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the pope gets ready for mass in sarajevo. stunning revelation in the attack of a young girl. and this horse could gallop into history. how the superstitious are preparing ahead of the belmont stakes. welcome to viewers in the skpus around the world. i'm lynda kinkade and this is "cnn newsroom." pope francis is about to celebrate mass in front of 60,000 people in sarajevo. he released doves outside the presidential palace as a sign of peace. it's the first time a pope has
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visited the bosnian capital in 18 years. the country remains religiously divided 20 years after the end of a civil war. senior international correspondent nick robertson is in sarajevo and we're seeing pictures of thousands of people clapping and cheering at the mass there. clearly the pope is going to spread his message of peace. >> reporter: they are preparing for this. he will be coming out on the altar, the stage there, if you will, way in the background behind me in a few minutes. this crowd here has come from all over bosnia. it is a crowd here that is eager to hear his message.
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they want to attend his mass. perhaps most of all they clearly want peace in this country. 20 years of peace here has delivered an high levels of corruption and they hope the pope can get this mass to convince these leaders that they need reconciliation, they need to make peace and move forward. the crowd right now getting some more musical interlude. he already did a lap of the track here in the stadium.
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with the pope here, people were standing up. there were cheers. much as it is now. a real high level of anticipation. 18 years since the last pope was here. that was pope john paul ii. pope francis will be able to leave something more than just a symbolic statue. he will be able to deliver some real change here, some real steps towards peace. >> a very eager and loud crowd behind you. good to talk to you. we'll talk to you later in this hour. thank you very much. intelligence officials tell cnn they fear the chinese military is compiling huge database of information on americans to launch future insider cyber attacks. the u.s. is accusing china of carrying out one of the largest government data breaches in h
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history putting millions of americans at risk. chinese hackers recently attacked an american health insurance company. jim sciutto has more on how the ha hackers gained access. >> reporter: it only took one government agency that had not taken the simple step of updating its server software to open the door to an unpress dependented and alarming cyber attack by china. the white house still has not publicly named the culprit, it is acknowledging the growing threat. >> we have seen our adversaries use techniques and learn from previous efforts to try to find vulnerabilities in our system. >> reporter: the attack appears designed to lay ground work for future attacks using personal information to fool government employees in spear-fishing attacks and to impersonate them to carry out insider attacks. and crucially by revealing who has security clearances and at what level they may be able to identify, expose and blackmail
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u.s. officials around the world. targeting the personal information of federal employees is new. chinese hackers had previously focused on stealing military and government secrets to enhance national security and corporate data for financial gain. >> i don't think that stopped but this is just a new attack, which has typically been used by organized crime for monetizing that data. now nation states are clearly seeing that it has some use for them as well. >> reporter: some federal agencies are not following the government's own guidelines to update operating systems with the latest protections. the office of personnel management discovered the breach by using new software, but the detection came after the system had already been compromised. after years of cyber attacks by china, the obama administration
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tried raise iing the issue president to president. it even issued criminal charges against an elite group of chinese hackers believed housed at this shanghai building. china's attacks have only continued and grown. >> cyber, as we're talking waking up to this morning, is the newest domain of warfare. >> that was jim sciutto reporting for us. now that a capsized cruise ship has been lifted out of the water, teams are trying to recover more bodies. 396 have been found so far, including a 3-year-old girl. more than 40 bodies are still missing. hazmat crews are working to recover items from the eastern star. it capsized six days ago during a storm. 14 people made it out alive. ivan watson has more. >> reporter: in the wake of the disaster, more than a thousand relatives of passengers of the eastern star cruise ship converged on the riverside city
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desperate for answers about their missing loved ones. some of them argue that a severe storm on the river is not enough to explain this terrible tragedy. >> after we arrived here, we feel there's a situation here in that they are overemphasizing this is a natural disaster. but according to a lot of the investigations we have done, today we are in the age of the internet, an age of open information. bethink this is not just. >> reporter: relatives held a somber candle light vigil. the chinese government is promising an investigation into the cause of the accident and for now it's providing free z housing for most of the distraught relatives wait hearing. but for some families, that's not enough. they sent us this letter they sent to chinese authorities requesting the return of bodies of victims to the families and a meeting with the vice premier of china to explain why the ship
