jared, where's the kitchen set? jared said, well, i was at one of my soldier's houses today, and his kids were eating dinner on the floor. and they needed the kitchen set more than we did. >> boy, live pictures of the white house. we will hear much more about this brave soldier, and witness the medal-of-honor presentation coming up in just a couple minutes in the next hour of "cnn newsroom." as a matter of fact, let's do this, let's push forward with the next hour of "cnn newsroom" with fredricka whitfield. >> thanks, so much tony. a chilling death attributed to workplace violence, but who is raymond clark iii, and why is he accused of killing yale grad student annie le? iranian missiles, president obama stands down on a plan that riled russia. saying he has something quicker, better, and cheaper. and a selfless act in an afghan ambush. >> he just did what the

soldiers' creed said, you never leave a soldier behind. >> powwe're pushing forward to highest recognition to the ultimate sacrifice in battle. the medal of honor. you'll see the ceremony live right here in the "cnn newsroom." hello, everyone, i'm fredricka whitfield, in for kyra phillips live at the cnn world headquarters in atlanta. and you're in the "cnn and you're in the "cnn newsroom." -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com they had him under round-the-clock surveillance since he walked out of custody yesterday. this morning, new haven, connecticut, police were ready to make their move. they shut down an interstate highway and blocked local roads, then swooped on a super 8 motel, arresting a yale lab worker in the murder of grad student, annie le. his arrest comes more than a week after le disappeared, from a medical school research building, and four days after

her body was found hidden inside that same building, as he announced the developments this morning, the new haven police chief made an interesting distinction here. >> i think it's important to note this is not about urban crime, it's not about university crime. it's not about domestic crime, but an issue of workplace violence, which has become a growing concern around the country. >> shortly after that raymond clark made his first court appearance. the judge formally charged him with le's murder and ordered him held on $3 million bond. clark did not enter a plea. so, from the moment we first saw him in the back of that cop car on tuesday, people have been wondering, who is raymond clark? we know he worked in the building where annie le did research and where her body was found. and in an e-mail to the campus student today, yale's president offered some official background. quote, mr. clark has been a lab technician at yale since december 2004. his supervisor reports that

nothing in the history of his employment at the university gave an indication that his involvement in such a crime might be possible. so, that's one view of clark where he worked. but what about where he lived? cnn's tom foreman went to middletown, connecticut. >> reporter: 30 miles from the crime scene, the street where raymond clark lives is buzzing. >> he was decent, you know? his dog was really excited, and she was just like, oh, he's really friendly, don't worry, you can pet him. he's really nice. so, yeah, he was pretty much known to love his dog and walk around with his dog all the time. >> reporter: and you said he was sort of different in that he wanted to know a lot about the people he was talking to? >> wanted to know their full name, where they're from, stuff like that. >> reporter: clark, who is 24, is not student at yale, but works there take care of mice in medical labs. his fiancee and two relatives work in the lab according to police. but police will say little about

how clark knew annie le. >> they worked in the same building. they passed in the hallways. anything beyond that i'm not going to talk about. >> reporter: any past troubles for le? >> not going to talk about that either. >> reporter: any video of clark in the building that day? >> not going to talk about what video we have and don't have. >> reporter: an old high school friend lisa hesslynn remembers clark well. >> he was a nice kid. a jokester, a class clown. everybody knew him and liked him. >> reporter: for a while clark lived here, not far from yale, but neighbors here have little to say. this is the house where he used to live, up there on the second floor, we're told. but all of the residents of this building now say that they either moved in after he left or, if they knew him, they did not know him well. they saw him in passing, at best. he had a girlfriend and a dog, my most accounts. but that's about all they know. and momentarily we'll be talk with a reporter with the "hartford courant" who has been working this story to find out more about the story and about

the suspect, raymond clark. all right. the story came to light early monday, when new york police and the fbi launched a raid in the new york borough of queens. we now know that najibullah zazi of aurora, colorado, had been there days before and had stayed in one of the raided apartments. yesterday, agents searched his colorado apartment, and another home nearby, while zazi spent hours at fbi headquarters in denver. his lawyer says he's cooperating fully and has no ties to terror plots of any kind. cnn's ted rowlands is working the story in denver and checks in live at the bottom of the hour with the latest on this probe. and remember that bush administration plan to put missiles in poland and radar systems in the czech republic? all designed to shoot down missiles from iran. well, forget about that. as you may have heard live this morning, in the "newsroom," president barack obama said he has reassessed the threat and u.s. capabilities and decided

what he calls a new defense architecture involving different types of missile interceptors and radars. >> our new missile defense architecture in europe will provide stronger, smarter and swifter defenses of american forces and america's allies. it is more comprehensive than the previous program. it deploys capability that are proven and cost effective, and it sustains and builds upon our commitment to protect the u.s. homeland against long-range ballistic missile threats, and it ensures and enhances the protection of all our nato allies. >> the bush plan had deeply angered russia, but the obama administration says that that had nothing to do with the change. so, as he grapples with a troop buildup in afghanistan, the president will pause next hour to honor one soldier's remarkable act of bravery. he'll award the medal of honor to the family of a massachusetts gi who gave his life while trying to save a comrade. our ed henry has this story.

he's joining us now live from the white house. and, ed, you got a chance to know the family quite a bit. >> reporter: that's right, fred. sergeant jared monti really showed remarkable valor on the battlefieldafghanistan, a war that is losing public support by the day. so, i decided to spend some time with his father, who wanted to tell his son's story, because he thinks americans need to see the sacrifice that's happening in afghanistan. a crisp new england morning in a small town outside boston. paul monti is wrapping up his daily ritual that ends in the garden he built to remember his son, jared. >> this is where i get my solitude. >> reporter: sergeant jared monti was killed in afghanistan three years ago. >> i walk an hour and a half to two hours every morning, and that's nice. there's a -- there's a sign that the town dedicated to jared, and i walk up to the sign, talk to him, and then complete a big loop.

