abrams is trying to calculate just how much labor the king had under his command. how many workers were required to build the palace of 18 rabbit ? abrams: it would be wonderful to observe mayan indians building the structures that they built at copan. of course, that's impossible, so we have to set up experiments which replicate the behaviors as best as possible. keach: abrams times each of the construction phases as the maya might have performed them. knowing the maya used only stone tools, abrams estimates that two people could quarry over 3,000 pounds of rock in a day. he times the other processes, like transportation, knowing that the maya had no wheels or draft animals. abrams also times the manufacture of the blocks and construction of part of a wall. five cubic feet takes 80 minutes. by measuring all the walls in a building, abrams estimates the time needed to complete the masonry. he then adds this figure to the times for other processes like back-filling dirt behind the walls and plastering the exterior. abrams: i selected structure 22 to quantify as an e

floyd abrams is a partner in law firm of cahill gordon rendell in new york city. among all the among all accounts is apparent at first and a lawyer in the nation. the late senator daniel patrick moynihan called him the most significant first amendment lawyer of our age. he is a national trial and appellate practice involving securities litigation flexural property public policy policy and reckless policy and record trade issues issues preusser defrag when the supreme court in cases raising issues as diverse as the scope of the first interpretation of orissa the nature broadcast regulation, the impact of copyright law and the continuing viability of the miranda rule. he was cocounsel with professor alex mccullen the landmark papers case. notably he prevailed in his argument before the supreme court in behalf of senator mitch mcconnell the ammo scary i defending their rights of corporations to speak publicly about politics and citizens united versus fec united versus fec. it's quite about the mcgraw-hill companies stanford -- standard & poor's and various pentagon p

abram was in grade school in east oakland when he first heard about head royce.. sot/abram 59:10 i was looking for some was looking inside their small apartment, abraham woodsworth can hear his grandmother singing prayers as he does his home work. she is blind. >> every hill, every mountain, every valley, every river that i have had to cross has led me to this place. >> reporter: he has a 3.6gpa at one of the most rigorous private schools in california. head royce, the tuition, $35,000 a year. abraham was in public middle school in east oakland when he first heard about head royce. >> i was looking for something bigger in life and i was looking for a richer experience. >> so he applied for an academic scholarship. he had some mentors help, but it was basically abraham. >> it's incredible. it's not supposed to happen. >> it's supposed to happen in hollywood or something like that. >> abraham was born in liberia in 1966 during a series of civil wars. 250,000 people were killed including his father. several uncles. his mother was too young to care for him. abraham's aunt theresa lomatine

norman abrams said that how such a trial would likely go down. government would try to prove that snowden broke the law by leaking classified documents, and snowden would mount a defense that justified the motives and the benefit s ths that he belie have resulted from the action. the issue abrams said is that generally motive and reasons for doing the deed are not an element of the crime, and trials are limited to proof of the crime and responses to that proof. sn snowden has argued that previous whistle-blowers did not get a fair trial, and the university of texas scholar robert chezny says it is an article from anecdote, and he says each trial is difficult, and he, too, believes that snowden could get a fair trial, but there would be tension between snowden's desire to put the nsa on trial, and the government's effort to keep the scope of the trial limited. the substantive foreign intelligence revelations is how substantive they have been, because it is the government doing secretly what they are doing publicly like fighting the taliban in afgh

dan abrams, abc news, new york. >> i just think about those four little girls. >> that's it for me inory, yes. >> and apparently one of the guidance counselors told her their daughter gia, they're going to pull her out once a week from gym class to have a session with the counselors to make sure she's okay. >> those kids may never live in the house with their -- both parents again. he's facing the possibility of deportation once he goes to prison because he's not a u.s. citizen. it's hard to -- they broke the law. they did wrong. it's hard to have sympathy. a lot of people say good for them, but i feel bad for them. >> at sentencing the judge said, if you don't have it, you shouldn't spend it. >>> "the mix" coming your way next. ing your way next. the most adventurous couple. once we kept the lights on. but then we started using k-y yours & mine. yeah, we were nervous to try it. there's an amazing sensation for her. amazing. this one feels fantastic for me. and combined... ohh, it's a completely new sensation for us both. it's opened a whole new door for us. i've come to clean your po

