county prosecuting attorney bill thompson and deputy prosecuting attorney mia vowels knew they had their work cut out for them. >> our approach was convince the jury through the evidence not only that rachael was dead, but there's only one person in this world who could have been responsible for it, and that's charles capone. >> reporter: what was the biggest hill to climb in this? >> because we didn't have a body, it was mostly a circumstantial case. >> reporter: mia vowels took the lead and called a parade of witness to convince the jury that rachael was indeed dead. >> a good mother. had a good attitude toward family. >> reporter: her ex-husband, dennis plunkett, had missed a call from her at 8:09 that friday night. >> and that was the last contact i ever had with her. >> reporter: rachael's two sons testified they'd never seen their mother again after that friday. >> have you seen your mom since? >> no. >> reporter: to show jurors just how nasty charles and rachael's divorce was they played back some of those eerie stalking phone calls. >> it's funny. you just don't get it. >> report

>> yes sir, i do. >> reporter: prosecutor bill thompson had the final word for the state. >> rachael's her body, her physical essence, is also gone forever. but we can't let that allow him to escape responsibility. >> reporter: after seven days of testimony the case went to the jury. let me ask you that cut to the chase question. on friday that night at the garage, did you get her down on the ground? >> no. >> reporter: did you throttle your wife and kill her? >> i can tell you honestly, no. it's a lie. it's been portrayed as stuff that absolutely didn't take place. i've done many things, you know, that i'm not proud of, you know? paid my dues, moved on, you know? tried to be a better person. >> reporter: this whole thread of this thing, "i'll kill your wife if you'll kill mine," did that happen? >> i can't answer that for you right now. >> reporter: you can't answer it? >> i can't. >> reporter: capone says he's made mistakes along the way, but did not kill rachael. >> i don't have that in me. i don't have that -- i want to care about people. i want to love on people. i don't want to t

. >> gary: this bill calls sports science. court thompsonthree-point range she has done that so many times all he needs a split second what they hoped to let it end. he made 8 of 10 per it pretty much shooting in the dark. >> gary: jason applebaum. spring training tonight. >> reporter: full squad worked out of spring training, up earlier today it worked out with the giants the second day of spring training and cam hudson. and a bullpen stage session. repaired back to b.p.. to be doing better. both she was told by one of the reporters they look tired. >> gary: both she was so tired that we turned out the lights we will have more from spring training. >> gary: 20 years ago when kate was forced to call for with what i do for a living i remember a cheerful deal with pam on how i will put my kids through college no one watches local sports. pam, says the nine get but do not ever give up. >> pam: (laughter) >> gary: what i did this give the stuff that you do not get from anywhere else. >> reporter: >> gary: reggie bush and kim kardashian and a tog

bill cosby, when he's down, even for laughs. but the skit did go on. they got keenan thompson to play bill cosby. >> here is my issue this, it is eddie murphy. so couldn't they give him another role? do something else? we wanted to sigh more eddie. >> came out made a statement i'm so grateful, then left. that's? they were talking about the fact he was rejoining them for the 40th anniversary special like weeks in advance. so they get all of this hype going. >> you would think? they would have called him weeks ago and say we want you to do bill cosby and the jeopardy skit. woe say i don't want to do. that will but i like the fact he refused to do it. >> very nice i'm saying we still would like to see he had any you are if you do something. >> do something elsement do buckwheat, something? who knows? all right i'm going show you a picture after dog. >> this dog just can't help but break into song every time he's here. certain tune on the radio. now, look at that. >> how cute? >> so what song sets him off? this time? could it be jay-z's 99 problems? what's happened to snacking? ho

