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a look at these pictures coming in to cnn. helicopter has crashed into new yorks east river and a dramatic rescue operation is now underway. were told by the fire department of new york, a spokesman saying that at least two people were seriously injured in the crash. the chief coast guard petty officer eric swansen tells cnn there were at least three people on board when that helicopter crashed into the east river in new york. in an interview with a local affiliate, a former fdny commi...

Down, doing the dishes. and we cant have old trash laying around in there, so weve got to go empty the trash can right away. >> especially if the trash can contained cigarette butts. but this time christie did not do her usual cleanup. >> it suggested that the ashtray, the cigarettes, the smoking, all this happened at the time of the murder. >> but she was powerless to clean that up. >> absolutely. >> because whoever helped her cause the mess killed her. >> excellent way to put it. >> and there ...

Evidence to sway them to acquit? >> well, certainly from the united states point of view, and we have heard for four years all of the mounting evidence toward the innocence of amanda knox, i dont mean not guilty, but innocence, and, of course, it was the dna testing that seems to totally exonerate amanda knox, show that she not only did not do it, she wasnt even there at the time. and so those are the types of things that this jury has to take into consideration. much more so than dealing with h...

>> no. >> detectives brought gutierrez in for questioning, and he was cooperative. he even admitted seeing christie for a while, but they had broken it off two or three months before the murder, he said. as for the night christie was killed? art insisted he was nowhere near the condo, and he could prove it. >> he had been with his wife that evening, that they had, i believe, gone to a party with some people. >> and his wife backed up the story. >> he was asked to take a polygraph. he did not wan...

Everything. only his body language was a little more forthcoming. >> he acted about as squirrelly as you could possibly get. and by that, i mean, he was nervous. he didnt want to be there. he couldnt wait to get the interview over with. and after talking to mr. gutierrez, he stood out like a sore thumb. >> davis got a warrant to draw a blood sample. dna testing was possible by then but still not quite precise. and once again the saliva on two of the cigarette butts in christies trash can could h...

Of course, the capture and kill of usama bin laden are what kind of efforts will be made for the disposal, the proper burial of that body so that is a big question. i think one more little tea leaf and were reading those right now is when it was nounannounce the yemeni government that this happened, they announced it only about two hours after this air strike, this kill happened. either they were behind it or informed pretty directly from washington that the deed was done. >> interesting thing i...

Ground was hurt and were told weather might have been a factor in the crash, an investigation underway. a monumental step forward for womens right in saudi arabia. women allowed to vote for the first time beginning in 2015. saudi king abdullah saying he does not want women to be marginalized any longer, winning the right to run for public office, another first for the middle east kingdom and female activists looking for rights, still, the right for women to drive. in libya, revealing horrors fro...

court. we have consistently lost the case as its been presented in the public realm on tv and elsewhere. >> you know what caught my attention, the debate is happening more and more. the exact idea that there is new science. in fact the supreme court will hear a case this fall about memory and eyewitness testimony. first time theyve reviewed this issue in 34 years. now enfir dysart is a psychologist. she prepared testimony to give the georgia parole board on behalf of troy davis, althou...

we have consistently won the case as its been presented in court. we have consistently lost the case as its been presented in the public realm on tv and elsewhere. >> you know what caught my attention, the debate is happening more and more, this exact idea that there is new science, in fact, the supreme court will hear a court this case about memory and eyewitness testimony, the first time theyve reviewed this issue in 34 years. jennifer dysart is a psychologist. as she prepared testim...

Board because they wanted to know how important that was in the deliberations. and she said, it was very important. we discussed it at length. so that gives me some hope. there are three new board members. one of the holdover board members is a prosecutor named keller. and he was a prosecutor in a case involving calvin johnson who was exonerated with dna testing. so i know he at least knows that these kinds of mistakes can happen. and i think people really have to understand that there was a hea...