. >>> with me now is georgia state representative stacy abrams, house minority leader.et's start there. you did see in that little clip we showed of the debate between nunn and her republican opponent, he wanted to focus on barack obama. she wanted to focus on unemployment. so, talk a little about that divide where you have perdue saying, no, look look at the president. you have nunn saying, no, let's look at unemployment. >> i think michelle made a clear and important point. with the senator we elect next tuesday will be the senator for six years. we need someone who cannot only work with the president today but work with president in 2016. the problem for david perdue is he's focusing so exclusively on two years of a presidency that is -- he's ignoring the larger issue. for georgians, how do we get ourselves back on the feet, reduce the unemployment number and do it with someone who thinks no one in georgia is smart enough to understand outsourcing and the impact. >> i think we put the number up before, 7.9% unemployment in georgia. 5.9% is the national average. let's

joining me are first amendment lawyers martin garbus and floyd abrams. i'm pleased to have them at this table. floyd, what's wrong with this? >> well, first of all, let's say it's protected by the first amendment. >> rose: yes. >> you are a first amendment believer. they have every legal right to do this. and peter gelb has every right as he chooses to put this on. i find it disturbing. i find it sort of morally obtuse, though, that they would choose to do so. this is really a work, perhaps even a fine work, but a work which nonetheless is about the death of a real pan, the murder of someone that walked the streets here in new york, which makes it a two-sided issue. which is a delate, as it were. there is a palestinian side, with beautiful aria's sung about what they claim to have lost in israel. there is an israeli side. and there's a dead man. and its seems to me that-- peter gelb would not have done an opera of the same sort about the death of martin luther king making a debating topic, should he have been killed. or the death of john kennedy, making

abc's dan abrams has the story. >> of course, i was shocd. >> reporter: real housewives of new jersey giudice preparing to serve a 15-month sentence for fraud. speaking out to bravo's andy cohen about learning shooed be serving hard time. >> i mean it was very unexpected. i don't even know what's to say. i really don't know what to say. >> reporter: she was eligible for many more months but the judge spared her. has she learned a lesson? >> i need to read things before i sign them. i do need to understand things before i sign them. >> reporter: that's not how the court saw them. no question, the giudices now facing a new reality as husband joe prepares for a longer prison term once she's released. beginning in january, where will she call home? it could be at a federal prison camp in west virginia, far from her family. but known as camp cupcake. martha stewart was sent here a decade ago for lying about a stock trade. >> reporter: even if it's one of the finer federal prison establishments, it's insure to be quite the transition for this real housewife accustomed to the celebrity treat

we talk to first amendment lawyers martin garbus and floyd abrams. >> how can floyd or i or you comeople you shouldn't see this, you shouldn't hear this. i mean does one group, the jewish group, minority groups, irish groups, black groups have a right to tell other people what they shouldn't do? >> rose: and we continue with george lucas, the filmmaker, talking about the new lucas museum of narrative art in chicago, and the movie business today. >> narrative art which is an art that tells a story about society, that's the definition of narrative art. >> it's art that tells a story, it's the kind of ideas that glue a society together. it's like-- it's the visual mythology of

t afford the rogram and upgrade our abrames bradley and strikers. the operation were one or the other. that was a difficult choice we had to make and that was driven seqstration cuts. >> you mentioned seqequestratio obviously it's up to congress to see whether or not you're going to go back to full sequeration or operate under some sort of relieve. >> yes. >> are you building planans, an what impact would full sequestration have if it comes back? >> it would be pretty painful, i can guarantee you. the army's research development acquisition account has been basically the bill payer in the last few years during sequestration. the army topline in the last five years has gone down 15 percent. the research development acquisition account went down 33%. so you can see even your term, because you can't get a fourth structure out fast enough. the only part that you can squeeze within our budget is the r.d.a. account. the modernization account is taking brunt of e hit. i can tell you what it's forced us to do is develop two different budgets. the p presiden

>> stacy abrams is the top ranking democrat in the georgia state assembly. palace went to see her. >> i sit as the minority in the howpts, i certainly intend, to investigate and request information from the secretary of state about this program, about the nature of the program, about the origin of it about the resources and about whether or not we are systematically attempting to disenfranchise half of our georgia voters. >> for someone to vote in three places is kind of odd because we have a hard time to get them to vote one place. >> helen butler is the director of get out the vote initiative. >> according to voting protection groups that we've met with in carolina, according to dick morris on fox tv that the obama campaign for example may have had a million people voting twice and that he stole the election. >> oh, that's crazy. that's totally crazy. there was not people voting twice in any election. and if they're basing it off of this they are crazy as well. because that tales you that that is not good information. >> in a lead-up to mid terms georgia h

