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am i what? do you think you re sane? do you feel you have your full sanity? or has what happened to you sent you slightly mad? what do you think? well, i ll tell you. tonight, robert blake. the piers morgan interview starts now. good evening. i ve been interviewing celebrities and public figures for more than 25 years, more than 2,000 people, including presidents, prime ministers, movie tv and pop stars, but i have never had an encounter as explosive, confrontational, or as extraordinary as the one you re about to witness. robert blake is a hollywood legend, shot to fame in our gang. went on to a chilling role as the murderer in the film in cold blood and won an emmy for baretta. things changed when he met bonnie lee blakely. she became the mother of his child. his second marriage, her tenth. six months later, she was found dead by a gunshot wound to the head. it was a cold case. then her children filed a civil suit against blake alleged he was responsible for the
the jury is shown photographs of the victims at the age they say sandusky abused them. a sensitive military drone crashes in maryland during what the pentagon says was a routine training exercise. tonight newt gingrich joins us to share his thoughts on the general election match-up. you. childhood photos of eight of jerry sandusky s victims were projected on to a big screen today. it s day one in the trial of the former penn state football coach. he s accused of assaulting at least ten boyce over a span of 15 years. the jury heard from one of those alleged victims today. sayre rare gan numb was in that courtroom. the first witness to testify was vick up in four. he says sandusky assaulted him dozens of times and later sent him creepy love letters. i write because you mean so much to us, i write because of the churning in my stomach when you don t care. i still hope there will be meaning to the time we have known each other. notes like that, the graphic testimony, how did
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biggest cities in louisiana. but it means tiny communities could soon be under many feet of water. this is what it looked like in 1973. the one and only time the morganza spillway had to be opened. there s no guarantee it will even work. the mississippi river is already dangerously high in new orleans. the army corps of engineers is hoping that by diverting water through two spillways will lower the river level and spare the city. so far, the corps says opening the morganza spillway appears to be having the desired effect. the biggest test is still days away, the highest water, hundreds of miles up river. this is greenville, mississippi, that you re looking at right now. a live report from there, and it is being inundated, straight ahead on cnn. let s get right to ed lavandera who was there when the morganza spillway was opened just about three hours ago. ed, tell us about it. ed lavandera is joining us on the phone. ed, can you hear us? reporter: just a while ago, this is