they live in a very nice area of boynton beach. it's a newly constructed town center development, and he worked from home. i'm not exactly sure what his business is. i know that he seems to do well. >> what do you mean town center? what's that? >> a town center is where you build a shopping center, retail, restaurants, and then build the residence around that. >> oh, right. fancy, high-end stores like saks fifth avenue, barney's, and then, yeah -- >> exactly. >> expensive condos. okay. we are taking your calls out to kiana in washington. hi, dear. >> caller: hi, nancy. i love you. >> thank you. thank you for calling in, dear. what's your question? kiana calling from washington state. >> caller: yes. i would like to know if anyone knows if the wife was having an affair. >> well, you know, that's a good question. there's always money or a lover hiding in the closet. what do you know, ellie jostad? >> don't know of an alleged lover at this point, although we do know that she told the confidential informant she gave him a schedule of w

i'm going to go out to chief matthew immler, boynton beach police department. chief, i don't know if you counted on the c.i., confidential inform apartment, being revealed in this manner. what do you make of it? >> we're not saying whether the confidential informant is revealed or not. obviously we don't reveal any information about any of our confidential informants. whatever you have there in the pleadings at this point in our opinion is speculation. >> i want to go to eli. ellie, what can you tell me? what are the updates on the case? >> nancy, as you know, this lawsuit, what happened is on friday just a week ago, she convinced, dalia dippolito convinces him to sign over the condo to her to protect his assets. she tells this informant, whoever he is, that she wants her husband killed. that night she allegedly tells this friend, this man she's seeing whoever this manufacturant is that she wants her husband killed. the next day she gives him $1200 to buy a gun and to hire a hit man. >>> a newlywed in boynton beach, florida, accused of hiring a hit man to kill

i'm going to go out to chief matthew emler, boynton beach police department. i don't know if you counted on the ci, confidential informant, being revealed in this manner. what do you make testify? >> if it's been revealed or not, obviously we don't reveal any information about any of our confidential informants. whatever you have there in the pleadings at this point in our opinion is speculation. >> i want to go to eli. what can you tell me? what are the updates on the case? >> this lawsuit, what happened is on friday, just a week ago, she convinces, dahlia deposit leet t -- doppolito convinces him to sign over the condo to her to protect his assets. she tells this informant, whoever he is, that she wants her husband killed. the next day she gives him $1200 to buy a gun and to hire a hitman. >>> a newly wed in boynton beach, florida, accused of hiring a hitman to kill her husband. they'd only been married six months. but police say dalia dippolito unknowingly hired an undercover cop to do the job. police plan a sting operation, faking her husband death, callin

>> right, nancy, in addition to boynton police videotaping her reaction to the news that her husband had been killed, supposedly, the tv show "cops" was also there, filming it. now, her attorney says that she did sign a waiver which would allow the video to appear on the tv show, but he said she was confused, she was misled, she didn't know what she was signing. >> so we can look forward to seeing this on television, the whole thing? >> very possibly, yes. >> okay, ellie, what else is happening in the case? >> well, nancy, they have a hearing next week to make that protective order permanent. we don't know if we'll hear more about what's going on then. also, dalia dippolito has her initial appearance in september. >> she wants her husband dead and she was sobbing like her world had crumbled.

she's a spokeswoman for the boynton beach police department. stephanie, before we go on, we have the video clip of the reaction. now, this is -- correct me if i go astray, stephanie, this is the murder scene, or fake murder scene is staged, cops call up the wife, dalia, and tell her, come on in. and they break the news to her. watch and listen to her reaction. >> no, no! no! no! >> all right. there it is. stephanie, were there any actual tears coming out as we listened to that? >> no, there was a lot of sobbing and her arm wavering and trembling. but there was no wetness in her eyes. >> okay. so how were these officers able to keep a straight face, then? >> they're very good at their jobs. >> they wanted to laugh, huh? knowing what we know now? and even knew then. they knew. >> they did a very good job of playing the role. >> all right. let's backtrack a little bit, stephanie, and we'll try to go through this chronologically. how did you guys get wind of this in the first place, that she had this up her sleeve, that she wanted to allegedly kill