." >> dan abrams joins us with what we'll see at 7:00 a.m. >> good morning matt and erin.n american doctor tests positive for ebola after returning from west africa. he is in quarantine at a new york city hospital. how health officials are handling this latest diagnosis. >>> new details on the deadly rampage in canada's capitol. dan harris is live in ottawa with all new developments this morning. >> the two heros that took down the fence jumpers. the secret service dogs we'll have them, why they are called the from president's fiercest protecters. >>> we have a homeless woman turning her life around and how he spent the night out out sleeping on the streets. that's coming up on "g.m.a." >> all right, dan see you in a bit. >> reporter: we have no accidents here, but it's slow, we have traffic heavy on 422 approaching trooper. long view road at main street in montgomery county, a downed tree that's blocking the roadway there. new jersey, 42, that's northbound traffic we have building volume not too bad between 55 and 295. >> reporter: on the big board we're off to a cool sta

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>> stacey abrams is a top ranking democrat in the georgia assembly. he went to meet her three weeks before election day. >> i sit as minority leader of the house of representatives, this information has never been represented to the house of representatives. i intend through my auspices as member of the house of representatives to investigate and request information from the secretary of state about this program about the nature of the program, about the origin of it and resources being used to implement it, and the attempt to disenfranchise half a million of our georgia voters. >> earlier i spoke with the journalist in that piece about his investigation into cross check, and i asked him how many states have signed up for cross check, and whether they are knocking voters off the roles? >> we have 27 states signed up for this cross check program, and almost all of them are republican-controlled states. when you knock off black voters, hispanic voters, aaron-american voters who vote three-quarters democratic, you're going to have a big effect on electio

. >> georgia state representative stacey abrams.thanks for helping us understand this. 40,000 voter registration forms gone missing ought to be a big deal. good luck. keep us posted. >> much more ahead. stay with us. money. kid: do you pay him? dad: of course. kid: how much? dad: i don't know exactly. kid: what if you're not happy? does he have to pay you back? dad: nope. kid: why not? dad: it doesn't work that way. kid: why not? vo: are you asking enough questions about the way your wealth is managed? wealth management at charles schwab to map their manufacturings at process with sticky notes and string, yeah, they were a little bit skeptical. what they do actually is rocket science. high tech components for aircraft and fighter jets. we're just their bankers, right? but financing from ge capital also comes with expertise from across ge. in this case, our top lean process engineers. so they showed us who does what, when, and where. then we hit them with the important question: why? why put the tools over there? do you really need t

last week georgia's stacy abrams told us that her group, new georgia project has turned in applications,000 people whose names have not appeared yet on the rolls or list of voters whose applications are pending. where did those names go? what happened to those people who registered to vote and their name never popped up anywhere and it doesn't seem like they're registered. georgia's top election official says that everybody who applied to register to vote by the deadline will be enrolled in time for the election. his office says they're not aware of any backlog in processing new applications. but new georgia says they're missing roughly 40,000 people. after our interview last week, after they told us about the missing tens of thousands of voter applications, and told us about their frustration in trying to get answers from the georgia secretary of state. the day after that interview, the new georgia folks sued the state of georgia, sued the secretary of state trying to make sure everybody who ought to be qualified to vote this this election actually gets to vote. the group moved the fig

. >> georgia state representative stay sill abrams. thank you. that is "all in for this evening." >> good evening, chris. thank you. and thanks to you at home for joining us this hour. we 'got a big show tonight. the nation's top expert on infectious disease is going to be with us tonight. very much looking forward to that conversation. but we need to start tonight with some breaking news from the united states supreme court. late tonight, just within the last couple of hours, the u.s. supreme court has handed down a pretty significant ruling on abortion rights. the u.s. supreme court tonight reversed a lower court ruling that earlier this month had shut down all but the last handful of abortion clinics in the state of texas. tonight, because of this intervention from if supreme court, the dozen clinics that were basically shuttered overnight earlier this month, legally, those clinics should be able to reopen effective immediately. whether or not their can let rally reopen, whether they're in any position to reopen, that remains to be seen. but l

