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a guy can grab her? it boggles the mind. >> it's boggling and it's scary. and the one thing we can look at, the silver lining through all of this is there is all this activism here right now and we should capitalize on that. >> larry: don't forget, the one and only betty white is my guest tomorrow night. she's going to host "saturday night live." betty white tomorrow night. right now, anderson cooper and "ac: 360." ahead, tiger woods coming back and in a word it's major. it's one of the major tournaments for a man who's got big, big problems. tonight you heard about sex addiction and is it for real? what does the treatment fwal entail?
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plus crime and punishment. new details about bachelor number one, the dating game killer, convicted serial killer. but police found about 100 photos he took over the years in a storage locker. they ask for your help in figuring out who the women were. and now four missing women may have been identified. opponents are only 11 votes shy, just 11 from defeating in its entirety the defining item on the president's agenda. for weeks now, president obama has been saying we need to know where congress people stand on health care, right? he's been calling for a simple up or down vote. you either support it or you don't. but today we got word that house speaker nancy pelosi is considering a vote that's anything but simple. in fact, it's a way of voting for or against something without actually voting for or against it. so kwhwhy would they do this? ed henry is keeping them honest. >> in his final push for health reform in state after state, the president has been hammering the
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same point over and over. there was pennsylvania -- >> the united states congress owes the american people a final up or down vote on health care. we need to see where the american people stand. >> missouri -- >> we deserve a final up or down vote or health care reform. the time for talk is over. it's time to vote. >> and ohio. >> ohio, that's the proposal, and i believe congress owes the american people a final up or down vote. >> reporter: except now with victory in doubt, house speaker nancy pelosi may do the opposite. she's considering a plan to shield nervous democrats from casting a direct vote on the president's plan. instead she may use a maneuver known as deeming where the house passes a rule to approve fixes to the senate health bill and deems the underlying senate bill
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has already become law without house members actually having to vote on it. what republicans call trickery caught fire today. >> why are you not being clear with the american people about what you want the house to do? >> we're being clear. we're being clear with the people of united states and with congress that there's going to be a vote this week and you're going to know how people are, where they stand on health care. >> but it may not be a vote on the actual es legislation. >> again, this is a legislative process game that people -- >> reporter: white house spokesperson suggested it would be an up or down vote. but if that's true, speaker pelosi did not get the message. on monday, she contradicted mr. gibbs. >> the passage for the senate bill is deemed passed. it's more insider and process oriented than most people want to know, but i like it because people don't have to vote on the senate bill. >> and i guess what i would call it is nancy pelosi is trying to
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come up with an immaculate conception. >> reporter: in fact, republicans have previously used the maneuver to pass controversial legislation like immigration reform. but it could be more toxic this time. coming after the president's health care push has been dominated by allegations of shady deals. >> so how much is genuine outrage and how much is politics? >> it's never black and white. we have to acknowledge that there are many republicans who want to vote against this bill on principle. they believe there's been a lot of unsavory compromises, deal making, you've heard about the cornhusker kickback, the louisiana purchase. fairly or unfairly, that has stuck to this process. and it's really hurt democrats. on the other hand, when you talk to republicans, they acknowledge they're scoring political points here. they are piling on because of some of these unsavory deals. in fact, a short time ago, i got off with a top democrat who advises the white house on
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health care who said he's nervous this maneuver if it does go forward will add to all of that. nevertheless, this top democrat insisted he thinks the president is going to get a deal because the way he put it quite frankly was, the alternative is disaster. basically the democrats and the president have invested so much in this they've got no other strategy but to get this done. that's not a positive way to pass a bill, but that may all they have going. >> political bloggist david gurgin joins us now. why is it so bad? >> it's still an option that nancy pelosi is considering. i hope it's a trial balloon that collapses, because it would be a very bad idea. it will taint the health care bill.
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it's been done in the past, reconciliation has been done in the past, but we are talking about the most important piece of social legislation in decades. and a subterfuge on a piece of legislation this big, after all the back room deals that went into getting the senate bill done and then get r going through the process of reconciliation, and then piling this on top of it, this -- this form of, you know, dodging -- it's very dodgey, as washington post editorialized today, i think just weighs down the health care bill and gives it -- and will give it an air of illegitimacy in the eyes of millions of americans who don't like it. and it's going to continue to be subject of bitterness. you know, democrats say process doesn't matter. process does matter. the election of scott brown angered many voters.