>> reporter: what do you say three years later? >> i just tell him what's going on, what went on the day before. >> reporter: the father wears his son's dog tags, has a shrine in the living room, and now he's accepting his son's medal of honor from president obama. >> i would give all of it up to have my son back. everything. there's nothing i wouldn't give, even my own life to get my son back. >> reporter: according to a pentagon account, and cnn interviews with soldiers who were there, sergeant monti was leading a small patrol ambushed by dozens of taliban fighters. a young private named brian bradbury was badly wounded, unable to move. >> i remember him saying, you know, that he was his guy, so he was going to be the one to go get him back. >> reporter: with bullets flying, monti had to take cover. he ran out a second time, but the enemy fire got more intense. so, he stopped and yelled for help. then, he ran out a third time. >> we all kind of heard him, you

know, scream. >> reporter: sergeant monti knew he was dying, and his family was in his final thoughts. >> he said the lord's prayer, and he said, tell my family i love them. and that's about the most meaningful thing that there is. >> reporter: inspired, his squadron beat back the enemy, but then a terrible twist. a u.s. helicopter lowered a medic to grab bradbury. the young private, monti, tried to save. as the two men were being raised in the air, a cable snapped. bradbury and the medic plunged to their deaths. >> it didn't matter, the end result, because that was him. he just did what the soldiers' creed said, you never leave a soldier behind. >> reporter: now, paul monti is a retired schoolteacher, and he told me that his son wanted to follow in his footsteps.

he also said that sergeant monti had told his family he didn't want to marry until he got out of the service, because he knew just too many military widows. obviously very sad that that prediction, that concern, turned out to be true, fred. >> ed, we know the sergeant's dad will be there during the ceremony. what might be the sequence of events that take place during that ceremony? >> reporter: well, there's a vietati citation the president reads and other officials there and the president tells the narrative. i've seen the narrative of the battle from the pentagon and the citation, and it's pretty graphic in talking about the valor that we laid out in this piece, of how he literally put his life on the line, and i think it's noteworthy also that the president chose -- this is the first time that he's awarding the medal of honor, which is the highest military decoration that the president can give out, and he's highlighting someone who died in afghanistan, not someone who died in iraq. that's significant, obviously, because this president is focusing a lot more these days on afghanistan.

has a lot of tough decisions ahead in terms of whether to send more u.s. troops. so, highlighting this sacrifice is very noteworthy, fred. >> and might there be any of his comrades -- >> reporter: yes. >> -- the sergeant's comrades that might be in attendance as well? i understand in your piece the testimony that they gave in order to help secure this medal of honor, but might any of them actually be present? >> reporter: in fact, yeah, many of them are. in fact, sergeant james, the young gentleman in the piece at the end, he was basically 18 years at the time. he was just a private. he's now been promoted up to sergeant. he's about 22 years old, and he's on his second tour of duty in afghanistan right now, but i met him last week at ft. drum in new york, the military let him out for a couple weeks so he could come to the white house. the first time the young man has come to the white house. he's looking forward to meeting colleagues that served in iraq, afghanistan, the first time for them to see each other since sergeant monti's death and the first time for some of them to meet his family. obviously going to be very emotional, fred.

>> ed henry, thanks so much, on what is obviously going to be a very poignant ceremony. it begins at 2:00 p.m. eastern time, and you'll see it live from the "cnn newsroom," right there from the white house. a former high school football coach, charged in the death of one of his players. he could soon know his fate. the jury in david stinson's reckless homicide trial is getting ready to deliberate. we'll get an update. less able to absorb calcium. he recommended citracal. it's a different kind of calcium. calcium citrate. with vitamin d... for unsurpassed absorption, to nourish your bones.

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afghanistan in flux, not only because of the eight-year war against the taliban, but also a presidential election that is still unresolved four weeks after the voting. and it may not be resolved for weeks to come. turnout was low, and fraud allegations high. on a surprise trip to iraq, vice president, joe biden, reflected on all of this in an exclusive interview with cnn. >> the prospect of success is in direct proportion to the legitimacy of the government, as perceived by the afghani people. and so i think the process, the

reason why the process has to work its way out, is because it's very important that there be viewed, by the afghani people, that there's a legitimate government. and i still think that is very possible, but it is -- it is not done yet. >> according to final, but uncertified results, the incumbent afghan president, hamid karzai, won re-election by 54% of the vote. he'll be a guest in "the situation room" with wolf blitzer, at 4:00 p.m. eastern only on cnn. a look at our top stories right now. bond is set at $3 million for the suspect in the killing of the yale grad student annie le. yale grad technician raymond clark was arrested and arraigned this morning. he did not enter a plea. le was strangled, her body hidden behind a wall in the lab's basement. police are calling it a case of workplace violence. and jurors in the reckless

homicide trial of a former kentucky high school football coach are expected to begin deliberations soon, both sides are presenting closing arguments today in the trial of david stinson. he's accused in the death of one of his former players. prosecutors say stinson ran a brutal practice session the day max gilpin collapsed. the sophomore died three days later. she was a folk legend, mary travers of peter paul & mary fame has died at the age of 72 after a long battle with leukemia. the grammy-winning group had a number of big hits in the 1960s, among them "if i had a hammer," and, "puff the magic dragon." job seekers, there's a job out there.

all right, more evidence today that job losses in the u.s. are slowing. new claims for unemployment dropped to 545,000 last week. that's down 12,000 from the week before, and it's the lowest level of new claims since early july. but the number of people continuing to get jobless benefits, that jumped 129,000 last week to just over 6.2 million. now, every thursday we're letting job seekers tell you their story, and hopefully connect them with a new employer. we call it the "30 second pitch" and you could be one of them. meet ken wan and his family.

they were living in the silicon valley. and they were living the dream there. he was a senior marketing executive for a major computer company. until he got laid off earlier this year. but instead of moping in the six months that he has been out of work, he has found a way to encourage job seekers with a website that he created. ken wan joins us live now from san francisco. good to see you, ken. >> hi. great to see you, too. >> okay. well, it's called jobsuccessstories.com and while you started this website, you do make some money, but not necessarily enough to kind of consider yourself employed and take care of the family. i do have that part right? >> that's right. the whole idea of the website is really just to help job seekers get inspired and new ideas about how to find work. >> so, where did you come up with this idea? why did you feel like this was necessary, that there needed to be a place where people who are without work kind of find some company and comfort? >> well, as i started looking around for jobs, what i was amazed at the generosity of

people that i would talk to. i'd meet people that i don't even know, and they would offer to help me out, find a job. i thought, wow, this is a great thing. and as a job seeker, i found that it was really interesting to learn how people were actually finding work. so, i thought, hey, what a great way to offer to help back the community, to give back to the community, to have this site about how people are finding work and to give them some real inspirational stories, so that's how i started off. >> oh, good. so, has it given you any guidance about how you're going to go about finding the job that you're looking for? >> oh, it has. there are so many interesting aspects to this, you know, people always say, you should go network, but there's many different ways to go do networking. and this site can help people understand all the different ways that people are being successful finding their jobs. >> what's the job you're looking for? >> well, i'm looking for a director marketing of position in the high-tech industry. >> okay. so, you've got 30 seconds. hopefully that employer is out there somewhere listening, give us your best pitch.

