i'm don lemon, thank you for watch g watching. see you tomorrow night. "ac360" starts right now. >> thank you for joining us tonight. a 360 exclusive. mersa alexander who spent three years behind bars for firing a warning shot for the man who is ak accused of strangling here is out of jail and speaks out for the first time. and we have first, a new ultimatum from isis and if true, it is the latest threat to behead another hostage, and surviving pair of japanese hostages. he and a jordanian captive facing certain death in a matter of hours. this as a minister of jordan

says has been negotiating in back channels. and this is after a failed negotiation for custody of a jordanian prisoner. this after a group who says they have not reveled in taking hostages and celebrating it. so what is the latest on the ultimatum ultimatum? >> well, this is tweeted out, and this is the latest audio recording which purports to with be the surviving hostage voice of kenji who says that by 9:30 a.m. tomorrow mosul time that if they are not at the turkish border with the jordanian

hostage, they will not release the hostage. >> for jordan, this is a hard prisoner to give up, because she is a prisoner, and attempted to give part of the terrorist attack and the vest did not go off. >> yes shgs, and this was devastating in iman,r and the capital of jor dap and this is an operation ordered by the then leader of iraq al zarquawi and the only reason she did not kill anybody is because the suicide vest didn't go off and the jordanian view is twofold, it is a prisoner exchange and she is a prisoner and the pielot is a prisoner of isis, and because the vest did not go off, she does not have blood on her hand, and they look at it differently. >> and though 57 people did die in that attack. >> yes, and devastating at the time and major attack, and if

this exchange goes off, it is a propaganda victory for isis to get her released. >> thank you, jim sciutto. joining us is the former navy s.e.a.l. jim o'shea and also, frances townsend who is former homeland security adviser for president bush and currently serves on homeland security boards. so this would be a huge propaganda victory, and not only able to get this convicted terrorist out of jordan out of custody, but a huge propaganda victory to see isis e negotiating with the nation state. state. >> exactly the point, and they are going one step further to not only establishing the islamic state as caliphate but to be recognized by a arab station and japan in the mix. so it has strategic effects in the third world with this

prisoner swap. >> and does this have any effects on isis's part and jordan's part? >> yes, i will be frank. this very woman was part of the ransom demand of one of the major case and one of the big kidnapping rings, including the carol kidnap and this ring we have been tracking and dismantled after hard effort. they had this woman, this very same woman sawji who was offered up but not released and ten years later, they are are getting the wish, and drawing a linkage of isis and the or gyp of the roots which is al qaeda. >> and fran for the u.s. which is obviously, critical of making deals in the past, hard to have a leg to stand on given the prisoner exchange with bowe bergdahl. >> right, anderson, the u.s. is going to be making the argument that what they did was to engage with the taliban to get one of their own back, but you are jordan you are peeling the same

way about the jordanian pielot. the real problem of this is the moral hazard because once you begin to engage in the swaps, the u.s. with the taliban or jordan with isis what it does is to encourage the groups to grab other citizens and not just japanese and jordanians in the case of isis but this is the what these guys learn is ha they can get media at the tension, and get listened to and paid attention, and it is a propaganda victory, and the engagement it and the notion of a successful swap em boeldboldens them. >> and does the change of a deadline make sense to you? >> well it is part of the game. they are ratcheting up the stakes here. mistown miss townshend is 100% correct, and she is a ha hair woeeroine to

the cause, and she will be recruiting more women to the propaganda cause, and this is successful and it will be successful in the future, and this is the slippery slope as we are losing the position to stand by successions, because we can no longer do that when we are not holding to same standard and how can we ask the international community to do the same? >> and fran when it is prisoners, and as compare odd the european countries who pay? >> well the seeding of whether it is money or people is the problem. and this woman that the dan is talking about, if she is released to isis, she is going to kill people. her husband was a martyr and she is a widow and her brother was a direct lieutenant of zarquawi, and people may are recall this 2005 bombing, and you mentioned the 57 killed

