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Accosted by several black men who made him do this and it turned out this whole plan rolled out. youre in erie to be there for her sentencing tomorrow and expected to get life. in your argument, you say there is a lot of doubt about her ability to pull this off and another person is actually the mastermind. >> thats right. marjorie diehl-armstrong has a very long and complicated mental history. shes been found mentally incompetent several times before she was finally convicted in this case. if y...

Very long and complicated mental history. shes been found mentally incompetent several times before she was finally convicted in this case. she -- if you speak to people who know her well, they say shes not capable of putting together this sort of plot. there is another person involved, who is purported to be involved. his name is bill rothstein. he is this handyman, very eccentric, highly intelligent, very proficient technically, and i spoke extensively with jim fisher, an ex-fbi agent studying...

Hit. he says he was nearly killed. >> parts of the ceiling fell, glass shattering everywhere. and after about 20, 25 seconds, it was over. >> reporter: this city, the size of st. louis, was hit by a larger earthquake just six months ago. but what made this event so deadly was how shallow it struck, just 2 1/2 miles below the surface. the city continues to be rocked by aftershocks. t.j. winick, abc news, new york. >> our thoughts and prayers with those folks, certainly. turning now to the incre...

With how little social and political freedom there are, and theres a lot of images of gadhafi in libya. >> we want to know about him personally. how would you describe his style of leadership? at times hes a rather eccentric guy. >> that is a good word for him. hes known for his intol rantz dissent, flamboyant, eccentric. remember trying to set up a -- when he went to new york, to the u.n., so he could greet visitors. hes also a very skilled equal operator. he knew when to admit to responsibilit...

Of nasa. you had a chance to talk to buzz aldrin, i understand. >> reporter: it was pretty funny, i talked to buzz aldrin earlier today, the white house had him fly down on air force one with president obama. why did they do that? well, as one of the "apollo" astronauts he supports sort of the presidents new vision for nasa, a real drastic change that hell try to lay out his vision and a lot of the other "apollo" astronauts, we heard yesterday neil armstrong, for example, really believe this wil...

Walker bush, those were the people who ran politics, government, business. he is the last one. he is the last world war ii veteran in a position of prominence. and that had an impact, his intense patriotism, his concern about the rules of war, which came through in the guantanamo cases. so i think the ideological makeup of the court will not change that much. youll have four liberals, four conservatives. anthony kennedy in the middle. but the fact that stevens is not there will make it a differe...

Chili and pete rose ranks number one on the crazy town list. rounding out the top five, san francisco, providence, rhode island, milwaukee and las vegas. we are joined by liz goodwin of thedailybeast.com. why cincinnati? what about the criteria pushed it to the top? >> well, it is stress. they have a very high stress level. i think it was in the top five of all 57 cities that we ranked. so a lot of wound-up folks in cincinnati, apparently. >> and, again, how do you define stress? >> well, it was...

Check not only on this a top violinist from austria. i love ice cream well i think im not alone with that right here in germany each person enjoys an average of some litters of ice cream every year but you brave enough to try out something completely new like ice cream that tastes like meat for example or well what about fish if you want to take your taste buds on an adventure you have to go to munich but the strange ice cream flavors are not the only things that are really crazy there. bright c...

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Song hes a farmer his family has been working the land for four generations. hes also raising six children on his own like his forefathers before him so he wants to live at one with nature now large scale cultivation on the chemicals organic farming which makes him something of an eccentric. well me i look at everyone here says im crazy but ultimately this isnt my land its borrowed im just visiting that for fifty sixty or seventy years so it has to be here for a future generation of. you know lo...