eastern. >>> new development in the am n amanda knox case.rosecutors, they want to extend her sentence. we'll explain ahead. ♪ [ male announcer ] designed to function the way you function. the lexus rx. ♪ at your lexus dealer. >>> yesterday we reported that president barack obama was moving to end discrimination and hospitalization visitation rights for same-sex couples. he told the department of human as much ass to designate who can visit them and to prohibit visitation based on sex wrap orientation. janis lengbend joined us and told us she was not permitted to see her partner before she decided. the department told us they didn't discriminate and provided a copy of a letter they say was sent to president obama. there are other stories. joe johns is back. >> federal safety inspectors have found more than 60 serious violations at mines by massey since 29 miners died at company's upper big branch mine. officials believe explosive gas and coal dust may be to blame for the worst mining disaster in 40 years. >>> amanda knox could be looking at a

the international legal challenge. >> reporter: even with italian prosecutors moving to extend amanda knox's murder sentence from 26 years to life in prison for showing no remorse, knox's lawyers have filed a 200-page appeal with the italian court which they say should win her release. >> and given the sad and tragic and violent nature of this murder, one would think some evidence of amanda would be found in that room or on her person but it was not. >> reporter: with her italian boyfriend and another man, amanda knox was convicted of the stabbing murder and cover-up of knox's roommate, meredith kercher. though prosecutors conceded amanda knox did not plan the murder. >> amanda has veer wroe history of violence at all ever. your first crime is not a murder, it just doesn't happen. >> reporter: backed by a supportive family knox is fighting her conviction first by challenging the conconfession the family contends was forced. >> she was smacked in the back of the head, she was threatened, she was screamed at. >> reporter: defense lawyers also say they will challenge forensic tests, produce a n

mission to the international space station. >>> in italy the battle over the murder conviction of amanda knoxinto high gear tonight. she is the american college student found guilty of killing her roommate. now prosecutors are pushing to have knox's jail sentence extended while her family is fighting to set her free. betty nguyen has the latest. >> reporter: the prosecute filed a notice late last week asking to extend her sentence from 25 years in prison to life. in their formal aappeal prosecutors cited her "lack of remorse." >> that's ridiculous. first of all amanda showed a lot of devastation over the loss of her friend, but you don't apologize for something you didn't do. >> reporter: now knox's attorneys are firing back, filing their appeal. a 201 page document that attacks her conviction on three key points. her long initial interrogation by police when knox says she was forced to confess. what they call the prosecutor's contradictory evidence. her family says knox is trying to stay positive. >> she's hanging in there. it's always better for her when things are moving. it feels like the

amanda knox is filing a fresh appeal in her murder conviction in italy. she is convicted of murdering her roommate while studying abroad. she questions the basic tests used, including the dna found on the knife. just last week the italian prosecutor asked to increase her sentence to life in prison. president obama will speak in new york city later this week, laying out his case for a new crackdown on wall street. the plan for financial reform includes a $50 billion billion fund paid for by the banks in the event another institution to develop. it also creates the consumer protection office, and more regulation for complex securities. the democrats insist they have the votes to pass it, but not a single senate republican supports the bill. >> present bill is not good. >> the american people say that we do not want another bailout. >> the president bush got another boost from the sec with its suit against goldman sachs. >>> religious freedom fight is taking center stage at the supreme court today. they are deciding whether a lawsuit can indeed a law school

knox's lawyer says they will introduce new evidence and request an independent review of the forensic evidence. >> in the room where meredith lost her life, there was not one spec of amanda in that room. and how they can say that she was a part of this crime is beyond me. >> reporter: cold and calculated killers is how the prosecutor describes knox and her former boyfriend. he has also charged knox and her parents were slander. >> we're, of course, hugely disappointed. it's -- you know, he's already got his conviction. he got a long sentence and he's since then also added -- charged her with a new crime. he has charged her with slander. >> it's almost a vendetta he has against her. >> reporter: knox is allowed one phone call a week to her parents. >> we hopefully like to hear she's in an upbeat mode. >> reporter: served almost three years in prison for a crime she claims she didn't commit. >> i saw her a week ago. she was doing good, trying to stay busy and stay upbeat. >> reporter: the conviction last december created a sensation in italy, where knox is still called by the press angel face. she will be back in court and on the front page of newspapers as early as septem

surrounding the american convicted for murder, italian prosecutors pushing for life in prison for amanda knox college student serving 26 years after the conviction of brutally killing her roommate and the most knox and her boyfriend, convicted of stabbing a woman to death. prosecutors now filing an appeal, seeking to increase the sentence, due to, quote, aggravated circumstances, and they believe the murder had no motive and that meredith kircher was killed in a drug craze and they are appealing the conviction that sent her to jail for 22 years. martha: now a case we have been following closely, the tragic case of phoebe prince. now, as you may remember, she is a massachusetts teenager, she took her own life in her home, after what prosecutors called an unrelenting case of bullying. that drove her to this. that is the contention here and let's imagine what life was like going to school every day for young phoebe prince, he was from ireland, a new student at the school, and, there was, you know, 6 teenagers who were involved and the case has caused -- you can imagine. what life is like in this

an attorney for amanda knox says he has a new witness who can prove the american student did not kille in italy. he claims the witness will say knox and her then boyfriend weren't in the room when meredith was killed. knox was convicted in september and sentenced to 26 years in prison. >> yeah, there's an interesting relationship between wall street and the government. >> remember, goldman-sachs is one of the government's biggest donors to the presidential campaign and in return, the big bank received billions of dollars in bailout money. >> so is the goldman-sachs lawsuit frivolous? and politically motivated? fox's senior judicial analyst judge andrew napolitano has been looking at this extensively. what do you think about the timing, judge? >> well, we know that the president and the democrats and a few republicans are interested in reregulating the financial community. they will argue that the reasons we have the recession we have now is because there's not enough regulation. some of us would argue it's the government's fault because the government induced the banks to do these thi