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sailed into the storm when other vessels anchored safely on shore. the disaster has gripped chinese society. school children hung hundreds of yellow ribbons with handwritten messages to support the victims. i hope more people are saved and they come back soon, this 8-year-old girl told me. sadly both officials and relatives seen resigned to the fact that rescue is no longer possib possible. aye san watson, cnn, china. south korea's health minister reported nine more cases of mers bringing the total to 50. four people have died. more than a thousand others are being asked to self-quarantine because they were unknowingly exposed to a doctor with the virus. let's turn to kathy novak live from seoul with the latest. authorities have identified some
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of the hospitals where this spread and they are trying to quarantine people that spent time there. how difficult is that? >> well, it's difficult for the public because the government isn't telling everyone exactly what hospitals they are. that has been a lot of the frustration among the public here in south korea. the authorities did name the one hospital where most of the infection spread, but we know that the first patient who brought mers back from the middle east actually visited four different medical facilities and other people who were infected went to other clinics. now we have a situation where many people are demanding to know the names of the other hospitals so they can make sure they didn't visit them. if they have any symptoms, to make sure they report to clinics and say they suspect they just might be infected. especially when they are being told by people like the seoul city mayor they should be self-quarantining if there's any
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chance they might have been exposed. >> we know a south korean on u.s. air base has been confirmed with the virus. what's happening for the other people on that air base? are they in quarantine right now? >> well, that person is a member of the korean air force. he was being treated for another proce procedure at the same hospital where the first patient was being treated too. it was later confirmed that he was indeed infected with mers. now around 70 people who visited him are being quarantined on the air base. that's a joint air base administered by the united states but has south korean personnel as well. so all of those people who visited the airman are korean and they are being quarantined in military barracks while he's been treated at a military hospital. >> we appreciate that update, kathy novak, thank you very much. the american red cross is
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rejecting accusations it squandered donations after the 2010 earthquake in haiti. the news. organization and public radio reported the charity raised half a billion dollars for haiti but built only six permanent homes there. the american red cross issued a statement rejecting the allegations saying the report lacks balance and accuracy and misrepresents the facts. it also offered a breakdown of the funds spent in haiti saying the projects including buildings hospitals and clinics, providing clean water and helping 130,000 people find improved housing. cnn spoke with a republican journalist who co-authored the report and an american red cross official for their comments on the accusations. >> while some of the money was spent on delivering aid and on worthy projects, a lot of it was wasted, promises were broken, particularly in the area of
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housing. really a lot of people that worked on the program, some of them we quote on the record in our story, were disappointed. in one case we published a memo where the head of the program said we're failing in haiti. so what we are reporting is this is a troubled effort. >> have we waited for land to become available as the article suggests we should have we'd still be waiting and many more people would be living underneath the tarps. as humanitarians it's our obligation to alleviate suffering and waiting around for land to be cleared for permanent homes we determined ultimately despite our sincere desire was not the best way to spend our donor dollars. >> the quake killed up to 316,000 people in haiti in 2010
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and displaced 1.5 million people. diplomats clashed at the u.n. security council on friday following a fierce week of fighting in eastern ukraine. diplomats blame moscow and separatist fighters for the violence. but a russian ambassador said kiev is violating a cease-fire agreement. both ukraine forces and p pro-russian rebels are to blame for the violence. since the cease-fire the u.n. says 400 lives have been lost. u.s. president president obama barack obama will be in delaware to help the vice president's family mourn. joe biden's son beau lost his battle with brain cancer. there have been several days of honoring beau biden, who was a former attorney general. >> reporter: mourners stood in
