should remind our viewers, there was another man who actually confessed to this crime and was found in civil court to be responsible. there was a $2 million fine, which he never paid, but nonetheless, it makes this case very complicated. i talked about that physical evidence. there s a big problem if there is no body. if it is true that etan patz s body was thrown in the trash, one person said this renders the haystack too big and the needle probably no good, they ll probably never find the body. having said that is it possible the police have key evidence or information they re not telling us about? it s entirely possible. we don t know exactly what hernandez said to police during his alleged confession to them when he made claims he lured the little boy into the basement of that convenience store when hernandez himself was only 19 years old. police might be holding something back. we don t know exactly what he said so it s far too early to say whether this will really go
charged today in a 33-year-old missing child case that set off a national movement. police in new york say pedro hernandez confessed to killing 6-year-old etan patz back in 1979. prosecutors are expected to charge hernandez with second-degree murder. etan disappeared on his way to school. of it his first time walking to the bus stop by himself. historic meeting in space happened about an hour ago when the space x dragon linked up with the international space station. check it out, see how it went down. capture is confirmed. [ applause ] congratulations on a wonderful capture. you have made a lot of folks happy down here over in hawthorne and right here in houston. great job, guys. houston, it looks like we got us a dragon by the tail. private spacecraft is bringing clothes, supplies, experiments to the space station. it has been exactly one week since the jury in the john edwards corruption trial got the case. they are still deliberating. four women, eight men hav
newspaper. and then two years later he brought us one of the greatest thrillers of all time. they re coming! they re coming!รง what was the evil intent that so frightened her? fast forward to 1991 and another weird mass die off of sea birds also in monterey bay. this one according to the l.a. times included reports of pelicans and cormorants wandering around drunk and throwing up anchovies. they were in turn consumed by birds to drunk and lethal effect.
the theme to the tv show alfred hitchcock presents. which brings us to our final story. the mystery behind one of hitchcock s greatest movies. in the birds, the violent title characters attack just about everyone. so the question is where did hitchcock get the idea? here is abc s dan harris. reporter: what we have known all along about the psychotic winged killers with their malignant screeching and flapping, dive-bombing tippi hedren in the movie, the birds, is that they were based on a real-life event. that event happened in 1961, when thousands of deranged sea birds descended on north monterey bay, california, hurling themselves into the sides of houses, making headlines and catching the attention of a guy named alfred hitchcock, who had a mansion nearby.
grounded ship under a reef. reporter: this container ship has been struck on a reef for 12 days, it s 25 miles after of new zealand coast and salvage crews are racing to pump oil from it. some authorities expect the ship to break apart or sink at any time, others say it s stable, but in any case, so far, just # 2-tons of oil have been removed. an estimated 1400 tons remain on board. and about 350 tons of oil have spilled into the sea, near beaches on new zealand s north island. some have washed ashore, killing almost 1300 sea birds, another 200 oil birds and seals are being treated at a wil life center. thousands of volunteers are trying to clean up the beach es. new zealand officials call this the worst maritime environmental disaster ever. new zealand s transportation minister says if the salvage crews need to evacuate, at the least they would try to put caps on the tanks and close valves to minimize future oil spillage, it has