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stress disorder, oftentimes what you find is people who have a heightened sense of danger in and reaction to danger. what in essence they do is that they strike out or have plans to defend themselves in situations that ordinary are not dangerous situations. it is not uncommon to see individuals, especially those trained with weapons, to overreact in a way where they employ those weapons against enemies who aren't really enemies. where they overreact or overestimate the risk of that person's intent toward them. >> this is a horrible tragedy. if it was linked to ptsdf we're able to ever know that, we have all of these troops coming home. are they being diagnosed and treated or do we have the potential for a lot of people with, whether minor or major cases of this, who are just going to at the least lead very stressful and unhappy lives because they're not able to get treated? >> it's a great question because many of the people returning from the war, the soldiers returning from the iraq wars,
the first time about his daughter's disappearance. justin dipietro has been asked on the "today" show about why it has taken him so long to come forward. >> initially the first few days, i was emotionally incapable of coming out to do an interview. i had been advised that by coming on and doing an interview by law enforcement that it could possibly hinder the investigation, and i'm here to help in any way i can. >> marc klaas isn't buying that. you may remember his family's tragic story. his daughter polly kidnapped and murdered in 1993. he's now an activist for people who are trying to find lost children. marc, always good to see you. why are you skeptical of ayla's father? >> happy new year, erin. first of all, this whole idea of not talking to the press when your child is missing really is a failed concept from a time in
because listen to what he just said a few minutes ago on the campaign trail. >> we're going to win this thing with all of our passion and strength and do everything we can to get this campaign on the right track to go across the nation and to pick up other states and to get the balance i need, the votes i need to become our nominee. >> all right, let's go straugt to somebody who knows mitt romney darn well. kevin madden, romney's 2008 campaign adviser. kevin, great to see you. do you think that sort of talk is the right way to go? i mean, you and i have been talking a lot over the past couple months. you have managed expectations you don't expect to win iowa, not a big deal if you don't, but now it seems things have changed. do you think he's going to win? >> well, i think there's a lot of momentum on the ground in iowa. i think governor romney goes out to these events, whether it's davenport, dubuque, des moines, he's had incredible turnout that he does feel warmly about his chances. but i think what governor romney's talking about is his ability to win this nomination.
happens so very infrequently. they're looking at the family. they're looking at peripheral contacts. looking at registered sex offenders. they're bringing in different resources. they've changed jurisdictional agencies. and they're using different types of experience than they would have in the missing person case. >> marc, thank you very much. always good to talk to you. >> thank you, erin. and i spent last week doing something that i really, really love. and next "the 411 on gps." the progresso chicken noodle you made is so good. the vegetables are cut nice and thick... you were always good at cutting your vegetables. and it's got tender white-meat chicken... the way i always made it for you. oh, one more thing honey... those pj's you like, the ones with the feet, i bought you five new pairs. love you. did you see the hockey game last night? [ male announcer ] progresso. you gotta taste this soup.
it's taken him so long to come forward? >> initially the first few days i was emotionally incapable of coming out to do an interview. i had been advised by coming on and doing an interview by law enforcement that it could possibly hinder the investigation. and i'm here to help in any way i can. >> mark clause isn't buying that. you may remember his family's tragic story, his daughter polykidnapped and murdered in 1993. he joins us now from san francisco. it's always good to see you. why are you skeptical of ayla's father? >> happy new year, erin. first of all, this whole idea of not talking to the press when your child is missing is a failed concept from a time in the past when victims -- parents of missing children were supposed to sit by the phone and wait for the ransom call to come
spent a lot of time saying isn't mitt romney going to compete? of course, competed in 2008. didn't work out well for him. big evangelical contingent here. don't really love mitt romney. then he decided to jump in. has not spent a lot of time in the state. which is why he is at 10%. but look at bachmann, by the way, who's not doing very well, but she said she's going the distance. but, she spent a lot of time in the state. ron paul has a great organization in the state. rick santorum has had over 350 town halls in the state. that's why these people do well on whether you relate to iowans. whether that is a calling card for winning the presidency is something else. but iowa is a toss-up state. it doesn't hurt. >> when you look at the split in terms of registration, ds and rs evenly split. what is your view, gloria, all this conversation about rick santorum, suppose he comes in
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this morning after police stopped a suspicious van in the hollywood area. >> the van resembled a description provided by the arson task force as possibly being related to the recent fires and the driver resembled a person of interest seen in a videotape released by the multi-agency arson task force the previous evening. >> all right, let's show you that video. you are looking at it right now. as you can see, it shows a light-complexioned man, if you look closely, with a ponytail who police say was caught on camera at several arson sites. now a total of 53 fires were set in the los angeles area between early friday morning and today. as you can see, there is a terrifying thing. tonight the l.a. "times" reports the man in custody may have been angry with the u.s. government. and covering the story for the l.a. times all the way through and joins me now. andrew, good to have you with us. so, what can you tell us that