>> shelling and shooting. the fire breaks out again. at least 200 people kills there today, according to activists in the city, including women and children. i spoke to a witness, we're calling him danny. he's only giving his first name for obvious reasons. but he's at great risk. what's been happening? what's the latest? >> well, what's been happening, right? >> yes. >> they have been bombarding an area in homs for three hours. mortar bombs and tank shells. there's a part of the syrian army defected. they went down to welcome the syrian army, so they bombarded it with water bombs and tank shells. and in the first half hour, we have 40 people dead. now we've got about 200 dead all around homs. there are people under the destruction. we can't move them. all of the buildings have been on top of build bodies, human beings. kids dead, women dead, men dead. we can't get medication. they're shooting at the avenue, they're shooting. we can't get medication in there, we can't help them. no one is doing anything about it. they're sitting and discussing while we're sitting here getting killed. >> there could be as many as 200 dead in the last hour or two. >> yes, 200 dead in the last three hours. in the first half hour, 40 dead. in the first half hour. and we got the video up on youtube. they've been bombarding with mortar bombs and tank shells. we can't get medication in there and food in there, and can't get them in. they're shooting at us. i wanted to go in there to help them. they were shooting at me. >> how random is this mortar fire. are you saying they're indiscriminately firing mortars into neighborhoods? >> in the cities, in the cities, in the narrow civilian streets, on rooftops. i went on a rooftop to get civilians. the street is right next to me. like 400 meters, right over there. i picked up four civilians and brought them in a house. a mortar bomb came on the rooftop of a civilian house. >> we hear in the background, is that coming from the mosque. what are they saying in the mosque? they're asking help from god, from people. they're asking for blood, o-negative, a-positive. we have so many casualties. over 500 casualties. they might not live. we don't know if they're going to live or no. we need blood. no one is helping us. the u.n. isn't doing anything about it. there's a discussion, and people are sitting here and dying. >> you're taking a great risk by showing your face. >> i'm not afraid of this regime. if they want to kill me, let them. thank you, i'm not brave. you should see what people are doing here. people are trying to move bodies out of the streets and putting their lives at risk. people are getting killed just to move a body from the streets. just to move the bodies so they can bury them, and they're getting killed for moving the bodies. that's bravery. >> where do you -- where do you take the wounded? you can't take them to government hospitals. we have heard for months those have been taken over by the military and there are secret police in the hospitals. where do you take the wounded? >> we take the wounded, as i said, we smuggle the wounded, we smuggle the dead bodies into the area i'm in now which is protected by the free army. but the free army doesn't have heavy artilery. they have rockets. that's all that they have. they can't fight a whole big syrian army, can't they. we smuggle them. we have three filled hospitals here. we get the injure people here and try to do the best. we haven't got enough doctors. the doctor gets about 20 patients in one hour. he needs to be buried, he's going to die, they don't know what to do. these aren't animals dying here. these are human beings. being bombed, being bombed by mortar bombs, by tank shells. and no one is doing anything about it. we're going to sit here and get killed. there's one message i would like to get out, that we're not going to stop. the syrian people are not going to stop if they kill millions. we will remember that no one did anything about it. >> why have they launched this bombardment now? >> so a part of the syrian army was on a barricade. a part of that barricade defected. i think it was about 50 to 60 soldiers. i don't know what they had with them. they defected and ran away to a place, an area in homs. the civilians went down to welcome to free syrian army, to thank them for their bravery because this is the syrian army. when they found out about that, they started randomly bombing with tank shells, with mortar bombs like they're animals. they're stabbing kids, stabbing women. raping women, and no one is doing anything about this. this isn't a game here. this is a reality. this is actually going on. all these footage you have been seeing on youtube of women rapes, children hurt, this is not a game. this is going on, and there's much more than this that we don't know about yet. this government is hiding so much more. we don't know half of what's going on yet. >> danny, stay safe. thank you for talking to us. >> as