the are two first amendment lawyers on opposite sides of the controversy, martin garbus and floyd abramsoyd, what is wrong with this? >> first of all, let's say it is protected by the first amendment to request yes. quite -- >> yes. >> they have every legal right to do this. and he has every legal right to put this on. i find it disturbing and morally obtuse that they would choose to do so. rk, perhapslly a wo work,ight -- a fine but a work about the death of a real man, the murder of a person who walked the streets in new york, making it a two-side issue. there is a debate. beautiful side with arias sung about what they lost in israel, an israeli side, and a dead man. it seems that peter gelb would not have done an opera of the same sort about the death of martin luther king, making a debating topic, should he have been killed? or the death of john kennedy, making a debating topic, should he have been killed? take one of those, or the people who died on 9/11. the idea of a beautiful aria sung on the killer's side seems to me morally unacceptable. he can do it, but i find it very troubli

. >> georgia state representative stacey abrams, thanks for helping us understand this. 40,000 voterion forms gone missing ought to be a big deal. good luck. keep us posted. >> much more ahead. stay with us. (receptionist) gunderman group. gunderman group is growing. getting in a groove. growth is gratifying. goal is to grow. gotta get greater growth. i just talked to ups. they got expert advise, special discounts, new technologies. like smart pick ups. they'll only show up when you print a label and it's automatic. we save time and money. time? money? time and money. awesome. awesome! awesome! awesome! awesome! (all) awesome! i love logistics. fifteen percent or more fifon car insurance.d save you everybody knows that. well, did you know certain cartoon characters should never have an energy drink? action! blah-becht-blah- blublublub-blah!!! geico®. introducing the birds of america collection. fifty stunning, hand-painted plates, commemorating the state birds of our proud nation. blah-becht-blah- blublublub-blah!!! geico®. fifteen minutes could save you fifteen percent or more on ca

shatner was recently approached by j-j abrams to appear in the movie. the cameo is planned, but there is no deal yet, as the script is not finalized. it's rumored shatner would share a scene with chris pine, who plays the young kirk. "star trek 3" is set to start production soon. it's scheduled for theaters in 20-16. alfonso ribeiro finally gave the people what they wanted this week-- the carlton! his jazz routine, set to tom jones' "it's not unusual" was everything fans could have hoped for... incorporating his famous dance from the "fresh prince of bel air." the judges him and his partner whitney a perfect score of 40. he's still got it. >> good morning. high temperature 66. light showers are coming our way. nothing too heavy. and we're down to 44. i think we dryout by dinner. 64 for the high on wednesday. there's dick, sunshine high- temperature climbing up to 63. >> we have an accident we're watching in northwest indiana. acclaim blocked as you approach to 49. that is the jackknifed semi causing all kinds of problems. on top of that, could delays bu

. >> hubert abram lehman jr. more affectionately known as j.r. zjr. >> the options for treatment few. almost detlothree decades later granddaughter has dedicated her life. >> i know that he had the courage to stand up to aids in 1985 by participating in the first clinical trials of azt at the national institutes of health in bethesda. >> azt. a controversial and often painful treatment brought to light by matthew mcconaughey in the movie dallas buyers club. >> the whole purpose of this study is to determine if azt is helping people. >> there have been thousands of selfless people like j.r. who helped raise awareness. over time, their efforts have helped lead to new groundbreaking treatments. many of them will be on hd this saturday. the the good news is testing is up and new cases are down in the whitman walker clinic right here in northwest d.c. is the big reason why. they offer support. they offer counseling. they offer treatment. most importantly, they don't turn people away because the fight to end hiv here in the nation's capital is real. >>

>> stacy abrams is the top of tf ranking democrat. >> i sit as the minority leader of the house of representatives. this information has never been presented to the house of representatives. i think it's unreasonable, i believe i should be able to request information from the secretary of state about the nature of the program about the origin of it about the resources being used to implement it and about whether or not we are systematically trying to disenfranchise our georgia voters. >> voters are frustrated by the gridlock on capitol hill. are send us a message, #dear congress. or tweet us at #dear congress. >> demanding answers from the president of mexico. and the sistine chapel gets a makeover. >> this is al jazeera america. i'm john siegenthaler and coming up: missing in mexico. angry parents of 43 students take their message to the president. >>> and the experimental science lost in last night's rocket explosion. big data, big surveillance, the comic book exposing a threat to your privacy you might not know about. a tense meeting today in mexico between the parents of 43 missing students an