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bill is still there. hopefully we can get it through. >> reporter: cameron thompson, wusa 9. >> the conference continues sunday at the capital holiday inn from 10:00 a.m. until 7:00 p.m. >>> a shipment of mattresses turns out to be one of the largest marijuana busts at a border crossing. custom agents seized some 15 tons of marijuana hidden inside the mattresses thursday at a cargo port in california. authorities say it has a street value of close to $19 million. >>> it's a first for the dc department of public works. they are on the streets this weekend to pick up your trash. bitter cold temperatures and snow left many of the city's alleys in an icy mess. that means unsafe footing for public works employees. the trash trucks are out this weekend. some 30 trucks from the private sector and three dozen temporary employees have been added to the fleet. dpw hopes to have all of the trash collected by the end weekend. >>> rand paul wins the washington times cpac presidential preference straw poll for the third time in a row. the results were released at today's conservative political action conference at national

allegations regarding cosby way back in 2005 when she did a riff on it and kenan thompson was in the skit actually playing bill action fat albert so it's not like the show has shied away from it. >> right. >> and this scandal is still very much in the public consciousness. >> absolutely. >> so i expect them on the 40th anniversary to do something on it, but just they weren't going to get eddie murphy to do it. bill cosby was a role model for a lot of comedians and especially a lot of male african-american comedians cosby has been accused of assault by more than 20 women, but never been charged. his lawyers denied these allegations but the headline as we were coming into the show is that bill cosby actually responded to the information revealed by norm. >> yeah exactly, well i mean look, norm is putting it out all there on twitter and nobody is disputing that. i think he has responded -- he certainly has responded to people who have -- who have come out in support of him and look, for eddie murphy to do that and for it to become public, i mean i'm sure bill probably feels like, he doesn't have a lot of friends

fellow "snl" veteran norm mcdonald said murphy was slated to play bill cosby in that jeopardy skit instead it was key nan thompsonrphy's decision came down to the last minute. he said it's my job to talk him into doing jeopardy we talked in a dressing room a good hour when it's over i'm convinced he'll to it he doesn't. eddie decides the laughs are not worth it. he will not kick a man when he's down. mcdonald referring to the litany of rape allegations facing bill cosby. two more in fact just this last week. cosby denies or declines to comment on the more than 20 claims. nbc reports that cosby allowed murphy's decision not to do the skit. so i have gilbert god free he worked on the show in the early '90s, the two comedians seen here in a selfie -- forgive me the '80s. and he is with me now also now coast. and los angeles horatio sanz. so gentlemen, welcome. >> thank you very much. >> yes. hi. horatio horatio, how are you? >> i'm very good. >> i can't hear a thing. >> okay. >> they never gave me a mic. could you just hold up signs of what you're saying? just have a little chalkboard when you're talking. >> we'll h

mary thompson has the story. >> bill the stress tests weren't expected to be released until march 5thpproves the company capital requests on march 11th. the dow jones is reporting that deutsche bank as well as -- san tander are likely to fail. the european firms could face dividend restrictions and the failure is likely to be an qualitative grounds. the quantitative grounds is their capital levels. the qualitative is their risk controls et cetera. u.s. regulators have been i guess you could say aggressive to get the european banks to improve their risk controls over the last year. keep in mind that santander was one of the five banks that failed the stress test last year along with citi rbc as well as zion's bank. the fed declining comments and neither bank returning calls for comment pfr a little bit of saidoff after hours. not much. watching those banks. >>> on fire the markets burning up. the cnbc.com all over the place. >> users checking out what was behind the rally while others are looking into the oscars this weekend. allen joins us to lay out the hot list. >> one of those mark

and i would like to go back to the questions of secretary thompson, without a full year of funding bill, the department of homeland security cannot award it is my understanding, $2.6 million, is that correct? billion dollars? >> billion. >> much of which goes to state and local departments. having served both at the local level as a council member, mayor and served as a state senator in the state of california, these agencies are just beginning to recover from this great recession that we have had. they certainly do not have the funding to back-bill what we do not send to them and they are dependent on this funding in order to help protect our communities. so what -- what do you think is the risk assessment as it relates to these agencies not being able to pick up the phone and have someone on the other side answer to get feedback on a potential threat risk? >> ma'am, i can't speak to the specific risk. what i can speak to is the fact that grant funding and our investment in state and local community engagement efforts is a linchpin for how we have structured our country to do homeland

