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What . Traces of bird feather . Yes. In trying to solve one mystery, police may have solved two. Here i have two women that appeared to die the same way. E lightning dont strike the same place twice. Thats a whole lot of women dead at the bottom of the stairs in this guys life. Dont you think . But what looked like the end of this story its really stuff made for tv drama. Was just the beginning. I always had hope. It had to be made right. Shut with a resounding clank. I was a wreck. I really was. When the sun woke him up through razor wire every day for the rest of your life. Thats where everything both begins and ends. A convicts glimmer of a successful appeal and retrial may keep desperate hope hay live. I always had hope. It has to be made right. But in the real world of criminal justice, most of the time once youre inside, youre done. This was a reality that we couldnt change. But not every case ends the way you would expect. Meet michael pierce, his case which defies all odds beca
Morale is actionable. People come up to me all the time, did that happen here . People care. When i heard some of the test and i heard from the phoenix va, it was gut wrenching. I couldnt sleep. And i believe a lot of people within the system that feel the same way. But there exists a cancer within leadership, a few individuals that perpetuate this idea that we should be silent, that we shouldnt stand up and tell, do the right thing and be honest. Everyone makes mistakes, but when you make a mistake and you try to conceal it, that is really the question we should be asking. Who are these individuals who would alter data and hide the truth and present patient care . Thats a brief portion of our special looking into Veterans Health care issue. You can see the program in its entirety tonight at eight eastern on our companion network cspan. Up next todays edition of washington journal. In this for cyber we ask just about the reaction to Hillary Clinton recent remarks about the Obama Admini
Change . And titan, ben bradlee, the longtime editor of the Washington Post, has died. And tributes are pouring in for the man who guided the paper through watergate and defined journalism for decades today, wednesday, october 22nd, 2014. Announcer from nbc news, this is today with matt lauer and savannah guthrie, live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. And good morning, welcome to today on a wednesday morning. Im matt lauer, along with hoda kotb. Al roker and Natalie Morales. When you do what we do and ben bradlee was in a room you stopped and took notice. He was that big. And you were probably a little intimidated. There are few giants like that in our industry. No question. Well talk about his life and career in a little while. We want to start on this wednesday morning with our top story, the ebola crisis. A Liberian National is in isolation in newark, new jersey, this morning as doctors wait for ebola results. Meantime, the cameraman working with nbc in liberia when he contracte
Martha teichner will report our cover story. Reporter there it is. There she is. Reporter even now it can be upsetting to look at. The model and the mastectomy scar. When this photograph appeared on the cover of the New York Times magazine in 1993, it was a bombshell. Whats going on . Whats wrong with this picture. Reporter model and artist wanted to confront americans with the reality of Breast Cancer. This sunday morning, we fast forward 20 years. Were fast approaching the 50th anniversary of the day Martin Luther king jr. Delivered his i have a dream speech. The words remain with us to this day but what happened to dr. Kings speech itself is the story james brown of cbs sports has to tell. One day in alabama, little black boys and black girls will be able to join hands with little white boys. Reporter its a speech that echos through history. Because i have a dream today. Reporter on its 50th anniversary. So this is the actual speech. Reporter . How this man wound up with the origina