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her fellow workers who died. "sir, please help me," she had cried out just as demolition men were about to knock down more of the concrete and twisted metal on top of her. "not much hurt," she said as she was taken away by ambulance. her 408 hour ordeal finally over. reshma was apparently trapped on the third floor of the eight story building. clothes for the british clothing chain primark were being made on the floor below hers. over 1,030 dead, yet she was well enough to describe how she survived when the biscuits ran out. >> ( translated ): i survived on water nothing else. i could breathe but not a lot. i managed to find a bottle of water but then i could not find any more. i shouted out for help but nobody heard me. >> reporter: bulldozers began clearing the site on monday and were busy helping recover bodies from the wreckage this morning. when a demolition worker saw a metal rod moving amid the rubble.

>> reporter: nobody knows precisely how many were inside on april the 24th but the death toll keeps rising. primark says it's too early to say how many it will compensate but that it's providing food parcels for up to 1,000 households almost 30 western brands had goods manufactured here but very few have spoken about it. the building's owner sohel rana has been arrested. after he'd claimed these were just hairline cracks, an engineer had warned him to close the building. a day later it collapsed. the bangladeshi government says it's closed 18 factories but that 14 million bangladeshi families depend

on ties hundreds protested for compensation and were given salaries. >> woodruff: joining me to talk about what's being done about working conditions and safety standards in bangladesh is steven greenhouse of the "new york times." welcome to the program. this is an incredible story, but bring us up to date on anything more that's known after all this time about why this happened in the first place. >> there were two incredible stories today. one, the miraculous rescue of reshema, and the other incredible story was the death toll count rose over 1,000. now, we in the united states talk about the horrendous triangle shirtwaist fire of 1911. 146 people died then and that changed the united states and made us take workplace safety

far more seriously. here, more than seven times that number have died. the latest death count is 1039. what changed over the past week is the death count has risen from 200, 300, to over 1,000. we know more that the owner of the building acted illegally, was adding three illegal floors on to the building. i think everyone says that's one of the main reasoning the building collapsed was because of all the additional weight without the proper struck the tower support it. far more pressure has been brought on the bangladeshy government, on the manufacturers, and western companies like wal-mart and the gap to do more to assure fire safety. the bangladeshy government announced an agreement with the international labor organization this week that it would vastly increase the number of inspectors. it said things like that before. we'll see whether something really change positive. >> woodruff: i was going to say we heard in the report something like 30 western

clothing manufacturers were using either this building or plant like it. what is known about who those manufacturers are, and whether they're taking any responsibility for this. >> good question. some-- among the western companies that were using the factory were bennetton of italy. prime mark of the united kingdom. here in the united states, custom records show two american companies, children's place, and kato fashions had source a lot from that factory over the past year. i believe one or two j.c. penny labels were found as well. it's interesting that prime mark, they've all announced they were going to participate in a fund, a victims' fund to help the families of the victims. as far as i know, no united states company has stepped up and said it would participate in

the fund. the other thing, judy, is a lot-- there's a lot of pressure being brought by n.g.o.s, anti-sweat shop groups, on the western retailers to really get more serious about doing something to make sure something like this never happens again. you know, one surprise development over the past week is that there was another factory fire two nights ago where eight people died and one of those who died was the factory owner who was a leader of the bangladeshy garment manufacture's association which has often sought to reassure the world, hey, don't worry, things aren't so bad. so i think much more pressure is being brought on the bangladeshy government and the manufacturers to really do something because this has happened too many timeses. >> woodruff: you mentioned efforts by the outside groups, independent groups to get all these companies to go-- abide by standards that would make sure things like this don't happen again. why is that not making more-- having more success at a time

like this with this sort of a tragedy? >> that's-- that's the question everyone's celtic. there was a horrible tragedy in november in bangladesh where 112 workers died in a factory fire, and a lot of us journalists and others were saying that's going to change things, we'll see western companies really step up, see the bangladesh government step up to improve things and here we are with a far more horrific tragedy. i've interviewed a lot of people in different companies and they seem to be scurrying to do something. i think companies often suffer from inertia and they're not rubbing to spend more money to-- for safety. but i think now there really is immense pressure on them to do more, and the specific push is for them to sign on to a plan in which they would make a binding commitment to help finance the fire safety improvements, the billion safety improvements that would be would be need for the

