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it felt very intimate, very personal. another emotional moment in court is when pistorius talked about how he has trouble sleeping because of nightmares following steenkamp s death. let s listen. i have terrible nightmares about, about things that happened that night where i wake up and smell, can smell, i can smell the blood, and i wake up to being terrified. if i hear a noise, i wake up just in a complete state of terror, to a point that i d rather not sleep than fall asleep and wake up like that. why did he share that story? reporter: sorry. repeat that question. why did he share that story?
reporter: you know, it s a good point. i think what is so key about his testimony is that he comes across as authentic, as somebody, of course, who is remorseful and somebody who has a clear understanding of the implications of what he did. i think that was clear, he s very much struggling with the consequences of his actions. of course, that s important in terms of trying to assess the credibility of his story. so i think that plays very much into it. of course, this is not a jury system. this kind of emotional response, this emotional kind of story is not going to hold as much water as it would, perhaps, in a u.s. courtroom, the judge is going to rule on facts here. still at the same time i think it was played a very key role and key part in at least telling the court, telling the judge that he was authentic and he really genuinely appears to be struggling with reeva steenkamp s death and the role he played in it. another interesting moment is when pistorius talked about his
successful in finding the pinger, including the egypt air crash in 1999. the only time it failed was in 2009 it passed over the box of the air france plane that crashed in the atlantic, air france 447 and it did not detect the signals from the black box and that s because the pinger became dislocated from the black box and may have been damaged. they say the success of the pinger locator speaks for itself, carol. brian todd, reporting live this morning, thank you. we ll go back to our coverage of that missing flight in just a minute. but first to another big story we re following today. a dramatic day in court as olympic athlete oscar pistorius takes the stand. he has consistently said her death was a tragic accident. he said it was a burglar in the bathroom. today he fought back tears as he apologized to steencamp s
specifically because whatever darkness was in his life obviously there was something going on with him to do unspeakably what he did. first of all, our hearts and thoughts go out to those affected by the tragedy at fort hood. it s absolutely horrible to hear and horrible to witness the quasicorrelation that s been drawn between that single act and ptsd in general. and it s important that we when we discuss those, we lean away from the sloppy journalism and headlines and leads correlate ptsd and this incident because it s just not fair to the hundreds of thousands of wounded warriors and families who are living with this every single day. i m glad we made the distinction. thank you both so much for your time. leo shane, did you have something you wanted to add? no. just the point that dan raised is spectacular. it s what we re hearing from a lot of veterans right now. the frustration of, let s make sure that this doesn t become a veteran story. let s make sure this is a story ab