dana cooper was sentenced to 17 years for armed robbery and third degree murder. charity casey received ten years for armed robbery and third degree murder. of those arrested, only heather wendorf went free. a grand jury deciding that she knew nothing of rod ferrell's murderous intentions. after three years, the death sentence was commuted by the florida supreme court on account of ferrell's youth. >> i sat in my cell on death row and i questioned myself. i realized how far into the pit i had fallen. and i took that moment from then on. i said from this point on, i will be--i became a man who became a monster. i will become a man again. whatever it takes. now that i pieced my mind back together, i've had time to reflect, contemplate over every single moment, every single day. the murders had absolutely nothing to do with the occult or the vampiric subculture or any such thing. >> i'm candice hawthorne. i'm an attorney. i came to represent rod. there were two witnesses who overheard heather wendorf opining to rod ferrell that she wanted her parents dead. >> heather

cnn's dana bash, wolf blitzer, anderson cooper and john "no closed captioning available " stephanie: you can tune in the first debate starts at 5 -- with the prime-time debate set to kick off at 7:30. jack/2ram and there are new poll numbers ahead of the debate -- putting donald cruz neck and neck in iowa. the new quinnipiac poll shows trump has 28-percent support. senator cruz is in a very close second with 27- percent. senator marco rubio is in third with 14-percent. stephanie: meteorologist james peterson joins us now.. james ((ad lib weather toss)) "now, we are iowa's most accurate forecast with weatherrate the independent weather experts " james: since saturday, many places have seen at least 2 to 3 inches of rain, but a few reports have come in with totals as high as 6 to 7 inches! the rain has ended this afternoon and we will see a cold and breezy night as lows fall into the low 30s. tuesday looks mostly cloudy with dry and breezy conditions with highs back in the mid 40s. there is a chance we'll see a wintry mix to a few snow showers in northwest iowa tuesday night into wedne

cnn's dana bash, wolf blitzer, anderson cooper and john king weigh in: < anderson cooper: i think what makes a good question is something that ellicits and honest response. john king: i think in crafting a question simplicity and clarity matter the most. it's their disagreements and their differences that you want aired out. wolf blitzer: remember what you're doing this for. you're doing this for the viewers out there to get a better understanding and a better appreciation of who these men and women are. dana bash: it's hard to say what makes a good and bad debate answer to that question is in the answer that the candidate gives. anderson cooper: listening to what's being said and pivoting off what's somebody's said... or perhaps taking the conversation in different directions to bring them in. john king: but if you can get either the two candidates words to pit them against eachother, sometimes you ask an open ended question and they go where their mind takes them, as opposed to where their talking points take them, so there's a value in that. anderson cooper: the worst thing in the w

all the cnn heavy hitters were there-- wolf blitzer, dana bash, and let's say republican anderson cooperm not sure. who is that? that is-- that's ah-- hugh hewitt! the pundit so nice they "hugh-ed" him twice. and cnn did everything they could to keep us tuned in for as much of the evening as possible by keeping the start time as vague as possible. they even had a countdown clock for four days ticking down to the big event-- but when it hit zero, it just changed to "moments away." ( laughter ) oh, i am so excited for cnn's new year's eve coverage: "3-2-1 happy... moments away!" ( laughter ) ( applause ) now, there was a great-- it was a great debate. they talked about a lot of stuff, which again, i totally watched because i was not at the cbs christmas party doing jello shots out of charlie rose's navel with the two broke girls. ( laughter ) but what really struck me was the ruthless attacks on the republicans. >> senator paul, you said isis grew stronger because of the hawks in your party. do you really think that republicans have fueled the rise of isis? >> stephen: no, jimmy, the real

>> dana did wardrobe for the pilot of cooper barrett scott, she is from cherry hill, new jersey, andy first day of working on the show it was saint patrick's day and i wore a green phillies t-shirt. i was walking up through the costume department. she comes out and she goes are you from filly? >> there is dana right over there. >> hi, dana. >> hi, dana. >> and her dad, the driver today. >> yes. >> thank you. >> so you struck up a conversation about philly in l.a. >> philly wawa cheese steaks soft pretzels, water ice. >> water ice, thank you. what's your favorite place to go in bristol? >> annabell a has real good italian food. i was also a dishwasher there when i was 15, so very near and dear to my heart, one of the very first jobs, work interesting. >> have you been back? >> i haven't, not this time. i've been home for the holidays the last couple of weeks, but bobby, i'll be coming to see you soon. i love tony luke's, great cheese steaks, i love bridgette foy's a great bar. my parents have an irish bands, been laying mr. for decades. >> the name? >> the con ameia cod fish. if you n