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are you sure? >> yes. >> okay. >> okay. >> if you're sure. >> reporter: then more serious doubts, quietly whispered. >> i think we're making a mistake. >> i agree with you. >> the cia should have radioed to the peruvian intercepter and said, abort the mission, stand down. pilots did not have the d its authority to stop the operation. a minute and a half later, the gunship opened fire. bowerspilot screams in spanish for them to stop. >> tell them to terminate. >> don't, don't shoot. >> tell him to terminate. >> reporter: the damage was done. the plane caught on fire, trailing black smoke. it headed for the river to land. veronica bowers was already dead from a bullet through her chest. infant charity died from a bullet in the head. >> right there. >> yea yeah. >> reporter: not long after the plane was floating upside down in the river. the cia director in washington s telling white house officials it was just an unavoidable error. in congress, the cia was accused by a top republican of running a nine-year-long effort to stonewall and mislead congress. failing to reveal how and why all of the program's strict rules were ignored by the cia. >> if the rules as outlined had been followed, the bowers' plane would not, would not have been shot down. >> i want somebody to have to stand back and say, i was responsible. i want him to know what a mother's heart is like. you can feel the last touch, the last kiss she gave you when you said good-bye. not knowing it was going to be the last one. and i want somebody to tell me why they killed my girl. why they killed my child. >> reporter: the cia says its nine-year-long investigation has determined the was no cover-up. but that 16 cia employees should be disciplined, including, we learned, the woman then in charge of counter narcotics. many of the 16 are no longer with the cia and one of them told us his discipline was no more than letter of reprimand placed in his file, which he was told would be removed in one year. that's the punishment for his role in the wrongful deaths of two innocent americans. brian ross, abc news, new york. >> adding insult to injury, as jim bowers was trying to recover the bodies of his wife and his baby girl from the wreckage, the plane was fired upon again by the peruvians to clean it up. and so it just is heartbrag. >> you heard those pilots' misgigs. certainly somebody should have stepped in and said, let's abort this mission. as if toyota is not having enough trouble the popular prius hybrid is now in the crosshairs. a major toyota outlet in tokyo says the automaker has informed dealers prius brakes can fail to work for less than a second. >> so far owners have not been notified and there's no recall yet. japan's transport minister says one should be considered. >> of course toyota's current problems bring to mind another car scandal. ford faced only side charges after 27 deaths were linked to the pintos' allegedly faulty fuel design. >> prosecutors said ford knew of the danger but chose to deal with the lawsuits instead of fixing the problem. now from the abc news vault, our report from january and february 1980. >> from abc, this is "world news tonight." >> a new witness testified today in the trial of the ford motor company, the first corporation ever charged with a homicide. james walker was in the indiana courtroom. >> reporter: this man, 21-year-old robert duggar, trove the van that plowed into the back of the 1973 ford pinto. a collision in which two teenage sisters and their 18-year-old cousin burned to death. the pinto's gas tank burst into flames upon impact. the prosecutor for the state of indiana contends this tank exploded because it was dangerously designed. the ford motor company has been charged with negligent homicide. defense lawyers in the case say duggar was driving so fast that no gas tank could have withstood a similar crash. finally this afternoon, duggar took the stand, described how his van struck the pinto from behind, and what happened next. the whole car was on fire, the whole car was 1ing. i wanted to help but everything was burning. i just fell to my knees, i froze. defense attorney james neil then began his efforts to undermine duggar's credibility. despite vigorous objections by the prosecutor, judge harold stafffelt allowed neil to cross examine duggar about his driving record before the accident. are you the same rubber duggar device convicted of speeding? yes,ir. of running a stop sign? yes, sir. of failing to yield? yes, sir. who has twice had his license suspended? yes, sir. with the testimony over duggar ran from the courthouse accompanied by state troopers. the trial will continue tomorrow with more eyewitnesses scheduled to testify. james welker, abc news, indiana. >> from abc, this is "world news tonight." >> yesterday the prosecution wrapped up its side of the case in the ford pinto homicide trial in indiana. today lawyers for ford began presenting their side of the story. mike von fremd was there. >> reporter: the ford motor company began its defense with this surprise witness, levi woodward, 28-year-old hospital orderly who says he talked with judy allrich, the driver of the' city pinto, just before she died. on the witness stand he testified that in a hospital emergency room, she told him how the accident happened. that after buying gas she noticed the gas cap roll across the street, made a u-turn, and stopped the car. it was then, she said, she saw the van in her rear-view mirror. if the pinto was stopped, that is a key point in ford's defense. the prosecution has presented witnesses that say the pinto was traveling anywhere from 10 to 25 miles per hour when hit from behind by a van going up to 50. if the pinto was stopped when the van hit, that would almost double what is called closing speed and ford claims that almost no car could survive that kind of impact. prosecutor michael cosentino complained he'd never heard of the witness before today and said the testimony doesn't match. ford later took off the doors to the courthouse and brought in the rear half of four 1973 sub compact cars to try and prove the pinto's gas tank is as safe as other comparable cars. lawyers for the prosecution say cars made by any other manufacturer have nothing to do with the criminal charges being brought against ford. mike von fremd, abc news, indiana. >> as for the outcome of the case the jury eventually found ford not guilty. they said it wasn't clear that ford's negligence caused the deaths. >> however, the ford pinto landed on the top 50 wst cars in "time" magazine ever. >> it sort of became notorious for bad design, bad all-around car. went out of production with good reason. whoo! awake again? 