jennifer aniston, the story has been done more than us on any two people but it's not true. >> the best of her loves. >> the best in my book. but nobody did! >> sheryl crow highly entertainment. that is tomorrow night. that is all for tonight. "ac 360" starts right now. good evening everyone. a busy night on syria, political push back and doubts about the reliability of russia and the shaky practicalities of kiss arming a superpower during a civil war. senator john mccain joins us and the man that led the u.n. weapons inspection team in iraq. later developments in george zimmerman's confrontation with his estranged wife that ended like this. now shellie zimmerman stepping to the spotlight and her lawyer speaking out about the angry incident and christopher story murdered execution style at age four. his mother condemned to die for

ordering the hit. after more than two decades on death row show is free. the question, though is justice finally being done or a killer going free because of bad police work all those years ago? we begin that the proposed deal with russia and syria could be a bid to grow time and growing doubts whether it would be possible to neutralize the stockpile as well, happening on the anniversary of the 12th an verse oh of the 9/11 attacks. president and vice president marking the event at the white house. 9/11 you remember, anthrax letters, smallpox fears and a war with iraq a war like today, was proceeded by diplomatic overtures weapons inspectors comings and goings and serious doubts about the wisdom and judgment of the commander in chief. there were echoes as secretary kerry departs for geneva and talks with his russian counterpart and putting the

chemical stockpile under international control. whether four should remain an option whether syria should not live up to the deal and the mechanics of securing and destroying tons of mustard gas, sarin and nerve gas and nobody knows how much chemical weapons, what tonnage there really is. back home. doubts about russia's president, vladimir putin, but also about president obama after his speech last night. >> he cannot speak to the nation as a commander in chief. he cannot speak to the world as a commander in chief. he just cannot do it. i don't know what it is. >> republican senator corker there questioning the president's ability as president, basically, complaining that he's not making the case that america's credibility is on the line. we'll hear from john mccain coming up shortly. but first, jim acosta at the

white house. what is the latest on this proposal from russia? is happening? >> reporter: the white house won't get into a back and forth with the senator but the president is getting back to the ceremonial duties that you see with a commander in chief. he's honoring the victims today. he was at a volunteer event for the chronically ill bagging lunches for them. as for the russian proposal, jay, first of all, the white house is not setting a timeline as to when syria will have to give up it's chemical weapons that was something asked time and again today that are not giving a timeline at this point, but you really got the sense, anderson, the white house is setting expectations for this russian proposal. they were saying at the press briefing earlier today that russia is assad's best friend, that the russians haven't been very cooperative in recent years, and this was all sort of punctuated by white house press secretary jay carney who he said russian practice stestige was oe with this proposal. here is what he had to say. >> russia is assad and syria's

closest ally. russia played the role of blocking international efforts thus far to holds assad accountable and the proposition put forward to deal with assad's chemical weapons presents a real opportunity, if it were to be successful. >> reporter: now, it's interesting to point out, anderson, at the end of the news conference, jay carney called on a russian reporter who said now, wait a minute, this whole russian proposal came from those constructive conversations going on between the president and president putin of russia and jay carney had to say you know what? you got a point there. >> secretary kerry, as we said is headed to geneva to meet his counterpart. how optimistic are they they will hash out a deal since the sides seem so far apart? >> you get the sense they are cautiously optimistic but at the same time, jay -- or anderson, you're hearing the same thing from jay carney here at the white house you hear at the state department. the state department spokesperson said at this briefing earlier this afternoon

with reporters that what secretary kerry is doing over there in geneva is testing the seriousness, as she put it, of the russian proposal. they are looking at what will be on paper at this point, let alone what might come down the road at one point during this breathing. jen saki said they are going to the meeting with the russian foreign minister with eyes wide open. so a measure of optimism, anderson, but also, a whole lot of caution. they are just not sure if this will work out and setting those expectations. >> appreciate the reporting. the skeptics in congress said they dropped consideration of a use of force resolution and at the same time lawmakers joined the white house opposing any deal with russia and syria that precludes action up front. here is senator john mccain. senator mccain, vladimir putin said the military force had to be off the table in order to for a deal to get done. does that make any sense to you?