3,000, 4,000 garment fact flees bangladesh to help ensure that when workers go to work, when these women go to work in the morning that they'll be able to come home to their families at the end of the day. >> woodruff: well, it is a story that we all need to keep coming back to. steven greenhouse, the "new york times," thank you. >> thanks. >> brown: still to come on the "newshour": a very modern bank heist; an election day overshadowed by violence; shields and gerson on immigration and benghazi. plus, a look back at the boston bombing and ahead to recovery. but first, the other news of the day. here's hari sreenivasan. >> sreenivasan: carbon dioxide in the earth's atmosphere has now reached levels not seen for two to three million years. the national oceanic and atmospheric administration reports the concentration topped 400 parts per million yesterday, at a measuring station in hawaii. before the industrial revolution, carbon dioxide levels were far lower. but, levels of the greenhouse gas have risen steadily, despite recent efforts to slow

emissions. the last of three women who had been held captive in cleveland was released from the hospital today. 32-year-old michelle knight was abducted in 2002. she has told police that her alleged captor ariel castro starved and beat her to make her miscarry, at least five times. meanwhile, d.n.a. tests confirmed that castro fathered a six-year-old girl found at his rundown house. her mother is amanda berry, another of the women held captive. the obama administration faced new challenges today to its statements on the deadly attack at the u.s. consulate in benghazi, libya. ambassador christopher stevens and three other americans died there last september 11. the latest twist in who knew what and when about benghazi. came in the form of an abc news report. it said the official talking points on the incident were heavily edited to delete any reference to al qaeda or previous terror warnings. five days after the attack, u.n. ambassador susan rice drew on

the talking points, saying the incident was a muslim protest that got out of hand. this week, at a house hearing, gregory hicks, the former deputy chief of mission in libya, said he was shocked by rice's statement. >> i was stunned, my jaw dropped and i was embarrassed. >> did she talk to you before she went on the five sunday talk shows? >> no, sir. >> sreenivasan: white house officials-- from spokesman jay carney to vice president biden-- have maintained the talking points came from intelligence agencies. the abc account says the cia's initial talking points draft did mention a spontaneous protest, but it also said islamist militants were involved. it was revised at least a dozen times, mainly at the behest of the state department. spokeswoman victoria nuland e- mailed white house officials and the intelligence community urging that references to terror and al-qaeda be removed.

nuland argued that it "could be abused by members of congress to beat up the state department for not paying attention to warnings." but today, white house press secretary jay carney faced a battery of new questions, insisted again there was no effort to hide anything. >> we believed based on the intelligence assessment that extremists were involved, and there were suspicions about what affiliations those extremists might have but there was not hard, concrete evidence and so ambassador rice in those shows talked about the possibility that al-qaeda might be involved or other al-qaeda affiliates might be involved or non-al qaeda libyan extremists which i think demonstrates there was no effort to play that down. >> sreenivasan: republicans have insisted the administration botched security in benghazi and the response to the attack, and ever since, have tried to cover it up. they're promising more hearings to come. the internal revenue service has admitted it flagged some

conservative groups for more aggressive reviews during the 2012 election. they were singled out if their applications for tax-exempt status included the words tea party or patriot. the head of the i.r.s. division overseeing tax-exempt groups said today the practice was wrong. she said no high-level i.r.s. officials knew it was happening at the time. the creator of the world's first fully functioning 3-d printable handgun has removed the blueprints from its website. federal authorities ordered the action. they say defense distributed may have violated export control laws by posting the design files for its liberator gun online. the organization says by the time the blueprints were taken down, they had already been downloaded more than 100,000 times. the new skyscraper at ground zero in new york now stands at its full height. applause erupted as construction workers hoisted the final portion of a 408 foot silver spire to the top of one world

trade center. it tops out the building a total of 1,776 feet. the new structure will be the tallest in the u.s. and the third tallest in the world. wall street finished today with it's being built at the northwest corner of where the twin towers stood before the 9/11 attacks. wall street finished today with its third straight week of gains. the dow jones industrial average added nearly 36 points to close at 15,118. the nasdaq rose 27 points to close at 3,436. for the week, the dow gained 1%. the nasdaq rose 1.7%. those are some of the day's major stories. now, back to jeff. >> brown: and we turn to a major cyber-theft global in scope... and raising new questions about our vulnerabilities in the digital age. the thefts took place in broad daylight at a.t.m. machines, and the thieves wore no disguises. >> this was a 21st century bank heist that reached through the internet to span the globe. >> brown: u.s. authorities say the reach of the international cyber-gang was wide: 27

