>> he's a lawyer and excop. >> he's an extremely drunk lawyer and excop. >> what really happened on that booze filled evening. >> i'm lester holt and this is "dateline." this is keith morrison with in the dead of night. >> on the 29th of december 2010, rob fischer kissed his wife goodbye, got into his car here in an upscale neighborhood in california and pointed east into the desert. phoenix bound. >> it was a short trip just to kind of exchange presents. >> narrator: she was once again a lucky man, rob fischer. it didn't seem like it when an injury ended his police career or when cancer claimed the love of lhis life. now his family law practice was thriving and his marriage was as happy as a marriage could be. and across the desert, hiss grandchildren were eager to see their pop pop. >> they throw up their hands and scream papa and come and almost knock you over. >> they were ecstatic to see him, they would run and jump into his a arms. >> he would see his stepdaughter too of course. >> i don't have any biological children, so that was my family. >> narrator: he didn't know the future,

the operation funneled by excops, joseph and john, as wail as raymond, a former fbi agent and thomas hail, a -- they expect many more cases to emerge. jeff, cbs news, new york. >> two california senators are fighting back against the national security administration spying program. today, they introduced a bill that would ban state companies from providing services to the nsa. cooling water supply. they want to shut down the agency for its practices. they do not want state fund resources any federal agencies. >> it's my hope to the president and congress will reign in the nsa. it's important for states to speak up. we should not stand idly by while our citizens rights are being violated every day. >> the bill will be heard in march. >> a new twist on the flash mob dozens of teams steal everything in site. >> kpix5 learned the tech giant started taking employees to work by water. >> and you're looking 13 billion years behind time. >> two things are looking good, it's not a spare the air day. and look at that. we've got some low cloud cover. drizzle out there. find out what one day is

an excop shot 43-year-old chad olson for texting during a movie.say the ex-cop, curtis reeves, told olson to put his phone away. they argued. olson allegedly threw popcorn. then came the unimaginable. a gunshot. some say reeves' age. mark, what do you mean, if this case seems cut and dry to a lot of people but reeves says he was afraid for his safety but police say there was no physical contact unless you want to count that popcorn. he is 71 years old. why do you think this will help his defense? >> well, it's about all that he has. welcome to florida stand your ground law again. that's what the tee fence has got to be. you're going to have a hard time claiming it was self-defense when someone was armed with a bag of popcorn. you're going to hear that he was in fear, that he did not have to leave because he was permitted to stand his ground in a public area, namely a theater, and he acted because he's going to claim he was in recent fever of danger or light threatening injury. >> mark, he's a former cop. he's -- he's trained to assess threats. woul