the virginia tech case, he had actually been hospitalized, came out of the hospital, continued to manifest overt psychiatric symptoms, but no one required him to do anything about that until it spiralled out of control. in this case, today, this tragedy, you have to speculate that there s something more going on than just an altercation and a revenge. think about it this way. this kid walked into his own high school. imagine how agitated a young person would have to be to walk into his high school, brandishing a shotgun, shoot randomly some of his piers and then rapidly turn the gun on himself. that is a kid who is although may have been a well liked athlete, good performing student who that day was not for some reason in his normal mental state. something profound was altered. not to mention, dr. drew, you mention the shotgun, but did he have some forethought because he also brought with him some molitaf cocktails. how he made those, if he did
department of defense. the valkyrie robot that nasa has been building is an extraordinary machine. of all the robots we have there it s the one with the most degree of freedom, the most joints that can move around and it s really quite sophisticated and i have very high hopes for it. it s related to the robonaut which is a robot on the space station right now, but it doesn t have legs, it can t move around. so what nasa johnson space flight center is trying to see if they can add the capability that the robonaut has now and add some mobility to the platform. reporter: 17 teams from around the world will be competing in the trial where teams will attempt to guide their robots through physical tasks, that includes testing mobility, dexterity and perception. what is so exciting about this is that we re actually trying to make the future. i ve been reading science fiction books about robots ever since i was a little kid. much more recent stuff as well. and it s really an extraordinar
well, i think, you know, i know that it makes kind of great headlines. the reality is it s not unlike what we had many years ago here in california with the so-called twinkie defense. these are not defenses. what they are are ways for people to try to explain what sometimes is inexplicable. how does a 16-year-old kid get into a car and end up killing four people and injuring severely somebody who is with him in the car? the problem you have and i know that this at some levels infuriates people even more is what do you do? you are taking a look at this kid right here. this is a kid who if you put him in a state prison as an adult with other adults, will not last 95 seconds. i know there s a significant amount of the population who would say, well, that s a great thing. let him go die in prison. the law makes d distinctions
second chance with two strikes against him. they re born into abusive homes and neglectful parents. they re poor. they re homeless. they commit crimes. we have no problem sending those kids to jail, but this kid who was born with everything, given every opportunity to succeed in life, we give him a second chance. he is worth being sent to a $450,000 a year facility in california while we lock up the other kids and say, no, we have to remove you from society, for our own protection. it is a traversy and double standard. i agree with you fully, but i will tell you is that in any way really a surprise, mark? do you find it a surprise that someone would find this a great defense? somebody who i would say that s certainly not breaking news. i have been arguing for years, and i have kind of a robinhood practice where i represent very wealthy people and i also represent indigants, and i will
personality. she was just a fun kid. reporter: a fun kid and wise beyond her years. this is where the old house once was. reporter: annette s house burned to the ground in 2010. and i explained to her that that was the fire and that we hadn t decided what we were going to do there. and she basically asked me why i hadn t planted some flowers. i told her that the ground was scorched and that flowers probably wouldn t grow, and she had said to me that i should plant flowers even if they weren t going to last forever. reporter: that statement from this little girl had a big impact on annette. even if your beauty is only fleeting, isn t there something to be found in acknowledging the beauty that we have today? so, yeah. we planted flowers anyway. reporter: the instinct to create beauty in the middle of the ugliest of circumstances was obviously nurtured at home. at the very lowest point in their lives jeremy richmond and jennifer hentzel began to ask