at what's left of their compututs, their koran, and their 6-month-old's crib. the first photo of the young woman authorities believe may have radicalized her husband. dalia dippolito made headlines after trying to have her now ex-husband killed. an alleged murder for hire plot. >> you know he gets two in the head -- >> i'm positive, like 5,000% sure. >> tonight she tells us her side of the story. "breaking bad" star bryan cranston puts major swagger in his new role as dalton trumbo. tonight ththall-star cast of rumbo" together in the very room where the famous blacklist was written. first the "nightline 5." innovative sonic care technology with up to 27% more brush movements versus oral-b.

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>> numumr one good evening and thanks for joining us. we h he major developmentstsn the terrorr that struck california. let's go straight to my "nightline" coanchor byron pitts in san bernardino again for us tonight. >> reporter: good evening from california. tonight the nation grappling with what officials now say may be the deadliest terror attack

authorities saying a young mother who arrived here on a fiancee visa may have radicalized her husband. pledging allegiance to the leader of isis as the couple turned a holiday party into a killing field. tonight investigators trying to determine how the warning signs of their double life went undetected. this is the first picture of tashfeen malik whose killing spree with her husband ended in this glaze of gunfire. the young mother herself allegedly firing out the back window of this suv at police. today authorities say they are investigating the shoot-out in san bernardino as an act of terror. >> this is now a federal terrorism investigation led by the fbi. >> reporter: authorities say within moments of murdering 14 people at her husband's holiday office party, tashfeen malik went on facebook to declare her allegiance to isis. >> yes, there was a pledge of allegiance. >> reporter: malik was born in pakistan, moved to saudi arabia at age 4.

attend college. her marriage to syed farook came after she wed him on a matrimonial websitit and had an engagement party in mecca, saud yeah arabia. a dress abc news discovered today does not exist. u.s. officials are questioning whether she was the one who radicalized her husband. >> i don't know the answer whether she influenced him or not. being a husband myself, we're all influenced to an extent. but i don't know the answer. >> they were great parents. >> always happy with each other. >> reporter: today syed farook's sister and brother-in-law paint a far differentpicture. >> she never mentioned any political thing. not to us ever, or to anybody else that we know. >> reporter: until wednesday's massacre the couple seemed to live unassuming lives. a two-bedroom townhouse where they lived with farook's mother. behind this door evidence of

as my colleague matt gutman saw. >> holes punched through the doors, a door that's been ripped bathroom. >> reporter: in the kitchen, cookware on the counter. a bottle of pepto next to cans of baby food. dishes in the sink. overnight the fbi had turned their home back to its owner who allowed reporters into his rental property. the fbi had already removed all e evidence they needed. a list on a coffee table of items seized. christmas lights, dozens of boxes of ammunition. upstairs in the baby's room, diapers, open suitcases, a bin with shredded paper, a prayer rug. in the closet shirts, gun cleaner, pairs of baby shoes. the baby is now in the care of child protective services. the house shows little evidence the deadly attacks they had allegedly planned at the inland regional center. that attack began wednesday at 11:00 a.m. when the couple reportedly entered through a

>> we have several down in the conference room. >> reporter: the death toll could have been much higher in part because the workers were just re-entering the conference room after a break when the shooting started. >> she was sitting with her friends. talking, the break almost finished. >> reporter: as she was about to re-enter conference room from the bathroom the world changed. >> at that time, bullets started flying. >> reporter: she was shot four times. >> so it's two bullets hit straight above her head to the wall. then she saw her hand bleeding, right hand. and the bleeding happening here. some minor bleeding happening -- >> she was hit on her arm? >> on the right arm. and right here. one right here. and one here. >> in her stomach? >> reporter: the killing focused just where she had been sitting moments before. >> people screaming and pop pop

and if she left 30 seconds prior when the restroom, she felt she could have been sitting there and got killed. because all the people she was sitting with, they are killed. all dead. >> reporter: anisa and her husband are muslim and worship at the same mosque farook attended 2012 to 2014. today disbelief mixed with prayer. >> i know him very well. >> reporter: mustapha is director of the mosque. he told us farook came faithfully, ice daily, sought his counsel about his future bride. >> he was not looking for, say, beauty, money, fame, name, whatever. he's looking for a religious woman. someone who has -- >> a muslim woman of strong faith? >> exactly. >> reporter: she kept her face covered even among family members who say they never saw her face. >> they did not interact with her. the brothers did not ever see her face. they've never seen her face

