e-mails offering deals on food or shopping in their city, courtesy of groupon. stephanie elam looks on the other side of the e-mail and how businesses are using the service to pull in more clients. everyone with me? reporter: you ve probably never heard of sushi by simon. marketing is not the strongest aspect of my business. reporter: that unless you saw this, this is a groupon, the deal a new york city sushi-making class for 99 bucks, a 50% saving from the usual fee. the first one sells nine minutes after the midnight launch, by 9:00 a.m. five have sold. if at least ten people buy it, if only nine people were to buy, then nothing would happen, ere would be no deal. rorter: you are kind of confident. how do you know that nine won t buy it? because there s a million teople lookingt it. reporter: confident and yet all eyes on the computer screen. another one! reporter: a quick jump t 11. boom! the deal is on. reporter: w what?
they really don t know where it is coming itfrom. it is and too dangerous to go in and get eyes on. it is a terrifying situation and there doesn t seem to be a clear end in sight. what is your sense? how are the japanese people hicoping with this? rorter: they seem to be doing pretty well given that y are dealing with three massive sasters. that would have hampered any country. for the most part, they tend to be oic. they don t talk a lot. they are fearful, no doubt about it. they are very concerned that the radiation levels and they do not trust their government as far as giving them information. part of it trickles out them think their government is no telling them honestly how bad the circumstances really are and they are fritened. it seem like they have reason to be. reporting to us from tokyo, thank you. more troubling news and mixed messages from the japanese tokyo s drinking water.of yesterday, officials announced that high radiation levels in
thousands of women took the streets. a rarity there. police in bahrain fired rubber bullets and tear gas at protesters near the royal palace. in cairo, egypt, muslims and christians marched together in a show of unity against rising tensions between the two groups. jordanians protested for the third straight week. the president s news conference was billed as focus on high energy prices in the wake of the middle east oil turmoil. the middle east turmoil, i should say. the president did make news saying he may tap the strategic petroleum reserve. correspondent james rosen said something else that the president said is drawing cat calls. last year, the american oil production reached the highest level since 2003. let me repeat that. rorter: don t bother say the g.o.p. and oil industry saying the president played fast and loose with the facts according to the e.i
all the trails in rock creek park. when they executed the search that day they only went 100 yards off the roads and not the trails and they missed chandra s body by about half a football field. that would have changed everything. they would have had evidence, they would have had dna. rorter: instead, the badly decomposed body was found by a guy out walking in the woods. it was spring of 2002, more than a year after she disappeared. clearly she had been murdered. the question was how, and who did it. over the next several years, the investigation would slowly begin focusing on a young, illegal immigrant from el salvador, ingmar guandique. whotd years later he allegedly admitted to fellow inmates he had killed chandra. he used to sit on that curb over there and watch the women joggers coming by down this path. and chandra levy, we believe, was walking down this path. on a beautiful, sunny, may 1st
controlling them? not just my feeling, sir, it s reality. it s controlled by the mexican drug cartels. reporter: the lake is huge. more than 80,000 acres. some of the best bass fishing in north america. but on the other side of this border marker where mexico begins is now a no man s land. do the people know who come out on this water that this is the border marker? do boaters generally know? yes. boaters that fish in this lake reporter: is there any chance she didn t know she was in mexico? no, she has said she knew they were in mexico. rorter: why would she do that? she is saying the threats were in april and may and thought the threats were over with. reporter: the waters were barren while we were there. the threat is certainly not over with. gary tuchman, cnn, zapata, texas. just a few hours ago i spoke to tiffany hartley. tiffany, first of all, i want to say how sorry i am for your loss. i can t imagine how hard this time must be for you. how are you holding up