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Hearing to begin, lets head to cleveland and cnns pamela brown. pamela, can you set the scene for us? >> well, carol, it is a packed courtroom. packed to the brim. our martin savidge is in the room right now as his sentencing is about to get under way any moment now and this is what we know so far. were told by amanda berry and gina dejesus attorney that they will not attend the hearing but represented in the hearing and michelle knight could be making an impact statement. she could be doing tha...

An apology. thats according to castros attorney. that he could be remorseful. for the first time we heard him in court. we could be seeing more of that tomorrow. he will be working on what he will say. and he said it is not overly preplanned. it could be a lengthy statement from castro tomorrow. >> do we expect the victims to either attend or make a statement themselves? >> pier, im learning from sources that one of the three victims will actually be making a statement here tomorrow, an impact s...

Conference. so that is an indication if she does make an impact statement, she will actually face ariel castro in court. of course, as we have been hearing today, michelle knight endured the worst abuse of the three women. she was the one that was pregnant and ariel castro killed her unborn baby by jumping on her stomach, giving her rotten food, as one of the investigators said. so its really incredible to think that she could be facing castro and you can imagine how empowering this could be for...

Captive for so long, a very, very different story than anything youve been involved with but the similarity, i guess, is how you get over any kind of horror, any kind of atrocity. what advice would you give these young women that have been through a decade of held like this? >> i was getting teary eyed reading the story of the letter from michelle knight. those women have a long road ahead of them but sounds like they are surrounded by a lot of love and support and resources. the impact statemen...

Helping her. they posted this on their facebook page today and in the letter michelle night says you dont know how much i appreciate your time and work collecting cards and gifts from people for me and the other girls. im overwhelmed by the amount of thoughts, love and prayers expressed by complete strangers. its comforting. life is tough but im tougher. when the caterpillar thought the world was over, she became the butterfly. thanks. god bless you. michelle knight. so we expect to hear the sam...

>> that was absolutely, when they call them an impact statement. let me tell you, it had an impact that was unreal. stephen and samantha were probably about 5-feet directly in front of me. i wanted to reach out and hold them. i saw how angry and upset stephen was, but so emotionally distraught. i think that that, you know, we never knew what their family was really all about until that day. because i did not know that there were eight siblings in that family. we kind of surmised that was the fam...

>> in the 1990s. bin laden learned information from the blind sheikh. >> jamie: you know, because we have had this conversation before, i was in the second tower on the day of 9/11, on another story, and i happened to be there when the second plane hit. what i experienced -- i didnt lose family members like so many of your constituents did. do you not think there is some benefit as in a murder trial, any murder trial, where a victim can come, a family member, give an impact statement, see the de...

Lets look at this one. lets start with a memorable moment from the spring while we were still in the middle of a tough primary fight that pushed romney to the far right. the question many were asking was could he pivot back to the center in the general election. and then this happened. the number seven quote of the year, lets watch. >> he hit a reset button for the fall campaign, everything changes. its almost like an etch-a-sketch. you can kind of shake it up and we start all over again. >> imp...

Far right. the question many were asking was could he pivot back to the center in the general election? and then this happened. the number seven quote of the year. lets watch. >> he hit a reset button for the fall campaign. everything changes. its almost like an etch-a-sketch. you can kind of shake it up and we start all over again. >> impact statement of etch-a-sketch. >> yeah. it was wonderful because that quote confirmed what everyone suspected about mitt romney. you know, the great thing abo...

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