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Degree, sexual abuse and misconduct and committing a criminal sexual act in the first degree. we've learned the criminal sex act charge stems from an alleged assault on aspiring actress lucia evans in 2004. will the passage of time, 14 years, now in any way aid weinstein's defense? >> well, the more time that passes, fredericka, obviously the more difficult it is. it turns on the credibility of the witnesses. lucia has been completely consistent in this. cyr cyrus vance jr., the prosecutor, had been thinking about it, but it's bolstered primarily by ronan farrow in that amazing article, pulitz...

Gutierrez back, she was wired by the police, went back and asked weinstein, well, you groped me before, are you going to do it again, and he said, look, i'm really sorry about that, we do that all the time, but it won't happen again, essentially an admission. so i think at this point, fredericka, not only do we have those three women, i think you're going to have a lot more witnesses, believe it, not, that perp walk is going to impact other victims to come forward before that grand jury. and when harvey weinstein returns back in court on july 30th, there may be additional charges. i think that...

Playbook," "the king's speech," and "shakespeare in love," some of which earned weinstein dozens of awards for his work behind the camera. but now he's the focus of investigations for alleged sex crimes not just in new york but also in los angeles and london. brynn gingras, cnn, new york. >> here to weigh in on the criminal charges, avery friedman, a civil right attorney, and criminal defense attorney richard herman. good to see you both, gentlemen. >> nice to see you, fredericka. >> thank you. so weinstein's attorney says his client is innocent. richard, will this be a difficult case for pros...

Fredericka today, emotions are still very raw, as we know from having covered far too many of these, and anyone who has ever lost anybody under difficult circumstances. it is a roller coaster of emotions for people entering into the second day after this tragedy. there are a number of unanswered questions, there are also a number of questions about who the person is who is allegedly behind this, one of the victims shana fisher tells cnn she believes her daughter was specifically targeted because she rebuffed a vances fr eed as alleged shooter. you met with your client yesterday? >> correct. >>...

This is not brought pure celebration to this country and there remains suffering and these women are waiting for water? >> yeah, they were waiting for water and they were just near a camp in south sudan refugees and the conflict is displaced thousands and thousands of people. and there is just not enough water to really go around. they wait for hours and hours. >> go ahead, sorry. >> one of our staff, tyler hicks made this and he was brilliant with his coverage of conflict of the situations like this. >> congratulations to all these photographers. the incredible catalog of imagery taking us ar...