>> okay. hi, my name's ken won i'm looking for the director of marketing position in the high-tech industry. i managed a multimillion dollar product line and i drove a project where i increased revenue from $340 million to $360 million. if you want to accelerate revenue for your company, give me a call, and we can talk. >> and your e-mail is kwon357@yahoo.com that's one way people can reach you? >> exactly. or you can go to the website, j jobsuccessstories.com. >> how successful do you think that you will be or anyone looking for work right now to find other avenues to try to take to transfer some of your skills? >> so, the job market has changed quite dramatically in the last few years. you have to be very flexible when you go out looking for a job. it's very different from what

people used to do a few years ago. as well you have to be open to new ideas, because the industry and the world is changing. >> ken won, all the best. and we appreciate you volunteering your time on "30 seconds" and your best pitch. >> thank you. and, of course, if you missed ken's address or maybe you have a job for him, we have it on our blog, cnn.com/kyra, and if you want to be part of the pitch yourself, get in touch with us there as well. or via twitter at kyracnn. all right, let's talk weather, very nasty, particularly for the southeast. it is unrelenting this rain, chad myers. >> you know, we've gone from brown, which is essentially drought, to green, which is flood watch, just about three minutes ago issued for atlanta. all the way from nashville back to dallas, this whole area, flood watches. and the bright stuff here, those are all flood warnings which means flooding is occurring in those cities or in those areas. it has just been a mess.

what we have is just an air mass that will not move. this entire thing has been spinning around, louisiana and texas. we can zoom into this spot right here, show you the heavy rainfall into nashville now, all the way down north of huntsville and through most of tennessee. the problem and the reason why these flood watches are now issued is because this area has already seen a lot of rainfall. the ground is saturated. there's no place for this rain to go. there's one more cell going through atlanta and all the way back down south. look at this, there's. the good news is, at least you're close to the ocean here, and a lot of the water gets right into the ocean rather than running off and getting into some big creeks and streams and causing more flooding. showers have been with arkansas for the past couple of it seems like weeks, and showers only in dallas. so, it gets better from here, although we still have two to three more days -- >> oh, no. >> -- of heavy rain in the same places. here's arkansas, i know it's hard to see, but there will be areas with 5 more inches of rain in 48 hours, fred. >> that's too much. it means a warning for flash flooding and all that as well, right? >> especially at night when you

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an airport shuttle driver is now the center of a terror investigation. running from the rockies to the atlantic coast. najibullah zazi spent eight hours at the fbi bureau in denver after his apartment was raided. but the afghan immigrant said he's not the bad guy and now he's reportedly ready to answer more questions. cnn's ted rowlands is joining us live produce from denver. so, ted, what is the latest? >> reporter: well, the latest here, fredricka, is that zazi is expected back here at the federal building in downtown denver in about 2 1/2 hours, to continue the interview, which you mentioned, which lasted

eight hours, that started yesterday. this according to his attorney. and the bottom line from his attorney, zazi is basically saying, life is an open book. you ask me whatever i want, i'll give it to you. he's already given, according to his attorney, the fbi dna samples, writing samples and fingerprints, et cetera. he says he wants to come clean in all of this. meanwhile, according to a source close to the investigation, also going on -- [ inaudible ] >> sorry about that, looks like we lost that signal. we'll try to re-establish that with ted rowlands. he was joining us via broadband and we'll see what we can do to get him back from denver. president obama taking his push for health care reform today, not far from the white house, but still inside the beltway, the president speaking to students and young adults at the university of maryland last hour, saying the country is closer to health care reform than ever before, but also taking aim at big insurance companies and his critics from across the aisle. >> i've heard a lot -- a lot of

republicans say they want to kill obama-care. some may even raise money off it, but when you ask these folks what exactly my plan does, they've got it all wrong. when you ask them what their solution is, it amounts to the same old, same old. the same status quo that's given us higher costs and more uninsured and less security than you've ever had. >> as president obama was pushing for health care reform, so were his point people, including health secretary, kathleen sebelius, who took a moment to scold one white house correspondent on the best way to prevent the spread of flu. just take a look at this -- >> senior administration official -- >> bless you -- >> -- a possible impediment to give you a deal -- >> i see you're learning. >> i mean, what is that about? geez! >> margaret sneezed a few minutes ago, very correctly, in

the sleeve. i mean, it would be one thing fit was -- >> i don't know. who's got some purell, give that to mr. todd right away. a little hand sanitizer. good. good. we'll have elmo give chuck a special briefing. we'll get elmo over. elmo knows how to sneeze. all right, a look at the top stories right now. out with the old missile defense approach, in with the new. president obama didn't get into specifics about his new plan today, but this means that president bush's plan for a missile defense system in poland and the czech republic will not move beyond the blueprints. a murder at yale blamed on workplace violence. a university lab technician was arrested today, accused of killing annie le, she's the grand student who was strangled and her body crammed into the wall of a research building. the suspect, raymond clark, did not enter a plea.

bond is set at $3 million. old bones could mean new leads in the case against a california couple accused of kidnapping a little girl 18 years ago. searchers found pieces of bone at phillip and nancy garrido's home, adding to the fragments that they found next door. it's not clear if they are human or animal bones. the couple arrested last month for allegedly snatching up jaycee dugard back in 1991. now, police are looking for links to at least two other unsolved kidnappings in the late 1980s. a lot going on here in the "cnn newsroom." does my dog get any less excited for a milk-bone just because i saved money on it? no way. (announcer) the exact same brands sold in pet specialty stores. at walmart's unbeatable price.