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line up to five hours to pay their respects to beau biden's family. >> he's an icon here in delaware. we're here to pay our respects to a great family. >> anybody who wanted to talk to beau, he took time to listen to you. >> reporter: as a community remembers beau biden in three days of ceremonies, for the family the weight of the loss heavy in each moment. beau's widow comforting their young son. the vice president wiping a tear from his granddaughter's cheek and standing with eyes closed for reflection. beau biden's casket cllay in hor at the state capitol. >> beau had an extraordinary heart. and from that heart, he lived a a life that is a model for us all. >> reporter: the vice president's heartbreak palpable. >> his attachment to his parents is now a part of history. never has a son's love been so
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genuine and so deep. >> reporter: last month as his son lay dying with brain cancer in a hospital just outside d.c., the vice president warned yale graduates that life has a way of changing in a heartbeat. >> reality has a way of intruding. >> reporter: the pain of this reality has struck the vice president before. his first wife and daughter were killed in a car accident in the '70s, a tragedy he's been open about over the years. >> no parent should be predeceased by their son or daughter. i unfortunately had that experience too. but you know what? i don't know about you guys, but i was angry. man, i was angry. >> reporter: giving advice he may now need to listen to himself once again. >> there will come a day, i promise you and you parents as well, when the thought of your
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son or daughter or your husband or wife brings a smile to your lips before it brings a tear to your eye. >> reporter: cnn, wilmington, delaware. returning now to the bosnian capital of sarajevo where pope francis is celebrating mass to an audience of more than 60,000 people. here's a live picture from the city where the mass is underway. thousands of people joining in the service. we'll be right back with "cnn newsroom" with more on this after a short break. wish your skin could bounce back like it used to? new neutrogena hydro boost water gel. with hyaluronic acid it plumps skin cells with intense hydration and locks it in. for supple, hydrated skin. hydro boost. from neutrogena. did you know that meeting your daily protein needs actually helps to support your muscle health? boost® high protein nutritional drink can help you
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r rescued at this moment. with an earthquake mag any nude 6.0 has clearly already loosened and destabilized the mountain. you can see that on the tv screen allowing for the rock slide to take place. this is a google earth image of what is southeast asia's tallest peak. as the rescue attempts go forward and the eight people hopefully still alive in this instance have to deal with conditions close to the actual peak of the mountain. we're talking about very cold weather for overnight periods. that could lead to hypothermia as a concern. especially when you factor in rainfall that's clearly in the forecast for today through the end of the weekend into the early parts of next week. clearly at the base or the valley of the mountain, that is an area that's going to be significantly warmer than if you travel to the upper levels of the mountain.
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remember about every thousand feet you drop 2 degrees celsius or 4 degrees fahrenheit. we had a 6.0 magnitude on friday. this is the location of where the climbers were rescued, but we have eight still missing. you can see the thunderstorm activity that's ongoing across this part. switch gear. s to another part of the world that has to deal with tornadoes. this is the scene just outside of denver, colorado. you can see some of the footage coming from this region as well. astounding photos and video of the tornado that caused this damage. this is scary stuff. you can see the lightning in the ba background. multiple funnel clouds were spotted. emergency sirens roared moments before the tornado touched down leaving very little time for residents to take cover. no injuries were reported. that's the good news out of all of this. amazing scenes.
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>> quite incredible that no one was injured even with all that hail that fell. >> 4 feet of hail in some locations. >> thank you very much. u.s. job growth accelerated sharply in may. 280,000 jobs were added, 60,000 more than economists had predicted. the unemployment rate ticked up slightly to 5.5%. the report gives food for thought for the federal reserve. the strength of the labor market is a key factor for the fed in deciding when to raise interest rates. investors seemed worried that a rise could come sooner rather than later. the greek prime minister says europe's plan to resolve the debt crisis is absurd. he spoked to parliament on friday as athens delayed a loan. payment to the imf. instead all of june's payments into one at the end of the month. despite delays, a deal with
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creditors is closer than ever. former u.s. house speaker dennis hastert is facing charges about lying about millions of dollars he agreed to pay to cover up previous misconduct. a woman has come forward sharing a dark secret that involves her brother and hastert. jeff has the report. >> reporter: a new accusation against dennis hastert. alleged sexual abuse four decades ago. >> he damaged steve more than any of us will ever know. >> reporter: joleen is accusing hastert of abusing her brother. hastert was a wrestling coach, her brother an equipment manager. she said her brother confided in her about the abuse years later when he told her he was gay. he died in 1995 at 42 years old.
