With sharing supporter. i knew she needed me and i never gave up. a few blocks away amanda berry s family is timely able to welcome their daughter home. i just want to say we have so happy to have amanda and her daughter home. we appreciate all you have done for us the past ten years. later on wednesday airial castro is charge and his two brothers are cleared in connection with the kidnapping. no charges will be filed against these two individuals at the time. thursday appears in court shackleding with eyes pointed down as he is arraigned on multiple counts of rape and kidnapping. dna experts work fear yously trying to determine whether he is in fact the father of amanda berry s child and friday it s confirmed. dna tests prove that castro is the father, difficult news tody
Sentenced that man to life in prison for that rape, but the maryland court of appeals later threw out othe conviction on constitutional grounds. shannon bream live in washington. how significant is today s d.n.a. case? well, shepard, today just alito called it potentially the most important criminal procedure case before the supreme court in decades. this case was out of maryland where alonzo king was arrested for assault back in 2009. that day, a d.n.a. swab was taken from his cheek ultimately linked him to that unsolved rape and he was convicted that conviction was thrown out. the appeals court said that swab was illegal search and seizure in violation of the fourth amendment. today a number of the justices expressed concerns about the privacy implications of taking d.n.a. from someone who has been arrested but not convicted. it could be completely innocent. but others asked how is taking d.n.a. any different than a fingerprint and that kind of evidence has repeatedly been upheld b
white house with a story just in to cnn. jessica, what do you know? reporter: a senior administration official tells cnn that a senior member of the network has been killed. it happened overnight earlier today in north waziristan, pakistan. and a man by the name of, we re told played a central role in helping the hackani network attack u.s. targets in kabul and south eastern afghanistan. that he was killed in a part of pakistan. and this is considered a safe haven for the haqqani network. they say he is the most senior leader in pakistan to be taken off the battlefield. as you know, the haqqani network considered a terrorist organization linked to the taliban and blamed by u.s. officials for the attack on the u.s. embassy as well as the attack on u.s. troops among other attacks. let me ask but other attacks. i know the president greeted his counterpart in south korea. you hit him hard with some questions about not only iran but also the u.s. economy. on the economy, you a
republican backers. don t worry. you run. we ll take care of the money. he has rather moderate views on social issues conservatives may not be hip to. we ll talk a lot about that this morning. something else we re talking a lot about. amanda knox s first hope for freedom. the american student is waiting to see if her murder conviction will be overturned. she made her case to the jury earlier this morning. now an agonizing waiting game for her. part of what a tearful knox told the court, the accusations are completely unjust and without any foundation. i am paying for my life with a crime i didn t commit. paula newton has covered this case for years and joins us live from perugia, italy. what else did knox have to say to the jurors this morning? you know, she got up and could barely speak,ally. choking back the tears. they asked, do you want to take a seat? she said, no. she said okay. and she made a tearful plea but maintained her composure each time underscoring i di
there are several departments responding to the fire. still attempting to put it out. all of our employees and anybody who was visiting the plant at the time the fire began has been evacuated and accounted for. so that was obviously our first concern. everybody is out and safe. i want to ask about this wedgeworth elementary school which is in that area. so if everyone is safe, does that mean that the school has been closed or where are the students at this point? that i don t know. they re not in visual range. we are next to a college that has been evacuated. as far as the elementary school, i don t know the status but i do know they are upwind from the fire so any of the fumes and smoke are all being directed the opposite direction of the school. can you help us understand what caused this and how it got so big so fast? no, i m sorry. we don t know that at this time. can you give me an idea of what type of gases are in the air and how dangerous this might be? i m