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actually put it in her eye. sounds bizarre, doesn't it? well, this could be a cure for blindness. here's senior medical correspondent, elizabeth cohen. >> i thought about suicide. but then i thought, i can't. >> reporter: kay thornton lost her sight nine years ago when a bad reaction to a drug scarred her cornea. the clear covering of the eye. it was so bad, even a cornea transplant wouldn't help. doctors gave her no hope. but kay believes in miracles. did you ever think a miracle would involve a tooth? >> huh-uh. no. >> reporter: it's amazing that a tooth -- a tooth -- could help someone see again. when dr. victor perez at the bascom palmer eye institute in miami first heard of this odd-sounding procedure, he couldn't believe it either. >> i said, oh, my god, how can people do that? that seems to be a very, you

know, far-fetched idea. >> reporter: first, dr. perez removed the scar tissue from thornton's left cornea, because it was blocking her vision. then, get this, he took her canine tooth and part of her jawbone and whittled it down. this is the actually surgery. he then used a piece of her tooth and bone to hold in place a new lens that acts as her cornea. just hours after the surgery, dr. perez removed thornton's bandages, and for the first time in nearly a decade, she could see her best friend, rick brister. >> he's the prettiest thing i think i've ever seen. >> reporter: this procedure won't work for most blind people, and thornton can't see perfectly. >> i can't tell exactly what color you have on, either blue or black. >> reporter: i have black on. i'm wearing black. >> c-a-v. >> that's really good. >> reporter: her vision will get better, and meanwhile she's thrilled by what she can see right now. >> the blues are bluer.

the clouds are bigger and just beautiful. the clouds here look like mountains. >> reporter: elizabeth cohen, cnn, miami. >> that'n extraordinary story. all right, switching gears. quite a bit here. catching a foul ball at a major league baseball game. it's something every fan dreams about, right? well, a fan at a game last night had a very different idea of fun. making for a memorable and most unusual moment. here now is cnn's jeanne moos. >> reporter: it was a foul ball catch that left folks in anything but a foul mood. no, it wasn't steve's catch at the philadelphia/washington game that had them laughing. it was his 3-year-old daughter's right arm. though she threw back daddy's souvenir, the heartwarming hug is what lingers. it's one of those moments that evokes this from women. >> ahh! >> reporter: and from men?

>> no! >> i'm, like, what are you doing? >> reporter: she was doing what emily was used to doing, catching and throwing a nerf ball with dad. it was the post-toss hug that tugged at most folks. >> my husband would have had a fit, but he recovered very nicely to hug her. >> reporter: that hug turned the 32-year-old engineering project manager into a pair gone of parenting. what a prince, absolute hero, dad of the year, best dad ever, i want to meet this dad. yeah, well, he's already married. that's his wife with their younger daughter at the game. steve told us he ugh hugged emily when she looked as if she thought she'd done something wrong by tossing away the ball. >> wow! classic. >> reporter: by the way, the phillies sent someone up to the stands to give dad and daughter a ball to replace the one that emily threw back. when an online curmudgeon suggested dad should have tossed her after the ball, the next person responded, "do us all a

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all right, back now to the make-or-break issue for america. the obama administration today announced a $25 million medical malpractice initiative as part of its plan to rein in rising

health care costs. doctors say that figures large in the health care equation. here now is cnn's randi kaye. >> reporter: over nearly two decades, dr. wendy freed has delivered more than 3,000 babies. so many babies, and still this ob-gyn has never found to be at fault, so why is she paying close to $170,000 a year in malpractice insurance? >> for the year i will be paying $168,192 to be able to practice obstetrics. >> reporter: in case you're sued. >> in case i'm sued. >> reporter: everyone wants a perfectly healthy baby, so when something goes wrong, some families sue. among all medical specialties, obstetricians are sued most. in 1998, one of dr. freed's patients sued for malpractice. she says the pregnancy was fine. but during labor, the baby just didn't budge. what did that tell you? >> immediately i suspected a

uterine rupture which is our biggest fear. at this point i recognized that she was absolutely going to need an emergency, lifesaving hysterectomy. >> reporter: dr. freed had to act quickly. she said her patient would have been dead within half an hour had she not performed that emergency hysterectomy. the woman had lost so much blood, dr. freed said, she had to give her 54 units, that's about 7 times the average amount of blood in the entire human body. both mom and baby survived. such a happy conclusion, the family invited dr. freed to christmas dinner. then six months later -- >> i wound up getting a request for my records for this patient, from a plaintiff's attorney, and it was like a knife in the heart. >> reporter: at that point did you realize you were being sued? >> at that point i kept saying to myself, as naive as i am, you know what, this is probably a

fact-finding mission. >> reporter: in fact, it was the beginning of a three-year legal battle. dr. freid was sued for unnecessary hysterectomy and failure to counsel her patient. she felt betrayed. she felt like she had saved her woman's life and canceled her office hours for days to sleep at her bedside to safeguard her recovery. the patient's surprise decision to sue blew her away. >> every single morning i would go through it, and i would say, was there something else that i could have done. >> reporter: dr. freid's deposition, all 900 pages of it, took three days. the trial lasted 3 1/2 weeks. when it was over, the jury decided dr. wendy freid did nothing wrong. what was it like for you to be at a trial when you in your heart believed you did nothing wrong? >> it was such a horrible feeling, because the plaintiff's attorney tries to present this as you woke up one day and decided to destroy somebody's uterus and their life. >> reporter: the cost of malpractice insurance is only going up.

two years ago, dr. freid's premiums jumped 14%. she's cut back at expenses at home just to afford malpractice insurance. as for the debate over so-called defensive medicine, dr. freid says she does nowrder extra tests, even though they may not be necessary. >> even though i may know that somebody's not sick, i may wind up ordering a test just to prove that. >> reporter: that fear of getting sued on top of the pricey liability insurance has forced hundreds of ob-gyns to give up their practice. dr. wendy freid said she isn't quitting the baby business. she shouldn't, she says, because she's a good doctor. she says she can't quit, because too many others are. randi kaye, cnn, north hills, new york. the nonprofit community group, a.c.o.r.n., under fire and practicing serious damage control in the wake of some very embarrassing videos, including a.c.o.r.n. staffers who were

caught on hidden camera giving alleged tax advice to a couple posing as a pimp and a prostitute. a.c.o.r.n.'s ceo bertha lewis says the employees involved have since been a.c.o.r.'s attorneys says that those two workers have been fired here now is ms. louis, on "the situation room." >> i have been with a.c.o.r.n. for 20 years, i am going to make sure that we serve low income people of color. i am cleaning house. i'll come back in three months and you can look at what we have done. >> the series of undercover videos slamming a.c.o.r.n. has raised a lot of questions, namely who's producing them and why. here now is cnn national political correspondent jessica yellin. >> reporter: these are the hidden camera videos that triggered a firestorm over grass

roots activist group a.c.o.r.n., hanna jils seen here posing as a prostitute and james o'keefe pretended to be her pimp. according to her web biography, she's appeared on fox news. >> as i sat there, i was like i cannot believe they're actually falling for this and not necessarily falling for it, but what can we get them to say next? >> o'keefe says she's a filmmaker dedicated to uncovering corruption he feels the main stream media ignores. here he is in his pimp outfit. >> the two have gotten results, since these videos were posted, the u.s. senate has voted to cut off some of a.c.o.r.n.'s

funding. >> where were the real reporters on this story? you know what? investigative media? where the hell were you? >> reporter: the animal rights group p.i.t.a. makes them all the time. and political campaigns have driven news with videos like this, remember macaca? that remark, considered racially offensive by some, took down an incumbent senator. investigator journalists say reporters are wise to be careful about posing as fake characterers and using hidden cameras to get a story. >> you have to weigh how important the story is to society, your community and is there any other way to get at it. because i think it does raise questions of fairness and the credibility of the media. >> the video makers turned down a request for an interview through their sponsor.

