the response is overwhelming. after the story airs on the 11:00 news, the suspect is arrested early the next morning. his name is joseph gray, and the little boy is his girlfriend s son. they d been dating just a couple months. she was sitting outside in the car while the beating took place inside. police say they showed her the video for the first time. she saw the video, and she broke down crying. she s real distraught by what happened. with his cruel behavior caught on camera, joseph gray pleads guilty to second-degree child abuse. it made it real hard for him to deny it. the tape closed this case, period. officer biddle wishes he could have this type of hard evidence in all his child abuse cases. unfortunately, these sad crimes most often take place behind closed doors, and biddle knows that well. he says he, too, was abused as a child. it took a toll on me. that s why i m at the unit that i m at. in my heart i thought i m going to make a change for other kids.
child repeatedly on the floor, stepping on the little boy s hands. then he coldly turns his back and walks away, leaving the child lying on the floor. despite everything that s happened, the little boy picks himself up and follows his abuser out of the door. when the video gets into the hands of detroit police, they are desperate to find this unknown child and this man. it was a gruesome tape to see a little child get beat by a six-foot man. officer ben biddle is with detroit s child abuse unit. they quickly release the tape to the local media. be on the lookout for this man, caught on tape beating and kicking a very small baby boy. police want you to see the video to help find a child in danger. as biddle expects, the police are flooded with calls. once we aired it and once we showed what the child was going through, the citizens wanted to get this guy off the street. the response is overwhelming. after the story airs on the 11:00 news, the suspect is arrested early the ne
go. we ve got the state of florida to cover for you. i want to begin with john zarrella live at a polling place not too far from where i am. john zarrella, you re talking to voters. what are they telling you? very good turnout here today, brooke. they expect maybe countwiywide, about 40% voters. a lot of them are telling me, we want the guy who will beat barack obama. but then when you get past that, we re hearing both sides, some people saying newt gingrich, others saying mitt romney. so it s going to be interesting to see how that shakes out here, and this is the largest republican precinct, precinct 701, in hillsborough county. about 3800 registered republicans here. brooke? we know that the republican party, it s penalizing florida for having its primary today, january 31st. tell me a little bit more about that as i hear you laugh, john zarrella. you know, four years ago, the state moved up the presidential primaries to january 31st, or the last tuesday in january
police want you to see the video to help find a child in danger. as biddle expects, the police are flooded with calls. once we aired it and once we showed what the child was going through, the citizens wanted to get this guy off the street. the response is overwhelming. after the story airs on the 11:00 news, the suspect is arrested early the next morning. his name is joseph gray, and the little boy is his girlfriend s son. they d been dating just a couple months. she was sitting outside in the car while the beating took place inside. police say they showed her the video for the first time. she saw the video, and she broke down crying. she s real distraught by what happened. with his cruel behavior caught on camera, joseph gray pleads guilty to second-degree child abuse. it made it real hard for him to deny it. the tape closed this case, period. officer biddle wishes he could have this type of hard evidence in all his child abuse cases. unfortunately, these sad crimes
more funerals in syria today. opposition activists say that 31 people died when syrian troops opened fire on sunday. the attacks on anti-american rather anti-government protesters took place in several cities. president assad is warning countries not to recognize the syrian national council, which is set up in turkey last week. that council appears to be positioning itself as syria s next government. crisis talks are happening in egypt today to head off new violence. fighting between muslims and christians left at least 25 people dead over the weekend. christians say they were peacefully protesting a church burning when they were attacked by people they describe as thugs. christians say egypt s military rulers aren t doing enough to protect them. it s a very volatile situation, and many critics say it s not helped by the actions, for instance, of state-run tv which last night called upon what it called honest egyptians to come down and join the army in fighting against