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# we begin this morning with opening day. the 112th u.s. congress will be sworn in today and with a new gop leadership in the ous, the state is already set for a showdown on capitol hill. nbc's tracie potts joins us from washington. good morning to you. >> reporter: good morning. the house convenes at noon in one of their first votes will be to give you a better look at what's happening here. we'll see more than 100 new face tez capitol today and they're ready to go. >> i didn't come to watch. i came to work. >> we're tired of hitting the range balls. it's time to tee up for real. ...

Identified. >> barrie scheck says texas released more than 40 wrongly convicted inmates through dna testing just in the last ten years. >> how many of you here were wrongly convicted based on eyewitness investigation, raise your hand. >> reporter: and, yet, dupree insists, there's no bitterness. >> you had your head in a cage for 30 years for a crime you didn't commit. words can't express. >> reporter: a triumph of the human spirit and of science. righted a wrong only his heart could have proved true before. lee cowan, nbc news, los angeles. and here is your first look at the other news goin...