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>> i asked when was your first same sex experience. he looked at me and said it was with dennis hastert. i know i was stunned. i said, why didn't you ever tell anybody? he just looked at me and said who is ever going to believe me. >> reporter: she was approached by the fbi in recent weeks about hastert before his indictment became public. he faces charges of bank fraud and lying to the fbi about hush money paid to another former student who was also allegedly abused. the justice department says he agreed to pay $3.5 million to cover up misconduct. the fbi has also spoken to at least one more person in addition. he became the longest serving republican speaker leaving congress in 2007. he's been in hiding since the charges were announced last
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week. his attorney has not responded to requests for comment, but hastert did deny the abuse allegations to abc when they first arose in 2006. joleen said she confronted hastert when he tried to attend her brother's funeral. >> i looked at him and i said i want to know why you did what you did to my brother. i want you to know your secret didn't die in there with my brother. >> reporter: she did not respond to messages today from cnn. on her facebook page, she posted a story about hastert and wrote, i can say with certainty there's so much more to this story. finally the truth. his former colleagues say they are stunned at the charges. >> i was shocked and dismayed by the reports that i read as anyone else around here. >> reporter: republicans we have talked to in illinois and elsewhere say they are stunned by the allegations. neither hastert or his attorney have responded to our request for comment, but we will see this former speaker next tuesday. he has a date in federal court
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in chicago. cnn, washington. still to come, a nobel peace prize winning activist is simply wanting to go to school. why a pakistani court acquitted many of her attackers. plus how militants social media tactics are being used against them. wish your skin could bounce back like it used to? new neutrogena hydro boost water gel. with hyaluronic acid it plumps skin cells with intense hydration and locks it in. for supple, hydrated skin. hydro boost. from neutrogena. 8 layers of wheat... mini-wheats®... and one that's sweet. for the adult.... and kid - in all of us. (supergrass' "alright") (plays throughout) ♪ kellogg's frosted mini wheats® feed your inner kidult...
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bosnia in 18 years after a civil war there. the pope is on a a mission of reconciliation in a country that remains deeply divided. the death toll in china is 396. the ship capsized during a freak tornado. only 14 people survived. in an interview with abc news, a woman claims in 1979 her brother told her about a sexual relationship with former house speaker dennis hastert. her brother was a student then working as an equipment manager on the high school wrestling team, which hastert coached. he and his attorney have not responded to requests for comments. . he denied the allegations when they first arose back in 2006. pope francis and the president of bosnia released doves as a symbol of peace. this is the first time a pope
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visited the bosnian capital in 18 years. pop francis is celebrating mass at the same place john paul ii visited. the country remains divided. delia gallagher joins us lye. thousands of people have turned out to hear the pope speak at this mass. he seems to be sharing this message of peace. >> reporter: that's right, in fact, coming over today from rome the pope came back and said to us that that was his message. that sarajevo was a city that suffered greatly in the past, but it's on the path to peace and that that is what he wants to talk about here today. he comes in a sign of peace and with a prayer for peace. that is what the some 65,000 people behind me are doing right now with pope francis at this
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mass. now when he got off the plane, the first thing he did was he actually held that as a model for the rest of the world for peaceful cohabitation between, as you mentioned, the three different ethnicities and religions that are trying and have been trying for many years now to live together and to govern side by side. the bosnian bishops have brought to the attention of the vatican a catholic minority. and that in some situations where the country is governed by sesh yan majority, that's one of the points that the pope is covering today. the other is youth unemployment. this is a country which has one of the highest percentages of youth unemployment in the world, which is both a cause and symptom of the unrest here.
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so not only have they suffered a long history and bloody war, but they are continuing to try to deal with how to live together pea peacefully and how to be an example. because they have a city here which has synagogues, churches and mosques all side by side. that's the pope's message of encouragement not only for the minority community here but for all of the people of bosnia. >> and even two decades after the civil war ended, the country is still very much divided along ethnic and religious lines. the pope is going to meet with leaders from various religions later today both the youth and the leaders to try to bridge that divide. how is it going to do that? >> reporter: well, that's exactly what he's here to do. one of the ways that the pope does it is by just bringing
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attention to places which don't normally receive attention. he says one of the themes is to go out to the fringes and if you consider this is his second european country visit, these are not countries that one normally thinks of when one thinks of europe. he's bringing attention to countries and people who have been suffering. that in itself provides the impetus for the people in the country and the various religious leaders who the pope will meet with later to try to find a way to overcome some of their difficulties. earlier this morning, one of the things that the pope suggested was the purification of memory. the purification of memory, remembering what happened, but forgiveness can heal deep seeded wounds. that's what we're talking about when we're talking about conflicts that are ethnic and religious. they go. back generations. that's something the pope is suggesting to the people of this land. >> big challenges in that country. pope francis is addressing the
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people there now. let's listen in to what he has to say. >> translator: is the dream, it is the call for humanity with all the creation and this is always opposed by men and by in our times to the aspiration for peace and the commitment to build it, clash against the fact that in the world many armed conflicts have begun, a third world war in the context of our global communication.