>> right, nancy, in addition to boynton police videotaping her reaction to the news that her husband had been killed, supposedly, the tv show "cops" was also there, filming it. now, her attorney says that she did sign a waiver which would allow the video to appear on the tv show, but he said she was confused, she was misled, she didn't know what she was signing. >> so we can look forward to seeing this on television, the whole thing? >> very possibly, yes. >> okay, ellie, what else is happening in the case? >> well, nancy, they have a hearing next week to make that protective order permanent. we will hear more of what is going on there. but she has the initial appearance in september. >> at one point she says she is 5,000% she wants her husband dead and sobbing like her world had crumbled. >> oh, no! no, no, no! oh, my god. >>> very quickly again, thank you so much for your support today. the book "the eleventh victim" is finally in bookstores. as i mentioned to you many times a portion of my proceeds goes towards wesley glen ministries. they provide a truly loving home to the mental

boynton beach police say that dalia dippolito tried to pay a hitman $3,000 to kill her husband. turns out that hitman was an undercover police officer tipped off by a confidential informant. the report says the two met several times in a parking lot at a cvs and in a gas station. when the officer asked if she was sure she wanted it done, she replied, quote, i'm not going to change my mind. i'm 5,000% sure i want it done. >> the man allegedly targeted for a murder for hire plot by his own wife is speaking out and a judge ordered suspect dalia dippolito to stay away from her husband of six months. >> although they had evidence against her taken days earlier, boynton beach police clued michael in and staged a murder scene at the couple's town home capturing the grieving wife and minutes later flipping the script on her. >> problem? uh-oh, the hitman is a cop. >> i didn't do anything, and i didn't plot anything. >> they're breaking the news to her. all of the cops know she set the thing up according to them. according to this cop that she's trying to hug, he barely got the words out

. >> although they had evidence against her taken days earlier, boynton beach police clued michael in and staged a murder scene at the couple's town home capturing the grieving wife and minutes later flipping the script on her. >> problem? uh-oh, the hitman is a cop. >> i didn't do anything, and i didn't plot anything. >> they're breaking the news to her. all of the cops know she set the thing up according to them. according to this cop that she's trying to hug, he barely got the words out and she started wailing, but she anticipated the bad news. another cop says no matter how much she wailed, she couldn't squeeze out a tear. good evening, i'm jean casarez of the legal network in session in for nancy grace. nancy, she is not too far away. she is promoting her new great novel tonight. she's going to be on "the larry king show" live tonight in one hour from now on cnn at 9:00 eastern. tune in and watch anderson cooper as he chats with nancy about her new book, "the eleventh victim," nancy and anderson cooper tonight one hour fro fr now on cnn. right now to north georgia, and the desper

the "today" show, as you're aware, you've been showing the clips, and he is very thankful to the boynton beach police department, and he said as much this morning. >> yeah. they did a tremendous job, as the caller pointed out. thanks again, guys. jason, josh, tara fields, andrew marra. we appreciate it. we'll keep following it for you. when we get the motive, we'll let you know as to why someone would do this. hard to figure. >>> all right, here's an idea. i want to know what you think about this one. turn in your guns, you get a gift card to target. that's the deal in fresno, california. cops there say this year violent crime went up nearly 10%, 9.4%. so they decided it was time for the city's first ever gun buyback program. police collected 447 guns in less than three hours saturday, ran out of the cards. okay, great people can get some money for the old guns, but is it really going to be the great solver of crime there? here's what police are saying. >> these are firearms that are being used on the streets of fresno to do drive-by shootings. they're in the hands of the wrong people. >

the hitman turned out to be an undercover boynton beach cop. he says she paid him $1,200 up front for the deal and get the gun. the rest she would pay when the deed was ne. the phony hitman met with her a second and third time to confirm the hit. she told him, "i'm 5,000% sure i want it done. when i set my mind to do something, i get it done." >> here is a woman saying she's 5,000% sure. she wants to pay for her husband to be killed. at the scene you have a woman who is sobbing uncontrollably because she's just learned that her husband is dead. >> that was michelle king reporting. the woman is being held at the palm bea county jail. couple had only been married for six months. >>> time now 11:40. what this defendant did that will probably land him in even more trouble. >>> the social networking sight that doesn't just help you find friends, it can help you find a fair deal. >>> she tweeted she's de with >>> a kentucky man accused of murder may be in even more trouble after what happened innocent courtroom. bass webb appeared in the courtroom ye