countries from russia, japan, egypt, colombia, canada and beyond. the criminals hacked into companies that process pre-paid debit cards for two banks in the middle east, stole the data and then copied it onto doctored cards with magnetic strips. yesterday in new york, u.s. attorney loretta lynch explained what happened next. >> they become a virtual criminal flash mob, going from machine to machine drawing as much money as they can before these accounts are shut down. >> brown: on december 21, thieves hit 4,500 a.t.m.'s in some 20 countries, stealing $5 million. then on february 19, they upped their game. in ten hours, they stole $40 million in 36,000 transactions worldwide. in manhattan alone, a team of eight so-called "cashers" allegedly made their way from a.t.m. to a.t.m. making 2,900 withdrawals totaling $2.4 million.

two of the suspects took photos of themselves and the stacks of cash they allegedly stole. to round out the crime, authorities say the suspects laundered the money by purchasing luxury goods in the form of rolex watches, gucci bags and expensive cars. and we're joined now by the federal prosecutor in the loretta lynch is the u.s. attorney for the eastern district of new york. thanks for joining us. when you call this a "21st century bank heist" before we go through some of the details, explain what you mean by that. >> well, jeffrey, this was a situation where numerous banks were hit several times, in fact two banks in these two attacks. but using thousands and thousands of a.t.m.s. so the banks were literally robbed in broad daylight without anyone entering their specific branches. it was one of the largest attacks of this type that we've seen using this type of cyber

attack. >> brown: it's a global operation but one thing you have not said yet is who is behind it. what can you tell juice it is a global operation. the investigation is ongoing. we, obviously, are hoping to make inroads there so we're not going to be able to give a lot of detail about who we think is behind it at this point in time. what we do know, however, is that it was a very sophisticated operation, that it had to have financial backing, that it had to have a people with a great deal of computer expertise and patience. it takes a long time to hack your way into the processors that were used here and essentially lie in wait, gathering data, increasing your access bit by bit, until you can literally take over the processor's functions. >> brown: explain a little bit more the mechanics here. they were hacking into the processing companies, not the banks themselves, right. >> that's correct. >> brown: and they were get spog these debit cards and upping the limit that the people

could take out. >> yes, absolutely. in fact, in the new york crew, during the second attack in february, those eight guys only had one account among them. and that account limit had been raised to $40 million. they look at prepaid debit cards because they're not tied an individual, not tied to an individual's checking or savings account. people tend to check those. you would notice if your own personal debit card limit shot up to $40 million and you'd probably call somebody but the most sophisticate part of the attack is the hack itself. these are patient cyber criminals. it takes anywhere from two to 18 months to execute the kind of control needed to really get inside these credit card processors. as you mentioned, it's not the actual banks. it's middle men, the people who process the cards and the money flows through them as someone uses a prepaid debit card. it's a very standard practice in the financial industry.

the hackers using malware work their way into the processor's own systems. they essentially gain more and more security access, kind of like becoming a secret systems administrator. they are hiding almost in plain sight in these computer systems. >> brown: and the people that you-- that you did arrest, that you announced yesterday, especially the eight in new york, say they're low level, right. they're not doing the high-tech stuff. they're essentially street criminals? >> well, they were not doing the high-tech stuff, but we wouldn't call them low level because without them you could not plunder the bank accounts will in the way in which they were plundered. they are actually a vital part of the organization. oarch seems to have equal importance, just a very, very different role in this. but these guys were the feet on the street, so to speak. they were the ones who were commanded and directed to go to the a.t.m.s, to wait for that code, to spring into action, and cash out as much money as they could before the credit card

processor or the bank or someone else discovered what they were doing. >> brown: now i know your investigation is still ongoing. we talked about two middle east banks. but today, the head of one of those banks suggested that the fraud may have gone beyond those banks to many others around the world, including in the u.s. what can you say at this point? >> you know, what i can say is that certainly this is one of the largest of the unlimited operations that we've seen, and we're seeing more and more of them. it is a change in the way cyber criminals operate, and stow we're watching them very carefully and we're shutting them down where we can. i think the message, whether from that bank or certainly from us is that every financial institution needs to remain vigilant. they need to work with law enforcement. there's been a great deal of cooperation so far. but everyone has to remain vigilant because cyber criminals are changing their method of attack as we adapt to follow them. >> brown: who is responsible for money that was lost in these