bill murray will be the big star this weekend in new york city. >>: best record in the nba thing steel. i just have does keep up with my teammates klay thompson . >>gary: stephen curry went to the foot locker on 34th street for the launch of his a new issue and klay thompson also launched his own nation. for the big three-point shooting contest stephen curry will be there with his dad. nba rising stars challenge warriors assistant alvin gentry coaching the usa team vs the international team for the internationals andrew wiggins of the timberwolves and fron torontothe #1 overall pick with the ally-oop dunk he had 2 points the frenchman rudy golbert from the jazz big block on one end then one of his at least 76 dunks at the other he had 18 points 12 rebounds, 3 bloacks wiggins mvp final: 121-112 world and tune in sunday after the nba all-star game for the first ever kron 3-point shootout names like appelbaum, roberts, rates stone and lodes and a special appearance from pam moore 9pm on sports night live just say the name scott rates over and over again when you are at home this weekend sharks/coyotes todd mclellan going for his 300th win 3rd pe

that is adding fire to a bill to add sprinkler system in new single and two-family homes in the garden state. >> nbc's brian thompsonhas the story. >> it's a life saver. >> reporter: william counts himself lucky as his new apartment has sprinklers in every room but there were none in this two-family home he lived in last year when flames erupted from the rear of the other unit apparently starting in the kitchen. damage was everywhere. >> everything i had. important papers pictures. >> reporter: you can count him a believer in home sprinkles now and a bill more than halfway to passage in the legislature would require they be installed in all new home construction across the state. cost on a 30-year mortgage a typical house, maybe 58 cents a day. >> for that 58 cents a day, it lowers your insurance rate provides your family with safety, provides your investment with protection. >> reporter: he is a sponsor of the bill but the state housing industry has been fighting him. its ceo releasing a statement saying, they are strongly opposed. citing a 50% drop in fire injuries and deaths over 30 years and arguing, quote, affo

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bill. i was proud to join him as an original co-sponsor. i would like to thank homeland security chairman michael mccaul, ranking member thompson and our subcommittee ranking member had kathleen rice, for supporting this bill and bringing it to the floor for a vote. this bipartisan bill was originally introduced last year in response to the horrific november 1, 2013 shooting incident at los angeles international airport in my congressional district. the bill is named in honor of gerardo hernandez, the transportation security officer who was killed in the line of duty on the tragic day. as we debate this bill, we offer our deepest condolences to the family of gerardo hernandez and we honor all of the t.s.o. police officers and other first responders who risk their lives to stabilize the situation and protect the public during that terrible incident. following the l.a.x. shooting incident, congress conducted several hearings on the incident, including a field hearing in my district on march had 28, 2014 -- march 28, 2014. these hearings revealed serious security lapses which interfered with response efforts, including emergency phones and panic butto

and i would like to go back to the questions of secretary thompson, without a full year of funding bill, the department of homeland security cannot award, it is my understanding $2.6 million, is that correct? billion dollars? >> billion. >> much of which goes to state and local departments. having served both at the local level as a council member, mayor and served as a state senator in the state of california these agencies are just beginning to recover from this great recession that we have had. they certainly do not have the funding to back-bill what we do not send to them and they are dependent on this funding in order to help protect our communities. so what -- what do you think is the risk assessment as it relates to these agencies not being able to pick up the phone and have someone on the other side answer to get feedback on a potential threat risk? >> ma'am, i can't speak to the specific risk. what i can speak to is the fact that grant funding and our investment in state and local community engagement efforts is a linchpin for how we have structured our country to do homeland s

