if you want to tell us a little about craig lewis and that story? >> this is a love story these are two people very much in love, craig lewis was a engineer for houston and was another guy obsessed with making things work better. he had been healthy all his life and then he got sicker and sicker and it took a long time for the doctors to understand what was wrong with him. he ended up having a disease that he was in total organ failure so you can just be a surgeon and decide okay we are going to try this artificial heart and put it in this guy. they went to h the fda and you have to go through several steps to get emergency use permission. one of the interesting things about the book is when faced with having more time, no one knows how much more time or dying in a fairly short time, most of the people i wrote about opted for a little more time and lewis was fascinated in how this machine would work and said let's try. he lived for about three weeks or so before the disease killed him and that is one of the things that interests me about medical exp

let's bring in cnn political analyst david gregory, craig bauer and lewis. there were no cameras in the courtroom. this is not the way anybody expected it to go yesterday. and it was remarkable the updates we were getting and then the final update at the end of the day in terms of where we stand and what the judge felt about michael flynn, what was said by him and his attorneys and where we are. >> flynn's team expected that he would get this very beneficial description of his cooperation by the justice department and he was going to get his six months, as low of a sentence as he could get. and then he was going to come out and say it was minor, i was entrapped, and the judge just wasn't having any of it. he wanted him to allocute fully. this judge reacted the way a lot of americans will when they understand fully what happened, that this person was lying to fbi agents in the west wing of the white house, somebody who could not possibly claim that he didn't know it was important to tell the truth when the fbi comes knocking. it is, i think, going to be somet

craig melvin. desperate to find melissa lewis' killer, police turn to technology to help unlock the secrets in melissa'shone. what they found sent them hurling in an unexpected direction. here again is dennis murphy with "betrayed." >> reporter: melissa lewis' cellphone was looking to be the key to unlock the mystery of what happened to her the night of her murder. >> the phone stayed with the person that we believe took melissa. >> reporter: now they were focused on miami gardens where the phone had been stationary for several hours after the murder. police asked melissa's best friend, debra villegas, if she knew anyone who lived in that area. >> debbie says, "my husband, tony, who i'm going through a divorce with." >> reporter: debra was dumbstruck. tony? melissa? >> he would have no reason to do this to melissa. she's never done anything to him. >> reporter: so you're telling the detectives, "you're looking at the wrong guy." >> yeah. >> reporter: did tony know melissa? >> he had met her a few times, you know, over the years, but we weren't social. >> reporter: debra told police she and tony had been

craig has more on who this partial shutdown will affect. >> reporter: the government shutdown means some federal workers, like department of agriculture employee mike lewis, maybe without their next paycheck. >> you try to prepare for it but it's hard to prepare for something like this so you try to do best you can. >> reporter: without a deal, overnight, funding ran out for nine federal agencies that employ about 800,000 people. those deemed essential, like air traffic controllers, t.s er plet without pay. about 400,000 others would be furloughed. >> i think we'll get one more paycheck, because we just put in our pay, but after that, you fue stands. >> reporter: there are parts of the government that won't be affected, including the pentagon, the v.a., and all congressional staff. the u.s. postal service will continue to deliver mail. social security checks will still be sent out, and special counsel robert mueller's russia investigation will press forward. but perhaps the most visible impact will be at our national parks and the sites that are able to stay open will do so without national park service staff responsible for maintaining restrooms and run

craig kaplan prayed he will give you the latest on what is going on at capitol hill. keeping an eye on it here. that is all this twitter feed. -- all of his twitter feed. lewisin georgia, a federal employee, go ahead. caller: yes, my name is lewis. i was drafted during the vietnam war. and i served my country then. and then i decided when i got out that i wanted to continue to serve the public by being a federal employee. federal employees are dedicated to their job. we don't get paid as much money out there. we try to help everybody. i don't think we should be used trump steals christmas like the crystal christmas great i think you try to still christmas from the american public. we buy christmas presents and all that. when we faced the russians, i got to see the wall that the russians had built. they were there to stop people and shoot people. we are a country of freedom. we have always been great. once he gets not elected again, this country will be great again. host: what federal rescue work for? caller: i work for the epa. host: are you going on furlough during this time? caller: we will eventually. host: as far as your preparation, what kind of notice