anderson and this is a wedding that her cohorts went into and detonated themselves and killing people in a hotel of iman and i work d worked the cases in the white house, and she is a really, really bad person and she will kill and absolutely she will kill. >> and i remember being on the air and covering this bombing at the india hotel in iman, and will is a right-- there is a right for every country to do whatever they determine, but is there behind the scenes directives going on to say, hey, it is a chink in to a armor if they make a concession? >> yes anderson, one would hope that they are making the argument not to do it, but again, you pointed out with the fact that the u.s. engaged with the bergdahl swap with the

taliban make ss it difficult. and the other piece is that these sort of prisoner exchanges in the region are not that unusual, and israel will go through the large massive e negotiations, and when the prisoner exchanges with hamas for example, and so within this region, it is not unusual, but it is the notion of doing wit with a brutal group, and by the way, with no proof of life, we are going through this negotiation, and we don't know if the hostages are not already dead. >> and thatis is interesting, dan that it is so public, and there has not been a proof of life. >> again, they are violating the rule of negotiation without a proof of life. to do a hostage mission, you have to have a proof of life to do anything in the step ss, so again, they are holding the world hostage by doing this release of the japanese terrorist who may with be the only one alive, and she may be

release and we may not get the jordanian back in the first place, but it is blowing the whole behind the scenes negotiation of this world that was not so wide open but we have kind of played the cards, and now we are going to be seeing more of this in the future, and i have been predicting it since the bergdahl release, and it is coming to fruition sadly. >> and how does it work? they say bring her to the turkish border by a time tomorrow mosulle time and would then the idea being that she is handed over and some undetermined other time, the other two hostages are handed over or would it have to be and you would think simultaneous. >> well yes. if rational rule of law is ap applied here, they don't, and that remains to be seen, and the mexican standoff as they let the girl go and let the jordanian pilot go and the cold war swap,

and france's powers and the swap we let go back in the day, and there is no guarantees in the group, and regardless as fran brought up the points, it is a propaganda coupe, and another victory for eyeisis. >> thank you, dan for your expertise, and fran townsend as well. >> and now, coming up she said she stood her ground against her abusive hudz husband and now she is going to talk about the e deal she made to secure her freedom. the details are ahead. tums smoothies starts dissolving the instant it touches your tongue ...and neutralizes stomach acid at the source. ♪ tum, tum tum tum...♪ smoothies! only from tums. thanks. ♪ ♪ [ male announcer ] fedex® has solutions to

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tonight a "360" exclusive. a woman who's been through more than most of us, imagine, most of it at the hands of the criminal justice system. marissa alexander. you may remember her. she spent three years in a florida prison for firing a gun -- essentially taking a shot which hit no one. a shot that she says she fired to stop her abusive husband from hurting her. now her case and her defense, which relied on florida's stand your ground legal doctrine, came to national attention during the trial of george zimmerman. she won a new trial and was presented with -- by the terrifying choice to take the plea deal that would mark her as a felon or take the trial that could mark her with a 60-year sentence for the rest of her life. she took the plea deal. she's out of jail on a house arrest for another two years. you'll hear from her shortly. her first interview since getting out. first, how we got here.

>> reporter: this was marissa alexander in 2012. she'd just been found guilty of aggravated assault with a deadly e weapon and would soon be sentenced to 20 years behind bars. >> this is my life i'm fighting for. this is my life. and it's my life, and it's not entertainment. it is my life. >> her legal trouble began in 2010. she says her abusive husband, rico gray, was in a jealous rage over text messages on her cell phone. gray had been arrested in the past for assaulting her. she'd locked herself in the bathroom. >> he managed to get the door open. and that's when he -- he strangled me. he put his hands around my neck. >> alexander got away and ran into the garage. but she says the garage door was stuck. she grabbed a gun she says she kept there. she explained what happened next to gary tuchman. >> reporter: were you thinking you were about to shoot him? >> yeah, i did, if it came to that. he saw my weapon at my side. and when he saw it, he was even