>> makes no sense and may be indicative we'll have a lot of difficulties with the russian sponsors resolution, so no, makes no sense whatsoever. >> there is a lot of people out there who think the united states is essentially being played, the obama administration, the u.s. is being played by russia and syria. to them you say what? >> i'm very, very concerned and very skeptical. i'm concerned that john kerry has to fly to geneva to meet with them about a resolution that is going through the united nations security council. why isn't lab roff coming to new york while they shape this agreement? i note with some interest that yesterday bashar assad's aircraft began their bombing operations and killing operations, which had been stood down while the threat of the united states launching attack was prevalent, and so i'm very skeptical, and i hope that i'm wrong. >> i talked to david kay, former

chief u.n. weapons inspectors in iraq and will talk to him tonight. and i'm going to talk to him tonight. he said this has never been done before in the mist of a civil war, if it takes 500 to a thousand inspectors, there aren't that many qualified inspectors ready to go. so what kind of a timetable do you actually see for some sort of tally of the sites and securing of the sites, not even talking destruction of the actual weapons. >> the resolution could take a couple days. all the problems that you just outlined in that of david kay are very important. the syrian government knows where these weapons are. so we would ask them to show the international monitors where they are. we would then take charge of those, and a lot of them are in areas that are not totally contested. would it be a complicated and difficult exercise?

yes, indeed. but as opposed to allowing those chemical weapons to be continued to be used, as we know bashar assad has done a number of times in the past, is not to the degree that this latest atrocity was, that then i think we have the lesser of two evils. >> logistically, would there be some sort of international security force on the ground to protect inspectors? >> i don't think it would have to be robust. i do think that the -- i know the free syrian army would not interfere with those activities because of the threat of those weapons being used against him. in the areas that are controlled by al qaeda and i will freely admit, there is one more of them flowing in every single day, then i think it is very

complicated, and we would have to look at perhaps an international force. we might have to look at some things, but you can also look at a negotiated departure of bashar assad, his people to say that we will secure these areas where these weapons are stored, as well. >> for you, though, bottom line moving forward in the next hours and days, you're saying there is no way the u.s. should take the threat of military force off the table? >> i don't see how you can and have credibility. if someone can explain to me how that's possible, i'd like to hear that discussion, but the weapons have to go out first. but again, i would not ignore the free syrian army because as long as this conflict goes on, the more killing is going on, and you're the last person i have to tell what the effects in the refugee camps are, the 100,000 killed, the children refugees and the destabilization

of the surrounding countries that is descending into chaos. >> senator mccain, appreciate your time. >> thank you. senator mccain said is worth under scoring, neither a deal or prospect of one is likely to change the dynamics on the ground. the killing goes on. according to the opposition regime, air forces hit a hospital in northern syria killing 11 and wounding dozens more. that doesn't change. russia that country has been syria's enabler for decades and whether syria or snowden, an all around thorn in america's side. >> when president putin who was prime minister when medvedev was and he came back into power, i think we saw more rhetoric on the russian side. >> we are extremely disappointed the russian government to take this step. >> i encouraged mr. putin to think forward as opposed to backwards. >> we have a lot of fish to fry, if you will, with the russians. >> obviously this is disputed by president putin. >> if the president of russia

chooses yet again to ignore it, that's his choice. >> on syria, i said listen, i don't expect us to agree. >> because of the guaranteed russian obstruction -- >> we've seen two years of russian transjensen. >> blocked by the russians and resisted by russia. >> quite a recent history. the question is what, if anything, is different now. the obama administration seems to think something may have changed. joining me is senior fellow at the brookings institution for middle east policy and gloria borger. we just heard senator mccain saying he doesn't see how you can have credibility of the consequences of assad if it doesn't involvement the threat of military force, there has to be the threat of military force. do you agree with that? >> i do, except that i think we have basically unilaterally disarmed. the vote the president was looking at in the house at the last count was 25 votes in favor of 217 he needed.

so i think it's very clear that we're not going to get the kind of authorization of force he needs to have a credible threat. that leaves him with two choices, one is to play this out, to string it along, to make it look like there is more there than there really is. and the other is to do what senator mccain said and think more broadly about the conflict as a whole and not just about chemical weapons and develop a strategy on the ground that strengthens the free army and shows a credible threat from that direction, not unilateral american force but coalition supporting the free syrian army. >> gloria, is it possible if this deal falls apart or doesn't work out several weeks from now in the details that then the president can go back with the strength in hand and get approval for military action? >> you know, it's very hard to count votes on this now. it's very hard for me to see how his hand would be strengthened in all of this, anderson.

