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Washington is once again at a stand still over the coronavirus relief package. that's not only a sign of dysfunction of congress right now but also a signal to millions of americans that help is not on the way. but we do know that the need is so great. perhaps the most striking sign of how many americans are hurting and how desperately this help is needed is the lines of hundreds of cars lined up at food banks across the country. you're looking at scenes from los angeles, fort worth, miami and san antonio. just look at the people. look at those cars. just last weekend, cnn was in boynton beach...

How he got my name i don't know. >> the stranger said his name was john. >> he told me his name. i don't know you, but i was told you might be the one to do the job for me. >> the job? kill nancy howard. >> he wanted it done so it wouldn't come on him, like a carjacking, purse snatching. >> john was a man of means, he told the detectives, who drove a lexus and communicated with a disposable drop phone. >> see that number there? >> 1764. >> that's john's contact number if he still got the phone. >> that's how you called him? >> he had it memorized. he provided the whole phone number which was t...

Four wheeler, assault weapons. anything he wanted. >> and so for more than two years, the murder plot bank rolled by john killed nothing but time. >> they didn't follow through with it because they wanted more money. >> they had been called the "hee haw gang," but they were very valuable to you, all of these characters. >> it would have been a tough case if we only had one or two of them as witnesses. but when we had this number of people involved, someone either is telling the truth or someone handed out a script to all these people with all the information because it was all the same informa...

>> i love you. >> i love you, too. >> reporter: running down the license plates and registration yielded the name of a 26-year-old woman, dalia dippolito, the same woman who would later be seen on that videotape as the grieving widow. police officers didn't have to wait long before the informant's story was confirmed. this woman in the car really appeared to be in the market for a trigger man. >> less than a minute or so, she begins talking about hiring somebody to kill her husband. >> unprompted. he's not doing dental work to get this story out of her. >> no. which, you know, which shocked us...

After dalia was sentenced to 20 years for hiring a hit man to kill her husband, she was back again in court on the same charge -- facing a possible 30-year stretch. >> good afternoon, ms. dippolito. >> good afternoon. >> reporter: first at a pretrial hearing as they tried to get the entire case dismissed, dalia's new team road-tested a new reality tv defense. that she and her former lover, the sometime tv extra mohamed, had been planning a tv presentation to be posted on social media. those in-car meetings she said weren't about arranging a hit. they were all about that tv presentation. >> the...