more upset. and that's when he threatened to kill me. >> that's when she fired what she called a warning shot into the wall. >> i believe when he threatened to kill me, that's what he was going to do. and it -- had i not discharged my weapon at that point, i would not be here. >> rico gray fled the house with his two young children who were there at the time. alexander was arrested but maintained she'd been standing her ground. during a court deposition, gray said this about the shooting incident, "if my kids western there, i knew i probably would have tried to take the gun from her. i probably would have put my hand on her." when asked what he meant about putting his hand on her, he responded, "probably hit her. i got five baby mamas, and i put my hands on every last one of them except for one." later at a court hearing on her stand your ground defense, gray changed his story, saying he lied repeatedly to protect his wife, claiming he did not threaten to kill her and said, "i begged and pleaded for my

life when she had the gun." alexander was offered three years in prison as a plea deal, but she refused. she went on trial and was convicted and sentenced to 20 years for three charges of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon. >> you do everything to get on the right side of the law. and there's a law, and it does not apply to you. where do you go from there? >> a new legal team picked up alexander's case after her conviction. in 2013, fought and won her a new trial. the victory was short-lived. florida state attorney angela corey said this time if alexander was found guilty, they'd be seeking a sentence of 60 years instead of the 20. she was offered another plea deal if she didn't go to trial. three years behind bars and two years under house arrest. just yesterday, she served her last day in prison. >> that concludes the hearing. [ applause ] >> with time already served, marissa alexander was able to walk away but now begins her house arrest.

marissa alexander joins us now. first of all, how does it feel to be how does it feel to be out of prison finally? >> relief. absolute relief. i'm excited, i'm happy, i'm grateful. those are just many of the emotions that i feel. that is how i feel to be out finally. >> you haven't given an interview since 2012. at this point, what do you want people to know about what happened to you? >> i think that it's just one of those things that it's unfortunate, but i can see that -- i'm out now. i'm looking forward to the future. i don't really look back to what has happened. it wasn't easy, but i'm much stronger. i am in a better place than i was. i'm just looking forward to moving forward. >> i want to ask you a little about your case. i mean, you tried repeatedly and

failed to use stand your ground as a defense. at this point, do you still believe you were standing your ground? you still believe that? >> knowing what i know now, i don't really feel any different about it. i guess really at the end of the day it doesn't matter. you know what i mean? i think that now that i'm out, i can't go back out to change what has been decided or what is decide d decided, i am grateful that i am out now, and i can put it to bed. >> i know you were offered a three-year plea deal before your original trial. you wanted to take your case to trial. do you regret that decision at all? that's a tough decision to make. >> not -- it is. i mean, going to trial is not easy. i don't regret it. you know, it wasn't -- it wasn't a decision that came lightly. but i believed in my innocence. that's the reason i took it to trial. not only that, the three years, you know, didn't want to take charges for the children. and didn't feel -- i just didn't want to do that.

so that is the reason why the original plea i did not -- i did not accept it. >> when you heard, first of all, the sentence of 20 years, what goes through your mind in that case? you had just had a baby. >> you know, you can't even digest something like that. i can't tell you that i did -- and when i did it was extremely difficult. i don't believe i ever really accepted that sentence. i believe i was going to fight. but it's not something you can ever really digest. >> so what made you decide that second time at the time of the retrial to take the plea deal? essentially it was the same one they offered you before. three years in prison. what was the thought process on saying, you know, i'm going to take this plea deal this time? >> well, for me, it ultimately boiled down to i needed to guarantee my children that i would be home. and i mean, that is the primary reason why i made that decision.

>> you know, obviously some of your supporters, people believe in you, believe that race, that sexism played a role in your incarceration. do you believe that? >> i could go into it, but it wouldn't do me any good right now. i can tell you that my primary focus, the energy and effort is moving forward and not spending a lot of time on the negative aspect of it. it can get really draining. i really look forward to the future about it. i just kind of don't spend time in that area. >> as mentioned, you gave birth to a baby girl before there ordeal started for you. she's now 4 1/2. >> yes. >> to be with her, what is that like? >> when i left rihanna, she was six months old. when i was able to connect with her again, she was 2 years old. that is the time when i was able to finally see her, sit her in my lap. outside a glimpse of pictures of her, i didn't -- i didn't get to see her.