. >> georgia state representative stay sill abrams. thank you. that is "all in for this evening." >> good evening, chris. thank you. and thanks to you at home for joining us this hour. we 'got a big show tonight. the nation's top expert on infectious disease is going to be with us tonight. very much looking forward to that conversation. but we need to start tonight with some breaking news from the united states supreme court. late tonight, just within the last couple of hours, the u.s. supreme court has handed down a pretty significant ruling on abortion rights. the u.s. supreme court tonight reversed a lower court ruling that earlier this month had shut down all but the last handful of abortion clinics in the state of texas. tonight, because of this interventiro

ucla law school's norman abrams told me how such a trial would likely go down.would try to prive that snowden broke the law by leaking classified documents. snowden would want to mount a defense that justified his motives and the benefits he believes have resulted from his action. the issue, he said, is generally, motive and reasons for doing the deed are not an element of the crime and trials are limited to proof of the crime and responses to that proof. snowden has argued that previous whistleblowers did not get a fair trial, but the university of texas scholar robert chesney said this is an argument from anecdote and each trial and each judge is different. he, too, believes it is possible for snowden to get a fair trial, though there would be attention between snowden's desire to put the nsa on trial and the court's efforts to keep the scope of the case more limited. the most striking aspect of the revelations is how few consequenceses they have had. that's because they mostly showed the u.s. government doing secretly what it has said it was doing publicly, f

in genesis, god speaks to abram in a dream and promises to give them and his descendents the land between the nile and the euphrates, territory that would encompass southern turkey, western iraq, parts of saudi arabia, all of syria, jordan, israel, the west bank, gaza, sinai and half of egypt. later, god makes a similar pledge to moses as he leads his people out of egypt, although the boundaries are now from the red sea to the euphrates. on another occasion god tells moses that the promised land is really keen in, which is an entity that's much more like modern israel, including the west bank and much of southern lebanon. defining borders has always been a problem in the middle east, evidently, even for god. when the wandering israelites reached the river jordan, god draws moses up to mount needle and since this is the land i promised to abraham and his descendents, and you the opportunity to see but i will not let you cross over. so abraham, so moses label to look out from the mount and see all the way to the mediterranean sea. and then he passed away at the age of 120, having delivered

abrams battle tanks were delivered to the iraqi military and sophisticated weapons were delivered toiraqi military and unfortunately like you said, the weaponry ended up in the hands of isis. >> i understand. because if you take a look at what isis has, they have sophisticated weaponry, largely u.s. weaponry captured from iraqi military refusing to fight to defend their own country. why can't the u.s. deliver weapons directly to the kurds? why does the u.s. have to go through baghdad? >> the united states is bound with explanation given to us, is bound by the sovereignty of the iraqi state talking to the government in baghdad. that is undeniably is slowing down the delivery of these shipments but i hope we can fix this for once and for all and at the end of the day, kurdistan has emerged as a reliable party of the united states and competent party of the united states and the neighbors countries in the fight against isil. you talked about kobani and the white house spokesman was talking about lack of ground troops. you have watched from the cnn the heroic fighters, the men and women

it happened with abram off in the post. that happened back in 1974, watergate.t's how we got campaign finance in the first place. so it really will take us down for there to be some sort of change. >> i'm going to say that the capacity for scandal may be greater but the capacity to respond to scandal is less. i think back to 2000 campaigns during the primaries there was a group that popped up, i'm not remembering it's me. it was a 527 organization which was a political organization, back and it didn't have to disclose its donors. it was spending what then seemed like an unbelievable sum, which my recommended -- recollection was two to 3 million. this was during the republican primary campaign. we couldn't figure. it was i think in support of -- i can the weather was in support of john mccain or in support of george w. bush. someone else here who's got a less creaky memory than i have is going to jump in helping. >> they were attacking mccain. >> it was the wiley brothers. i'm not sure if they were attacking mccain or supporting them in favor of bush. but all of

. >> and dan abrams here today. what is this case going to turn on? about the bentley and more about was he drunk? if he was drunk, it is hard to see how -- >> he says he got drunk after the accident. >> he says he wept to this man cave. hard to cruise that term without smiling. he went to an empty home of a friend of his and chugged alcohol after the crash. that's hi he had such a high blood alcohol number. he's not disputing that he was drunk when they took his blood alcohol. he's saying the only run i was drunk was because i drank after the crash, not before it. that, to me, becomes the key question. >> it appears he's come up for the retrial with a more plausible story. >> a little bit. a little bit of a different count. on the first trial, they focused on the idea that the bentley lurched forward. this time, they're saying it was more an issue with the brakes. he was trying to pump them and they didn't work effectively. the fact that it's inconsistent is not helpful. they've gone back, he was convicted the first time. they said, what mistakes did

