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Emerge now? was someone trying to weaken the taliban ahead of the talks? whos in charge of your movement now, if anybody? key moment for afghanistan, reeling with the with advent of isis, perhaps wondering who will take the place of the figure head in the insurgency, mullah omar symbolic, out of sight but led the messaging from the taliban. he has a competitor. and faced with title of the commander, a similar title that al baghdadi would like but a silence from the taliban at this stage. questio...

Drug developer and some womens groups. they are accusing the fda of gender bias and 257 other drugs out there to help men but they havent approved one for women. one drug has been rejected twice. its going to be reviewed again on thursday. a new treat for "50 shades of grey" fans. the author of the popular erotic novel announced her next book will be coming out next month. cant wait. this will be simply titled "grey." do what works. it tells a story from christian greys point of view. the author...

Theyre right. are those 60% correct that the economy will be better next year because if we do continue to get more growth i think people will become more optimistic about income mobility. >> but just going back to the wage gap and difference that republicans and democrats feel about the wage gap because i feel that most interesting. if you look at the numbers, there is a wage gap. a big one. a study on pay data shows ceos makes 257 times the average worker up from 181 times in 2009. >> theres a...

Are committed to ensuring defendants are notified of past errors and that the justice department has done in every instance that. joining me live now, the man who broke that story, legal reporter spencer shu. thank you so much for your time. >> thank you. >> there are a number of questions, first of which, obviously, is what happens now that this information has been revealed? >>. >> what is happening is that defendants in all these 257 trials are being notified, so are prosecutors, that 46 stat...

Say that, from the 1970s through 1999, 25 of 29 fbi forensic examiners made errors in their testimony, impacting 257 cases. the reports will says, out of 18 executions, 12 of them had errors in either testimony or lab reports. innocence project cofounder peter neufeld says this could mean hundreds of appeals nationwide. >> the first order of business frankly, is the f.b.i. and d.o.j. has to redouble their efforts to get the transcripts of the hundreds and hundreds of cases of people where fbi ag...

Died in prison. both the justice department and the fbi have already notified prosecutors in 46 states to determine whether there are grounds for appeals. if these 257 cases could represent only a fraction of fbi wrong doing. 1,200 cases are still awaiting review. joining me now is the director of strategic litigation at the innocence project, chris fabricant. and democratic senator from connecticut, richard blumenthal. thank you both for joining me. the innocence project is one of the authors o...

Information. or this faulty information. >> so we know youre right, absolutely right, we know that 18 of the defendants are still alive, they have this information. we are told that many of them are trying to act on it. theres a question what happens to those who have already been executed, you know their estates, their families may seek posthumous testing if evidence is still available. we know in the district of columbia, where public defenders and prosecutors alone, we think its the only juri...

Either been executed or who have died in prison which is the most troubling part of this. we know we have 257 cases looked at 95% talked about. we know that theres flawed testimony. but there is another 1200 cases that they havent even reviewed yet. >> and so we are talking quite simply, these examiners, these elite core of examiners -- >> at the fbi. >> have admitted to not telling the whole truth. right. >> skewing their testimony in favor of in large part the prosecution. so they lied. >> the...

Their shoes melting while theyre freezing because its so cold on the decks. >> terrible conditions. people hypothermia may be an issue at this stage. efforts continue at this hour to get those people to safety. >> joining us now by telephone from rome bobby, we will still almost 300 people on the ship when we last spoke. whats the latest now? >> well the italian navy has just tweeted their update. they say that they have recovered 221 people and there are 257 people left on the ship. so theyre m...

Welcome back, everyone. were following two big stories for you at cnn. the search for the missing flight but also a situation from the coast of greece where rescuers are trying to get people off a ferry thats on fire. >> all kinds of things going on. its dark and theres horrible weather as well. have a look at this video, that was shot by somebody on board the ship and they managed to get it off. you can see that fire just raging out of control inside the vessel. so everybodys outside. we do kno...