to -- you can imagine just unbelievable joy to be able to see her. and then when i came home on bond to be able to connect and bond with her. and i mean, we're in love. so i'm grateful to be able to have, you know, the relationship that we have. she knows that i'm her mom and that i'm not going anywhere. >> what's next for you? what do you hope to do? >> well, i mean, to be honest with you, i've been looking forward to just being able to close this book -- not even a chapter, i want the book closed. and i just want a whole new book. >> marissa, it's a pleasure to talk to you. i'm happy to talk to you out and -- and i wish you nothing but good things for you and your family. thank you very much. >> i thank you very much for covering my story and taking the time to speak with me. thank you very much.

>> she's amazingly optimistic. having heard that, i want to get legal perspective on the choice that confronted alexander. the question is, what would you do at home, as well as the fight over stand your ground that continues. senior legal analyst jeffrey toobin joins us. why would angela corey say we're go for 60 years over the 20 years? >> because corey's incompetent. because she is vicious, and because she is a disgrace to the prosecutors around the country. this is one of the gross estest incompetence of power i have e ever seen and this sis a blot on all criminal prosecution in this country.

>> her lawyers got a ruling from the trial judge that they could introduce evidence of all the abuse that -- that gray had imposed on other women. so that's the trial setting that it was going to happen. that got angela corey's office to negotiate down to essentially time served in this kind of house arrest. people should know, it's not house arrest like people -- and the stand your ground amendment was amended for cases like this. >> and fortunately, this case has prompted outrage in florida and around the country, and that change in the law is one, is one effect of this.

it is too late for her tole help her. >> it has to be such a -- i mean a gut-wrenching decision to decide to take a plea serve another 65 days in jail and then you get out and you have a record and under house arrest for two years or maintain your innocence innocence, and risk 60 years in jail. >> it is a heartbreaking dilemma, and one thing tipped this case. angela corey was not even negotiating i could tell in good faith, but her lawyers, including faith gay of quinn e emanuel and working pro bono on this case, and they got a rule from the trial judge that they could introduce evidence of all of the abuse that gray had imposed on other women, and so that is the trial's setting that it was go g toing to happen, and that got angela's cory's office to negotiate down to house arrest. people should know, it's not house arrest like people remember junior soprano from -- "the sopranos."

she can go to school. she's studying to be a paralegal. she can go to church. she can have medical appointments. she's not confined to her house, but she's not free either. >> to supporters who say, look, race played a role or sexism played a role, that if it was a guy who fired a warning shot against another guy or a white person who fired a white person against an african-american, what do you say? >> i don't know. but it's suggestive of that interpretation. >> sad. we wish her the best with her new life. i find it fascinating that having gotten a glimpse of the legal system like this she wants to help others going through the legal system by becoming a paralegal. >> i think she knows a lot of law already. no doubt about it. >> jeff toobin, thank you so much. ahead, coastal new england had barely begun digging out -- tonight new england is being told to brace for a new winter storm less than 48 hours away even as it's still digging out from record snowfall. and this a dramatic birth story

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tonight new england is being told to brace for a new winter storm less than 48 hours away even as it's still digging out from record snowfall. this of the scene across much of coastal new england today.

the national weather service says the same kind of storm system that dumped all that snow, drop as much eight more inches of snow on some of the worst hit areas. take a look at a time-lapse video of a deck in berlin, massachusetts, buried yesterday. first you see it, then basically you don't. the storm derailed countless plans for people, travelers. some things can't be stopped including twins who were determined to be born. an amazing story. randy kaye has it. >> this is gabriel lee and aliyah serai. my angels. >> reporter: twins born sunday night. while it may not sound newsworthy, their mom went into labor as parts of the northeast were getting pounded by a blizzard. paticia lives in worcester, massachusetts, where the storm dumped nearly three feet of snow. how bad was the weather at that point? >> goodness, the snow was going everywhere.