the two made these videos out of a sense of idealism and righteousness and he says they have another video coming. jessica yellin, cnn, washington. susan jovin, you might not know her name, but people in connecticut do, her murder, still unsolved. why? cnn investigates. if i had to sit on the bench due to diabetes...

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a yam yale student brutally murdered, the case drew national headlines, i'm not talk about the annie le crime, but a crime that happened ten years ago that rocked connecticut. 11 years ago, susan jovin was the murder victim being investigated. the college senior had been stabbed 17 times.

and the investigation into her murder has become exhibit a for what not to do in a homicide case. criminalologist dr. casey jordan. >> by the time you find out you may have the wrong person, all of that window of opportunity is actually passed and is gone. >> reporter: the only suspect ever named in her murder was james van develde. he was never charged for any crime, but his life was turned upside down. he lost his job as yale, suspicion dogged him. in 2001, van develd sueded the police department. claiming they violated his right to privacy and equal protection. the federal case was dismissed

in 2004. but in 2007, state claims were reinstated. >> people wanted to solve this case, they wanted it so badly that they really maligned mr. van develd's character. >> van de velde has not returned cnn's calls for comment. the case was reclassified as a cold case. then? 2007, the state's attorney formed a special investigation team made up of four retired state police detectives. in 2008, they released this sketch made from a 1998 description of a man seen running in the area around the time of jovin's murder. as for updates, cnn was told the team doesn't comment on ongoing investigations. >> we want to interrupt that story because we're taking you straight to the white house for the medal of honor ceremony.

sergeant jared monti will be honored. also present, paul monti who happens to be the father of jared monti who's being honored. let's listen in. >> all mighty and loving god in whom we place our trust, we ask your presence in this ceremony as we honor the life of jared monti, in afghanistan reflect the spirit of our great nation and the heart and soul of the men and women of our armed services, you remind us lord in your word that the secret of a great life is the desire and determination to prefer the needs of others more than our own. even to the point of laying down our life for our friends. lord, jared's family, friends and soldiers gather here today to bear witness that he attained a legal of greatness in his brief life here on earth.

from his days as a young boy, he dreamed of wearing our nation's cloth, to his calling as a noncommissioned officer, he dedicated every waking moment to train, mentor and love his solders. to his selfless acts in combat as he courageously fought through enemy fire to rescue one of his fallen soldiers. lord, would you comfort jared's families and his fellow soldier who is fought alongside him in afghanistan. may all of us never cease to give thanks and to pray diligently with the young men and women in our armed services who like jared, stand in harm's way at this moment, protecting, supporting and defending our great nation. this we pray in your most holy name, amen.

>> good afternoon, and welcome to the white house. of all the privileges of serving as president, there's no greater honor than serving as commander in chief of the finest military that the world has ever known. and of all the military decorations that a president and a nation can bestow, there is none higher than the medal of honor. it has been nearly 150 years since our nation first presented this medal for conspicuous gallantry, intr those nearly 15 years, through civil war, two world wars, korea and vietnam, desert storm, somalia,

afghanistan and iraq and countless battles in between. tens of millions of americans have worn the uniform. but fewer than 3,500 have been recognized with the medal of honor. and in our time, these remarkable americans are literally one in a million. and today we recognize another, sergeant first class, jared cmonti. medal of honor reflects the admiration and gratitude of the nation, so we are joined by members of congress, including from sergeant monti home state of massachusetts, senators john kerry and congressman barnie frank. we are joined by our secretary of defense robert gates, chairman of the joint chiefs of staff, admiral mike mullen, and leaders from across the armed forces. we are joined by the leaders of the army to which sergeant monti

dedicated his life, secretary pete geren, our incoming secretary confirmed by the senate last night, john mccue, sergeant major of the army ken preston and jared's fellow soldiers and commanders from the legendary 10th mountain division. we welcome sergeant monti into the historic ranks of the medal of honor society. but today is not about those officials and those with stars on their soldiers, it's a celebration of a young soldier and those who made him into the man he was, are his parents, his mother and father, his brother tim and his sister nicole. and from his grandmother marjorie to his 6-year-old niece car ooirk se and aunts and

uncles and cousins from around america. more than 120 family and friends. duty, honor, country, service, sacrifice, her-ism. these are words of weight but as people, as a people and as a culture, we often invoke them lightly. we toss them around freely. do we really grasp the meaning of these values? do we truly understand the nature of these virtues? to serve, to sacrifice? jared monti knew, the monti family knows. and we know that the actions we honor today were not a passing moment of courage, they were the culmination of a life of character and commitment. it was jared's compassion, he was the kid at school who upon seeing a student eating lunch

alone would walk over and join him. it was cutting a spruce tree in his own front yard, so a single mom in town would have a christmas tree. he was the soldier in afghanistan that received care packages including fresh clothes and gave them away to afghan children who needed them more. there was jared's perseverance, cut from the high school basketball team, he came back a the next year, and the next year and the next year, three times finally making varsity and outscoring some of the top players. told he was too young for the military, he joined the national guard's delayed entry program as a junior in high school. that summer while other kids were at the beach, jared was doing drills. there was jared's strength, skill, championship wrestler and triathelete who went off to basic training, just 18 years old and then served with distinction as a forward

observer, with the heavy responsibility of calling in air strikes. he returned from his first tour in afghanistan highly decorated including a bronze star and army commendation medal for valor. there was jared's deep and abiding love for his fellow soldiers. maybe it came from his mom who was a nurse. maybe it came from his dad, a teacher. guided by the lessons he learned at home, jared became the consummate nco, the noncommissioned officer caring for soldiers and teaching his troops. he called them his boys. although obviously he was still young himself, some of them called him grandpa. compassion, perseverance, strength. a love for his fellow soldiers. those are the values that define jared monti's life, and the

values that he displayed in the actions we're here for today. it was june 24, 2006, in the mountains northeast of afghanistan, near the border for pakistan. sergeant monti was a team leader in a 16-man patrol. they had been on the move for lee days, hiking up steep mountain trails, their heavy gear on their backs, moving at night in the early morning to avoid the scorching 100-degree heat. their mission to keep watch on the valley down below and advance of an operation to clear the area of militants. those who were there remember that evening on the mountain, a rocky ridge not much bigger than this room. some were standing guard knowing they had been spotted by a man in the valley. some were passing out mres and water, there was talk at home and plans for leave. jared was overheard remembering his time serving in korea.