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there's utmost fear has been fostered deliberately, especially by those who seek cautious against cultures and civilties of those who speculate the war in order to sell weapons. but war means children elderly and also women in the refugee camps in factories and houses. it also means above all so many lives destroyed and ended. you know it very well as you had witnessed it here. so much suffering, so much
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destruction and so much pain. today the brothers and sisters once again the cry of the people of god rises from all the men and women, not more war. >> dear ladies and gentlemen, the readings from the bibles. >> that's the pope there speaking to thousands of people in sarajevo. delia is at that mass now and rejoins us. the pope talking about the atmosphere of war that exists right now in the world and how he is trying to bring peace to the people there. last time a pope was there, there was a huge security concerns for john paul ii.
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this time around, there's a lot of security in place there for this service as the pope tries to spread his message. >> that's right, there are always security concerns whenever a pope travels. the vatican said there's no specific concern for them on this day. we have seen the pope go around in his pope mobile as he does in many countries around the world. the vatican down played any particular security concerns. it's very interesting what the pope has just said. he's brought up something, which he's said on a couple other occasions that there's a kind of third world war being fought piecemeal. we have so many different situations of smaller wars that it it seems like a big third world war. that this is the way the third world war is showing itself today. very interestingly, as you pointed out, that you sense an atmosphere of war in global communications, the pope says. so that's something that's kind
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of new. the idea that through the internet, we have a sense of war. whether or not we're living it on our own territory. he's addressing not only bosnia, but the world at large in this homily at today's mass. >>. delia gallagher, we appreciate your time there and we'll check in with you soon. thank you for joining us. moving on to isis, using its presence to recruit followers and militants, but sometimes members of the terror group forget to turn off their location sharing when they hit send on a tweet or facebook post. now the u.s. is taking advantage of that to track down the fighters and take military action. here's our pentagon correspondent barbara starr. >> together they march, they are the soldiers, their honor is in jihad. >> reporter: fluent english on a new video released by isis's
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media machine. why an english-speaking voice? >> this is a great example of how they hone in on a specific audience and sort of push their message to a specific group of people. >> reporter: in this case a coveted north american audience. but isis's social media savvy can sometimes backfire. an air force general told reporters this week his team of analysts combing through isis's social media posts were able to identify the location of a command and control central. within 22 hours they were able to take the building out. intelligence teams working in florida have been continually scouring social media hoping to find in the general's word, a moron who gives up their location making them a target. the head of the air force says it's what they do. >> we're using everything we can
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to find potential targets. >> reporter: the four-star general with more than 3,000 hours in the docockpit would no address the pentagon testament that up to 13,000 isis fighters have been killed in coalition airstrikes. >> i don't know where the number of 10,000 came from. >> reporter: but he should. dod officials said it all comes from air force and navy pilots themselves who estimate the dead after each air strike. but even with the air campaign, isis still showing muscle. >> they are influencing things on the ground. they are threatening to use water as a weapon. until we can stop all that activity, this will not be successful. >> reporter: but the body count issue did you want seem to go away. yet another u.s. general says the coalition air stristrikes a taking out 1,000 isis fighters every month. barbara starr, cnn, the pentagon.
