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Sheets. if those old samples can be found and if they havent been ravaged by time, scientists can perform dna testing. since lowery is out of prison, he cant demand a test. he must ask for permission from the current riley county prosecutor bill kennedy. >> i remember distinctly were out on the front steps of the courthouse having a five-minute conversation, and his response to my request was, if you think this guy didnt do it, lets get it tested. ill help you. >> in this case, there was a clear...

Years old has cost him so much. >> i tore myself up over the years about why i confessed, you know, why i dealt with it that way. i dont know why i did it. >> the dark period lasts for six years until lowery reads news reports about the efforts of the new york-based innocence project. >> id cut these articles out in the paper and bring them home and say to my wife, hay, hon, look. somebody else has been exonerated through dna testing. if we could find the evidence from my trial, get it dna teste...

>> there you go. good. >> but theres no way to get back 30 lost years or even to put a value on something so priceless. still, a civil suit filed after lowerys exoneration attempts to right the wrong. after dna testing links daniel brewer to the rape of the 74-year-old victim, a bombshell that reveals the extent of the police departments grave error. riley county, kansas, settles with lowery for $7.5 million. >> this money has helped me out a lot. and ive been able to help my kids out, you know,...

All this comes at a time when theres growing concern about the isis threat to lebanon. there was, of course, that twin suicide bombing in beirut last month by a cell which was dispatched from syria to lebanon to launch the attack in a hezbollah neighborhood. isis trying to provoke increasing sectarian tension in lebanon. they want the syrian civil war to come to beirut. >> isis is not believed to have been a part of the exchange atta talks here, but how does this exchange relate to the terror gr...

Paris itself. that night they were worried about the missing suicide vest. so they will be doing forensics on it, dna testing to see whether it actually did belong to him or not. but it seems very similar in design. the same explosive used in the other suicide vests used on that night. >> paul, stay with me. im turning to you, stephon. i want you to explain the suburb outside of paris where this potential suicide vest with tatp possibly was found. where is that in relation to half a mile from wh...

>> you go girl. >> she was a few months from her college graduation, a degree in marketing. as far as she knew her whole lifetime was spread out ahead of her. >> swing again. up one. >> got the video camera out. >> couldnt wait to get out of school. couldnt wait to be able to make money. couldnt wait to kind of go off into the world and do her thing. just very ambitious. >> jim and jenny. >> oh. >> jenny, turn around. oh, man. >> they buried her or what was left of her after the fire in this gar...

Is the ring leader of the paris terrorist attacks alive or on the run or dead? dna testing this morning. intense investigation happening in france. new raids in belgium as a new isis video threatening attack on new york city. a lot of developments this morning. welcome back to "early start." im christine romans in new york where it is 5:32 in the east. >> im john berman in paris. welcome viewers in the united states and around the world. there is breaking news right now from belgium. a series of...

Stories. two dead and eight under arrest after a big raid this morning. the question is whether the suspected ringleader is alive or dead. there is dna testing being conducted it to determine whether abdelhamid abaaoud was killed or whether hes on the run tonight. isis vows to attack new york city. the nypd will increase its security throughout that city. deborah feyerick is joining us. what did your sources tell us? >> reporter: i showed those pictures to an expert who broke it down with me. wi...

Troops were called in. but even after seven hours, it was still unclear if the paris attack mastermind was inside the apartment. frances chief prosecutor eventually broke the news to the country. abdelhamid abaaoud is not in custody, he said. but he did say a body recovered was too mangled to identify, and needs dna testing to determine if france got its man. >> and the paris prosecutor, francois molland say they are still unable to give a definitive number of the dead, given the carnage from th...

Broad. something like not allowing people to come here if they have been to iraq or syria in the last five years. as it is looking like the framework would be for this. they are saying they would be open to tightening things up. not only on the visa waiver program which is called into question for years as to how that effects national security as well. but the refugee vetting. they are open to evaluating it. >> michelle kosinski traveling with the president in manila. again, that vote in the hou...