then just before dark, there was a shuffle of feet in the woods, and that's when the tree line exploded in a wall of fire. one member of the patrol said it was like thousands of rifles crackling, bullets and heavy machine-gun fire ricochetting across the rocks. fire so intense that weapons were shot right out of their hands. within minutes, one soldier was killed, another one wounded. everyone dove for cover, behind a tree, a rock, a stone wall, his patrol of 16 men was facing a force of some 50 fighters. outnumbered, the risk was real. they might be overrun, they might not make it out alive. that's when jared monti did what she was trained to do, with the enemy advancing, so close they could hear their voices. he got on his radio and started calling artillery. when the enemy started to flank

them, he grabbed a gun and drove them back. when they came back again, he tossed a grenade and drove them back again. when these american soldiers saw one of their own, wounded, lying 20 yards away exposed to the approaching enemy. jared monti did something that no amount of training could -- he said he is my soldier, i'm going to get him. it was written long ago that the bravest are surely those who have the clearest vision of what was before them. glory and danger alike, and yet nonwa nonwith standing going out to meet them. jared saw the danger and he went out to meet it. hi grabbed his radio and jared rose and started to run, into all those incoming bullets, into all those rockets. upon seeing jared in the words,

the enemy unleashed a firestorm. he dove behind a stone wall. a moment later, he rose again, and again they fired everything they had at him and forced him back. faceded with overwhelming enemy fire, jared could have stayed where he was, behind that wall. that was not the kind of soldier jared monti was. he embodied that creed all soldiers strive to meet. i will always place the mission first, i will never accept defeat, i will never quit, i will never leave a fallen comrade. and so for a third time, he rose. for a third time, he ran toward his fallen comrade. said his patrol leader, it was the bravest thing i have ever seen a soldier do. they said it was a rocket propelled grenade, but jared made it to within a few yards of his wounder soldier.

they say that his final words there on that ridge far from home were of his faith and his family. i have made peace with god, tell my family that i love them. and then as the artillery that jared has called him came down, the enemy fire slowed and then stopped. the enemy patrol had defeated the attack, and held on, but not without a price. by the end of the night, jared and three others, including the soldier he died trying to save had given their lives. i'm told that jared was a very humble guy, that he would have been uncomfortable with all of this attention, that he would say he was just doing his job and that he would want to share this moment with others who were there that day. and so as jared would have wanted, we also pay tribute to those who fell alongside him. staff sergeant patrick libert, private first class brian

bradbury, staff sergeant keith craig. and we honor all the soldiers he loved and who loved him back, among them noncommissioned officers who remind us why the army has designated this the year of the nco, in honor of all those sergeants who are the backbone of america's army. they are to the soldier who is this morning held their own ceremony on an afghan mountain on the post that now bears his name, combat outpost monti. and they are his voice, surviving members from jared's patrol from the 10th mountain division who are here with us today. and i would ask them all to please stand.

[ applause ] >> like jared, these soldiers know the meaning of duty, of honor, of country. like jared, they remind us all that the price of freedom is great. by their deeds, they challenge every american to ask this question, what can we do to be better citizens, what can we do to be worthy of such service and such sacrifice. sergeant first class jared c. monti, in his proud hometown of brennan, his name graces the streets of scholarships and graces parks and military posts. from this day forward, it will grace the memorials to our medal

of honor heroes. and this week, when jared monti would have celebrated his 34th birthday, we know that his legacy will live forever, and shine brightest in the hearts of his family and friends. may god comfort his entire family. and may god bless the united states of america. janet, will you please join me at the podium for the reading of the citation?

>> the president of the united states of america authorized by active congress, march 3, 1863, has awarded in the name of congress the medal of honor, to staff sergeant jared c. monti united states army. for gallantry for giving his life above and beyond the call of duty. jared c. monti served as a team leader with headquarters and headquarters troop third squadron, 71st calvary religion meant, 10th mountain division, in connection with combat operations against an enemy in afghanistan on june 21st, 2006. while staff sergeant monti was leading a mission aimed at

gathering intelligence, his 16-man patrol was attacked by as many as 50 enemy fighters. on the verge of being overrun, sergeant monti quickly set up his men behind a rock formation. he then called for indirect fire support, accurately targeting the rounds upon the enemy who had closed to within 50 meters of his position. while still directing fire, staff managemesergeant monti successfully defended an attempt to frank his patrol. sergeant monti then noted that one of his soldiers was lying wounded between the advancing enemy and the patrol's position. with complete disregard for his own safety, staff management monti attempted to move from behind the cover of rocks in the face of relentless fire to rescue his fallen comrade. determined not to leave his

soldier, sergeant monti made a third attempt to cross the terrain under enemy fire. he was mortally wounded, sacrificing his own life in an effort to save his own fellow soldier. sergeant monti's immeasurable kuj and uncommon valor reflect great credit upon himself, headquarters and headquarters troop third squadron, 71st calvary religion meant, 10th mountain division and the united states army.