cases? i mean, is it actually money that was lost, somebody's money. so who's responsible? is it the banks, the credit card companies, the individuals? >> right now, it's the banks. and certainly they'll be looking to their insurance carriers and working out those details as time goes on. no individual accounts were compromised in this and that's actually very important to say. so no individuals lost this sum total of $45 million. we have, of course, in the past seen other hacking operations where individual accounts have been compromised. so people should not feel that because the cyber criminals have morph bod this direction that they're going to ignore those individual accounts. >> brown: that's what i want to ask you briefly here at the end, is there any message for individuals as consumers as to their vulnerability and for you in law enforcement as you said, the criminals find new ways to do this in cyberspace. >> well, i think there's several messages here.

in terms of law enforcement, we work very closely with the financial industry to watch the types of attacks that are being launched and to help them protect themselves. but we need their help as well. we urge all financial industry companies, as, frankly, all of private industry, to remain vigilant when they spot a problem, notify us. often companies think that because a lot of the hacking occurs overseas it may be too late to do something, but we've actually had a great deal of success working with our overseas counter-parts. for individuals, they, too, have to remain vigilant. it's a great thing to live in a digital age. it's convenient, it's fast. we haven't quite hit that cash-less society yet as the pictures illustrate, but people are very used to the convenience of being able to electronically live their lives, but they have to recognize that a lot of that comes at a cost. and there may be times when we ask them to step back a bit and to bear with us as we work out trying to make them as safe as possible.

>> brown: u.s. attorney loretta lynch. thanks so much. >> thank you, jeffrey. >> woodruff: next to pakistan. the country's citizens head to the polls this saturday for an historic vote, despite threats of attacks from the taliban. ray suarez reports. >> reporter: there's been no shortage of enthusiasm as pakistanis approach tomorrow's critical parliamentary elections. but the political rallies have unfolded in the shadow of almost daily violence. since april, attacks by the pakistani taliban have left more than 100 people dead and the group warns of suicide bombings on election day. >> we've seen a lot of violence targeting pakistani security forces in recent months but i the last couple of months they have been specifically targeting election related targets, candidates, political party workers, political party offices, election commission offices. >> reporter: andrew wilder is

director of afghanistan and pakistan programs at the united states institute of peace in washington. he recently traveled to pakistan where attacks have most often targeted liberal and secular parties, forcing some top candidates to curtail campaigning. yesterday, gunmen even kidnapped the son of former prime minister yousuf raza gilani. wilder says there's a long list of motives. >> of the separatist groups are very opposed to the elections period. some of the more extreme militant groups are also i think just trying to prevent the elections from happening, including targeting some islamic parties in the campaign. however some of the other militant groups have been pretty explicit that they have particular parties that they want to disadvantage in this election. so presumably there are parties that they would like to advantage in the election as well. >> reporter: all of this comes at an urgent moment in pakistan's 65-year history, the country is beset with

corruption, widespread poverty, sunni-shiite divisions and a constant struggle against the taliban and its allies. pakistan has played a critical role in the war on terror, and, as wilder notes, washington will be watching closely to see what happens this weekend. >> i think the general sense is that there is not going to be dramatic changes. it's not like, we've had a great u.s.-pakistan relationship in the past couple of years and so it doesn't have much further south that it can go. so i think that there is hope that with a new government and really to some extent who ever is elected there will be an opportunity to try to tackle some of the main problems facing pakistan. >> reporter: according to the polls, nawaz sharif and his pakistan muslim league-nawaz party, the p.m.l.n., are making a strong bid. sharif has served as prime minister twice before, during the 1990s. >> pakistan needs a strong government to pull it out from

the quagmire of problems. it needs a strong writ of a powerful government which can end turbulence, which can end terrorism and which can make a peaceful country, and also which can allow the country to develop and progress. >> reporter: sharif has campaigned hard on the theme of economic development. his backers in lahore, inside the populous punjab province, point to the city's newest metro bus system as an example of what they could bring to the entire country. opened earlier this year, the rapid transit project runs through various residential and commercial parts of lahore. it was pushed by sharif's brother, the former chief minister of punjab province and it has helped garner new support from voters. >> i myself have been a strong supporter of pakistan people's party all my life but now in this election campaign, i think i'm going to cast my vote in favor of pakistan muslim league. and it's all because of the works, developmental works they