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>> when the white house says there's going to be a vote on health care reform this week and the process doesn't really matter, you say not true? >> well, the president has been arguing, as ed henry said, let's have an up or down vote. everyone understood that to be a clean up or down vote, not a some sort of dirty up or down vote where people actually aren't voting. and to go to henry's vote again what is not being voted on is the fundamental basic underlying legislation. they're just going to vote on the amendments so somebody could go home and say i can't believe you allowed that to happen on abortion. you voted for stupak and you allowed this in the senate bill. i didn't vote for that, i just voted for the rule. i didn't vote for that. that's the kind of lack of accountability. >> no fingerprints. >> good way to put it. they still got to scramble, but i think when the president called for courage, what he meant was, at least what i thought he meant yesterday was the courage to stand up for what
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you think is right, and people ought to vote for this up or down based on what they think is right. >> bottom line, do you think they're going to have the votes to be able to pass this? >> it looked all week as if they would have. they've been talking -- they've had this momentum game and it looked like they had slight favorability to do that. but given the last 24 hours, for the first time, i think it's much more serious doubt. >> all right, david gergen, appreciate it. thanks. join the light chat. up next, why professional golf is celebrating. when and where tiger woods is starting his comeback. we'll talk about sexual addiction. we hear an awful lot about it. the term is thrown around a lot, but sit for real? and what is the treatment that people actually receive when they go to rehab? we'll talk about that. later, some shocking photos from a dating game killer's picture book. they were discovered in a storage facility he had. these are some of them. the question is, do they point the way to more of his victims? new information that four missing women's families recognized their loved ones in some of these photos.
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tiger woods announcing he is coming back to golf. he won four times and he's least likely to be heckled or hassled or otherwise bothered by what happened last thanksgiving when he wrecked his chuck, his marriage and a big chunk of his promotional value. we've seen reality show rejects and cocktail waitresses and porn stars who said they had a relationship with woods. the question is raised if he has some sort of sexual addiction. what is sexual addiction really
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and what is the treatment? we'll talk to someone who's been through it? but first, gary tuckman on professional golf's tiger addiction. >> tiger woods last month -- i was wrong, i was foolish. i don't get to play by different rules. the same boundaries that apply to everyone apply to me. i brought this shame on myself. >> reporter: and then he added this -- >> i do plan to return to golf one day. i just don't know when that day will be. >> reporter: and now we know when that day will be. it will be the day next month when golfers come to georgia, trying to win a green jacket. tiger woods saying, the masters is where i won my first major and i view this tournament with great respect. after a long and necessary time away from the game, i i feel like i'm ready to start my season at augusta. he's ready for golf. but is golf ready for him? >> i think golf needs tiger woods a lot more than tiger woods needs golf. >> reporter: the senior editor of "forbes" magazine followed
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the saga that began with a mysterious car accident near his house and culminated with woods apologizing for extramarital affairs. >> i don't think tiger woods needs to earn another penny for the rest of his life, but the palg pag tour desperately needs tiger woods back on the course. the ratings as much as double when he's playing. and right now, the pga tour is hurting as far as sponsorship deals. >> reporter: some of his sponsors have stuck with him, like nike. others kept their distance but maintain their account krths like gillette. and others said adios. >> it's a family-oriented brand, a brand that's going after, you know, a certain type of, you know, family good guy image, you know, i would definitely stay away from tiger woods at this point. if it's a brand that might be looking to make a splash, benefit from the p.r. associated with getting behind woods, then i would definitely look at that
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brand and say you know what, this is a good time to get behind woods. >> reporter: i asked him about his future. >> how can you top this? >> i can always play better. golf is one of those sport where is you can always get better. >> reporter: his fans believed him and he's lived up to his professional promise. now he's making other promises. i have undergone almost two months of in patient therapy and i'm continuing my treatment. although i'm returning to competition, i still have a lot of work to do in my personal life. a statement from a man whose personal life was certainly not par for the course. tonight, we want to look at sex addiction we'll talk about how it's different for stars and what they have in common for
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everyone who comes to deal with that addiction. one man who's been through sex addiction relab. later, crime and punishment and the pope. the sex abuse case that happened on his watch and the after shocks rattling the pontiff today. people now casting a serious doubt on a report that says the pope is not to blame. [ female announcer ] it's lobsterfest... when we tn lolobster into irresistible creations. like new wood-grilled lobster and parmesan scampi... our signature lobster lover's dream... and eleven more choices. right now at red lobster.
