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>> both subjects in these cases died of a heroin overdose. there are several factors we are going to look at. >> gail, a welcome to you. this is an extraordinary article that you have written taking an in-depth look at who this alex is. first, the latest on the investigation on the case in california and the re-examination of the case in georgia. are they trying to link them together in some way? it appears there is common characteristics of both. police in california and georgia have tried to determine if she has somehow been involved in potentially the murder of both men. >> okay. what have ...

Another issue. one thing that troubles me the most is that as isis gained force in iraq, our response was to, in effect, double down with maliki, to begin to provide counterterrorism assistance of a stronger kind to maliki's government. that government was so sectarian, so hated by iraq's sunni population that it was a recipe for what we've seen. i think there's going to need to be a searching re-examination of how we got here. but i think intelligence officers have seen it coming. what is done in light of that information was inadequate. >> and kimberly, you spent so much time in iraq and spe...

Contentious at many points. looking at it over the five-day span of this cross examination, what is your feeling, your perception of what was accomplished during those days? >> reporter: well, it's really too soon to tell what was accomplished, because we can look at cross examination in and of its own right, but that's not the way the judge and assessors will be looking at it. they'll be considering his portion of testimony in consideration of all the evidence in the trial. we can infer how pistorius's legal team thinks that they've fared in this, because they have just completed their re-exa...

Kelly, any indication when pistorius might be called to testify? >> reporter: we certainly expect pistorius to testify once cross examination and re-examination of the pathologist is finished. the defense alluded this morning that after the special circumstance was taken into account to let the pathologist go first for family reasons, the defense team said they would then continue with the normal order of their case. and normally in south african criminal law, if a defendant is going to testify, an accused person, they will be the first to testify, so we do assume that he will be next on the s...

Inmarsat data. the families were very upset that this was declared that their family members were lost and that there was no hope. they want a reexamination of the data. the chinese have been here in kuala lumpur to do exactly that. >> all right. thanks so much there in kuala lumpur. let's turn to christine romans in new york. >> we start with the death toll in washington. that death toll now as high as 24. more than 170 people are listed as missing. 16 bodies have been recovered in this grim search. authorities say they've recovered eight other victims, but they're unable to reach them. the...