>> please join me in prayer. lord as we conclude this ceremony, keep us mindful of the eternal reward we attain by devoting our time, energy and even our very lives on behalf of others. sergeant jared monti's legacy of sacrifice and service inspire us to provide the -- may we remain forever grateful for american patriots like jared monti whose selfless acts of service have kept our nation the land of the free and the home of the brave. lord, may your divine wisdom rest on our president, barack obama as he continues to lead us to greatness. god bless our families and god

bless america in your holy name, amen. >> you're seeing the conclusion of the post-hume you ceremony receiving the medal of honor from the president of the united states there.

and as you heard there, just prior to the honor and the citation being read for the parents of sergeant monti, the parents both there, you heard the president describing the sergeant as a generous heart from giving gifts to afghan children to cutting down a spruce tree for christmas back at home in his home state of massachusetts for a single mother. he was known as a wrestler, he was a triathelete and even his fellow soldiers used to call him grandpa. he would have celebrated his 34th birthday this week. he called his fellow soldiers his boys. he died while trying to save his comrades, while they were undergoing an ambush in afghanistan, they were being -- they were under siege by about 50 or morte taliban fighters. he has just received the medal of honor, his family receiving

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having sent thousands more troops to afghanistan, president obama says he's not in any hurry to send more, but he's already hearing a drum beat for deeper involvement in a war that turns 8 years old next month.

here now is cnn pentagon correspondent barbara starr. >> reporter: troops on patrol talk with afghans about building a medical clinic. this is the type of action u.s. commanders want. helping afghans so they don't turn to the taliban. but the combat reality, senior u.s. officers increasingly believe urgent change is needed. >> i think we need more troops, but it needs to be more afghan troops. >> reporter: the marine commandant spells out how more troops might be used. >> i believe there's more places where we can put the taliban on the run. his command and control, his money source, which in large manages drugs. >> reporter: the joint chief of staff says more troops may be needed. >> what will happen in a two or three-day period is the security

environment that we're training in. >> if we're just training, i think the training environment is -- >> reporter: as public support for the war continues to slip, conrad says the public isn't see the full picture. >> i'm an optimist, i think that one the country needs to understand better what's taking place. >> reporter: members of congress have now been briefed on the new strategy assessment and the so-called metrics t standards for judging success in the war. the next step, deciding whether to send u.s. troops to the war zone. president obama says he's not in a rush to make that decision. barbara starr, cnn, the pentagon. in view of the vice president joe biden, it's premature to make any long-term decisions about the afghan war at least until the afghan election is resolved. you may recall that afghans voted for their president august 20 and while the government claims the incumbent ham miss

karzai won, we spoke exclusively with cnn's chris lawrence while on a surprise visit to iraq there week. >> you think that more troops are needed to win? >> well, i think that's prechat mur. mature. the president set a goal is to defeat al qaeda in that region and made a significant deployment of resources, civilian and military. then they're only getting in place, they're not all fully in place and deployed. >> and stay with cnn, afghan president hamid karzai will be a guest today in "the situation room," with wolf blitzer only on cnn. more now on the turn around on a u.s. missile shield in eastern europe. as we have been reporting, president obama has decided to scrap the bush administration's plan to put missile interceptors in poland and radar in the czech republic.

>> i have spoken to the prime ministers of both the czech republic and poland about this decision, and reaffirmed our deep and close ties. together, we are committed to a broad range of cooperative efforts to strengthen our clegtive defense and we are bound by the solid commitment of nato's article 5 that an attack on one is an attack on all. >> the goal of the old plan and of the new system which the president says will work better, cost less and be deployed sooner is to shoot down potential missiles from iran. senior political analyst gloria borger has talked about the fallout in poland and beyond. >> the russians are bound to be more pleased with this than our allies, than our czech allies and our polish allies. but in talking with experts this morning, the one question we have to ask and that we really

have to look at is what if anything did we get from the russians as a result of this, vis-a-vis iran, or is this going to just produce a more pledge rent russia. we're coming up next week, we're going to meet with the president of russia in new york, so i think foreign policy experts are going to be watching to see whether in the end russia will take a noticeably tougher stance on iran and its production of nuclear weapons. we just don't know the answer to that yet. >> okay, there's already some response coming from the gop on this plan as well. and what's being stayed, even though secretary gates is reiterating the same message that president obama is. >> this ill advised decision does little more than empower russia and iran at the expense of our european allies. i think it shows a willful determination to continue ignoring the threat poseded by some of the most dangerous

regimes in the world, while taking one of the most important defenses against iran off the table. >> all right, gloria, what does this mean to hear this and to see that once again, it's very difficult for i guess the president and democrats and republicans to seay to eye? >> it's quite predictable, this was president bush's missile defense plan which he's taken off the table, which a lot of people supported. i think the administration has gone out of its way to say that they're not abandoning missile defense, rather, they say, they're redesigning missile defense, and they also go out of their way, and they tried to issue a little preemptive strike here not only by saying the defense secretary gates a republican, supported this along with the joint chiefs of staff. so they're making the case that this was a unanimous, bipartisan decision, it's just another form of missile defense and they're

not taking it off the table. >> all right, new and improved, that's some of the language i heard. gloria borger, much more in the newsroom right after this.

a look at our top stories right now, jurors in the reckless homicide trial of a former high school football coach will start deliberating soon. he's accused in the death of one of his former players. the sophomore died three days later after collapsing on the football field. investigators have found some bones on the property of kidnapping suspect phillip garrido. but it's not clear if the bones are human. garrido has been accused of the kidnapping of jaycee dugard 18 years ago. bond is set at $3 million for the suspect in the killings of yale graduate student annie le.

clark was arrested and arraigned this morning. he did not enter a plea. the crime has left the community simply shocked. >> mr. clark has been a lab technician at yale since december 2004. his supervise reports that nothing in the history of his employment here gave any indication that his involvement in such a crime might be possible. it is very disturbing to think that a university employee might have committed this terrible crime. >> le was strangled, her body hidden behind a wall in the lab's basement. police are calling it a case of workplace violence. arms and legs, not a luxury, that's what one double amputee is telling capitol hill as the battle for health care reform rages on. - let's go with the, ah... - basic package.

