edwards lawyers say it was gifts from old friends intended to keep the affair street from elizabeth edwards who died back in december. first, joe johns lays out how all of this mess began. reporter: john edwards, the politician. remember him? we have much work to do. because the truth is, we still live in a country where there are two different americas. reporter: as it turned out, mr. two americas had two very different faces himself. people close to him said it was the face of betrayal. betrayal of the people closest to him. his late wife, elizabeth, supporters, his staffers, his contributors. grant it, he was a promising politician at first. rich trial lawyer, but a spokesman for the poor. smart but homegrown. talked such a good game, he good picked up as john kerry s running mate in 2004. i have chosen a man who understands and defends the values of america. reporter: but it didn t work out, so next election cycle, edwards jumped into the race for the white hou
in december. first, joe johns lays out how all of this mess began. reporter: john edwards, the politician. remember him? we have much work to do. because the truth is, we still live in a country where there are two different americas. reporter: as it turned out, mr. two americas had two very different faces himself. people close to him said it was the face of betrayal. betrayal of the people closest to him. his late wife, elizabeth, supporters, his staffers, his contributors. grant it, he was a promising politician at first. rich trial lawyer, but a spokesman for the poor. smart but homegrown. talked such a good game, he good picked up as john kerry s running mate in 2004. i have chosen a man who understands and defends the values of america. reporter: but it didn t work out, so next election cycle, edwards jumped into the race for the white house once again. by early 2008 it s time for me to step aside. reporter: he was out. but not before getting entangled i
to do your ordinary maintenance? as you said earlier, when you pull out the tray table and it impose sideways, you cannot keep that tray table straight. what else can you not keep straight? why do the nose wheels get stuck in the wells? why do tower f.a.a. guys in the tower, air traffic controllers fall asleep? and why can t we wake them up? simple stuff. we are too busy to do it. neil: charles, thank you very much. from cracks in airplanes to cracks in data security millions of americans finding out their e-mail address has been compromised because of a hacker attack. shoppers at best buy, disney, walgreens and others notified of the breach. what information can they get their hands on with this?
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into flames as it nose dived into a parking lot. it crashed shortly after takeoff just north of san antonio. the cause isn t known this morning. the couple killed in this crash would have celebrated their tenth wedding anniversary on thursday. a possibly really disturbing event in the skies. a new problem for anybody who flies here we need to think about. hackers. a computer security expert is claiming to have taken over a united plane s engine controls and made it briefly fly side ways. abc s kendis gibson has more on this story. reporter: the fbi investigating a frightening possibility. a hacker attack on more than a dozen flights across the country. the troubling claims outlined in a newly released fbi affidavit claiming denver computer security experts chris roberts told investigators he not only infiltrated inflight entertainment systems on planes 15 to 20 times but at one point he caused one of the airplane engines to climb resulting in a