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welcome back. a major development in a story that dominated the news 14 years ago. the death of intern chandra levy. the man kwibted of killing her has been granted a new trial. gary tuckman explains why he's being given a second chance. >> reporter: for the parents of chandra levy, it means reliving a nightmare. >> i don't think i would sit through an entire trial as i did
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the first time. there's no need to. because the outcome whatever way it's going to be, i still will never get my daughter back. >> reporter: the case transfixed the nation in 2001. she lived in this apartment building in washington, d.c. the 24-year-old had just finished an internship with the federal bureau of prisons. she left her apartment and was never seen again. it was discovered on the day she went missing she used her computer to search for the location of the mansion in washington's rock creek park. an historic house that's now a park office. that's where police started searching for her. >> if you're familiar with this part of rock creek park, the underbrush is rather extensive. >> reporter: the searches through the summer of 2001 turned up nothing. officially this was still a missing persons case. >> we appreciate anyone coming forward to helping us get my
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daughter home. >> we appreciate your help. >> reporter: something else did turn up though. chandra levy had been having an affair with a married congressman from california. he denied having anything to do with her disappearance, but did not deny a relationship. while she was missing, he did this interview with connie chung. >> we became very close. i met her in washington, d.c. >> very close meaning? >> we had a close relationship. i liked her very much. >> was it a sexual relationship? >> connie, i have been married for 34 years. i've not been a perfect man and i have made my share of mistakes. but out of respect for my family and out of a specific request from the levy family, i think it's best that i not get into those details about chandra levy. >> reporter: he was thoroughly investigated. many believe detectives spent too much time trying to link him
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to a disappearance to the detriment of the case. scott higham co-authored a book about the case. >> they were so focused on that theory of the case they missed the suspect who was hiding in plain sight. >> reporter: meanwhile months went by. the search continued. efforts to find any clues had failed. it wasn't clear if she would ever be found. but chandra's body was in the 2800-acre park. her remains were found right around here, not by police, but by a man walking his dog while looking for turtles. his discovery came a year after she disappeared. police had never searched this remote area of the park. even before her body was found, an informant in a d.c. jail told authorities that another inmate told him he killed levy. he was behind bars after admitting to sexual assaulting
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two other women in the same park. it took eight years, but morales' testimony would lead to the murder conviction with a sentence of 60 years in prison. during the trial morales testified he never cooperated with investigators before in an effort to win leniency for himself. >> it turns out he had cooperate ed with other investigations. none of them related to this case. >> that was enough to ask for a new trial. >> yeah, he committed perjury. >> reporter: a new trial date will be scheduled. if he's found not guilty on this mind, the question on people's minds will be asked again. who killed chandra levy? gary tuckman, cnn. it hasn't happened in 37 years, but a 3-year-old thoroughbred could break that record as american pharoah goes for the triple crown. sunscreens behind.ave thosy
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1987. richard roth has more. >> american pharoah, a true american fe normal! >> american pharoah raced to the sports history. could he be the first horse in 37 years to win the triple crown by capturing the belmont stakes? >> post position number five is american pharoah. >> reporter: his trainer has already lost three times in the belmont while chasing the seemingly unachievable triple crown. >> hopefully he's going to do his thing and finally we can break this drought. i think i'm responsible for the drought. >> reporter: but it may all come down to this. is american pharoah feeling lucky? superstitions are a big part of the game. >> on a personal note, if i was in a slump, i would turn my underwear inside out to change
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things up. >> reporter: american pharoah's jockey lost last year on california chrome, the latest to fall short of winning the triple crown. >> i'm not really superstitious, but i like to take a nap before the race. >> reporter: he did adjust prerace routine by praying with jewish rabbis. on the sabbath, no driving to the track. the families will sleep overnight in four rv vans at the track. >> our family, god comes first. >> reporter: fans have their own superstitions. >> i always like to end my bet with an even number. >> when i come to the track, i come with my grandfather and to stay as far away from him as possible. >> reporter: $800,000 for his owner and much more in marketing deals if he wins. at the stud farm where racehorses are bred, american pharoah will get to have his own
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fun when he retires while the owner rakes in stud fees that could top $100,000 a pop if he wins the triple crown. >> he will have dates with a lot of pretty phillies. a lot of human athletes would excel if that was the fate they had in their future. >> reporter: richard roth, belmont park, new york. finally, a really ripped kangaroo is giving keepers a run for their money. have a look at roger. he's 196 pounds and stands more than six feet tall. he has some serious muscles. he loves to use them to crush his metal feeding buckets. he also enjoys chasing people around the sanctuary. his legs are real deadly weapons. he's only 9 and still growing. i actually thought that photo was photo shopped when i first
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