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>> reporter: some people call it a hail mary. they say it is highly unlikely in cases similar to this that they win but with o.j. simpson, you never know. this hearing has been underway for a couple hours. the judge has agreed to consider 18 of 22 questions cited in the appeal where simpson claims that his attorneys were so bad that he deserved a new trial. he said his trial attorney never told him about a plea deal that he would have taken. he said he knew about the plan to retrieve what he tho...

House there behind me. but police say all of this was going on, castro himself didnt hide away. on the contrary, he actually made a point of inserting himself into the dejesus familys grief. heres randi kaye. >> reporter: of all the people comforting gina dejesus mother at a vigil last year marking the anniversary of her daughters disappearance, one man now stands out. ariel castro. not only did he comfort her mother while her daughter remained locked away in his home, but he played music and pe...

Mother while her daughter remained locked away in his home, but he played music and performed at the familys fundraisers. forensic psychologist chris mohandy has not examined castro but says its typical behavior. >> make no mistake, this is a man who potentially was a master manipulator of peoples perceptions of him. and the idea he put on these different masks even to his own family is not unexpected. >> given what we know now, that police believe castro held gina dejesus captive in his home fo...

On the contrary, he inserted himself into the dejesus family grief. heres randi kaye. >> reporter: of all of the people comforting gina dejesus mother last year in the anniversary of her daughters disappearance, one man now stands out. ariel castro. not only did he comfort her mother while her daughter remained locked away in his home, but he played music and performed at the familys fundraisers. forensic psychologist chris mohandy has not examined castro was says it is typical behavior. >> make...

But the problem is even though we have great laws in california they do now, maryland, new york, connecticut, you can name many states, as long as those guns can cross state lines without having a background check attached to them, we still need that legislation. >> reporter: but the study found that handguns, not assault weapons, were used in the overwhelming majority of gun violence, jon. jon: some eye-opening numbers there. theres another study out, the pew study, that finds americans are bad...

Little he knew about the -- i think that was the gist of the defense on this. what do you make of that, that he wouldnt have gone and made that trip if he didnt believe what he would later say were his perceptions of what went down in benghazi at the time? >> well what we do know is he spoke to the secretary of defense at 5:00 in the afternoon in a meeting on another subject. what we dont know is what he did in the intervening hours between then and when he left for las vegas. now, weve got dram...

Moderate last year because that was his reputation. and conservatives suspected he was a moderate in a very negative way. and i think nonconservatives hoped he was a moderate in a more optimistic way. but when you look at the platform that mitt romney sort of embraced and ran on last year, that was about the most conservative republican platform ive ever seen. >> and im not sure if i can come up with anything where cruz is that much farther to the right than romney. hes temperamentally much more...

>> reporter: mary jane rickson says her students have little trouble once they are out. in 2011, every pathfinder graduate landed a job in their field. >> the machine shops are clamoring for people right now. they cant ex-spand because they dont have any highly skilled people. >> reporter: demand is only going to increase over the next decade. massachusetts expects 100,000 new advanced manufacturing jobs, the most growth of any sector. many of the new jobs will be in biotechnology and involve cr...

Mcvay didnt represent christianity those his co-conspirator member of the christian movement. this is a time of americans of all faith, religions and ethnic backgrounds need to come together and help rally for the people of boston. >> how do you think the religion affects peoples perception of the attack? >> thats a very good question, john. i think that perceptions, you know, were created in the very early parts of this investigation even before the tsarnaev brothers were named as suspects. as ...

And yet fewer and fewer women have graduating with stem degrees. women now graduate with the majority of college degrees, we are losing ground in fields like engineering and computer science degrees. so that means that were losing ground in those fields and the mid 1980s, about 36% of computer science jobs were held by women. and in 2006, it was about 20% and last year it was less than 15%. and we know that if were really going to kind of own our own future, we cant leave a gender behind. we all...