this morning, sentencing day. the man cleveland police held three women captive for years faces a judge while prosecutors release jaw-dropping details from the victims diaries. major league threats. some of the best known names in baseball including alex rodriguez could face extremely harsh punishments very soon. what the players and the league now says about the doping scandal. sisters give birth on the same day in the same hospital. seeing double in the maternity ward. and brush with death. country star randy travis and how suddenly things are looking up. that s coming up in the skinny on this thursday, august 1st. an 18-wheeler from abc news, this is world news now. with john muller and diana perez.
alisyn: did he also see ay, insert name here? brian: he might have. he reads everything. steve: he s a town cryer. he s got lots to cry about. alisyn: i m going to just try to read the headlines now for you. in two hours from now, the man accused of holding three women captive for more than a decade will learn his fate. a hearing begins at 9:00 a.m. for ariel castro. although a plea deal has taken the death penalty off the table, it s likely he will spend the rest of his life behind bars. he s set to speak at the hearing and sources also say one victim, michelle knight, will also testify. this as it s been revealed that the girls kept diaries detailing the physical, mental and sexual abuse that they suffered. this morning one soldier is in critical condition and 11 others are recovering after being struck by lightning. this happened at fort carson in colorado. the soldiers were training when they got word of a storm roll not guilty and the lightning hit them as they were tryi
he was only 2 1/2 years old when i was tooken. i look at him and i see him and i cried every night. i was totally alone. the man who held the three women captive in his home for more than a decade pleaded guilty last week to 937 charges to avoid the death penalty. he spoke out in court today issuing disturbing denials of the brutality the young women suffered at his hands. it wasn t something that it looks like i did. i didn t do that. i heard her what i did to her. can i react on that? so when i got up that day i did
every move he makes garners media attention. it s that emotional torment that is a stressor for us. the nevada parole bored said it reached it s decision on insurance tug l institutional programs and they call him a model inmate. how did you feel when you heard that description? well, you know, i guess the bailiffs are doing a good job there in the correctional facility that he s not being able to commit more crimes. the truth is i would imagine he would be the mayor of the jail and it s bugged me, but i don t know. i mean, i guess if that s part of the criteria to determine if somebody is eligible for parole, that s what it is. i have to respect and trust the judgment of the parole bored but emotionally it doesn t make me happy. we had a report about ariel castro, this appalling kidnapping holding these women
i m carol costello. let s head back to that cleveland courtroom. let s look inside that courtroom. before the break, i told you that ariel castro, the man accused of holding these three women captive for a decade started to apologize. and then the judge interrupted him. this is the sentencing phase of ariel castro s hearing. he will be officially sentenced to life in prison plus 100 years. i want you to listen to what ariel castro had to say before the judge interrupted. let s listen. i would like to apologize to the victims yeah, you may do that now. okay, you could see that he started to apologize. this is what led up to that apology. his defense attorneys. ariel castro s attorneys are arguing that the public doesn t, should not see terrible pictures