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From cnn. >> reporter: taking back the home taken hostage by an ex-con. what is happening today at the arvada home goes past repairs. their pride, hammering and sawing away an ordeal that traumatized not only a 13-year-old held captive, but that teens entire family. >> no one felt comfortable coming back to the home. >> he is armed and is in the back southwest bedroom. >> reporter: christopher scotts son was held hostage for hours in the home until the man was eventually killed by police on the ...

Bill: an ex-con take a 13-year-old hostage and calling a fox television reporter in the middle of this. missing the parole hearing in january say he would rather die than go back to jail. of a 13-year-old boy hostage four hours inside of a home in denver. s.w.a.t. teams swarmed the area. said he wanted to talk to a reporter. police listened along with him. watch. >> is anyway you could just let him go? >> absolutely not. the only thing i have even consider or entertain the idea of backing away. ...

Expected in the chris christie bridge gate scandal tomorrow. well talk with a columnist who says the governor is too smart not to know what was happening. plus -- >> everyone on the board is here for one reason and one reason only. to protect the king. >> a story of inspiration. actor cuba gooding, jr., joins us to talk about his new film. it surrounds the life of an ex-con who brought the game of chess to a group of at-risk teenagers. well talk more with him about this movie and the mission. yo...

Over for speeding and you have a gun you are not charged with anything? >> thats right. >> there are states like new york and other states like illinois where its almost impossible to get a gun. >> and mostly the three cities. washington, d.c., chicago, and new york city. i mean, 50 pages. and there is lots of crime in those cities. but, i mean, the obstacles. you are supposed it know the desks of things like gravity knife. ballistic knife. kung fu star. its obstacle course to make it hard for p...

Thats the main democratic objecti objective. may not doing it in 2014 or 2016 but the big latino population and being able to have folks register for future elections is the big challenge. >> thank you. well see you tomorrow. >> thanks. still ahead -- >> this is your life. one mistake and it can be taken away. >> a real life story of redemption. cuba gooding, jr., here to talk about his new movie. an ex-con that used the game of chess to help teenagers in tough neighborhoods. season after s, n...

Thing, if he does color them again, it wont be in the prison. >> what i learned from being in prison is theres a better life away from the criminal life. the enjoyment of life, being able to live it and not having to look over your shoulder all the time is great. >> and upon his release, boltjes started off on the right track. >> i got a really good job fixing and flipping houses. i was making roughly $1,000 to $1,500 a week and getting paid bank. living in these big old houses, buying a car. pe...

The first thing theyll get is probably a music box or television and stuff when they should be getting a typewriter to where they can construct their motions and to, you know, petition the court. >> and he knows about petitioning the court. he has always maintained he was wrongly convicted of murder and has been fighting to get the charge reversed ever since coming to prison. >> i believe because i was an ex-con anyway and a drug dealer, a neighborhood drug dealer, so to get me off the street, t...

When you find out its real it disturbs you top the core. >> 15 hours later, the cats owners find her in that garbage can. shes hungry and scared, but alive. >> the cats owner had a whole security camera system set up. looked at the footage. boom, shes busted red handed. >> but they dont know who the tabby tosser is. so they post the clip on-line. >> it turns into a witch hunt. were going to find this woman and shell be brought to justice. >> the woman was found fairly quickly and was sentenced t...

We were outcasts. >> i think anyone that is brave enough to go and want to be an entrepreneur, you have to be resilient. that is what prison teaches you. how to be resilient and try to win against all odds although the deck is stacked against us so much. >> christine, they dont have access to technology. they are physically writing out tweets that volunteers later tweet for them. the idea is to give them a voice. if they get out or when they get out, they are not looked at as an ex-con. >> you s...