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Dead in the philippines after friday's tropical storm there. most victims were asleep when flash floods tore through their homes. 45,000 villagers have been displaced. 900 are still missing. >> and czech people are mourning the death of the country's first democratically elected president and presided over the transition from communism to capitalism. havel was 75. now back to "the haunting." it was 18 months after that extraordinary meeting with glen ake, the one at which brooks douglass forgave his parents' killer. the other man convicted in their murder, stephen hatch, was scheduled to die...

Testify against him one last time. hatch pleaded for his life. >> i'm sorry for the pain the children, brooks and leslie douglass, continue to feel. i can say sorry for the rest of time, and that would not be enough. i could die 100 times, and it would never be enough to make up for what had happened. >> but then testimony that astounded leslie douglass and brought back all the horror. >> i had found out some things at the clemency hearing that -- that i was not aware of. and so it kind of shattered my world. >> it happened at the very beginning when the state brought those murder charges agai...

Medvedev take over. now back to "the haunting." it was 18 months after that extraordinary meeting with glen ake, the one at which brooks douglass forgave his parents' killer. the other man convicted in their murder, stephen hatch, was scheduled to die. brooks had tried to meet with hatch on death row. he was rebuffed. appeals exhausted, hatch's execution date was set in the summer of 1996. there was a final clemency hearing. brooks and leslie would have to testify against him one last time. hatch pleaded for his life. >> i'm sorry for the pain the children, brooks and leslie douglass, contin...

Time, and that would not be enough. i could die 100 times, and it would never be enough to make up for what had happened. >> but then testimony that astounded leslie douglass and brought back all the horror. >> i had found out some things at the clemency hearing that -- that i was not aware of. and so it kind of shattered my world. >> it happened at the very beginning when the state brought those murder charges against ake and hatch in the first place. they chose not to put leslie through the additional trauma of testifying about the rapes. after all, they could prove murder easily. and leslie...

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