that is when brown stabbed farooq in the chest. the cousin pleaded guilty to murder charges in september. jack johnson gets in a little more time before he has to start prison. a judge granted an extension because plans on where johnson will serve his sentence have not been finalized. the democrat was sentenced to more than seven years in prison for extortion and bribery. controversy out of the patuxent institution where a prisoner is soliciting pen pals over the web. nicholas browning is serving a -- a life sentence for the shooting death of his parents and brothers in 2008. he confessed to the killings but did not say much about what pushed him to the violence. but he seems more than willing to tell strangers willing to listen. on a website, he writes, "all things considered, i'm still upbeat about life despite my bleak surroundings. if nothing else, i have an interesting story to tell. someone from my background generally does not end up in prison and." while the teenager his regular visits from relatives and friends, the postin

>> and the other man who accompany farooq say they didn't know what was going on.lice also release him and don't charge him with a crime. but farooq himself, the man who had those graphic chats with someone who said she was 12, is charged with one count of an attempted lewd act upon a child. >> he was the one that masterminded the plan. the other two individuals didn't really know everything that was going on. they knew they were going to meet a girl. from what we were able to determine, they did not know the age of that girl. >> later, maroof farooq pleaded guilty. at the processing center, we meet some other men who didn't come to the house. but are still arrested and charged. they all had sexual chats online with decoys who said they were underage. >> what do you do. >> i'm a software engineer. >> 34-year-old loren hayden, a software engineer, tells police he does work for the defense department. online, hayden has a sexual chat with a decoy who says she is 13. after saying he looks like brad pitt, he tells the girl he has a very large penis. >> most girls can't

known as the underwear bomber has been sentenced to life in prison without parole. 25-year-old abdul farooq abdul muttalab. it was on a chris may day flight back in 2009. this video just before sentencing demonstrates how destructive his bomb could have been if it had gone off. >>> amanda knox in a reported $4 million deal. she was cleared of murder by an italian court. she had been convicted of killing her roommate in perugia, italy. they say they'll use their journals to reveal new details of her case. >>> and now let's head to wall street where the dow is close to breaking through a key barrier. cnbc's mary thompson is at the new york stock exchange. good morning. >> good morning to you. the dow jones industrial average sits 96 points below 13,000, a level it hasn't seen since 2008. this slow but steady rally we've seen on wall street over the last four months also pushing the nasdaq to its best levels since december of 2000. all of this comes as investors here and abroad continue to await a debt deal that would prevent a messy default in greece. amy, back to you. >> mary thompson, thank