bill's sponsors says there needs to be consequence for the costly obesity epidemic. >>> tonight on "politics nation" the rev meets the rev -- reverend al sharpton face to face with keenan thompson the other rev, who does a hilarious impression of him. they will talk about "snl's" 40th anniversary special. >>> a new video takes a funny look at president obama as he prepares for this week's buzzfeed interview. ♪ >> deadline for signing up for health insurance is february -- february 15th. thanks, obama. that's pretty good. >> mr. president president? >> can i live? >> so that's what happens when we're not around? the president wants to spread the word about sunday's health care deadline. the video has over 15 million views. >>> that is your morning dish of scrambled politics. >>> it is friday the 13th and joined by kevin from the hill. good morning, kevin. >> happy friday the 13th betty. how are you? >> some people may say it's not happy. we'll see how the day plays out. at a summit today the president will sign an executive order for cyber security. how will that protect us? >> well this is part of the president's cyber security proposal that he unveiled during his state of the

so i urge my colleagues to oppose the thompson amendment and support the underlying bill and i reserve the balance of my time. the chair: the gentleman reserves. the gentleman from mississippi is recognized. mr. thompson: madam speaker, i'm prepared to close. i have no further speakers. the chair: the gentleman reserves. mr. kline: i reserve. the chair: the gentleman from mississippi is recognized. mr. thompson: thank you, madam speaker. madam speaker, taken from the comments of the speaker in opposition you want the states to certify but you want the federal government to provide the money. what we're saying, if the federal government is providing the money then they should have some oversight on the overall standards that are adhered to by the program. what my amendment simply does is to say the secretary of education has the responsibility to certify that all students will be provided the proper education and other things afforded this act. it's only a certification and before we spend any money, he has to do that, so if the states certify to the secretary then that's fine, but we'r

thompson. welcome to you both. brian, can you go into more detail for us about what "mother jones" is describing. >> they are describing about times when billreporter was able to get to that area. that's been agreed upon. bill o'reilly says i never said i was there. i was in argentina. quotes out there disagree. he says here having survived a combat situation in argentina, i know life and death decisions are made in a flash. >> a combat situation in argentina. what would that be? >> he said he wasn't in the islands but he says combat operations. to call that a combat situation, "mother jones" would say is misleading. that's trying to puff up credentials and sound like you're in a dangerous situation. >> a journalist puffing up credentials is hardly stop the presses stories. not just brian williams style. every journalist. one of the reasons we have people who write biographies is to correct what gets written autobiographies and memoirs. the question is what bill o'reilly has done here blatant lying and tall tale telling, we have to wait to see what the report said and what exactly he's claiming. combat situation, i suppose is kind of a vagu

tweets say he was asked to do an impression of bill cosby but he said no in the 11th hour reportedly causing last-minute behind-the-scenes drama. keenan thompsonce as cosby in "celebrity jeopardy." but what he had to say through a time line on twitter. he said we talked in his dressing room a good hour. when it's over i'm convinced he'll do it. he knew the laughs would bring the house down. eddie murphy knows what will work on "snl" better than anyone but then macdonald goes on to tweet eddie decides the laughs are not worth it. he will not kick a man when he is down. tell us what's in your feed and tweet us with the #socialsquare. this was the first time he had been in studio 8h in 30 years. it was short but certainly had an impact. >> may have had an bigger impact than the joke itself. >> i respect that decision. >>> coming up neil patrick harris opening up to jimmy kimmel about the one thing making him nervous before sunday's big oscars show. >> only one thing? >> wow. >> he'll be great. >>> coming up "good morning america's" "deals & steals" brought to you by bank of america. use your bankamericard cash rewards credit card for these deals

thompson: i thank the gentleman for yielding. i rise today as a democratic lead on the conservation easement bill and to very regrettably say that i rise in opposition to this bill that i think so highly of. i don't disagree with the policy. i don't disagree with the need for certainty, something that's been referred to many times today. and i don't disagree that the way the republicans did it last year in the last two weeks, doing it retroactively, i don't disagree that that was the wrong way to do it. and i've worked for permanency on conservation easements ever since chairman camp and i passed the big expansion in 2006. i've been the democratic lead on every -- in every congress to make conservation easements permanent. conservation easements are good public policy. they protect open space. they protect important ag lands. they protect important wildlife habitat. they're essential for clean air and clean water. they're essential for locally sourced, good, healthy food. they're important to hunters, to fishermen, to conservationists. they're important to people who live in rural areas and they're important to people who live i