they knew her but she was totally covered. >> reporter: trends and quaint ants say syed farook was a cloner,clone er loner, quiet, kept to himself. >> not someone who looks for confront advertise or getting into disputes. >> in talking to some of his coworkers they describe a shar person. very nice but very reserved, very quiet. >> right. >> here at the mosque the same way? >> same way. >> quiet, reserved, stay today himself? >> same way, that's true. that's true. staying to himself, very much to himself, you know. probably the i'm the only one who used to talk to him before anybody else. >> reporter: today before friday prayers he says he doesn't recognize the man who murdered 14 people. >> it's a very different person from the person who did this crime. very different person. >> reporter: we talked about suicide bombings, we talked about things that tarnished the image of islam, and he thought it was wrong. that's what i'm saying. >> reporter: muslims across the

itself strongly condemning the couple's actions. >> the taking of lives of innocent people is absolutely unacceptable. >> reporter: and his family apologizing tonight for the man who caused so much pain. >> i just want to say that we're sorry for their loss. we can't begin to imagine what they're going through. >> somebody lost their husband, wife -- it's just a horrible feeling. and we are extremely sad. >> byron pitts reporting from san bernardino. thanks, byron. up next for us, the jaw-dropping story of a seemingly happy couple that turned from madly in love to sheer madness in a murder for

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it was a story that captured headlines and the nation's imagination. seemingly happy newlyweds whose love morphs into an alleged murder for hire mystery in six short months. the accused florida woman is speaking out telling her version

here's abc's amy robach. >> miss dippolito? is your husband michael? >> reporter: the road to infamy beginning here, it looks like police are telling dalia dippolito her husband has been murdered. watch closely, nothing in this tape is what it seems. turns out police are duping dahlia. the crime scene? it's fake. police claim dahlia ordered a hit on her husband and they have hidden camera video to prove it. >> nobody's going to be able to point a function at me. i'm 5,000 percent sure. >> caught on tape taking a contract out on her husband -- >> police staged a fake murder scene -- >> dalia dippolito -- >> when people hear the name dalia dippolito, what come toth mind? >> everything negative. the person they're describing is definitely not me. >> reporter: her downfall began the day she met what she thought was her dream man.

impression of mike dippolito? >> charming, really strong connection. >> reporter: mike had a porsche. seemed to have plenty of money. and a nice new condo. what better setup to start a new life. >> i would say i was naive. >> reporter: police say after just six months of marriage, dahlia has other men in her life who are helping her with a secret plan, to get mike's money, his condo, get him out of the way. one of those men is in the front seat of this car. >> she asked if i could get someone to kill her husband for her. >> reporter: the man recorded as he talked to detectives. >> are you scared for the guy? >> yes. because she's really dead serious on getting this done. >> reporter: to get proof the cops make mohammad a confidential informant. he arranges to meet dahlia at this gas station? >> what's up? >> the guy is a professional. >> nobody's going to be able to point a finger on me. >> reporter: he says the hit man wants $1,200 to buy a gun.

a photo of mike. two days later the talk turns to action in this cvs parking lot. police officer. police say dahlia thinks she's meeting an actual hit man in his cherry red convertible. >> i'm going to tell you how i'm going to do it and what exactly is going to get done. >> reporter: a burglary gone wrong that leaves mike dead. >> everybody works in the daytime. i'm going to think he's at work. he's not at work and he gets two in the head. between now and when it's done, you know, you're not going to have an opportunity to change your mind even if you change your mind. >> no there's no -- >> you definitely want to do this? >> i'm positive, like 5,000% sure. >> reporter: "cops" has come to boynton beach to film the last part of the investigation. >> the detectives were going to stage this fake crime scene. >> i hear a banging on the door. >> i'm a sergeant with the police department, your wife has hired a person to kill you. >> i was very surprised.