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russell brand admits on april fool's day in 2005, he woke up in a sexual addiction treatment center in a suburb of philadelphia. and eric benet told "people" magazine he checked into a sex addict rehab program to save his marriage with halle berry. but is sex addiction for real? and what does treatment entail. there's certainly a lot of folks who probably don't believe sex addiction is real. it's not in the dsm-iv, which is the bible for mental health professionals, but many professionals do say it's real. in your life, what made you feel not only is this a huge problem but an addiction for you. most people can relate at some point in their life. sex addiction like drug
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addiction, like alcoholism, like gambling addiction is when that behavior or substance takes over your life. your life becomes really depressing. it starts to affect your job, your relationships, your friendships. so for me i really got to the point when, you know, it was clear to me that i had lost the ability to make sound decisions sexually. i didn't have that problem with alcohol. i didn't have it with drugs. i can have a glass of wine. i don't really understand alcoholics why they can't have just one glass of wine. for me, my life really became very small and very depressing. people become suicidal over this. >> and it destroys relationships. >> it absolutely destroys relationships. it certainly destroys marriages. having an affair does not make one a sex addict. most people who have affairs are not sex addicts. a sex addiction is really a sort of -- taking it to the next level, when you're actually not
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able to control your sexual behavior anymore. >> we don't know what tiger woods' deal is. there's certainly a ton of people, women who have come forward. how real any of them are, i have no evidence one way or the other. in terms of treatment for you and other addicts, how do you treat this? it doesn't seem like something that would be easily solved just by, you know, not drinking and having the willpower to not drink. >> for those who can afford it, there's a handful of respected treatments throughout the country. a lot of people can't afford that. there's 12-step meetings, there's therapy. it's really like drugs and alcohol or gambling. you know, the difference with sex addiction, some people don't quite get this, the goal is not life-long abstinence.
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with alcohol and drugs, you don't touch that again. with sex addiction you're trying to relearn how to have sex in a way that's sort of sane for you and is actually fun. because sex addiction, you know, it ends up not being very fun. that's another misconception, you're out there having all this sex and it's really a lot of fun. it's actually really isolating and really depressing for a lot of people. >> because what? it's never enough? it's really about the person, the person is a drug. and that's actually not fun after a while. and it's not fun as a lot of sex addicts experience. you have to go to work at 8:00 a.m. in the morning. you say i'm going to go on line and look at pornography for half an hour and you're still doing it six hours later. i wonder, i have all this willpower in other areas of my life, why can't i stop this? it's really a very confusing problem to have. >> i think that's different to
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point out, someone who has extramarital affair, and again, we don't know which category tiger woods is in. do you think some celebities or people who get caught having an affair use this as cover? i mean, say well, i'm going to go to rehab because this is an addiction? >> i think what we have to understand, you mentioned a few of the names in the opening about people who have sort of admitted to this. realize this, very few people have admitted to this addiction. you know, most celebrities who go to treatment or who get caught in some scandal and who are, you know, who go to rehab say they're going for drugs and alcohol when, in fact, many of them are going for sex addiction. sex addiction is still incredibly stigmatized. we joke about it, we dismiss it. so this is sort of not the first excuse that most people come up with. i made a lot of excuses in my life for why i did the things i did.