look, i think what they have to be thinking at the white house is that yes, this could fall apart. okay? because if the russians are saying you have to take the threat of force off the table, that's kind of non-negotiable i would think from our point of view. so what is their plan b? it could be, anderson, the president could decide, having made the moral case to the american public, having tried to go to congress, that he could actually go without congress, that raises all kinds of political questions for him, or he could decide, for example, to just have a vote in the senate where perhaps he might have a little bit more support and then not have a vote in the house. i mean, there is president for this with bill clinton and kosovo and the nato air strikes there. he had approval from the senate and went. >> mike, what about that? and the possibility that the obama administration could decide to go at it alone because even though they tossed it over to congress, they said the

president has the authority to go it alone. >> those options make sense to me as theatrical options. i can't see this president doing that because all along on syria from the very beginning, he's shown a deep, deep reluctance to get involved and to use force. in general, he said in interviews, i came to end wars. he said in the second inaugural, i brought a decade of war to an end. i think he sees this has part of a legacy and would have to go through a massive paradigm shift to do that. >> he has made the case this would be limited, as secretary of state kerry said, that it would be unbelievably small, so if he sticks with what he originally said and don't forget at the outset of this process that played out over the last two or three weeks, the president seemed willing not to

go to congress, then seemed to have a change of heart, and went to congress. so why wouldn't he then decide after this plays out that he's played out this string and he might just decide to do what he originally seemed to be intending to do. >> mike and gloria, there is a logistical timetable in terms of readiness that we have to talk about. military officials saying this high readiness level has to be reassessed in the next couple weeks, the u.s. can't maintain this level in the region for that length of time. the destroyers need to be switched out. how long can you stay in a three-point stance? what about that, mike? >> look, you know, it's quite possible. he may -- when really faced with it, if the russians are not forthcoming and he has a tremendous political embarrassment in front of him at the tend eend, he'll look after the best interest and may have a change of heart. i was struck just watching him over the last two weeks. we had kerry coming out.

colorado kerry channeled his inner churchill and president obama played hamlet. we saw that several times, churchill, hamlet, churchill, hamlet. it's hard to imagine. >> you know, i think the timetable here is really key as jim acosta said and the white house said there is no timetable. i think here we heard senator graham say this yesterday, that people want to see impatience on the part of john kerry, and they want to see something within the next couple of weeks as far as the u.n. is concerned. >> yeah, and a lot of that will be worked out between kerry and his counterpart starting tomorrow. gloria, mike, thanks very much. let us know what you think on twitter @andersoncooper. coming up, what happens when weapons inspectors hit the ground? how will it work or not work when they duck sniper fire. an angry confrontation outside george zimmerman's estranged wife's house. his wife called the police. tonight she goes before the camera about what she did and did not say about the incident.

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hey, welcome back. while the world's top diplomats debate the possibility of syria chemical disarmament, there are a group of technical experts scrambling to figure out how do you make it happen? russian and america agreed to destroy their chemical stockpiles 15 years ago, still doing it and two nations in peace time, not a country in civil war run by a dictator that made life dangerous for

outsiders sniffing around the chemicals. more now from nic roberts. >> reporter: the first time independent monitors were sent to syria, it didn't go well. december of 2011, were forced to end their mission a month later siting deteriorating conditions. but the call for independent inspectors grew louder after numerous allegations of chemical attacks. just last month, a team of u.n. weapons inspectors was in damascus when a large scale chemical weapons attack occurred. the inspectors wanted to visit the site but were confined to their hotel by the assad regime for five days. >> i've personally called the foreign minister of syria and i said to him, if, as you say, your nation has nothing to hide, then let the united nations in immediately and give the inspectors the unfettered access. >> reporter: finally, the team was given permission to inspect

the scene. but as the convoy passed through a buffer zone between government and rebel controlled areas, it came under attack. unidentified snipers shot at the vehicle, hitting a vehicle but not causing injuries and the team continued on. >> when the u.n. inspectors finally gained access, that access, as we now know, was restricted and controlled. >> reporter: restricted and controlled, a familiar pattern in syria for inspectors trying to operate in the middle of a volatile war. nick robertson, cnn, beirut, lebanon. >> would anything be different this time? digging deeper now david kay serves on the state department's international security advisory board and also former cia officer bob bear. david, when we spoke last night on this program, you said you think it might take between 500 and a thousand inspectors to