have done like this metro bus service. they speak for themselves where as pakistan people's party has not been able to deliver anything in the last five years. >> reporter: still, with no political party expected to win a majority, a coalition government is the likely result. the man that may become king maker in the forming of a new government is imran khan, an international star cricket player turned politician. the 60-year-old heads the tariq- e-insaf or movement for justice party, which he founded in 1996. >> ( translated ): while casting your vote, you should not follow the advice of your relatives or the community. you should not follow the advice of your friends. you have to take into account one thing only, the ideology. we are bringing ideology back in politics. the ideology of a new pakistan. >> reporter: part of that

ideology is khan's criticism of u.s. drone attacks inside pakistan. supporters also hope to capitalize on frustration with the pakistan people's party, which has governed for the past five years. >> they completely ruined our country. they completely ruined our lives. there is no electricity, there are no jobs, education facilities, health facilities. there is nothing, nothing is getting better. everything is getting worse. >> reporter: but while khan's backers keep up their efforts, the candidate has been unable to campaign since tuesday, when he fell 15 feet off a forklift as it raised him to the stage at a rally in lahore. he fractured three vertebrae and a rib and remains hospitalized, but he addressed a rally on thursday from his hospital bed. who wins and who loses tomorrow will be determined in large part by a growing segment of the pakistani population-- the young. >> it's sunk in how they've been left behind and how these various crises, unless they are

addressed, completely, you know, darken the prospects for the future. >> reporter: simbal khan is the pakistan scholar at the woodrow wilson center in washington. she points to the enormous power of younger voters with more than 100 million pakistanis under the age of 30. >> there is this huge push and urge in the young to get the change message across. and this election is that change message, and i think that change will, with imran khan or pml-n, it is basically catalyzing this kind of a desire for change. and it is being felt. >> reporter: this election will mark the first time in pakistan's history that a civilian government hands over power to another. there's a history of military coups, but last month the army chief pledged to support the outcome, no matter who wins. >> i assure you, that we stand

committed to wholeheartedly assist in the conduct of free, fair and peaceful elections; to >> reporter: meanwhile, the wide array of candidates and parties has campaigned to the wire, putting up posters. and handing out flags by the dozens. but with hundreds of candidates competing, pakistanis may have other reasons to be nervous, as andrew wilder points out. >> where there is concern is that if we do have a hung parliament and lots of wheeling and dealing and compromises have to be made and half the assembly has to be given a cabinet portfolio to get them on board, it's not necessarily going to lead to a picture of good governance and effective government. >> reporter: polls open tomorrow morning, amid high security and hopes that neither violence nor corruption will mar the results. >> woodruff: and now to the analysis of shields and gerson.

that's syndicated columnist mark shields and "washington post" columnist michael gerson david brooks will return next week. nooirchtsdz welcome, gentlemen. let's talk about immigration. mark, huge bill, 800 pages, 300 amendments started moving through the senate yesterday. what do the prospects look like? >> the prospects, judy, it's fragile. the 844 pages represents something we don't see a lot of in washington, which is compromise, consciou consensus,g something together, both sides of the aisle, eight senators submerging their high profiles and healthy egos for a work product. what we see are people who would like to sabotage that effort in the committee. senator cruz of texas has an amendment anybody who has ever been in the united states illegally at any time cannot be eligible for citizenship. that, of course, would preclude

a six-year-old who was brought to this country by his parents, joining the marine corps, going to iraq, serving honorably, being wounded, coming back and beingineligible. this is the sort of amendments that we're going to see that will be intended, some to strengthen the bill, others, quite frankly, mr. sessions of alabama, mr. grassley of iowa, to sabotage the bill. >> woodruff: the last time they tried to do big immigration reform, it didn't go anywhere. what does it look like to you? >> i agree. we have a comprehensive bill. there's something for everyone not to like. that's the nature of this kind of bill. but i actually think it's on a pretty good track. i don't think we'll see big changes in the bill oi a fairly partisan committee, but senator rubio, the republican leading this effort, believes it will move to the right on the floor, that it would appeal to some undecided republicans. you need to look at people, bellweatherwise like senator grassley, who critical, but