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"world news now" delivers your "morning papers." >> it's "morning paper" time. >> it and is i've got a good one. a woman on long island, new york, was driving along the expressway, get this jeremy, with a mannequin so that she could drive in the car pool lane. we have the picture. she's a lot like jaichb birken. the police figured it out because she was wearing shades and it was not sunny out and the driver, a 61-year-old driver, got a $135 fine. >> the funny tng is the cop who pulled her over, about a year and a half ago, pulled over a person doing the same thing. so apparently this person was not the first to do. i actually have a friend, her grandma, swear to god, i've seen it, it's hilarious, she puts a mannequin in the passenger seat for security. >> for safety. i've heard that, that's a legitimate reason to use a mannequin. >> the thing's goofy. we'd put cigarettes in its mouth and play with it. >> i'm sure you did, that's so mature. >> ha ha, very good! >> she catches on early, doesn't she, willis. so there's this cat that you do not want to befriend, believe me. i'm an animal lover but you want nothing to do with oscar the cat. oscar has become very adept at predicting people's deaths. lives in a u.s. nursing home. dr. david doses has written a book "making the rounds with oscar: the extraordinary gift of an extraordinary cat." basically this cat has accurately predicted 50 deaths. when he was 6 months old the staff noticed he would curl up to sleep with patients who were about to die. 50 times he got it right. they were so convinced of one patient's death that they figured oscar would curl up next to the person. no, oscar went down the hall, curled up to somebody else, and that person died. >> it's apparentlyaybe a scent or something that they get that we can't detect, a fpheromone o something oscar has. he was trained to be a rehabilitative cat. >> i think he was trained by funeral directors or something. >> he's cute. >> yes, he is. >> this is my favorite, one of the best, not oscar but this other picture we're going to show you, one of the most fantastic wildlife photographs i have ever seen. it kind of reminds me of the john stewart o'reilly confrontation from last night. it a leopard takinon a porcupine. for 25 minutes he tries to eat this thing. i don't know why you would do that. clearly it's way more evolved than you are. and the porcupine held its own just like jon stewart did. >> yes. >> and he never gets to eat the rodent. i didn't know porcupines were rodents, did you? they are. >> that's why those quills come in handy, i guess. >> tha guru charged. the leader of a multimillion dollar sell-help empire is arrested in the deaths of three people. this morning his lawyer is vows to show evidence that proves james ray is innocent. prius problem. the car that once symbolized its success becomes part of toyota's deepening crisis. this morning, millions of car owners face more confusion. and, twoaced. does each of us have a double, someone out there who looks just like us? we do a double-take at the latest facebook craze with the weird name. it's thursday, february 4th. >> from abc news, this is "world news now." >> we're just talking about doppelgangers and whether we have them or not. we'll delve into that later this half hour. >> he has one, just so you know, i don't. >> we might be able to find you one. >> i can't wait to see that piece. >> we'll look. >> good morning, everyone. i'm stephanie sy sitting in for vinita nair. >> i'm jeremy hubbard. california motivational speaker james ray is behind bars this morning, charged in connection with the deaths of three people during a sweat lodge ceremony. >> ray is being held on $5 million bond and is expected to make a first cot ap brad wheelis has more. >> there's at least one area of your lif >> reporter: james ray has made millions from motivational speechesseminars and retreats now northern arizona authorities say he's responsible for the deaths of three people who participated in a sweat lodge ceremony designed to push their >> one isn't breathing and one person is burned. >> reporter: of the 60 or so people who took part in the ceremony, three died and 18 were hospitalized. authorities investigating the deaths began questioning r's behavior. several participants s intimidated them to stay inside ray yelled whenhe >> we just y i started tearing the sweat lodge apart to pull blankets off, to cover the people in. >> reporter: one of ray's former employees told abc news ray refused to stop the ceremony, even though people were being dragged out in front of him. >> how can you walk out of there when all of these people are down, and they look near death, and you guys can walk out there looking like you just spent the day in a spa. >> reporter: investigators also wondered why so many dietary supplements, steroids and human growth hormones were found in ray's bungalow at the retreat. the county sheriff says, with the arrest of james ray the families of the three victims will now have some measure of closure to this tragedy. ray is fighting back. his attorneys in a statement called the charges unjust adding, this was a terrible accident but it was an accident, not a criminal act. they say ray will be exonerated. ray's bail has been set at $5 million. brad wheelis, abc news. we are learning more about why top intelligence officials say they are certain al qaeda will soon strike, try a terror strike, on the u.s. islamic radicals have been heard boasting about what's to come, including one intercept which said "we'll get them this time." informants have suggested an attack is coming and evidence has been found in yemen, confirming the training of suicide bombers. this is in addition to the information being provided by alleged underwear bomber umar farouk abdmutallab. >> it's taken nearly nine years but the cia is finally admitting its role in the deaths of two innocent americans who were shot in the sky over peru in april of 2001. american missionaries jim and veronica bowers and their two children were returning to their home in peru aboard a small plane. a cia spotter plane mistook them for drug smugglers and while it watched and videotaped the peruvian air force shot them down. veronica bowers and her baby daughter were killed. the ciadmits it did not follow procedure to correctly identify the plane and that it has been misleading congress ever since. new figures from government number crunchers show by next year, taxpayers will be picking up the tab for more than half of all health care in the u.s. in 2009 the public shelled out $2.5 trillion for health care. mostly for medicare and medicaid. that is up more than 5.5% from the previous year. the result, health care represents 17.3% of the economy, the largest annual hike from the year before since 1960. health experts say the best way to mark today's world cancer day is to adopt simple lifestyle changes that can dramatically reduce the deadly and costly disease. those changes aren't anything we haven't