police in boynton beach, police in boynton beach, florida say the wife hired a hit man to murder her husband. what she didn't know was that the hit man was an undercover cop. police say they were able to pull off an elaborate sting, tricking her into thinking her plot worked, and that her husband was actually dead. they caught her reaction on tape. the tears, the works, check it out. >> miss dippolito? >> yes. >> [ inaudible ]. >> no! oh, no! >> yeah, right. what cops -- i don't know how cops, number one, kept a straight face. number two, we talked to an officer last week and said there was not one teardrop, just a lot of the verbal sobbing there. let's bring in richelle cary, our "prime news" correspondent. richelle, how did cops pull this one off? that was an elaborate sting. >> they're professionals, i'm telling you, mike. they really are. let me give you some background. police think the motive here was money. okay? specifically, a $243,000 townhouse. dalia dippolito was only married to her husband, michael, for six months before she allegedly wanted him dead. according to police

the informanted called boynton beach police. the informants helped us put our undercover officer in touch with dalia. >> how long was this plot in the works by the time dalia got in touch with the hitman who turned out to be an undercover police officer? >> that was monday afternoon. monday afternoon she met this undercover officer who she believed was a hitman in a car in a parking lot outside a cvs. it was during that encounter she was asked numerous times by this undercover, are you sure you want to do this? at one point she laughed and said, "i will be very happy." at that point she, again, she also said, "i'm not going to change my mind. i'm 5,000% sure i want it done. when i set my mind to something i get it done." >> wow. this is monday. when does this go down this video? >> that was yesterday morning about 6:30 in the morning. >> got to ask you this. we'll get back to the chronology of this. why was this posted on youtube? the cameras here are from the show "cops?" >> no. it was a crime scene sergeant who took the video.

>> in a dramatic scene worthy of hollywood, but shot by police, a young newlywed returns home in boynton beach florida to find detected than crime scene technicians there. when she is told her husband of only six months has been murdered, she begins to sob, and she continues to sob uncontrollably, until she is led away to be eventually arrested. x. i did not do anything, and i did not plot anything. >> police said the 26-year-old did plot the murder of her husband, and actually hired someone she thought was a hit man. >> the twist was that that man was an undercover police officer. she hired him to kill her husband. >> police say she offered to pay $4,200 for the killing, and provided those of her husband and her house. >> we have our own surveillance video talking about wanting her husband dead and saying she is 5000% sure that she wants this done. >> her husband was alerted by police and was never harmed. >> technically, i should have been dead at 9:00. i am an hour-and-a-half on the good side, i guess. rex at the supposed crime scene, where she began to sob and saw, officers continued

. >> seemingly breaking down when she encounters police at her boynton beach home. her husband had been killed, or so she thought. the honeymoon was clearly over for dalia, who police say had contacted a hit man and offered the man $3,000 to finish michael off. >> i didn't do anything. and i didn't plot anything. >> there is possibly a robber out there, an informant. it might have been some sort of extramarital affair besides just being a friend of that person. >> no. >> okay. meryl streep, watch out. there is an oscar-winning performance. all the cops standing by. they've got the yellow crime scene tape up. they claim they saw, witness saw an assailant running from the home. she's just come from her workout on the elliptical at l.a. fitness. and the cops are drinking it all in. oh, scratching the ear. yeah, we feel bad for you. >> please. please. no. no. >> good evening. i'm nancy grace. thanks for being with us. a young mother with five little children in her minivan barrels down the wrong way on a packed interstate. slamming into another vehicle. tally -- eight d

>> reporter: last wednesday boynton beach police shot this video of dippolito returning home from thereaking into sobs after police told her her husband had been murdered. what officers say dippolito didn't know is that the supposed hitman was an undercover officer to whom she reportedly said her husband's death would make her very happy. >> here is a woman who's saying she's 5,000% sure she wants to pay for her husband to be killed. and then at the scene you have a woman who is sobbing uncontrollably. >> reporter: dippolito's attorney says she will plead not guilty. >> i didn't do anything and i didn't plot anything. >> reporter: police say they were alerted to the alleged scheme by an informant whom attorneys for the husband say they were told was a male friend of dalia dippolito and whom they also credit for potentially saving her husband's life. for "today," mark potter, nbc news, miami. >> and michael dip lee to is with us exclusively from boca raton, florida, along with his attorneys jason brody and josh friedman. gentlemen, good morning to all of you. michael, let me start with