up your nose in your hair and under my dress and everywhere. >> reporter: she was not due for another five week but the contractions were so strong by monday night, she was having trouble breathing, and she had a big problem. >> our car was under snow, and so there was no driving, no nothing, and no cabs. >> reporter: her boyfriend called an ambulance. a travel ban was in effect except for emergency vehicles. >> one of the paramedics guys slipped on the ice outside my house. i didn't think -- i didn't know if we were going to -- make it to the hospital in time. >> reporter: she was right. her water broke just minutes after she got into the ambulance. >> i felt another big urge to push, and my son was right there breech.

and i felt another big push and there he was right there on the stretch stretcher. >> reporter: she had the umbilical cord cut in the ambulance. baby gabriel was perfect, born at 9:24 p.m. monday. paticia hoped to get to the hospital before his sister pushed out, too. two minutes later she was in the o.r. at umass memorial medical center. >> she came out, like everything was so perfect. >> reporter: baby aaliyah was born 11 minutes after gabriel, and both of them weighing 4 pounds and 11 ounces. both of them born 40 minutes of her going into labor. >> hi, angel! hi, aaliyah . >> reporter: how does it feel to have him in your arms? >> it feels so wonderful. just want to squeeze them. oh, my goodness. >> reporter: for now, gabriel and aaliyah are being kept in special incubators to help keep them warm as they grow.

>> my baby. >> reporter: when they grow up, they're sure to have quite a story to tell. >> that's for sure. randi joins us from umass memorial medical center. beautiful little babies there. how is everybody doing? >> reporter: everybody's doing really well, anderson. paticia, the mother, went home today. the two little ones are here bep hind me. they're probably going to be here another week. she's anxious to get them home because she has three more children including, believe it or not, a 1-year-old. she's anxious for them to meet. one final note, they weren't the only babies born at the hospital during the blizzard machine night. we're told six other babies were born in the same time period from 4:00 p.m. to midnight, including another set of twins. >> incredible. randi, thank you very much. great report. just ahead, former new england patriot aaron hernandez is back on trial for murder starting tomorrow. just how strong is the case against him next.

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barring another blizzard, former nfl player aaron hernandez goes on trial for murder tomorrow in boston. just days before his former teammates head to the super bowl. the new england patriots dropped their star tight end after he was charged in the 2013 shooting death of another athlete. two top team officials are on the state's list of potential witnesses. now just three years ago, hernandez seemed unstoppable. his star was rising. tonight, it is a very different story. susan candiotti has the latest. >> reporter: the last time the new england patriots played in the super bowl in 2012, aaron hernandez was on the field. this time, he's sidelined. on trial for murder, pleading not guilty. if his former bosses, team owner bob kraft and coach bill belichick take the stand, they are expected to testify about their conversations with the super star. the timing's critical. just days after the

bullet-riddled body of odin lloyd was found, hernandez returns to the patriots' gillette stadium. the media watching. a law enforcement source says kraft and belichick talked face to face with hernandez. hernandez flat the-out denies he had anything to do with lloyd's murder. and the source says he tells the coach the same thing -- he wasn't there. former teammate, patriots' wide receiver, matt slater trying to make sense of it. >> as well as the families involved in the situation. a lot of people were affected by the situation. they're all in my prayers. >> reporter: at first, it seems there's a mountain of circumstantial evidence against the star tight end who's pleaded not guilty. 18 months later, the case isn't the same. >> the universe of damning evidence has shrunk. >> reporter: shrunk thanks to a defense team scoring some victories.

arguably the biggest, a text message from lloyd to his sister about who he was with sent minutes before he was killed. lloyd writes, "nfl, just so you know." a judge ruling it's inadmissible, not enough proof lloyd thought he was going to die. >> if the jury believes that aaron hernandez was with odon lloyd right before odin lloyd was killed, it's not a leap to conclude aaron hernandez was involved in the murder of odin lloyd. >> reporter: yet prosecutors say they have surveillance videos of the victim getting into a car with hernandez and co-defendants earnest wallace and carlos ortiz who have also pleaded not guilty to murder. video of that same car driving into an industrial park, and later, hernandez back home less than a mile away holding what prosecutors say is the alleged murder weapon. but it was never found. >> there is no murder weapon. or -- a witness that's credible