we sit here safe tonight in our homes and wherever you're watching this, this is happening in syria, in the city of homs right now. let us know what you think on facebook, google plus, twitter, i'll be tweeting tonight. up next, a mother's plea for justice. justice for her daughter killed in a car crash involving a serial drunk driver who was pardoned by former mississippi governor haley barbour, pardoned after he sat in jail after his fourth arrest. >> also, a new woman has come forward saying she's suffering from the same strange ticks that resemble tourette's syndrome as a group of girls in high school are. keeping them honest, a mom's plea for justice, justice for her daughter who is no longer alive to receive the justice. charity smith was just 18 years old. she was working as a waitress, saving up money for college. talented artist with a lot of big dreams. charity died when her car hit a truck on a gravel road. you can see by the wreckage how bad the crash was. whose fault it was is being investigated. the truck wasn't damaged much that was hit. the man who was behind the wheel wasn't seriously hurt, but he was drunk. his name is harry bosworth, a former irs investigator. he was arrested for driving under the influence after that crash. it wasn't the first time he was caught drunk driving. in fact, it wasn't his second or third time. it was his fourth drunk driving arrest. what makes this harry bosworth case so stunning is he was part pardoned by haley barbour. he was sitting in jail after his fourth arrest when the governor signed his pardon. this is the dash cam video of his third arrest. this was the one he was pardoned for. felony dui he pled guilty 2010. here is the officer who arrested him the third time. >> there was an open bottle of wine in the front seat, an open bottle of champagne in the front seat. he had a large cup that was full of red wine. >> blood alcohol level was twice the limit. he had three in one year. the first two were misdemeanors, for his third arrest, he was sentenced to a year of house arrest and four years in an alcohol abuse program. a year after his third arrest, he applied for the pardon. some of his high profile friends wrote letters to governor barbour on his behalf. one federal prosecutor said harry no longer drinks alcohol. the parole board recommended he get the pardon. seven days later, he slammed into charity smith's car as she pulled into a highway. it's still under investigation. we have repeatedly asked governor barbour to come on the program and explain how he could give a pardon to a guy sitting in jail after his fourth dui arrest, after an 18-year-old girl was dead. so far, he has declined our invitation. they said they didn't know about the fourth accident. they haven't explained why the parole board or his office didn't do a last minute check on his record. here is what barbour said about his pardons in general. >> the power of pardon in the state is to give people a second chance who have been rehabilitated and redeem themselves. >> repented, rehabilitated, redeemed. >> harry had three dui arrests on his record, one a felony. he was supposed to be in an alcohol abuse program. he swore he wasn't drinking anymore. his connected friends also said that. he was drunk when his truck slammed into charity's car. rehabilitated, obviously not. we would love you to come on the show and answer some questions, but at the very least, we think you owe charity's family some answers. charity's mom, linda smith, joins me now. >> linda, first of all, how are you holding up during all of this? >> as best as i can. >> i know you feel like your daughter has been forgotten in all this. what do you want people to know about her? >> first of all, i know everybody reads the name on a piece of paper. she's not just a name. you know, charity was a person. a beautiful person. smart, intelligent person, who had her whole life ahead of her. and she loved life. she loved her art. she loved to write. she would be in college right now. >> that was her dream, to go to college. >> getting her degree, yes. she should be there now. you know. working on her degree. and loving life. >> when you first heard that harry bostick was pardoned, what went through your mind? >> i was just so sad. i didn't understand it. >> had anyone from the governor's office called you? >> no. no. no one. >> their office said that he wasn't aware of the fourth dui charge which was the charge that was involved and related to your daughter's death when he pardoned bostick. do you believe them? >> i have to. i mean, surely, he wouldn't have done that. i mean, i'm sure he wouldn't have done that. i mean, if somebody already had three, and you know there's another one, i mean, how could you? how could you do that? >> so he was sitting in jail on that fourth dui charge when he was pardoned. at this point -- >> yes. >> what can be done now in your eyes to bring some justice to this? >> take his pardon back. he should