bill cosby during the "saturday night live" 40th anniversary special. former "snl" cast member norm mcdonnell tweeted he tried to get him to play cosby on the jeopardy skit that ran on the show. kenan thompson norm explained that eddie decided the laughs were not worth it and eddie murphy decided he would not kick a man when he's down. cosby released a statement in response saying "i am very appreciative of eddie and i applaud his actions." now some of you are tweeting "kudos to eddie murphy for refusing to mock bill cosby on the 40th anniversary special." in are enraged tweeting "i'm expected to applaud eddie murphy nr not wanting to kick bill cosby while he's down? are we forgetting why bill cosby is down?" cosby denied past allegations of sex wrully lyyou'lly assaulting women. >>> beyonce looking anything but flawless in untouched photos. . beyonce's fan base known as the bee hive are going berserk on social media. they hate seeing her laugh lines. many of you are tweeting if beyonce is supposed to look bad in these leaked photos there's truly no hope for us. hallelujah. >>> meanwhile recent gun stories have you feeling equally hopeless. authorities just confirmed that a michigan woman f

i'm very pleased to see this bill on the floor today and want to thank chairman mccall and ranking member mr. thompson for bringing it back to the floor. the need for interoperable communications was highlighted as the congressman from new jersey noted by the 9/11 commission after the september 11 terrorist attack. we know that much progress has been made by first responders across the country in gaining interoperability and the nationwide public safety broadband network that is being developed by the first responder network authority will further contribute to these cape b9s. however in the department of homeland securities' own inspector general november 2012 report illustrated the department itself has not made sufficient progress in addressing its own interoperable communication capabilities. so h.r. 615 works to address this serious issue by requiring the undersecretary for management to develop a strategy for achieving and maintaining interoperable communications between the d.h.s. components. it requires d.h. stomplet report to congress on the progress it is making toward achieving milestones.

still have strong concerns about the underlying bill, i am pleased to offer this bipartisan amendment along with my good friend and colleague mr. g.t. thompson of pennsylvania. as co-chairs of the career and technical education caucus, mr. thompson and i are submitted to help meet the demabbledses of the modern economy -- demands of the modern economy. our amendment provides flexibility for states to use title 1 funds for presentitiesship and career counseling. this is becoming a common refrain, i know, but the skills gap is a persistent and wholly fixable drag on our economy. we simply need to address it. in conversations with business owners across my home state and rhode island, i have constantly heard that they are struggling to find qualified candidates to fill the job openings that they have available right now. and in a state such as mine that has one of the highest unemployment rates in the country still, this is a troubling situation that we need to fix. apprenticeships are attest -- are ativitied -- are a tested and proven way for students to gain real-world experience while earning credit toward high school graduation. students ar

bill cosby in that jeopardy sketch. that was one of the best in the night. so keen an thompsontweeted eddie murphy, i realize, is not like the rest of us. eddie does not need the laughs. we reached out to "snl" and eddie murphy for legal reasons, bill cosby has never been charged. though he's been accused by some 20-plus women of various things these tweets 110 in the span of like an evening. >> our camera guy eric wasn't it keenan was scheduled to play eddie murphy back on thursday? >> he was the only one. >> you mean keenan was prepared to play bill cosby. >> yes. >> it didn't strike me as something they would spontaneously decide that night to say eddie murphy you will be bill cosby. >> it was a fascinating oral history of that night. i followed norm i saw the first couple tweets. he gained like 50,000 followers over the course of that. >> because he was drunk? >> no but it's a fact story. >> 110 tweets. >> he's telling a story. you only got 140 characters you have to keep going. >> you know a better way? come on our show talk. 1102003s that's a lot. >> i think a lot of peop