would testify that aaron hernandez did it. there is no such witness. >> reporter: the judge also blocking any mention hernandez is indicted for two more murders in boston. prosecution witness alexander bradley can't say he's suing hernandez for allegedly shooting him in the face a few months before lloyd's murder. will the state overcome any weaknesses? >> there still is a good amount of circumstantial evidence against aaron hernandez. it just isn't the slam-dunk case that it seemed to be. >> susan candiotti joins us now. it's fascinating to see how the ever has been disallowed, shifted. the fiancee, hernandez' fiancee, is there any chance that she could testify against him? she easton state's witness list, right? >> reporter: that's right. it is certainly possible. but the question is, will she stand by her man? we know that she met with prosecutors recently.

and that immunity was discussed. now this is important because prosecutors suspect that she threw away the murder weapon. but will she flip on her fiance? it's a secret until she takes the stand. defense attorneys for hernandez, you can imagine, anderson, they want to know that answer right now. >> yeah. susan, thank you very much for the report. appreciate it. ahead, a new warning in the growing measles outbreak that began at disneyland.

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the measles outbreak that started in disneyland has infected five people in arizona. officials are notifying families of 195 kids that they may have been exposed. an adult woman is the latest in the state. she had contact with an infected family of four and may have spread the virus to a pediatric health center in mesa, arizona. elizabeth cohen joins you now. this one woman who might have exposed nearly 200 kids to measles -- >> right. it is amazing. measles is incredibly infectious that one person can spread it to possibly 200 people. and what we know about this woman, as you said, is that she had contact with a family where four children had measles. and we know from an arizona health official that those four children, their parents had refused to vaccinate them.

>> and the director of the arizona department of health services, they're saying the outbreak has reached what they call a critical point. what does that mean exactly? >> what he means is that right now it is containable. they can track all the cases, track where they've been, who they've had contact with. but at a certain point, with the disease that's as contagious as measles, it is really, really hard to do that, and i want to give you an example of how contagious it is, anderson. if i had measles, i walked into a room and walked out, and you walked into the room two hours later, you could get measles if you had not been vaccinated. people are contagious even when they're not sick yet. if someone has measles and hasn't yet developed the signs, they're still contagious. they could be running around spreading it. >> if you have measles, just because you've been in the room, somebody coming into the room two hours later can get it. you don't have to sneeze or anything? >> right. those droplets can hang in the air for hours.

we talked about how tough to say spread ebola, you node to have close contact, measles is the opposite. >> how many cases are there throughout the u.s. now is. >> about 67 cases that we know of in the united states. more than 50 of them are in california. but as you see, there's also, you know, fewer numbers in other states in the west and in nebraska. mexico has one case, as well. >> incredible. elizabeth, thanks for tracking for us. we want to get the latest on stories we're following. we have a "360" bulletin. anderson two israeli soldiers are dead after fighting in the border of syria and israel. hezbollah fired anti-tank missells at israeli military vehicles killing the two soldier s and injuring seven others. the idf returned artillery fire. a spanish peacekeeper was also killed, although it is not known whether that was from israeli or hezbollah fire. the libyan branch of isis

has claimed responsibility for the attack on a luxury hotel in tripoli that killed ten people, including an american contractor. an official says two attackers were also killed. fire officials in maryland say an electrical failure that ignited a dry christmas tree caused the deadly fire at an annapolis mansion earlier this month. four children and their grandparents died in the fire. and dash cam video shows an incredible scene outside of pittsburgh. a shoplifting suspect in the back of a police car crawled through the front seat and somehow managed to drive the car with her hands cuffed behind her back. police say she drove 100 miles per hour for nearly ten miles and then ditched the car. police caught up with her. now she faces a lot more charges. incredible stuff. trying to figure out how she was able to drive that far that fast with her hands cuffed behind her back. anderson? >> if we can, i want to look at the video again. i don't get -- i mean, i guess she was driving with -- the steering with her knees somehow or shoulder? >> that's what i was thinking, too. if you watch the video, she apparently honks while she's --