have never been pardoned. >> when you think of him right now, free with his slate wiped clean, his record wiped clean, what do you think? >> i have to believe that justice will be served. i have to. >> have you ever said anything -- seen this man, said anything to him? >> no. no. i have never talked with him. >> is there anything you would want him to know? >> not right now. maybe at a later time. >> and to the governor, what would you want the governor to know, governor barbour. >> if i could talk to the governor? >> yeah. >> i think he should be more thorough than what he did. somebody didn't do right. and i know i'm not the only person who is feeling this. there's other mothers and fathers that are struggling with the same thing. and they want the same thing. how did it happen? >> how do you get through each day? >> it's not easy. look, my daughter, i know she was 18, but she always told me she loved me every morning when she was leaving, and i did her the same. this was every day. i miss my child. and i'll never have her again. i have bad days. i don't have good days. >> you just have bad days? >> yes. i miss my child. i love my child. and i want her back. >> i'm so sorry for your loss. and for now you having to go through this. is there anything else you want people to know? >> you know, i know we all make mistakes. there's nobody perfect, but when haley barbour said everybody deserves a second chance, my baby didn't get a second chance. you know, she's not here. >> linda, i wish you strength. i wish you strength and peace in the days ahead. >> thank you. >> it's such a heart breaking story. ed lavendera has been doing a lot of digging on this for us. he joins me now from mississippi. how did this happen? was there no mechanism in place to make sure that the justice system and the parole board were in contact with one another? >> it doesn't appear that there was. and the way all of this unfolded, unfolded, anderson s back in last summer, harry bostick began the process of applying for the pardon. he gathered the letters and applied to the parole board. that wrapped up in september. they voted 3-2 to recommend him for a pardon. all of the paperwork was mailed over to governor haley barbour's office, and that appears to be the end of it from what we can tell. then it was a week later that this terrible accident happened and charity smith was killed. between the months of october, november, and december, into early january when harry bostick was finally pardoned, there was never any mechanism in place that went back and double checked that everything was still okay, and harry bostick was sitting there in jail, and according to the governor's office and the parole board, they had no idea he was there, and he was pardoned. he was literally walked out of the jail, spoke to the sheriff and he said no idea the pardon was coming down the pipe, and he had to let him walk out of jail. >> is it possible he could be found culpable in the crash that killed her daughter, and if so, could he be arrested for that? >> it is possible. essentially, what will happen is those first two misdemeanor dui charges you spoke about earlier, those haven't gone away. it's the third one. so the fourth charge that we're still waiting on what a grand jury will do and what the formal charges will be, if that does happen, the fourth one will become the third one and he'll have to go through the legal process on that. obviously, the it changes what the potential sentence could be. he hasn't been indicted yet. he's presumed innocent, but all of that is still making its way through the legal process. >> ed, i appreciate you continuing to stay on. thank you very much. still ahead, a medical mystery deepens. started when a dozen teenage girls developed strange ticks that look like tourette's syndrome. now it's not just teenagers. the latest on what a small town in new york is facing. >> also, lance armstrong getting good news into the investigation of whether he used performance enhancing drugs. the latest ahead. [oinking] [hissing] [ding] announcer: cook foods to the right temperature using a food thermometer. 3,000 americans will die from food poisoning this year. check your steps at foodsafety.gov. more with anderson in just a moment, but first, a news and business bulletin. a better than expected jobs report. 