bruce ivins however grew up in a home that was not norman rockwell. his mother, mary ivins was a fierce presence. she exerted tyrannical dominance over the home. she was mentally and physically cruel. she attacked versus father, randall, with whatever was at hand. it could be approved, could be a fork. one night it was the skillet to the head. and she micromanaged bruce more than her prodigy. pursue schoolmates interviewed dozens of people who would come up with grusin in those formative years. schoolmates, teachers, other townspeople of lebanon. and she told me that every items had left a mark on bruce, a lasting and hunting mark. so from an early age, bruce however was a scientifically gifted student. however, he was socially isolated. he never could fit in for whatever reason. yet he creatine actually as he got older and older, demanded both attention and approval. and those are two teams for the life of veritably anonymously in ways that enable him to elude accountability for his misdeeds. he went to the university of cincinnati and was in undergra

bruce ivins. >> bruce ivins, he was the guy that controlled that flask. it was in his possession, and that told the investigators that maybe bruce ivins was the guy. >> narrator: the fbi discovered ivins had spent a lot of time alone at night in the lab. >> his lab hours spiked in august and then, really, september and october of 2001. never before and never after had he shown anything like that-- those late night and weekend lab access hours. that was extraordinary. >> narrator: they questioned ivins. >> ultimately, at the end of the day, he had several different stories. for instance, one of them was, "well, i just liked to go in there to get away from a bad situation at home anbe left alone." >> ultimately, i think in one of the interviews, he conceded, "i just... i don't have a good reason." >> narrator: ivins' colleagues got wind of the fbi's suspicions. ivins' boss asked him about it. >> i said, "bruce, you know, they say that you were keeping odd hours." i said, "i know you work a lot of, you know, odd hours, all of us do, you know. but do you reme

also provides the first by no graphical portrait of another bio warfare science a fellow named bruce ivins and to learn about bruce siphons i traveled to a small town about 40 miles east called lebanon ohio and was there lebanon was and remains eight held in middle america that sort of invokes the norman rockwell sketch. bruce was born there in 1946 with three sons. his father was a pharmacist in the second generation proprietor of drugs established in 1893 cap. randall was a graduate of princeton university and was well liked, very generous, not much of a businessman but very gregarious person. he grew up in a home that was not norman rockwell. his mother was a fierce presence, she exerted tyrannical dominance over the home. she was mentally and physically cruel. she didn't attack the father ramble with whatever was in hand. it could be broome, a fork. one night it was a skillet to the head that mocked him out cut and she saw him as her prodigy. bruce's schoolmates and i interviewed dozens of people who had grown up with bruce in those years schoolmate's college teachers of others, townsp

. >> the fbi eventually concluded frederick scientist bruce ivins was behind the attack which killedpeople. he committed suicide in 2008. >> president obama is marking the 23rd anniversary of world a.i.d.s. day, with a major announcement. and mary is in the newsroom with the story. mary is this. >> reporter: well -- pairy? >> reporter: well, denise. president obama announced we will fight. and announced an additional fund will go toward combattling -- combatting hiv and a.i.d.s. the mission is 2 million more than the original target. the president also urged other countries with major economies, including china, to give money to the global a.i.d.s. fund. over the last decade, the pandemic has claimed 30 million lives. >> while the rate of new infections is going down elsewhere, president obama night noted it -- president obama noted it is not going down in america. >>> and shutting down schools causing widespread damage. about 300,000 have lost power in southern california alone. >> reporter: this southern california gas station was mangled, after hurricane- strength winds toppled a

bruce ivins, who mr. wellman believes is responsible for those attacks. this is just under an hour. >> good afternoon. welcome to the forensic science institute. it's my for and privilege to introduce our speaker for this afternoon. he is david willman. mr. willman is an investigative journalist with "the los angeles times," and has been employed by them since 1995. prior to that he worked with the pasadena star news, and the san jose mercury news. in 2001, mr. willman was awarded the pulitzer prize for his work in the discovery of seven drugs that were erroneously approved by the food and drug administration. he has been the recipient of many other awards, including the national press club award, as well as the george polk award. that work was his work on presidential finance and the improper use of funds for presidential campaigns. the work of david willman has not simply been read and placed on a shelf. or in terms of newspapers, read and placed in the recycling bin. instead, his work has gone on to an