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military's explanation of what happened. and north korea set to launch a satellite next month that is going to mark the 100th birthday. there have been missile tests in disguise. the state department is calling the news highly provocative. and it's game on. president obama is raising money in chicago to raise more campaign cash. vice president biden, he is in fighting mode and in a speech to auto workers yesterday blasted republicans who opposed the industry bailout. >> he made the tough call and president obama was right and they are dead wrong. >> afghan president hamid karzai says he is not buying the u.s. military's version of the shooting spree in which 16 afghan civilians were killed. president karzai met with family members and elders from the village where an american soldier was blamed for going house to house in a deadly rampage. we're going to go live to kabul. sara sidner is joining us. president karzai says he doesn't believe what he u.s. military and u.s. officials are saying about this. what is he saying? >>. >> they said that they could not possibly say this is one soldier on his own and he went from house to house. he tied up some of the people that he ended up burning some of the people in their own homes and they just don't believe this is the work of one man. mr. karzai reiterated, based on what you're saying, it sounds like this wasn't the work of one man. he also said that his investigators are not buying this surveillance video that they have been shown. they have been shown a surveillance video by u.s. officials that it reportedly showed a u.s. soldier accused of this coming back to the base after this attack. and they are saying that they suspect that this might not be a video that really shows what really happened that night and if it really is from that date. so there's a lot of skepticism going on here, suzanne. >> and does karzai have his own investigation going on as well? >>. >> reporter: yes. he does have a team of people that are investigating the incident. we know that he sent them a couple of days ago, from kandahar, from the province to speak to people. he also talked about appointing someone to head to that investigation as well in the comes days. he's invited the villagers back tomorrow to say we'll do it in a traditional way. but you can tell that there's definitely a strained relationship right now between him and even with president obama because he called mr. obama this morning. they had a conversation this morning and mr. obama was, quote, upset for him for trying to move up the timeline to the transition and getting it to happen in 2013 instead of 2014. suzanne? >> how did he describe that conversation? that president obama is upset with him? he did say what president obama actually told him? >> he didn't he said that he was upset with him. it's interesting because the press office sent out a release that seemed a little more diplomatic, if you will, and those words were used. he spoke mostly to the villagers because those are the languages that they would use. we are going through the translations right now. he certainly seemed to have shall, as he said, this is the end of the rope when he was talking about all of the incidents that have happened here. what that means going forward, we'll have to wait and see but saying statements like this, this is the end of the rope, we keep telling the u.s. over and over again, things keep happening over and over and over again. we'll have to wait and see. it seems like the relationship is getting more and more strained. >> sara, is there any reaction now that the soldier accused of the shooting rampage is now heading back to the united states? >> reporter: yes. the reaction is we're very upset with this. mr. karzai says that he does not think that the u.s. treated them fairly. the investigators were not given the kind of cooperation that they expected from the united states when it came to being able to speak with this soldier who is accused in this massacre. so, yes, there is some anger there but interestingly enough we have to mention there have been no protests today and when you saw the koran burnings and the reaction from that, 40 people killed, including u.s. service members, there has been no protesting in the streets today. so a difference with how regular people are reacting to this and we went to the streets and people are angry but not on the streets protesting. >> sara sidner, thank you so much. now on to the top of the story that we just mentioned. it's a case that has sent shock waves throughout one new jersey college, the rutgers' campus. it's also caused a national conversation ongoing. a rutgers university student accused of spying on his roommate with a webcam. that event led to the tragic suicide of 18-year-old tyler clementi. now dharun ravi could face up to ten years in prison after being found guilty of bias intimidation, among other charges. paul joins us from new york of all, why is it that ravi was found guilty and causing sexual contact in between two individuals without their consent over the internet. second, that this was done with bias against gay people and the third party of the case had to do with destruction of the evidence and trying to cover up the case. and to any one of the subquestions, he was guilty of the main counts. so when the verdict was read, it sounded like he was being found not guilty of some of the counts. but when i've looked over the sheet now, he was found guilty of every count that he was charged with. every count was accepted by the jury and he's facing potentially ten years in prison at the time of sentencing. this was a first-time use of invasion of privacy law an important law in new jersey and prosecutors were vindicated by the verdict. >> you say this is unprecedented. why? tell us why. >> well, it's unprecedented, of course, because with social media and web cams, kids today, especially younger people, have gotten used to broadcasting their lives over the internet if you secretly record someone without their permission, and up until you sue somebody for civil and be very careful because it might be a crime in the state of new jersey. >> two follow-ups here. does it make a difference whether the web cam is set up and it's meant to catch somebody in a compromising or sex act. that's the first question. and then secondly does it make any difference whether or not this guy was gay or straight when it kochls to this kind of sentencing that follows? >> well, the intent make as lot of the difference. i don't think they are convicted of invasion of privacy if the intent is to protect their home. here the prosecutors tried to prove that the intent was to humiliate tyler clementi and if this has h been two gay individuals t. still would have been an invasion of privacy crime and subject to five years but because it was bias intimidation, because prosecutors proved to the jury that this was done because of anti-gay sentiment, that doubles the sentence under new jersey law to ten years. so that's how the impact of the bias intimidation or the hate crime factors in. >> paul, thank you for explaining that. thank you. paul, appreciate it. here's a rundown of some of the stories we're following in the next hour all of this weather, does it have a downfall? 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