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marriage. we are waiting on a federal court ruling from california on the constitutionality of proposition 8. it is the 2008 voter initiative that said same-sex couples could not get married. well, a federal judge struck down prop 8 two years ago saying gay couples were being unfairly denied the right to marry. the people behind prop 8 appealed it, which brings us to todays milestone decision. and what were seeing on the ground in syria right now could be a turning point to ending th...

people. syrian government forces continue to fire heavy shells into the city of homs and other areas today. homs is ground zero of the uprising against president bashar al assad. opposition groups say at least 21 people, including children, have been killed today alone. the russian foreign minister arrived in syria today, holding talks with assad and calling for an end to the violence without foreign interference. another development, gulf arab states in france, spain and italy, recall...

a nation with a 2 3erz unemployment rate. it is singapore and its prime minister, youll want to hear what he has to say. also, ill explain why we should stop worrying so much about the stumbling revolutions in tunisia, and around the arab world. heres my take, first. now that mitt romney is once again the frontrunner, his campaign focus is returning to president obama. he will probably repeat a line that he has used often in the past. >> this is a president who fundamentally believes t...

>> want me to stick my arm out? >> we met murray at iowa state penitentiary serving ten years for stealing cars. he spent the last two years as cell house 220 also known as the hole. >> this is your maximum security unit inside of a maximum security prison. heres where we house all the inmates that couldnt be handled at another institution or couldnt be handled in our general population area. now we have to deal with them over here. >> during his time in prison and especially in the hole, murray...

Even. you know, im going to hurt myself and im going to show you kind of thing, so anger. >> our crew got a glimpse of how prevalent self-mutilation is at the wabash correctional facility in indiana. >> i need to go on 11. >> 11. >> 11 range, thank you. >> prison psychologist mary ruth simms conducts group therapy with cutters and other self-mutilators assigned to wabashs secured housing unit. >> if i see my blood, in another world im somebody totally different from myself. thats the only time i...

Pain down. so it is pain control. >> you give the baby a bottle because he is crying, change his diaper. me you give me something sharp to hurt myself with and im fine. >> youre communicating things are not okay for yourself. >> if i dont cut myself at least once a week im not right. >> some people here think theres nothing good in them at all, that theyve messed up totally and theyre totally worthless. >> i know the problems i have need to be fixed. ive got a 6-year-old daughter now. how am i g...

A distance of almost 400 miles. >> the police didnt know who i was to start with. when i gave them an alias and wrote me a ticket for driving the vehicle with the wrong plates and alluding an officer. if i had $200 i could have bonded out. but i had my -- they found out who i was eventually. aside from getting caught, i dont regret it one bit. id do it again tomorrow if i could. im 35 years old now. hopefully if everything goes the way i hope it goes, ill get my case overturned, ill write a book...

The southern tip of illinois before he was captured. a distance of almost 400 miles. >> the police didnt know who i was to start with. when i gave them an alias and wrote me a ticket for driving the vehicle with the wrong plates and alluding an officer. if i had $200 i could have bonded out. but i had my -- they found out who i was eventually. aside from getting caught, i dont regret it one bit. id do it again tomorrow if i could. im 35 years old now. hopefully if everything goes the way i hope ...

Always somebody bugging out, always somebody causing trouble in the cell house. its hard. its really hard. they got me on a lot of medication. >> inmates in cell house 220 get an hour of recreation in the morning and a ten-minute shower several times a week. >> one of the worst things in this cell house is the compound day-to-day events, typical stress incidences that add up. and some of the things youre subject to, stabbings, hangings, self-mutilation, those type of things and the actual assaul...

They do what they need to, to get in the shu. >> one such action that gets inmates sent to the shu is self-mutilation. >> i did that scar about ten years ago. i got it from the ankle all the way up to the hip bone, all the way down to the bone and i cut across sideways so the surgeons had to take about 12 hours to sew me up. you got seven layers of skin you got to go through before you get to the bone. and when youre going through one of them phases, you dont even feel the pain. you dont even kn...