thompson is also a co-sponsor but this is bipartisan legislation. the required assessment should give congress the information it needs to determine how best to proceed with the twic program. the bill has been refined over time to ensure that the long overdue rule making for twic card readers would not be affected by the bill and to refine the scope of the assessment we are seeking. there is great interest in that final rule, particularly there is interest in how many ports and vessels will be required to install readers for biometric cards. if the final rule requires only a limited number of vessels and biometric readers as has been previously proposed by the department, we will still certainly need to have a discussion about what this means for the approximately two million truckers longshoremen and port workers who today carry twics as part of their job. for those of us who live around and near our ports, such as the houston port, we know this will have a great impact. with that mr. speaker, i reserve the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlelady reserves. the gentleman from georgia is recognized. >> i have no more speakers network gentlewoman has no more speak

thompson: i thank the gentleman for yielding. mr. speaker it's said that insanity is doing something over and over again and expecting a different result. well, here we go again, the 56th bill to repeal or undermine the affordable care act. we all understand that the majority needs to give their freshmen members an opportunity to say that they voted to repeal obamacare. so let's call this what it really is -- an exercise in futility. it may make for good talking points in your district, but it's bad for our country and it's a waste of time and a waste of tax dollars. you're in charge with the biggest majority in decades, and this is what you decide to do with it? folks on my side of the aisle are willing to work with you on things, like investing in roads growing our economy creating jobs and even making improvements in the affordable care act. our constituents sent us here to get something done, not to pass bills that are never going to become law. so let's do something meaningful. let's say no to this bill and get on with the work of the people. i yield back the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from pennsylvania. mr. pitts: might i inquire how ma

thompson: i thank the gentleman for yielding. i rise today as a democratic lead on the conservation easement bill and to very regrettably say that i rise in opposition to this bill that i think so highly of. i don't disagree with the policy. i don't disagree with the need for certainty, something that's been referred to many times today. and i don't disagree that the way the republicans did it last year in the last two weeks, doing it retroactively, i don't disagree that that was the wrong way to do it. and i've worked for permanency on conservation easements ever since chairman camp and i passed the big expansion in 2006. i've been the democratic lead on every -- in every congress to make conservation easements permanent. conservation easements are good public policy. they protect open space. they protect important ag lands. they protect important wildlife habitat. they're essential for clean air and clean water. they're essential for locally sourced, good, healthy food. they're important to hunters, to fishermen, to conservationists. they're important to people who live in rural areas and they're important to people who live i

thompson: i thank the gentleman for yielding. mr. speaker it's said that insanity is doing something over and over again and expecting a different result. well, here we go again, the 56th bill to repeal or undermine the affordable care act. we all understand that the majority needs to give their freshmen members an opportunity to say that they voted to repeal obamacare. so let's call this what it really is -- an exercise in futility. it may make for good talking points in your district, but it's bad for our country and it's a waste of time and a waste of tax dollars. you're in charge with the biggest majority in decades, and this is what you decide to do with it? folks on my side of the aisle are willing to work with you on things, like investing in roads growing our economy creating jobs and even making improvements in the affordable care act. our constituents sent us here to get something done, not to pass bills that are never going to become law. so let's do something meaningful. let's say no to this bill and get on with the work of the people. i yield back the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from pennsylvania. mr. pitts: might i inquire how ma

thompson: i thank the gentleman for yielding. mr. speaker it's said that insanity is doing something over and over again and expecting a different result. well, here we go again, the 56th bill to repeal or undermine the affordable care act. we all understand that the majority needs to give their freshmen members an opportunity to say that they voted to repeal obamacare. so let's call this what it really is -- an exercise in futility. it may make for good talking points in your district, but it's bad for our country and it's a waste of time and a waste of tax dollars. you're in charge with the biggest majority in decades, and this is what you decide to do with it? folks on my side of the aisle are willing to work with you on things, like investing in roads growing our economy creating jobs and even making improvements in the affordable care act. our constituents sent us here to get something done, not to pass bills that are never going to become law. so let's do something meaningful. let's say no to this bill and get on with the work of the people. i yield back the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from pennsylvania. mr. pitts: might i inquire how ma