open. rand paul, who i think would have a lot of sway with the grass roots. if senator schumer could appeal to them and peel them off i think you could get a large majority in the senate and put speaker boehner on the spot whether he can move forward with a bill and pass something. >> woodruff: you have this real interesting division among republicans. how does that affect what happens? >> in fairness, it's not just republicans. pat leahy, president pro tem of the senate, from vermont, senior member of that body, has an amendment, and that amendment is that a gay person in this country, citizen, can bring to this country a partner from a foreign country just like a husband or wife is eligible to under existing law. that is not something it appeals to democrats in the sense of antidiscrimination and equity and justice.

but it's probably a game wrecker for the republicans. >> woodruff: if it passes. >> it's hard for me to believe that marco rubio could support legislation that included that. so it is on both sides, quite frankly. i mean, the democrats are overwhelmingly for the legislation, as written, but this is the sort of amendment that could be complicating. >> woodruff: but, michael, you do have this division, again, on the republican side. you've got on the one hand, former senator jim demint now with the heritage foundation putting out this study talking about the cost of immigration reform. but his fellow republican marco rubio is behind this. >> well, the conservative movement is split on immigration, and that's a huge improvement over 2007 when-- you know, i remember those days. there was a huge conservative wave which we really haven't seen materialize. marco rubio does not need to convert all his opponents. he just needs to assert credibly that there are two sides to this issue in the conservative

movement, give enough republicans the cover to vote for this. the heritage study that you mentioned actually contributes to his argument. this was a shoddy study, and there was an immediate, comprehensive response of a bunch of conservative, pro-immigration-reform groups. they seem to have learned some of the lessons from 2007. they're more organized. they're more aggressive. this is a feud within conservativeatism, but at least it's not a rout like it was last time glied glood and one piece of it-- part of the heritage report that talked about lower i.q.s among individuals who were hispanic and lingering for generations. now i gather the person behind that has left the foundation. >> i don't think it was in the report but in the research by one of the researchers. >> that's right. >> woodruff: but now that's set aside and is no longer a distraction. >> i agree, judy, i think even more significant, or as significant allegation the groups, were that leading republican politicians-- i mean, there are probably very few republican-- democratic

politicians-- in the country who have better feel for the political process than haley barber, the former governor of mississippi, and former republican national chairman. he called the heritage report a political document right out of the box. and so did paul ryan, the chairman of the house budget committee, and the chairman for vice president. he didn't call it a political document but he was critical of the heritage report. i think that there is more organized and emboldened conservative opposition. but six years ago, it was john cornyn of texas, you'll recall, up for reelection in 2008, who offered those poison pill amendments against president bush's and ted kennedy and john mccain's immigration bill. i just point out that senator cornyn supfor reelection next year as well. >> woodruff: let's talk about benghazi. very much in the news the last few days, michael. this is, of course, the outpost in libya.

it was overrun. the u.n. ambassador was killed along with three others. new information today about the state department changing the so-called talking points that were going to be given to administration officials. what-- where is all this headed now? >> well, it's worth pointing out, at the outset, even at the worst, this is not watergate. i think we'rwatergate. what we're talkch talking about is a cover-up-- if there is a cover-up-- of negexpwrens incompetence and not criminality and that is the difference. but this is an unfolding, rapidly moving problem for the administration. the testimony this week showed that the people who were closest to the crisis, that were in libya, knew exactly what was happening, and they reported it up the chain of command. people like jonathan carl of abc reported this week that those talking points were changed dramatically by major players at the taint and in the interdependental-- >> woodruff: which is not what the house had said. >> exactly, and it ended up

being much less accurate. and you also have the dynamic of david petraeus in some of these stories that he wasn't happy about the changes made. >> woodruff: he was the c.i.a. director. >> head of the c.i.a. at the time. it's increasingly difficult for the administration to say nothing to see here, move along. >> woodruff: where do you see thissed headed? >> i think it's a legitimate investigation. the thought the hearings were authentic. for the first time, instead of the grand conspiracy theories we've heard hatch on the right, we did have real people, croor diplomat, who alleges, testifies that he lost his job and was demoted and is now a desk jockey back here. he was the deputy chief of mission. the first person-- the person that ambassador stevens was under attack called. it was quite moving, quite emotional his testimony. i felt. at the same time, judy, the republicans on the committee

