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>> ted maher had spent more than three years in jail when his case came to trial in 2002. in court, teds lawyers didnt deny that he faked the attack and started the fire, but argued that hed never meant to harm anyone. least of all edmond safra, whom hed been desperately trying to impress. ted himself called the entire affair a terrible accident. in the end, the story that started out as an international whodunit concluded with a swift conviction -- ten years for deadly arson. but that decisive ...

He admits to setting a small fire but says he did so simply to summon help in a moment of panic. >> he didnt have a panic alarm. we didnt have any alarm. the only alarm i thought of, my god, smoke alarm. >> ted says that just before he stumbled down to the penthouse lobby, he put a candle and some kleenex in a trash can and placed it under a smoke alarm in the nursing station. >> this was a small contained smoke signal, if you will, in a small container. >> why didnt you just call police? why di...

Heroics. he had just been put on permanent staff. his well-paying job was secure. >> i already have everything that i wanted in life or could possibly want in life and, what i want to kill my employer? i want to try to show myself as the hero? whats the purpose? >> you say it makes no sense. >> i dont have to say. it doesnt make any sense. there is no reason. theres no rationale for it. >> but remember during his trial teds own lawyers admitted he faked the attack and started the fire. ted now c...

Time? and where on that night of all nights, was safras crack security team? turns out that in a series of hesitations and miscommunications, authorities had been on the scene for more than an hour before attempting to reach the penthouse or put out the fire. all the while, safra and nurse vivian had been making cell phone calls from the locked bathroom where it was growing increasingly smoky. and yet another 90 minutes ticked by before firemen reached them. by that time, it was too late. >> you...

Attack and setting a fire in the billionaires penthouse. but alone inside his monaco cell, ted felt like a man unjustly convicted. desperate and determined, he planned his escape and not through a court of appeals. one night, the former green beret made a run for it. >> i sawed myself through seven layers of bars. i was on my way to freedom. >> pretty impressive, except you didnt get very far. ted made his way on foot over the border into france, but was quickly recaptured after just seven hours...

Persons. >> the freedom riders essentially become rapted. the church was surrounded, and people were setting fire to cars. >> dr. king had gone over to montgomery from atlanta, and so king, too, along with the riders is trapped at this church. >> martin luther king junior placed a call to robert kennedy and said to the attorney general, something must be done. president kennedy called out the united states and placed the city you should marshal law. >> the city is now under marshal law and troop...

Headed towards texas and washing out roads. we will get people the latest on the train derailment. christie? >> seven churches set on fire in st. louis. here is the big question? who is behind this? we are talking to one pastor that wants more help finding those responsible for setting fire to his church specifically. >> first, cnn has announced the top ten heroes for 2015. we would like you to meet another one of them. her name is monique pool. she helps save our environment by saving sloths. l...

The opposite of the works of war. feeding the hungry, sheltering the homeless, nursing the sick, visiting the prisoner. but we are destroying crops, setting fire to entire villages, and to the people in them. we are not performing the works of mercy, but the works of war. >> on august 6, 1976 when dorothy day was nearly 80 years old, she made her final speech. this time at the catholic eucharist congress in philadelphia, which was attended by mother teresa. dorothy day noted that she was speakin...

An instrument of policy. we must affirm that there will be no more war. never, but never again. war must cease. there are no victories. the world can bear the burden no longer. on that day in that same speech, dorothy day accurately predicted the age of nuclear weapons that was almost upon us. she said, i will tell you within a decade, we will have weapons capable of ending this world as we have known it. in 1966, new yorks cardinal spellman made a christmas visit to american troops in vietnam w...

The countrys territorial waters. yep. setting fire and blowing up boats. sinking 37 foreign fishing vessels today. the owners of the boats and the boaters declared guilty by local courts of poaching or poaching related offenses. the ships were blown up in sea ports over the country. its known as some of the worlds richest fishing grounds. the cyber breach at the irs earlier this year is worse than previously thought. the agency saying cyber thieves accessed more than 330,000 taxpayer accounts,...