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Traffic stop and southwest airlines still working to fix a glitch affecting its website, mobile app and 450 flights. travelers have to be checked in manually and are urged to arrive two hours early. now back to our msnbc special. >> for the first time in his 18-year struggle to prove that he didn't pull a trigger, eric glisson finally had his hands on a smoking gun. an affidavit from a federal investigator saying eric was innocent. >> he asked me do i have an attorney, and i told him yeah. he said i promise you i will call this lawyer today. >> i was standing on the line in the bank. >> peter ...

With you. >> sister joanna offered more than prayers, and that's when she brought in peter cross who was fighting for eric on the outside. >> so you have detective donnelly as the officer assigned. >> with eric as his guide, cross got up to speed and found troubling information about how the detectives connected the murders, and it was through this witness, kathy gomez. cross tracked her down and videotaped his interview with her. >> i am here with you -- >> gomez, who was 16 at the time of the murder said she first came in contact with the detective for only one reason, and she was friends of...

Inland. it will bring rain and rough surf to coastal areas. now back to our program. for the first time in his 18-year struggle to prove that he didn't pull a trigger, eric glisten finally had his hands on a smoking gun. an affidavit from a federal investigator said eric was innocent. >> he asked if i had an attorney and i said, yeah, and he said, i promise you i will call him today. >> peter cross remembers that phone call. >> mr. o'malley says, peter, i am with the u.s. attorneys' office and we know your client is innocent. >> i thank god every day for john o'malley. when i looked in that ...

Relationship with her that did not end well. >> you had a fling with a girl and cut it off abruptly, and she may feel slighted. >> slighted enough to make you a murder suspect? >> i guess so. >> the question is how reliable was she as a witness? all of these years later, eric finally had somebody to take another look at miriam's story. attorney peter cross. >> no doubt this woman was lying. i went out to the crime scene and she could not possibly have seen what she said occurred. >> so what could miriam really see? here is the problem with her story. from that police video we know this is wher...

Were advised -- >> it's been a long and painful road for the lawyer, peter cross. >> this is the one case that kept me up late at night for six years, because i knew we had to find like the one-arm man to get him out of jail. >> eric walks in the courtroom. >> eric glisson -- >> standing next to him is kathy watkins, the only woman of the bronx six. like eric, she was tried only for the cabdriver's murder, and in 1997, they went on trial together. eric says he doesn't know her now and didn't know her then. >> when trial started, the officers was bringing us up to the court and one of the offic...