. >> let's get right to dan abrams. you and i were talking about this.'s a retrar retroor retrial? >> it's always a surprise. the juror does his own drinking experiments during the case, to see how drunk he gets doing vodka shots. that's exactly what you're not supposed to do as a juror. >> or get drunk? >> get drunk in your own time. that's okay. you can't do tests realilated t the case. he admitted he hadn't disclosed his ex-wife had a dui. he disclosed it in a self-published book. it was almost begging for trouble. he did. he ended up serving time. and a retrial. >> retrials rarely happen. but when it does, it helps the prosecution. >> they did succeed many in case. they won the case. this time, it's the defense that has the advantage to look at how the case went, possibly consider new strategies. it seems they have some advantages, some witnesses have changed their testimony. people forget. all of those things are an advantage to the defense. the only issue will be does the defendant himself take the stand. if he does, is his testimony consistent wit

. >> and bring in dan abrams for more. the sheriff's office standing bit information.ere problems with it. >> there was no question they too quickly determined it was a suicide. they may have decided that at a later point. they didn't collect evidence in the way they should have to at least better rule out the possibility of a homicide. >> what could they have looked more closely at? >> collected my evidence, interviewed more witnesses. there are a number of things that are really important. number one, two different neighbors say that they heard screams that night. he says there was no fight. if there were screams, that's a big problem for him. number two, in matt's piece, she was right-handed. and the gun would have been to have been fired with the left hand to commit suicide in an awkward way. and the cut on her eye. there was no evidence of a struggle, et cetera, but there was a cut on her eye that it now seems may have occurred before her death. not as a result of the gun, et cetera. so those are all very important pieces of evidence that should have been better-i

. >> we to want bring in dan abrams. is the jury convinced?he heart of the prosecution is my bentley malfunctions, that's tough. this is the second trial. he was convicted the first time. he testified the first time. he's got to convince the jury in a way he didn't the first time. he's added a couple things to the testimony. for example, saying he pumped the brake on the bentley. reached for the emergency brake. things he didn't mention in the first case. so that's changing here. i think they're hoping that the jury's going buy this story this time. but the heart of this case still comes down to the question of, how did he get drunk? he says it was in this man cave after the incident course. prosecutors are saying no, no, you had 12 to 13 drinks before you got into your car. >> we're also seeing, he's admitted that he has a speech impediment. we have seen that on the stand. why is that such an important point? >> because the defense wants these jurors to believe that the first witness who saw him after the crash said he seemed like he was slur

. >> all right, bring in dan abrams. possible house arrest after ten months?under the law he was sentenced under, after a sixth of the sentence, you're allowed to request a different kind of correctional sppgs. you can request house arrest. whether he'll get it or not is another question. he's not going to serve five years here. the only place where five years is five years is the international paralympic committee says it's a five year sentence. >> we know he's not going to appeal, but they could appeal the conviction? >> they could appeal the conviction. only guilty of culpable homicide as opposed to murder. we need to take that step back here. this is still a big win for oscar pistorius. he was on trial for murder. he shot his girlfriend in his own home four times. the fact that he was only convicted of culpable homicide, only five years, with the eligibility to get out after ten months a huge win for oscar pistorius and frustrating to a lot of other people. >> maybe why he's not appealing. >> exactly. >>> and now an ush gent consumer alert. a potentially d

let's bring in dan abrams. possible house arrest after ten months?yeah, under the law he was sentenced under, after a sixth of the sentence, you're allowed to request a different kind of correctional supervision. meaning you can request house arrest. whether he'll get it or not is a separate question. one thing is clear. he's not going to serve five years here. he's going to serve a lot less than that. the only place where five years is going to mean five years is the international paralympic committee has come out publicly and said, for us, a five-year sentence means a five-year suspension for him. >> we did hear he won't appeal the sentence. but the prosecutors still could. >> they could appeal the conviction. they could appeal the initial conviction saying only guilty of culpable homicide as opposed to murder. we need to take that step back here. this is still a big win for oscar pistorius. he was on trial for murder. he shot his girlfriend in his own home four times. the fact that he was only convicted of culpable homicide, now only getting five