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"outfront" tonight, i'm chelsea manning, that's a the bombshell announcement from bradley manning, the person that perpetrated the biggest leak of classified information in history, he wants to begin life as a woman and lead to hormone therapy immediately. will it lead to a pardon and will the army let him get a sex change? chris lawrence is "outfront." >> reporter: the battle lines are drawn. the army says it does not provide hormone therapy and on nbc's "today" show, bradley manning's attorney demanded the prison give it to him. >> if ft. leavenworth does not, then i'll do everything in my power to make sure that they are forced to do so. >> reporter: it will take a lawsuit. unlike in this photo in a wig and makeup, they say that manning will serve his time at the all-male ft. leavenworth wearing the standard prison uniform and he'll not receive hormones to become a woman. >> he'd have a better shot theoretically in a federal prison or even a state prison. >> reporter: he fought for the right for one of his clients to get hormones in prison. civilian prisons do not have a blanket ban on it like the military and tax payers have been paying for prisoners' therapy for years. >> she never really wanted this to be public to begin with. >> reporter: but in court the attorney used manning's desire to become a woman as an argument for leniency on his sentence. he introduced the photo of manning in a wig and makeup and had several doctors testify to his gender identity disorder. so, co-this very public announcement help manning's case when he comes up for parole? >> in this context i don't see why it would. >> reporter: minahan said a parole board will examine his crimes and how he behaves at leavenworth in deciding whether to cut short his sentence. >> i don't think they probably should even look at the fact that he, she now is transgender. in making that determination. >> now, you know, chris, manning's attorney says he's going to ask president obama for a presidential pardon next week. they've been trying to use this whole gender identification issue as something that might help them in that regard. how likely is it the president will consider it? >> reporter: not likely at all. you know, a presidential pardon is the highest form of clemency and it really signifies a forgiveness of the crime. the obama administration has gone after whistle-blowers vigorously. the military prosecutors wanted to put manning away for 60 years, try to convict him on aiding the enemy and to grant a pardon at this point would simply really be wasting the millions of dollars that it cost to put on this trial. >> all right. thank you very much, chris lawrence. and news now on a major terror trial that we've been following the fate of nadal hasan, the army psychiatrist accused of murdering 13 people in a shooting rampage nearly three years ago is tonight formally and finally at long last in the hands of the military jury. hasan represented himself in the case, although, you wouldn't know it. you know, we've been watching every day when he would cross-examine a witness. when he would actually perhaps give his closing statement. today he declined to give a closing statement. he never called a single witness to the stand. hasan has indicated he would welcome the death penalty. according to a mental health evaluation leaked by hasan he told a military panel, quote, if i died by lethal injection, i would still be a martyr. and now our second story "outfront" forced out of office. the san diego mayor bob filner accused of sexual harassment by 18 women is finally set to step down. this is part of a proposed settlement with the city council in san diego. according to an official close to the negotiations. now, filner you may remember after all of this spent two weeks in behavioral therapy. amid trying calls for his resignation. casey wian is in san diego covering the story tonight. this has been something the whole country has gotten involved in this, woman after woman and he'd taken on the case of women who were victims of rape and then he had allegedly assaulted those very women. this story gets very horrible, the allegations, but if he resigns this way, what does it mean? >> reporter: well, at this point, erin, it's a little bit unclear what it all means. it looked as of last night like there was a settlement agreement in place. the mediated settlement discussions began on monday. they included gloria allred the attorney for the first woman to come out and publicly accuse mayor filner of inappropriate sexual behavior. that was his former press secretary. gloria allred left those negotiations after monday and did not participate in them tuesday and wednesday, at least not in person. last night a settlement was announced by the city attorney, two city councilmen and attorneys for bob filner, but just this afternoon, gloria allred called a news conference saying her client hasn't agreed to anything, and furthermore, she said her client doesn't want any city money helping to pay bob filner's claims and that's presumably what a lot of people were speculating this deal to get him to resign might entail. this will all be sorted out hopefully at a closed session of the san diego city council tomorrow, 1:00 local time, in the afternoon. after that closed session we'll get some public comment on what the city council decides. if, in fact, filner does step down, then the president of the city council becomes the interim mayor and they will convene a special election, but a lot of things up in the air right now. >> pretty amazing you are saying part of the deal, if there's a deal, would entail city money being used, that's taxpayer money and you can see the huge uproar. 