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and she wanted another man. dahlia's trial lawyer michael sell nick has a defense -- >> it was never anyone's intention to harm anyone. it was a stunt. it was a hoax. >> reporter: it was a plot to get on television, a reality tv defense. salnick tells the jury that dahl yeah mohammad, and michael were working together to try to land themselves as stars in reality tv. >> absolutely not. that's a lie. >> reporter: as for the mysterious mohammad, what does he make of all of this? he declined to do an interview with us. he has denied working on a video with dahlia and mike. >> the defense is going to rest. >> reporter: it took three hours to reach a verdict. >> we find the defendant guilty of solitation to commit murder. >> reporter: then dahlia's hail mary prayer for appeal was answered. a florida judge ruled the jury wasn't selected properly and ordered a new trial. >> were you surprised? >> it's the first piece of good news throughout the whole process that i received. >> reporter: because it is a

hired high-profile lawyers, mark iglarsh and brian play and pool, wouldn't let her talk about certain parts of the case, in particular those seemingly damning videotapes. >> wipe my [ bleep ] off -- >> how do you explain what we've seen and heard on this videotape? >> i'd like explain that to you but i can't because the attorneys have told me we're saving that for our day in court. >> please, i didn't do anything. >> you were acting in this tape? >> yes. >> but you're telling the truth now if. >> yes. >> why should we believe you? >> it's what happened. the truth. >> reporter: dahlia says six years after those videos made her the poster woman for how not to hire a hit man she is still completely misunderstood. >> give me three words to describe yourself. >> understanding. sweet. compassionate.

his own choice of words. >> three words to describe dahlia dahlia? manipulative, conniving -- i've got more than three. malicious. liar, liar, liar. >> did you ever love mike dippolito? >> i married him because i loved him. >> now? >> now i wish i never would have met him. >> i feel the same way. i wish i would have made a left, not a right. trust me. >> reporter: for "nightline," i'm amy robach in new york. >> dahlia's attorneys have recently filed a motion to discuss the entire case. up next, "breaking bad" star and four-time emmy winner bryan cranston takes on a new role in a blacklist saga. >> abc news "nightline" brought to you by viagra. ask your doctor if your heart is healthy enough for sex. do not take viagra if you take nitrates for chest pain or adempas for pulmonary hypertension.

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finally tonight, he was the mild-mannered chemistry teacher turned dastardly meth drug lord in "breaking pad." bryan criterion stop brings to life the larger than life hollywood screen writer dalton trumbo who was blacklisted in the 1940s. can he ride to wave to land a best actor academy nom? >> say my name. >> reporter: bryan cran ton stop that is a mantel of emmys for paying walter white? "breaking bad." now oscar buzz for his latest role. >> dalton trumbo. >> the highest-paid writer in hollywood. >> a registered communist. >> reporter: in "trumbo" cranston inhabits the flamboyant screenwriter dalton trumbo,

1950s for supposed communist ties. >> this fight came to him. i don't think he thought of himself as a hero to fight the fight. he defended himself. i think anyone would did that. >> reporter: he continued writing screenplays, including "spartacus." >> i pray for a son who will be born free. >> reporter: won two academy awards for "the brave one" and "roman holiday." >> don't you have to work? >> today's going did be a holiday. >> reporter: both written in secrecy. >> the famous hollywood blacklist that made it impossible for accused artists to work was drawn up in this room in the waldorf astoria hotel where i met with cranston and costars helen mirren and diane lane. >> i can't believe we're in the room where the document was signed. i'm feeling very haunted in here. >> reporter: in the film mirren plays trumbo's nemesis, hedda hopper, a powerful gossip columnist who could doom a career with the flick of her pen. >> whisper a movie you've written in secret.

>> i think we should all be very conscious and thoughtful about who and what we support. in our lifetimes. because it can come back and bite you if you find yourself as they say on the wrong side of history. and hedda certainly found herself on the wrong side of history. >> reporter: cranston nailed the prolific writer who in real life did much of his best work in the bathtub with a trademark cigarette in his mouth. >> i work in a bathtub! >> always the smoking, always the curls of smoke. did that drive you crazy? >> oh did it drive me crazy. it was difficult. but -- >> the moustache was quite a gift to kiss as well. >> i'll bet it was. was it? i'm sorry for you, dear. >> reporter: for "nightline," i'm deborah roberts in new york. >> oh, and you can go see "trumbo" in theaters now. thanks for watching. tune into gma tomorrow. as always we're online at abcnews.com. for byron pits in san bernardino

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