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Sonny, match.com has responded, promising to screen its members. so what exactly can the website do? >> well, ins a lot the website can do. but what the website has agreed to do as you mention in the next two to three month, they will start screening perspective match.com members and current members against the national sex offender registry. that i think is a move in the right direction. a move in the direction of being a good corporate citizen. but theyre not saying theyre going to conduct bac...

Ahead on the rundown, cnn in depth one year after the oil disaster start in the gulf of mexico, a lot of people are wondering whether seafood from the gulf is safe to eat. were going go live to grand isle, louisiana. plus gold prices going through the roof. were going to find out why. and, a woman claim she was sexual assaulted by a man she met on match.com. tips on how to protect yourself if youre using one of those on-line dating services. one year since one of the worst environmental disast...

Members need to take measures to protect themselves. wurtzel was arrested and charged but his attorney questions whether a sexual assault even took place. >> what actually went on, which is consensual sexual encounter between two consenting adults who went on a second date and went back up to her apartment. >> reporter: marcum says she doesnt want money. she just wants changes. >> i want to come forward and speak for the other jane does and joe blows who have been abused by sexual predators and ...

Gun battle in a suburban orlando internet gambling cafe. the intended robbery was all caught by a surveillance cameras and we want to warn you now that the video here is a little graphic. two of the suspects enter the cafe and exchange shots with the security guard. one of the would-be robbers was wounded and his body later found in the abandoned getaway car. his two accomplices are still at large. scary. >> tough to watch, too. its easy on the internet to pretend to be something that you are ...

Background checks on all of their members. she says she wants to keep others from suffering what she suffered. she was so traumatized she wanted to keep her identity hidden. this woman says she went on a second date with alan wurtzel. it was going well so he accompanied her to her sometime opened the door. >> and then he went straight into the bathroom and then he came out of the bathroom and he skruched me. >> reporter: on "good morning america" carole said she was ready to reveal her identity....

Location. >> reporter: you got it, look at where he is going. later this week, another town hall in nevada, another state where the president will have to win if he wants to win re-election. yesterday, he spoke to local anchors from four states, three of the states, battleground states. maybe this has something to do with the re-election. jay carney said, no, the white house interviews picked those interviews, not the re-election team in chicago. talking about the next election, vice president...

He overpowered me. >> you called the police and later you googled this man and found out he had been accused of what in the past? >> he had six counts of battery against him and he had been in jail. so i then called the police. >> when you used match.com, what did you expect it to do to protect you? >> well, i thought match.com didnt have these kind of people on their sigte in the first place. i had been on the site for a while and had met some normal, regular, nice people. >> on match.com, it s...

Join the site. >> in your mind, you googled this man and it came up, his, the history of sexual assault came up on google. it goes through your mind, why match.com wouldnt do this. when you talked to the people at match.com about this, what did they say to you? >> the fact is, they havent ever spoken to me at all. they have just spoken to my lawyer. >> what do you want them to do now? >> well, we want them to cross-reference members names with federal and local databases to keep sexual predators...

Go through it and make sure its actually happening. they said that in 60 to 90 days, well see if they really do it. >> match.com says its starting background checks, but encourage members to check out the people they date themselves. they gave us this statement -- "we want to stress that while these checks may help in certain instances, they remain highly flawed. and it is critical that this effort does not provide a false sense of security to our members." new in libya this morning, nato says...

Websites thinking that theyre going to get themselves into unsafe situations. >> reporter: wertsel is now facing two felony charges for the alleged assault and has pled not guilty, saying the sex was consensual. but last week, markin filed a civil lawsuit against match.com, asking the site to begin screening all new members for registered sex offenders, alleging not doing so exposes members to a grave risk of harm. match.com already has a "date at your own risk" disclaimer on their site, but day...