lea gabrielle is back. how do you fall half a mile and live to tell about if? makenzie wethington's family say she and her father spent six hours practicing early in the day. the father went first. after he landed, he saw her falling. she spiraled the w and couldn't reach up and pull the backup chute. >> her vertebra broke in half. her pelvic bone completely split in half. she has more broken bones in her back. she has two broken ribs. her teeth. >> now, she says her sister is now breathing on her own and talking on her own as well. she also claims an instructor was supposed to jump after makenzie but for some reason didn't shep. >> has the school said anything about that? >> she dived with a company called pegasus. we reached out to their own. er. we had no response. in other interviews he says makenzie did something wrong and hasn't explained what he meant by that. the family went to oklahoma because the school allowed her to jump though she's not yet 18. according to the website, the family would have had to sign this release which acknowledges the risk of i

lea gabriel, it's busy over there in times square. >> it's busy.good time. >> good, enjoy. thank you. >>> earlier we asked you for your thoughts on amanda knox and whether the united states should extradite here if italy demands it? and you did tweet. a lot. we don't know whether she has to be extradited. but when it comes down to it, should the united states send her over if italy wants her to be sent over? >> we're getting a lot of texts. tx says, she should. and then amanda knox should be extradited. >> the concern here is texas investigator, that the united states would consider this to be double jeopardy. tried twice for the same thing but their laws are different. >> nicholas says, amanda knox is a free woman and under u.s. law. the constitution is clear on double jeopardy so to that point -- >> our lawyer says it's not a great area. amanda knox has rights and they need to be respected above government politics. >> thank you, ryan. we'll be right back. we use this board to compare car insurance rates side by , so you get the same coverage, of

. >> lea gabrielle with the latest. >>> facebook is reading its users' private messages to help the companyake money. that's according to a new lawsuit filed in a federal court in california. two people who use facebook have issued a complaint on behalf of all the users in the united states who have sent or received private messages which included a url or web address. the lawsuit claims facebook scanned those links to share the information with advertisers and marketers, and the suit alleges facebook violated federal and state privacy laws. joining us now for more on this, former assistant u.s. attorney, alex little. thank you for being here. >> thank you for having me. >> do these two guys in california have a case? >> they do. there's some pretty complicated legal structures going on here. but they have a case, and it comes down to the fact they're accusing facebook of looking at private messages when facebook promised not to. there's some federal laws involved, state laws involved. what it champs down to is when facebook tells you something is private, how private is it? >> well, couldn

lea gabriel is with us, a former fighter pilot. >> iraqi officials are being vague about the weaponsept to say there are lot of them. iraq is seeing the highest level of violence since 2007 and many of those attacks are bomb blast inside populate area. the u.n. says the violence killed almost 8,000 civilians there last year. a former u.s. ambassador to iraq who i spoke with, tells me he believes it's clear that iraqi force does not have control of the situation, particularly in that region. >> well, certainly al qaeda has managed to stage a bombing attack in baghdad and elsewhere. i'm not sure they could really storm through to baghdad, but the point is well taken. >> the ambassador also says that he thinks it's significant that al qaeda linked militants have been able to control territory in iraq. >> i can't imagine how difficult this must be for widows at moment and all the rest, people who fought to try to make things better, now, as predicted, it's just falling apart. >> it's a place where we have seen a lot of sacrifice. i have a number for you. according to the department of de

lea gabrielle flew combat missions in afghanistan and i wonder how the news is sitting. >> rep, u.s.s that the top general in afghanistan presented this proposal to the white house last week. now, according to the "the wall street journal" the pentagon is essentially requesting an all or nothing approach meaning to keep the full 10,000 troops in afghanistan to support the bases and the mission otherwise they recommend pulling out entirely. >> strategic significance of this is very self evident. the stability of afghanistan, the stability of the region is put at risk by the fact that the taliban and the al qaeda will have a free hand with the united states gone. >> that was retired general jack keen telling me that 10,000 is a small number to be able to ensure continued stability in afghanistan, shep. >> thankfully, there's a balance here. the generals don't make the decisions. there's more that goes into it. >> that's true. at this point, afghanistan's president has not signed a bilateral security agreement to allow any troops to stay in afghanistan past 2014. the white house saying

lea gabrielle, thank you. >>> newly published e-mails and text messages suggest that an aide to the new jersey governor, chris christie, knew about an apparent revenge plot against the mayor, who refused to endorse the governor for re-election. this has been big news in the to be tabloids for a long time. state officials closed two lanes of traffic near a bridge in forft. lee, new jersey, on the very first day of school. it triggered hour-long traffic tie-ups. it was nightmarish over in fort lee. it delayed police and emergency vehicles. it was really awful. one official in charge of new york and new jersey bridges, that's from the port authority, has already resigned. the mahler of fort lee, who's a democrat, and said to be a political rival, initially said the state was punishing him, but that he did not endorse governor christie. he later backed away from those comments, though. the gop presidential favorite denies this was payback at all and says his staff was not involved. governor christie says the lane closures were part of a traffic study. but the e-mails that are out today. the

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