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going to treatment was a way for me to take responsibility. >> you've been through in patient treatment twice. do you feel like you have a handle on the issue now? or is this a life-long thing you deal with. '. >> this is a life long thing. there are people who say i'm recovered. it's not a problem anymore. this is a really tricky addiction. and, you know, you mentioned this about the dsm, you know, it's not in the dsm. they're proposing to call it hypersexuality, which is actually a step forward. it's a way to call it sex addiction without really calling it sex addiction. and the problem is, we've started to look at the brains of sex addicts. we made great progress with alcohol and drugs. we made great progress with compulsive overeating and food addiction. we're just starting now to look at the brains of sex addicts.
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and what we're finding is fascinating. the same pleasure centers in the brain are being affected. so there's a lot more to learn. and this eventually be in the dsm. >> always good to have you on the show. benoit, thank so much. >> appreciate it. thank you. >> more on tiger woods and his problems including a look at his religion, buddhism. you can look at that at ac360.com. new developments in the case of the dating game killer. this guy is so creepy. a former game show contestant convicted of killing four women and a 12-year-old girl back in the '70s. is he responsible for more murders? clues may be in more than 100 photos found in his storage facility. police are look at them. they want you to see the pictures. >> and the pope under pressure, what did he know about sex abuse when he was an archbishop in germany?
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you a report about our troops having to release insurgent within 48 hours if they didn't have a lot of evidence. it's putting our troop troops at risk. this is known as the 96-hour rule, abby. >> right, the old 96-hour rule meant troops had four days to either turn suspects over to afghan officials or to release them. but many soldiers and former commanders tell us the policy made no sense in that it wasn't working. in fact, we were told it was putting soldiers' lives in danger because many times 96 hours just wasn't enough time for them to do their job and collect enough evidence to keep suspects locked up. even senator graham said he saw how the old rule was failing soldiers and dangerous suspects were being released because of 9 6-hour time constraint.
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today general david petraeus was questioned whether the policy was going to be changed. then thewhich gives soldiers up weeks or more in some cases to detain suspects in afghanistan. we're told all u.s. troops will follow the new 14-day rule. anderson, a pentagon spokesman said he does not anticipate most suspects being held for the full 14 days. he says the new rule will also help secure information from high-valued targets which are the biggest threat to u.s. troops. anderson? >> thanks for the original reporting and the update. thanks. we are following other stories tonight. candy crowley? >> eric holder said osama bin laen will never face trial in the united states. they argued it's too dangerous to putter ror suspects on trial
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in civilian courts. holder's reaction? bin laden will not be captured alive. >> we will be reading miranda rights to a corpse. that's a reality. >> the federal reserve is sticking with its pledge to hold rates at record lows for an extended period. it left its key interest rate near 0%. and new proof that we are born to dance. researchers at the university of york in england found that dancing comes naturally to infants and babies find music more engaging than speech. of course, that reminds us of our favorite dancing baby. new zealand toddler cory elliott, "single ladies" became a sensation when his parents posted it on the tube. >> i love that dancing baby.
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tonight, the deepening sexual abuse scandal that has shaken the catholic church continues to be met with silence by the pope. dozens of people said they were molested by german priests at a time when the pope served as archbishop. at the center of the scandal is one priest convicted of sexual abuse but only this week was he suspended from the church. our senior vatican analyst says the pope's moral authority is being called into question. we'll talk with john allen in a moment, but first, tonight's "crime and punishment" report. >> reporter: the question at the center of the crisis are what did pope benedict know and when did he know about it? and what did he do about it? >> we're seeing a global phenomenon in a global church. >> they began two decades ago. the pope was known as cardinal joseph ratzinger.
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he investigated of abuses by priest. >> he wrote a letter that said every case was to be referred to his department p. >> reporter: vatican officials are praising his investigative work after he took control of abuse cases. according to one of the vatican's top prosecutors who's also a priest he showed great wisdom and firmness in dealing with these cases and he said he showed great courage dealing with the most difficult aun thorniest of them. and tlfrs, herefore, he said, t accuse the pope of a cover-up is false. but the pressure just keeps mounting. newly released details of abuse in germany are raising questions about the pontiff's judgment, even before he came to rome overseeing cases of abuse. he oversaw a case of a priest
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involved in child abuse. the pope moved the priest from one diocese to another, his own, so that the priest could get therapy. several years later, the priest was convicted of child abuse. the pope's critics say he should have paid more attention at the time, and taken child abuse more seriously. in germany over the past few months, several hundred allegations of abuse have been made. new cases are surfacing in holland, spain, switzerland and brazil. but nowhere is the pressure on the pope and the church greater than in ireland. pressure is grow on the leader of the irish church, cardinal shawn brady, to step down. following revelations he knew of abuse in the 1970s. he kept it from the police and had the victims sign an oath of secrecy. the priest involved, father brendan smith, the irish church's most prolific pedophile continued to abuse children for another two decades.
