but it s a huge place where people go for music, for conversation, for panels, for films. we ll see lady gaga tonight. even our favorite justin bieber made an appearance there. oh, boy. so people love south by southwest. our thoughts do go out to the people who were killed and injured in that tragic accident last night. howard bragman, always good to see you. thank you. thanks, chris. something else getting a lot of twitter today, amazon hiking the price for its prime membership. the tweet of the day comes from zach seward, senior editor of the website quartz. hiked to $99 a year in the u.s. they couldn t have made it $97 or $101? it s still a prime number in the uk, though at 79 pounds. [ female announcer ] with five perfectly sweetened whole grains. you can t help but see the good.
michelle s death was an accident, and luke hasler was convicted of first-degree murder and sentenced to life without the possibility of parole. his version of what happened almost seemed plausible until the evidence showed it was all a lie. a lot of people are either killed or seriously injured in car accidents, so there s a lot of data about what type of injuries those cause. those were nowhere like michelle s injuries. so the medical examiner s report was critical to say, no, this was not a car accident. we knew they had him, but without evidence, they couldn t have put him away, they couldn t have found him guilty. a lot of what forensics does is to corroborate or disprove stories. we answer questions by looking at physical evidence, and we re able to say that story fits or that story doesn t fit with what we re seeing here.
political issue, especially from national police organizations that were against this nomination. let me ask you this, before i get to the white house statement, which in and of itself is quite steamy. how did harry reid miscount the vote and send the vice president down there thinking this was going to be a tiebreaker. this is really interesting. they thought republicans wouldn t have the same number of people on the floor. when you don t have the same number of people the calculation changes. senator cornyn wasn t there, so they thought it would be a 49/49 tie and joe biden could come through and cast the vote. the problem is one of the democrats changed his vote. they ended up changing and they couldn t have vice president biden decide that vote.
and that has led to some startling revelations. the dna evidence proves that there were no sexual assaults. forensics proves that as well. the material that does exist, all three defendants are eliminated from it. they couldn t have produced it. and on the other hand, there is evidence consistent with a relative or a family member of one of the victims. and it s a hair in one of the ligatures which ties up one of the boys, and that s consistent with terry hobbs, who is the stepfather of stevie branch, one of the victims. but the hair was found on stevie s friend, michael moore. while the dna is consistent with terry hobbs, it is far from conclusive. we ve reached out to both terry hobbs and his attorney, ross sampson, and both have declined to speak. but i did sit down with them in 2007, when the dna results were first announced. is it possible, mr. hobbs, that
the dna evidence proves that there were no sexual assaults. the fronzices forensics proves that as well. the material that does exist, all three defendants are eliminated from it. they couldn t have produced it. and on the other hand, there is evidence consistent with a relative or a family member of one of the victims. and it s a hair in one of the ligatures which ties up one of the boys, and that s consistent with terry hobbs, who is the stepfather of stevie branch, one of the victims. but the hair was found on stevie s friend, michael moore. while the dna is consistent with terry hobbs, it is far from conclusive. we ve reached out to both terry hobbs and his attorney, ross sampson, and both have declined to speak. but i did sit down with them in 2007, when the dna results were first announced. is it possible, mr. hobbs, that that was your hair? sure.