inspect and secure the stock piles. you've now revised that estimate. what number are you thinking? >> well, there is a number of us who carried out inspections talked during the day, i think the argument becomes much stronger for an estimate close to 2,000 inspectors. now, there obviously are some things we don't know. we don't know the total size of their inventory. we don't know exactly where they are located, how they are divided among them. and we also don't know if we'll be faced with the issue of there looks like there is something that's not here. i mean, the first thing the inspectors will want to do is see the production records of their chemical weapons production, so you know what they should have produced, you know what they are now reporting and is there a discrepancy? that takes a lot of technical manpower to do. >> this may be a dumb question, david, but how many experienced or capable inspectors right now

are there in the world? >> nowhere close to that number are certified chemical inspectors. the fact of the matter, most of them are in the military and most of those are in the u.s. military. >> there is the big question whether they would allow them on the ground in syria. that seems highly unlikely, david. >> i'm not sure administration would want u.s. military inspectors on the ground. that really is boots on the ground. >> bear, what do you think of this whole -- the likelihood that the assad regime would actually give up their chemical weapons? >> i think it's close to zero, anderson. bashar al assad has told his inner circle that these chemical weapons are the last line of defense if the civil war should go balanced, they would use them. he's made it very clear in the inner circle and now we're asking him to give this stuff up with essentially nothing in return.

i think you're absolutely right. he's buying time, hoping this goes away. they can go on with this offensive, which they started the last couple days. in any case, the syrian regime never opened that country up for anything. never cooperated with the un, international inspectors have never been there. it doesn't like the u.n. and has a close leadership, which won't respond well to this and could take five, six years to account for this stuff in any case. >> bob, i think back to a year ago when kofi annan was there and they made a cease-fire deal and that quickly broke apart even though the regime made various promises and continued their attack on holmes. someone that used to work in intelligence, bob, how reliable do you know is our intelligence on where syria's chemical weapons are and how much they have? i've heard estimates all over the map. >> anderson, i can answer that question and tell you what we know. their stuff is very good. vx and sarin, very sophisticated. we reached a high level, but we were never able to monitor

the actual quantity produced. if they should produce records now, we would have no way to verify those are correct. >> that's what we would have to rely on, correct? the syrian regime's -- >> not really. >> no? >> the interesting thing about records of production, it's very hard to fake. there is inputs, there is production, there is intermediate products and we proved in the case of iraq that tried to lie about production, that if you get the numbers you can detect that. it's like a complex accounting effort. it really is hard to lie. it's easier to lie about easy things, we don't have anything, we don't have anything there. once you admit you have it, you have the production facility open, it gets very much more difficult to lie. >> david, in terms of, you know, i heard you use the term securing the sites. what exactly does that mean? we're not talking about destroying the actual weapons. securing the sites. is that active monitoring? how do you secure a site?

>> look. you're in a war zone. it's 24/7 personnel. inspectors are not trained to secure sites. they know technology that can bring seals, cameras and that. you got to, if you assemble these weapons and get them in several places, maybe five places, you got to provide protection and that really is military-style protection. i say no way around that problem. >> bob, you've worked in the region and helped soviet republics clean up their nuclear and chemical stockpiles and that process took years, right? >> it was a nightmare. i supervised looking at the hold soviet stuff. same chemicals, anthrax, nuclear. we couldn't keep track of the bombs in kazakhstan. we saw the silos but couldn't explain what happened to the war heads. this went on for years and years and years. >> and that was the regime that

wanted to give up, right? >> 100%. they would fly us out. we would look. the state department had complete control and cia and they could not produce the records or anything. we don't know what happened with them. the facilities wide open. we couldn't get a good record. we never knew what they had and what was lost. >> appreciate your time. for more go to cnn.com. we'll talk to david kay more on ac 360 later at 10:00 tonight. the remarkable sight of george zimmerman handcuffed in the street after his alleged confrontation with his estranged wife. his wife's attorney is speaking out. the story that won't go away. diana nyad hits back with those who question her swim from cuba to florida.