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cardinal brady says he'll only resign if the pope tells him. officials here at the vatican have responded saying that in the coming days, the pope will send a letter to the irish people. nick robson, cnn, vatican city. growing scandal and not a sound from the pope so far. what's going to happen next? we'll talk to john allen, cnn scene yor vatican correspondent and also the author of the books "the rise of benedict xvi and the upcoming of the future church." john, uh mean, how integral was this pope to hushing this snup this case in germany? >> well, then cardinal ratzinger, now pope benedict, said that he was sent for therapy. he was not aware of a subsequent
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decision made to give him a parrish in munich where, as nick's piece said, he apparently went on to abuse others and was criminally convicted of it in 1986. so the argument is that while it happened on the pope's watch, it happened without his direct personal knowledge. but how can this father holerman only have resigned three days ago? >> well, that is mind boggling, anderson. the fact that this guy was convicted of sexual abuse in 1986. he served a sentence of probation, paid a fine, and yet apparently continued to work in a series of parrishs in southern germany for a quarter century. and was only removed after this came to light in the press. the thing to stress in the pope's personal role is all that happened after the pope left germany and came to work at rome
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in the veteran. >> but he was in charge of the body that oversaw all of these charges. and there's clearly a track record of the church hushing these things up and moving the priests from parish to parish without informing the parishes, oh, by the way, we're sending ewe pedophile priest. >> no question. there was that pattern. it should be said that is certainly no longer its practice today. that is today if a catholic priest abuses someone, he will be probably kicked out of the priesthood and probably also turned over to the cops. but obviously that was not the pattern in years past. the vatican only got the responsibility for the sex abuse mess in 2001. cardinal joseph ratzinger really had no direct personal oversight of the sex abuse cases of any kind poppite seems what's happening in germany, ireland and other places is basically, they're kind of waking up to what the u.s. catholic
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archdiocese woke up to years ago. i mean, there was a sense earlier on that all this stuff was just happening in the united states. it now is clear, this has been happening around the world. >> it's obviously a global problem, you're right. at bet gining of the eruption in the states in 2002, there was some writing it off in the vatican of those americans going off the deep end but it's abundantly clear now this is truly a global thing. they need to be aware their time is probably coming. >> what's going to happen to this pope? is it possible he could step down? is there that much pressure? >> oh, anderson, i think the prospect of the pope resigning is probably up there with the prospect of us colliding with another planet. i mean, it's radically unlikely. but i think the deeper problem,
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really is this calls into question the pope's ability in some ways to lead the church out of this mess. it's a problem of abuse and the problem of bishops who failed to clean it up. and some people may ask, particularly if this doesn't turn out to be an isolated case, if there were other guys who were moved around on the pope's watch, then people may ask the question, can the pope credibly call bishops to task if he had exactly the same problem when he himself was a diocese bishop. >> and did not call the police, which, again, is just a whole other layer that is stunning to this. john allen, appreciate you being with us. thanks, john. >> you bet, anderson. coming up, four missing women and a serial killer. he was a contesta assistant on "the dating game" now police believe he may have murdered more women. they found about 100 photographs. we'll have the latest
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whether they are dead or alye. authorities in california suspect they are photographs taken by rodney alcala. >> please welcome rodney alcala. >> we're going to have a great time together, cheryl. >> last month, he was convicted of murdering four women and a 12-year-old girl. a jury recommended the death sentence for his crimes. the orange county district attorney and the huntington beach police department released the pictures this week. they were found in a storage locker used by alcala. in a statement, the prosecutor said, we balance the prooicy concerns of those depicted in the decision to release the pictures. we hope the release will solve cold cases. the tips continue to stream in. family and friends of four women in the photographs released last week having missing for decades. the d.a. says the identity of
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the women are not being made public and it's likely alcala killed more than five people and some of his victims may have been in these photographs. with me now is legal analyst lisa bloom. even if they continue to link women in the photos to missing women, i mean, there's no other step for them to really solve these cases unless this guy talks, right? >> that's probably right, anderson. in a 30-year-old case they're going to need some kind of forensic evidence, even if their photos are find in his locker. it's not enough to convict. even if he confesses to the killing of any of these young women, 30 years ago, it's not going to be enough without hard evidence. >> would they make a deal with him, take him off of death row if he admits to other crimes? >> that's a possibility. but here it's almost never applied.