actually hired someone she thought was a hit man. >> but the twist is that that man was an undercover boynton beach, police officer, who she hired to kill her husband. >> reporter: police say she offered to pay $4200 for the killing and provided photos of her husband and her house. >> we have her on surveillance video talking about wanting her husband dead and saying she's 5,000% sure that she wants this done. >> reporter: her husband, 38-year-old michael dipollito was alerted by police and was never harmed. >> technically, if it's 10:50, i should have been dead at like 9:00. so i'm an hour and a half on the good side, i guess. >> reporter: at the supposed crime scene where dahlia dippolito began to sob and sob, officers continued to play along. >> at that point she was brought to a vehicle and brought back here to the police department. where she came face-to-face with the man who shot her husband twice in the head. >> reporter: or so she thought, police say. before finally learning he was an officer, and she was charged with solicitation to commit first degree murder. the biggest question n

. >> but the twist is that that man was an undercover boynton beach police officer who she hired to killto pay $4,200 for the killing and provided photos of her husband and her house. >> we have her on surveillance video talking about wanting her husband dead and saying she's 5,000% sure that she wants this done. >> her husband, 38 years old, was alerted by police and was never harmed. >> technically if this is 10:50, i should have been dead at 9:00. i'm an hour and a half on the good side, i guess. >> reporter: as the supposed crime scene, the woman began to sob and sob. officers continued to play along. >> at that point she was brought to a vehicle and brought back here to the police department where she came face-to-face with the man who shot her husband twice in the head. >> reporter: or so she thought, police say, before finally learning he was an officer and she was charged with the solicitation to commit first degree murder. the biggest question now for the husband is, why his wife would allegedly want him dead. >> there's no point for it. just divorce me and take everything. that

here is david worker former comptroller and ceo of the peterson foundation and adam boynton, formerly of douche beu bank. i have a quick question, is the united states bankrupt, out of money? >> we're not out of money because we can always print money. we're in a deep fiscal hole, monetary policy is very loose. i have lot more confidence in the fed turning the corner when the economy turns around than the congress an president. >> another currency story. the numbers that come out, total debt was raised by 2 trillion in the stroke of an eyelash, customer stroke, so much to $9 trillion. the whole history of the united states was 7 trillion in debt and increased that by adding another $9 trillion. your point, you're saying the unfunded entitlements liability are not in that number and that's where we should keep our eye? >> the fact is our problem is not the current level of deficits and debt the off balance sheet obligations, we have tens of trillions of dollars in unfunded promises, 38 trillion for medicare alone, to the promises between social security and medicare grow 2 to 3 trillio

they brought into the scheme a supposed hitman, actually an undercover officer with the boynton beacholice department. police say this woman offered to pay $4200 to have her husband killed. she also said she was 5,000% sure she wanted to do that. she also allegedly said she would be very happy when this was done and also allegedly provided pictures of her husband and the house for the purposes of it. yesterday when the murder was supposed to occur, police actually called her at the gym to come home. there they told her her husband had been murdered. not aware it was a fake and that the police were in on it. she began to sob uncontrollably. she could not be consoled. she was taken to the police department and there stood the undercover officer and her husband was in the next room and she suddenly realized what had happened. she's charged with solicitation to commit first degree murder, carlos. >> mark, i want to bring in msnbc analyst and former fbi profiler clint vanzandt to join the conversation. clint, good to see you. >> hi, carlos. >> a bunch of crazy things going on, mark teixeir

they were able to place a so-called hit man into the scene how was a boynton beach police officer.ice say she was actually willing to pay a total of $4,200 for the hit, the $3,000 to the hit man, another $1,200 up front and to pay for the gun. she said she was 5000% sure she wanted to do this. she said it was something that would make her very happy. the one person who is not so sure about why this happened is her husband, who was alerted by police. he was not hurt. he says he just doesn't know why his wife would want him dead. >> i feel a little bad, but i mean there's no reason she had to do this, you know. she was well off. she could have just left and did just as well by leaving. >> reporter: now, his wife of just six months was in court today. she faces charges of solicitation to commit first degree murder. a judge told her, however, she could get out of jail. she has to post a $25,000 bond and wear a court monitoring device and stay inside her mother's house. we understand that process is for her release is under way right now. her attorney says that when the time comes, she