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cnn will bring incredible stories 70 years in the making. yesterday holocaust survivors gathered to mark the anniversary of the liberation of the auschwitz concentration camp.

tonight on cnn "voices of auschwitz," four survivors share stories of pain and hope with us. i'll speak to wolf in a moment. first, i want you to meet one of the survivors. eva kor is her name. she recalled the horrors that she was subjected to including the experiment ss at the hands of joe joesef mengel when she was just 10 years old. >> reporter: we're looking at the ruins of the gas chambers, the crematoriums. eva, tell me, what do you remember? you were just a little girl, ten years old. >> we knew from the smell. it smelled like burning flesh and burning hair. and the smoke was rising high above the structure. and we actually knew that most of our families probably ended up here. the other people were in the barracks. first night we arrived, shade it, look there, see the smoke and the flames. our families must be burning

right now. i said that's not possible. burning people? that is crazy. >> reporter: eva, this was the barrack that you lived in, something like this? >> yes. it was my home almost nine months. i entered the place and went to the latrine which of at the end of the barrack. there is the latrine floor, the scattered corpses of three children. right then and there i made a silent pledge thatly do anything and everything to not end up on the filthy latrine floor. >> reporter: eva, tell us what was going on in this building. >> we used to be brought here three times a week. they would tie both of my arms to restrict the blood flow and give me minimum of five injections into my right arm. the contents of those injections we didn't know then, nor do i know today.

but after one of those injections, i became very ill. next morning, doctor mengele came in and turned to the doctors and said, laughing sarcastically, he said, "too bad. she's so young. she has only two weeks to live." later in the afternoon, a woman yelling at the top of her voice, "we are free, we are free, we are free." and from a distance, i could see lots of people, they were all will smiling. they gave us chocolate cookies and hugs. and this was my first day of freedom. my name is eva moses kor, i am a survivor of auschwitz. >> and wolf blitzer joins me now. it's just incredible. and still so incredible to hear the stories of people like eva. she's one of the few survivors

you spoke with who actually says that she forgives the nazis. i find that -- the courage to do that extraordinary. >> me, too. when she told me that, it was amazing to me because i know a lot of survivors. and i know they'll never forgive. they'll certainly never forget. she says that if she weren't able to forgive, the nazis would have won. they would have won that part of her. so as a result, she has decided she is able to forgive. she's an amazing woman, i must say. the only reason she survived is when they took her off that cattle car with her sister, miriam, they were identical twins. the nazis needed identical twins for dr. mangele's so-called experiments. and they were shouting twins, twins. they were taken to one side. they survived. they were tortured with the experiments. they survived. but their parents, their grandparents, other brothers and sisters, all went to another side. they were immediately sent to gas chambers and the crematorium. she never saw her family ever again.

>> i mean, to be experimented on at 10-years-old and to have come face to face with this monster, dr. mengele. for you, your paternal grandparents were both killed at auschwitz. this was your first time going there. how -- what was it like for you? >> it was amazing. i thought of going many times over the years. i never made it there for whatever reason. and i went there, you know, as you know, we were doing the pieces for cnn on our family history, our roots. i decided to go there then. i got involved not only in that piece, learning about my family's history, getting more details, more information, but i also got involved in helping cnn work on this documentary that's about to air. i'm really proud of cnn, that cnn, our excellent team, they put together this amazing one-hour documentary. it tells these stories of the survivors. their stories before the war, what life was like for them, during the war, the hell they went through, and then the lives they created after the war. such an inspiration to hear these stories.

and i'm so proud that we all put it together. it's really, really powerful. >> i urge people to watch it. wolf blitzer, thank you very much. >> thank you. it is an amazing documentary. that does it for us. the following is a cnn special report. these gates marked the site of one of history's greatest horrors. >> we are in the biggest cemetery of the world here. >> during the holocaust, more than one million jews were murdered here at auschwitz. >> my aunts, uncles, everybody's dead now. >> part of hitler's plan to wipe out the jewish people. >> we saw my mother. she went straight to the gas chamber. >> liberated 70 years ago, only