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you're more likely to die of natural causes believe it or not than of execution. so there's not much of a bargaining chip to work with. but if alcala doesn't know that, his attorney certainly does know that. >> they also found earrings that belonged to a 12-year-old who alcala killed. i guess it's common to keep trophies of their victims? >> it is. they're called trophy killers and sometimes they get sexually excited by taking out the trophies, the earrings, the undergarments, something like to that. he's been in custody since 1979. i'm not clear why the photos are just now being released. but the police had a tough decision to make. do they want to rattle potentially victim family members who have had somebody missing for over 30 years? or do they want to try to solve a cold case? i think they made the right call because victims suffered the worst tragedy when their family member went missing 30 years ago. i think it's going to be less
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traumatic now even if they see a photo as horrifying as it is, found in this man's locker. at least they get some closure and connection. and perhaps law enforcement can prevail upon him to talk poppite adds a whole other level of creepiness to "the dating game" which has already been creepy. it was unorthodox for the huntington beach police department to release these photos? >> it was. but i think they made the right call. their priority has to be to solve unsolved crimes. he's convicted of killing five people, four women and one girl. it's not impossible to believe he killed many others. where did these photographs come from? it's so eerie. did he just take them innocently of people that he connected with in some bey way but did no harm to? or is there something more sinister to these photos? that's what police want to find out. that's why we're showing these photos, hoping people will give us more explanations.
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let's look at some of the other stories we're following. candy crowley has a 360 bulletin. >> authorities are investigating a massive drug heist in connecticut. it happened during a rainstorm on sunday morning. a band of themes broke into eli lilly and company's warehouse and made off with $75 million of prescription drugs. a new study finds a connection between erectile dysfunction and heart disease.
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men with impotence are twice as likely to suffer from heart attacks as those that aren't impotent. an eye-popping record deals. dozens of michael jackson songs never heard before by fans will be released in new albums. it could bring $250 million to the late singer's eskate. and anderson, take a look at this for a second. >> yieks. wow. >> i mean, not your typical crash. local tv cameras were rolling when a tennessee man drove right into a -- >> i'm okay. i didn't even see it. >> as you heard, he didn't see it. >> wow. >> exactly, exactly. anyway, it was in knoxville on highway 129. so people might want to avoid that particular place. >> or that particular driver. either of those two.
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or that car, would be fine. so for tonight's shot, i also love that a spokesperson had to point out that whoever stole the drug is probably going to sell them as opposed to what? use them for themselves? >> you want to stop in the middle of a newscast and say what else are they going to do with these? >> you showed great restraint. i don't know if you've seen your version. i have not seen mine. i'm scared to. a trip back in time to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the national history museum. it's designed by ched anger lewis. how i might appear if i was a neanderthal. here i am, you can watch the wearwolf like transformation. i like that i have the exact same hair. can we see myself again? i look like a -- yeah, i look like a bearded ewok.
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resembles my high school yearbook picture. i pareapparently i would have l in a tree. >> that's so nice. how come yours looks sort of normal and mine looks like that? >> because i'm the anchor. >> exactly. >> i'm going to be off tomorrow night. >> i'm sorry about that. mine didn't look much better. i looked like an ewak with a toupee. thanks for being a toupee. coming up, the final push on health care and loud complaints about the way in which democratic lawmakers are doing the pushing. are they trying to hide
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