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new claims for unemployment dropped to 545,000 last week. that's down 12,000 from the week before and it's the lowest level of new claims since early july. but the number of people continuing to get jobless benefits jumped eed 129,000 las month to just over 6.2 million. there are some hopeful signs of recovery, but tell that to the americans still trying to make ends meet. in today's money and main street, c frnn's allan chernoff talks to a family trying to make 13 weeks worth of severance pay last a whole year. >> reporter: jogging home instead of driving. it's one of many steps the family is taking after the family breadwinner was laid off. >> it was instant panic, oh, my

god, we're going to be living in a cardboard box. >> she turned it into an opportunity to spend more time with the family while taking time to find a job she loves. so the family is trying to stretch her 13-week severance to last a year. >> rules like live within your means, by they say they've always done. they're also do-it-yourselfers. chris, a stay at home dad, who's a wood worker, builds toys for his son matt. >> my dad made it. that's the best. >> reporter: for the first time, car rain set up a budget. to stick to it, the family shops only for absolute necessities. the library is now a frequent stop as are other free community resources. >> we have had more fun since i lost my job than ever. >> reporter: having adopted a

more frugal lifestyle, they now say they truly appreciate small luxuries. >> if you pick just a couple of luxuries, like hershey bars, you really enjoy them. >> reporter: even as they stretch, the family still donates 10% of carin's unemployment check to church. they are often reminded of their blessings. >> so i don't have a job right now. we have got a house, we have got food, we have nothing to complain about. >> reporter: allan chernoff, cnn. >> and ali velshi is talk about your economic future on a cnn special. money & main street only on cnn.

quicker, cheaper, better? president obama hopes to see all three in his push to overall america's health care system. today, the president is taking his case to students and young adults at the university of maryland, that happened this afternoon. promising that congress will pass health care legislation while taking aim at special interest groups and his opponents from the other side of the aisle. >> i have heard a lot of republicans say they want to kill obama care. some may even raise money off of

it. but when you ask these folks what exactly my plan does, they have got it all wrong. when you ask them what their solution is, it amounts to the same old same old. the same status quo that's given us higher costs and more uninsured and less security than you have ever had. >> and as you might expect, that sentiment won't sit well among the ranks of the gop where such port is seemingly dwindling by the day and his call for health care reform, happening right now a live picture of a republican news conference happening on capitol hill. we'll bring you the latest on that as it warrants. so health care reform affects everyone, men and women of all ages with all sorts of medical needs. take the case of jordan thomas, he lost both legs as a teenager and now he ee's fighting for amputee's benefits on capitol hill. here's brooke baldwin.

>> reporter: as the debate for health care reform wages on in washington. >> i have come up to washington. >> reporter: 20-year-old jordan thomas is fighting for a cause close to home. jordan is a bilateral amputee who lost his legs in a boating accident when he was just 16. >> my dad jumped in the water immediately and held me afloat. i remember saying, dad, my feet are gone. >> reporter: jordan's parents couldn't afford expensive prosthetics. >> my prosthetics are 24,000, and a lot of companies will put $5,000 caps and you have to pay the rest. >> then jordan started the jordan thomas foundation to help kids like noah get the prosthetics they need. >> how does it work? just like that? >> and i can do this, watch.

taking noah's story to the next level. >> reporter: so what do you do, are you pounding down the doors of the congressmen? >> trying to get a hold of some of them and just raising awareness, and that's the thing of the whole amputee deal. it's not kind of a red state or blue state deal. it's an ethical deal. >> reporter: jordan is asking hard hitting question, hoping lawmaker also listen and followthrough. >> there's an awareness level that is hugely raged when someone like him is here. >> joining jordan, dozens of amputees taking their message to the u.s. senate, the same day that senator max baucus released his road map to health care reform. >> we want legislation that will eliminate the caps, so that amputees across the united states have access to the types of devices that allow them to function every day. >> there are 2 million amputees

nationwide, jordan is simply one of them, taking on congress, step by step. >> it's just a no-brainer. >> wow, he's an extraordinary individual. he is really pushing this ahead. but at the same time, in the bills that are presented on capitol hill, does it seem that people are conscientious of the 2 million amputees just like him. >> i love how he said it's a no-brainer, he's a college student, you're 20 years of age, it's not a red state-blue state thing. bottom line to answer your question, right now there's 2 million amputees, old, young, men, women, they're looking to that final bill that comes across, basically to see if there will be a federal parody, you say a $500 deductible and your insurance takes care of the rest of it.

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all right, eight minutes before the hour, which means eight minutes, and as you see there, rick pondering what's next in the hour, rick? >> i'm working on a couple of things, but one of the things i'm really curious about today, am amist everything we have been talking about. there's a bit of racism -- there's a macroversion that we're beating on today, is the story that's going on in morrow, georgia. there is a woman who says she

was leaving a restaurant, and what i was doing now is going through the police report once again because she's going to come this and talk to me. she's very nervous about doing this, but the police say and now the fbi seems to be intimating as well. while she was leaving the restaurant, a black female as she referred to in the police report, was beaten up by a 47-year-old man who beat her and kicked her and called her racial slurs for no apparent reason. >> in the view of her child. >> and her child was there, in fact the whole thing was about the kid trying to get out and the man pushing a door, which can happen at any time, so it wasn't a big deal, but it's what happened afterward, and this thing is blowing up on the internet, myspace, twitter, social media. >> we are looking forward to that. now just certain minutes away. plus we know, rick and everyone else has been covering this story here on cnn and a.c.o.r.n. employee caught on tape with a whole lot to say giving advice on the sex trade

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an a.c.o.r.n. worker in california was caught on camera talking about her time in the

sex trade and about killing her ex-husband. well now the community organizer in the video tells our special investigations unit continue abbie boudreau that it was all a joke. >> reporter: an a.c.o.r.n. worker in san bernardino, not only offering advice to help a pimp and a prostitute, telling them is that she gets it because she was once in the sex trade. >> i ran a service. heidi fleiss is my hero. i understand and believe me i do know because i used to employ girls that would do this because they didn't care. >> reporter: and that she once killed an abusive ex-husband. >> i shot him. >> was it self-defense? yes. >> i shot him and he died right there. >> reporter: but the worker caught in the sting, teresa calke now says she made it all up. >> it's a joke, everything is a

joke, none of it is true. they came into my office, they were a little suspicious to me when they came in. they played with me and i played back. i shocked them like they were trying to shock me. >> kaelke told us that she first told the filmmaker that a.c.o.r.n. would in no way help them with the prostitution project. but then she became uncomfortable, alone in a strange office in a tough neighborhood, she came up with stories she wishes she could take back. >> it's affected my life extremely and the lives of everyone around me. and i am deeply sorry for that. it was a bad joke, i feel, but i felt a bad joke was being played on me. >> reporter: the video took the a.c.o.r.n. controversy to

another level. in the earlier videos, workers were apparently caught offering advise on how to hide prostitution money from the tax man and even bring in underaged sex workers from overseas. but no one ever claimed to be a killer before. san bernardino police even investigated and found that the police, quote, do not appear to be factual. investigators have been in contact with the involved party's known former husbands who are alive and well. the couple who took the video are both community activists. they said they have been deliberately manipulating the videos to bring -- amy sherr is california's chairwoman. >> we believe these two activists