for more, we are joined by stephanie slater of the boynton beach police department.information on friday night. we received a phone call from a confidential informant. jon: you did not have a lot of time to put this together. >> no, this was pretty fast. on saturday afternoon, we put up for the informant to meet with her at a gas station three during that time, she paid to that person $1,200 to give to the hit man to purchase a handgun jon:. wanted to tell her husband and how did he find out? >> this was yesterday morning. after we knew for sure that she was out the gym, we will keep the her husband and told him what was going on and brought him back to the police department. jon: did he have any idea that his wife supposedly wanted him dead? >> he did not have a clue. jon: they had only been married six months. what was the motive? >> at this time, we do not know the motive. jon: we have the pictures of her up now. what did she do and what did you tell her when she got to her house? it was surrounded with crime scene tape. >> we wanted her to believe without a doubt

>> reporter: when downia rushed home from the gym, her townhouse was wrapped in crime tape, and a boynton was there to break the news. her husband of six months was dead. despite what you see, police say dippolito was no grieving widow. >> she wanted to have her husband killed. >> reporter: according to police, dippolito handed a man pictures of her townhouse, and $1,200 for a handgun. >> she was very cool and calculated. she offered a lot of options as far as how and where and when he might want to take care of her husband. >> reporter: one problem, the man was a confidential informant for the police. at the next meeting two days later at this drug store, an undercover officer posed at the hitman. >> the undercover officer gave her several options. are you sure you want to do this? she maintained her positive attitude by saying i am 5,000% sure i want this done. >> reporter: that scene at her house wednesday was the grand finale. >> no tears. like a lot of noise but no tears. her eyes didn't appear wet at all. >> reporter: at the police station, dippolito was told her hitman was a cop, a

and this discovery was made from orbit by the speck tommer the, the pi for that was phil boynton, and it had discovered what it believed to be a lot of water ice particularly at high latitudes. so at plus 60 and below negative 60 degrees latitude on mars this instrument detected a lot of, a lot of water, roughly 50 percent by volume. so that's what's shown -- this is a map of the water from that instrument shown here. and the dark blue areas show where detected high concentrations of water. even though it's part of the gamma ray speck tommer the experiment, it wasn't detected by gamma rays. a neutron detector detected hydrogen. it was interpreted that this was actually a water ice signal. so phoenix proposed to fly to the northern latitude region, and our landing site was right about there, right in one of those "squawk on the street" spots -- sweet spots where there should be lots of water. this is really exciting because the mantra for exploration is follow the water because it gives you your best chance of detecting life. first you look for the water since life as we know it needs

reporter: in dramatic scene worthy of hollywood, but shot by police, a young newlywed returns home in boynton beach, florida, to find detectives and crime scene technicians there. when she's told her husband of only six months has been murdered she begins to sob, and she continues to sob uncontrollably, until she is led away to be eventually arrested. >> i didn't do anything. and i didn't plot anything. >> reporter: but police say 26-year-old dahlia dippolito did plot something, the murder of her husband, and actually hired someone she thought was a hit man. >> but the twist is that that man was an undercover boynton beach, police officer, who she hired to kill her husband. >> reporter: police say she offered to pay $4200 for the killing and provided photos of her husband and her house. >> we have her on surveillance video talking about wanting her husband dead and saying she's 5,000% sure that she wants this done. >> reporter: her husband, 38-year-old michael dipollito was alerted by police and was never harmed. >> technically, if it's 10:50, i should have been dead at like 9:00. so i'm an h

theater thing about this, the instrument lead for this was bill boynton for the gamma ray spacecraft so bill was in a unique position he made this discery will lead this discovery using his instrument from orbit then he gets to go off and build another instrument to verify his discovery on the ground. so is pretty neat. okay, we finally got to the launch pad in the summer of 2007 and launched on august 4th, 27 we had one day delay due to some weather problems in the area. but fortunately it went off without a hitch, than i am going to show a ltle animation here. about ten months later and 422 million miles we approach mars. we are going about 12,000 miles per hour and have to get down to 0 miles per hour in about seven minuteso we try to burn off a lot of that energy by entering the atmphere and breaking the shell. and the pair shouldeploys we e going a couple hundred miles per hour right now. the air shell falls off, the landing legs deploy. the radar terms on a as loo at the surface to get an altitude meure and then we'd drop. fortunately the thrust first term on. the health and on