18 accusers. this is the big question. any word on the legal action that could be taken against filner, what might happen to im? >> reporter: well, beyond this one lawsuit that has been filed, we're not aware of any other legal claims that have been filed against the mayor by any of these other women, that's not to say that they couldn't come forward. we do know that the sheriff's department has set up a special hotline to field these claims. that has been active. there are also other investigations in to mayor filner's finances, other unrelated matters, that are not, as far as we understand, part of these settlement negotiations, so even if he does step down, it appears this story is far from over, erin. >> thank you. and hannah anderson speaks for the first time, you'll see her. and the latest installment in our series on spying. you know, a lot of people are outraged, you think the u.s. government knows way too much about you. wait until you see what other governments know about you and are spying on you right now. and then an american-held hostage for seven months by al qaeda speaks exclusively to "outfront." and another sinkhole, 28 acres in louisiana gone in the blink of an eye. ♪ norfolk southern what's your function? 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>> yeah, yeah. well, maybe her father was not in the picture. this was a person who was not a blood relative, of course, it's something that can be a little bit unsettling, but it seems this man dimaggio really worked his way into this family and in many ways putting himself out there and becoming the confidante. i would say, it is not appropriate what he did, he should not have become the confidante to this girl against her mother. >> now, there was a moment during the interview, she was very applesed and self-possessed but where she did break up. she did choke up. when she talked about her mother and her brother both of whom were horrifically murdered by dimaggio. let's listen. >> he had a really big heart. and -- she was strong hearted and very tough. she knew how to handle things. >> now, of course, you know, she wants to talk and she feels that people don't understand her side of the story. >> yes in. >> but do you think she's fully wrapped her head around what's happened here? it's got to be impossible for anyone. >> i think what happened she came out of the gate a little bit too soon. i'm not criticizing her in any way by going on to the social networking and putting her -- >> right, where she answered questions from random people. >> putting that information out there. she wasn't ready for it and i think in some ways it may have retarded, if you will, some of that grieving that she should have had in her own personal time. and so now we see the grieving process happening right now. and there is that survivor's guilt that i think she still has not processed as yet and that is inevitably a part of anyone going through something so horrific. >> do you think we'll ever know the full story of what happened? >> i think eventually we will as she gets older, more mature, she feels more comfortable in saying what it is that really happened, and there are a lot of things that happened that i would guess from a clinical standpoint that she just cannot -- either she's not talking about it privately, but certainly she's not ready to talk about it publicly. >> and she didn't talk about it, in this interview, the events during the kidnapping, that was off the table per se. i'm not holding it back from all of you, it's because she didn't talk about it. >> i hope no one pushes her in that way. this is something that has to be done clinically and with the love and support of her family. >> dr. gardere, good to see you. the video on this sinkhole is truly incredible. 25 acres, poof, gone. john zarella's "outfront." >> reporter: the first the trees are moving ever so slowly. >> they are moving, john. >> i got it. i got it. >> reporter: the parrish officials were checking the site of a 25-acre sinkhole south of baton rouge. within seconds they noticed the cypress trees go down. watch this. literally sucked under as the ground below them collapsed. the video shows the entire area suddenly swirling and the water churning as the trees are gobbled up. the sinkhole which first appeared last august sits over a salt dome cavern. it's believe the cavern collapse causing the sinkhole. they say the company mining the salt dome had abandoned and sealed the well, but tremors and bubbling began last year. at this point the experts say it could still nearly double in size. parrish officials say there's no way to fill it and only mother nature can stabilize it. the mining company texas brine is working to mitigate the problem which you includes natural gas bubbling up. about 150 homes in the area have been evacuated. one resident told our ed lavandera, he thinks all the property around there will be worthless. >> reporter: are you worried about what it means long term? >> yes, yes. [ inaudible ] i'm retired, that's all i got coming in. >> reporter: while louisiana folks are dealing withes massive man made sinkholes natural sinkholes continue opening up in florida this time in ocala, north of orlando, people living around a five-acre lake say they watched it disappear in the matter of a few hours. while it seems there's been an increase in sinkholes lately in florida, experts say there's no scientific evidence to prove it. for "outfront," john zarella, cnn, miami. >> that video just absolutely incredible. and now, "money and power" tonight. trading hall -- trading on the nasdaq was halted for three hours this afternoon. it was a technical glitch that they blamed, but the nasdaq is a big deal, apple, google, microsoft all trade there. the problem is trading glitches are happening a lot. earlier this week a programming error at goldman sachs led to massive erroneous trades. problems like these hurt confidence and make people wonder what's really going on on wall street. but this won't be the last time something like this happens and apparently mark cuban agrees. he tweeted, quote, i'm so shocked the nasdaq is frozen, not. pretty embarrassing for the united states. and still to come, the latest installment of our series on spying. if you think the nsa and tech companies are doing it and it makes you angry, just wait until you see what foreign governments are doing to you. plus, a rapist impregnates his victim and then gets visitation rights. this is possible in more states in this country than you can imagine. a bull takes on a car. we'll show you that video. 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