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the next court date for aron is in october.eil: now his hand written confession is going to be made public, is that right? >>jonathan: yes, we got a look at that today for the first time. it is deeply disturbing. in it, aron described how he met the boy when he was we asking for directions and he took him with him to a wedding in west chester county and came back to his home in brooklyn, kept the little boy there overnight and said he panicked when he saw flies looking for help in finding him and he says he killed him, cut up the body, and dumped part of it in a suitcase into a dumpster and he went home to "clean and organize," and he ends the confession saying and i quote, "i understand this may be wrong and i'm sorry for the hurt i've caused." >>shepard: thank you from brooklyn, new york. thank you, jonathan. and weather alert, we are closely watching tropical storm emily hitting dominican republic and haiti which is bad for people in port-au-prince for those living in tent cities back in january of last year. tracking models

they are going to name another commission down the road to sit aron and do what? it's garbage, and they keep going out and selling the same sack of fertilizer because we're dumb enough i guess to keep buying this crap. >> let's think what our viewers think. they will be weighing in very soon, jack. thank you. i'll ask the house democrat about the charge that the debt deal facing a vote right now on the floor is a sugar-coated satan sandwich. congressman emanuel cleaver standing by live. as my mercedes collision system automatically kicked in. the next thing i know, the mercedes stopped itself. ♪ watching what mercedes has done in bringing together these sensors in a car with software that has the ability to save your life. that's magical software. [ male announcer ] the innovation, the engineering of mercedes-benz. the best or nothing. when i got my medicare card, i realized i needed an aarp... medicare supplement insurance card, too. medicare is one of the great things about turning 65, but it doesn't cover everything. in fact, it only pays up to 80% of your part

the suspect, 35-year-old levi aron, has been found competent to stand trial after a psychiatric evaluationoctober. >>> in texas the sentencing phase of the sexual assault trial of polygamous leader warren jeffs is already under way. >> it started yesterday after jeffs was convicted of having illegal sexual contact with two young girls. diana alveve has details. good morning, diana. >> reporter: good morning. warren jeffs sought to portray himself as a victim of religious persecution. but the jury did not believe him. instead, they sided with prosecutors who painted him as a sexual predator. after reviewing just one piece of evidence, it took a texas jury only a few hours to convict warren jeffs of sexually assaulting two young girls. >> i think there's a whole lot more victims in this than the two that came out in this trial, and i think justice was served. and hopefully the jury can continue to get it right. >> reporter: the cult leader's closing argument consisted only of nearly 30 minutes of silence. then he turned to jurors and said, i am at peace. in contras )prosecutors gave a dramat

in it, levi aron talked about meeting the little boy when he asked for directions to his home.en apparently took him to a wedding that he was attending. then went back home with levi. that's when he panicked, he killed the boy, dismembered the body. disposed of parts of it in his refrigerator. parts in his suitcase which he took to a dumpster. shep, he ends that confession letter by saying, and i quote. "i understand this may be wrong, and i'm sorry for the hurt that i have caused. "shep? >> shepard: jonathan hunt on a story that has shocked new yorkers. water may be flowing on the surface of mars. we got that word from nasa scientists today. they studied the latest mission from recovery. previously found evidence of ice on mars. this is the first time that they are seeing signs of water on the martian surface. the evidence comes in the form of thin shadows that appear on martian slopes in warmer months. they say as far as they can tell those shadows appear to be liquid water. this is all the more exciting for them because scientists consider water a key building block for life

the fewer, the closer that is to 10,000, the better that might be for aron paul.econd part of your question, you know, because this is the day that rick perry announces, it really puts a premium, i think, on victory, particularly if you are michelle bachmann. you know, she is the quasi-iowa frontrunner if you will. a win today continues that march for her, makes her look formidable and keeps her sort of in the top tier of candidacies, even as on the same day that perry is getting it. if she doesn't win here, here's the person leading in the polls, but if she doesn't win here, then -- and it's a day perry gets in, she has got a little bit of scrambling to do in order to make sure she doesn't get overtaken or overshadowed, particularly in this conservative bracket, if you will, by rick perry. >> is it enough for tim pawlenty to just finish in the top three, or does he really need this win? >> no. he is running low on resources. he has put everything into this thing. he needs a win probably more than any other candidate participating today. if he can get this win, it

