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>> i want to flip this tragedy, this catastrophe into a positive. >> meanwhile in miami it was decision time. alleged shooter garrett kopp had finally agreed to plead guilty and testify against sutton's son christopher in exchange for a 30-year sentence and no death penalty. sutton confronted the killer the day he entered a plea. >> during the next days, months, years, 20 years, 30 years, i want you to think about what you planned and what you did that night. you can be as sure that with my blindness every minute of every day that i will not forget you. >> rise, please. >> and with that the mu...

To think what that would be like. >> yeah. >> it's heavy. >> memorizing thing an going into court. he is a pretty determined guy. >> yeah, he's great. >> but adapting, even successful adapting, using a talking typewriter, for example, wasn't enough for john sutton because he waited for his son's long-delayed trial. he pursued with something like an obsession a quest to regain his eyesight. >> most people might have given up by then. can't do anything. >> not even close. >> not you. >> i won't take no for an answer. >> at some of the best hospitals in the country, sutton had been told there was...

Problem to solve it. >> so sutton told the doctors he would somehow help make it happen. he wrote checks, he joined the board of directors. >> john sutton. >> he offered himself as a voice of hope for desperate patients. even though it may never help him, as long as he lives, he's okay with that? >> there's a chance that we may not be able to restore his vision. there is a chance, on the other hand, that we may, but if he doesn't get behind it he does know that we're not going to move it as fast as we could. >> well, it's my pleasure to be here today. as you will hear, i almost didn't make it ...

>> police are looking for 25-year-old christopher patrick sutton. >> and christopher was nowhere to be found. day after day as police looked for him, john sutton had time to think, and remember. and one event in particular which perhaps he had suppressed, nine years earlier when christopher was 16, it was the deciding factor in sending him off to samoa. >> susan was going through christopher's room and found a handwritten note planning our murder. >> what did it say? >> well, it talked about killing us for insurance. >> a week after a warrant was taken out for his arrest, police found christop...

while in hiding. supporters of the 9/11 mastermind held protests and rallies across pakistan on friday. pakistan's largest islamist party called for the demonstrations. some burned flags and chanted pro-bin laden and anti-american slogans. one said, the assassination of one osama will produce many osamas in the future. some in the country say the u.s. raid on bin laden's compound is a violation of pakistani sovereignty. and the terrorist organization that bin laden founded has finally confirmed his death. in a message posted on their media website, al qaeda confirmed that bin laden h...