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welcome back. an attorney for shellie zimmerman, the estranged wife of george zimmerman says his client wants their marriage to end with a wimper not a bang and doesn't want to talk about it any more. he made a statement with shellie standing by his side in front of news cameras. earlier today, police in florida said no charges will be filed in the alleged confrontation between the couple. she called police monday afternoon claiming george zimmerman threatened her and her father with a gun. police say no gun was found in the incident or involved in the incident. shelley claims she recorded the incident on an ipad and george smashed it. police say it could take weeks or months to recover the video, if at all. more now on this tangled story from victor blackman. >> get out of the car! >> reporter: new dashcam video

shows george zimmerman and another man being ordered out of this truck at gunpoint monday by lake mary, florida police. >> get him back out there. >> reporter: police suspected zimmerman was armed after receive thing frantic call from his estranged wife shellie zimmerman. >> he's in his car and continually has his hand on his gun and keeps saying step closer. he's just threatening all of us. >> step closer and what? >> that he's going to shoot us. >> reporter: police say they did not find a gun. according to police, there was a confrontation at the home the zimmerman's once shared, a home owned by shellie's father. >> he accosted my father and took my ipad out of my hand and smashed it and cut it with a pocket knife. >> reporter: this is dean after the alleged attack, which police say was not caught on camera. police say mrs. zimmerman was

using the smashed ipad to record video of what was being taken from the home. in this home surveillance video footage zimmerman volunteered to officers you can see george smash the ipad. now that ipad is at the center of the investigation. you got george zimmerman saying he was struck with the ipad and then you have shellie saying there was physical contact with george. the ipad is important because we want to see what is on it. it would have been running while this was going on. >> reporter: everyone was questioned and released. no charges were filed. >> should point out that shellie zimmerman said there was a gun. police said they didn't find a gun. victor blackwell said police did not search the vehicle george zimmerman had because they didn't have a search warrant and on this program, i talked to mark o'mara, george zimmerman's attorney who said, in fact, he did have a gun present. there is more happening tonight, ihsa has the bulletin. >> reporter: a powerful car bomb exploded today on the first anniversary of the attack at the u.s. consulate. it blew up outside a government

building. no one was injured or killed. a former u.s. marine imprisoned in iran charged with spying on the cia says the charges are false and that he was forced to make a televised conversion. they say iran is only holding him as a pawn to secure the release of two iranians. diane nyad held a conference call last night with fellow marathon swimmers who questioned the speed of her 53-hour cossing. she's a guest tonight on "piers morgan live" coming off after 360 at 9:00 eastern. and retired general david petraeus hackled by students. business insider.com says he teaches a class this fall. one calls him a war criminal for presumably his role in leading

u.s. troops in iraq. yeah, i would say a rough day there for him. >> i couldn't believe that video, to be honest. the students, i -- i was kind of stunned by this. i don't know. it -- >> he keeps his game face on. keeps on moving. >> i feel bad they are calling him a war criminal and stuff and he is just trying to teach a class. >> the other guy showing his felly, for a strange reason. >> the guy showing his bellow and threaten to follow him from class to class. there is the guy with the belly. >> needs to put it away. crime and punishment, his mother was sentenced to death for his murder more than 20 years ago. why her conviction was overturned. eight days after saying i do she pushed her alleged husband to his death. she was back in court today. we'll tell you what happened. just by talking to a helmet. it grabbed the patient's record before we even picked him up.

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crime and punishment tonight, an arizona woman that spent more than two decades on death row is free tonight awaiting a new trial. she was young when sentenced to death in 1990 and now she's nearly 50. the crime she was convicted of, the most heinous of the books, the murder of her own child. put just months ago, a u.s. court of appeals threw that out that may have to go to trial and maybe without the key

witness. randi kaye reports. >> reporter: it was december 1989, all little christopher milky wanted to do was see santa claus but that's not what happened. he wasn't taken to the mall to sit on santa's lap but to the desert and shot execution style. he was just 4. within hours police identified two suspects. james rogers and roger scott. during their interrogation scott cracked, then led investigators to the boy's body. why did they do it? the story began to unfold when phoenix police detective armando saldonta said scott told him the boy's mother had also been involved so the detective zeroed in on debra milky. >> he, in his mind, based upon the little bit of information he had was just convinced that this woman did it. >> reporter: saldonte arrested milky, a 25-year-old insurance company clerk, and within 20 minutes announced she confessed

to arresting the two men for killing her son. motive, a $5,000 insurance payout. she was charged with first-degree murder. the arrest and charges based on the detective's statements. at milky's murder trial, he was the state's star witness. >> she decided that it would be best for milky to die. >> reporter: milky shot back. >> i looked at him and said if i didn't want my son, then i could give him -- i would have given him to my family, my sister or someone else in my family. >> reporter: still, the jury believed the detective. in 1990 she was convicted and sentenced to die. that was just the beginning. of this training case. for more than two decades her story has captivated the state of arizona, and especially those here in phoenix, who have been asking would milky would really have her on son killed for $5,000?