he said aron was obsessed with character okay can i local bowling alley dive bar. irs is telling passengers no refund now that the f.a.a. shutdown is over. the irs originally told fliers to expect 15% on tickets. a lot of people went out and flew because of that now the irs says that's not happening. heart-pounding video. this is out of china. what started out as a tempting scene. i wouldn't say pretty. tight rope walker crossing wire soon takes a terrifying turn. >> [screams] [ laughter ] >> so you hear somebody in the background with a sick sense of humor laughing. this guy, there was nothing below him. he loses footing. 300 feet off the ground. didn't have a safety harness. he does this move and swirls his way back on and he eventually manages so be safe and sound. i don't know if there is a moral in that. >> don't walk the tight rope. >> have a net. don't walk a tight rope between two hot air balloons. rick outside with a check of the weather. >> juliet's play-by-play was the best. jew -- jew -- sits sue type of move. >> not the type of story you want to contin

like it was unsafe, never had this happen on one of my flights, you know, there's the option to turn aront this is what we do, so we do it as safely as possible, and we know the job is really important. >> chad, i want to tell you a little bit about her because there's a little background here. she sky dives. she's climbed mt. kilimanjaro, been up to antarctica. fair to say, any koeshlgs you a -- nicole, that you're a thrill-seeker. i don't want to give the impression that this is super safe. you like it. >> i love it. with that said, you know, any military job has an inherent dangerous parts of it. none of us would get in a plane on a regular basis if we didn't think we were coming home so we do the job as safely as possible, and there haven't been any loss of aircraft of ours i think since back in the 1970s. it really is as safe as we can possibly do it. >> okay. were you in katrina and charlie. i know the answer, but i don't think people at home have any idea. why do you fly propellor planes rather than jets? >> as we're flying through the storm, the propellors and all the rain and the

prosecutors say levi aron abducted the boy as he resigned.is now the fourth member of congress to step down this year in the wake of a sex scandal. the 56-year-old vowed to leave his post once a debt deal was completed. >>> th is boping blug ga, that's juno. the band was there, they were playing for a wedding but decided to give a whale of an encore. he's dancing. i'm fascinated. 7:14. i think he's still dancing from the zumba party. >> how was that bop again? >> rocking with it. rocking with it. >> go tam. >> "dancing with the stars." there's a lot of lines -- mr. roker, keeping an eye on emily and a lot of other things. >> we absolutely are. let's check it out and show you what's happening. we've got tropical storm emily right now it is moving west-northwest at about 7, 50-mile-per-hourwinds, only 100 miles south-southeast of port-au-prince haiti. a lot of models aredy verging from this. can could move into florida, into the gulf as well. the official path brings it right along the southeastern coast of florida and off to the southeastern c

glad to have you with us on ewin" i'yu fusma thovnmt gng toll arone ptn tist thhuertre r t15 da. ts trying to defuse tension after the jailing of anna hazare prmted protests across the country. police arrested him for trying to stage a hunger strike in new delhi. he has been demanding the government act immediately against rampant corruption. the government ordered his release after widespread rallies broke out. but refus tlee aing freedom of assembly. he continued to hole his hunger strike ija. >> on thursday, the government made a concession allowing him to hold a public fast of 15 days. zare is no expecte t coinue his demonstration at a rally with tens of thousands of his supporters. >>> observers say that there are fear it is government's stand-off with the activist is not over yet. it has rejected his demand for a tougher anti-corruption law. a recent survey said corruption in india has cost billions of dollars and could derail growth. >>> syrian president bashar al asad said his security forces have stopped their crackdown on anti-government protesters. he made a statement