of our delicacy. the square knish is suddenly more elusive in manhattan than peace and quiet. >> good morning, can i get a knish? >> no we have no knish. >> to be honest i've never eaten a knish. i enlisted laura silver to help me understand just what people are missing. >> you have to think of the struggle, people coming to the lower east side to make a living, so a knish has all that history wrapped in it. >> knish is a filling with potatoes, and dough, there was a fire at the factory that caused the shortage. >> when the firefighters came in they absolutely did what they had to do, but the water damage that the machine sustained rendered the machine inoperable. >> this is stacy ziskin. her family's company has cornered the market on square knishes. the alternative: customers have to opt for the less popular round knishes. >> when i had them on brighton

. >> that the exclusive report from our christoph putzel. he was 14 years old at the time that he was convicted under mapped tory sentencing and part of the interesting aspect, i think, of his case, there was no proof, no evidence that he actually fired a weapon, that he actually committed a homicide? >> that's right, adam. he was just there. he was -- there was no proof that he actually fired a weapon, that he did kill anybody. he was considered an acomplex. back then, if you are an accomplice, you are a murderer. because there is mandatory sentencing, he was sentenced to life in prison. >> the life, as you mentioned, is so different after serving 23 years in prison and one thing that certainly concerns some victims advocacy groups is the possibility of these people getting out of prison and committing another crime. do you feel after talking to him that he has somehow changed his life while he's been behind bars? >> yeah. well you have to remember that he was 14 years old when he went in. so he is now 37. he is a completely different perso

. >> that the exclusive report from our christoph putzel. he was 14 years old at the time that he was convicted under mapped tory sentencing and part of the interesting aspect, i think, of his case, there was no proof, no evidence that he actually fired a weapon, that he actually committed a homicide? >> that's right, adam. he was just there. he was -- there was no proof that he actually fired a weapon, that he did kill anybody. he was considered an acomplex. back then, if you are an accomplice, you are a murderer. because there is mandatory sentencing, he was sentenced to life in prison. >> the life, as you mentioned, is so different after serving 23 years in prison and one thing that certainly concerns some victims advocacy groups is the possibility of these people getting out of prison and committing another crime. do you feel after talking to him that he has somehow changed his bars? >> yeah. well you have to remember that he was 14 years old when he went in. so he is now 37. he is a completely different person. we've all changed in that