cheapen it. 32 times by actual count they have mentioned hillary clinton. i mean, you can see-- is there a legitimate inquiry here? yes. are they trying to turn it-- especially darrell issa the chairman and several of the other members, trying to turn it into a political show? yes. i think it weakens the case. i think there's a legitimate investigation to be held here, and i just wish it were being held by a more senior, more thoughtful people. >> and i agree with that, by the way. the best way to undermine this argument is to overstate this argument. republicans should be in a mode of gathering facts and following them where they lead. and that i think is their best strategy, as well as the right thing to do. >> woodruff: but the fact, mark, the talking point being changed by the state department, what-- >> i don't think there's any question it was an attempt, judy, they point out it was

ultimately issued by the c.i.a., the report was, and the talking points, so general petraeus has some explaining of his own to do, i don't think there's any question it was a way of saying the advantage that barack obama had over the republicans at that point in the campaign was the republicans had squandered in the invasion, occupation, failed of iraq, they had squandered what had been their historic advantage on national security and foreign policy. and this was a chance, i think, a vulnerability on that count for obama and to dismiss or minimize the evolvement of al qaeda, to minimize the threat of terrorism-- >> woodruff: didn't want any reference to terrorism. >> i think that's obt. >> woodruff: let's turn right here at home, south politics. the former governor of the state who was involved in his only personal shall we say colorful

episode where he went off with a mistress, south america, michael, mark stanford has now come roaring back. he won his congressional seat against a well-funded democratic opponent. what does that say about american politics? what does it say about the democrat. >> they say we get the congress we deserve, and if this is true in this case, then god help us. this is a case where-- you know, this was a genuinely creepy circumstance. you know, during the campaign, he had his mistress meet his teenaged son at a public event in front of a crowd of people. >> cameras. >> with cameras around. it was a very strange circumstance. >> it was. >> this is is really a case where everyone deserves grace, but grace takes time and healing and penance in most religious traditions. the philosopher and theologdietrich bonhover talked

about cheap grace. this was chief grace. >> woodruff: mark? >> i can't argue with that. i simply point out, judy, mark sanford is a man of great consistency. he said i think it would be much better for the country if bill clinton resigns. i come from the business side. if you had a chairman or president in the business world doing what he did, he'd be gone. >> woodruff: back during the impeachment. >> that's exactly right. he also stuck a knife into bob livingston, the republican speaker designate in the house saying he had to resign because he lied to his wife. i think it's a tribute the compassion, decency of the voters of south carolina, they last chose newt gingrich. so serial call theory is apparently not a disqualification. he's a jerk. what he did to his son-- what he did to his son at that moment,

as any parent, it's unforgivable what he did. this is your new step-mother, my girlfriend, i want to you meet her in front of 12 television cameras and 1,000 people who he had never met before. it was unforgivable. >> woodruff: on that note we will thank the two of you, mark she's, and michael >> brown: finally tonight, one victim's road to recovery after the boston attacks. roseann sdoa was waiting for a friend to cross the finish line when the second bomb exploded just a few feet away. her right leg was so badly damaged it had to be amputated above the knee. she will soon be fitted for a prosthetic leg and is currently being treated at spaulding rehabilitation hospital in charlestown. emily rooney of wgbh boston sat down with her this week for an interview about her experience and road to recovery. here's an excerpt. >> roseann, first, tell me what

physical therapy is like. >> it all is very physical, even the occupational therapy, making sure i could do the typical things that you would normally do every day-- brush your teeth, shower, get around in the bathroom. this new facility here is phenomenal. they have a mock apartment that you go to and you can see how to move stuff along the counters in the kitchen, if you're on crutches, getting in and out of the shower, out of an actual tub, get up and off the bed if you need to. >> how bad is the pain? >> right now. >> yeah. >> it's like a three to four. >they take you through doing weightweights and billion your e muscles and physical therapy does that. there's some stretching we usually start with, making sure that the muscles are limber, and then go through doing different arm exercises and balancing to make sure that i can balance on my left leg. it's a lot. it's a lot. >> is some of it directed at