and if so, why did the two men she hired to do the job refuse to testify against her? mickey has always maintained her innocence and never gave up on appeals. mickey insisted she never did this. private investigator paul believes her. he was working for a local tv station when milky was killed and interviewed debra a couple of hours after the detective did. >> yes, did you tell the police you had anything to do with the death of your son? she glared at me, her eyes got really big and says that's crazy! who told you that? i had nothing to do with the death of my son. >> this is probably my favorite. >> reporter: her ex-husband christopher's father disagrees, he always has. do you believe your ex-wife killed your son? >> i know she did. i don't believe it. i know she did. >> reporter: that's where things stood as debra milky sat on death row where they stood until a stunning turn of events. a panel of judges from the ninth

circuit court of appeals decided debra milky should get a new trial. in a scathing opinion, federal judge alex cosinski, tossed out the conviction saying her confession was illegally obtained adding it probably never occurred. court documents show he didn't record the interrogation and no other officers and no one watching through a two-way mirror and no cameras or microphones to record it. and there is more. saldotnt never asked debra to put the confession in writing and skipped the most basic step of having her sign a miranda waiver. the federal appeals court judges didn't say she's innocent but there is no physical evidence linking her to the crime. the judge found prosecutors failed to disclose what they

knew about the detective's history of misconduct, disciplinary action and lying. the judge cited eight cases where confessions, indictments or convictions were tossed out or set aside because saldonte had either lied under oath or violated constitutional rights. in one case, saldonte lead a motorist with a faulty taillight go in exchange for sex and lied to superiors about it. the judge determined this would likely have cast doubt on detective saldonte credibility and may have influenced the verdict. >> it was still a fact she was convicted of the murder of her 4-year-old son. >> reporter: on friday, september 6th, 23 years after sent to death row debra milke walked out of prison a free woman for now. she was finally able to hug her mother for the first time in more than 20 years. now 49, milke is preparing for yet, another trial, but this time around, things may be different. a judge will soon decide if her

alleged confession is even admissible in court, and detective saldonte, he may ask for immunity and not testify. >> they don't have him to testify if they don't have a confession, this case probably has to be dismissed. >> reporter: which means debra milke may get used to life on the outside. randi kaye, cnn, phoenix. >> well, we'll be following that case closely. coming up, she's a newlywed bride accused of murder, allegedly pushing her husband off a cliff after being married for a week. we have the latest next. >>

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husband over a cliff and he died. they had been married for a little more than a week when this happened and graham's version changed several times you were in the court. what happened? >> reporter: well, it's detention hearing, and soren. prosecutors want her to stay in jail but her attorneys are arguing she has no criminal history. they want her released with conditions the judge expected to make a decision before noon local time tomorrow. >> allegedly, she changed her story several times. what are you learning about that? how significant is that? >> reporter: yeah, quite a web of lies. police say they were told four different stories and gelling with friends. they have been told a number of stories they tell me but says it fits with the number they know. she's emotionless according to friends and they say during the wedding she was quite odd. listen to what one of groomsmen told us. >> during the wedding when they were exchanging vows, jordan was looking down and wasn't looking at cody when she was exchanging vows.

to me, that's odd, you know, you're up there with the love of your life, you're usually lost in each other's eyes, you know, sharing your vows with this person so they know you mean it and she couldn't even look at him. it -- it was odd. >> i guess you can interpret that a bunch of different ways. what are you hearing from the husband's family. >> reporter: the husband's family says cody was on only child and his mother is quite distraught. we spoke to his uncle. he says what he saw from this woman, this young bride just married eight days ago, she was texting at her new husband's funeral as eulogies were given. listen to was he said. >> seemed very distant, stone cold, didn't shed a tear. she didn't even use a piece of tissue the whole time, didn't cry. was on her phone at one point.

she was completely detached. it was like she wasn't even there. she would rather be somewhere else. >> i mean is there any actual evidence that she did this? >> reporter: there is quite a bit of evidence. we heard even more of it today. a fake e-mail account that prosecutors say was used as coverup. we've heard about text messages that were exchanged where she expressed regret about getting married. prgs say -- prosecutors say they are still investigating and compiling the evidence but feel they have a strong case, which is why, anderson, they want her to stay behind bars. >> appreciate the reporting. isha is back with the bulletin. >> the man who posted a video online who said he drove drunk and killed a man pleaded not guilty in a ohio court today. the attorney says that plea is standard and his client will plead guilty at a later date. he faces a maximum 8.5 years in prison. officials at boston logan international airport said they

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