wrong. there is also, jon, possibility he may be called to the stand to testify in his own defense. now 12 years old. we ll see whether or not that happens again. closing arguments could come as early as tomorrow. and the judge s decision in this case, this is not a jury case, the judge will make the call and that could happen this week as well. back to you. jon: a very sad story. rick folbaum, thanks. jenna: you see images like, well this one from around the country after a terrible storm. where do the cars that look like this go? well there s a new plan to deal with house thousands of cars totaled in hurricane sandy. one town is willing to hold them at a rarely-used airport and in return they will be getting some much-needed storage fees. how does that all work out? rick leventhal with the details from riverhead, new york. hey, rick. reporter: jenna, at least 230,000 vehicles were affected by hurricane sandy. 150 you of them were total losses but the rest can be fixed up and driven
and that s when it happened. there had to be something for me to get tased. reporter: to bring butler under control, the police officer, indeed, fired his taser, striking him in the chest. according to the police report, three separate jolts of electricity went through butler s body. when it was all over, he was in full cardiac arrest, not breathing. paramedics revived butler, but his brain was deprived of oxygen, leaving him permanently disabled. steve butler and his family filed a lawsuit, not against the police, but against the maker of the weapon, taser international. it s the first time the company has been listed as the sole defendant in an injury case. can a taser cause cardiac arrest? absolutely, no question about it. reporter: attorney john burton says he has data showing that tasers, when fired at the chest, can cause fatal heart injuries. and he says the company has known about it for several years. we can prove that they must have known by early 2006, but we
international. it s the first time the company has been listed as the sole defendant in an injury case. can a taser cause cardiac rae arrest? absolutely no question about it. why do you say that? because it s happened to a number of people and these cases are clearly documented. attorney john burton says he has data showing that tasers, when fired at the chest, can cause fatal heart injuries. he says the company has known about it for several years. how long has taser known that these weapons can cause cardiac rae arrest? we can prove they must have known by early 2006, but we suspect they had all the necessary data in 2005 since they were funding the study. reporter: this is the study he believes proves his case. published in early 2006, the study funded by taser focused on taser pigs, quote, generalized to humans.
says he suffered permanent brain damage when he went into cardiac arrest after being tasered. his story from dan simon and the cnn s special investigations unit. reporter: steve butler and his family filed a lawsuit not against the police, but gejs the maker of the weapon, taser international. it s the first time the company has been listed as the sole defendant in an injury case. can a taser cause cardiac arrest? absolutely, no question about it. taser disputes that, saying its devices are, quote, repeatedly proven safe. join us tomorrow night with a special report on that. coming up, real-life drama over the hurt locker. some veterans don t care if it s up for an oscar. they say hollywood got the story all wrong. and what are their goals. and then we plan. it s a very good feeling as an advisor to work with people and help get them to their goals.
national organization of women today calling on gobner paterson to resign. he s got to get the facts out quickly or he s going to be forever damaged. errol, this is one of the other added facts, everybody in america knows that andrew cuomo is gunning for that job. he s been in all the polls. now he s in the position of chief law enforcer in the state and he s got to look at this case where there s criminality involved. what about this new wrinkle? a $40,000 lexus suv that has purchased by the accuser, right before she dropped the charges. what do we make is that something cuomo is looking at? do we know? they are looking into it. what i understand, in fact, there s been no formal report yet, but it has been reported and the sources are saying that the money for that probably came from a totally unrelated settlement in an injury case that she had the money from a completely legitimate source to buy the car. so there s no hanky-panky there, as far as anybody knows? no. so i g