your right leg, too? >> yup. >> and what do they do for that? >> a lot of lifting. they'll put weights on it and do side lifts, make sure this stays in shape as well. >> take me back to marathon day. what had you been doing earlier in the morning? >> same thing i've done for, like, the last 15 years. it's been one of my favorite days in boston. and i get a little emotional about it because i don't know if it will be my favorite day next year, but same thing i've done every year, go to the red sox game with friends and it was a beautiful, sunny day. we walked over to boylston street. and went to one of the local bars there that we've gone to, again, for years, and knowing that different friends were going to meet up there later. and got notification that one of our friends was close to coming down boylston street, so we ended up going out to watch the race, and were standing along the road, and just cheering on

the runners and waiting. and it was just really weird. within a matter of a couple of minutes, the first bomb went off. and it was just really strange because, again, i've done this for so long, we've never had guns or cannons or, you know, something to salute the runners, and there was just the pop, pop, and it was literally at my feet. i just-- i thought they were more like grenades being kind of throap in, just because it was-- i thought it was, like, hitting the ground or came from the ground. and then it just eye just remember kind of not knowing what was going on. >> so the second one was what hit you. >> exactly, yeah, i was in the second one. and-- >> did you realize right away you were hurt? >> i want to say yes and no. because i think it was just so surreal that i think my brain said you're hurt, but then i

wanted to run but i was on the ground and couldn't run and i knew i couldn't run. i guess i must have ideal for help but it was kind of like a dream where you think you're yelling for help but you don't hear it come out, and i probably didn't hear it because of the explosion and the bomb because i have hearing loss in one of my ears. kind of like looking around, it was people-- people were running. people were like zombies. people-- it was like you were immediately in a bad movie and starring in it. >> are you planning to go back to work? >> yes. i just don't know when. i-- my work has been fantastic. i work for a phenomenal company. i've been there 10 years. and they've all come to visit me. they took a great gripe feeto out in front of building, hung a banner for me. and i'll go back. i just don't-- i haven't decide yet. i need to get to my apartment. i need to get home and really

see where i am with that and then get back into my routine and work will be a routine. but i need to do it in baby steps. >> i'm sitting here looking thinking what would terrify me most, learning to drive again, not being able to play tennis? do you have something? >> the driving is a little scary, but i've had numerous people tell me i can use my left foot. and then i've heard of different things that you can put in your car to adjust the driving or have it altered. i'll drive at some point, but i think to me that's the scariest thing. >> and is there something you're just going to say, well, i won't be able to do that again? >> no. i haven't really thought of anything that i won't be able to do. i think-- i think there will be and i think that will be a down time when i hit it. but everything has been-- i've been so positive just because i have to move forward. i-- i can't-- there's no-- no way to look back and say anything negative about it, or

"i can't do that" or "i can't do this." i'm going to try to do whatever i can do. >> brown: watch the full interview from wgbh, on our homepage. >> woodruff: again, the major developments of the day: in bangladesh, a young seamstress was pulled alive from the rubble of a factory, 17 days after it collapsed. white house officials insisted again that no one tried to hide anything after the attack on a u.s. consulate in libya. state department e-mails show officials had pressed to eliminate any reference to al- qaeda or security threats. and federal climate officials reported that concentrations of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere have reached levels not seen for two million to three million years. >> brown: online, we follow-up on our report about the genocide trial of a former guatemalan leader. hari sreenivasan has more. >> sreenivasan: efrain rios montt ruled guatemala during one of the most violent periods in the country's 36-year civil war. during that era.

rare footage from villages where violence took place. the debate on reagan administration's support of the country, find those our home page. it may feel like the presidential race just ended, but 2016 ambitions are already running hot. read our team politics primer on republican visits to early primary states on the rundown. and a reminder from pbs of something special coming up on the "newshour" a week from tonight, as we remember the anniversary of the watergate hearings. >> 40 years ago, one event changed a nation. >> there was a cancer growing on the presidency. >> pbs was there with gavel-to-gavel coverage, showing you the whole story. times change, but one thing never will-- our commitment to reporting news accurately, objectively, so that you can decide. watch the special report "compg watergate" on the pbs "newshour," friday may 17, only on pbs.

>> sreenivasan: those nice words come from our pbs colleagues. and we're collecting your memories from that time. you can call or tweet us, find the details on our home page. all that and more is on our website newshour.pbs.org. >> woodruff: and again to our honor roll of american service personnel killed in the afghanistan conflict. we add them as their deaths are made official and photographs become available. here, in silence, are 11 more.

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