243,000 jobs were added last month. dropping the unemployment rate to 8.3%. the lowest level in three years. the justice department clearing lance armstrong of using performance enhancing drugs. prosecutors say they're closing their criminal probe without filing charges against the seven-time tour de france winner. they offered no explanation for that decision. >> the susan g. komen foundation apologizing for cutting funds to planned parenthood. they're back tracking and restoring the money. word came after a lot of angry protests. >> and rescuers in cape cod are racing to save the lives of beached dolphins. of the 100 that washed up, 80 have died. there's no word on what triggered the mass beaching, but weather, pollution, and social structure are part. >> imagine this, they picked up a diamond in the rough that turned out to be a rare, near perfect gem after a trip to a jewel cutter, it's worth more than $21,000. back to you. >> and new developments in the medical mystery in upstate new york. a 36-year-old woman coming forward with the same tourette like symptoms of the high school students. but are investigators closer to finding out what is going on. >> and a teacher in california accused of taking bondage photos of students in the class room. why did it take over a year for police to arrest him and why is he still collecting his teacher' pension. stuffy): yee both relieve coughs, sneezing, aches, fevers. tylenol: and i relieve nasal congestion. nyquil (stuffy): overachiever. anncr vo: tylenol cold multi-symptom nighttime relieves nasal congestion... nyquil cold & flu doesn't. tonight, a 360 follow up. we have been reporting on this medical mystery. more than a dozen high schoolers have developed strange ticks that resemble tourette's syndrome. twitching, flailing, all but one of the teens are girls. they have ruled out any environmental cause. they have conducted air quality and mold tests, released those results. some have been diagnosed with convergeant disorder, a reaction to stress, but many of the girls and their parents aren't satisfied with the answers. erin brockovich is now involved. she believes maybe a chemical spill in the '70s near the school may be linked to the ticks. the epa is also on the case. now a new development. a 36-year-old woman who lives in the same town seems to have developed the same ticks. a teenager said she hung out where the chemical spill hand happened. she worries what it would mean if the toxins were to blame? >> i have to have faith in my doctors. lg of the lab work and cat scans and mris i have done have come back within range within the normal range limits. so if it ends up being environmental, then does that mean that i don't have hope of getting better? these are thoughts that go through my head. >> so dr. drew pinsky has been following the story closely. he joins me. i don't understand this. are you surprised by this new person, this new information that a woman in her 30s has now apparently come down with similar symptoms? >> not necessarily. this could still be convergent, and many of the folks having the reaction, we're finding there's a common thread of significant trauma in their background. this woman suffered severe trauma. what we're trying to do is connect the relationship among the womens to understand how this might have spread. convergeant disorder can sometimes have medical issues that are contributing to it, precipitating to it, making it more likely to occur. the fact it's convergent doesn't rule out the environmental influences. those are pursued aggressively. in the meantime, the diagnosis gives the doctors in that vicinity something to work on, and most of them are getting better. >> explain that because i find it fascinating, it's also called mass hysteria. one person starts this, and others join in? >> right, the salem witch trials, something that people are familiar with, one of the most dramatic examples of this, but there are examples of this all over the world. we chronicled this on my program. it's not -- it's rare, but it's certainly not unheard of. and convergeant itself, a single person developing single manifestations because of a psychological or psychiatric state isn't uncommon. brain and body are connecting, and when it blows a fuse, when stress is excessive, it comes out through physical symptoms and ticks and seizuring and blindness or paralysis. these are not at all uncommon manifestations. >> why would one person get and it and then other people get it? it opens up the idea in other people's minds? >> yeah, i don't think anybody, anderson, could really answer that question, why this place at this time, what was it about that that made it possible for spread the way it did. as an internist, i ran a department of medicine at a psychiatric hospital for a long time. when somebody came in with a symptom that was psychiatric, was to make sure there wasn't a medical issue, and that's what is being pursued in the town. as we were following the story, we found this spill, and now that's become maybe a parallel story, but it may have a causational link. >> with this illness, what does getting better mean? how long could the girls and woman have symptoms for? >> getting better, there's various different types of treatments. i can tell you that half of the girls are maintaining treatment with a group, a neurology group in their vicinity near their home town, and that half seems to be getting better with supportive care, with psychooeducation, with family education. whatever that particular patient needs, it also will get better with placebo and time itse